solreb:


You need to read this
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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 The 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 Osogbo, 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 Igbo citizens, 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 the emergence of Nigeria as an amalgamated country. If I may ask again, where did the stupid idea that Igbo developed Lagos come 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 developed Lagos.

Ancestors of Igbo people came to Yoruba-land like all other settlers and we appreciate their contributions. But the stupid claim that Igbo built and developed Lagos is a gross display of stupidity because Lagos was already developed before Igbo ancestors 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

OlawaleSmarter1:


But i am a Yoruba Man and i can stay anywhere in Yoruba Land. Go to Hausa Land and go and call it a no man's land because you have some properties over there

naijaguy1234:
All this coming from bastard of a man called FKK. No one want civil disobedience but Ibo should respect their host. Play by my rule or back to your land , simple.

OlawaleSmarter1:



Look No matter where ever the place is, Yoruba is Yoruba because Yoruba is a Family. it is like saying Your Brothers children are not allow in your House, Your Brother children have every Claim to Your House. Yoruba no matter where in the world is one Big Family, but Igbo is clearly different from Yoruba and no one say you don't have any right but Respect your Host, if you humble yourselves your host will respect you and trust you and give you more rights that will benefits you.

goldenarrow:

Oga your statement is childish, yet inciting. Sometimes it is helpful to consider children born of Yoruba-Igbo parentage. What would you expect to be the lot of such folks? Incitements and tribalism are too primitive for us to harbor at this stage of human civilization. Peace.

imam07:
It will better u go to the street in Lagos and tell the yorubas this. Is very bad saying it here. That your senses which is not correct will correct for u.

Mboi:

I disagree with you. Yoruba is Family, Hausa is Family, Igbo is Family too but that does not change your state of origin. Your state of origin still remains Ogun state or Osun state not Lagos. If Lagos state wants to share money for Lagos state indigens, you that is an origin of Oyo state or Osun won't partake because you are not an origin of Lagos State. You that are from Oyo state, your ID card or Driver's license does not have Lagos State as your State of Origin so guys you people should stop deceiving yourselves.

Mboi:

Oga you are the one that is deceiving yourself. You are from Oyo state, do you have write Lagos State as your state of origin?

Mboi:

Oga you are the one that is deceiving yourself. You are from Oyo state, do you have write Lagos State as your state of origin?

Viergeachar:
Because you are currently naccking a pigiyeasternr

The overwhelming majority of Yorubas support the cutting to size of Igbos in Lagos.

Mboi:

Tell yourself the truth, People on the street are not saying the rubbish you guys are saying here. It's only on facebook, nairaland and on twitter that you e-rats always rant this Igbo-go-back-to-your-state thing.

princfred:
So why not win them in the polls or contest in east too?

bigfish3k:


in check of what actually

its just jealousy

slam7000:


Small memory is better than small minded

Iamgrey5:
Tinubu personal stalkers

FFK and Reno


Shey those Killing told you that Tinubu sent them


Before ibos begin to praise the two faced Stalker, they need to read this

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/06/bitter-truth-igbo-femi-fani-kayode/

"The suggestion that Lagos is a ”no-man’s land’ and that the Igbo or any other nationality outside the Yoruba generate up to 55 per cent of it’s revenue or business is absolutely absurd and frankly it has no basis in reality or rationality. It is not only a dirty lie but it is also very insulting. Guests, no matter how welcome, esteemed, cherished and valued they are, cannot become the owners of the house no matter how comfortable they are made to feel within it. Those guests will always be guests. Lagos belongs to the Yoruba and to the Yoruba alone. ALL others that reside there are guests, though some guests are far closer to us than others. The Igbo are the least close, the most distant and the least familiar with our customs and our ways. They ought to be the last to be claiming our heritage and coveting our land and neither can they claim to have made any real input to our glaring success. For them to think otherwise is nothing but delusion"

Ref FFK 2013

immhotep:

Lzaa come see another Lagos immigrant

Cc sarrki pointzerom velocity25

geraob1:


A memo to burst a certain thugs head with blocks... Hahahahahaha

Viergeachar:


Because they are running on an alternative Yoruba platform, PDP. PDP has many Yoruba supporters that will vote any PDP candidate, Yoruba or not.

Igbos are free to run on APGA.

Mboi:

Tell yourself the truth, People on the street are not saying the rubbish you guys are saying here. It's only on facebook, nairaland and on twitter that you e-rats always rant this Igbo-go-back-to-your-state thing.

princfred:
Anybody is free to run on any platform and any candidate should be voted for based on what positive development they can bring tribe aside. Especially, If you claim not to be bigot oriented.

Kagawa10:


The question you should ask is why always the Ibos? In Akure, Bayelsa, Cross River, North or even Ikwere land where they don't sell land to the Ibos?

Ibos should do a soul searching.

akinblog:
Femi Fani-Kayode, a former minister of Aviation has reacted to the crisis going on between the Yorubas and the Igbos living and doing business in Lagos State.

Fani Kayode on his Twitter page on Monday described those terrorizing Igbos as ‘murderous scum’.

The former minister compared those terrorizing Igbos in Lagos to Fulani ‘terrorists’ in the Northern part of Nigeria.

On his Twitter page, he wrote: “The murderous scum that are terrorising the Igbo in Lagos shall reap the wind they have sown. They are no better than the Fulani terrorists that kill non-Fulanis in the north.

“These attacks are not done for and on behalf of the Yoruba: they are done for and on behalf of Tinubu.”

https://all-gists..com/2019/03/Tinubu-Fani-Kayode-speaks-on-attack-of-Igbos-in-Lagos.html

imam07:
We can't say it until u get liver to confront us with all wht u are saying here. U never came out to say all thses rubbish u are saying here for real. Do that and u will see how we go hit where it hot. I have said it u no dey think b4 u post. I said force your fingers in our mouth and we go bite it off your body. This is our home. There no need to do what u are saying until u show us u are not coward by going to the street and yab the yorubas.

OlawaleSmarter1:


No one is Ranting Igbo go back to your states. it is you e-rats that's ranting Lagos is no man's Land and you are the one beating chest that other tribes can't live without you so we ask you to leave to prove that it is true. Carry a Placard with Lagos is no man's land Written on it and march across Lagos if you are so sure of it.

Mboi:

Lagos belongs to Lagos origins so we can't say Lagos is no man's land. You that's talking rubbish, go back to your state, abi u no get state again? u dey claim Lagos. If your fathers were hardworking, they wouldn't have sold all their inheritance and even their lives to to Igbo's. Go and work hard bro..Stop player hating Igbo's.