LAGOS MY STATE
WHO OWNS LAGOS? HISTORY 101:POINT OF INFORMATION

"By 1872 Lagos was a cosmopolitan trading center with a population of over 60,000 people.Colonial Lagos developed into a busy, cosmopolitan port, with an architecture that blended Victorian and Brazilian styles.The Brazilian element was imparted by skilled builders and masons who had returned from Brazil Th.e black elite was composed of English-speaking "Saros" from Sierra Leone and other emancipated slaves who had been repatriated from Brazil and Cuba.By 1872 the population of the colony was over 60,000, of whom less than 100 were of European
origin.

In 1876 imports were valued at £476,813 and exports at £619,260. Telephone links with Britain were established by 1886, and electric street lighting in 1898.In August 1896, Charles Joseph George and G.W. Neville,both merchants and both unofficial members of the Legislative Council, presented a petition urging construction of the railway terminus on Lagos Island rather than at Ido, and also asking for the railway to be extended to Abeokuta. Lagos history is rich in Yoruba tradition,trade and
commerce,infrastructural development and cosmopolitanism." -EXTRACTED

With the little facts above, I would like to educate some illiterates making stupid assumption from blind sentiments that they developed Lagos.

Lagosians had telephone presence in 1886, Itu and Calabar got connected to Telephone in 1923, while between 1946 and 1952, a three-channel line carrier system was commissioned between Lagos and Ibadan and was later extended to Oshogbo, Kaduna, Kano, Benin, and Enugu. Communication technology is a major signifier of civilizations and if Lagosians were already making telephone calls more than 70 years before your daddies, where then did you get the warped idea that you came to develop Lagos?

By 1856 Cable and Wireless Company of the UK had commissioned a submarine cable link between Lagos and London and In 1851 a post office was established in Lagos; all these before of the emergence of Nigeria as an amalgamated country. If I may ask again, where did the stupid idea that Igbo developed Lagos came from? Or that Lagos was developed with Nigeria's money when Lagos was not even part of Nigeria until 1914.

I always feel embarrassed anytime I read and hear even so-called educated people from the East making these stupid assertions.

The first Yoruba lawyer Christopher Alexander Sapara Williams was called to the English Bar in 1879 whilst the first Igbo lawyer, Sir Louis Mbanefo, was called to the English bar in 1937. Again the first Yoruba medical practitioner, Dr. Nathaniel King, graduated in 1875 from the University of Edinburgh whilst the first Igbo medical practitioner, Dr. Akannu Ibiam, graduated from another Scottish University in 1935. Again I ask, where did the ignorant hypothesis of the backward Yoruba race who needed development by the superior Igbo race come from? For the sake of our generation and posterity we need to teach factual history and not just cook up some cock and bull ego-centric concoctions as facts. The attitude of recycling long tales steeped in empty arrogance should be discarded before you miseducate your kids with fictions.

Awolowo will continue to be the Yoruba hero not because of blind followership but because he gave his people the system of free education, free healthcare and he introduced Television to the Yoruba; making Yorubaland the first region to have a TV station in Africa all done with revenues from Cocoa. It is crass ignorance and naked buffonery to claim Lagos was built with Nigeria's money. In addition, where did the foolish idea that the Igbo brought civilization to Lagos and Yoruba-land come from?

The aim of this post is not to deride any tribe but to correct the dangerous misinformation trending among some Igbo youths and common in their narratives that Lagos is a no-man's land and that their fathers built and develop Lagos. Your forebears came to Yoruba-land like every other settlers and we appreciate their contributions but the stupid claim that Igbo built and develop Lagos is a gross display of stupidity because Lagos was already developed before your forebears came here from their villages and towns.

The first storey building in Nigeria was built in Marina, Badagry in 1845, long before some of hinterland people gave up the idea of conical mud houses with thatched roofs which some boastfully called 'ancient mansions.' How can you now claim your grand-sires developed Lagos? Please if you are one of those spreading the fiction, I expect you to desist from self-delusion and collective amnesia forthwith.

The first Igbo alphabet-character set and Igbo primer (Isoama-Ibo) was published by Bishop Samuel Ajayi Crowther (a yoruba man from Osogun) in 1857. How can you now claim superiority over the Yoruba race and even carelessly affirm that your forebears should be thanked for bringing enlightenment to Yoruba Land?

While I do not see all these achievements as a sign of Yoruba superiority over the Igbo or any other tribe for I do not believe in racial superiority; I will not also tolerate any attempt by bigots who stoke ethnic hatred through incitement and arrogant claims of superiority over others.

A thread dead on arrival,....

Until places like Ibadan , Abeokuta, Oshogbo, akure and ado ekiti have nice houses like Lagos just like the east,.that is when I will believe that yoruba contributed to the development of Lagos....

If Yoruba's develop Lagos, Lagos would have been filled with brown roof just like Ibadan...

Lagos has the same replica of SE houses ....that should simply tell you that the east contributed highly to Lagos development....

1&2.....SE
3&4.....SW
who do you think develop lagos

1&2.....SE
3&4.....SW
Base on the pattern of building, who do you think develop Lagos

They won't read it but they are ready to cut off your neck for not concur with their common stamp

This claims/ thread has been here since 2013. OP, you seem to derive joy in nonsense. BTW, does your claim negate the statement by Igbo people of Lagos being a no-mans Land which they help developed?

What's wrong with uglyafonja better go and check ur mental status

Oxtonguy:
What's wrong with uglyafonja better go and check ur mental status

You this Ibadan boy......I comment my reserve but I sight you

uglyafonja:
A thread dead on arrival,....

Until places like Ibadan , Abeokuta, Oshogbo, akure and ado ekiti have nice houses like Lagos just like the east,.that is when I will believe that yoruba contributed to the development of Lagos....

If Yoruba's develop Lagos, Lagos would have been filled with brown roof just like Ibadan...

Lagos has the same replica of SE houses ....that should simply tell you that the east contributed highly to Lagos development....

Oyo state: 28,454 square km

All five Igbo states: 40,000 square km

Your comparison is fraudulent.

lilytender:
It is no doubt in the mind of fools that the Biafrans developed Lagos, the same way they are currently developing Malaysia, China, Singapore and other countries prisons through their drug trafficking. I only wonder why they cannot develop their Biafra land. Well, maybe the erosion savged Biafra land is cursed.

Go through the pics above and tell us how Afonja developed Lagos with their brown roof....

To cut the story short.....What are the contributions of the Afonjas to Lagos development?

uglyafonja:


You this Ibadan boy......I comment my reserve but I sight you

Hmmmn, na wa oo, English is dead

Guestlander:


Oyo state: 28,454 square km

All five Igbo states: 40,000 square km

Your comparison is fraudulent.

It is not by size....show us what you got....after all Lagos is the smallest state in Nigeria...

Tell us how Afonjas developed Lagos...

Atleast Igbo's are traders and artisans....what are average Afonja man work in Lagos....

Oxtonguy:
Hmmmn, na wa oo, English is dead

I don't know what to tell you....but for the meantime, take am

uglyafonja:


It is not by size....show us what you got....after all Lagos is the smallest state in Nigeria...

Tell us how Afonjas developed Lagos...

Atleast Igbo's are traders and artisans....what are average Afonja man work in Lagos....

It is definitely by size, igboland is tiny just like Lagos, despite that, there are still a whole lot of derelict buildings in Igboland despite your misrepresentation.
If all Yorubas are developing only 40,000 square km, I can only wonder what it would look like.

Oxtonguy:
Hmmmn, na wa oo, English is dead

I don't know what to tell you....but for the meantime, take am.....

Guestlander:


It is definitely by size, igboland is tiny just like Lagos, despite that there are still a whole lot of derelict buildings in Igboland despite your misrepresentation.

I am just wasting my data replying you.....
Answer my question.....or you get off my mention

What do afonjas contributes to Lagos

uglyafonja:


I don't know what to tell you....but for the meantime, take am.....

But I have something to tell u, work on ur english, cross 9ja bridge to c things in the west, learn factual things about our Lagos, and stop deceiving urself

Quote-The first Yoruba lawyer Christopher Alexander Sapara Williams was called to the English Bar in 1879 whilst the first Igbo lawyer, Sir Louis Mbanefo, was called to the English bar in 1937. Again the first Yoruba medical practitioner, Dr. Nathaniel King, graduated in 1875 from the University of Edinburgh whilst the first Igbo medical practitioner, [b]Dr. Akannu Ibiam, [/b]graduated from another Scottish University in 1935. Again I ask, where did the ignorant hypothesis of the backward Yoruba race who needed development by the superior Igbo race come from? For the sake of our generation and posterity we need to teach factual history and not just cook up some rooster and bull ego-centric concoctions as facts. The attitude of recycling long tales steeped in empty arrogance should be discarded before you miseducate your kids with fictions.
All those names are not native Yorubas but freed slaves while Mbanefo and Dr. Akanu Ibiam are native Igbos.

paramakina202:
Quote-The first Yoruba lawyer Christopher Alexander Sapara Williams was called to the English Bar in 1879 whilst the first Igbo lawyer, Sir Louis Mbanefo, was called to the English bar in 1937. Again the first Yoruba medical practitioner, Dr. Nathaniel King, graduated in 1875 from the University of Edinburgh whilst the first Igbo medical practitioner, Dr. Akannu Ibiam, [/b]graduated from another Scottish University in 1935. Again I ask, where did the ignorant hypothesis of the backward Yoruba race who needed development by the superior Igbo race come from? For the sake of our generation and posterity we need to teach factual history and not just cook up some rooster and bull ego-centric concoctions as facts. The attitude of recycling long tales steeped in empty arrogance should be discarded before you miseducate your kids with fictions.
All those names are not native Yorubas but freed slaves while Mbanefo and Dr. Akanu Ibiam are native Igbos.

[b] Sapara is a Yoruba name. Check am well, o!

laudate:


Sapara is a Yoruba name. Check am well, o!

But he is freed slave abi.
Give us Yoruba born and bred pioneers.

uglyafonja:


I am just wasting my data replying you.....
Answer my question.....or you get off my mention

What do afonjas contributes to Lagos

Like a cornered squirrel trying to scurry away. I would rather not chat with you anyway, so you have nothing to worry about.

paramakina202:
Quote-The first Yoruba lawyer Christopher Alexander Sapara Williams was called to the English Bar in 1879 whilst the first Igbo lawyer, Sir Louis Mbanefo, was called to the English bar in 1937. Again the first Yoruba medical practitioner, Dr. Nathaniel King, graduated in 1875 from the University of Edinburgh whilst the first Igbo medical practitioner, [b]Dr. Akannu Ibiam, [/b]graduated from another Scottish University in 1935. Again I ask, where did the ignorant hypothesis of the backward Yoruba race who needed development by the superior Igbo race come from? For the sake of our generation and posterity we need to teach factual history and not just cook up some rooster and bull ego-centric concoctions as facts. The attitude of recycling long tales steeped in empty arrogance should be discarded before you miseducate your kids with fictions.
All those names are not native Yorubas but freed slaves while Mbanefo and Dr. Akanu Ibiam are native Igbos.

You are mixing Creole returnees with Yoruba names.

Sapara
Williams
Savages
Santos
Wellington
Crowther

Etc


These are not Yoruba ...They're Creole names
We know Yoruba names sir

ariesbull:


You are mixing Creole returnees with Yoruba names.

Sapara
Williams
Savages
Santos
Wellington
Crowther

Etc


These are not Yoruba ...They're Creole names
We know Yoruba names sir

You quote the wrong person,the same was what i highlighted in that quote.

paramakina202:


You quote the wrong person,the same was what i highlighted in that quote.

I know ....I just wanted to put in proper perspective for them

Oil Money from the Niger of course you forget Lagos was former capital and most of its infrastructures was built with Niger Delta Oil Money

lilytender:
It is no doubt in the mind of fools that the Biafrans developed Lagos, the same way they are currently developing Malaysia, China, Singapore and other countries prisons through their drug trafficking. I only wonder why they cannot develop their Biafra land. Well, maybe the erosion savged Biafra land is cursed.

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paramakina202:
Quote-The first Yoruba lawyer Christopher Alexander Sapara Williams was called to the English Bar in 1879 whilst the first Igbo lawyer, Sir Louis Mbanefo, was called to the English bar in 1937. Again the first Yoruba medical practitioner, Dr. Nathaniel King, graduated in 1875 from the University of Edinburgh whilst the first Igbo medical practitioner, [b]Dr. Akannu Ibiam, [/b]graduated from another Scottish University in 1935. Again I ask, where did the ignorant hypothesis of the backward Yoruba race who needed development by the superior Igbo race come from? For the sake of our generation and posterity we need to teach factual history and not just cook up some rooster and bull ego-centric concoctions as facts. The attitude of recycling long tales steeped in empty arrogance should be discarded before you miseducate your kids with fictions.
All those names are not native Yorubas but freed slaves while Mbanefo and Dr. Akanu Ibiam are native Igbos.

That does not make them less Yoruba!

ariesbull:



I know ....I just wanted to put in proper perspective for them

Okay!

paramakina202:
Quote-The first Yoruba lawyer Christopher Alexander Sapara Williams was called to the English Bar in 1879 whilst the first Igbo lawyer, Sir Louis Mbanefo, was called to the English bar in 1937. Again the first Yoruba medical practitioner, Dr. Nathaniel King, graduated in 1875 from the University of Edinburgh whilst the first Igbo medical practitioner, [b]Dr. Akannu Ibiam, [/b]graduated from another Scottish University in 1935. Again I ask, where did the ignorant hypothesis of the backward Yoruba race who needed development by the superior Igbo race come from? For the sake of our generation and posterity we need to teach factual history and not just cook up some rooster and bull ego-centric concoctions as facts. The attitude of recycling long tales steeped in empty arrogance should be discarded before you miseducate your kids with fictions.
All those names are not native Yorubas but freed slaves while Mbanefo and Dr. Akanu Ibiam are native Igbos.

That does not make them less Yoruba! Same should apply for Louis Mbanefo, he is also not a native Ibo. Can you imagine there is now native Yoruba and those that are not native. This one weak me.

ariesbull:


You are mixing Creole returnees with Yoruba names.

Sapara
Williams
Savages
Santos
Wellington
Crowther

Etc


These are not Yoruba ...They're Creole names
We know Yoruba names sir

For real! So it is no longer one's father nativity that determines ones nativity, it is where one has travelled to and returned from. Double hail for your logic.