₦airaland Forum

shortgun:
For a person who claims to be educated, I believe you should know better.
There is no developed state or region anywhere in Nigeria...including your paradise Lagos state!
The country as a whole is underdeveloped, retrogressing and worsened by inhabitants who are are clannish and primitive in thinking.
People like you mistakenly believe that development is all about infrastructure but real development lies in the mentality of a people—the way they think! You can't have the mentality of a she goat and be claiming development no matter the infrastructure available!

For your information, I also served in a village called Igodan, located between Okitipupa and Igbokoda in Ondo State.
As a Nigerian from the Southeast, I provided free education, endured the worst kind of living conditions and faced hostility....
they even have this weird culture where your drink or food can be taken by anyone as you are drinking or eating without your permission, all they owe you is salutation and proceed to drink to their fill and leave

It was in that community that I saw a pit toilet for the first time in my life and even witnessed someone fall into one full of feces.
Many of the houses were built with red mud and roofed with grass.

I used to think all Yorubas spoke the same dialect and understood each other, but I was shocked to discover that the people in that community spoke a completely different language—one that Yorubas from Lagos, Oyo, or Osun neither spoke nor understood.

I was also shocked to learn that the only drug store in the entire village was owned by an Igbo man. Which got me thinking. Imagine how many of the natives of Igodan would have died from treatable illnesses like malaria if that Igbo man hadn’t been there to provide antimalarial drugs. The Igbo man will naturally not also move to the community if there was a native already providing that service there

ProudlyLagos:
story for the gods…..Otondo, if indeed you are educated like you claim, if development can not be accessed based on infrastructure then pls tell us how to measure development?

And you talk about human capacity development as another indices to measure development, pls tell us which region has the highest number of human capital development if not Yorubas?

Yes Nigeria is still largely undeveloped but we know that some regions are doing better than some in term of development and SW is still the most developed region in Nigeria, and aside from Lagos, tell us which state in your region is more developed than Ibadan?

The infrastructure in Ibadan alone is more than what you will find in your region and if indeed you are educated and understand economics, then you would know that people only migrate to place that are economically viable and that’s why the trend of migration is from east to west and not the other way round

Yiibos are largely traders with less formal education unlike the Yorubas who largely control the formal sector like the banking, insurance, manufacturing, media, entertainment etc and there is nothing special in what you do, if you move your businesses back to your region, other people will provide those services.

But you can believe what you want, but you can’t take away the truth about the fact that economically SW is far ahead of your region

obembet:
Source: https://x.com/Tunde_OD/status/1918748631617650860?t=YlYjXtN-grmsjSYW-8fmuw&s=19[/quote]Most Nigerians are tribalistic. Especially the three major tribes. During Buhari the Hausa Fulanis took it to another level and now Yorubas have tripled what the Daura cattleman did in terms of tribalism.

I salute the few Yorubas I know that are liberal and actually bothered by this tribal bigotry Tinubu is heading. I know how wrong it is to paint everyone with the same brush.

Tunde is a detribalised Nigerian and was just caught in a crossfire that is spreading across the country instigated by Tinubu. But thank God for his level of intelligence that has made the accuser looked stupid

ppogba:
Be truthful for once .

The comments from page one to five are diverse and targeted at two major tribes .

So, what tribe us being targeted according to you?

Prepare and go to church .

shortgun:
You guys always crack me up with that line whenever you bring it up.
Out of all the people you "ACCEPTED", how many did you offer free housing and meals when you "ACCEPTED" them?
Did you give any of them loan or grant to start their business?
It's wild how you expect someone who took a risk, invested their own money and moved out of their comfort zone to build a legal business without your help to owe you anything.

Exclusive101:
An average Igbo you mean

JIBO4REAL:
You think slow , to accommodate you is a lot of help that your grand father will ever received, you think it’s easy to prosper from where you are not loved or accommodated? You sound to be an elder man but lack reasoning

shortgun:
Take up a dictionary to understand the meaning of acoomodating someone.
To accommodate someone means to provide for their needs, desires....
Someone bore the risk of uncertainties, spent his money to venture and set up a business and you think you did him a favor without contributing shit? You guys are funny

JIBO4REAL:
Sorry I won’t reply with again I thought you are educated literate, until you go where they hate and they didn’t want you and let see how you will be successful lol
You guys thinking always backwards

shortgun:
How do you hate someone who came to satisfy a need and fill gaps in the community?
Unfortunately for primitive thinking people like you, the constitution of Nigeria clearly supports any Nigerian to settle and do business without any discrimination in any part of Nigeria.
Until the constitution is changed, you can't stop anyone from exploring any community in Nigeria for business opportunities or you will be arrested and sent to jail.

JIBO4REAL:
Can you tell me one thing Igbo peoples are doing that no other tribe is selling or you just feel you are superior?

dequir:
It is easy to crack silly statistics without facts.

Stop deceiving yourself, the facts state otherwise.