Clinton9000:
A Nairalander few months ago perfectly described the relationship between Igbos and Nigeria. He said Igbos is that smart, blessed kid in secondary school that everybody wants to be associated with, copy from and be in a group or team with. The smart kid Igbo doesn't want to copy from anyone because he is confident in his abilities. If he wants to change class because he doesn't like how he is being treated or the condition of the class, the rest of the class will gang up to stop him. Ok, the Igbo kid says...take my books, take my answers, just let me go with nothing, they said no...lol.What is even interesting in that class is if anything not about Igbo is being discussed, nobody is interested. But as as that thing involves Igbo, everybody will pay serious attention and join. You notice how Igbo thread drives Nairaland?

If you want to test my hypothesis, open two threads, same topic, one about Yoruba and the other about Igbo. I promise you, within 10 mins, the Igbo thread will be 3 pages while Yoruba will still be on page zero. Even Yorubas will not touch their own thread, but will instead rush enter Igbo thread like a rat being bated....most of them are not doing this consciously, it's like a spirit pushing them in the direction of the chosen children of God.

TheCabal:


Yet, not one Nigerian of pure eastern ancestry is on the Forbes list.

What is your defination of "ahead of you". I have eastern relations pure and mixed; I know what poverty in the east looks and unfortunately feels like.

The eastern part of Nigeria is the worst part of Nigeria to live on less than a dollar a day.

The entire wealth generated by most eastern businessmen comes from the ports (import). The current disapproval from the eastern elites towards the current government is largely associated with the new policies in the ports.

The large rise in IGR from the customs and sister agencies came out of the improvement in revenue collections, the bans of tooth picks, rice and others affected more eastern business than others.

I have said it in the past, eastern businesses cannot compete with the current changes in the Nigerian economy, they are already making less money, than their counterparts in the north; south-south and south-west.

I can write a whole academic paper on the demise of the eastern commercial hegemony. Coscharis recently accessed a 10billion naira loan from the FGN and our pride Innoson loan from GTB was about 3BN; compared to Rabiu BUA or Aliko Dangote accessing loans running to hundreds and billions of dollars. BUA $400+ M, Dangote $10+ B.

I mean you cannot tell anyone than Osha (Onitsha) has far more millionaires than Kano city; you can claim it but the IGR tells us a different story; generally.

Half your productive workforce is either in Lagos or offshore. You have a big problem in the east, and your solution lies in real and not suppose commercial and industrial output on Nigerian soil.

What will become of eastern business as more products are banned?

freeze001:


OP made a comparison between reactions to the plan of the FG to legitimise terrorism via thoughtless amnesty for those supposedly defeated/degraded and responses to anything about the Igbo. Shame no let u see road na still Igbo matter u carry for head. Left for u guys the entire Igbo speaking people should be proscribed as terrorists and criminals whilst BH recognised as one of the deadliest terrorist groups worldwide would get commendation for their gallant actions from people like you but God pass una.

He who created and dwells among the Igbo is greater than all other evil external forces.

JikanBaura:
Let everybody stay in his region, the number of igbos flooding northern Nigeria is very alarming, millions of them are buying land here and there, if you really want biafra why are relocating to our regions , it's better you go back and build your own region, Nigeria will definitely divided someday and igbos will lose the most.

We will not allowed you to stay in our land after Divittion, you will lost your business, properties and if you dare to stay, I'm afraid Igbo will face something worse than xenophobia.

I advise you to better go back and build your region, stop claiming some people states as no man's states, I my love to have nothing to do with Igbo is why I'm advising you guys.

Bede2u:
Lol...I must really have hit a nerve for u to be compelled to write this novel.

Pre 1966 when all tribes and regions were given a level playing field, the richest Nigerian was Igbo. The east was the economic hub of the nation (if u discount Lagos the capital).

Fast foward to after the war and when merit has been jettisoned....u now get Yorubas and hausas who are all oil billionaires (minus dangote and rabiu who are govt puppets).

Igbos are the least poor region in Nigeria regardless of all ur injustices against us. We are the ones opening up those new factories in ogun and lagos. We are the ones bringing back all those foreign exchange from abroad. We are the ones taking advantage of bans on import to manufacture replicas in Aba. We are the ones bold enough to go and open a shop in the most dreaded area of the north. We are the ones currently buying choice property in Abuja...after u guys will start crying that igbos must leave Abuja.

We the ones u love to hate...we are igbos

JikanBaura:


You are hated and yet you continue to build others people region, love yourself channel your wealth back to your region before it too late for you.

Nigeria will certainly devide sooner or later, stop boasting, my brother the land you bought, will no longer be yours when Nigeria divide for no one will want to have your tribe stay in their land after agitating for Divition. If you don't have land buy it now because land in your region will be scars. Advice your people.

Bede2u:
when will nigeria divide? Why not now?

JikanBaura:
Let everybody stay in his region, the number of igbos flooding northern Nigeria is very alarming, millions of them are buying land here and there, if you really want biafra why are relocating to our regions , it's better you go back and build your own region, Nigeria will definitely divided someday and igbos will lose the most.

We will not allowed you to stay in our land after Divittion, you will lost your business, properties and if you dare to stay, I'm afraid Igbo will face something worse than xenophobia.

I advise you to better go back and build your region, stop claiming some people states as no man's states, I my love to have nothing to do with Igbo is why I'm advising you guys.

JikanBaura:


When igbo politicians are patriotic enough to their tribe and resign demanding your freedom , mass back-migration of igbos to their land. Dont your people see how it was done in other part of the world

Namdi Kanu igbos most influential son, Nigeria armies invade his house and he is nowhere to be found, surprisingly your igbos have kept quiet, you are no longer talking about him, no more agitating, you are now back into the system as wellers not soscestionist.
Wallahi igbos have surprised and dissapointed me, you betray Kanu, wallahi i was scare that you will burn Nigeria if anything happens to him.... Mtswwt just shame on you double face , I told myself to never take your tribe serious, just hope Kanu is still alive so he would learn a big lesson.

If it yoruba or Hausa people that want Nigeria devide the story will be different because they won't betray theirselves, their leaders like you.

Alariiwo:


Igbos are doing better than "noone" my friend..

Even without war or insurgency, the SE still ranks low in terms of development and sustainability.
The unemployment rate ranks highest in the SE
The security is nothing to write home about.
Talking about infrastructures, it's zero


Wake up boy! There is nothing special about South East or her inhabitants

GenbIoodykiller:


reminds me of ritababe

oyatz:
Sir, is it the same creator that created igbos that also created Nupe,Berom, Igala, Fulani, Yoruba etc?

honeychild:


I didn’t deny that most Nigerians dislike Igbos. i am telling you the reason why. You cant keep crying “they hate us” when it is your attitude that breeds the dislike. Even God has told you he can’t stand your attitude.

horsepower101:
Today I saw a thread where the federal government is openly offering amnesty to one of the most deadly terrorist organizations in the world; Boko Haram. An organization that has plundered and wasted so many lives in the past 10 years.

I carefully observed that thread and noticed the lack of interest most Nigerians showed.

Now compare it to IPOB, a legal organization recognized in the UN and has branches in different countries. Initially declared legal by he Nigerian court system before buhari compromised it.
They carry no arms and hold peaceful protest while declaring their right to self determination recognized by the UN and AU.

Just pause and take a moment to Remember the traffic and hate armless IPOB drew to every thread and the evil Nigerians were wishing upon them.


Now compare it to their reactions with boko haram.


Why are Nigerians like this? Why are you people so unbelievably hypocritical with everything you do? Why?

Do you remember these?

"It is unjust and unconstitutional to proscribe Boko Haram"- Lai Mohammed, 2013.

"An attack on Boko Haram is an attack on the north"- Muhammadu Buhari,2014.

"Amnesty will make Boko Haram fighters useful to the nation"- Shehu Garba, 2018.

"We should learn to accommodate Fulani herdsmen" - Buhari, 2018.

And then ... they declared a NONVIOLENT IPOB a terrorist organization, capping it all by sending the army to kill Nnamdi Kanu.

Is that fair?

freeze001:


Why are you overly concerned about the so-called chest beating? Do the Igbos brag with ur property or achievement? Do u not have d mouth and means to brag? If u don't like or know how to why hate others who do? Between the acclaimed chest beating and BH terrorism which is the crux of the op, which is worse really? Have Igbos raided anywhere they live in outside Igboland to forcefully steal and take from natives? What is it really?

Corrinthians:
Me it reminds me of Nnamdidiot Cowmumu. He was a hypocrite Pig.

TheCabal:
Yet, not one Nigerian of pure eastern ancestry is on the Forbes list.

What is your defination of "ahead of you". I have eastern relations pure and mixed; I know what poverty in the east looks and unfortunately feels like.

The eastern part of Nigeria is the worst part of Nigeria to live on less than a dollar a day.

The entire wealth generated by most eastern businessmen comes from the ports (import). The current disapproval from the eastern elites towards the current government is largely associated with the new policies in the ports.

The large rise in IGR from the customs and sister agencies came out of the improvement in revenue collections, the bans of tooth picks, rice and others affected more eastern business than others.

I have said it in the past, eastern businesses cannot compete with the current changes in the Nigerian economy, they are already making less money, than their counterparts in the north; south-south and south-west.

I can write a whole academic paper on the demise of the eastern commercial hegemony. Coscharis recently accessed a 10billion naira loan from the FGN and our pride Innoson loan from GTB was about 3BN; compared to Rabiu BUA or Aliko Dangote accessing loans running to hundreds and billions of dollars. BUA $400+ M, Dangote $10+ B.

I mean you cannot tell anyone than Osha (Onitsha) has far more millionaires than Kano city; you can claim it but the IGR tells us a different story; generally.

Half your productive workforce is either in Lagos or offshore. You have a big problem in the east, and your solution lies in real and not suppose commercial and industrial output on Nigerian soil.

What will become of eastern business as more products are banned?

QuotaSystem:
Is it that you people have not evolved to the point of understanding that chest beating and lack of modesty is generally socially unacceptable?

Did the world evolve into valuing modesty & humility and leave Ibo's behind? Ever heard the wise saying that pride always comes before a fall?

Even one of your greatest intellectuals wrote many years ago that one of the greatest weaknesses of the ibo is their tendency to irritate "through noisy exhibitionism". To think you people are still ignorant of the negative consequences of your chronic immodesty shows you have a very long way to go in this country.

I'm not saying that you should change your behaviour because you're clearly helplessly plagued with this social handicap, but I'm just surprised that you think immodest behaviour is welcome anywhere in the civilised world, even by those that actually have things to brag about.

oyatz:
I can't just stop laughing reading this.

laudate:


Even Chinua Achebe tried to offer them advice in this regard, but they ignored it. What a pity! They only went to town waving sections of his book, that favoured their use of propaganda against other ethnic groups and the nation, while discarding the portion that suggested they should improve their behaviour.

Alariiwo:
Truth be told, it's a sad development..

But then, Zik an Igbo man stood against the referendum clause, claiming he wanted one Nigeria by fire by force out of greed to rule over all other tribes.

The reason you didn't see reactions is cos you Igbos are the architects of your own downfall in Nigeria.

Bede2u:
Lol...I must really have hit a nerve for u to be compelled to write this novel.

Pre 1966 when all tribes and regions were given a level playing field, the richest Nigerian was Igbo. The east was the economic hub of the nation (if u discount Lagos the capital).

Fast foward to after the war and when merit has been jettisoned....u now get Yorubas and hausas who are all oil billionaires (minus dangote and rabiu who are govt puppets).

Igbos are the least poor region in Nigeria regardless of all ur injustices against us. We are the ones opening up those new factories in ogun and lagos. We are the ones bringing back all those foreign exchange from abroad. We are the ones taking advantage of bans on import to manufacture replicas in Aba. We are the ones bold enough to go and open a shop in the most dreaded area of the north. We are the ones currently buying choice property in Abuja...after u guys will start crying that igbos must leave Abuja.

We the ones u love to hate...we are igbos

Bede2u:
And u wonder why ur region is poorest in Nigeria

QuotaSystem:
Actually the reason behind such immodest behaviour is not far fetched.

wakaman:
Victim card again!
You people refuse to be responsible for the reciprocal effects of your opinionated perception of other tribes around you. Feeling full of yourselves.

One question to put you guys on a reality check, do you people ever show love to other tribes now? Did you have any love for other tribes even before the Biafra war?
Igbos demean other tribes and people that's why you igbos reciprocally get demeaned by the other tribes.

From the north to the west to the south south even within the east. the igbos are unanimously and unitedly perceived/ seen as dubious, greedy and rancoursly disrespectful of law and culture.

As far as the Biafra country goes!igbos,believe it or not if it were left for the Nigerian peoples without politics we would gladly let you go but here's the snag ,you are bound by our perception of you igbos to be dubious and greedy as you would lay claims wantonly to valuable Nigerian assets.

The snag above is the sole reason,
Biafra can be attained when you people reverse upon yourselves and sacrificially determine to develop your hub!
Otherwise it's rather foolish to want to go back to a bush.

Igbos you get what you give!

laudate:


Even Chinua Achebe tried to offer them advice in this regard, but they ignored it. What a pity! They only went to town waving sections of his book, that favoured their use of propaganda against other ethnic groups and the nation, while discarding the portion that suggested they should improve their behaviour.

Bede2u:
Lol...I must really have hit a nerve for u to be compelled to write this novel.

Pre 1966 when all tribes and regions were given a level playing field, the richest Nigerian was Igbo.

Fast foward to after the war and when merit has been jettisoned....u now get Yorubas and hausas who are all oil billionaires (minus dangote and rabiu who are govt puppets).

1. Igbos are the least poor region in Nigeria regardless of all ur injustices against us.

2. We are the ones opening up those new factories in ogun and lagos.

3. We are the ones bringing back all those foreign exchange from abroad.

4. We are the ones taking advantage of bans on import to manufacture replicas in Aba.

5. We are the ones bold enough to go and open a shop in the most dreaded area of the north.

6. We are the ones currently buying choice property in Abuja...after u guys will start crying that igbos must leave Abuja.

7. We the ones u love to hate...we are igbos