"They say the Igbos were marginalized. They fought a war and they lost. Today, they are the most industrious people in the country. They are the richest Nigerians in the country today. They are one of the most educated people in Nigeria today, yet they feel marginalized. If you compare the Ibo man to the other sectors of the society, you would say the Igbos are very privileged because of what they have. Yet, a generation of Igbos say they are marginalized and they want to secede and want a Nation. A young generation of people who have never seen bloodshed, destruction, people being killed, amputated, families being divided, can surely think like that. But what have we done as a Nation to educate them about the destruction of what? Absolutely nothing"he saidAccording to him, it is important for Nigeria's education system to teach young Nigerians about the ills of war.
Watch a video of him speaking below...
Igbos are survivors. They will survive with or without this country.
ReplyDeleteLong live LIB
This man no mean well for Igbos or Yorubas. How can a man as educated and as media savvy as Ben Bruce not know the consequences of such an unsubstantiated statement in these trying times? Is Ben Bruce being used to further an agenda? Yorubas and Igbos please use your head, the mischief makers that have kept us at loggerheads for decades are at it again.
DeleteOf course they're rich. Why wouldn't they be? Stupid talk from someone who's supposed to be educated. 😕
ReplyDeleteWhy are Yorubas always angry anytime anyone says good thing about Igbos
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You can't understand the meaning of that word becos u re a fool,we re the engine room of this country yet we enjoy little of everything,jonathan was made president becos of what fool
ReplyDeleteThey are the richest? Hmm,by drug trafficking, kidnapping, importation of fake drugs, robbery etc.
ReplyDeleteAlso ritualist
DeleteIgbo the ritualis
DeleteThat's thunder will fire u
DeleteRitual killings too. U probably forgot
DeleteHow are they the richest? Last time I checked. Dangote was the richest man in Africa ,he is a northerner. Foluronsho Alakija the richest woman in Nigeria is Yoruba. Then the likes of the Otedolas and Adenugas. Where are the Igbos?
DeleteYou forgot Evans. Hahahahaha. I hear he is igbo
Delete13:13..the people you just listed, how did they get their money?
DeleteIs it not our Oil well?
Be there analysing nonsense
@Galore
It's absolutely uncalled for to always use every opportunity to attack yourselves. I'm pure unadulterated igbo. Birth and marriage but when I see the attacks on tribes I'm sad to my bones. What's the point, is it to down grade and shame the next tribe so they begin to feel like second class citizens. When there is news good or bad all we do is look out for their names and start an attack on their tribes and there is a counter attack.There are bad and good eggs everywhere let's stop these attacks cos it would continue and our children might carry it on. How do you really think racial discrimination passes on. Nobody is born a racist. Please just ignore any attacks on your tribe and hopefully this would stop.
DeleteIt baffles why Yorubas always get angry anytime Igbos are praised
DeleteBecause of jealousy.
DeleteAnd where dd he get his statistics from.??..Truth is every politician is trying to get igbo favours by saying stuff that is pleasing to their ears..I Hope the Igbos can see what these praise singers are trying to do
ReplyDeleteAnd you think what he said is pleasing to the ears of the Igboman? Telling us that we are rich by our own efforts, therefore, we should continue to remain as strangers in a country supposedly everybody's, we included.
DeleteRichest?? ..Maybe ..Most enterprising?? absolutely yes......Most educated ??..i dont think so..Politicians and sweet mouth.He knows his audience that they don't reason
ReplyDeleteNo sir! They are not the most educated, IMO state try but others preferred to be traders and engage in illegitimate businesses. Yorubas are the most educated.
ReplyDeleteGod bless u for this comment
DeleteDo you know that those traders go to school? I remember when I was in the university, we had a lot of class mates who had big shops at Ikoku portharcourt. Some had big shops in onitsha then.
DeleteIsokuso... dee
ReplyDeleteAbeg!!!!!! make we hear batter thing?rich with what? drugs precedence? make them go leave them for 5 years if them not go finish killing themselves
ReplyDeleteIgbos are rich and the Nigerian government is not to be thanked for it
ReplyDeleteYes, because drug trafficking, ritual killing, kidnapping for ransome, armed robbery, etc. are illegal in Nigeria
Deletemake we vote them out of Nigeria and bye bye, make them go na that time them go know how far, to be honest and fere make those once that want to stay get registered and do documentation that they are ok living the way they living and not part of the foolishness their people want to embark on
ReplyDeleteEverything that happens in the house of assembly or Senate is a big joke
ReplyDeletemake them go, nonsense
ReplyDelete......and the most notorious dubious criminals in Nigeria.
ReplyDeleteMy issue with this guy is that his statements are full of sensationalism and embellishments, over-exaggerated facts...to what recent statistics did you Mr Ben Bruce base your claims on? Can you kindly provide data to support your claim?...you can make your point without embellishing. You don't want igbos to go period then speak about how they have contributed to the development in terms of GDP growth and economical stability by wealth creation and academic achievements ...don't go on the floor of the Senate bragging about something you don't know or you dont have facts to back up. It should be law that when you must speak as a distinguished member of an order either academia, business and especially political your claims must be based on fact or else you are charge for wrongfully misleading the public, especially when those views are made public knowledge.
ReplyDeleteWhat is your point exactly? You don't seem to get it together.
Delete@Yoruba demon and @Hausa Cattles, have you heard?
ReplyDelete@Galore
To be industrious, rich and one of the most educated, you have to be civil, respectful of others, have integrity, have self control, be a problem solver and be a unifying force. I'm sorry but Ndigbos are yet to show they have these qualities.
ReplyDeleteAbi ooooo
DeleteBe deceiving yourself. Riches got through fraud,kidnapping,assisination and all bad vices.
ReplyDeleteRichest, Greediest, most selfish.
ReplyDeleteGo and develop Igbo land.
When ever I listen to Ben Bruce I grab common sense.
ReplyDeleteThe problem is that history is not taught in Nigerian schools. Also he says Igbos are industrious and rich, it is all self made. No help from Government.
ReplyDeleteGovernment, which has been in the hands of the Northerners-except for Obasanjo and Jonathan- has never opened the till, the way it did for the Yorubas under Awolowo and the indiginisation decree; or the Northerners. This is why we talk of being marginalised.
Nnamdi Azikwe, Aguiyi Ironsi, etc.
DeleteOh sorry they ruled Togo not Nigeria
Tell them
DeleteTell them
DeleteTell them
DeleteNnamdi Azikiwe was not the ruler, it was Tafawa Balewa, study your history. Zik was just a figure head. Aguiyi Ironsi was there for a less than a year.
DeleteOnly division is the answer. The leaders should Stop fooling them self because of they own selfish interest.How about Singapore that separated from Malaysia? What about South Korea compared to North Korea? What about the nations that separated from the former Yogoslavia or even Pakistan and Bangladesh originally part of India? They are all doing well....
ReplyDeleteEnter your comment...tell them ben bruce... Proud to be an igbo boy
ReplyDeletetell dem Sen!!!!
ReplyDeleteU forgot to add one of the most hardened and notorious kidnappers of all time
ReplyDeleteAnd you forget the Ikoyi apartment looting record breaker. Ayodele Oke ooops.....he's a Yoruba man.
DeleteBen Bruce....where you kip yorubas? When it comes to education in Nigeria give it to yorubas ooo.
ReplyDeleteCheck WAEC records, it will give you statistic of the number of people who write WAEC every year and the states who make the best results. If you check, the records will tell you that most of the time, Imo state come on top followed by Ekiti state. I just watch Yoruba people claim Igbos don't go to school, I laugh at them.
DeleteWe will never, move forward as a nation, with this type of divisive messages been spewed around.
ReplyDeleteThis man is smoking pot. Do u see any Ibo man's name on the Forbes list? AS far as education is concerned, we do not know but the Yorubas started their educational process before the Ibos. That is a fact.
ReplyDeleteAbi oooo
DeleteImo state, always come on top in the record of academic results and performances, followed by Ekiti state. Being the richest does not mean having one man or some people on Forbes list, no. It is the number of people in a community who are above poverty level. How many millionaires you can get in a community, how many billionaires you can get. How enterprising and people's survival tendecies.
DeleteOYA YORUBAS AND HAUSA WAILERS WHERE ARE YOU?
ReplyDeletewe have a tank for your tears!!!
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They can be the most everything but certainly not the most educated.
ReplyDeleteCheck your records, Imo state has the track records, followed by Ekiti.
DeleteWas it the Nigerian government that made them rich? They worked very hard for what they have today, all they are asking for is their rights as citizens of the country.
ReplyDeleteYes Ben... It is beyond necessary for our youth to be educated on the I'll of war. The government should also bring back history into our curriculum. So we can all know the truth and also avoid some patterns of the old from repeating itself in this time.
ReplyDeleteOga u lie....as in, u too lie. Yorubas remained the most educated while hausas remain the richest.Get ur facts right
ReplyDeleteYou don't know what richest mean. That they have Dangote a few others does not make them richest. How many rich Hausas can you find in a typical northern village? Many of the few northern rich guys made money from our Nigerian common wealth (oil). How many families in the North can pass above nigerian poverty level? Apart from what the government is doing for them, how many of them can really stand on their own and do financially intensive projects? How many Dangotes, Dantatas and Indimis do the Hausas have? But come to Igbos eastern states, before you count five families, you must get a millionaire. And a lot of Igbo families are above poverty level. As for education, Imo state and Ekiti are tied for the top, some times, Imo state tops Ekiti.
DeleteWe understand that Mr Ben... igbos are industries had working people in Nigeria that the reason we're not going to allow them out of town. we yorubas benefits a lot more than others from ibo
ReplyDeleteThank you my senator... Those of them wanting seperation should go and learn to from somalia and Sudan... If der history smells good.. Then we can start hitting the drums of bazooka and AK 47...once more
ReplyDeleteI see some fools taking his words so personal .. when you say richest tribe . He simply means how the riches, education and industrious is being spread wide on the tribe . Not by being rich individually while others are dying in abject poverty.. 90% of the Igbo can categorically say they are confortable to take care of their families due to hard work..
ReplyDeleteDid you just say hardwork?? U people always claim to be hardworking and then call other tribes 'lazy' but we know u r criminals
DeleteThank u very much for this comment u really have sense not all those fools saying igbos are not the richest cause they are not on Forbes forgetting almost all Nigerians on Forbes list got that wealth form oil wells which still boils down to corruption sharing oil wells among themselves.see the northern nigeria the gap between the poor and the rich is on a very wide margin compared to other parts most uneducated and full of beggars on the streets.yet some people want to claim they are the richest cause they stole government money mcheew.
DeleteAnon 14:11, call it criminal, or anything, but Bruce points are that Igbo people are enterprising. And are also rich and has a lot of educated people.
DeleteWell am not here to argue about any level or class what mr ben is trying to passing here is the consequences behind war and separation if u knw any Amy that has fought a war beffore ask him how far he will tell u so let their be. Peace
ReplyDeleteLinda tell your people to stop writing like the CNN,giving wrong information.he said the igbos
ReplyDeleteare one of richest people not the richest.and for the education,i think that is why he stress the need for education,mostly in that area.and this man is begining to learn the gimmicks in politics
He is right. But i can see a lot of persons saying Yorubas are the most educated. Well, that was in the 70s, 80s and 90s. In this present dispensation, i am of the opinion that Igbos have started to overtake the Yorubas in the number of graduates from higher institution within and outside naija. For instance, if you take a look at the law school campuses in Nigeria, ask anyone that has attended, the Igbos are more in numbers. The UME statistics of the past 3-4 years have shown that persons from the igbo states are more, and you all would agree with me that in all Universities in Nigeria, both State and Federal, Igbos have the higher population with respect to non-indegenes. Ask anyone from AAU Ekpoma, Lautech etc.....
ReplyDeleteYes, and you forgot to add academic performances too. Imo state tops all most of the time.
DeleteYes we are Igbos and we are ritualists, we are criminals and yet we have guts! If u feel u can outshine an Igbo man, den start trying because we don't take NO for an answer and purely we are adventurous... We Igbo's don't believe in putting up our naira Zeros for public scrutiny... We hustle in silence but our fame makes so much noise... Who ever handled a war and still stood? The Igbo race did... If ritual killing is simple, try do yours! Now excuse me, I have my shop to attend to....(I don't do begging for a living and am the neatest)
ReplyDeleteAnd all the ritual murderers we've seeing in the news since this year have not had any Igbo name in it, yet they will say Igbo. Always trying to demonize us out of envy. Giving Igbos bad name cannot stop us yet we are forging ahead.
DeleteWell said!
ReplyDeleteI am not a Nigerian but I came across this on a friends phone, as a smart and educated Russian, I did some extensive research about this comment. Here's the fact and real truth, Yoruba's are the richest in Nigeria followed by Ibo's. Yoruba are then most educated followed by the ibo's. The Hausas are the most unfortunate and the ibo's are also the most people with criminal minds. The Ibo's have almost destroyed Nigerias image with crimes overseas .
ReplyDeleteFool you are Nigeria.. Stop pretending to come from russia to make your argument strong..
DeleteAnon14:36,you are a Yoruba man trying so hard to put your sentiment and point across. Try to work harder than Igbo man and stop coming on blogs to claim Russian abi Italian.
DeleteWHERE IS THIS FOOL GETTING HIS DATA FROM? ALL I KNOW IS THAT IGBOS ARE KIDNAPPERS, RITUALISTS AND CULTISTS
ReplyDeletePlease use ur google search before U crucify Ben Bruce. Some people are so tribalistic they don't want to accept the truth anymore. Or which tribe is the king of YAHOO YAHOO BOYS? Abegi we know every, all I know is that no tribe without bad eggs.
ReplyDeleteAll of u Ofe mmanu n Hausa/Fulani cattles na envy go kill una. We Igbos pass una. Idiots!
ReplyDeleteIgbo. ..richest? All my neighbors have been Igbos. They can mix substances as cough syrup and sell to make money. The wife will know about it and keep quiet as far as the money is coming. Their stock in trade is drugs,robbery and adultration. If we are not careful,in the next 5 years,Nigerians will not get visas any longer because Igbos have demonized Nigerians image around the globe. They eant to make money off you even on your sick bed. This generation of shopkeepers abhor decency and education. How are they the most educated. Tufiakwa
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DeleteIt is obvious there are many adults here with little information. What Senator Bruce said is true and there is need for the FGN to really look at the problems Igbos,Hausas and other ethnic groups are clamouring for so that we can have a more united Nigeria.
ReplyDeletelet us do away with hate speeches. Linda, i think it is time for you to start censoring the comments on your blog. Too many hatred these days and we need to nip it in the bud before it is too late.
I smell envy, hatred, from Yorubas n Hausas, Fact remains that without Igbos the so called Zoo Nigeria can not survive n that is why they r doing everything to keep the marriage going. As much as they try to hide what happened during the civil war from us, little do they know that we are aware and Soon we shall arise and take justice.
ReplyDeletehere is not educated people... Linda avoids some comments. please!!!
ReplyDeleteWhat senator Ben Bruce is saying is that a lot of Igbo families have passed poverty level and Igbos have a lot of middle class families who can have a fairly comfortable life without govt's help than most tribes. You can call them ritualist, kidnappers, drug dealers etc. When it comes to that, I guess Ben Bruce will equally tell you the tribes that does what, because no tribe is a saint here. We all know who the ritualists are. We equally know who steals govt treasury because all na thief, wether na with pen or gun. As for education, he is saying that Igbos have more number of people who are educated and also those thriving well academically. One thing you guys fail to understand is that some of this guys that have shops are graduates. I said "some", I did not say all. But oga Ben, should we continue to stay marginalized because we can hustle? Are we not supposed to enjoy the proceeds of the govt of Nigeria? In this animal farm called Nigeria, are some animals more equal than others?
ReplyDeleteWhat senator Ben Bruce is saying is that a lot of Igbo families have passed poverty level and Igbos have a lot of middle class families who can have a fairly comfortable life without govt's help than most tribes. You can call them ritualist, kidnappers, drug dealers etc. When it comes to that, I guess Ben Bruce will equally tell you the tribes that does what, because no tribe is a saint here. We all know who the ritualists are. We equally know who steals govt treasury because all na thief, wether na with pen or gun. As for education, he is saying that Igbos have more number of people who are educated and also those thriving well academically. One thing you guys fail to understand is that some of this guys that have shops are graduates. I said "some", I did not say all. But oga Ben, should we continue to stay marginalized because we can hustle? Are we not supposed to enjoy the proceeds of the govt of Nigeria? In this animal farm called Nigeria, are some animals more equal than others?
ReplyDeleteYorubas are sabotuas they do not know there stand
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