₦airaland Forum

LastSurvivor11:
I know UN is in Aba right, I feel your pains shaa

LastSurvivor11:
Keep fooling yourself, can you mention one aspect where other tribes are better than the igbos, just one??
Richest tribe in Nigeria igbos
Education igbos
Safest zone to live East..... UN
Per human capital Igbos
Wake up boi

Chimok:
Foolishboy, u don't know Yorubas are in their numbers in the southeast and are still trooping in

Ugosample:
whatever makes you happy man.


it's a shame tho that a country like Nigeria has no reliable stats

We draw inferences from our individual observations.

Ugosample:
well I don't have stats as you asked.

based my judgment based on my family, and my circles and my village and amongat other igbo families I have seen.

Maybe you have a contrary opinion

Ugosample:
well

the truth is that Igbos have a strong middle class/upper middle class base.
Rich folks too.

But billionaire in dollars, maybe not

But let's be truthful tho

if you are worth say N50b -100b in Naija, you no try?

tho that may not even be up to $250m

helinues:
Bros, in your leisure time, go through your past posts.. Especially after the presidential elections..

Hope everything is alright sha

helinues:
Sebi Una sabi pokenosing abi.. O to'ge in Abia state

aljharem:
Lies from the pits of hell

I am awori-egun and a the youth leader in lagos. We are Yorubas

gurnam:
You Ibos are something else! The villages you call states are getting rape every seconds by the buffoons you elected to run them, but you are more interested in yorubas claiming Lagos

Pathetic people

mightyhaze:
its brother now? no longer boloda？ your education is taking form. what other fact do you want from me,..step out of your slum and take a walk to your city roundabouts,..count the igbo beggars u find... （fervently hoping i am not replying to one now sef！）..

mightyhaze:
it has to sound similar.. its a way of life of the average igboman .alot of my kinsmen has same stories. .. of what use is a multibillionaire if my kinsmen can hardly feed or have access to simple healthcare？

IbrahimDamola:
You are very correct, but our Yoruba people will not listen. The rate of almajirism in Yorubaland is at its highest peak as we speak, education in yorubaland is at it's lowest ebb. Go to oke- koto, moricas in Agege, you'll think you are katsina, Abokki everywhere, stealing and raping Yoruba little kids yet we Yoruba can't do anything but instead it is Igbos that are minding their own business that we insult.

Yoruba ronu o.

mightyhaze:
by developers i guess u mean igbos..


let me share a little story,...about the way it is among “the developers”

yours truly started taking it abit easier soon as i had 2 blocks of flats remitting regular cash to me,..a number of plots and a very healthy business,serviceable vehicles and account balance.. for over 2 years now i mostly help family and close associates that need help. i have a number of kids on scholarships... that is the story of the igboman. once an igbo man is fairly comfortable ,..next is to start picking up kinsmen and community.. thats why u can hardly find beggarly igbos,....u will hardly find the igboman at roundabouts and cathedrals,harassing passersby in the name of alms begging. the igbomans wealth is fairly evenly distributed in igboland such that the average igboman will most likely feed better,clothe better and generally be healthier than the other two.

selemempe:
my take on this yoruba vs igbo issue is simple...its all about jealousy. The yorubas are obsessed with igbos and jealous of them. Yes yorubas are jealous of igbos not necessarily because igbos are doing better than yorub as (igbos are not), but because they dont even want any form of igbo progress.

its not the whole of yorubas. No! but yorubas who align with Tinubu and APC. They are afraid that if igbos are not subjugated by hausa and other tribes, the tinubu camp would lose relevance. There is a reason why tinubu and his allies are not afraid to openly show igbo hate, they know that the scores of 2015 elections support it and that pro buhari people will buy it. so they want it to be the politics leading into 2023.

now let me ask...the last presidential election was APC 580,825 and PDP 448,015 in lagos. while in abia APC got 85,058 and PDP got 219,698. my question is are there more igbos in lagos than in abia? because from abia state scores we can see that the combined score of apc and pdp is not even up to what pdp alone got in lagos. this shows that igbos are not the real threat of apc in lagos...but many minorities including hausa and niger deltans. but tinubu is picking on igbos because he wants to ride to power in 2023 thru anti igbo sentiments.

i can tell u that of the 450k votes pdp got in lagos that igbos probably only gave around 150k of it...but thats not the real politics...the real politics is hitler's politics who rode to power thru anti-jewish campaign. Tinubu expects to rise to power thru anti-igbo campaign

Optional09:
Go fvck your mama you scum, it’s an insult to call me Igbo

Optional09:
There you go ass hole? Here is the is Yoruba lady farmer who later wrote a book that motivated me to start my farm in Ago Amodu a graduated geologist Yoruba hardworking lady who can’t find a job with her degree de started farming.

Here on this website you’ll find her books and her works https://adesolayinka.com

There many More problems we face because we have leaders who are crack heads like. No Yoruba people can have access to the Farmers loans and Grants yet nobody is saying anything what we found out is that the northerners are the only one benefitting from these programm. Me my friends who ventured into farming a couple of years ago have registered with BOA for a since the program started. With our degrees we went back to farm wth our own money all for the Fulanis to come with their cows and destroy our farms. Because you’re dumb you don’t knw the economic effects of this act. They are

The Notherners are also targeting Lagos markets to sell their farm produce, how will they sell and get profits if we have farms so they resulted in destroying our own farms so as to sell in their choice price in Lagos markets.

No one is saying anything. I go go on and on

T9ksy:
Abi o jare!!!

If he sounds like a flatinoe, writes like a flatinoe then he/she is definately a flatinoe.

QED

Optional09:
See as you simply agreed with my statistics that’s the problem with [us Yoruba people. We are never united. I won’t say more than that

Optional09:
Emu troll abu Ode nie ni

Optional09:
I am Yoruba from Ogun state I happened to have lived in the city all my life until 2014 my export business took me down to Oyo what I saw in my tour from Ogun to Oke Ogun down to Saki, Igbise Ago Amodu, igboho Ilorin, I actually tour down to Mina in that route. I was in shock of my life when I got to mine and realized that I might actually get killed if I continued in that journey Sharia in Mina! And I like to drink beer

Back to the Yoruba people, when I got to Oyo I see most of our young Yoruba people driving Okada and Agbero blocking the road with stick and all that then I asked them what happened why are you riding okada and all this dirty jobs see lands why are you not farming they said. En Oko ke awon oba ati baalle ti ta Ile fun Fulani that they better not go to form that they’ll be killed by the Fulani’s they showsed me everything. My people are in in serious poverty, I was outraged through out that journey I decided I will not leave my change for any of them till I get back home. Infact come to Lagos now in Ikeja where I use to live the Igbo has bought almost all the properties even computer village with drug money, in Agege Hausa people has bought all our lands raping all our underaged children you there not say anything they say before you get stabbed. See there a problem we don’t have leaders in Yoruba land. I wish I can state all I say here. There is a problem my brother

OlawaleSmarter1:
Open your Eyes and look at the positive sides, Yoruba are still the most successful.

Willed042:
Mind you, the two northerners on the list are recorded with one or two legit sources to their wealth accumulation while those of my brother and sister from the south are shrouded in mystery:
1. A taxi driver and then a billionaire
2. A tailor of one first lady and then an owner of an oil block during same tenure
Questionable wealth

Investbrooker:
You are not Yoruba. You have been exposed.
Deomelo, oduavanguard, odvanguard, totit, come see our "Yoruba brother"

Godsonx2012:
This article written by Femi Fani-kayode in 2013 has been trending on WhatsApp today and we thought we should bring it back for our numerous readers. Permit me to make my second and final contribution to the raging debate about Lagos, who owns it and the seemingly endless tensions that exist between the Igbo and the Yoruba. 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 privileges that the indigenous 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 accommodating 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 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 destitute back to Anambra state a while ago. In the last 80 years, the Igbo have been shown more generosity, accommodation, 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 accommodating 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 apparent 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 irreverent 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”. That 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 Herbert Macauley. Macauley, 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 mutinied, 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 Igbo 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 perennial 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 accommodating 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. Now, let us look at a few historical facts and one or two more Igbo ”firsts’ that many may not be familiar with to buttress the point. The Igbo people were the FIRST to carry out a failed coup on the night of Jan 15th, 1966 under the leadership of Major Emmanuel Ifejuna, Major Chukuma Kaduna Nzeogwu, Major Christian Anuforo, Capt. Ben Gbulie, Major Timothy Onwatuegwu, Major Donatus Okafor, Capt. Ude, Capt. Emmanuel Nwobosi, Captain Udeaja, Lt. Okafor, Lt. Okocha, Lt. Anyafulu, Lt. Okaka, Lt. EzedIgbo, Lt. Amunchenwa, Lt. Nwokedi, 2nd Lt. J.C. Ojukwu, 2nd Lt. Ngwuluka, 2nd Lt. Ejiofor, 2nd Lt. Egbikor, 2nd Lt. Igweze, 2nd Lt. Onyefuru, 2nd Lt. Nwokocha, 2nd Lt. Azubuogu and 2nd Lt. Nweke in which they drew FIRST blood and openly slaughtered and butchered leading politicians and army officers from EVERY single zone in the country except their own. I should also mention that even though this was clearly an Igbo coup there was one Yoruba officer who was amongst the ringleaders by the name of Major Adewale Ademoyega. It was a very bloody night indeed. Amongst those killed were the Prime Minister, Sir Tafawa Balewa, the Premier of the Western Region, Chief S.L. Akintola, the Premier of the Northern Region, Sir Ahmadu Bello, the Federal Minister of Finance, Chief Festus Okotie-Eboh, Brigadier Zakari Maimalari, Brigadier Samuel Ademulegun, Colonel Ralph Shodeinde, Lt . Colonel James Yakubu Pam, Lt. Colonel Abogo Largema and numerous others. They did not just kill these revered and respected leaders but in some cases they mocked, tortured and maimed them before doing so, took pictures of their dead and mutilated bodies and killed their wives and children as well. For weeks after these horrific acts were carried out, the Igbo people rejoiced and celebrated them in the streets and markets of the north, openly displaying pictures and posters of the Saurdana’s mutilated body with Nzeogwu’s boot on his neck, loudly playing a famous and deeply offensive anti-northern song in which northerners were compared to goats and listening to it on their radios, jubilating that they had brought an end to what they described as ”northern rule and Islamic domination” and openly boasting that they themselves would now ”rule Nigeria forever”. Though the first coup failed the matter did not end there. The very next day after the Jan.15th mutiny and butchery had failed and did not result in Ifejuana taking power in Lagos, the Igbo people set their ”plan B” in motion and they were the FIRST to carry out a successful coup in Nigeria just one day later on Jan. 17th 1966. This was when the Igbo Major-General J.T,U. Aguiyi-Ironsi (who was Supreme Commander of the Nigerian Army and who had inexplicably and suspiciously not been murdered by the young Igbo officers in their violent mutiny and killing spree the night before) in collusion with the Igbo Acting President Nwafor Orizu and the entire Igbo political leadership of that day, invited the remnants of Sir Tafawa Balewa’s cabinet to a closed door meeting, threatened their lives and took power from them at the point of a gun. Aguiyi-Ironsi did not just ask them to give him power but he took it from them by force by telling them that he could not guarantee their safety if they refused to do so. Meanwhile Orizu point blank refused to do his duty as Acting President and swear in Zana Bukar Dipcharimma as the Acting Prime Minster when the members of the cabinet and the British Ambassador (who was also at the meeting) implored him to do so since by that time there was a power vacuum because the Prime Minister, Sir Tafawa Balewa, had gone missing and had probably been murdered. It was in these very suspicious circumstances and as a consequence of this murky and deep-seated Igbo conspiracy that General Aguiyi-Ironsi came to power. Amongst those that were present at that famous ”meeting” that are still alive today are Alhaji Maitama Sule, Chief Richard Akinjide and President Shehu Shagari who were all Ministers in Balewa’s cabinet . Those that doubt the veracity of my account of this meeting would do well to ask any of them exactly what transpired during that encounter. Yet the seeming success of the conspiracy was short-lived. Only six months later, on July 29th 1966, General Aguiyi-Ironsi and no less than 300 Igbo army officers reaped the consequences of their actions and plot when they were all slaughtered in just one night during the northern officers revenge coup which was led by Lt. Colonel Murtala Mohammed, Major Abba Kyari, Captain Martins Adamu, Major T.Y. Danjuma, Major Musa Usman, Captain Joseph Garba, Captain Shittu Alao, Captain Baba Usman, Captain Gibson S.Jalo and Captain Shehu Musa Yar’adua as they then were. Lt. Colonel Yakubu Gowon was put in power by this group after that and a few weeks later between September 29th 1966 and the middle of October of that same year approximately 50,000 Igbo civilians were attacked and slaughtered in a series of horrendous pogroms in the north by violent northern mobs as a reprisal for the killing of the northern leaders, including Sir Ahmadu Bello, the Saurdana of Sokoto, by Major Nzeogwu, Major Ifejuna and other junior Igbo officers on the night of Jan. 15th 1966. Please note that despite the fact that a number of Yoruba leaders were killed on that night as well no Igbo civilians were massacred anywhere in the west by mobs in reprisal killings throughout that period. The Igbo understandably left the north in droves after those terrible pogroms and fled back to the east from whence they came. And perhaps that would have been the end of the story but for the fact that they also declared secession and sought to dismember Nigeria. They then made their biggest mistake of all by provoking a full scale military conflict with Nigeria when they launched a vicious and unprovoked attack against the rest of the south attacking and conscripting the eastern minorities , storming the Mid-West and attempting to enter Yorubaland through Ore to capture it. Thankfully they were stopped in their tracks by the gallant efforts and courageous fighting skills of the Third Marine Commando (which was primarily a Yoruba force and which was under the command of the great Colonel Benjamin Adekunle, ‘the Black Scorpion’), prevented from entering the west, driven out of the Mid-West, pushed back into the East, defeated in battle after battle and were eventually brought down to their knees and forced to surrender to the Federal forces in Enugu. The Igbo and their Biafra fought Nigeria and killed Nigerians for three hard years in that brutal civil war in which over one million courageous, loyal and faithful sons and daughters of the Federal Republic lost their lives at the war front trying to stop Biafra from seceding from the federation, from taking our land and from taking the minority groups of the Mid-Western Region and Eastern Region and our newly-discovered oil with them. Yet despite our massive casualties and the monumental loss of life that the Federal side suffered (a total of 2 million died on both sides) the Igbo people were welcomed back into Nigeria after the war with open arms. Yet it was only in Yorubaland and especially in Lagos that they were given all their ”abandoned property” back and welcomed back as brothers and sisters without any reservations or suspicions whatsoever. Everywhere else in the country for many years they were denied, deprived, shunned, attacked, killed, discriminated against and humiliated but never in the southwest or Lagos. It is the Igbo people more than any other that have complained about marginalisation in Nigeria, forgetting that there is no other country in the world in which there was a major civil war and yet only 10 years after that war ended the losing side produced the Vice President for the whole country in a democratic election in 1979 in the distinguished person of Vice President Alex Ekwueme. Some have described my submissions in this debate as being ”inflammatory” and have claimed that I am ”not a true progressive” for making them. I reject these labels and I wonder whether those people that conjured them up described the comments of my dear friend and brother Chief Orji Kalu as “inflammatory” and whether they labelled him as ”not being a true progressive” when he erroneously claimed that the Igbo generated 55 per cent of the revenue and owned 55 per cent of businesses in Lagos and that they are effectively the owners of the state. Unlike most of those that are attempting to label me and brand me as a tribalist I know the history of Lagos and the Yoruba very well.



https://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/06/bitter-truth-igbo-femi-fani-kayode/
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