Re: Igbos And Hypocrisy by princdebola201(m): 8:55am On Aug 27, 2015 |
Warldbest:
U stil see d reason I cal u empty head, In nigeria d richest man is from wia, in 9ja d highesr poverty rate is it nt from d same north, if not igbos can lagos b lyk dat, in area area 4 lagos hw many yiruba get beta house. Instead they wil b our slave, even if no igbo make first 3 in africa, from 3rd to d rest are all igbos, take anambra d example do u knw hw many billionaire emerge drom there, we dnt depend on government 1.Can u tell me the contributions of igbos to Lagos .? 2. If you really developed Lagos why can't u develop a Lagos like in ur dungeon called south east..? 3..If yoruba are slaves tell me what igbos re to Ijaw master..? 4. If you igbos have better houses why can't you house ur brothers sleeping under bridges like animals.? 5.. If anambra have many billionaire tell me the reason why the state is still looking like construction site..? 6.. Tell me how many igbo billionaire that make it from ur cursed Land.? 7.. If ur Land is very precious why re u trooping to south west and north even with boko haram in borno ur flat head brothers re trooping there..? 3 Likes |
Re: Igbos And Hypocrisy by Nobody: 9:53am On Aug 27, 2015 |
princdebola201:
1.Can u tell me the contributions of igbos to Lagos .?
2. If you really developed Lagos why can't u develop a Lagos like in ur dungeon called south east..?
3..If yoruba are slaves tell me what igbos re to Ijaw master..?
4. If you igbos have better houses why can't you house ur brothers sleeping under bridges like animals.?
5.. If anambra have many billionaire tell me the reason why the state is still looking like construction site..?
6.. Tell me how many igbo billionaire that make it from ur cursed Land.?
7.. If ur Land is very precious why re u trooping to south west and north even with boko haram in borno ur flat head brothers re trooping there..?
WHAT ARE THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF IGBOS TO LAGOS AND ITS ENVIRONS In Lagos and Ogun States alone Igbos have established and built business imparting positively on Nigeria economy. Some of these companies are viz: Emzor Pharmaceuticals - Lagos Capital Oil - Lagos Chi limited - Lagos Coscharis Motors - Lagos Visa Phone - Lagos, Ogun Fidelity Bank - Lagos, Ogun Diamond Bank - Lagos, Ogun Slot limited - Lagos, Ogun Anabel Industries - Ogun FAN - Lagos Numerous hotels and Private schools, Businesses Car dealership and many other Igbo businesses and industries operating in SW. In the South-East Igbos are dominating in manufacturing hub at Abia and Anambra; Nollywood ($5.1 billion industry) headquarters at Upper Iweka Anambra state. Agriculturally SE is doing excellently with Abia State being the highest producer of cocoa; Ebonyi State - rice Other farm products are palm oil, cassava and rice in Imo State. Tourism in Enugu State is doing splendidly. Now the question is, apart from Igbos and foreigners that dominate Lagos and Ogun manufacturing hub, how many manufacturing companies does Yorubas own in the SW? What is the Yorubas contribution to the economy of Lagos and Ogun state? WHY ARE IGBOS TROOPING TO OTHER REGIONS After the 1967-70 civil war Gowon promised to rehabilitate the East with the 3Rs. What happened. The Gowon government and the subsequent regimes diverted all jobs from the East to Lagos in the SW, carting away large chunks of Igbos revenue meant for developing and reconstructing the Eastern region to building a mega city out of Lagos to. Some decades later, the Igbos excelled in businesses and other human endeavours. Igbos conquered their lands and also began to dominate the ancestral lands of other tribes. As successful businessmen Igbos were able to buy up lands being offered for sale by the hungry indigenes. (Yet some people like you would accuse Igbos of having love for money!) There is no law on this earth that prohibits free movement of people and participation in government. It takes a man of courage to venture into an unknown terrain and conquer it. The Chinese are doing it. The British, Portuguese, French, Italian, Spanish, Japanese etc. did it. If the great Roman Empire hadn't ventured no one would have known they were great. Today many American businesses are located offshores in China, Saudi Arabia, Tokyo, United Arab Emirate and they are still venturing out to conquer unknown terrains. For you to be great you have to venture out of your comfort zone. This is the true character of the ever industrious and peace-loving Great Igbo Nation. As of today it would be an understatement to aver that Igbos control 50% of the economy of Lagos and its environs. You see, it pays to venture out instead of lazing around touting and disturbing the peace of the society. Cease from being short-sighted and wallowing in the ocean of tribalism. You end up dissipating your energy in hating and being envious of goal-getters and achievers - the Great Igbo Nation who have made life meaningful for you and your folks. Stop focusing on the oil wealth from another man's backyard. Yoruba need to explore the world, not staying at home eating amala and gbegiri, and later whine away their lives envying the lofty achievements of the Great Igbo Nation who are key to SW economy. |
Re: Igbos And Hypocrisy by Warldbest(m): 9:56am On Aug 27, 2015 |
princdebola201:
1.Can u tell me the contributions of igbos to Lagos .?
2. If you really developed Lagos why can't u develop a Lagos like in ur dungeon called south east..?
3..If yoruba are slaves tell me what igbos re to Ijaw master..?
4. If you igbos have better houses why can't you house ur brothers sleeping under bridges like animals.?
5.. If anambra have many billionaire tell me the reason why the state is still looking like construction site..?
6.. Tell me how many igbo billionaire that make it from ur cursed Land.?
7.. If ur Land is very precious why re u trooping to south west and north even with boko haram in borno ur flat head brothers re trooping there..?
Betrayls, dat ar neither mulsilnm nor xtians, u ar d only yoruba dont know igbos develop lagos, may b u havnt been to anambra b4, wia we hav 3 major towns known 4 special thing bt u Yorubas ar managing d lagos dat we developed 2 Likes |
Re: Igbos And Hypocrisy by princdebola201(m): 10:49am On Aug 27, 2015 |
Warldbest:
Betrayls, dat ar neither mulsilnm nor xtians, u ar d only yoruba dont know igbos develop lagos, may b u havnt been to anambra b4, wia we hav 3 major towns known 4 special thing bt u Yorubas ar managing d lagos dat we developed Now I know ur brain cells re completely dead, u claim u developed lagos and I ask u simple questions u couldn't answer instead u re blabbing .if u can't answer my questions. Don't qoute me again |
Re: Igbos And Hypocrisy by sherrylo: 10:52am On Aug 27, 2015 |
ibotic: I am ibo and from Nnewi. I am ashamed of my ibo people. Nigerians should forgive us for our stupidity We are just sorry because we are jealous of Yorubas We wish we had an origin, history and culture like them. We must be less cowardly and brave like Yorubas who plan better. I say no to Biafra and I know we need Nigeria more than you need us. Please just allow us to be shouting Biafra of the Internet because we are jobless. Nairaland is all we have and even that is owned by a Yoruba man who is nice. We must stop Okija, ritual killings, Osu issue, fraud, fake spare-parts etc We know without you we cannot survive that is why we run to your land Our shame and hopelessness in the face of your superiority is terrible. Even Ijaws are now our bosses and we have been reduced to goats.
Chukwu Abiama o....... Biafra...land of the rising sun..... ![cheesy](https://www.nairaland.com/faces/cheesy.png) @ IBOTIC wa she ire! The thing pain Yorubatic,ofe ke. 2 Likes |
Re: Igbos And Hypocrisy by DFemaleBoss(f): 11:01am On Aug 27, 2015 |
xtrorse:
princdebola201, you had the guts to brag against Igbos. You and your Yoruba tribe should be ashamed of yourselves for dare comparing Igbos with Yorubas.
You should be ashamed of yourselves for being in the habit of using other regions to shield your cowardly mien. It's shameful that a typical Yoruba person cannot make his stand known without dragging some other tribes along. If it is not distorting history, it is ass-licking your slave masters by propagating lies of how your slave masters have always been peace-loving and accommodative and that it is the Igbos who provoke their host! It is so disgusting and pathetic already!
You mentioned curse, what kind of course are you referring to? Is it the curse Alaafin of Oyo placed on the young braggard, Bode Thomas, for arrogantly insulting his office?
Is it the curse that made your god Awolowo to die in a miserable way?
Is it the curse that made your warrior, Benjamin Adekunle, a.k.a the scorpion, to eat his own excrement before he chose death in 2014? The was same Adekunle who mocked the pope, Red Cross, Caritas, World Council of Churches, UN etc.
What about your Field Marshall, MKO Abiola, who sunk containers of Christian materials and paid off the importer just to impress his slave masters in the North? Was it not this atrocious deed amongst many others that brought curse upon him which led him to his Waterloo?
So, what curse are you referring to?
Is it the curse on your slave masters or yourself?
Despite Awolowo’s free education, is the South-West not the worst hit by illiteracy in the South?
Whose region is being ravaged by internationally acclaimed drug peddlers, high-profile assassination, frequent ritual-killings and treasury lootings?
Whose region is being ravaged by carnage, bloodletting, terrible and strange diseases, abject poverty and penury?
I'm just trying to be as modest as possible with my choice of words.
Let's go down memory lane.
After the civil war, your god Awolowo defrauded the Igbo Nation, robbing her of her enormous wealth and transferring same to you parasites. As the Finance Minister, Awo, gave a paltry £20 to Igbo men who proved they had an account in the bank. That was all the Igbo man started life with!
And in 1971/72 Awo and his criminal gang colluded and issued the indigenisation decree which compelled the British companies to give up ownership of their companies.
With the stolen money from Igbomen sweat at their disposal Yorubas in conjunction with their Northern co-travellers were able to acquire the companies in Nigeria.
Igbos started life from ground zero after the civil war with just £20, with their lands devastated, farmlands destroyed, markets destroyed, schools levelled, hospitals broken-down, with hunger ravaging her people and the children at the mercy of kwashiorkor. Inspite of these debilitating factors Igbos being a resilient people exerted themselves and within a short while they are at the top, competiting only with themselves.
The Igbos now boast of the best middle class, the most educated, the most enterprising, the most ambitious, goal getters and achievers.
Igbos survived the policy of strangulation imposed on them them by Gowon and Awolowo. And they are still surmounting some other criminal policies put in place by the criminal gang to checkmate the progress of the Igbos - quota system, federal character, admission catchment areas in schools, cut off marks for admission, fraudulent census figure, false voters register, lopsided local government areas and the likes.
And now Igbos are more than equal to the Yorubas and their co-travellers who were bequeathed with Nigeria's wealth on a plater of gold. The criminal gang acquired virtually all oil wells. They cornered over 85% of the oil wells as their prize for the war they prosecuted against the Eastern region.
princdebola201, and you're here comparing yourself with that same man you robbed his wealth; the same people who would need to get higher scores than the Yorubas to gain admission into schools.
Just by being Igbo by birth, Igbo standards have become too high even amongst themselves, but that has not made lose heart and in fact it brought out the best out of them.
Inspite of the tortuous journey the Igbo man passed/passes through to achieve success the criminal system in place and the gang will not allow the Igbo man be. The gang is bitter and angry at the success of the Igboman that they use any given opportunity at their disposal to remind Igbos that they are the ones who accommodated them and therefore they should abide by their dictates, whims and caprices, including being coerced to vote the candidate of the host's choice in election. But the Igbo man's resolve remains strong.
And you are here boasting of Folorunso Alakija who acquired her wealth from the commonwealth, from the crude oil in another man's backyard! It's a shame!
Before the 1967-70 civil war, an average Yoruba man did not measure up to the ever industrious Igboman. Even in the South-West Igbos were in the lead. Igbos were the first to head the University of Ibadan and the University of Lagos in the South-West; the first president of Nigeria and the first military ruler of Nigeria.
Nigeria economy assumed a downward trend when the gang acquired all Nigerian companies by virtue of indigenization decree of 1972. But they could not manage the companies instead they ruined, defrauded, liquidated, bankrupted and destroyed all the companies - that was the mother of destruction of Nigerian economy! The swindlers indeed bastardized the Nigerian economy. And to divert attention from their ineptitude and crass looting of the treasury they would use illogical reasoning to attempt to bamboozle other people while pointing accusing fingers elsewhere!
After more than 40 years, despite the stolen wealth, the respective regions of the criminal gang cannot be said to be transformed and be one of the enviest in the world. None of their cities could be likened to, say the least, Johannesburg!
With all the disadvantages Igbos faced and still face they rose from grass to grace and you are not even ashamed to compare them with treasury looters.
It's not how far but how well!
Time shall tell... |
Re: Igbos And Hypocrisy by Warldbest(m): 11:10am On Aug 27, 2015 |
princdebola201:
Now I know ur brain cells re completely dead, u claim u developed lagos and I ask u simple questions u couldn't answer instead u re blabbing .if u can't answer my questions. Don't qoute me again |
Re: Igbos And Hypocrisy by Warldbest(m): 11:21am On Aug 27, 2015 |
princdebola201:
Now I know ur brain cells re completely dead, u claim u developed lagos and I ask u simple questions u couldn't answer instead u re blabbing .if u can't answer my questions. Don't qoute me again Chillin at kinshasa igbos every where you go, huge transformer if you ar envy |
Re: Igbos And Hypocrisy by honourhim: 11:25am On Aug 27, 2015 |
xtrorse:
princdebola201, you had the guts to brag against Igbos. You and your Yoruba tribe should be ashamed of yourselves for dare comparing Igbos with Yorubas.
You should be ashamed of yourselves for being in the habit of using other regions to shield your cowardly mien. It's shameful that a typical Yoruba person cannot make his stand known without dragging some other tribes along. If it is not distorting history, it is ass-licking your slave masters by propagating lies of how your slave masters have always been peace-loving and accommodative and that it is the Igbos who provoke their host! It is so disgusting and pathetic already!
You mentioned curse, what kind of course are you referring to? Is it the curse Alaafin of Oyo placed on the young braggard, Bode Thomas, for arrogantly insulting his office?
Is it the curse that made your god Awolowo to die in a miserable way?
Is it the curse that made your warrior, Benjamin Adekunle, a.k.a the scorpion, to eat his own excrement before he chose death in 2014? The was same Adekunle who mocked the pope, Red Cross, Caritas, World Council of Churches, UN etc.
What about your Field Marshall, MKO Abiola, who sunk containers of Christian materials and paid off the importer just to impress his slave masters in the North? Was it not this atrocious deed amongst many others that brought curse upon him which led him to his Waterloo?
So, what curse are you referring to?
Is it the curse on your slave masters or yourself?
Despite Awolowo’s free education, is the South-West not the worst hit by illiteracy in the South?
Whose region is being ravaged by internationally acclaimed drug peddlers, high-profile assassination, frequent ritual-killings and treasury lootings?
Whose region is being ravaged by carnage, bloodletting, terrible and strange diseases, abject poverty and penury?
I'm just trying to be as modest as possible with my choice of words.
Let's go down memory lane.
After the civil war, your god Awolowo defrauded the Igbo Nation, robbing her of her enormous wealth and transferring same to you parasites. As the Finance Minister, Awo, gave a paltry £20 to Igbo men who proved they had an account in the bank. That was all the Igbo man started life with!
And in 1971/72 Awo and his criminal gang colluded and issued the indigenisation decree which compelled the British companies to give up ownership of their companies.
With the stolen money from Igbomen sweat at their disposal Yorubas in conjunction with their Northern co-travellers were able to acquire the companies in Nigeria.
Igbos started life from ground zero after the civil war with just £20, with their lands devastated, farmlands destroyed, markets destroyed, schools levelled, hospitals broken-down, with hunger ravaging her people and the children at the mercy of kwashiorkor. Inspite of these debilitating factors Igbos being a resilient people exerted themselves and within a short while they are at the top, competiting only with themselves.
The Igbos now boast of the best middle class, the most educated, the most enterprising, the most ambitious, goal getters and achievers.
Igbos survived the policy of strangulation imposed on them them by Gowon and Awolowo. And they are still surmounting some other criminal policies put in place by the criminal gang to checkmate the progress of the Igbos - quota system, federal character, admission catchment areas in schools, cut off marks for admission, fraudulent census figure, false voters register, lopsided local government areas and the likes.
And now Igbos are more than equal to the Yorubas and their co-travellers who were bequeathed with Nigeria's wealth on a plater of gold. The criminal gang acquired virtually all oil wells. They cornered over 85% of the oil wells as their prize for the war they prosecuted against the Eastern region.
princdebola201, and you're here comparing yourself with that same man you robbed his wealth; the same people who would need to get higher scores than the Yorubas to gain admission into schools.
Just by being Igbo by birth, Igbo standards have become too high even amongst themselves, but that has not made lose heart and in fact it brought out the best out of them.
Inspite of the tortuous journey the Igbo man passed/passes through to achieve success the criminal system in place and the gang will not allow the Igbo man be. The gang is bitter and angry at the success of the Igboman that they use any given opportunity at their disposal to remind Igbos that they are the ones who accommodated them and therefore they should abide by their dictates, whims and caprices, including being coerced to vote the candidate of the host's choice in election. But the Igbo man's resolve remains strong.
And you are here boasting of Folorunso Alakija who acquired her wealth from the commonwealth, from the crude oil in another man's backyard! It's a shame!
Before the 1967-70 civil war, an average Yoruba man did not measure up to the ever industrious Igboman. Even in the South-West Igbos were in the lead. Igbos were the first to head the University of Ibadan and the University of Lagos in the South-West; the first president of Nigeria and the first military ruler of Nigeria.
Nigeria economy assumed a downward trend when the gang acquired all Nigerian companies by virtue of indigenization decree of 1972. But they could not manage the companies instead they ruined, defrauded, liquidated, bankrupted and destroyed all the companies - that was the mother of destruction of Nigerian economy! The swindlers indeed bastardized the Nigerian economy. And to divert attention from their ineptitude and crass looting of the treasury they would use illogical reasoning to attempt to bamboozle other people while pointing accusing fingers elsewhere!
After more than 40 years, despite the stolen wealth, the respective regions of the criminal gang cannot be said to be transformed and be one of the enviest in the world. None of their cities could be likened to, say the least, Johannesburg!
With all the disadvantages Igbos faced and still face they rose from grass to grace and you are not even ashamed to compare them with treasury looters.
It's not how far but how well!
Time shall tell... Well said. |
Re: Igbos And Hypocrisy by honourhim: 11:30am On Aug 27, 2015 |
** Igbos In Lagos State: My Experience, By Senator Adeseye Ogunlewe Lagos State belongs as much to the ethnic Igbo as to the Yoruba, Ijaw, Hausa, Fulani, Efik, Idoma, Urhobo, Itshekiri, Edo, and so on who live in it, pay tax, identify with it, and settle in it. That compact was made the moment Nigeria became a single nation, and a successor power to the old principalities who were subdued and who ceded their sovereignty for the new commonwealth of Nigeria . It was pragmatic. The Igbo had the skill and the industry, and Lagos was the seat of the Federal Government of Nigeria and its major port. The Igbo have lived in Lagos since the 15th century when the Aro and other Igbo first settledin good number in a place we nowcall “Oyingbo” in the era of Benin and the Portuguese trade. The arrival of Dr. Namdi Azikiwe to Lagos in 1937 from Accra after his studies in the United States, stimulated the political and cultural environment of Lagos as no other has before or after him. Zik literally resurrected the wizard of Kirsten hall from political death. Zik represented Lagos in the western house. The NCNC was the power in Lagos , and not the Action Group. The Igbo were prominent in the governance of Lagos in the Lagos City Hall. The institutional development of Lagos – the railways, the ports andship yards; the education and research facilities; the Banking and Commodities Exchange, the development of towns like Yaba, Surulere, Ebutta-Metta, Festac Town, Victoria Island, and now increasing the Ajah-Lekki axis, and of course, the ghettoes along the Orile-Badagry axis, have profound Igbo imprimatur. The circulation of the image of Lagos is to date best reflected in the cosmopolitan Igbo imagination of one of the greatest African writers of the 20th century, Cyprian Ekwensi, a thorough Lagosian if there was any. Igbo have built industries in Lagos and have been drivers of commerce and exchange. Interestingly, I was born at plot number 8, Okoya Street , Idumagbo- Lagos, while the Ojukwu families were residing at number one to three on the same street. I grew up to know the father of Odumegwu Ojukwu. Chimbizie and Azuka grew up withus on the same street. Even the Chibeze small parking space at the end of Okoya Street is called Ojukwu. I later attended St. Patrick Primary School , Idumagbo, where I had very amiable classmates of Igbo origin in the persons of Azubike Ezenwa and Damian, Ihekuna, both now professors and doctors of today. They were brilliant, resourceful and friendly. When we were playing bamboo and Tene Felele at Orikoriko at Onola playing ground, the Igbo participated actively. In the area of sports, school football and athletes, Igbo were dominant at Kings College, St. Gregory school, St. Finbars, Akoka, Igbobi College and Ahmadiyya College, Agege. Such boys, Njokwu, George Amu, Stephen Keshi, Henry Nwosu, Patrick Noquapor, Peter Anieke and Sammy Opone were dominant on the field of football, while Asiodu, Empire Kanu were prominent on the field of athletics. Anytime we went to watch football match at Onikan stadium, my darling team, Stationery Stores and our adversary team I hated most was the E. C. N, where the centre forward, Paul Hamilton, the National Team, Fabian the captain who bit the dust. Our greatest captain was Duru, Oduah Onyenrekwa, Onyeador Onyeali and Opel, the greatest outside right Nigeria ever had, Cyril Azuluka. So, during my early life at primary school, the Igbo were always there and delightful to watch, both in athletes and on the football field. When I listened to radio at that time, both the commentary and drama series, the Igbo were there for you. The likes of Chris Ndaguba, Ernest Okwonkwo, Ralph Okpara ‘Alawo Sekiseki the traveler’. The episode will end with – The script was written by Ralph Okpara and edited by Yemi Lijadu. Anytime I visited where I was born today in Idumagbo at Lagos Island, the entire place is covered by Igbo traders in their thousands. They were never troublesome but decent and accommodating. They have virtually taken over all properties of the indigenes. They succeeded in developing all our properties, married to most of our children even from the royal families. There is no single house you will visit without an Igbo man selling wares there. So, who is saying something else? Only the strangers in our midst will not notice participation of economic development in our state by the Igbos. Most houses and shops in Lagos Island have been purchased, developed and occupied by the Igbos. The value of their investments in Lagos Island alone is in trillions of naira. Instead of deporting the Igbos, whose contributions to the development of Lagos state are immensurable, you must keep on praising and encouraging them to keep on developing Lagos State. •Senator Adeseye Ogunlewe is a former Nigerian minister for Works and Housing. http://premiumtimesng.com/opinion/143249-igbos-in-lagos-state-my-experience-by-senator-adeseye-ogunlewe.html 1 Like |
Re: Igbos And Hypocrisy by wadetaw202: 12:11pm On Aug 27, 2015 |
Warldbest:
U get sense nd write dis kind of topic. Betrayals Flaaaathead tell me, who did we actually betray? And who is the real betrayer BTW you and us? Don't forget how you betray ojukwu, your war lord. Despite your professed love for him, you still voted for a Yoruba man, obasanjo and rejected your own bloda ojukwu. So, are you not the real betrayer? 1 Like |
Re: Igbos And Hypocrisy by wadetaw202: 12:15pm On Aug 27, 2015 |
honourhim: ** Igbos In Lagos State: My Experience, By Senator Adeseye Ogunlewe
Lagos State belongs as much to the ethnic Igbo as to the Yoruba, Ijaw, Hausa, Fulani, Efik, Idoma, Urhobo, Itshekiri, Edo, and so on who live in it, pay tax, identify with it, and settle in it. That compact was made the moment Nigeria became a single nation, and a successor power to the old principalities who were subdued and who ceded their sovereignty for the new commonwealth of Nigeria . It was pragmatic. The Igbo had the skill and the industry, and Lagos was the seat of the Federal Government of Nigeria and its major port.
The Igbo have lived in Lagos since the 15th century when the Aro and other Igbo first settledin good number in a place we nowcall “Oyingbo” in the era of Benin and the Portuguese trade.
The arrival of Dr. Namdi Azikiwe to Lagos in 1937 from Accra after his studies in the United States, stimulated the political and cultural environment of Lagos as no other has before or after him. Zik literally resurrected the wizard of Kirsten hall from political death. Zik represented Lagos in the western house. The NCNC was the power in Lagos , and not the Action Group. The Igbo were prominent in the governance of Lagos in the Lagos City Hall.
The institutional development of Lagos – the railways, the ports andship yards; the education and research facilities; the Banking and Commodities Exchange, the development of towns like Yaba, Surulere, Ebutta-Metta, Festac Town, Victoria Island, and now increasing the Ajah-Lekki axis, and of course, the ghettoes along the Orile-Badagry axis, have profound Igbo imprimatur.
The circulation of the image of Lagos is to date best reflected in the cosmopolitan Igbo imagination of one of the greatest African writers of the 20th century, Cyprian Ekwensi, a thorough Lagosian if there was any. Igbo have built industries in Lagos and have been drivers of commerce and exchange.
Interestingly, I was born at plot number 8, Okoya Street , Idumagbo- Lagos, while the Ojukwu families were residing at number one to three on the same street. I grew up to know the father of Odumegwu Ojukwu. Chimbizie and Azuka grew up withus on the same street. Even the Chibeze small parking space at the end of Okoya Street is called Ojukwu. I later attended St. Patrick Primary School , Idumagbo, where I had very amiable classmates of Igbo origin in the persons of Azubike Ezenwa and Damian, Ihekuna, both now professors and doctors of today. They were brilliant, resourceful and friendly.
When we were playing bamboo and Tene Felele at Orikoriko at Onola playing ground, the Igbo participated actively. In the area of sports, school football and athletes, Igbo were dominant at Kings College, St. Gregory school, St. Finbars, Akoka, Igbobi College and Ahmadiyya College, Agege. Such boys, Njokwu, George Amu, Stephen Keshi, Henry Nwosu, Patrick Noquapor, Peter Anieke and Sammy Opone were dominant on the field of football, while Asiodu, Empire Kanu were prominent on the field of athletics.
Anytime we went to watch football match at Onikan stadium, my darling team, Stationery Stores and our adversary team I hated most was the E. C. N, where the centre forward, Paul Hamilton, the National Team, Fabian the captain who bit the dust. Our greatest captain was Duru, Oduah Onyenrekwa, Onyeador Onyeali and Opel, the greatest outside right Nigeria ever had, Cyril Azuluka.
So, during my early life at primary school, the Igbo were always there and delightful to watch, both in athletes and on the football field.
When I listened to radio at that time, both the commentary and drama series, the Igbo were there for you. The likes of Chris Ndaguba, Ernest Okwonkwo, Ralph Okpara ‘Alawo Sekiseki the traveler’. The episode will end with – The script was written by Ralph Okpara and edited by Yemi Lijadu.
Anytime I visited where I was born today in Idumagbo at Lagos Island, the entire place is covered by Igbo traders in their thousands. They were never troublesome but decent and accommodating. They have virtually taken over all properties of the indigenes. They succeeded in developing all our properties, married to most of our children even from the royal families. There is no single house you will visit without an Igbo man selling wares there.
So, who is saying something else? Only the strangers in our midst will not notice participation of economic development in our state by the Igbos. Most houses and shops in Lagos Island have been purchased, developed and occupied by the Igbos. The value of their investments in Lagos Island alone is in trillions of naira.
Instead of deporting the Igbos, whose contributions to the development of Lagos state are immensurable, you must keep on praising and encouraging them to keep on developing Lagos State.
•Senator Adeseye Ogunlewe is a former Nigerian minister for Works and Housing.
http://premiumtimesng.com/opinion/143249-igbos-in-lagos-state-my-experience-by-senator-adeseye-ogunlewe.html Adeseye ogunlewe is a PDP man and one of the able tools in the hands of Jonathan to make you Igbo's vote along ethnic line for PDP in the last guber election in Lagos. Don't forget that a man will even act like a monkey to catch a monkey. Igbo's are the monkeys and adeseye ogunlewe is only pretending to be a monkey to catch their votes. |
Re: Igbos And Hypocrisy by wadetaw202: 12:17pm On Aug 27, 2015 |
Warldbest:
I dnt knw y u hav empty brain, even ur fellow yoruba knw dat we ar beta off financially Despite your riches, the richest man, woman and even the richest pastor in Nigeria are not Igbo's. |
Re: Igbos And Hypocrisy by wadetaw202: 12:23pm On Aug 27, 2015 |
yorubatic: My slavish folks we should start agitating for a sophisticated and progressive Odu'a republic now there is time....let us leave the murderous arewastan with the herd mentality. ..we need a progressive and sophisticated odua republic. ..
we have to be bold and face the Hausa / Fulani squarely...we are strong people, even though, Nigerians call us cowards and said oily soup has messed up our brains, hence we always rant like mad men and curse like yoruba market women Flaaathead, why are you afraid to bear your father's name? Why are you afraid to be identified with your flaaaathead brothers? For your information, oily soup is great soup. I mean, how can you cook soup and you will not put oil? Only an OSU outcast will do that. We do not borrow oil, we buy them and have them in abundance. So why will we not be able to put substantial quantity of it in our soup? That will amount to thoughtlessness and steupidity like an OSU with flaaaathead. And for your information, oil contains LDL, which makes the brain to function better. And do you know why your head and those of your brothers are flat? It is because you do not eat enough oil. So flaaaathead, learn from us and start eating oil, the same way your governor wants to come and learn about education from us. |
Re: Igbos And Hypocrisy by wadetaw202: 12:28pm On Aug 27, 2015 |
Ayus34: Please op.....enough of this l,let us all embrace peacs and move forward....at least alot yoruba,igbo and hausa outside there are working together and achieving greater things. ....no matter has s we might be embittered due to one person action or reaction.....let us show respect to one another. Thanks The Igbo's should start respecting the Yoruba's, then we will listen to you. We are their landlords and they should respect that. We gave their properties back yo them after Biafra. if we had kept the properties, nothing would have happened. But because we have good hearts and we are accommodating, we returned all their properties. But how have the flaaaatheads paid us back? You can see for yourself. |
Re: Igbos And Hypocrisy by wadetaw202: 12:30pm On Aug 27, 2015 |
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RUBBISH ![undecided](https://www.nairaland.com/faces/undecided.png) It only means your brain is stuck in your anus and your brain has become useless. That is why you can only come up with confusion |
Re: Igbos And Hypocrisy by wadetaw202: 12:34pm On Aug 27, 2015 |
SexyKaycee: After all your yarn same Ojukwu was given a National Burial and The great Awolowo wasnt...i laugh in Igbo Stop lying flaaathead. When did they born you? Awolowo was given national burial. You were not even alive when he died. So how come you are telling stories of things you don't know about? |
Re: Igbos And Hypocrisy by Nobody: 12:39pm On Aug 27, 2015 |
wadetaw202:
Stop lying flaaathead. When did they born you? Awolowo was given national burial. You were not even alive when he died. So how come you are telling stories of things you don't know about? Awolowo was Never gievn a National Burial.. I doubt you know what a national burial is |
Re: Igbos And Hypocrisy by wadetaw202: 12:50pm On Aug 27, 2015 |
SexyKaycee:
Awolowo was Never gievn a National Burial..
I doubt you know what a national burial is It is you who doesn't know a thing about national burial. Awolowo was giv n national burial. Only igbos were the ones who buried ojukwu. Ojukwu was never given national burial. I was alive and fully aware of happenings around me when the two of them died. So, I should know. Unlike you; where were you in 1987/88? |
Re: Igbos And Hypocrisy by ibotic(f): 12:55pm On Aug 27, 2015 |
I am ibo and from Nnewi. I am ashamed of my ibo people. Nigerians should forgive us for our stupidity We are just sorry because we are jealous of Yorubas We wish we had an origin, history and culture like them. We must be less cowardly and brave like Yorubas who plan better. I say no to Biafra and I know we need Nigeria more than you need us. Please just allow us to be shouting Biafra of the Internet because we are jobless. Nairaland is all we have and even that is owned by a Yoruba man who is nice. We must stop Okija, ritual killings, Osu issue, fraud, fake spare-parts etc We know without you we cannot survive that is why we run to your land Our shame and hopelessness in the face of your superiority is terrible. Even Ijaws are now our bosses and we have been reduced to goats.
Chukwu chukwu Abiama o....... Biafra...land of the rising sun....IPOB youth... 2 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Igbos And Hypocrisy by NewNigeriaMind: 1:14pm On Aug 27, 2015 |
yorubatic:
You don't know how to copy, you are worst than a dunce...shame on you. ... you lack constructiveness and articulation ....you are simply rediculing yourself and showing the world your illiteracy This boy is pained ![grin](https://www.nairaland.com/faces/grin.png) |
Re: Igbos And Hypocrisy by NewNigeriaMind: 1:17pm On Aug 27, 2015 |
SexyKaycee:
Awolowo was Never gievn a National Burial..
I doubt you know what a national burial is Actually he got a national burial, there is a emolument to his name in his home state. He was such a great man that Jonathan even attempted naming the University of Lagos after him ![grin](https://www.nairaland.com/faces/grin.png) Now can the same e said oF oJUKWU. I am a fan of Ojukwu by the way. |
Re: Igbos And Hypocrisy by 7lives: 1:23pm On Aug 27, 2015 |
Warldbest:
U stil see d reason I cal u empty head, In nigeria d richest man is from wia, in 9ja d highesr poverty rate is it nt from d same north, if not igbos can lagos b lyk dat, in area area 4 lagos hw many yiruba get beta house. Instead they wil b our slave, even if no igbo make first 3 in africa, from 3rd to d rest are all igbos, take anambra d example do u knw hw many billionaire emerge drom there, we dnt depend on government Even Alausa is built with mud and stones but you know what?, its non of your business. Omo Igbo go hoooooooommmmmmmmmeeeeeeeee no die for our neck abi na by force?. |
Re: Igbos And Hypocrisy by Ayus34(m): 3:41pm On Aug 27, 2015 |
wadetaw202:
The Igbo's should start respecting the Yoruba's, then we will listen to you. We are their landlords and they should respect that. We gave their properties back yo them after Biafra. if we had kept the properties, nothing would have happened. But because we have good hearts and we are accommodating, we returned all their properties. But how have the flaaaatheads paid us back? You can see for yourself. I understand you so well bro,but trust me we have not loose either.....reason u see more development in the region.remember two wrong can't make a right,I was also in that world before but to be sincere I ve move forward and today I will tell u I'm better for it,most successful people don't even share this sentiment....they look for smart,responsible,creative and dependable mindset no matter the region they might come from,what is important is to get the job done and realised a dream or set goals.... Don't allow the negative action of some few to change you ideal personality and rob you off of major blessing from major people. Let us stay and peace and live in peace. One love bro! 1 Like |
Re: Igbos And Hypocrisy by steveeeee5: 10:14pm On Aug 27, 2015 |
yorubatic:
You don't know how to copy, you are worst than a dunce...shame on you. ... you lack constructiveness and articulation ....you are simply rediculing yourself and showing the world your illiteracy finishing |
Re: Igbos And Hypocrisy by steveeeee5: 10:20pm On Aug 27, 2015 |
7lives:
Even Alausa is built with mud and stones but you know what?, its non of your business. Omo Igbo go hoooooooommmmmmmmmeeeeeeeee no die for our neck abi na by force?.
omo ritualist we are going oooo weather you and your masters fulani like it or not. if the stupiid awolowo had kept his word by now we would have been competing with china and america of today but no problem, destiny can be delayed but i can never be denied.. |