₦airaland Forum

obaino860:
dude I am coming with my pictures.....but before then.....
1)you have not answered my question of what ekiti,ondo,Oshogbo etc are known for
2)even ekiti state with (Haunting) as their major occupation is also d least poverty state

obaino860:
Hahahahahahaha.....yoruba propagandas will not kill us in Di's Niger....
Even Oshogbo with those buildings is regarded as d least poverty state in Nigeria....
minus joke,is it not laughable.....
can you tell a common man on d street Di's rubbish....
Even osunites will be shocked to hear this......
Even you know DAT you are not telling yourself d truth....even Niger state DAT I served......
OK....show me where d common man live in osun,Ogun,ondo,ekiti,Oyo and I will show you where d common man lives in d SW least state and you compare.....
Don't show pictures of mall or govt and public structures.....just show where d common man lives


show us d pictures or should I help you.... let me compare it with houses in my village( ihiala)....I am waiting because I will soon help you.

obaino860:
Hahahahahahaha.....yoruba propagandas will not kill us in Di's Niger....
Even Oshogbo with those buildings is regarded as d least poverty state in Nigeria....
minus joke,is it not laughable.....
can you tell a common man on d street Di's rubbish....
Even osunites will be shocked to hear this......
Even you know DAT you are not telling yourself d truth....even Niger state DAT I served......
OK....show me where d common man live in osun,Ogun,ondo,ekiti,Oyo and I will show you where d common man lives in d SW least state and you compare.....
Don't show pictures of mall or govt and public structures.....just show where d common man lives

The global MPI was developed by OPHI with the UN Development Programme (UNDP) for inclusion in UNDP’s flagship Human Development Report in 2010. It has been published in the HDR ever since.http://www.ophi.org.uk/multidimensional-poverty-index/
http://www.dataforall.org/dashboard/ophi/index.php/


THIS IS FROM WORLD BANK
The NER also documents major differences in poverty and living standards by macro-region in Nigeria. While the South of Nigeria has relatively low poverty rates, ranging from 16% in the South West to 28.8% in the South East, poverty rates in the North West and North East are 45.9% and 50.2%, respectively. While the South of Nigeria (especially the South West) has experienced a strong positive dynamic in poverty reduction in recent years, the poverty rate in the North West has remained stagnant, while poverty has actually increased in the North East. Thus, disparities between the North (North West, North East) and South of Nigeria in poverty and living standards have increased. This is no doubt related to the recent security challenges in the Northern part of Nigeria. Explanatory factors for the high differences in living standards by geographical region are likely related to differences in the provision of public services and the degree of connectedness to larger markets.

NER MEANS NIGERIA ECONOMIC REPORT..maybe it is a Yoruba man that owns it...
http://www.worldbank.org/en/country/nigeria/publication/nigeria-economic-report-improved-economic-outlook-in-2014-and-prospects-for-continued-growth-look-good

THIS IS FROM NBS

Poverty was least dominant in the Southwest (49.8%), South-South (55.5%), and South-East regions (59.5%).
Read more: https://www.naij.com/401470-see-the-10-poorest-states-in-nigeria.html

obaino860:
dude,,you are d one been defeated here...because you don't have any thing on ground to back up your facts..
d picture I posted with Ibadan newly commission flyover are old Ibadan....
aregbesora picture of oshogbe are old picture...
hahahhahhajajjajaaaahhaha.....
show me where has those kind of buildings in d poor region....
even abakalike is more beautiful with fine houses than any SWaste state...minus Lagos....
I hope UN will come and asses d building and state to tell us how dem da rate poverty for their side....

obaino860:
people living in Nigeria spoke and you say da are losing,,UN spoke from London and you said da are right..


hahahahha........okooo ..i hear...and also in SW propaganda,people living in d above picture are better than people living here

obaino860:
I no we no da go school...,but I hope what I am posting are fact

obaino860:
my friend...I hope Di's are also fact

obaino860:
1)Ben Bruce,and others spoke and you believe its not fact

OK I hope d pictures of d richest region below are facts.....

The global MPI was developed by OPHI with the UN Development Programme (UNDP) for inclusion in UNDP’s flagship Human Development Report in 2010. It has been published in the HDR ever since.http://www.ophi.org.uk/multidimensional-poverty-index/
http://www.dataforall.org/dashboard/ophi/index.php/


THIS IS FROM WORLD BANK
The NER also documents major differences in poverty and living standards by macro-region in Nigeria. While the South of Nigeria has relatively low poverty rates, ranging from 16% in the South West to 28.8% in the South East, poverty rates in the North West and North East are 45.9% and 50.2%, respectively. While the South of Nigeria (especially the South West) has experienced a strong positive dynamic in poverty reduction in recent years, the poverty rate in the North West has remained stagnant, while poverty has actually increased in the North East. Thus, disparities between the North (North West, North East) and South of Nigeria in poverty and living standards have increased. This is no doubt related to the recent security challenges in the Northern part of Nigeria. Explanatory factors for the high differences in living standards by geographical region are likely related to differences in the provision of public services and the degree of connectedness to larger markets.

NER MEANS NIGERIA ECONOMIC REPORT..maybe it is a Yoruba man that owns it...
http://www.worldbank.org/en/country/nigeria/publication/nigeria-economic-report-improved-economic-outlook-in-2014-and-prospects-for-continued-growth-look-good

THIS IS FROM NBS

Poverty was least dominant in the Southwest (49.8%), South-South (55.5%), and South-East regions (59.5%).
Read more: https://www.naij.com/401470-see-the-10-poorest-states-in-nigeria.html

quid:
You are digressing. . .
And you have once again evaded the question: "Is Olunloyo now a part of IPOD ?? "

quid:
You just evaded a simple question: "Is Olunloyo now a part of IPOD ??"

quid:
Is Olunloyo now a part of IPOD ??

obaino860:
this is d media propaganda SW have been living on.......who da loose
1)Oyo,osun,ekiti,ondo owing workers till date....
2)d poorest region as you claim build duplex in their cities and village and you are there living under your grand father Brown roof house...with brown roof scattered all over ur region and cities
3)keep deceiving urselfs....come to d south east and see d house d poorest people builds....and compare it with ur richest brown roof houses...
4)hahahahahahaha...better.....what are ondo,osun and ekiti known for......

quid:
First Lagos, now Ibadan

obaino860:
dude....sorry........elrufai,Ben Bruce,borno gov.,Niger gov.,,,,etc have praised d Igbo's for there doggedness and hardworking,enterprise,commerce....very soon media propaganda will fail and fowl button go open to see d lies d visit west have propagated for long........

1)Onitsha....d biggest market in west Africa(make money or die trying)
2)Nnewi.....d biggest automobile and parts
market in Africa(Japan of Africa)
3)aba......d biggest locally made goods market in Africa(China of Africa)
4)Enugu......d most beautiful and Serene environment for big boys in Nigeria(042)
5)Owerri...d beautiful and flexing city for young guys(enjoyment arena....flex till you run)
6)abakalike(ebony rice leading in Nigeria rice export,,d most popular locally made rice in Nigeria.....agricultural base of d east)

you see d east is complete..

tell me about d west minus lagos

They said they have more middle class yet SW has the least poverty rate in Nigeria.

http://www.dataforall.org/dashboard/ophi/index.php/

They claim they have more SMEs yet Oyo has more SMEs than all SE states.


http://nigerianstat.gov.ng/pdfuploads/SMEDAN%202013_Selected%20Tables.pdf

How many Igbo-owned investments comes close to LADOL in Lagos?

List the Banks that Igbos dominate that are more than the Yoruba-dominated/controlled Skye Bank, First Bank, Sterling Bank, GTBank, FCMB, e.t.c.

List the Telecoms Company that are Igbo-owned/dominated like Yoruba-owned/controlled Globacom and NTel

List the I.T businesses that are Igbo dominated that can stand the likes of Spectranet, CCHub, MainOne

Which Igbo-owned businesses can match the dominance of Yoruba-controlled Oando, ConOil, and Forte Oil?

The only Transport segment Igbos dominate is that of buses that convey their kinsmen between YOrubaland and the SE. Yorubas control the SW internal routes, e.g. When I take a bus from Lagos to Abeokuta or Ibadan, 9 out of 10 times the owner of the Bus is a Yorubaman and not an Igboman, so get your facts straight.

In a nutshell, Yorubas already dominate the Big Businesses and industries that count, e.g Finance, Oil & Gas, I.T, Telecoms, Insurance, Manufacturing & Industry, e.t.c. It would be unfair of us to dominate everything so we've left them the crumbs like dominating the Super-Eagles, Gala Hawking , spare-parts bizness, Selling DVD/VCD at Alaba, Entertainment (though Yorubas dominate the Music scene, while we comfortably have our indigeneous Film industry on lockdown as well ), transporting your kinsmen to-and-from the SE to Yorubaland, e.t.c. Your people can keep dominating those. But even Commerce/trading sef una don dey dump that one sef for drug-trafficking.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/06/rivers-state-others-have-overtaken-s-east-in-commerce-industry/

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/06/why-more-companies-are-moving-to-ogun/

http://www.nigerianstat.gov.ng/report/387


https://www.nairaland.com/3049881/nigerian-states-internally-generated-revenue

obaino860:
dude....sorry........elrufai,Ben Bruce,borno gov.,Niger gov.,,,,etc have praised d Igbo's for there doggedness and hardworking,enterprise,commerce....very soon media propaganda will fail and fowl button go open to see d lies d visit west have propagated for long........

1)Onitsha....d biggest market in west Africa(make money or die trying)
2)Nnewi.....d biggest automobile and parts
market in Africa(Japan of Africa)
3)aba......d biggest locally made goods market in Africa(China of Africa)
4)Enugu......d most beautiful and Serene environment for big boys in Nigeria(042)
5)Owerri...d beautiful and flexing city for young guys(enjoyment arena....flex till you run)
6)abakalike(ebony rice leading in Nigeria rice export,,d most popular locally made rice in Nigeria.....agricultural base of d east)

you see d east is complete..


tell me about d west

obaino860:
these are two flyover from 2 state capital....Ibadan and awka....look beyond d flyover including houses and tell me which is more developed....

1awka
2ibadan

afroniger:
[size=14pt]Mynd44, please come and warn this OP who is trying to soil Obiano's reputation with false representation. The Pictures he's attaching are not sanctioned by Anambra state government and are not from Anambra. The first one is a picture from Tanzania. [size=8pt][/size]



https://blogs.iita.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/DSC_0353.jpg

It was stolen from this website: http://blogs.iita.org/tag/vegetables/

The second one can be found on the Tomato jos website.

http://www.tomatojos.net/irrigation-practices-in-west-africa/

OP, what exactly is your aim?

obaino860:
in SW.....brown roof everywhere
in SE and SS....duplex everywhere even in d villages

AwiLand:
Now SE will no more hear we feed them,.... Only parasitic SW don't know what to do to survive without South South and South East

obaino860:
because you people are not smart....smart people obtain from in smart people to develop their region....dem who is smart

obaino860:
IG Igbo s own 73% of land in abuja as stated by elrufai.....while will Lagos be different

OmoAjowa7:
https://i1.wp.com/www.completesportsnigeria.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/images-3.jpg?w=384

Nigerian athlete Tobi Amusan earned C-USA Female Track Athlete of the Year accolades following a stellar first season that culminated in a silver finish at the NCAA Outdoor Championships and a First-Team All-America selection.

Amusan gathered 28 points for UTEP at C-USA Outdoors (first place – 100m hurdles, 200m dash & second place – long jump).

The Nigerian product took gold in 60m hurdles and seventh in long jump at C-USA Indoor Championships to guide the UTEP women to a second consecutive indoor title.

The sprintstar who holds a career-best time of 12.83 seconds ranks first for U-20 hurdlers in 2016, is a UTEP school record and is the second-fastest time ever run by a U-20 athlete.

http://www.completesportsnigeria.com/nigerian-amusan-wins-usa-college-athletics-award/

obaino860:
upon all dis,,you still gave brown roof lithered all over ur capitals.......sorry....

Emyben:
I am not up for any sort of Argument this morning with anyone at a. Looking at the above posts especially the photo attachments of a Yoruba discussion group where they discussed their problems and ways to tackle it, one can easily deduce the travails of the West. They were being honest enough to admit their problems.

Over the months, i have come to see that in Nairaland, tribal superiority and bigotry leads. In the face of obvious calamities, we will always pretend like all is well with our tribes.

If they want to lie to cover up their shame, na their wahala. Nothing concern me. Shikena

Am not here to mince word. I only say things as they are, shikena.

Emyben:
Deep inside you, you know you are lying. Keep lying to yourself. Realities on ground disagrees with ya imaginations or should i say Hallucination?

Now, you are giving yourself hope with Kwara.
Kwarans ko, kwarans ni.

Emyben:
Guy, you are Wicked. You just want some fellas to go drink poison.
The names i saw in those photos are clearly Yoruba'ish'. I just hope their kinsmen here who are still living in denial of current realities wakes up and face the herculean task facing them. Or else, in the next 30 to 40 years, the remaining 55% of their lands which have not been bought by Igbos will be finally acquired and even their Baales will be Igbos.

The truth hurts but it helps.

mercyville:
THIS IS BEN BRUCE:


Ben Murray-Bruce ‏@benmurraybruce 12h12 hours ago

2-There is something to be learned. Is it their policy? Is it their budgeting? Is it their sense of community? Whatever it is, it's working!
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Ben Murray-Bruce ‏@benmurraybruce 12h12 hours ago

1-What's happening in SE is almost miraculous. With some of the lowest FG allocations, they achieve remarkable educational/economic growth

I guess Ben Bruce also has a moniker on nairaland and always goes against anything southwest or yoruba but his opinion though a little laudable in terms of Anambra but he is not looking at the bigger picture which is that the yorubas though been on opposition side for ages,had maintained their lead economically and educationally..university wise....We can not entirely use WASSCE or the other little things being claimed here as educational growth but at the same time,Yoruba should wake.



YORUBA HAVE ALL THE LAURELS IN THE MAIN EDUCATIONAL SET UP...UNIVERSITY...


South East is Miracle Centres Personified(SEMCP).
Reason they cannot defend it in the universities...


BY VINCENT UJUMADU
AWKA—NO fewer than 486 centres of examination
magic in Anambra State are to be shut down as
part of measures to curb examination malpractices
in the education sector, the Commissioner for
Education, Professor Kate Omenugha, has said.
Speaking at the 10th anniversary of St. Joseph’s
Academic Award for 2014, the commissioner
observed that the miracle centres had been aiding
and abating examination malpractices, especially
during West African School Certificate
Examinations, WASC, and National Examination
Council, NECO, examinations.
According to her, the decision to shut down the
magic centres became necessary due to the
manner their operators have fashioned them to
swindle unsuspecting, desperate candidates.
She said: “We have govern-ment and approved
private schools that are saddled with the
responsibility of training our children to become
functional members of our society.”
http://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/07/anambra-
close-486-centres-exam-magic/

moshino:
It is easier to take money from 'UN-SMART' people, so Ben Bruce is smart!

xharder:
Yoruba ronu ooooo...

Asi ko ti to lati ji lati orun

Yimu. List these Igbo-controlled restaurants and caterings that are bigger than the Yoruba-owned Chicken Republic, Tantalizers, Tasty Fried Chicken, or Sweet Sensation, that are Igbo owned.

While you're at it, also list those Igbo-owned Industries in Lagos and the SW you keep bragging about please.

I guess to your sick mind the following SW based industries are Igbo-owned: Honeywell Flour Mills, GZI Industries, ProForce, Elizade, Bi-Courtney, Eleganza Group, Folawiyo Group, Petro Inett, Modandola Group, Manucom Fishing, Aiico Insurance, the Yoruba-owned banks, Insurance Companies, e.t.c. Even SME's (interestingly, after Lagos state, Oyo has the highest number of SME's in the country, higher than any SE state) we are comfortably in the lead. You know what SME's stand for right? And how many individuals you must employ to qualify as one?) all located in Yorubaland. I am waiting for those Igbo Big Businesses in Lagos and the SW (not 'pure water' ones o) that are more than Yoruba owned ones, and that give you all the ballz to brag.

http://nigerianstat.gov.ng/pdfuploads/SMEDAN%202013_Selected%20Tables.pdf


Also kindly List the number of Insurance companies players that are Igbo-owned dominating Yorubaland or Nigeria in general.

Which Igbo-owned investment comes close to LADOL in Lagos?

List the Banks that Igbos dominate that are more than the Yoruba-dominated/controlled Skye Bank, First Bank, Sterling Bank, GTBank, FCMB,

List the Telecoms Company that are Igbo-owned/dominated like Yoruba-owned/controlled Globacom and NTel

List the I.T businesses that are Igbo dominated that can stand the likes of Spectranet, CCHub, MainOne

Which Igbo-owned businesses can match the dominance of Yoruba-controlled Oando, ConOil, and Forte Oil?

The only Transport segment Igbos dominate is that of buses that convey their kinsmen between YOrubaland and the SE. Yorubas control the SW internal routes, e.g. When I take a bus from Lagos to Abeokuta of Ibadan, 9 out of 10 times the owner of the Bus is a Yorubaman and not an Igboman, so get your facts straight.

In a nutshell, Yorubas already dominate the Big Businesses and industries that count, e.g Finance, Oil & Gas, I.T, Telecoms, Insurance, Manufacturing & Industry, e.t.c. It would be unfair of us to dominate everything so we've left them the crumbs like dominating the Super-Eagles, Gala Hawking , spare-parts bizness, Selling DVD/VCD at Alaba, Entertainment (though Yorubas dominate the Music scene, while we comfortably have our indigeneous industry on lockdown as well ), transporting your kinsmen to-and-from the SE to Yorubaland, e.t.c. Your people can keep dominating those. But even Commerce sef dem don dey dump that one for drug-trafficking.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/06/rivers-state-others-have-overtaken-s-east-in-commerce-industry/

Smh.

They said they have more middle class yet SW has the least poverty rate in Nigeria.

http://www.dataforall.org/dashboard/ophi/index.php/

They claim they have more SMEs yet Oyo has more SMEs than all SE states.


http://nigerianstat.gov.ng/pdfuploads/SMEDAN%202013_Selected%20Tables.pdf

oduastates:
Those kids in tech are cleaning their mouth with benjamins . I am holding fire as well .
We are not even talking about those silent billionaires . You would think they are average people , down to their average looking houses and cars .
The only way you would know are the school the kids attend overseas and their addresses in New York and London.

oduastates:
He is only scratching the surface .

Drabeey:
Open Letter To Asiwaju Bola Ahmed
Tinubu
My dear Asiwaju,
I am compelled to write this open letter
to you because of the state of affairs of
the Yoruba nation. Firstly, I wish to acknowledge that fate has put you in a
prime position to determine to a large
extent the direction that the Yoruba
people will go. The indisputable truth is
that one may quarrel with your politics
but your sagacity is never in doubt. Even those who don't see eye to eye with you
agree that you are imbued with unusual
native intelligence, uncommon people
skills and unrivaled foresight. You, more
than any other person, has been the
game changer since the advent of democracy in 1999. It is for these reasons
that I have chosen to direct this letter to
you.
My singular purpose is to tug at the
strings of your heart. I am not writing to
appeal to partisan considerations but to see, if per chance, I can pour out my
heart to you in a manner of speaking.
God has blessed you even beyond your
wildest imagination. You have installed
Senators and Governors. You have
removed Governors and even a President. You have also installed a President. There
is nothing you have wished for or desired
that you didn't get. Fortune has smiled
on you. Goodwill follows you everywhere
you go. You have done very well- more
than most men ever will. However, there is one area that is begging for your
urgent attention. This area may well
define you and all you have ever
achieved. This matter, in my opinion, is
the only difference between you and the
late sage, Chief Obafemi Awolowo. Let me restate for the purpose of emphasis
that this is the area in which the late
sage and Leader of the Yorubas stand
head and shoulders above you. It is the
reason his name has been a constant
denominator in our regional and national politics. It is the reason
politicians, friends and foes invoke his
name for political advantage and
personal glory. It is also the reason why
we can't stop talking about him almost
thirty years after his death. What will anyone say about you thirty years after
you have transited?
Asiwaju Sir, you may be wondering what
I'm talking about? It is the issue of
legacy. According to Peter Strople,
'Legacy is not leaving something for people, it is leaving something in
people'. Legacy is building something
that outlives you. Legacy is greater than
currency. In the words of Leonard Sweet,
' What you do is your history. What you
set in motion is your legacy'. You can't live forever, Sir. No one can. But you can
create something that will. Enough of
speaking in parables- I shall now speak
plainly.
When destiny brought you on the scene,
we were enamoured because you championed the case for true federalism.
It was your belief then that the Yoruba
nation will fare better under a
restructured arrangement than under the
type of unitary government we run while
pretending by calling it a federal government. Everyone knows that there
is nothing federal about our government
at all. If truth must be told, the Yoruba
nation has fared very badly since the
advent of our new democracy. And this is
not about holding power at the centre. Let me bring this home: someone passed
a comment recently that he would want
Biafra to become a reality because he
knows the Igbo nation will survive. That
comment led me to deeper introspection
as I wondered if the Yorubas can truly survive. Let me cite my first example.
From Oyo to Osun, Ogun to Ondo, Ekiti to
Kwara and Lagos, hardly will one see any
serious industry or manufacturing
concern owned by a Yoruba person. I am
not talking about portfolio businesses or one-man business concerns. Most
industries in Oyo State are owned by the
Lebanese. The native business and
industry gurus who dominated the
landscape- Nathaniel Idowu, Amos
Adegoke, Lekan Salami, Alao Arisekola, Adeola Odutola, Jimoh Odutola, Chief
Theophilus Adediran Oni and others- are
all gone with no credible replacements.
I'm sure you remember the tyre factory
of the Odutolas and how Jimoh Odutola
was even asked by the Governments of Kenya and Ghana to set up a similar
factory in their countries. Chief
Theophilus Adediran Oni, popularly called
T.A Oni & Sons started the first
indigenous construction company in
Nigeria. He willed his residence- Goodwill House, to the Oyo/Western state
government, to be used as a Paediatric
Hospital, which is now known as T.A Oni
Memorial Children Hospital at Ring Road
in Ibadan. This sprawling family Estate
and residence was cited on a 15acre piece of land, 65 rooms, with modern
conveniences, Olympic Swimming Pool
and stable for Horses, etc.
People like Chief Bode Akindele started
companies like Standard Breweries and
Dr Pepper Soft drink factory at Alomaja in Ibadan. Broking House built by the late
Femi Johnson, an insurance magnate,
still stands glittering in the mid-day sun
as an epitome to a rich history that
Ibadan has. The most serious and only
notable Yoruba entrepreneur we have now is Michael Adenuga. I say this quite
consciously because most of the other
names are oil and gas barons. Most of
what stood as testaments of industry in
Oyo State are gone- Exide Batteries,
Leyland Autos and many others. In its place are shopping malls and road side
markets but no nation develops through
buying and selling alone- especially when
you're not actually producing what
you're selling. Hypermarkets and
supermarkets have taken over because of the need to feed our insatiable
consumer-appetite and foreign tastes. In
one instance, an ancient landmark in the
form of a hotel was demolished to pave
way for a mall. That is how low we have
sunk. If our past is better than our present- if we always look back with
nostalgia frequently, then there is a
problem.
The case of other states is not different.
Osun's case is pathetic. Ditto for Ondo
and Ekiti. Ogun State can boast of some factories at Sango-Otta and Agbara axis
but most of them are not owned by the
Yorubas. There is no significant
pharmaceutical company owned by any
Yoruba except for Bond Chemicals in
Awe, Oyo State- and its wallet share is very insignificant. For Lagos State, more
than 70% of the manufacturing concerns
and major industries in the State are
owned by the Igbos. If the Igbos were to
stop paying tax in Lagos State, the IGR of
Lagos State will reduce by over 60%. In contrast, Sir, go to the South East and
look at the manufacturing concerns in
Onitsha, Aba and Nnewi. Please don't
forget those were areas ravaged by civil
war a mere forty something years ago.
The Igbos have certainly made tremendous progress but the Yoruba
nation has regressed. I wish to state that
this letter is not meant to whip up
primordial considerations or ethnic
sentiments but just to put things in
proper perspective. Asiwaju, I will like to also talk about the
state of education in the Yoruba nation.
Our education has gone to the dogs. We
have a bunch of mis-educated and ill-
educated young men and women
roaming the streets. Ibadan, for instance, had the first University in Nigeria and the
first set of research centres in Nigeria
( The Forestry Research Institute, the
Cocoa Research Institute (CRIN), The
Nigerian Cereal Research Institute Moor
Plantation (NCRI), the NIHORT (Nigerian Institute of Horticultural Research), the
NISER (Nigerian Institute of Social and
Economic Research), IAR&T (Institute of
Agriculture, Research and Training),
amongst several others). Ibadan was the
bastion of scholarship with people like Wole Soyinka, JP Clark, D.O Fagunwa and
Amos Tutuola as residents. In the May/
June 2015 West African Senior Secondary
Certificate Examination, Abia came tops.
Anambra came 2nd while Edo was 3rd.
Lagos placed 6th while Osun and Oyo was 29th and 26th. Ekiti was 11th, Ondo
State was 13th and Ogun State was 19th.
In 2013 WASSCE, only Lagos and Ogun
States were the Yoruba States above the
national average. If we do an analysis of
how Lagos placed 6th in 2015, you will discover that it was substantially because
of other nationalities resident in Lagos.
For proof, please look no further than the
winners of the Spelling Bee competition
which has produced One-Day Governors
in Lagos State. Since inception in 2001, other nationalities have won the
competition six times (Ebuka Anisiobi in
2001, Ovuwhore Etiti in 2002, Abundance
Ikechukwu in 2006, Daniel Osunbor in
2008, Akpakpan Iniodu Jones in 2011
and Lilian Ogbuefi in 2012). Sir, there is something seriously wrong about our
state of education. From the vintage
times of Obafemi Awolowo who initiated
'free education', we have regressed into
a most parlous state.
Let me talk about roads, housing and infrastructure . The first dualized road in
Nigeria, the Queen Elizabeth road from
Mokola to Agodi in Ibadan was formally
commissioned by Queen Elizabeth in
1956. The first Housing Estate in Nigeria
is Bodija Housing Estate (also in Ibadan) which was built in 1958. The state of
roads in the Yoruba nation has become
pathetic. Our hinterland are still largely
rural. Even some state capitals like
Osogbo and Ado-Ekiti are big villages
when you compare them to towns in the South East. How many new estates have
been built over the last decade? Even
Ajoda New Town lies in ruins.
We have abandoned the farm settlement
strategy of the Western Region and only
pay lip service to agriculture. Instead of feeding others like we once did, others
now feed us. We plant no tomatoes, no
pepper and the basic food that we
require. The Indians have bought the
large expanse of water body that we
have in Onigambari village. The water body in Oke Ogun of Oyo State can
provide enough fish to feed the whole of
the South West. From being a major
cocoa exporter many years ago, one can
point to just a few vestiges of factories
that still deal with Cocoa in the Yoruba nation. 80% of Cocoa processing
industries in the South West have been
shut down. The Chinese have taken over
the cashew belt at Ogbomoso in Oyo
State. They have even edged out the
indigenes as brokers. They now come to the cashew belt to buy from the local
farmers, sell on the spot to other Chinese
exporters who now process the cashew
nuts and import them back into Nigeria
at a premium. Sir, there are only 7 major
cashew processing plants in Nigeria and you can check out the ownership. The
glory has departed from the Yoruba
nation.
Apart from Asejire, Ede, Ikere Gorge and
Oyan dams built ages ago, where are the
new dams to cater for increased population and water capacity for the
Yoruba nation? How have we improved
on what our heroes past left us? Maybe
apart from certain areas in Lagos State,
others can't even supply their citizens
with pipe-borne water. Our youth which we used to take pride in
are largely a mass of unemployed and
unemployable people. Have you noticed
the abundance of street urchins, area
boys, touts and 'agberos' that we now
have all across the Yoruba nation? Have you noticed the swell in the ranks of
NURTW (I mean no disrespect to an
otherwise noble union)? Have you
noticed the increase in the number of
Yoruba beggars? There was a time that it
was taboo for a Yoruba man to beg- but no more. The spirit of apprenticeship is
dead. There was a time that people who
learn vocational skills celebrate what we
referred to as 'freedom'. While that is
largely moribund now in the Yoruba
nation, the Igbos still practice it with great success.
The only thing we can boldly say the
Yoruba nation controls is the information
machinery- the press. We own largely the
newspapers- the Nation, Punch, Nigerian
Tribune, TV Continental and a few others. It is because of our control of this
information machinery that we have
rewritten the narrative in the country
with the misguided self-belief that things
are normal and we are making progress.
A look beyond the surface will prove that this is so untrue.
We are largely divided. For the first time
in the history of the Yoruba nation,
religion is about to divide us further- and
it is starting from Osun State. You are
married to a Christian. My own father-in- law is an Alhaji. That is how we have
peacefully do-existed but the fabrics are
about to be torn to shreds because of
poor management of issues. Afenifere
has been reduced to a shadow of itself.
OPC that once defended Yoruba interests has gone into oblivion. Yoruba elders
have been vilified in the name of politics
and partisanship. It is no longer news to
see teenagers throwing stones at their
elders because of their political
indoctrination. Even under the late sage, Chief Obafemi Awolowo, the Yorubas
never belonged to just a single party- yet
our unity was without blemish. Now, our
values have gone down the drain.
Asiwaju, I believe I have said enough. The
task is Herculean but I believe Providence has brought you here for such a time like
this. It is time for the Yoruba nation to
clean up its acts. What do we really
want? How can we quickly right the
wrongs? The Yoruba nation is in a state
of arrested development. The Yoruba nation is gasping for breath and crying
for help. Will you rise up to the occasion?
I am aware you understand that all
politics is local and charity begins at
home. Our fathers gave us a proverb: 'Bi
o'ode o dun, bi igbe ni'gboro ri'. I know there are no quick fixes but I also know
that if there is anyone who has the
capacity to do something about our
current situation, that person is you. This
should be the legacy you should think of.
Your legacy is our future. Yours Very Sincerely,
Adebayo Adeyinka

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Yimu. List these Igbo-controlled restaurants and caterings that are bigger than the Yoruba-owned Chicken Republic, Tantalizers, Tasty Fried Chicken, or Sweet Sensation, that are Igbo owned.

While you're at it, also list those Igbo-owned Industries in Lagos and the SW you keep bragging about please.

I guess to your sick mind the following SW based industries are Igbo-owned: Honeywell Flour Mills, GZI Industries, ProForce, Elizade, Bi-Courtney, Eleganza Group, Folawiyo Group, Petro Inett, Modandola Group, Manucom Fishing, Aiico Insurance, the Yoruba-owned banks, Insurance Companies, e.t.c. Even SME's (interestingly, after Lagos state, Oyo has the highest number of SME's in the country, higher than any SE state) we are comfortably in the lead. You know what SME's stand for right? And how many individuals you must employ to qualify as one?) all located in Yorubaland. I am waiting for those Igbo Big Businesses in Lagos and the SW (not 'pure water' ones o) that are more than Yoruba owned ones, and that give you all the ballz to brag.

http://nigerianstat.gov.ng/pdfuploads/SMEDAN%202013_Selected%20Tables.pdf


Also kindly List the number of Insurance companies players that are Igbo-owned dominating Yorubaland or Nigeria in general.

Which Igbo-owned investment comes close to LADOL in Lagos?

List the Banks that Igbos dominate that are more than the Yoruba-dominated/controlled Skye Bank, First Bank, Sterling Bank, GTBank, FCMB,

List the Telecoms Company that are Igbo-owned/dominated like Yoruba-owned/controlled Globacom and NTel

List the I.T businesses that are Igbo dominated that can stand the likes of Spectranet, CCHub, MainOne

Which Igbo-owned businesses can match the dominance of Yoruba-controlled Oando, ConOil, and Forte Oil?

The only Transport segment Igbos dominate is that of buses that convey their kinsmen between YOrubaland and the SE. Yorubas control the SW internal routes, e.g. When I take a bus from Lagos to Abeokuta of Ibadan, 9 out of 10 times the owner of the Bus is a Yorubaman and not an Igboman, so get your facts straight.

In a nutshell, Yorubas already dominate the Big Businesses and industries that count, e.g Finance, Oil & Gas, I.T, Telecoms, Insurance, Manufacturing & Industry, e.t.c. It would be unfair of us to dominate everything so we've left them the crumbs like dominating the Super-Eagles, Gala Hawking , spare-parts bizness, Selling DVD/VCD at Alaba, Entertainment (though Yorubas dominate the Music scene, while we comfortably have our indigeneous industry on lockdown as well ), transporting your kinsmen to-and-from the SE to Yorubaland, e.t.c. Your people can keep dominating those. But even Commerce sef dem don dey dump that one for drug-trafficking.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/06/rivers-state-others-have-overtaken-s-east-in-commerce-industry/