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babasolution:
The wrong narrative that the British chose LAGOS as capital because it was a successful city created by Yorubas is a very big falsehood.

If there's any city that was thriving because of the indigenes in Nigeria prior to British claim it's definitely not LAGOS.

They use a flawed narrative that the British abandoned Calabar for LAGOS because " Yorubas" created a successful city in LAGOS.

They forget that Lagos was the first city in Nigeria to be claimed by the British since 1856 when the rulers of Lagos through oba akitoye surrendered the city for protection to the British to retain his throne and prevent oba kosokos return and claim to the throne.

It was a family kingship feud that led LAGOS to surrender itself to the British.

Britain had owned LAGOS since that time(1856),whatever development came thereafter was done by the British not the indigenes or Yoruba settlers .

Prior to this time,Lagos was a very insignificant city not comparable to BENIN city,Calabar, even brass and bonny.

The British kick-started development in LAGOS before the FG took over till 1991.

The Yorubas seem to have a lot of false narratives of history passed down to them.

They need to start interrogating their historical narratives.

Fejoku:
The simple way to know cities/towns that flourished pre-European political intervention is by the roles they played through their ports on the Atlantic ocean.
Calabar, Bonny, Warri and Badagry were all leading ports ahead of Lagos back in those days. Ask yourself why Lagos wasn't mentioned in the whole transatlantic slave trade. It is simpy because it had no considerable economic activity. Hundreds of thousands of Yorubas were shipped out of Yoruba land but not through Lagos ports. Rather, Badagry and Ouidah parts in Benin were the most places that played that function. Lagos was totally absent. That should tell anyone who cares to listen that Lagos in a younger economic and port city/town compared to other coastal towns in Nigeria.
If Lagos was already booming, why did the British make Calabar their first capital in Nigeria? The reason they eventually chose Lagos was for obvious reasons. These reasons are these among many.
1. Lagos was closer to their last base(Accra) on the West African coast.
2. They knew Lagos had less history and ancestral attachment from the few indigenes at the time which means less resistance to their developmental plans.
3. Lagos had a better vantage point than Calabar as far as the interest of the British was to be considered.
Lagos has nothing cosiderable going as at the early 1800s.

Fejoku:
The simple way to know cities/towns that flourished pre-European political intervention is by the roles they played through their ports on the Atlantic ocean.
Calabar, Bonny, Warri and Badagry were all leading ports ahead of Lagos back in those days. Ask yourself why Lagos wasn't mentioned in the whole transatlantic slave trade. It is simpy because it had no considerable economic activity. Hundreds of thousands of Yorubas were shipped out of Yoruba land but not through Lagos ports. Rather, Badagry and Ouidah parts in Benin were the most places that played that function. Lagos was totally absent. That should tell anyone who cares to listen that Lagos in a younger economic and port city/town compared to other coastal towns in Nigeria.
If Lagos was already booming, why did the British make Calabar their first capital in Nigeria? The reason they eventually chose Lagos was for obvious reasons. These reasons are these among many.
1. Lagos was closer to their last base(Accra) on the West African coast.
2. They knew Lagos had less history and ancestral attachment from the few indigenes at the time which means less resistance to their developmental plans.
3. Lagos had a better vantage point than Calabar as far as the interest of the British was to be considered.
Lagos has nothing cosiderable going as at the early 1800s.

Jamie248:
Instead of you to go and hustle and develop your life, you're here obsessing over trash issues because of tribal bigotry that has eaten deep into your soul

jogojogo:
So Calabar was also former Capital...you don't mean it.
I thought only Lagos was former Capital

Brendaniel:
So he shouldn't speak the truth again?

Jamie248:
What is the truth in all that nonsense he vomited there? Lagos was not selling slaves? If 'Lagos was not selling slaves' according to you dummies, remind me why was Oba Kosoko dethroned again?

You can't revise history we aren't fools like you all are

illicit:
If it was insignificant, why will the British protect it...?


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babasolution:
The wrong narrative that the British chose LAGOS as capital because it was a successful city created by Yorubas is a very big falsehood.

If there's any city that was thriving because of the indigenes in Nigeria prior to British claim it's definitely not LAGOS.

They use a flawed narrative that the British abandoned Calabar for LAGOS because " Yorubas" created a successful city in LAGOS.

They forget that Lagos was the first city in Nigeria to be claimed by the British since 1856 when the rulers of Lagos through oba akitoye surrendered the city for protection to the British to retain his throne and prevent oba kosokos return and claim to the throne.

It was a family kingship feud that led LAGOS to surrender itself to the British.

Britain had owned LAGOS since that time(1856),whatever development came thereafter was done by the British not the indigenes or Yoruba settlers .

Prior to this time,Lagos was a very insignificant city not comparable to BENIN city,Calabar, even brass and bonny.

The British kick-started development in LAGOS before the FG took over till 1991.

The Yorubas seem to have a lot of false narratives of history passed down to them.

They need to start interrogating their historical narratives.

jogojogo:
So Calabar was also former Capital...you don't mean it.
I thought only Lagos was former Capital

Fejoku:
The simple way to know cities/towns that flourished pre-European political intervention is by the roles they played through their ports on the Atlantic ocean.
Calabar, Bonny, Warri and Badagry were all leading ports ahead of Lagos back in those days. Ask yourself why Lagos wasn't mentioned in the whole transatlantic slave trade. It is simpy because it had no considerable economic activity. Hundreds of thousands of Yorubas were shipped out of Yoruba land but not through Lagos ports. Rather, Badagry and Ouidah parts in Benin were the most places that played that function. Lagos was totally absent. That should tell anyone who cares to listen that Lagos in a younger economic and port city/town compared to other coastal towns in Nigeria.
If Lagos was already booming, why did the British make Calabar their first capital in Nigeria? The reason they eventually chose Lagos was for obvious reasons. These reasons are these among many.
1. Lagos was closer to their last base(Accra) on the West African coast.
2. They knew Lagos had less history and ancestral attachment from the few indigenes at the time which means less resistance to their developmental plans.
3. Lagos had a better vantage point than Calabar as far as the interest of the British was to be considered.
Lagos has nothing cosiderable going as at the early 1800s.

Sonyboom765:
Imagine this Igbo clown wasting away his wretched life hating on the superior Yoruba instead of looking for a meaningful way to earn income. Soon in the glory of his foolishness he will start lamenting fuel is so so price.

guysbewise:
Lagos was bombarded by the British in 1851, annexed on 6 August 1861 and declared a colony on 5 March 1862. By 1872 Lagos was a cosmopolitan trading center with a population over 60,000.
https://artsandculture.google.com/story/colonial-footprints-lagos-then-and-now-pan-atlantic-university/LAUBxuvCARsA8A?hl=en-GB