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Growing Up In The West It Is Hard To Believe Yoruba Igbo Relationship Today by googi(op): 9:49pm On Jul 23, 2025
It should never have gotten this bad. Igbo and Yoruba love one another in those days. No Yoruba kid dare speak ill of strangers among them. They were welcome with open arms: towo tese!

Unfortunately, today, all the "wars" between Igbo and Yoruba is in the West. Why not in the East?

I missed those days of amicable co-existence, not realizing it could only happen in Yorubaland.
Re: Growing Up In The West It Is Hard To Believe Yoruba Igbo Relationship Today by gidgiddy:
I can tell you one thing, there's no Yoruba man that can tell you he has ever been discriminated against in Igbo land

The same cannot be said of the Igbo man in Yoruba land

But I also say this, Yorubas and Igbos are not meant to be in one country, they need seperate countries of their own. If Gambia can be a country with a population of just 2 million people, then Igbos and Yorubas that are each over 40 million, have no business being together in one country
Re: Growing Up In The West It Is Hard To Believe Yoruba Igbo Relationship Today by WesleyPepper: 9:57pm On Jul 23, 2025
googi:
It should never have gotten this bad. Igbo and Yoruba love one another in those days. No Yoruba kid dare speak ill of strangers among them. They were welcome with open arms: towo tese!

Unfortunately, today, all the "wars" between Igbo and Yoruba is in the West. Why not in the East?

I missed those days of amicable co-existence, not realizing it could only happen in Yorubaland.
It’s the population of the Ibos in the west that is causing the problem .
You can’t have that kind of noise in the East because you don’t have plenty Yorubas dragging your limited space and resources with you .

That is the truth
Re: Growing Up In The West It Is Hard To Believe Yoruba Igbo Relationship Today by helinues: 9:59pm On Jul 23, 2025
gidgiddy:
I can tell you one thing, there's no Yoruba man that can tell you he has ever been discriminated against in Igbo land

The same cannot be said of the Igbo man in Yoruba land
You people will come to our region to share the little resources meant for the indigenes and still be disrespectful.

You can't plant guava and be expecting to harvest Apple
Re: Growing Up In The West It Is Hard To Believe Yoruba Igbo Relationship Today by CannibalEast: 10:01pm On Jul 23, 2025
gidgiddy:
I can tell you one thing, there's no Yoruba man that can tell you he has ever been discriminated against in Igbo land

The same cannot be said of the Igbo man in Yoruba land
I can tell you another thing, there's no Yoruba man that's stupid enough to think he can drag the same right with Igbo in Igbo land.

The same cannot be said of Igbo man in Yoruba land.always try to use your sense
Re: Growing Up In The West It Is Hard To Believe Yoruba Igbo Relationship Today by grandsuccess: 10:04pm On Jul 23, 2025
WesleyPepper:
It’s the population of the Ibos in the west that is causing the problem .
You can’t have that kind of noise in the East because you don’t have plenty Yorubas dragging your limited space and resources with you .

That is the truth
support their agitation to have their own country - that way, you can deport all of them in the west so they will stop being a problem to you.
Re: Growing Up In The West It Is Hard To Believe Yoruba Igbo Relationship Today by Softmirror:
gidgiddy:
I can tell you one thing, there's no Yoruba man that can tell you he has ever been discriminated against in Igbo land

The same cannot be said of the Igbo man in Yoruba land
Simply because they know there boundaries and limitations. Charity they say begins at home. Infact Igbos have an imbended culture and tradition of discriminating among themselves Igbos, the outcast system called 0'su is a fact.
Re: Growing Up In The West It Is Hard To Believe Yoruba Igbo Relationship Today by WowSweetGuy(m): 10:10pm On Jul 23, 2025
helinues:
You people will come to our region to share the little resources meant for the indigenes and still be disrespectful.

You can't plant guava and be expecting to harvest Apple
So seems like you are saying the Igbos will come to your land defeat you in running business your people could have handled themselves... Just like the Europeans and Chinese are sophisticated running big business and winning big projects in our country. So can we say the Igbos are sophisticated?! It's their luck and destiny so allow them like we allow foreigners.. Improve and go win in their own side or handle all west yourself
Re: Growing Up In The West It Is Hard To Believe Yoruba Igbo Relationship Today by helinues: 10:14pm On Jul 23, 2025
WowSweetGuy:
So seems like you are saying the Igbos will come to your land defeat you in running business your people could have handled themselves... Just like the Europeans and Chinese are sophisticated running big business and winning big projects in our country. So can we say the Igbos are sophisticated?! It's their luck and destiny so allow them like we allow foreigners.. Improve and go win in their own side or handle all west yourself
If they have not been succeeding/winning in their own region, it would be delusional to be thinking they are winning anywhere .

Charity should be testament
Re: Growing Up In The West It Is Hard To Believe Yoruba Igbo Relationship Today by shortgun(m): 10:19pm On Jul 23, 2025
helinues:
You people will come to our region to share the little resources meant for the indigenes and still be disrespectful.

You can't plant guava and be expecting to harvest Apple
All the resources in every part of Nigeria belongs to all Nigerians. That's the law, that's the constitution of the land.
I wonder when you will stop crying and compete like others
Re: Growing Up In The West It Is Hard To Believe Yoruba Igbo Relationship Today by helinues: 10:21pm On Jul 23, 2025
shortgun:
All the resources in every part of Nigeria belongs to all Nigerians. That's the law, that's the constitution of the land.
I wonder when you will stop crying and compete like others
So if 40% of the indigenes from each states from South East have relocated or migrated to other part of the country , what precisely have your governors been doing with the excess resources? You guys never even bother to ask such question
Re: Growing Up In The West It Is Hard To Believe Yoruba Igbo Relationship Today by WowSweetGuy(m): 10:23pm On Jul 23, 2025
helinues:
If they have not been succeeding/winning in their own region, it would be delusional to be thinking they are winning anywhere .

Charity should be testament
Is t not the port they lack there... Just as foreigners lack raw resources they need
Re: Growing Up In The West It Is Hard To Believe Yoruba Igbo Relationship Today by helinues: 10:24pm On Jul 23, 2025
WowSweetGuy:
Is t not the port they lack there... Just as foreigners lack raw resources they need
Take responsibility. Stop blaming others for your misfortunes.

You developed everywhere but when it comes to developing your own region, that's when the excuse of cement finished came in
Re: Growing Up In The West It Is Hard To Believe Yoruba Igbo Relationship Today by FreeStuffsNG:
googi:
It should never have gotten this bad. Igbo and Yoruba love one another in those days. No Yoruba kid dare speak ill of strangers among them. They were welcome with open arms: towo tese!

Unfortunately, today, all the "wars" between Igbo and Yoruba is in the West. Why not in the East?

I missed those days of amicable co-existence, not realizing it could only happen in Yorubaland.
Shawarmagirl:
My siblings and I where born and bread in Lagos. My Dad built his first house at Ajeromi in 1993. We are all fluent in Yoruba language until we all entered university and get more expose. Yorubas of then while growing up is different from the ones I am currently witnessing.
It's folks like you who played the ostrich when it was necessary for you to call those sheshede and non-Yorubaland based Igbo to order when they were destroying the beautiful relationship your ilk and parents helped to nurture.

Only Engr. Chief Joe Igbokwe, God bless him, spoke out to warn against the disrespect you were giving the Yoruba and he was thoroughly insulted, called derogatory names and was almost killed! You kept silent. Even when his village house was set on fire by Igbo arsonists who were after his life for clamoring for you to guide your relationship with the Yoruba and appreciate the Yoruba as great host. You kept silent.

To our shock, many of you who were born and raised in Yorubaland even stopped communicating in Yoruba, started pretending that you cannot understand or speak Yoruba again and resented anyone communicating in Yoruba. Smh. You that you were known as family threw all away!

Many of you, rather than call them to order, used the anonymity the social media had then and joined them in disrespecting, insulting and degrading the same Yoruba you grew among with love. Haba. You were all insulting Yoruba leaders, from political, traditional and religious leaders, even Pastor E.A Adeboye, Prof. Wole Soyinka the Nobel laureate, were not spared of your insults and disrespect!

You who grew up in Yorubaland and understand the Yoruba culture suddenly pretended to forget that respect for elders is sacred among the Yoruba and it is one of the ethos of Ọmọluabi

The Lagos REC of INEC raised the issue of massive, coordinated and sinister transfer of many voters from the Southeast to Lagos State and it was to influence the election outcome and determine our political leaders in Lagos. Then the Yoruba resolved that "enough is enough!". The Yoruba decided to protect the political interest of the indigenes and Yoruba who own the land. The strategy adopted in Lagos is now to block the sinister outcome of that failed 'coup' and prevent such from ever happening again.

Lagos is not called " Ilu ọgbọn" for nothing. Eternal vigilance is the price of human liberty.

I am thoroughly surprised that people like you can bring up this issue after new order has been established.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qc1KiwRu3wg

Speaking on ChannelsTV about PVC collection issues in Lagos state.

Mr. Olusegun Agbaje (INEC REC, Lagos state) said:

"At Oshodi Isolo, we had lot of people that migrated from the southEast just to vote in Lagos. Instead of been transferred from the Area(the polling unit), what they did was fresh registration. Those who did transfer, got their PVC. Those who did double registration, unfortunately couldn't get their PVC"
Re: Growing Up In The West It Is Hard To Believe Yoruba Igbo Relationship Today by IGBOPROMISE1: 10:28pm On Jul 23, 2025
gidgiddy:
I can tell you one thing, there's no Yoruba man that can tell you he has ever been discriminated against in Igbo land

The same cannot be said of the Igbo man in Yoruba land
There was some acrimony owing to the uncivil war, which was gradually dissipating, but hostilities were renewed by Tinubu and his gang of Agbero political acolytes owing to their desire to maintain their hegemonic and mafioso control over Lagos state! They needed to find a way to convince the generality of Yoruba that the Igbo man is their problem!
Re: Growing Up In The West It Is Hard To Believe Yoruba Igbo Relationship Today by SeeWahala: 10:29pm On Jul 23, 2025
gidgiddy:
I can tell you one thing, there's no Yoruba man that can tell you he has ever been discriminated against in Igbo land

The same cannot be said of the Igbo man in Yoruba land
Sad truth bro. Sad truth sad
Re: Growing Up In The West It Is Hard To Believe Yoruba Igbo Relationship Today by helinues: 10:30pm On Jul 23, 2025
FreeStuffsNG:
It's folks like you who played the ostrich when it was necessary for you to call those sheshede to order when they were destroying the beautiful relationship your ilk helped to nurture.

The Lagos REC of INEC raised the issue of massive, coordinated and sinister transfer of many voters from the Southeast to Lagos State and it was to influence the election of leaders in Lagos. The strategy adopted in Lagos is now to block the sinister outcome.

I am thoroughly surprised that people like you can bring up this issue after new order has been established.
@ emboldened, such mistake will never be allowed or tolerated again
Re: Growing Up In The West It Is Hard To Believe Yoruba Igbo Relationship Today by SeeWahala:
IGBOPROMISE1:
There was some acrimony owing to the uncivil war, which was dissipating, but hostilities were renewed by Tinubu and his gang of Agbero political acolytes owing to their desire to maintain their hegemonic and mafioso control over Lagos state! They needed to find a way to convince the generality of Yoruba that the Igbo man is their problem!
It is true. APC had no other method to win elections than to decide the population along tribal and ethnic lines.

Do you remember, before the 2023 elections when seyi tilumbu was in his situation room addressing his team of online minions and he wrote somethings on a whiteboard . . . And among those points he wrote down there was something along the lines of . . .

use tribal/ethnic division as a strategy

I know I still remember seeing such a picture on this same nairaland and I believe they took those strategies to heart and since it worked for them then they have kept on using it till tomorrow.

I won't be surprised if you guys have forgotten or weren't aware of such a scene but believe me it did happen.

I believe some people would remember it
Re: Growing Up In The West It Is Hard To Believe Yoruba Igbo Relationship Today by WowSweetGuy(m): 10:46pm On Jul 23, 2025
helinues:
Take responsibility. Stop blaming others for your misfortunes.

You developed everywhere but when it comes to developing your own region, that's when the excuse of cement finished came in
Port is not something you do yourself as a business man bringing development but Government it involves the sea into a country country's navy and all that. So a government must be blamed here its just that. Why do you now think they want their own country?!
Re: Growing Up In The West It Is Hard To Believe Yoruba Igbo Relationship Today by helinues: 10:48pm On Jul 23, 2025
WowSweetGuy:
Port is not something you do yourself as a business man bringing development but Government it involves the sea into a country country's navy and all that. So a government must be blamed here its just that. Why do you now think they want their own country?!
Are you also blaming GEJ una hero?
Re: Growing Up In The West It Is Hard To Believe Yoruba Igbo Relationship Today by WowSweetGuy(m): 10:56pm On Jul 23, 2025
helinues:
Are you also blaming GEJ una hero?
Cut me a slack, The whole country knows not just the igbos but we other Nigerians knew how GEJ was too calm and controlled/disturbed/troubled by the cabals who don't want that
Re: Growing Up In The West It Is Hard To Believe Yoruba Igbo Relationship Today by Shawarmagirl: 10:57pm On Jul 23, 2025
My siblings and I where born and bread in Lagos. My Dad built his first house at Ajeromi in 1993. We are all fluent in Yoruba language until we all entered university and get more expose. Yorubas of then while growing up is different from the ones I am currently witnessing.
Re: Growing Up In The West It Is Hard To Believe Yoruba Igbo Relationship Today by helinues: 10:57pm On Jul 23, 2025
WowSweetGuy:
Cut me a slack, The whole country knows not just the igbos but we other Nigerians knew how GEJ was too calm and controlled/disturbed/troubled by the cabals who don't want that
As you are given excuse on behalf of GEJ so as we are also giving excuse on behalf of this government

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Re: Growing Up In The West It Is Hard To Believe Yoruba Igbo Relationship Today by shortgun(m): 11:06pm On Jul 23, 2025
helinues:
So if 40% of the indigenes from each states from South East have relocated or migrated to other part of the country , what precisely have your governors been doing with the excess resources? You guys never even bother to ask such question
There is no law in Nigeria that restricts any ethnic group even if it's 100% of a region’s population from relocating to another part of the country. The Igbo people are known for their entrepreneurial spirit and adventurous nature you'll find them in virtually every nation on earth, let alone within Nigeria. As long as Nigeria remains a single, united entity.... peaceful coexistence is the only option
Re: Growing Up In The West It Is Hard To Believe Yoruba Igbo Relationship Today by givedemwotowoto: 11:11pm On Jul 23, 2025
helinues:
You people will come to our region to share the little resources meant for the indigenes and still be disrespectful.

You can't plant guava and be expecting to harvest Apple
Resources extracted from where?

Correction BTW: Resources meant for residents (not just indigenes) including taxpayers, with special incentives and considerations for indigenes for using their lands and being hosts.
Re: Growing Up In The West It Is Hard To Believe Yoruba Igbo Relationship Today by helinues: 11:22pm On Jul 23, 2025
shortgun:
There is no law in Nigeria that restricts any ethnic group even if it's 100% of a region’s population from relocating to another part of the country. The Igbo people are known for their entrepreneurial spirit and adventurous nature you'll find them in virtually every nation on earth, let alone within Nigeria. As long as Nigeria remains a single, united entity.... peaceful coexistence is the only option
What precisely have your governors been doing with the excess resources? You guys never even bother to ask such question
Leave shalaye and answer my question
Re: Growing Up In The West It Is Hard To Believe Yoruba Igbo Relationship Today by helinues: 11:22pm On Jul 23, 2025
givedemwotowoto:
Resources extracted from where?

Correction BTW: Resources meant for residents (not just indigenes) including taxpayers, with special incentives and considerations for indigenes for using their lands and being hosts.
So what have your governors been doing with the excesses?
Re: Growing Up In The West It Is Hard To Believe Yoruba Igbo Relationship Today by shortgun(m): 12:04am On Jul 24, 2025
helinues:
Leave shalaye and answer my question
I don't know any state in Nigeria where the governor share free money to the indigenes of the state.
Every state government directs its funds to developmental programs that will benefit every Nigerian resident in that state, irrespective of their state of origin.
Re: Growing Up In The West It Is Hard To Believe Yoruba Igbo Relationship Today by citizenY(m): 1:14am On Jul 24, 2025
shortgun:
There is no law in Nigeria that restricts any ethnic group even if it's 100% of a region’s population from relocating to another part of the country. The Igbo people are known for their entrepreneurial spirit and adventurous nature you'll find them in virtually every nation on earth, let alone within Nigeria. As long as Nigeria remains a single, united entity.... peaceful coexistence is the only option
Really.......
Re: Growing Up In The West It Is Hard To Believe Yoruba Igbo Relationship Today by PaChukwudi44(m): 1:20am On Jul 24, 2025
helinues:
You people will come to our region to share the little resources meant for the indigenes and still be disrespectful.

You can't plant guava and be expecting to harvest Apple
What is disrespect? Voting for your preferred candidate during elections?
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