The case of 78 Nigerian-born men who were indicted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation mid last week has led to angry debates and taking sides among Nigerians on the social media.

It may be recalled that Igbo names featured prominently on the FBI charge sheet relating the criminal activities of some 80 persons indicted in one of the massive Internet scams in American history.


Since the documents were declassified in the US and published globally, including in Nigeria, there have been all sorts of reactions to the issue.

The table turned on Sunday morning as an April 2019 list of convicted drug dealers resurfaced in the media.

The four-month-old report had revealed that the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia was set to execute 23 Nigerians who were arrested for drug offences as far back as 2017.

While the names on the FBI list were mostly Igbo, those on the Saudi list were mostly Yoruba, with a sprinkle of wholly Muslim names which some suspected to be Hausa.

Consequently, as the hashtag #IgboYahooBoys trended last week, #YorubaDrugDealers took the centre stage on Sunday.
https://punchng.com/igboyahooboys-yorubadrugdealers-trend-as-nigerians-fight-dirty-over-fbi-list/

This war between Yoruba and Igbo's is unnecessary.

[i][/i]Ok let the war begin here on nairaland
Lass lass all of us na Nigerians

Ibo or Yoruba Criminals are criminals. I don't get what the fuss is about. As far as I'm concerned there is no Nation, tribe, creed etc without bad guys but there are also a lot of good guys. Wish we could focus on the positives.

judgementyard:
[i][/i]Ok let the war begin here on nairaland
Lass lass all of us na Nigerians

Frontpage Lalastiscala

US will jail the igbos while

Saudi Arabia will kill the Yorubas

Oh too bad

Criminality knows no tribe. Infact Nigerians are fantastically corrupt - David Cameron

iPhoneRepairer:
Criminality knows no tribe. Infact Nigerians are fantastically corrupt - David Cameron

David Cameron is laughing at us in his house right now.

I thought it was the other way round? Meanwhile nairaland is so full of triablists!
FYI the more you (you that Yoruba that thinks an Igbo man is not you brother or you that Igbo that thinks you are not Nigerian) begin to accept that we all are Nigerians and begin to start fishing out the bad eggs amongst us, the more the country becomes stay-able for us

OTayobami:
I thought it was the other way round? Meanwhile nairaland is so full of triablists!
FYI the more you (you that Yoruba that thinks an Igbo man is not you brother or you that Igbo that thinks you are not Nigerian) begin to accept that we all are Nigerians and begin to start fishing out the bad eggs amongst us, the more the country becomes stay-able for us

That will never happen, when one tribe elevated a drug baron as their leader and still go back to laugh at another tribe with small boys as fraudsters?

Who bis trying to cheat who.

Shame shame shame

SLAP44:


That will never happen, when one tribe elevated a drug baron as their leader and still go back to laugh at another tribe with small boys as fraudsters?

Who bis trying to cheat who.

As a Yoruba boy it is hard to shake off the stigma. When the most powerful Yoruba leader was a former drug lord in Chicago,USA.

Oluwasaeon:
Shame shame shame

Youngmum1:
Ibo or Yoruba Criminals are criminals. I don't get what the fuss is about. As far as I'm concerned there is no Nation, tribe, creed etc without bad guys but there are also a lot of good guys. Wish we could focus on the positives.

This has been a bad month for Nigerians when it comes to making headling for scams and drug dealing.

ChiefkeefGB4:

This has been a bad month for Nigeriansm when it comes to making headling for scams and drug dealing.

I can't argue with that. So true.

SLAP44:


That will never happen, when one tribe elevated a drug baron as their leader and still go back to laugh at another tribe with small boys as fraudsters?

Who bis trying to cheat who.

You think life is like that? Nobody is holy, you think one of the ones are looking up to are angels and none has done something bad before?

OTayobami:


You think life is like that? Nobody is holy, you think one of the ones are looking up to are angels and none has done something bad before?

Kentura:
An Afonja probably started this