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AKWATGOLD1:
Please where is Benin in that population data analysis.

Abagworo:
Majority Eko followed by Ogu and they aren't Yoruba tribes. There were Yoruba tribes but not enough to declare it a Yoruba traditional city. In a nutshell Lagos had indigenous multicultural and multiethnic outlook from time immemorial.

Swiftgrp:
Your post here as a non-Yoruba person is largely FALSE in the first and second sentences. The land of EKO before 1900 simply refers to Eko Island (Lagos Island and NOT the much BIGGER Lagos State which ONLY came into existence on May 27, 1967) was and still is a traditional ethnic Yoruba Island as can be seen from the full census figures right on Page 1 of this NL thread with each subgroup of the Yorubas from the Ekos to the fuller Awori (which the Ekos are part of) to the Ijesas, the Ekitis, the Ijebus, the Egbas, the Oyos, etc, who are ALL Yoruba subgroups.

The name "EKO" as referenced in the census figured of 1891 simply refers to a subgroup of the larger Yoruba who are the REAL indigenous people of Eko Island. Although there are some historical links between Eko and the Benin Kingdom royalty as well being of Ile Ife origins (as even STRONGLY affirmed by the Ogiamien family of Benin and the Usen people of Ovia South West LGA of Edo State who affirm in videos online that they are Yorubas from Ile Ife being that Oranmiyan's OLDER brother Prince Afelogiyan was the FIRST traditional ruler of USEN then known as Ife Kekere) with the ending of the Ogiso era, BUT those of Benin descent have been subsumed into the larger Awori (Eko) lineages as Eko-Yorubas.

The EKO people are part of the larger Awori people who extend to Ogun State and are the ORIGINAL land owners. The popular White Cap Chiefs (they are officially called IDEJOS in the Yoruba language) of Lagos Island are the REAL land owners of EKO and they are the direct descendants of Olofin Ogunfunminire who was one of the Ile-Ife Princes and he migrated from Ile Ife over 700 years under the guidance of Ifa divination till he arrived in Isheri and then Ido Island in the present Lagos State and he further shared the lands of Eko Island for farming pepper and other settlement purposes among his many male children. The King or Oba of Eko is known as the "Eleko of Eko."

The Ogus are historically related to the Yorubas ancestrally because the Ogus evolved as a result of the further ancestral MIX of Yorubas and Fon from the era of the Oyo Empire. This is why the Oba of Ajase (Porto Novo) which is one of the Yoruba-speaking cities and towns in Benin Republic told the veteran Nigerian film maker 'Tunde Kelani in his brilliant documentary on the history of Ajase (Porto Novo) which is still on YouTube that the Yorubas in the 1800s welcomed the Ogus to live with them in Ajase (Porto Novo) [which is part of the larger Yorubaland located in Benin Republic] BECAUSE they are relatives.

It's the same way that the Fon people of Benin Republic also ancestrally evolved from a MIX of Yoruba and Aja people of Benin Republic and Togo.

Therefore:
Yoruba and Aja ancestries = Fon

And:

Yoruba and Fon ancestries = Ogu.

Swiftgrp:
Your post here as a non-Yoruba person is largely FALSE in the first and second sentences. The land of EKO before 1900 simply refers to Eko Island (Lagos Island and NOT the much BIGGER Lagos State which ONLY came into existence on May 27, 1967) was and still is a traditional ethnic Yoruba Island as can be seen from the full census figures right on Page 1 of this NL thread with each subgroup of the Yorubas from the Ekos to the fuller Awori (which the Ekos are part of) to the Ijesas, the Ekitis, the Ijebus, the Egbas, the Oyos, etc, who are ALL Yoruba subgroups.

The name "EKO" as referenced in the census figured of 1891 simply refers to a subgroup of the larger Yoruba who are the REAL indigenous people of Eko Island. Although there are some historical links between Eko and the Benin Kingdom royalty as well being of Ile Ife origins (as even STRONGLY affirmed by the Ogiamien family of Benin and the Usen people of Ovia South West LGA of Edo State who affirm in videos online that they are Yorubas from Ile Ife being that Oranmiyan's OLDER brother Prince Afelogiyan was the FIRST traditional ruler of USEN then known as Ife Kekere) with the ending of the Ogiso era, BUT those of Benin descent have been subsumed into the larger Awori (Eko) lineages as Eko-Yorubas.

The EKO people are part of the larger Awori people who extend to Ogun State and are the ORIGINAL land owners. The popular White Cap Chiefs (they are officially called IDEJOS in the Yoruba language) of Lagos Island are the REAL land owners of EKO and they are the direct descendants of Olofin Ogunfunminire who was one of the Ile-Ife Princes and he migrated from Ile Ife over 700 years under the guidance of Ifa divination till he arrived in Isheri and then Ido Island in the present Lagos State and he further shared the lands of Eko Island for farming pepper and other settlement purposes among his many male children. The King or Oba of Eko is known as the "Eleko of Eko."

The Ogus are historically related to the Yorubas ancestrally because the Ogus evolved as a result of the further ancestral MIX of Yorubas and Fon from the era of the Oyo Empire. This is why the Oba of Ajase (Porto Novo) which is one of the Yoruba-speaking cities and towns in Benin Republic told the veteran Nigerian film maker 'Tunde Kelani in his brilliant documentary on the history of Ajase (Porto Novo) which is still on YouTube that the Yorubas in the 1800s welcomed the Ogus to live with them in Ajase (Porto Novo) [which is part of the larger Yorubaland located in Benin Republic] BECAUSE they are relatives.

It's the same way that the Fon people of Benin Republic also ancestrally evolved from a MIX of Yoruba and Aja people of Benin Republic and Togo.

Therefore:
Yoruba and Aja ancestries = Fon

And:

Yoruba and Fon ancestries = Ogu.