₦airaland Forum

disumusa:
nonsense,these gorrilla ibo love to lie and claim what did not belong to them.

omoelesa:
Useles and yeye article. Was the ibos the only people that have fought war in this world.Germany and Japan were nearly reduced to ashes in the second world war but, came back stronger after more than two decades later to be one of the world economy super power.what about the jews etc.This is another ego massaging article for the ibos.nonsense

chuna1985:
Giving d igbos 20 naira max was d greatest mistake the north n yoruba ever made.

They didn't know that wen u push a man against d wall, they will fight back wit everytin they have.

Igbos were disadvantages, thus this made dem work so hard and as at 2015, their geopolitical zone is the most developed in nigeria.



Indeed, they buried us, but they didn't know we were seeds.

totit:
Thou shall not chestbeat, thou shall not lies, thou shall not pull out figure from you yellow bombom







In a Capitalist State Like Ours, Wealthy Firms With Healthy Cash Flow Control The Economy Not Petty Traders.

"I have investigated all the 20 top Nigerian companies listed below as compiled by authoritative Forbes business magazine and none of them is based in Igbo land or controlled by the so called ‘Igbo business men’.

Impressively, 20 Nigerian companies made it to the list of Top 25 companies in West Africa. They include:

• Dangote Cement
• Zenith Bank PLC
• Ecobank Transnational Incorporated
• Nigerian Breweries Plc
• First Bank Plc
• Guaranty Trust Bank Plc
• United Bank for Africa
• Guinness Nigeria
• Nestlé Nigeria
• Access Bank
• Flour Mills Nigeria
• Union Bank of Nigeria
• Stanbic IBTC
• First City Monument Bank
• Lafarge Cement WAPCO
• Total Nigeria
• Unilever Nigeria
• PZ Cussions
• UACN
• Cadbury Nigeria Plc

According to Forbes, Nigeria has aren't youthe best 25 companies in West Africa.

It is only a fool who will believe Igbo postulation that it is street trader’s and hawkers that controls an economy. If that hypothesis is valid, then the Indians and Pakistanis in Britain can also claim that they [are] in charge of British economy because over 70% of petty street trading in Britain is in the hand of the Asians. However, we all know that actual British economy is firmly in the hands of the Britons. The same is factual for Germany and France where Turkish and North African Algerians are their own local version of Igbo. The only difference is that these other 'gypsies’' are more knowledgeable of who they are in their host countriy's economy, unlike ignorant Igbo petty street traders in Yoruba land."









Nigerians have made the Forbes list of richest people in the world the reason been that Forbes estimates the wealth of individuals and rank them based on the value of shares they have in quoted companies (companies listed on the stock exchange).

The few Nigerians that have the list are Aliko Dangote, Mike Adenuga and Femi Otedola.

The list of top 21 Richest Nigerian billionaires has been based on:

The value of their shares held in quoted companies, the size and market share of their companies, the number of companies they own and its assumed value, the market value of their company’s brand and the impact of their companies on the Nigerian economy.

Despite the harsh terrain and business challenges involved with starting a business in Nigeria; the successful entrepreneurs listed below held their ground and fought their way to the top.

In a country with a population of over 160 million inhabitants and millions of businesses; these 20 entrepreneurs diligently carved their names in the sands of time.

Check out the list below.

1. Alhaji Aliko Dangote – founder of Dangote Group, Richest man in Africa and Richest black man in the world

2. Mike Adenuga – Conoil, Equatorial Trust Bank, Globacom

3. Femi Otedola – ZENON Oil and Gas

4. Orji Uzor Kalu – Slok Group

5. Cosmos Maduka – Coscharis Group

6. Jimoh Ibrahim – Nicon Insurance, Global Flee

7. Jim Ovia – Zenith Bank, Visafone

8. Pascal Dozie – MTN Nigeria, Diamond Bank

9. Oba Otudeko – Honeywell Group Nigeria

10. Alhaji Sayyu Dantata – MRS Group

11. Umaru Abdul Mutallab – former Chairman First Bank Plc, Mutallab Group

12. Prince Samuel Adedoyin – Doyin Group

13. Dele Fajemirokun – Chaiman Aiico Insurance, Xerox Nigeria, Chicken Republic, Kings Guards etc.

14. Chief Cletus Ibeto – Ibeto Group

15. Raymond Dokpesi – Daar Communication, AIT,

16. Tony Ezenna – Orange Group

17. Chief Molade Okoya Thomas – Chairman CFAO Nig and other six french companies

18. Ifeanyi Ubah – Capital oil and gas

19. Leo Stan Ekeh – Zinox Computer

20. Fola Adeola – GTBank

21. Chief Ade Ojo – Elizade Motors Nig LTD, Distributor of Toyota cars
Before I finish this essay I will examine an absurd claim that the igbo often make which reflects an inferiority complex, a deep case self-delusion and which borders on the sociopathic. Wherever they settle they often boast that they control all the money that is there and that they have more businesses than anyone else. They often suggest that they have more business acumen and that they are more successful at business than any other tribe in Nigeria yet this is not true.

These strange stories that Igbos are more industrious than the Yoruba people, where do they come from? Is it because Yoruba people think big and never settle for profits from petty trading? The Igbos have not excelled more than Yoruba people in any kind of business at an advanced level, with the exception of the long haul coach and bus business. In the transportation business generally how many igbo people own the largest private airport on the African continent like Wale Babalakin. Tell me the Igbos that are mega industrialists like Folawiyo, Okoya, Adedoyin, Akindele and Awosika. Of the 10 leading banks in Nigeria, 8 of them used to have yoruba people as shareholders with the controlling interest, until Sanusi Lamido Sanusi launched his campaign. Today, four are still owned by Yoruba people and only one by an Igbo. Telecoms, one Ijebu businessman built a massive telecoms company single handedly. No Igbo man can boast of such. The first four leading oil distributors are Yoruba. Of the 10 leading Nigerian businessmen, 6 are Yoruba. The highest indigenous employers of labour are Yoruba people. Look at all the companies in Ikeja- they were all invited by the Western Region Government in the First Republic. If Igbos leave Lagos today, these companies will still hold high in their elegant skyscrapers. Igbos can’t hold Lagos or anywhere in the country hostage. The stereotype claim is that the Yoruba are the agberos of Lagos but you will be surprised to know that many Igbos in Lagos are actively involved in the transport business, some of them also play omo oni le with their Yoruba friends and some of them are street beggars as well. They would have denied this if Fashola had not deported them.

Many Igbo people are on the payroll of Yoruba businessmen. If you go to their region, you will see GTB, Oando, FCMB, GLO, Con Oil, Nicon Insurance, Sahara Oil, Bicourtney all owned by Yorubas. How many Igbo companies provide mass employment in comparison? If you take away all the companies owned by Yoruba businessmen what is left? The truth, hurtful as it can be, is that the leading industrialists and entrepreneurs are Yoruba people and they built Lagos with their mega business skills. This was what attracted Igbos- the tribe of wanderers and gypsys. Igbos cannot even boast of business skills when they speak with successful businessmen in the Midwest. The Midwest can boast of companies like Zenith bank, UBA, Ibru and co. and Etisalat, They can boast of Arik Air and Aerocontractors. A man from the Midwest by the name of Festus Okotie Eboh tackled your most respected Nnamdi Azikiwe and shook his power-base as the financier of the NCNC party. I don’t share the view that Igbos have superior business skills. The business men many of us admire are entrepreneurs like Wale Tinubu, Fola Adeola, Segun Agbaje, Subonmi Balogun, Kayode Odukoya, Deinde Fernandez, Tope Sonubi, Tunde Fagbemi, Kase Lawal, Harry Akande and Mike Adenuga and not the glorified petty traders and trouble makers. What the Igbos are doing is psychological warfare. If their lies are not checked and set straight they will have a negative effect on the psyche of future generations of the Yoruba. A lot of blacks in America are suffering from the lies white historians have perpetrated. For a long time blacks were made to feel inferior to their white counterparts. We can not allow the Igbos to continue with their lies against the Yorubas unabated. We have a responsibility as patriotic Yorubas to set the record straight. If it means being tagged a tribalist, that is fine. -Destructive Ways of the Ignorant...




Abegii jare
Make una shut una akpu mouth and let us rest for akpu sake

1. Alhaji Aliko Dangote – Dangote Group, (Manufacturing, oil & gas,)

2. Mike Adenuga – Conoil, Globacom (Oil & gas, Banking, Telecom)

3. Femi Otedola – Forte Oil and Gas (Oil & gas)

4. Orji Uzor Kalu – Slok Group (Aviation, Shipping, publishing, manufacturing)

5. Cosmos Maduka –Coscharis Group(Automobile, manufacturing)

6. Jimoh Ibrahim – Nicon Insurance, Global Fleet (Insurance, transportation, oil & gas)

7. Jim Ovia – Zenith Bank, Visafone (Banking, Telecom)

8. Pascal Dozie – MTN Nigeria, Diamond Bank(Banking, Telecom)

9. Oba Otudeko – Honeywell Group Nigeria, Pivotal Engineering, Airtel (Manufacturing, oil & gas, telecom)

10. Alhaji Sayyu Dantata – MRS Group (Oil & gas, construction)

11. Umaru Abdul Mutallab – former Chairman First Bank Plc, Mutallab Group

12. Prince Samuel Adedoyin – Doyin Group(manufacturing, pharmaceuticals)

13. Dele Fajemirokun – Chaiman Aiico Insurance, Xerox Nigeria, Chicken Republic, Kings Guards (Insurance, Security, Technology, Food retailing)

14. Chief Cletus Ibeto – Ibeto Group (Trading, manufacturing, oil & gas)

15. Raymond Dokpesi – Daar Communication, AIT

16. Tony Ezenna – Orange Group(Pharmaceutical, oil & gas)

17. Chief Molade Okoya Thomas – Chairman CFAO Nig and other six french companies(Automobiles)

18. Ifeanyi Ubah – Capital oil and gas (Oil & gas)

19. Leo Stan Ekeh – Zinox (Computer, technology)

20. Fola Adeola – GTBank (Banking)

21. Chief Ade Ojo – Elizade Motors Nig LTD, Distributor of Toyota cars (Auto retailing)

22. Abdulsamad Rabiu – Bua Group (Oil & gas, manufacturing)

23. Folorunsho Alakija – Famfa Oil (Oil & gas)

24. High Chief O.B. Lulu Briggs – Moni Pulo(Oil & gas)

25. Hakeem Bello Osagie – Etisalat Nigeria(Telecom)

26.  Sani Bello – Amni Petroleum (Oil & gas)

27.  Mohammed Indimi – Oriental Petroleum(Oil & gas)

28. Sir Emeka Offor – Chrome Group (Oil & gas, marine)

29.  Chief Arthur Eze – Atlas Oranto Petroleum (Oil & gas)

30. Vincent Amaechi Obianodo – Young Shall Grow Motors, RockView Hotels (Transportation, hotels)

onenaira3:
Twistray you really pathetic aren't you. BTW don't deny its you because stupidly you quoted your words words to words, funny enough it's the same words that got you dragged several weeks ago.
I'm still curious
Wtf did you think you disproved. You provided a list where there are 7 Igbo's and 6 Yoruba's and you have mouth to even talk. Mind you, this Igbo's made their wealth after the 20 pounds which was never imposed on yoloba therefore, there should have been more yoloba on that list but alas here we are.

While we at it, haven't it already been shown to you those 20 companies are predominantly foreign company. Excluding two companies own by yoloba, the remaining few in the list that is Nigerian owned are SS and SE individuals companies

Didn't we already knocked in your head Being chairman of a foreign branch company does not mean You OWE the company. You are a worker of that company. infact, out of all companies posted up by you, only two are Yoruba CEO/owned and the remaining are either whites, SS and SE.

Dangote Cement---CEO: Aliko Dangote [Fulani]
• Zenith Bank PLC---CEO/founder: Jim ovia [ delta igbo]
• Ecobank Transnational Incorporated---CEO: Albert Essien [ibibio]
• Nigerian Breweries Plc...Non Nigerian owned company..a branch of heinkein. CEO: Nicholas Vervelde [white]
• First Bank Plc...CBN sponsored bank. Not a nigerian founded bank despite a yoruba [onasanya] is the chairman. Founder: Alfred Jones [ white]
• Guaranty Trust Bank Plc: CEO/founder Fola Adeola [yoruba]
• United Bank for Africa--- CEO: Phillip Oduoza [ Delta Igbo]
• Guinness Nigeria:non nigerian owned company: Founder: Arthur Guinness [white]
• Nestlé Nigeria: non nigerian owned company: CEO: Paul bulcke [white]
• Access Bank---CEO: Paul Wigwe [igbo]
• Flour Mills Nigeria---Paul Gbededo [tribe: unsure, possibly middlebelt]
• Union Bank of Nigeria---CEO: unknown. It Is a UK owned company despite the chairman is igbo [Udo udoma]
• Stanbic IBTC---CEO: Atedo Peterside [ijaw]
• First City Monument Bank--- CEO: Ladi Balogun [yoruba]
• Lafarge Cement WAPCO-- non nigerian owned company. CEO/founder: Leonard Palance [ white]
• Total Nigeria: Non nigerian owned company. CEO: Elizabeth protrust [ white]
• Unilever Nigeria: non nigerian owned CEO/founder: Paul Polman [white]
• PZ Cussions. non nigerian owned company CEO: George Zimmorosi [ white]
• UACN--CEO-Larry Ettah [igbo]
• Cadbury Nigeria Plc---CEO: Udiemio itseuli [edo]

You do realize you ended up just proving what all have been saying accurate.

While we are at it, here is an updated 30 richest Nigerians in 2015



Funny enough there are still more Igbo on the list than yoloba.

A word of advice, if you want to disprove something, actually try and brings things that supports you, not discredit you and support your opponent. You ended up just making a complete fool of yourself yet again.

Everything else you wrote, the above post discredits it all therefore trash.

Harrisonn:
How Much Respect Do You Show Igbos? By Ena Ofugara

I am not Igbo. I am proud of my Urhobo. However, as a stdent of history, I wish to show just what these great people came/come against and yet thrive.

Okay, the incessant killings in the North will be glossed over so as to make this article not overly long. The civil war will also not be discussed.

However, post civil war, as I explained in my post MINORITY REPORT: THE SYSTEM IS RIGGED AGAINST YOU, the rich in Nigeria have major roots in the Indegenization decree of 1972 and 1977. I reminded how the banks gave people of other tribes, predominantly Hausas and Yorubas loans to by up companies owned by foreigners. Now imagine the Federal government forced Chevron to sell 51 percent of its shares and that Access Bank will give you loans to buy the shares. How rich will you be in a year? 5 Years? That is how many Yorubas and Hausas got to own UAC, all those Dunlop, Leventis, Cadbury etc.

Now while this was ongoing, Gowon told the Nigerian banks to give TOPS twenty naira to any Igbo man that had money in the bank before the war. That is, if you had 5 naira before the war, you will be given the 5 naira. But if you had a hundred naira, you get just twenty naira in full fulfilment of the banks duty to give you your money.

Ask yourselves "why would the banks give Igbos only twenty naira? Did the banks collapse? So why pay less than you were given?

So while the banks were giving loans to Hausa and Yorubas to buy Oyibo companies they did not build, Igbos were being cheated out of their rightful moneys.

Now not also that these people lost Houses and business across the land. It is safe to say that as at 1970/71. the richest Igbo had 20 naira that may be the equivalent of maybe one million.

Let us lok at how Dangote made his money. He Dagote (a great man and pride to Nigeria) has an uncle called Dantata who owned huge chunks of the groundnut pyramids of the 50's and 60's. He gave Dangte a loan and Dangote paid it back in record time. CLAP CLAP. The add that Dangote has had his "brothers" in government, from IBB to Abacha and Abdulsalaam. When they now agreed to democracy, he was rich enough to have funded Obasanjo and so government policies, be it monopoly afforded him for rice, sugar flour and of course a large share of subsidy etc ensures he is the wealthiest Nigerian. (note many had same opportunity but did not use it. We kowtow to Dangote's investment capabilities)

However, for the Igbo man, where will he see an uncle that will loan him money? The richest man in their family has how much as at then? So while Fani Kayode can inherit property of his father and grandfather and great grand father, a Chidi Cali cannot inherit anything from his grandfather who had business in Kano or even Port Harcourt. Neighbours have made his dad's storey building theirs, and even someone as educated as Saro Wiwa lived in an Igbo war emigrant house as his. (a sore point of the Niger Delta and Igbo Unity) WAEC building was Ojukwu's dad's building and like that building, thousands and the land with it....lands worth billions today were taken from Igbos and each and everyIgbo had tops 20 naira, destroyed homeland, stolen and destroyed wealth away from the east. ALso his brother is never president that will give him oil block or fuel lifting. Of 33, only one Igbo man and because he was in Obasanjo's good graces.

YET LOOK HOW PROUD THEY STAND TODAY!!! Look what they have achieved for themselves....FIRST GENERATION WEALTH...top second generation. From being unable to send their first sons to school so he could help look after the shop, to producing first class brains in all departments of modern learning.

So today, as you accuse Igbos of wanting their Biafra or of Baby Factory, or liking money and ready to do anything for money, remember that just forty years ago, while the banks were dashing your uncles loans to buy all the companies of Nigeria, it stole from the Igbos. Know that appointments have not favoured them. Note that they remain persecuted and many speak such ill and hate twoards a people forced by need to survive to be extra-aggressive towards their sustenance. Maybe if you took their history into consideration, you will not be so critical of them, but instead say "what a resilient people" and give God the glory that FOR NOW, we and such a great people are compatriots.

Igbo Kwenu

onenaira3:
Twistray you really pathetic aren't you. BTW don't deny its you because stupidly you quoted your words words to words, funny enough it's the same words that got you dragged several weeks ago.
I'm still curious
Wtf did you think you disproved. You provided a list where there are 7 Igbo's and 6 Yoruba's and you have mouth to even talk. Mind you, this Igbo's made their wealth after the 20 pounds which was never imposed on yoloba therefore, there should have been more yoloba on that list but alas here we are.

While we at it, haven't it already been shown to you those 20 companies are predominantly foreign company. Excluding two companies own by yoloba, the remaining few in the list that is Nigerian owned are SS and SE individuals companies

Didn't we already knocked in your head Being chairman of a foreign branch company does not mean You OWE the company. You are a worker of that company. infact, out of all companies posted up by you, only two are Yoruba CEO/owned and the remaining are either whites, SS and SE.

Dangote Cement---CEO: Aliko Dangote [Fulani]
• Zenith Bank PLC---CEO/founder: Jim ovia [ delta igbo]
• Ecobank Transnational Incorporated---CEO: Albert Essien [ibibio]
• Nigerian Breweries Plc...Non Nigerian owned company..a branch of heinkein. CEO: Nicholas Vervelde [white]
• First Bank Plc...CBN sponsored bank. Not a nigerian founded bank despite a yoruba [onasanya] is the chairman. Founder: Alfred Jones [ white]
• Guaranty Trust Bank Plc: CEO/founder Fola Adeola [yoruba]
• United Bank for Africa--- CEO: Phillip Oduoza [ Delta Igbo]
• Guinness Nigeria:non nigerian owned company: Founder: Arthur Guinness [white]
• Nestlé Nigeria: non nigerian owned company: CEO: Paul bulcke [white]
• Access Bank---CEO: Paul Wigwe [igbo]
• Flour Mills Nigeria---Paul Gbededo [tribe: unsure, possibly middlebelt]
• Union Bank of Nigeria---CEO: unknown. It Is a UK owned company despite the chairman is igbo [Udo udoma]
• Stanbic IBTC---CEO: Atedo Peterside [ijaw]
• First City Monument Bank--- CEO: Ladi Balogun [yoruba]
• Lafarge Cement WAPCO-- non nigerian owned company. CEO/founder: Leonard Palance [ white]
• Total Nigeria: Non nigerian owned company. CEO: Elizabeth protrust [ white]
• Unilever Nigeria: non nigerian owned CEO/founder: Paul Polman [white]
• PZ Cussions. non nigerian owned company CEO: George Zimmorosi [ white]
• UACN--CEO-Larry Ettah [igbo]
• Cadbury Nigeria Plc---CEO: Udiemio itseuli [edo]

You do realize you ended up just proving what all have been saying accurate.

While we are at it, here is an updated 30 richest Nigerians in 2015



Funny enough there are still more Igbo on the list than yoloba.

A word of advice, if you want to disprove something, actually try and brings things that supports you, not discredit you and support your opponent. You ended up just making a complete fool of yourself yet again.

Everything else you wrote, the above post discredits it all therefore trash.

new2020:
Useless ignorant Yoruba man filled with hate. Lacks knowledge of history and what reparations mean. Allied forces rebuilt Germany. Germany paid reparations to the jews. United States paid reparations to the Japanese. Did Nigeria pay Reparations to the Igbos/Biafrans? No! That's the difference Fool!

sweetgala:
Allied forces did not pay reparations to Germany nor did it rebuild the rhein land, in fact Germany was made pay money for itst destruction of Moscow, France , Austria , Poland etc
Germany suffered after WW2

new2020:
Above in bold... I never said that; don't know where you got that from. Reparations is not the same as assistance in rebuilding. Read my post again!

I repeat, the Allied forces mostly the United States help rebuild Germany. That's why it has military bases in Germany since the war till today, also with Japan. Germany paid reparations largely to the jews, and also to United Kingdom, France, and the Soviet Union.

https://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/natsec/RL33331.pdf

sweetgala:
The US has military bases in Germany for the same reason that have one in Japan, they once outrightly conquered those lands and totally invaded it. Germany after the war were too weak to stop the US building a base there , the US wanted to be close to Russia for strategic reasons .

After many years the Germans found the US base to be favourable to them, it guaranteed US protection from Russia. Germany is back at full strength and with sovereignty can close all those bases but have chosen not to because it is like having an extra set of armed personnel on the ready. The service men on those bases are under specialized US/EU laws and regulations.

Same as Japan those bases are kept by the Japanese government who don't have an offensive military force as protection from Chinese and N Korean aggression

Ovamboland:
Wailing wailer, tell what properties your people have in Ibadan that is of interest to any Yoruba man to warrant seizure. Tell me any part of Yorubaland any flat head owned property was seized. Many of your runaway people came back to collect their accumulated rents for the almost 3 years it was abandoned as testified by your people. Yet your so-called brothers and allies in SS, port harcourt in particular are still collecting and pocketing rent till today from houses built by Ibos.

May your rabid hatred be healed so you can recognize your real enemies and friends



https://madukovich./tag/igbo/

Ovamboland:
Did Ibos who had no money in the account not also get the 20 Naira?
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sweetgala:
My people say that "ori to ba ri oba fin ni oba nge" the head that insults the king is ripe for beheading, when ojukwu with support of the south east igbo decided to risk it all and declared war on the federal republic of Niger , you know what happened after. When Hitler decided to attack central Europe, Poland ,France and Austria after the war you see what happened to Germany and what they lost.

It is on record that Awolowo and Gowon ensured that the lands and property belonging to the Igbo which had not been looted in the SW, middle belt and North were returned to them, however the case of the SS is different. The ones with monies outside SE came back to meet their money there but the ones with their monies in FG banks in the SE rightly lost it all that was their gamble and the FG could not protect that.

The OP has decided to omit one fact. When the Igbo retired from the north and SW and went to the SE , they withdrew all their monies from the banks and took it with them , banks were raided by Biafra soldiers in areas close to SE and lodgement books were destroyed and lost with it proof of the account or balance. A federal law was passed that any perosn who could produce a dated lodgement book or proof of monies in a bank had to be given his/her money, those who make a claim can only be given 20 naira where such proof is absent ; which makes logical sense.

wisdomguy4u:
Go and read bro.. The Easter Nigeria never declared war on Nigeria. It was Nigeria that declared war on Easter Nigeria. After all negotiation fail, and the pogram continued in the North, The Eastern Nigeria declared itself independence, and the Nigeria declare war on them.

The ibos never retire from North and south, they were being massacred especially in the North. Only those who escaped make it to the east. So where did you get the fact that the Ibos lined up in the bank to withdraw their money b4 leaving for east?

onenaira3:
Twistray you really pathetic aren't you. BTW don't deny its you because stupidly you quoted your words words to words, funny enough it's the same words that got you dragged several weeks ago.
I'm still curious
Wtf did you think you disproved. You provided a list where there are 7 Igbo's and 6 Yoruba's and you have mouth to even talk. Mind you, this Igbo's made their wealth after the 20 pounds which was never imposed on yoloba therefore, there should have been more yoloba on that list but alas here we are.

While we at it, haven't it already been shown to you those 20 companies are predominantly foreign company. Excluding two companies own by yoloba, the remaining few in the list that is Nigerian owned are SS and SE individuals companies

Didn't we already knocked in your head Being chairman of a foreign branch company does not mean You OWE the company. You are a worker of that company. infact, out of all companies posted up by you, only two are Yoruba CEO/owned and the remaining are either whites, SS and SE.

Dangote Cement---CEO: Aliko Dangote [Fulani]
• Zenith Bank PLC---CEO/founder: Jim ovia [ delta igbo]
• Ecobank Transnational Incorporated---CEO: Albert Essien [ibibio]
• Nigerian Breweries Plc...Non Nigerian owned company..a branch of heinkein. CEO: Nicholas Vervelde [white]
• First Bank Plc...CBN sponsored bank. Not a nigerian founded bank despite a yoruba [onasanya] is the chairman. Founder: Alfred Jones [ white]
• Guaranty Trust Bank Plc: CEO/founder Fola Adeola [yoruba]
• United Bank for Africa--- CEO: Phillip Oduoza [ Delta Igbo]
• Guinness Nigeria:non nigerian owned company: Founder: Arthur Guinness [white]
• Nestlé Nigeria: non nigerian owned company: CEO: Paul bulcke [white]
• Access Bank---CEO: Paul Wigwe [igbo]
• Flour Mills Nigeria---Paul Gbededo [tribe: unsure, possibly middlebelt]
• Union Bank of Nigeria---CEO: unknown. It Is a UK owned company despite the chairman is igbo [Udo udoma]
• Stanbic IBTC---CEO: Atedo Peterside [ijaw]
• First City Monument Bank--- CEO: Ladi Balogun [yoruba]
• Lafarge Cement WAPCO-- non nigerian owned company. CEO/founder: Leonard Palance [ white]
• Total Nigeria: Non nigerian owned company. CEO: Elizabeth protrust [ white]
• Unilever Nigeria: non nigerian owned CEO/founder: Paul Polman [white]
• PZ Cussions. non nigerian owned company CEO: George Zimmorosi [ white]
• UACN--CEO-Larry Ettah [igbo]
• Cadbury Nigeria Plc---CEO: Udiemio itseuli [edo]

You do realize you ended up just proving what all have been saying accurate.

While we are at it, here is an updated 30 richest Nigerians in 2015



Funny enough there are still more Igbo on the list than yoloba.

A word of advice, if you want to disprove something, actually try and brings things that supports you, not discredit you and support your opponent. You ended up just making a complete fool of yourself yet again.

Everything else you wrote, the above post discredits it all therefore trash.

sweetgala:
Your delusions doesn't allow you to differentiate a CEO of a bank , who is just another employee of the shareholders and the board from the individual with controlling shares.

Nigerians are special wherever they come from, I think the biggest difference between the Igbo and Yoruba is the amount of risk one is willing to take and the difference in value system.

The Igbo place a high value of wealth, the Yoruba on success and a good name. That success can mean material wealth but it is at best not compromise the good name which you can't buy for all the gold in the he world.

Some of the biggest beneficiaries of the IBB and Abacha campaign of corruption and looting of federla funds are Igbo and some of the very wealthy ones we see today are just that with their Yoruba and hausa counterparts.

totit:
Thou shall not chestbeat, thou shall not lies, thou shall not pull out figure from you yellow bombom







In a Capitalist State Like Ours, Wealthy Firms With Healthy Cash Flow Control The Economy Not Petty Traders.

"I have investigated all the 20 top Nigerian companies listed below as compiled by authoritative Forbes business magazine and none of them is based in Igbo land or controlled by the so called ‘Igbo business men’.

Impressively, 20 Nigerian companies made it to the list of Top 25 companies in West Africa. They include:

• Dangote Cement
• Zenith Bank PLC
• Ecobank Transnational Incorporated
• Nigerian Breweries Plc
• First Bank Plc
• Guaranty Trust Bank Plc
• United Bank for Africa
• Guinness Nigeria
• Nestlé Nigeria
• Access Bank
• Flour Mills Nigeria
• Union Bank of Nigeria
• Stanbic IBTC
• First City Monument Bank
• Lafarge Cement WAPCO
• Total Nigeria
• Unilever Nigeria
• PZ Cussions
• UACN
• Cadbury Nigeria Plc

According to Forbes, Nigeria has 20 of the best 25 companies in West Africa.

It is only a fool who will believe Igbo postulation that it is street trader’s and hawkers that controls an economy. If that hypothesis is valid, then the Indians and Pakistanis in Britain can also claim that they [are] in charge of British economy because over 70% of petty street trading in Britain is in the hand of the Asians. However, we all know that actual British economy is firmly in the hands of the Britons. The same is factual for Germany and France where Turkish and North African Algerians are their own local version of Igbo. The only difference is that these other 'gypsies’' are more knowledgeable of who they are in their host countriy's economy, unlike ignorant Igbo petty street traders in Yoruba land."









Nigerians have made the Forbes list of richest people in the world the reason been that Forbes estimates the wealth of individuals and rank them based on the value of shares they have in quoted companies (companies listed on the stock exchange).

The few Nigerians that have the list are Aliko Dangote, Mike Adenuga and Femi Otedola.

The list of top 21 Richest Nigerian billionaires has been based on:

The value of their shares held in quoted companies, the size and market share of their companies, the number of companies they own and its assumed value, the market value of their company’s brand and the impact of their companies on the Nigerian economy.

Despite the harsh terrain and business challenges involved with starting a business in Nigeria; the successful entrepreneurs listed below held their ground and fought their way to the top.

In a country with a population of over 160 million inhabitants and millions of businesses; these 20 entrepreneurs diligently carved their names in the sands of time.

Check out the list below.

1. Alhaji Aliko Dangote – founder of Dangote Group, Richest man in Africa and Richest black man in the world

2. Mike Adenuga – Conoil, Equatorial Trust Bank, Globacom

3. Femi Otedola – ZENON Oil and Gas

4. Orji Uzor Kalu – Slok Group

5. Cosmos Maduka – Coscharis Group

6. Jimoh Ibrahim – Nicon Insurance, Global Flee

7. Jim Ovia – Zenith Bank, Visafone

8. Pascal Dozie – MTN Nigeria, Diamond Bank

9. Oba Otudeko – Honeywell Group Nigeria

10. Alhaji Sayyu Dantata – MRS Group

11. Umaru Abdul Mutallab – former Chairman First Bank Plc, Mutallab Group

12. Prince Samuel Adedoyin – Doyin Group

13. Dele Fajemirokun – Chaiman Aiico Insurance, Xerox Nigeria, Chicken Republic, Kings Guards etc.

14. Chief Cletus Ibeto – Ibeto Group

15. Raymond Dokpesi – Daar Communication, AIT,

16. Tony Ezenna – Orange Group

17. Chief Molade Okoya Thomas – Chairman CFAO Nig and other six french companies

18. Ifeanyi Ubah – Capital oil and gas

19. Leo Stan Ekeh – Zinox Computer

20. Fola Adeola – GTBank

21. Chief Ade Ojo – Elizade Motors Nig LTD, Distributor of Toyota cars
Before I finish this essay I will examine an absurd claim that the igbo often make which reflects an inferiority complex, a deep case self-delusion and which borders on the sociopathic. Wherever they settle they often boast that they control all the money that is there and that they have more businesses than anyone else. They often suggest that they have more business acumen and that they are more successful at business than any other tribe in Nigeria yet this is not true.

These strange stories that Igbos are more industrious than the Yoruba people, where do they come from? Is it because Yoruba people think big and never settle for profits from petty trading? The Igbos have not excelled more than Yoruba people in any kind of business at an advanced level, with the exception of the long haul coach and bus business. In the transportation business generally how many igbo people own the largest private airport on the African continent like Wale Babalakin. Tell me the Igbos that are mega industrialists like Folawiyo, Okoya, Adedoyin, Akindele and Awosika. Of the 10 leading banks in Nigeria, 8 of them used to have yoruba people as shareholders with the controlling interest, until Sanusi Lamido Sanusi launched his campaign. Today, four are still owned by Yoruba people and only one by an Igbo. Telecoms, one Ijebu businessman built a massive telecoms company single handedly. No Igbo man can boast of such. The first four leading oil distributors are Yoruba. Of the 10 leading Nigerian businessmen, 6 are Yoruba. The highest indigenous employers of labour are Yoruba people. Look at all the companies in Ikeja- they were all invited by the Western Region Government in the First Republic. If Igbos leave Lagos today, these companies will still hold high in their elegant skyscrapers. Igbos can’t hold Lagos or anywhere in the country hostage. The stereotype claim is that the Yoruba are the agberos of Lagos but you will be surprised to know that many Igbos in Lagos are actively involved in the transport business, some of them also play omo oni le with their Yoruba friends and some of them are street beggars as well. They would have denied this if Fashola had not deported them.

Many Igbo people are on the payroll of Yoruba businessmen. If you go to their region, you will see GTB, Oando, FCMB, GLO, Con Oil, Nicon Insurance, Sahara Oil, Bicourtney all owned by Yorubas. How many Igbo companies provide mass employment in comparison? If you take away all the companies owned by Yoruba businessmen what is left? The truth, hurtful as it can be, is that the leading industrialists and entrepreneurs are Yoruba people and they built Lagos with their mega business skills. This was what attracted Igbos- the tribe of wanderers and gypsys. Igbos cannot even boast of business skills when they speak with successful businessmen in the Midwest. The Midwest can boast of companies like Zenith bank, UBA, Ibru and co. and Etisalat, They can boast of Arik Air and Aerocontractors. A man from the Midwest by the name of Festus Okotie Eboh tackled your most respected Nnamdi Azikiwe and shook his power-base as the financier of the NCNC party. I don’t share the view that Igbos have superior business skills. The business men many of us admire are entrepreneurs like Wale Tinubu, Fola Adeola, Segun Agbaje, Subonmi Balogun, Kayode Odukoya, Deinde Fernandez, Tope Sonubi, Tunde Fagbemi, Kase Lawal, Harry Akande and Mike Adenuga and not the glorified petty traders and trouble makers. What the Igbos are doing is psychological warfare. If their lies are not checked and set straight they will have a negative effect on the psyche of future generations of the Yoruba. A lot of blacks in America are suffering from the lies white historians have perpetrated. For a long time blacks were made to feel inferior to their white counterparts. We can not allow the Igbos to continue with their lies against the Yorubas unabated. We have a responsibility as patriotic Yorubas to set the record straight. If it means being tagged a tribalist, that is fine. -Destructive Ways of the Ignorant...




Abegii jare
Make una shut una akpu mouth and let us rest for akpu sake

kelvin100:
We are tired of Nigeria.

azzima:
yeye people ,all these agitations are coming up after Jonathan lost abi?even the ijaws (Tompolo and co)are asking everyone to support Buhari for the betterment of all.

sunnyb0b0:
After the Fulani tribe defeated your sorry ass tribe in Ilorin and installed an emir, why haven't you lot come back stronger?

FolarinLondon:
Hahaha lol!!!! Just listen to yourself coward
Till date, ordinary Ikwerres and Ogonis seized your properties close to your stronghold in the East and you cowards couldn't fight or do anything about it. What a shame!!! It's like Edos seizing Yorubas properties in Edo state....
300 Ibo military officers were massacred in a single night and till date, you have never raised a finger against these people.
Only two to three Yorubas were killed during Abacha regime, Yorubas brought that regime to his knees.
Igbos are nothing but cowards

nnenneigbo:
Wow!

wisdomguy4u:
Go and read bro.. The Easter Nigeria never declared war on Nigeria. It was Nigeria that declared war on Easter Nigeria. After all negotiation fail, and the pogram continued in the North, The Eastern Nigeria declared itself independence, and the Nigeria declare war on them.

The ibos never retire from North and south, they were being massacred especially in the North. Only those who escaped make it to the east. So where did you get the fact that the Ibos lined up in the bank to withdraw their money b4 leaving for east?

omoelesa:
Useles and yeye article. Was the ibos the only people that have fought war in this world.Germany and Japan were nearly reduced to ashes in the second world war but, came back stronger after more than two decades later to be one of the world economy super power.what about the jews etc.This is another ego massaging article for the ibos.nonsense

Ovamboland:
Did Ibos who had no money in the account not also get the 20 Naira?

The house in Ikoyi were those seized by the FG from Ojukwu and it was used as JAMB office not WAEC.
All those houses were returned to him and i can't recall he insisted the ordinary Ibos he led to war and lost properties mainly in the South-south and have documents to prove it got anything back. He simply collected his own and cleaned mouth, he has been collecting his pension while many boys he urged to war are still living with horrific injuries, i bet he even visits them in the colonies were they were all abandoned while he was enjoying the rest of his life with a beauty queen.

Maybe you should address how you treat yourselves in your enclave before you attempt to control how others treat you.