₦airaland Forum

Shawarmagirl:
I will take Y'all serious the day you start collecting back your family compound and lands the Igbos who came with polythene bags to Lagos bought from Y'all. For now, y'all still remain their tenant.

mobisonkk2:
Bishop Ajayi Crowther, created first igbo dictionary filled with borrowed Yoruba terminology, change it first.

77up:
Igbos actually brought those hostility they experiencing in Lagos and Yorubaland to themselves. No matter how you think you are, you don't do pass yasef in another man's land.

mobisonkk2:
Bishop Ajayi Crowther, created first igbo dictionary filled with borrowed Yoruba terminology, change it first.

Ikaeniyan0:
Victoria is not the name of an igbo woman. The British are not claiming Lagos Is No Man's Land

erniok:
Chatgpt is wrong. Eko was a bini word.

SalamRushdie:
Tribalistic APC has finished the unity of this country kpatakpata

Shawarmagirl:
I will take Y'all serious the day you start collecting back your family compound and lands the Igbos who came with polythene bags to Lagos bought from Y'all. For now, y'all still remain their tenant.

LegendHero:
Lol na today dem dey demolish una 2by2 shop and few houses?

You can only kery online, nothing wey una fit do on ground.

What happened to Landmark after all the noise?

RodgersAkpafu:
Where do you guys keep getting this rhetoric ?

PDPdestroyer:
This is giving me goosebumps, Yorubas are gradually waking up from their slumber. This is wonderful

tunjijones:
Just wait and see..

Na Una go still cry blood.....

The sensible ones among you are going back to the east to invest, but the foolish one is say na another person region he go develop.

Just watch when the policy will be implemented. I pray it happens in our life time.

MartinCorridon:
The thing really pain you wella

"Landlord" that is regularly disciplined by "tenant"

McOluomo has ensured you have zero voting rights in Eko. Nothing you can do about it

latiephwald:
Lagos is ready to keep choking you till you start selling the properties back to them. Soo you'll bow to pressure.

Ikaeniyan0:
The Portuguese are not claiming Lagos is No Man's Land.

Shawarmagirl:
Since Tinubu won, are the Yorubas in Lagos or South West feeds more than the Igbos in Lagos or SW? Na your people dey complain of starvation when their brother is even President. Ntoor

Konquest:
STOP the disinformation you're spewing with confidence young man! A lot of you read too much disinformation from Wikipedia which is susceptible to vandalisms, BUT actual history remains. This is NOT to say that there is no historical links between Benin Kingdom and Yorubaland (Ife, Eko or Lagos Island, etc). Till date, the Yoruba folks call the Island "Eko" in private or public convos and the media reports NOT Lagos. A person can be in Ikeja or Ibeju-Lekki and say to another person in the Yoruba language that he is going to Eko which simply means Lagos Island. In addition, "Ipinle Eko" simply means "Lagos State."

"Eko" is just the shortened form of "Ereko" or pepper farm because the Island was used as a pepper farm centuries back by the descendants of Olofin Ogunfunminire a Prince of Ife who migrated from Ife and was the first to settle on Iddo Island extending to Eko or Lagos Island. The current White Cap Chief of Lagos Island are the direct landowners and direct descendants of Olofin Ogunfunminire (through his biological sons) an Awori man. The Aworis are spread directly across 17 LGAs out of the 20 LGAs of Lagos State right into Ogun State and are a major subgroup of the Yoruba people whose Yorubaland extends from Nigeria to Benin Republic and the Atakpame region of Togo. The Ijebus ancestrally own 3 LGAs in Lagos State namely Epe, Ikorodu, and Ibeju-Lekki with Ajah also being of Ijebu descent and the Ijebus who are ALSO a major subgroup of the Yoruba folks extend from Lagos State right into Ijebuland in Ogun State from where they were originally carved out from to create Lagos State on May 27, 1967 alongside 11 other new states by General Yakubu Gowon's military regime based on the original recommendations of the Ijaw nationalist leader, Chief Harold Dappa-Biriye from Bonny Island and the Rivers leaders of thought according to a 1998 interview Dappa-Biriye granted to Guardian newspaper.

Therefore NOBODY on Eko (Lagos Island) knows it as a Bini word. The word is purely of Yoruba origin and I know this because I have links to Lagos Island through my maternal lineage. Period.

jmoore:
Chai!! All these Monday Okpebhloho students.

Una go explain tire. LAGOS is the name and it's Portuguese.

PDPdestroyer:
This is giving me goosebumps, Yorubas are gradually waking up from their slumber. This is wonderful

Ironfaceman:
Not only pepper farm, what about. Spanish lily.

Old man I see you're lost in denial. People like you could have been emancipated mentally if only you took your history lessons seriously but instead you relied on the words of village drunks who can not read or write.

Read about the great Benin empire and know the exploits of the oba of Esigie and how his military garrison conquered yorubas even unto dahomey.

Then you'll know where I come from

Ironfaceman:
Not only pepper farm, what about. Spanish lily.

Old man I see you're lost in denial. People like you could have been emancipated mentally if only you took your history lessons seriously but instead you relied on the words of village drunks who can not read or write.

Read about the great Benin empire and know the exploits of the oba of Esigie and how his military garrison conquered yorubas even unto dahomey.

Then you'll know where I come from

Tinubuadvocate:
Eko is real name and most Yoruba people still call it Eko.

LegendHero:
We don’t have issues with Queen Victoria or any other ethnic.

We are just showing those who claim it’s a no man’s land how it’s done.

If na truly no man’s land, Iboee people should be able to change the name back since it’s an alien turf.

madridguy:
BREAKING NEWS: STREET NAME CHANGE ALERT:

ETI - OSA LOCAL GOVERNMENT JOINS OTHER LOCAL GOVERNMENT TO CHANGE SOME STREET NAMES IN LAGOS STATE