₦airaland Forum

zero8zero:
How is it that you became poor and broke after the civil war but Ojukwu who was the architect of the war was not broke after the war? 🤣🤣🤣
You can't be distributing wealth and 90% of your people are running away in night buses to other region to survive 🤣, barren region.

Someone who is an IDP in Enugu & Ebonyi is talking about insecurity in another man's region, the joke is on you

zero8zero:
Ipob claimed the British Govt borrowed Ojukwu's Rolls Royce to chauffeur the Queen around the country, you on the other hand, was saying the Queen only rode in his car in the east, Lol. Meanwhile, his own son said he wasn't aware of the Queen ride in his father's car. These only showed your pattern of lies

muhammaduyusufu:
https://x.com/renoomokri/status/1964649146415223112

DmonSlayer10:
You're so Ignorant and so classless!

Oga travel and see!

In the entire Nigeria,Only Lagos and Abuja competes with the cities,towns and suburbs in the SouthEast in terms of structural and infrastructural Development,commerce,industrialisation and Economic activities.

Travel and see.

Apart from the headquarters of some Banks and multi-nationals and the bursting port activities in Lagos,Onitsha is better developed and more commercialised than Lagos!

Travel and see or ask your people who have travelled.

The overexagerated stories you hear about insecurity in the SouthEast happens only in one LGA area in Imo state;

Ask people who shuttles daily to the SouthEast

That the Enterprising Igbo travels all over the World to set up businesses like the Chinese,Lebanese and Indians should not be misinterpreted to mean that their regions are suffering.

Show you're not ignorant.

DomPerignon:
Which city in the SE is up to PH or even Uyo or Asaba?

The only liveable city in SE is Abakaleke followed by Enugu .

Every other town you call city is a shithole

Abakaleke is descent for having very good networks and is also very clean.

Even Calabar is better than Owerri , Umuahi , Onitsha , Aba and Awka.

Mbanda:
Oga leave our Kith and kin alone and face your Ogbomosho enclave.

I want you to compare Enugu or Owerri with ekiti, osun and oyo states.

DomPerignon:
No be only kith and kin

Just try carry your color riot gucci flag enter even Asaba make we check something

DmonSlayer10:
I said there aren't Dollar billionaire of Igbo extraction because their head start as rich Businessmen in Nigeria was cut short by the Pogrom and civil war that destroyed and stole their wealth!

The second reason is that...after the civil war,they immediately did not have any government apparachits and patronage to easily become dollar billionaires like Dangote,Etc.

Got it?

Anyways,I think it's narrow-minded of you to assume that every opposition to APC's Presidency is IPOB!

Bandits,kidnappers and Herdsmen are killing and torturing your people in Kwara and Kogi,Ogun and Ondo But you turn a blind eye to that and focused on calling everyone IPOB.

IPOB is fighting the structural imbalance of the country,the injustices and the menace of Fulani herdsmen...the best way they feel the country will hear.

I don't support Violence of any kind and may not like certain things they've said or alledged to have done,but they have the right to self-determination...like Igboho's Yoruba Nation and the OPC!

Not understanding these things and hurling careless words about belittles you!!

Take note

Again I said something that other Black African Ethnic groups should learn from;

There are about 20 million Igbos who're already billionaires..in Naira... while majority of others are multi-millionaires in hundreds of millions and others in tens of millions?

Their unique empowerment culture made this so!!

Being a Dollar billionaire is not of any use to anyone if it doesn't benefit the majority of their people.

MrGerald:
Bitter Reno, that RR was used by Louis before spotted in emir place, there's stories that he later acquired it, Louis was very wealthy then, he might not be billionaire then but with the current rates he was at the time, he owns many businesses in Nigeria then and one of the founders of NSE

lightwind:
This is the only thread where you will find those guys in.

Btw the kind hatred this Reno have for the Igbo people eh

SonOfDSoil01:
when your lies are being bursted, they call it hate. I’m sure if not for renos revelation, a lot of generations to come would have believed that lie that an ibo man was once the richest in Nigeria, when we all no there is no documentary fact to back that claim. Just like you mouse chest beat and make so much noise today as been the richest, yet no Ibo man as ever featured in billionaires world list for decades ain’t you guys tired of this weak line of calling everything ‘hate” when your lies are bursted

Mbanda:
Oga leave our Kith and kin alone and face your Ogbomosho enclave.

I want you to compare Enugu or Owerri with ekiti, osun and oyo states.

SonOfDSoil01:
when your lies are being bursted, they call it hate. I’m sure if not for renos revelation, a lot of generations to come would have believed that lie that an ibo man was once the richest in Nigeria, when we all no there is no documentary fact to back that claim. Just like you mouse chest beat and make so much noise today as been the richest, yet no Ibo man as ever featured in billionaires world list for decades ain’t you guys tired of this weak line of calling everything ‘hate” when your lies are bursted

lightwind:
Reno Omokri has now turned to your lies dictator 😀😀 he is now a great man in your land ba ?

SonOfDSoil01:
yes na, just the same way elrufia is now the greatest man in alaibo since he is now in the coalition of saints 😂😂😂

lightwind:
Alaigbo has no business with Elrufai and co... They are all betrayals, they ganged up against Jonathan. In Alaigbo we don't welcome people like Elrufai.

Btw do you people pay Reno Omokri over there in Nigeria ?? Just asking for a friend

SonOfDSoil01:
😂😂😂indeed,you must have been living under the rock ask your ipobidient blodas that have been asking him to vice your agulu packaged fraud we could even seen them holding hand’s showing their new found love😂😂😂 pictures are all over the internet and recently too he was invited to imo state for a church program😂😂😂you can continue living in denial, na Una usual traits be that

Guide777:
Here’s a clean, source-checked breakdown of what’s solid, what’s shaky, and what’s simply wrong in Reno’s post.

Bottom line (first)

He’s right that the “Queen rode in the Emir of Kano’s Rolls-Royce” story fits the evidence for Kano ”

He overreaches when he says the Queen “never” rode in any car provided by Sir Louis—what the evidence shows is that multiple cars were used on the 1956 tour (a UK state Phantom IV in parts of the trip, and an open-topped Rolls in Kano). That debunks the viral “Ojukwu’s car everywhere” claim, but it does not prove the categorical “never” he asserts.

He also misquotes Time magazine about Sanusi Dantata and uses faulty economics to argue there were “no billionaires” for 40 years.



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1) The Queen’s car in 1956: what the record actually shows

Kano segment: The Royal Collection Trust explicitly captions a photo of the Queen and Duke in an open-topped limousine in Kano. This aligns with extensive reporting that the Emir’s vintage Rolls-Royce was used locally. That part of Reno’s post is consistent with primary material.

Other segments (e.g., Lagos): British Pathé’s film notes and the UK record on state and royal cars confirm that a Rolls-Royce Phantom IV landaulette (a UK state car carried aboard HMY Britannia) was used on overseas tours including Nigeria in 1956. In other words, the Queen did not rely on a single privately owned Nigerian car throughout the tour.


Why Reno’s “never” goes too far: showing that the Kano photos feature the Emir’s car doesn’t logically prove the Queen never used a vehicle sourced by anyone else (including Sir Louis) at any point on a multi-city tour. The correct, source-backed statement is: the viral claim that “the Queen rode in Ojukwu’s Rolls-Royce” as a blanket description of the 1956 tour is unsubstantiated; the best-documented cars are the UK state Phantom IV and, in Kano, the Emir’s Rolls.

(Side note: invoking Daily Mail and social posts adds color but they’re secondary; the Royal Collection Trust and British Pathé are the weight-bearing sources.)


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2) “Sir Louis was never the wealthiest man in Nigeria”

What we actually know: Contemporary reporting places Sir Louis Odumegwu Ojukwu and Sanusi Dantata among Nigeria’s richest businessmen in the mid-1960s. Time’s 1965 piece profiles them together; it does not crown Dantata as the richest. Reno’s wording (“acknowledged by Time as the wealthiest”) overstates the source.

What we don’t know: There were no Forbes-style, audited net-worth league tables for 1950s/60s Nigeria. Saying Sir Louis was never No. 1 is an absolute claim that can’t be substantiated with available records—at best we can say he was “among the very richest.” (For context about his stature: he was knighted and was one of the seven subscribers/founders of the Lagos Stock Exchange—hard data points about influence and standing.)


Fallacy call-outs:

Argument from ignorance / over-certainty: Claiming “not even the wealthiest… at any point” exceeds what the sources allow. Absence of a definitive league table ≠ proof of “never.”

Source misrepresentation: Time didn’t name Dantata as the wealthiest; it grouped several tycoons (including Ojukwu).



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3) “There were no billionaires in Nigeria for the first 40 years”

GDP figures: Reno’s 1960s GDP numbers are broadly in line with World Bank series (current US$ around $4–7bn in that decade).

But the reasoning is wrong: He argues that because 1960s GDP≈$4–7bn, a $1bn net worth would be “a quarter of Nigeria’s wealth.” That’s a category error: GDP is a flow (one year’s output), while net worth/wealth is a stock (assets–liabilities). You don’t compare a person’s stock of wealth to a country’s flow of GDP to prove impossibility. Plenty of countries have had individuals with net worths equal to meaningful slices of annual GDP. So his math doesn’t prove his conclusion, even if the practical conclusion (no USD billionaires back then) is likely true.


Cleaner claim: “By USD standards, a 1950s/60s Nigerian billionaire would have been extraordinarily rare worldwide; there’s no credible evidence of one.” That’s defensible without the GDP fallacy.


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4) “Wealth in Nigeria usually comes from the desert or the water”

This is an overgeneralization. Nigerian fortunes historically came from long-distance trade, produce/groundnuts/cocoa, timber, transport, real estate, banking, and later oil & gas, telecoms, cement, etc.—not just Sahelian caravans or ports. It’s a neat aphorism, not an analytical framework.


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5) Two verifiable facts about Sir Louis that matter (and often get muddled)

Knighthood: Listed in the London Gazette—no controversy there.

Stock Exchange role: The NGX (official site) lists “Sir. Odumegwu Ojukwu” among the seven subscribers who created the Lagos Stock Exchange in 1960. (Many blogs call him “first president”—the Exchange’s own page confirms subscriber/founder status; it does not label him the first president.)



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6) Speculation about Emir Sanusi’s 1957 acting-governor role as a “reward”

Saying the British made Sanusi Acting Governor of Northern Nigeria in 1957 as a reward for lending the car is post hoc speculation with no documentary support in the sources cited. That causal leap isn’t justified by the record.


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A fairer, source-grounded synthesis

The viral “Ojukwu’s Rolls” story as a blanket claim for the 1956 tour is unsupported by primary sources; the best evidence shows a UK state Phantom IV was used on the tour and an Emir of Kano Rolls was used in Kano.

Sir Louis was among Nigeria’s richest businessmen of his era (Time groups him with Dantata), a founder of the Lagos Stock Exchange, and knighted—clear markers of top-tier status. Declaring he was “never the wealthiest” is an over-confident claim that the available evidence can’t settle.

The “no billionaires” point likely holds in nominal USD terms, but Reno’s GDP argument is technically wrong and doesn’t prove the claim.

Jaymats:
What made him the richest man? Look, Remo pls ignore my people when lousiness, chest beaten and arrogancy too much these are the disgusting blatant lies you will be hearing.

Even a child that was born in 2021 will come to Nairaland to tell you what happened in Nigeria during Azikwe presidency, what happened during Biafra war even his father was not born then.

And Reno just remember everybody is a billionaire from that side in as far you can managed to buy Toyota Siena 2005, build a bungalow with pillar in the front then paint the house and if you want to kills it all by December or Easter period just managed buy two bags of rice and tell those villagers to line up and be collecting 3 cups each I swear you are a Billionaire, yet the list of World billionaire coming out time to time yet none from SE, yet the list of Africa billionaire coming out everytime yet none from SE funny enough they will litres the social media and be calling even a bloody carpenter that is making coffin a billionaire.

Biko Reno rest abeg. I'm sick of them already...

nedekid:
Hangon, the queen rode on the emirs rolls Royce when she visited northern nigeria. That was a 2 door rolls.
It is on record she visited eastern Nigerian during the same period and while she was in enugu she also rode in a rolls Royce, this time a 4 door sedan. Did the emir remove two doors from his rolls Royce and then drove it down to kano for the queens use?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJETKe4xYes?si=bxLV77j72xtple8v

casualobserver:
A few things.
1: Ojukwu snr was a rich man but his wealth was vastly overstated. When I was growing up we all knew about Dantata. Dantata was based on Kano yet we all knew about him. We all knew Ojukwu’s house in Ikoyi with the beware of snakes sign. If Ojukwu was that wealthy as someone who lived in Lagos and passed his house every day we would know. . We knew the wealthy men in Ikoyi, bayo kuku, fajemirokun, S.B. Bakare etc, ojukwu had a lot of businesses in Lagos. He was chairman of stock exchange, he was a director in many companies in Lagos, don’t you think those of us in Lagos would know if he was the richest man in Nigeria? Yet Dantata who lived in far away Kano was who we knew as the richest man in Nigeria.

2: if he truly had wealth at the time the equivalent of $40b today, what happened to it? That kind of wealth doesn’t just disappear in one generation. Talk less legitimate ibo wealth. Dantata’s wealth still exists today.

3: most likely in the SE the legend of his wealth took on a bigger proportion that the reality. But in Lagos, nobody talked about Ojukwu in that manner. In fact he was famous for his house with the snakes sign than for his wealth. Not saying he wasn’t wealthy.

4: the car matter has long been settled. There were different cars used for the queens visit. One of them was indeed Ojukwu’s car. In fact it is possible that it was the use of Ojukwu’s car in the east that gave rise to stories in the east that he was the richest man in Nigeria…he wasn’t. Those stories must have been contained in the eat because they never travelled to the west where he operated.

5: finally directorship of public companies means nothing. You can be appointed a director without having any shares or having minimal shares. It’s just for corporate governance. Go to MTN, Dangote, Zenith, access or any PLC and look for a section called director’s shareholdings. You will find many chairmen, CEOs or directors that have no shares or minimal shares. In the company. Meanwhile you will find reoccurring names on the board of numerous companies and they don’t own any shares, own just a little. So being a director of a public company means nothing. Don’t forget he was the president of the stock exchange, many companies would invite him to be on their board without him having shares in those companies. Companies appoint non executive directors who may or may not have shares in the company to boost investor confidence in the company. As at the time ojukwu was president of the stock exchange, all the companies you listed were entirely foreign owned. The indiginization decree that forced them to sell 60% to Nigerians did not occur until 1974 by which time sir Louis was already 8 years buried.

6: the value of all the companies on the NSe in the 1980s was not up to $50m. I mean all of them combined. And I am talking about 1980 talk less 1950s. Go and verify! So forget the stock exchange angle.

7: the way you become the richest man in Nigeria is to have a monopoly or near monopoly of a product that almost all Nigerians use. Or a Nigerian export commodity for which you are the no1. Sugar, salt, cement, oil, etc etc. if you examine Ojukwu’s businesses that was not the case. So he could never have been at any time the richest man in Nigeria.

lightwind:
Reno Omokri is now your God... Nothing concern alaigbo with Elrufai. Please stop coming up with that man again. No one knows him in Alaigbo. Go and claim your land Ogbomosho and leave Lagos alone.

SonOfDSoil01:
😂😂😂shebi Lagos and Ogbomosho is on biafla map? As he dey pain dem, he dey sweet us…in wikes voice😂😂 awon olojukokoro aje kuta ma momi 😂😂😂