Kaymansion:
What about Desmond Elliot

DCatt:
That's not true, Madam Tinubu fought English for that when a shipload of freed slaves were dumped in Lagos. This is one of the reasons they don't want history in Nigeria, they know it will open a can of worms.

Yoruba language is in a world of its own and most common words in Nigeria today are from Yoruba. We even have two words(old and new) for most things, so we don't need to find meaning for words.

I'm sure you have heard of Ijesa-tedo Epe-tedo or my great aunt's favorite song

Ilu ta tedo sori oke ko ma le f'ara si, a wa n'imole aiye.

Meaning

A city founded on a hill can't be hidden, we are the light of the world.

We even have a town called Edo in Osun state.

Yoruba is a nation with groups like Egba, Ekiti and Ijebu with slight difference in dialects but words are mostly the same.

As for your prince Ogun and Edo, I don't know if you are talking about Ogun the god of iron or something else but it's funny.

RodgersAkpafu:

Aren't you worried that his post got so many likes ?

Crixxx:


You seek likes for validity? How funny.

RodgersAkpafu:

That's not the point
People liking the post means that they agree with the message

Crixxx:


Exactly what I'm saying. It pleases the public doesn't mean it's fact or makes sense.
People still like trashy posts made by Buhari, ffk etc

Chiefecho:

It is very clear that the most hardworking people in Nigeria are the igbos

We always look for one state or the other that are not ready to develop and develop them with our businesses and investment
Igbos are world wide is it China, USA UK , India , Korea name it all
We are there

RodgersAkpafu:


I will continue to call your bigotry out
Such behaviour is not becoming of a civilised space .n
Anyone who stereotype an entire ethnic group is a primitive person with a rotten mentality

Pierocash:
You hardly can see a Southerner in the cabinet of Northern governors

LILTJAY:
shutup isoko bitch .. ijaws will soon kill you fools and take over your small land

iReddington:

Abeg shut up, you deluded chest-beating terrorists. The only thing that is clear is that the Igbos are economic refugees, loud mouth rabble-rousers that can't develop their unproductive barren land but can develop the universe.

We are rooting for you to get your Biafra so you are all bundled back to your dot nation, all your braggadocio will end and your eyes will clear. Bloody leeches.

theTranslator:

government in Yoruba means ìjọba


what does it mean in Bini?

the faster you accept that Edo has a lot of influence from Yoruba the better

Asour:


Calabar was also a colonial annex / capital for ~ 20 or more years. Why aren't we all 'rushing' there.

Many people make this 'claim' that Lagos 'greatness' was brought about by others (usually non-indigenes) the way they make the claim about the USA's greatness being attributable to foreigners. But they miss out on a vital point. That Lagos provides an environment to this people that they 'lacked' prior.

The question then becomes why can't the foreigners replicate this greatness in their places of Origins. Why?

In the last decade, some (few) SS & SE states earned more revenue per head than Lagos due to population. What has come out of such 'advantages'.

TooNoisy:
One thing that is very clear is that the Yoruba are the most accommodating tribe in Nigeria; no one can deny that. However, what have we got in return - hate and envy especially from the Igbos. The Hausa/Fulani are suspicious of the Youruba but they do not hate the Yoruba. The are also accommodating to the Yorubas.

The Edo/Isekiri/Urhoro are siblings to the Yorubas even though they have their own identity. The Efik/Ibibio are somewhat indifferent to the Yoruba but that is fine. The Igbos outright hate the Yoruba and it is time Yorubas become very conscious of this hatred.

Everyday they are castigating Tinubu, Fayemi and Osinbajo; and other potential Yoruba presidential candidates. The other day they were calling Yoruba women undesirable and dirty. All of them were hating on Peter Okoye for marrying a “dirty Yoruba woman” - a woman who is more educated and exposed than anyone in their generation. They insult the same Lagos where they live - why don't they just go back to Onitsha and Aba.

They insult anything Yoruba- from Anthony Joshua, Wizkid, Tiwa and everything Yoruba. These insults are not unnoticed. Yoruba will not forget and will surely retaliate!

wallrichy:
Nna, abeg go to primary school and learn your ABC very well....probably you will know how to write English too. Your write up doesn't make sense one bit.... illiterate....

Okhuadams:
the earliest u know that the Word Oduduwa is an Edo name the more u know that the name Oba is from Edo

EagleNest:


Nearly all major infrastructures were constructed by FGN - international airport, Apapa sea port, the only railway that currently runs to Lagos, the 3rd mainland bridge, the carter bridge, Stadium in Surulere, some of the high rise buildings especially in Ikoyi, many government parastatal like DPR, NAPIMS, etc, that is still Headquartered in Lagos, foreign embassies, etc, you can name it. U see why being a former capital of a republic for 30 years can't just be washed away overnight because it somehow favours u.

I'm sorry that this advantage also comes with the burden of large population, bc it is simply a matter of economics. People troop to old and new capitals of many countries, it is like that between Abidjan and Yamousoukro, Rio de Janeiro and Brasilia, Bonn and Berlin, Kyoto and Tokyo, Dar es Salam and Dodoma, etc. Now coming here to tell other Nigerians to go back to their state as if Lagos was built by strength of Lagos state govt alone, is purely u choosing to be naive.

Moferere:

Lagos is Biafra land

SmokedWhiskey:



Even when the likes of Gowon and IBB who were once head of states based in Lagos during the military era period when the federal capital was in Lagos have long since retired back to their home states, there are still many Igbos are still living in the past, stuck in the delusionment that Lagos is some kind of "second federal capital". But beyond all that, it is intriguing the way Igbos get jittery anytime reference is made to Lagos as a Yoruba state, so much so that they have resorted to inventing all manner of false narratives just to discredit Lagos a being a part of the larger Yoruba heritage. Of all the tribes in Nigeria why is it only Igbos that are think and react this way ? Is it that Igbos do not have the capacity to build their own Lagos? Is it that Igbo cannot survive without Lagos? Are Igbos that culturally insensitive or just plain ignorant not to know that Lagos has its own traditions institutions and a history that goes back several centuries - long before the colonial masters arrived on the continent or even toyed with the idea of Nigeria. Lagos is undisputably a Yoruba State the same way Kano is proudly an Arewa state, both cities have stood proudly for centuries, long before advent Nigeria. Yorubas as a people do not owe anybody any apologies for Lagos, they as a people have shared their common wealth with the rest of the nation, and like every thing in life, they have had some wins and some losses. My advice to those Igbos that cant seem to move forward, is to learn to respect, and live in peace with their hosts where ever they find themselves outside their home states. Inflammatory comments cannnot be good in the long run.

Chiefecho:

Not all igbos are biafras
You sound bittered
You sound like you have been keeping something big against us for a while but can't speak up
But I would tell you this, that envy kills a man faster as pride does

Transcriber:

I repeat

What is "government" in Bini?

When you answer that then you can talk rubbish all you want

Okhuadams:
I repeat what is the meaning of Oduduwa in Yoruba until you tell me you can continue to say ur rubbish

LILTJAY:
the video has been removed by the uploader

CUMIN:



Lagos will not be affected...we don't want importers that deplete our reserves. We want manufacturer and civil people.

RolexOfGeneva:

Manufacturing is nothing without commerce.
Which tribe does commerce better than the Igbos. Again, Lagos will suffer without the Igbos.

EagleNest:


Nearly all major infrastructures were constructed by FGN - international airport, Apapa sea port, the only railway that currently runs to Lagos, the 3rd mainland bridge, the carter bridge, Stadium in Surulere, some of the high rise buildings especially in Ikoyi, many government parastatal like DPR, NAPIMS, etc, that is still Headquartered in Lagos, foreign embassies, etc, you can name it. U see why being a former capital of a republic for 30 years can't just be washed away overnight because it somehow favours u.

I'm sorry that this advantage also comes with the burden of large population, bc it is simply a matter of economics. People troop to old and new capitals of many countries, it is like that between Abidjan and Yamousoukro, Rio de Janeiro and Brasilia, Bonn and Berlin, Kyoto and Tokyo, Dar es Salam and Dodoma, etc. Now coming here to tell other Nigerians to go back to their state as if Lagos was built by strength of Lagos state govt alone, is purely u choosing to be naive.

CUMIN:


Oga the entire alaba market can be replaced by an 'APP'.

When the ibos are gone our roads will be free then deliveries from factories to direct end users or same day export will be done. All this middle men job will evaporate and the currency won't have much inflationary pressure.

RolexOfGeneva:

Physical markets boost revenue and overall economy better than online markets because it gives more people a means of survival and government in turn can make more money from taxes.
Nigerians are not completely ready to accept online markets at least for now, that's why it's finding it difficult to completely replace physical markets -we discovered that during the Covid 19 lockdown.

Newton85:
"There was a period in Fashola's government when Tax
inclusion and demographics by the State of Origin was
discussed and it was discovered that nearly 80% of tax-
payers were not from Lagos and a majority were actually
spread between the North, East, and South-South." Can you show me any evidence of this your codeine-influenced claim?

NaWeDeyHere:


tainted thoughts already showing through - have you ever wondered which ethnic group pays the most tax? or why shops are mostly owned by non-lagosians. it is a keg of gun-powder waiting to explode some day. of course you will fight and threaten but he who holds the money controls the land.. the Chinese are already proving so in Eko be seeking codeine and sk

CUMIN:


Oga the entire alaba market can be replaced by an 'APP'.

When the ibos are gone our roads will be free then deliveries from factories to direct end users or same day export will be done. All this middle men job will evaporate and the currency won't have much inflationary pressure.

Brimstone77:
[s][/s] gibberish!!

You lots are hypocrites,it's cool when you insult igbos,but when Igbo respond by insulting you back you will start whining like over used pant..


You claimed igbos hates you yet Igbo never engaged you lot in any physical combat or confrontation any where since the history of Nigeria,igbos undoubtedly are the second largest tribe in Lagos yet we never had issues with you lots..

Your oba of Lagos threatened to throw igbos in the lagoon yet you didn't see the hate in that,adeyinka grandson threatened to burn down Igbo investment in South West yet you didn't see the hate in it...


Your people have been burning Igbo shops by proxy(you lots think we don't no) yet you are still accusing us of hating you..


You call us baby factory and drug dealers,but when we call you skull miners you start shouting hate..

You call our women yam legs but when we call your women dirty, stinking and ugly you start shouting hate...


You call our political leaders ( thou I don't care about those ones shaa) like Peter obi a fraudster but when we call tinubu bullion van crook or frog eye you start shouting hate..


For Wizkid and tiwa Savage they are my best supper stars so I don't no what you are saying on that...


Go to any Igbo related thread and see the way you yorubas are insulting igbos..

You don't dish out hate and insult and expect love and praise,it doesn't work like that..