16/04/2026
I am not a tribalistic person but there’s something I observed about the Yoruba people when I first came to Lagos that fascinates me. I think it’s a cultural thing but it leaves me mesmerized every single time. I have never been able to get used to it, maybe because I grew up among the Igbo, Idoma and a few other tribes in Nigeria.
Guys, the Yorubas will thank you a thousand times for one small good thing you do for them. I’m not kidding you. If you take your phone now and send N20K to 5 persons each from different parts of Nigeria, I can bet you that after they must have all gotten the money and thanked you for it tonight, the Yoruba person will wake up tomorrow morning and send you a message or call you to thank you for it again.
If by any chance you guys meet tomorrow, they will still thank you all over again.
Now here’s the shocking part, if you happen to meet the person’s father or mother tomorrow, next tomorrow or the next week, he or she will still thank you for that money you sent their son or daughter. I am telling you they must have heard of it before then.
I don’t know how they do it but gratitude and appreciation for little lives among the Yoruba people. Jeez, these guys will make you always want to do more for them.
Do one thing for them and they’ll feel indebted to you for the rest of their lives. It’s how Tinubu has been able to accumulate several loyalists across the Southwestern part of the country – it is all of gratitude, they all feel indebted to him for one position of power or the other that he has installed them.
If he were to be from other tribes, his colonies would have betrayed him and hanged all of his dirty linens outside long long ago.
I wish that we can all learn to appreciate little gestures of kindness like this. It doesn’t only open up doors for us to get more from our benefactors, it also helps to appreciate our own little winnings and not let external influences make us feel like we’re not doing enough.
