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Did You Know This About The Entire Igbo Ethnicity by ariesbull(op): 7:26am On Jan 08
Entire Igbo towns have survived, upgraded, and modernized because their people left (Traveled abroad).

Not because of oil.
Not because of federal projects.
Not because of NGOs.

But because Igbo migrants abroad organized themselves and sent development home deliberately.

This is not remittance.
This is parallel governance.

What Actually Happened:
From the 1970s onward, as Igbo men and women migrated to:

•the United States
•the United Kingdom
•Germany
•Italy
•Canada
•South Africa
•Asia

they did not dissolve into individual survival.
They reassembled abroad as town unions.
Same village.
Same town
Same obligations.
Distance changed nothing.

While governments debated budgets, Igbo town unions abroad:

•built hospitals where none existed
•funded schools when public ones collapsed
•graded roads abandoned by state authorities
•installed transformers and water systems
•rebuilt markets and civic halls

In some communities, every functioning public structure traces back to diaspora funding.
No logos
No plaques
No donors’ conferences.
Just completion.

Why This Is Not Normal

Most migrant groups send money to families.

Igbo migrants sent money to villages.

They taxed themselves.
They fined defaulters.
They published accounts.
They commissioned projects publicly.

Failure to contribute was not “unfortunate.”
It was dishonourable.

This was not generosity.
It was duty enforced by culture.

The Part No One Talks About

In many towns:
•diaspora funded schools outperform government schools
•clinics built by unions are the only ones with drugs
•roads built by town unions are the only ones that last

Yet these projects appear:
•nowhere in development rankings
•nowhere in donor reports
•nowhere in national pride narratives

They exist outside recognition.

This is not about money.

It reveals a system where:

•leadership is collective
•accountability is social
•progress is expected, not praised

A people who can:
•self-tax across continents
•coordinate without a state
•deliver infrastructure without aid

are not underdeveloped.

They are under-recognized.

The Question That Should Unsettle Us

If a people can build:

•hospitals from Houston
•roads from London
•schools from Milan

Then what they lack at home is not intelligence.
Not work ethic.
Not capital.


Today in many Igbo villages senior citizens and old people are being paid stipends from #50,000 upwards by wealthy individuals,those that are poor, many homes are built and given to them at no charge, no tax, no mortgage while their kids are taken to be shown the ways to make money ...that's capacity building !

It is alignment. It is self love, it is live for the community and it is live for the ethnicity! It is a testament of those that love and believe in themselves!

And alignment has restored Igbo communities and still do
Re: Did You Know This About The Entire Igbo Ethnicity by madridguy(m): 7:36am On Jan 08
Another bull crap as usual to satisfy their fake ego cheesy
Re: Did You Know This About The Entire Igbo Ethnicity by clockwisereport:
Make una stop all these una hype.
Re: Did You Know This About The Entire Igbo Ethnicity by Codepain: 7:49am On Jan 08
congratulations to Ibos
Re: Did You Know This About The Entire Igbo Ethnicity by ResidentSnitch(f): 7:50am On Jan 08
madridguy:
Another bull crap as usual to satisfy their fake ego cheesy
Surely you need to travel more...
Re: Did You Know This About The Entire Igbo Ethnicity by madridguy(m): 7:51am On Jan 08
Travel to where exactly?

ResidentSnitch:
Surely you need to travel more...
Re: Did You Know This About The Entire Igbo Ethnicity by Dalohad: 7:58am On Jan 08
madridguy:
Another bull crap as usual to satisfy their fake ego cheesy
My dear Yoruba Muslim brotherly. You go lament till you kpeme.. cheesy grin

E ni Sukun ke? grin
Re: Did You Know This About The Entire Igbo Ethnicity by Mbanda(m): 8:27am On Jan 08
madridguy:
Another bull crap as usual to satisfy their fake ego cheesy
Mr bad belle, what you just read is nothing but the truth. Igbos no be una mate.
Re: Did You Know This About The Entire Igbo Ethnicity by obiekunie01: 9:02am On Jan 08
madridguy:
Another bull crap as usual to satisfy their fake ego cheesy
Jealousy go soon commot your intestine if you no careful!
Re: Did You Know This About The Entire Igbo Ethnicity by bigpicture001: 10:25am On Jan 08
madridguy:
Another bull crap as usual to satisfy their fake ego cheesy
This he said is not a lie...

If u listen to soludo very well, u will always here him talk about effort by tribesmen in diaspora... Also the government tries to mk life meaningful for them. During Xmas, new year, Easter when diasporans return home
Re: Did You Know This About The Entire Igbo Ethnicity by BAILMONEY: 10:32am On Jan 08
madridguy:
Another bull crap as usual to satisfy their fake ego cheesy
What he said is an undiluted Truth.


Stop being a tribalist angry
Re: Did You Know This About The Entire Igbo Ethnicity by Adaisback(f): 11:11am On Jan 08
madridguy:
Another bull crap as usual to satisfy their fake ego cheesy
it is not bull crap , it is very true. In my village diasporas dey pay monthly salary to the aged 60 years and above. Say what you know, it's not a must you reply to the post unless you are pained
Re: Did You Know This About The Entire Igbo Ethnicity by kaludestiny10(m):
What the op said is just a fact. Let me use my village for example, we have town unions in all the states of the federation and outside the country called Eziafor Development Union (EDU), what this town unions do is to tax themselves for the development of the community. Even those in the village do tax themselves for the same purpose. Then we also have age grade groups that are formed in my community and at the end of the day, they will initiate a project and execute it for the community. The public schools and health center in my place are community projects and not by the government. Then those that are wealthy on their own do support children from poor backgrounds on scholarships and the rest.
Re: Did You Know This About The Entire Igbo Ethnicity by helinues: 11:32am On Jan 08
bigpicture001:
This he said is not a lie...

If u listen to soludo very well, u will always here him talk about effort by tribesmen in diaspora... Also the government tries to mk life meaningful for them. During Xmas, new year, Easter when diasporans return home
So who are the people dragging money with each other during the recent festival in Anambra state including masquerade?
Re: Did You Know This About The Entire Igbo Ethnicity by IduNaOba: 11:54am On Jan 08
helinues:
So who are the people dragging money with each other during the recent festival in Anambra state including masquerade?
Dangote still dey find money.
I have been attending functions in anambra for a while now
My eyes have seen my ears without a mirror 🤣
The way CBN mint dey fly for up
E reach to motivate perosn to go work hardddddd
Re: Did You Know This About The Entire Igbo Ethnicity by SporaD8: 12:10pm On Jan 08
No matter your Tribe or Language as a Nigerian - if you are yet to learn to borrow from the strength of other ethnicity and work toward avoiding their weaknesses - you are still a learner not worth making commentary on public issues!
Re: Did You Know This About The Entire Igbo Ethnicity by maivd: 1:01pm On Jan 08
ariesbull:
Entire Igbo towns have survived, upgraded, and modernized because their people left (Traveled abroad).

Not because of oil.
Not because of federal projects.
Not because of NGOs.

But because Igbo migrants abroad organized themselves and sent development home deliberately.

This is not remittance.
This is parallel governance.

What Actually Happened:
From the 1970s onward, as Igbo men and women migrated to:

•the United States
•the United Kingdom
•Germany
•Italy
•Canada
•South Africa
•Asia

they did not dissolve into individual survival.
They reassembled abroad as town unions.
Same village.
Same town
Same obligations.
Distance changed nothing.

While governments debated budgets, Igbo town unions abroad:

•built hospitals where none existed
•funded schools when public ones collapsed
•graded roads abandoned by state authorities
•installed transformers and water systems
•rebuilt markets and civic halls

In some communities, every functioning public structure traces back to diaspora funding.
No logos
No plaques
No donors’ conferences.
Just completion.

Why This Is Not Normal

Most migrant groups send money to families.

Igbo migrants sent money to villages.

They taxed themselves.
They fined defaulters.
They published accounts.
They commissioned projects publicly.

Failure to contribute was not “unfortunate.”
It was dishonourable.

This was not generosity.
It was duty enforced by culture.

The Part No One Talks About

In many towns:
•diaspora funded schools outperform government schools
•clinics built by unions are the only ones with drugs
•roads built by town unions are the only ones that last

Yet these projects appear:
•nowhere in development rankings
•nowhere in donor reports
•nowhere in national pride narratives

They exist outside recognition.

This is not about money.

It reveals a system where:

•leadership is collective
•accountability is social
•progress is expected, not praised

A people who can:
•self-tax across continents
•coordinate without a state
•deliver infrastructure without aid

are not underdeveloped.

They are under-recognized.

The Question That Should Unsettle Us

If a people can build:

•hospitals from Houston
•roads from London
•schools from Milan

Then what they lack at home is not intelligence.
Not work ethic.
Not capital.


Today in many Igbo villages senior citizens and old people are being paid stipends from #50,000 upwards by wealthy individuals,those that are poor, many homes are built and given to them at no charge, no tax, no mortgage while their kids are taken to be shown the ways to make money ...that's capacity building !

It is alignment. It is self love, it is live for the community and it is live for the ethnicity! It is a testament of those that love and believe in themselves!

And alignment has restored Igbo communities and still do
Re: Did You Know This About The Entire Igbo Ethnicity by maivd: 1:02pm On Jan 08
ariesbull:
Entire Igbo towns have survived, upgraded, and modernized because their people left (Traveled abroad).

Not because of oil.
Not because of federal projects.
Not because of NGOs.

But because Igbo migrants abroad organized themselves and sent development home deliberately.

This is not remittance.
This is parallel governance.

What Actually Happened:
From the 1970s onward, as Igbo men and women migrated to:

•the United States
•the United Kingdom
•Germany
•Italy
•Canada
•South Africa
•Asia

they did not dissolve into individual survival.
They reassembled abroad as town unions.
Same village.
Same town
Same obligations.
Distance changed nothing.

While governments debated budgets, Igbo town unions abroad:

•built hospitals where none existed
•funded schools when public ones collapsed
•graded roads abandoned by state authorities
•installed transformers and water systems
•rebuilt markets and civic halls

In some communities, every functioning public structure traces back to diaspora funding.
No logos
No plaques
No donors’ conferences.
Just completion.

Why This Is Not Normal

Most migrant groups send money to families.

Igbo migrants sent money to villages.

They taxed themselves.
They fined defaulters.
They published accounts.
They commissioned projects publicly.

Failure to contribute was not “unfortunate.”
It was dishonourable.

This was not generosity.
It was duty enforced by culture.

The Part No One Talks About

In many towns:
•diaspora funded schools outperform government schools
•clinics built by unions are the only ones with drugs
•roads built by town unions are the only ones that last

Yet these projects appear:
•nowhere in development rankings
•nowhere in donor reports
•nowhere in national pride narratives

They exist outside recognition.

This is not about money.

It reveals a system where:

•leadership is collective
•accountability is social
•progress is expected, not praised

A people who can:
•self-tax across continents
•coordinate without a state
•deliver infrastructure without aid

are not underdeveloped.

They are under-recognized.

The Question That Should Unsettle Us

If a people can build:

•hospitals from Houston
•roads from London
•schools from Milan

Then what they lack at home is not intelligence.
Not work ethic.
Not capital.


Today in many Igbo villages senior citizens and old people are being paid stipends from #50,000 upwards by wealthy individuals,those that are poor, many homes are built and given to them at no charge, no tax, no mortgage while their kids are taken to be shown the ways to make money ...that's capacity building !

It is alignment. It is self love, it is live for the community and it is live for the ethnicity! It is a testament of those that love and believe in themselves!

And alignment has restored Igbo communities and still do
Empty barrel

Re: Did You Know This About The Entire Igbo Ethnicity by Obiedun(m): 1:15pm On Jan 08
This is purely inferiority complex. So no other region is developed or developing? You claimed your land is developed yet you can't stay there for a month. You are running to other land on daily basis using night buses. What type of development is that?
Re: Did You Know This About The Entire Igbo Ethnicity by Flangelo12: 1:52pm On Jan 08
I've been to some igbo communities plagued by guineaworm, river blindness, and not a sign of wealth.

Small small with the lies.
Re: Did You Know This About The Entire Igbo Ethnicity by ariesbull(op): 5:01pm On Jan 08
Obiedun:
This is purely inferiority complex. So no other region is developed or developing? You claimed your land is developed yet you can't stay there for a month. You are running to other land on daily basis using night buses. What type of development is that?
Why don't you talk about it ...it there is much strides you have made after the civil war... You can chest beat
Re: Did You Know This About The Entire Igbo Ethnicity by ariesbull(op): 5:01pm On Jan 08
Flangelo12:
I've been to some igbo communities plagued by guineaworm, river blindness, and not a sign of wealth.

Small small with the lies.
name the villages and communities
Re: Did You Know This About The Entire Igbo Ethnicity by ariesbull(op): 5:03pm On Jan 08
Adaisback:
it is not bull crap , it is very true. In my village diasporas dey pay monthly salary to the aged 60 years and above. Say what you know, it's not a must you reply to the post unless you are pained
They don't get it... They don't know that Igbo respect their elders and put them in dalaray unlike what we see in Lagos elders keep begging
Re: Did You Know This About The Entire Igbo Ethnicity by Flangelo12: 5:05pm On Jan 08
ariesbull:
name the villages and communities
Izzi in Ebonyi state

Umulokpa in Enugu state.
Re: Did You Know This About The Entire Igbo Ethnicity by ariesbull(op): 5:06pm On Jan 08
Explaining Igbo way of life will be a meaningful project that will be hard... They will not get it


kaludestiny10:
What the op said is just a fact. Let me use my village for example, we have town unions in all the states of the federation and outside the country called Eziafor Development Union (EDU), what this town unions do is to tax themselves for the development of the community. Even those in the village do tax themselves for the same purpose. Then we also have age grade groups that are formed in my community and at the end of the day, they will initiate a project and execute it for the community. The public schools and health center in my place are community projects and not by the government. Then those that are wealthy on their own do support children from poor backgrounds on scholarships and the rest.
Re: Did You Know This About The Entire Igbo Ethnicity by ariesbull(op): 5:15pm On Jan 08
Flangelo12:
Izzi in Ebonyi state

Umulokpa in Enugu state.
Okay when was that... That doesn't mean it is still there now
Re: Did You Know This About The Entire Igbo Ethnicity by Flangelo12: 5:18pm On Jan 08
ariesbull:
Okay when was that... That doesn't mean it is still there now
Seems you've confirmed this to be true.
Re: Did You Know This About The Entire Igbo Ethnicity by MadPolitician: 5:19pm On Jan 08
madridguy:
Another bull crap as usual to satisfy their fake ego cheesy
Above is what they normally say when they can not compete..
Re: Did You Know This About The Entire Igbo Ethnicity by ottersberger(m): 5:27pm On Jan 08
madridguy:
Another bull crap as usual to satisfy their fake ego cheesy
I am not sure why you're pained. Everything is true as stated.
Re: Did You Know This About The Entire Igbo Ethnicity by Eboofa: 5:38pm On Jan 08
ariesbull:
Entire Igbo towns have survived, upgraded, and modernized because their people left (Traveled abroad).

Not because of oil.
Not because of federal projects.
Not because of NGOs.

But because Igbo migrants abroad organized themselves and sent development home deliberately.

This is not remittance.
This is parallel governance.

What Actually Happened:
From the 1970s onward, as Igbo men and women migrated to:

•the United States
•the United Kingdom
•Germany
•Italy
•Canada
•South Africa
•Asia

they did not dissolve into individual survival.
They reassembled abroad as town unions.
Same village.
Same town
Same obligations.
Distance changed nothing.

While governments debated budgets, Igbo town unions abroad:

•built hospitals where none existed
•funded schools when public ones collapsed
•graded roads abandoned by state authorities
•installed transformers and water systems
•rebuilt markets and civic halls

In some communities, every functioning public structure traces back to diaspora funding.
No logos
No plaques
No donors’ conferences.
Just completion.

Why This Is Not Normal

Most migrant groups send money to families.

Igbo migrants sent money to villages.

They taxed themselves.
They fined defaulters.
They published accounts.
They commissioned projects publicly.

Failure to contribute was not “unfortunate.”
It was dishonourable.

This was not generosity.
It was duty enforced by culture.

The Part No One Talks About

In many towns:
•diaspora funded schools outperform government schools
•clinics built by unions are the only ones with drugs
•roads built by town unions are the only ones that last

Yet these projects appear:
•nowhere in development rankings
•nowhere in donor reports
•nowhere in national pride narratives

They exist outside recognition.

This is not about money.

It reveals a system where:

•leadership is collective
•accountability is social
•progress is expected, not praised

A people who can:
•self-tax across continents
•coordinate without a state
•deliver infrastructure without aid

are not underdeveloped.

They are under-recognized.

The Question That Should Unsettle Us

If a people can build:

•hospitals from Houston
•roads from London
•schools from Milan

Then what they lack at home is not intelligence.
Not work ethic.
Not capital.


Today in many Igbo villages senior citizens and old people are being paid stipends from #50,000 upwards by wealthy individuals,those that are poor, many homes are built and given to them at no charge, no tax, no mortgage while their kids are taken to be shown the ways to make money ...that's capacity building !

It is alignment. It is self love, it is live for the community and it is live for the ethnicity! It is a testament of those that love and believe in themselves!

And alignment has restored Igbo communities and still do
Igbo diaspora plays a major role in development of Alaigbo but its still smaller than the massive contribution of igbo business men based in Nigeria!
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