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Imagining Lagos Without The Igbo by Skyfornia(m): 9:27pm On Nov 01, 2020
IMAGINING LAGOS WITHOUT THE IGBO

By Professor Soyinka!

But I always find it utterly ludicrous when some scoundrel issues an ultimatum on the Igbo to vacate Yorubaland. And by Yorubaland, they mean Lagos. It is laughable because only a fool who hates the Yoruba will commit such knavery. Not that it will ever happen, but the day the Igbo leave Lagos is the day Lagos moves from being Africa's most thriving commercial hub to one of the poorest states, not just in Nigeria and Africa, but the the world. In case these charlatans haven't figured it out yet, the Igbo are the main drivers of Lagos.

The Igbo have invested in Lagos more than the Yoruba have. They are the workhorses of Lagos. Two weeks every year, the Igbo voluntarily observe a partial vacation of Lagos. December 23 to January 3, when the Igbo travel to Southeast Igboland, is always a mini experiment in Lagos without the Igbo. Lagos is a ghost town during Christmas. The usual heavy and hectic Lagos traffic is gone. You can organize and play football on Lagos highways. There is minimal activity at the Apapa Wharf, the mainstay of Lagos economy. The state is in partial shutdown when the Igbo leave town for two weeks. It loses billions in revenue.

The best residential houses and properties in Lagos are owned and occupied by the Igbo. It's not just the best, but also most, of the residential properties in Lagos. The Igbo are the only group in Nigeria that go into a valueless swampy bush in Lagos and turn it into an El Dorado overnight. Truth is that Lagos is Lagos because the Igbo live and roll in it.

And to know the Igbo is to know that they make home wherever they find themselves. They are a confident and comfortable bunch. They are the only group in Nigeria who will travel with everything they have, including their cultural heritage. From city to city across Nigeria and the world, the Igbo create a sense of community. Eze Ndi Igbo na Lagos, Eze Ndi Igbo na Kano, Eze Ndi Igbo na China, Eze Ndi Igbo na Dallas, Eze Ndi Igbo na Johannesburg, Eze Ndi Igbo na New Delhi, Eze Ndi Igbo na Boston, Eze Ndi Igbo na Malaysia are all efforts by the Igbo, not just to recreate Igbo land and the Igbo cultural experience wherever the Igbo find themselves in the world, but also an effort to foster cordial relationship with their host cultures. Only the Igbo do that.

We are a peaceful and peace-loving people. We don't ask for much. Just sell to us a space to build and live, a space to set up our shops, a space to set up our beer parlors for isi ewu, nkwobi, and egusi soup, a space for our parties and new yam festivals, be fair with property taxes and business regulations, and watch us play. Watch us grow and watch us grow your community. We add value to communities that welcome us, because we are the hardest working group that God has ever created. For the value we add, we don't ask for much in return. We only ask for respect. We change your communities, but we also charge that you don't take us for granted. We are a proud, but not prideful people. We celebrate our hardwork and the success that comes with it. And we expect you to be happy for us. Is that too much to ask? That your women run after us is only natural. Success attracts. It should be no reason for xenophobia in Joburg.

The Igbo and the Yoruba are good neighbors in Lagos. They have always been. The Igbo are the only people in Nigeria who speak more than one native Nigerian language. They speak Yoruba and Hausa more than the native tongues. They are the only truly detribalized Nigerians. How many Yoruba speak fluent Igbo language? How many Hausa do? Not many, if any. They don't because they have to live among the native Igbo to do that. Igbo land is a beautiful space with tasteful real estate. But how many of those houses in Enugu, Onitsha, Owerri, and Umuahia are owned by the Yoruba? None. So, you can see why it is easy for some failed nondescript cubicle rat in London to squeeze his fat ass into his 2 by 2-feet kitchen and spew the atrocious shenanigan the fella did. If the Yoruba were as invested in Igboland as do the Igbo in Yorubaland, there would be no incentive to attempt to order the Igbo out of Yorubaland. If you are jealous of the Igbo in Lagos, go build a house in Enugu. Otherwise, shut the hell up!

https://enda-ng.org/imagining-lagos-without-the-igbo-by-professor-soyinka/

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Re: Imagining Lagos Without The Igbo by Charleys: 9:36pm On Nov 01, 2020
Woke Soyinka is an IPOB member.

I believed this post until I started seeing WE WE WE.

then I knew it's fake

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Re: Imagining Lagos Without The Igbo by ThEGodFaThEr101(m): 9:41pm On Nov 01, 2020
Lagos would be worse off than Osun and Ogun together.

The pictures below will show you how Lagos would have been without Igbos.

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Re: Imagining Lagos Without The Igbo by sammyscholar(m): 9:49pm On Nov 01, 2020
Hmm, don't think too highly, my friend. Just enjoy the market that Lagos offers: make your money in Lagos and maintain decorum. Don't give Yorubas reasons to gather massively into trades, and start dragging markets with you.

An average yoruba man's interest is in education and vocation, only handful go the way of trade. There's no rocket science in trade, it's only matter of interest.

Remember that every business is useless without patronage; much reason every trader will go to where the population (with buying capacity) are. If I don't buy from you, your business is as good as useless! Indeed, you are only doing business in Lagos because you know there are legions of those who can buy.

You are not developing Lagos, but this doesn't go without saying that you play appreciable role in the progress of the state. Just enjoy the market and maintain decorum. Let's respect ourselves!

Peace be with you!

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Re: Imagining Lagos Without The Igbo by jmoore(m): 9:52pm On Nov 01, 2020
sammyscholar:
Hmm, don't think too highly, my friend. Just enjoy the market that Lagos offers: make your money in Lagos and maintain decorum. Don't give Yorubas reasons to gather massively into trades, and start dragging markets with you.

An average yoruba man's interest is in education and vocation, only handful go the way of trade. There's no rocket science in trade, it's only matter of interest.

Remember that every business is useless without patronage; much reason every trader will go to where the population (with buying capacity) are. If I don't buy from you, your business is as good as useless! Indeed, you are only doing business in Lagos because you know there are legions of those who can buy.

You are not developing Lagos, but this doesn't go without saying that you play appreciable role in the progress of the state. Just enjoy the market and maintain decorum. Let's respect ourselves!

Peace be with you!


Arguing with Soyinka.

Some people sef...

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Re: Imagining Lagos Without The Igbo by helinues: 9:53pm On Nov 01, 2020
The developers are at it again.

They always claimed of developing other places while their region is in vegetables state

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Re: Imagining Lagos Without The Igbo by Nobody: 9:54pm On Nov 01, 2020
So Lagos is Paradise? Decongesting Lagos should be better for all. Lagos is HELL. But sha in the country of the blind one eye Lagos is king.
Re: Imagining Lagos Without The Igbo by Nobody: 9:58pm On Nov 01, 2020
jmoore:


Arguing with Soyinka.

Some people sef...

Is soyika some magnificent higher being than you?

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Re: Imagining Lagos Without The Igbo by Coneheadyutes(m): 10:33pm On Nov 01, 2020
Wole amaka! grin

Our yoruba god soyinka has said it! grin

We yorubas will suffer very well if the igbos go.

But imagine if the igbo women go. We will be forced to start marrying our dirty yoruba women. cry

OzonNengiTheory
Re: Imagining Lagos Without The Igbo by Coneheadyutes(m): 11:06pm On Nov 01, 2020
helinues:
The developers are at it again.

They always claimed of developing other places while their region is in vegetables state

Our yoloba god has said it. It is final.

We should listen to our leader, wole, because, if we chase the igbos out, our economy will crumble, and Lagos will turn into a brown roof slum just like every other state in the SW cry

We can never survive without ndigbo.

Lagos without ndigbo is like fish without water.

Afamed

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Re: Imagining Lagos Without The Igbo by obami007(m): 11:07pm On Nov 01, 2020
I can smell a lot of trouble brewing in this thread
Re: Imagining Lagos Without The Igbo by Coneheadyutes(m): 11:26pm On Nov 01, 2020
sammyscholar:
Hmm, don't think too highly, my friend. Just enjoy the market that Lagos offers: make your money in Lagos and maintain decorum. Don't give Yorubas reasons to gather massively into trades, and start dragging markets with you.

An average yoruba man's interest is in education and vocation, only handful go the way of trade. There's no rocket science in trade, it's only matter of interest.

Remember that every business is useless without patronage; much reason every trader will go to where the population (with buying capacity) are. If I don't buy from you, your business is as good as useless! Indeed, you are only doing business in Lagos because you know there are legions of those who can buy.

You are not developing Lagos, but this doesn't go without saying that you play appreciable role in the progress of the state. Just enjoy the market and maintain decorum. Let's respect ourselves!

Peace be with you!




If that is what we are interested in, then why do we always fail jamb and waec exams, while the igbos are far ahead of us, topping the charts? embarassed

the only state in the SW that managed to make it into top 10 list was Lagos, and Lagos has bini-igbo origin sef.

https://www.edoworld.net/How_Ancient_Igbos_CoFounded_The_Obaship_Of_Lagos.html

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Re: Imagining Lagos Without The Igbo by BeLookingIDIOT(m): 12:26am On Nov 02, 2020
No only Soyinka, Albert Einstein wrote the article.
Rubbish.

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Re: Imagining Lagos Without The Igbo by Etinosa1234: 12:34am On Nov 02, 2020
sammyscholar:
Hmm, don't think too highly, my friend. Just enjoy the market that Lagos offers: make your money in Lagos and maintain decorum. Don't give Yorubas reasons to gather massively into trades, and start dragging markets with you.

An average yoruba man's interest is in education and vocation, only handful go the way of trade. There's no rocket science in trade, it's only matter of interest.

Remember that every business is useless without patronage; much reason every trader will go to where the population (with buying capacity) are. If I don't buy from you, your business is as good as useless! Indeed, you are only doing business in Lagos because you know there are legions of those who can buy.

You are not developing Lagos, but this doesn't go without saying that you play appreciable role in the progress of the state. Just enjoy the market and maintain decorum. Let's respect ourselves!

Peace be with you!


The truth summarized in one post
Re: Imagining Lagos Without The Igbo by Nobody: 12:36am On Nov 02, 2020
helinues:
The developers are at it again.

They always claimed of developing other places while their region is in vegetables state
One Nigeria pls. grin grin

cc lzaa

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Re: Imagining Lagos Without The Igbo by sammyscholar(m): 6:04am On Nov 02, 2020
Coneheadyutes:




If that is what we are interested in, then why do we always fail jamb and waec exams, while the igbos are far ahead of us, topping the charts? embarassed

the only state in the SW that managed to make it into top 10 list was Lagos, and Lagos has bini-igbo origin sef.

https://www.edoworld.net/How_Ancient_Igbos_CoFounded_The_Obaship_Of_Lagos.html

We don't fail JAMB, my friend. Not having the highest scores is not the same thing as failing, provided you meet cut-off mark. If I score 340 in JAMB for universities' admission that require only 180, you can't call that a failure, even though someone somewhere scored 350.

My assertion is not even about who has the highest score in Jamb, it's about interest in trade. Maybe I should put it this way: asides education for both Igbo and Yoruba; while an average Yoruba man's interest is in vocation, that of an igbo man is in trade.

I know many Yorubas in the east offering their vocational services. After each project, they come back home. But as a trader, you've to settle at your market base. And as you do, you want to have a house of your own, you want to expand your coast.

In essence, it's just the nature of what we do that determines our moves.

So like I already said, enjoy the market that Lagos offers. Make your money and maintain decorum.


Peace be with you!

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Re: Imagining Lagos Without The Igbo by danjoey: 6:08am On Nov 02, 2020
Skyfornia:
IMAGINING LAGOS WITHOUT THE IGBO

By Professor Soyinka!

But I always find it utterly ludicrous when some scoundrel issues an ultimatum on the Igbo to vacate Yorubaland. And by Yorubaland, they mean Lagos. It is laughable because only a fool who hates the Yoruba will commit such knavery. Not that it will ever happen, but the day the Igbo leave Lagos is the day Lagos moves from being Africa's most thriving commercial hub to one of the poorest states, not just in Nigeria and Africa, but the the world. In case these charlatans haven't figured it out yet, the Igbo are the main drivers of Lagos.

The Igbo have invested in Lagos more than the Yoruba have. They are the workhorses of Lagos. Two weeks every year, the Igbo voluntarily observe a partial vacation of Lagos. December 23 to January 3, when the Igbo travel to Southeast Igboland, is always a mini experiment in Lagos without the Igbo. Lagos is a ghost town during Christmas. The usual heavy and hectic Lagos traffic is gone. You can organize and play football on Lagos highways. There is minimal activity at the Apapa Wharf, the mainstay of Lagos economy. The state is in partial shutdown when the Igbo leave town for two weeks. It loses billions in revenue.

The best residential houses and properties in Lagos are owned and occupied by the Igbo. It's not just the best, but also most, of the residential properties in Lagos. The Igbo are the only group in Nigeria that go into a valueless swampy bush in Lagos and turn it into an El Dorado overnight. Truth is that Lagos is Lagos because the Igbo live and roll in it.

And to know the Igbo is to know that they make home wherever they find themselves. They are a confident and comfortable bunch. They are the only group in Nigeria who will travel with everything they have, including their cultural heritage. From city to city across Nigeria and the world, the Igbo create a sense of community. Eze Ndi Igbo na Lagos, Eze Ndi Igbo na Kano, Eze Ndi Igbo na China, Eze Ndi Igbo na Dallas, Eze Ndi Igbo na Johannesburg, Eze Ndi Igbo na New Delhi, Eze Ndi Igbo na Boston, Eze Ndi Igbo na Malaysia are all efforts by the Igbo, not just to recreate Igbo land and the Igbo cultural experience wherever the Igbo find themselves in the world, but also an effort to foster cordial relationship with their host cultures. Only the Igbo do that.

We are a peaceful and peace-loving people. We don't ask for much. Just sell to us a space to build and live, a space to set up our shops, a space to set up our beer parlors for isi ewu, nkwobi, and egusi soup, a space for our parties and new yam festivals, be fair with property taxes and business regulations, and watch us play. Watch us grow and watch us grow your community. We add value to communities that welcome us, because we are the hardest working group that God has ever created. For the value we add, we don't ask for much in return. We only ask for respect. We change your communities, but we also charge that you don't take us for granted. We are a proud, but not prideful people. We celebrate our hardwork and the success that comes with it. And we expect you to be happy for us. Is that too much to ask? That your women run after us is only natural. Success attracts. It should be no reason for xenophobia in Joburg.

The Igbo and the Yoruba are good neighbors in Lagos. They have always been. The Igbo are the only people in Nigeria who speak more than one native Nigerian language. They speak Yoruba and Hausa more than the native tongues. They are the only truly detribalized Nigerians. How many Yoruba speak fluent Igbo language? How many Hausa do? Not many, if any. They don't because they have to live among the native Igbo to do that. Igbo land is a beautiful space with tasteful real estate. But how many of those houses in Enugu, Onitsha, Owerri, and Umuahia are owned by the Yoruba? None. So, you can see why it is easy for some failed nondescript cubicle rat in London to squeeze his fat ass into his 2 by 2-feet kitchen and spew the atrocious shenanigan the fella did. If the Yoruba were as invested in Igboland as do the Igbo in Yorubaland, there would be no incentive to attempt to order the Igbo out of Yorubaland. If you are jealous of the Igbo in Lagos, go build a house in Enugu. Otherwise, shut the hell up!

https://enda-ng.org/imagining-lagos-without-the-igbo-by-professor-soyinka/

You are a piece of shit and a liar too...Soyinka never said all this lies you wrote.

Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka says some unscrupulous elements are exhuming a fabricated message from him to justify their cowardly ultimatum for Igbo people to quit Lagos.

He stated this in a Saturday statement, saying at no time did he speak on the differences between the three major ethnic groups as contained in the fabricated message.

Soyinka’s statement was titled, ‘Identity Thieves on the Rampage’.

Some Yoruba persons have tried to pin the mayhem that followed the EndSARS protests in Lagos on Igbo youths.

Leading socio-cultural groups, Afenifere and Ohanaeze Ndigbo in a joint statement on Saturday condemned such attempts and warned against utterances that could stoke ethnic tensions.

Lending his voice, Soyinka said, “Undoubtedly in order to promote the video clip of an ethnic revanchist calling on Igbo to leave Yoruba land, this same lunatic fringe has exhumed, and embarked on circulating an ancient fabrication – several years mouldering in the grave – once attributed to me and vigorously denounced.

“That statement impudently expounds, as my utterance, what the Hausa want, what the Yoruba want, and what the Igbo want. Such an attribution – let me once again reiterate – is the work of sick, cowardly minds that are ashamed, or lack the courage, as the saying goes, “to answer their fathers’ names.” At least the current ethnic rabble-rouser has the courage of his convictions, not so the sick brigade of identity thieves.

“Normally, one should totally ignore the social dregs. However, in the present atmosphere where FAKE NEWS is so easily swallowed and acted upon without reflection, I feel once again obliged to denounce this recurrent obscenity. As for our brother and sister Igbo, I hope they have learnt to ignore the toxic bilge under which some Nigerian imbeciles seek to drown the nation.

“It is time also, I believe, to also enter the following admonition: one cannot continue to monitor and respond to the concoctions of these addicts of falsehood, and their assiduous promoters who have yet to learn to wipe the filth off their tablets. The patrons of social platforms should develop the art of discrimination. Some attributions are simply so gross that, to grant them even a moment’s latitude of probability diminishes the civic intelligence of the recipient.”

https://www.herald.ng/endsars-unrest-soyinka-attacks-those-ordering-igbo-to-leave-lagos/

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Re: Imagining Lagos Without The Igbo by kynbasil01: 6:12am On Nov 02, 2020
helinues:
The developers are at it again.

They always claimed of developing other places while their region is in vegetables state
he's not igbo, these are fulanis creating divisionary threads against south and it's working

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Re: Imagining Lagos Without The Igbo by Daddysidhan: 6:26am On Nov 02, 2020
The northern thread of division, my southern people don't take the bait. Helinues the divider in chief wehdon sir
Re: Imagining Lagos Without The Igbo by Firstpage: 6:48am On Nov 02, 2020
jmoore:


Arguing with Soyinka.

Some people sef...

You must be a sheep if you believe Soyinka wrote that gibberish.

You igbos lie to the extent you start believing your own lies. This same sh!t will be posted another day with obasanjos name on it. You keep creating enemies for yourself. Nothing is special about buying and selling. It’s what I do too.
Re: Imagining Lagos Without The Igbo by AnalQueenluci: 6:57am On Nov 02, 2020
Truth
Re: Imagining Lagos Without The Igbo by humilitypays(m): 7:44am On Nov 02, 2020
smiley smiley
Re: Imagining Lagos Without The Igbo by lastempero: 8:08am On Nov 02, 2020
sammyscholar:
We don't fail JAMB, my friend. Not having the highest scores is not the same thing as failing, provided you meet cut-off mark. If I score 340 in JAMB for universities' admission that require only 180, you can't call that a failure, even though someone somewhere scored 350.

My assertion is not even about who has the highest score in Jamb, it's about interest in trade. Maybe I should put it this way: asides education for both Igbo and Yoruba; while an average Yoruba man's interest is in vocation, that of an igbo man is in trade.

I know many Yorubas in the east offering their vocational services. After each project, they come back home. But as a trader, you've to settle at your market base. And as you do, you want to have a house of your own, you want to expand your coast.

In essence, it's just the nature of what we do that determines our moves.

So like I already said, enjoy the market that Lagos offers. Make your money and maintain decorum.


Peace be with you!

One of ur brother show my village come knack roof since then the guy don settle there they enjoy all the goodies in my town,better percentage of the roofs in my town na hm dey knack am and he is happy.
I understand success brings jealousy and thats what the igbos are going through and that makes in turn makes them switch to arrogancy but they are really peace loving individuals. I dey hear of hausa yoruba clashes atleast three times every year but the same can't be said of the igbos.

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Re: Imagining Lagos Without The Igbo by LZAA: 11:53am On Nov 02, 2020
imhotep:

One Nigeria pls. grin grin

cc lzaa
Sai naijeriya grin

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Re: Imagining Lagos Without The Igbo by Burruchaga71(m): 1:01pm On Nov 02, 2020
helinues:
The developers are at it again.

They always claimed of developing other places while their region is in vegetables state

HOW SAD FOR THE YORUBA NATIONA TRUTHFUL YORUBA MAN...

HOW SAD FOR THE YORUBA NATION

Did the Igbos put guns on anybody's head before buying up Alaba, Ajegunle, isolo and Oshodi in Lagos?

Did they use juju before the Ibadan surrendered Iwo Road to them?

And what were we looking at before the Igbos took over Isida and Adeti in Ilesa ?

Where were the YORUBAS when the Igbos thrived and built 90% of the Hotels in Abuja. Was there a law that excluded the YORUBAS from selling building materials? Dei Dei building materials market in Abuja is 90 % Igbo owned.

So the more we point one finger at the Igbos, the more we have the other four fingers pointing at our laziness and lack of initiative as a society.

The YORUBAS should have been better with all our education, but we may be worse than the Fulanis who just roam around the bush.

Why? Because we lack the entrepreneurship spirit. We just want salaries from doing 8am to 5pm job. We proceed in foolishness and we persist in hoping to reap plenty without sowing hard. The Igbos are different, hence we are now jealous and envious.

We love wasteful parties and Aso Ebi. Just a little business without even making any profit yet, we usually call musicians to spray money like coffetti .

Where are all the Board Members of Ebenezer Obey today? Where is lawyer Omoyinmi and Lanre Badmus? Where is Oroki Social Club of Osogbo? Where is Felates of Ilesa and the likes whose trade mark was to bring Sunny Ade to Ilesa every Xmas, to waste all income gathered for the year?

The Yoruba society wasted their leading lights on excessive consumption and wasteful attitudes. We wasted our capital on frivolous social gatherings.

We took religion to ridicoulous levels, such that the wealthiest pastors and churches are now Yorubas. But all the wealth extracted by the churches from the Yoruba nation is also merely flaunted to show whose God is the most miraculous.

So we have become paupers and destitutes, as the Yoruba nation cannot now pay salaries. Pensions are owed for years.

Tell me, is Osun State filled with human beings or goats to have tolerated Aregbesola, when they rejected Akande. Say it loud, is the Constituted Authority of Ibadan sane to just bring about 21 Obas from nowhere to receive salaries, where there is no money to reopen Ladoja Akintola University?

Are the Ondos so wise to have allowed Mimiko to devastate their terrain as to be now saddled with 12 months salary arrears? What of Ekiti with rabble rousing Fayose and the intellectually arrogant Fayemi?

But the Igbos are hard workers. Let us not continue to deceive ourselves. 20 of their young boys can live in the shop from where they sell goods. There is no place too dirty or remote for them to hibernate and incubate their ideas. Give them 5 years, you will see them buy and take over all shops and lands.

True, some of them are criminals, but majority of the Igbo youths build and build physical structures always, while the YORUBAS are content with looking for salaried jobs, so that they can have siesta in the afternoons and then attend parties on Saturdays. Then spend Sundays in church wishing and praying for divine miracles.

How foolish! As the Igbo youths are meeting and strategizing on Sundays, so that they can gather money and buy the houses and lands owned by our Yoruba fathers, the Yorubas youths are busy in churches on Sundays praying for miracles.

Whether we like it or not, Obokungbusi Town Hall will soon be on concessional PPP sale. The Igbos will buy it. The proceeds will be used to pay backlog of salaries owed to impoverished Ijeshas. It will come willy nilly.

It will happen even in a declared Oduduwa Republic. Afterall, the Chinese, the Lebanese and the South Africans are buying us out with reckless abandon. See how ShopRite is buying up everywhere. I heard that they bought Owena Motel estate in Akure. How come we did not sell it to the Igbos?

We shall continue to grumble and hate the Igbos until eternity. Unless we spy on them, copy their ways and imbibe their 'can do' attitude.

The Yoruba nation and society have been pauperised and destituted. In desperation, we shall soon start to behave like the Almajiris in the North.

In grinding poverty and out of jealousy, the Almajiris of the North regularly loot Igbo shops and businesses. Very soon Yoruba urchins will start looting too to show that they hate the Igbos.

Even some of us here will defend it to show our hatred for the Igbos. Whereas, the looting is as a result of hunger and uselessness of our society.

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Re: Imagining Lagos Without The Igbo by orisa37: 1:40pm On Nov 02, 2020
THE IGBOS ARE THE SALT OF LAGOS.
Re: Imagining Lagos Without The Igbo by LZAA: 2:25pm On Nov 02, 2020
Burruchaga71:

HOW SAD FOR THE YORUBA NATIONA TRUTHFUL YORUBA MAN...

HOW SAD FOR THE YORUBA NATION

Did the Igbos put guns on anybody's head before buying up Alaba, Ajegunle, isolo and Oshodi in Lagos?

Did they use juju before the Ibadan surrendered Iwo Road to them?

And what were we looking at before the Igbos took over Isida and Adeti in Ilesa ?

Where were the YORUBAS when the Igbos thrived and built 90% of the Hotels in Abuja. Was there a law that excluded the YORUBAS from selling building materials? Dei Dei building materials market in Abuja is 90 % Igbo owned.

So the more we point one finger at the Igbos, the more we have the other four fingers pointing at our laziness and lack of initiative as a society.

The YORUBAS should have been better with all our education, but we may be worse than the Fulanis who just roam around the bush.

Why? Because we lack the entrepreneurship spirit. We just want salaries from doing 8am to 5pm job. We proceed in foolishness and we persist in hoping to reap plenty without sowing hard. The Igbos are different, hence we are now jealous and envious.

We love wasteful parties and Aso Ebi. Just a little business without even making any profit yet, we usually call musicians to spray money like coffetti .

Where are all the Board Members of Ebenezer Obey today? Where is lawyer Omoyinmi and Lanre Badmus? Where is Oroki Social Club of Osogbo? Where is Felates of Ilesa and the likes whose trade mark was to bring Sunny Ade to Ilesa every Xmas, to waste all income gathered for the year?

The Yoruba society wasted their leading lights on excessive consumption and wasteful attitudes. We wasted our capital on frivolous social gatherings.

We took religion to ridicoulous levels, such that the wealthiest pastors and churches are now Yorubas. But all the wealth extracted by the churches from the Yoruba nation is also merely flaunted to show whose God is the most miraculous.

So we have become paupers and destitutes, as the Yoruba nation cannot now pay salaries. Pensions are owed for years.

Tell me, is Osun State filled with human beings or goats to have tolerated Aregbesola, when they rejected Akande. Say it loud, is the Constituted Authority of Ibadan sane to just bring about 21 Obas from nowhere to receive salaries, where there is no money to reopen Ladoja Akintola University?

Are the Ondos so wise to have allowed Mimiko to devastate their terrain as to be now saddled with 12 months salary arrears? What of Ekiti with rabble rousing Fayose and the intellectually arrogant Fayemi?

But the Igbos are hard workers. Let us not continue to deceive ourselves. 20 of their young boys can live in the shop from where they sell goods. There is no place too dirty or remote for them to hibernate and incubate their ideas. Give them 5 years, you will see them buy and take over all shops and lands.

True, some of them are criminals, but majority of the Igbo youths build and build physical structures always, while the YORUBAS are content with looking for salaried jobs, so that they can have siesta in the afternoons and then attend parties on Saturdays. Then spend Sundays in church wishing and praying for divine miracles.

How foolish! As the Igbo youths are meeting and strategizing on Sundays, so that they can gather money and buy the houses and lands owned by our Yoruba fathers, the Yorubas youths are busy in churches on Sundays praying for miracles.

Whether we like it or not, Obokungbusi Town Hall will soon be on concessional PPP sale. The Igbos will buy it. The proceeds will be used to pay backlog of salaries owed to impoverished Ijeshas. It will come willy nilly.

It will happen even in a declared Oduduwa Republic. Afterall, the Chinese, the Lebanese and the South Africans are buying us out with reckless abandon. See how ShopRite is buying up everywhere. I heard that they bought Owena Motel estate in Akure. How come we did not sell it to the Igbos?

We shall continue to grumble and hate the Igbos until eternity. Unless we spy on them, copy their ways and imbibe their 'can do' attitude.

The Yoruba nation and society have been pauperised and destituted. In desperation, we shall soon start to behave like the Almajiris in the North.

In grinding poverty and out of jealousy, the Almajiris of the North regularly loot Igbo shops and businesses. Very soon Yoruba urchins will start looting too to show that they hate the Igbos.

Even some of us here will defend it to show our hatred for the Igbos. Whereas, the looting is as a result of hunger and uselessness of our society.
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Re: Imagining Lagos Without The Igbo by femolii: 3:05pm On Nov 02, 2020
Skyfornia:
IMAGINING LAGOS WITHOUT THE IGBO

By Professor Soyinka!

But I always find it utterly ludicrous when some scoundrel issues an ultimatum on the Igbo to vacate Yorubaland. And by Yorubaland, they mean Lagos. It is laughable because only a fool who hates the Yoruba will commit such knavery. Not that it will ever happen, but the day the Igbo leave Lagos is the day Lagos moves from being Africa's most thriving commercial hub to one of the poorest states, not just in Nigeria and Africa, but the the world. In case these charlatans haven't figured it out yet, the Igbo are the main drivers of Lagos.

The Igbo have invested in Lagos more than the Yoruba have. They are the workhorses of Lagos. Two weeks every year, the Igbo voluntarily observe a partial vacation of Lagos. December 23 to January 3, when the Igbo travel to Southeast Igboland, is always a mini experiment in Lagos without the Igbo. Lagos is a ghost town during Christmas. The usual heavy and hectic Lagos traffic is gone. You can organize and play football on Lagos highways. There is minimal activity at the Apapa Wharf, the mainstay of Lagos economy. The state is in partial shutdown when the Igbo leave town for two weeks. It loses billions in revenue.

The best residential houses and properties in Lagos are owned and occupied by the Igbo. It's not just the best, but also most, of the residential properties in Lagos. The Igbo are the only group in Nigeria that go into a valueless swampy bush in Lagos and turn it into an El Dorado overnight. Truth is that Lagos is Lagos because the Igbo live and roll in it.

And to know the Igbo is to know that they make home wherever they find themselves. They are a confident and comfortable bunch. They are the only group in Nigeria who will travel with everything they have, including their cultural heritage. From city to city across Nigeria and the world, the Igbo create a sense of community. Eze Ndi Igbo na Lagos, Eze Ndi Igbo na Kano, Eze Ndi Igbo na China, Eze Ndi Igbo na Dallas, Eze Ndi Igbo na Johannesburg, Eze Ndi Igbo na New Delhi, Eze Ndi Igbo na Boston, Eze Ndi Igbo na Malaysia are all efforts by the Igbo, not just to recreate Igbo land and the Igbo cultural experience wherever the Igbo find themselves in the world, but also an effort to foster cordial relationship with their host cultures. Only the Igbo do that.

We are a peaceful and peace-loving people. We don't ask for much. Just sell to us a space to build and live, a space to set up our shops, a space to set up our beer parlors for isi ewu, nkwobi, and egusi soup, a space for our parties and new yam festivals, be fair with property taxes and business regulations, and watch us play. Watch us grow and watch us grow your community. We add value to communities that welcome us, because we are the hardest working group that God has ever created. For the value we add, we don't ask for much in return. We only ask for respect. We change your communities, but we also charge that you don't take us for granted. We are a proud, but not prideful people. We celebrate our hardwork and the success that comes with it. And we expect you to be happy for us. Is that too much to ask? That your women run after us is only natural. Success attracts. It should be no reason for xenophobia in Joburg.

The Igbo and the Yoruba are good neighbors in Lagos. They have always been. The Igbo are the only people in Nigeria who speak more than one native Nigerian language. They speak Yoruba and Hausa more than the native tongues. They are the only truly detribalized Nigerians. How many Yoruba speak fluent Igbo language? How many Hausa do? Not many, if any. They don't because they have to live among the native Igbo to do that. Igbo land is a beautiful space with tasteful real estate. But how many of those houses in Enugu, Onitsha, Owerri, and Umuahia are owned by the Yoruba? None. So, you can see why it is easy for some failed nondescript cubicle rat in London to squeeze his fat ass into his 2 by 2-feet kitchen and spew the atrocious shenanigan the fella did. If the Yoruba were as invested in Igboland as do the Igbo in Yorubaland, there would be no incentive to attempt to order the Igbo out of Yorubaland. If you are jealous of the Igbo in Lagos, go build a house in Enugu. Otherwise, shut the hell up!

https://enda-ng.org/imagining-lagos-without-the-igbo-by-professor-soyinka/
Confirmed osu man, anybody force you to Lagos or to develop Lagos? you should be ashamed of yourself you make Lagos best in nigeria best in Africa but you can not make any of your local five states best in nigeria, the yorubas n other tribes makes u what you are today by buying your fake goods. if you can make it in your state you better remain there.
Re: Imagining Lagos Without The Igbo by danjoey: 3:16pm On Nov 02, 2020
Burruchaga71:

HOW SAD FOR THE YORUBA NATIONA TRUTHFUL YORUBA MAN...

HOW SAD FOR THE YORUBA NATION

Did the Igbos put guns on anybody's head before buying up Alaba, Ajegunle, isolo and Oshodi in Lagos?

Did they use juju before the Ibadan surrendered Iwo Road to them?

And what were we looking at before the Igbos took over Isida and Adeti in Ilesa ?

Where were the YORUBAS when the Igbos thrived and built 90% of the Hotels in Abuja. Was there a law that excluded the YORUBAS from selling building materials? Dei Dei building materials market in Abuja is 90 % Igbo owned.

So the more we point one finger at the Igbos, the more we have the other four fingers pointing at our laziness and lack of initiative as a society.

The YORUBAS should have been better with all our education, but we may be worse than the Fulanis who just roam around the bush.

Why? Because we lack the entrepreneurship spirit. We just want salaries from doing 8am to 5pm job. We proceed in foolishness and we persist in hoping to reap plenty without sowing hard. The Igbos are different, hence we are now jealous and envious.

We love wasteful parties and Aso Ebi. Just a little business without even making any profit yet, we usually call musicians to spray money like coffetti .

Where are all the Board Members of Ebenezer Obey today? Where is lawyer Omoyinmi and Lanre Badmus? Where is Oroki Social Club of Osogbo? Where is Felates of Ilesa and the likes whose trade mark was to bring Sunny Ade to Ilesa every Xmas, to waste all income gathered for the year?

The Yoruba society wasted their leading lights on excessive consumption and wasteful attitudes. We wasted our capital on frivolous social gatherings.

We took religion to ridicoulous levels, such that the wealthiest pastors and churches are now Yorubas. But all the wealth extracted by the churches from the Yoruba nation is also merely flaunted to show whose God is the most miraculous.

So we have become paupers and destitutes, as the Yoruba nation cannot now pay salaries. Pensions are owed for years.

Tell me, is Osun State filled with human beings or goats to have tolerated Aregbesola, when they rejected Akande. Say it loud, is the Constituted Authority of Ibadan sane to just bring about 21 Obas from nowhere to receive salaries, where there is no money to reopen Ladoja Akintola University?

Are the Ondos so wise to have allowed Mimiko to devastate their terrain as to be now saddled with 12 months salary arrears? What of Ekiti with rabble rousing Fayose and the intellectually arrogant Fayemi?

But the Igbos are hard workers. Let us not continue to deceive ourselves. 20 of their young boys can live in the shop from where they sell goods. There is no place too dirty or remote for them to hibernate and incubate their ideas. Give them 5 years, you will see them buy and take over all shops and lands.

True, some of them are criminals, but majority of the Igbo youths build and build physical structures always, while the YORUBAS are content with looking for salaried jobs, so that they can have siesta in the afternoons and then attend parties on Saturdays. Then spend Sundays in church wishing and praying for divine miracles.

How foolish! As the Igbo youths are meeting and strategizing on Sundays, so that they can gather money and buy the houses and lands owned by our Yoruba fathers, the Yorubas youths are busy in churches on Sundays praying for miracles.

Whether we like it or not, Obokungbusi Town Hall will soon be on concessional PPP sale. The Igbos will buy it. The proceeds will be used to pay backlog of salaries owed to impoverished Ijeshas. It will come willy nilly.

It will happen even in a declared Oduduwa Republic. Afterall, the Chinese, the Lebanese and the South Africans are buying us out with reckless abandon. See how ShopRite is buying up everywhere. I heard that they bought Owena Motel estate in Akure. How come we did not sell it to the Igbos?

We shall continue to grumble and hate the Igbos until eternity. Unless we spy on them, copy their ways and imbibe their 'can do' attitude.

The Yoruba nation and society have been pauperised and destituted. In desperation, we shall soon start to behave like the Almajiris in the North.

In grinding poverty and out of jealousy, the Almajiris of the North regularly loot Igbo shops and businesses. Very soon Yoruba urchins will start looting too to show that they hate the Igbos.

Even some of us here will defend it to show our hatred for the Igbos. Whereas, the looting is as a result of hunger and uselessness of our society.

Nice write up...
Pls pick one of the states in the east and replicate another lagos.
After all everything thing in the east is controlled by the Igbos.
Re: Imagining Lagos Without The Igbo by Blackking98(m): 4:57pm On Nov 02, 2020
LZAA:

You must understand that Afamed and helinues must hear thisgrin
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