₦airaland Forum

AlwaysPositive:
If you had read carefully, you’d have noticed that he raised objections based on his own experience, and I simply responded with mine. So why are you getting upset now??

If you do not trust your friends, do not blame it on tribes, take full responsibility by questioning your own character as a person.

Christlike01:
Amen. It has become increasingly clear to many of us that important decisions regarding our collective future have already been made. As a people, we are now more focused, intentional, and unified in protecting our interests and values.

While we have historically extended a hand of friendship and openness to others, we've come to realize that it's time to reassess certain approaches — particularly those where our goodwill may have been misunderstood or taken for granted. This reflection has led us to adopt a more strategic mindset moving forward.

We believe in peaceful coexistence and mutual respect among all ethnic groups, but we also acknowledge the need to safeguard our heritage and territory. In light of current realities, new policies have been carefully crafted to ensure this — though their full implementation is being approached with caution and wisdom, especially given the current national leadership.

This is not about hostility, but about clarity, boundaries, and protecting the dignity of our people. The future will speak for itself.

WizardOfNG:
Precisely. That's why I said earlier they are trying to use one individual to claim credential they have never merited or exemplified as a people.

Even in the whole SE, how many Yorubas are permanently domiciled there? 400k max being generous?

Yet how many Igbos in the SW thriving, buying properties, running successful businesses etc unimpeded? At least 8 million.

Which sane person, from any nation of the world at all, will you put these facts before and they will agree Yorubas are the "unaccomodating tribalist", as Igbos are desperate to claim, because of the anecdotal testimony of one individual.

Are they not the same ethnic group where an Igbo elder proudly proclaimed they do not sell land to outsiders meaning they want no equitable assimilation of non-Igbos in the SE?

A joke thread to be honest but I am not surprised considering it is about the champions of victimhood and hypocrisy.

deji17:
400k for where? I lived in Enugu before and I can tell you that the number of Yorubas, you will find there will not be up to 4,000. In the entire SE, they are not up to 10,000. A number that you will find in just 1 local govt in Ekiti state.

WizardOfNG:
Lol. Well-said bro but let it not be said I am not a generous man. This is why I erred on the kpata kpata uppermost figure of 400k, when I know it is likely under 100k, to shame them considering they are no less than 8 million in the SW meaning Yoruba land is their second most populous home in the world aside their native SE.

Yet they continue to lie to the world ungraciously we "hate" them, are demolishing their properties, are "envious" of them, "plotting evil" for them and are their "real and biggest enemies in the world" ( check their comments here) simply because we do not allow them dominate our socio-economic reality in our own ancestral land.

WizardOfNG:
God bless you. When Yorubas begin moving decisively and deliberately, for the purpose of self-preservation and the legacy we wish to pass on to our generations unborn, it is this very people who will regret their ways and how they have alway taken our kindness for weakness, and proclaimed our Liberal empowerment of others in our land as they can/will never offer in their region, as "lack of ambition" .

They will realise, after Yorubas become fully protectionist and Conservative, the heavy socio-economic cost of their ingratitude and penchant for denigrating and ridiculing their host as we are seeing already after the deteriorating of relations post 2023 election.

You will hardly find a single one of them with anything good to say about Yorubas despite the fact we are their most benevolent host on God's Earth. Yorubas, to include even the most Liberal, are beginning to see we are living with enemies-within.

Many Yorubas now see they are a people obsessed with an agenda of hostile takeover against us in our land hence the reason for their ingratitude and constant denigration of us whereas over 200 other ethnic groups of Nigeria in the SW never badmouth or curse their Yoruba hosts.

Same as Yorubas are never ungracious to their host whether they are in SE Nigeria, Ghana, London, Canada etal. We are more deliberately conscious and methodical now.

lawani:
Do you know the meaning of 8 million? That is more than the population of Ibadan Ogbomosho and Ilorin put together. What job is 8 million Igbos doing in Yoruba land? Outside Lagos Igbos are probably not up to 500k in Yoruba land. Then just liker there are jobs dominated by Igbos here Yorubas also dominate some jobs in the East. Therefore Yorubas are numerous in the East. They are only quiet. Do you know the number of Yoruba women married in the east? Civil servants and etc?

WizardOfNG:
Precisely. That's why I said earlier they are trying to use one individual to claim credential they have never merited or exemplified as a people.

Even in the whole SE, how many Yorubas are permanently domiciled there? 400k max being generous?

Yet how many Igbos in the SW thriving, buying properties, running successful businesses etc unimpeded? At least 8 million.

Which sane person, from any nation of the world at all, will you put these facts before and they will agree Yorubas are the "unaccomodating tribalist", as Igbos are desperate to claim, because of the anecdotal testimony of one individual.

Are they not the same ethnic group where an Igbo elder proudly proclaimed they do not sell land to outsiders meaning they want no equitable assimilation of non-Igbos in the SE?

A joke thread to be honest but I am not surprised considering it is about the champions of victimhood and hypocrisy.

funshint:
The main point is you'll never hear a Yoruba disrespect his host or called their land "no man's land" or claim to be the one that "developed" it. Yorubas integrate and respects their hosts. They're grateful to the land of their host for whatever riches they are able to get there, not claiming to be better or denigrating their hosts.

shortgun:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBT4Lq0OFQA?si=Kr1hpDiFdaLAy8k3

An Interview with Oba Alhaji Abdulazeez Adebayo Olateju, The Oba Yoruba in Enugu,
Who settled in Enugu 46 years ago, in 1979

Excerpts:
Interviewer: Where are you from, sir?
Oba: I am from Ede, in Osun State.

Interviewer: You speak Igbo so fluently. Where did you learn it from?
Oba (responding in Igbo): I learned the language here in Enugu. God gave me the gift of understanding languages and the ear to hear. Many people often wonder if I was born or schooled here, but that’s not the case. I was already an adult, fully grown when I relocated to Enugu from Osun. I even voted during the era of Jim Nwobodo and later for Shehu Shagari.

Interviewer: I also learned you speak Hausa. Did you learn it here too?
Oba (replying in Hausa): Yes, I speak and understand Hausa fluently but I have never lived in the North. I picked it up here in Enugu, just by listening to people around me.

Oba: Everywhere I go in Igboland, people take me as one of their own. My grandmother who once tried to discourage me from settling here in Igboland but before she passed in 2012 was very happy and always thanking God for leading me to Igboland. I kept bringing all my relatives here and today they are all doing well because Igboland is good to us.

funshint:
The main point is you'll never hear a Yoruba disrespect his host or called their land "no man's land" or claim to be the one that "developed" it. Yorubas integrate and respects their hosts. They're grateful to the land of their host for whatever riches they are able to get there, not claiming to be better or denigrating their hosts.

AlwaysPositive:
I still wonder why my posts upsets you all.
Say "NO TO TRIBAL BIGOTRY"

AlwaysPositive:
If you had read carefully, you’d have noticed that he raised objections based on his own experience, and I simply responded with mine. So why are you getting upset now??

If you do not trust your friends, do not blame it on tribes, take full responsibility by questioning your own character as a person.

Solsix:
Changing of goal post is always una thing

IduNaOba:
Nobody is disturbing them o
I went to Yoruba line to do a slipper that only them are authorised to do.
No igbo shoe maker would do it once I showed them the design
They all said one thing "gaa n'ọdụ ndị Yoruba"
Go to Yoruba line.
Ekere ọrụ eke because they didn't pas their boundaries they know themselves has settlers
This business is divided
Only the Yorubas do this type of foot wear.
We can not do it brother.
I smiled and said to myself imagine say these ones dey naira land 😂

yinkus6750:
Yoruba Oba is recognized in Enugu.
While Ibo Oba is a taboo in Lagos ?
I disagree with any King in another person's land.
Highest they can have Association with leaders.

Judolisco:
Dis stuff is normal... If u go to kano or sokoto, you'll see d king of Yoruba or king of d igbos... It's usually rotational, they're are like d representatives of the tribes in d land.... They don't hold any powers....

Yorubas and igbos don't have any issues and usually intermarry and trade together, not until the last election.... They started calling yorubas tribalist for voting for their choice and when we even checked the results, it is only the south west that didn't vote along ethnic lines.... They insulted ekiti people, called lagos no man land.... U guys did d same thing to the hausa/fulanis and u think d yorubas will fold their hands and allow u do d same to them.... Think again....

WizardOfNG:
Typical duplicity and facetiousness we now come to expect from you guys. You cite Bwala's past utterenace with no respect for his later clarification over that past statement .

What makes me happy is that your prejudiced, megalomaniac and compromised nature, which makes it impossible for you to see you have a problem, will never allow you have dominance over others considering that is what you people live and breathe for.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.vanguardngr.com/2025/09/lagos-belongs-to-yoruba-bwala-clarifies-no-mans-land-comment/amp/

Basic123:
Well done omoluabi

At least he never claimed he developed IGBO LAND.


Instead of other people to claim LAGOS as been blessing to them they will rather claim they are blessings to Lagos by developing it

goslowgoslow:
Peace and acceptance my foot. How many cases like do we have. How many places in Igbo sells land to Yorubas or other non Yorubas?

Softmirror:
Yorubas have been living in Niger Republic, Ghana, Burkinafaso, Ivory Coast so many African countries since a very long time and very peaceful. Infact one thing very common is their fear to go to prison hence they hardly commit crimes.

But today, with the influx of Igbos in this countries. Sincerely speaking, just go to their prison and you will find a whole Igbo community in these countries prisons.

YeyeGbami:
Am sure he wouldn't be uttering trash towards his host, or trying to claim what does not belong to him papa

lawani:
That is not true. In my village of Ere Ijesa in Osun Hausa arrr more than ten times the Igbo population because they come for dry season farming. In Yoruba land generally unless there is a census you can't know who is more between Hausas and Igbos

All cities there there were census in Europe and North America Yoruba are always more than Igbos sometimes more than double. If Europe is like that and North America why not Northern Nigeria? Then it is a known fact that Yoruba outnumber Igbos in any Northern university both as staff and students. Your assumption is not correct

short..gun:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBT4Lq0OFQA?si=Kr1hpDiFdaLAy8k3

An Interview with Oba Alhaji Abdulazeez Adebayo Olateju, The Oba Yoruba in Enugu,
Who settled in Enugu 46 years ago, in 1979

Excerpts:
Interviewer: Where are you from, sir?
Oba: I am from Ede, in Osun State.

Interviewer: You speak Igbo so fluently. Where did you learn it from?
Oba (responding in Igbo): I learned the language here in Enugu. God gave me the gift of understanding languages and the ear to hear. Many people often wonder if I was born or schooled here, but that’s not the case. I was already an adult, fully grown when I relocated to Enugu from Osun. I even voted during the era of Jim Nwobodo and later for Shehu Shagari.

Interviewer: I also learned you speak Hausa. Did you learn it here too?
Oba (replying in Hausa): Yes, I speak and understand Hausa fluently but I have never lived in the North. I picked it up here in Enugu, just by listening to people around me.

Oba: Everywhere I go in Igboland, people take me as one of their own. My grandmother who once tried to discourage me from settling here in Igboland but before she passed in 2012 was very happy and always thanking God for leading me to Igboland. I kept bringing all my relatives here and today they are all doing well because Igboland is good to us.

Believeintruth:
It is the other way round when PO got over 90% vote in the east you called igbos tribalists. Stop trying to twist narratives abeg.

Believeintruth:
Wait hold on how is this comment of yours tied to the topic. Why do you guys love to change mouth and shift goal posts. Oya how many Yorubas are languishing in prisons in Saudi, Qatar and Oman? There is a whole Yoruba community in those prisons there.

funshint:
The main point is you'll never hear a Yoruba disrespect his host or called their land "no man's land" or claim to be the one that "developed" it. Yorubas integrate and respects their hosts. They're grateful to the land of their host for whatever riches they are able to get there, not claiming to be better or denigrating their hosts.