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okuya:
THE REAL HISTORY OF LAGOS.(who can lay claim to the land).
source: wikipedia.
Researched by Ejike Michael

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.
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 s
trongly opposed the intended move, and deposed and exiled the king, and installed Akitoye's brother Kosoko as Oba. 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 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.
Eko was the land area now known as Lagos Island where the king's palace was built. The palace is called Iga Idunganran, meaning "palace built on the pepper farm". Oba Ado and the warriors from Benin, as well as some of the indigenous people who sought safety, settled down in the southern part of Eko called "Isale Eko", Isale literally meaning bottom, but must have been used to indicate downtown (as in Downtown Lagos).
The first king of Lagos, Oba Ado, apart from having two sons also had a daughter Erelu Kuti, who begat Ologun Kutere, who later became king. Shokun his brother, who was more aggressive and whom the Erelu suspected could plan a palace coup, was given a chieftaincy title, "Onile-gbale", and a palace just behind the king's palace. This was the first time that a Chief
would be appointed and installed at the same time as a King's coronation.
Oba Akitoye who ceded Lagos to the British was oba Kosoko's uncle. Oba Akitoye was the first Oba not to be buried in a Bini. Prior to this, all the Kings of lagos were buried in Bini. They passed on taxes to the Oba of Bini until the British came and explained that there was no need to send taxes to Bini anymore especially as the Binis themselves were paying taxes to Britain. It was during his reign that the direct influence of the Binis on Lagos ended.

Oba Kosoko believed in the slave trade and was at loggerheads with the British, hence his dethronement and flight, first to Badagry and later to Epe, Nigeria where he founded kingdoms that still exist today.

Past Obas (Kings)Edit
Main article: Oba of Lagos
Ashipa (1600–1630) died on the way back to Benin
King Ado (1630–1669) first King of Lagos
King Gabaro (1669–1704)
King Akinsemoyin (1704–1749)
Eletu Kekere (1749)
King Ologun Kutere (1749–1775)
Adele Ajosun (1775-1780 & 1832-1834)
Eshilokun (1780–1819)
Oba Idewu Ojulari (1819–1832)
King Oluwole (1836–1841)
King Akintoye (1841-1845 & 1851-1853)
Oba Kosoko (1845–1851)
King Dosunmu [Docemo] (1853–1885)
Oba Oyekan (1885–1900)
Oba Esugbayi Eleko (1901-1925 & 1932)
Oba Ibikunle Akitoye (1925–1928)
Oba Sanusi Olusi (1928–1931)
Oba Falolu (1932–1949)
Oba Adeniji Adele (1949–1964)
Oba Adeyinka Oyekan II (1965–2003)
Oba Rilwan Akiolu (2003–present)

Modern-day Lagos was founded by the Bini in the sixteenth century. It was later called Eko. The Portuguese explorer Ruy de Sequeira who visited the area in 1472, named the area around the city Lago de Curamo; the present name is Portuguese for "lakes". An alternate explanation is that Lagos was named for Lagos, Portugal - a maritime town which at the time was the main center of the Portuguese expeditions down the African coast and whose own name is derived from the Celtic word Lacobriga.
When the Colony and Protectorate of Nigeria was established in 1914 Lagos was declared its capital. Lagos experienced rapid growth throughout the 1960s and 1970s as a result of Nigeria's economic boom prior to the Biafran War. This continued through the 1980s and 1990s up to the present date.

Lagos was the capital of Nigeria from 1914 - 1991 when the capital was moved to Abuja. Abuja is a capital like Washington, DC in USA and Brasilia in Brazil in that it was built from scratch specifically to be a capital.

what is all dis noise about lagos sef,ao big is dis eko u r talkin about.wia does d lagos territory start and end?

Realdeals:
It described the cost of the campaigns of the two main parties as “simply staggering”, noting that by the first week of March, Buhari had spent some N332.58 billion as compared to the expenditure of President Jonathan which amounted to N1.05 trillion.

“This is without taking into account the cost of other expenses for such items as campaign rallies, where the PDP has spent N1.06 billion against Muhammadu Buhari's APC's N595.08 million, and clearly demonstrates the desperate lengths that the PDP have gone to in order to try and secure the re-election of President Jonathan.”
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hmmmmmmmm,,see as dis pple waste money,oga o

tellwisdom:
PLEASE, WHAT IS THE MEANING OF DISARM?

disarm is wen a lady rape a man

dridowu:
Commander 9 Mechanized Brigade, Major General Ahmed Mohammed Sabo.

hmm,major general dey command brigade

NoreenUG:
u better shut up, u lying fool.
god will punish u and that fat greedy crook.
rochas okorocha only had a piece of land which could contain a hotel there before he was made governor. it was upon assuming office as a governor that he illegally acquired all the other parcels of land that has expanded the place into a giant private village today. say the truth and stop being a fool.
most of the land, he forcefully acquired under the name of the imo state government by forcefully revoking the C of O of the original owners, only to sell them all to himself while as a sitting governor.
u continue to mortgage ur future by standing for nothing but lies.

do u know about that previous site in his ogboko where he said he was moving IMSU to? after that plan was mooted, are u aware he has now claimed all that land to himself and id now building a PRIVATE university there?
u disgust me, u bloody sycophant.

u are a b.itch wit a stinkin pvssy,wot is d business wot yorubas wit imo wey u just dey shout tinubu.tinubu is steallin lagos state money,yet d EFCC cant prosecute him? Or do a b1tch lik u know more dan d EFCC fvcktard!

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alberto2k:
Cynthia morgan was prettier when she was darkskinned.

and please before u quote me make sure u've watched jhybo ft cynthia morgan - Run their mouth Video.

Gracias

d gal don fat sef,shey nah mawu mawu she dey use ni?

obinto:
Story for the gods. When it comes to corruption, ibori has a lot to learn from Bola tinubu. Tinubu is arguably the most corrupt politician alive in Nigeria today. Throw in his drug peddling background and the picture of a most beguiling and conniving criminal looms large. He is the champion of kleptocracy. If I understand u well, its ok for tinubu to plunder his state's resources so long as he has businesses here in Nigeria. Little wonder we are where we are. Nigerians deserve the leaders they have. Bola's day might not come but we know where he belongs and its not with the Iboris. Ibori is a saint in tinubu's world

story for orunmila

Sweetguy25:
Dude, if there was resource control, there will be better accountability and more efficient wealth distribution. The current system whereby money that was meant for only 40 million people is shared by 170 million people is totally wicked. Kano state has 44 local governments while no state in the Niger Delta has up to 30.

NDDC has nothing to do with this. NDDC's budget is too tiny to achieve anything substantial. Believe me, if it were the yoruba's that owned oil, one kobo will not be given to anybody.

how many local govt do akwa ibom hav? U Niger delta keep screamin u want to control ur resources,what stop gej a man from d south south to restructure Nigeria wen he was in power?

Sweetguy25:
This money belongs to the Niger delta! We cannot continue to sustain this parasitic relationship in Nigeria! Resource Control NOW!!

what stopped gej a man from d south south(an ijaw man) from restructurin Nigeria,now u want a fulani man to restructure it.u go wait tire bro

Chai! $48bilion loun loun

tjfulloption:
left for me o, I still support the candidacy of Sen. David Mark, but if there is still rancour among the APC senators they should let Mark continue with the piloting of the Senate.

d way som of u guys talk sef eh,dey will settle dia matter before june.how will u say dey should mak a person from an opposition party d senate president.

Philadelphia:
This should serve as an inspiration to those who feel like quitting after several hard tries.
If these had quitted after failing several times, Google would have nothing about them today.
Do not despise the days of little beginnings.

see as davido ugly for pix

MizMyColi:
Please don't tell me you believed that sham of story

I don't know y som Nigerians are lik dis sha,so dia are still som 1diot say d chibok girls story is a scam? Gush!

VictoryAfrica:
The 9 Biggest Political Casualties Of The 2015 Nigerian General Elections

By Carlhz Chinedu



Mua'zu Babangida Aliyu:

The Niger state "Chief Servant's" woeful performance at both the March 28 and April 11 elections has called into  question his supposed status as a force to be reckoned with in the Nigerian political equation. The long-serving Chairman of the Northern States Governors' Forum (NSGF) not only failed to "deliver" his state to the PDP's Goodluck Ebele Jonathan in the Presidential Polls and in his bid to ensure that his annointed candidate, Umar Nasko, succeeds him at the Minna Government House, but he also fluffed in his quest to represent the Niger East Senatorial Zone in the 8th Senate. It's really been a season of reality checks for the once-inflential governor, a politician who was reportedly being groomed by some power brokers in the North to succeed Goodluck Ebele Jonathan come 2019. He was even widely quoted in the local press few weeks ago as saying that he intends to "mark time" in the Senate while he awaits the 2019 General Elections when he would take a shot at the country's top job. All that is up in the air now. As it stands, instead of waiting in the senate, he will be marking time at home while he counts his loses and plans his next political move.

d PvC don mak us c say,most of dis politicians we see as heavyweight,are just paper weight,just luk at ao d so called "chief servant" was disgrace in Niger state

delishpot:
When you see post like this, you realise hope is fast vanishing from naija. When a person is okay with another person stealing what is meant for all.

but hope is not vanishin wen d ijaws and ibos tell u dat weda gej perform or not,we will vote him cos he is our son and brother,he must use his own 8yr

redsun:
What choice do you have? For all I know you could be a thief yourself or an inherent foool. Inherent in the sense that as a child you were brought up to respect omotas like most Nigerians- victims.

ur fada is a pig u fvcktard.we lagosians lov and support tinubu,if u don't lik dat u can go n kill ursef.swine!

redsun:
MEND take note.The only way buhari can win my heart is by bringing men like to book and making them accountable.

we lagosians don't av any problem wit tinubu,is a lagosian so we are ok wit him stealin our money.

Blackchampion:
So what now happens to all those his "He Will......" campaign promises? Huh?
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#babnowthatyouarethereplsbringbackourchibokg
irls

show me a buhari quote,wia he promised to bring back d chibok girls?

sparkleRed:
Paddy mi, y ve u decided 2 live in denial,ahahah, APC rigged dis election, 4rm all indication, Jimi won, didn't u hear of dat, they voted in oba's palace and in council in kosofe..my brother, mern! APC rigged, they even casted theirselves in my area, by fighting hard 2 deny Moyosore Ogunlewe, his position as house of assembly for kosofe constituency1 d guy won, buh the argument was dat he was 2 young

den agbaje should or PDP would av gone to court if is not free and fair,wit wot I see in my area in ikd,is free and fair

clevvermind:
mumu. buhari must do what we want. he can't do otherwise. we would control him.

coward! Before it was if jonathan is not re elected una go bomb all d oil pipeline,now nah "buhari must do what we want".I don't fink u are from d south south sef,u must b a ibo boy

Alfamann:
And Gowon's manhood was shinnier afterwards.

yea,,,,and a lot of ibo ladies wia also raped,som might av even b raped to death.

Alfamann:
yes I remember, which may explain my signature.

I was just imagining him doing the starving from under the desk of Gowon, but that's just my imagination which runs wild if I forget to take my medication. Sorry.

weda he did it under d desk of gowon or not,d most important tin was dat milions of ibos wia starved to death

Alfamann:
Now you say it, harbiola and lipton in black maria doing downward facing dog for abokiis spring to mind. But I won't say it as I don't need no ban right now.

hope u remembered ao awolowo starved milions of ibos to death,I no wan get ban too,I for show u pix

Alfamann:
Or when you mention awolowo and otapiapia in the same sentence.

or wen u mention ffk fvckin bianca

Alfamann:
calm down, I'm just giving an example.

Soon you will tell me that mentioning oladipo diya when talking of brave people is a bannable offence.

or is talkin of ojukwu wen talkin of brave pple also a bannable offence?no mind dem jawe Alfamann