emmatok:

Hahahahahah

So Yorubas are in millions in the SE.
Educate yourself Man.

No Yorubaman will call anypart of SE NO MAN'S LAND.

Reading comprehension must not be your forte.

nnenna.1:


Reading comprehension must not be your forte.

Grammar is not yours ...........,

omonnakoda:
Grammar is not yours ...........,

Irrelevant and false.

nnenna.1:


Irrelevant and false.

are you related to General Shelleng

omonnakoda: are you related to General Shelleng

Is this supposed to be a smart comeback?

Why do dunderheads always feel the need to attribute Lagos to Benin? Do I need to remind you nutjobs that the few Edos that settled in Lagos, settled in Lagos Island which is like 1/200th of Lagos and that they came there by request not conquest? And they also don't own anything where they settled?

Yippee.

A troll-fest is about start.

*exits thread*

nnenna.1:


Is this supposed to be a smart comeback?

Just wondered if you are related to him. I think he used to be an artillery officer

Stupid troll calling others a troll.

Why are you on the thread, anyway?

Insecure and excessive testosterone having nutter!

omonnakoda:
That is one possibilty but logically not the only one.
Other logical one may be
The establishment of a seaport with the growth of international trade
The creation of "Nigeria" and the facilitation of movement after all this increased numbers is observed not only in Lagos but in PH eg also Kano Benin etc also the population of Lagos seems to have double AFTER the Capital was moved. From all indications what has made Lagos is the Port at Lagos. Nigeria has not been able to establish a similar port elsewhere on its rather long coastline

You make sense. My great grand father worked with the colonial govt as a court clerk/interpreter in the period described in the above excerpts. He worked all over the southern protectorate but never went to Lagos because it was almost in a "different" country. All that changed after the creation of Nigeria.

.. You know why I know... in 1891 the colony of lagos did not have egun people in it. and that docunment did not include poeple from ondo state who before 1891 were the first to settle in lagos

Any uzor kalu that ever says again that lagos is no mans land should be given a hot slap

ondo people name most part of lagos.. Names like ebute metta, ebute ero,surulere, yaba, etc that why most people cant tell you what it means. ebute is an ondo word, yaba is an ondo word. that why, if you go to lagos island. people dont understand some of the meaning of the names.

I love threads like this, digging into the history and bringing out documented facts. It is educative. Let's keep it coming

Hmmm,,,British colony era looks fertile

mapet: I love threads like this, digging into the history and bringing out documented facts. It is educative. Let's keep it coming

Truly it is educative only if bigots will not derail the thread with their ethnic crap.

Waiting for naptu2 to give me more historical stories of Lagos.

berem: Truly it is educative only if bigots will not derail the thread with their ethnic crap.

Waiting for naptu2 to give me more historical stories of Lagos.

And Gbawe to give detailed analysis and unbiased opinion.

Tony Spike: It's extra-ordinary that this population statistics was undertaken as the end of the Yoruba Kiriji wars approached circa 1892/93. The representation is quite astonishing. I'd like us to keep this thread clean of inter-tribal jibes...thanks.

Bruv, who are the "Eko tribe?"

Also, Oyo people have always been in Lagos, their population is even higher than the Ijebu's. That's definitely a revelation. I guess it has more to do with the refugees during the kiriji wars and the struggle for weapons on the coast.

ShymmexLion:

Bruv, who are the "Eko tribe?"

Also, Oyo people have always been in Lagos, their population is even higher than the Ijebu's. That's definitely a revelation. I guess it has more to do with the refugees during the kiriji wars and the struggle for weapons on the coast.

I believe the "Eko" tribe may refer to the families of the Landowners of the ancient Lagos Island known as the Idejos, as well as the royal families. In other words, Eko tribe refers to the first set of original inhabitants or the actual indigenes.

The Lagos port was used by the Ijesha and Ekiti armies to import military hardwares during the Kiriji wars. I think the Egbas were the middlemen in this business...

So what is the relevance of this thread? Is it a rejoinder put out by our insecured civilised Yoruba slaves that Lagos actually belongs to them (of which the reality on ground says otherwise)? I get am before before no be property my yoruba people.

veraponpo:

And Gbawe to give detailed analysis and unbiased opinion.

Yes, definitely!

Tony Spike:

I believe the "Eko" tribe may refer to the families of the Landowners of the ancient Lagos Island known as the Idejos, as well as the royal families. In other words, Eko tribe refers to the first set of original inhabitants or the actual indigenes.

However, most of the Idejo Chiefs are Awori's and a few Ijebu's. Perhaps they were alluding to those living in Lagos Island at that point in history.

Where's Chief Dudu_Negro? - that the Chief Eko historian.

Tony Spike:
The Lagos port was used by the Ijesha and Ekiti armies to import military hardwares during the Kiriji wars. I think the Egbas were the middlemen in this business...

Nah, the Ijebu's had the eastern parts of the coast on lock in Epe. We brought all types of ammunition in and monopolised the market. I think the Egba's controlled the western part.

We definitely need Kats, Dudu_negro, Terracotta and maybe aribisala/omonnkoda on this thread.

So far, so good.

The thread has remained sane and educative apart from the occasional unsuccessful attempt, from the usual suspects, to bait bigots into taking a bite.

Fingers crossed, touch wood, by the grace of God; it will remain mostly educative.

Then some 1967 separatists still have the guts to call the historic town of Lagos no man's land. Let them go form their Land of the Rising Sun and pass through the process of visa application before coming into Lagos. Lets see if they will still call it "No Man's Land".

Tony_Spike

These are the Idejo Chiefs: Aromire, Oloto, Ojora, Onitolo, Onitano, Onikoyi, Oniru, Oluwa, Onisiwo, Eleguishi, Ojomu and Lumegbon.

Oniru and Eleguishi are definitely Ijebu's. Oloto is Ekiti. I think the rest are Awori's.

Really gbadun-ing this..can anyone shed a lil light about the kiriji war?..ijaye and the so called kurunmi..

Yorubas, always digging out stewpid and unprofitable history.... developing world are talking about "invention" histories not population history or origin histories... what has America got to do with the population of british immigrants in today's world. SMH

kingthreat: Then some Biafran separatists still have the guts to call the historic town of Lagos no man's land. Let them go form their Biafra and pass through the process of visa application before coming into Lagos. Lets see if they will still call it "No Man's Land".

Lagos is no man's land jor (like jerusalem).Check out its history it never had a homogenous settler group, from d earlier natives, to d slave returnees on to d colonials and now to non yoruba Nigerians.

Isiterere: I thought some people claim Lagos is no man's land , where are they in this era ?

They were still walking around naked,eating themselves,and practising the uncivilized and babaric OSU culture.