OfoIgbo:


It's a data I have heard bandied around by pretty reliable sources.

I even consider it way more reliable when people like Prof. Pat Utomi started to repeat this line in interviews.

Also bear in mind that Onitsha is a huge market. People from much of West Africa head to Onitsha to go purchase one thing or another.

Additionally consider the fact that the most popular markets in Lagos are controlled by people who have huge bases in Onitsha, Nnewi and possibly Aba.

It could be true but no data from any institution just something that has been bandied all over the place?
To my mind,I think ships usually are birthed in Lagos,mostly bringing goods to Nigeria.
I think it is more probable to say that Balogun Market is the largest in Nigeria just like some people have claimed in my screenshot.
Or maybe no one knows the biggest market in Nigeria?

Raf4:


While all the factories, markets, projects and population (purchasing power) in Lagos, Ogun and the rest of the country share the remaining 30% abi? Are you not embarrassed with the quality of this lie

Everybody is saying that their market is the biggest and largest.
Which one exactly is the largest in Africa?

OfoIgbo:
70% of all the shipped cargoes that arrive at the Lagos ports, head straight to Onitsha.

That alone is a tell-tale sign of the hugeness of the Onitsha market.

Is this a data from NBS?
I am looking at the fact that Lagos has more purchasing power and population than Onitsha but if it is from a data based institution,I concur.

Trying to make a real estate decision but how true is the notion that Onitsha is the largest market in Africa.
Which institution designated it as such?
Thanks.

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lol
Another debate thread.

Built2last:
WE ARE NOT TRYING TO DOMINATE YOU...WE ARE LIVING THE BEST WAY WE ARE WIRED.

How do a people who has never picked arm to fight their host community home and abroad or people living in their own enclave always accused of dominating or colonising? How?

We are not dominating you, we only traveled to your village, fill a need you probably did not see, render services you could not, sometimes start by sleeping in overpriced shops in the same village, few years down the line, buy small land, build one small hut, tried to just run our business and feed our kids while struggling with the evil policies of those who have hijacked governance since we were brushed aside decades ago....tell me, HOW ARE WE TRYING TO DOMINATE YOU?

Igbo boy finished his youth service in one village in zamfara as a young medical doctor, decides to stay back in that VILLAGE to help because there is need for medical services which everyone is running away from....he noticed that if he stay, while solving these needs, we can also make some money.....few years down the line, after years of suffering while trying to grow...it is either he is dominating or he did blood money.....
TELL ME, HOW ARE WE DOMINATING YOU?

Igbos has the greatest number of graduates that could not find their way into government pay job but instead of complaining about others DOMINATING, we can join spare parts business to survive....even after doing that, few years down the line, it is either it is blood money or we are trying to DOMINATE. HOW ON EARTH CAN YOU DOMINATE A PEOPLE WITHOUT FIGHTING THEM, NEITHER DO YOU CONTROL GOVERNMENT THAT IS DEALING WITH EVERYONE.....HOW?

If we demand for better treatment so we can be proper Nigerians as you claim you want us, we are trying to DOMINATE.....if we say, ok, allow us to leave this union and go and suffer like you have predicated we will, you will say we are making troubles. HOW ARE WE REALLY TRYING TO DOMINATE YOU?

The lies of trying to DOMINATE fueled the bile why we were almost wiped out in 1966-1970...yet, after that near extinction, we are still accused of trying to DOMINATE....HOW?

Quota system and several other policies we believe was meant to stop us from DOMINATING have K.illed the fabrics of this nation...our kids are meant to score way beyond other kids in order to gain admission among their equals....even in the face of those injustice, WE ARE STILL TRYING TO DOMINATE...HOW?

You build market stalls, over price them because Igbos will pay, yet, when you are done enjoying the money used in buying or renting the stalls, you turn and accuse us of DOMINATING....how?

Tell me how we are DOMINATING or colonising you, you sold a land to us, we bought, build small house or shop....you use the money for survival, send your children to school or abroad...yet, few years down the line, we are either accuse of DOMINATING or buying up your place? How exactly can a people who are not known for fighting tribal wars DOMINATE YOU?

What instrument of force are Igbos using in this utopian DOMINATION?

To ki.ll a dog, give it a bad name.....to go after Igbos, first accuse them of DOMINATING.

The truth is that lots of people don't know why they loath Igbos, they try to find or create the reason...

Few years ago while Aisha Yesufu was trying to diagnose negative energy she obviously noticed against Igbos, she made a claim that IGBOS NOT INCLUDING OTHERS IN THEIR APPRENTICESHIP PROGRAM IS WHY OTHERS DON'T LIKE THEM....how?

Apprenticeship program that was jeered at by others just few decades ago until now the world is noticing that it is a great tool for wealth redistribution and empowerment....and does not mean taking ourselves into slavery like many Nigerians accused us before.

Please, explain this to me like a nursery School child, HOW EXACTLY ARE IGBOS DOMINATING ANYONE?

I used to hear that music does not suffer language barrier....no, not in Nigeria. A Catholic preist in Lagos of all states has taken the Igbo paranoia of DOMINATING into the church of God.

Now tell me, instead of banning Igbo song why not encourage the learning of other songs in other languages? The priest ofcourse used the language that precedes every Igbo loathing enterprise..."THEY WANT TO DOMINATE".....

How does a people that comes into any space, respects the authority there, never causes any violence because violence is a minus to our businesses....how on Earth are this set of people trying to DOMINATE anyone?

We get to church of any denomination or ministry, try to make ourselves visible, work, offer our time, offer our money....in the midst of this, all some people see is attempt to DOMINATE....how?

This country should make up their minds about Igbos.....they seem to be saying, we don't really want you out of our way but we want to control the h.ell out of your destiny....place a limit to your aspiration, dictate how much you can grow?

...but I have a good news for you my people, it won't work....we will sprout from every Conner of the earth....we won't let a coming generation of Igbos to grow on bended knees, we will not cower, we will not bow.

Block us in governance, we will sprout in commerce, even if you eventually block commerce, our chi will open up several other avenues.

EVEN in the midst of our internally generated challenges and our faults which every human race and individuals posseses, we are the least of those attempting to hurt you, we only do what is done in every modern society... compete, seek growth, try to improve on our circumstances, do whatever we found doing with all our hearts, chase success, want to render services in your neighborhood and get paid for it.

HOW IS THIS A PROBLEM? HOW IS THIS DOMINATING?

It is more honourable to kill a dog if you so desire....but giving a dog bad name just to attempt ki.lling the dog is lowest of all lows.

HOW DOES A PEOPLE DOMINATE OTHERS WITHOUT WEAPONS OR GOVERNING POWER?

NB: For the Igbos that does not wish to offend friends, not speaking up on this danger of having next generation of Igbos grow to walk on egg shells and self guilt and condemnation.... ochestrated by others who want to dictate how they will breath and be defined....don't worry, we will do this work for your children and grandchildren and it will be on record that you were sleeping when the reputation of future Igbos were getting redefined.

To friends who think we are sensitive rather that speaking to those who make us their punching bag always....we won't be gentle while sediments of profiling is heaped on even the generation unborn, it seem harmless now but we know that these constant profiling is a time bomb waiting to happen, it is a piling up of seemingly harmless profiling which will sediment decades from now and form the Igbo perception.

It will be utter irresponsibility that while we have several platforms now to counter both official and unofficial profiling, unlike our fathers, we sacrifice it on the alter of pleasing you, our friends.

Remember, Igbos loving money stuck on Igbos but we know those that has the highest number of billionaire army generals in the world and those their political leaders are more billionairs than anyone without them having a product or services in the market place.....this is while growing massive poverty.....yet, they are modest when it comes to Money and Igbos mainly struggling from one Conner of the earth to another are the money lovers.......that is the power of unchallenged lies and profiling.

I think it is Igbos' character that make them think that people hate them.
Why do the South Africans,Ghanaians etc "hate" the Igbos and would be very happy if they leave their countries meanwhile there are a lot of Yorubas and other Nigerians there.

It all boils down to their untowards behaviours that only the Yorubas and a few other people have been able to tolerate.

As for domination,the only place Igbos can dominate is in petty,petty trading in the markets because Igbos are 75% market/ petty traders.

In real business,Yorubas dominate at home and abroad.
In Education,Yorubas dominate.
In almost all facets of life except a very few,Yorubas dominate the Igbos.
There are verifiable facts to back everything I have stated up.
Igbos really like dominating just like the Fulanis but they have not had the opportunity.
Dominating is in the DNAs of Fulanis and Igbo people but they have different ways..

Odua Nation and Biafra come to mind with your anticipated North's senselessness.
Only the deep will discern.

UselessBuhari:
Lagos is not Yoruba land

Na Iboland and na Obi of Onitsha be the Oba nah.Ndiara.
If Tinubu deport you now,you go dey cry..

garfield1:


Imo(mbaise) is not igbo?

My bad! She actually is Igbo,sir.

Kyase:
mary is leaving next year as you started so we’re now left with just centus

Mary Odili is not even Igbo.

Sorry, she is

unshakablejihad:



did this idiot just say yoruba fourth richest in the usa. hahahahahahahahaha wat a slum dwelling pig. u could have prayed for a yoruba man to make it on top 100 in the usa.. the dundee u even quoted will believe this your sycophantic lie of your's. dumbo.

lol

Who is this poverty stricken Igbo pig nah.

unshakablejihad:



what a fool! itz seems the too much heat emanating from your brown roof is already having an adverse effect on your skull. u have the nerve to quote me with some ewedu blogging shit.

let me ease your pain, no yoloba is the fourth richest black man in the USA or neither on top 100.


https://www.businessinsider.com/black-billionaires-in-the-united-states-2020-2

Mumu like you.
That was 2017/18.
Jeff Bezos,Bill Gate were once on top.Kalu was once the richest Igbo man alive but now he does not even have up to 300million dollars just like his other midiocre Igbo very few billionaires.
No Igbo man dead or alive has ever even come to be 1000,000,000th richest man in USA.

Kas Lookman Lawal,is a proud Yorubaman.Rich and superior to any rich Igboman

Yorubas are great achievers.

post=107907223:

Just imagine the nonsense you are posting , serious ewdu has dealt with you guys brain

Na poverty dey worry you.

unshakablejihad:



did this idiot just say yoruba fourth richest in the usa. hahahahahahahahaha wat a slum dwelling pig. u could have prayed for a yoruba man to make it on top 100 in the usa.. the dundee u even quoted will believe this your sycophantic lie of your's. dumbo.

Mumu.You are.

You poverty stricken Igbos have always tried to measure up to the rich and superior Yoruba people but woefully failed everytime.
If person pass you,know say him pass you be dat.



https://www.google.com/amp/s/lifeandtimesnews.com/nigerias-kase-lawal-with-a-net-worth-of-3-billion-is-americas-4th-richest-black-person/amp/

With a net-worth of over three billion dollars ($3 Billion+) Nigerian born oil and Gas baron, Kase Lawal comes after David Steward, Oprah Winfery and Robert Smith as the fourth richest black person in America

While other major oil companies have dominated the news for everything from overpaid-CEOs to accounting scandals, Kase L. Lawal has been quietly building a gas and oil empire. Nigerian-born Lawal is CEO and chairman of Camac Holdings Inc., an oil and gas exploration and refining company based in Houston, Texas. Since 1986, with a combination of hardcore business sensibilities and extensive African contacts, Lawal has built his family-owned firm into a billion-dollar business. Ranked number one in 2002 and 2003 on Black Enterprise’sprestigious list of the top 100 black-owned firms in America, Camac Holdings had offices throughout the world and employed over 1000 people. Lawal’s success has spurred him to help open up the lucrative oil business—a traditionally white, male domain—to other people of color. “I want to encourage more blacks to get involved in the oil industry as entrepreneurs,” he told Black Enterprise. Left Africa to Launch Life in America

Kase Lukman Lawal was born in Ibadan, Nigeria, to a local politician and a textile trader. He told the Houston Chronicle that when he was growing up he always knew he would be a businessman though he was not sure what that business would be. Even as far away as Nigeria, the Civil Rights struggle in America rung loud and clear. Lawal was fascinated and wanted to be a part of it. So, as his siblings went off to study in England, Lawal made plans to attend a university in the United States. “My father was absolutely opposed to me coming to America,”Lawal told the Houston Chronicle. “He feared for my safety and thought it would be hard for me to adjust to the American way of education.”

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STORY HIGHLIGHTS
Born in Ibadan, Nigeria, Lawal moved to America in 1971
CAMAC was established by Lawal in 1986 as an agricultural trading company
Now CAMAC is a multi-billion dollar oil empire
Lawal was awarded the USAfrica Business Person of the Year in 1997
(CNN) -- Nigerian-born entrepreneur Kase Lawal is the epitome of the American dream. Arriving to the US a young, idealistic student, Lawal has carved a name for himself in one of the most competitive industries in the world: Oil.

Now head of a multi-billion dollar empire, his Houston-based company, CAMAC, is one of the largest black-owned businesses in the U.S., generating over $2 billion dollars a year.

Founded nearly 25 years ago, Lawal built CAMAC (which stands for Cameroon-American) from a small agriculture business into a global oil company. But it's taken a lot of hard work, determination and guts to get him to the top.

Born and raised in Ibadan, Nigeria in 1954, Lawal became interested in America and its civil rights movement during his teens. After finally persuading his father, a local politician, to send him to university in America, Lawal headed to Georgia and then Houston, where he attended the Texas Southern University.

After graduating with a Bachelor of Science in chemical engineering in 1976, Lawal, like many of his classmates, started out as a graduate in the energy industry. First as a chemist for Dresser Industries (now Halliburton) and then as a chemical engineer with Shell Oil Refining Co.

post=107880617:

I know every states in your, outside Lagos southwest is most backward region in Nigeria


See Mapo Hall littered with slums

This is like USA compared to Igboland o.
Igboland is poverty stricken....World bank,UNDP and NBS.

walefresh3:
I requested for list of African woman richest of 2021 report from forbes... U gave link that mentioned names of both gender....Top 20 list I couldn't find any ibo woman that worth 1b dollars ...

Igbos are poor and poverty stricken.Tell him to name any Igbo man in the ilk of business people like Lookman Kas Lawal...the fourth black billionaire in USA,Bayo Ogunlesi,Deinde Fernandez,Harry Akande etc.
They only deal in powder abroad especially Asian nations

post=107880393:

Ignorant you real need to visit Igbo land cure your empty brain, the second most built up and densely populated state in Nigeria after Lagos is Anambra with morden structures not Oyo that mud houses littered every nooks and crannies

Mumu talk.I bet you are in Yorubaland flexing.
Poverty no good.Come why dont you Igbos know how to manage business?

post=107860692:

Psycho can you compare this with one LG in Yoruba land that's littered with slum settlements

How much land do you have in Igboland that slums have taken over more than 91% of it.
Tiny land but massive slums.No wonder you all run to Yorubaland.

post=107862371:

Which morden building

Have you seen old buildings in GRAs before.They will be minimal if there are.They mostly have state of the art buildings.Ibadan has old buildings because it had always been more developed than the whole Igboland.You were living in huts when Ibadan had the most beautiful houses in Nigeria then.I have been to Igboland and seen that the most developed is tiny Onitsha.Around Obosi-Nkpor area.Ibadan city only has more than 10 GRAs and more infrastructures than the entire Igboland.

Brimstone77:


The only infrastructure south west have more than south east is brown roof infrastructures..

Argue with your keyboard...

Yes,we have brown roofs more than you and also have modern buildings 5 times more than you.Yorubaland had always been more developed than anywhere in Nigeria.It continues to be as you all run to Yorubaland where the real wealth of Nigeria sits

trutharena:


Anambla village boy. See your Enugu in video.

Why are you denying your ancestor estate hahahahaha. Shinedu is the richest billionaire and below is his estate.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKVAq9uSwXU

45 million Igbos unable to develop that tiny Igboland.Very pathetic.

Brimstone77:


Another tantrum..

South east is still more developed than south west despite your claims that igbos are fleeing their region..

Oga the question is simple tell us what you're doing with your high igr..

lol
Who has ever put SE and develop in the same sentence before if not illiterates like you.

Everybody has always say that the East is undeveloped.
Only Ibadan has more infrastructures than the entire Igboland.
Ibadan is the only city that has more than 10 GRAs,5 mega malls,2 Olympic stadia,numerous modern houses,more universities and lots and lots of infrastructures that cannot be found in the SE.Even Ibadan has better road network than any place in the SE.What exactly do you mean by develop?

post=107861191:

Which indigenes industries in southwest, you mean industries own by Chinese, Indians, Lebanese or the ones own by Igbos in Yoruba land, Igbo business men both industrialists and those in commerce are well spread and control businesses across states in Nigeria not just southwest, this is the fact

Facts have shown that Yorubas have the highest number of indigenous industries..

https://www.nairaland.com/3918290/yorubas-most-industriousrichest-educated-tribe


both in Nigeria and abroad.Facts also showed that they are the most savvy in business.The Yorubas are also the ones who have managed businesses more than 70 years and still counting.Igbos do not have the business sense or acumen to even manage any business up to even 40 years.They are mostly petty traders who can be seen all over the place with less value than the Yorubas.Even Yorubas lead in export after crude oil.

post=107857420:


Major importation are conttol by Igbos, the duties they pay no tribe come close.

Where is your stats.The last time we checked,SWesterners have more indigenous industries than the SEsterners both in Nigeria and abroad.Industries import more than petty trading establishments synonymous with SEsterners.

gentiles:

Just imagine the comment from this one, very uncivil. Perhaps you don't know what civilization is.

Pls sir,What is civilization?

gentiles:

You are not in anyway different from them. Igbo and Yoruba are like bread and butter. Both tribes are a disgrace to other southern tribes. Yoruba's are too local, uncivilized and abusive. While igbos are naturally hateful, deeply tribalistic and very hostile people. You both deserve each other

lol
What do you know about civilization,sir?
Maybe you wanted to say that Yorubas are the most culturally civilised and one of the most educated group in Africa.
According to the latest NUC directory...2017...Yorubas have Professors 3 times that of our brothers from the SE.
They have more lawyers,Doctors,Engineers etc.

droidview:
Registration on going.

Your location?
Lagos?