₦airaland Forum

Threebear:
He drove IBeto off the market. Now his sub-par products have taken over.
Hausas and wickedness. Any surprises why the igbos are crying for Biafra?

hornyofife:
Meaning, the real Lagos isn't Yoruba's, just places craved out of Ogun are yoruba

imhotep:
You remain sleepless because of Igbos

imhotep:
Igbo people left Lagos in 1966.
Guess who brought them back :

imhotep:
OK. When can I start importing the medication in question?

imhotep:
Which other tribe controls business in Tejuosho, Balogun, Trade Fair, Alabama International, Ikeja, Aswani, Festac, Amuwo Odofin, etc etc etc

imhotep:
Calm down and support Igbos

imhotep:
Then why are you bothered?

imhotep:
So you want to tell Igbos how to live and what to say ? ?

imhotep:
There is freedom of speech you know

imhotep:
There is plenty oil money to spend abi

imhotep:
For sure Igbos should be among the most populous ethnic group in Lagos

imhotep:
So you want Igbos to leave Lagos abi

imhotep:
Learn to appreciate Igbos

liberalsinnerx:
OP, if you are Yorubaa and spoke so honestly like this, well detailed and backed by examples, then there will be no reason for some Igbos claiming they developed Lagos. The reason why some Igbos do this is because they feel they not been appreciated by Yorubaa or yorubas, some are distorting facts. You don't hear Igbos claiming they own Abuja, when in fact Abuja development today cannot be discussed without mentioning Igbos. If you think Igbo presence in Lagos is something, come to Abuja and see. When El Rufai say that over 70% of real estate and landed properties in Abuja are owned by Igbos, the locals, Gwari and Hausas didn't deny it, they know. And they appreciate it and Igbos don't see any need to blow trumpet like they do for Lagos.

Rotimik:
Their new lie have been busted. No single 5 star hotel in the entire southeast.

Shame on the OP.

OkutaNla:
Liar, liar, pants on fire. Abeg, based on what proof or evidence? In terms of Hotels, Yorubas beat una hands down.

Do a search on all the Hotel listing directories (Hotels.ng, travel.jumia.com) per state and compare the number of Hotels in Yorubaland and Igboland.

According to a Jovago (now Jumia travels) survey, the following cities have the largest number of 5-star hotels in Nigeria:

https://www.okay.ng/list-of-nigerian-states-with-the-highest-number-of-5-star-hotels/

1. Lagos – 22 (1164 hotels in total)
2. Abuja – 6 (370 hotels in total)
3. Port Harcourt – 5 (226 hotels in total)
4. Ibadan – 2 (281 hotels in total)
5. Calabar – 1 (177 hotels in total)

No single 5-star hotel in the entire SE!

A quick search on Hotels.ng and Jumia travels show that Ibadan is third city with the largest number of hotels in Nigeria, behind Lagos and Abj, even more than PH. On Hotels.ng (Nigeria's largest hotels listing company), 399 hotels are listed under ibadan, while Owerri has just 138 hotel listings (the entire Imo had just 180, Anambra had 242, Enugu 274, Abia 164, Ebonyi 71), while Oyo as a whole had 505, Ogun had 584, Osun 185, Ondo 117, Ekiti 207, as against Abuja's 799 and the entire Rivers had 414 listings. Lagos is king with 2207. This data is consistent with those from other sources.

nisai:
Your utterances not royal, Awori youths tell Oba Akiolu of Lagos
By Samuel Akinwoye
The Oba of Lagos, His Royal Majesty, Oba Rilwan Akiolu has been accused of a deliberate plot to distort the Yoruba history for parochial and egocentric ends. The Lagos youths under the auspices of Awori Progressive Youths Movement, (APYM) in a statement on Wednesday accused the Oba of making unfounded statements aimed at rewriting unblemished history of the Yoruba people.
“We are shocked at the utterances attributed to the Oba of Lagos, Oba Rilwan Akiola and his protégés who have embarked on a conscious war of attrition against other prominent traditional rulers in Yorubaland under the guise of speaking for the people of Lagos. Oba Akiola has come out as the worst thing that has ever happened to Lagos and this is very unfortunate” the statement signed by Abiodun Eniola stated. A copy was made available to Irohinoodua. The group accused the Oba of having 'very little education and short in royal manners."
The group described as ‘bare-faced lies and a fallacy’ claims by the Oba of Lagos that Awori migrated from Bini. “This is a very shameful lie. It shows clearly lack of knowledge, lack of wisdom and a complete disgrace to the royal stool that appears being occupied by someone who completely lacks a knowledge of history.”

Eniola said the Awori are Yoruba people who migrated from Ile-Ife and were the first to settle in the territory referred to as Lagos today. He said there is a small piece of land referred to as Eko but that this small piece of land does not represent the entire Lagos, the place being less than 0.1 percent of the Lagos land mass. “If the current Oba of Lagos thinks he is not a Yoruba man, he is free to go back to where he comes from and leave but he cannot take Lagos away.
He said the Awori people migrated from Ile Ife in 10th century, and occupy present day Lagos state, with a considerable section of the Awori clan occupying areas within Ogun State as a direct fall out of the creation of Ogun State in 1976. Towns including Isheri, Ota, Igbesa, Ilobi, Tigbo are all Awori settlements within today's Ogun State in Nigeria. The settlement of the Awori clan preceded the establishment of Abeokuta as an Egba kingdom in 1832, as Isheri, the foremost Awori town within present day Ogun State was settled in the 15th century.[3] The Awori are direct descendants of Olofin, one of the sons of Oduduwa - the father of the Yoruba nation. As such, in accordance with Yoruba custom, they brought their crown along with them from Ile Ife. Osolo, one of the sons of Prince Olofin, settled at the Osi quarters as his father and his brother journeyed further south from the place where the plate sank at Idumota. The first crowned Oba at Ota was Oba Akinsewa Ogbolu in 1621, he was the son of Osolo.[4]
He said there was no presence of Bini in Lagos territory until 400 years after the Awori has established Lagos and ruled over it. He said the Bini angle only came with the coming of Oba Ado, a Prince from Bini He said it was the Awori that received Ado and that it was based on the believe that he was also a son of the Oduduwa that he was allowed to be King in one of the lands in Lagos Island. He said 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. He said over the years, the identity of the Bini has been assimilated into the greater Yoruba culture the way the Majesty of England that came from Hanover in Germany have been assimilated by the English.
The Awori youths said the Oba has ‘messed up’ the royal stool of Lagos accusing him of ‘constantly on ego trip.” He said is disturbed that he had no place in the hierarchy of Kings either in Yorubaland or in Nigeria accusing the Oba for promoting ‘primitive rivalry between himself and the Ooni of Ile-Ife and the Alaafin of Oyo. But we want to assure the people of Lagos that Lagos has produced several Kings and this dark stage, the worst in history will certainly not last for ever. He said if the Oba of Lagos continues this way, future Yoruba leaders will be left with little option than to abolish the Lagos throne or ensure a certain set of backward people never get there.

maskid:
LAGOS EITHER BELONGS TO BENIN OR IS A NO-MAN'S-LAND.



PERIOD!!!!

Cinkq:
i don't believe he made the statement credited to him concerning lagos ownership. Everyone knows lagos belongs to yoruba.

maskid:
LAGOS IS NO MAN'S LAND. PERIOD!!!!!

columbus007:
Yes I like that,the statue is been occupying space and it's not useful to any lagosian,but it's funny how it's been tied and removed tho ,hope they are not going to break it into pieces and use the debris to fill lagos pot-holes.

Ekealterego:
Lack of knowledge of history and culture outside of Nigeria is the problem of y'all. And who told you that the clothing concept of agbada came from Nigeria? Oh! Lemme crush your innocence, it didn't!!

bigtt76:
Agbada wen dem nor fit control ......na agbada be dat?

SHAKABOOM:
Hahaha! Omo see beef oooh..Weder its agbada or not his cloth beat all the agbadaz in the occasion hands down.

The yam head said yorubas are amongst the tribe that own agbada..For where..Agbada belongs to the northerners ad yorubas copied it from the northerners.

Airforce1:
Jealous people

They've brought tribalism into these because the slayking is from the East.

Why are these people so jealous of the Easterners

puregrace:
IGBO PEOPLE SEE OPINION/CRITICISMS AS BEING HATEFUL AND JEALOUS. THEY FORGET PEOPLE FIND FAULT IN IPHONE X EVEN SAMSUNG S8. WHY IS THERE REVIEW IF U DON'T WANT CRITICS.

7Alexander:
Grow some brain if you want to succeed in life. I spit on your failed existence