MightySparrow:
Nonsense thread. Igbo's made Lagos what it is now. Igbo man will one day rule in Oba of Lagos's palace.

SpComedy:
Lagos is a no man's land and the narrative is simple............. The yoruba may more in number but the no man-ness of Lagos is economically based.........

Every Nigerian contributed/is contributing to the growth of Lagos, the federal government used/uses money gotten from all over the country to build Lagos the more, all ethnic group in Nigeria are scampering to Lagos in other to gain back their resources used by FG to build Lagos, Thus making Lagos A NO MANS LAND.......... If e vex una ask federal government to construct federal roads, ports and airports in other region just like it's in Lagos..............

Lagos = NO MANS LAND

lowaist101:
The truth is that the Yoruba run Lagos but originally Lagos belongs to the people of Benin and brothers Awori. one eminent Lagosian said, all the major areas in Lagos Island came from Benin Language. Years ago, dead Lagos kings were taken to Benin for Burial. Some people own Lagos!

femolii:
Don't say that but if they say lagos is no man 's land you will like it to be in front page. u can 't claim my land n be expecting me to keep quiet .

koning:




Very on point. You cannot believe the number of these Yoruba families I'm helping to feed in Lagos. Most of them from Ondo, Osun and Ekiti. Almost everybody working on my properties are Yoruba. From the Bricklayer, the Mason, Carpenter up to the project supervisor. They don't have any basis whatsoever to complain about the Igbos. They should rather be grateful.

That Owo Iyaloja is paid mostly by Igbo traders.

PointZerom:



Back to sender...I am not a lazy man my dear.

I am a dealer in plumbing materials and tiles. Only here to attack those that are insulting Igbos and Ndi Igbo in general.


Only if you know how many people that are in my monthly pay roll. .......pls try another joke.

writerights:


We have craftsmen and artisans from every region across the world. If you have an Igbo brother who is up to the task to take up the job, I'm not sure you'd invite the yorubas. Not everyone is educated and not everyone would have a white collar job so getting yorubas to work for you is no big deal at all. If I have to invest in the east, eastern brothers would work on my site.

I don't see why Yorubas should complain, as a matter of fact, we live in peace and harmony here in Lagos. All through school, my best friends have been Igbos. Some can speak yoruba fluently and even say our proverbs, other who can't speak definitely understand. I'm convinced most of the Igbos creating hate - filled threads against the yorubas here on nairaland are the hungry ones who don't know where the geographical location of Lagos is and who envy their brothers excelling here. They are simply willing to create troubles for them.

Owo Iyaloja is just giving unto caesar what belongs to him. These boys only do so in Lagos and no where else because they are sons of the soil. This scenario may be worst if Imo or Anambra State were Lagos. Yoruba and hausa settlers may have to pay for standing, sitting, walking or even singing in Igbo land. You really don't expect any Igbo man to come to Lagos and say Owomida, do you?

I believe our common enemy is our government and not our neighbours, until we know that, this kind of thread wouldn't cease gracing the homepage of Nairaland.

Gotze1:
Person dey lie and you dey swallow it. No be igbos that are billionaires on paper again.

Gotze1:
Yinmu, na today. Is it not you billionaires on paper again . I repeat, the girl will feed your household till 19th generation.

PointB:


As arrogant as we are, and as insecure as you feel, we are each other's hope.
Bro, we need to understand our difference so we can work together.

Igbo won't change, neither would you. So let's leave this matter and face the future together. The common enemy love this squabbles, but we are smarter than that. Let's move forward.

laudate:

Awori people are Yoruba, not Benin. The man that said Awori and Bini are brothers, was simply confused.

Gotze1:
The only like you got was given by me. If there is any other, then I am the first. You are now making sense. I don't hate igbo, take that.

Tahra:
Stop being tribalistic.

EponOjuku:
On the contrary, I don't want Igbos to stop calling Lagos no-man's Land and I'll state my reasons.

Yorubas welcomed Igbos with an open hand and returned their abandoned properties after the war. Meanwhile, Igboid groups in present-day Rivers and Bayelsa states refused to return confiscated Igbo properties.

Nigerians from all ethnicities come to Lagos, live, trade, work, build and retire here. However, Igbos ignored the landowners and contributions of everyone and are selfishly but are foolishly claiming they developed Lagos.

The problem some Igbos have is that they have short memories. They've forgotten that as at when the Portuguese landed in Lagos, they had not yet finished trekking from Isreal or wherever they were downloaded from.

Yoruba are very welcoming and accommodating but won't tolerate nonsense. When these Igbos started this noise, we warned the liberal Yorubas but they said we were paranoid. Now, a lot of Yorubas are seeing the hate and bitterness that Igbos wish upon us and are now waking up.

During the last LG elections, all LG seats in Festac, Ojo Alaba, Amuwo and other areas with large Igbo population were collected and are firmly in the hand of Yorubas. In 2019, we're collecting our seats from those Igbos representatives and HOA members.

The environmental sanitation is presently political. When we're through with that, we move to other areas. By the time we ban gala and Fan yogo hawking in Lagos and the economy of a whole Igbo state crumbles cos of that, maybe you'll have sense.

Let Igbos keep calling Lagos No man's land, it serves to wake up the consciousness of liberal Yorubas. Mind you, the quiet Yoruba man is the most dangerous. The revolution would not be televised.

PointB:


As arrogant as we are, and as insecure as you feel, we are each other's hope.
Bro, we need to understand our difference so we can work together.

Igbo won't change, neither would you. So let's leave this matter and face the future together. The common enemy love this squabbles, but we are smarter than that. Let's move forward.

kn23h:

kn23h:
I told my people to wake up a year ago lol.
I love that the unconscious Yorubaman is waking up tho.

Not all battles are won with words and axe......most are won systematically, politically and economically.
Calling Lagos no man's land is akin to waging a war. The useless Oba will be the first we sacrifice to Yejoha.

EponOjuku:


Baba, I'm telling you that as a matter of unofficial policy, the bureaucrats at Alausa have put in place an unofficial procedure to weed out these flatheaded miscreants in the areas property acquisition.

Very soon, they won't realize what hit them.

Alcatraz005:


I pray so oooo. We need to really nip their mojo in the bud. Igbo excesses are getting too much to bear. We need to weed out igbo specifically!

meforyou1:
Lagos is no man's land. even a prominent lagos indigene said it, that lagos belong to binis. all those yoruba from osogbo should go back to their rural slums. we developed lagos from when it was water and sand to what it is now, so we have the bragging right.

Heavance:
It's funny how Lagosians don't bother to say a word about this. Those electronic hate people are actually not from Lagos, even the Yoruba's bashing their fellow Nigerians.
Check them well, they are from other Yoruba states not Lagos, I don't know why they see the Igbo's (fellow Nigerians) as an enemy, thinking because they are from other parts, they are entitled to claiming Lagos.
They fail to acknowledge the truth.

writerights:


Lol. Federal government isn't doing anything in Lagos sir. The internally generated revenue of Lagos alone is more than that of 32 states combined. The thing is without Lagos, a lot of other states would suffer. I'm less concerned about whose land it is anyways.

hakeem4:




The last time I checked, the Portuguese came and left Lagos was a big city, the British came and left Lagos was still a big city


So I don't even understand how the igbos made Lagos

Alcatraz005:


God punish you and your fellow igbo brothers! We would never work with you after all these insults on our tribe. It is better for Hausa to rule us till eternity.

laudate:

The same way Onitsha belongs to the Bini, and Asaba, Ossomala, Nsugbe, parts of Nsukka etc, belong to the Igalas. Even the staff of office for some of your kings in Enugu state, has to be presented by the Igalas, during any coronation process, for it to be valid. Should we tell the Igbo in Onitsha and those other places to relocate because it belonged to the Benin people, originally?

After all, the Bini and Igalas have bragging rights over various parts of Igbo land.

Alcatraz005:


God punish you and your fellow igbo brothers! We would never work with you after all these insults on our tribe. It is better for Hausa to rule us till eternity.

EponOjuku:


The problem you have is that you think development is limited to brick and mortar structures.

Before Lagos was the Federal Capital, Calabar was the Federal Capital. Did it change anything?

As I said before, keep shouting that Igbos developed Lagos, I'm 100% in support of it. It would spur the liberal Yorubas to do the inevitable.

You developed Lagos, right?
Let me give you a hint, go and check the recent procedure for land acquisition, excision and release by the Lagos State Government. I won't say more than that. You won't know where it would hit you or when it would hit you.

koning:
I very much doubt if you are Igbo with this azz-licking and ridiculous heading. You could simply ask Igbos to invest in Igbo land without having to bring up the issue of Lagos into it.

Lagos has never been a Yoruba Land. 97% of Yorubas in lagos are immigrants just like the Igbos, Hausas, Binis and other SS peoples. It is and will always remain a cosmopolitan entity for the entire nation. Yorubas are more in Lagos because of the proximity of core Yoruba states to Lagos.

Igbos are many there because of our ubiquitous and adventurous nature.

Igbos should invest more in Igbo states. I agree. But that has nothing to do with Lagos being 'no man's land'. Stop sucking up to Yorubas. that is if you are actually Igbo.

laudate:

Awori people are Yoruba, not Benin. The man that said Awori and Bini are brothers, was simply confused.