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Re: Renaming Streets: A Cosmetic Change Without Cultural Protection (Opinion) by Irony1: 6:28pm On Aug 01, 2025
MufasaLion:
Lagos is not a no man's land. It belongs to the Yorùbá people and they can do at will as they want. Anyone grumbling should go back to their father's hometown and develop it.
Oga try and read to understand. He is talking about the original indigenes of Lagos who are being Displaced not only by non-yorubas, but by yorubas who are not indigenous to Lagos as well.
Re: Renaming Streets: A Cosmetic Change Without Cultural Protection (Opinion) by Irony1: 6:29pm On Aug 01, 2025
iwaeda:
Irony of this is that 95 percent of people stoking this ethnic fire are not from Lagos. Gawat family is from Igbaja, Kwara. Same as Ajetunmobi, because they were born in Lagos Island they lay claim to non existence origin. Most of them claiming Lagos Island dont HAVE a building to the fathers name. They should go and read what caused first World War. grin grin grin grin grin
Exactly. They just use the attack on igbos to mask the real problem.
Re: Renaming Streets: A Cosmetic Change Without Cultural Protection (Opinion) by Irony1: 6:31pm On Aug 01, 2025
unavailablecity:
Let them go and change there own names in there respective regions. We don change we don change be dat. To let u all know more to come.
Oga do you really read to understand? The statement is simply pointing at the fact that indigenous Lagosians are losing their ancestral lands not only to non yorubas, but also to Yorubas from other parts of SW.
Re: Renaming Streets: A Cosmetic Change Without Cultural Protection (Opinion) by Irony1: 6:38pm On Aug 01, 2025
BabaO2:
stop giving yourself false hope.
During the civil war, why did you all abandon every other things you have worked for all through your lives and got yourselves evacuated the to the East.?
Why did your so called 95% remain in Lagos during the war?
stop being so toxic to your hosts allover the world
The problem with people like you is that you lack comprehension. Did the guy say 95% of the people are igbos?
Re: Renaming Streets: A Cosmetic Change Without Cultural Protection (Opinion) by ultraviolet27(f): 6:38pm On Aug 01, 2025
oyeb15:
Those charting Lagos is no man's land should go back to their states.
Lagos doesn't belong to d Yoruba too. The Awori are d original settlers.
so the aworis are a subgroup of Igbo tribe?or are aworis not a yoruba sub tribe?e ma wa ponu gan oo
Re: Renaming Streets: A Cosmetic Change Without Cultural Protection (Opinion) by Sermwell(m): 6:38pm On Aug 01, 2025
unavailablecity:
Let them go and change there own names in there respective regions. We don change we don change be dat. To let u all know more to come.
These useless politicians are just fooling you! They should go to Lagos island and rename all those streets that are not named after Yorubas! You should be asking for good governance that will better your life if you're really a lagosian and not some useless streets renaming
Re: Renaming Streets: A Cosmetic Change Without Cultural Protection (Opinion) by AfonjaPriest: 6:40pm On Aug 01, 2025
Tinubu - Osun state
Fashola - Ekiti state
Ambode - Ondo state
Sanwo-olu - Ogun state
Now tell me: who owns Lagos?
Is it Yoruba or the Indigenes?
Because of the four governors so far since 1999, not one is from Lagos state.
Re: Renaming Streets: A Cosmetic Change Without Cultural Protection (Opinion) by Irony1: 6:42pm On Aug 01, 2025
Mrexcell:
Hope my igbo brothers can smell the coffee and see what they are preparing for them in future only fools will continue to invest heavily in a land where he is despised. Why can't they learn from the hausas who only stay in makeshift houses in cities and later repatriate their money back to their states?
Ironically the writer is even throwing shades at those in power who have even sold lands to Yorubas from other SW areas, thereby ignoring other Lagosians.
Re: Renaming Streets: A Cosmetic Change Without Cultural Protection (Opinion) by Irony1: 6:42pm On Aug 01, 2025
Raskimonojendor:
99 years lease. LAHA is now reducing to just over 40 years.
In addition, over 90% of lands in Lagos is firmly in the hands of Yoruba owners.
100% held in trust by the governor.
Yoruba owners who are not indigenous Lagosians.
Re: Renaming Streets: A Cosmetic Change Without Cultural Protection (Opinion) by Irony1: 6:44pm On Aug 01, 2025
creativejagaban:
No one is claiming enugu or anambra with you. Do as you wish with those red.mond places.

But South West, don't ever try to put mouth.

Any Yoruba man or woman have the right to defend the heritage of any part of south west.

Know this and don't know Pe.ace grin
Oga you are also trying to play smart. The article is about indigenous Lagosians. If you are a yoruba from any other part of SW apart from Lagos means you are not from Lagos. You guys have tacitly Displaced the indigenes of Lagos under the guise of fake Omoluabi solidarity and you know deceive them by pointing at igbos who own a small fraction of lands in Lagos.
Re: Renaming Streets: A Cosmetic Change Without Cultural Protection (Opinion) by Irony1: 6:46pm On Aug 01, 2025
UpaIweka:
Do you have a building to your father's name in Lagos ? Your kinsmen selling fan yogo sparts n okriika how many of their fathers have building to their names ?!
See throwing insults at people will not hide the fact that people's eyes in Lagos are opening and they are seeing the games you people are playing. You guys using fake omoluabi solidarity have Displaced the original Lagos indigenes and you now turn around and incite them against igbos.
Re: Renaming Streets: A Cosmetic Change Without Cultural Protection (Opinion) by Sermwell(m): 6:47pm On Aug 01, 2025
BabaO2:
stop giving yourself false hope.
During the civil war, why did you all abandon every other things you have worked for all through your lives and got yourselves evacuated to the East.?
Why did your so called 95% remain in Lagos during the war?
stop being so toxic to your hosts allover the world
So why did Nigeria start fighting them with unity by force? These people want to be on their own but your same Nigeria refused? Why haven't your government in Lagos bit rename all those streets named after white men in Lagos? These useless politicians are just fooling you oga
Re: Renaming Streets: A Cosmetic Change Without Cultural Protection (Opinion) by Irony1: 6:47pm On Aug 01, 2025
richie240:
An 'atohunrinwa' (like you) will always reason to type. If not you'll have realized that yorubas don't segregate like your generations do!

Na small-small tinz like this dey expose una as imposters.

You and your fore fathers may have been born in yorubàland, but if it's not 'panadol' then it cannot be the same (ie have the same effect) as 'panadol'.
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Happy new month my 'ndi_kwara' bloda.
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Noooo it is not about segregation it is the harsh reality. You people have tacitly removed the main indigenes of Lagos from their lands. This divide and rule tactic is failing.
Re: Renaming Streets: A Cosmetic Change Without Cultural Protection (Opinion) by Irony1: 6:48pm On Aug 01, 2025
YesDaddyTill203:
You didn't think of genocide when you people were driving Fulanis out of the SE, you didn't think of genocide when your Governors renamed streets. It's only now that you can think of genocide.
Very typical of hypocrites from that side.

Only daily basis, Radio Biafra, your lord that you worship stokes the ember of ethnic and religious hatred, you people supported him and still do, but common renaming of streets now brings in the possibility of genocide. Na hypocrisy go kee most of you on that side.
Oga this tactic has failed. People's eyes are opening and they are seeing through this divide and rule games.
Re: Renaming Streets: A Cosmetic Change Without Cultural Protection (Opinion) by Irony1: 6:49pm On Aug 01, 2025
richie240:
Your fore fathers have been widening it since (even) b4 d 1st republic.
Their offsprings only confirmed it in 2023.
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This is a weak attempt at trying to change the topic
Re: Renaming Streets: A Cosmetic Change Without Cultural Protection (Opinion) by Irony1: 6:51pm On Aug 01, 2025
ultraviolet27:
so the aworis are a subgroup of Igbo tribe?or are aworis not a yoruba sub tribe?e ma wa ponu gan oo
They are indigenous to Lagos, so if you are an egba you are not an indigene.
Re: Renaming Streets: A Cosmetic Change Without Cultural Protection (Opinion) by richie240: 7:19pm On Aug 01, 2025
Na only God fit deliver una from pokenosing!
My ppl talk say when lion eye red, nor be from mouth of hyena den dey hear am

Izit not madness for a yoruba man/fulaniman to be meddling in anambala and ebonyi affairs??
Why not do d same and face ur lane.

Na una 'ITK' dey cause d woto-woto wey una dey receive for lagos presently.
From having commissioners in LS govt,, councillors, LG Chairmen, lagos State House of assembly members, house of reps of igbo origin to zero, and una still never realize say una don march line tey-tey??

Who do una this strong tin??
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Irony1:
Noooo it is not about segregation it is the harsh reality. You people have tacitly removed the main indigenes of Lagos from their lands. This divide and rule tactic is failing.

Re: Renaming Streets: A Cosmetic Change Without Cultural Protection (Opinion) by Irony1: 7:29pm On Aug 01, 2025
richie240:
Na only God fit deliver una from pokenosing!
My ppl talk say when lion eye red, nor be from mouth of hyena den dey hear am

Izit not madness for a yoruba man/fulaniman to be meddling in anambala and ebonyi affairs??
Why not do d same and face ur lane.

Na una 'ITK' dey cause d woto-woto wey una dey receive for lagos presently.
From having commissioners in LS govt,, councillors, LG Chairmen, lagos State House of assembly members, house of reps of igbo origin to zero, and una still never realize say una don march line tey-tey??

Who do una this strong tin??
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Oga this tactic is stale. I am not poking in anything, go and attack the poster of the article, as it raises a salient point that you people are dodging. Now it is clear people's eyes are opening amd are seeing the deception from you people.
Re: Renaming Streets: A Cosmetic Change Without Cultural Protection (Opinion) by richie240: 7:31pm On Aug 01, 2025
If he pain u go court!
Purrr!
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Irony1:
Oga this tactic is stale. I am not poking in anything, go and attack the poster of the article, as it raises a salient point that you people are dodging. Now it is clear people's eyes are opening amd are seeing the deception from you people.

Re: Renaming Streets: A Cosmetic Change Without Cultural Protection (Opinion) by YesDaddyTill203: 7:33pm On Aug 01, 2025
Irony1:
Oga this tactic has failed. People's eyes are opening and they are seeing through this divide and rule games.
Oya, people's eyes have cleared; no, they can see the bigotry from your end, and we are not taking that crap any longer.
Cry and wail victimhood all you want. We ain't falling for that trick anymore.

If you don't like what we are doing in the SW, pls move back to your region. It's not by force.
Re: Renaming Streets: A Cosmetic Change Without Cultural Protection (Opinion) by BabaO2: 7:40pm On Aug 01, 2025
Irony1:
The problem with people like you is that you lack comprehension. Did the guy say 95% of the people are igbos?
It is you that doesn't understand simple english expression, read the comment again and again. His comment and my comment, no where it was pointed igbo are 95% in Lagos.
Re: Renaming Streets: A Cosmetic Change Without Cultural Protection (Opinion) by Irony1: 8:02pm On Aug 01, 2025
BabaO2:
It is you that doesn't understand simple english expression, read the comment again and again. His comment and my comment, no where it was pointed igbo are 95% in Lagos.
Oga don't gaslight me why were you attacking him and making reference to igbos?
Re: Renaming Streets: A Cosmetic Change Without Cultural Protection (Opinion) by Irony1: 8:03pm On Aug 01, 2025
YesDaddyTill203:
Oya, people's eyes have cleared; no, they can see the bigotry from your end, and we are not taking that crap any longer.
Cry and wail victimhood all you want. We ain't falling for that trick anymore.

If you don't like what we are doing in the SW, pls move back to your region. It's not by force.
Dude stop the tactic it is stale. The issue is internal between you Yorubas and they have seen the deception. Igbos are not the enemy, it is your selfish elites that are.
Re: Renaming Streets: A Cosmetic Change Without Cultural Protection (Opinion) by Irony1: 8:03pm On Aug 01, 2025
richie240:
If he pain u go court!
Purrr!
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When cornered this is the tactic you use to run away from the argument.
Re: Renaming Streets: A Cosmetic Change Without Cultural Protection (Opinion) by YesDaddyTill203: 8:18pm On Aug 01, 2025
Irony1:
Dude stop the tactic it is stale. The issue is internal between you Yorubas and they have seen the deception. Igbos are not the enemy, it is your selfish elites that are.
You must think that you are preaching to one of your fellow, not too smart IPOB subjects.

It is now our selfish elite, it was not our selfish elite when your lord, the albino clown, was blahbling on Radio Biafra about what he wanted to do to the Yorubas, and you all were supporting him.
When Buhari was president, you guys were treating Fulanis as if they were not Nigerians just because the President is a Fulani. You have now shifted your hatred to the Yorubas because of Tinubu, but you expect love in return.
I told my fellow Yorubas this would happen, but they didn't believe me. Now, most are coming to their senses about who their true enemies are.
Well, you can cry all you want. We will continue to change the names of streets in our land to reflect our heritage. Anyone who doesn't like it can move away.
Lagos is Yoruba land and everything in Lagos must reflect our heritage and culture.
Re: Renaming Streets: A Cosmetic Change Without Cultural Protection (Opinion) by Kalulu44: 8:22pm On Aug 01, 2025
MufasaLion:
Lagos is not a no man's land. It belongs to the Yorùbá people and they can do at will as they want. Anyone grumbling should go back to their father's hometown and develop it.
You didn't read what the poster said clearly, you guys are now fast selling your ancestral lands and property bcus of Owambe. Awon ala tenu je shior
Re: Renaming Streets: A Cosmetic Change Without Cultural Protection (Opinion) by Kalulu44: 8:32pm On Aug 01, 2025
Hahahaha, I laugh in Swahili. Lagos is never a no man's land but the indigenes are already making so by selling away their ancestral lands and properties and relocating to far away Ogun state just like the op said. Owambe parties has finished so many Yorubas that they have sold many of their inheritance away.
Re: Renaming Streets: A Cosmetic Change Without Cultural Protection (Opinion) by Ewedegubbler: 10:09pm On Aug 01, 2025
The people stocking the embers of ethnic lunacy in Lagos are mostly from kwara. These fellas can’t say piim in kwara where a Fulani is their overlord but they ran to Lagos and became agents of mischief.
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