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This is what happens when Robbers are made to confirm the appointment of a DPO of a police station. Which country does that?This magu guy has been a thorn on the side of these Polithievians. How can an investigatee approve the appointment of the investigator?a neutral body should be made to do that. Same way i feel that ANY President should not pick INEC chairman. Its easy to pick your man. Mumu Nigerians!

gidgiddy:
As much as I dont like FFK, everyone has the choice of changing their mind.

Back when FFK was writting this nonsense, he was still rolling in circle of power.

It took APC throwing him into jail to reformat his brain. He has since married an Igbo woman and has a son.

Now FFK has seen the light. He now realises that there is a more bigger enemy out there than the Igbos he chided back in the day.

first of all, he isnt married to the lady. Knowing how this guy's antecedents with women,what happens when he leaves this onewill he flip flop again and reignite his real hatred for Igbos??This is a man that i know personally and he doesnt stand for any solid ideal ,he goes where the wind goes shamelessly. You cannot trust a man like that, he has switched sides too many times.

Ojiofor:
That was when FFK was the great e-warrior and Aare Ona Kakanfo of Yoruba land.
He was the darling of millions of Yoruba bigots and they cheered him to no end when he was disparaging the great Igbo race but after Saul received sense in Damascus and became Paul the Yorubas shamelessly disliked him because he is no more an Igbo hater but a lover of justice and equity.

MOST foolish post EVER!!!!!

tribalistseun:
Gtbbank is dead already their burial is on 2nd of january, be there.

As for EFCC they are fast in arresting or chasing SS and SE people. But babachir lawal that even osibande have declared a thief, efcc doesn't want to touch him. Mainagate, BaruGate, Ikoyi Gate and Ameachi loot when will EFCC do the needful.

Any EFCC officials that cross that bridge should be made to disappear into thin air.

GRA GRA GRA GRA.....as usual! Did you read that he was granted bail on this same charge way befire the arrest? Did you read that he shun their invitation?just like iffy uba,chronic debtors using the USUAL "Its because am igbo".Coincidentally the brother of GTB owner was charged to court ALMOST same time as innoson. No Yoruba raised a voice,GTB didnt say he was charged because innoson was arrested....this is what the igbos will rather say.

uglyafonja:
Who be this one again

Una no da tire....

Is Lagos the only state in SW......


Why not you focus on Ibadan, Abeokuta, Oshogbo, akure and ekiti.....

I believe, nobody will drag those ones with you.......

Lagos is the commercial capital of Nigeria.....


That is the reason most business headquarters are located there...


Nobody owns Lagos.......

And don't forget., the Hausas are more interested in Lagos than the easterners....


Igbo's may give up Lagosc, but the north will not and will never

AGAIN,you guys dodge the point here. I am not putting up this post because of lagos ownership (there is no argument on that,we all know the answer).My point is ,READ what the new ndigbo spokesman wrote about ndigbo JUST a few years ago. Pathetically, igbos hail this man to heavens. Wow!

emmie14:
Are you really educated? This is the mist stupid article I red in 2017. You're a tribal bigot with class. If you are not envious of igbos why did you centre your criticism and comparison between your tribe and Igbos. Igbos have actually sustained themselves from what they choose best. Your banking industry cannot function well without traders whom you follow down to their little shop scouting for customers. Grow up.

Mr man pls READ and comment on the post . Your spokeman is/was a HEAVY Igbo bigot.......whats your comment on that?as usual, no answer but derail.

This is what happens when A MAN does not have set principles but to flip flop wherever food and gullible Cheerers applaud the mad man.I feel bad more for the gullible applauders because they dont really know who they are .....if they do,they wouldn't make themselves vulnerable to the vultures. Sad!

It is amazing how one or two of the numerous nationalities that make up Nigeria secretly wish that they were yoruba and consistently lay claim to Lagos as being partly theirs. Have they forgotten where they came from? I have never heard of a yoruba wanting to give the impression to the world that he is an igbo, an ijaw, an efik or a hausa-fulani or claiming that he is a co-owner of Port Harcourt, Enugu, Calabar, Kano or Kaduna. Yet more often than not some of those that are not of yoruba extraction but that have lived in Lagos for some part of their lives have tried to claim that they are bona fide Lagosians and honorary members of the yoruba race. Clearly it is time for us to answer the nationality question. These matters have to be settled once and for all.

Lagos and the south west are the land and the patrimony of the yoruba and we will not allow anyone, no matter how fond of them we may be, to take it away from us or share it with us in the name of ”being nice”, ”patriotism”, ”one Nigeria” or anything else. The day that the yoruba are allowed to lay claim to exactly the same rights and privilages that the indegenous people in non-yoruba states and zones enjoy and the day they can operate freely and become commissioners and governors in the Niger Delta states, the north, the Middle Belt and the south-east we may reconsider our position. But up until then we shall not do so. Lagos is not a ”no-man’s land” but the land and heritage of the yoruba people. Others should not try to claim what is not theirs.

I am not involved in this debate for fun or for political gain and I am not participating in it to play politics but rather to speak the truth, to present the relevant historical facts to those that wish to learn and to educate the uninformed. That is why I write without fear or favour and that is why I intend to be thoroughly candid and brutally frank in this essay. And I am not too concerned or worried about what anyone may think or how they may feel about what I am about to say because I am a servant of truth and the truth must be told no matter how bitter it is and no matter whose ox is gored. That truth is as follows.

The yoruba, more than any other nationality in this country in the last 100 years, have been far too accomodating and tolerant when it comes to their relationship with other nationalities in this country and this is often done to their own detriment. That is why some of our igbo brothers and sisters can make some of the sort of asinine remarks and contributions that a few of them have been making in this debate both in the print media and in numerous social media portals and networks ever since Governor Fashola ”deported” 19 igbo destitutes back to Anambra state. In the last 80 years the igbo have been shown more generosity, accomodation, warmth and kindness and given more opportunities and leverage by the yoruba than they have been offered by ANY other ethnic group in Nigeria. This is a historical fact. The yoruba do not have any resentment for the igbo and we have allowed them to do in our land and our territory what they have never allowed us to do in theirs. This has been so for 80 long years and it is something that we are very proud of.

As I said elsewhere recently, to be accomodating and generous is a mark of civilisation and it comes easily to people that once had empires. The reason why many of our people take strong exception to the apparant outrage of the igbo over this ”deportation” issue and the provocative comments of my friend and brother Chief Orji Uzor Kalu when he described Lagos as being a ”no man’s land” is because the igbo have not only taken us for granted but they have also taken liberty for licence.

We cannot be expected to tolerate or accept that sort of irreverant and unintelligent rubbish simply because we still happen to believe in ”one Nigeria” and we will not sacrifice our rights or prostitute our principles on the alter of that ”one Nigeria”. Whether Nigeria is one or not, what is ours is ours and no-one should test our resolve or make any mistake about that. ”One Nigeria” yes but no-one should spit in our faces or covet our land, our treasure, our success, our history, our virtues, our being and our heritage and attempt to claim those for themselves simply because we took them in on a rainy day. It is that same attitude of ”we own everything”, ”we must have everything” and ”we must control everything” that the igbo settlers manifested in the northern region in the late 50’s and early and mid-60’s that got them into so much trouble up there with the hausa fulani and that eventually led to the terrible pogroms where almost one hundred thousand of them were killed in just a few days.

Again it is that same attitude that they manifested in Lagos and the Western Region in the late ’30’s and the early and mid-40’s that alienated the yoruba from them, that led to the establishment of the Action Group in April, 1951 and that resulted in the narrow defeat of Chief Nnamdi Azikiwe in the Western Regional elections of December, 1951. As a matter of fact they were the ones that FIRST introduced tribalism into southern politics in 1945 with the unsavoury comments of Mr. Charles Dadi Onyeama who was a member of the Central Legislative Council representing Enugu and who said at the Igbo State Union address that ”the domination of Nigeria and Africa by the igbo is only a matter of time”. This single comment made in that explosive and historic speech did more damage to southern Nigerian unity than any other in the entire history of our country and everything changed from that moment on.

To make matters worse, in July 1948 Chief Nnamdi Azikiwe made his own openly tribal and incendiary speech, again at the Igbo State Union, in which he spoke about the ”god of the igbo” eventually giving them the leadership of Nigeria and Africa. These careless and provocative words cost him dearly and put a nail in the coffin of the NCNC in the Western Region from that moment on. This was despite the fact that that same NCNC, which was easily the largest and most powerful political party in Nigeria at the time, had been founded and established by a great and illustrious son of the yoruba by the name of Mr. Herbert Macauly. Macauly, like most of the yoruba in his day, saw no tribe and he happily handed the leadership of the party over to Azikiwe, an igbo man, in 1945 when he was on his dying bed. How much more can the yoruba do than that when it comes to being blind to tribe? Can there be any greater evidence of our total lack of racial prejudice and tribal sentiments than that? If the NCNC had been founded and established by an igbo man would he have handed the whole thing over to a yoruba on his death bed? I doubt it very much.

Again when northern military officers mutineed, effected their ”revenge coup” and went to kill the igbo military Head of State, General Aguiyi-Ironsi on July 29th 1966 in the old Western Region, his host, the yoruba Col. Fajuyi (who was military Governor of the Western Region at the time), insisted that they would have to kill him first before taking Aguiyi-Ironsi’s life and the northern officers (led by Major T.Y. Danjuma as he then was) promptly obliged him by slaughtering him before killing Aguiyi-Ironsi. How many igbos know about that and how many times in our history have they made such sacrifices for the yoruba? Would Aguiyi-Ironsi, or any other igbo officer, have stood for Fajuyi, or any other yoruba officer, and sacrificed his life for him in the same way that Fajuyi did had the roles been reversed? I doubt it very much.

Yet instead of being grateful the igbo continuously run us down, blame us for all their woes, envy our educational advantages and resent us deeply for our ability to excel in the professions and commerce. Unlike them we were never traders but we were (and still are) industrialists and when it comes to the professions we were producing lawyers, doctors, accountants and university graduates at least three generations before they ever did. That is the bitter truth and they have been trying to catch up with us ever since. For example the first yoruba lawyer Christopher Alexander Sapara Williams was called to the English Bar in 1879 whilst the first igbo lawyer, Sir Louis Mbanefo, was called to the English bar in 1937. Again the first yoruba medical practitioner, Dr. Nathaniel King, graduated in 1875 from the University of Edinburgh whilst the first igbo medical practitioner, Dr. Akannu Ibiam, graduated from another Scottish University in 1935.

Yet despite all this and all that they have been through over the years and despite their terrible experiences in the civil war we are witnessing that same attitude of ”we must control all”, ”we must own all” and ”we must have all” rearing its ugly head again today when it comes to their attitude to the issue of the deportations from Lagos state and when you consider the comments of the Orji Kalu’s of this world about the igbo supposedly ”owning Lagos” with the yoruba and supposedly ”generating 55 per cent of the state’s revenue”. It is most insulting. And I must say that it is wrong and unfair for anyone to lay the blame for the perenniel suspicion and underlying tensions that lie between the two nationalities on the yoruba because that is far from the truth.

We are not the problem, they are. Pray tell me, in the whole of Nigeria who treated the igbo better than the yoruba after the civil war and who gave them somewhere to run to where they could regain all their ”abandoned property” and feel at home again? Who encouraged them to return to Lagos and the west and who saved the jobs that they held before the civil war for them to come back to when the war ended? No other tribe or nationality did all that for them in the country- only the yoruba did so. And the people of the old Mid-West and the Eastern minorities (who make up the zone that is collectively known as the ”south-south’ today) have always viewed them with suspicion, have always feared them and have always resented them deeply.

From the foregoing any objective observer can tell that we the yoruba have always played our part when it comes to accomodating others. This is particularly so when it comes to the igbo who we have always had a soft spot for and who we have always regarded as brothers and sisters. It is time that those ”others” also play their part by acquiring a little more humility, by knowing and accepting their place in the scheme of things and by desisting from giving the impression that they own our territory or that they made us what we are.

arrestdarrester:
GTB just lost a potential customer

plsss go ahead....The Oba and ambode will soon close down alaba market and ladipo spare part market with the way you morons are using tribalism to defend a DEBTOR.......All your gala selling hawkers will soon be picked up EN MASSE by KAI officials. Shameless ppl!

resurgentxtian4:
Why go there? Is it needed?

very relevant

Funny enough; around this same time that innoson was arrested, the younger brother of the owner of GTB was arrested for fraud too but NO YORUBA LEADER is talking about federal govt collusion here. If you owe your bank,go pay them back their money;period! Why try to evade arrestthis same trick was played by iffeanyi Uba (with all their business mind,these ppl dont like paying back their debt)and see him crying "its because am igbo" but numbers dont lie. Your signature for the loan and how much you have paid back will be CLEARLY legible. No amount of shouting can change numbers. These folks have forgotten that days of GEJ impunity are gone. Innoson go pay back your debt and stop teaching young igbos that the ONLY WAY OUT OF ISSUES is to cry "its because i am igbo".....very pathetic!

This ffk whom i know PERSONALLY is just a hungry and broke opportunist. His almost 2 months of daily writings in the newspapers about his INTENSE HATRED of the igbos is so classical in the history of this country. I cant remember ANYONE say so much vile statements about the igbos. He flip flops EASILY to whichever side gives him food, a man without a principle.Now that his ONLY male child is half ibo ,he is now singing a new song but we all know that he is lying to himself. The SADDEST part of this whole brouhaha is the igbos are so easily gullible that everyone knows how to play with their emotions (fayose, Olunloyo girl and now Atiku). Someone says that he bedded your late leader Ojukwu's wife and you are now applauding him?someone called the igbos savages and virus of the society and igbos are still clapping for him?Igbos really need help!

SalamRushdie:
Buhari just has to go ..I have no doubt this has a political undertone

during jonathan era,everything was lawless. No one was servicing their loans.Thank God for buhari

delishpot:
When they started with this their terrorism people cheered them on out of blind servitude for bubu. Now they have taken it up a notch, next they will start storming your homes on flimsy excuses. When Una Sidon dey laugh neighbour whose house is on fire forgetting that you are doing yourself by not helping him quench the fire. It's only a matter of time the fire will spread to your own house.

tell your kinfolk to pls pay his debt instead of using tribal sentiments. Iffy Uba did the same thing.....awon omo ole!!!

Osucoward:
How is GT Bank competing with Innoson? What is their market?

Ibos and their diabolical excuses for accepting fraud.

Thank you o!!!The other time, it was Iffy Uba.. why do these folks like crying marginalization EVERY TIME

Guess what we will hear soon, the almighty MARGINALIZATION!

Igbos have SUFFERED!!! First Israel denied them CLEARLY .....NOW Henry has denied them after all the noise made by igbos yesterday after they gave him igbo attire on him.Damn!!!

NwaAmaikpe:




In advanced climes Child Protective services will take custody of this child.

Her parents are a disgrace to parenthood.
They are no different from parents who smuggle their kids to Italy to go prostitute,
They are no different from parents who give their kids enamel plates and push them into traffic to solicit for alms,
They are no different from parents who teach their kids how to pick pockets at crusades.

This is unjustifiable,
There is no dignity in begging.
Not a single justification for such show of shame.

Her useless dad that wants to get Otedola and Linda's attention is probably somewhere playing Baba Ijebu and Lotto, or in one hostel in LASU sucking the brezz of his underaged girlfriend.

Leaving his daughter vulnerable to the preys that abound in the perversed city of Lagos.
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HOW did you know ALL these infos??they are all assumptions and you might be wrong. Desperate times calls for desperate measure. You will be the first to applaud when Otedola picks his call. ....MIND YOUR OWN BUSINESS!!!!!!At least he is unlike those that kidnap and kill!

juman:
@bolded.
Gradually, you are getting to where?

This is an insane government.
Totally confused government.
Look, obasanjo saved over thirty billion dollars, where is the money today?
Yet nothing is functioning in the country.

The useless old man president should know that the economy is dead, hunger is killing people.

The confused overaged president should rather build the highly needed infrastructure, the countries that have their infrastructure working well was built by their leaders.

This is why i said most of you idiots ate illiterates and ignorant. So you never knew that the drunkard depleted our reserve that Obj saved?who took power after obj because yaradua didnt stay that long.

Yyeske:
Some people who hate Buhari will avoid this thread

they wont understand numbers because most of them are illiterates. This won't make sense to them. The only reserve they understand is the reserve players in a football match.

Thought Lagos doesn't belong to the Yorubas

Gofwane:
yeah, truly they look like prison inmates

but thats the point.....to show them as gritty guys.

Emyogalanya:
IPOB IS STILL RE EMERGING FROM THE DUST. IPOB IS STILL A REF POINT IN NIGERIA POLITICS AND ELECTIONS EVEN IN 2019 WOW THIS ORG IS VERY POWERFULL O

Loser concession.......makes you feel better abi Lol

Pls does someone have the pic of that crying Puppy make dem borrow for JUST ONE post abeg? Lol.......igbos,dancing naked in the market square from the begining of time!

jeromeoke:
. We are not like the afonja that has never won any battle in their life, always coming to beat chest on social media and to portray their cowardice behavior, just mention any hero or heroine in ur place, I gat no time for people that were defeat by hausa miscreants, please go and wash ur ass with ur kettle
I dedicate this to all the fallen afonja that loss their lives between the inter tribal war between Yoruba and fulani which the fulani won and mock name Yoruba afonja

BLA BLA BLA BLA BLA......Y'all MUST go and prostrate to Buhari FIRST and tell him "Ejor Sir"!

deebsman1:
Baba should pls pardon them and use it to score cheap political point

Political point with which ppl??the igbos You mean the ones that their vote doesn't really count in any PRESIDENTIAL election The ppl that hatred has eaten deep into their membrane? Will the political point change their attitude?? Abeg!

superstar1:
Ojukwu led millions to Hades and the world of.no return and ran away to Cote'd Ivoire

The lunatic dilector led some to Golgotha and some into the gulag of the jailer before running away to Ghana.

Cowardice is part and parcel of their DNA.

If FG did not release Zakyzaky, on what grounds should FG release stup1d ipod yoots after making noise and a using everybody. They should die there and waste their lives, while Kanu is romancing a sexy opeke in Accra.

Do you know what treason is? We warned them but they were busy with their early morning jogging exercise, always thinking with their chests rather than head, always inclined to use brawn rather than brain and always acting before thinking.

What happened to the Catalonians that was your reference point? Bunchn of.illiterate jokers and envious ingrates.

CLASSIC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ugoeze2016:
Are they begging now?

Ah You know nau! AS USUAL......It's their normal way.

BankeSmalls:
Please explain, one minute Asiwaju was pushing white powder and a wanted man in the USA and the next minute he was a Governor and political godfather?

next minute the US ambassador paid Tinubu a visit in Bourdilion....US doesnt play with CONVICTED CRIMINAL FUGITIVE.They would have easily asked for his extradition.

nototribalist:
Attention seekers everywhere.

Mumu igbos!!! EVEN if the igbo girl took a pic of Kanu,you fools will say its photoshopped. Igbos really need SERIOUS prayers i swear. Imagine the idiots were congratulating Trump for the Jerusalem move,same Israelis that FLATLY and BOLDLY rejected the ibos SEVERALLY!!! This only happens to ppl that have absolutely no substance or understanding of self.....VERY PATHETICALLY SAD!!!