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CultureRe: Igboland Is Good, That’s Why I Brought My Relatives,” Says Yoruba Oba In Enugu by shortgun(op): 8:00am On Sep 27, 2025
funshint:
The main point is you'll never hear a Yoruba disrespect his host or called their land "no man's land" or claim to be the one that "developed" it. Yorubas integrate and respects their hosts. They're grateful to the land of their host for whatever riches they are able to get there, not claiming to be better or denigrating their hosts.
How does voting for one's choice in an election amounts to disrespect?

Records show that Lateef Jakande is the first person who officially called Lagos State a no man's land in his inaugural address as Governor of Lagos State in 1979.
CultureRe: Igboland Is Good, That’s Why I Brought My Relatives,” Says Yoruba Oba In Enugu by shortgun(op): 12:21am On Sep 27, 2025
IduNaOba:
Nobody is disturbing them o
I went to Yoruba line to do a slipper that only them are authorised to do.
No igbo shoe maker would do it once I showed them the design
They all said one thing "gaa n'ọdụ ndị Yoruba"
Go to Yoruba line.
Ekere ọrụ eke
This business is divided
Only the Yorubas do this type of foot wear.
We can not do it brother.
I smiled and said to myself imagine say these ones dey naira land 😂
Exactly😂😂
I find it amusing when some people claim that no other tribes settle in the Southeast.
Seriously, Social media has really exposed how ignorant some people can be.

Take Enugu for example from Coal Camp to Ogui, Abakpa, Uwani, New Haven, Achara Layout and Emene, Yorubas are well established.


Even at the University of Nigeria Nsukka, you’ll find plenty of Yoruba lecturers, traders and civil servants.

I once visited Onitsha and was surprised at how many Yorubas I saw actively trading in spare parts, textiles and household goods.
PropertiesRe: Lagos Officials Continue Plaza Demolition At Trade Fair Market (Video) by shortgun(m): 12:01am On Sep 27, 2025
Those saying the builders didn't get government approval don't really understand the the level of rot in Lagos state. This same Lagos state government has been known to illegally take over people's lands in the past.
Buying land in Lagos where the government will wake up one morning and strip you of ownership is a huge risk

CultureIgboland Is Good, That’s Why I Brought My Relatives,” Says Yoruba Oba In Enugu by shortgun(op): 11:33pm On Sep 26, 2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBT4Lq0OFQA?si=Kr1hpDiFdaLAy8k3

An Interview with Oba Alhaji Abdulazeez Adebayo Olateju, The Oba Yoruba in Enugu,
Who settled in Enugu 46 years ago, in 1979

Excerpts:
Interviewer: Where are you from, sir?
Oba: I am from Ede, in Osun State.

Interviewer: You speak Igbo so fluently. Where did you learn it from?
Oba (responding in Igbo): I learned the language here in Enugu. God gave me the gift of understanding languages and the ear to hear. Many people often wonder if I was born or schooled here, but that’s not the case. I was already an adult, fully grown when I relocated to Enugu from Osun. I even voted during the era of Jim Nwobodo and later for Shehu Shagari.


Interviewer: I also learned you speak Hausa. Did you learn it here too?
Oba (replying in Hausa): Yes, I speak and understand Hausa fluently but I have never lived in the North. I picked it up here in Enugu, just by listening to people around me.


Oba: Everywhere I go in Igboland, people take me as one of their own. My grandmother who once tried to discourage me from settling here in Igboland but before she passed in 2012 was very happy and always thanking God for leading me to Igboland. I kept bringing all my relatives here and today they are all doing well because Igboland is good to us.

CelebritiesRe: Arrest Mandy Kiss, Ogun Monarch Tells Sanwo-olu by shortgun(m): 8:41pm On Sep 26, 2025
As if he doesn't know what his people do for a living angry
TravelRe: Beautiful City Of Awka At Night (Pictures) by shortgun(m): 9:13pm On Sep 25, 2025
What how this thread will get to over 10 pages
PoliticsRe: Don’t See Taxes As Punishment, FIRS Boss Tells Nigerians by shortgun(m): 2:28pm On Sep 25, 2025
The question is what have you done will the trillions you've taken in the past
PoliticsRe: I Don't Hold Grudges Against People - Jonathan by shortgun(m): 1:30pm On Sep 25, 2025
That's your own but Tinubu must receive 10 times of the insults and disrespect he poured on your government and other governments before you.

Tinubu and his supporters taught Nigerians how to insult and disrespect the office of the president
TravelRe: Japan Scraps Africa 'Hometown' Initiative With Nigeria, others by shortgun(m): 1:21pm On Sep 25, 2025
Another result of Tinubu's incompetence in governance. In their desperation to look competent and score cheap political points, they resorted to fabricating claims against the Japanese government.
CrimeRe: Olumide Adediran: FBI Offers $10,000 Reward For Nigerian Wanted For Fraud by shortgun(m): 1:08pm On Sep 25, 2025
Abike Dabiri should give us the statistics of yoruba people involved in international fraud
RomanceRe: For People That Went To Akara School, This is How To Use Comma by shortgun(m): 4:50pm On Sep 23, 2025
You see that comma before "and". I will never use it angry
Why should I write red, blue,and black when I can just write red, blue and black.
Anyone who reads it will fully understand the sentence
CrimeRe: Abuja Estate Raid:CCTV Shows Alleged EFCC Operatives Before Camera Was Destroyed by shortgun(m): 4:44pm On Sep 23, 2025
When you have men of questionable character at the top. Things like this will always happen.
Jobs/VacanciesRe: In An Interview, If Asked Will You Leave If A Better Job Comes Along? by shortgun(m): 4:08pm On Sep 23, 2025
Answer honestly and lose the job
Lie to them and you will get the job
PoliticsRe: Why I Will Never Promote Aba-Made Shoes Again — Reno Omokri by shortgun(m):
Kemetian:
That’s NOT the point.

Why should he be insulted and mocked for wearing Nigerian-made shoes?

Why do Aba shoe manufacturers have to label their shoes “Made in Italy” before Nigerians can buy them?

THAT’S THE ISSUE.

How do you people expect to create jobs in a society that prefers imports over the work of its own hands?
You should know Reno is a charlatan who survives on farming engagements on social media.
I remember when the shoe issue trended on Twitter. Nobody insulted him for wearing made-in-Aba shoes.
What really happened was that, in his usual manner of denigrating Igbos, their businesses and their culture he has once again twisted the narrative.

Omokri publicly claimed he bought shoes made in Aba and that he did so to support local manufacturing.

But many people were skeptical because they know him to be a liar and someone with a deep-rooted hatred for the Igbo people.

Most of the comments questioned the quality, condition and appearance of the shoes. Many people who know made in Ababa shoes pointed out that they didn’t even look like Aba-made shoes but rather looked like low quality and worn-out, dirty shoes.
People then challenged him to show proof of purchase, like the name of the cobbler, the workshop, receipts, or at least photos of where he supposedly bought them. After all, anyone can pick up a fake or second-hand shoe anywhere and claim it’s from Aba.
That was Reno’s plan from the very beginning to ridicule Aba craftsmanship and sell the lie that Aba produces low-quality shoes.

Till today, there has been no verifiable evidence that Omokri ever bought those shoes in Aba. No receipts, no photos of a shop, no cobbler’s contact nothing, Just empty talk, the same way he always operates
CrimeRe: $2 Million Fraud: Nigerian Risks 20 Years US Jail Term by shortgun(m): 9:30am On Sep 22, 2025
They keep tarnishing the country's image where ever they go. The annoying part is that this convicted criminal will one day become an Oba or Governor in that region or even a president. angry angry
PoliticsRe: Ghost Refineries: P’harcourt, Warri, Kaduna Plants Rot As Workers Turn Idle by shortgun(m): 11:57am On Sep 21, 2025
Na that kaduna refinery dey vex me pass whenever I think about it.

Why place such a facility hundreds of kilometers away from the crude oil source?.. the very raw material it needs?
To make matters worse, it was not even designed to process Nigerian crude but rather heavy crude that will be imported all the way from Venezuela and Kuwait.
PoliticsRe: Lagos Is Not Under Siege: Folks Must Stop The Igbo Scare And Putting Fear by shortgun(m): 7:09am On Sep 21, 2025
helinues:
It's too early to be contradicting yourself. Abi what's your thread epistle about.

Going by the statistics you attached, there are more non indigenes in Lagos state who are not from Igbo extraction.

And I asked, how come it's only those who are in their minority in Lagos state always frowning about Lagos state government policies claiming they are being targeted
Where did you get that one from?

1. The statistics clearly show that migration from the Southwest to Lagos accounts for 90%, making it the highest from all regions. This directly contradicts the long-held belief that the Igbo were the largest group migrating to Lagos.


2. Migration from the Southeast ranks second, but only at 7.9%, followed by other regions.

In other words, most regions are now avoiding Lagos and choosing other destinations for migration
PoliticsRe: Lagos Is Not Under Siege: Folks Must Stop The Igbo Scare And Putting Fear by shortgun(m): 6:08am On Sep 21, 2025
They still claim that Igbos flock to Lagos in large numbers by night buses, as if it’s still the 1970s or 80s. The reality is that Lagos is no longer a top destination for Igbo people.
Places like Texas, China, Malaysia and Canada are far more attractive options.
PoliticsRe: Many Soldiers Feared Dead As Boko Haram Overruns Nigerian Army Base In Borno by shortgun(m): 12:16am On Sep 21, 2025
So when will the military turn their guns on defenseless civilians in that community, just like they usually do in the South whenever criminals attack them anywhere in southen Nigeria?
PoliticsRe: Sir Louis Odumegwu Ojukwu Was The Richest Man In Nigeria. by shortgun(op): 12:28am On Sep 20, 2025
stuffs2002:
See as u just jam wall from the beginning because I am neither Yoruba nor even a southerner.

* Since when did Awololowo's words supersede the constitution of Nigeria.
* Nnamdi Azikiwe said worse than that when Northern Nigeria (particularly some parts North East) wanted to break away and join up with their kit and kin in Chad
* Namdi Azikiwe threatened northern Nigeria with war if it tried to secede
* Aguyi Ironsi using Emeka Ojukwu waged a war, captured and jailed Adaka Boro when he tried to break away from Nigeria
* Emeka Ojukwu using predominantly Igbo soldiers captured Adaka Boro when he tried to break away and form Niger Delta republic
* Azikiwe vehemenlty rejected it when Awolowo tried to include a secession clause into the constitution.
* Namdi Azikiwe and Ben Nwabueze wrote the aspects of the constitution that made it a treasonable offence if anyone or group of people tried to break away from Nigeria
* Aguyi -Ironsi with the help of Igbo officers and professors wrote and promulgated degree 34 that ensured all powers are in the hands of the federal government of Nigeria. Decree 34 effectively destroyed regional governments in Nigeria

Finally, it is too late to change history
I see that history to you, means mischievously leaving out events that don’t suit your bias and agenda and always pushing narratives t out of context.

Aguiyi Ironsi was targeted on the night of the coup. He only survived because of the resistance put up by his guards. It was Aguiyi Ironsi and Ojukwu both Igbo officers who foiled the coup, arrested and imprisoned the coupists. Do you think the coup would have failed if Aguiyi Ironsi as the most senior army general at the time had supported it?

You also didn’t mention that in the West, it was Major Adewale Ademoyega a Yoruba officer who captured and killed the Premier of the Western Region,l Samuel Ladoke Akintola, in Ibadan. Ademoyega later wrote a book titled Why We Struck...get a copy and read.
So it is mischievous for you to insist it was purely an Igbo coup when other ethnicities actively participated in it.


You also left out the fact that after the coup, it was General Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi an Igbo man and head of the Nigerian Army who mobilized loyal troops, captured the coup plotters and imprisoned them....

You didn’t include that it was Col. Conrad Nwawo, another Igbo officer, the only person who can talk to Nzeogwu who persuaded him to lay down arms and hand himself over.

You also failed to mention that Aguiyi Ironsi while serving as head of state, was brutally murdered by northern soldiers in the revenge coup simply because he was Igbo and not because he participated in it.
What about the thousands of Igbo military officers who were singled out and massacred across military barracks and formations? What about the millions of Igbo civilians who had no connection to the coup but were rounded up and butchered in cold blood all over the country.
What was their crime?
What about all the Igbo properties you people stole during the war?


You claim to love the South-South people but you conveniently omitted the execution of Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight other Ogoni leaders by the northern head of state, Abacha. Their only crime was to advocate for the survival of the Ogoni people through the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP), which had become a global voice against Shell Petroleum’s environmental destruction in the Niger Delta and against the Nigerian government’s complicity.

I can go on and on.
CrimeRe: Ogbonna Maurice Uzoma: Photo Of NDLEA Cross River Commander Who Died In Hotel by shortgun(m): 9:09pm On Sep 19, 2025
Why stay in a hotel for such a high risk position?
Where was the former commander staying?
CelebritiesRe: Daniel Regha Knocks Scott Iguma Over Tweet About Yorubas Being Tribalistic by shortgun(m): 9:49am On Sep 19, 2025
SonOfDSoil01:
😂😂😂Muumuu, you still can’t see the folly that even if you erroneously claimed to have bought all the land in Lagos, it still doesn’t guarantee you ownership of land but just a lease know the difference nwokem, before you start disgracing yourself 😂😂

And btw why should anyone with a working brain be proud about developing another man’s land while your unproductive land is largely undeveloped with no viable infrastructure and industries🤣😂

The land still belongs to the Yoruba People of Lagos state and held in trust by the government and that’s why all land belongs to govt and they sign your land documents and still collect taxes for the Yoruba people in development of yorubaland😂😂 now who is the dull one here mr developer? grin
99 years landlord😂😂
See as you dey embarrass yourself with ignorance, which lease are you shouting up and down?
The Land Use Act of 1978 says all land in Nigeria belongs to all Nigerians ...weather in Enugu, Kano, Lagos everywhere and is vested in the Governor on behalf of the federation, not some ethnic group. That’s why C of O or R of O is issued by government not by Yoruba people.
PoliticsRe: Sir Louis Odumegwu Ojukwu Was The Richest Man In Nigeria. by shortgun(op): 9:37am On Sep 19, 2025
stuffs2002:
Make una carry una wahala dey go una say na Awolowo dey hold una.
Same Awolowo that tried to include a secession clause in the constitution and he met a very stiff resistance from Nnamdi Azikiwe
I think your leaders in Yorubaland deliberately keep you ignorance. When the East was ready to walk out of Nigeria, it was Awolowo himself who stood up and said the East must never be allowed to secede. He knows fully well that Nigeria will cease to exist without the east.
This are his exact words

"The Eastern Region must be encouraged to remain part of the Federation.
If the Eastern Region is allowed by acts of omission or commission to secede from or opt of Nigeria, then Western Region and Lagos must also stay out of the Federation"—Awolowo
CelebritiesRe: Daniel Regha Knocks Scott Iguma Over Tweet About Yorubas Being Tribalistic by shortgun(m):
SonOfDSoil01:
grin leave those traders without education to be confusing there selves and masturbating over buying and developing another man’s land while their neck of woods is underdeveloped. The certificate issued to them is certificate of occupancy and not ownership but they lack knowledge about this thing and when Govt come for their property, they start to play victim[b]grin
🤣🤣🤣
Every land title remains valid for 99 years + title holder has priority of renewal.
Your consolation is that youll get back the land after 99 years?.... and that makes you smarter than the traders?

Oya add 99 years to your age grin grin
You are happy that you'll become the proud owner of a century year old house grin grin grin
Honestly, if no be social media I for no believe say una dull reach this level.
PoliticsRe: Sir Louis Odumegwu Ojukwu Was The Richest Man In Nigeria. by shortgun(op): 1:37am On Sep 19, 2025
stuffs2002:
I can't wait for the day Igbos will get their country and exit Nigeria and leave us alone.

No single Nigerian was a billionaire at that time because Naira had value. The GDP of the entire south east was not even up to a billion Naira.
That day will never come because your leaders know that there's no Nigeria without Igbos. Awolowo said it himself
CelebritiesRe: Daniel Regha Knocks Scott Iguma Over Tweet About Yorubas Being Tribalistic by shortgun(m):
tunapawizzy:
Tinubu won 57% of SW votes
Obi won well over 90% of SE votes
But leave them, Yorubas are the tribalistics ones
They should continue with their imbecilic narratives. na weytin dey give them joy
Obasanjo a Yoruba man won 87% of South east votes in 2003 while Ojukwu an Igbo man got 25% of South east votes in the same year.
Goodluck Jonathan an Ijaw man in 2011 got 98% of South east votes.
Yaradua a fulani man in 2007 got 72% of South east votes.
So yes, Yorubas are tribalistic
CelebritiesRe: Daniel Regha Knocks Scott Iguma Over Tweet About Yorubas Being Tribalistic by shortgun(m):
ariesbull:
But Scott isn't Igbo ! Is it that you guys are daft and stupid that you can't differentiate Edo name from Igbo name
To them anyone that's not Hausa or Yoruba must be Igbo. That's why they fought and removed Jonathan from office in 2015 saying he's Igbo.
They recently attacked Hilda Baci for cooking rice in Lagos. They said she's Igbo

CultureRe: INEC Awards Oba Yoruba Of Kano Peace Ambassador Title (Video) by shortgun(m): 6:01pm On Sep 18, 2025
Thank God the world is now seeing them for who they are.
They have their Obas all over the country including the southeast but castigate Igbos for the same thing. Disrespect to the Yoruba means voting the candidate of your choice.

PoliticsRe: Emergency Rule In Rivers Ends Midnight Today - Tinubu by shortgun(m): 5:47pm On Sep 17, 2025
It’s quite unfortunate that every case of urgent national importance taken to the Supreme Court for interpretation is deliberately delayed until it’s overtaken by events and stripped of relevance. Just watch how the Supreme Court will suddenly begin hearing on this case.
This is nothing short of shameful.
CelebritiesRe: May D’s Lagos Performance Sparks Online Reactions (Video) by shortgun(m): 9:11am On Sep 17, 2025
Saturnalia:
After living extravagant & fake lives just to impress their fans on the Social Media, reality soon comes knocking on their doors after a few years of balling hard.

Majority of them are even hooked on dangerous hard drugs.

Did you not see Ice Prince looking like a H.I.V patient when his photo made the front page sometime ago?
They are not living any extravagant lifestyle. Some of these guys are broke in real life. Same thing with Nollywood actors. Most Nigerians see them as wealthy because we find it difficult to separate their fictional roles from their real lives.
PoliticsRe: Sir Louis Odumegwu Ojukwu Was The Richest Man In Nigeria. by shortgun(op): 5:11pm On Sep 16, 2025
UncleJJ:
Ojukwu was wealthy in Nnewi or the eastern region. Like you will say richest man of Eastern extraction, which is currently Arthur Eze (verified). That is what Ojukwu's dad was at that time. Louis Ojukwu transport business started in Lagos in 1937, while Dantata was already in business with UAC in the 1920's, where he was the largest grain supplier with a 500,000 pound credit line. Dantata also joined the transport business.

In the transport business Ojukwu at the height (1950's) had some 200 vehicles, while Dantata Transport had 600 vehicles.

People like to claim Ojukwu was bastard rich. No, he only owned a single business and sat on the board of several successful companies. Yes, he dabbled in real estate and construction but nothing he owned. Dantata owned business, and was also on the board of businesses including Shell.

People claim Ojukwu's will was conveniently forgotten/abandoned in Enugu government house when the Nigerian troops attacked when the Biafra secessionist was afoot. IBB brought Gen. Ojukwu (Ojukwu's son) back to Nigeria after he fled to Ivory Coast during the war. IBB gave Ojukwu back all his properties. Where are they?

Like I said, Louis Ojukwu offered Gen. Ojukwu 40,000 pounds his total earnings from one year as director in various companies. Remember Louis Ojukwu was also Chairman African Continental Bank. But, Gen. Ojukwu has other plans; why take over his fathers assets when he could take over the entire region which he did.
It’s mischievous and historically out of context to compare Louis Ojukwu with Alhassan Dantata. Yes, Dantata was extremely wealthy...richer than Louis Ojukwu but he died in 1955 before Nigeria’s independence.
His fortune was then split among his children, his wealth was no longer concentrated in the control of one person.
while Louis Ojukwu was still alive and consolidating his empire. That’s why by 1960,
Sir Louis Ojukwu was recognized as the richest man in Nigeria his businesses were intact, diversified, and expanding.

Louis Ojukwu was never just a transporter with 200 vehicles. He was a banker, industrialist, and investor with vast holdings across multiple sectors transport, real estate, banking (Chairman of African Continental Bank), textiles, shipping, and construction. He provided Britain with support during world war II which gave him access to colonial contracts and land holdings outside Nigeria.

He was a director in Shell, Guinness, Nigeria National Shipping Line and many other
His name appeared in Forbes and colonial business records as one of Africa’s wealthiest men.


As for his properties, it’s dishonest to pretend they disappeared into thin air. During and after the civil war, the Nigerian government shamelessly stole all his money, assets all over the country. With the excuse that his son Ojukwu will use them to fund Biafra.
In Lagos, they even dragged ownership of one of his estates with his children after the war all the way to the Supreme Court.....publicly available court documents prove this.
Many of his Eastern properties were also stolen in Calabar and port harcourt or misappropriated under the abandoned property policy.
Many government buildings, barracks and skyscrapers you see today in some Nigerian cities once belonged to Sir Louis Ojukwu.


The reality is simple Sir Louis Ojukwu was Nigeria’s first recorded billionaire in pounds, the wealthiest man of his time and one of the richest Nigerians ever...He will continue to inspire generations.

Trying to reduce his legacy to a few lorries or to erase it entirely because of political bias won’t change the historical record.

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