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WisdomFlakes:
I have it on good authority that the whole Akiolu saga was a perfectly executed plan by Ifeanyi Uba to generate exactly the reactions it has generated thus far. He knew the eccentric Oba would likely say something controversial that he (uba) could go to press with and sensationalize. You'll notice the Obis present took the comment in jest. Uba is behind it all.

You do not play into the hands of your enemy. You thread softly. I would expect the Oba to assess the nature of his guest before making any utterances. He is in the news for being arrogant and political.

ChinemeOkpan:
Shut your mouth!

A lot of those Peckham folks write better than you.

I doubt that. If you stay in Peckham, not my fault.

ChinemeOkpan:
Stop saving face.

Accept your error and move on. At least, you can now add another word to your limited vocabulary.

Tripe is an English word; it means rubbish.

If I were you, I would not be proud to publicly state that you went to Oxford Brookes University (You did not even spell it correctly), what happened to the better Uni next door?

Grow up boy!

Thanks for pointing out the error. Na as my money reach. I still stand by my assertion. Tripe is Urban.

munex007:
Igbos are like jews they want to do the Jew/palestine treatment in Lagos..

Just because Lagos accomadates all tribe and demographics doesn't make it a "No man's land"

Imagine a 'Kunle' holding a portfolio in Anambra Govt (Present/Future impossible tense)

You don't like the Yorubas,You don't Like the hausa yet you keep breeding like mosquitoes in their states searching for livelihood

This matter need to be revist after election no matter who wins..We need to seperate true sons from Bastards!

Bloody Ingrateful Immigrants!!

Where are you from? An honest question.

TheOtherview:
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No doubt, some folks from Peckham have made something good out of their lives but a wide majority, like the child shymmex, still roam the streets. I must confess, I dread Peckham. No offence, but the honest truth.

shymmexx:
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Lmao @ "tripe" a general English word, used mostly by middle class and educated Brits, being a Peckham word.

You're an effing stark illiterate - and I doubt you've ever left ya erosion ridden red land in South East, and it's obvious due to the fact that you write with an accent.

Yes, when you enunciate "tripe" as "tribe" and write it down - that's writing with an accent, you despicable bonobo.

On the contrary, I have been to more places than you, not to brag. Try using the word "Tripe" to an american and guess the face he/she would make at you. Between the two of us, you sound of as the illiterate, always writing like you are rapping. Including female genitals into your comments, reveals the morals instilled in you by your poor background. I also schooled in the UK - Oxford Brooks University, so I know your type very well. The very low class Peckham background roaming the streets looking for whom to devour. The classless blacks giving Nigeria a dirty name.

Please take this as a free lesson. You do not write with an accent, you speak with an accent.

Una no go gree wan go school; na gangsta full una braincells.

TheOtherview:
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Balkan:
hey! Junky, how is east london? When did you get out of jail?

Was he in Jail? Oops well Peckham boys that is where they always end. Juvenile Jail I bet

gbosaa:
Sometimes you rant like some a little boy with severely phucked up life, other times, you rant like someone in a mental home.

Whatever it is, go get help and stop acting like an id.iot. If you want to act brave, bring your a.rse to Nigeria and have your sorrow harvested. I know you would sit back there where ever little hole you are confined in and moan about the British or Igbos in Lagos.

He is a child.

shymmexx:
You're a stark illiterate!

I'm British and in British English - TRIPE means: rubbish, nonsense, tosh, bollocks, etc.. Effing blinkered git!

I thought you said it was "tribe", despite "tribe" not fitting the context? I guess ya Igbotic accent got the best of you.

Stop writing with an accent, you obnoxious cannibal.

Kai, who release this young fool. You do not write with an accent, you either write illegibly or legibly. Peckham boys will never go to school, always looking for who to kill or a quick buck. Please "tripe" in english is the second stomach of a cow (which you are) and in urban english language - nonsense. Tripe was made a dictionary word because it is used widely by Peckham boys. It is the same as Nigerians using "Ole" and then it becomes a dictionary word. Please boy, go to school.

FYI, everybody speaks with an accent including you. So you see how microscopic your brains cells are (Laugh). SMH pikin no wan get sense. If I open my certificates for you, your mama go drag you commot from your computer. You think sey everybody na your mate.

naijababe:
Walahi!!! E dey pain me say I reply am before sef!

Na peckham boy, that location for gang lords.

shymmexx:
Stark illiterate!

Do you think I speak with an accent like you?

I said, "TRIPE" - meaning: nonsense.

Igbotic cannibal trying to educate me on use of English with an accent - bwahahaha.

Well writing in informal english reveals the class of person you are, tripe mean a cow's stomach and informally - nonsense, used by illiterate english boys who stand by pub to discuss football.

Never knew you belong to that class. The peckham classless boys.

naijababe:
This takes the cake You are a child, walahi!!! I had no idea until now. Goodnight

Of course you should know by now. His writing style reveals so.

shymmexx:
Lol. I'm not Awori and it's none of my business.

I'm just shocked, and I'm all ears listening to ya history lesson, The Nutty Professor. Who took all these out of the history books?

What part of Lagos was considered a failure cos there's Lagos Island, and there's Lagos state?

Educate me, Nutty prof.

Laughs, sure I can educate you. Lagos Island was inhabitable and developed by the British. William MacGregor, governor from 1898 to 1903, instituted a campaign against the prevalent malaria, draining the swamps and developed Lagos Island by dredging the canals. Lagos was just a colony and not a state. The British bombarded Lagos and even a Yoruba emigrant, the catechist James White, wrote in 1853 "By the taking of Lagos, England has performed an act which the grateful children of Africa shall long remember, because Lagos was predominantly known as a Slave harbour because of greed chiefs and Obas.

shymmexx:
Lmao.. You're the mad rabid dog spamming all the thread with tripe from the first page.

Called you out now, and it's time to play the innate victim card, no? Inbred savagely cannibal.

Boss of bums!

Tribe not tripe. Learn to keep your emotions in check, then the spellings would be right. You are angry with history, so sad for you. I believe my aim to deflate your pride has been achieved. I only gave you a gist of the entirety, when you read the full blown documents and visit the Royal fathers in Benin, you would shake your head to human greed and feel ashamed for your ancestors.

shymmexx:
So, Aworis are slaves?

Thanks for the enlightening history lesson. Perhaps you can educate ya e-wife, so she can stop gossiping everywhere.

Stupid muthaphucka! Boss of bums and ret.ards.

FYI in as much as it hurts you to know, they were slaves even sold into slaves by the own Oba so he could make some money. You understand the irony. I am not saying this to hurt you but that is RAW FACT. Even the British as some point considered conquering Lagos a failure, I do not want to go into that now.

shymmexx:
Why are you calm now?

Running ya mouth all over the thread before like you have got a death wish.

You'll just die for nothing, and ya carcass would be fed to the vultures.

Keep ya crap to Nigerians from Nigeria.

Hahahahaha why are you mad

ollyruffy:
I hope the igbos will not leak their wounds after this election in Lagos. Jimi is not Okechukwu. Lagos belongs to the Yorubas. Be wise.

By the time an average Yorubaman in Lagos start to see an igboman as a threat in his homeland. Then the igbo will understand the owners of the soil.

Even onitsha is no mans land. I don hear.

Here we go again. Another ondo child claiming Lagos as his heritage. Mtscheewww. All these children sef

shymmexx:
Lol. You must take yourself too seriously to think I've got time for hate.

I don't two fvcks about no primitive Igbo - I just saw you running ya putrid mouth all over the thread like you can do something. You're not built like that, stop it.

And why are you now playing victim, when you have been spouting fire and brimstone from the first page? You lot just run ya mouths everywhere like you have got a death wish. Gbosaa, if you ain't built like that - let others do it. I know you!

If not for missy89, I would have not have posted on thread, who gives a shiit?



Anyway, you lot need to stop making me exhaust my shymmex handles, man.

Are you into music?

@temptest, nice write up who do you think Lagos belongs to?

gbosaa:
How old are you? You have a big problem and I really really feel sorry for you. You need help before hatred consumes you.

honestly, you can feel the hatred reading the comments and it makes one ask, what happened to this kid's life, especially the early stage.

It's me. Woman, all you ever do is gossip and act two-faced, without applying wisdom - it's typical.

Just the same way you and ya Boss13 plonker destroyed a good thread, and turned it into an Awo bashing thread. At least, he's brave enough to call you the descendant of slaves now. And the only thing you'll always do is keep gossiping, and move to a next place to act two-faced.

I'm not James Bond - I just demystify things from afar. I don't even have ya time - just do you, and move out of the way.

I did not plan out to make any of my comments derogatory. I only represented history as documented. It is highly annoying when ignorant people rant over issues they are unaware of. I have kept my cool and quiet as yoruba kids roam from thread to thread, insulting other ethnic groups and threatening to burn or destroy with only an inch of distorted information. I must confess that I lost my cool and for that I apologize.

The slavery aspect is not to make mockery but to buttress facts of the pains the aworis' went through even from their own brothers and from strangers. I have to show that Lagos truly is a no man's land but a conquered land. It was first inhabited by the aworis who came from Ife, then in Oyo Empire. Conquered and inhabited by the Benins and again the British, made the capital of Nigeria and subdued by the military and the beautiful city, a microcosm of Nigeria is rising again. Out of respect, we allow our yoruba brethren to lay claim of the city, but truly Lagos is no man's land.

Kaduna

delpee:
So funny what one gets to read from ignorant/misinformed people. No time to run a History 101 class here but people should note that the Western Region extended to most parts of Lagos Mainland and developments were possible because of money made from cocoa and trading with Europeans. Most of the houses on the Island were built by indigenous Lagosians and returnee Yoruba slaves.

Ikeja, Mushin,Oshodi and Ilupeju industrial estates belonged to the former Western region hence a lot of Wemabod (Odua Investment) interest in those areas. The GRAs and residential estates were all planned by them. Agege, Ikorodu, Epe and Badagry also fell under the control of Western Region until Lagos State was created in 1967.

Festac (arising from Festac77),MMIA, National Theatre/Stadium and Trade Fair complex are the major investments on the mainland built by the Federal govt.

When you talk of history, you start with the origin of a place. All I read is a modern Lagos. A Lagos that has experience independence. I would love to dive into this but it is not related. When I talk Lagos, I mean Eko long before the Portuguese discovered the island, an era when the Benin empire was gaining prominence and spreading its powers across the atlantic, an era when the Oba of Benin was worshipped as a god and his words were laws. The only empire I would pay little notice is the Oyo empire another beautiful history story.

Hidentity:
Governor Fayose is a typical example of a product of a troubled society. One keeps wondering how a person of his kind would be what he is all in the name of being a grassroot politician.

As a people, we need be educated on how WHO we are cannot be considered in isolation from WHAT we are or what we want to be. Ironically, in Nigeria we do not assess people on the grounds of decency credibility, integrity, dignity, decorum and leadership traits. You see people with comments like 'oh, he ate at a local restaurant? he won my heart.' Nigerian politicians make the best of actors in the political stage, give them the role and see how they mess up the polity.

This is a man who would rather slander and publish libelous things about another candidate than face his role as the leader of a highly respected state. Yet, you see YOUTHS with fists up celebrating his 'incredibility' on the street. MY FEAR: Why our equals inherit a sound system based on incredible ideologies in other parts of the world, we are left at the mercy of a failing state.

The bridge between OPTIMISM and PESSIMISM is REALITY. An optimist believes he would fly one day, a pessimist sees that as practically impossible. A realist strikes the plausible balance- he knows the optimist can fly, but not literarily, it could be by achieving that feat by being an authority in a chosen field. Majority of us queue on the platform of pessimism and optimism- we either 'overdream' or refuse to dream. Seeing things beyond the lenses of Ethic groups, religion, sex, social status and other sentiments would liberate us from the mental slavery and primitive mentality that the man who buys roasted corn by the road side won't forget those he met at the road side.

Beautiful comprehension. Astute writing. Well done.

Mcowubaba:
U have a point sir, but the problem is Information..History....people don't knw all dis..the r nt taught properly, so what can be done to disseminate this information to the least literate in lagos in dis modern day dispensation
But u did nt answer my QUESTION....Do u or Would u encourage an IGBO person to contest nd seek high political relevance in Lagos---..
U seem very knowledge/logical nd if u notice my signature, u will know why I really wanna knw??..
I am a Nigerian8) 1st before any TRIBE....

To answer your question, we are complying these information and trying to make a script for movie lovers. Since our schools failed to teach us history, we would not fail our children. Secondly, yes the constitution enables an Igbo resident who has spent 10 years or more or was born in a particular location to contest for election and be voted for. Election is all about the people, if majority of the people likes such person, regardless of tribe, the constitution empowers the person to govern. So the nonsense of indigenes should stop and we must learn to respect and tolerate each other and their interest. A word for the Oba.

What the Oba or some of the funny people here are doing is to build the political consciousness of the igbo ethnic group, trust me the day they know their power, there will be serious political power tussle.

PenSniper:
Go and recover in your land if you escape because we will fire millions.

Child, where are you from? Be honest. Oh, I mean your ancestors - where are they from?

Mcowubaba:
I salute o....u be History Director
but lagos is geographically nd politically located in the SouthWest of Nigeria....so that's 1 of the reasons we Yorubas say it is a Yoruba land, not everybody knws the history of lagos nd to be sincere not many people care to know the history (Yorubas, Igbos, Hausa e.t.c)
So is it right in all sincerity for Igbos to contest for a Governorship Election nd desire to even Control Lagos Government - taking into cognisance the political tension, tribal nd maturity level of the Nigerian Nation

Why argue on what you do not know. In the past, I would laugh and move on but it was getting out of hand. Wars actually starts with venomous words; "Aburi accord" comes to mind. Kids wake up, get distorted stories from ignorant parents and begin to shout "Na our Land". When you play their history before them, honestly, they will shy away. As at 1872, Lagos was then a British Colony, it had an estimated population of 60,000 people, including Europeans of only 100, the Saros from Sierra-Leone, repatriated Brazilian and Cuba slaves and yoruba slaves because the British abolished slave trade and considered Lagos a free zone, but slave trade was being perpetrated secretly. Now put that population up with the present Lagos population; what is Lagos - a land full of immigrants. So why would an ignorant fool come up here and tell me he is the owner of Lagos.

babyosisi:
It looks like the Igbo folks have finally found a line that hits the Yoruba tribal warriors hard and sends them over the edge
Whenever they start just remind them of NML. No mans land

Well it is not just a line, it is history. The ones coming here to rants, are ignorant. They know nothing, they were told a distorted story. Lagos is a land of immigrants.

Mcowubaba:
I must be sincere..My sense of comprehension of this ur text was quite shallow (I guess my nervous system may not be fully alert to grasp intellect 4rm ur text)....pls can u be elaborate, who r u talking abt, Igbos, Yorubas, Me or Omenka...I have a feeling u might be making sense, but I simply dnt yet understand u

Chief, go through my previous comments.

Mcowubaba:
Lol..which group PDP or Igbos
Or both of them...
To me- Igbos should trade carefully in their Political tussle nd struggle in Lagos..
Shebi u be Igbo...u moniker resemble Igbo name (go nd advise ya people)

Abeg the noise makers should go and rest. How many of them know their history. They just woke up and feel they are land owners, when many no even get C of O. I will only advise them to go and research their history. A small child just wakes up and begins to shout war. I have tried in the past to pacify the ignorant noisemakers because in the reality of things, it makes no sense. No, they want to feel important, no they are originally Lagosians. Let them go and read their history, many will be ashamed to called themselves Lagosians. They truly have no clue. That is why we have decided to make movies of heritage so we can all learn. I was amazed with the research and knowledge we obtained. If they knew what their ancestors went through, I mean the aworis themselves, even from their own brothers. Beating your chest and feeling proud, because the British has developed the conquered city. You just don't have any clue.

Do yourself a favour, hide in shame and research in-depth, your history. I bet my life, if you would come back here feeling proud again. I wish to state this and I do not say it to make jest. The aworis were slaves, slaves to their brothers, slaves to the Benins, slaves to the British. Their women were raped countlessly, their men forced to do hard labor and sold off as slaves. It brings nothing but tears to my eyes, the pains they went through, many afraid of what might happen to them. Go and study and stop yourself rantings.

Billyonaire:
BabyOsisi, We are trying our best to make it habitable, but I think many outcasts who think they can speak for the great Yoruba people are trying to piss us off. I do not know who nominated Lil Wayne Akiola to be an Oba in Lagos, because last I checked, I was not given the memo, I would have suggested that an Igbo man become the Lagos Oba this time. Anyway, Time will come when a Hausa man, Igboman, Berom Man, Efik man, Urhobo woman, Okrika Lady, Ibibio child can be crown an Oba of this NO MAN'S LAND.

Lets work hard to make Lagos a beautiful place, because it belong to US ALL NIGERIANS, and NOT to ANY tribe.

He was not supposed to be the oba. FACT. Tinubu nominated him