₦airaland Forum

Nchara:
80% of the industries in Lagos are not owned by Yorubas
Of those not owned by Yorubas, many are owned by Igbos. I cant even begin to list them
You lie about industry viability elsewhere. You need to visit Nnewi and parts of Enugu and Abia.
Agbara Industrial estate contains 100% multinationals not owned by Yorubas and branches of those companies such as PZ, Nestle, etc are also in Aba
In fact the biggest brewery in Africa is in Enugu state, yet the h/q of the parent company  (NBL) is in Lagos

The question is how many Nigerian companies are owned by Igbos versus Yoruba?

Your point is baseless.  The question is about regions. The largest employer aside of FG in Nigeria is Dangote, an Hausa, base in SW. The large chunk of industries in Lagos are owned by Yoruba with mixture of others. The bottom line is that SW produces more than any region in Nigeria period. SE is the least despite what you might want us to believe.

People by nature gravitate to where economic opportunities abound. The trend in Nigeria is obvious. As I type, SW is welcoming another economic refugee from SE.
It's all good. We accept all comers without malice.

alj harem:
1. I would demand the country divides into 3 regions again with part of delta in the eastern region and part of the north central in the western region. To avoid any future fight

2. Each region should control their resources be it oil, agriculture etc you control you own thing

3. Each region control their police system and it is completly detached from the center

4. each region contributes certain billions to the center regardless of what you earn or what resources you have

5. We have only one capital commercial, admisrative etc all in one state or FCT

6. The only job the FG needs to do is organised the military, build 6 roads that link each region and other international events

7. No matter what is happening, they do not intervain into any region's business unless it is affecting other regions

8. Everyone goes back to their cultural state, there is no I am yoruba but born in Kaduna or I am igbo but born in lagos. Unless they want to fight for nothing because hostility would increase greatly

9. Each region builds their own univeristies etc there are no more federal road, federal university, federal hospital etc it ends

10. No one drop of oil should be taken from the Niger-delta again ( I mean parts of delta, balysea, rivers) unless the new eastern Region decides to or not

I agree with most of your position. However, Nigeria is now beyond three regions split. If SNC is convened, the best that would happen would be the current six geo-regions. NO region would forfeit their sovereignty at the SNC.  If the current trend is to go by, more than six regions would emerge. The Middle belt  people are so diverse, an SNC will provide them with an opportunity to split the region.

Resource control would dominate the discussion with less emphasis on system of governance because our leaders are all about resources and not welfare of their ppl.

Tail or head, Nigerians lose.

[quote author=ndu_chucks link=topic=862653.msg10119449#msg10119449 date=1328359670]The deep hatred between the SWers and SEers exhibited in this thread is the very reason why the breaking up of Nigeria is not wise and will lead to the greatest ethnic cleansing and human disaster in the history of the world. As for the SS, when the shiit hits the fan, you will be swallowed by the SE, unfortunately.

The Northerners who you all call, Malus, Abokis,  Almajiris, and other unflattering names are turning out to be the very group that will ultimately save you people from annihilating yourselves. For that I say, Alhamdulillah.

If a war ever breaks out between SWers and SEers and the North decides not to intervene, Rwanda will be child's play. A word is enough. Sorry to say, most of those of you posting here are hate filled and barbaric.[/quote]First, you are reading too much to the ongoing e-warfare on NL. There is no hatred amongst Southerners. I do know for a fact that Yoruba ppl have no animosity
towards any one in particuar. I assume you've lived amongst Yoruba and  going by your personal experience, were you hated for being from a different region? If anything, Ibos are the only hate-filled Southerners. Most other Southerners are indifferent to each other. No love no hate.
I do agree with you that if there ever was a war in the South that Rwanda would be a child's play. The reason wouldn't be because Southerners hate each other, our diversity would be the main reason.

Nchara:
All SW states are listed as financially dead or dying
We all read the news here
Anambra and Abia are among the 6 viable states
Imo is somewhat viable
Only Ebonyi is/could be in real trouble in the SE

I am sure you do not believe your own garbage.  SW is the only region in Nigeria that has any viable industries left. Lagos alone accounts for almost 70 percent of industries in Nigeria.
Sango-Ota and Abgara estate in Ogun state have more industries than the entire SE region!  If you care, please list the major industries by name in SE and let's compare with Ogun alone. I mean functional corps and not some mom and pop crap.  I forgot, all the industries in Lagos and Ogun are owned by Ibos.

Obiagu1:
This falsehood has being propagated unabated for years and everyone assumes it is true.
When it comes to culture, Yoruba culture is not close to that of Binis.
When it comes to language, Yoruba language is not closer to Bini language more than Igbo is.
When it comes to physical appearance of the Edo people, they do not in any way look like the Yorubas.

Then how did this myth originate?

You should at least pick up a basic West African history book before declaring the relationship a myth.

All of these stats/numbers being thrown around are pure conjectures.  Contrary to general opinion, the Northern states are not doing too badly with Kano, Kaduna leading the pack in the North. Lagos by far outstrips every other state by a wide margin.

If you exclude Oil and Gas, the northern states are better off than a lot of Southern states. In the South, if you exclude Oil and Gas sectors - Lagos,  Delta, Rivers, Oyo, Ondo, Edo and Imo are the clear winners. In the North, Kano, Kaduna, Benue, Plateau, and Kogi are doing well. Delta  and Rivers appear to be doing very well even without oil.  Ebonyi is the worst of South followed by Ekiti. Taraba is the worst of North, closely followed by Yobe, Zamfara,

Here is the raw data for year 2000 by National Bureau of Stats. It is in PDF format; perhaps, Ekt_bear or someone else can find a way to import it to Excel and then tabulate it.
The stats capture every sector and it's official.

It is silly to say that some regions are not contributing to the State because they do not have oil. Oil accounts for only for about 25 percent of our GDP, Agriculture is still the clear leader despite years of Neglect.

Anyway, here is the PDF. It is for year 2000,  the progression is by and large the same pattern with +10 or-10 deviation.

http://www.nigerianstat.gov.ng/uploads/moreNews/moreNews.pdf

Tribal war aside. In all seriousness, the Ibos should do away with this practice. It is wrong and inhumane to condemn a set of people to eternal damnation.
This is year 2012 and not 1800. This crap MUST stop!

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Sahara Reporters is getting under their skin. Good job SR, keep the pressure up.

ak47mann:
over 40 million people live in London alone,pls check the map of UK map out London from it,and tell me if London in land mass bigger than  two states in SE? and over 40 million people reside there,and their living standard is the best in the world.

All fear they believe they cant survive  

You should at least google London's population before spewing the above garbage you wrote. Seems like you've never been to Muritala Mohamed Airport talkless of Heathrow or Gatwick,
Ibos sabi exaggerate no be small.

I have come to the conclusion that only a Yoruba can truly understand what it means to be Yoruba. It is not enough to speak the language, one has to imbibe the Yoruba culture to appreciate the interpersonal relationship between Yoruba muslims and christians.

Though I was brought up a christian, I grew up amongst relatives that are muslims and christians. We relate as Yorubas  while we consider our faiths as personal beliefs. Hence, no issues at all in our relationship. We celeberate Christmas, Easter together and we likewise do the same for Ileya and Awe.

Ribadu, El Rufai, Sanusi are of the same stock if you ask me -progressive northerners.

Ribadu cast fear in the minds of politicians during his tenure as EFCC chairman. He went about his job diligently and he was fearless not minding whose ox was gored.
Ditto for El Rufai who bulldozed many homes to conform Abuja to its original master plan. El Rufai also speaks out regularly on diverse national issues ranging from corruption in high places to fuel subsidy.
Sanusi is doing his thing in the banking sector. It takes a fearless person to take on powerful money bags in the banking sector. He also has consistently talks about national issues as well.

As per integrity, I would rate them all about the same with Ribadu a slightly edging out the two. We do know for a fact that Ribadu was offered millions of dollars as bribe and he turned it down.
Patriotism, Nationalism, Courage: I will rate them equally as they all have been very active in national affairs.
Of the three, I would rate El Rufai the highest. He seems to be more open minded and diplomatic in his approach.
Sanusi for me scores the lowest as I believe he is somewhat sympathetic to Islamic cause. I will not want him to be my president especially in Nigeria where ethnicity and religion are major players in our polity.

Buhari even though a man of impeccable integrity, is not as refined as the younger three. Nigerians should be looking beyond the likes of Buhari at this stage. He will do well in certain areas, but he will be grossly incompetent in many sectors such as technology, health care, commerce, interior affairs and many more.

Sadly, OBJ could have imposed Ribadu or El Rufai in 2007 and Nigeria would have been better for it, but he instead we got Yar Adua, an honorable man, but seriously deficient in leadership.

dayokanu:
^^ Abeg which census was held in 2010?
So we are to believe Lagos grew from 9m in 2006 to 14m in 2010. 1 million growth every year?

Pls which city grows at that rate in the whole world?

Lagos State in 1991 was 5million and increased to 9m in 2006, 15years later but now we are to believe that it did 5million increase in 5yrs?

It is possible with the number of economic refugees arriving daily from SE.  Who wants to stay in some erosion forsaken land? With Kidnappers, canibals, and armed robbers roaming all over the place, who would stay in such a hole? I would bail to SW too if I were a Nyamirin.

When Nigeria finally breaks, Nyamirin will be the most disappointed because Akwa Ibomites will not share their resources with nobaga, and neither will Ijaws.
What will be left will be eroded and gully land.

Nice write-up. The writer captures it very well.  It's a shame what is going on in the inner circle of Nigeria. The owners of Nigeria have found the perfect stooge in GEJ.
A president that can do their bidding for them while the evil cabal lurks in the background while they continue to laff all the way to the bank.
Tail or head, Nigerians lose with these monsters in charge.

There is nothing to like about sycophants.  Delete the fool already. 'nuff said.

I really like Mary. I like the way she presents her points unambiguously.  Tinuke too, but what is with the constant smirking? The Hausa lady is a case,  she comes across like a fish out of water.
Good debate overall. Kudos to all that participated.

The murder of Sardauna and the other leaders killed by Nzeogwu and crew should not be celebrated by anyone.  It is morally wrong to kill these leaders for no reason other than some
fictitious allegations. Nigeria is what it is today because of the irresponsible actions of  Nzeogwu and co.

Good one from the former minister. If anyone knows about the oil industry, it is Tam David-West. Pray GEJ will listen to the voice of reason and heed to the calling of the elders.

Rad1cal:
You succeeded in arguing for and against Elrufai with respect to this discussion, suggesting a state of double speak (hypocrisy), with some amusing vibes as well    .

Elrufai proposal is = correct for the moribund PHCN = correct for the moribund refineries = correct for subsidy removal

Power generation utilizes heavy machinery to harness our natural resource = same with crude oil exploration and refining till they get to their final consumer 

@Rad1cal

It may seem like double speak if El Rufai's statment is not properly evaluated .


I) He is pro subsidy removal with conditions  = petrol price hike

ii) In the same vein, he is pro increase in electricity tariff = elctricity price hike.

If he condenms subsidy removal in absolute, then his posit can be construed as doublespeak, and clearly that is not his position on subsidy removal.

He is pro hike in both cases, but with conditions in respective to subsidy removal.
I do not see any hypocrisy here.

Now, someone may argue legitimately that why did he not stipulate similar conditions for elctricity before recommending increasing in electric tariffs since both are cluster fu&k anyway.

What El Rufai is proposing is not rocket science -increase electricity tariffs to attract private investors to come in and revamp the moribund PHCN.  No private investors will commit their money into any unprofitable venture.

As per fuel subsidy; his position is similar to that of many Nigerians; phase out the subsidy gradually to cushion the sudden effect on regular Joe who requires petrol for everything. Truly, Nigeria govt should get out of commercial business, all these parastatals breed is corruption.

For those comparing the two products:  apples and oranges, two different products.  One is a natural occurring resource while the other is a generated resource. Nigeria produces oil and does not generate enough electricity to begin with. How can a nation subsidize what it does not produce enough of?

Petrol can subsidized it if the govt can get its act together by removing excessive wastage. Electricity on the other hand has to be financed through private initiatives, and the only way to make it attractive to investors is to raise tariffs enough to cover costs and leave room for profit. I am not sure about 400 % though.

Goodluck must find a way to arrest this situation. Things are spiraling out of control. The video is very revealing to the hopeless situation of young people in Nigeria.
Imagine someone daring the NG police to shoot him - NG police that needs no invitation to kill! People are actually willing to die for this cause!

realchange:
if they don't stay neutral, we should be prepared to fight all of them. with enough sophisticated weapons, we can!
and win!


very smart observation.

I see that some Ibos are already thrusting their chests and sounding war drum. You are already planning to fight the entire Nigeria when nobody as declared you as enemy. You have begining to sound off on your technological prowess and how you'll deal with everyone. Same statement was made in 1967.

Are some of you this deluded or this is just some Internet rant?  Are some you so retarded that you cannot see that BH is goading you? And hoping to elicit an irrational action from you so that they can unleash full scale blood bath.
What weapons do you posess that you keep alluding to? How many people will volunteer for war? You think the likes of Ezeuche will leave US for any war front?
BH has unlimited Jihadists that they can summon at a whim -from Naija, Chad, Niger, Cameroon and even from far away Somalia. They are on standby waiting to be deployed. They need no persuasion, this is what they live for.

Yoruba are not your enemy.They never were and would never be unless you bring it on. Stop including us in your impeteous adventure. We are not interested in war. Our forefathers fought wars for over three centuries! You do not expect us to toe the same line.
Patience and humility are two virtues that you Ibos must learn to acquire.

Beaf:
There is no point in telling lies. Just google "oil rivers protectorate."
If you do that conscientiously, you will quickly find that palm oil is the reason Nigeria exists. The SE/SS have always been the mainstay of the Nigerian economy.

When you are done googling "oil rivers protectorate," turn you attention to googling "Royal Niger Company."

At the end of the exercise you would have learnt enough not to post trash and lies.

Dude,

Stop distorting the truth. Royal Niger is NOT the same thing as Nigeria the nation.
Everyone knows that Nigeria depended on cocoa from the SW and  groundnuts from the North for foreign earnings prior to indepedence. Central Bank of Nigeria data also confirms that assertion. 


"Like most economies prior to any full-scale industrial revolution, the pre independence Nigerian economy was based on agriculture. During the 19th century when Britain was moving from an agriculturally based economy to an industrial one, Nigeria thrived on its agricultural trade and its traders were recognized for their astuteness throughout West Africa.

During the 1950s, agriculture retained its position as the biggest contributor to the Nigerian economy. As at 1957, 60% of the nation's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) was earned by peasant agriculture. Agriculture accounted for over 75% of Nigeria's export during the pre-independence era.

Also, the nation depended on her agriculture for up to 95% of local food consumption. [b][/b]By 1959, cocoa had become Nigeria's biggest single foreign exchange earner. Nigeria also claimed the title of being one of the three biggest producers of groundnuts in the world. [b][/b]There was also a high production in both cash and subsistence crops like rubber, which accounted for roughly 6% of total exports in late 1950s, coffee, cotton, millet, guinea-corn, beans, yam, maize, cassava and rice.

Agriculture started to lose its importance in the development of the nation's economy from the first few years of independence due to the discovery of crude oil in large quantity. For example, the share of agriculture in the GDP fell from 53% in 1960 to about 34% in 1974. Since then, agriculture has stagnated, partly due to government neglect and poor investments and partly due to ecological factors such as drought, disease, and other related factors. By the mid-1990s, agriculture's share of exports had declined to less than 5%."

http://www.thenigerianvoice.com/nvnews/35801/1/nigeria-at-50when-oil-runs-out.html

Eko Ile,


Pls drop this issue. Everyone has ceased fire. It's time you moved on too.
Thanks for listening.

Gidi for life!

emiye:
@reporter?
                I so much CONCUR with the writeup "Why Do Igbos Always Go Looking For Trouble? Written by  Ozodi Osuji Ph.D"

it speaks volumes about how most acclaimed igbos on this thread behave.
I will not want to be drawn in to the tribalism battle, I believe the article is a must read for all igbos, it might just strike a chord or two in SOME of them.

Emiye,

Ozodi is spot on in his assesement of his kinsmen. It seems that the effect of losing the war has fried their brains.
Symptons of Psychotic disorder is very prevalent in these Biafran clowns. It is self evident in their posts.
Grand Delusion: We own 90% of everything. We did not lose the war despite the obvious ending.   We are Jews blah blah.
Paranoia:  Everyone hates us; as such, always looking for trouble where there is none.

They do not know what they are doing and one is wasting one’s time trying to get them to recognize the obvious.

I suppose this is my mission: to keep stating the obvious until those who wear blinders finally remove their veil and see it; remove the mask over their eyes and see reality as it is. I will never give up on them after all they are my people, and attacks on them, even if self-brought, are attack on me (when folks begin attacking or killing Igbos they will attack or kill me, too). The sins of fathers are visited on their children’s heads. Therefore, I must keep trying to help them smell the coffee and roses.

A FINAL WORD ON OBI NWANKAMA’S PRETENSIONS

Obi Nwankanma, apparently, is writing history, make belief history of Igbos. He has been talking smack about Nri as core Igbos (obviously a self-serving claim). His idiotic talk is irritating me. One of these days I would unleash my fury at him. I generally allow annoying things to simmer for a while and when I become sufficiently angry I unleash a ferocious attack and will keep attacking and nothing would stop me. By and by I will take Obi Nwakanma up and attack to destroy his pretensions.

These clowns write 419 histories that make their people the head of Igbos while ignoring the obvious, that the core of Alaigbo is Owerri. When I have some time I will do rigorous research on Igbo history and then refute their make believe history (I just read Elizabeth Isichie‘s version of Igbo history; she is not pretentious and haughty; she honestly believed what she wrote; she is a scholar, not a propagandist pretending to be a scholar).

For now let me just say that it is irritating to one to see those who are not even fully Igbos to keep talking as if they are real Igbos and worse present themselves as the leaders of Igbos (they were influenced by surrounding non-Igbo folks; the real Igbos are in core Igbo land, in the Igbo heartland, Owerri/Orlu axis. (Owerri must eventually become the capital of one unified Alaigbo state in Nigeria or Alaigbo republic should Nigeria breakup).

The time allotted to foreigners, such as Onicha/Edo folk, rule over Igbos is over.

Most history books are written as songs of praises to the people they are written about hence are hardly objective. That been said, if one is writing a history of one’s entire people one ought to make an honest attempt to be fairly objective rather than write claptrap that sings the praises of one section of the people. Just imagine it: everyone knows that Owerri is the core Igbo but clowns from non-Owerri area pretend to write Igbo history and not give central place to Owerri.

Even the much maligned white colonial folk recognized that Owerri is core Igbo hence made Owerri dialect the central Igbo dialect in their books on Igbo language. But buffoons from non-Owerri area write as if their peripheral areas are central to Igbo history and in their idiocy expect Owerri folks to accept their nonsense. Why, it is supposed to be Igbo history and every Igbo ought to accept it even if it is a bunch of lies.

When I am free to pay attention to history I will descend on these clowns like a ton of hot coal. Their contrived, 419 scam history of Igbos cannot be allowed to stand.

For the longest time I could not quite understand this oddity in many Igbos behavior. Finally, I understood it. They engage in their apparent self-defeating behaviors because of mental disorder. They suffer mass delusion disorder (follies adieu, aka group paranoia).

The deluded person takes his private interpretation of reality as reality. He wants to seem superior and powerful, which he is not; he imagines that he is superior and powerful; believes what is not true as true hence is deluded.

The mentally ill person is not operating in the real world; he is living in his personal world, his fantasy world where he is all powerful and invincible.

The sadist part of it all is that even if you understand the dynamics of what is going on in the deluded person’s head and tell him about it he does not get it and continues doing what he does that gives him certain results and continues to get the same results while expecting different results.

Igbos insult other people, make them angry; they get attacked and or killed. They do not want to be attacked and killed; that is, they want different results but they keep doing what generates the old results and get it. This is the definition of mental disorder: doing the same thing while expecting different results. An alcoholic keeps drinking but does not expect to damage his liver and health; poor soul; as long as he is addicted to his drug of choice he must be slowly damaging his liver, brains and killing himself even though he wishes to be healthy and live.

I know that these people are not going to change for part of mental disorder is not to see what is obvious to the normal person. The normal person, as if instinctively, recognizes that if you insult folks that they would be angry at you and that some of them would attack you, but these bizarre folks keep attacking others (by insulting them) and not expecting them to counter attack them in self-defense.

Feeling totally inferior and wanting to seem fictionally superior to other persons they make claims that would seem to make them seem superior to other people. Those absurd claims naturally make those they belittle angry, and those attack them.

INFERIORITY FEELING

I am saying that Igbos go looking for trouble because of their sense of inferiority and paranoid level of compensatory superiority (according to Alfred Adler, all human beings feel inferior and compensate with some superiority feeling and quest for power over their world,  but the neurotic over does it).

DEATH WISH (OR FREUD’S THANATOS)

It is as if these people have a death wish and must attack other people so as to generate other people’s counter attacks on them, and when attacked they feel persecuted hence feel alive. The pathological ego feels alive when persecuted!

The paranoid person feels alive when he feels attacked and is defensive; if not feeling attacked and persecuted and defensive he does not feel like he is alive!

The paranoid person has not yet learned that a person can feel even more alive by loving himself and those around him. If you want to truly feel alive do what loves other people and what serves people’s interests.

The alternative to Christian agape love for all people is the paranoid attacks on people that generate counter attack for him and he gets attacked and in defending his self feels falsely alive.

These people routinely insult Hausas and Hausas, not being as patient as Yorubas are, often pick up their machetes and start slashing at any Igbo in sight.

These people literally ask other people to attack them and when attacked they turn around and see themselves as victims. Alas, the rest of the world does not come to their rescue!

The white man could care less if Africans murdered other Africans, if in doubt see the Sudan, Somalia and East Congo where Africans, as we speak, are butchering each other and the International community give them all the opportunity they need to get rid of themselves from the face of this earth (and leave the damn continent for animals so that white men come on wild life safaris in it).

If other Nigerians start murdering Igbos no African Union or United Nations would come to their rescue and even if they did they would send African soldiers, who are likely to be Muslims and hence participate in killing Igbos some more!

These people are not aware of the real world they live in and talk as if they are invulnerable supermen when in fact they are the most vulnerable group of Nigerians (other Nigerians hate their arrogance and could easily gang up on them and do away with them).

So why do Igbos do these crazy things when they could have peaceful relationship with their neighbors? Why do they go looking for trouble (as Fela Kuti said, trouble de sleep” iyanga” de look for am)?

Fela recognized that pride (iyanga)causes interpersonal troubles; Igbos are” inordinately proud” and out of their pride insult other folks and those folks also being “normally proud” human beings (all human beings feel proud, in degrees; the neurotic, aka narcissistic and or paranoid personality feels inordinately proud)feel degraded and attack them.

Fela was an insightful musician, not trained psychologist. There is a more psychological process at work in these people’s apparent irrational behavior. They do what they do because of their inordinate sense of inferiority.

[b]Why Do Igbos Always Go Looking For Trouble?
Written by  Ozodi Osuji Ph.D[/b]

http://chatafrik.com/articles/nigerian-affairs/item/321-why-do-igbos-always-go-looking-for-trouble?.html

There is something in the psychological makeup of Igbos that makes them always go looking for trouble. In the calmest of circumstances they will always do something that would annoy those around them, create conflict and then live in conflict; they seem to enjoy living in conflicts.


As it were, they seem to have death wish and do things that would make those around them to attack them, and or kill them hence gratify their death wish (thanatos).

Consider their relationship with their neighbors. Invariably they would say or do something that even a child knows would irritate those neighbors and do it as if they do not know that such actions irritate people. Consider Obi Nwankanma’s concocted historiography. The man is apparently writing a history of Igbos (as gleaned from the snippets of it that he posts on the Internet). Invariably, he would make claims to the effect that Igbos stimulated what their neighbors did or he would make Igbos have credit for what other Nigerian tribes did. And he would make these self-serving bogus claims as if they are true. He is, of course, lying but presents his lies as if they are substantiated truths! The man writes history as propaganda!

Taking credit for what other tribes did diminish those tribes self-respect; they feel attacked and angry at him and by generalization at all Igbos. Thus, the man’s private behavior has negative public consequences for most Igbos, for other Nigerians who feel insulted by him (in a country where folks indulge in stereotyping behaviors, by all Igbos) attack any Igbo in sight.

And this misguided man is not the only one doing what he does; many Igbos do it. Consider their unreasoning response to Frederick Lugard and his British cohorts.  Britons created what is now called Nigeria in 1914. Igbos who hitherto did not have a nation were for the first time placed under one administrative unit hence given a sense of being one people. But instead of being grateful to Lugard for hastening their sense of oneness some foolish Igbos call Nigeria Lugard’s cage; that is to say that they feel caged in a place they would rather not be in.

They flock to other parts of that Lugard’s cage to seek employment! The Yorubas allowed them to come to Lagos, a Yoruba city. Now many of them live at Lagos. Instead of expressing gratitude to their Yoruba hosts some of them now claim that Lagos is an Igbo city! Imagine that cheek!

Yorubas could feel insulted by squatters claiming ownership of their land and attack and kill a few of them and the rest of them would carry their loads on their sorry heads and march to the East. They would not even have the courage to stand and fight to death. When the going gets tough they always run to their tribal enclave.

The whole exercise has lost its allure. You have two objective people and one supremacist vying for POY 2011.
In a saner forum, one name would definitely not be up there. But then, it's a free world.

Lagos is planning big and moving in the right direction, and some Biafran pothead is spewing garbage all over the forum.
If you are not pleased because of bad belle, ask your governor to lobby for investments too!