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Re: Lagos State Was Never Nigeria's Capital - Reno Omokri by AngelicBeing: 4:26pm On Jul 28, 2025

Mynd44:
He is actually right. More than 70% of what is now Lagos state was in the old western region.

Lagos as FCT is a very small part of Lagos state. I don't know how people still do not know this

Gbamsulotely, Reno Omokri is right ooooooooooooooo tongue

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Re: Lagos State Was Never Nigeria's Capital - Reno Omokri by AndroBlaze: 4:26pm On Jul 28, 2025

esnbrutality:
Just to support fallacy and outright lies by a known and failed propagandist. See the people above my post that support a failure.

So if ILORIN was the administrative capital of NIGERIA, the capital of NIGERIA is ILORIN? ..not Kwara State abi?

Na wa ooooooo!!?

Oga when people are giving you free tuition lessons, learn and stop showing ignorance.

What is the capital of the USA for the last 200 years? Is tiny Washington DC now recognised as a state in the USA because its the capital? Why are Maryland and Virginia not claiming capital of the country seeing as DC was carved from them?

If you want to counter his historical argument, counter with proper citations.

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Re: Lagos State Was Never Nigeria's Capital - Reno Omokri by Wutinky: 4:27pm On Jul 28, 2025

Ofunaofu:
Reno Omokri, the rábble-rousér, is now rewriting history by claiming that the former capital of Nigeria was Lagos Island and not Lagos.

Truly, Reno Omokri is now a mádmán, róaming aimléssly

Who still take Reno seriously in this 21first century other than Agbadorians

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Re: Lagos State Was Never Nigeria's Capital - Reno Omokri by jaxxy(m): 4:28pm On Jul 28, 2025*

That's like saying Aso rock and its surroundings is the FCT not whole of abuja. Lol

Basically Semantics.

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Re: Lagos State Was Never Nigeria's Capital - Reno Omokri by Kalulu44: 4:28pm On Jul 28, 2025

Angelfrost:
That ship might have sailed permanently...!

APC started the division on a massively scale prior to 2015 elections, in their desperation for power.

The nation has become far more fragmented than ever before in history.

Add these to the antics of Nnamdi Kanu and Sunday Igboho groups, and you can see the deep fissures that can never be mended in this lifetime.

Well said bro, very well said.

Re: Lagos State Was Never Nigeria's Capital - Reno Omokri by Wutinky: 4:30pm On Jul 28, 2025

AndroBlaze:
Oga when people are giving you free tuition lessons, learn and stop showing ignorance.

I don’t see anything like lesson here other than propaganda and rewriting history just for a little token from Yekini Ogunlere Amoda of Iragbiji

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Re: Lagos State Was Never Nigeria's Capital - Reno Omokri by Skydivine: 4:30pm On Jul 28, 2025*

Calabar was also former capital. But I have never heard anyone say Obudu or Ikom in the same cross river was part of the capital city.

However, say I gave you a 1000 naira single note and you went ahead and changed it into 10 different 100 naira notes, ( which you invested in viable 10 businesses) , will that belittle the fact that I contributed wholly to your different investments?

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Re: Lagos State Was Never Nigeria's Capital - Reno Omokri by Shikini: 4:30pm On Jul 28, 2025

Suddenly, Reno and Wike are now super-heroes to Yoruba people because they support Tinubu.

Tribalism runs deep in this country
.

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Re: Lagos State Was Never Nigeria's Capital - Reno Omokri by IMPARTIAL: 4:30pm On Jul 28, 2025

Reno wants an appointment that will never come.

He don forget how he abused the hell out of our president.

Re: Lagos State Was Never Nigeria's Capital - Reno Omokri by DoTheNeedful: 4:31pm On Jul 28, 2025*

Ofunaofu:
Reno Omokri, the rábble-rousér, is now rewriting history by claiming that the former capital of Nigeria was Lagos Island and not Lagos.

Truly, Reno Omokri is now a mádmán, róaming aimléssly

There is no history rewriting. The problem is that some of you don't even know history at all.

Lagos was capital before Lagos State was created. Lagos Island became the capital in 1914; Lagos State was created in 1967 from the Western Region. None of the extant area of Lagos was part of the Lagos State created in 1967. In fact, the total control of the former capital fell under Lagos State after the capital was moved to Abuja in 1991.

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Re: Lagos State Was Never Nigeria's Capital - Reno Omokri by Kalulu44: 4:31pm On Jul 28, 2025

Nna eh this Reno hustling for Yoruba, APC and Tinubu is now real and he's taking it to another dimension. Pls Reno Omokri I know you're here reading this, don't you have a state. Won't you talk about your own state and people. Cho Cho Cho Cho everywhere

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Re: Lagos State Was Never Nigeria's Capital - Reno Omokri by casualobserver: 4:31pm On Jul 28, 2025*

Slytiger:
I am always eager to read from Reno Omokri. I have learnt a lot from his tweets and post on Facebook.

Modified: After reading this, it is surely another banger.

I am ancestrally from Ifako Ijaiye, and I even see myself more closer to an Ogun man from Sango, Ajuwon, Ijoko e.t.c than say a Lagosian from the Island sef.

Majority of present day Lagos state was part of the Western region.

Many people do not understand that Lagos state was created out of the Egbas to the west and the Ijebus to the east. Both of which were part of old western region. When people say this person is not from Lagos it’s because they don’t know. Ikorodu lekki and Epe for instance are ijebu people!

Abule Egba Ipaja etc are Egba people. Abule Ijesha are Ilesha people.

I always laugh when outsiders especially Ibos who don’t know yoruba history say that Lagos is no man’s land because Yorubas with roots in Oyo, ogun or Osun states are involved or commenting about Lagos. Like Reno said, Lagos federal territory is different from and is probably only 5% of the land mass of Lagos state. Lagos state has people with ancestral links to everywhere in yoruba land and even parts of Niger state. We have no ancestral links with Ibos, we have never shared any borders, ancestral or cultural links with them. Lagos business I’m not their business because a man from Osun or Ogun is involved in Lagos affairs..

Finally a little known fact about Lagos. Most of the returnee slaves are not actually from Lagos, many were captured slaves from Ilesha, Egba etc that simply settled in Lagos upon return. The are prominent families in Lagos who originated from present day Niger state and had been there centuries because the slaves returned.

Finally finally, GRV cannot trace his family history in Lagos beyond the day his returnee slave ancestors arrived. Which means he is possibly not even Yoruba. Many of the prominent returnee slave families can trace their ancestry to Ilesha, Abeokuta etc even though they settled in Lagos. There are many returnee slave families that traced their ancestry when they got back because your history would have been handed down to you.

Ask Gbadebo or his family for his Oriki, I bet you he has none!

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Re: Lagos State Was Never Nigeria's Capital - Reno Omokri by Sannisege: 4:32pm On Jul 28, 2025

Reno Omokiri is one of the most brilliant and intelligent Nigerians.

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Re: Lagos State Was Never Nigeria's Capital - Reno Omokri by Nchenches: 4:32pm On Jul 28, 2025*

Obaofaba:
I love the way Reno is schooling them.

They love pushing false narratives to the extent that you'd think they are telling the truth.

The right narratives:

(1) that proceeds from crude oil from the Niger delta region built Lagos.
(2) when Akinola Aguda was used to cancel out Lagos as capital of Nigeria, too many SW people left Lagos for Abuja, But the Igbos in Lagos remained behind in Lagos and had contributed immensely to build Lagos through tax, levies and building houses in Lagos.

(3) No body from London for example, can refer to other people living in London as strangers.

(4) finally, if the SW people continue to refer to other Nigerians in Lagos as strangers, they are going for Oduduwa Republic which will enable them own and administer Lagos their own way.

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Re: Lagos State Was Never Nigeria's Capital - Reno Omokri by wolesmile(m): 4:33pm On Jul 28, 2025

Ofunaofu:
Reno Omokri, the rábble-rousér, is now rewriting history by claiming that the former capital of Nigeria was Lagos Island and not Lagos.

Truly, Reno Omokri is now a mádmán, róaming aimléssly

Actually, he is right.

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Re: Lagos State Was Never Nigeria's Capital - Reno Omokri by WriterX(m): 4:34pm On Jul 28, 2025

Reno Omokri's argument that Lagos State was never Nigeria’s capital relies on semantic deflection rather than historical accuracy he need to go back to the books, as Lagos served as the federal capital until 1991, and its development as the center of governance affected far more than just Lagos Island.

Claiming that Lagos State was not the capital because only certain districts were officially designated ignores the broader reality that the entire Lagos metropolis functioned as the administrative and political hub of Nigeria, let him go confirm this and fact check it.

His assertion that naming roads after non-Yoruba figures proves inclusivity is a weak appeal to tokenism, since naming infrastructure after prominent Nigerians does not address more systemic issues of ethnic bias, political exclusion, or discrimination, never has it, never will it!

Drawing a comparison between Lagos and the City of London is misleading, as Lagos operates under a unified government structure, unlike the complex governance split in London.

Suggesting that states exist solely to preserve the culture of their indigenous population distorts the purpose of Nigerian federalism, which was meant to encourage administrative balance, not ethnic homelands. By advpcating that anyone dissatisfied with Lagos should leave, he undermines constitutional guarantees of freedom of movement and residence, and flirts with a dangerous logic of excluision that has historically fueled ethnic conflict across Nigeria. While It's good that Lagos offers social services and pays salaries, but these are constitutional obligations, not favors, and do not absolve the state of its responsibility to be inclusive.

And that his claim that Lagos is the 19th best city to live in, according to TimeOut Magazine, is factually inaccurate and unsupported by credible global rankings, which consistently rate Lagos low due to infrastructural challenges and quality-of-life issues.

Reno’s argument may sound correct, but it ultimately rests on selective history, deflections, and a narrow view of what it means to belong in a diverse and democratic Nigeria.

I pity the gullible who fall prey to his intelligent nonsense.

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Re: Lagos State Was Never Nigeria's Capital - Reno Omokri by MemphitzDgreat1(m): 4:35pm On Jul 28, 2025

Mynd44:
He is actually right. More than 70% of what is now Lagos state was in the old western region.

Lagos as FCT is a very small part of Lagos state. I don't know how people still do not know this

All because he is in support of your man, Tinubu.... Reno is now right about everything now, yea?

Tueh!!🤮

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Re: Lagos State Was Never Nigeria's Capital - Reno Omokri by DoTheNeedful: 4:38pm On Jul 28, 2025*

Ofunaofu:
Mynd44, you're a moderator. I expected you to rise above board, be neutral and apolitical, which is the standard for someone in your position but your bias here calls your purpose on this platform into question.

You're confusing administrative boundaries with political narratives. The capital was Lagos not Lagos Island, not Lagos State just Lagos, as recognized both constitutionally and internationally. This revisionist spin to make Reno Omokri sound informed only shows how far some of you are willing to go to defend clear misinformation.

Yes, over 70% of what is now Lagos State was once part of the old Western Region but that doesn’t change the fact that Lagos, as the Federal Capital Territory, was carved out and administered separately from the Western Region. This was from 1963 until Abuja officially became the capital in 1991.

If we’re going to rewrite history, let’s at least not embarrass ourselves in the process.

@bolded, are you talking about Lagos Island or Lagos State. I believe most confusion stems from the word "Lagos".

If Lagos State had adopted a different name, the confusion would have been minimized. Lagos and Lagos State are not the same, just as Enugu/Kaduna/Ondo State are different from Enugu/Kaduna/Ondo town.

You are confusing yourself with the write-up.

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Re: Lagos State Was Never Nigeria's Capital - Reno Omokri by MemphitzDgreat1(m): 4:38pm On Jul 28, 2025

Obaofaba:
I love the way Reno is schooling them.

They love pushing false narratives to the extent that you'd think they are telling the truth.

But you didn't say this when he brought out facts that Tinubu na Druglord....

I pour you spit....Tueh!!🤮

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Re: Lagos State Was Never Nigeria's Capital - Reno Omokri by lagonovo: 4:39pm On Jul 28, 2025

Ofunaofu:
Reno Omokri, the rábble-rousér, is now rewriting history by claiming that the former capital of Nigeria was Lagos Island and not Lagos.

Truly, Reno Omokri is now a mádmán, róaming aimléssly

He did not rewrite history. He only re-emphasized and restated historical facts.

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Re: Lagos State Was Never Nigeria's Capital - Reno Omokri by symbianDON(m): 4:39pm On Jul 28, 2025

I swear, this guy is thoroughly confused.

Re: Lagos State Was Never Nigeria's Capital - Reno Omokri by Wutinky: 4:39pm On Jul 28, 2025

DoTheNeedful:
There is not history rewriting. The problem is that some of you don't even know history at all.

Lagos was capital before Lagos State was created. Lagos Island became the capital in 1914; Lagos State was created in 1967. None of the extant area of Lagos was part of the Lagos State created in 1967. In fact, the total control of the former capital fell under Lagos State after the capital was moved to Abuja in 1991.

You don’t know what you are saying, entire Lagos was build with Niger delta oil, you can’t just wake up to rewrite history, it will never work, and please stop listening to lies, ire oo

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Re: Lagos State Was Never Nigeria's Capital - Reno Omokri by Tochi3(m): 4:40pm On Jul 28, 2025

Slytiger:
I am always eager to read from Reno Omokri. I have learnt a lot from his tweets and post on Facebook.

Modified: After reading this, it is surely another banger.

I am ancestrally from Ifako Ijaiye, and I even see myself more closer to an Ogun man from Sango, Ajuwon, Ijoko e.t.c than say a Lagosian from the Island sef.

Majority of present day Lagos state was part of the Western region.

..the eager no reach here abi.. grin

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Re: Lagos State Was Never Nigeria's Capital - Reno Omokri by WriterX(m): 4:41pm On Jul 28, 2025

MemphitzDgreat1:
All because he is in support of your man, Tinubu.... Reno is now right about everything now, yea?

Tueh!!🤮

Reno looks right but he actually isn't. Its always a matter of telling or arguing political issues with intelligent and fact checks that are subjective to his purpose.

I studied the man and followed him for years and realized. This guy had nothing to offer. He is like when someone who is speaking his native language in the church and everyone believes he is speaking in tongues. No one here has the patience to actually study and investigate any of what has been said. Thats the problem of most nigerians.

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Re: Lagos State Was Never Nigeria's Capital - Reno Omokri by DoTheNeedful: 4:47pm On Jul 28, 2025

Wutinky:
You don’t know what you are saying, entire Lagos was build with Niger delta oil, you can’t just wake up to rewrite history, it will never work, and please stop listening to lies, ire oo

The problem with some of you is that you are not capable of critical reasoning and dissection of information. What has Niger Delta oil has to do with Lagos State not being Nigeria's capital? I would expect that you verify or counter my point with superior information. Rather, you are going all emotional. Lagos (a tiny part of Lagos State) was the capital of Nigeria 50 years before Lagos state was created in 1967 from the Western region. The former capital only fully became part of Lagos State when the capital was moved to Abuja in 1991.

As per Lagos being developed by Niger Delta oil, we could make the same argument for every other part of Nigeria. All the states in the country benefit from Niger Delta oil. Shikena!!!

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Re: Lagos State Was Never Nigeria's Capital - Reno Omokri by Wutinky: 4:54pm On Jul 28, 2025

MemphitzDgreat1:
All because he is in support of your man, Tinubu.... Reno is now right about everything now, yea?

Tueh!!🤮

Fear that people, Reno has become their Messiah 😁😁

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Re: Lagos State Was Never Nigeria's Capital - Reno Omokri by Ezekiel2122(m): 4:54pm On Jul 28, 2025

Some set of people built this Lagos everybody is now fighting on top.... who no like better thing?

Re: Lagos State Was Never Nigeria's Capital - Reno Omokri by Mrexcell(m): 4:56pm On Jul 28, 2025

Hungry paid activist supporting rubbish so other states that have yorubas named after their streets should also start renaming them with indigenous names because they want to preserve there heritage where is the spirit of unity and one nigeria u always preach in ur posts?

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Re: Lagos State Was Never Nigeria's Capital - Reno Omokri by DoTheNeedful: 4:57pm On Jul 28, 2025

Borrow2222:
Listen to the nonsense you're spewing!

So, Lagos Island is in your house?

Isn't Lagos Island part of Lagos State?

It's like people will say anything to support APC - even educated folks start talking like illiterates

Illiterate calling other people illiterates. The hallmark of literacy is being able to learn, unlearn and re-learn. From what you wrote, you know little about history, but you are still arrogant in your ignorance to the point of calling someone better informed than you illiterate.

If you didn't know. Lagos Island was the capital of Nigeria 50 years before Lagos State was created from the Western Region in 1967. Lagos Island has FCT minister until 1991 when the capital was moved, and it was not under Lagos State government. The control of Lagos Island came under Lagos State in 1991 when the capital was moved, since it was too tiny to be a state on its own.

The main reason many people misunderstand the dynamic between Lagos/Lagos Island and Lagos State is because of the word "Lagos". The misunderstanding would have been minimized if Lagos State had adopted another name entirely.

Enugu and Kaduna States are both named after Enugu and Kaduna, which are also towns in those states. It is a similar dynamic between Lagos Island and Lagos State.

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