₦airaland Forum

lawani:
Look at the map of Igbo land and the map of Yoruba land and consider the fact that both groups were not known to each other in the nineteenth century and consider the fact that both lands are fertile and well watered. I put it to my readers that there was no time before colonization that Yoruba land contained less than three times the population of Igbo land. Nowadays in Nigeria Yoruba are scattered and the SW currently contains around 2.8 times the population of the SE but both zones don't accurately encompass Yoruba or Igbo land.
In today's Africa, the Yoruba is more than double the Igbo in population. Any colonial census that says otherwise was rigged. In the US the Yoruba are like double Igbo according to the census of language spoken at home, in the UK it is almost triple. Yoruba Professors are almost three times the number of Igbo professors according to those that went through the NUC register. This means the cry of marginalization over the Presidency by Igbos should stop because you can only share equally with your equal even if there is zoning unless you want to cheat them.
The Igbos gain most in Nigeria because they have 5 states for 20 million people in the SE. They should have five states only if total number of states is like 60.

Ofodirinwa:
Igbo and Yoruba were very aware of each other. If this is how your preceive history, you have to give yourself time a learn a little more. With that level of ignorance, it's easy to understand the shortcomings which made you type the rest of what you typed.

lawani:
Look at the map of Igbo land and the map of Yoruba land and consider the fact that both groups were not known to each other in the nineteenth century and consider the fact that both lands are fertile and well watered. I put it to my readers that there was no time before colonization that Yoruba land contained less than three times the population of Igbo land. Nowadays in Nigeria Yoruba are scattered and the SW currently contains around 2.8 times the population of the SE but both zones don't accurately encompass Yoruba or Igbo land.
In today's Africa, the Yoruba is more than double the Igbo in population. Any colonial census that says otherwise was rigged. In the US the Yoruba are like double Igbo according to the census of language spoken at home, in the UK it is almost triple. Yoruba Professors are almost three times the number of Igbo professors according to those that went through the NUC register. This means the cry of marginalization over the Presidency by Igbos should stop because you can only share equally with your equal even if there is zoning unless you want to cheat them.
The Igbos gain most in Nigeria because they have 5 states for 20 million people in the SE. They should have five states only if total number of states is like 60.

lawani:
Look at the map of Igbo land and the map of Yoruba land and consider the fact that both groups were not known to each other in the nineteenth century and consider the fact that both lands are fertile and well watered. I put it to my readers that there was no time before colonization that Yoruba land contained less than three times the population of Igbo land. Nowadays in Nigeria Yoruba are scattered and the SW currently contains around 2.8 times the population of the SE but both zones don't accurately encompass Yoruba or Igbo land.
In today's Africa, the Yoruba is more than double the Igbo in population. Any colonial census that says otherwise was rigged. In the US the Yoruba are like double Igbo according to the census of language spoken at home, in the UK it is almost triple. Yoruba Professors are almost three times the number of Igbo professors according to those that went through the NUC register. This means the cry of marginalization over the Presidency by Igbos should stop because you can only share equally with your equal even if there is zoning unless you want to cheat them.
The Igbos gain most in Nigeria because they have 5 states for 20 million people in the SE. They should have five states only if total number of states is like 60.

Zionmdde:
You woke up by 2:51am to post this Bro!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
With all the large expanse of land in yoruba, don't you think you should be more bothered about how many plots you own?

Chaiiiiii, tribalism is really making people go crazy, or is it joblessness? Na wa ooo

1Alex:
This post is what happens when vibes replace evidence and Google Maps becomes a census bureau.

You start with “look at the map” like population density is measured in square centimeters. Fertile land doesn’t auto-spawn humans like a video game. History, migration, disease, wars, trade routes, and urbanization exist. You skipped all of that.

Then you declare every colonial census you don’t like “rigged” but treat UK, US language-at-home data like holy scripture, data that literally measures immigration patterns, not population size in Nigeria. That’s not analysis. That’s display of ignorance with confidence.

“Yoruba professors are three times Igbo professors.”
Cool story. Now explain how a modern NUC register rewrites 19th-century demography. Or are professors now a proxy for ancestors?

You also casually ignore:

Yoruba land having early large centralized kingdoms and earlier colonial urban pull (Lagos, a good example),

Igbo society being decentralized and rural for longer (which affects records), massive Igbo post-war migration inside Nigeria that doesn’t show up in your neat zonal math.

The real comedy is the moral leap:

“Therefore Igbo should stop talking about marginalization.”

So your logic is: questionable population math, diaspora headcount, professor tally, presidential entitlement.

That’s not political science. That’s numerology with ethnic confidence.

And the “5 states for 20 million people” line? States aren’t sharing-size pizza slices. They’re administrative tools, created historically and politically, often unfairly; for everyone. Pretending one group is “gaining most” in Nigeria is wild when the whole country is struggling.

In short:
This post isn’t bold. It’s loud.
It isn’t rigorous. It’s selective.
And it doesn’t end marginalization debates; it proves why they never end.

izombie:
Just imagine. 2am, he couldn't sleep because of tribalism. Na wao

kettykin:
This simply means yorubas are big enough to exist as a separate nation and not struggling to be part of Nigeria .

Stop struggling and constituting a nuisance to be a small struggling fish in a small pond be a big fish in your own lake

Ofodirinwa:
Igbo and Yoruba were very aware of each other. If this is how your preceive history, you have to give yourself time a learn a little more. With that level of ignorance, it's easy to understand the shortcomings which made you type the rest of what you typed.

lawani:
Look at the map of Igbo land and the map of Yoruba land and consider the fact that both groups were not known to each other in the nineteenth century and consider the fact that both lands are fertile and well watered. I put it to my readers that there was no time before colonization that Yoruba land contained less than three times the population of Igbo land. Nowadays in Nigeria Yoruba are scattered and the SW currently contains around 2.8 times the population of the SE but both zones don't accurately encompass Yoruba or Igbo land.
In today's Africa, the Yoruba is more than double the Igbo in population. Any colonial census that says otherwise was rigged. In the US the Yoruba are like double Igbo according to the census of language spoken at home, in the UK it is almost triple. Yoruba Professors are almost three times the number of Igbo professors according to those that went through the NUC register. This means the cry of marginalization over the Presidency by Igbos should stop because you can only share equally with your equal even if there is zoning unless you want to cheat them.
The Igbos gain most in Nigeria because they have 5 states for 20 million people in the SE. They should have five states only if total number of states is like 60.

lawani:
We only became aware of each other in the 20th century.

SisterAnn:
Yorubas were/are very disposed to marrying multiple wives now and then which means more children. If your assertion is scientifically proven to be true, then that's the only explanation to it

The jihadists are taking over UK, their game plan is to birth like rats with their multiple wives.. wives who don't contribute anything to the economy of UK.. UK pay them instead.
These children they are birthing would sure grow to voting age and their sheer population would be used to edge out all other contestants who are not jihadists.

My point is, multiple marriages automatically will translate to multiple children which will account for more numbers in a census exercise.

SisterAnn:
I wished our paths never crossed on this planet.

lawani:
Multiple wives or not, it is your living space under your control as a people, comprising of arable land and fresh water that will determine your population overtime. Igbos too marry multiple wives and many groups that marry multiple wives but have small living space still have low population

SisterAnn:
You are now lumping SE and SS(mostly riverine) by this post from you, otherwise, core SE have more than enough space to live and expand.

Yes, multiple wives were not forbidden in old and modern Igbo culture, it pales into insignificance when compared to it's prevalence in SW, where Islam also added an additional force to the narrative.

Today, an Igbo man with multiple wives is viewed as a crazy person but in SW, they are celebrated and encouraged.

lawani:
Can you tell me why? I have many Igbo inlaws

SisterAnn:
I wished our paths never crossed on this planet.

lawani:
SE isn't big. It is around same size as Oyo state but it is more watered than Oyo state. Only a few people marry multiple wives and I don't believe it makes much difference

Putinofrussia:
But your people kept/keep coming to Yorubaland in millions.
Who was/is to blame?

SisterAnn:
I have many Yoruba in-laws too.

Both tribes are parallel lines that have nothing in common. Their proximities have forstered more suspicions than collaboration. The peace is fragile.
Imagine, a marriage between a man and woman where they live like this, is it healthy for either party?

Yet, you know there's nothing you can do about the situation, a jinxed situation.

SisterAnn:
I wished our paths never crossed on this planet.

lawani:
Look at the map of Igbo land and the map of Yoruba land and consider the fact that both groups were not known to each other in the nineteenth century and consider the fact that both lands are fertile and well watered. I put it to my readers that there was no time before colonization that Yoruba land contained less than three times the population of Igbo land. Nowadays in Nigeria Yoruba are scattered and the SW currently contains around 2.8 times the population of the SE but both zones don't accurately encompass Yoruba or Igbo land.
In today's Africa, the Yoruba is more than double the Igbo in population. Any colonial census that says otherwise was rigged. In the US the Yoruba are like double Igbo according to the census of language spoken at home, in the UK it is almost triple. Yoruba Professors are almost three times the number of Igbo professors according to those that went through the NUC register. This means the cry of marginalization over the Presidency by Igbos should stop because you can only share equally with your equal even if there is zoning unless you want to cheat them.
The Igbos gain most in Nigeria because they have 5 states for 20 million people in the SE. They should have five states only if total number of states is like 60.