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OredoPikin2:
u saw Eko and u are asking for Benins
the Eko in Lagos are Benins na or you dont know Eko is Benin?

Nwaikpe:
Funny that you are making claims over facts.

"Lagos division."



Where do you think the name Lagos came from?

I guess you don't know it came from the people who started the town and made it Portuguese.

So, a people lived there, had a city, and didn't have a name? What is Eko? Why didn't the Protuguese see it and call it Eko if it ever existed?

masterfactor:
The people that called LAGOS a no mans land was not even part of the Lagos right from inception. People from the south East has no history with people from the South West.

qtx:
Before una start to the fite unasef make una ask simple and smart questions: Were there STATiSENSES in 1891? there was no internet, no proper documentation, No Nigeria, no Southwest, no South East, no nothing. So why allow this so-called statistical portal confuse una?

FreeStuffsNG:
Smh.
Never mind. I will not give you free education about Lagos here

MrSly:
So you meant that land had no people living in it. There show me the ancestral land of Eko people. You people and self denial. I never see people this cunning.

chatinent:
That means that the people who claim to own Lagos today are not even from Lagos!

FreeStuffsNG:
Smh.
Never mind. I will not give you free education about Lagos here

Ttalk:
Pls show me the population of the Igbo there or I won't accept it

forgiveness:
Eko are not Benin. Stop lying here.

Eko are Yoruba descendants that came back from slavery and the Indigenous Eko people.

FreeStuffsNG:
Ariwo kọ ni music, empty barrels lo ma n pariwo.

Even today, Edo na Lagos wannabe

Nwaikpe:
Meaning that no one owned the place.
Everyone came from their different places and claimed the land since it became a thriving sea port.

Abi?

If you want to know what ownership means, check the census of Oyo State in that year. Then you would discover that at that time, ALL COMMUNITIES were homogeneous.

FreeStuffsNG:
Smh.
Never mind. I will not give you free education about Lagos here

forgiveness:
There was no mathematics and Census in 1981, abi.

Ttalk:
Pls show me the population of the Igbo there or I won't accept it

Lukuluku69:
We all came from somewhere (Our Ancestors) no one germinated from the soil. So technically, you are right but you will agree with me that the longer a people stay in a place or inhabit a place, the more they can lay a claim to ancestry of that place

The figures you have was ust a Colonists Census figure of what they met on ground when they came hence the "Foundational Census" label.

It is interesting to note that, the Colonists counted Hausa and Nupe people in 1861 in Lagos but no representation from those who shout loudest that the place belongs to no one.

Don't you find that odd? I do.

AqualinaXYZ:
Now the real Eko Lagos indigenes no even reach 2%



Every south westerner has moved to claim Lagos



Not like they even have beautiful houses



They all live in face me I face u

MatrixCircle:
Because they was no Nigeria then, the South East was a country of its own then known as Republic of Biafra with strong economy and trade and no need to come to Lagos, until Nigeria was later created and that Biafran buoyant economy with Sapele and Rivers seaports were destroyed out of envy, their seaport was destroyed to favour Lagos. So they moved to Lagos to use the seaport to import and export their goods, and so doing there developed Lagos to what it is today.

MatrixCircle:
Because they was no Nigeria then, the South East was a country of its own then known as Republic of Biafra with strong economy and trade and no need to come to Lagos, until Nigeria was later created and that Biafran buoyant economy with Sapele and Rivers seaports were destroyed out of envy, their seaport was destroyed to favour Lagos. So they moved to Lagos to use the seaport to import and export their goods, and so doing there developed Lagos to what it is today.

FreeStuffsNG:
By design and our upbringing, Lagos will welcome you with a warm embrace.

We are genuinely happy to see you flourish and prosper in Lagos. If our forebears didn't build it, you will not have a Lagos today and if they didn't raise us to welcome strangers, you will not call Lagos home. There are parts of your region who are hostile to visitors and don't even rent out land to strangers.

If you like ignore the reality that Lagos intentionally will never be for sale

Softmirror:
Add the two bolded together. That is not growth. Charity begins at home. I PITY YOU!!!

OredoPikin2:
u can continue lying to yourself
if u can reason without emotion, ask yourself why till today, the oba of lagos always claim Benin root and ancestry.
ask ur parent about Prince Ado. the first Oba of Lagos.
ask ur people where Ashipa came from.

tctrills:
Lol, you are free to pity, but don't complain. And yes, charity begins at home. We Igbos have a saying that wealth is only recognized when brought home, which is why no matter how big we become in Lagos, we never forget to build a mansion in our village.
I want you to continue to pity 50 years from now when we have dug our feet deeper and deeper into our 6th state Lagos .

Toluwanise247:
The igbo’s don’t exist then ?

Softmirror:
You sincerely lack foresight, despite all that is before your nose. Why can't you people take your time and reason deeply instead of digging in vain?!

Nwaikpe:
Oh yes,

I guess you purposely ignored the timeline of that census and decided to map that question to our present-day society.

Even cosmopolitan London and New York at that time were 99% Caucasian, 99.9% Christian, and 99.9% English.
The 1%, or 0.01%, were basically traders, and those were at the fringes of the port areas.

In 1891, communities were totally homogenous. The only differences in these communities were the Caucasian colonial masters. Apart from that, if a Yoruba man travelled to Kano, I know what an Uthman Danfodiyo would do. If a Hausa man travelled to Calabar, I know what the pot of soup would have been made of.

Tell the truth, there was no one there in Lagos. No Yoruba community is ever known to be riverine only in Ondo. No Yoruba community ever thrived or built their communities near the riverines.

Nwaikpe:
First, I don't find it odd.

But importantly, let's not focus on that "those people" you inferred in your statement. They are naturally noisy, chest-beating, and dubious in character.

The focus should be on: did anyone ever own Lagos? Was there a people that could lay claim to Lagos as their ancestral land?

The Fulanis conquered Kwara in the early 1800s, settled there, and up till today, even they cannot lay claim to the land. They still see themselves as aliens in that place.

Then how come some people can migrate to a place, lay claim that it is their land, and deny others ownership of the place too, just because some usuals chest beat over it?


But as I said, I don't find it odd because, just as commerce was thriving in that region due to the Brits and Portuguese, other administrative procedures were thriving in other parts of the land too. Rel!g!on was thriving in their land, and commerce was not their focus; that is why they never migrated there. I bet you know what the Hausas and Nupes were selling to the Portuguese and Brits there. They were selling t h e m s e l v e s and that was a trade the chest beaters were never involved in. Never (respect to their ancestors for that).