The media touch on Igbos as Heroes of Circumstances, Egede Lawrence writes.
I am going to be brief in this space, to avoid the mistake of belabouring people reading me.
I am here to showcase a matter about the nature of the birth of the Igbo people in general.
This piece is not for ethnic this or that, but that the truth must be told as it is. Nothing amiss.
I am not underrating any other tribe in Nigeria in this caption, but I am leaning toward where the IGBOS have got relevance, both in the internal and the external human society in the universe.
People will agree with me that in any place where the IGBOS are found, there's liveliness in the environment of business.
The Igbos can carve out for themselves and others a way of survival, where nothing is automatically very available.
Whatsoever the situation the Igbos find themselves in, they will not like to be idling out about life. They stick to self-reliance.
The Igbos are a wonder to the people of the world, who have come across them anywhere.
The real blood of the Igbo land has been endowed with the nature of being up and doing.
By the grace of God, people who are grown up in Nigeria have known that the Igbos are progressives wherever they find themselves. No doubt about it.
Going by the dint of making all available efforts to forge ahead, the Igbos are first class in it.
Judging from the angle of good nature, the Igbos don't fold their hands waiting for manners to fall from heaven before they exist.
In determination, the Igbos are known for relentlessness to dig out means of livelihood or eke out a living wherever possible.
In Nigeria, the Igbos cannot be seen as those born with a golden spoon in their mouth on arrival.
Anywhere all over the world, the Igbos are economically relevant in all-day commercial activities.
In the field of education, the Igbos are brilliant and bright, wherever there are Schools to attend and make distinctions.
In the Professional fields still based on education and skill acquisition of knowledge, the IGBOS are not underrated at any time in the classrooms.
In the area of the Natural gifts and of the Spirit from the origin, the IGBOS have been found expert builders with special attributes to creativity, innovation activity and productivity in all relevant fields of human endeavour.
In Bureaucracy, the Igbos are quite important in all aspects of making things smooth running, in the fields of administration.
In the management of builders' resources in Industry, the Igbos are found to be serious species of consolidation, resuscitation, reformation and stabilization of existing business economies.
The IGBOS are more noticed as Technocrats of the first order, in a world full of constructiveness in the ideals of how to meet up pressing public place demands.
This is to say that Ingenuity is the wholesome attribute of the average person born of Igbo blood. Laziness is scarce in the character of the Igbo people.
Their brain is tailored by God to excel others, where more is to be achieved than meet the eye.
In politics, the IGBOS are the patient dogs that never ate the fattest bones, but rend honest services at any port of national call without bitter reservations.
I have excluded criminal sides of human character because it is outside success ideals of life in the clean places of innocent, transparent and worthy records.
Criminality is a global disease fashioned to abuse God and mankind making it unwanted.
Finally but not as final as such that will make us forget our past and present Heroes, who contributed to making Igbos heroes before, during and after the civil war that devastated the people below a peanut ground level, but heroes never relented.
Everyone who was and is aware of what I am saying knows there's no lie here.
To God is the glory forever.
Egede Lawrence is our Guest Writer and Phoenix Public Analyst.
