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"LAGOS IS NO MAN'S LAND,because the name lagos is a portugese word."
Igbo leader, Campbell Umeh-Nzekwe told PREMIUM TIMES in an
interview..

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I just laugh at all these ill-informed people when they say "LAGOS IS A NO MAN'S LAND". It shows they are ignorant of History.
I will like to educate and enlighten this man and many others who are ignorant of history. The fact that lagos is a portugese word doesn't mean its a no man's land,If we are to go by this standard,that means Nigeria too is a no man's land because the name Nigeria is not Yoruba,Hausa or Igbo. Even Port-Har-Court is now a no man's land! and some even said benins are the owner of lagos,yes they had a contact with lagos but they were not the first occupants.
In fact its time I dispense what am studying, I study lagos history as a compulsory course at Lagos State University lectured by Mr.Sanni(an indigenous lagosian and a scholar of lagos history)Now to all of you shouting lagos is a no man's land, please stay attentive as I educate you how the name lagos,Eko and who first occupied lagos are.


How did we come about the name LAGOS??
Undoubtedly, the word LAGOS is derived from the portugese word, "LAGOS" meaning LAGOONS(and not prison as some people speculate).
The word lagos could be traced to LANCELOT DE FREITAS(a portugese man) who himself was a local lagosian in his native home of lagos in portugal,in the course of the portugese voyage of 1431-1462(14th century), LANCELOT DE FREITAS stopped to get provision around the modern day carter bridge,and looking towards Ebute Metta,he recorded in his log book the word"LAGOS" thus, named after a place surrounded by water(he saw that carter bridge where he bought provision in 1450 was surrounded by water,hence,he gave it the name LAGOS).


THE NAME EKO?
There are two versions to this very one but it will be summarily explained to a plausible version.
According to J.B losi M. book titled "History of Lagos" Lagos was founded and first occupied by a group of hunters led by Olofin Ogunfunminire,a prince from Ile-Ife, who first settled at Isheri-Olofin,a community situated 12miles north of lagos. From Isheri, series of dispersals led to the founding of other yoruba awori settlement such as Iropa,Irepu,Ado-Odo,Ogudu,Ikeja,Ojota etc. South ward movement led to the settlement of Yaba later on Ebute-metta,Oto and Ido which later became the home of the olofin(first leader of lagos). Although JB losi vernacular version of his write up vindicate that prior to the movement of Ogunfunminire;there were early Yoruba Awori settlements such as Olopon,Tomuwe,Omuse,Alase etc who had settled before the coming of the Olofin(Ogunfunminire).These groups were said to have moved from Egun Ibeji an ancient Yoruba Awori settlement that has gone into extinction.
After the settlement of Olofin's(prince ogunfunminire) group,his children who were collectively known as ALADEJO(A Group Of Fishermen/Fishermen Co-Operative)settled at different parts of lagos. The earliest settlements was led by 'AROMIRE' who swam across the lagoon and established a settlement on the LAGOS ISLAND. This further encouraged his brothers to settle in different parts of lagos such that some of them bears the name that correspond with their settlement. E.g Oloto at oto,Ojora at Ijora,Oniru at Iru, Oluwa(Apapa)at Iwa,Elegushi which constitute the modern day Victoria Island.

Where do the Benin come into the history of Lagos?
After critical study,juxtaposition and consolidation.The involvement of Benin in Lagos politics could be traced back to the quarrel of Olofin's children and a female personality named "AINA". Aina was accused of witchcraft,all her goats were killed as a result of this accusation and all effort to seek redress with olofin failed. She therefore complained to the King of Benin(Oba Orhogbua) who sent his warriors to attack and build a war CAMP in lagos under the leadership of one "Aseru". Let me explain one thing at this very point, "EKO" is the name of the benin for WAR CAMP.Aseru who was the commander of the Benin millitary camp undertook millitary expeditions to the towns situated north of Lagos and was killed during one of such operation in the marshes of Isheri. One yoruba personality,"ASHIPA" was said to have led an Isheri party that took the dead body of Aseru to Benin for burial in accordance with Benin tradition. This singular act of returning Aseru body to Benin was rewarded by the Oba of Benin who made Ashipa the first Eleko of Eko or Oloriogun i.e the millitary commander of his troops in Lagos.At his death,Ashipa was succeded by Ado,his son was in turn succeded by Gabaro and Akinsemoyin(in that order).

Nevertheless,available evidence seems to be pointing to the fact that the brief control of Lagos by the Benin was acheived by millitary conquest(not by easy settlement) and the fact that the earliest settlers were not the Edo but the Awori Yorubas. The reasons for this position are not far to seek.Viewed from the linguistic angle,it appears that the language more indigenous to Lagos is the Awori dialect of the Yoruba.
The nucleus of this settlement of the Benin was the Enu-Owa area which today still retains the evidence of Benin architecture,culture and customs. Not too long after the Benin conquest of the forces of the Olofin,the Edo who did not occupy the Iddo Island but stayed in the Enu-Owa would appear to have been attracted to the relatively older and comparatively more developed and suitable for human dwelling area of their Awori brethren.During the reign of Eleko Gabaro,the capital and seat of administration was effectively transferred to Idun-Iganran( pepper palace) which has since been the seat of government.

In totality,the period of the Awori's settlement and that of Benin represented two different periods in Lagos history,while the first Yoruba Awori's period represented the period when Lagos emerged as OKO(farmland) following Aromire's establishment of the Island as a farmland.
The second period represented the conquest and the brief occupation of Lagos by the Benin and the encampment of Lagos as Eko.
For the foregoing analysis,the antiquity of the Yoruba Awori settlement in Lagos seem not to be in doubt.


Conclusively, the modern day Lagos is the commercial hub and social vibe of Nigeria(more extensively Africa),Lagos was the federal capital of Nigeria from Amalgamation till 1991 when Former Head of State, Ibrahim Babaginda moved the federal capital from Lagos to Abuja.One of the reasons IBB gave then was that, Lagos serves the purpose of just the Yorubas since its their indigenous state,hence,the need to move the Federal capital to a more central region(That's why we have the FCT in Abuja today).
If Lord Lugard had not amalgamated Nigeria(and made Lagos the FCT due to the development and potentials Lagos had even before oil money) will people be migrating and running to Lagos virtually everyday;only to call it a no man's land neglecting the fact that,some people's ancestors first occupied and developed it thousands of Years ago?

However,am not a Tribalist but a Nigerian and a Yoruba man to the core, despite the fact that I want a united Nigeria where love and tolerance reign. I won't sit back and watch some ill-informed ignorantum igorantatus;ignorants of History to point at Lagos,a state with thousands of years of Traditional leadership as a NO MAN'S LAND! I surely won't take that from anybody, I know of several people whose ancestors were pioneers of Lagos settlement,they don't have any home but Lagos,yet you look at their heritage and say its not for them,this is bad and inhuman!
Let's learn to LIVE in harmony and tolerance but don't rape or ridicule the traditional heritage of others.Come to LASU, you will see indigenes bearing ALAUSA(the power base of modern Lagos), ask them how the name came about,they will tell you the name, which is a carryover from their ancestors; has been existing for hundreds of years.

The Likes of Umeh Nzekwe and his cohorts should know that despite the fact that the indigenes and first settlers of Lagos are cool and accommodating,their hospitality doesn't mean they don't know their History or where they are coming from;and they won't let anybody(whoever they are or how fond of us they are) take what doesn't belong to them or try to share what even Lord Lugard that amalgamated us met on ground.
We love everybody,we want us to be united than this but it will be unfair and unwise to look at another man's heritage and call it a NOBODY'S HERITAGE, we pray to live in love and peace but desist from calling Lagos a no man's land, its the only heritage some people are left with.
#Thanks.

Written by Pelumi Ambode who is a student of Lagos State University(LASU),Ojo;where he studies History and International Relations.

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Samafroxy22:
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kendrick9:
What are these illiterate bunch of agberos group called Opc talking?.
instead of them to condemn the loon(oba akiolu),they are talking nonsense... Respect my foot!
Lagos is a no man's land, everyone has the right to live freely there without some useless oba making stupid threats...
Opc is talking trash!

Lagos is the yorubas land, go and buy the history of lagos at any bookshoop, the earliest settlers of lagos are yorubas led by Prince Aromire in the 17th century! How will u say a town with over 2,000years of traditional leadership a no man's land
What are the names of the streets in lagos, Is Alausa an igbo name? Is oshodi an igbo name? Is alaba, Ikoyi,lekki,iyana ipaja,ojo,ladipo all igbo names Go and rest you ungrateful failures!! We will deal with u soon.

FreeGlobe:
The oba has denigrated his seat. No apologies for any unbecoming response from anyone against an oba who speaks like a "motor park tout." OPC should find something else to do.
in other news, I find it uncharitable that most yorubas cite Lagos as an example of yorubas being tolerant forgetting Lagos was once the capital of Nigeria. These mischievous people should for once cite one of the core yorubas states to prove their hospitable nature. Who are they deceiving

What about Calabar that is the first ever federal capital territory, why are you guys not running there to disturb them like u are disturbing us in lagos?
Come to sango in ogun state or the akoko part of ondo state! Don't be a jerk.


you are not getting people's point about the easterners, do u believe in the whole east not even a single commissioner is from outside their tribe??
In Abia state years back, the governor sacked and deported non-indigenes, nobody spank him for that! But when fashola deported destitutes, he was attacked, then I ask why the double standards

In Fidelity bank today, No yoruba man works there, they tribalize their employment processes and nobody is talking about that, why the double standards??

We need to address ourselves, how will u want other people to make you a deputy governor of their state when you can't make them ordinary ward councillor in your own state That is asking for too much and passing of boundaries!

We need to talk to ourselves! And the mistakes the igbos made in this election is that, they shouldn't have made their association this clear or be loussy about it, they should just have kept decorum and vote for who they like but a situation whereby you are riding horses around like MKO showing and screaming your might,it will surely be disastrous, you can't know more than the locals,hence thread cautiously! Millions of Hausas too live in lagos, there are even organized and locally governed hausa communities in Lagos but they've never made any noise about their population or their voting prowess, I saw their sarkin days ago in Agboroko and I asked who are they voting for on april 11, he said "No,we don't have a candidate, this is not kano, let the indigenes decide who they want" , I was suprised but am sure they have a candidate cos they really turned out to vote on march 28, they surely have a candidate but they don't have to shout it to the world,that's how politics are played when you are away from home,you don't take steps faster than the owners of a house,the ideal thing is to follow them even if you thread different spots.


Have never heard of Yorubas in Imo shouting they prefer ihedioha to rochas or iheanancho!
We need to fix these things, its when tolerance and balance comes to play that we can have a united country!

You can't TAKE from others; what you can't give to them!

MaziKachi:
Yes!.... Provided you are responsible and you have the required permissions. Scholars are always welcome

Required permissions like my school I'd card or what?

amokeme:
lol... We ll start charging you

I will like to come to CU, to just come and study the environment and students, am a scholar from lagos state university, will I be allowed in without any harrssment or intimidation?

ultimatetboy:
https://risenetworks.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/unilorin.jpg

Now, tell me those stuffs that happens in your institution being it college of education, polythecnic, monothecnic or uninversity. ?

http://www.234 forum.com/only-in-unillorin-see-what-an-angry-unillorin-student-wrote-about-her-school/

I think some(if not most) of these things happens in virtually all the govt schools in Nigeria,the 18hours reading you are talking about is even dwarf compared to what some scholars here in Lagos State University(LASU) do!
Me and my room mate have been on a marathon studying,research and reading since last week, it is rational to say we've studied for over 100hours now. Reading is not a task when you have the ambition and passion to make headway in life!

#GreatestNigerianStudents!

Firefire:
Maybe in 2019 or in Northern States of Nigeria or better still President of Online Polling Units, www.

See ur life he has been elected!

Zeus777:
I just searched the internet and there is no such thing as lasu bein one of the top 10 med school in Nigeria . Kindly post the address of the site where u found this ur bare face lie. How on earth could a university whose medical residency training has been suspended for over 3yrs for political reasons be one of the 1st ten in ngr. If indeed there is lasu amongst top 10 , then medical training is finish in that country . By d way, it's google not goggle !!!

https://www.students.com.ng/list-of-best-10-universities-of-medicine-in-nigeria/





Google is always ur friend!

Just type the top 10 medical schools in Nigeria. Goodluck

Zeus777:
LASU amongst the top 10 uni in Nigeria to study medicine? U definitely joking on that one! Presently fashola govt has killed medical education in lagos because of some personal vandetta he and his boss have always had wt the drs . Where was fashola when col marwa started medical school in lagos?? Go to lasuth and see the decay for urself. 1st ten ko, 1st ten ni

Just goggle it and stop being a jerk! LASUCOM Ikeja has the best facilities you can ever imagine, Even the medical students hostels are 5Star hostels, Stop being delusional!

Just goggle it, Goodluck!

Kenai:
Hahahahaaa! Oh ma days!



I have said this before and I will say it again - Fashola can only be exalted by the ignorant and uninformed.
Fashola is and has always been a mediocre bum gassed up by the syncophantic Lagos media hype, an unwarranted self-importance and a vainglorious sanctimony of unprecedented proportions.

Swell! Here our saviour comes again, dear Fashola, with his 3,500 cameramen as they commission his latest revolutionary project - A water tap!
Fashola commissions his latest 1billion-naira-per-kilometre road - Eko oni baje ooo!
Fashola and his 3,500 cameramen have turned on the streetlights - Eko oni baje ooo!
Fashola earmarks 4 billion naira for Christmas lights along our express road - Eko oni baje ooo!

But when the yearly rainy season comes in and turns the city into a modern-day Atlantis, watch his hungry internet dogs frantically search for someone else to blame. That's when you suddenly remember Lagos is "below sea level". That's when you suddenly start reading stories about how evil the locals are for "blocking the drainage canals with their filth" like the Lagos State Sanitation Department doesn't exist for a reason.
The Lekki Free Trade Zone is designed, constructed and commissioned on Twitter. The 4th Mainland Bridge is linking Lagosians to California on the pages of Osun Defender. Even the Lekki International Airport has planes landing and taking off to the Bermuda triangle, but this same turncoat has the nerve to point at others.
Under his watch, LASU tuition was jacked up to 250,000 with no infrastructural development to match the unjust hike. Thousands had to drop out under this man. But funny enough, this price hike still didn't stop his LASU from losing its NUC accreditation in various departments, including but not limited to Biology and Chemistry. But nobody talks about this.
He lambasts the president at every chance he gets, but on his failed lightrail project, he had to import 30 year old rusty decommissioned trains to fool his gullible praise-singers. As soon as his project failed, in his typical cowardly fashion, he had to turn around and blame the federal government for not bailing him out of his self-inflicted shame.

This clown talks about corruption; but tell him to sign the Freedom of Information bill and watch him sweat.
Only the ignorant exalt him.

Lalasticlala, Ishilove, Obinoscopy...

LASU presently has all their courses accredited including law,medicine and even their engineering programmes!
Just goggle the top 10 unis to study law and medicine in Nigeria and lasu will surely be there!

Am not in support of Fashola in lagos due to some reasons but you view on lasu is myopic,jaundiced,archaic and irrational!

I can list over 5major projects going on in lasu main campus now and he(fashola) should have even commissioned the school campus radio,the massive science complex,the twin law complex, etc last week if not for the elections.

All the best bro!

Greatest LASUITES!!! Wishing y'all a great recess!!!

sparkleRed:
History and international studies is d dept..buh history is a course of study on its own, international studies is a course of study on its own in uniben..buh the same courses run thru them, history goes deeper while international studies touches d surface..nt so deep...same lecturers 4 both...hope u nt confused by wat I just wrote

are you now saying they award different degrees for both??

my brother finished with a first class in history and international relations..... 4.52 from oau; or dont you get it??



or what are you even saying??

sparkleRed:
History and international studies is d dept..buh history is a course of study on its own, international studies is a course of study on its own in uniben..buh the same courses run thru them, history goes deeper while international studies touches d surface..nt so deep...same lecturers 4 both...hope u nt confused by wat I just wrote

are you now saying they award different degrees for both??

my brother finished with a first class in history and international relations..... 4.52 from oau; or dont you get it??



or what are you even saying??

sparkleRed:
Thank God u said OAU, Uniben history, winch esp nwokocha, osagie bunch of wicked men!

lool, is it only history or history/international relations combined?

lurther:
Please, why are they denying igbos their Permanent voters card in lagos?

As I type, lots of igbos have not been given their permanent voters card in lagos. Is APC afraid of something? All this while, they have been shouting that Igbos are inconsequential in lagos, why now sieze their voters card?

Besides, Apga is just a joker in the lagos gubernatorial elections, It's between PDP and APC. So, let the lagos state electoral commission in collaboration with the independent national electoral commission release the permanent voters cards of igbos in lagos. What is even their fear self, after saying igbos don't have the numbers and are presumably inconsequential.

go to anambra and collect your PVC!


YOU PEOPLE WANTS TO RULE LAGOS, WHY NOT BACK THIS YOUR ROBERT OKOROJA? yeye ingrates!

APC will win and We will send you people back to our villages!

philchudi:
pure history or international studies. or both.

both!

sparkleRed:
Dat history own is so true esp in uniben, we had just 5 2.1 in my class, no first class, 61 2.2, 5 third class and 25 spill over....just graduated last year nov....its terrible very terrible

my brother graduated from OAU with a first class in history and international relations just last year!

meanwhile, What are does the future holds for the graduate of history and international relations

These are pictures of our gallant soldiers calling on God Almighty for spiritual assistance, and for him to see them through the war, They are united in their differences, God bless them for us!

These are brother to a sister, father to children and an husband to a wife. may God protect you guys!

God bless Nigerian soldiers!

tolexy007:
i swear if buhari no come for d debate, make he forget my vote. dat means he is clueless dan d clueless

he can't go for a debate organized by PDP goons now, AIT,NTA ETC ARE ALL GEJ APPENDAGES.

CaptainAmerica1:
Brainbox2014,

I downloaded the documentary to analyze it fully. I can say that any intelligent minded person would support Buhari because PDP sorta did campaign for him. Meanwhile, only the gullible ones will fall for it (and sorry to say, many Nigerians are gullible because of our mentality).

They were busy ranting jail jail jail. Most times they didn't give the real reason why he jailed them.

Lots of good things were painted bad.

please link to the video download please,Or how can I download the video need to make analysis too!!!

mhizenugu:
Lool, Lagos advanced city?? You yo-robbers are funny sha!!

she's not a Yoruba, she's from Enugu,, check her username!

don't mix we igbos with Yorubas and Hausa's

Gynacologist:
idiot na hu b d owner....na ur fada get lagos.....if no ibos where tat lagos fo de....na as ona de kiss tat urgly ape as called tinubu rubbish...

stupid igbos,Lagos is the Yoruba's heritage, Why is it headed by an oba and not an obi

why are the towns,streets like Abule egba,Ikeja,Agege,LEKKI,AJAH,IKOYI,IYANA IPAJA,Ojota etc all Yoruba names?
how come Lagos is also called Eko?

I wonder why you people loves to provoke your hosts....