Cosbyrich:
Anambra state is dead without FG's feeding bottle.

Igbos remain the poorest people in the South

Only Alakija will buy up Igboland.

FrMbaka:
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You're a lair and full of hatred.
Stop tribalism.

You claim Igbo don't love themselves but they live in peace more than other regions.

Some regions are bombing and slaughtering themselves yet you claim the Easterners don't love themselves,

Okay, bring your evidence that the Easterners hate themselves let me bring my own evidence that the Westerners hate themselves the most.

Nairalandmonika:

Which NPA boss, amechi is the one doing all this. This woman just dey occupy space.

donproject:
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Wetin I do you sef?....you even cross my name, there is God o.

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Alakija should first demolish and rebuild her backward state

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Alakija should first demolish and rebuild her backward state

NGpatriot:




Of course, you people are known for anti women rhetorics, sexist and misogynistic utterances.

Nairalandmonika:


Mumu, when u have nothing to say u begin to talk trash.

If a man was an NPA boss I would have said same. Dimwit.

Cosbyrich:
Anambra state is dead without FG's feeding bottle.

Igbos remain the poorest people in the South

Only Alakija will buy up Igboland.

NGpatriot:



No, you won't have and even if you would, that was still a dumb and reetarded comment.

Nairalandmonika:

That was pigin English a common language in Nigeria. U are not even in any position to call me a misogyny, u don't know me or leave with me. Besides my point wasn't even about woman or man.

My point was that ameachi has been instrumental in making sure ports in the south work.

But na woman and man matter u dey turn the argument to. U obviously have nothing to say.

NGpatriot:
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You don't have any port beyond insulting the hard working and accomplished woman and, negating and trivializing are accomplishments.

Sadly for you, she's smart, she's intelligent, she's well read, she's worth more to Nigeria than 1 million of nauseating and worthless people like you.

There's got to be more to your life than being crude, crass and unintelligent.

Nairalandmonika:

U are dumb, honestly

MsAllison:

mynd44 lalasticlala seun
rule 2

Cosbyrich:


The mods are not mumu as you wish.
It is a generally known fact that all the states in Igboland combined has lesser IGR compared to Ogun state.
Facts are sacrosanct.Goldfish have no hiding place.

Cosbyrich:
lol

You sound pathetic. Who would lend your poor states money so you can default in payment because of your very tiny IGR.
USA is the most indebted nation in the world.
Anambra has the highest external debt and they cannot survive without the FG's feeding bottle.
What a pathetic situation.

Cosbyrich:




YORUBAS HAVE BEEN DOING REAL BUSINESS BEFORE IGBOS OPEN EYE .



It is not difficult to imagine that the richest man in Africa, Aliko Dangote, wakes up in Africa, has his breakfast in Asia, lunch in Europe, dinner in America and sleeps in Australia.

You may also conjure the image of the richest woman on the continent, Folorunso Alakija, attending a conference in North America, meeting with female entrepreneurs in Africa, signing a multimillion-dollar deal in South America, going shopping in Asia, and attending a wedding party in Antartica.

The duo may be the richest man and woman on the continent today, but Nigeria’s ability to create billionaires did not start today. Before Dangote and Alakija, the likes of Da Rocha, Ojukwu, etc. were known for their fame and fortune.

Just for this thread, I am picking out only the Yoruba business people because they have the largest number.


Candido Da Rocha (1860 – 1959)

Candido Da Rocha was a Nigerian born in Brazil. Upon his return to Nigeria with his father, Esan Da Rocha, he made a fortune that has today become the subject of fact and fiction.

Da Rocha was unlike Evander Wall – both were born in 1860 – who became a millionaire at 18 and a multimillionaire at 22, when he inherited a million dollars from his father and grandfather respectively.

An extravagant showman, Wall bought 5,000 neckties and 300 pairs of gloves. He was the first man in America to wear a tuxedo. He was reported to have changed his outfit 40 times in a single morning.

Considered a millionaire, Da Rocha too had dozens of clothes and he could afford to send his dirty clothes to the laundryman in the United Kingdom – which he did for many years.

Shrewd and forthright, the first Nigerian millionaire was not given to unnecessary platitudes and politicking.

“His friend Herbert Macaulay persuaded him to join politics. On a particular day when he was addressing would-be voters, he simply told them that he was seeking their votes to represent them. He made it clear that he would not use his wealth to get their votes.


At the end of the day, he didn’t win,” his 90-year-old granddaughter, Mrs. Angelica Oyediran, told SUNDAY PUNCH.

How wealthy was Da Rocha?

“I can’t put a figure to it. However, I can tell you that Papa was so rich that he assisted many people in the society. He supported the government during the Second World War. He also supported the Catholic Church. When the Holy Cross Cathedral was built, he paid for the building of three chapels. The British respected him a lot. He was highly respected; a disciplined man who hated dishonesty and lying. I lived with him in this house for three years. I was very close to him. He loved me and I was fond of him,” the granddaughter explained.



Describing Da Rocha’s generosity, she said, “People would come to him, crying, requesting financial assistance; from the balcony, asking how much they needed, he would throw down the money to them.”

Da Rocha became a water merchant, selling water from the house (he inherited from his father, Esan Da Rocha) – famously called Casa d’Agua or water house. Da Rocha would later venture into real estate and the hospitality business. He opened The Restaurant Da Rocha, Bonanza Hotel, and Sierra Leone Deep Sea Fishing Industries Ltd. He also went into a partnership with two other businessmen, J. H. Doherty and Sedu Williams, to establish the Lagos Native Bank.


Timothy Odutola (1902-1995)

On March 25, 1943, the man who later became arguably the most respected politician and strategist in Nigeria, Chief Obafemi Awolowo, requested a loan of £1,400 from Timothy Odutola.

The loan, according to Awolowo, would be fully paid in 12 years. He did not get the loan. But, the duo would later form a strong political alliance in the old Western Region.

Stupendously rich, Odutola was the first president of the Manufacturers Association of Nigeria. He was reported to have established a multimillion-dollar business, including three factories, a retail franchise, a cattle ranch and a sawmill before 1960.

Before his breakthrough, he worked as a clerk in various departments of the Lagos Colony and in the Ijebu Native Administration between 1921 and 1932.

By 1932, he opened stores where he sold damasks and fish in various cities in the Western Region; and later, he began trading in cocoa and palm oil.

An enterprising man, he also dealt in sawmilling and gold mining. By 1967, he had begun production of tyres and tubes which did so well that he added a $1,700,000 plant, with the plan to harvest his own rubber from his 5,000-acre plantation.

“The time is coming when we will produce more than we can consume and we will have to look outside Nigeria for markets,” Odutola had once said.

Prior to his death, however, he might have been less optimistic, as he watched Nigeria’s political and economic growth take a turn for the worse under the jackboot of maximum ruler, Gen. Sani Abacha.



Sir Mobolaji Bank-Anthony (1907-1991)

Businessman and philanthropist, he was a former council president of the Lagos Stock Exchange. He was also a minority investor in Aero Contractors and at a time held the distributional rights to cars manufactured by Rootes Group.

Between 1923 and 1930, he worked as a junior clerk in the correspondence section of the Post and Telegraphs Department. By 1931, he went into business, travelling to Germany and England to study how to make palm oil. Following that, he established M. de Bank Brothers, to trade in palm oil and patent medicine.

After sometime, he began importing watches, clocks and pens – at a point, becoming the third largest seller of fountain pens in Nigeria after UAC and the United Trading Company. He also owned a tanker fleet and a charter airline.

He was one of the earliest Nigerians to become chairman of a European company in 1950 – he was the chairman of the Italian Construction firm, Borini Prono and Company. He was also a director of Mobil Oil and Friesland Foods back then.



Shafi Edu (1911–2002)

In 1965, TIME magazine named Shafi Edu one of Nigeria’s richest men. Along with Talabi Braithwaite, he co-founded the first indigenous insurance company in the country. He had shares in big companies like Bata, Alumaco, Wiggins Teape, BP (formerly British Petroleum), Lever Brothers and Nigerian Breweries.

Edu was the first president of the Lagos Chamber of Commerce and the Lagos Rotary Club.

At 54, he had built a fleet of eight oil tankers. He was also on the boards of Blackwood Hodge Nigeria, Haden Nigeria, Glaxo Nigeria and the Federal Industrial Loans from 1954 to 1959.

He was elected into the old Western Region’s House of Assembly in 1951, and was later nominated to represent Epe at the Federal House of Representatives.




Ade Tuyo

Born in 1902, he was described as Nigeria’s most prominent baker in the mid-1960s. Featured in Time magazine’s list of millionaires in Nigeria in 1965, Tuyo at the time had four outlets and was making 115 products. According to the magazine, he was running a business that would have “first priority in people’s spending.”

“The firm’s unusual name – De Facto Works Ltd. – was shrewdly chosen by Tuyo to impress Nigerian bankers with the fact that he was seriously in business,” it said.

Trained as a teacher, Tuyo left the profession to work for 24 years in the Nigerian Railway Corporation, the British Bank of West Africa and the Ministry of Commerce. He retired in 1953.

The bakery was started by his wife. After his retirement, he took over the catering business. By 1969, his bakery service was the largest in the country.

Talabi Braithwaite (1928–2011)

Regarded as one of Nigeria’s youngest businessmen of his time, Talabi Braithwaite left a British insurance company to found a firm that would write life insurance on Nigerians which the British underwriters avoided like the plague. So successful was he that his African Alliance Insurance Co. Ltd occupied a six-storey office and had 300 bush-beating agents. Braithwaite lived in an elegant house in Ikoyi.

He was the first African to pass the examination to become an associate of the Chartered Insurance Institute, London in 1951. Braithwaite, in 1960, advised the government of the Western Region as a risk consultant when it formed the Great Nigeria Insurance Company. Between 1963 and 1966, he served as the first indigenous president of the Insurance Institute of Nigeria. He was also first president of the Nigerian Corporation of Insurance Brokers for 16 years, starting in 1963.

In 1969, he became an underwriting member of Lloyd’s of London, and from 1970 he started underwriting on the Merrett Syndicate.




https://punchng.com/old-money-10-super-rich-men-of-independence-era/

NGpatriot:
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Stop posting the same meaningless and childish rubbishy.


All your SE states are debtor states regardless and they still have nothing to show for their debts beyond kerosene, wheelbarrow and boreholes.

Funny how the states with more debts than you have more to show for their debts than you with your so called meaningless low debt.
What's your excuse?

SE is still the poorest region in Nigeria so what's your pointless point?

You people can not make sense to save your lives.

Malawian:
Just going though my page and something occured to me. Igbos and S.S should do everything humanly possible to ensure Tinubu or any Yorubaman is not made President in 2023, otherwise this port will be closed down again and all Maersk operations moved to Lekki new ports.

This is as much a fight for our own economy to torpedo any Yoruba presidential ambitions in 2023.

NGpatriot:



I started this thread to express my Joy and Happiness that this Port is finally active and welcomed the largest vessel, I even thanked and praised the people that made it possible, but this bitter, disgruntled and frustrated village ipob is saying I'm bitter

For an old man, you are you shallow, goofy and mindless for your old age.

afube:



When I tell people that these tiger clawed faced hamites are worse than abokis,they often doubt me ! fear any man that derives joy from the perceived misery of others, its the same spirit that overcame Awo to starve millions of Biafrans. The indigenisation decree,the 20 pounds policy,and this policy to economically strangulate the south east is all part of the "containment policy" hatched by ndiyoruba and sold to aboki supporter of APC but our God pass una...............with a mighty hand The Most High Yah will presently free his people from this evil tribes. Tufiakwa How we got mixed up with these savages is beyond me,,,,,,,,,,,,you are comparing Lagos to onitsha,you no see Accra,Kigali or even Dar es salaam to go and measure power with.

afube:



When I tell people that these tiger clawed faced hamites are worse than abokis,they often doubt me ! fear any man that derives joy from the perceived misery of others, its the same spirit that overcame Awo to starve millions of Biafrans. The indigenisation decree,the 20 pounds policy,and this policy to economically strangulate the south east is all part of the "containment policy" hatched by ndiyoruba and sold to aboki supporter of APC but our God pass una...............with a mighty hand The Most High Yah will presently free his people from this evil tribes. Tufiakwa How we got mixed up with these savages is beyond me,,,,,,,,,,,,you are comparing Lagos to onitsha,you no see Accra,Kigali or even Dar es salaam to go and measure power with.

afube:


You are a hypocrite..............off with you.