₦airaland Forum

Dear Ndi Igbo,

It is time we ask ourselves a serious question: How long shall we continue to build on foundations that reject us? How long will we pour our sweat, our money, and our lives into cities where we are treated as strangers - where our loyalty is always in question, and our success is met with suspicion?

The recent events in Nigeria, particularly the 2023 general elections, have reminded us once again: "One Nigeria" is a dream we desire, but not the reality we live.

What Happened in 2023 Cannot Be Ignored

During the 2023 elections, in Lagos - a city many of us have called home for decades - Igbos were openly profiled, harassed, and attacked simply for exercising their right to vote. We were told “Go back to your land”, even as we stood in queues outside polling units we built with our taxes. On March 8, 2023, the Igbo‑dominated Akere Spare Parts Market in Ajegunle, Lagos, was set ablaze in a suspected politically‑motivated arson attack - just days before the governorship election. One security guard was killed, hundreds of stalls destroyed, and no arrests were made - reflecting a pattern of intimidation against Igbo traders. Businesses we built with decades of effort were suddenly treated like foreign outposts.

Influential voices on social media and in politics pushed hate-filled narratives: “Lagos is Yoruba land,” they said. They made it clear - we are allowed to trade, but not to belong.

Can we really continue to ignore these signs?

This Isn’t New - The North Showed Us Before

Let’s not forget that long before this recent episode, we faced worse in the North. From the 1953 Kano riots to the 1966 pogrom, to the cycles of religious and ethnic violence that have claimed the lives of countless Igbos in cities like Jos, Kaduna, and Kano - our people have paid the price of misplaced trust too many times.

Thousands were killed. Businesses lost. Families displaced. Yet we returned, again and again, as if home had nothing to offer.

But home has everything to offer - if we truly look.

So, Why Not Home?
We must now ask: Why should we continue building empires on borrowed land when our own land is crying for attention?

Why build plazas in Lagos when Enugu, Awka, Abakaliki, Aba, and Owerri need malls?

Why establish tech hubs in hostile territory when Nnewi and Umuahia are full of youth hungry for opportunity?

Why invest in markets where your shops can be burned overnight and no one is held accountable?

The Case for Home is Stronger Than Ever

You Belong - At home, you are not a visitor. You are not an “outsider.” Your success isn’t a threat. It’s a celebration.

Your Wealth Builds Legacy - Every investment back home strengthens the land of our fathers. You build schools your children will attend. Roads that carry your name. Institutions that reflect your values.

Collective Security - A strong Southeast is our best defense. Economically, politically, socially - when we unite and develop our region, we are harder to ignore, and impossible to silence.

Cultural Renewal - Home is where our language is spoken, our customs respected, and our identity is preserved. Why trade that for a lifetime of code-switching?

The Time Is Now, Not Later

This is not a call for isolation, but a call for strategic reawakening.

Lagos may offer lights, but home offers roots. Abuja may offer politics, but home offers peace. The North may offer space, but home offers identity. We have tried Nigeria. Let’s try Igboland.

Dear Ndi Igbo, think home.

Not just emotionally, but economically. Not just sentimentally, but strategically. Let us stop waiting for acceptance in places that only tolerate us. Let’s build the East - brick by brick, one business at a time, one investment at a time, one homecoming at a time.

If we don't value home, who will?

Next shopping mall in Abuja was burnt to aches without accountability. He lost years of profit in a single morning.

Ebeano mall was burnt in Abuja and nothing was said about it.

'Shoprite malls' were looted in Lagos and Ibadan in response to South African violence and those who invested in the franchise bore the loss.

There has never been record of arson talk more of looting of any mall in the East. Roban stores has his stores only in the East and he has expanded more than those whose land are pursuing without fear. Will roban have any course to fear for his business for the simple reason that he is Igbo?

There is something about business our people always fail to understand and that makes them always think short term. Building a business into a brand is not same as making short term profit to sustain the life of the owner. If you understand business in long term sense, you'll also understand that a place that guarantees you long term security, offers better opportunity even if there is no guarantee of immediate profit than a hostile place that offer immediate opportunity. If your business is not vanguished by deliberate government policy, it sabotaged by the hostile natives who feel threatened by your prosperity. If you are in good terms with them now like emzor, with time their hate and envy won't spare you like landmark. Begging to live and do business is not normal. Only a f**l gambles with his hard earned money on an environment where they can't stand his guts.

You can live in Lagos and Abuja and have businesses in the East, almost all the eastern states now have functional airports. Landmark has divested, coscharis has done it, Stanel has done it too.

If you relocate abroad from Lagos or Abuja, you can still make those places your base but find your home state or anywhere in the East to invest. Investing little where you belong is safer than gambling hugely in a place with better immediate reward but highly volatile. Nothing good comes easy. If you go abroad, you'll find family owned businesses that have lasted over 200 years as medium scale businesses and are highly valuable. Long-term stability is sure for profit and growth but short term profit is amids high environmental volatility is sure for failure.

Armaggedon:
Next shopping mall in Abuja was burnt to aches without accountability. He lost years of profit in a single morning.

Ebeano mall was burnt in Abuja and nothing was said about it.

'Shoprite malls' were looted in Lagos and Ibadan in response to South African violence and those who invested in the franchise bore the loss.

There has never been record of arson talk more of looting of any mall in the East. Roban stores has his stores only in the East and he has expanded more than those whose land are pursuing without fear. Will roban have any course to fear for his business for the simple reason that he is Igbo?

There is something about business our people always fail to understand and that makes them always think short term. Building a business into a brand is not same as making short term profit to sustain the life of the owner. If you understand business in long term sense, you'll also understand that a place that guarantees you long term security, offers better opportunity even if there is no guarantee of immediate profit than a hostile place that offer immediate opportunity. If your business is not vanguished by deliberate government policy, it sabotaged by the hostile natives who feel threatened by your prosperity. If you are in good terms with them now like emzor, with time their hate and envy won't spare you like landmark. Begging to live and do business is not normal. Only a f**l gambles with his hard earned money on an environment where they can't stand his guys.

You can live in Lagos and Abuja and have businesses in the East, almost all the eastern states now have functional airports. Landmark has divested, coscharis has done it, Stanel has done it too.

If you relocate abroad from Lagos or Abuja, you can still make those places your base but find your home state or anywhere in the East to invest. Investing little where you belong is safer than gambling hugely in a place with better immediate reward but highly volatile. Nothing good comes easy. If you go abroad, you'll find family owned businesses that have lasted over 200 years as medium scale businesses and are highly valuable. Long-term stability is sure for profit and growth but short term profit is amids high environmental volatility is sure for failure.

I read all that you wrote up there but the truth is you didn't point to that inherent defect which always makes you the target of ambush. It is a fact that others are not being ambush despite their enormous success in business and life endeavors in any where the live around the world. Why is it always you?

Softmirror:
I read all that you wrote up there but the truth is you didn't point to that inherent defect which always makes you the target of ambush. It is a fact that others are not being ambush despite their enormous success in business and life endeavors in any where the live around the world. Why is it always you?

The comment wrote is not for you. It's for Igbo people.

Armaggedon:
The comment wrote is not for you. It's for Igbo people.

Of course!

You people should make haste about it please. Nigerians will be glad you did.

Softmirror:
Of course!

so vamuse from my mention.

Armaggedon:
so vamuse from my mention.

No bi fight nah. Na just advice.

Softmirror:
Nobody fight nah. Na just advice.

Stay out bro. I saw the thread and also ignored

This thread is about Igbo's , the Yoruba's should stay out..

Support BIAFRA so you can be free ....

Stay focused on BIAFRA exit and have Peace.

omenka:
You people should make haste about it please. Nigerians will be glad you did.

Well said. Please know this ..we will JOIN IGBOs totally, that one sure like day and NIGHT

LordBillionz:
Dear Ndi Igbo,

It is time we ask ourselves a serious question: How long shall we continue to build on foundations that reject us? How long will we pour our sweat, our money, and our lives into cities where we are treated as strangers - where our loyalty is always in question, and our success is met with suspicion?

The recent events in Nigeria, particularly the 2023 general elections, have reminded us once again: "One Nigeria" is a dream we desire, but not the reality we live.

What Happened in 2023 Cannot Be Ignored

During the 2023 elections, in Lagos - a city many of us have called home for decades - Igbos were openly profiled, harassed, and attacked simply for exercising their right to vote. We were told “Go back to your land”, even as we stood in queues outside polling units we built with our taxes. On March 8, 2023, the Igbo‑dominated Akere Spare Parts Market in Ajegunle, Lagos, was set ablaze in a suspected politically‑motivated arson attack—just days before the governorship election. One security guard was killed, hundreds of stalls destroyed, and no arrests were made—reflecting a pattern of intimidation against Igbo traders. Businesses we built with decades of effort were suddenly treated like foreign outposts.

Influential voices on social media and in politics pushed hate-filled narratives: “Lagos is Yoruba land,” they said. They made it clear - we are allowed to trade, but not to belong.

Can we really continue to ignore these signs?

This Isn’t New - The North Showed Us Before

Let’s not forget that long before this recent episode, we faced worse in the North. From the 1953 Kano riots to the 1966 pogrom, to the cycles of religious and ethnic violence that have claimed the lives of countless Igbos in cities like Jos, Kaduna, and Kano - our people have paid the price of misplaced trust too many times.

Thousands were killed. Businesses lost. Families displaced. Yet we returned, again and again, as if home had nothing to offer.

But home has everything to offer - if we truly look.

So, Why Not Home?
We must now ask: Why should we continue building empires on borrowed land when our own land is crying for attention?

Why build plazas in Lagos when Enugu, Awka, Abakaliki, Aba, and Owerri need malls?

Why establish tech hubs in hostile territory when Nnewi and Umuahia are full of youth hungry for opportunity?

Why invest in markets where your shops can be burned overnight and no one is held accountable?

The Case for Home is Stronger Than Ever

You Belong - At home, you are not a visitor. You are not an “outsider.” Your success isn’t a threat. It’s a celebration.

Your Wealth Builds Legacy - Every investment back home strengthens the land of our fathers. You build schools your children will attend. Roads that carry your name. Institutions that reflect your values.

Collective Security - A strong Southeast is our best defense. Economically, politically, socially - when we unite and develop our region, we are harder to ignore, and impossible to silence.

Cultural Renewal - Home is where our language is spoken, our customs respected, and our identity is preserved. Why trade that for a lifetime of code-switching?

The Time Is Now, Not Later

This is not a call for isolation, but a call for strategic reawakening.

Lagos may offer lights, but home offers roots. Abuja may offer politics, but home offers peace. The North may offer space, but home offers identity. We have tried Nigeria. Let’s try Igboland.

Dear Ndi Igbo, think home.

Not just emotionally, but economically. Not just sentimentally, but strategically. Let us stop waiting for acceptance in places that only tolerate us. Let’s build the East - brick by brick, one business at a time, one investment at a time, one homecoming at a time.

If we don't value home, who will?

We are totally focused on exiting the contraption. It's very much obvious that an agenda is been set. So everyone shouldn't be caught napping.

All I want to say that we have decided to follow IGBOs and jettison this unworkable union that entrenches haters and failures as leaders.

Well-done.

Armaggedon:
Next shopping mall in Abuja was burnt to aches without accountability. He lost years of profit in a single morning.

Ebeano mall was burnt in Abuja and nothing was said about it.

'Shoprite malls' were looted in Lagos and Ibadan in response to South African violence and those who invested in the franchise bore the loss.

There has never been record of arson talk more of looting of any mall in the East. Roban stores has his stores only in the East and he has expanded more than those whose land are pursuing without fear. Will roban have any course to fear for his business for the simple reason that he is Igbo?

There is something about business our people always fail to understand and that makes them always think short term. Building a business into a brand is not same as making short term profit to sustain the life of the owner. If you understand business in long term sense, you'll also understand that a place that guarantees you long term security, offers better opportunity even if there is no guarantee of immediate profit than a hostile place that offer immediate opportunity. If your business is not vanguished by deliberate government policy, it sabotaged by the hostile natives who feel threatened by your prosperity. If you are in good terms with them now like emzor, with time their hate and envy won't spare you like landmark. Begging to live and do business is not normal. Only a f**l gambles with his hard earned money on an environment where they can't stand his guys.

You can live in Lagos and Abuja and have businesses in the East, almost all the eastern states now have functional airports. Landmark has divested, coscharis has done it, Stanel has done it too.

If you relocate abroad from Lagos or Abuja, you can still make those places your base but find your home state or anywhere in the East to invest. Investing little where you belong is safer than gambling hugely in a place with better immediate reward but highly volatile. Nothing good comes easy. If you go abroad, you'll find family owned businesses that have lasted over 200 years as medium scale businesses and are highly valuable. Long-term stability is sure for profit and growth but short term profit is amids high environmental volatility is sure for failure.

LordBillionz:
Dear Ndi Igbo,

It is time we ask ourselves a serious question: How long shall we continue to build on foundations that reject us? How long will we pour our sweat, our money, and our lives into cities where we are treated as strangers - where our loyalty is always in question, and our success is met with suspicion?

The recent events in Nigeria, particularly the 2023 general elections, have reminded us once again: "One Nigeria" is a dream we desire, but not the reality we live.

What Happened in 2023 Cannot Be Ignored

During the 2023 elections, in Lagos - a city many of us have called home for decades - Igbos were openly profiled, harassed, and attacked simply for exercising their right to vote. We were told “Go back to your land”, even as we stood in queues outside polling units we built with our taxes. On March 8, 2023, the Igbo‑dominated Akere Spare Parts Market in Ajegunle, Lagos, was set ablaze in a suspected politically‑motivated arson attack - just days before the governorship election. One security guard was killed, hundreds of stalls destroyed, and no arrests were made - reflecting a pattern of intimidation against Igbo traders. Businesses we built with decades of effort were suddenly treated like foreign outposts.

Influential voices on social media and in politics pushed hate-filled narratives: “Lagos is Yoruba land,” they said. They made it clear - we are allowed to trade, but not to belong.

Can we really continue to ignore these signs?

This Isn’t New - The North Showed Us Before

Let’s not forget that long before this recent episode, we faced worse in the North. From the 1953 Kano riots to the 1966 pogrom, to the cycles of religious and ethnic violence that have claimed the lives of countless Igbos in cities like Jos, Kaduna, and Kano - our people have paid the price of misplaced trust too many times.

Thousands were killed. Businesses lost. Families displaced. Yet we returned, again and again, as if home had nothing to offer.

But home has everything to offer - if we truly look.

So, Why Not Home?
We must now ask: Why should we continue building empires on borrowed land when our own land is crying for attention?

Why build plazas in Lagos when Enugu, Awka, Abakaliki, Aba, and Owerri need malls?

Why establish tech hubs in hostile territory when Nnewi and Umuahia are full of youth hungry for opportunity?

Why invest in markets where your shops can be burned overnight and no one is held accountable?

The Case for Home is Stronger Than Ever

You Belong - At home, you are not a visitor. You are not an “outsider.” Your success isn’t a threat. It’s a celebration.

Your Wealth Builds Legacy - Every investment back home strengthens the land of our fathers. You build schools your children will attend. Roads that carry your name. Institutions that reflect your values.

Collective Security - A strong Southeast is our best defense. Economically, politically, socially - when we unite and develop our region, we are harder to ignore, and impossible to silence.

Cultural Renewal - Home is where our language is spoken, our customs respected, and our identity is preserved. Why trade that for a lifetime of code-switching?

The Time Is Now, Not Later

This is not a call for isolation, but a call for strategic reawakening.

Lagos may offer lights, but home offers roots. Abuja may offer politics, but home offers peace. The North may offer space, but home offers identity. We have tried Nigeria. Let’s try Igboland.

Dear Ndi Igbo, think home.

Not just emotionally, but economically. Not just sentimentally, but strategically. Let us stop waiting for acceptance in places that only tolerate us. Let’s build the East - brick by brick, one business at a time, one investment at a time, one homecoming at a time.

If we don't value home, who will?

hope it's not d same home the fish magnet was just killed?

Hope it's not the same home an average of 5 people are killed in a day?

Armaggedon:
Next shopping mall in Abuja was burnt to aches without accountability. He lost years of profit in a single morning.

Ebeano mall was burnt in Abuja and nothing was said about it.

'Shoprite malls' were looted in Lagos and Ibadan in response to South African violence and those who invested in the franchise bore the loss.

There has never been record of arson talk more of looting of any mall in the East. Roban stores has his stores only in the East and he has expanded more than those whose land are pursuing without fear. Will roban have any course to fear for his business for the simple reason that he is Igbo?

There is something about business our people always fail to understand and that makes them always think short term. Building a business into a brand is not same as making short term profit to sustain the life of the owner. If you understand business in long term sense, you'll also understand that a place that guarantees you long term security, offers better opportunity even if there is no guarantee of immediate profit than a hostile place that offer immediate opportunity. If your business is not vanguished by deliberate government policy, it sabotaged by the hostile natives who feel threatened by your prosperity. If you are in good terms with them now like emzor, with time their hate and envy won't spare you like landmark. Begging to live and do business is not normal. Only a f**l gambles with his hard earned money on an environment where they can't stand his guts.

You can live in Lagos and Abuja and have businesses in the East, almost all the eastern states now have functional airports. Landmark has divested, coscharis has done it, Stanel has done it too.

If you relocate abroad from Lagos or Abuja, you can still make those places your base but find your home state or anywhere in the East to invest. Investing little where you belong is safer than gambling hugely in a place with better immediate reward but highly volatile. Nothing good comes easy. If you go abroad, you'll find family owned businesses that have lasted over 200 years as medium scale businesses and are highly valuable. Long-term stability is sure for profit and growth but short term profit is amids high environmental volatility is sure for failure.

what do u have to say about the fish magnet guy who just got killed in d east?


Hope u know if he's business is located in Abuja or lagos he will still b alive today?


N besides when was ShopRite looted in Lagos n Ibadan?

This video de give me endless joy.

More Yorubas willing to vote Obi should be made to watch this to know the extent of their stupidity.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9muEGNR7fqQ&pp=ygUQTGlzYXIgbi5qLiBrYW51IA

The Yoruba boy posted is on Instablog, pls match his energy to shame the devil n ciwards.

esnbrutality:
We are totally focused on exiting the contraption. It's very much obvious that an agenda is been set. So everyone shouldn't be caught napping.

All I want to say that we have decided to follow IGBOs and jettison this unworkable union that entrenches haters and failures as leaders.

Well-done.

esnbrutality:
Support BIAFRA so you can be free ....

Stay focused on BIAFRA exit and have Peace.

so as powerful as u are, u no fit run biafra alone?

So it is d coward that should come n support brave man ambition now?

esnbrutality:
We are totally focused on exiting the contraption. It's very much obvious that an agenda is been set. So everyone shouldn't be caught napping.

All I want to say that we have decided to follow IGBOs and jettison this unworkable union that entrenches haters and failures as leaders.

Well-done.

Abeg do quick n leave

We can't wait to have a crime free society abeg

Sharpsharp00123:
hope it's not d same home the fish magnet was just killed?

Hope it's not the same home an average of 5 people are killed in a day?

What's happening in our land is none of your business. Deal with the ritualists in your region.

Nobody shouod be forced to support lunatics.

esnbrutality:
Support BIAFRA so you can be free ....

Stay focused on BIAFRA exit and have Peace.

IT'S TIME FOR IBOS TO THINK HOME AND GO HOME!

LordBillionz:
On March 8, 2023, the Igbo‑dominated Akere Spare Parts Market in Ajegunle, Lagos, was set ablaze in a suspected politically‑motivated arson attack - just days before the governorship election.

This attack was suspected to have been carried out by (disgruntled) rival factions within the market itself.

Gadem, ontop ordinary street renaming na wetin dis oga write all dis come dey gaslight Ndi Yoruba! A whole Lagos state that Peter Obi defeated Asiwaju.

By the way, it was bad that local touts were harassing people that appeared to want to vote Chinedu Gbadebo. Ndi Yoruba too nor try for dat wan. I guess mi casa no es su casa, shame.

lol
I listened to that woman and I was laughing.
Maybe lazy has another meaning in the Igbo language sha.
Can Yoruba be lazy and dominate Igbos in almost all sectors?
Not today but since inception even when Yorubas were deeply marginalised.
Failures always have excuses sha.

Majority of Igbos in Lagos are traders, they are in Lagos because of the huge market base and opportunity it offers them.

So you should ask yourself whether you have any market share to give them at 'home' to match the one they get elsewhere.

If not, do you have any other employment to offer them aside from trade?

It is the culture itself that is the problem, the entire culture needs to be restructured.

danvon:
Majority of Igbos in Lagos are traders, they are in Lagos because of the huge market base and opportunity it offers them.

So you should ask yourself whether you have any market share to give them at 'home' to match the one they get elsewhere.

If not, do you have any other employment to offer them aside from trade?

It is the culture itself that is the problem, the entire culture needs to be restructured.

And they are a great people too.

Softmirror:
I read all that you wrote up there but the truth is you didn't point to that inherent defect which always makes you the target of ambush. It is a fact that others are not being ambush despite their enormous success in business and life endeavors in any where the live around the world. Why is it always you?

there's no "defect" that warrants the criminal destruction of human lives and property just because someone comes from the "wrong tribe"

Charity begins at home.

esnbrutality:
Support BIAFRA so you can be free ....

Stay focused on BIAFRA exit and have Peace.

Why should he support biafla? You guys can't fight your fight, but you're looking for who to gaslight to fight for you. Lolz. Fight your fight by yourselves if you think you can win. You no tell your people for NASS to fight for it you're telling random people online to support you. Lolz.

KillahPriest:
there's no "defect" that warrants the criminal destruction of human lives and property just because someone comes from the "wrong tribe"

Even in South Africa and Ghana?

Ritchiee:
Even in South Africa and Ghana?

does this thing you posted make sense to you ?