₦airaland Forum

sparko1:
I hope you don't have children, passing this kind of stupidity to another generation is disheartening.

The statement simply means 98 percent of the people there at the time were yorubas, so it's yoruba land, whether it was called Lagos or any other names is irrelevant, the land and the people are the same.

tctrills:
Lol, I knew you must end up insulting. You guys can't hide hate. We were both discussing the progress of the Igbos in Lagos, but somehow, you started getting bitter. From pitying me to hating me. You guys tribalism is glorious.

GeneralOuki:
They can not think beyond tribal lines.

MatrixCircle:
They was Port Harcourt seaport and the most vibrant one was that in Sapele .Sapele was like Lagos seaport of today. It was a very buoyant .

Every ibo importers were using Sapele in Delta state, until it was destroyed by Nigerian government to favour Lagos seaport. Import and Export was done in Sapele by most ibo businesses. That's the reason they moved to Lagos. No Sapele is the reason. They was Calabar seaport too.

Ojuntana:
All these figures are not reliable
People generally shied away from census in the colonial period

Nwaikpe:
Good that you want to focus on those guys. Let's do it.

Where did they learn the caste system from? Where did your people learn your culture from? Religion?


I[b] understand the huts thing. You guys use that statement to console yourself for the fact that the average Igbo community was speaking good English, living in good colonial-style houses, praying the rosary, and even attending universities before the others did. [/b]

The only people who superseded them were the Ijaws and Efik/Ibibio. You listen too much to the message of Reno Omokri.
Up till today, there are places in the north that still go about unclothed.

The North African Tuaregs conquered Northern Nigeria before the Britons did. And what they did in Northern Nigeria was that they stripped them of their culture (religion was part of their culture) and gave them a new religion, which they now claim to be their culture. And that was in the early 1800s. You think when the North Africans conquered them, they taught them how to build skyscrapers? The Tauregs only taught them (enforced on them) the clothing of the desert people (and their religion) thereof.



And just so that you get it right: the Briton saw ALL who accepted the Christian faith as equals. That was a part you never knew. The church never discriminated between bound or free, rich or poor, and the Britons were under the Anglican church. You thought the same way Adamu was treated is the same Chukwudi was?

Nwaikpe:
Good that you want to focus on those guys. Let's do it.

Where did they learn the caste system from? Where did your people learn your culture from? Religion?


I understand the huts thing. You guys use that statement to console yourself for the fact that the average Igbo community was speaking good English, living in good colonial-style houses, praying the rosary, and even attending universities before the others did.

The only people who superseded them were the Ijaws and Efik/Ibibio. You listen too much to the message of Reno Omokri.
Up till today, there are places in the north that still go about unclothed.

The North African Tuaregs conquered Northern Nigeria before the Britons did. And what they did in Northern Nigeria was that they stripped them of their culture (religion was part of their culture) and gave them a new religion, which they now claim to be their culture. And that was in the early 1800s. You think when the North Africans conquered them, they taught them how to build skyscrapers? The Tauregs only taught them (enforced on them) the clothing of the desert people (and their religion) thereof.



And just so that you get it right: the Briton saw ALL who accepted the Christian faith as equals. That was a part you never knew. The church never discriminated between bound or free, rich or poor, and the Britons were under the Anglican church. You thought the same way Adamu was treated is the same Chukwudi was?

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.

forgiveness:
Eko are not Benin. Stop lying here.

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

Ttalk:
Seriously I should have known that I was chatting with people who believe Buhari died and was changed to El Jibrin of Sudan

At the bolded suggest you didn't study history as a subject otherwise won't claim the British interact with the Igbo first when they landed in the Niger area

The 1st Missionary school, first missionary cemetery, first story building, first this and first that can only be found in my state.

History tells us that Igbo were the last sets of people the British visited

Ecomfreecourse:
Really now I am wondering how a man from osun state took over your dear Lagos state up till now

Nwaikpe:


Do you even know what a university is? So UniLag or whatever university you are talking about, had to segregate the courses of a "Lagosian" from others?

Oh, so you know that nothing existed there? That is why a new name had to be given to it. Now you know why the place called Oyo was not renamed "Lisbon"—because people were already there.

"Fishing net" design.

You try.

Christistruth03:
Didn’t you see Oyo on the Census?
Tinubu is Ethnic Oyo

Lukuluku69:
Like I said earlier, technically, no one owns anywhere, but people can claim ancestry over a place they have been over a period.

You have the example of the Fulani sojourn in Kwara. Yes, they came, were pushed back, but eventually settled in that space, and if you go there till today, you will see the line between the earlier people and the Fulanis. That the Fulanis seeing yourself as aliens in a space is not the same as saying no one owns the space.

And everyone traded in Slaves, the degree is the difference. Everyone does. Also, the Brits and the Portuguese find it harder to move in the Savanah and the Coasts than the thick Forest of the hinterland of the east and they never operated the city states of the Hausa/Nupe/Yoruba Kingdoms, so there was no need to sell rival city/Kingdoms citizens as slaves. Didn't they have the Outcasts amongst them or labelled some as Outcasts?

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

Ojuntana:
All these figures are not reliable
People generally shied away from census in the colonial period

tctrills:
That tells you that change is the only constant thing. A lot has changed since 130 years. Ownership has been changing hands. And it is a good thing.

Ttalk:
Lagos is a common name that bound the people together, Eko and other names have been in existence and will still continue to be.

Lagos is named after the state that is why it is called Lagos state, we still retain òye names, Eko, Epetedo, Isheri, Epe etc

Nwaikpe:
Good that you want to focus on those guys. Let's do it.

Where did they learn the caste system from? Where did your people learn your culture from? Religion?


I understand the huts thing. You guys use that statement to console yourself for the fact that the average Igbo community was speaking good English, living in good colonial-style houses, praying the rosary, and even attending universities before the others did.

The only people who superseded them were the Ijaws and Efik/Ibibio. You listen too much to the message of Reno Omokri.
Up till today, there are places in the north that still go about unclothed.

The North African Tuaregs conquered Northern Nigeria before the Britons did. And what they did in Northern Nigeria was that they stripped them of their culture (religion was part of their culture) and gave them a new religion, which they now claim to be their culture. And that was in the early 1800s. You think when the North Africans conquered them, they taught them how to build skyscrapers? The Tauregs only taught them (enforced on them) the clothing of the desert people (and their religion) thereof.



And just so that you get it right: the Briton saw ALL who accepted the Christian faith as equals. That was a part you never knew. The church never discriminated between bound or free, rich or poor, and the Britons were under the Anglican church. You thought the same way Adamu was treated is the same Chukwudi was?

Christistruth03:
Actually Eko are the Lagos Island Awori 90%
the rest were Saro and Aguda enslaved returnees

GeneralOuki:
Nonsense. The British moved in the savannah just as well as they did in the hinterland if the east, especially in the coastal areas where they berthed and colonised earlier than most places, e.g Opobo kingdom and Lagos. The British directly and indirectly operated the Yoruba kingdom and Hausa/Fulani kingdoms after they conquered them . They deposed Ọbá kosoko and installed their stooge Akitoye as a way to gain total control of Lagos.
The Brits never engaged in slavery in Nigeria, they abolished it, and they used the accusations of slavery to depose the monarchies that didn't kowtow to them.

And those Hausas and Nupe you see on that census were mostly slaves owned by Yoruba chiefs, very few of them were free people.

Spandau:
If Ibos think they can "own" Lagos, then they're planning suicide.

FreeStuffsNG:
I am enlightening you to the deliberate intention of my forebears to build a sustainable homeland based on our Yoruba industry and hospitality to strangers and you are trying to make it look like it's a common thing. Smh.

Hell No! It's not common and has never been common. Some people cannibalize on strangers. Hosting strangers is a matter of life and death in your region then and most of those places you mentioned.
Some of them practice osu that perpetually segregate against some of their fellow villagers while most parts of your region practice feisty human cannibalism.
Check out the map of cannibalism in Nigeria as at that time.

GeneralOuki:
Nonsense. The British moved in the savannah just as well as they did in the hinterland if the east, especially in the coastal areas where they berthed and colonised earlier than most places, e.g Opobo kingdom and Lagos. The British directly and indirectly operated the Yoruba kingdom and Hausa/Fulani kingdoms after they conquered them . They deposed Ọbá kosoko and installed their stooge Akitoye as a way to gain total control of Lagos.
[i]The Brits never engaged in slavery in Nigeria, they abolished it, and they used the accusations of slavery to depose the monarchies that didn't kowtow to them[/i][i][/i].

And those Hausas and Nupe you see on that census were mostly slaves owned by Yoruba chiefs, very few of them were free people.

GeneralOuki:
You don't even know the meaning of Lagos. Lagos was named by the Europeans, Portuguese to be precise and it means "Lakes". Eko on the other hand is a Benin word. Long before the arrival of the British, the Oba of Benin was the one who chose the oba of Lagos. Do you know why it is like that?

tctrills:
Lol, I have traveled the world, there is nothing new with strangers living in your land. It's happening all over the world, and again some yorubas practice tribalism. They segregate against Igbos. They wouldnt even rent to an Igbo
I have lived in Jos, Abuja, and in other counties. I can tell you that Yorubas are not the top 50 kindest hosts. Don't get me wrong, the yorubas are ok, but nothing exceptional.
We, your visitors, are in the best position to tell you, especially those of us who have lived all over the country and the world. I have visited Pakistan, for example, and was fed and housed for free by people who never knew me. That one can't happen in Abeokuta.

Spandau:
If Ibos think they can "own" Lagos, then they're planning suicide.

Ttalk:
I think it is effortless trying to correct people that chose to be ignorant.

Look at this one saying British never engage in slave trade in Nigeria?

I think this is the height of delusion.

GeneralOuki:
Abeokuta? Where them go mine your skull

Spandau:
Therefore, leave Lagos the hell alone. It belongs to the SW.