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Re: Onne Seaport Welcomes The Biggest Ship To Ever Call At Any Nigerian Port. PICS. by gtown: 6:32pm On Aug 16, 2020 |
tuzle:It has to be news! We are celebrating it because we are not celebrating it time before. |
Re: Onne Seaport Welcomes The Biggest Ship To Ever Call At Any Nigerian Port. PICS. by NGpatriot: 6:36pm On Aug 16, 2020 |
ihesiuloa: So,we should not praise the NPA boss who made this possible, but we should praise the useless, incompetent and worthless people responsible for the rot, mess and decay before her. Now I see why you peoples brain are formated backwards and unserviceable. |
Re: Onne Seaport Welcomes The Biggest Ship To Ever Call At Any Nigerian Port. PICS. by Anambra1stS0n: 6:37pm On Aug 16, 2020 |
Cosbyrich:Clearly proved you are empty brain, just imagine your poor sense of reasoning ![]() 1 Like |
Re: Onne Seaport Welcomes The Biggest Ship To Ever Call At Any Nigerian Port. PICS. by knowledgeable: 6:37pm On Aug 16, 2020 |
NGpatriot: Bro, you are wasting your time in your own logic not mine. This is no brand of any consipracy logic, not illogical, not baseless rubbish and etc. Straight talk: Yoruba conspiring alliance with the North against the other South & the rest of Nigeria has come to a halt period. It cannot go down any more... beyond being the poverty capital of the world with the worst insecurity unimaginable. You can only go vertically up, and folks like you must accept it for what it is. "No condition is permanent". As for Jonathan government, poor him, he was still operating under that wicked conspiring alliance, and couldn't accomplish anything before that system destroyed him. That wicked system is unraveling due to forces of change in the world today. 1 Like |
Re: Onne Seaport Welcomes The Biggest Ship To Ever Call At Any Nigerian Port. PICS. by NGpatriot: 6:39pm On Aug 16, 2020 |
Cosbyrich: The dude is very crooked and fraudulent, he's in full troll be mode right now with worthless ipob stats that doesn't change the fact that his SE states are poor and wretched. ![]() 1 Like |
Re: Onne Seaport Welcomes The Biggest Ship To Ever Call At Any Nigerian Port. PICS. by Anambra1stS0n: 6:41pm On Aug 16, 2020 |
NGpatriot:Dumbo 1 Like
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Re: Onne Seaport Welcomes The Biggest Ship To Ever Call At Any Nigerian Port. PICS. by Cosbyrich: 6:44pm On Aug 16, 2020 |
adadike: YORUBAS HAVE BEEN DOING REAL BUSINESS BEFORE IGBOS OPEN EYE . ![]() It is not difficult to imagine that the richest man in Africa, Aliko Dangote, wakes up in Africa, has his breakfast in Asia, lunch in Europe, dinner in America and sleeps in Australia. You may also conjure the image of the richest woman on the continent, Folorunso Alakija, attending a conference in North America, meeting with female entrepreneurs in Africa, signing a multimillion-dollar deal in South America, going shopping in Asia, and attending a wedding party in Antartica. The duo may be the richest man and woman on the continent today, but Nigeria’s ability to create billionaires did not start today. Before Dangote and Alakija, the likes of Da Rocha, Ojukwu, etc. were known for their fame and fortune. Just for this thread, I am picking out only the Yoruba business people because they have the largest number. Candido Da Rocha (1860 – 1959) Candido Da Rocha was a Nigerian born in Brazil. Upon his return to Nigeria with his father, Esan Da Rocha, he made a fortune that has today become the subject of fact and fiction. Da Rocha was unlike Evander Wall – both were born in 1860 – who became a millionaire at 18 and a multimillionaire at 22, when he inherited a million dollars from his father and grandfather respectively. An extravagant showman, Wall bought 5,000 neckties and 300 pairs of gloves. He was the first man in America to wear a tuxedo. He was reported to have changed his outfit 40 times in a single morning. Considered a millionaire, Da Rocha too had dozens of clothes and he could afford to send his dirty clothes to the laundryman in the United Kingdom – which he did for many years. Shrewd and forthright, the first Nigerian millionaire was not given to unnecessary platitudes and politicking. “His friend Herbert Macaulay persuaded him to join politics. On a particular day when he was addressing would-be voters, he simply told them that he was seeking their votes to represent them. He made it clear that he would not use his wealth to get their votes. At the end of the day, he didn’t win,” his 90-year-old granddaughter, Mrs. Angelica Oyediran, told SUNDAY PUNCH. How wealthy was Da Rocha? “I can’t put a figure to it. However, I can tell you that Papa was so rich that he assisted many people in the society. He supported the government during the Second World War. He also supported the Catholic Church. When the Holy Cross Cathedral was built, he paid for the building of three chapels. The British respected him a lot. He was highly respected; a disciplined man who hated dishonesty and lying. I lived with him in this house for three years. I was very close to him. He loved me and I was fond of him,” the granddaughter explained. Describing Da Rocha’s generosity, she said, “People would come to him, crying, requesting financial assistance; from the balcony, asking how much they needed, he would throw down the money to them.” Da Rocha became a water merchant, selling water from the house (he inherited from his father, Esan Da Rocha) – famously called Casa d’Agua or water house. Da Rocha would later venture into real estate and the hospitality business. He opened The Restaurant Da Rocha, Bonanza Hotel, and Sierra Leone Deep Sea Fishing Industries Ltd. He also went into a partnership with two other businessmen, J. H. Doherty and Sedu Williams, to establish the Lagos Native Bank. Timothy Odutola (1902-1995) On March 25, 1943, the man who later became arguably the most respected politician and strategist in Nigeria, Chief Obafemi Awolowo, requested a loan of £1,400 from Timothy Odutola. The loan, according to Awolowo, would be fully paid in 12 years. He did not get the loan. But, the duo would later form a strong political alliance in the old Western Region. Stupendously rich, Odutola was the first president of the Manufacturers Association of Nigeria. He was reported to have established a multimillion-dollar business, including three factories, a retail franchise, a cattle ranch and a sawmill before 1960. Before his breakthrough, he worked as a clerk in various departments of the Lagos Colony and in the Ijebu Native Administration between 1921 and 1932. By 1932, he opened stores where he sold damasks and fish in various cities in the Western Region; and later, he began trading in cocoa and palm oil. An enterprising man, he also dealt in sawmilling and gold mining. By 1967, he had begun production of tyres and tubes which did so well that he added a $1,700,000 plant, with the plan to harvest his own rubber from his 5,000-acre plantation. “The time is coming when we will produce more than we can consume and we will have to look outside Nigeria for markets,” Odutola had once said. Prior to his death, however, he might have been less optimistic, as he watched Nigeria’s political and economic growth take a turn for the worse under the jackboot of maximum ruler, Gen. Sani Abacha. Sir Mobolaji Bank-Anthony (1907-1991) Businessman and philanthropist, he was a former council president of the Lagos Stock Exchange. He was also a minority investor in Aero Contractors and at a time held the distributional rights to cars manufactured by Rootes Group. Between 1923 and 1930, he worked as a junior clerk in the correspondence section of the Post and Telegraphs Department. By 1931, he went into business, travelling to Germany and England to study how to make palm oil. Following that, he established M. de Bank Brothers, to trade in palm oil and patent medicine. After sometime, he began importing watches, clocks and pens – at a point, becoming the third largest seller of fountain pens in Nigeria after UAC and the United Trading Company. He also owned a tanker fleet and a charter airline. He was one of the earliest Nigerians to become chairman of a European company in 1950 – he was the chairman of the Italian Construction firm, Borini Prono and Company. He was also a director of Mobil Oil and Friesland Foods back then. Shafi Edu (1911–2002) In 1965, TIME magazine named Shafi Edu one of Nigeria’s richest men. Along with Talabi Braithwaite, he co-founded the first indigenous insurance company in the country. He had shares in big companies like Bata, Alumaco, Wiggins Teape, BP (formerly British Petroleum), Lever Brothers and Nigerian Breweries. Edu was the first president of the Lagos Chamber of Commerce and the Lagos Rotary Club. At 54, he had built a fleet of eight oil tankers. He was also on the boards of Blackwood Hodge Nigeria, Haden Nigeria, Glaxo Nigeria and the Federal Industrial Loans from 1954 to 1959. He was elected into the old Western Region’s House of Assembly in 1951, and was later nominated to represent Epe at the Federal House of Representatives. Ade Tuyo Born in 1902, he was described as Nigeria’s most prominent baker in the mid-1960s. Featured in Time magazine’s list of millionaires in Nigeria in 1965, Tuyo at the time had four outlets and was making 115 products. According to the magazine, he was running a business that would have “first priority in people’s spending.” “The firm’s unusual name – De Facto Works Ltd. – was shrewdly chosen by Tuyo to impress Nigerian bankers with the fact that he was seriously in business,” it said. Trained as a teacher, Tuyo left the profession to work for 24 years in the Nigerian Railway Corporation, the British Bank of West Africa and the Ministry of Commerce. He retired in 1953. The bakery was started by his wife. After his retirement, he took over the catering business. By 1969, his bakery service was the largest in the country. Talabi Braithwaite (1928–2011) Regarded as one of Nigeria’s youngest businessmen of his time, Talabi Braithwaite left a British insurance company to found a firm that would write life insurance on Nigerians which the British underwriters avoided like the plague. So successful was he that his African Alliance Insurance Co. Ltd occupied a six-storey office and had 300 bush-beating agents. Braithwaite lived in an elegant house in Ikoyi. He was the first African to pass the examination to become an associate of the Chartered Insurance Institute, London in 1951. Braithwaite, in 1960, advised the government of the Western Region as a risk consultant when it formed the Great Nigeria Insurance Company. Between 1963 and 1966, he served as the first indigenous president of the Insurance Institute of Nigeria. He was also first president of the Nigerian Corporation of Insurance Brokers for 16 years, starting in 1963. In 1969, he became an underwriting member of Lloyd’s of London, and from 1970 he started underwriting on the Merrett Syndicate. https://punchng.com/old-money-10-super-rich-men-of-independence-era/ 2 Likes |
Re: Onne Seaport Welcomes The Biggest Ship To Ever Call At Any Nigerian Port. PICS. by Anambra1stS0n: 6:46pm On Aug 16, 2020 |
NGpatriot:Ewedu is not good for you guys brains 1 Like
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Re: Onne Seaport Welcomes The Biggest Ship To Ever Call At Any Nigerian Port. PICS. by MsAllison(f): 6:48pm On Aug 16, 2020 |
[s] Cosbyrich:[/s] claptrap and stupid trash 1 Like |
Re: Onne Seaport Welcomes The Biggest Ship To Ever Call At Any Nigerian Port. PICS. by joyandfaith: 6:50pm On Aug 16, 2020 |
donproject: engineer, calm down. |
Re: Onne Seaport Welcomes The Biggest Ship To Ever Call At Any Nigerian Port. PICS. by Malawian(m): 6:51pm On Aug 16, 2020 |
Just going though my page and something occured to me. Igbos and S.S should do everything humanly possible to ensure Tinubu or any Yorubaman is not made President in 2023, otherwise this port will be closed down again and all Maersk operations moved to Lekki new ports. This is as much a fight for our own economy to torpedo any Yoruba presidential ambitions in 2023. 4 Likes |
Re: Onne Seaport Welcomes The Biggest Ship To Ever Call At Any Nigerian Port. PICS. by afube: 6:52pm On Aug 16, 2020 |
NGpatriot: i live in Indiana............i have my business in Trans Amadi port Harcourt and a home in peter odili road port Harcourt.........i come from Nnewi south ,I am building a new home in Awka.......in spite of yoruba and aboki landmines,south east is booming.i can land in port harcourt or enugu or even port harcourt without mixing with you. I mind my business while you mind yours..........nuff said 2 Likes |
Re: Onne Seaport Welcomes The Biggest Ship To Ever Call At Any Nigerian Port. PICS. by adadike(f): 6:57pm On Aug 16, 2020 |
Cosbyrich:all these long story is for what? I get am before no be property. Though an igbo man was Nigeria first billionaire. Who is measuring dick with you when I already bought up the entire Lagos State including eco atlantic. The day you wrestle Lagos from my hands that's the day my respect for yorubas will start. For now, you remain a tissue paper. Good night 3 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Onne Seaport Welcomes The Biggest Ship To Ever Call At Any Nigerian Port. PICS. by NGpatriot: 6:57pm On Aug 16, 2020 |
[s] post=92891259:[/s] You're wasting your worthlessness time on me with your worthless and meaningless stats. Your cash rubbish means nothing, it doesn't change the fact that the SE is the poorest and economically irrelevant region in Nigeria. |
Re: Onne Seaport Welcomes The Biggest Ship To Ever Call At Any Nigerian Port. PICS. by Cosbyrich: 7:00pm On Aug 16, 2020 |
MsAllison: Okay Akindele that owns fairgate group in UK worth more than a billion pound sterling might buy Igboland and give to Cameroon for proper tutelage. ![]() |
Re: Onne Seaport Welcomes The Biggest Ship To Ever Call At Any Nigerian Port. PICS. by MsAllison(f): 7:00pm On Aug 16, 2020 |
[s] Cosbyrich:[/s] trash trash trash |
Re: Onne Seaport Welcomes The Biggest Ship To Ever Call At Any Nigerian Port. PICS. by Anambra1stS0n: 7:09pm On Aug 16, 2020 |
NGpatriot:Face of sadist, I know you are pained over Onne Port development, just working for your small change for BMO, I understand. 1 Like
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Re: Onne Seaport Welcomes The Biggest Ship To Ever Call At Any Nigerian Port. PICS. by NGpatriot: 7:16pm On Aug 16, 2020 |
post=92892236: I started this thread to express my Joy and Happiness that this Port is finally active and welcomed the largest vessel, I even thanked and praised the people that made it possible, but this bitter, disgruntled and frustrated village ipob is saying I'm bitter ![]() For an old man, you are you shallow, goofy and mindless for your old age. ![]() 3 Likes |
Re: Onne Seaport Welcomes The Biggest Ship To Ever Call At Any Nigerian Port. PICS. by Cosbyrich: 7:21pm On Aug 16, 2020 |
Poor people do not buy land.You are our labourers in Lagos. |
Re: Onne Seaport Welcomes The Biggest Ship To Ever Call At Any Nigerian Port. PICS. by Nairalandmonika: 7:27pm On Aug 16, 2020 |
NGpatriot:Which NPA boss, amechi is the one doing all this. This woman just dey occupy space. |
Re: Onne Seaport Welcomes The Biggest Ship To Ever Call At Any Nigerian Port. PICS. by Anambra1stS0n: 7:31pm On Aug 16, 2020 |
Cosbyrich:Go to Alaba, Marina and see how your women are carrying goods for customers for Igbo businessmen in those markets, while the lazy men are smoking themselves away, some are looking for #200 to park vehicles, some doing omonile and agbero. Selling all their land to Igbos, who be slave and who be master watch the video ![]() ![]() https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtZiCZYTbVI 1 Like |
Re: Onne Seaport Welcomes The Biggest Ship To Ever Call At Any Nigerian Port. PICS. by Anambra1stS0n: 7:34pm On Aug 16, 2020 |
Cosbyrich: 1 Like
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