₦airaland Forum

SenatorM:
E pain am,
Those Igbos you see in those places are well to do, they have mansions, big business even employ the indigenes. Same thing in Lagos, when you youth are busy Looking for skull to mine, Agbero looking for Money to collect from Drivers.they Igbos are exploring and making it big for themselves.

Those Igbos you see, go to their Villages and see the houses they've gotten for themselves

mansion indeed , big business indeed.... is that what your uncle told you ... come down to Lagos and see the thing your kinsmen they do ... they are scavengers , fayogo seller , newspaper seller , housemaids , gala seller arm robbers and kidnappers .. most of the live under bridge in iyana ipaja, osodi ,ikotun and ojoo... low lifes... nomadic lost tribe

SenatorM:
We all know the Dirtiest region in Nigeria.
Where they walk on Wrapped poo during flood
.Ibadan ,Osogbo and the rest

those pictures are taken in aba and awka by the united nations in 2015 .. those pictures are from the east .. these are the pictures that make the united nation call anambra the filthiest place in the whole world ... you know we yorubas deals with facts and figures

kindly profile
animashahun of hip TV ,
Mrs. Theresa Ayoade of chatter house,
sawore of Sahara report ,
Yemi Adetuwo is the MD/CEO and board member of Equity Assurance.
Dele Momodu owner of Ovasion Magazine
Mr. Cornelius Iyiola Saraki is the Managing Director of Nem Insurance Co. Ltd
Otunba Micheal Ajayi is the C.E.O. of Vintage Visions Ghana Limited
Mr. Bode Oseni of Regency Alliance Insurance Co. Ltd
Mr. Sam Ayininuola of Energy Bank Ltd.
Charles Adeniji of Wapco (Gh.)
Joshua Bola Olalere is the Chief Executive of Delight Communications
Sola Peregrino Taiwo is the C.E.O of 3 Equatumn Associates.
Wale Adeoye of Premium Advertising Ghana Limited.

FIRST NIGERIAN BORN TO WIN GRAMMY

Helen Folasade Adu was born on 16 January 1959 in
Ibadan , Oyo State , Nigeria. Her middle name, Folasade, means "honour confers a crown". Her parents, Adebisi Adu, a Nigerian lecturer in economics of Yoruba background, and Anne Hayes, an English district nurse, met in London, married in 1955 and moved to Nigeria.
After completing a three-year course work in fashion design, and later modeling briefly, Sade began backup singing with British band Pride. During this time, she formed a songwriting partnership with Pride's guitarist/saxophonist Stuart Matthewman ; together, backed by Pride's rhythm section, they began doing their own sets at Pride gigs. Her solo performances of the song "Smooth Operator " attracted the attention of record companies, and in 1983 Sade and Matthewman split from Pride, along with keyboardist Andrew Hale, bassist Paul Denman and drummer Paul Cook, to form the band Sade. By the time she performed her first show at London's
Heaven nightclub, she had become so popular that 1,000 people were turned away at the door. In May 1983, Sade performed their first US show at the
Danceteria nightclub in New York City. On 18 October 1983, Sade Adu signed with Epic Records, while the rest of the band signed in 1984.
In late 1985, the band released their second album,
Promise , which peaked at number one in both the UK and the US and became the band's first album to reach number one on the US Billboard 200 . The album topped the chart in 1986 and spent two weeks at the peak position. Eventually, the album went on to sell four million copies in the region and was certified four times platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). Sade was so popular that some radio stations reinstated the '70s practice of playing album tracks, adding "Is It a Crime" and "Tar Baby" to their playlists. The following year in 1986 the band won a Grammy Award for Best New Artist.

THE FIRST MUSEUM IN NIGERIA

Esiẹ Museum is a museum in Esiẹ, Kwara State,
Nigeria . The museum was the first to be established in Nigeria when it opened in 1945. The museum once housed over one thousand tombstone figures or images representing human beings. It is reputed to have the largest collection of soapstone images in the world. In modern times the Esie museum has been the center of religious activities and hosts a festival in the month of April every year.
Ere Esie has long been known and associated with the people of Esie. Indeed, it has become a referent in the cosmology and socio-cultural spectrum of the people. However, the origin of these stone figures has long been a subject of social and academic discourse. In some quarters, it is believed that the images were formally human beings turned to stone by Supreme Being (Olodumare), while researchers and Archaeological findings prove that they were carved by some yet to be identified carvers. In fact, the objects are shrouded in great mysteries, myths and taboos.
It is widely believed that Esie people migrated from old Oyo in the years of Alafin Amuniwaye (late 18th Century). An Oyo prince, Adesole had contested the throne with Amuniwaye and lost. Consequently, he had to leave the Oyo town as tradition forbade him to stay after losing the contest. These Oyo emigrants, having wondered and settled at different places finally came to their present abode around 1775. It is also believed that a famous hunter, Baragbon who took the mantle of leadership led the people to Esie. It is equally believed that it was Baragbon, during one of his hunting expeditions that he accidentally discovered the stone images in a grove arranged in a semi-circle. This grove is located about 1.4 kilometres south west of Esie Township. The images consist of over one thousand stone carvings of men and women presided over by a king (Oba Ere), the largest collection of stone images in sub-Sahara Africa. Majority of the objects are carved in sitting position and were manufactured from steatite type of rock, otherwise known as soapstone. Features like facial marks and striations are seen on majority of the objects while some of the heads are plain-faced.
The sculptures range in height from 1.4 to 120 cm and weight between 0.55 and 104 kilograms. The carvings represent people engaged in different social activities: some playing musical instruments and many armed with arrows, machetes and unidentified objects. Few objects represent lower social status while majority of the objects depicts higher social status as attested by their rich attires, heavy beads and well-designed headgears. The artistry of the objects suggests that the objects were produced by highly developed African Society of the past.
These impressive artistic features of the object prompted the then colonial government of Nigeria to build a shelter to house the images in 1945 at the site of discovery (National Museum, Esie).
Other facilities include:
• Vast land mass suitable for eco-museum
• Viable archaeological sites for excavation
• Spacious children playing ground
• A modern gallery with a permanent exhibition titled; Indigenous Artworks as Indicators of Cultural harmony
• A stand-by generating set.
• Serene environment etc.

oladeebo:
op.
I think Ojukwu is right, igbo is well marginalized in Nigeria!

no body marginalize anybody here .. this thread show how well civilized and sophisticated the Yoruba nation was and is ... most of the infrastructure you see here are built by the Yoruba's or the British administrator ... is it Yoruba's fault that we decided to make life better and interesting for ourself by building a sky scrapper , TV station , university , cocoa house , stadium ?

THE FIRST HOUSING ESTATE IN NIGERIA

The first Housing Estate in Nigeria- the Bodija Housing Estate in the city of Ibadan , oyo state , south western Nigeria was also built and developed in 1958.
Bodija is a district in Ibadan , Oyo State , Nigeria . The region gained prominence with the development of like named high brow estate shortly after the Independence of Nigeria. There are two of such estates within the region. Old Bodija and New Bodija. The estate is home to many popular schools within the state. It is also home to Bodija Market which is one of the largest Markets in Ibadan .

NIGERIA FIRST RADIO STATION .

The Radio Broadcasting started in Nigeria in the year 1933. The very first Radio Distribution System was installed in Lagos. It was governed by the Department of Post And Telegraphs. The primary goal of the radio system was to serve as the BBC reception base. In 1935, the system was changed to the Radio Diffusion System, which later served in the Second World War.
A few years later, in 1939, the Ibadan Station was created.

we know them , Na them , the lost and displaced tribe of yisrael, the developers of the universe ... the developers of heaven. they developed Vietnam , Cambodia, Malaysia , south Africa , Lagos , Kenya. and eboyin.. now they want to develop Uganda by fire by force ... funny people ..

Alcatraz005:
The whole states of the east. This because it must be a very horrible place for its inhabitants to keep leaving there in droves for the SW and North. No offense meant please so don't quote me unnecessarily.

you are very right .. people migrate to other place in search of greener pastures and to escape poverty and horrible life .. for the normadic pigbos to leave the east in droves and in their millions says something
I was so surprise when I saw them in their thousands in zamfara, maduguri and potikstum.... they even tag themselves northern igbos so as to escape returning to their former unfortunate lifes back in the east. those igbos living in Lagos, akure and Ibadan even went as far as changing their children's name to Yoruba name and forging state of origin so as to make them mix with Yoruba's and avoid going back home ..
I will avoid going to the whole east too simply because if home is pursuing the owners of the home who am I to go that home