Message to All Yoruba People on the Ownership of Lagos. By... Edwin Uko Philip ON THE OWNERSHIP OF LAGOS! Lagos is a Portuguese name meaning lagoon, the name became needful when the invaders saw that the place was similar to the Lagos in their country, with reference to it topography.(confirm from the map of Portugal) Lagos originally called EKO a word meaning 'war camp' in the Edo language, showing that the territory was owned and administered by the Oba of Benin. The battle for the soul of Lagos began towards the end of the 19th century and was fully actualised in the 1900s, when England abandoned the slave trade following the industrial revolution. The overthronment of Oba Akitoye by king Kosoko and the returned of Akitoye through the help of Britain and his subsequent dead, his successor chief Dosumu lack of strong will to effect the stop of the slave after it was outlawed, paved way for the full take over the territory by the British, as a port town, it serves England's interest. Typical of all port cities be it Liver pool or Miami it is bound to be cosmopolitan, with people everywhere converging for business. Of all the people that have ever governed Lagos non originally is from the place, Jakande-Kwara, Tinubu-Osun, Fashola-Ekiti, Ambode-Ondo, Oba of Lagos-Ogun. The dominance of the Yoruba people in the city is a matter of proximity and no other, the word 'EKO' been the original name of the place has no meaning in the yoruba language and the nearest in sound to the word is 'OKO' meaning 'cassava farm' now if the place was a swamp how then do you plant cassava there? Which suggest a missing link, who owns the place should give the name. The current native and immigrant war, currently on going in the city state and targeting at non Yoruba is a misplaced priority and the archives should be visited and should be traced down to the reign of Oba ORHOGBUA the foremost ruler of the ancient Benin kingdom, otherwise the debate will be on ending and the fight will amount to seating history on it head.

Edryots Oloriibu talking history

You distort , edit , remove facts and yet you fail woefully

Main articles: History of Lagos and Timeline of Lagos

Aerial view of Lagos in 1929
Lagos was originally inhabited by the Awori subgroup of the Yoruba people. Under the leadership of the Oloye Olofin, the Awori moved to an island now called Iddo and then to the larger Lagos Island.[18][19] In the 15th century, the Awori settlement was conquered by the Benin Empire and the island became a Benin war-camp called "Eko" under Oba Orhogba, the Oba of Benin at the time.[15][20] The Yoruba still use the name Eko to refer to Lagos.

Wikipedia is my source and you know why Anybody in any part of the world can edit that facts , if this information was inaccurate , someone would have removed it , [size=18pt]so shove your lies up your arsse and ACCEPT Jesus as your personal savior [/size]

Who doesn't know that Lagos is a no man's land!
Otherwise, what is the ancestral name of Lagos?

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zuchyblink:
Message to All Yoruba People on the
Ownership of Lagos.
By... Edwin Uko Philip
ON THE OWNERSHIP OF LAGOS! Lagos is a
Portuguese name meaning lagoon, the
name became needful when the invaders
saw that the place was similar to the Lagos
in their country, with reference to it
topography.(confirm from the map of
Portugal) Lagos originally called EKO a word
meaning 'war camp' in the Edo language,
showing that the territory was owned and
administered by the Oba of Benin. The
battle for the soul of Lagos began towards
the end of the 19th century and was fully
actualised in the 1900s,
when England abandoned the slave trade
following the industrial revolution. The
overthronment of Oba Akitoye by king
Kosoko and the returned of Akitoye
through the help of Britain and his
subsequent dead, his successor chief
Dosumu lack of strong will to effect the stop
of the slave after it was outlawed, paved
way for the full take over the territory by
the British, as a port town, it serves
England's interest. Typical of all port cities
be it Liver pool or Miami it is bound to be
cosmopolitan, with people everywhere
converging for business.
Of all the people that have ever governed
Lagos non originally is from the place,
Jakande-Kwara, Tinubu-Osun, Fashola-Ekiti,
Ambode-Ondo, Oba of Lagos-Ogun. The
dominance of the Yoruba people in the city
is a matter of proximity and no other, the
word 'EKO' been the original name of the
place has no meaning in the yoruba
language and the nearest in sound to the
word is 'OKO' meaning 'cassava farm' now
if the place was a swamp how then do you
plant cassava there?
Which suggest a missing link, who owns the
place should give the name. The current
native and immigrant war, currently on
going in the city state and targeting at non
Yoruba is a misplaced priority and the
archives should be visited and should be
traced down to the reign of Oba ORHOGBUA
the foremost ruler of the ancient Benin
kingdom,
otherwise the debate will be on ending and
the fight will amount to seating history on it
head.

some people wont like this fact......'truth is constant,no matter long it takes'.
If you bury a lie it rots,but if you bury truth,it sprouts over and over again.

Well, Dosumu and Akitoye are both YORUBA names your argument is dead on arrival BTW the Benin Kingdom conquered the tribe in lagos does not mean they own it....

AustineE1:

some people wont like this fact......'truth is constant,no matter long it takes'.
If you bury a lie it rots,but if you bury truth,it sprouts over and over again.

truth can't you see truth is been distorted. Lagos belongs to the Yorubas seems the only tribe that thinks otherwise are the Ibos

Una no dey tire Lagos as a geographical location belongs to the Yorubas.
As a Cosmopolitan city State, anyone can come there and hustle to achieve the Nigerian Dream.
.
Proudly 5% and Nobody Owes me anything.

zuchyblink:
Message to All Yoruba People on the
Ownership of Lagos.
By... Edwin Uko Philip
ON THE OWNERSHIP OF LAGOS! Lagos is a
Portuguese name meaning lagoon, the
name became needful when the invaders
saw that the place was similar to the Lagos
in their country, with reference to it
topography.(confirm from the map of
Portugal) Lagos originally called EKO a word
meaning 'war camp' in the Edo language,
showing that the territory was owned and
administered by the Oba of Benin. The
battle for the soul of Lagos began towards
the end of the 19th century and was fully
actualised in the 1900s,
when England abandoned the slave trade
following the industrial revolution. The
overthronment of Oba Akitoye by king
Kosoko and the returned of Akitoye
through the help of Britain and his
subsequent dead, his successor chief
Dosumu lack of strong will to effect the stop
of the slave after it was outlawed, paved
way for the full take over the territory by
the British, as a port town, it serves
England's interest. Typical of all port cities
be it Liver pool or Miami it is bound to be
cosmopolitan, with people everywhere
converging for business.
Of all the people that have ever governed
Lagos non originally is from the place,
Jakande-Kwara, Tinubu-Osun, Fashola-Ekiti,
Ambode-Ondo, Oba of Lagos-Ogun. The
dominance of the Yoruba people in the city
is a matter of proximity and no other, the
word 'EKO' been the original name of the
place has no meaning in the yoruba
language and the nearest in sound to the
word is 'OKO' meaning 'cassava farm' now
if the place was a swamp how then do you
plant cassava there?
Which suggest a missing link, who owns the
place should give the name. The current
native and immigrant war, currently on
going in the city state and targeting at non
Yoruba is a misplaced priority and the
archives should be visited and should be
traced down to the reign of Oba ORHOGBUA
the foremost ruler of the ancient Benin
kingdom,
otherwise the debate will be on ending and
the fight will amount to seating history on it
head.

The matter can be resolved simply by asking who owns the land?

The ruler is not necessarily the owner of the land. History attests to this. If you go in archives you will see where Dosunmu declared in the Treaty of Lagos Colony that he does not own the land and all matters on land treaties need approval of the Idejo Chiefs. As many times England approached to buy the land from him he deflected them to the Awori Chiefs. From 1860 to 1960 England ended up leasing land, rather than owning them. The Awori Chiefs refused to sell land.

It is written also into the Customary Laws of Lagos that the lands in Lagos Island is owned by Idejo Chiefs.

People from the Eastern part of Nigeria have a mortal envy of Yoruba ownership and claim on Lagos. The repetition that Oba of Lagos is from Bini or that Eko is Bini word does nothing to make Lagos a "no man's land".....

You will need to prove that the land owners, the Awori Barons, themselves are non-Yorubas or their root is from Enugu and not Ile Ife. If you can successfully dothat then you can settle once and for all the argument over status of Lagos. Good luck!

zuchyblink:
Message to All Yoruba People on the
Ownership of Lagos.
By... Edwin Uko Philip
ON THE OWNERSHIP OF LAGOS! Lagos is a
Portuguese name meaning lagoon, the
name became needful when the invaders
saw that the place was similar to the Lagos
in their country, with reference to it
topography.(confirm from the map of
Portugal) Lagos originally called EKO a word
meaning 'war camp' in the Edo language,
showing that the territory was owned and
administered by the Oba of Benin. The
battle for the soul of Lagos began towards
the end of the 19th century and was fully
actualised in the 1900s,
when England abandoned the slave trade
following the industrial revolution. The
overthronment of Oba Akitoye by king
Kosoko and the returned of Akitoye
through the help of Britain and his
subsequent dead, his successor chief
Dosumu lack of strong will to effect the stop
of the slave after it was outlawed, paved
way for the full take over the territory by
the British, as a port town, it serves
England's interest. Typical of all port cities
be it Liver pool or Miami it is bound to be
cosmopolitan, with people everywhere
converging for business.
Of all the people that have ever governed
Lagos non originally is from the place,
Jakande-Kwara, Tinubu-Osun, Fashola-Ekiti,
Ambode-Ondo, Oba of Lagos-Ogun. The
dominance of the Yoruba people in the city
is a matter of proximity and no other, the
word 'EKO' been the original name of the
place has no meaning in the yoruba
language and the nearest in sound to the
word is 'OKO' meaning 'cassava farm' now
if the place was a swamp how then do you
plant cassava there?
Which suggest a missing link, who owns the
place should give the name. The current
native and immigrant war, currently on
going in the city state and targeting at non
Yoruba is a misplaced priority and the
archives should be visited and should be
traced down to the reign of Oba ORHOGBUA
the foremost ruler of the ancient Benin
kingdom,
otherwise the debate will be on ending and
the fight will amount to seating history on it
head.

hehehe.. Somebody would sha learn something new on this nairaland evryday. So since port harcourt is not an ekwere name, City of Alexandria is not an Egyptian name, South Africa is not a Zulu name then from ur simpleton logic these places are European owned ...seun better watchout for u guys because sooner or later people like u will say nairaland is not owned by a yoruba man cos NL is not a yoruba name

thats why they will leave their issues and start worrying over some else's. He should bother about his own history and leave the history of lagosians for lagosians like me. Stop using panadol for another person's headache



I bet you dont know the history of your place too

Nairaland sha

We can change the name.of Lagos State to Olofin State to reflect the history and rights of origin. All it takes is a Government gazzette, and that will be it, and there is nothing any Ibo can do to stop that.

...but why do we even need to? A political five percenter is an irrelevant voice and does not dictate policy for us.

Benin never conquered any tribe in Lagos, there were only Ijebu and Awori Yoruba in Lagos and were never conquered by any outside forces. If anything, the reverse is the case, as you will never see an Edo town or settlement in Yorubaland, but there are Yoruba speaking towns in Edo. Edo bear Yoruba name, no Yoruba bear Edo names. Only the conquered adopt not the other way.

Yoruba is bigger and better with language, culture and religion that is recognized all over the world, Benin doesn't come close, so Benin or Edo is not on the same level with Yoruba, if anything they could only have been a lost Yoruba subgroup.

As for Lagos, only Yoruba have claims to it and that includes Yoruba people of Edo. Others can only drool and wish.

AlPeter:
Well, Dosumu and Akitoye are both YORUBA names your argument is dead on arrival BTW the Benin Kingdom conquered the tribe in lagos does not mean they own it....

Ibos are not even 5%, they are just opportunists who try to cash in on anything to make everything their own. I can bet anything that Buhari didn't have them in mind when he made that comment, but see how they have managed to wedge themselves in the middle of that, very pathetic attention seeking irritants. Who doesn't know that Ibos didn't give Buhari 5% during the elections? Who didn't know that there are some states that actually gave Buhari 5%? So how did Ibos become the 5% when it doesn't apply to them? How did 0.1% become 5%

OPCNAIRALAND:
We can change the name.of Lagos State to Olofin State to reflect the history and rights of origin. All it takes is a Government gazzette, and that will be it, and there is nothing any Ibo can do to stop that.

...but why do we even need to? A political five percenter is an irrelevant voice and does not dictate policy for us.

Hmmm this Eko-ile matter na whaooo. People go die because of Lasgidi ohh.

Can u imagine that that olokpa, ordinary oba, Mr Akiolu is even from Ogun state

DaBullIT:
Edryots Oloriibu talking history

You distort , edit , remove facts and yet you fail woefully



Wikipedia is my source and you know why Anybody in any part of the world can edit that facts , if this information was inaccurate , someone would have removed it , [size=18pt]so shove your lies up your arsse and ACCEPT Jesus as your personal savior [/size]

Mr Wikipedia, what was the name the Aworis gave to it?

AlPeter:


truth can't you see truth is been distorted. Lagos belongs to the Yorubas seems the only tribe that thinks otherwise are the Ibos

sharap. Lagos belongs to all Nigerians. One day an igbo-lagosian shall become oba of lagos if we stay in this one nigeria

Zeus777:
hehehe.. Somebody would sha learn something new on this nairaland evryday. So since port harcourt is not an ekwere name, City of Alexandria is not an Egyptian name, South Africa is not a Zulu name then from ur simpleton logic these places are European owned ...seun better watchout for u guys because sooner or later people like u will say nairaland is not owned by a yoruba man cos NL is not a yoruba name

.

Honestly, ignorance is a disease that has only one cure and that's education.

OPCNAIRALAND:
We can change the name.of Lagos State to Olofin State to reflect the history and rights of origin. All it takes is a Government gazzette, and that will be it, and there is nothing any Ibo can do to stop that.

...but why do we even need to? A political five percenter is an irrelevant voice and does not dictate policy for us.

I double dare you, you can never do that. Try let's see

wytecat:
Benin never conquered any tribe in Lagos, there were only Ijebu and Awori Yoruba in Lagos and were never conquered by any outside forces. If anything, the reverse is the case, as you will never see an Edo town or settlement in Yorubaland, but there are Yoruba speaking towns in Edo. Edo bear Yoruba name, no Yoruba bear Edo names. Only the conquered adopt not the other way.

Yoruba is bigger and better with language, culture and religion that is recognized all over the world, Benin doesn't come close, so Benin or Edo is not on the same level with Yoruba, if anything they could only have been a lost Yoruba subgroup.

As for Lagos, only Yoruba have claims to it and that includes Yoruba people of Edo. Others can only drool and wish.

you keep saying yoruba as if yoruba is not a recent name given to you by fulanis that conquered yorubaland from kwara to ibadan. And headed towards lagos but was stopped by Europeans who had conquered lagos at that time.

Let the name be given last night, we know who are Yoruba.

You descendant of idanre monkeys who didn't put on clothes until the white men came, what exactly do you know about your history, let alone others.

meforyou1:
you keep saying yoruba as if yoruba is not a recent name given to you by fulanis that conquered yorubaland from kwara to ibadan. And headed towards lagos but was stopped by Europeans who had conquered lagos at that time.

Lagos city of aquatic splendor.

meforyou1:
Mr Wikipedia, what was the name the Aworis gave to it?

They Initially settled at Ile-olofin (now Isheri) olofin meaning the same as ALAFIN.
before they dispersed to different parts of Lagos.
The name they gave to Lagos Island is ISALE OKO.
as it was seen as a farming settlement. Lagos Island was called so when the First son of Ogunfunminire migrated further south to Ebute-Metta. and they used Lagos Island as their farming settlement. ISALE OKO means the farm further south.
wonder why the palace of the the Oba of Lagos
is called IGA-IGUDARAN? IGA means palace while
IGUDARAN means pepper farm. IGA-IGUDARAN
means PALACE BUILT ON PEPPER FARM.
It is also worthy to note that the Aworis don't lay
claim to all parts of Lagos state, the Ogus
(Eguns), Ijebus and Egbas were also leaving in
Lagos long before the Portuguese set foot on
Lagos soil. The Oba of Lagos original domain
was Lagos Island and he was in no way superior
to the his other brothers who was are now the
Idejo chiefs. The first son of Ogunfunmiire has his
palace at Isale-oko and he was a mediator when
quarrels break out among his brothers overtime
his influence grew and he was seen especially by
the Europeans that the Oba of Lagos was the
commanding king of all the Land holding families
of Lagos.
The Oba of Lagos is not regarded as a first class
king in Yorubaland, his status is not higher than
Oba Akran of Badagry, each administer his
domain but the Oba of Lagos happen to rule over
the most Economically important part of Lagos.
The Island I stay belongs to the Onisiwo family
and Oba Onisiwo has his palace on Lagos Island.
All the "omo onilu" herer are all related to the
king of Lagos. Most of them have their family
houses in Lagos same as most Land owning
Awori families.

wytecat:
Let the name be given last night, we know who are Yoruba.

You descendant of idanre monkeys who didn't put up clothes until the white man came, what exactly do you know about your history, let alone others.

were u wearing designers before white man came? Igbos were visited by Europeans about 500 years ago. When did the first white man visit lagos?
I know the history of my people wholly and know much about your cowardly people's history.
I have visited abeokuta and visited the rock. And was shown the hellhole where men, women and children of the town were hiding those days when the fulanis come calling.

All the good nigerians should support biafrans to achieve their biafra, so we can have peace in Nigeria. I prefer sophisticated and progressive Odu'a republic devoid of fake products and ogogoro drinking fishermen. ..let have a progressive Odu'a, not northerner

Europeans provided you Ibos the first clothes to cover your bodies, and called you "savages".

meforyou1:
were u wearing designers before white man came? Igbos were visited by Europeans about 500 years ago. When did the first white man visit lagos?
I know the history of my people wholly and know much about your cowardly people's history.
I have visited abeokuta and visited the rock. And was shown the hellhole where men, women and children of the town were hiding those days when the fulanis come calling.

wytecat:
Benin never conquered any tribe in Lagos, there were only Ijebu and Awori Yoruba in Lagos and were never conquered by any outside forces. If anything, the reverse is the case, as you will never see an Edo town or settlement in Yorubaland, but there are Yoruba speaking towns in Edo. Edo bear Yoruba name, no Yoruba bear Edo names. Only the conquered adopt not the other way.

Yoruba is bigger and better with language, culture and religion that is recognized all over the world, Benin doesn't come close, so Benin or Edo is not on the same level with Yoruba, if anything they could only have been a lost Yoruba subgroup.

As for Lagos, only Yoruba have claims to it and that includes Yoruba people of Edo. Others can only drool and wish.

Lagos island is known as Eko who named it, what is the meaning of Eko? Do you know the Bini Kingdom existed long before the Oyo empire? Do you know that Oduduwa was an Edo prince? Know your history

AlPeter:


Lagos island is known as Eko who named it, what is the meaning of Eko? Do you know the Bini Kingdom existed long before the Oyo empire? Do you know that Oduduwa was an Edo prince? Know your history

Abeg leave that slowpoke make he dey spew rubbish

Tell me the name of your hometown and what it means in your language please.

Eko means Eko and it's a Yoruba word. I don't know about Benin empire and even if it ever existed, but I know no empire in the
area known as Nigeria today was more powerful than that of Oyo.

Our Oduduwa is not their prince and couldn't have been. Oduduwa was a Yoruba man. Let them keep looking for their missing prince, who knows, they may still find him. The only undisputed link between Yoruba and Benin is we sent our Son to go and rule over them as the first Oba, that shows who was the boss, and that's good enough for me.

AlPeter:


Lagos island is known as Eko who named it, what is the meaning of Eko? Do you know the Bini Kingdom existed long before the Oyo empire? Do you know that Oduduwa was an Edo prince? Know your history

Iddiot, come out yourself if you have something to say since you don't know your history, but rely on others to tell you.

Benin empire is a myth, there's no way a once powerful empire could just go down with nothing to show for it today.


Benin a mini "empire" could have had some power among the surrounding hamlets, And flexed among their half human neighbors back then, but not on the same level as that of Oyo.

Vicotex:

Abeg leave that slowpoke make he dey spew rubbish