komando77:

Even SoutWest governors know this. That is why Lagos State is not in Oodua Group. Oter SouthWest states are there.

komando77:

Even SoutWest governors know this. That is why Lagos State is not in Oodua Group. Oter SouthWest states are there.

Abstract
The rise of Lagos, which became the principal port of the 'Slave Coast' at the end of the eighteenth century, can only be understood by reference to the interaction between the European Atlantic trade and the indigenous canoe-borne trade along the coastal lagoons. European traders in the sixteenth century used the Lagos channel and the lagoon to approach the Ijebu kingdom, where slaves and cloth were purchased, but this trade lapsed in the seventeenth century. The Lagos settlement originated as a fishing hamlet, but was occupied as a military base by Benin around the end of the sixteenth century. Benin expansion to the west may have been designed to prevent European trade with Ijebu, in the interests of a Benin monopoly. Lagos remained formally subject to Benin until the nineteenth century, but the decline of Benin power in the eighteenth century left it effectively independent. European sources of the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries attest trade in cloth and slaves passing along the lagoons through Lagos to Allada and Whydah in the west. Although this pattern of trade has been assumed to date back to pre-European times, it was more probably a consequence of the European presence, and more specifically of the westward drift of European interest along the coast from Benin after the sixteenth century. European traders began to show an active interest in the lagoon trade to the east of Allada in the early eighteenth century, and again began to explore the possibility of using the Lagos channel to approach the inland lagoons. Lagos developed as an Atlantic port from the 1760s, exporting slaves and Ijebu cloth, but its importance was limited by its remoteness from any major source of slaves. Its emergence as a major port in the late eighteenth century was due to the disruption of slave shipments from ports further west by military pressure from Dahomey, which led to the diversion of slave supplies eastward along the lagoons for shipment from Lagos.

komando77:

@ seanet, Eko is a Benin word. The name Lagos was given to Eko by the Portugese. Even Yoruba nationalists will tell you that Lagos is Aworiland.

ekt_bear:

Even my own Ekiti supposedly paid tribute to the Benin up until late in the 19th century, from what I heard. Yet I don't think anyone would say Ekitiland is a Benin state, or something

seanet03:

Too bad!! My own Egba have never been conquered by Benin and remained one the very Yoruba people to ever defeat the Oyo Army and Dahomey Amazons. We are the first to have Independence in the whole of Nigeria complete with our own Anthem ( Lori oke at Petele) as far back 1893

[url=http://alakeofegbaland.com/pages/alakehistory.html[/b]]http://alakeofegbaland.com/pages/alakehistory.html[/url]

seanet03:

Too bad!! My own Egba have never been conquered by Benin and remained one the very Yoruba people to ever defeat the Oyo Army and Dahomey Amazons. We are the first to have Independence in the whole of Nigeria complete with our own Anthem ( Lori oke at Petele) as far back 1893

http://alakeofegbaland.com/pages/alakehistory.html

komando77:

@ Ekt_bear,
My point exactly. The Lagosians of today contain remnants of the Benin warriors of old, and many see themselves as Awori, and not Yoruba.
[s]@ seanet 03, point of corection, Lagos has never been a FCT. It has always been a state. [/s]Past governors include Buba Marwa, Lateef Jakande, etc. Abuja on the other hand has always been an FCT, and never a state. That is why Abuja has a minster, and not a state governor.
Even when Lagos was Nigeria's capital it always had a governor, not a minister.
Lagos did not join Oodua Group because the Yoruba nationalists regard it as Non Yoruba. The Oba of Benin knows this.

EzeUche__:

Your people would have been crushed by the powerful Aro Confederacy just like many Igbo, Ibibio, Idoma and Ekoi clans found out when they faced us in battle.  Ha!

ekt_bear:

Relax your head tpiah!, he is just trolling

No point discussing with him, just point to legitimate papers that document the history, like the one I did.

You cannot waste your time exchanging words with trolls

EzeUche__:

Your people would have been crushed by the powerful Aro Confederacy just like many Igbo, Ibibio, Idoma and Ekoi clans found out when they faced us in battle.  Ha!

Yorubas came and conquered

tpiah!:

yorubas own the territory.

they did not come and conquer anywhere.

benin had a couple of military outposts, end of. They were visitors simply trying to secure the slave routes and access to the sea.

komando77:

@ Ekt_bear,
My point exactly. The Lagosians of today contain remnants of the Benin warriors of old, and many see themselves as Awori, and not Yoruba.
@ seanet 03, point of corection, Lagos has never been a FCT. It has always been a state. Past governors include Buba Marwa, Lateef Jakande, etc. Abuja on the other hand has always been an FCT, and never a state. That is why Abuja has a minster, and not a state governor.
Even when Lagos was Nigeria's capital it always had a governor, not a minister.
Lagos did not join Oodua Group because the Yoruba nationalists regard it as Non Yoruba. The Oba of Benin knows this.

EzeUche__:

Why are you all getting riled up? komando77 is only playing with you all.  

ekt_bear:

Most of Rivers state sef is not Igbo. It is historically Ijaw. But was stolen from them by Igbo migrants

PHC for example is Ijawland