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Re: Odumegwu Ojukwu Was The First Billionaire In Nigeria by Blaze14k: 3:05pm On May 04
Roger3D:
And where does that leave Mensa Musa the richest human who ever lived? Was he not an African too?

Find the author and ask him
Re: Odumegwu Ojukwu Was The First Billionaire In Nigeria by Yorubasarecurse: 5:10pm On May 04
alantonamumu:

This is the first time anyone would claim that any ibo property in SW was confiscated after the way. You guys can tell lies the heaven, make unnecessary enemies for your kith and kins
F#*k off my mention this dirty attention seeking bigot.
Ode.
Re: Odumegwu Ojukwu Was The First Billionaire In Nigeria by tishbite42: 5:22pm On May 04
alanto:

This is the first time anyone would claim that any ibo property in SW was confiscated after the way. You guys can tell lies the heaven, make unnecessary enemies for your kith and kins
The Yorubas stole Igbo properties
It is well documented
You just use your media to cover your atrocities
The battles Ojukwu fought to recover some of the properties are in public domain
Re: Odumegwu Ojukwu Was The First Billionaire In Nigeria by Konquest: 3:19pm On May 23
Slytiger:


I don't know what you people gain by peddling falsehood.

The rolls Royce used by the Queen on her visit to Nigeria belonged to the emir of Kano as published my Daily Mail. I don't know what you people gain by peddling falsehood.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0heo9EnuIM?si=ocfBWDE4sRU55ees
Brilliant. It's impressive that you dug the video up stating the FACTS.

https://punchng.com/old-money-10-super-rich-men-of-independence-era/

The article sbove NEVER indicated that Louise was a billionaire according to the gross misinformation from the OP. All the rich folks from Candido DaRocha of Lagos Island but originally an Ijesa man whose family returned in the 1800s from Bahia in Brazil, to Alhassan Dantata of Kano, to Louise, were all Pounds millionaires. The Punch article writer did indicate that in today's value, the millions were worth billions today. Alhaji Alhassan Dantata of Kano was actually the richest man in Nigeria as of the time he passed on in 1955 in Kano.

In any event, the man who is the subject matter of this thread was NEVER a billionaire but a millionaire, and Frederick Forsythe indicated in his book that I read (which was published during the Nigerian Civil War) that Louise Ojukwu made his first millions from buying land from the indigenes of Iruland (or Victoria Island) and then reselling the lands to the British Colonialists who purchased it from him.

Most of those peddling and rehashing the misleading information for some years now (on several Ibo-owned online platforms) about the Rolls Royce are primarily his Ibo kinsmen and other unsuspecting younger folks of other ethnicities who read these fictitious histories online and offline.

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