Suffice to say, Lagos was founded by no one; still a no man's land.

Supremos:


Meanwhile, the Balogun of Eko Abisoye Oyeyemi Oshodi said his lineage is Nupe.

Does it mean there are indigenous Nupe people in Lagos?

There are indigenous Benin people in Lagos?

There are indigenous Braziliana in Lagos too?

There are indigenous Yorubas in Lagos!

Supremos:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45036eXf7hQ?si=Cu_aqcMNR7WqdCmY

Nupe man claiming lagosians, only the Eguns of Badagry and the Benins can claim Lagos others are all strangers

Supremos:
Meanwhile, Yoruba nation Self Preservation Twitter community has published list of towns in Lagos and their founders.

We await response from Oba of Benin


62 LAGOS TOWNSHIPS AND THEIR FOUNDERS.
1. Isheri Olofin - Olofin Ogunfunminire Awogunjoye and his followers from Ife. They also founded Ebute Metta and Iddo.
2. Eko (Lagos Island) - Known originally as Ereko (Farmstead), it was the site of a pepper farm (Oko Iganran) founded by Awori prince Aromire from iddo.
3. Iddo Island - Olofin Ogunfunminire, it was founded by Aromire and his wife Ajaye.
4. Iru/Victoria island - Oniru Origefon traditionally part of the idejo land owning children of Ogunfunminire.
5. Ikate/Elegushi - Elegushi Kusenla (Another member of the idejo class).
6. Otto/Mainland - Pawu Ogboja Oloto.
7. Otto Awori - Aregi Ope, Iworu Oloja and Odofin, all part of the original Awori stream from Ife.
8. ijora/Orile Iganmu - Kueji/Isikoko ojora.
9. Ajiran - Ojomu Ejo/Mogisho, brother to Olofin Ogunfunminire.
10. Ikoyi - Onikoyi Adeyemi/Efunluyi.
11. Ebute Ileke (Lekki) - Lootu, son of Labolo, grandson of Oba Alara of Ilara Epe.
12. Ibeju - Abeju Agbeduwa originally from ife through the coastal Ijebu area.
13. Ajah - Chief Olumegbon and settled by Ogunsemo and Ojupon from Ife.
14. Ojo - Esugbemi and Aina Aseba.
15. Iba - Àyoká Oniba ekun.
16. Mushin - Oduabore/Aileru.
17. Isolo - Akinbaye/Alagbeji.
18. Ejigbo - Fadu onimewon/Olojan.
19. Ikotun - Ategbo Olukotun.
20. Egbe - Kudaki/Akeja.
21. Oshodi/isolo - Olusi onigbesa/Agedegudu.
22. Ijegun - Ajibade Agbojojoye.
23. Igando - Eseba onimaba/Oko osi/Eshidana.
24. Eleko - Sobokunren.
25. Akesan - Ominuye/Aina odofin.
26. Ogba (Ikeja) - Owoeni and his son Ashade. Ashade married an Otta woman, Ebo Aweri, who came with her cousin, Madarikan.
27. Ogudu - Amosu from Ile ife.
28. Ikeja - Baale Olo with Aworis people from Otta. The name is derived from the Akeja deity of the Oniyanru.
29. Aguda/Surulere - Gboin /Odunbure.
30. Itire - Ota Onitire.
31. Ilasa - Abere ije
32. Onigbongbo - Ikunyasun Awusefa.
33. Irewe - Edinni/Ojube/Oluwen.
34. Ikosi Kosofe - Aina ejo from Isheri.
35. Idimu - Eletu Apataiko (Isa Aperindeja Olugoke).
36. Ilara Epe - Tunse/Sabolujo/Alara Adejuwon/
37. Ibonwon - Soginna from Ijebu.
38. Ketu (kosofe) - Balogun oyero from Ketu-Ile, Benin republic.
39. Ojokoro - Oniojugbele Adeitan from Ota.
40. Ikaare - Ikeja Ajija.
41. Orile Agege - Efunmikan.
42. Obele odan (Surulere) - Alago asalu.
43. Ikorodu - Oga from Epe Sagamu. The name (Oko Odu) means the Odu vegetable farm.
44. Epe - Uraka from Ife joined by Isein & Modu of Omu. they settled under a Popoka tree, which became Poka township. Alaro (a woman) later joined. Then Ramope, Ogunmude and Oloja Shagbafara joined from Ijebu ode.
45. Odo Ayandelu - Ayandelu from Ile ife.
46. Agbowa - Olayeni Otutubiosun son of Owa Otutubiosun who was Awujale, and grandson of Lafogido of Ife.
47. Igbogbo - Oshinbokunren.
48. Meiran - Oroja from Ota.
49. Imota (Umu ota) - Oloja Adekoya Ofirigidi and Ranodu from Ijebu.
48. Owode Apa badagy - Oganogbodo-Akereyaso/Asese Alapa.
50. Ajido - Aholu gbangla sagbe Aho from Hwela Jakin kingdom Allada.
51. Oworoshoki - Ajumogijo.
52. Iworo/Imeke - Ajagunosin/Adejori isejoye.
53. Badagry - Egun people from Popo, Allada, Wida and Weme who fled the wars of the Dahomey conquest of the coastal kingdoms of Allada and Igelefe (Ouidah) to come settle on Apa lands to the east.
54. Ejinrin - Baloofi Ogunmude founded Ejinrin around 1619.
55. Eputu Lekki - Ogunfayo.
56. Orimedu Ibeju/Lekki - Ladejobi left Ife to Okegun then crossed the Lekki Lagoon.
57. Akodo & Iwerekun - Oyemade Ogidigan, father of Oniwonlu.
58. Offin - Liyangu of Ife.
59. Ibonwon - Soginna from Ijebu ode.
60. Ijede - Ajede.
61. Magbon Ilado - Onafula & Ogundeko from Orugbo.|
62. Orimedu - Ladejobi from Ife

Scammers and criminal claims

richie240:
Yorubas are one.
We nor get 'nwafor yoruba' 'hoe-su Yorubas'.

Na una dey see division where there is none.
Na until igboman contest we begin hear 'yoruba christian' 'yoruba mozlems'.

Yorubas don't segregate amongst themselves as una dey do.

Make una carry una divisionism go Biko.

Thank God you've agreed that you're from Ogbomosho!! That's just what I wanted to confirm

softy:


B'eru ba pe n'ile, a d'omo!

Alright sir, Iwa loba.

Iwa nii s'oba deru, iwa nii seru d'oba.
L'odifa fun eru Owa, Omo Obokun.

Owe "b'eru pe nile ad'omo", kii se 'eri-aridaju' fun oro t'o wa nile bayi.

Ire o.

Good response from Balogun of Eko

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funmijoyb:

He never discovered Lagos. Several towns in Edo were discovered and founded by Yoruba the king should go and mentioned it

your mumu no go end

Iamgrey5:
Who is the person that captured him as slave ?

Abi don't you know the distance between Nupe territory and Lagos?

Which history traced him to be a slave?

In Yoruba language, Nupe is called Tapa.

Oshodi Tapa was a servant in the palace and by providence was selected by the King when the Colonialist requested that the King nominate someone for schooling. That was how Oshodi Tapa became one the earliest residents of Lagos to acquire western education.

Iamgrey5:
Lol.

The Fulanis and Yoruba civil war is what led to the capturing of Yorubas in Yoruba land. It was even on record that the British had to call a meeting of Yorubas in Lagos in the early 1990s to settle the dispute of that civil war

However, what is the reason Nupes will be captured as slaves and sold in Yorubaland even when thriving Nupe communities exist all over Yoruba land before colonial period.
Sl respec

Slaves were captured all over west Africa by Arabs and different tribes and sold to Europeans that brought them to the Coast. Lagos is a coaster city. Many slaves from the hinterland were brought to Lagos to ship to the new world. Is Nupe the farthest place in west Africa from the coast?

Pristine664:


Lol na dis kind news dey make una dick rise. Because you couldn't explain how Lagos is Igbo land you want to support the Binis so that you can legitimise your "no man's land" rhetorics.

At the end of the day, all these talks will only make the Yorubas to be less accommodating and more politically conscious in Lagos. You accuse Yorubas of tribalism in the last election? Just wait for the 2027 election with the way things are going.

Make una carry your Benin join body in Biafra abeg.

Watin bring igbo inside this matter of benin and Lagos? It's like if some people don't drag igbo into their daily matter, their blokos wount function properly.

In close future, these people will claim the YORUBA LANGUAGE we speak is a corruption of their
language, same way they're now denying ILE IFE as the cradle and genesis of their KINGSHIP.
Time we started populating our LIBRARY, MUSEUM and our MEDIA SPACE with our undisputed and
undiluted history BEFORE SOME MISCHIEVOUS BEINGS demote our heritage for theirs.

In close future, these people will claim the YORUBA LANGUAGE we speak is a corruption of their language, same way they're now denying ILE IFE as the cradle and genesis of their KINGSHIP.



Time we started populating our LIBRARY, MUSEUM and our MEDIA SPACE with our undisputed and undiluted history BEFORE SOME MISCHIEVOUS BEINGS demote our heritage for theirs.

With what going on Lagos owners or what ever it's too obvious that Yorubas are too useless that the only thing they really have that is not even totally their own is Lagos that's why all of them came out to fight for it.... why do they forget get kwara state to fulanis? This people are just worthless coward clowns 🤡

softy:


Comedy indeed

Apart from Wikipedia which declared Oshodi Tapa as a slave from Bida who lost his parents at the age of six,.......then served the King Eshilokun as his servant, ....... later in life, due to his loyalty, talents, smartness and peace loving attitude, even though he was a warrior, became a great rich man with power and influence, and humility and great loyalty.

Keywords: slave, servant, Epe, Epetedo, 46 living children, monument, balogun, Portuguese, America, Kosoko, Akintoye etc

Read this submission below

https://www.nairaland.com/1176293/nupe-families-lagos

I know all about Oshodi folks and their history and it has nothing to do with the ignorant rubbish the benin man uttered.

DrAkpa:

Trash



Trash

Mugu

BitterTruth01:
Bini not only founded Lagos , they also founded Ile-Ife

Awori people are from Bini
Oduduwa was from Bini

Without Bini , yoruba history is nothing

Word of a drunkard. Didn't even know your Oba of Benin also has tiny brain.

Atlantis585:
In all of these, the truth is finally coming out. Lagos was founded by others who are noiseless rather than a group of loud mouths running around beating their chests and threatening to expel others who came to Lagos just the same way they did.

Dem go cry taya today now that the truth has come out in the open.

Life is funny

So the beer parlour talks of one irate king will make Yoruba to disappear in Lagos or will handover the politics and culture of Lagos state to Bini or Ibo??

Dey playy

cybergawd:
Suffice to say, Lagos was founded by no one; still a no man's land.

Who founded Onitsha or Enugu??

tollyboy5:

When oni of ife said igbos are from ife how you take see the mata?

He never said ''igbos found ile-ife'', or did he??
Some of these elites nor know say their words carry weight. Sometimes they forget they aren't speaking in their parlours over plates of isi-ewu and big stouts with their friends.

Every of their words and deeds na potential 'viral news'.

bigwig071:
With what going on Lagos owners or what ever it's too obvious that Yorubas are too useless that the only thing they really have that is not even totally their own is Lagos that's why all of them came out to fight for it.... why do they forget get kwara state to fulanis? This people are just worthless coward clowns 🤡

If everyone is fighting for the ownership it means it's precious so you don't expect the real owner that still have the full access to give up on it. Lagos too dey enter una eye.

But you guys have awoken the sleeping dogs in Yorubas concerning Lagos.

bini empire fvckup and everybody scattered....

oba of benin is not actualy wrong....but to be claimin anything today after you fvckedup is not very smart....
dont underestimate blood....

blood will always remember misdeeds....
blood of abel is still rememberin till today....

forget lines drawn on maps....
you will not escape judgement....

togo and ghana can aswell claim lagos when you take away those rubbish lines that idiootic europeans drew on a map....

Edo created yoruba land....

KoshCAD:
Word of a drunkard. Didn't even know your Oba of Benin also has tiny brain.

Mind your tongue boy... Tones like this are totally unacceptable and have consequences if you do not deter

Supremos:


Meanwhile, the Balogun of Eko Abisoye Oyeyemi Oshodi said his lineage is Nupe.

Does it mean there are indigenous Nupe people in Lagos?

There are indigenous Benin people in Lagos?

There are indigenous Braziliana in Lagos too?

There are indigenous Yorubas in Lagos!

The name oshodi, we read is from Nupe.

richie240:

Words are powerful bro.
If he had used "binis settled in (a part of) lagos", it would've bn understood, but "binis found lagos" carries a lot of weight.

Na so 'some ppl' enter night bus from wherever they originated from, to settle in Lagos, and 2 generations after, they started dragging lagos with Yorubas.

E beta as we set the record straight like that to avoid unnecessary misconception in future; or else in 100 years time, his great-grandchildren will quote what their great-grandfather said in 2023 as their gospel truth.

the oba might be right in those days there was nothing like Lagos, others might have inhabited a part of what is now known as Lagos, same reason why you have different kingdoms in various states right now, like you have the Ooni of ife in modern day osun, in that same osun state I believe there are other kingdoms too, and as such the Ooni can't lay claim to the entire osun state, even in Edo state you have others kings from esan land the oba of Benin can't lay claim to the entire Edo state, so also the Yorubas can't lay claim to the entire Lagos, the name Eko is of Benin origin, even towns like eti -osa, idumota are all of Benin origin, saying the aworis were here before the Benins' came does not mean they own the entire lagos of today. everyone knows the Lagos island is the most economical viable part of Lagos and that was the very same part the binis administered, there is hardly a state in Nigeria where you have just one traditional ruler who ruled over the states the Yoruba influence was only a part of it.

YesDaddy1:

He never said ''igbos found ile-ife'', or did he??
Some of these elites nor know say their words carry weight. Sometimes they forget they aren't speaking in their parlours over plates of isi-ewu and big stouts with their friends.

Every of their words and deeds na potential 'viral news'.

What is said how true was it? because the beni statement was more evident

Supremos:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45036eXf7hQ?si=Cu_aqcMNR7WqdCmY

keep calm. Your name , Oshodin, is Benin itself.

Tonididdyx:


Mind your tongue boy... Tones like this are totally unacceptable and have consequences if you do not deter

You are not Okay. It is you that your Oba is relevant to, not to me, so I can talk to him anyhow.

He does not feed anyone.

illicit:
His Ancestor, Oshodi Tapa was a Nupe slave, manumissioned by one Oba Of Lagos (Eleko then)

It wasn't that there were indigenous Tapas in Lagos, this man Oshodi Tapa was a slave brought to Lagos from Nupe land...

My mother told me that many people claiming Apatira were children of slaves of the true family. The slaves have different tribes and nationalities. Though the Apatira was a Kanuri man from Bornu who came fishing and settled in Lagos Island, Ita faji area.

Creeper:


Ashipa wasn’t a Benin man - he was an Awori man from Isheri. He only went to Benin to seek alliance in order to create a dynasty in Eko, which was already a settlement for trading by various groups. But the land itself was owned by Olofin (an Awori man).

Ashipa only married a Benin woman and they had a son called, “Ado”, who later became the first Eleko of Eko.

And you’re right - Benin never founded Eko nor own anything there. Also, during the initial incursions of the Benins in Eko where they tried to seize the land militarily - they were soundly defeated multiple times.

There’s an Adeniji-Adele Prince I follow on Twitter that has been disgracing his forebears by asserting that Eko was a Benin colony albeit he denied Benin founded Eko tho. Something needs to be done about Yoruba people and the fact that most of us don’t know our history, especially those from royal bloodlines who might end up as kings hence we keep having these useless owanbe kings that go around desecrating the thrones of our ancestors.

Anyway, Oba of Benin is a Yoruba man from the Oranmiyan bloodline and he needs to act right and do better. Going to Lagos to make such an unguarded statement is a declaration of war. Too bad the new generation of Yorubas are weak and docile hence every dog stay desecrating our lands brazenly.

You claim that Ashipa (which is actually a Benin word corrupted from Aisipa) to be an Awori name. Please , what’s the meaning of Ashipa in Awori ?

Honestly , Yorubas needs to “come out of their fear of losing Lagos” to start telling TRUTHFUL histories instead of bastardizing history. How can you say Ashipa is an Awori man ? 😂😅 I mean, what kind of rubbish is this? You’re not an Awori man, you came later after the Aworis, how then did you know it was an Awori name ? Did Awori ever told you that ? Why then is all the past Obas buried in Benin ? Do you know what that signifies ? Why would Benin decide to bury an Awori man in Benin ? What kind of rubbish narratives is this ? Oh my God! Ah! I’m just shocked at the way you people try to twist history.

Caseless:
The name oshodi, we read is from Nupe.

The name Oshodi CANNOT be from Nupe. The reason is simple, the man later came to be known as Chief Oshodi Tapa (full name), was adopted at a very tender age. A man who knows nothing about his parent who died in war.

He was adopted by King Eshilokun in Lagos. It is evidently that the name was given to him by King Eshilokun, with an appendage of Tapa as his surname. He didn’t bring that name “Oshodi” from Nupe. It is impossible.

Oshodi is actually a Benin name. Eguoshodi is Village of the Oshodis. And if you’re conversant with University of Benin , the student area at Ugbowo, the popular place called Ekosodin. This stems from Eko-Osodin meaning the camp of Oshodi. I mean so many others like that.

There’s probably an adoption of the name Oshodi and given to Chief Tapa. But that name Oshodi isn’t a Nupe name. Thank you