₦airaland Forum

Advocate500:
oga the highest fraudsters both home and abroad are from the south west, does that make the people of yuroba fraudsters?

You people don't like the truth. Yahoo yahoo is the same level across the west, East and South South. We've seen videos of benin boys spraying money, many arrested yahoo boys in the sw are igbos. Check abuja too. And even if yahoo is bad, it doesn't destroy communities. See how you're flogging people for using mkpuru. Yet nobody has ever flogged yahoo boy. And still, nobody sells that mkpuru to outsiders more than eboes. That's evil.

Advocate500:
in your own little mind, because he said some things that correlate with your thought means he is saying the truth? Why is he stereotyping the entire ethnic group because of the crime of few? Iweala is an igbowoman,maybe she does drugs as well, same with chimanmanda and rest .how come we have not read positive articles of this man about the igbos? If only a yuroba writer will blame the entire tribe over fruadulent activities perpetrated by few people from the region. Make una try get sense,that one bears same name with you does not make him a brother.

Joe igbokwe is a living witness.

But the highest numbers of African drug sellers worldwide are from South east Nigeria. Instead of worrying about that, you dey call ngozi okonjo. Even fulani wey get bandits get professors and UN top level officials.

flokii:
Not quite.. it's very very backward.
The only booming businesses there are hotels and clubs. You can imagine the level of prostituti0n among their women.

I've never seen a vacancy job in places like ebonyi and Co. The clubs are patronised after they make money in lagos legit or through "hustle" (90%)

flokii:
Yorubas have been travelling before their ancestors knew what cloth was.. they were running around unclad in their jungles when Yorubas travelled the world and brought civilization.

Yorubas don't travel to the East except government work takes them there.. when we have western countries and properous SW, wetin wan carry me go SE?

Thus is very true. SE is quite backward.

Lol. No eboe president 2023

In the sweltering heat of a serial lynching and killing of Igbo citizens in Asia in 2013, I wrote an article entitled, ‘The Igbo fallacy’. In it, I appealed to the Igbo to de-emphasise the culture of profligacy, decadent opulence, debauchery and vanity which fuels the pursuit of crime by their own.


I am compelled to revivify the article here, but with a few adjustments. I say it again; the Igbo take the inglorious front row in certain crimes – drug peddling, armed robbery and kidnapping – at home and abroad.

In August 2016, an Igbo drug dealer was guillotined in Indonesia. But his funeral in Anambra was a shin-dig of celebrations. He was even described as a “hero” by his kinsmen.

Once again, an Igbo kidnapping lord, who unleashed barbarity and savagery on many Nigerians, has steadied attention on the “special” crime proclivities of the ethnic group. I will not dwell on this; I will zero in on Igbo criminality abroad, and take a slight detour home.


As a matter of fact, a good number of Igbo youth in Asia are into crime. It was reported sometime in the year that the India police said all Nigerians – Igbo, of course – in their country were drug dealers. Although, this is questionable, it cannot be entirely repudiated.

Arguably, the reason for Igbo sojourning – to even the remotest of places in the world – has been attributed to their much vaunted entrepreneurial spirit. The truth is that this claim is enclosed in heavy, meaty layers of fallacy like the entrails of burger.

Inasmuch as the “entrepreneurial sojourning” thread cannot be utterly pooh-poohed, it is judicious to explore other reasons why the Igbo are peripatetic. First, in Igbo ethology, it is a cringing evil for a native, man or woman, to commit a “stigmatised” crime (Alu) such as armed robbery, drug-dealing, etc at home. This is not an obviation of abhorrent crimes committed at home by some unabashed Igbo criminals. The truth is, the “home” Igbo criminals are a hopeless and shameless horde whose self esteem and sense of shame are terribly at their nadir, and as a result purvey crimes at home. Inter alia, for any stigmatised crime committed at home (Igbo land) there is a stern reprimand implicit in the cleansing of the crime. The sacerdotal process of cleansing the land of a crime or an abomination is called “Ikpu Alu”. However, “Ikpu Alu” (cleansing of abominations) does not extend to crimes committed by Igbo sons and daughters in places outside the native dome. It is therefore not surprising if some Igbo persons commit heinous crimes in obverse places, and come back home to take chieftaincy titles. As a matter of fact, in some morally weak Igbo communities it is a brave thing to traffic in drugs abroad. Drug barons are gleefully celebrated as Ndi kara Obi (lion-hearted people). Such is the pantomime of the Igbo and crimes.


It is therefore indubitable to posit that an unenviable number of Igbo persons with innate criminal manuals travel outside the Igbo enclave to pursue crimes. This confutes the general idea that the sojourning of the Igbo is driven solely by entrepreneurial inclinations and motives. To a large extent, the sojourning of some Igbo is driven by a morbid aim of shielding their evil trades from the peering eyes of their kinsmen. Their names are protected as long as they do not traffic in crimes at home. The important thing is to be successful in crimes abroad; successful enough to build vulgar mansions at home and throw lazy cash about.

To animate my argument further, what is the entrepreneurial inclination or motive of the Igbo in India, Malaysia, Vietnam, Thailand, South Africa, and other countries peddling drugs? Is the entrepreneurial spirit of the Igbo only awakened abroad? Why should the Igbo entrepreneurial spirit find its host cozily and lopsidedly outside Igbo land? Is there a marriage between Igbo criminality across the world and Igbo entrepreneurial genome? These are questions that defeat the long, tired argument of Igbo entrepreneurial “peripatetism.”

The fact is the “entrepreneurial” beat-up logic and reason for Igbo sojourning is a bored excuse.

Analogously, Igbo sojourning atavism is also effectuated by pride, ego and vanity. A typical Igbo person will want to prove he is successful in anyway. It is wickedly mortifying to be seen as struggling in Igbo land. This underscores the reason many Igbo persons smuggle themselves out of Nigeria, and because it is thought that any person in Obodo Oyibo (white man’s country) or even anywhere outside Igbo land is “doing well”. Those Igbo persons who are “cursed” to be in Igbo land are seen as struggling and as such do not deserve the courtesy of admiration and respect. It is a proud thing for an Igbo father to say, “All my children are in the abroad”; even though “the abroad” is Gabon. Such a father courts the respect, envy and admiration of other fathers in Igbo land. This is the awful linkage between Igbo sojourning and base vanity.

In all, there are Igbo persons in the scrawny good number whose sojourn in foreign countries is not tainted by any evil intent or base vanity, but it is a bleeding fact that the singular Igbo entrepreneurial logic for sojourning is one big smorgasbord of fallacy.




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IgweOfNnewi:
Of course we know it was from baby factory criminals and drug traffickers that think because they go out of the country to sell their drug, others don't leave their land to outside the country, useless people

You're very correct

Babara1994:
Bleep Lagos. Come to Ibadan

Where you dey for ib

Some economic migrants have long pushed the propaganda that yorubas don't travel.

Yet, majority of Nigerians in:

USA
UK
Ghana
Cote D'voir
Togo
Benin
Brazil
Cuba

And some other countries are Yorubas. The truth is yoruba avoid poor places. You can't find yorubas in borno, nassarawa or abakaliki. Why migrate to a place where the inhabitants are climbing over each other to enter 12 hour bus just to get where you currently are?

Yorubas go to western countries like Canada, US and western Europe for education, build business or contribute greatly and not to "hustle".

We are not anywhere bele face economic migrants. We only move to new countries with better opportunities than our own cities.

Yorubas are the best traveled people in Nigeria. Not necessarily the most, but the best. The best countries give us the most visas. I rest my pen.

Doracity82:
don't mind the OP, the tribal bigot

You're correct but every country that doesn't want its citizens to be drug addicts should expel every shukudi they find. You doubt me? Ask india.

One particular tribe in Nigeria hate how drugs are destroying its youth so badly, they started to beat them like goats. Yet these same people sell the same drugs to South Africans. Can we see why they hate us with passion now? Because of these greedy pigs?

onyenatruchi:
Op, are they from Yoruba

lol. You people will be saying your nonsense after taking mkpuru miri

alcaptainero:
while both ondo, osun and oyo state IGR is not up to that of Rivers state

Remove oil rivers has no real economy

Lol. Buhari and fulani control of igbos in Anambra and beyond continues.

Besides Osun and Ondo has higher igr than Anambra home of billonaires. Oyo has double the igr of Anambra and Ogun has around x5 the igr of Anambra. Don't forget Anambra is the richest igbo state.

I drop my pen.

Princedapace:
Find clients abroad.. Earn in dollars and spend in Naira or lesser currency, and u will be fine.
U can run ads that target clients who spend in dollars.

Is that what you did boss? Can I see your landing page please?

Princedapace:
Think of creating stuff that people Wil like to watch. Think of using social media to find clients who need ur services. Brad ur self, never get tired of talking about what u do. Be the best at what u do.

I do thatvalready. I've had over 300 Nigerian clients in the past two years. I just want to upgrade to the 35k does level like you sir.

Princedapace:
The problem with most of you Nigerians is that u just want jobs. Guy, if u live in a stable country with electricity, good roads, security, go and create a job.
All you Nigerians are looking for where to pick a job. Go and create a job pls and stop stressing any country..
This is why I will always prefer a stable african economy to any developed worlds. I create jobs and not seek for job. Seeking for jobs mounts pressure on any country.. Creating jobs help.
The only reason I don't like Nigeria is her instability.
Aside that, there are stuff to create and move.
The black man is kinda struggling because he can't create. Every time na jobs una dey look for. And worse part is that majority of these people always disturbing us with "is there job there?" don't even have any competent skill or profession. They are people with almost zero value to add to any society.
That is why Chinese go to where u guys can't go. Because the Chinese aren't always looking for jobs. They are looking for where to invest.
The average black person is mentally weak that is why he can't create. Always looking for who Wil give him something.
I have pulled over 35k dollars under 3 years from scratch after I learnt animation.
Adding software development to it and target pulling over 30k under a year from next year.
I provide web of tech services and build solutions for africa markets and the world. I think creation and not being a liability to countries.
Make una rethink as Nigerians.

I am touring Accra now and I'm impressed..

With constant electricity and relative peace in this city, it is attractive for anyone who thinks creation and solutions. That is why many foreigners are trooping to create buisness.

Nigerians must be taught how to create and solve problems.
I'm a Nigerian and I have decided to create and solve problems.. And I'm considering leaving Nigeria because of the security tension here. I'm only considering stable african cities..

All I need is stable electricity, water, good roads, security, I'm okay.

Bro I know after effects and blender. Please how can I increase my earning potential?

Lol. Ipob pigs will be unnecessarily pained at this news.

Lol. Ikeja is more developed than abia state and imo combined. Unfortunate osu crying in my mentions know this statement is true.

Ynix:
Not true, it is the other way round, just that our leaders has been deceived.
Which will you prefer to come first to be able to eat well first and enjoy good healthcare or to have fine house and fantastic buildings

The food you want to eat, is it not road they'll use to drive it to your area? If there is train carrying food across regions, will it not make food cheaper? The health care is it not inside a building you'll be attended to? Is it not when there is electrical infrastructure hospital will function well? If pdp did all this in 16 years, buhari will be building train in East because they'll have built lagos ibadan train since 2012. Yet nothing to show for pdp.

Pdp failed party

Osj

Jokes. Ibadan with countless startups sef no be African new tech hub yet. 14 year olds reading boom don turn newinu to African tech hub

ifeoluwaobiwale:
Please,is it possible to do a change of course after post utme?

We're you able to?