₦airaland Forum

Bobloco:
https://dailypost.ng/2025/10/03/heartbreaking-deputy-speaker-kalu-on-lagos-trade-fair-demolitions/

we won’t continue accommodating and tolerating ingrates who have continuously disrespected our land and the people with their derogatory remarks…Yorubas are free spirited people, very liberal and accommodating but when our liberalism is being seen as a sign of weakness, we draw the line.,..they can continue calling Lagos no man’s land while in reality we use the instrumentality of power of put them in check

Ofunaofu:
When I see comments like this, I genuinely regret and wonder where some of you crawl out from. Lagos is telling who to ‘do their worst’? You beat your chest and, yet your family doesn’t even own a plot the size of a Keke parking spot in Lagos. Lagos was built by sweat, sacrifice, and the hands of people from all over Nigeria and beyond. Some of you only stumbled into Lagos yesterday, clinging to a Yoruba surname like it’s a deed of ownership, shouting entitlement as if history started with you. Calm down being loud doesn’t make you right, it just makes you noisy.

NwOSU stop crying….we are tired of this stale line of everyone built Lagos, does it take away the fact that it is still yorubaland? Even those of you that have never crossed river Niger bridge will be in your cave claiming to develop Lagos like anyone forced you to come and develop Lagos while your neck of wood is largely undeveloped

SonOfDSoil01:
NwOSU stop crying….we are tired of this stale line of everyone built Lagos, does it take away the fact that it is still yorubaland? Even those of you that have never crossed river Niger bridge will be in your cave claiming to develop Lagos like anyone forced you to come and develop Lagos while your neck of wood is largely undeveloped

Yes, Lagos is in Yorubaland and that didn’t stop it from being built by the blood, sweat, and brilliance of Nigerians from every region. Nobody denies the land existed, we’re saying it was turned into a megacity by the contributions of many, not just the ancestors of people shouting 'it's ours' on the internet.

You claim people never crossed River Niger' yet it’s their taxes, investments, businesses, labour, and talent that helped Lagos evolve from colonial port to economic powerhouse. If you're so pressed about people ‘coming to develop Lagos’, ask what Lagos would be today if everyone simply stayed in their ‘neck of the woods.

Your problem isn’t history. It’s that some of us know it better than your slogans can defend. Try facts next time, not propaganda laced with bitterness.

opeldavid:
Lagos State should stop this reckless behaviour against the Igbos.
The hatred is getting out of hand.

What's the reckless behavior all about,?

iwaeda:
It is getting clearer that LASG is doing sentimental cleansing. Can the same rule be applied to Ebute-Meta, Lagos Island, where houses are clustered without PLAN.

Are you saying there are no Igbo in Ebute meta and Lagos Island?

Law of retributive justice (please dear friends,be mindful of what you say or even think because thoughts are seeds also and what YOU SOW ,YOU REAP. Even if you are catching cruise, you will pay.

iwaeda:
It is getting clearer that LASG is doing sentimental cleansing. Can the same rule be applied to Ebute-Meta, Lagos Island, where houses are clustered without PLAN.

For where..! The kind of redlining that ronu ppl do in terms of projects location in Lagos will mystify you! At kilo bus stop in surulere......Nnobi street right is Igbo dominated and the roads are miserable but Nnobi left is Yoruba dominated......I do not remember in 30 years ...when their road was ever bad..........Meanwhile Sanwaolu family home is right in Igbo dominated Nnobi right........has he summoned the courage to tar Olaitan Odularu street.......??
For where!!

Ndigbo should diversify their holdings to southeast and southsouth! Enugu and Port Harcourt offer a better quality of life than Lagos!

tunde1200:
Igbo migrant all night buses to Lagos must be empty before ORE.

Lols, you forgot that their are also Yoruba migrants to Lagos who pass ORE too...

Everyone is migrating to the no man's land anyway since Federal Govt have refused to do the right thing about the Sea Ports and dragging projects.....

Eboofa:
For where..! The kind of redlining that ronu ppl do in terms of projects location in Lagos will mystify you! At kilo bus stop in surulere......Nnobi street right is Igbo dominated and the roads are miserable but Nnobi left is Yoruba dominated......I do not remember in 30 years ...when their road was ever bad..........Meanwhile Sanwaolu family home is right in Igbo dominated Nnobi right........has he summoned the courage to tar Olaitan Odularu street.......??
For where!!

Ndigbo should diversify their holdings to southeast and southsouth! Enugu and Port Harcourt offer a better quality of life than Lagos!

Not lying at all......right now to register your building in Lagos State involves up to three to four ministries. ....

Inshort before one can get just his drawings approved by the Government, you will spend not less that #1.5m to #2m...

It doesn't end there, Omonile will come and collect their percentage for land buying , collect from the day you start fencing works up to the roofing and finishing of your house....

By the time you are done building a house in Lagos State, only the money you spent both for the Government and Omonile alone is not less than #5m....

Let Igbos just wise up and do the needful.....at least areas that IGBOS have yet to enter much such as inside Ikorudo axis , Igbobo ,oreta etc down to the water side , you will notice it looks more like a village in Osun State....

Yet the people you are helping to develop their lands and give them revenue will rather hate you but pretend to be accommodators although some are still a bit good. ...

Ofunaofu:
When I see comments like this, I genuinely regret and wonder where some of you crawl out from. Lagos is telling who to ‘do their worst’? You beat your chest and, yet your family doesn’t even own a plot the size of a Keke parking spot in Lagos. Lagos was built by sweat, sacrifice, and the hands of people from all over Nigeria and beyond. Some of you only stumbled into Lagos yesterday, clinging to a Yoruba surname like it’s a deed of ownership, shouting entitlement as if history started with you. Calm down being loud doesn’t make you right, it just makes you noisy.

Point of correction, Lagos and indeed all Yorùbá land was built by the sweat, toil and foresight of our forefathers. Coxoa wealth from the Yorùbá hintherlands was used to build the infrastructure upon which the wealth of Lagos was built.
Our fathers built this Lagos, not yours.You cannot give what you don't have yourself in your place.
As a Yorùbá in Yoruba land, yes the YORÙBÁ SURNAME is more tuan a deed of title. It os a big flex.

Nonexisting1:
Egypt was once the destination of the world but now, it is 'another used to be'. Paris has rested after it trended for decades. Dubai is reigning now, its time too shall pass. Coming down here, Calabar was once the beautiful bride but now e done rest. I will stop here for now. Everything that goes up must surely come down but the manner with which it comes down determines its future. We shall see.

If you are waiting for Lagos to come down because you are not allowed to do as you please wit your unruly cavemen behaviours, you go wait tire.

Looooooooooooooooooooooooool you ppl haven't seen anything yet.

Eboofa:
For where..! The kind of redlining that ronu ppl do in terms of projects location in Lagos will mystify you! At kilo bus stop in surulere......Nnobi street right is Igbo dominated and the roads are miserable but Nnobi left is Yoruba dominated......I do not remember in 30 years ...when their road was ever bad..........Meanwhile Sanwaolu family home is right in Igbo dominated Nnobi right........has he summoned the courage to tar Olaitan Odularu street.......??
For where!!

Ndigbo should diversify their holdings to southeast and southsouth! Enugu and Port Harcourt offer a better quality of life than Lagos!

Do you remember abandoned properties?You should check yourselves and amend.
No tribe will be as liberal as Yorubas have been to all but you are the only ones crying victimization.
Pelewura market,Owode onirin,Maryland etc all Yoruba dominated areas were demolished,no rants...but any little thing done against your illegality,you cry witch hunting,ethnocentric punishment etc.
Please,tell your people to amend their ways because you are not the only tribe in Lagos.
How many times have you seen Hausa,Edo etc rant endlessly like you are wont to do.

iwaeda:
It is getting clearer that LASG is doing sentimental cleansing. Can the same rule be applied to Ebute-Meta, Lagos Island, where houses are clustered without PLAN.

You are right my brother.

It's all fall out of 2023 epic presidential elections in which the presumed Landlord of Lagos was floored. Since then, no love lost.

The Trade Fair demolitions is a continuation of the grudge to pay back people of southeast extraction who voted massively against the Bourdillon Politician.

As you said,why the demolitions don't visit Mushin, Ebute Metta, Lagos Island where we have clusters of unplanned buildings.

Jaylord12:
It is high time the igbo traders put heads together and find away around all this....They should find away to utilise calabar/ onne port in portharcourt

Is there seaport in the north. But goods reach interior villages

Mr speaker, you try, you talked directly to the person who gave the order. He's still blaming igbos for loosing at HOME.

jaymichael:
Point of correction, Lagos and indeed all Yorùbá land was built by the sweat, toil and foresight of our forefathers. Coxoa wealth from the Yorùbá hintherlands was used to build the infrastructure upon which the wealth of Lagos was built.
Our fathers built this Lagos, not yours.You cannot give what you don't have yourself in your place.
As a Yorùbá in Yoruba land, yes the YORÙBÁ SURNAME is more tuan a deed of title. It os a big flex.

I just have to excuse your ignorance, because clearly, you were either failed by the Nigerian education system or you’ve chosen tribal bias over historical fact.

First of all, Lagos was Nigeria’s capital and a federal territory belonging to all Nigerians until it was moved to Abuja in 1991 by Babangida. As a former FCT, Lagos attracted people from across the country and beyond, all contributing to its growth and development. The ports, the commerce, the industries built not by any one ethnic group alone, but by Nigerians of diverse backgrounds working side by side.

You speak of Yorùbá wealth building Lagos like Lagos was a farmstead passed down by your ancestors. Lagos position as a colonial and economic hub predated oil, and its growth was accelerated by federal presence and investment, not some hidden treasure from “Yoruba hinterlands.” Do your research don’t just echo what tribal propagandists feed you.

And this idea that a surname in Yoruba land is a flex is exactly why Nigeria continues to struggle with unity. A name is not a deed. A tribe is not a title of ownership. Your ancestors didn’t build Lagos in isolation. It was built by laborers, traders, civil servants, port workers, soldiers, artisans, Aworis who are the indigenous Lagosians, Hausas, Igbos, Itsekiri, Nupe, Efik, and yes, Yoruba not Nairaland tribal agbadorians claiming inheritance rights based on last names.

Being loud doesn’t make you right. It just makes you sound insecure.

Ofunaofu:
Yes, Lagos is in Yorubaland and that didn’t stop it from being built by the blood, sweat, and brilliance of Nigerians from every region. Nobody denies the land existed, we’re saying it was turned into a megacity by the contributions of many, not just the ancestors of people shouting 'it's ours' on the internet.

You claim people never crossed River Niger' yet it’s their taxes, investments, businesses, labour, and talent that helped Lagos evolve from colonial port to economic powerhouse. If you're so pressed about people ‘coming to develop Lagos’, ask what Lagos would be today if everyone simply stayed in their ‘neck of the woods.

Your problem isn’t history. It’s that some of us know it better than your slogans can defend. Try facts next time, not propaganda laced with bitterness.

a whole load of gibberish….most of you clowns re just ignorant about the history of Lagos and you all come online to display your ignorance. We have heard this tired lines severally.

Lagos has always been a trade centre and has always attracted migrants from all over the country and also foreigners. Lagos has the former FCT was largely developed by the colonial masters even before the discovery of oil. The FCT which you clown always love to lay claims to ended at fadeyi in yaba while the rest of what makes up Lagos today was under the western region govt and most of the infrastructure was developed by the late sage Awolowo including the ilupeju and ikeja industrial estate.

Lagos was far ahead of Nigeria. All the so called taxes you talked about came from the industries and PAYE and not your 2*2 shops scattered everywhere which are collected by the local govt and not state govt. Lagos attracted economic migrants from across the country base on the working system and opportunities in Lagos which was as a result of deliberate planning and development made by the government and people.

Even after the FCT was moved to Abuja and returned back to the Yorubas, was when most of you ibos started migrating to Lagos and you already met it developed and not a desolate place and you all benefited from the benevolence of the people because made gave you a Safe and conducive environment to do your business. No one forced you to come and pay taxes in Lagos while you can pay those taxes in your region so you can develop the place. After all you don’t expect govt to provide you infrastructure and other services for free while you make your money here doing business even in developed countries taxes are the major source of revenue so stop talking like you doing us a favour and btw below are major companies that pay then most taxes and not your petty trade business

kettykin:
That was what we were told in kano, kaduna and maiduguri. It is funny how people don't realize who made Lagos what it is presently today until the day Lagos crashes like kano and kaduna did .

A simple change in the business model of igbos will put Lagos where it should be.

stop crying and take your investment back to sad yeast and let see how Lagos Will crash..you clowns came to Lagos with nothing and benefited from the opportunities in Lagos to make money and when the city as blessed you, then pride sets in and you think without you Lagos won’t survive. We have been hearing this stale line for long yet you keep deserting your unproductive region for Lagos

Hedonisco:
Myopic 'baba wa ni president'. people would not understand the power of time. The Lagos you are dragging, will fulfil its destiny as a 'no man's land' developed by Nigeria and Nigerians, belonging to Nigeria and Nigerians, for as long as Nigeria exists as a country.

So don't worry.

We will do our worst, however long it takes.

😂😂 indeed, music to my hears…..the no man’s land that Yorubas are in control of all the political and traditional powers that’s why they keep making you cry yet you have not grown the balls to return back home…empty noise makers

topatee:
Go to Papa Ajao and Ladipo and see what they've turned that beautiful environment to, when I was a kid, we had the likes of Ebenezer Obey, IK Dairo, Orlando Owoh... it was carved out of notorious Mushin. If you visit Papa-Ajao now you will feel sorry, it has become sparepartsjungleand den of kidnappers and robbery gangs.
If Lagos state government starts bulldozing the iron-jungle at Ladipo now, someone will start crying foul. Why can't we follow rules

you are right. I have a friend that live in ladipo which was majorly a residential area, but when this people came, they turned the whole place to a market and mess up everywhere even my friends family had to sell of there property because it was no longer conducive to raise a family. I just hope the state govt clean up Lagos because this economic migrant are willingly to turn everywhere to a market just as it is with computer village a purely residential area

That’s exactly what we need in Lagos, just like the peace and quiet we had during Christmas. God willing it will be permanent. The current streets of Lagos that look like people are oozing from the ground like ants is unsustainable, we need all the houses demolished for parks and gardens.

Nonexisting1:
Egypt was once the destination of the world but now, it is 'another used to be'. Paris has rested after it trended for decades. Dubai is reigning now, its time too shall pass. Coming down here, Calabar was once the beautiful bride but now e done rest. I will stop here for now. Everything that goes up must surely come down but the manner with which it comes down determines its future. We shall see.

SonOfDSoil01:
a whole load of gibberish….most of you clowns re just ignorant about the history of Lagos and you all come online to display your ignorance. We have heard this tired lines severally.

Lagos has always been a trade centre and has always attracted migrants from all over the country and also foreigners. Lagos has the former FCT was largely developed by the colonial masters even before the discovery of oil. The FCT which you clown always love to lay claims to ended at fadeyi in yaba while the rest of what makes up Lagos today was under the western region govt and most of the infrastructure was developed by the late sage Awolowo including the ilupeju and ikeja industrial estate.

Lagos was far ahead of Nigeria. All the so called taxes you talked about came from the industries and PAYE and not your 2*2 shops scattered everywhere which are collected by the local govt and not state govt. Lagos attracted economic migrants from across the country base on the working system and opportunities in Lagos which was as a result of deliberate planning and development made by the government and people.

Even after the FCT was moved to Abuja and returned back to the Yorubas, was when most of you ibos started migrating to Lagos and you already met it developed and not a desolate place and you all benefited from the benevolence of the people because made gave you a Safe and conducive environment to do your business. No one forced you to come and pay taxes in Lagos while you can pay those taxes in your region so you can develop the place. After all you don’t expect govt to provide you infrastructure and other services for free while you make your money here doing business even in developed countries taxes are the major source of revenue so stop talking like you doing us a favour and btw below are major companies that pay then most taxes and not your petty trade business

Your rant is a classic case of selective history laced with tribal arrogance. You claim others are ignorant, yet you reduce Lagos’ growth to Awolowo, colonialists, and Yoruba benevolence, conveniently ignoring the decades of pan-Nigerian input that turned it into a megacity.

Yes, Lagos existed before independence. Yes, it was a port and trade centre. But that’s not the debate. The modern Lagos the economic heartbeat of Nigeria didn’t spring up from Awolowo’s cane fields or colonial footprints. It was built by the collective sweat of Nigerians from every region: Aworis who are indigenous Lagosians, Yorubas, Igbo, Hausa, Efik, Itsekiri, Urhobo, Tiv, Ijaw, etc

You sneer at “2x2 shops or petty trade as if informal trade, import/export businesses, and small enterprises (SME's) aren't the backbone of Lagos’ commercial life. Who runs Alaba? Computer Village? Ladipo? Balogun? Who fills the markets, warehouses, and ports? These aren’t mere shops. They’re multimillion-naira value chains that feed into the Lagos economy and enrich the IGR you now thump your chest over.

Lagos doesn’t fund itself with Awolowo’s ghost. Over 65% of Lagos’ tax revenue comes from PAYE salaries paid by businesses established and operated by Nigerians, Yorubas and non-Yoruba alike. Many of the top corporate tax contributors you reference are run, staffed, or owned by people from across Nigeria. So yes, “our taxes” helped shape Lagos into what it is.

You can romanticize history, spread propaganda all you want, but the fact remains: Lagos is not thriving because of one ethnic group’s effort it's thriving despite tribal divisions. That’s the real story. People didn’t migrate to Lagos because they were “granted permission” they came because they had a right to, as Nigerians, to live and contribute wherever opportunity calls.

Finally, the whole “go and develop your region” trope is tired. Development is a function of investment, infrastructure, and policy not insults hurled online. If you care so much about regional equity, demand better governance nationwide instead of wishing for ethnic ghettos in a supposedly united country.

It’s 2025. Stop preaching ownership over land like it’s a war. Lagos is Yorubaland, there's no debate about that, but its soul belongs to Nigeria. If that truth burns, perhaps it’s your prejudice not your pride that needs checking.

iwaeda:
It is getting clearer that LASG is doing sentimental cleansing. Can the same rule be applied to Ebute-Meta, Lagos Island, where houses are clustered without PLAN.

Did you see the LASG press retort to Peter Obí over this matter.

The owners of the illegal properties actually beat up their officials that went there to talk to them about regularising their properties.

As far as they were concerned, it is federal land and despite being informed that Lagos state was the one was in charge of monitoring the structure, they totally refused to engage in talks.

Now that the properties have been (rightfully) demolished, they are now claiming victimisation and have reached out to populist hypocrites like Peter Obí to make them out to be innocent.

Just to remind Obidients on here, who have taken a cue of crying victimisation from their leader, that lots of Ndigbo with regularised documents, still have their buildings standing in that same Lagos.

Why would you think because you are from a certain tribe, you can flout state laws with impunity? Even going as far as beating up officials of the state government. When did all this entitlement mentality start exactly?

This needs to stop and sooner rather than later.

Ofunaofu:
Your rant is a classic case of selective history laced with tribal arrogance. You claim others are ignorant, yet you reduce Lagos’ growth to Awolowo, colonialists, and Yoruba benevolence, conveniently ignoring the decades of pan-Nigerian input that turned it into a megacity.

Yes, Lagos existed before independence. Yes, it was a port and trade centre. But that’s not the debate. The modern Lagos the economic heartbeat of Nigeria didn’t spring up from Awolowo’s cane fields or colonial footprints. It was built by the collective sweat of Nigerians from every region: Aworis who are indigenous Lagosians, Yorubas, Igbo, Hausa, Efik, Itsekiri, Urhobo, Tiv, Ijaw, etc

You sneer at “2x2 shops or petty trade as if informal trade, import/export businesses, and small enterprises (SME's) aren't the backbone of Lagos’ commercial life. Who runs Alaba? Computer Village? Ladipo? Balogun? Who fills the markets, warehouses, and ports? These aren’t mere shops. They’re multimillion-naira value chains that feed into the Lagos economy and enrich the IGR you now thump your chest over.

Lagos doesn’t fund itself with Awolowo’s ghost. Over 65% of Lagos’ tax revenue comes from PAYE salaries paid by businesses established and operated by Nigerians, Yorubas and non-Yoruba alike. Many of the top corporate tax contributors you reference are run, staffed, or owned by people from across Nigeria. So yes, “our taxes” helped shape Lagos into what it is.

You can romanticize history, spread propaganda all you want, but the fact remains: Lagos is not thriving because of one ethnic group’s effort it's thriving despite tribal divisions. That’s the real story. People didn’t migrate to Lagos because they were “granted permission” they came because they had a right to, as Nigerians, to live and contribute wherever opportunity calls.

Finally, the whole “go and develop your region” trope is tired. Development is a function of investment, infrastructure, and policy not insults hurled online. If you care so much about regional equity, demand better governance nationwide instead of wishing for ethnic ghettos in a supposedly united country.

It’s 2025. Stop preaching ownership over land like it’s a war. Lagos is Yorubaland, there's no debate about that, but its soul belongs to Nigeria. If that truth burns, perhaps it’s your prejudice not your pride that needs checking.

even after this long epistle, you still ended up saying nothing. My last submission was to set the record straight and the trajectory of the success story of Lagos which you mischievous clowns have always used a blanket statement to describe Lagos development while we know Lagos as the former FCT which in local parlance is referred to as eko and the boundary ended at fadeyi in yaba.

Our ancestors were deliberate about the development of Lagos while yours were no where to be found. The development of Lagos started with the Yorubas and it has always been a trade centre which attracted migrants from all over and including foreigners. The colonial master saw Lagos as a good geographical location which was why it was largely developed by them and when the slave trade was abolished, most of the slave returnees which were largely Yorubas of various Yoruba sub group which my ancestors belonged to developed the place.

Lagos was far ahead of Nigeria and the development made it attractive which after the almagamation of Nigeria was then the choice of govt to be the FCT relaying on existing structures which was then further developed. Nigeria was not doing Lagos a Favor rather Lagos was doing Nigeria a Favor and we never asked for the FCT to be cited in our land.

The rest of the mainland today was under the western region govt and proceed of cocoa was used to set the foundation of the success story of Lagos no matter how hard you try to rewrite the history of Lagos and Yorubaland in alluding the success story to your 2*2 shops, it won’t fly.

You ibos started your mass migration to Lagos even after the FCT was relocated to Abuja and it also witnessed even more development even though nay sayers thought it will crumble nd that’s was because of the administrative skills and leadership of the Yorubas who have hold firm to the political and traditional structures.

Like I said earlier the safe and conducive environment provided by the Yorubas and also have the highest purchasing power to buy whatever you sell due to the high number of industries and other opportunities is what attracted you economic migrants to Lagos and the port you made reference to is just a delusional statement made my you clowns because the port is not just used by ibos but also manufacturing companies domiciled in Lagos and also most landlocked neighbouring countries bordering Lagos so you clowns you stop deluding yourself that you are responsible for most of the import at the Lagos port and there is not statistics to show you account for the highest import at Lagos port.

And finally if you clowns fill you are responsible for the thriving economy of Lagos, why not relocate your investment back to your region and let see who is actually benefiting from Lagos l

SonOfDSoil01:
even after this long epistle, you still ended up saying nothing. My last submission was to set the record straight and the trajectory of the success story of Lagos which you mischievous clowns have always used a blanket statement to describe Lagos development while we know Lagos as the former FCT which in local parlance is referred to as eko and the boundary ended at fadeyi in yaba.

Our ancestors were deliberate about the development of Lagos while yours were no where to be found. The development of Lagos started with the Yorubas and it has always been a trade centre which attracted migrants from all over and including foreigners. The colonial master saw Lagos as a good geographical location which was why it was largely developed by them and when the slave trade was abolished, most of the slave returnees which were largely Yorubas of various Yoruba sub group which my ancestors belonged to developed the place.

Lagos was far ahead of Nigeria and the development made it attractive which after the almagamation of Nigeria was then the choice of govt to be the FCT relaying on existing structures which was then further developed. Nigeria was not doing Lagos a Favor rather Lagos was doing Nigeria a Favor and we never asked for the FCT to be cited in our land.

The rest of the mainland today was under the western region govt and proceed of cocoa was used to set the foundation of the success story of Lagos no matter how hard you try to rewrite the history of Lagos and Yorubaland in alluding the success story to your 2*2 shops, it won’t fly.

You ibos started your mass migration to Lagos even after the FCT was relocated to Abuja and it also witnessed even more development even though nay sayers thought it will crumble nd that’s was because of the administrative skills and leadership of the Yorubas who have hold firm to the political and traditional structures.

Like I said earlier the safe and conducive environment provided by the Yorubas and also have the highest purchasing power to buy whatever you sell due to the high number of industries and other opportunities is what attracted you economic migrants to Lagos and the port you made reference to is just a delusional statement made my you clowns because the port is not just used by ibos but also manufacturing companies domiciled in Lagos and also most landlocked neighbouring countries bordering Lagos so you clowns you stop deluding yourself that you are responsible for most of the import at the Lagos port and there is not statistics to show you account for the highest import at Lagos port.

And finally if you clowns fill you are responsible for the thriving economy of Lagos, why not relocate your investment back to your region and let see who is actually benefiting from Lagos l

You are not from Lagos, your father doesn't own a square foot size of a keke parking spot any where in Lagos, though you may be yoruba as I can deduce from your comment because it is soaked in the same tired cocktail of tribal revisionism and historical cherry-picking that some of you mistake for facts. You keep shouting we developed Lagos, yet you ignore the critical contributions of non-Yoruba Nigerians who continue to power its economic engine today. Let’s clear this up again since you’re still struggling with comprehension.

First, I never said the success story of Lagos is my “2x2” shop. That’s your strawman, that is your propaganda not my argument. What I said, and what you keep dodging, is this: you cannot dismiss the enormous contribution of small businesses, traders, and entrepreneurs many of whom are Igbo and other non-Yoruba Nigerians to Lagos’ economic rise. Whether it’s Alaba, Ladipo, Balogun, or Computer Village, these are multi-billion naira ecosystems, a value chain that pay taxes, create jobs, and generate revenue not "petty trade."

Second, your claim that Igbos only began “mass migrating” to Lagos after the FCT moved to Abuja is a lie and an embarrassingly lazy one. Igbos were living, trading, and even owning property in Lagos long before independence. In fact, they were among the earliest and most prominent non-Yoruba settlers in Lagos Island, Yaba, and Surulere.

Third, Lagos being a trade centre long before independence is not in dispute and no one ever said Lagos was desolate. What you’re refusing to accept is that Lagos became a megacity not just because of colonial roads or Awolowo’s cocoa policy, but because people from across Nigeria poured in, invested, worked, and turned it into the economic powerhouse it is today. Infrastructure doesn’t build prosperity on its own, people do.

You talk about Awolowo, cocoa money, and colonial footprints as if they magically built the Lagos skyline. But post-independence Lagos, the one with corporate towers, industrial estates, global investment, and a massive consumer base was fueled by a national influx of human capital, business, and labour.

Fourth, your talk of “benevolence” is insulting. Nigerians are not second-class citizens in Lagos or anywhere else in this country. People don’t need to beg Yoruba approval to live or thrive in a federal republic. Nobody forced anyone to come to Lagos, they came because it’s their constitutional right to live and do business anywhere in Nigeria. Lagos didn’t do Nigeria a favour by being the capital, it benefited immensely from being the political and economic centre of the country for decades.

And let’s talk taxes: over 65% of Lagos' IGR comes from PAYE and corporate taxes, not land levies or indigenes’ goodwill. Who pays these? Multinational companies, SMEs, private businesses run and staffed by Nigerians of all ethnicities. You act like Lagos was self-made, but without Nigeria its capital status, its population influx, its ports, its businesses, Lagos would be a glorified coastal town.

You also conveniently ignore that the port you're dismissing is a key economic driver, and yes, Igbo importers are a significant part of the Lagos port economy. No, they don’t own the port, but their volume of trade in electronics, auto parts, fashion, machinery rivals that of any other group, and those goods are sold across Lagos, Nigeria and West Africa. That’s not delusion, that’s fact.

Lastly, this “go and develop your region” nonsense is tribal bigotry dressed as advice. Development isn’t held back by traders or migrants it’s held back by bad governance, corruption, and the same ethnic gatekeeping you’re doing here. If you want balanced national growth, fight for it don’t scapegoat Nigerians for exercising their right to invest and prosper wherever they choose.

Lagos is Yoruba land nobody disputes that. But its success? That belongs to all Nigerians who built, lived, and bled for it. Your ancestors planted seeds, sure but it took the labour, taxes, and enterprise of a nation to grow the forest. You don’t own the fruits alone just because your people cleared part of the land centuries ago.

It’s 2025. Time to grow out of ethnic entitlement and join the rest of us in nation-building. If facts feel like insults, maybe it's your pride that’s too fragile.

Ofunaofu:
You are not from Lagos, your father doesn't own a square foot size of a keke parking spot any where in Lagos, though you may be yoruba as I can deduce from your comment because it is soaked in the same tired cocktail of tribal revisionism and historical cherry-picking that some of you mistake for facts. You keep shouting we developed Lagos, yet you ignore the critical contributions of non-Yoruba Nigerians who continue to power its economic engine today. Let’s clear this up again since you’re still struggling with comprehension.

First, I never said the success story of Lagos is my “2x2” shop. That’s your strawman, that is your propaganda not my argument. What I said, and what you keep dodging, is this: you cannot dismiss the enormous contribution of small businesses, traders, and entrepreneurs many of whom are Igbo and other non-Yoruba Nigerians to Lagos’ economic rise. Whether it’s Alaba, Ladipo, Balogun, or Computer Village, these are multi-billion naira ecosystems, a value chain that pay taxes, create jobs, and generate revenue not "petty trade."

Second, your claim that Igbos only began “mass migrating” to Lagos after the FCT moved to Abuja is a lie and an embarrassingly lazy one. Igbos were living, trading, and even owning property in Lagos long before independence. In fact, they were among the earliest and most prominent non-Yoruba settlers in Lagos Island, Yaba, and Surulere.

Third, Lagos being a trade centre long before independence is not in dispute and no one ever said Lagos was desolate. What you’re refusing to accept is that Lagos became a megacity not just because of colonial roads or Awolowo’s cocoa policy, but because people from across Nigeria poured in, invested, worked, and turned it into the economic powerhouse it is today. Infrastructure doesn’t build prosperity on its own, people do.

You talk about Awolowo, cocoa money, and colonial footprints as if they magically built the Lagos skyline. But post-independence Lagos, the one with corporate towers, industrial estates, global investment, and a massive consumer base was fueled by a national influx of human capital, business, and labour.

Fourth, your talk of “benevolence” is insulting. Nigerians are not second-class citizens in Lagos or anywhere else in this country. People don’t need to beg Yoruba approval to live or thrive in a federal republic. Nobody forced anyone to come to Lagos, they came because it’s their constitutional right to live and do business anywhere in Nigeria. Lagos didn’t do Nigeria a favour by being the capital, it benefited immensely from being the political and economic centre of the country for decades.

And let’s talk taxes: over 65% of Lagos' IGR comes from PAYE and corporate taxes, not land levies or indigenes’ goodwill. Who pays these? Multinational companies, SMEs, private businesses run and staffed by Nigerians of all ethnicities. You act like Lagos was self-made, but without Nigeria its capital status, its population influx, its ports, its businesses, Lagos would be a glorified coastal town.

You also conveniently ignore that the port you're dismissing is a key economic driver, and yes, Igbo importers are a significant part of the Lagos port economy. No, they don’t own the port, but their volume of trade in electronics, auto parts, fashion, machinery rivals that of any other group, and those goods are sold across Lagos, Nigeria and West Africa. That’s not delusion, that’s fact.

Lastly, this “go and develop your region” nonsense is tribal bigotry dressed as advice. Development isn’t held back by traders or migrants it’s held back by bad governance, corruption, and the same ethnic gatekeeping you’re doing here. If you want balanced national growth, fight for it don’t scapegoat Nigerians for exercising their right to invest and prosper wherever they choose.

Lagos is Yoruba land nobody disputes that. But its success? That belongs to all Nigerians who built, lived, and bled for it. Your ancestors planted seeds, sure but it took the labour, taxes, and enterprise of a nation to grow the forest. You don’t own the fruits alone just because your people cleared part of the land centuries ago.

It’s 2025. Time to grow out of ethnic entitlement and join the rest of us in nation-building. If facts feel like insults, maybe it's your pride that’s too fragile.

😂😂😂😂typical of you lot, I don’t know how you clowns allude yourselves the power to know who is from Lagos and who’s is not from Lagos like Lagos is not part of yorubaland and now added to your biafla map and everything about Lagos get you clowns paranoid and aggressive 😂😂😂

Before you start crying let me educate you not like I owe you any explanation like I have most often time my state of origin seems to be a source of headache for you economic migrant. I’m proudly a yoruba man from Lagos and my paternal grandparents are both from Lagos, while my grandfather is from Lagos island of the Egba clan and my grandmother an Egun from badagry….the popular adekunle at ebute metta is my ancestor and most of the land in that axis was sold and also most land around that axis was given to the govt and even the popular panti police station was my family land and also most of the street named in that axis are baring names of my ancestors

I won’t want to reveal much of my identity as this is a public forum and for security purpose. People like savage, William, vivour and slave returnee share same ancestry as mine and if you care to know my background and agbole, go to the Brazilian quarter on island, just to clear your ignorance😂😂😂

Now back to the topic, I never downplayed the contribution of other ethnic nationalities resident in Lagos but trying to correct the warped narrative painted by you lot to allude the develop of Lagos to economic migrants from other parts of the country while failing to acknowledge the contribution and development of Lagos which was started by the Yorubas. And I also made mention the contribution of the colonial master which help to reshape the foundation of Lagos as a commercial city.

Lagos history can’t be complete without stating the foundation laid by how ancestors and the larger Lagos has always being under the western region govt and just like I outlined earlier most of the infrastructure was developed by the western region govt from the proceeds of Cocoa money so I wonder where you clowns get this notion that Lagos was developed majorly by migrants and oil money when Lagos had already being a developed territory outside Nigeria before the amalgamation of Nigeria. We already had land lines, and other infrastructure before Nigeria so how is that hard for you to comprehend?

The major driver of the economy of Lagos are the manufacturing industries scattered around Lagos and also PAYE. Dangote refinery alone generates more taxes for the govt than all your 2*2 shop combined and not to mention other industries domiciled in Lagos which are largely controlled by the Yorubas because we control the formal sector and are know as captains of industries.

Like i earlier posted, taxes from SMes are mostly collect by local govt and have nothing to do with states that’s why sometimes when you traders go out of line like not complying with sanitary and environmental laws your markets are closed and such as ladipo and Alaba have been closed down severally while your red cap chief come and beg for it to be reopened, if govt really depend on your taxes do you think they will closing your markets? Nwanne leave emotions and face the reality, ibos are largely traders and the need the population and purchasing power of most Yorubas which are largely your customers to survive and the simple truth is just that you lot need Lagos more than it need you and you lot are the major beneficiaries of one Nigeria, the day that cease to exist, then you will understand better how Lagos as been instrumental to the survival of ibos

iwaeda:
It is getting clearer that LASG is doing sentimental cleansing. Can the same rule be applied to Ebute-Meta, Lagos Island, where houses are clustered without PLAN.

Oh I thought you guys are the developer of Lagos and all the structural buildings in it belongs to you

iwaeda:
It is getting clearer that LASG is doing sentimental cleansing. Can the same rule be applied to Ebute-Meta, Lagos Island, where houses are clustered without PLAN.

Your attempt at incitement of ethnic hate against SW is dead on arrival
Go sort out Anambra first after Tomorrow’s Ipob imposed sit at home


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