VickJames:


Why are you being emotional online

You should learn to argue without any form of emotions.

Now, you said Lagos is portuguese and its translation is eko? Oh please, this is language you guys infused into your language to be able to claim the land. The etymology of the "eko" is not yoruba. That means its not a yoruba land.



Calm down bro and argue without insults.

I wash my hands with you.

Like seriously, how arrogant and egotistic can a man be? Is that hard to accept when your wrong.

Lagos (/ˈleɪɡɒs/ lay-gos /ˈlɑːɡoʊs/),[12][13][14][15] (Yoruba: Èkó)

Source: Wikipedia and every Yoruba person https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagos


Are you blind? Huh

You do know the Benin royal family descends from Oduduwa?

VickJames:


Stop saying thing you can't verify. How can "eko" mean Lagos?

Lagos is now a yoruba word?

What is the meaning of this?

Lagos is rivers in Portuguese. The translation is Eko. You can translate Yoruba into any language. Haba, you are so arrogantly foolish.

I can't fight stupidity anymore, this is Sunday for crying out loud.

Lagos (/ˈleɪɡɒs/ lay-gos /ˈlɑːɡoʊs/),[12][13][14][15] (Yoruba: Èkó). Does this help?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagos

VickJames:


What's the meaning of "eko" in yoruba language?

Eko means Lagos in Yoruba.


Oba means King in Yoruba.


The majority of people who live in Benin speak or understand Yoruba. Go and read the history of the Benin Kingdom. They were a multilateral force with the Oyo kingdom. Stop trying to cause unnecessary trouble.

The way you reason is unbelievable, most of the words I have written came from Ancient Italy and was spread through many western countries through the Roman empire.

Are you going to foolishly claim that the words I have written are not English?

Ignoramus. Do you know Aworis are Yoruba.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Awori_tribe

huangcheng:
Having been born and bred in Lagos and armed with deep knowledge of Nigeria ancient and tribal history.
Actually one of the first settlers in downtown Lagos were Aworis. Then came the Benin who set up the Lagos Monarchy (A Benin prince) and named the city Eko. Up till today, the Oba of Lagos is still a Benin Prince.
However with the advent of the Portuguese and British, they started developing other parts of present day Lagos - which hitherto, were forest, bushes, swamps and creek.
What followed were MIGRATION of people from different parts of present day Nigeria and Africa continents such as Togo, Benin Republic etc.
YORUBA MIGRANTS TO LAGOS
For many of you who were born in the 80s or were not residing in Lagos in the 70s, let me tell you that Yorubas like most people in Lagos today, were also MIGRANTS to Lagos to work and better their lives. To access the Federal Govt special focus for development in Lagos. To them, migrating to Lagos was a greener pasture.
I personally witnessed the INFLUX of people into Lagos in the 70s and early 80s. They were mostly from the present day Osun, Ogun and Oyo states.
They loathed and very much DISSOCIATED themselves from being link to Lagos. They hated being called or referred to as 'Omo Eko'.
You hear them say, "Emi onse ara eko o, omo ilu oke lemi o " (Am not a Lagosian, am a proper indigene of...)
They were very PROUD to tell they're in Lagos to work, hustle and go back home. They referred to Lagos as "oko" (farm, work place) - not HOME! This prayer were common then: "ki olorun je ako ere oko dele o" (May God help us prosper and go back home with prosperity)
WHEN DID YORUBA START CLAIMING LAGOS?
Now the generation who migrated to Lagos, either came with their wives or later married in Lagos. Of course most NEVER married Lagos based girls, they traveled back to their country homes to pick wives back to Lagos.
In the year 1990, Ibrahim Babangida finished and commissioned the MASSIVE 3rd Mainland Bridge in Lagos. It was a sight to behold; the biggest and most profound Bridge, arguably in the whole of Africa then. It was a big fanfare.
That was the beginning of "Lagos is Yorubaland" among the younger generation of Yoruba MIGRANTS to Lagos.
The younger generation of the Yoruba MIGRANTS were 'waohed' and in their emotional ECSTASY started saying to themselves; "Nnkan toda sele nile yoba" (good things happening in Yorubaland and such cliches.
Gradually, that mantra spread. And as economic activities grow further, competition for economic space couple with rising employment and population explosion, the younger generation started 'fighting' telling others "Lagos is Yorubaland" to gain advantage.
CHILDREN Of YORUBA MIGRANTS IN 20s - 30s AGE BRACKET
Over the years, however it has assumed a formidable CULTURE among their children who were born in Lagos in the mid-80s to the early 20s.
And for these young boys and girls (now in their 20s and 30s), who were born and raised during the ERA of "Lagos is Yorubaland" are the ones CHAMPIONING this course now.
They're everywhere online. Whenever the issue of region crops us, a young lady/man from Ogun state (maybe Egba, Ijebu) will bring Lagos to his/her defense.
BUT WHY THIS UNFORTUNATE TREND?
It is not their fault at all. First realize that most they don't know their parents ancestral homes and UNLIKE their parents and grannies, they were NOT grilled into their ancestral lineage.
In facts, majority can't speak their own dialects. They are NOT proud of their ancestry because EVERYTHING about them is Lagos. And having hear all their lives that "Lagos is Yorubaland" have made it extremely difficult for this generation to EXTRICATE themselves from this fallacy.
POLITICIANS ARE MILKING IT
Trust politicians and tribal leaders, who'd been applying this trend to not only stay in power looting the state dry, but are CHEATING everyone in the process.
These evil people (politicians and tribal leaders) have consistently promote the "Lagos is Yorubaland" to the Yoruba MIGRANTS over the years, to achieve THREE benefits:
1) To suppress the Aworis and other first indigens to their rights in Lagos;
2) To have a complete PERPETUITY and CONTROL over Lagos wealth;
3) To use the misguided children of the Yoruba MIGRANTS to fight their fights. To put them in arms way when crises breaks out.
For example, during the last election, thousands of this generation were PRIMED to do battle to 'defend Lagos' with their lives, while TINUBU, Fashola and others had carefully smuggled their families abroad.
PS: Just watch out on this forum, how this same Yoruba generation whose parent MIGRATED to Lagos, will start raining abuses and insults on me. Just take time to read the quotes later

scholes0:

Look here
SCIENCE is a: French, English, Italian Etc word that has its origin in Latin
How does that stop the word from being any less English?
Oba of Benin himself bears a title that has its origins in Yorubaland..... so If you say Lagos is Benin, then Benin is yoruba...isn't that so?

Lagos means rivers in Portuguese, what the ignoramus is trying to say is that Yoruba cannot be translated.

Lagos = Eko. Simple.

VickJames:

Stop saying thing you can't verify. How can "eko" mean Lagos?
Lagos is now a yoruba word?

huangcheng:
Having been born and bred in Lagos and armed with deep knowledge of Nigeria ancient and tribal history.

Actually one of the first settlers in downtown Lagos were Aworis. Then came the Benin who set up the Lagos Monarchy (A Benin prince) and named the city Eko. Up till today, the Oba of Lagos is still a Benin Prince.

However with the advent of the Portuguese and British, they started developing other parts of present day Lagos - which hitherto, were forest, bushes, swamps and creek.

What followed were MIGRATION of people from different parts of present day Nigeria and Africa continents such as Togo, Benin Republic etc.

YORUBA MIGRANTS TO LAGOS

For many of you who were born in the 80s or were not residing in Lagos in the 70s, let me tell you that Yorubas like most people in Lagos today, were also MIGRANTS to Lagos to work and better their lives. To access the Federal Govt special focus for development in Lagos. To them, migrating to Lagos was a greener pasture.

I personally witnessed the INFLUX of people into Lagos in the 70s and early 80s. They were mostly from the present day Osun, Ogun and Oyo states.

They loathed and very much DISSOCIATED themselves from being link to Lagos. They hated being called or referred to as 'Omo Eko'.

You hear them say, "Emi onse ara eko o, omo ilu oke lemi o " (Am not a Lagosian, am a proper indigene of...)

They were very PROUD to tell they're in Lagos to work, hustle and go back home. They referred to Lagos as "oko" (farm, work place) - not HOME! This prayer were common then: "ki olorun je ako ere oko dele o" (May God help us prosper and go back home with prosperity)

WHEN DID YORUBA START CLAIMING LAGOS?

Now the generation who migrated to Lagos, either came with their wives or later married in Lagos. Of course most NEVER married Lagos based girls, they traveled back to their country homes to pick wives back to Lagos.

In the year 1990, Ibrahim Babangida finished and commissioned the MASSIVE 3rd Mainland Bridge in Lagos. It was a sight to behold; the biggest and most profound Bridge, arguably in the whole of Africa then. It was a big fanfare.

That was the beginning of "Lagos is Yorubaland" among the younger generation of Yoruba MIGRANTS to Lagos.

The younger generation of the Yoruba MIGRANTS were 'waohed' and in their emotional ECSTASY started saying to themselves; "Nnkan toda sele nile yoba" (good things happening in Yorubaland and such cliches.

Gradually, that mantra spread. And as economic activities grow further, competition for economic space couple with rising employment and population explosion, the younger generation started 'fighting' telling others "Lagos is Yorubaland" to gain advantage.

CHILDREN Of YORUBA MIGRANTS IN 20s - 30s AGE BRACKET

Over the years, however it has assumed a formidable CULTURE among their children who were born in Lagos in the mid-80s to the early 20s.

And for these young boys and girls (now in their 20s and 30s), who were born and raised during the ERA of "Lagos is Yorubaland" are the ones CHAMPIONING this course now.

They're everywhere online. Whenever the issue of region crops us, a young lady/man from Ogun state (maybe Egba, Ijebu) will bring Lagos to his/her defense.

BUT WHY THIS UNFORTUNATE TREND?

It is not their fault at all. First realize that most they don't know their parents ancestral homes and UNLIKE their parents and grannies, they were NOT grilled into their ancestral lineage.

In facts, majority can't speak their own dialects. They are NOT proud of their ancestry because EVERYTHING about them is Lagos. And having hear all their lives that "Lagos is Yorubaland" have made it extremely difficult for this generation to EXTRICATE themselves from this fallacy.

POLITICIANS ARE MILKING IT

Trust politicians and tribal leaders, who'd been applying this trend to not only stay in power looting the state dry, but are CHEATING everyone in the process.

These evil people (politicians and tribal leaders) have consistently promote the "Lagos is Yorubaland" to the Yoruba MIGRANTS over the years, to achieve THREE benefits:

1) To suppress the Aworis and other first indigens to their rights in Lagos;

2) To have a complete PERPETUITY and CONTROL over Lagos wealth;

3) To use the misguided children of the Yoruba MIGRANTS to fight their fights. To put them in arms way when crises breaks out.

For example, during the last election, thousands of this generation were PRIMED to do battle to 'defend Lagos' with their lives, while TINUBU, Fashola and others had carefully smuggled their families abroad.

PS: Just watch out on this forum, how this same Yoruba generation whose parent MIGRATED to Lagos, will start raining abuses and insults on me. Just take time to read the quotes later

Nonsense, My grandma is 76 and was born in Lagos in the 1930's and we are Yoruba.

Please stop your foolish nonsense here, do not go any further in causing unnecessary trouble. Yorubas have lived in Lagos for hundreds of years.

Seun, tribalism is destroying this section.

What is wrong with the bunch of moronic tribalists on this thread. Must you always bring tribe into every situation?

Have you seen the other thread where two Igbos were implicated with one northerner in a 24 property illegal acquirement.

No Yoruba or northerner went on to blame Igbos or insult your people. This tribalistic hate has to end as of now.

funkybully:
[s][/s]
See animal tribe below. They fought loins, tigers and get cat whiskers marks on their animal faces

tdayof:
.. He learnt this bad attitude through the influence of the animals tribe.. It's a disaster associating with ppl from a useless tribe as in drug barons.

funkybully:
The hardworking, sufferisticated ones at it again

wisemaster:
kids will always attach tribal sentiments to crime.

Immaturity at its peak indeed, kids are not even this ignorant.

SonOfEl:
pls oduduwa bigots should keep off this thread. only well meaning omoluabis can comment. thank you.

Can I see some of these developments in pictures?

I'm a really big fan of infrastructure development. Take as much time as you need.

Mellin:
u really believed this shit? Mehn people sef.... Can't u see what d whites did... They made it look like it all happened in Africa so we can believe the BS and yes we believed it... Where u Dia when it happened yes u where there but how can u know exactly what happen when u can look within u and ask dt God in u above ur crown chakra to know what exactly happened.... I weep for u....

I don't believe in books, I get my lessons from the Gods themselves and I was able to achieve this thru a book u religious folks tagged evil... Where has ur so called holy book taught u how to connect to ur creator other than pray, pray pray and pray.... Lol.. Start thinking pls, cos d God in u is starving And wants to connect to his creator

What is this book.

How can a human being speak as irresponsibly as this?

M4gunners:
I'm just following up to see what happens. All i know is that Chibok girls is a scam.

Happiness87:
boko haram is scam, born of the North and have achieved their aim.
There is no way in the world that terrorists group repents and changes their ideologies.
Are they saying that they don't want their caliphate again and that Western education is no longer alien or that they don't want sharia enforced again ?
God will deal with their sponsors personally.

Are you even human?

Flets:

Chibok girls outlived its usefulness since after the elections

Mellin:
fool

Ok, let's figure this out, Jesus our God was born In Jeruselum Isreal,

He was raised in Egypt, an African country,

A Roman( European) was the one who gave way to the death of Jesus.

The man who helped carry his cross was a black African.

First country mentioned in the Bible was African; Ethiopia.

Christianity descended from Judaism, of which supposedly started in Africa (Ethiopia).

One of the most mentioned countries in the Bible was Egypt an African country.

I find it hypocritical that you look at us as the one held in bondage while you read a statement from a supposedly white woman and took every word of it for fact, you failed to understand the historical reasoning behind our beliefs and led yourself to a disarray of delusion.

Mellin:
what's dt supposed to mean? Tell me what u ancestors told u not what the Bible told u
. Tsewwwwww

I believe you are gullible, my ancestors came from the promise land.

AnambraDota:
OP God bless you, this is what I have been preaching here for people to ditch tribalism because it bring about hate and negative attitudes towards one another.

I hate tribalism, I joined NL as a pragmatic member and thank God that tribalim and ethnicism are yet to take a grip on me.

I hate tribalists as much as I hate tribalism.

Chai....

superstar1:

Satan is a saint, in comparison to the lie you just posted.

This is a bit too harsh, but I see where you are coming from, this lie is enough to land someone in KIRIKIRI maximum prison Lagos.

Mellin:
Can someone still shout Jesus is Lord or Allah is great....

Religion a big tool used to enslave black race yet my people can't see they have been made fools for centuries....

Curse be unto the white people that brought these silly religions to us which has caused disunity in Africa...

Back to the topic.... Let's I forget bh will end in 2 months

Go to school, una gree.

You do know that these religions descended from North Africa/ middle-east. In fact, the very first country mentioned in the bible is Ethiopia.

crixtex:

See ds tribalistic goat!!! even passingshot dat doesnt spare GEJ said d truth and u are here facing GEJ... is not ur fault, its pple like Wike dat fits many of you...

Who is tribalistic, go and find me out one thing that I have said that implies that I am tribalistic, 3 years on nairaland and I haven't not once degraded or exploded someone because of their ethnicity.

You are indeed a troublemaker who is on the loose.

PassingShot:

Only if he had allowed EFCC and ICPC to work without his interference and influence.
Only if he had not corruptly enrich himself as well.
I have not said he didn't achieve anything. But his performance on corruption is abysmal.

In bold you are absolutely correct, the past paragraph however is very untrue.

Corruption was fought dramatically governors left right and centre were investigated, the name of EFCC back then resonated with fear among any politician back then.

Yes he took a huge chunk of our national wealth and I cannot disagree with clear facts, but to say he didn't or had a poor perfomance at fighting corruption is misleading.

PassingShot:

This is just damn serious. Just two official cars?

I am lost for words with the level of stealing of government monies and properties by our officials.

How did we get here? I blame the person who laid the foundation of corruption in our modern democracy - OBJ.

OBJ had eight years to put us on solid footings but he didn't deliver. I weep for Nigeria!

I have to disagree with you on that completely.

OBJ remains the only past leader of our modern democracy that installed and built the two most feared institutions this country has ever seen:

EFCC and ICPC.

Were you not there when governors left and right were being prosecuted? In fact the man's daughter as well was under investigation. Nuhu Ribadu really tried.

OBJ may have been disappointing but he was not a total failure unlike GEJ and he is not the cause of the corruption that we have today, that is GEJ.


OBJ cleared our debts making us the first country in the world to pay all our debts to the paris club, OBJ left us with over 60 billion dollars in our coffers,there was no terrorism and he purposely refused to increase the price of fuel for us while maintaining a much lower subsidy that Jonathan.

As a country, we were financially and security-wise safe.

Remain calm Buhari has come to clear Jonathans curse.

Trailblazer1:

I would have given a good reply if you made sense

, which part may I ask did you not comprehend.

Is it because I have spoken some truth and you find it hard to justify your previous silly statement.

Ok, if you didn't understand what I wrote before I will summarise it up:

I think that you are a hypocrite for still supporting Jonathan, while he did nothing to boost locally produced Innoson vehicles, yet the same party APC that you continuously attack are the only one that I have recorded who have invested in Innoson especially in Lagos.

Trailblazer1:
should we start celebrating this

We have an INNOSON producing if not a better quality car in Nigeria, but guess what?
He's an Igbo man, therefore no local patronage. Not even the government to encourage and protect this indigenous initiative.
Yet we complain of a failing economy
A falling Naira
Lack of employment
Lack of industrialization. Etc

Here is an innoson and his likes with a solution to our problem but we have hypocritically turned a blind eye.

Nigerians, is this a curse

Before the election when the majority or people were not blinded by bigotry like you, people spoke responsibly.


You who supports Jonathan, what did he do for 6 years to promote innoson, while, in Lagos center of the opposition APC, they were investing in innoson buses innoson bin trucks or have you forgotten.

Gabbysky:
These guys don de look for trouble ooo.
Arresting innocent youths and tagged them as Militants.
Can the NA face the ND Militants? Who born dem?
When they can't even defeat common books.
When they start now bubu should not complain or cry o.

Sit down my friend, they are just semi-trained thugs.

Ogun state has an issue at hand. I hope to believe if Amosun sees this he will act accordingly.

Enahi:
It's really disgusting going through nairaland and read thrash about what you people contribute to the country. Y'all should be ashamed of yourselves.

Sit there and be debating thrash while the abokis continue to use you and lord over you.

Sit there be claiming what you are not online while the real people who decide your fate continue to rule over you.

If the abokis decides to destroy Nigeria today,there is fu*king nothing you can do about it.

Y'all are weaklins and fu*king empty noise makers.

Y'all are displaying your stupidity again while the almajiris are probably sitting somewhere controlling your destiny and laughing at your stupidity

Y'all disgust me,go get a life will you

Will you keep quiet, another troublemaker on the loose. I'm curious, of which ethnic group do you descend from.

jack67:
you guys should stop misleading people with sensational headlines, they are thieves, not niger delta militants, if militant start, can the military withstand them?

You think BBC is comparable to our newspaper tabloids.

Secondly, what is so powerful about thugs who only know how to destroy and vandalise government property. Anyway they are bieng arrested.

Redoil:
I have no hands in the repairing of the refinary - Pa buhari
APC cyber dogs be warn. Stay far away from gej achievement and stop claiming it as boopooharis own

You do realise Muhammadu Buhari was the one who built all those refineries. Have you read the analytical write-ups of some nairalanders.

GMB'S presence alone has had an enormous impact on all the major sectors of our country; oil,electricity,justice e.g

God bless Nigeria

Buhari has made his objective clear, threats to Nigeria will be dealt with.

Following a 2009 amnesty for militants violence has declined but oil thefts have continued.

The Nigerian military has made six arrests after four soldiers and a policeman were killed in an attack by suspected pirates in the oil-rich Niger Delta on Friday.
Security forces also recovered a cache of arms and ammunition in the raid on their camp, the army said.
Gunmen in four speed boats targeted the military checkpoint in southern Bayelsa state on Friday, authorities said.
Piracy and organised crime linked to oil theft are common in the region.
BBC Africa Live: News updates
Soldiers destroyed the camp in neighbouring Rivers state and are now trying to track down others who escaped, according to a statement from the Joint task Force (JTF) in the Niger Delta.
Other items recovered included three speed boats, communication gadgets and generators, it said.
It is not yet clear who was behind the attack.
Most of Nigeria's oil wealth comes from the Niger Delta, but it remains poor and underdeveloped.
An amnesty in 2009 for tens of thousands of oil militants - who receive a monthly stipend from the government - stemmed the level of violence in the region.
But some of the former militants have turned to piracy.

Source:http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-33847003

Are these not brown roofs. Some hypocritical troublemakers insulting their Yoruba counterparts on what I have just seen.

Nigerians, let's remember peace and unity. Buhari will soon initiate infrastructure development soon. Patience is key.

Jobless.