₦airaland Forum

geoworldedu:
This is a welcome development. Let every other state in Nigeria also join hands to promote traditional religion, although we know deep down that all religions are scams.

damoobaba:
Dem never hit you better jazz b4, you will respect traditional yoruba powers.

autoez:
Shame on all you pastors of prosperity. All of you. Oyedepo, Adeboye, Olukoya, Oyakolome and all of them Ogboni pastors. The owners of the lands have returned to take their land back.

Shaaaaaaame on you all

aribisala0:
The historical data is misleading because Lagos state was created in 1967

Whatever you are showing is not Lagos State

Lagos state has 20 local government areas

The Former Federal capital was just 5 local government areas
Lagos Island
Lagos Mainland
Surulere
Apapa
Eti Osa

As of 1863 Lagos did not even cover the area of those 5 LGAs

So that word Lagos could mean Lagos state or Lagos City. =The 5 LGAs above

BreconHills:
Well exactly - let me ask a question. The parts added for lagos expansion whom do they belong to before then? Were they just lying there with nobody living there?

Desazubu:
It is high time the indigenous Lagosians to take back their land from all these invaders.

geoworldedu:
Science never shock you better scientific electricity before or scatter you with bomb before, you will respect scientific powers

Well, we have seen when scientists traveled all the way from Europe to meet traditional yoruba powerful people. The result was that they killed many of the traditionalists, took their carvings and idols away and also enslaved them. Imagine, less than 1 million scientific oriented people encaged millions of traditionalists in their own enclaves

AntiChristian:
Who told you that?

Better mind what you consume!

damoobaba:
They were better organised and had better leadership, that's all. Science wasn't even as developed as it is now. And if you think advanced countries like china and india don't have their own jazz, then o dont understand the world you live in. Even science has elements of SPIRITUALITY in it.

Desazubu:
It is high time the indigenous Lagosians to take back their land from all these invaders.

AntiChristian:
Person go dey do carnival and we go dey afraid to come out for early momo and late night!

Iru odun buruku wo niyen?

BreconHills:
Who are the indigenous Lagosians?
Use the historical data below as a guide.

Thunderfayamods:
That is our culture if you don't like it go back to your village.

AntiChristian:
I dey my house! Idolatry is not our culture! It's falsehood!

Thunderfayamods:
What is idolatry? Oyibo man will come here and tell you that your culture is idolatry and gave you one history book call Bible. The same people that took your people as slaves. On the ship that took people away as slaves was written "Jesus Saves'! You all are brainwashed. When the Pope died they did their juju tradition to bury him.
Your moniker is even "Antichristian"
Christianity and Islam are artificial religion.

AntiChristian:
How are you sure what you forefathers gave you is the truth? Tell me culturally how the world came into existence and give me your reference!

Thunderfayamods:
How are you sure what the white men gave you is the truth? Don't ask me out of point questions, I am not telling you that there is no God, there is God . But Christianity is history, it is not your religion the white men forced it on you.

AntiChristian:
And who told you i am a Christian?

Don't you see my moniker well?

Wetin concern me with white men?

aribisala0:
I don't see how that is relevant
My point is to correct how people use the word Lagos. Let us be clear what you mean when you say Lagos
Lagos City or Lagos state they are not the same thing just like

Oyo
Enugu
Ondo
Kaduna
Sokoto
Bauchi
Kano
There is a state and a town

When you brought up something from 1863 clearly you could not have been talking about Lagos State which did not exist but your post could have mislead people into thinking that was a census for Lagos state

aribisala0:
I don't see how that is relevant
My point is to correct how people use the word Lagos. Let us be clear what you mean when you say Lagos
Lagos City or Lagos state they are not the same thing just like

Oyo
Enugu
Ondo
Kaduna
Sokoto
Bauchi
Kano
There is a state and a town

When you brought up something from 1863 clearly you could not have been talking about Lagos State which did not exist but your post could have mislead people into thinking that was a census for Lagos state

BreconHills:
Lagos has existed from the 15th century. For goodness sake it wasnt discovered in 1970's. The colony of Lagos was declared by the British in 1862 as an expression of British control not as an expression of legal fact. The census posted was taken a

The earliest indigenous settlers were the Aworis as far back as the 15th and 16th century.

Gowons promulgation of lagos did not reset history. It merely expanded lagos and gave it legislative force. Furthermore the areas added to it were significantly yoruba.

Lagos has been yoruba from antiquity.

Its actually not difficult if no unnecessary contortions are being made

BreconHills:
There is a difference between lagos colony and lagos state as you have pointed out and the data clearly refers to lagos colony. What is interesting about that data is that the returnees who claim to be thevreue indigenes are not in fact the majority.

Now when lagos state became a state proper parts of the old western region were added to it. These parts were hundred percent yoruba.

Now when you add the data from the first lagos census of record. Let's be precise and call it lagos colony and you add the parts added on - lagos is undoubtedly yoruba. Whether it is at the colony level or at the expanded promulgated state level.

aribisala0:
Lagos state is majority Yoruba as we know it today but not 100% There is a minority Egun group in Badagry axis

I should point out that from antiquity we have always had itinerant Ijaw fishermen and fishermen from neighbouring countries that were created by Colonial powers
Ikorodu and Epe are Ijebu Enclaves

2mch:
It’s Ilaje, not Ijaw.

aribisala0:
Are you from Lagos state
Did you read what you quoted
Do you know the meaning of the word itinerant ?

Have you actually ever set foot inside Makoko
If you do not know ask questions don't just talk ignorantly
Not just Nigeria there have been fishing camps in Togo and Ghana before the creation of Nigeria

Some of the deities we worship during Remireke have Ijaw connection and rituals

2mch:
It is Ilaje. I am from Lagos State. Any Ijaw you see just came recently.

aribisala0:
So what is your point ? You want to play
It is Ijaw it is Ilaje It is Ijaw it is Ilaje It is Ijaw it is Ilaje It is Ijaw it is Ilaje It is Ijaw it is Ilaje It is Ijaw it is Ilaje

I do not think playing that game is a productive use of my time

2mch:
They are Ilaje once again. They have been here since Lagos inception and they are the fishermen of Lagos.

aribisala0:
Are you from Lagos state? I am
Did you read what you quoted? I don’t think so
Please stop throwing that word Lagos around carelessly
It is important to be specific what you mean
Lagos is not an Indigenous word
Eko has been around a long time not Lagos

Gowon did not expand Lagos .
He created Lagos state
Lagos state is not Lagos City
Oba of Lagos territory was not expanded by Gowon

Those of us from Lagos state find it ignorant and annoying when people keep throwing the word Lagos around
Be specific what you mean. SAY LAGOS STATE LAGOS ISLAND LAGOS MAINLAND etc

It is equally annoying for you to quote me when you obviously did not bother to read what you quoted