₦airaland Forum

panafrican:
They appointed a Somalian as Federal Minister of Immigration but they only write a letter to Nigerians ? ! WTF.
We need a Igbo , a Yoruba or a Haussa in the Canadian federal government out there in Ottawa.

Thanks.

AntiBalaka:
That snake is the number 1 afonja supporting Ruga

Politicians will always support their party except they want to leave.
But he has not come out like this number 1 Osu nah.

Na wah o

KidsNEXTdoor:
This one na Yoruba Christians

You are yet to show us Arewa and Yoruba Muslims

But we have not seen Igbo fake jews wannabes too.
Yorubas are more than Igbos in Canada and almost everywhere abroad but they do not hollar this sacrosanct fact.

Some might not even be registered as Nigerians but Yorubas are always more than Igbos abroad because we travel a lot but keep low profile.

Anambralstson:
Kates and associates products Ogbaru, Anambra state

Great products from great people.
I saw this doobai perfume and thought it was brought in from Dubai.
I will surely get one.
Both Yorubas and Igbos are great people.Sometimes I use these e- wars to cool nerves.All Nigerians are great people.We cannot be perfect joor.
I am enjoying the thread.

Anambralstson:
Kates and associates products Ogbaru, Anambra state

Great products from great people.
I saw this doobai perfume and thought it was brought in from Dubai.
I will surely get one.
Both Yorubas and Igbos are great people.

OkpaAkuEriEri:
yoloba is a sickness

Osu dirty pig,

OkpaAkuEriEri:
Fork u imgrates...we own Lagos.because is our sweat

Come and carry it to Abakaliki then.
You like good thing but you no fit develop Igboland.Only Ibadan is more developed than Igboland.

haaryobhami:
i lie? the s.east is a barren nd useless land.
u guys dont have oil that's why u guys attach to SS by force.
nri kingdom is cursed

Something dey worry you Sha.

haaryobhami:
stfu there is no oil in SE,even s.west has more oil than SE.
stop the stupid attachee by force cause Igbo land is barren nd useless.
nigeria should just let north Korea nd Russia use s.east as nuclear missile testing ground

You well so?

OkpaAkuEriEri:
Fork u Lathief.
Is it not Igbo n ohaneze DAT develop d hole Lagos
?
Afonjah people is too selfish.
Igbo develop Lagos so Igbo deserve position in lag
because Lagos wtout Igbo is lyk Ogbomosho

Osu people who cannot develop their tiny Iboland.How would they develop another region?

Cadec007:
ok, i agree, but the Emir controls those industries, The Emir can sell ibadan to saudi Arabia..

Azikiwe knew that Ibos were no match for the Yorubas.

Cadec007:
i want to argue but then.... Ok, i can see you are writing out of hatred and to draw attention

lol
You cannot argue because you know that everything I have written is the fact.

Stingman:
Igbos can't compete with Yorubas yet Igbos are everywhere in your land competing while you can't compete with them in their own land...Ogbeni check you post again...and see if you made sense...
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"...The Igbo are more competitive than the Hausa and the Yoruba. The Hausa and Yoruba bourgeoisie are afraid of this, in particular when there is so much to share in Nigeria. They are afraid of the Igbo because they are not competitive. Igbo are more competitive because they don’t have inhibition. The inhibition of Hausa, the inhibition of Yoruba is not there. The Yoruba can only talk of Oduduwa, the Hausa can only talk to you about empires and so on. But the Igbo are not that inhibitive, they are more republican. You can say largely that Igbo are free thinkers; they are more free thinkers than the Hausa and the Yoruba, which means Igbo can take things on face value, while the Yoruba and Hausa will not. Igbo are more competitive in terms of economic activities. An Igbo man is more competitive than a Yoruba man and an Hausa man" Balarebe Musa

lol
No wonder they call you traders.How have you been able to compete with Yorubas in anything other than trading which any mumu can do.
Ibos are mainly traders and they have the population to overwhelm a few traders from other ethnic group but Yorubas are almost evenly distributed in all endeavors.
Trading does not build or develop a nation but industries do.The IGR and banking transactions in Igboland are one of the lowest in Nigeria in recent times.
The only way Ibos can compete with Yorubas is to use fraud as in WAEC etc.
Yorubas have massive industries unlike Ibos,so Ibos cannot compete.
Yorubas surpassed Ibos in music,entertainment,so Ibos cannot compete.
Yorubas surpassed Ibos in technology,ICT,so Ibos cannot compete.
Yorubaland is more developed than Igboland,so Ibos cannot compete.
Yorubas have industries abroad unlike Ibos,so Ibos cannot compete.
Yorubas have the greatest and best black mathematicians in the world,so Ibos cannot compete.
Yorubas have 7 geniuses who have scored 5.0 cgp in world unlike Ibos,so Ibos cannot compete.
Yorubas have 5 youngest phd holders in the world unlike Ibos,so Ibos cannot compete.
Yorubas have 3 Nobel Laureates....Wole Soyinka,Anthony Adegbulugbe,Akinwunmi Adeshina unlike Ibos,so Ibos cannot compete.
Yorubaland is the most industrialised unlike Igboland,so Ibos cannot compete.
Only Ibadan is more developed than Igboland in infrastructures,so Ibos cannot compete.
Only Ogun state's IGR is bigger and larger than the entire Igboland's IGR,so Ibos cannot compete.
Even in politics,Ibos are the underdogs unlike Yorubas who were champions even in opposition.
The list goes on and on.Azikwe knew that Ibos were no match for the Yorubas.

Ibos brought tribalism,nepotism,betrayals,backbiting and all negativities into Nigeria's polity but they cry the loudest.
Read this excerpt:

The Recognition of Igbo Culture


Newspapers and popular stereotypes
Since the beginning of the twentieth century,
Nigeria had already had a very lively local
newspaper industry largely owned by Nigerians.
Most of these newspapers were published in
English. The classic studies of the development of Nigerian politics claim that the reports in
these papers strengthened popular stereotypes.
28
The studies emphasize that the reporting in the
newspapers focused on the differences between
the Nigerian groups and fanned ethnic hatred
and distrust in the interest of their editors' political ambitions. In particular, attention was given
to the rivalry between on the one hand Igbo
politician Nnamdi Azikiwe, owner of the
West
African Pilot
and a number of regional newspapers, a
nd on the other his Yoruba adversaries
with their own newspapers. As a result there was a loose association of the
West African Pilot
as an Igbo paper, and the
Daily Times
and
Daily Service
as Yoruba papers.
Newspaper reporting was influential. By the
1930s the Nigerian newspapers were fairly
widely read. In 1937, the
West African Pilot
had a daily circulation of 9,000 copies, while the
other main newspaper, the
Daily Times
, sold 5,900 copies.
29
By this time the newspaper
industry which had initially developed in Lagos
had begun to spread to other urban centres
such as Ibadan in the west, Kano and Zaria in
the north, and Onitsha, Aba, Port Harcourt and
Calabar in the east,
30
and taken together the regional newspa
pers had a larger audience than the
national papers.
31
The readership of the newspapers was not limited to Lagos and the
provincial headquarters, and incl
uded people in the smaller towns
and villages in the Igbo area.
In the Abakaliki Division (in the east of the Igbo area) in 1940, English medium Nigerian
newspapers were widely read by the literate Africans.
32
The reporting from the newspapers
was also recycled. Not only were the papers them
selves read by more people, their contents
were also passed on to illiterates by literate read
ers. Therefore, the newspapers reached many
more people, all over Nigeria, than
the circulation figures would suggest.
At a number of crucial moments the Nigerian
newspapers clashed,
accusing each other of
painting a particularly negative picture of other ethnic groups. One such moment was the 1942
27
NAE; MINESTAB 4/1/250 R. Amadi, Secretary General, Southern Nigeria Association, to Minister of Internal
Affair in Kaduna, Zaria, 23 March 1964.
28
Coleman,
Nigeria. Background to Nationalism
; Richard L. Sklar,
Nigerian Political Parties
(Princeton 1963); and
Larry Diamond,
Class, Ethnicity and Democracy in Nigeria. The Failure of the First Republic
(Syracuse 1988).
29
Fred Omu,
Press and Politics in Nigeria, 1880-1937
(New Jersey and Harlow 1978) 57, 87. It is difficult to
establish the development of newspaper
readership, since circulation figures are scarce. By 1954, the major newspapers
had the following (official) circulation figures:
West African Pilot
: 10,000;
Daily Service
: 12-14,000;
Eastern Outlook
and Cameroons Star
: 10-12,000;
Daily Times
: 60,000. From:
Nigeria. Report for the Year 1954
(London 1958).
30
Omu,
Press and Politics in Nigeria
254-255.
31
Uma O. Eleazu,
Federalism and Nation Building: the Nigerian Experience 1954-1964
(Infracombe 1977) 229.
32
NAE; OGPROF 2/1/2397, District Officer Abakaliki Di
vision to Resident, Ogoja
Province, 10 January 1940.
212
Dmitri van den Bersselaar
split between Azikiwe and the NYM. Although th
is struggle was mainly over personal and
local issues, and not about ethnicity, Azikiwe's
West African Pilot
began to present the NYM
both as Yoruba and as the political enemy (see illustration). The
Pilot
showed similar hostility
to the Yoruba cultural organization Egbe Omo Oduduwa immediately upon its formation in
1946,
33
repeatedly portraying the Egbe Omo Oduduwa not so much as a cultural organization,
but as a vehicle for the NCNC's political enemies; enemies who happened to be Yoruba.
34
The
Daily Service
accused Azikiwe and the
Pilot
of ethnic stereotyping and stimulating ethnic
tensions, pointing out that `Before the advent of Dr. Azikiwe on Nigeria's political horizon,
there was hardly any trace of
anti-Yoruba feeling among the
Ibos. The virus of tribal
aggression was injected
by the learned Doctor.'
35
In the
Daily Times
it was noted that `no
organisation sponsored by the Yorubas will ever
have the support of the Ibos except it first
receives the blessing of Zik or there is the po
ssibility of its being dominated by the Ibos'.
36
While denying being anti-Yoruba, the
Pilot
repeatedly accused the Action Group and allied
newspapers of furthering anti-Igbo sentiments,
portraying Action Group leader Awolowo as an
`enemy of Ibos'.
37
In 1948 the colonial government accu
sed the newspapers of furthering
`tribal animosity', warning them that: `Should the
controversy be continued in a form likely to
exacerbate inter-tribal feelings Government may
be compelled to seek powers to exercise a
measure of control over the press'.
38
However, to focus solely on those moment
s when rivalry and accusations were rife,
would be to present a one-sided image of the Nigerian newspaper industry. Often, the
newspapers' tone was conciliatory, such as in this front page message entitled `Ibo-Yoruba
Friendship', from the
Pilot
:
In yesterday's editorial entitled `Macpherson,
Foot & Co. Must Go,' an unfortunate
expression gave impression that the `Yorubas
flared up against the Ibos.' The correct
statement should have been that the `Yorubas a
nd Ibos were flared up against each other.' We
regret the unfortunate impression created, especially at this time when well-meaning Yoruba
and Ibo leaders are working hard toward
s harmonious relations
hips and friendship.
39
On a different note, the
Pilot
wrote about the advantages of inter-tribal marriage, arguing that
`the more the Yorubas and the Cameroonians or the Ibos and the Hausas, for instance, inter-
marry, the more these couples of tribes will be closely united.'
40
Therefore, the editorial
concluded, `we recommend it to the youths of this country.' This theme was repeated several
times, for instance in a front page article
entitled `Southerner from Maiduguri denies that
33
Sklar,
Nigerian Political Parties
69-70.
34
See for example: N. O. Bandele, `Searchlight on N.Y.M. representative council',
West African Pilot
3 January 1949.
The main item in the
Pilot
's 14 August 1951 issue was a report accusing
Awolowo of performing `Fetish Rites'.
35
Daily Service
23 December 1947.
36
J. Akanni Doherty, `Regionalisa
tion and the future of Nigeria',
Daily Times
5 July 1931.
37
Editorial,
West African Pilot
18 August 1955.
38
NAI; OYO PROF.I 2325/1 Telegram Chief Secretary Lagos
to Secretary W.P. Ibadan, Lagos, 7 October 1948.
39
`Ibo-Yoruba Friendship',
West African Pilot
14 June 1950.
40
`Editorial. Advantages of inter-tribal marriage',
West African Pilot
5 July 1944.
The Recognition of Igbo Culture
213
northern women do not wed southerners'.
41
The borrowing of aspects of culture from other
tribes was also encouraged: `it will be worthwhile
if a tribe, in doing away with any out of date
customs would borrow from another tribe in Nigeria, a similar one which meets with the
times.'
42
What is worth noting, is that while in the villages and towns in the southeast the term
`Igbo' was not commonly employed, the newspapers had no problems talking about the Igbo
when referring both to migrants from the southeast to cities in the west and north, and, in a
very loose sense, when referring to
southeast Nigeria in general. The
Daily Times
, for instance,
refers to `the Ibos in the east'.



http://pcwww.liv.ac.uk/~dvdb/CH_7.pdf

PrecisionFx:
IGBOS were first VCs in yoruba land because they are more intelligent, more educated n more qualified than yorubas...



There is nothing else to say with a daft bigoted tribalist.

Ibos call people names that should be hung on their necks....bigots,betrayers,slaves,cowards,backstabbers etc.

Everybody,even Azikiwe knew that Ibos cannot compete with Yoruba,so he used the influence of NCNC to put his people almost everywhere.
The civil service dominated by the Ibos became one of the worst in the world while Yorubas' civil service prospered and became the envy of every nation.
I have read the history of Nigeria severally and got to know that Nigeria would have been better but for the Ibos who ruined everything with their long throats.

PrecisionFx:
IGBOS didn't need to dominate the Hausas, They already dominated the whole Nigeria in 1966.

Go and find out why Ironsi, Micheal Okpara n zik weren't killed

Ibos dominated the civil service etc using nepotism and covetousness.Ibos were the first VC of UI,VC of UNILAG and first RECTOR of YABATECH all in Yorubaland while the more educated Yorubas were sidelined all because they were in opposition.
But you know what?

Yorubas were still more prosperous,progressive and developed than your nepotistic progenitors and Yorubas had to lend them money 2 times so they won't die of want and poverty.

PrecisionFx:
Pls bring the song is talking about that IGBOS composed.



Mind u, Ironsi didn't end regional government n resource control, Gowon did

Ironsi did with Decree 34.Ibos betrayed all Nigeria because of greed.

richie240:
Don't mind him. Same way sw fought tooth and nail to ensure gej was made president when yaradua died in line with d constitution. Once gej got there, his govt was hijacked, making it a tribal/ethnic govt. Please, if d likes of tunde bakare, wole Soyinka etc who fought for the cause had forseen such treachery would result, would they have moved an inch?

.Those Ibo pimps are the greatest betrayers of all time.They betrayed all Nigerians with their greed and covetousness.They plunged Nigeria into this abyss.Their nepotism is also second to none and they are the greatest complainers of what they did and perfected.