AbaLion:

Emphasis on "the north". At no point in history, both pre or post-independence did ibos were ever ahead of the Yoruba - Never was and Never will be.
There is a reason that Yoruba have never been an inch bothered about your so called "ibo domination" fantasy which only existed in the imagination of an average ibo - the fact that Yoruba being the "head" would never give a damn regarding how the "tail" wags, so long it's stuck in between the legs.
The north could be much bothered about ibos flooding her region fill up job opportunities meant for the northerners being the most educationally disadvantaged at the time as rightly expressed by Ahmadu Bello. In contrast, the Yoruba region was the standard template such that it was readily the best option for a lot of Igbos to get the best of western Education. The best of Igbo brains in the mordern era, I dare say, are Southwest trained, Ngozi okonjo iweala, Chinua Achebe, your most prized assets had a bite of the cherry, to mention but few.
At a point, during colonialism, A certain Samuel Ajayi Crowther had come back from slavery as a missionary to teach your ibo ancestors how to read and write through the publication of the isuoma ibo premier - Till date, ibos had not shown appreciation, nonetheless, We Muuve!..
Till the end of the world, ibos can never catch up in any academic endeavor. For every 1 ibos produced, Yoruba would have produced 10 (and I'm being reasonable)


-Lion

Loads of rubbish, even in your region most of the notable academicians in your academic institutions were Igbo, I believe the first VC from the University of Ibadan was Kenneth Dike? How come Igbos produced majority of the best brains in the areas of civil service and other top Federal ministerial jobs during the first republic according to records even confirmed by the British? how come the best educated crop of military officers and NCO's at the time who were Sandhurst trained and educated were mainly Igbos (once again confirmed by the British in all their classifications of the various regions on the merit of facts and records)?, the fear of Igbo domination wasn't only prevalent in the North but also had significant inroads in the Westeen region (otherwise the famous "Yoruba ronu" anti Igbo speech by Akintola wouldn't have been birthed).

Currently (if you want to go by present statistics), all the best performing states that have topped the index in all the national exam indices over the past years have been SE states, bring me any (and I triple dare you) any current stats that shows all the SW states outperform the SE states on any academic level both home and abroad and I'll forever hold my peace, it's not enough to blab without presenting your facts!

dignity33:
I disagree with Reno, all this your narrative was before not presently if it was ever happened . Reno we know you have ancestorial background with Yoruba even your name said it all. South West are full of Area Boys and thugs. Presently in Education they are lacking behind to compare South East. Obasanjo put many Yoruba on strategic positions in Oil sectors during his eight years which I'm aware of that

Yaba-Left Candidate...

AbaLion:

Emphasis on "the north". At no point in history, both pre or post-independence were ibos ever ahead of the Yoruba - Never was and Never will be.
There is a reason that Yoruba have never been an inch bothered about your so called "ibo domination" fantasy which only existed in the imagination of an average ibo - the fact that Yoruba being the "head" would never give a damn regarding how the "tail" wags, so long it's stuck in between the legs.
The north could be much bothered about ibos flooding her region fill up job opportunities meant for the northerners being the most educationally disadvantaged at the time as rightly expressed by Ahmadu Bello. In contrast, the Yoruba region was the standard template such that it was readily the best option for a lot of Igbos to get the best of western Education. The best of Igbo brains in the mordern era, I dare say, are Southwest trained, Ngozi okonjo iweala, Chinua Achebe, your most prized assets had a bite of the cherry.
At a point, during colonialism, A certain Samuel Ajayi Crowther had come back from slavery as a missionary to teach your ibo ancestors how to read and write through the publication of the isuoma ibo premier - Till date, ibos had not shown appreciation, nonetheless, We Muuve!..
Till the end of the world, ibos can never catch up in any academic endeavor. For every 1 ibos produced, Yoruba would have produced 10 (and I'm being reasonable)


-Lion

After all these tribal words war, tommorow when it escalates to physical war, you would then say there's nothing to gain in fighting a war.
Some of you are elders but you fail to be sensible enough to know that peace at all times should be our priority.

mancoconut:

It's an absolute myth that yorubas are more educated than Igbos, even though yorubas admittedly had the head-start in acquiring education first before other tribes in Nigeria due to their earlier exposure to Christian missionaries and western education, Igbos who were late to the western education party not only caught up with yorubas but even surpassed them, Igbos were preponderantly dominant in literally all fields of human endeavor pre and post independence Nigeria, so much so that the fear of "Ibo domination" became a very portent fear especially in the North as Igbos flooded the academic parastastals, civil service, Federal top jobs, even some of the best educated military officers then were predominantly Igbos etc...Ahmadu Bello's famous interview granted to a European reporter about Igbo domination even accentuated these facts... Awo's free education sure helped to bolster the yorubas in terms of academia, but at no point where they more educated than Igbos... not even after the war when Igbo lost all their major positions in Nigeria were Igbos overtaken.

And some people will believe this nonsense you have written here

Nice piece from Reno.. so this guy get sense like this?

The case of Yorubas is a discussion for another day.. too many saboteurs and betrayers in our midst. I put it out there that only Yorubas sell slots in government MDAs meant for Yorubas to outsiders for cash or kind (kpekus), no other ethnicity does that no matter the amount of money you offer or the kind of yarnsh you want to bring to the table..

I think Yoruba leaders of thought need to rally the younger generation Yorubas together on self-love and self-preservation of the Yoruba race before any other. Enough of the father Christmas behaviour of giving outsiders preference over our own. Those days are long gone.

All jobs and opportunities in Yorubaland must be filled with Yorubas and Yorubas only. The others should go back to their region and develop, create enabling environment and jobs for themselves and their people else let them go to hell. By so doing, we'll rid our states and cities of agbero, thuggery, fraudsters etc. and equip our youths with necessary skills and crafts work that'll help them become gainfully employed, entrepreneurs and employers of labour.

Enough is enough o!.. a o le wa sin ori olori ku.
You take them in, feed them, give them job yet all they give in return is hate, envy and insults. That nonsense has to stop!

When the north stopped trucks bringing food and meat for a week, the whole south almost died of hunger. Tomatoes, Peppers, Onions, Yams and cows...Olu Okewo sounds about right.

wonlasewonimi:
When the north stopped trucks bringing food and meat for a week, the whole south almost died of hunger. Tomatoes, Peppers, Onions, Yams and cows...Olu Okewo sounds about right.

You lie!

Yorubas are well known for farming.. we have the agbes and we are self sufficient. Left for us, almost everyone will own a farm in whatever capacity he or she can. We have fertile lands for food and cash crops, we have poultry, pigstry even cattle ranches for meat and dairy products eg. milk, cheese etc. Infact we have all we need in SW.

The North lost billions within one week and noone told them before they shelved their protest aside. Your propaganda is dead on arrival.

PrinceOfLagos:

The Igbos may not be educated like the Yorubas (All thanks to Obafemi Awolowo's free education) but, I can tell you that the Igbos are the most successful tribe in Nigeria .

the richest tribe are yorubas... followed by northerners. . Igbo man no dey forbe list...I wonder which success you come dey talk again

SmartPolician:
South West has obviously done so well for itself, especially in education. However, one thing I know for certain is that it takes so much to build a city.

If Nigeria splits today and the government doesn't make effort to keep the non-Yoruba residents, Lagos will become a shadow of its former itself. That's because both Nigerians and foreigners built the city.

and the non yorubas couldn't buid their own respective cities

wonlasewonimi:
When the north stopped trucks bringing food and meat for a week, the whole south almost died of hunger. Tomatoes, Peppers, Onions, Yams and cows...Olu Okewo sounds about right.

my guy no dey fool yourself.. na talk like this dey make this northerners get mouth..which south almost die?

mancoconut:

Loads of rubbish, even in your region most of the notable academicians in your academic institutions were Igbo, I believe the first VC from the University of Ibadan was Kenneth Dike? How come Igbos produced majority of the best brains in the areas of civil service and other top Federal ministerial jobs during the first republic according to records even confirmed by the British? how come the best educated crop of military officers and NCO's at the time who were Sandhurst trained and educated were mainly Igbos (once again confirmed by the British in all their classifications of the various regions on the merit of facts and records)?, the fear of Igbo domination wasn't only prevalent in the North but also had significant inroads in the Westeen region (otherwise the famous "Yoruba ronu" anti Igbo speech by Akintola wouldn't have been birthed).

Currently (if you want to go by present statistics), all the best performing states that have topped the index in all the national exam indices over the past years have been SE states, bring me any (and I triple dare you) any current stats that shows all the SW states outperform the SE states on any academic level both home and abroad and I'll forever hold my peace, it's not enough to blab without presenting your facts!

You referring to a period of time when Zik was at the top of power, a time ibo centrism was rife, when ibo almost had it all. Even when there were better qualified individuals of other regions with accompanying recommendations from the former British heads of various institutions, Zik would still go ahead to fill up top positions in federal civil service with a large number of ibos.
After all, they were federal appointments and the big dog called the big shots. Some top ibo officers also replicated tribal appointments in recruitment of ibos in the service.
Yoruba Ronu was apt and timely as it awakened the consciousness of an average Yoruba to the guiles of Zik and the generality of ibo's slimy nature. As they flood themselves in your space, disguised to conquer, denied the indigenes their rightful slots for his ibo kinsmen, and at most times, transferred federal contracts meant for the West to the East. In all of these, their most cherished space back home was being protected from an inch of it being occupied by an outsider, such is the case till date.
With Zik being the President & Governor General, All the Federal parastatals in the Eastern region were occupied and dominated by the ibos, without any slightest consideration to the Westerners or Northerners.
Zik's craziest idea of ibo domination through abuse of power was soon discovered to be the Achille's heel of ibo subjugation.

Currently, the Weac results in the SE would count for nothing as long as individuals from SW are breaking records that any ibo will find it hard to match, if ever..
Aside producing an undergraduate proffessor in the history of Nigeria recently, this girl has just proven both home and abroad that she is head above any ibo child her age that could come out of the South east.

-Lion

PoloG:
and the non yorubas couldn't buid their own respective cities

Cos they are not meant to cos they are developers of the whole universe and not indigenous developers.

Who send dino all these ... Although okeowo is not physically stable again and that is the fact .I have been to his house and learned that in his speeches that day.

AbaLion:

You referring to a period of time when Zik was at the top of power, a time ibo centrism was rife, when ibo almost had it all. Even when there were better qualified individuals of other regions with accompanying recommendations from the British former heads of various institutions, Zik would still go ahead to fill up top positions in federal civil service with a large number of ibos.
After all, they were federal appointments and the big dog called the big shots. Some top ibo officers also replicated tribal appointments in recruitment of ibos in the service.
Yoruba Ronu was apt and timely as it awakened the consciousness of an average Yoruba to the guiles of Zik and the generality of ibo's slimy nature. As they flood themselves in your space, disguised to conquer, denied the indigenes their rightful slots for his ibo kinsmen, and at most times, transfer federal contracts meant for the West to the East. In all of these, their most cherished space back home was being protected from an inch of it being occupied by an outsider, such is the case till date.
With Zik being the President & Governor General, All the Federal parastatals in the Eastern region were occupied and dominated by the ibos, without any slightest consideration to the Westerners or Northerners.
Zik's craziest idea of ibo domination through abuse of power was soon discovered to be the Achille's heel of ibo subjugation.

Currently, the Weac results in the SE would count for nothing as long as individuals from SW are breaking records that any ibo will find it hard to match, if ever..
Aside producing an undergraduate proffessor in the history of Nigeria recently, this girl has just proven both home and abroad that she is head above any ibo child her age that could come out of the South east.

-Lion

Sorry she is both Igbo and Yoruba so that doesn't count
We can say she takes her intelligence from her mom who is Igbo so how does it count?

Which industry in Nigeria have Igbo crawled back to dominate ? Pls let us have a list.

What statistics proves Igbos are the most educated ethnic group in Nigeria at as this hour or any time in the history of Nigeria 2021 ? What industry did Igbos ever dominate in Nigeria history right from colonial rule till independence n now.

Igbos never dominated any industry ahead of Yorubas in the history of Nigeria n never will. Azikwe was only able to entrenched chronic nepotism by fixing his tribesmen into the civil service aside that Igbo have never n will never dominate any commercial sphere in Nigeria. Imagine Azikwe appointing an Igbo lunatic as the VC of University of Ibadan in the hinterland of Yoruba land. May it never be well with Azikwe in his grave or hell fire where he is, his entire generation dead alive n unborn. Igbos employing themselves into office is what this clown calls merit but I Hausa do that it is termed nepotism. Same way they tutored those one on coup plotting.

Maybe the Civil service is another definition of industry to you Igbos, just maybe. Nigeria should throw everything open like it did when Kema Chikwe was aviation minister where she fired every staff at FAAN to employ 100% Igbos ba?

Is the banking insurance shipping aviation technology telecommunications petroleum manufacturing industry in Nigeria not liberal enough for the Igbos as we speak this 2021 why ain't the Igbos dominanting yet ? This is after an Igbo favored Ebele Jonathan ruled for 6 years with an Igbo Pius Anyim as SSG.

FreeIgbos:

You're 100% right! Even Reno knows that what he is saying is just propaganda, half truths and blatant lies. Igbos are the most educated ethnic group in Nigeria till date. They also dominated every sector in Nigeria around the 1950's up until 1966, and by 1970 after the war, others usurped our positions all over Nigeria and the subsequent use of quota system and indigenization decree that allowed yorubas to take over the economy when Igbos were still down.

Igbos have succeeded in clawing themselves back to the top in many sectors. However, if they are confident, let them throw everything open to merit and competition in Nigeria and let's see which ethnic group would dominate again just like in the 1950's and 1960's.

PrinceOfLagos:

The Igbos may not be educated like the Yorubas (All thanks to Obafemi Awolowo's free education) but, I can tell you that the Igbos are the most successful tribe in Nigeria .

How do you define success?
Is it in terms of business or what specifically?
And mind you,Igbos are only popular with businesses not really anything that has to do with education.
So,what's your point?

I know foolish Igbos like you will come up with this assertion so now tell us among the many estate being developed on the island which is solely own by an Igbo or which of the estate on the island the fastest grown area in Lagos do Igbos own 2%. I know for a fact Yoruba own 99.5% of those estate n the Lagos state govt will never ever give an Igbo the right to build an estate. They will only grant those from the South South Edo Delta Rivers under rigorous acquisition etc.

It is systematic n I know this for a fact cos I work in lands. You can take that to the bank. Na on top plot of land Igbos be grandstanding while Yorubas are building estates with multiple houses. Just b4 you continue bragging I am a real estate developer too, I do not sell land to earn commission I build houses n sell in Ajah so think properly b4 replying me.



Aa una no gree speak with fact make we put fact for your mouth.

goodnessme1:
So being more successful is by selling your land to your imaginary unfortunate people,just to be able to eat Ewudu.

What business are Igbos popular with ? Aside okrika n spare parts sales Yoruba outnumber igbo 86 - 3 with the remaining taken by other Nigerians. Be it banking insurance shipping technology market space retail insurance whole sale, autos just name it.

Do not give them what they do not deserve. If you no any sphere aside okrika n spare part sales that Igbos dominate tell us.

Friend22:


How do you define success?
Is it in terms of business or what specifically?
And mind you,Igbos are only popular with businesses not really anything that has to do with education.
So,what's your point?

See them rejoicing. Reno is right this time, abi? He's suddenly stating facts, no more mumu buttons. But, everytime he spoke good of SE they said he was pressing Igbo mumu button.

This our SW neighbours sef.

If Reno had said the same about the Igbos... The Yorubas will say he's pressing their mumu button.

Sophisticated hypocrisy.

Tufiakwa...

pricklewane:
What business are Igbos popular with ? Aside okrika n spare parts sales Yoruba outnumber igbo 86 - 3 with the remaining taken by other Nigerians. Be it banking insurance shipping technology market space retail insurance whole sale, autos just name it.

Do not give them what they do not deserve. If you no any sphere aside okrika n spare part sales that Igbos dominate tell us.

Did you follow my response with the other guy?
I was askimg him tgye same questions.
So,bros,let's be calming down o...

But,in all ,Igbo's are still the most industrious people in this country.

No Yoruba gives a flying fucq what Reno is. He can rot in hell with his opinion for all we care, same goes for the bastard Okeowo. You remember Lagos state just demolished one estate he fraudulently acquired right ? That made front page few weeks ago. No wonder the fool was lamenting.

Masterclass32:
See them rejoicing. Reno is right this time, abi? He's not pressing 'mumu' button again. But, everytime he spoke good of SE they said he was pressing Igbo mumu button.

This our SW neighbours sef.

Truth be told.....Reno should stop the patronising act, yoruba's hardly control anything in Nigeria, he's only right about the part were yorubas don't support themselves......and that's the reason why we we're currently doing poorly as a region, if we want to reduce the number of area boys and fake pastors we must put ourselves as yoruba's first in whatever we do, our businesses should employ 99% Yoruba's, our NGO's should focus more on their homeland(charity begins at home), we must give our youths the skills they need to be successful, all Yoruba owned companies should have 90% yoruba's on it, let's encourage our youths to go back to the farm, let's teach our youths financial education, let's discard the political correct liberal nonsense and put our house in order. As painful as it sounds there's some truth to what okeowo is saying even tho he's saying it for selfish reasons. We need to put our house in order.

I agree with this falsehood so to say but tell us what sphere of the Nigerian economy can we confirm this "industrious" by Igbo that you talked about aside Okrika n spare part ?

Friend22:


Did you follow my response with the other guy?
I was askimg him tgye same questions.
So,bros,let's be calming down o...

But,in all ,Igbo's are still the most industrious people in this country.

pricklewane:
I agree with this falsehood so to say but tell us what sphere of the Nigerian economy can we confirm this "industrious" by Igbo that you talked about aside Okrika n spare part ?

See,I am not into your trivalistic merry go round chest beating contest.
I don't really care who does what or dominates the other.
I have said my piece.

Your piece is riddled with foolishness n not mere falsehood if you have no statistics to back up of your claim of Igbos being more industrious than other Nigerians.

This is a tale of lies told too often thinking itself a truth. If Igbos are indeed the most industrious tribe in Nigeria they should provide us with verifiable fact of such industry, that is aside the Okrika n spare part industry. I gave them that already.

Shalom !

Friend22:

See,I am not into your trivalistic merry go round chest beating contest.
I don't really care who does what or dominates the other.
I have said my piece.

If a northerner gets a powerful position anywhere he'd ensure that all his relatives are settled and given top positions same for the Igbo man.....but the average Yoruba man with his political correctness and stupid "professionalism" wouldn't do such because he foolishly believes that networking is nepotism. For the Yoruba's to be great libralism, political correctness and sentimental attitudes must die.......you can't be a liberal in Africa, liberal tribes die out, our ancestors didn't build empires by being liberal or politically correct simps.

NikAustine:
Sorry she is both Igbo and Yoruba so that doesn't count
We can say she takes her intelligence from her mom who is Igbo so how does it count?

It's why intertribal marriages should be banned, as Igbo men control your daughters and discourage them from associating or marrying yoruba men....As igbos being the Jews of africa, discourage your women from marrying gentiles, even God is against intertribal marriages.

But don't you Igbos agreed that Lagos was beta developed before the advent of the Biafra war that necessated the in flock of Igbos to Lagos. I would rather have that old Lagos n those population of foreigners that were willing partners at developing Lagos than the so claim developers that turned out to be destroyers.

This days Lagosians only get to enjoy their cities once those economic refugees return to their land at Xmas.

SmartPolician:
South West has obviously done so well for itself, especially in education. However, one thing I know for certain is that it takes so much to build a city.

If Nigeria splits today and the government doesn't make effort to keep the non-Yoruba residents, Lagos will become a shadow of its former itself. That's because both Nigerians and foreigners built the city.

pricklewane:
But don't you Igbos agreed that Lagos was beta developed before the advent of the Biafra war that necessated the in flock of Igbos to Lagos. I would rather have that old Lagos n those population of foreigners that were willing partners at developing Lagos than the so claim developers that turned out to be destroyers.

This days Lagosians only get to enjoy their cities once those economic refugees return to their land at Xmas.

This is also encouraged by the fact that yoruba men keep marrying their women, this practice should be discouraged.

mancoconut:

It's an absolute myth that yorubas are more educated than Igbos, even though yorubas admittedly had the head-start in acquiring education first before other tribes in Nigeria due to their earlier exposure to Christian missionaries and western education, Igbos who were late to the western education party not only caught up with yorubas but even surpassed them, Igbos were preponderantly dominant in literally all fields of human endeavor pre and post independence Nigeria, so much so that the fear of "Ibo domination" became a very portent fear especially in the North as Igbos flooded the academic parastastals, civil service, Federal top jobs, even some of the best educated military officers then were predominantly Igbos etc...Ahmadu Bello's famous interview granted to a European reporter about Igbo domination even accentuated these facts... Awo's free education sure helped to bolster the yorubas in terms of academia, but at no point where they more educated than Igbos... not even after the war when Igbo lost all their major positions in Nigeria were Igbos overtaken.

You're 100% right! Even Reno knows that what he is saying is just propaganda, half truths and blatant lies. Igbos are the most educated ethnic group in Nigeria till date. They also dominated every sector in Nigeria around the 1950's up until 1966, and by 1970 after the war, others usurped our positions all over Nigeria and the subsequent use of quota system and indigenization decree that allowed yorubas to take over the economy when Igbos were still down.

Igbos have succeeded in clawing themselves back to the top in many sectors. However, if they are confident, let them throw everything open to merit and competition in Nigeria and let's see which ethnic group would dominate again just like in the 1950's and 1960's.

FreeIgbos:


You're 100% right! Even Reno knows that what he is saying is just propaganda, half truths and blatant lies. Igbos are the most educated ethnic group in Nigeria till date. They also dominated every sector in Nigeria around the 1950's up until 1966, and by 1970 after the war, others usurped our positions all over Nigeria and the subsequent use of quota system and indigenization decree that allowed yorubas to take over the economy when Igbos were still down.

Igbos have succeeded in clawing themselves back to the top in many sectors. However, if they are confident, let them throw everything open to merit and competition in Nigeria and let's see which ethnic group would dominate again just like in the 1950's and 1960's.

It's why everything wouldn't be open to merit and competition because you Igbos don't play by the rules and most Yoruba's aren't awake to you guys nature.....I know yoruba business people whose businesses in the east were directly and indirectly frustrated by the people of the community, meanwhile during the war alot of houses belonging to Igbo people were kept and maintained by their yoruba friends. You guys are clannish snakes and it would take only a sharp eye and brain to understand you people. No doubt you're leading in virtually all sectors but that's going to change soon.