₦airaland Forum

Optional2:
Does dat mean dat d oba wont throw d Igbos to d lagoon again.

Omofunaab2:
Lol, How many Yorubas do we have in South East compared to the number of igbos in the Southwest?

The number of igbos hawking gala and fan yogo in the Lagos is more than the number of Yorubas in the South East.

Lol, Those guys in the pictures may not even be Yorubas ....Igbo girls are littered all over Southwest engaging in prostitution

Omofunaab2:
I will remind you of this your post whenever your useless Red cap wearing idiots go about begging for mercy after the elections. .

The last time they stopped hawking on Lagos roads, you guys were crying to shuku eponmalu here on nairaland

Obi1kenobi:
Arthur Eze is not worth any $5.8billion. Neither is Emeka Offor anywhere close to that. None of those men even make Forbe's top 10 list and Otedola that is richer than both is no more a billionaire being valued by Forbes at just over $500m this year. Folorunso Alakija that is 3rd after Dangote and Adenuga is worth nowhere close to that. Tony Elumelu is the richest Igbo man in the country and is worth a little above $1billion. Yet, you think Arthur Eze and Emeka Offor are worth almost $6billion. I know the internet sites you got that from and they are not credible at all. I can't find the original Forbes article, but this article cited the original Forbes ranking for 2017:
https://nigerianfinder.com/top-20-richest-men-in-nigeria/
Face it, sunshine. Oba Otudeko is richer than any Anambra man, and Adenuga is in an entirely different league. I don't know why you are all hyperventilating because I said Ogun indigenes are the most accomplished in the country in my opinion. All because it wounds your chestbeating ego.

Omofunaab2:
Ever since this Apc primaries started, No where as the igbos been mentioned.. .All the Political actors are all Yorubas. . The funny thing is when the dust finally settles these same people will join hands and make sure you guys are dealt with. .The last local government election and the credit pass in Yoruba language as requirement into tertiary institutions in Lagos is just the beginning. More to come. ..

Mark my words, you guys will be severely dealt with at the end of the day

Hotfreezer:
Gala sellers have no say in our matters.
Get lost.

Omofunaab2:
Stop dabbling into Southwest Political issues, Always learn to mind your business.. You guys have abandoned your own South East primaries threads for South West primaries thread.

oodualover:
This is another ibo guy with hausa moniker that has been masturbating on south west issues rather than his south east.

SicIgbos:
You must have been ill when Igbos were opening thread after thread concerning how Ambode will win n how election as been canceled. How many thread did you see any Yoruba open concerning governorship primaries in the East ? That is even if you lot are worth talking about at all. You Igbos should grow shame abeg no matter how minute.

Tushkito:
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The guy has lived in the South West all his life and has been successfully brainwashed by yerubus to believe his own people are lesser.

Obi1kenobi:
Oba Otudeko was born in Oyo, but is an indigene of Odogbolu in Ogun state. And he is wealthier than any Anambra billionaire talk more of Adenuga that is in a different class. You can claim as many billionaires as you want. It's empty chest-beating.

Obi1kenobi:
I would agree I might have exaggerated the political disunity among Igbos. Their political problems stem from the inability to form solid alliances with other groups. I'd still stand by my cultural observations though about a tendency Igbos have to antagonize each other based on petty clannishness: especially the tendency of Anambrarians to antagonize everyone.

Obi1kenobi:
Of course, someone must always come up with the emboldened nonsense about where I'm from if they don't like what I say. I started hearing it since i opposed Nnamdi Kanu's rhetoric which made me an "afonja". It's immature and only shows one up as incapable of handling opposing views. Your trolling name adopting a Yoruba handle doesn't mean everyone is like you. I've spent several years on Nairaland and I've never had time for the juvenile inter-tribal nonsense many choose to fill their existence with.

You can cherry pick news clips all you want. Every soul here except someone living in a lot of denial know Yorubas are a pretty liberal group who forge relationships that trump religious lines. It is extremely common to see Yoruba families with both Muslims and Christians due to their tolerant culture. Extremely common. This doesn't happen among any other tribe, and certainly not among Igbos. If I brought a Muslim girl home to my parents, my mum would slump with a heart attack - as would most Igbos. I know it. You know it. Why the self-deception? Neither do I understand what political differences between PDP and APC have to do with the socio-cultural divisions I'm talking about.

And yes, Ogun indigenes are the most accomplished group in Nigeria. It's the state of Awolowo, and Soyinka, and the Ransom-Kutis and Fela, and Abiola, and Obasanjo, and Mike Adenuga, and many, many more. It's my opinion. Why are you hyperventilating over it? Because you're the typical Anambra braggart I spoke about before?
Why are you saying I should name another state outside Lagos with non-indigenes as governors? The point is if there was a cosmopolitan city like Lagos in the East, it would not be ruled by a non-indigene. It's certainly less likely to happen here than it would in the SW in a political climate where Igbo states are sacking non-indigenes from fellow Igbo states.

pazienza:
Let's not even talk about the fact that the entire Yoruba race were enmeshed in local skirmishes called "Kiriji war" AI deadly that they nearly wiped each other out, and were grateful to welcome the British colonialization, just to end the civil war.

Let's not forget that in post independent Nigeria, the Yorubas again couldn't handle themselves, as they quickly fractionalized their region into Awo and Akintola factions, and their region became a theatre for bloody clashes between rival political groups.
Whereas Zik quickly reconciled differences with Eyo Ita and maintained cordial relationship with Okpara all through.
It's true that the greatest ill to befall a society is not the death of a hero, but the birth of an efulefu.
We have too many efulefus in Igboland today, and it does tell.

Obi1kenobi:
You're comparing entirely different things. State and clan parochialism exists among groups. It is worst among Igbos. As I said Bianca Ojukwu, a woman who married an Anambra man and had Anambra children had her Anambrarian identity questioned because some clowns were supporting Ifeanyi Ubah. You must also have missed the part where I said Igbos are peaceful, so what's the point telling me they don't kill themselves. That has nothing to do with Igbo unity, but a general value Igbos attach to life, unlike our Northern brethren or the oft-violent political unrests in the SW and SS. Yorubas culturally and politically are a more united bloc than Igbos. I'd consider this in realm of empirical fact when observing Nigerian socio-politics. Their institutions like their royal fathers and socio-cultural groups like Afenifere wield more influence among them and their Yoruba identity trumps their religion.

And let's stop kidding ourselves. I didn't make my observations because one or two Igbo people on here embarrass themselves. Nairaland is a big community with over a million members and in many ways is a microcosm of wider society. And Igbos here exhibit the greatest internal strife by far. More than all other groups combined. It does play out in wider Igbo interactions and it's also exhibited when Igbos are trading barbs with SS Igboid groups. Why is it that no Hausa or Yoruba groups have this identity crisis? Why always Igbos. To say it's because of "jealousy" like someone asserted earlier is exactly the problem. Ogun people are an incredibly accomplished people. I'd say they're the only state whose indigenes are more accomplished than Anambrarians. I have never in my life seen a thread where Ogun people are insulting Ekiti or Kwara or Kogi people about how superior they are. Anambrarians do it all the time to their fellow Igbos. They are well-known braggarts. And until we cure that illness of arrogance, it's going to keep reflecting poorly on us and other Igbo groups in the SS would always be wary of us.

Tell me another state outside Lagos in west another Yoruba man from another state is governor,or senator since we enter democracy

Obi1kenobi:
[s]One issue also that contributes to this division is a unique sickness I find among Igbos for petty internal squabbling. Not just between "core Igbos" from the SE and Igboid SS groups, but within the self-acknowledged core Igbos. I find it disturbing everytime I read a Nairaland thread on any SE state devolve into petty chestbeating squabbles with the usual characters involved: with Anambra groups being the most guilty of provocations of others. This is an entirely unique Igbo thing. Yorubas on Nairaland for example might have APC vs PDP arguments, but rarely would you see Ogun people for example attacking Ekiti people, or Oyo and Osun people squabbling about who is the dirtier, poorer state. That's a uniquely Igbo mental illness. I was utterly disgusted the other day where in a thread about Bianca's Senate run, at least 4 Anambrarians I counted said she should go and run for Senate in "her Enugu state", delegitimizing her as an Anambra daughter. And the clowns got plenty of "likes" and "shares" for the stewpidity. You would rarely hear Yorubas utter rubbish like that. Yorubas have internal conflicts but I find an admirable liberalism among them and a Yoruba consciousness that means you are Yoruba FIRST before anything else: Muslim, Christian, Ondo, Kwara or whatever. You are Yoruba first. That is why seemingly every Yoruba politician is a Muslim married to a Christian while in some Igbo communities even fellow Christians, especially Catholics and Anglicans are sworn enemies: like in my hometown Oraukwu which has a big Catholic/Anglican divide, with the church in our hometown threatening sanctions against my parents when my sister, a Catholic, sought to marry an Anglican from Obosi. It didn't matter that they were both Igbos. Both Anambrarians. Both from the same Idemili North LGA. Both educated people who knew each other since before they went to UNN together. The essence of their union was distilled by bigots into a petty squabble over their different denominations. This is how Imo and Abia sacked each others non-indigenous civil servants. Enugu did the same to Anambrarians long ago. There is internal distrust among Igbos you simply don't see among other tribes. I remember when I was in UNN and plenty of Anambra people I knew (with their usual annoying arrogance) loved to ridicule Enugu people, with their favorite targets being umu Nsukka.

Some of these Igboid groups observe these internal dynamics and they sense something toxic. They feel like since they aren't "core SE Igbos", they're viewed as 2nd class Igbos. And I have heard plenty of disparaging language from SE Igbos about SS Igbo/Igboid groups which the latter also return. So the mutual resentment is there and it is caused by both sides. Igbos in some ways are peaceful. We're not a violent tribe and go about our business peacefully. But we're also arrogant with a myopic clannishness and this manifests not just in our cultural dysfunction, but in our political failures as a group.

If you claim some SS Igboid groups reject the Igbo identity due to "jealousy" and all that. You have only gone ahead to confirm why they want nothing to do with people who look down on them.[/s]

prolog2:
Nigeria was actually created by the british empire.
You don't seem to understand that before the biritish conquest, there was nothing called nigeria.
Your false equivalences have no limits.
In the nigerian space, people are identified according to the precolonial country of their ancestors.
That is why all Anioma are Edo.

Benekruku:
Still better than signing MOU upandan


Anambra rice? Scam
Airport? Scam
Ugwu export station ? Scam

Soany I can't remember

Even partnerd with a foreign firm on fire fighting

Benekruku:
Still better than signing MOU upandan


Anambra rice? Scam
Airport? Scam
Ugwu export station ? Scam

Soany I can't remember

Even partnerd with a foreign firm on fire fighting

Benekruku:



Very true

Obiano keeps partnering ghost with nothing to show for it


Can imagine how many MOU he has signed in his administration but it's definitely over 1000

lucianohase:
Is it according to Forbes ?

Princeofnigeria:
Hahaha hypocrites meanwhile no go school in the land of potopoto-ipob-pigs region





Never again will there be a place called Biafra.

Valike2008:
Get out Anioma , Ugwashiukwu etc are all Igbos, you Julius Malena you are a Fulani from Niger republic claiming Hausa indigene, delta is Igbo Anu ohia

Juliusmalema:
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In simple explanation


Ur ethnicity is anioma same way my ethnicity is igbo.

And pls and pls remove onitsha from any damned history.

Anambra of which onitsha is a region has no link or sharing with u guys....

Omambala has gone far for such distorted history and new records needs to be set.

The Niger bridge is enough demarcation.
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Juliusmalema:
I didn't notice u.

Benekruku:
When you are in there midst, they gladly will tell you


An Ebonyi or Imo man dare not talk when an Abia or Anambra man is talking

Enugu are highly regarded but Abia and Anambra never bow to them

Ebonyi people know themselves they are the least of all Igbos