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| How Igbos Developed Lagos by hornyofife: 9:21pm On Nov 23, 2017 |
For some day now, Lagos and the place of Igbo's in Lagos has been trending on NL. This is my take on it. On the question of who owns Lagos For me I will give it to the lagos Yoruba's who are a mixture of benin and Awori people and were actually slave of the Benins who later inherited Lagos. That is why Lagos's original name is Eko, which means slave camp. Names like Idumota, Eti osa are Benin names. Names like Jewetin, Tincan, Akran are awori badagary names Benins answer oyole,oyeole same as badagry people but not the core yoruba On who developed Lagos and what contribution does Igbo's bring to the development of lagos I will answer that in four folds The colonial masters started the development of Lagos, with the establishment of colonial post, administrative blocks, missionary schools, churches, link roads construction, trade...etc Mind you the most notable major infrastructure built by the colonial masters before they left was carter bridge, Lagos airport (which was later remodeled and expanded and renamed MMIA) and federal palace hotel. And most colonial development was centered majorly on the islands (Ikoyi ,Victoria island and Ikeja as an extension) Now the second part of Lagos development was by Nigeria federal government to it as the former capital city. 3rd mainland bridge, National Thearte, Eko bridge, Apapa port,GRAs, Muritala Muhammed airport, most of the major roads are some of Nigerian government's notable contribution to lagos which opened up and linked the mainland and island. The third part now being the subsequent state government contribution..link roads, flyovers, bridges, schools, hospitals, and policies and Conducive environment that make business and living thrive. The fourth part now being individual Nigerians themselves, this has to do with their daily activities which include trade and commerce, transport and services, manufacturing, Real Estate, Recreation etc and this is where the igbos as a group come in... On a more serious note, as much as government provides the infrastructures, if private investors don't invest which also attract other affiliate industries, the state would not have witnessed the level of economic expansion it is enjoying today... Now let's put it in perspective, it was not the government or colonial masters that built all the major markets in Lagos.. From ladipo to computer village to trade fair to katangowa to yaba to mile 12 to ketu, Alaba international to oshodi market, asuwani market, Aspanda etc. Most of these markets were never designated markets. They were markets formed organically by concentration over time. Some of which government have demolished.. Now let's go to the transport industries, of which the most notable transport companies which are international because they link the west African subcontinent and have bases in those countries same as in lagos and are majorly Igbo owned. From chisco, to the young to ABC to cross country,to GiG, to GUO to Ekeledilichukwu to PMT to ITC to several others that I can't even remember.. It also worthy of note some nigerdeltans especially delta line, Edo line, libra and akwaibom line are very active inter state tansport coy. Now talking about hoteling, it may sound subjective but in all sense of reality and not including some of the Five star hotels which many a times are owned by foreigners, multinational companies, politicians or by partnerships. majority of the three star hotels in Lagos are owned by the igbos..yes, do your research. It is not only in Lagos, it is like that in kano, Kaduna and abuja..let's leave Nigerdelta out of this since there are geographically close to the Igbo's. Now going to real estate. I want to ask, was it government or the colonial masters that built the billions of individual residential properties scattered around Lagos or was it FG that turned swamp lands and forest to choice residential Quaters? I can remember when I was doing my IT in Amuwo Odofin,I was told from multiple sources that back 20 to 25yrs back, that the whole place was all bushy swamp and that it was the coming of the igbos that changed that place. That all the roads where sand filled by the Igbo landlords in abide to have access to their plots....if that is not development, what do we call that? Today omo oniles dont do anyhow there because they know they cant claim their fathers own the swamp or wetland, and the igbo landlords there are powerful men with private armed guards, mostly importers. Amuwo odofin is 90% igbo, from tenants to landlords to schools, to hospitals to hotels to mini malls to plazas to supermarkets to bars to clubs...all owned by igbos. And mind you, it is like that in many other places in Lagos, where it was the coming of the the Igbo's that triggered development in those place not to also talk of the ripple economic effect interns of value of land, standard of living, recreation, transport and home sales...I am using amuwo odofin as a case study, there are many other places igbos dominated or control at least 70 to 85% from Ago palace way to festac to satellite town to ijegun to bucknor to Ajao estate just name it. Places in Lagos igbos don't dominate, igbos have at least 50% presence. Thats is why a times you may be tempted to think that igbos are probably the largest ethnic group in Lagos now, they are everywhere...go to some Behind ghetto areas like ajegunle, vox, ajangbaji, Igando..i call them Behind ghettos areas because they are fast developing with more modern buildings and hotels springing up, thereby changing the face of those area.. Even the most dishonest person knows that after government infrastructure, the business activities of the Igbo's drives and attract other affiliate businesses and services which may not necessarily be run by igbo. but without the presence and activities of the igbos businesses in those places in the first place, those affiliate services would not exist or have started because the Igbo business activities created the opportunity for them to start and thrive. Mind you again,as at the time Britain left Nigeria, the most powerful ruling elites and political party were igbos From sir Louis ojukwu Nnamdi azikiwe jaja nwachukwu Etc NCNC which was the dominant party was more or less an Igbo party which forced Awolowo to result to tribalism to gain relevance Till today,ojukwu's fathers properties are still spread in different locations in Lagos.He was our first billionaire, established Nigerian stock exchange, he was the pioneer transport mogul 7 Likes 1 Share
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| Re: How Igbos Developed Lagos by hornyofife: 9:26pm On Nov 23, 2017 |
Now as to whether Lagos is a no mans land? Yes, it is and No, it is not. Yes it is, because it is a melting point for every Nigerian, it is place where you don't feel like you are lost. There is space for everybody,groups, tribes,class or nationality in lagos. The original indigenes of Lagos are micro minorities hence if we are to go by who owns Lagos, then 95% of those in Lagos and who claim Lagos including the Yoruba migrants don't belong there. Again, No, Lagos is not a no mans land, because it has original dwellers,it has its traditional institutions that have lasted centuries and generations and it has its own unique culture also. As for the rights of non lagosians including Yorubas in Lagos, everybody has equal right in Lagos...the only institution reserved for the indigenes in Lagos is the traditional institution..That is sacrosanct. Anybody can become the governor, as the constitution guarantees that, so long as you are law abiding, you pay your tax and have contributed to the development of the state and also you have the followership to vote you in since democracy is a game of numbers...Mind you, no Lagos indigene has govern Lagos before, all the past governors we never Lagos indigenes..in fact Lagos has twice had an Igbo governor... As to if Igbo's wants to take over lagos and claim it as theirs in their widest dreams, igbos can never and I mean never do that. Igbos don't have a history of occupying or subdueing people and their land...Igbos are the most peaceful people you can ever come across. They just want to live and let live. They want to thrive and do their business. They may just be a bit arrongant, boastful and overconfident but that is their nature and that is all. Too much success and over achievements dey worry them...the Jews(both at home,Europe and america) Japanese,Germans,Chinese and Indians are like that.. That is why they are not liked too. They are seen as proud, boastful and highly achievement driven..you can call it ambitious if you like. Igbos on Nairaland have discovered yoruba lagos migrant's weakness, which is their being very reactional and emotional when being told to their face that Lagos is a no mans land...hence nairaland igbos capitalize on it to spite afonja as it has always being tit for tat...Actually the igbos know they have the economic advantage in Lagos, whether with government or not, or whether Biafra or not, they are always confident of their survival hence if afonja talk down Biafra, the Igbo's also spite afonjas with their Lagos economic advantage..it is that simple...but it all starts and end on nairaland. The real lagosians which include all migrant settlers both Igbo, Yoruba, foreigners, nigerdeltans and northerners are sealing deals, making money, living peacefully and partying hard together.... I have carefully avoided igbo manufacturers, beverages, ICT firms, oil and gas firms, big/maga plazas, big hotels, pharmaceuticals, brevages,importers, automobile, service firms, real estate firms, bars, eateries, travel agencies, entertainments, cinemas etc.. Jexterpose and interpolate the combined contributions of these firms in terms of development, tax paid, employment, increased value chain,social responsibility and overall the pride of Lagos as home for all, then you will understand that, without the igbos, Lagos will not be better than at most Accra or Lome. So finally, in conclusion, so long as Nigeria remains,not deminishing the contributions of others,I think it will be hypocritical for someone who has sold off his land, collected monies and signed documents to begin to tell the new land owner what to do with his land or as a yoruba migrant whose father doesn't even have a property to his name in Lagos and probably a tenant to an Igbo land lord to begin to feel you have more right than an Igbo whose grand father and father have lived all their lives longer in Lagos than your father and then you begin to feel you have more rights than the igbo because you are Yoruba..yes you are Yoruba but a migrant like the igbo also... Looking forward to the future, other Nigerians will begin to ascert their rights in Lagos especially northerners who are beginning to increase in numbers with the crisis in the north. We may begin to see local government chairmen of northern extraction winning elections in northern dominated areas in Lagos as we already have seen with the Igbo's both in state and federal house of representatives..and I see it leading to producing a non Yoruba governor of Lagos state one day. meanwhile since there is no Biafra and the Yoruba's are hell bent of keeping Igbo with them in Nigeria, then they should be ready to accept the fact that igbos in Lagos have come to stay and igbos will eventually become the new economic colonialist of Lagos, which they are not doing consciously or preplanned,it is their enterprising nature,gift and culture. It happens for them organically and naturally..so for Yorubas, you cannot eat your cake and have it. so deal with it... 16 Likes 2 Shares
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| Re: How Igbos Developed Lagos by hornyofife: 9:45pm On Nov 23, 2017 |
Documents showing Yoruba and Igbo migration to Lagos, since 1911 2 Likes
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| Re: How Igbos Developed Lagos by oodualover: 9:52pm On Nov 23, 2017 |
hornyofife:When we say iboes are dumb, they begin to cry. A lot of places in Lagos today were carved out from Ogun state. So that list is bullshiit. 14 Likes 2 Shares |
| Re: How Igbos Developed Lagos by Nobody: 9:59pm On Nov 23, 2017 |
oodualover:This matter is paining you so much 10 Likes 1 Share |
| Re: How Igbos Developed Lagos by Nobody: 10:00pm On Nov 23, 2017 |
OP, if you are Yorubaa and spoke so honestly like this, well detailed and backed by examples, then there will be no reason for some Igbos claiming they developed Lagos. The reason why some Igbos do this is because they feel they not been appreciated by yorubas, or some distorting facts. You don't hear Igbos claiming they own Abuja, when in fact Abuja development today cannot be discussed without mentioning Igbos. If you think Igbo presence in Lagos is something, come to Abuja and see. When El Rufai said that over 70% of real estate and landed properties in Abuja are owned by Igbos, the locals, Gwari and Hausas didn't deny it, they know. And they appreciate it and Igbos don't see any need to blow trumpet like they do for Lagos.And you don't see them asking Igbos to leave the Abuja like you see in Lagos with Yorubaa. 16 Likes 3 Shares |
| Re: How Igbos Developed Lagos by Michael004: 10:00pm On Nov 23, 2017 |
Op, are you done ranting or you still want to continue? 4 Likes 2 Shares |
| Re: How Igbos Developed Lagos by Danladi7: 10:02pm On Nov 23, 2017 |
This article only shows Igbo people agama lizard grandiose delusion,self glorification, and chest beating we all know them for!...If at all,lagos development is multifactorial like any other city,yorubas who are the owner of the city didn't play any role?...to the extent that Igbo people who have no city as big as kano and Ibadan before 1900 ,role in its development is so striken that lagos development has igbotic phase in your self-glorifying article and no yorubatic phase!...you mean Igbo left their own land to come and build city as large as kano and Ibadan in yorubaland without yoruba imput? Without Igbo lagos would have been like accra or lome.so,why is it that at least a city in Igboland with 99% Igbo is not even close to accra and lome in term of development! Even hausa fulani with their city of kano never self glorify and chestbeat like this baby-tribe!....JUST CARRY YOUR SO CALLED DEVELOPMENT AWAY FROM LAGOS AND LET US SEE HOW THE CITY WILL FALL You guys are suffering from real inferiority complex walahi and you are disgracing the entire Igbo race! from no mans land to bini land to we developed it...every sane individuals will know that the greatest problem of you guys are jealousy and envy 18 Likes 5 Shares |
| Re: How Igbos Developed Lagos by stonemasonn: 10:03pm On Nov 23, 2017 |
No body is denying Igbos contribution to Lagos, Lagos is somebody's land whether you like it or not. Go and tell the local Gwari man from Abuja to his face that Abuja is no man's Land and see his reaction, or go to southern Kaduna and tell the indigenous people that Kaduna is Fulani land. It is your covetous nature that makes you write all these. When the time comes blood will be shed over the ownership of Lagos, I hope you will be ready. 3 Likes |
| Re: How Igbos Developed Lagos by oodualover: 10:04pm On Nov 23, 2017 |
Who asked iboees to leave their land? Lagos has stop being capital of Nigeria for 25 fuccking years!!!! Why do iboees keep flocking to the state even though it has stop being the capital of this country for over two decades.  If you say it was developed with Niger delta oil, don't iboee land receive federal allocation? Also, how many of the oil was gotten from iboeland? Why is it that ijaws, itshekiris and other minority don't claim ownership to Lagos when they own the wealth that was used to develop the state? Why is it only iboees that make noise? Iboees contribute less to Lagos both in human and natural resources. #fact.When then do people hear only iboes noise? Why can't you replicate the same in your land instead of flocking out and rendering it desolate? Iboees should go home and develop their land!!! We are tired of your chest beating!!! 15 Likes 2 Shares |
| Re: How Igbos Developed Lagos by updatechange(m): 10:10pm On Nov 23, 2017 |
Igbos are arrogant, chest beaters and jealousy filled tribe... live and let's live yes. Dangote alone has more than 50% of all what igbo men owns in Lagos but am yet to see an Hausa man bragging with that where by insinuating they developed or owned Lagos not to mention its a no man's land. The truth is that I personally love the way they criticise Lagos because it helps deepens our culture and language in the state.  13 Likes 1 Share |
| Re: How Igbos Developed Lagos by Danladi7: 10:11pm On Nov 23, 2017 |
liberalsinnerx: Op can never be yoruba! Igbo want yoruba appreciation? you people are MAD!...seriously MAD! Did yoruba wrote letter to them to come and develop lagos?.....LAGOS MADE IGBO AND SAVED THEM FROM VILLAGE PEOPLE NOT THE OTHER WAY ROUND! If anyones owe the other appreciation,its the IGBO that owes yoruba appreciation!......YOU GUYS GRANDIOSE DELUSIONS IS DISGUSTING! CAN A WHOLE RACE BE SUFFERING FROM SCHIZOPHRENIA? 8 Likes 1 Share |
| Re: How Igbos Developed Lagos by Nobody: 10:12pm On Nov 23, 2017 |
hornyofife: Another fact...keep it up 5 Likes |
| Re: How Igbos Developed Lagos by oodualover: 10:14pm On Nov 23, 2017 |
Iboees have being opening countless thread because of Lagos. This is quite embarrassing!! 8 Likes 2 Shares |
| Re: How Igbos Developed Lagos by oodualover: 10:17pm On Nov 23, 2017 |
liberalsinnerx:OSU pig what fact?? It is funny that you don't know the geographical size of Lagos was smaller than it is now and a large proportion of land from Ogun state was added to it. Apapa was part of Ogun in that time. Ibo Omo ode!!! 6 Likes 1 Share |
| Re: How Igbos Developed Lagos by Nobody: 10:17pm On Nov 23, 2017 |
Danladi7:Learn to appreciate Igbos 6 Likes |
| Re: How Igbos Developed Lagos by Michael004: 10:19pm On Nov 23, 2017 |
hornyofife:Concerning the boldened, I will like to ask you some few questions. 1, Are the Yorubas the federal government? 2, Is there any igbo man that carried their luggage and leave the west to east and a Yoruba man blocked road in order for him not to pass? 3, The last time igbos moved Emmas back to east from west as in yorubaland, did Yoruba stopped them from going? I need a sensible reply from you with strong back up. Concerning the one you said according to your own opinion, that non Yoruba will begin to govern Lagos because Hausa are coming in. Let me tell you, hausas are not foolish and never stepped above their boundaries. If you think what you think in your mind will happen, then you are dreaming or imagining. Well maybe it will happen only if you can move olumo rock from its current position in Abuja to the east or west. Non Yoruba will only govern Lagos only if Lagos can be moved from west to maybe east or north. 8 Likes 2 Shares |
| Re: How Igbos Developed Lagos by Nobody: 10:20pm On Nov 23, 2017 |
oodualover:So you want Igbos to leave Lagos abi 2 Likes |
| Re: How Igbos Developed Lagos by totit: 10:20pm On Nov 23, 2017 |
The way this people carry largozz for their head one would think Lagos is a land of gold sef.  I asked my self, if ibo are super human and it's a fact that there are higher or more population of ibos/developers in alaigbo than everywhere else including Lagos how come none of alaigbo states has been able to surpass or match up with laagooss  Am I not making sense here Llool  Still untop Lagos matter but don't forget that onitcha used to be under bini kingdom 5 Likes 1 Share
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| Re: How Igbos Developed Lagos by Danladi7: 10:21pm On Nov 23, 2017 |
imhotep: THE IGBO RACE SHOULD VISIT A PSYCHIATRIST AND CURE THEIR GRANDIOSE DELUSION! BECAUSE I HAVE NEVER SEEN DANGOTE SOLICITING FOR APPRECIATION 7 Likes 1 Share |
| Re: How Igbos Developed Lagos by Michael004: 10:21pm On Nov 23, 2017 |
liberalsinnerx:Appreciate igbos for doing what? 4 Likes 1 Share |
| Re: How Igbos Developed Lagos by oodualover: 10:21pm On Nov 23, 2017 |
imhotep:No it isn't. It is mortifying that you are the only ethnic group that is obsessed with Lagos. 3 Likes |
| Re: How Igbos Developed Lagos by Nobody: 10:22pm On Nov 23, 2017 |
Michael004:Igbo people left Lagos in 1966. Guess who brought them back 2 Likes |
| Re: How Igbos Developed Lagos by Nobody: 10:23pm On Nov 23, 2017 |
oodualover:For sure Igbos should be among the most populous ethnic group in Lagos 3 Likes |
| Re: How Igbos Developed Lagos by Danladi7: 10:23pm On Nov 23, 2017 |
imhotep:No,he only want Igbo to maintain decency self-dignity like other tribes living in lagos! You guys are loudspeaking self glorifying noise makers! 5 Likes 1 Share |
| Re: How Igbos Developed Lagos by Nobody: 10:24pm On Nov 23, 2017 |
Danladi7:There is plenty oil money to spend abi  |
| Re: How Igbos Developed Lagos by Danladi7: 10:25pm On Nov 23, 2017 |
imhotep:Why are you the only noisemakers of them? 2 Likes |
| Re: How Igbos Developed Lagos by Michael004: 10:25pm On Nov 23, 2017 |
oodualover:I dey tell you. It is becoming embarrassing. Tufiakwa 3 Likes |
| Re: How Igbos Developed Lagos by Danladi7: 10:25pm On Nov 23, 2017 |
| Re: How Igbos Developed Lagos by Nobody: 10:26pm On Nov 23, 2017 |
Danladi7:So you want to tell Igbos how to live and what to say ? ? |
| Re: How Igbos Developed Lagos by Nobody: 10:27pm On Nov 23, 2017 |
Danladi7:There is freedom of speech you know 1 Like |
| Re: How Igbos Developed Lagos by oodualover: 10:29pm On Nov 23, 2017 |
imhotep:Lols! No you are not. Your population is exaggerated. Just because you sell okrika cloths everywhere does not mean you are that populated. 3 Likes |
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