₦airaland Forum

danjumakolo:
So if the hausas are 35m and the fulanis are 20m.
This makes the Hausa-fulani language 55m.
Also don't forget that parts of ilorin is fulani.

55m simply means they are approximately 33% of naijas population

Hausa-Fulani is not a legit ethnic group.
Both of you can come together for political or religious purposes, but that does not mean the two groups are the same .

I am pretty sure there are more Igalas than Nupes in Nigeria.

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Blessing

Koolking:
Good governance can only try but can never change the course of nature. It's now left for the residents of the affected area to relocate to a higher ground. They have nothing to lose by leaving the area, but got everything to lose by staying put and waiting for govt to come to their aid.

The sand-filling and massive construction on Eko Atlantic, which obviously changed the course of the ocean water will continue to affect the ecosystem of that area.

Eko Atlantic is doing the exact opposite of that.
It is protecting the people living further inland. Remember when VI used to get flooded almost every year?? what stopped it?

LOL
is this a beach or a slum!!

Ad what do you mean when you say a BEACH is under water? Who send people to go build shanties there?

Agbaya!
Classic signs of extreme poverty...eating any animal in sight.....
If you had been well fed on Chicken, Beef, Mutton or some good Fish that morning...I wonder if you would hv even considered eating the poor snake....

ChinenyeN:
Igbo language schooling is trash and by extension the exams are meaningless. After all that schooling, Izugbe still fails to take hold and no well-meaning Igbo speaker even speaks it for what it is. Funny thing is that I write better Igbo Izugbe than most people I have seen who supposedly went to school for it. Shows how useless Igbo schooling truly is. At the end of the day, dialects will always remain supreme, though some may fall to oblivion due to linguistic convergence.

Na waa o...
So how does google translate Igbo work/operate then? How useful is it as a resource for people interested in Learning "street Igbo" ?

Yoruba Royalty of Porto Novo, the capital of Benin.

Thank me later.

ADONBILIVIT!!

Ohhhhh!, But I thought Jehovah God separated the waters of the Heavens from those of the "Earth" only on Planet earth??

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Happy married life.

That was one nice royal couple.
See the queen rocking her natural Hair, adorned with beads and corals....... very much unlike what is obtainable in Nigeria today.

liberty300:
Lol...

Here's the list here, according to none oil IGR

1. Lagos (technically not a city)

2. Onitsha

3. Aba

4. Nnewi

5. Ogun state (Abeokuta): the steel industry

According to what source?
Where you put Kano and Ibadan?

Well, 18 years is the universal age of consent.
Not a child bride.

SonOfEl:
unattractive? that would be insincere of them. Hausa's and other ethnicities are in IGBO land , doing whatever business they can, I think its because the business environment in the east is tough and too competitive even for an Igbo man sef...if IGBOS could rear cattle, the hausa-fulanis would have left IGBO land since.

When did I say there were absolutely to foreigners in igboland? My Uncle is presently in Imo state living his life there.
IGBOS themselves travel out of Igboland en-masse coz of lack of opportunities, and you honestly think others should come in droves, to do what? There is nothing serious about having 1 or two minorities here and there in the East. Hausas doing business in Cameroon outnumber Hausas doing business in all Igboland, and both entities are of similar population. While the Yoruba business community in Ghana or CV outnumber all Yoruba in Igboland.

SonOfEl:
most of the yorubas I have queried as regards this trend of not doing business in IGBO land says because IGBOS are too crafty in doing business.

For lack of a better way to put it, the region is simply unattractive. If a census is done in Nigeria tomorrow, and we are told there are 20 Million people in the SE, I can be sure 19.5 million of them are aboriginals.
Some Yorubas go to Onitcha to buy goods, while a few others do craft work like building- but outside of these- there isn't much to do in the SE honestly.

Aareonakakanfo:
Scholes0 abeg try sending that message to me again

Alright.

bigfrancis21:
No. Don't quote me wrong. I never said what you are suggesting. I said they are not 'independent minded ENOUGH' to travel out to other regions. By the qualifier, 'enough', it automatically tells you that some Yorubas may be independent minded but not to the extent of the easterners. Please learn to read and understand words carefully.

nope....
Enough means not measuring up to something. If I say you are not Independent enough to go rent a house of your own, or you are not smart enough to pass a course.... What else does that mean? stop sounding like I am not smart enough to see what you meant.
Most Nigerian cities over 500,000 are outside the SE anyways, so the opportunities there are quite limited.

bigfrancis21:
You barely mentioned a few places with 'thriving' yoruba populations. However, Igbos are scattered all over Nigeria. There are THRIVING Igbo populations in countless places in Nigeria. Their populations in non-igbo states come second to the population of the natives. In those areas you have mentioned as having 'thriving' yoruba populations, i'm sure Igbos in those areas outnumber the yorubas, if not thrice their population. Not only in Nigeria will you find Igbos, but all over Africa, Europe, Asia etc. This is only a tip of the iceberg that indicates the independent mindedness of Igbos as a whole.

And when you said Igbos love to travel because it is just the way they are, yes that's true. That is the independent spirit I was referring to earlier which Yorubas have but not to the level of the easterners. It is a driving force within Igbos that make them want to travel out to other regions in search of business opportunities.

Your statement was that Yorubas are not enterprising nor Independent, and that they do not travel outside their region..... That has been proven to be false.
Now, back to the question of living in the east, Would you compare the Number of Nigerians from various ethnicities living in the West and Nrth to those living in the East?

bigfrancis21:
The only tribe who will have issues with living in the east is the Yoruba because they are hardly independent minded and enterprising enough to travel outside their region to survive.

You see......
That is one place you are wrong.

There are THRIVING yoruba communities in places like Kaduna, Minna, Benin Etc. If I should go by history, Yoruba and Hausa communities were the first to transplant themselves in other countries, before the Igbos started mass migration.
There are also communities numbering into the thousands in places like Ivory Coast, Ghana (Tamale, Accra, Kumasi) and further afield elsewhere.
they just avoid the east, where do you get this notion that the Yoruba isn't independent or enterprising enough to survive outside his region?

BlaqCoffee109:
thank you Scholes..the b in IBO stands for bigotry..hence my question,won't the agitation for Biafra fuel the prejudice?

lol.... I am not taking this agitation for Biafra thing serious, Abeg.
All the signs of a serious secessionist movement are lacking..... for me, I just see it as a cyclic phase of dissatisfaction. The current movement will wane, and then another rabble rouser will take its place.

Aareonakakanfo:
For me i think our level of bigotry is equal. I don't think Yorubas are less bigoted than other tribes.From omo Igbo to ajeokutamumi, nyamiri, ofe mmanu gambari e.t.c We're all gulity

I know that we are all guilty of tribalism.
But ..... In my opinion, the average urban Yoruba is exposed to Igbos and Hausas, while the average eastern dweller not as much. The average Northerner is a muslim, who disregards anything un-islamic.
You know what they say.... ignorance breeds bigotry, it is easier to disdain something you are not familiar with.

bigfrancis21:
That image you've posted is false in its entirety. The so-called article barely mentioned how they came up with their statistics nor how they went about with their so-called index. For what it is worth, just anybody can put up anything on the internet. Just because it comes from a website or blog does not mean it is valid.

I didn't say it was valid...
I also said what I thought, based on my real life experiences. Also a lot of people from all over have told me they wouldn't feel comfortable living in the East, as opposed to living in other peaceful parts of Nigeria.
Tribalism is prevalent all across Nigeria (And Africa), but for various reasons, some groups have higher prevalence...
Do you honestly think Hausas igbos and yorubas exhibit tribalism in equal doses?

bigfrancis21:
From what i've observed so far, every tribe in Nigeria is loyal to their own tribal cause. Each ethnic group fights for their own interest. The Yorubas are as tribally bigoted as the Hausas or Igbos. We should not take the word out of context to single out a particular group for what every single tribe in Nigeria is guilty of.

Personally, i don't think the Yorubas are as bigoted as the hausas or Igbos- (Although this is from my own personal interractions and nothing else, I could be wrong)

"Tribalism Index"

https://www.usfglobalinitiative.org/newsletter/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/HD-TI-Finalv3.jpg
http://www.usfglobalinitiative.org/newsletter/high-definition-tribalism-index/

meforyou1:
they were looking for devil to stone

LMAO!!!