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FreeGlobe: I don't pity neither do I have interest in these igbo girls marrying into yorubaland. Ignorance kills

Mumu! If an igbo man does that to igbo woman would you urge igbo women to stop from marrying igbo men? ....how can you not have pity for this poor girl, regardless of who her attacker is?

I am yet to read the story and get full background but regardless, this is inhumane. If he will do this to an igbo girl, in all likelihood and if he was pressed to same point of frustration, he will do it to Yoruba girl or Hausa girl. This has nothing to do with ethnicity....simply cold, cruel and inhuman.

This dude was kidnapped in abakiliki

OMG, what do u want?

Congrats to Ogun.

Zet72: . all I can say is i " Islam a bad ,Islam a bad mohamad a pedophile

You dont know that, you are responding with sensational rumor..

Sell it and make some profit.

Who is this person that want to contest, or rather beome, LGA Chaiman?

bola4dprec: Allah has preferred some messengers above others.
David and Solomon are some of those messengers
that Allah has chosen above the rest.
David is Jesus’ ancestor.
Allah has chosen Imran’s family above all creatures.
Imran is said to be Mary’s father, Jesus’
grandfather.
Allah has chosen Jesus’ mother Mary above all
women.
Jesus is the only person explicitly said to be
honored in the next world.
Jesus is given specific attributes and titles that are
not given to any other messenger.
What this all means is that it is not Muhammad that
is the most exalted creature of all according to the
Quran. Rather, Jesus is the one messenger, the one
person, whom Allah has preferred and exalted above
all the others. Allah has conferred upon Christ and
his family an honor that has not been given to
anyone else.
We aren’t the only ones seeing it this way since there
is one moderate Muslim writer who candidly admits
that, according to the Quran, Jesus is the greatest of
all prophets. Dr. Nader Pourhassan, after citing
surahs 2:253, 3:42-46, and 59, says that:
Moslem religious leaders try to isolate Muhammad
from all other prophets by saying, "God kept the
best for last." Again, this directly contradicts the
Koran's teachings. The Koran says that some
prophets have been given more than others - that
some even talk to God. The example it gives is
that of Jesus Christ, not Muhammad…
These passages clearly show that God considered
Jesus to be His best prophet, not Muhammad.
After all, Jesus revealed himself to be a prophet
from childhood, while Muhammad was not
inspired until he was forty years old. The Koran
relates a number of miracles from Jesus'
childhood, but says nothing of this phase of
Muhammad's life. The name "Christ" is also used.
Unlike Jesus, Muhammad was not a special
messenger of God, but a mere helper, who brought
justice to the world, and glorified the name of
Jesus by setting the record straight about his
deeds on earth. His mission was also to eliminate
the corruption of the message of those prophets
who had gone before him. On the other hand, of
Jesus it is said that he was created in a similar way
to Adam…
Bear in mind that when God announced His
creation of Adam to the angels He commanded
them to bow to him. (Pourhassan, The Corruption
of Moslem Minds [Barbed Wire Publishing, Las
Cruces, New Mexico 2002], pp. 34-35)
Christian readers especially will be interested to
learn that the Koran teaches that J
esus was God's
best prophet, and that Christians will be placed
above non-believers until the Day of Judgment...
(Ibid., p. 61)
Moslem religious leaders claim that Muhammad
was the greatest prophet ever sent. If this was
true, then God would have stated so in the Koran.
Instead, when God talks of a prophet being greater
than others, the name He mentions is that of
Jesus. (Ibid., p. 101)

The gradation of attributes for social status is a unhealthy condition of the ego.

This one is taller than you
That one is darker
This one is brighter
The other one is a slave born
This one is richer
That one is fatter

........beside, did you go far enough into the Quran where it said all prophets and messengers and the scriptures are equal "and we make no distinction between them"?

I must remind my muslim brothers here that Jesus (asws) is a holy prophet of Allah. Likewise, the Bible is a holy scripture. To speak in derogatory terms or in vulgarity against either one is a blasphemy equating to a denigration or speaking ill of Muhammad (saws) or the Quran. I therefore urge you to restrain against the impulse to counter attack kaffirs and end up offending Allah.

Attack kaffirs on individual level but do not attack Jesus, his mother or any and all holiness of his message and teachings. If they attack Islam or Muhammad defend his humanity, if they attack Quran, ask them to produce a work close to it in truth.

take dat: Bros you sabi Tenni mama ni abi you dey their when Ojukwu dey bleep the Hajia?

No bro, i no sabi the Hajia but the story already out identifying who she be.

Is it Lagos State Police or Lagos State Command of NPF?

Debe and his ridiculous double talk. Na who tell am say Tenni mama be northerner?

Baby mama,

Na so you want take open a new week? You want talk bad about Yorubaland for Monday morning?

Bokoharam controls the fvckng border. Boko will soon start collecting duties and tarrifs at the crossings, they own that country now.

Bakassi don go to Cameroon, Maiduguri don go to boko.......alaigbo is next, going to Biafra. Shyyyyt!!

...oh i forgot, bayelsa was repurchased from mend.

Gej has zero understanding of what this idea will produce. Bad vision!

To the yanmiris that are yet to read my argument against the nationalizationof almajiri order, I encourage you to see your Eze Onlytruth for a briefing. If Gej were to imolememt this stooopid idea every ethnic grouo will get burnt but ibo in particular will yet again, and as always, be at the short end of the stick.

Let them keep the investment over there. The more they build and expand the more investment they will attract towards positive development of their own fatherland.

[quote author=Real-Mccoy]Awo thought igbos lessons yet the leech could not be a president ? We don't fight Yorubas, we pay Yorubas to do the job for us. If I lie ask Kudirat driver or those Yorubas Obas turned contractors that sold Abiola to Northerners. Your loud mouth won't get you any where, how was the Oluwole subsidy protest? Your people are one lazy clowns that will do anything to try and remain relevant... Opportunist that never complained when Lagos was been built with money generated from resources of the so called foreigners...Empty e-warriors we are waiting to see how your lot will unleash the much talked about terror your unemployed area boys have been talking about since June 12. We own you now, turned your lazy bunch to tenants now you are praying for conflict so you guys can declared our properties abandoned again? Dream on dreamers(Akata)[/quote]At any time in a market tussle the land barons end up the winners of the competition between land and investors.

To put it simply to you, you have enslaved yourself to Yoruba land barons. You have spent all your earnings erecting mansions on leased lands and now your attached ego cannot depart from it, even if the barrell of a gun is pointing at your temple. You have sold your soul, your freedom to go home is lost. The same dillema you face in Lagos your brothers face in Kano. This is why they prefer getting blown up and beheaded and gunned down than leavung. Their freedom is lost, the mansion, their bragging right back in village, has become their doom.

Abiola was not sold to anybody.....Abiola tresspassed beyond Yoruba's sphere of omoluabi when he started believing he had birthright to Sokoto caliphate. You dont know the history and you dont need to. Keep in milling the rumor you have in your picket.

Ok now, naptu.....kedu kodu.

Nna, arent you missing the Biafran flag?

Desola: That answer wasn't directly applicable to my question and when I ask you a question, you answer me and not refer to my "brother". I am not a Lagosian only by birth but by ascension. My rights are clearly different and superior to yours or the Kano man that was born in Lagos. The problem with you foreigners is that when you come to a conducive environment such as Lagos where your human rights are predominantly preserved as opposed to places where your men are being decapitated or your women de-bowelled, you can't seem to believe your luck and equate your unfettered access to the land being free for all without owners. I wouldn't attempt to lecture you on the definition of property or land rights as I can see that my predecessors have tried to educate you but all their efforts seem to have fallen on your deaf ears.

The house owner does not have to fight the tenant over his property, he would just request him to leave, so that notion of fighting for Lagos is neither here nor there. I wouldn't expect you to be fighting to get rid of fulanis over your erosion ravaged land because I know, that you know that it belongs to you, warts and all. Lagos have now recognised you as the leeches that you are and as you can see, there are calls from different quaters now for the introduction of tougher laws to put injuctions on your malpractices. As an easterner, you probably are not conversant with the use of soft power to get what you want; you are used to opening your mouth brashly and being paid with your heads served to you on platters as the northerners keep showing you. Westerners are not so callous but we would introduce policies that would make you make you know who the real Lagosians are. Your continuous daily trip to the west is alarming and now very glaring and if you think this encroachment will go unfettered, then think again. Remember as I told you earlier, all it requires are policies. Awolowo thought you once before - we can teach you again.

+1000 points. To the point. They are deaf, blind and dumb.

[quote author=Real-Mccoy]Dude fear won't allow you mingle with non Yorubas. Same chuks that sold bleaching cream to mama Yetunde you are asking to leave Lagos? You sounded like some one that grew up in a house declared abandoned property during the 1966 civil war.... Can you afford to rent a flat in Lagos of your dream? Take those business out of Lagos, it will be naked like Makoko slum[/quote]Rent home? What do i need to rent home in Lagos for? I have a thousand + homes in Lagos to live in....I only need to say which one I prefer.

You see, this is part reason why you carry Lagos for your head. You use it as a bragging right to your people in village. " i get house for Lagos".....they begin worship you as king. To me, Lagos is nothing other than being my native land. All the mega structures and skyscrapers and waterfront and bridges that elates you dont mean anything to me. My fathers were there before those structures came up....so the structures mean nothing. You are taken by the landscape....its an illusion. Your roots are more important thante illusions of living in Lagos. Go home.

[quote author=Real-Mccoy]Guys the Yoruba lady Nairaland claimed to be the richest woman in Africa, that received oil block from IBB a northerner, would she give up the wealth she accumulated from oil producing region when every state starts claiming their belongings? I don't think so... Okada riders in Lagos are from every ethnic groups in Nigeria, taking away their livelihood is calling for increased crime rate....Provide alternatives and Lagosian that rely on Okada to get to their remote homes around inner Bariga and Ojodu will be happier that now.[/quote]What were they doing before. Okada business? This is not the East or South South where you pay people to stop crime. Yoruba leaders refuse to buy people out of the threat of committing crime. We will ban Okada and crime is still punishable....its your choice if you want to go into crime.....get caught and get dealt with.

I do hope Nigeria divides so the oil owners can keep their oil to themselves and fire non natives away from their property. Every region has oil. Delta oil is such a big deal because its sitting on the sea and its shipment and marketing is easier than say oil fields in the interior. So whats big deal about oil?

[quote author=Real-Mccoy]Read your brother's hate comment before highlighting
mine. You were born in Lagos state, you have rights as an indigene so as Adamu born in Lagos state but parents are from Kano state. Lagos is flourishing not because of her indigenes but the availability of easy access to foreign countries and goods. You can't get your Lagos back whining on nairaland, be pro active about it and then others will believe and follow you.[/quote]I have never ever heard a Northerner born and raised in Lagos who says he is now a Lagosian. Never! ....and trust me I know and mingle with many of them who when they speak Yoruba or read and write in Yoruba youd think they are native Yorubas. Their fathers were born in Lagos, their fathers fathers had settled in Lagos as far back as 1930s....yet they speak their language, observe their culture and quick to tell you where home is.

So stop speaking for Adamu from Kano....he knows where his home is. Speak for Chuks who just arrived Lagos in 1972 and has abandoned his roots for surrogate custody in Lagos.

I grew up in Kano, my Hausa is flawless when i speak or write or read. My siblings were born in Kano. My mom was born in North. We are Yorubas we know where home is. There are millions of your brethrens stuck in North.....they claim they own Hausaland just as the other half claim they own Lagos.

[quote author=Real-Mccoy]The only time I do business with a Yoruba person in Lagos is when I buy Agege bread other than that nothing else.....Does University of Lagos belong to Yoruba also? You can keep your lasu and your laspotech. Keep on isolating your leaders through your tribal sentiments when the time comes, northerners will check mate them again...[/quote]You are now the mouthpiece for North? I thought you were Easterner?

Dont worry about who checkmates who....for now, we need sanity. When you go to buy Agege bread you should expect that you are getting fair quantity and quality for your money. You dont want to eat bread and get sick following day because the dough was rolled under unsanitary conditions.

These standards we had before.....food inspectiin, home inspection, sanitary conditions.....children health management and supervision, free prenatal and post natal care for maternities, waste disposal once a weekbright from the drum in front of your house, .......population explosion and migrants chaotic way of living and not maintaining the environment has resulted in stagnation.

We are sweeping irritants out....

People who escaped from erosion gullied streets and undrivable roads in east and arrived Lagos to complain about riad condition.....out!

People who say this is no man's land i can do what i want......out!

People who want to use but not help to maintain.....out!

People who are unsatisfied with the new direction Oodua is going.......out!

Caallm down!!!

First, nairaland does not tolerate bigots....no room for bigotry here and I have been here four years and yet to encounter one instance of bigotry or met a bigot. You can accuse me of loving my people too much and being too patriotic to our native land but I am not a bigot.

Second, I dont practice double standard....everyone here know when Negro speak what to expect.

When oil was found in delta and the British went on to merge delta land to Nigeria, what stopped the deltans from rebelling and forcing the colonialists from sharing their wealth with others? Are you aware that was a choice they had?

I told you that Oba of Lagos stopped FG from taking posession of Lagos. The Deltans could have stopped FG from sharing its wealth with Lagos, why did they not do that? They could have said we want our oil money to go everywhere but Lagos. So shut your filthy trap about oil money developing Lagos.....the owners of the oil are elated that Lagos is enjoying their wealth. When they no longer wish that to happen thry should address it openly and take action in that direction to effect it. We have openly declared a need to bring sanity to Yorubaland and bring all people to order and you see it already happening in Lagos. There is nothing anybody can do to oppose or stop it. If bringing sanity to our land gives you this much distress, pack your yanmiri must go belongings and head back to your chaotic land.

THE AMALGAMATION OF NIGERIA Union of Lagos and Southern Nigeria.—

In 1904 it was decided to unite the two Nigerias and Lagos under one government, and as a first step in that direction Sir Walter (then Mr.) Egerton was appointed both governor of Lagos and high commissioner of Southern Nigeria.

This was followed in Feb. 1906 by the amal gamation of these two administrations under the style of "the Colony and Protectorate of Southern Nigeria," with headquarters at Lagos town. The former colony and protectorate of Lagos (q.v.) became the western or Lagos province of the new adminis tration. In the year of amalgamation the revenue reached a record figure, the amount collected being LI,o88,000, to which Lagos province contributed Over 8o% of the revenue was derived from customs.

In the same year the expenditure from revenue was £1,056,000.Northern Nigeria Railway.—Northern Nigeria continued to be a separate protectorate, and in 1907 Sir Frederick Lugard was succeeded as high commissioner by Sir Percy Girouard.

In August of that year the British Government, on administrative, strategic, and commercial grounds decided on a railway to give the cities of Zaria and Kano direct communication with the perennially navigable waters of the Lower Niger. In view of the approaching unification of Southern and Northern Nigeria, the money needed, about £1,250,000, was raised as a loan by Southern Nigeria.

The route chosen for the line was that advocated by Sir Frederick Lugard. This important work, essential for the welfare of the northern territories, was begun under the superin tendence of Sir Percy, the builder of the Wadi Halfa-Khartoum railway. At the same time the Lagos railway was extended to join the Kano line near Zungeru, the Niger being bridged at Jebba.Land Tenure.—Sir Percy Girouard gave much attention to the land tenure, probably the most important of administrative ques tions in West Africa. He adopted the land policy of Sir Frederick Lugard and recommended "a declaration in favour of the nation alization of the lands of the protectorate." This was in accord with native laws—that the land is the property of the people, held in trust for them by their chiefs, who have not the power of alienation.

In 1909 he was succeeded as Governor (the titleHigh Commissioner having been changed) by Sir H. H. J. Bell; and meanwhile the secretary for the colonies had appointed a strong committee, which, after hearing much evidence, issued a report in April 1910 in substantial agreement with his recom mendations. This policy was adopted by the Colonial Office and the natives of Nigeria were secured in the possession of their land—the Government imposing land taxes, which are the equiva lent of rent. The exclusion of the European land speculator and denial of the right to buy and sell land and of freehold tenure was held by all the authorities to be essential for the moral and material welfare of the inhabitants of a land where the duty of the white man is mainly that of administration and his material advantages lie in trade.


Amalgamation of Northern Nigeria.—

The constitution of Southern Nigeria (1906) left the protectorate still divided into two very different, and, for political purposes, distinct depend encies of the Crown. Southern Nigeria, with an area of about 76,000 sq.m., stretched inland from the Guinea coast through a tropical belt of generally dense forest land to a line irregu larly corresponding with the latitude of 7'i o" N.

Northern Nigeria, with an area of 255,700 sq.m., composed largely of open prairie, hill country, and dry desert plains, extended from the lati tude of 7'i o" to the frontiers of the French and Zinder territory on the north, to French Dahomey on the west, and to the Ger man Cameroons on the east. The population of Southern Nigeria was about 8,000,000 and the population of Northern Nigeria, with more than three times the area, was about 9,000,000.

In both divisions primitive and very backward races had been over run and influenced by civilizations of a higher type. In the south the new civilization had been European and Christian ; in the north, Arab and Mohammedan.


The interdependence of these two regions was obvious and their amalgamation had long been urged upon the Imperial Gov ernment. It was not, however, until 19II that the secretary for the colonies, Mr. L. V. Harcourt, determined to adopt the policy. Sir F. (Lord) Lugard, who had been the first high commissioner for Northern Nigeria, was asked to initiate and carry out a scheme of amalgamation, being in 1912 appointed governor at the same time of both Southern and Northern Nigeria.

The preliminary work was completed in about 18 months, and on Jan. I, 1914, the governments of Southern and Northern Nigeria were formally amalgamated, Sir Frederick Lugard receiving the personal title of governor-general. The geographical divisions of north and south were maintained. Two lieutenant-governors were appointed, one for the northern and one for the southern province. An administrator was appointed to the colony, the executive council of which became the executive council of the protectorate, while the jurisdiction of the legislative council was confined to the narrow limits of the colony's 1,400 sq.m.

At the time of amalgamation Northern Nigeria was divided into 12 provinces, the native communities being for the most part each under its native ruler, the five principal native states being known as first-class emirates, while each independent chief tainship, however small, retained its treasured liberty, and this system of government was maintained.

The southern provinces at that period consisted of three divisions under provincial com missioners.

They were the territories east of the Niger, west of the Niger, and the hinterland of Lagos. The native races in the hinterland of Lagos and to the east of the Niger were in a much less advanced state of tribal organization than were the tribes in the north and scarcely fitted for any form of enlightened self-rule. Fetish worship, cannibalism, and barbarous practices were rife.

On the west of the Niger, however, three native states, Yoruba, Egbe, and Benin, were strongly organized. They were induced to renounce the exceptional position they enjoyed, under treaties made with Great Britain, and to accept conditions similar to those of the first-class emirates of the north.

The introduc tion of the new system was accompanied by some difficulty, and in 1918 an easily suppressed rising in Egbeland gave momentary uneasiness. Indirect rule has now been fully accepted in both Egbeland and Yorubaland and the report of 1924 stated that it was working admirably in Benin. The way for the extension of such indirect rule as might be found possible was prepared by the division of Southern Nigeria into nine provinces (later in creased), each under a British resident, as in the north.


The World War.

The outbreak of the World War within seven months of amalgamation postponed the consolidation of the new system. Patriotic sentiment in the protectorate ran high.Every department was depleted by volunteers for active service, and it was with difficulty that the administrative machine was held together with the remnant of overworked staff retained. For four years, the first thought of every Englishman in Nigeria was given to the war. And not of the Englishmen only.

The War served at once to test and to exemplify the solid results of Brit ish rule. Throughout the War period the great native chiefs of the north were constant and unflagging in their loyalty.The native troops of the West African Frontier Force did gallant service, both in the arduous campaign carried out under the leadership of Generals Dobell and Cunliffe in the Cameroons, and in what was to them foreign service in East Africa.

The Cameroons campaign which opened in August and September 1914, with reverses all along the British line, at Mora (Aug. 25) and Garua (Aug. 29) in the north, and at Nsanakang (Sept. 6) in the south, lasted until Feb. 1916. It was a severe test for the troops engaged. The fighting was heavy, but they stood it well. Early in 1915 the campaign, in which French troops took an active part, was reorganized. British forces in the north were placed under the command of General Cunliffe, and the final taking of Garua and the storming of Banyo Hill under his leader ship on Nov. 6, 1915, in face of a hail of dynamite bombs, was a feat of which any regiment might be proud.

The conquered territory was divided between France and Great Britain, to be administered under mandate according to the provisions of the Treaty of Versailles. The portion taken by Great Britain was 31,000 sq.m., with an estimated population of 600,000 (see CAM EROONS).the War by arresting material development also delayed the application of schemes for the moral welfare of the native population, some progress was made. The judicial and legal systems of the two protectorates were, on amalgamation, combined. One chief justice for the whole of Nigeria and four puisne judges were appointed, and each lieutenant-governor was provided with a legal adviser. The reorganization of the two systems and the revision of the laws of the two protectorates, was a long and heavy job.

The first reforms were initiated in 1914. Notwithstanding the difficulties of the moment, an edu cation ordinance was promulgated in 1916 having for its object the reform and co-ordination of the systems of the north and south. It set a definite standard, of which the principal aim was to substitute self-discipline and the formation of character for set examinations in literary subjects, and generally to fit local education to local needs.

A forestry ordinance of the same year (1916) dealt with the rapid destruction of the forests, which con stitute the principal wealth of the southern provinces.

Not the least achievement of the War period was the elimina tion of the traffic in foreign "trade spirits," on which the revenue of the southern provinces had largely depended. It was the de clared policy of the amalgamated Government to kill this trade by gradually raising the duty. Conditions of war hastened the process. Before the War the revenue from this traffic formed 34.26% of the revenue of Southern Nigeria. By the end of the War it had fallen to a proportion of 1.23. It was held that this result established two important conclusions.

First, that the Gov ernment of Nigeria could dispense with revenue derived from spirits; secondly, that the produce trade could be conducted suc cessfully without them. As from Feb. 1, 'gig, the importation of trade spirits was formally prohibited in all the West African colonies and protectorates.Constitutional Changes.—Sir F. (later Lord) Lugard retired at the end of the War, and Sir Hugh Clifford succeeded him as gover nor of Nigeria in July 1919.

It was an era of prosperity, and at the end of Clifford's term of governorship great economic progress had been made. Sir Hugh's tenure of office was also notable for two modifications in the system of administration. The first was the extension and reorganization of the central secretariat, a step which in practice tended to curtail the responsibility and initiative of the lieutenant-governors and residents of provinces. The second was the abolition of an advisory Nigerian council established under the amalgamation scheme, and the restoration of the jurisdiction of the legislative council for the colony over the whole of the southern provinces. In the new and enlarged council the elective principle was introduced. The introduction of this elective prin ciple, of which experience in the West Indies has not been alto gether encouraging, was new to West Africa, though it has since been applied to Sierra Leone and the Gold Coast.

The new coun cil retains an official majority, but includes three elected unofficial members representing the municipal area of Lagos, and one elected unofficial member representing the municipal area of Calabar. The unofficial element also includes members chosen by the three Chambers of Commerce (Lagos, Port Harcourt, and Kano) and the Chamber of Mines, two members representing respectively the banking and shipping interests, and eight the otherwise unrepresented African population of the colony and the southern provinces. The first elections for this council were held in Sept. 1923, and the council was inaugurated by the gov ernor on Oct. 1, 1923. The governor retains the power to legis late for the northern provinces, but the council may discuss affairs of interest to any part of Nigeria. In Sept. 1925

Sir Hugh Clifford was succeeded as governor by Sir Graeme Thomson.Improvement of Communications.—During his first year of office Sir Graeme made extensive tours, in one of which he trav ersed the protectorate from Lagos to Lake Chad, the whole dis tance being covered for the first time by motor; and in Feb. and March, 1926, Mr. W. G. A. Ormsby-Gore, the under-secretary of state, visited Nigeria. Later in the year proposals for the improvement of communications were submitted by the governor and approved in general by the secretary of state.

In his address to the legislative council on Feb. I, 1927, Sir Graeme outlined a large programme of accelerated road and railway construction. In the next five years the Nigerian Government proposed to in crease the 2,97om. of then existing roads by 200M. per annum, and to add to the 1,597m. of railways then open, new branch lines (to feed the main trunk lines) at the rate of 15om. a year The necessity for a big improvement in the transport facili ties was emphasized by the condition of the cotton industry. In the years 1906-1926 the value of the external trade of Nigeria rose from 5 to 34 millions sterling. More than half of the ex ports (of the total value of L16,888,361 in 1926) are palm oil and kernels, but among other industries cotton growing, intro duced by the British Cotton Growing Association in 1902, is notable, as affording a prospect of mutual benefit to the Africans of the protectorate and to Britain. It is only in recent years, however, that the production of lint for export has been replaced largely by the growing of the long staple American cotton. In the season 1924-25 the amount of American cotton exported was 28,10o bales, and in 1925-26 it rose to 38,350 bales. When in this hopeful stage of development the industry was threatened with disaster by the fall of the world-price of raw cotton in 1926.

To meet the danger the Government carried cotton on the railways at nominal rates, and, in response to Sir Graeme's appeal, the British Cotton Growing Association reduced the ginning charges and Messrs. Elder Dempster their sea-freights. Six months later he was able to announce the success of these measures to a Manchester audience. "A practicably established but growing industry," he said on Sept. 3, had been saved "from a very serious set-back." At the same time, in view of the rela tive failure of the American cotton when grown in mixture with other crops (as is customary among the African farmers), the Agricultural Department of Nigeria is trying to produce a strain of native cotton with the long fibre required by the Lancashire cotton spinners. If such strains can be produced in sufficient quantities, it is believed that the area under cotton will be largely extended in the near future.


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Paul John: ^^
they'll all have their state ID card

....Yoruba tribal marks.

They need to clarify on the subject of qualification. When the news get to other states without proper qualification they will begin to send their elderlys to Osun for benefit. .

[quote author=ekt_bear]Shot to his balls?

It didn't say anywhere in the story that the boy is an expert marksman, did it?[/quote]...he might not get to taste the full delight of a spicy pouusie but with one ball left in the sack he will still be able to feel somewhat of a joy.

pcicero: Epe was under Ijebu province during the colonial rule. That was why Kosoko could seek refuge there because it was not under Lagos colony.

Now, the people who came with Kosoko are now known as Eko-Epe and the indigenous settlers are Ijebu-epes.


The Sarumis, Edus etc are Eko-Epes while the Agbalajobis etc are Ijebu-Epes. That explain why there's the Oloja of Epe (ijebu) and the Olu of Epe (Eko people).

I hope this helps!

1. There was Ijebu Kingdom, not province at the time you referenced. The colonials were yet to get a foothold beyond just Eko. Provincial districts came later and Ijebu then became a province but much much later past the sojourn of Kosoko at Epe.

2. Is it not apparent that the establishment of Bini in Eko is being repeated here with the establishment of Eko in Epe?

3. What is the ancestry of the Olu, what lineage and dynasty is the throne?

Katsumoto: Because the Ijebu got to Epe and Ikorodu first Just as the Awori got to Ikeja, Iddo and other places.

Thanks Katz! Take a look at the quote below and please tell us if what cicero has said here concerning the two Epes is true or false.

pcicero: Epe was under Ijebu province during the colonial rule. That was why Kosoko could seek refuge there because it was not under Lagos colony.

Now, the people who came with Kosoko are now known as Eko-Epe and the indigenous settlers are Ijebu-epes.


The Sarumis, Edus etc are Eko-Epes while the Agbalajobis etc are Ijebu-Epes. That explain why there's the Oloja of Epe (ijebu) and the Olu of Epe (Eko people).


I hope this helps!

[quote author=Real-Mccoy]Start with riding area boys out of the street of Lagos till then I won't take your rant seriously . From observation I believe area boys are polluting Lagos morethan Okada riders...[/quote]Kidnappers, armed robbers, prostitutes, fake and unapproved drugs and merchandise.....these are worse off than area boys.

Area boys have been parts and parcel of Lagos before migrants trooped in after the war. They know their place in society and they dont cross the boundary. If they are a menace to you it must be something foreign in you that upsets them and has them on your trail.