₦airaland Forum

BondiOscar:
Source:http://www.figureout.com.ng/7-stereotypes-igbos-arent-always-true/

Whynotthetruth:
Otu a ka odi nwanyi oma. Ka Ututu tututara gi iheoma.

gatiano:
I've witness the wholeworld analyse my Igbo brothers and sisters, and they found one problem prohibiting them from greatness. That is pride. Igbos are extremely wonderful people, but pride is their greatest and major enemy.

tonychristopher:
As a matter of serious conversation, shouldn't your first instinct be to answer to the substantive question about projects that Yorubas have embarked on and succeeded in Nigeria and out of the confidence that you derived from having responded properly to the inquiry at hand you can then proceed to asking any questions that you dim necessary. Your failure toaddress the question at hand before asking your question indicates that you are not a serious interlocutor like Ayo and I say that for the records.Notwithstanding your inability to rescue Ayo from his self-inflicted wound, again typical of a Yoruba man, I will not hesitate to take you to school if you chose to be babysitted for the record, although I will be repeating myself. Now in respect to your specificquestion, what Igbo built that Yoruba destroyed, in a nutshell almost every institution that the white man handed over to Nigeria after our independence Igbos built but because of your sophomoric question I will endeavor to break down what I mean for you


. Nigerian railway was built and managed under Igbo minister Dr. Onyiuke and Igbos ran most of the day to day operations and the railway worked, when Yorubas took over the railway after the war they destroyed it. Igbos ran the military and brought prestige to the Nigerian military because of the caliber of Igbos that joined the military and the military worked then, look at what the military has become. You can mention any ministry before the war that worked and you will see the hands of Igbo in it.During the British/Biafran war Igbos invented one of the most deadly explosives (IEDs-Ogbunigwe)the world have ever known in the 1960s, the Igbos built armored cars, air missiles, assault rifles, gun boats, rocket launcher, rocket propelled grenades and ambulance vehicles. Igbos not only built underground refineries they also built mobile refineries as they lost territories to the federal troops.


After the war Awo and his tribal cabal representing the Yoruba conspired and went on a search and destroy mission and methodically combed all the south east and blew up and destroyed all thefactories that Igbo built instead of moving the factories and the Igbo scientists to a federally controlled areaand using their ingenuity to the benefitof the whole nation. For your information ask America and Russia what they did with German engineers after world war 11.


Today Nigeria is importing all these military equipments. That is destruction of what Igbos built. In 1972, Professor A. N. Njoku-Obi produced an anti-cholera vaccine recognized by the world health community, Yoruba elites who were running the Nigeria bureaucracy after the war did not want to hear of it, they undermined that project and today Nigeria is importing those drugs instead of being the manufacturer and exporter. That is destruction my friends. In 1974 two years after an Igbo invented the cholera vaccine, Professor F. A. Udekwu and his colleagues performedthe first ever open-heart surgery in Nigeria and Black Africa, did you think that Yoruba elites wanted to hear that, of course not, if I did not tell you now, would you know? Hell no! Today, forty years later Nigerians are going oversees for their heart surgery payinghard currency. That is destruction of Nigerian economy


. In 1999 after Obasanjo took office, he destroyed every Igbo business that was importing Rice and Cement into Nigeria before he came into office by granting an unprecedented and probably the biggest sole monopoly ofthe importation of rice and cement to one man called Dangote who became a billionaire overnight. When Igbos where involved in the importation of these items like cement, the price of cement was around N300, now the price of cement is hovering around N1,500 a bag. Go figure that, that is destruction of not only Igbos businesses but Nigeria in general. After Dangote was grant the sole monopoly of importing cement, he complained to Obasanjo that Ibeto cement industry owned by an Igbo which was mostly a repackaging factory was creating an undue competition for his monopoly and overnight Obasanjo used an executive order to shutdown Ibeto cement factory with its 400 employees. My friend that is destruction by any standard. Savannah Bank was established by Jim Nwobodo an Igbo man, Obasanjo closed down that bank and rendered all the employees jobless because he had some disagreements with Nwobodo not because the bank went bankrupt, not because the bank was running a fraudulent scheme, not because the bank was being mismanaged but because Obasanjo like most Yorubas have this visceral hate, wickedness, jealousy and the type of indifference that says why did God create an Igbo in the first place. Again Kunle that is destruction of a unique type. Engineer Ezekiel Izuogo created the V600 car and Yoruba press, politicians, lawyers even Yoruba engineers attacked him mercilessly and frustrated his effort to build the factory in Igbo land, that is one, second when he decided to build the factory in South Africa during Obasanjo’s regime, Obasanjo and his co-haters went and stole everything, the design manual, the engine block, everything necessary for him to carry on his work thereby destroying Izuogo motors for good. Kunle do you still need more examples? Wait I told Ayo that I have more than most of you could imagine. Do you remember Niger Dock Apapa, Dr. Nnamdi Ozobia, an Igbo built it, he built yachts for individuals and ferry boats for Lagos State that plied between Apapa to Mile2. He also did repairs for foreign ships that paid Nigeria hard currency, well here we go again, when Obasanjo came into office he removed Dr. Ozobia in the most ignominious way a pattern for Obasanjo and handed over Niger Dock Apapa to Yorubas. Today Niger Dock Apapa is in ruins, a shadow of its old self. That is destruction of what Igbos built. You have Nigerian Ports Authority, NigerianAirways, you have NITEL that Yorubas burnt down after they ruined it throughembezzlement. Lest I forget what about the mother of all destruction, theindigenization decree of 1972. What the decree did was to hand over Nigerian economy to the Yorubas and they destroyed the economy. The list below is a partial list of mostly British and other foreign owned companies that Igbos were efficiently managing before the war, few of these companies were owned or partial owned by Yoruba.


Some Yorubas in the past have quibbled about preciselywho owned what but not on the point of whether Yorubas ruined all the companies that they acquired by the force of the indigenization decree. My response is that the issue has never been about who owned what, the substantive issue was and is that Yorubas ruined, defrauded, liquidated and destroyed all the companies they took over after the war regardless of who owned them before the war even including their own companies that they started but could not manage. For your information that single act of indigenization decree is largely responsible for our economic state of affair.“Pharmaceutical Nigeria Plc ,May and Baker Nigeria Plc,Vitafoam Nigeria Plc,Wahum Nigeria Limited ,CAP Nigeria Plc , International Paints of West Africa [IPWA], Berger Paints Nigeria Plc, Berec Nigeria Limited, Kabelmetal, Nigeria Bottling Company Plc, Leventis Nigeria Plc ,West African Portland Cement Company,[Lafarge],Wema Bank Nigeria Plc, Scoa Nigeria Plc ,CFAO Nigeria Plc, Cadbury Nigeria Plc, Wemaboard Estates, Odua Group, Livestock Feeds Nigeria Plc , Nigerian Breweries Plc, new nigerian Bank, Batta, Kingsway Stores, Crittal Hope (Nigeria) Limited, Mushin, Lagos State.Dunlop (Nig.) Industries Plc, Ikeja, Lagos State. •Galvanising Industries Limited, Ikeja, Lagos State. •Nigeria Construction & Water Resources Development Company Limited, Ibadan, Oyo State •Nigerian Wire & Cable Plc, Ibadan, Oyo State •Nigerite PLC, Ikeja, Lagos State •Nipol Limited, Ibadan, Oyo State •Odu'a Textile Industries Limited, Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti State •Soleh Boneh Overseas (Nigeria) Limited, Ibadan, Oyo State •Vono Products Plc, Mushin, Lagos State •Wema Bank Plc,

Frenchkiss564:
My best friend in the university is ibo, thinking about the hatred vomitted by his people really makes me misbehave to him, and when he asked what he has done i profer flimsy excuses i just wish he isnt ibo

steppin:
A blind man trying to lead a man who can see.
It's Igbo not ibo. The white man and yorubas use that since it's easier.
If you had known your roots, I wouldn't have to explain. Try and make that statement in politics section.

Neplusultra:
Pffft!!! Ur emotions dont matter to Igbos bro, We still PROUDLY IGBOS *eyelashes*

dfrost:
It's actually Ibos, not Igbos. Ibo is the tribe while Igbo is the language. Don't take offense for the correction

Neplusultra:
Pffft!!! Ur emotions dont matter to Igbos bro, We still PROUDLY IGBOS *eyelashes*

JoeCutie:
Even from your comment, I've already sensed PRIDE. When you're being taught something you don't know, instead of you to calm down & learn, you find a way to foolishly stifle & thwart that knowledge. That's Pride. Ignorance. It is a cankerworm eating deep into our bone marrow.


Now let me teach you another thing you apparently do not know; that's if you'd be humble enough to learn: PRIDE is intrinsic in individuals, not in a tribe. You have it, you have it. You don't have it, you don't have it. No tribes have pride, individuals of these tribes do.
Igbo people have pride.
Yoruba people have pride.
Hausa people have pride.

The earlier we learn to stop generalizing, the better for us. Same point the Op is trying to drive home.

By the way, there's something that's called "taking pride from what you do". If that's what you meant, oh yeah, the Igbo take pride in what they do. They take pride in being very rich, very successful, very exposed, in fact, very influencial in this country. And it's very positive & healthy. And you should do it too; try and take pride in your achievements. It'd spur you into doing even more. By taking pride, I don't mean being proud. Don't talk about your achievements...too much. Don't let them get to your head, for this is quite negative & unhealthy.

#BeGuided.

rhymz:
Show me one man that has no pride in him..... You have to be an ed!ot to even claim you are igbo and are vomiting this nonsense.

gatiano:
Like i said in a later comment or post, Everybody has pride, it is glaring in some than in others. taking pride in oneself or in what one does is not pride, it is self-confidence which is a wonderful attribute and like i said it is very consistent in Ibos. when Ego is added to self-confidence it becomes pride, and fall becomes imminent.

dfrost:
Thank you steppin. On a more serious note, I think I need to find out more about Igbo roots. Thank you all the same.

seyigiggle:
one thing I know them for is pride and dirty. reason I live with them

gatiano:
Thankyou sir. i will try hard to make adjustments. I am just used to calling Igbo instead of Ibo.

M3Guy:
lolz you no get sense aswear shey na my tribes men u dey insults so?

Neplusultra:
U tink dey dont know??!! Ride on bro!

Sammyblake:
oga which statistics, abeg show me .. . It's very obvious, don't be biarse, the problem with you guys is that you don't want to accept the real fact, you want to rule over everything... I don't want to go into any tribal e-war with anyone.. To you Igbos are more educated, to me yorubas are and all I'm interested in is our unity. .. #repping yorubas till my last breath

Frenchkiss564:
i aint your bro go to nnewi and look for ya bro and dont you ever quote me again