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[quote author=Rhino.5dm]@ DaLover

But you went to school in Lagos and still live in Lagos?[/quote]LOL ofcourse I expect him to lie

Ondo lagos and indeed the odua nation would grow whether they like it or not

manny4life: You people can argue...

The confusing part of some post got me bamboozled. someone said the pics were before independence but the thread topic says otherwise, which is it? Well, Lagos looked good before the independence but I must say though Lagos was developing during it's time in the 60's and 70's, at least prior to the 80's and 90's, a huge chunk of vast development was from large influx of people and money/investment.

Thank you, please explain to Dalover that wants us to believe Lagos was built with oil money

When a lie goes on for too long, it becomes the truth.

DaLover: Look at us ,
we r best in nigeria, see how we developed lagos with our creativity and labour, we are tired of those disturbing us in our lagos, we have the first university and the first televistation in africa, so that makes others inferior to us, we are the most educated so we determine how to manage others resources and where to manage it form, our party is the best, we have the most sophisticated electorate, we don't vote corrupt people, the yorubas dont believe in cheating, we are the most tolerant, we have the best governor, there is oil in Lagos so lets spread the joy. Abuja is oil money, lagos is yoruba sagacity.
Presently our own party people in senate and HOR are rejecting their own share of the mega allowances, we need true federalism where the FG continues to share oil money. We are the most advances but just need to have a watered down cost price crude products.
What a bunch of people!!

LOL
Oil Oil Oil

crude oil discovered in Lagos

http://allafrica.com/stories/201005120207.html

Crude oil in Ondo

http://www.coastalnews.com/profile/government-profile/638-ilaje-local-government-ondo-state-nigeria.html

So dalover, we are on our own Ok !!! Go hug die if you no like am.

Again of course you are free to migrate, please when you do, keep your tribalistic tendency to yourself if not you probably be mobbed, go ask your brothers in Lagos.

DaLover: Look at these two boffuns, one is insisting that I am an Igbo mand and the other is insisting that I have eyes on lagos?? You guys make me laugh.....

The yorubas can boast of having the first in some stuff, others can also boast of being the first at other things too, check the benin moat...the longest earth made wall in the world....You are not better than any other person or tribe...you are average like the rest of us...

Fistly lagos colony was capital of the country, even if lagos island was the capital as you claim, the fact that the FG concentrated it development there meant that surrounding areas would also experience development.

Your claims that after 1967 when lagos was converted to a state, it started to recieve state alocations does not acknowledge the fact that Lagos was still the federal capital up on till 1991 or so.. Y r u like this? It like saying Abuja like other states is recieveing oil funds, but the reason Abuja is developing faster than other places is because Gwari people are more tolerant, more sharper and brighter than others..

Natural resources require human resources to be tapped abi...and the resources can only be found in yorubaland...this is why I have a fundamental problem with yourkind of reasoning...You have to accept that you are no better than the rest, otherwise you remain a F00l.

"convivial and safe atmosphere in Lagos is down to the hospitability of the indigenes of Lagos" r u for real tell me one place in southern nigeria that does not have the same? check history of Lagos and see how the british subdued Lagos and administered it differently from the rest of Nigeria...This type of administration and rule of the british is what gave rise to growth of Lagos, not exceptional smartness of yoruba people...go to warri, and PH, Benin and see people mixing freely, apart from the clanish artitude of the yorubas.



At ahj harem, I agree that I am a parasite because as a trained engineer, I am not producing value I feel I should be adding to society, maybe due to my own fault or the society I find myself, but thats another issue for debate...now the question is how do you see yourselve? do you realise what value you could be adding, or are you wallowing in ignorance, satisfied that yorubas are better than the rest of the country? just be casue they were luckier to have had some things go their way?

I am a strong believer in the theory that any place can become anything at any time, what is required is the adequate detrermination to make it, so why on earth should I be envious of Lagos?? Abuja became what it is under 20 years? there were 60,000 living in lagos in 1860 according to wikipedia so please tell me yyyyyy?

I simple just need you guys to stop braging about how good you are, forget about free stuff and depending on resources of minorities like leeches, roll up sleeves and demand for a better structured country...


Being the first at anything does not make you better than your fellow country men...get that into your thick skulls....

The south south is asking for resource control, true federlism, the south east too is will go go along even when a number of their states may loose oil revenue, the north Kpa Kpa has said outright..we r lazy and cant survive without this oil...a truthfull, though wrong response...
The SW is another matter altogether...they preach true federalism, resource control in public, but their actions show that actually show that they are really interested in protecting and protesting a lazy structure that currently obtains

LOL My brother, you are suffering from a severe case of inferiority complex and thus you hate the idea that Lagos does not depend on the likes of you. Na die of envy dey worry you and that is why I just keep laughing at your stu.pidity.

Just last week or so, your brother Beaf another jealousy envious brother of yours was talking of globacom not growing because according to him Globacom is a "Yoruba company". My brother I can tell you categorically that many yorubas don't even look at things from that point of view. All we do is think progressively while you and your fellow goons plan their downfall.

The longest man made wall if I remember quite correctly is the great wall of China and not benin. Moreover Benin is a family of Odua thus partially Yoruba and their achievement is the joy of all Yorubas and Yoruba achievement is the Joy of Bini people. Go figure, of course NL would tell us a different thing.

Awori was part of the benin kingdom so technically the honours is mine as well. Thanks

Now as for the ranting. Don't worry it is ok After Yorubas finish building the first and largest man made island in Africa, the next projects would be to Build a railway that links all Odua territory in Nigeria, then constant electricity

Forget the government, these are the people aka private investors doing it so don't stress yourself. As you probably know, that Eko atlantic is sponsor by your so called Yoruba companies don't you ? LOL

As you well know as again we are calling for true fedralism or even a complete split. Go figure. Right before independence till date but of course your fore-father though they were smart and it back fired big time.

Don't worry, we yorubas don't discriminate. You are well come to school in Awolowo uni or Ibadan uni the first in Nigeria again or probably have a holiday in the Man made Island the first in africa.

I hope your village and your fore-fathers would demand accountability for your leaders rather than disturbing the people better than you.

Imagine Nigeria (Tribalistic goons) complaining about Uk (Odua nation) shouting that UK was not built by Britain alone, etc

It is good that the truth is gradually coming out. Before we say A and B some iddeeiots would say Crude oil developed this, we developed that. LOL

1. No northerners life would be endanger because of Boko haram.

2. Northerners DON'T SUPPORT BOKO HARAM so OPC should chill !!!!!!!

3. It is better we all come together and fight this plague rather than trying to separate the hausa and fulani communities because of some misguided people.

GenBuhari: Iam not sure I actually said that, I am presenting evidence and people should be able to arrive at their own conclusions

LOL I for fear, It is good though but reading this thread go take days o !

I would look more into you evidence later. But seriously you try

Now I believe the government and Lagosian (Irrespective of ethnicity) should all work together as a unit.

I have said it times without number, the suffering of Emeka and Musa on the streets of Lagos is not different from that of Tunde or Timaya.

We can make a city work to our advantage while the others keep acting like ideeeiots.

Crayola1: If you are going to says something and swear by it then you should bring out facts, especially if what you are alleging is very derogatory in nature.

I brought my own.

I would not go down that path,

Please stop and tell Ngodigha aka Andre Uweh to stop as well. Thanks

Genbuhari, are you actually saying Abacha's rule was better than Obj's ?

I hope I am reading this quite alright

Crayola, it is Ok

[quote author=Ileke-IdI]I don't understand why she needs to be deported for speaking her mind. Freedom of speech?
I feel sorry for her sha, leaving a disciplined (in some aspect) country for a jungle like Nigeria.

I'm glad to hear that the blogger has been arrested though, cyber bullying is illegal. [/quote]That woman has said some pretty horrible things. In fact in an ideal society she should be arrested

Dalover I hope you get this message and also forward it to Beaf the bigot and your fellow goons

alj harem: You sir are a parasite ! Shebi na how una dey talk am

I am a Lagos indigene and I can tell you that Your oil or Your government had little or no impact on Lagos. Likes of Dangote, Adenuga, Ben Bruce etc made Lagos what it is.

We lagosians are not clinging on to any minority not to talk of resources. Maybe you need to go check your facts right. The highest revenue after Oil is Cocoa. Non-oil based state is Lagos (In terms of revenue)

Why did your GEJ give SW the highest allocation after SS ? Ask yourself, You think say na beans

I want you to understand my ingliush

1. You are not a SS but an Igbo man

2. You as an Igbo man pray for the downfall of SW and to an extent Lagos because of some reasons best known to you.

3. SS resources was and would never have an impact on Lagos or the SW

4. Tell your parasitic brothers to stop carrying ghana must go and saying "Mama village don tire me, I dey go Lagos" Only for you to come and commit crime and rituals

5. Lagos does not start and end with Yoruba, I have said it times without number. Lagos and indeed the entire SW region of Nigeria is a melting point for all ethnicity that is why your father or your father's friend was able to get educated. Go ask them.

6. We Yorubas might not be the strongest or smartest tribe according to you but we hold 3 things very strong and that is why we keep moving from strength to strength. Those things are God/Allah/Olodumare, hope and believe

We believe in our strength and we are not partial if not we would have been destroyed.

Till today the yorubas set the pace from the first television station in africa before France(WNTV aka NTA your father watches on his bed) to the first highraise building aka sky scraper (Cocoa house ibadan) to first free education before the British. To free health etc

Now we have set the standards again because unlike you that your are too bigoted to ask for accountability from your leaders. We are not like that, we protest against "our sons and daugthers" in power if they misuse it.

Today Yorubas can boast of the first man made Island in Africa. Alhamdu lillah

It is not by yorubas power but by faith in God. Keep hating while they move from strength to strength

Now we are talking of light rail and constant electrity. Very soon Mama I dey go lagos would come and tell us it is Oil money. LOL

Ingrates

[size=14pt]@ Nri priest

I hope you would not mind my outburst because I am anger now and I have to say the truth.

I would not deny Igbos their place but trying to belittle the achievement of the yorubas knowing full well that you are not unto scratch is crazy.

Just saying.

@Other tribes

We respect everyone and everyone is equal in the eyes of God/Allah so who are we. At the end of the day Lagos would not last forever The only constant thing in life is change.

But I have an issue with the Igbos here on Nairaland who claim and counter-claim

If they notice that their claims are then wrong, then they try to belittle or even try to scheme for the place to go down just because we are saying Igbos are not as big as they think they are.

Imagine someone laughing that Boko haram would bomb lagos, this is how evil some Nairalanders can be at times[/size]

DaLover: These hypocrites keep coming to tell us they are better than the rest of us....i wonder why someone like me living in warri would start claiming Lagos, doesn't it make more sence to claim Abuja, london or newyork?
If people are saying they have invested so much in a place, and as a result need to have a say in the running of the place, thats another thing,
But if the indigenous people do not accept you, u pack ur bags and leave, Any body that feels that any particular place is the beginning and end of life needs to wake up....

How lagos became developed was from the national purse, just like Abuja today....it wasnt because yorubas are smarter than others...period. Sorry i dont want ur lagos, or even Abuja....i am quite in waffi city and pitaqua...the truth just has to be told......

The whole underlaying scheme of this thread is to subject the subconscious mind of some weaklings that the yorubas are a better race, and i am always on stand by to shoot down that philosophy.

Claims of being the most tolerant, the most intelligent, the most sophisticated bla bla bla......but yet clinging on to resources of the minorities like sickened vultures.

Please feel free to do what ever u want with Lagos, it is a yoruba state, but dont come here to tell me that yorubas developed the place solely or that oil did not or does not play a role in the building of Lagos. Hypocratic leech!

You sir are a parasite ! Shebi na how una dey talk am

I am a Lagos indigene and I can tell you that Your oil or Your government had little or no impact on Lagos. Likes of Dangote, Adenuga, Ben Bruce etc made Lagos what it is.

We lagosians are not clinging on to any minority not to talk of resources. Maybe you need to go check your facts right. The highest revenue after Oil is Cocoa. Non-oil based state is Lagos (In terms of revenue)

Why did your GEJ give SW the highest allocation after SS ? Ask yourself, You think say na beans

I want you to understand my ingliush

1. You are not a SS but an Igbo man

2. You as an Igbo man pray for the downfall of SW and to an extent Lagos because of some reasons best known to you.

3. SS resources was and would never have an impact on Lagos or the SW

4. Tell your parasitic brothers to stop carrying ghana must go and saying "Mama village don tire me, I dey go Lagos" Only for you to come and commit crime and rituals

5. Lagos does not start and end with Yoruba, I have said it times without number. Lagos and indeed the entire SW region of Nigeria is a melting point for all ethnicity that is why your father or your father's friend was able to get educated. Go ask them.

6. We Yorubas might not be the strongest or smartest tribe according to you but we hold 3 things very strong and that is why we keep moving from strength to strength. Those things are God/Allah/Olodumare, hope and believe

We believe in our strength and we are not partial if not we would have been destroyed.

Till today the yorubas set the pace from the first television station in africa before France(WNTV aka NTA your father watches on his bed) to the first highraise building aka sky scraper (Cocoa house ibadan) to first free education before the British. To free health etc

Now we have set the standards again because unlike you that your are too bigoted to ask for accountability from your leaders. We are not like that, we protest against "our sons and daugthers" in power if they misuse it.

Today Yorubas can boast of the first man made Island in Africa. Alhamdu lillah

It is not by yorubas power but by faith in God. Keep hating while they move from strength to strength

Now we are talking of light rail and constant electrity. Very soon Mama I dey go lagos would come and tell us it is Oil money. LOL

Ingrates

[quote author=Ejiné]Same here!
Thank you!

I find it laughable when so many underachievers and ne'er-do-wells, who now rely on Lagos as their bread and butter, foolishly think the case is the same for everybody else.
And I'm not one to brag about my family's wealth, but this once, I'll state it bluntly - We are minted... Extremely! And I say it with pride - the family wealth even spills over to Benin City, Calabar and Abuja, but let me be blunt - Lagos means FUCKALL to us.
Not a single kobo of the family wealth is gotten from Lagos. We have no buildings there, no investments, no relatives, or even a common hut in Lagos!
I do not plan to go there any time soon
I do not plan to live there any time soon
I do not plan to make SHIIT from Lagos in the future either
I do not plan to have any business with Lagos, or any affairs with Lagos in any way.
My family's towering business success can be linked to many notable Nigerian cities, but Lagos is NOT one of them.

So I laughed soooo hard at the other knucklehead who said I was jealous
The idiiot's ignorant mind obviously can't function outside his El Dorado, Lagos, which is why he thinks every Nigerian gives a fuuuckk about the place.

SMH. I'll congratulate his stupiidity for that goof in reasoning sha.[/quote]You have to admit this is the daf.test statement of all times !!!

Odenigbo Aroli: Odenigbo Aroli = Nri priest.

Who is claiming lagos ? Igbos never claimed lagos for a day but you can't overlook their staggering investments and contributions into the place right from time before LOUIS OJUKWU became the wealthiest man then. The east were trading palm oil,west coccoa,north groundnut,midwest rubber and these groups all paid taxes that was used by the british to develop their area of residence which was lagos the capital ! So, tell me exactly what you are trying to achieve with this your obviously biased post.

Nri priest, I am not one of those that would tell you that Igbos did not do this, Yoruba did that. As well know me for

Again building houses is not investment in a state. Lets get our facts right. I would drop the issue with you so as not to make it sound tribalistic.

shymmex: Ok, but please don't let jealousy and hatred make these people hug a wet transformer.

LOL, shymmex I am not saying this to downgrade anyone. They say "when a lie is been propagated for a long time, it is then considered the truth"

Just like a thread Beaf go owned, I hope my Igbo brothers don't fall for this trap.

We are one family now in Lagos but people need to stop rewriting our history to suit their agenda.

[quote author=Ejiné]But wetin be "Onyeberibe" though? Is that Asante? [/quote]What is Onye Beribe ? That is Igbo

Onye means - person

Beribe in hausa means - Yoruba

Just like Abuoshe, Onyioshi etc all are have to used by people from different part of the country to insult others. Does not mean anything, Infact Onye this onye that is no longer in use as far is broken-english is concerned

shymmex: The returnee slaves were of the Egba stock. They were Yorubas!

I could careless, all I know is that they were yorubas thus explain the cultural infulence in serra leano (We have a serra leanoian to confirm this on Nairaland) and Brazilian, likes of Okundayo Fernadanz etc

Mind my spelling.

DECOtech: will u shut ur smelly gut, u bloody tribalist. The poster said lag was built by slave returnees. Were the Igbos not also captured n sold into slavery?
Its not a must for u to reply to a post.

No returnee slaves were NOT IGBOS but Cerlos people and Brazilian heritage. Go check your facts right

In as much as I do not support Ijoz post, You should stop saying things you are not sure of. Returnee slaves DID NOT HAVE IGBO ORIGIN.

Thanks

Jarus: Kemi Olunloyo is one irresponsible, shameless lady that fights everyone on the internet(Facebook in particular) uttering all manner of vulgar words. I remember the fight she had with an equally shameless Femi Fani Kayode, insulting their parents(FFK's father is a first republic politician and KOO's father a former governor of old Oyo state). I remember another fight she had with one journalist, Victor something.

She also had one with a British Nigerian singer. The woman is just impossible and very irresponsible.

Rossikk: You must be a maximum IGNORAMUS to write this. What road was built by the British that became 'degenerated'?

Name me ONE road they built. Was it Lagos-Benin? Onitsha-Port Harcourt? Lagos-Ibadan? Abuja-Kaduna? Which road did they build? ANSWER: NONE. All the roads we use today were built by Nigerian govts after independence. Under the British, virtually the only roads that existed were in Ikoyi, GRA Ibadan and GRA Kaduna, where the white folks lived. After they left was when the Nigerian govt began building actual inter-city expressways linking all the various cities and towns such as you see today.

Oh, as well as building the schools and universities we have today. Under British rule, 92% of Nigerians were illiterate. Thankfully that figure is down to 23% today under black rule, following massive investment in education by successive indigenous administrations.




They built a lot more than the British did in their 63 years in office. I was just reading through the history and discovered the British built not one university in those 63 years. This, despite exporting billions worth of natural resources annually. Where do you think all the money went?

Can you imagine if the Nigerian govt. ruled for 63 years without building one university?

Would you reminisce with nostalgia over their rule?

No

So why would you reminisce over the foreign British exploiters who ruled and robbed the country while doing NOTHING? Is it because you have a colonial mentality and still think like a slave?

Thank you

At those Igbos that know the history of Lagos more than me should please step forward so I can tell them that what their fathers told them was a big lie.

Some are even claiming that SE/SS is better than SW yet Ibadan house prices have gone up because of constant Migration. Or you developed Ibadan as well ?

Nothing man no go hear for Nairaland.

CyberG: Re: Pictures Of Lagos Before Crude Oil And Independence by [size=16pt]PhysicsQED(m)[/size]: 6:43pm
CyberG: Are the two elements mentioned in this quote ^^ in their 70's or 80's and lived in the Lagos of those days? If NOT, then you should not let inane

Are you completely mentally deranged or something? My comment had nothing to do with ethnicity or tribe. My allusion to Rossike's comments about these kinds of threads is about the British and the undeserved praise people give them for how Lagos was back then without taking cognizance of all the facts.

You're a fool PhysicsQED.

You're a fool PhysicsQED.

and...

You're a BIG fool PhysicsQED .

Had to say it three times because you're just that SO dumb PhysicsQED.

SwineSICKQED: You inbred SWINE, who are you talking BS? Thunder fire YOUR useless BRAIN and tiny DI.CK! Your moronic comment means nothing to the progress of a place you can NEVER be with a thousand seccessions! The current state of that place makes YOUR LONG THROAT water and why don't you come right here to Isale Eko to collect the SW that you dream about? Come with all your kith and kins in sardine cans and that will be your eternal home 12 feet in hades! What a waste of space!? If you ever talk to me with that useless mouth of yours I will cut it off and vaporize the curse of that human existence you think you ARE! ANUOFIA! EFULEFU IDIOT! ONYEBERIBE! EWU NSALA! OBUA!

Leave Physics out of this.

Funkymallam: And why cant u face the topic? Must u derail threads?

Wonder why that name gives u a hard on. Smh

How did I derail the topic ? Are you also supporting him lying all the in the name of "I support GEJ" ?

manny4life: At times, I wonder what your hate for this woman is. What has this woman done to you? What he argued is totally different from what you're arguing. NOI made recommendation affecting her unit, and with regards to region she oversaw, the final decisions came from the Board of the WBG which includes the President.

I do not hate the woman but edicolove and his goons lie tooo much. He needs to stop misinforming others

Now this reality, whether you chose to accept it or keep wallowing in Ignorances and Lies is your cup of tea.

I wonder how a group of people that have always wish for a downfall of a city claim to be the ones that built it.

Pure Ignorance I say

[size=13pt]Most of these non-yorubas (igbos in this case) talking are not even Lagos indigenes. Look, let me tell you the piece of my mind and it is the truth. The truth is always a bitter ppill to swallow.

1. In 1950's their were little or no Igbos in Lagos. Thus Igbos had NO impact in Lagos

2. In 1930's NO oil was discovered in Lagos or by Nigeria and most of the building back then apart from the houses in Ikoyi (please note this) and railway was by the british. The rest was by Lagosians, now Lagosians are the Awori,Egun,Ijebu and Egbas.

3. Way before 1900 Lagos has influenced a lot of Migrations of advance civilisations. I mean empires that can expand and can use the boat to cross from one point to another because Lagos is not a mainland but a series of Islands joined together. I wonder how Igbos were about to join these Islands since they have been migrating and developed Lagos.

4. I am an indigene of Lagos and part of the royal family. I can categorically tell those that say Lagos was not developed by other yorubas to stop dreaming. When Ekiti and Osun farmers where producing food for Lagosians, where were your fore-fathers ? When Ondo and Ogun provided the necessary things for Lagos, where were your fathers.

5. Most of your Igbos are too tribalistic and like to claim other people's land as your effort. Well this would not apply here because we know our hsitory.

The fact is that you cannot sow where you did not reap. During the fuel subsidy protest those that mainly oppose Lagos protest as far as I am aware were Igbos on Nairaland eg Dalover and co claiming SS orgin.

Keep deceiving yourselves when you say "go back to your Oyo etc". Majority of yorubas in Lagos are not Migrates but Indigenes, go figure. I am yet to see a migrate yoruba to claim Lagos unless for political appointment eg Tinubu and that is PERFECTLY fine because we yorubas say "Omo odua ni wa" That in short words means we are of the same father. This does not mean yorubas have a bigger hand in Lagos but it is always good to set the record straigh

If at all any group is to claim, then it is the binis because Awori-Egun people (which I am part of) are a mixture of Aworis, Yewa, Egun, Itsekiri, Egba, Ijebu, Bini, Nupe (tapa), Brazilians and Cerlos (who even uphold the yoruba culture in serre leano today)

I am out, that is the reality on ground. [/size]

The way people mis-join lies and propaganda on this site one would wonder !

Edicolove come here and explain how the job description of Iweala is similar to that she had at the world bank !

edicolove: First of all, the report did not say GEJ. It said VIPs in Nigeria including private sector and state governors. You either cannot read or are plain stup1d. Secondly, Okonjo Iweala came from the world bank where she has worked for years and the whole world did not crumble. Though our goverment is doing poorly, some of you make the arguments and criticisms against the government look silly and childish. Please go back to school!

Errmmmm I am sorry but I have to say you are either ignorant or a lair.

Iweala position in the World bank is totally different from her position in Nigeria.

Please do you mind telling us the decisions Iweala made that have change the economics of the world ?

What was her position at the world bank

@OP

Please more pictures of the Islands if you have any especially the off coast Islands like Tarkwa bay, Ogogoro Island, Snake Island (Sagbokoji Village) etc. Very much appreciated