yanshDoctor:
you are still a child and probably don't know how economy is been run and therefore I can't go into argument with you. you should have remain in the topic instead of creating a new one.

rlauncher:
[s]This write-up is a rebuttal to the crap posted by one by the monicker yanshdoctor which he titled ' ,What Lagos Yoruba's need to know about Lagos', in which he made some nasty and unsavoury comments about the Yoruba people as well as roll out false information about Lagos State. Ordinarily, I don't comment on nairaland. I usually visit the forum as a guest. But when I saw the extent to which the Igbo people are wont to badmouthing Yoruba people, peddling false information about them despite having been so magnanimous to the Igbo people over the years in the history of this country ,I have no choice but to join the forum so that records can be set straigth. I have to do this because if your neighbour are peddling false stories about you and you keep quiet ,it would not be long before others begin to believe their lies.

First, Lagos was not developed by the colonialists, nor by Igbo's (in fact Igbos contributed more than any other factor to the cripplling of the southwestern Nigeria economy) nor with oil money.It was developed by the Yoruba people. Before the discovery of oil, Lagos was already heavily industrialized. I am talking of as far back in the 50s. We used to have industrial estates scattered all over the southwestern states including Ogun ,Oyo ,Osun,Lagos, Ondo and Ekiti.

Up till the late 70s , these industries established by Yoruba people and foreigners alike were providing ready employments to fresh graduates from our Universities and Polytechnics. These were the times that people will mock you if you buy a secondhand car because the word " tokunbo cars" does not exist at that time.

It is also instructive to know that at that time, we used to manufacture practically everything being imported into the country today ranging from electricals,electronics, automotives, motor spare parts, tyres, textiles and clothings, footwears and other leather products just to mention a few.

The prosperity of the western side of Nigeria began to attract people from other parts of the country coupled with the the fact that Yoruba people are generally accommodating of people of other ethnic groups and discrimination based on ethnicity at workplaces in southwest Nigeria is generally absent.

This was also the time that the naira used to exchanged for about 75 kobo (N0.75) to $1. Brand new cars used to go for between N2000(two thousand naira) and N7000(seven thousand naira).

The problems of the southwest began when Shagari came into power and began granting import licences for the importations of goods we are already producing. The federal government at the time refused to listen to the cry of economic experts for the federal government to protect our infant industries.

I am sorry to say this, but it is the truth. The Igbo people latched on to the weakness of the federal government policy on the need to protect infant industries and the markets became a washed with cheap and fake versions of the highly quality products we used to produce at home ,all imported from the Asian countries. I know some of us reading this piece will remember " this is from Taiwan".

Mass retrenchments was what followed as the once burgeoning industries could no longer operate profitably. Over 40,000 industries have since close down.Our youths can no .longer secure good jobs after graduating from school and the naira exchange rate to world major currency have been depreciating since then.

Igbo's will never tell you how they bombed pen cinema in Agege , the then equivalent of Silverbird cinema of today, killing so many Yoruba people who went to see a movie with their friendsand families as well as planted IEDs all over Lagos in order to destroy Lagos and kill as many Yoruba people as possible at the beginning of the civil war which was not caused by Yoruba people. The Igbo's have always been envying and hating the Yoruba people for no just cause, hence the lies and devilish propaganda they have been spreading about us on the social media.

l wish to categorically state here that the economy of Lagos have been functioning perfectly well before Igbo's came and destroy it with importation of cheap, fake , adultrated, and substandard goods. The departure of the Igbo's from Lagos and southwest will only lead to the revival of industrialization of our region, because unnecessary importation of goods we can produce at home though at higher prices will stop. I am not saying the Igbos should leave, but they are free to do so if that is what they want but not at the expense of the unity of the nation.

Igbo's should stop badmouthing Yoruba people .We have always been forgiving you people for the harms you people have been doing to us and our economy. It is rather unfortunate that Igbo people think that our patience and gentleness is something that should be exploited.We are not fools[/s].

rlauncher:
This write-up is a rebuttal to the crap posted by one by the monicker yanshdoctor which he titled ' ,What Lagos Yoruba's need to know about Lagos', in which he made some nasty and unsavoury comments about the Yoruba people as well as roll out false information about Lagos State. Ordinarily, I don't comment on nairaland. I usually visit the forum as a guest. But when I saw the extent to which the Igbo people are wont to badmouthing Yoruba people, peddling false information about them despite having been so magnanimous to the Igbo people over the years in the history of this country ,I have no choice but to join the forum so that records can be set straigth. I have to do this because if your neighbour are peddling false stories about you and you keep quiet ,it would not be long before others begin to believe their lies.

First, Lagos was not developed by the colonialists, nor by Igbo's (in fact Igbos contributed more than any other factor to the cripplling of the southwestern Nigeria economy) nor with oil money.It was developed by the Yoruba people. Before the discovery of oil, Lagos was already heavily industrialized. I am talking of as far back in the 50s. We used to have industrial estates scattered all over the southwestern states including Ogun ,Oyo ,Osun,Lagos, Ondo and Ekiti.

Up till the late 70s , these industries established by Yoruba people and foreigners alike were providing ready employments to fresh graduates from our Universities and Polytechnics. These were the times that people will mock you if you buy a secondhand car because the word " tokunbo cars" does not exist at that time.

It is also instructive to know that at that time, we used to manufacture practically everything being imported into the country today ranging from electricals,electronics, automotives, motor spare parts, tyres, textiles and clothings, footwears and other leather products just to mention a few.

The prosperity of the western side of Nigeria began to attract people from other parts of the country coupled with the the fact that Yoruba people are generally accommodating of people of other ethnic groups and discrimination based on ethnicity at workplaces in southwest Nigeria is generally absent.

This was also the time that the naira used to exchanged for about 75 kobo (N0.75) to $1. Brand new cars used to go for between N2000(two thousand naira) and N7000(seven thousand naira).

The problems of the southwest began when Shagari came into power and began granting import licences for the importations of goods we are already producing. The federal government at the time refused to listen to the cry of economic experts for the federal government to protect our infant industries.

I am sorry to say this, but it is the truth. The Igbo people latched on to the weakness of the federal government policy on the need to protect infant industries and the markets became a washed with cheap and fake versions of the highly quality products we used to produce at home ,all imported from the Asian countries. I know some of us reading this piece will remember " this is from Taiwan".

Mass retrenchments was what followed as the once burgeoning industries could no longer operate profitably. Over 40,000 industries have since close down.Our youths can no .longer secure good jobs after graduating from school and the naira exchange rate to world major currency have been depreciating since then.

Igbo's will never tell you how they bombed pen cinema in Agege , the then equivalent of Silverbird cinema of today, killing so many Yoruba people who went to see a movie with their friendsand families as well as planted IEDs all over Lagos in order to destroy Lagos and kill as many Yoruba people as possible at the beginning of the civil war which was not caused by Yoruba people. The Igbo's have always been envying and hating the Yoruba people for no just cause, hence the lies and devilish propaganda they have been spreading about us on the social media.

l wish to categorically state here that the economy of Lagos have been functioning perfectly well before Igbo's came and destroy it with importation of cheap, fake , adultrated, and substandard goods. The departure of the Igbo's from Lagos and southwest will only lead to the revival of industrialization of our region, because unnecessary importation of goods we can produce at home though at higher prices will stop. I am not saying the Igbos should leave, but they are free to do so if that is what they want but not at the expense of the unity of the nation.

Igbo's should stop badmouthing Yoruba people .We have always been forgiving you people for the harms you people have been doing to us and our economy. It is rather unfortunate that Igbo people think that our patience and gentleness is something that should be exploited.We are not fools.

Alcatraz003:
OP.....tell them. igbos have not seen nothing yet. The hitherto docile yorubas have woken up. We shall uproot igbos from our ancestral land. Insha Allah.

rlauncher:
This write-up is a rebuttal to the crap posted by one by the monicker yanshdoctor which he titled ' ,What Lagos Yoruba's need to know about Lagos', in which he made some nasty and unsavoury comments about the Yoruba people as well as roll out false information about Lagos State. Ordinarily, I don't comment on nairaland. I usually visit the forum as a guest. But when I saw the extent to which the Igbo people are wont to badmouthing Yoruba people, peddling false information about them despite having been so magnanimous to the Igbo people over the years in the history of this country ,I have no choice but to join the forum so that records can be set straigth. I have to do this because if your neighbour are peddling false stories about you and you keep quiet ,it would not be long before others begin to believe their lies.

First, Lagos was not developed by the colonialists, nor by Igbo's (in fact Igbos contributed more than any other factor to the cripplling of the southwestern Nigeria economy) nor with oil money.It was developed by the Yoruba people. Before the discovery of oil, Lagos was already heavily industrialized. I am talking of as far back in the 50s. We used to have industrial estates scattered all over the southwestern states including Ogun ,Oyo ,Osun,Lagos, Ondo and Ekiti.

Up till the late 70s , these industries established by Yoruba people and foreigners alike were providing ready employments to fresh graduates from our Universities and Polytechnics. These were the times that people will mock you if you buy a secondhand car because the word " tokunbo cars" does not exist at that time.

It is also instructive to know that at that time, we used to manufacture practically everything being imported into the country today ranging from electricals,electronics, automotives, motor spare parts, tyres, textiles and clothings, footwears and other leather products just to mention a few.

The prosperity of the western side of Nigeria began to attract people from other parts of the country coupled with the the fact that Yoruba people are generally accommodating of people of other ethnic groups and discrimination based on ethnicity at workplaces in southwest Nigeria is generally absent.

This was also the time that the naira used to exchanged for about 75 kobo (N0.75) to $1. Brand new cars used to go for between N2000(two thousand naira) and N7000(seven thousand naira).

The problems of the southwest began when Shagari came into power and began granting import licences for the importations of goods we are already producing. The federal government at the time refused to listen to the cry of economic experts for the federal government to protect our infant industries.

I am sorry to say this, but it is the truth. The Igbo people latched on to the weakness of the federal government policy on the need to protect infant industries and the markets became a washed with cheap and fake versions of the highly quality products we used to produce at home ,all imported from the Asian countries. I know some of us reading this piece will remember " this is from Taiwan".

Mass retrenchments was what followed as the once burgeoning industries could no longer operate profitably. Over 40,000 industries have since close down.Our youths can no .longer secure good jobs after graduating from school and the naira exchange rate to world major currency have been depreciating since then.

Igbo's will never tell you how they bombed pen cinema in Agege , the then equivalent of Silverbird cinema of today, killing so many Yoruba people who went to see a movie with their friendsand families as well as planted IEDs all over Lagos in order to destroy Lagos and kill as many Yoruba people as possible at the beginning of the civil war which was not caused by Yoruba people. The Igbo's have always been envying and hating the Yoruba people for no just cause, hence the lies and devilish propaganda they have been spreading about us on the social media.

l wish to categorically state here that the economy of Lagos have been functioning perfectly well before Igbo's came and destroy it with importation of cheap, fake , adultrated, and substandard goods. The departure of the Igbo's from Lagos and southwest will only lead to the revival of industrialization of our region, because unnecessary importation of goods we can produce at home though at higher prices will stop. I am not saying the Igbos should leave, but they are free to do so if that is what they want but not at the expense of the unity of the nation.

Igbo's should stop badmouthing Yoruba people .We have always been forgiving you people for the harms you people have been doing to us and our economy. It is rather unfortunate that Igbo people think that our patience and gentleness is something that should be exploited.We are not fools.

Agunechemba1:
It is too late for you Yoruba's

I'm igbo and I'm a lagosian .I have same right like every other Yoruba person in Lagos state.Not even Ambode can chase me away.

Lagos is a no man's land.

Stop crying and face the reality. Enjoy the One Nigeria u all championed for.

I repeat,Lagos is no man's land.

LoveDecay:


Who said you're are not a Lagosian. As a Lagosian, you are subject of the Oba of Lagos. You are merely a Lagosian by birth and not blood. Same in the US, you can be naturalized there and have the same rights but never the same previledges as one born there... Ever. Privileges are cultural , generational , something you gain as a bona fide member of a group. Rights are simply constitutional.

One with previledges can fall back on rights or previledges to justify his actions but one with rights can only act within the limits of his rights.

If you understand what I wrote above you have discovered they key to the east political slavery in this country. Which you continue to claim for yourselves with these silly statements .... Lagos is no man's land, when the Oba wanted to throw you into the Lagoon what did you do, did you go to the palace of the govt. Rights and previledges .

blues20:
Igbos, its time for you guys to start thinking home. The east is livable and accommodating. I'm currently residing doing my stuff down East. Nigerians, especially the Yorubas hate you.... very soon, don't be surprised when this, online threats, will translate to xenophobic attack.... move down East; Home beckons.

rlauncher:
This write-up is a rebuttal to the crap posted by one by the monicker yanshdoctor which he titled ' ,What Lagos Yoruba's need to know about Lagos', in which he made some nasty and unsavoury comments about the Yoruba people as well as roll out false information about Lagos State. Ordinarily, I don't comment on nairaland. I usually visit the forum as a guest. But when I saw the extent to which the Igbo people are wont to badmouthing Yoruba people, peddling false information about them despite having been so magnanimous to the Igbo people over the years in the history of this country ,I have no choice but to join the forum so that records can be set straigth. I have to do this because if your neighbour are peddling false stories about you and you keep quiet ,it would not be long before others begin to believe their lies.

First, Lagos was not developed by the colonialists, nor by Igbo's (in fact Igbos contributed more than any other factor to the cripplling of the southwestern Nigeria economy) nor with oil money.It was developed by the Yoruba people. Before the discovery of oil, Lagos was already heavily industrialized. I am talking of as far back in the 50s. We used to have industrial estates scattered all over the southwestern states including Ogun ,Oyo ,Osun,Lagos, Ondo and Ekiti.

Up till the late 70s , these industries established by Yoruba people and foreigners alike were providing ready employments to fresh graduates from our Universities and Polytechnics. These were the times that people will mock you if you buy a secondhand car because the word " tokunbo cars" does not exist at that time.

It is also instructive to know that at that time, we used to manufacture practically everything being imported into the country today ranging from electricals,electronics, automotives, motor spare parts, tyres, textiles and clothings, footwears and other leather products just to mention a few.

The prosperity of the western side of Nigeria began to attract people from other parts of the country coupled with the the fact that Yoruba people are generally accommodating of people of other ethnic groups and discrimination based on ethnicity at workplaces in southwest Nigeria is generally absent.

This was also the time that the naira used to exchanged for about 75 kobo (N0.75) to $1. Brand new cars used to go for between N2000(two thousand naira) and N7000(seven thousand naira).

The problems of the southwest began when Shagari came into power and began granting import licences for the importations of goods we are already producing. The federal government at the time refused to listen to the cry of economic experts for the federal government to protect our infant industries.

I am sorry to say this, but it is the truth. The Igbo people latched on to the weakness of the federal government policy on the need to protect infant industries and the markets became a washed with cheap and fake versions of the highly quality products we used to produce at home ,all imported from the Asian countries. I know some of us reading this piece will remember " this is from Taiwan".

Mass retrenchments was what followed as the once burgeoning industries could no longer operate profitably. Over 40,000 industries have since close down.Our youths can no .longer secure good jobs after graduating from school and the naira exchange rate to world major currency have been depreciating since then.

Igbo's will never tell you how they bombed pen cinema in Agege , the then equivalent of Silverbird cinema of today, killing so many Yoruba people who went to see a movie with their friendsand families as well as planted IEDs all over Lagos in order to destroy Lagos and kill as many Yoruba people as possible at the beginning of the civil war which was not caused by Yoruba people. The Igbo's have always been envying and hating the Yoruba people for no just cause, hence the lies and devilish propaganda they have been spreading about us on the social media.

l wish to categorically state here that the economy of Lagos have been functioning perfectly well before Igbo's came and destroy it with importation of cheap, fake , adultrated, and substandard goods. The departure of the Igbo's from Lagos and southwest will only lead to the revival of industrialization of our region, because unnecessary importation of goods we can produce at home though at higher prices will stop. I am not saying the Igbos should leave, but they are free to do so if that is what they want but not at the expense of the unity of the nation.

Igbo's should stop badmouthing Yoruba people .We have always been forgiving you people for the harms you people have been doing to us and our economy. It is rather unfortunate that Igbo people think that our patience and gentleness is something that should be exploited.We are not fools.

Alcatraz003:
OP.....tell them. igbos have not seen nothing yet. The hitherto docile yorubas have woken up. We shall uproot igbos from our ancestral land. Insha Allah.

mekaboy:
Nice one op. Now just take it a step further, include the total amount the yorubas spent in lagos in the 50's and total spent by Federal government when it was capital let's compare.

fulanmafia:
This section has truly gone to the dogs, robust discourse is now a luxury. Instead of intelligent rebuttals, all you can hear is 'Yoloba, Trash', etc.

See what cheap data phones and bundles have caused.

attackgat:


Igbos already uprooted and left in 1967. It was your fathers who came down to the East to fight for 3 years to bring them back.


One wonders what would have become of Lagos if the British had not moved the Capital of Nigeria from Calabar to Lagos.

attackgat:


Igbos already uprooted and left in 1967. It was your fathers who came down to the East to fight for 3 years to bring them back.


One wonders what would have become of Lagos if the British had not moved the Capital of Nigeria from Calabar to Lagos.