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Sammy07:Wallahi, you are very correct! They took Eleko matter to UN. Though it was thrown out. ![]() You are right, Lagos has become for them a sanctuary. This campaign is to stop Ondo from becoming a sanctuary. Electoral victories back to back with non-Yoruba women as First Ladies is not good for our future in Yorubaland. We blamed our fathers and grandfathers for letting down the guard down too long and put us in the current position in Nigeria. It is our opportunity to raise those walls back up and own the right of way at the gate entrance. |
Charleys:Regardless where she is from, if not Yoruba Jegede should be skipped. This election in Ondo will be about Yoruba Woman occupying the First Lady position. |
Sammy07:Im surprised it was not appealed to UN. |
- The first President of the Mobolaji Bank-Anthony |
Sammy07: ![]() Is the Eze ndigbo still banned or restored now in Ondo? |
ogbuefi677:She did not fail. Your society discriminated against her and shut her out. |
johnmartus:Very valid questions. I cannot move from a position of efficiency to that of deficiency. Nobody in their right mind does that. The sprinkle of Yorubas in SE are civil servants of FG and they were posted there involuntarily. No Yoruba person voluntarily leaves Yorubaland and resettles permanently in SE. Dangote has establishments in every region. His absence in SE speaks volume. |
leokid866: ![]() Thanks for the support. There are many gaps in the historical account online. I tie everything together. |
johnmartus:Ondo should go for a Yoruba woman. Look at this - Last governor of Oyo, Ajimobi's wife was Lebanese background. Current governor of Oyo, Makinde's wife is SS Current Governor of Ondo, Akeredolu's wife is SE. You are saying Jegede's wife is also SS. We should ask ourselves this....what has Yoruba Woman done to deserve her rightful place continously donated out? It is not bad thing to have women of other regions that share in our value and reciprocate in our alliance to occupy important positions in our land....but to become the normal and a consistent outcome means that the men in Yorubaland have truly lost it. Jegede Let's put a Governor in Ondo that will satisfy the call for Yoruba First Lady! |
Rotimi2705:Jegede's wife is Mrs Eno Jegede. I dont know where she is from, can't find her Yoruba name or maiden name. People that know these things should contribute the info. This is not about party. Yoruba First! You honor our people in your region, we honor your children in ours. The ties of cross-exchange will go a long way in cementing alliance, peace and unity. If we have been honoring your children in our land and you shut our children out in your region, we will respond and shut your children out on our side. |
ogbuefi677:...but your sister Biancah bought forms to contest and was declared a non-entity and accused of crossing the line in Anambra. If your own daughter had no chance amongst her people......what chance does a Yoruba woman stand? You are the first person to truly key in to my thread on diversity and reciprocity. |
Nels55:How do you explain a society that declared that youths in their late teens and early twenties from different states are not qualified to be voted into the student union council of a University on its land? How about declaring clergymen unqualified to lead a diocese because they are not sons of the soil? Is this how it is done in the outside country you cited as example? |
johnmartus:Very true bro! The same train of thought you listed here was the outcome in Lagos. In 2015 three Igbos won election into the State House of Reps. It shows Yoruba's inclusion and accommodation for diversity. Back in their home states candidates were excluded simply because they did not belong. Lagos hires and promotes on merit in the civil service. Back in SE they fire and repatriate civil servants back to their home states. We value diversity, we will drive the campaign for diversity across Nigeria. Those who remain shut to others in their region will equally be shut out in our homeland. Diversity is the engine for the Nigerian unity. Vote Yoruba Woman as FIRSTLADY IN ONDO! Thanks bro! |
I do believe inappropriate dressing adds fire to an already smouldering heat but women that are covered from head to toe and modestly dressed also get raped. I believe men need to run the anti-rape message and since we carry the burden, should also make its penalty consistent and severe. |
ogbuefi677:Benue people have been in top political positions in Yorubaland as far back as Awo's AG....upto the second coming in UPN. As recent as 2000 there were two Benue people in cabinets in SW. There is a reciprocity between Yoruba and Benue. So shut up, your response has no validity to the thread subject. |
helinues:Go and ask them. On topics such as this, true Yorubas reveal themselves. Pretenders also show up. ![]() |
First let me say this. I opened a thread two days ago and put in there a caption of ethnic discrimination in Iboland and one of the mods hated the revelation and what it says about Iboland and deleted my thread. Practically in Iboland if a woman is from Enugu, she is not qualified to seek political post in any other state in Iboland beside her home state of Enugu. The treatment is reciprocated among other states in SE. In Ngwa land, the town declared that non-Ngwas were not qualified to be voted into the SUG of the university. We also have on record many instances where a Bishop from Awka, Anambra cannot be Deacon in Mbaise, Imo because he is not son of the soil. For people that live in denial of diversity, they should experience rejection and denied inclusion in other places. This is thread is not tribal or hatred, we need to embrace diversity and to practice it through action. As many instances that exist of Yoruba accomodation and tolerance of others, and particularly the Ibo....we still fail to see a return openess and inclusion of Yorubas in prominent Govt positions in Iboland. As we speak, there are three Yorubas I know of that are in top Govt service in North. One of them is Fausat Adebola Ibikunle, Commissioner in El Rufai's cabinet. In the old days and under Kings, diplomatic exchanges and acts of bonding was practiced to promote peace across cultures. Thus young maidens were married into noble lineages to seal alliance. There were many of such between Yoruba and Hausa. Modernity has substituted such practices with inclusion in govt cabinets and or in top visible positions. These individuals thus serve as ambassadors to build bridge across cultures and seal alliances for political cooperation. In Yorubaland on its own, our sons and daughters are scattered around and positioned in different states away from their origin. This has been possible everytime we have a uniformity in political presence and represented across board under one party. It is very important that Yorubaland continue in this practice of shuffling competent Yoruba sons and daughters to serve in cabinets of any state within the homeland. By extension that we also continue to practice inclusion and improvements in our peaceful exchanges with other cultures that share in our values. A non-diverse society that denies its sons and daughters inclusion does not share in our values and if they will deny their own youths at home and discriminate them based on background and origin, how much more those of us that do not share their cultural identity. The position of a First Lady is not elected. However, she serves a role in the political success of the husband and the progress and growth of the state far more than the array of aides and special assistants sorrounding the Governor. It is not a position to be dismissed. Besides, state constitution allows for State budget allocation to fund the office and its staff. I am hereby declaring to my brothers in Ondo, and the generality of Yoruba youths to support and vote a YORUBA WOMAN as FIRST LADY in the coming election in Ondo State. Below is list of accredited candidates for upcoming election. We have a mission to put a Yoruba Woman as First Lady in Ondo. Look at the list below for the Governorship Candidates. Give us a list of their spouses and their background. Where do the wives of these men come from? Respond and share this information. Grab your future and protect the future of our women along with it. Act Now! Rotimi Akeredolu - All Progressives Congress (APC) Eyitayo Jegede - Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Agboola Ajayi - Zenith Labour Party (ZLP) Rotimi Adeleye Akindejoye – Accord party Joshua Oluwafemi Adewole -Action Alliance (AA) Adeleye Adekunle Peter – African Action Congress (AAC) Adelegan Adedapo Oluwaseyi – African Democratic Congress (ADC) Martin Kunle Olateru-Olagbegi -Action Democratic Party (ADP) Olowoloba Dele – All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) Aminu Akeem Olanrewaju – Allied Peoples Movement (APM) Adesanya Olaoluwa – Action Peoples Party (APP) Okunade Taiwo – Labour Party (LP) Ojajuni Joseph Eniola – New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) Funmilayo Jenyo Ataunoko – National Rescue Movement (NRM) Babatunde Francis Alli – Peoples Redemption Party (PRP) Fasua Peter Oyeleye – Social Democratic Party (SDP) Ojon Dotun – Young Progressive Party (YPP) Benjamin Jairus Olarotimi – Zenith Labour Party (ZLP) |
laiperi:I have always questioned why Ojukwu who never saw war was a hero but the true heroes - Banjo, Effiong were not even acknowledged in Biafran heroes record. |
Thats not what the Apex Igbo Leader in Lagos believes. Hon. Jude Idimogu, the Apex Igbo political leader in Lagos, has said repeatedly that Igbos will vote APC and that Tinubu will be President and Igbos can follow after. Someone please update Clark. https://tribuneonlineng.com/igbo-president-will-emerge-after-tinubus-tenures-%E2%80%95-idimogu/
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NSK4U:Vote Yoruba woman as FIRSTLADY in Ondo! |
NSK4U:Its more than Tinubu being called a leader......the issue is where the acknowledgement came from. ![]() Akeredolu is a hero amongst the autonomous villagers. When their hero acknowledges the villain Tinubu as "his leader" , surugede don scatter be dat! ![]() |
How did he entangle himself? Kaai, God save am. If that horn enter his body thats it! There is no hospital can save him. Chineeke God! |
In his tweet: he said: “Today, I visited our leader @AsiwajuTinubu and my brother @jidesanwoolu to formally introduce my Deputy Govenor designate and consult with them for the forthcoming election in Ondo State. We are one inOP, are you sure Akeredolu said that? He said "Our Leader".... Kaaii.... Ibo go get diarrhea from this news.... but they will blame it on salah meat though. |
Thanks Sammy! ![]() |
![]() Its the best time to post, no harrassment from traffic and trolls |
Thats picture of the first and oldest church in Lagos...the Holy Trinity at Ebute Ero. It was a missionary post in 1851 and was the spot from which a throne take-over was foiled. The security risk led to the expansion of administrative oversight. You can see the wharf right on the water bank, it was for hundreds of years a landing port for water vessels transporting Ijebu traders and other hinterland Yoruba merchants to trade in Lagos.....hence the name Ebute Ero. Few meters from it is the Ebute Ero market, it is out of view. It was the market for all produce and commodities and traders as far away as Ajashe and Cotonou and Abidjan trade there. The water front no longer look like what you see here. The wharf was decommissioned and moved elsewhere. It was then converted to a soil disposition point. The picture here is when it served as waste disposal point for sanitary workers in Lagos. That was also decommissioned and has been replaced with the Adeniji Adele Ring Road. |
The Federal Govt vacated Lagos in 1991 and Abuja became the official capital of the Federation. This transfer had to do with Administration of the sovereingty only, does not mean that Federal Govt no longer has physical presence in Lagos. The truth is Federal Govt of Nigeria has physical presence in every state of the Federation, Lagos is not an exception. When sovereign power transferred from colonial Govt to Nigerians the status of Lagos as a seat of colonial administration transferred with it. This was 1960. In early 1960 colonial presence was everywhere in Nigeria without exception. What was Lagos prior to 1960, and what was the history of political administration in Lagos? Portuguese had been in Lagos far much ahead of English arrival in 1850 and they primarily lived in an outskirt of Lagos called Ehingbeti. They were the first to settle the Marina inward to Balogun. In respect to the name "Lagos", given by the Portuguese, it consisted of just the communities bordered by the Marina which formed the central trade point for the Portuguese merchants. Everywhere outside of that community was known as Eko. So in that age, even Isale Eko was not part of Lagos. In 1850, the place we now call Lagos Island consisted of living quarters and business district - the living quarters are many and have distinct names, but the business district was only one and was the one known as Lagos. The quarters of Eko are typically with prefix but many are also without. Oke - (Okesuna, Okearin, Okepopo) Isale - (Isale Eko, Isalegangan) Idu - (Idumayibo, Idushagbe, Idutafa) Ita - (Itafaji, Itakose, Itagarawu) Ebute - (Ebute Ero, Ebute Elefun, Ebute Alagbafo) Ehin - (Ehingbeti, Ehinogba) Oju - (Oju Olobun, Oju Olokun) Example of places without prefix. Offin Alakoro Ereko Aroloya Ajele Ilubirin The quarters listed above were administered by Eleko. Lagos (current day Marina) was also under Administration of Eleko. The summary of it is that Eleko was the sole administrator of Eko and Lagos.....both being on one part living communities for indigenes and on the other part living quarter and business district for Portuguese merchants respectively. The administrative arrangement changed following 1861 treaty of Lagos. In 1861 England made Lagos a colony. The original Lagos port was on the Marina and used by the people of Eko and Portuguese merchants to trade. Their markets extended inward from the water to Ereko. When England bombarded Lagos in 1851 they destroyed Portuguese trade post on the Marina and destroyed quarters in the indigeneous Eko. In the ten year period between 1851 and 1861 they had converted holding posts on the Marina from slave trade to shipment and trade in commodity goods and caused Portuguese traders to abandon Lagos and follow Oba Kosoko to new trading posts in Palma and Lekki near Epe. Oba Dosunmu remained the Eleko and King of Lagos uptil December 1861 when the treaty deposed his authority over Lagos. He thus became Eleko only, Lagos had been taken from him. Just the Marina alone and its port was such a critical trading post and a naval advantage to England that they did not believe interference in the Eko part or its hinterland had any additional value to their cause. They had declared Lagos (Marina) a colony. They were surprised by Awujale on one hand, and Oba Kosoko on the other. The Ijebus laid siege and forced embargo on trade between hinterland and Lagos. Kosoko and Epe Army had mercenaries on the Lagoon that would sneak up and sink ships loaded with commodities to Liverpool. The colonial post at Lagos issued warning to Awujale and also sent an attack group led by Egbas to displace Kosoko in Epe. The Egba mission to Epe failed. Not long after that Kosoko, Ajeniya and Oposu had used stealth of night to sail from Epe and entered into Eko to cause damage. The goal was to forcefully kidnap Oba Dosunmu and enthrone Kosoko. Their mission was almost successful if the plot had not been broken by the missionary post at Ebute Ero who witnessed their landing and identified the men. A quick dispatch from the naval patrol on Marina saved the King....but the three men had quickly dissapeared just as they appeared and were on their way back to Epe. This greatly unsettled the Lagos colonial post and put them at high alert that the only way to save the King from overthrow, which if successful would no doubt jeopardize the colony and put the English men at great risk, was to expand the administration of the colony to include Eko. This was how Eko became part of Lagos Colony for Administrative purpose. Thus Lagos served as a model for indirect ruling in Nigeria. The colonial government had direct rule over Marina and the business district but indirect rule over Eko via Oba. This was also the point when the Oba was stopped from remitting tributary to Omo n'Oba in Benin. He became a subject of the England Queen, no longer of Benin King. The missionary post that played part in this expansion is still standing till today, a church was built on the land and it is the oldest church in Lagos - Holy Trinity Church, Ebute Ero. Places such as VI, Ikoyi, Apapa, Obalende, Keffi, Epetedo, all came later as further need to expand, resettle and grow became reality. It is important to define the line between direct colonial administration as a separate entity from the domain of Eleko. The following are areas under direct colonial authority and this area is what became FCT in 1960 when power changed hands. 1. The length of Marina from where Broad Street ends at Ehingbeti to the other end at Onikan. 2. Onikan to King George V to Igbosere Rd, connects to Bamgbose Street at Ajele to Broad St at Tinubu. 3. Broad St cut back into Marina Wharf. The landmarks in this district are predominantly private ownerships. Few government buildings and offices exist. Here you see names like Williams St, Davies Str, Martin Str, Customs Strt, Brook Str, McCarthy Str, Berkely Str and so on..... Private institutions such as Leventis, Kingsway, UAC, GBO, PZ, Chewalrams, Glover Memorial Hall, Lagos Stock Exchange, Standard Bank, Barclays Bank, Island Club, Yoruba Tennis Club, Western House, LAPAL House and so on..... The public institutions were GPO, ECN, NPA, Ministry of External Affairs, Ministry of Justice, Crown Court, Supreme Court, Ministry of Defense, PWD, CID Hq (Lion Bldng), General Hospital, Maternity Hospital, Flag Staff House, King George V Stadium, National Museum, Race Course (TBS), Legislative Parliament, Independence Building, King's College, Lagos Prison, Central Bank and so on.... In addition to the above there were missionary institutions - Olowogbowo Methodist, St Paul at Breadfruit, Holy Cross Cathedral at Ajele, Ebenezer Baptist at Ajele, The Cathedral at Marina, African Cathedral on Broad, Methodist Church of Trinity at Tinubu, St Peters at Faji, and so on.... In fact, all the missionary churches were concentrated and spread inbetween Marina and Idumagbo. VI, Ikoyi were not part of FCT. Their purpose was strictly as a reserved residential quarters for colonial administrators. Like I said, administration was purposely to preserve British interest which initially was concentrated at Marina Wharf. A daring event that threatened British presence led to expansion of administrative control to include a wider area. VI and Ikoyi residents were the administrators and did not need policing. Moreover, they removed theirselves across the water purposely to demarcate jurisdiction. In 1960 when command changed from colonial to self rule there were two administrators in Lagos. The Federal Capital Administration and Lagos Town Council (later Lagos City Council). FCT included the areas above that I numbered 1,2,3. Outside of that was jurisdiction of Lagos Town Council. Lagos was thus capital not just for FG....but also for the indigeneous Town Council. Areas under jurisdiction of Lagos Town Council. 1. The entire length of Broad street from Ehingbeti to Tinubu, anything North of the line to the bank of the Lagoon at Ebute Ero. 2. The entire length of Bamgbose Strt from Tinubu to Igbosere at Ajele, anything North of that to the Lagoon at Idumagbo. 3. The entire length of Igbosere to Moloney and King George V at Onikan, anything North of that line to the Lagoon at Ilubirin. For those who know the territories of Lagos Island it is plain to see that the FCT territory is a small subset of the entire area and forms today what we call the Southern border of the Central Business District. More than half of it is private properties, not government owned. For instance Kakawa, Ajele (Campos), Olowogbowo, Faji, CMS, and from Abibu Oki westward is all private holdings. All the territories of VI, Ikoyi and Apapa were excluded from FCT dating back to the court battle between Chief Amodu Oluwa vs the Crown. It's why the families of Elegushi, Oniru, Oluwa, Onikoyi remain Kings in those domains....alongside Eleko in Lagos Island. The development of Lagos takes its root from the original owners, the children of Olofin. Ereko remains the oldest inhabited land area of Lagos Island. Its original Awori name was EREKUSI. Benins called it Ereko. The Ijebus were the ones that named it Eko. Portuguese called it Lagos. Brazilians called it Onim. England met development when they arrived in 1850. By the time they passed it to Independence Nigeria in 1960 private developments had surpassed Government institutions in Lagos and the town was under joint administration. On the issue of infrastructures such as bridges, ports, stadiums, roads....FG had to lease land to put the structures in their place. FG does not own the lands in Apongbon or Ijora or Iganmu or Surulere. It was also outside of its administrative jurisdiction. Therefore Nigeria continues to be indebted to Lagos. To emphasize the point, Lagos State have applications at the Federal level asking it to renew lease contract, dispose the infrastructures or risk forfeiting it in a legal filing citing abandonment. Independence building is abandoned, National Theater is abandoned, National Stadium is abandoned, Festac Housing is abandoned. Let me stop here for now. I cannot upload the entire history of Lagos on Nairaland...I won't have anything to earn when my book is published. ![]()
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2prexios:Eid Mubarak! Thank you my brother. Olorun a wa pelu wa, a fun wa ni isegun. |
TRIGITIS:I endorse this message, Wallahi! |
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