₦airaland Forum

nurudeen181:
They were still in Anambra then

Christistruth03:
It is Obvious you don't even know who the Ewe are🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

They Originated from Oyo and adopted the Fon Language of their Neighbours !!!!!!

They are also in Benin Republic, Togo and Ghana!!!!!

They are of Oyo Ancesstry!!!

Please stay away from our History

You don't know anything about it!!!

It was because of Egun and Ewe that Oyo in alliance with others fought and defeated the Ashanti of Ghana in the Atakpame battle of 1763.

It was too protect the Egun and Ewe that the Oyo Kingdom reached Ghana.

Alaafin was their Military Protector and they are Alaafins Children 🤣🤣🤣

SonOfDSoil01:
😂😂😂pain am?guess who have been crying on my mention..Okoro and reverse psychology be like 5&6 and btw why should I be pained when I’m a Lagos aborigine and you are the one that envy what I have🤣🤣 indeed Lagos belong to all Nigerians, so is Anambala but may I remind you, even in animal farm, all animals are not equal, that’s why we still use state of origin and unfortunately for you, you can never be from Lagos 😂😂😂😂

Ttalk:
Lagos to you is London. Do you wish to be buried in Lagos when you die?

Gerhards:
I doubt you had a proper sleep last night, due to the unbearable pains you went through yesterday, i pity you hence why i didn't reply yesterday, i don't want to cause death to someone over Lagos that belong to all Nigeria

forgiveness:
Eko are not Benin. Stop lying here.

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

Gerhards:
Being part of Oyo empire does not make them Yoruba, what is the name of their language? stop feeding yourself with lies omo iya
How do you sleep at night with all these lies you kept feeding yourself? you dey try ooo

Dogalmighty17:
So Hausa have looooong been indigenes of Lagos state. And they aren't making noise about it. They have every right to demand for a local government of their own in Lagos.

Gerhards:
Being part of Oyo empire does not make them Yoruba, what is the name of their language? stop feeding yourself with lies omo iya
How do you sleep at night with all these lies you kept feeding yourself? you dey try ooo

7lives:
Ewe and Ga are Yoruba, their language though a bit altered, when they write in their language, a Yoruba person can easily decode what they wrote.

Gerhards:
Lagos does not belong to Ogun, Osun, Ilorin, Ondo, Ekiti and Oyo States, it belong to every Nigerian, enough of this unnecessary disturbance on Nairaland

7lives:
The first Yorubas in Lagos were the descendants of Olokun Seniade, they lived on an island on the Atlantic ocean.
They lost a chunk of their land and migrated to the west coast, Lagos being one of those coast.
Aworis came next through Olofin Ogunfunminire, they are called Awori.
There were also Brazillian returnees mostly Yorubas one was Darocha, Nigeria's first millionaire, he was a Yoruba man.
There are also Yorubas from Sierra Leone, they are called Kooruma.
Tapa people came in true Balogun Oshodi Tapa.
The Eguns are originally from Popo, the colonial map cut them into Lagos.
There are also Oyo, Egba and Ijebus who were brought in by trades.
Ko je bi o se je.

Commentor:
Yet they want to call it no man's land.

femi4:
So you believe northerners came to lagos before igbos

Which is closer to the SW..East or North

femi4:
So you believe northerners came to lagos before igbos

Which is closer to the SW..East or North

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

Christistruth03:
Lagos is Yorubaland
This is the 1890 Map of Yorubaland with
Lagos in it 24 years before Nigeria was ever
created

It is not our fault that you donated your once very peaceful SE to ipob who have turned it into a huge bonfire.

We warned you for years but you heaped more insults on us with every warning

IGBOPROMISE1:
Care to explain how you’re claiming Lagos as belonging to you as a Yoruba man, but the oyel and gas in the east and Niger delta belongs to all of us!? Make that make sense!

qtx:
No be wetin the colo tell una una de believe? At this time and age after they left us, they still tell us everything about us and determine where we came from, where we are going and how we will end . Chai!

Nwaikpe:
You overate yourselves because of the strategic advantage of Lagos.

Some how, you think that Lagos defines all of Yoruba. Come on!



Before the creation of Lagos, that is before the discovery of Lagos by the Portugese, Olu Atuwatse a fellow Benin man, was already well schooled in the University of Coimbra. That is one of my direct blood ancestors. Direct blood from the same street in Benin. You know very little about the Presbyterian Church of Scotland Mission in 1846 in Calabar and the Roman Catholic Mission (RCM) in the 1860s in the area now called Igbo. You somehow think that because the center of commerce was Lagos, therefore Nigeria, colonial and precolonial, surrounded it.

Read your history: colonial-era administration based more in Calabar (Abuja of those days) than in Lagos. Lagos was just a point of commerce. That was its luck till today. The greatest social interaction between the colonials and the people happened with the Igbo people through the Church.

That is why:
Because of the presence of more whites in Lagos by reason of commerce, they built more schools there, and therefore the locals were more educated in number than in other regions. But because of the interactions socially with the Igbos, they were naturally smarter and more integrated with the Western European world than other regions.

SonOfDSoil01:
😂😂😂😂 see how my state of i origin Dey give some shameless people headache………indeed Yoruba lagba, we will continue to be the envy of them all, continue creating your happiness online, while reality hit you differently, mgbeke feeling funky 😂😂

7lives:
Ewe and Ga are Yoruba, their language though a bit altered, when they write in their language, a Yoruba person can easily decode what they wrote.

Gerhards:
You are not from Lagos state, like Eriokanmi, he's a fully known Lagosian, but you who his father came from Oko Ose in ilorin claiming Lagos because he has stayed in Lagos for decades, dude it's never going to work, i think it's high time to accept the truth and stop deceiving yourself, Lagos does not belong to Ogun, Ondo, Osun, Oyo, and Ekiti states, develop your states and leave Lagos alone.

Christistruth03:
Ondo get Oil and it went to FG too.

Apart from that FG owes Lagos 150 years of
Port and Seme border duties and Taxes .

Meanwhile You had no problem at all with your own fathers that fully claimed Enugu and umuahia for themselves though they both were founded and built by Lord Lugard and the British

Nwaikpe:
After 50 years, I will also ask you to tell me the ancestral land pf the Igbo people staying in Lagos.

IGBOPROMISE1:
Your ‘argument’ is evasive, selective and full of deceit!

You’re yet to tell us how or why Ondo oyel (which i gather is domiciled wholly or mainly in the Ijaw part of the state) is owned and administered by the federal gov’t for all to share, yet you somehow figured out that Lagos belongs to Yoruba, even from as far afield as Irajibi, and should be controlled solely by una! What part of the Nigerian constitution gave you that idea!? It seems to me that you’re making up the rules as you go along, depending on how it falls in line with your economic and political agenda!

Luckily for you, your godfather is now presiding over affairs in Nigeria! Go tell him to authorise payment of 150 years of port and Seme border duties and taxes owed Lagos state gov’t! And while at it, also tell him to refund south-east and south-south billions of dollars in lieu of our time, effort and resources disproportionately channelled into developing Lagos from 1960 right up till when the federal capital moved to Abuja! Last i checked, you haven’t refunded shishi before wanting to claim Lagos all to yourselves! I deliberately left out the north from the expected financial windfall coming to the south-east and south-south because they were complicit in setting up the structure and political-economy that disproportionately favoured Lagos/south-west and the north-west over others both economically and politically!

BlackViper:
https://x.com/StatiSense/status/1674431493236723712?t=oP5vIBnKmJ0BUtRu2NQRbA&s=19[/quote]I see a lot of highly uneducated posters on this thread.

The LAGOS of the 1891 census that is being refered to in the OPs post is "Lagos Island" (Isale Eko) NOT the entire Lagos State of today. Eko is the short form of "ereko" which means pepper farm BECAUSE Lagos Island was used as a farming settlement centuries back by the Aworis who are the descendants of Olofin Ogunfunminire a Prince of Ile Ife who migrated to what is now Lagos State through Ogun State under the guidance of Ifa divination.

jaxxy:
The Eko tribe where the Edo's front (sic) Benin kingdom.

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

Nwaikpe:
No, sir.
There were NEVER any people living in that area, sir.

Let's assume there were; two things would have happened: the Portuguese, who got there first and named it Lagos, would have respected the name of the place as in "Benin" or "Calabar," or would have cleared the place as in the case of the American Indians.

As I stated, no Yoruba nation is ever known to be riverine. Go through your history. Go through your artifacts. You will never see any evidence that linked the people to tools or means that helped them live or move around water bodies.

You can find it with the Calabar, Ibibio, Urhobo, etc. Check their history and view their historical artifacts.

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