Bsc:

Victory is from Allah alone.

otiigba1:
I think buhari may have been presenting nigeria as a muslim country, to other nations.

I read in the news last night that mali has been declared as a muslim country by their president. What happens to the christians in mali? Same faith i believe, awaits nigeria in the near future.

Me thinks we nigerians should be very concerned/worried about this issue

noblezone:
We are still warning as we have been warning!

One Nigeria a curse rained down upon us by slave traders!
This blood shedding in Nigeria will never stop!
The ethnic nationalities will continue to fight for supremacies.
The Fulanis will continue to record highs scores against the other nationalities because they having accepted Islam in the form practiced by Mohammed are violent and brutal by nature.

WE can either sit down now and discuss or continue in the circle of blood!

If those killed are Fulanis, the Yorubas must know that whether it takes 100 years, the descendants of Usman Dan Fodio will surely revenge in measure.

stanley10122:
Dangote is a political prostitute afterall..whatever it takes to keep dat bread coming

kettykin:

I am suggesting a 10 year relocation after dredging of niger river and deep sea port in Akwa ibom and Bayelsa

Niger delta should be ready to disallow or oil companies without its head quarters in niger delta.

First when and if lagos becomes unbearable and uninhabitable for igbos, a new wave of igbo migration will start and Abuja will likely be the benefactor.
Out of the 6 systemic banks in the country igbos control zenith, uba, access and diamond bank, this would likely relocate to Abuja and that with their data centers and IT unit necessitating the movement of IT service Companies.

The next in line would be the multi-billion Naira telecommunications companies of which igbos chair 3 of them MTN, visa phone and swift, the anti igbophism will force these companies to relocate to Abuja with their billing and switches leading to massive staff relocation with their families, already Etisalat head quarters is in Abuja.
Abuja would now be the new telecommunications capital as telecom engineering and service companies will set up shops in Abuja.

As igbos leave lagos for Abuja their niger delta brothers and neighbours who are yet to recover from the mother of all betrayal and back stabbing would follow suit because many of them have strong igbo connection in business and marriage.

The next industry that would be hit is the music industry, the leading stars of the nigerian music industry, Don jazzy, P square, flavour, Nigga Raw etc would move where ever their major fans and family move to, this would compel new recording companies to spring up in Abuja where folks like Charlie boy is already in the wait.

The Nollywood actors ,actresses, producers would also take flight as the major consumers of their products would have moved.

The next set of people who will move are the importers, spare parts traders in Ladipo, electronic dealers in Alaba, the clothing dealers in tejuosho ,the generator part dealers in oregun, the inter state transport companies ,the haulage firms, the logistics companies like chisco, ekene, peace, ABC transport, Abex, ifex who might not find it initially easy but can start now to start opening alternative head offices in Abuja and the east, deploying cheaper and cost effective means of moving goods from the ports in yaounde Cameroon and through the eastern ports to the new offices in the east and Abuja .

finally igbo owned pharmaceutical , IT companies, hospitals like havana hospital, eko, first consultant ,signal alliance, zinox, cyberspace , computer warehouse, neimeith, ,lagos business school ,orange drugs, techno, slot, should by now be aware of recent developments in lagos .

CyberWolf:
Ambode won and so what? Will that stop Igbos from doing their businesses in Lagos?..Will that stop Igbos from buying lands and building houses in lagos?...If any of you get liver,attack Igbos where ever they are whether in North or West,that day, Nigeria will seize to exist..We are waiting for Buhari to start his ethnic cleansing administration,then we will respond in kind beyond his wildest imagination..Aso Rock and National Assembly will be reduced to Ashes with just punch of a key ...All the ethnic groups in Nigeria MUST be equitably represented in this administration or else...Anyway let us hold our peace for now ..NONSENSE!!!..

CyberWolf:
..We are waiting...You think this is 1966?...Don't worry..

GenIgrigi:
**grins** If the so-called yorubas
cannot pick up arms and pull out of
Nigeria, then they are just blowing hot
air. Lagos was developed with palm
proceeds from the east, groundnut
proceeds from the north and Oil
proceeds from the SS(which also have
large indigenous Igbo population).
The yorubas can not reap where they
did not sow.
Majority of workers in NNPC and
Chevron are yorubas who got there
because of yoruba post-war and
unjust administrative influence of the
likes of kupolokun and others.
If yorubas want non-indigenes to
leave lagos, it is very achievable but..
1. They must declare an independent
country from Nigeria. They can't eat
their cake and have it. (ie They can't
drink peoples oil and still keep FG
developed Lagos to themselves.)
2. Severe themselves from the oil
proceeds they get from regions
belonging to "strangers". No cup-in-
hand oil allocation for them.States like
oyo produce nothing but beggars and
motor psrk touts but collect one of
the highest allocations.
3. Start building a border post at Ore
with immediate effect, infact odua
diaspora can fund that.
4. Recall all their indigenes schooling
and working in oil coys and banks in
the East. Including their herbal drink
sellers.
5. Otedola, Mike Adenuga, Alakija and
their oil billionaires and oil well
owners must relinquish their Oil wells
and Oil Mining Licenses.
6. Publicly burn and denounce the
Constitution of Nigeria that
guarantees every Nigerian equal
rights.
Until they meet these very achievable
condition these guys should channel
their noisemaking and energy in
donating toilet facilities for their
families in oyo, osun and kwara. It's
more pertinent.

masseratti:
that is a big lie,the difference is as clear as 7up vs coca cola,

A Niger deltan will always do everything necessary to make sure u are aware that he is not Igbo,they are mostly humble and easy going,an Igbo man is much more noticed and business minded.

But this man calling himself the head of Ohaneze in Amino odofin,this are the people fueling this issue,the palace of the Oba has spoken that the statement was misconstrued and you are still demanding for a documentary, we didn't destroy your property during the war,is it because of Elections we would now destroy it?never has Igbos being attacked in lagos so why now?

Asking or demanding for apologies from the Oba which is a taboo in yoruba land,will never work because rather for the Oba to apologise they will rather commit suicide.

BiafranPrince:



Tell the adversary, they have only 2 options when we march for Biafra, either they surrender to Biafra or zoological republic of Nigeria and the monkeys and baboons in this entity will be wiped off the face of the earth.

I swear, instead of Biafra not to come, everyone here will perish.
Take my words to the bank.

ControlX:
Cc Seun Lalastica
ikenna351 afam4eva
Pls do the needful.



***modified***
Hahaha... at last i made fp just 6days to my birthday. [jumps and punches the air with my right hand]
Oooh.. Thank you, Jesus.

I dedicate this fp and ftc to my sweetest mum for all her efforts towards my personal success. Cheers mum.
Meanwhile special thanks to lalastica, seun, ikenna351 and afam4eva and all nairalanders...
Better things are coming.

Now to the topic....
I think what binds many tribes in Nigeria is a common hatred for the Igbos. This hatred i believe is hinged on the purported dominance of Igbos. What is it about Igbo dominance? Here is what a fellow nairalander has to say...

Great point. Fear of Igbo domination as my father
would say is a sign of weakness on the part of
the fearer and lack of confidence in their ability. In
other words, for someone to dominate you in a
non physical way whether economically, socially, educationally, in any way, shape and form as long
as they are not holding you hostage physically
from succeeding but solely by intelligence in a
level playing field, then the conclusion is that
person or group of people are smarter than
you...this has been scientifically proven. So any tribe that fears Igbo domination are less smarter
than the Igbos otherwise compete with them. The
reason why Igbos do better in everything that
they do, which is often mistaken as domination is
because they are smarter than the rest of other
ethnic groups in Nigeria. When I mean "smarter" I
don't mean individually as a Hausa man can be
smarter than a yoruba, yoruba smarter than an
ijaw man an ijaw may be smarter than an Igbo,
e.t.c., however as a whole in terms of an ethnic
group, the Igbos lead the pack in Nigeria and
some tribes see it as a domination but actually it
isn't...they are just more smarter and have more
drive than others. Dr. Thomas Sowell detailed this
in his book and actually mentions Igbos as the
most successful ethnic group in Nigeria despite
the civil war set back.

If Nigeria wants to be truly great, we should not trifle with any tribe, especially the Igbos.

BiafranPrince:


If only u were men and fought the men alone and not take wickedness to another level by starving women and children.

Their death shall not be in vain.
Either Biafra comes or all soul in this zoo perishes.

2ruink:
You know what happens to a leech when scraped off? Don't think that any aboki will come to your rescue, they equally hate you because you are so disgusting....BTW have you regained the ownership of kwara? Small small una go become homeless Nigeria. If aboki herdsmen could drive you out of Kwara why will Lagos be different? Blooody cowards.

dancoolD:
where were the Yorubas when Igbos develop Lagos? this is to inform those claiming that Lagos belong to them that they should note that Lagos belong to every body not only Yorubas.

2ruink:
If Awolowo had not committed suicide by drinking rat poison, he would have scolded you never to make such arrogant statement again.
War is not media propaganda ooo. When it starts to rain, then will you realize how empty the Yoruba nation is. I have spoken!

chrisie:
BIAFRA 1- 1967-1970. The Northern region and the South-West combined to defeat the South-East.

BIAFRA 2- March 2015 election. The North in collaboration with its junior partner, the South-West collaborated to defeat the South-South. The north and southwest always see elections as war and "do or die", therefore all is fair. I feel ashamed that a first class oba and and ex-DIG of a pan Nigerian institution (NPF) should make such an abominable remark in a republic and some elites want us to wish it away. Good luck to Nigeria.

BiafranPrince:


I rather fight for what I believe in than fear for the worst.

lygn19:
Dats y we re not giving up now, u guys are busy making war chants, at least this time d war won't be fought on d East but on the west in Lagos, anybody dat wants to die wud die, investors wud run, state of emergency wud be declared, at least there is a lot of things in Lagos dat one dynamite can help ... d baby who says the mother will not sleep, won't sleep too.

ajomoses:


The Bitter Truth About The Igbo, By Femi Fani-Kayode
August 8, 2013Premium Times
Femi Fani-Kayode
Femi Fani-Kayode
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.

cobsol:
They all scared of the Igbo's..... they obviously know our capabilities so they wonder what will become of them if we pull together!

A Yoruba man is naturally lazy and backward, before you kill me, apart from Lagos which no mans land, please visit Yoruba home towns and see how poverty eaten deep.

#bringthelagoon-on
#foolishoba

manchy7531:



They are a conquered people yet they are beating you guys blue and black in your own backyard, winning electoral offices, have taken over your markets and land, and the north giving orders to your leaders....Infact you guys are slaves.

Politically conquered by the north and socially and economically conquered by the east. Dont worry, i understand how shameful and depressing it is to be yoruba.lazy people

Mcleo007:



You delude yourself by two key points in your comment; "domination" and "smarter". In as much as the terms are relative, it does little on the part of intellectual auto critique. I'll educate you on that now. No one person or group is /can be dominant or smarter than the other. That the Igbo's largely engage in, and consequently thrives in petty trades, menial hustle, wholesale dealership and more, doesn't make them better at it than others. These are things any human can do to survive. Trade is not limited by culture, time and space.

What you don't know, doesn't hurt you, they say! Call two Igbo billionaires today, and I'll name 10 industrialists/billionaires who are Yoruba. Yoruba people dwell more on industrialisation than ventural businesses with limited employment enhancement and affluence.

I often hear people say the Igbo people largely helped to develop Lagos; that for me is an insult to the aborigens and other Yoruba's in the state. There are other ethnic groups in the state, in large numbers too; Edo, Ebira, Ijaw, Hausa. Whatever happened to these sects! That they don't rent shops in Ikeja and sell spare parts in Ladipo and Alaba make their contributions to the state any less?

Take politics for example; that the Igbo's are naively malignant in political relevance make them any less smarter than the Hausas and Yoruba's who are more elite in that light?

You see my friend, the Igbo's are not better than anybody than themselves. And the assumption of envy from the Yoruba's, and aspired domination of Lagos is such a silly thought too.

delors:
Lady Chimamanda, can you please stop this long forgotten discourse? Everyone pricks on molehill to create mountains so they could remain relevant. Lady Adichie is no exception here.
The Oba spoke as a man (just like every other human) but in strong yoruba metaphors intelligible to everyone but the igbo nation, being who they are, intentionally twisted the context to draw sentiments and instigate non-existing hatred...That's opportunism.
Saying the Ibos should be grateful for being welcome in Lagos shouldn't be taken too far...I wonder why you didn't include the north east states in your discourse where non-hausas are treated with grave suspicion, hatred and skepticism. Why do the hausas descend on non-hausas whenever a little misunderstanding arises? Why are non-indigenes not Openly welcome in the north? If you are blind to that area then your seemingly intelligible discourse (apologetic to your kindred alone for obvious reasons) which tends to hide under the guise if 'nationalism' is nothing but a sentimentally conjured discourse.
Broaden your view to capture the real issues and don't just jump on molehill issues to escalate it.
I honestly have no time for you now pretty lady, our talk, another day.