I am not typing out of tribalism, but when I see Igbos and yorubas fighting always online it baffles me.

An Igbo man will move to ogun state or osun state and live in any part of the state without fear. The most important thing for him when looking for accommodation is distance between his house and business.
He does not ask where Igbos are living so he can go to that location because he is afraid of being killed by yorubas.

I also know yorubas who live in Enugu and Anambra, they live anywhere they like freely. They don't asked to live close to yorubas because of the fear of attacks by Igbos.

But when Igbos go to the North they want to live close to each other incase they are attacked one day.

When yorubas go to the north, they also want to live together because of the same fear.

Recently an Igbo woman was beaten to death up North,less than 2 months after, a yorubas woman was killed.

But how come it's always Igbos and yorubas that fight online?

You just created another boxing arena, Should have just let the sleeping dogs lie.

Xtopherprince:
You just created another boxing arena...... Should have let the sleeping dog lie.

Let the issue be resolved once and for all and let me understand why they always fight online.

They live together peacefully in reality but always fight online.Why is that?

I never heard an igbo person beaten to death in the SW by yorubas or a yoruba person killed by igbos in the East.

The northerners are very few on nairaland compared to the number of Igbos & Yorubas here.

Your submissions are right. Southerners prefer to live in the 'Sabon Garis' in the north where you find a huge number of Christians.

The northerners have no value for human life and can start killing southerners for a cartoon done in faraway Denmark.

Personally, I relate with Yorubas like my brothers & sisters and I have no issues with them at all. They come to my house a lot and I welcome them and we dine together.

On nairaland, I am a completely different person.

mekaboy:


Let the issue be resolved once and for all and let me understand why they always fight online.

They live together peacefully in reality but always fight online.Why is that?

I never heard an igbo person beaten to death in the SW by yorubas or a yoruba person killed by igbos in the East.

What makes us fight is when you come online and read a derogatory comment about your peaple, you immediately feel that strong urge to challenge it and give the other side pain too.

This is the reason why I fight them here.

Nobody has a monopoly of online madness.

Some very powerful warlords have retired from here.

I will never forget Babyosisi & Desola, Dozzybaba, Italiano1, eggheaders, Chino, Dayokanu and others.

Superstar1/SuperS1Panther is also one of them but he is still around.

op yabaleft straight!

Personally.....i like yoruba people. After all am igbo and my girlfriend is a yoruba girl living in my state.

The truth is, the fights on nairaland are not real. They dont mean any harm. The fight is just to pass time and find a way of letting out all the aggression, stress, anger brought about by the present situation in the country.

HurtgenForest:
The northerners are very few on nairaland compared to the number of Igbos & Yorubas here.

Your submissions are right. Southerners prefer to live in the 'Sabon Garis' in the north where you find a huge number of Christians.

The northerners have no value for human life and can start killing southerners for a cartoon done in faraway Denmark.

Personally, I relate with Yorubas like my brothers & sisters and I have no issues with them at all. They come to my house a lot and I welcome them and we dine together.

On nairaland, I am a completely different person.

That just makes you a hypocrite really, if you can't say to their faces what you say behind them.

Actually the division and attacks only exist on the politics section of Nairaland. It doesn't exist in other section or in the real world offline that much. I'm Igbo but most of my closest friends are Yoruba guys

You and I know that Northerners have no value for life. They love killing like sports. Even if you go to the North, you must live close to fellow southerners for your own safety, whether Yoruba or igbo. So don't get it twisted bro. The division and attacks exist mainly on the POLITICS SECTION of Nairaland. Try not to spend too much time on the political section if u don't want to be too poisoned by the negative air

HurtgenForest:
The northerners are very few on nairaland compared to the number of Igbos & Yorubas here.

Your submissions are right. Southerners prefer to live in the 'Sabon Garis' in the north where you find a huge number of Christians.

The northerners have no value for human life and can start killing southerners for a cartoon done in faraway Denmark.

Personally, I relate with Yorubas like my brothers & sisters and I have no issues with them at all. They come to my house a lot and I welcome them and we dine together.

On nairaland, I am a completely different person.

same thing here.....if my words can evicserate someone it would be on Nl but outside i'd rather eat Snake than call someone Afonja

HurtgenForest:


What makes us fight is when you come online and read a derogatory comment about your peaple, you immediately feel that strong urge to challenge it and give the other side pain too.

This is the reason why I fight them here.

Nobody has a monopoly of online madness.

correct

Its called Keyboard-warriors
I love the online nuclear weapons by both side
Both side get their own surface to air online missiles and Nuclear bombs
The fighters jet yorubas own and the Submarines bombers Igbos get, na only on Nairaland page
Ask seun

its all politics, a particular people need to get back to power asap but they feel the other people may make it impossible or so difficult for them to get back to power so its actually a game of number and as many you can possibly to win to your side convincing them why the third party are so bad even though they like doing business with them secretly.

Nigeria is so complex than you think.

Meh, that's life. People fight with each other, call each other names, curse themselves, even threaten themselves....... And in the end, get to live with each other





Most of the warriors usually had one traumatic experience or a bad dealing with the other tribe and come to here to mouth off.




Others have never left their state hence they speak trash since they don't face any alleged consequences.







Others ..............are just assholes.

Some nairalanders consider it as fun. In d real life, they are quite friendly with one another. Back in my nysc days, they called me "Yoruba" but yet we eat d Yoruba together and bleeped d hell out of each other till dawn. We are one jo!

Right now i am in oshodi as a Yoruba man i love igbos. I live with them infact i have some sitting beide me in a betnaija house communicating in their language and i cant make any meaning of it. One just borrowed my charger n i collected some movies from another guy. I have already discussed with one igbo about politics. We both agreed that the situations of this country is bad beyond lrepair . he thinks we should keep fighting for the right leaders. He commended ambode n bliv lagos is trying.


I am not angry with ANy body
I eat their food every evening cos i cant cook
But check me on nairaland na war ooo

Tho its all in defensive mode.

Nigeria will make progress the day Igbos and Yorubas realise we should be friends and not enemies

Yes I understand the banter, but we never spill each other's blood and yes we have the same level of education, exposure and endeavour

We need to pull in the same direction politically to make Naija great. The alliance of the Yoruba to the North is why we are not making much progress

Actually I take that back. What we need is coalition around the truth and common National good, that way you can attract converts from the North too!

NL has turned to a forum of tribal n religious war

#LetPeaceReign

The Ibos feel the Yoruba's are traitors which can be dated back to 1967 AD... Colonel Odumegwu Ojukwu and Chief Obafemi Awolowo

The Yorubas are Hebrews. The Ibos are Jews. The Hausa/Fulanis are Arabs. Genesis16:12 prescribes their lives. Until they all go back to basics and reinforce their foundations, the Hausa/Fulanis will never allow the Yorubas and the Ibos to build a roof for themselves and live in peace with themselves. Solution: collapse Nigeria into six Zones and grant full autonomy to all the States in each zone. When a Zone encapsulate autonomous States, the Zone automatically becomes autonomous. By autonomy, I mean, let the States be responsible for its Lands, Sea and inland waters, source for its where withal to live by and apply those resources in its own ways and only contribute a uniform percentage to FG to run the Military and Foreign Office.

mekaboy:


But how come it's always Igbos and yorubas that fight online?

Mainly because it is Igbos and Yorubas who are by far the largest users of online social media.

Yorubas and Igbos don't actually like each other. Both groups have a lot of bad history. They tolerate themselves in the name of 'one Nigeria' but loathe one another. Online social media has provided the platform of expression that did not used to be there. Have you ever seen Igbos and Yorubas ever voluntrarlily unite to do anything together? It has never happened.

Had Northerners had a large online presence in the politics section like Yorubas, what you see now happening now with Igbos and Yorubas would have been child's play cause we Igbos actually hate their guts more Yorubas, and they know it.

I believe there are more than 1.6 million members on nairaland the pampers wearing Yorubas and Igbos on this thread that conveniently turn every thread into ethnic bashing are not even up to 1 percent of the total members. So I think it is wrong to say that Yoruba and igbos don't get along on nairaland. How an individual feels good abusing and making generalizations about an entire ethnic group never ceases to amaze me. U begin to wonder if they were raised properly or had any form of upbringing at all. As someone rightly pointed out this kind of childish rants exist only on the politics section and that is y I hardly visit it.

gartamanta:


Mainly because it is Igbos and Yorubas who are by far the largest users of online social media.

Yorubas and Igbos don't actually like each other. Both groups have a lot of bad history. They tolerate themselves in the name of 'one Nigeria' but loathe one another. Online social media has provided the platform of expression that did not used to be there. Have you ever seen Igbos and Yorubas ever voluntrarlily unite to do anything together? It has never happened.

Had Northerners had a large online presence in the politics section like Yorubas, what you see now happening now with Igbos and Yorubas would have been child's play cause we Igbos actually hate their guts more Yorubas, and they know it.

On the contrary, I feel there is a fair representation of Northerners here. However they hardly speak on issues that don't directly affect them. You could only read their comments during the campaign against Gej.

When Igbos are killed in the North they don't comment, when yorubas are killed in the North same silence. But when u attack buhari, you will see comments from the North.

Just my observation.

how will the yorubas and igbos leave or chat in peace when the yorubas support hausa fulani parasitic govt? how will the Igbos sit down and relax as the yorubas took side with hausa Nigeria to fight Igbos and thereafter seized the architecture of governance and allocate same among themselves to the detriment of igbos and others? how will the Igbos accept yoruba friendship when they loaded igbos hustling in Lagos and returned them to Anambra and still forming "one Nigeria " whereas there are thousands of youths, and aged from other tribes roaming the streets of lagos, yet they targeted igbos? how do you want us to tolerate the continuous marginalization of igbos which the YORUBAD have taken as a normal thing? answer these before I continue

DaniDani:
h[b]ow will the yorubas and igbos leave or chat in peace when the yorubas support hausa fulani parasitic govt?[/b] how will the Igbos sit down and relax as the yorubas took side with hausa Nigeria to fight Igbos and thereafter seized the architecture of governance and allocate same among themselves to the detriment of igbos and others? how will the Igbos accept yoruba friendship when they loaded igbos hustling in Lagos and returned them to Anambra and still forming "one Nigeria " whereas there are thousands of youths, and aged from other tribes roaming the streets of lagos, yet they targeted igbos? how do you want us to tolerate the continuous marginalization of igbos which the YORUBAD have taken as a normal thing? answer these before I continue

The bearded guy that first took up arms and declared war against the Federal Republic of Nigeria, was/is the guy a Yoruba, Hausa or Fulani? I mean the guy that died but his manhood still lives on - imPatience Mama Piss Jonathan (2014)? You don't expect me to attempt to hug and kiss people that picked up arms against me and my household.

EpicMaurice:
Personally.....i like yoruba people. After all am igbo and my girlfriend is a yoruba girl living in my state.

The truth is, the fights on nairaland are not real. They dont mean any harm. The fight is just to pass time and find a way of letting out all the aggression, stress, anger brought about by the present situation in the country.

so with me am a yoruba,my girl is an igbo girl, even my ex they are both from anambra, the issue is, some people here are working with politician from opposition party to use tribalism to devide us. I know what am saying.

mekaboy:


Let the issue be resolved once and for all and let me understand why they always fight online.

They live together peacefully in reality but always fight online.Why is that?

I never heard an igbo person beaten to death in the SW by yorubas or a yoruba person killed by igbos in the East.

My brother in reality the two tribes live in peace, that's to tell you that cyberspace is just an illusion.

Imagine! I'm Igbo, but my younger sister is married to a very hardworking young Yoruba graduate. That's not all, my cousin is married to a Yoruba in Lagos. As a youth corper, I dated a sweet young, intelligent Yoruba girl. And currently, some of my closest buddies are Yorubas.

Reality is different from the internet. People wake up early, go to work, come back home and sleep. On weekends they wanna say hi to Mama Nkechi, Iya Tunde and Mallam Aminu, who are all hardworking people. There's no real beef between the two tribes, except the cyber beef instigated by idle, proud, untraveled, uncivilized bigots without faces.

If its on Nairaland the tribal war will not stop cos its like racism. Yoruba's love to mind their business until you include them in the fight just mention their name or tribe, all hlthey ask is keep them outvof the scene but before you know it someone will say:
“1. what natural resources do Yorubas have to help Nigeria? My reply is we don't have much but we have our morals.
2. Yorubas should keep out of Biafra's fight or what is their problem? My reply is Yoruba's wants peace and Biafra wants war just to leave and before you know it they will be like south Sudan fighting amongst themselves after having what they want and second, you fighting to have your country but you killing your people who will be left to move to your promise land?
3. Who is the leaders forYorubas, politically? ”Yorubas have kings and we don't let any one speak for us we gobwith anyone we think is sensible.
4 . yesterday I read a comment on Nl that it's a Biafra footballer that helped score most goals? My take on it is, that is tribalism at its highest peak even on football, those talking about the civil war were not born around that period but they want biafra. I'm not in support and not against, if they want to leave, they can leve without blood shead. I'm just another Yoruba too so whoever is angry can talk.

Franchise21:
The Ibos feel the Yoruba's are traitors which can be dated back to 1967 AD... Colonel Odumegwu Ojukwu and Chief Obafemi Awolowo

And does that have to make usvlike China and Japan? Where Chinese teaches their kids in high school about what Japan did to them and teach the kids on how to hate Japan? I don't know about who betrayed who but I don't think a Awolowo betrayed anyone, except the person who planned a coup and the other wanted the coup to fail. Its not betrayal it is been faithful. If we want to be like China and Japan then we don't have to fight ourselves, fight those who took our ancestors as slaves on a ship.