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iconize:
Which ethnic extraction are those dwellers from?

Ife, however predominantly from Oyo, they were mainly fishermen and love the sea. A handful of them.

Prior to the Portuguese name of Lagos being adopted, Lagos was originally called Eko, which stems from either Oko (Yoruba: "cassava farm" or Eko ("war camp", by its Bini conquerors. History has it that the Oba of Bini sent various trade expeditions to Ghana where spices were traded and one of his traders complained about the way she was being treated by the Awori's. The Oba of Bini then sent a trade expedition by sea. Ironically, the leader of the expedition arrived in the evening at a time when the people who were predominantly fishermen were either wading into the water or getting into their boats to gather their catch. He declined to engage them further and returned to what is now called Benin City where he reported to the Oba of Bini that they were attacked. This prompted the Oba of Bini to constitute a war expedition led by Ado, a Bini Prince to go to Lagos and demand an explanation. This was over 650 years ago. However, on getting there, they were well received. The people were so enamored with Ado they asked him to stay and lead them. He agreed on the condition that they surrendered their sovereignty to the Oba of Bini to which they agreed. The Oba of Bini was told this and he gave his permission for the expedition to remain. The Oba of Bini later sent some of his chiefs including the Eletu Odibo, Obanikoro and others to assist Ado in the running of Eko. Till today, the Oba of Lagos is the head of all the Kings in Lagos State and his status is different from other Oba's most of whom were later given back their crowns and staff of office only within the last 40 years and have various classifications. Suffice it to state that those who got their crowns back were the original land owners. These were Olofin's children. Moreover, modern day Lagosians have so intermingled that no single tribe or people can claim it even though the predominant language is Yoruba. The present day Lagos state has a higher percent of this sub-group who allegedly migrated to the area from Isheri along the Ogun river.

History has it that the Awori were actually from Ife the cradle of Yorubaland. The Awori people are a peaceful people initially not taken to warfare.

http://www.lagosstate.gov.ng/pagelinks.php?p=8

Right from Lagos State website. I have not said anything different. You cannot distort history, you cannot distort the truth. However, I wish to correct some errors, the aworis were actually defeated in combat. I have clarified this with the Royal fathers in Benin and like I said, the Oba of Benin then was more interested in the Ashantis' clan in Ghana than Eko, which was more of a pathway to conduct business.

Kids wake up and smell the coffee, Lagos is no man's land. It is a conquered land. I have bolded it for you all to say. "Moreover, modern day Lagosians have so intermingled that no single tribe or people can claim it even though the predominant language is Yoruba

This one no be mummy told me or daddy told me.

iconize:
The Portuguese met an empty Lagos?

Yes very scanty with few dwellers always referring to the Oba of Benin as their king.

oluwafemi113:
Dude my point here is that Lagos doesn't belong to all. But to we the Aworis, Eguns and Ijebus from Epe/Ikorodu, Take it or you leave it. I'm not interested in all the rubbish you wrote up there

Laughs. You mean the Awori slaves to the Oba of Benin, okay I agree. But do you know that the original aworis not the ondos who are claiming aworis were immigrants, a mixture of some fishermen clans from Oyo and Benin.

Please if you want to know the true history of lagos, go to the royal fathers in Benin, not the talkative drunk Akiolu. You cannot distort history, you cannot distort truth. Lagos was conquered. It was even a pathway, the lagoon to Ashantis in Ghana. The plan was to conquer than Ashantis, but it did not materialize. The British expanded Lagos, created canals for the waters. Lagos was empty. The Portuguese who named lagos always go to pay homages to the Oba of Benin and carry out their trade.

Go and do your research and stop spilling "mummy and daddy said"

Go to Benin, there are documented proof with artifacts. One small pikin just wake up begin to yarn, na we get Lagos. Nonsense

AgentMS:
Funny you.

If I want to follow your warped tales by moonlight story of Oba of Benin, I put it to you and I am asking you

WHO OWNS THE CROWN of BENIN KINGDOM?

THE ROYAL FAMILY OF THE BENIN. NOT TALES BY MOONLIGHT - FACT. WE ARE GOING TO MAKE A MOVIE ON THIS SOON. WATCH OUT. THAT IS WHY I SAY, I KNOW THE HISTORY OF LAGOS BETTER THAN THE LAGOSIANS AND NOT THE ONDOs or THE OYOs WHO MIGRATED TO LAGOS.

TAKE CARE

AgentMS:
Who is this bloody liar?

Even your best could not even capture a small town like Ore.

We can all remember how all of you ran away during June 12 in 1993 to your gully eroded land, praying that war will befall our peaceful and prosperous land.

I am not a double twisted yoruba fella. Many Ibos ran to the ancestry homes. FACT. Some stayed behind, take it from me who witnessed it. The igbos from Onitsha came down and caused mayhem, which made Babaginda to order curfew and military patrol.

From the crowning of Ado as its first Oba, Lagos (then called Eko) served as a major center for slave-trade, from which then Oba of Benin Ado and all of his successors for over four centuries benefitted - until 1841, when Oba Akitoye ascended to the throne of Lagos and tried to ban slave-trading.

Local merchants strongly opposed the intended move, and deposed and exiled the king, and installed Akitoye's brother Kosoko as Oba.[3]

At exile in Europe, Akitoye met with British authorities, who had banned slave-trading in 1807, and who therefore decided to support the deposed Oba to regain his throne. With the success of the British intervention, in 1851 Akitoye was reinstalled as Oba of Lagos. In practical terms, however, British influence over the kingdom had become absolute, and ten years later, in 1861, Lagos was formally annexed as a British colony.

READ UP FOOLS. Your Oba was a makeshift by the British.

cobratail:
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Your senile father must be stupid to feed you with all these jargons, calling other peoples parent drunk shows you were conceived by a local dog who happens to be your deranged mother. Id.iots like you can only hide behind chinko phone to post jargons. Idiat

Ok I have struck a raw nerve. Good for you. I hope you are happy now that you know that Lagos, which your drunk parents migrated to, is and still remains a conquered land and a conquered land is no-man's land.

kendrick9:
nice one bro... funny how these fools claiming lagos don't even know the history of lagos...

No. I have to set the record straight. To tell them the hardcore truth. They don't even no how come people started screaming Lagos is a no-man's land. The real lagosians were slaves, just like our ancestors were slaves to the British, first they were slaves to the Benin empire, and later the British. All these small children. mtshewwww

oluwafemi113:
Dude how are you sure I don't have any English name if this is all what you can point to?

Give me your last authentic name and I shall tell you your original patriarch.

People like you makes me hate democracy.

I love it and also the Nigerian Constitution. Let me give you kids another story. I remember 1993 clearly, after the MKO saga, some yoruba touts thought upon themselves to cause mayhem, they initially started killing the hausas in mile 12 and wanted to extend to the Ibos, the Ibos in Onitsha came in trucks, invaded Lagos and started their onslaught before the military took over to restore peace.

I am not a tribalist, but I have read, watched and listened to kids who know nothing about Lagos other than the ones told to them by their parents, come up here to spit thrash. Talking about war or coming out to fight and I like said previously, it is not the igbos in Lagos that will fight you, just like 1993, the mad ones in Onitsha and Aba will rush down to do the bidding.

cobratail:
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Fool, go to his palace to tell him those jargons. You are just crying and talking to yourself, his palace is easy to locate. You can go there anytime to challenge him instead of posting crap on nairaland.

He knows that already. He even visited the Oba of Benin to acknowledge the rightful owners of Lagos. I guess you were still a child then because it was covered very well by media houses. All these small children of yesterday coming out to say shit on stories their drunk parents told them.

luvmijeje:
Keep shut! What foolish history do you know? History that you are lifting from Wikipedia..... Who the hell pounded Yam for you and tells you soup is not difficult to get? You guys are crossing your boundary.

Oh do you have a different history story for us. We are listening and if you don't go FVVCK yourself.

oluwabreezy:
VERY SOON YOU THE TRUE AND MAKE SURE U KEEP THAT YOUR FRUSTRATED STORY WHEN THEY COME AROUND......#slowpoke

Oh Bro did I pinch a nerve. Damn! you feel pained. Of course you should because there is no damn thing you can do about it.

cobratail:
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You are just blabbing, i dont take nonentities that make mouth online serious. Go to the Obas palace and tell him all these jargons. You are free.

Your oba was a makeshift by the British, a jelly clown to calm jittery nerves and consolidate British rule. That was one form used to maintain peace and order by the British. How come you do not know this and you are a Lagosian. Oh I forgot, you migrated too.

Go and ask that Oba questions and if he is honest, he will tell you. If there is anybody to lay claim to Lagos, is the Benins. Fools wake up and smell the coffee.

What is so annoying about this is that it is the migrated yorubas that are making noise. Migrants from Ondo, Oyo, Ekiti, Kwara etc are the ones bragging about Lagos. Ibo people make una no listen to them, na so them dey do - noise makers.

oluwabreezy:
VERY SOON YOU THE TRUE AND MAKE SURE U KEEP THAT YOUR FRUSTRATED STORY WHEN THEY COME AROUND......#slowpoke

FVVVCK you. I know more Lagos history than you do. Give me your last name and I will paste your ancestry tree here and prove you are no Lagosian original settler. See fool wan claim conquered land. Lagos has been a conquered land. First conquered by the Benins and later on the British.

Founding of Lagos[edit]
According to the oral history of Lagos, at some point around 1300-1400 CE, the Oba (King) of the Benin Empire - who used to send trade expeditions to Ghana, where spices were traded - heard from one of his traders complaints about the way she was being treated by the Awori who lived in the area of current day Lagos. The Oba of Benin then sent a trade expedition by sea to engage with the Awori people, who nonetheless declined to engage and attacked the mission sent by Benin.

Upon hearing this as the mission returned to Benin City, the Oba of Benin commanded the assembling of a war expedition, led by Ado, a Benin Prince, which headed to the settlement of the Awori (current-day Lagos; then called Eko by the Benin people) and demanded an explanation.

On getting there, Ado and his army were more than well received - the Awori from Lagos asked Benin Prince Ado to stay there and become their leader. Ado agreed, on the condition that they surrendered their sovereignty to the Oba of Benin, to which the Awori people of Lagos agreed.

Upon hearing this, the Oba of Benin gave his permission for Prince Ado and the expedition to remain in Eko with the Awori. The Oba of Benin later sent some of his chiefs, including the Eletu Odibo, Obanikoro and others, to assist Ado in the running of Eko.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Lagos

Lagos means "lakes" in Portuguese, the language of first European-settlers known to visit the settlement,then already inhabited by the Awori people, in 1472.[1] From the first contacts with the region until the early 20th century, another Portuguese name for the city that was interchangeably used was Onim,[2] finally abandonned in favor of Lagos.

Prior to Lagos being adopted, the settlement was called Eko by its Kingdom of Benin conquerors, which stems from either Oko (Yoruba: "cassava farm" or Eko ("war camp".

READ UP FOOLS.

oluwafemi113:
Yes I'm from Imo.. you sound like Mugu

You are not from Lagos. Stop claiming it. The original Lagosians all have English last names. That is the difference because the white men made them slaves and converted their last name. Fool coming to claim Lagosian when he is from Ondo state

cobratail:
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Stop behaving like your father, why call people's land no mans land. Are you this daft?

Lagos is a conquered land. It is no-man's land. We all migrated into Lagos. The original settlers are dead and long gone. You can ask the British that. Eko was an extension of the Benin empire. You guys cannot continue to threaten bona fide Nigeria citizens. Mek I see one useless yoruba tout coming to tell me nonsense, I shoot you down for trespassing and loitering. Nonsense

oluwabreezy:
if am to ask you who were those who were conquered by the British........#slowpoke

Original settlers - The Epe people and the Benins. You should likewise note that the land was never and I repeat NEVER transferred back to the original settlers. The British developed its colony, expanded it, created Nigeria. Nigeria had its independence and due to military fear of retaliatory coup resettled to Abuja. Where are the noise makers when the military were carrying out their atrocities. Were they able to say this is our land? Where was the Oba of Lagos during the military regime? Democracy returned back in 1999 and the yorubas, especially the migrants and not the original settlers, came out of their hidings to say Lagos is their land. Lagos, a conquered land, a former capital, a cosmopolitan city - your land. You are smoking OMO DETERGENT

oluwabreezy:
When the fight start the igbos shouldnt even pass through ibadan cos it will be too bloody for them.......

No be Igbos for Lagos go fight you. Na those mad ones from Onitsha and Aba. Don't be myopic my dear.

austinvsb1:
Thank you joor. Don't worry your message and stand has been made known now. Thanks to oba akiolu for speaking up quickly! The owners and visitors will know themselves real soon.

What this would lead to is destruction of properties and loss of lives. There shall be no victor or vanquished and a lot of people visiting Haque for prison time. The constitution has empowered all Nigerians to live every within their rights and express themselves legally. No chicken smelling Oba, who depends on government stipends, can change that. Dem no born am - in short he is a bastard as he has called himself.

Lagos is a colonial land, a conquered land by the British and converted to Nigeria's capital. It is a no-man's land. Do these yoruba people want history lessons. Many of these Yoruba people migrated to Lagos and now trying to make some noise.

I don't believe this information. Though, Obasanjo held a secret meeting with Buhari. However, this may not be the reason for the meeting. FAKE NEWS

isobayor:
@kUFREABASI.

The Advanced MGT accounting by Omolehinwa. You can by ACCA F8-Performance management. It is very useful .

Just to point out the mistake ACCA F8 - Audit and Assurance and not Perfomance Management which is F5

Ambode is a better choice no doubt especially when you look at other states being governed by PDP. However, the Oba of Lagos made a derogatory speech that he is yet to apologise for. That speech is making a lot of people rethink.

Witches and Wizards are joining APC.

You guys are taking that Oba serious. Except he unleashes thugs to start throwing people into the lagoon, I do not see the possibility in what he has said.

Oba of lagos is a clown with crown

Haba I pray this is not true

Buhari you need to address this tribal and ethnic issue or it is a time bomb waiting to explode.