₦airaland Forum

Christistruth03:
That is not our Business
Let every look after their own indigenes
Lagos is right

malali:
Lagos has the most Federal assets that belong to all Nigerians.
Assets that were paid for with Federal allocation and belong to all Nigerians
The same way Delta has oil wells that belong to all Nigerians
The same way Niger state has hydroelectric power that serves all Nigerians
The same way Kano groundnuts pyramid fed the whole country at some point in the seventies.
All these places contributed money to the development of Lagos.
Did you think 3rd mainland bridge was built with Lagos state funds.

So Lagos discriminating any Hausa or Yoruba citizen is 100% unconstitutional.

malali:
Lagos has the most Federal assets that belong to all Nigerians.
Assets that were paid for with Federal allocation and belong to all Nigerians
The same way Delta has oil wells that belong to all Nigerians
The same way Niger state has hydroelectric power that serves all Nigerians
The same way Kano groundnuts pyramid fed the whole country at some point in the seventies.
All these places contributed money to the development of Lagos.
Did you think 3rd mainland bridge was built with Lagos state funds.

So Lagos discriminating any Hausa or Yoruba citizen is 100% unconstitutional.

Christistruth00:
In Yorubaland Indigeneship can also be through the mother

malali:
[color=#990000][b]Lagos has the most Federal assets that belong to all Nigerians.
Assets that were paid for with Federal allocation and belong to all Nigerians
The same way Delta has oil wells that belong to all Nigerians
The same way Niger state has hydroelectric power that serves all Nigerians
The same way Kano groundnuts pyramid fed the whole country at some point in the seventies.
All these places contributed money to the development of Lagos.
Did you think 3rd mainland bridge was built with Lagos state funds.

So Lagos discriminating any Hausa or Yoruba citizen is 100% unconstitutional.

Ttalk:
Next time, I suggest you read the constitution before you comment on the constitution.


Indigenes of states is recognized by the constitution.

Section 147 (3j recognizes indigenes of states

Section 46 4 (b) 1 also differentiates between indigent citizens and citizens. Therefore recognizing indigenes as separate qualification from ordinary citizens.

The constitution under “definitions” in Part IV. Section 318 (1j also recognizes indigenes of a state as people whose grandparents were members of the community indigenous to that state. Not a member of a community in that state but a community indigenous to that state.

Under the constitution as defined in section 318, you are only recognized as “belonging” to a state if your grandparents are a member of an Indigenous community from that state.

An ibo man can never be an indigene of Lagos under the constitution no matter how long he is resident in Lagos.

Christistruth03:
Ambode’s mother is from Epe , Lagos State and that was where Ambode was born

Sanwo Olu’s mother is from the Cole family of Lagos island which was where Sanwo Olu was
also born

Kukutente23:
When in the 70s did Kano groundnut feed the whole country

Kdon2:
Another ibo yet again. Yet they want biafla but don't want to leave Lagos. Go your states. Lagos no be your state.

malali:
The Kano groundnut pyramids were a major source of revenue for Nigeria from the 1930s through the late 1960s, with their peak commercial influence in the 1950s and early 1960s.

Christistruth03:
Lagos is Constitutionally Yorubaland
Go and check the Tribal Customary court Laws of Lagos
and who the Constitutional Traditional Rulers are

Enugu that was founded and built by Lord Lugard and the British is also looking after their own indigenes first
Lagos is not the Capital of Nigeria Abuja is


Lagos indigenes have the same rights to be looked after as the indigenes of Anambra
to do otherwise is discrimination against the indigenes of Lagos


By the way Lagos State was not the Capital, Lagos Island was


The rest of Lagos State belonged to Awolowo’s Western Region .
It was over 99% of the Lagos State Land Mass

Ttalk:
This is blatant lie

Justiceleague1:
Let Lagos breathe please.
Go back to oyo nahhhhh

Ttalk:
Present your Indigeneship certificate snd oll present mine.

Stop obsessing in others heritage. That's covetousness.

I ban every spirit of covetousness in your life

Ttalk:
This is blatant lie

malali:
Are you okay...what was ?
Educate me. I am listening.

malali:
[color=#990000][b]The Kano groundnut pyramids were a major source of revenue for Nigeria from the 1930s through the late 1960s, with their peak commercial influence in the 1950s and early 1960s.

Kukutente23:
A major source of revenue? What evidence do you have to back this up or we should just swallow it because you nor dey lie
Nigeria's major revenue source from the 1920s-1970s was cocoa and oil palm. Groudnut was never a major revenue earner for Nigeria
It has always been the south feeding the north. Even from colonial times till now

Kukutente23:
A major source of revenue? What evidence do you have to back this up or we should just swallow it because you nor dey lie
Nigeria's major revenue source from the 1920s-1970s was cocoa and oil palm. Groudnut was never a major revenue earner for Nigeria
It has always been the south feeding the north. Even from colonial times till now

Ttalk:
Stick to the Indigeneship story.

Why is it constitutional for SE to observe Monday sit at home.

Constructional for the North to enact Sharia law with Hisbah police.

And unconstitutional for Lagos to digitalised her Indigeneship record system

Don't derail the topic

Christistruth03:
By the way Lagos State was not the Capital, Lagos Island was


The rest of Lagos State belonged to Awolowo’s Western Region .
It was over 99% of the Lagos State Land Mass

malali:
This is illegal and unconstitutional on a federal level.

The Lagos State Indigeneship Automated Certificate is a sleekly disguised form of digital discrimination.

By institutionalizing “indigene status,” the government effectively divides residents into first-class citizens and others, contradicting the 1999 Constitution’s guarantee of equality and freedom from discrimination (Section 42).

In a cosmopolitan state built by migrants, codifying ancestry into a digital gatekeeper for access to schools, jobs, or benefits is regressive. It risks excluding millions of Lagos-born Nigerians whose families migrated generations ago.

Automation doesn’t sanitize bias, it only makes discrimination more efficient.

The Attorney General of the Federation Lateef Fagbemi should step in and uphold the constitution.

Kukutente23:
This is false. Yorubaland is patrilineal
No one traces his ancestry through his mother in Yorubaland except maybe an illegitimate child

Ttalk:
The guy doesn't know how to use AI to get the right information, he doesn't know difference in quantity and quality/ value.

He rely on the lie shunned out about groundnut pyramid that is all political tool to remain relevsnt

DomPerignon:
Indigeneship was one of the pillar arguments used in demanding for independence from the British.

Nigeria for Nigerians was the rallying call.

The indigenes of the land said they want to govern themselves and be left alone to define a future for themselves that will reflect their cultural and historical heritage.

It was on this basis that every nationality in Nigeria was duly accounted for in our constitution.

To be a Nigerian , you must first be part of one of over 300 ethnic nationalities .

So what is wrong in having a state keeping a register of all the indigenous people?

Your Ben Kalu proposed a bill that he has since withdrawn that wanted to do a way with ethnic identity in place of a Nigerian identity. His state of Residency bill attempted to usurp state of origin and thus, ethnic identities.

Let me remind you also that the Nigerian constitution dictates that one can only claim one state of origin even if one is a product of parents from different states.

The beauty in that law was not foreseen until Ben Kalu's bill was presented and was used to have him withdraw it. The original reason for barring anyone from claiming to be from more than one state was to prevent people benefiting from 2 States. But the same law was used to ask Kalu how he can claim state of origin in Abia and benefit from it and still want to use state of residence in places like Lagos to also benefit from Lagos?

You people should learn to respect ethnic identities .

DomPerignon:
Indigeneship was one of the pillar arguments used in demanding for independence from the British.

Nigeria for Nigerians was the rallying call.

The indigenes of the land said they want to govern themselves and be left alone to define a future for themselves that will reflect their cultural and historical heritage.

It was on this basis that every nationality in Nigeria was duly accounted for in our constitution.

To be a Nigerian , you must first be part of one of over 300 ethnic nationalities .

So what is wrong in having a state keeping a register of all the indigenous people?

Your Ben Kalu proposed a bill that he has since withdrawn that wanted to do a way with ethnic identity in place of a Nigerian identity. His state of Residency bill attempted to usurp state of origin and thus, ethnic identities.

Let me remind you also that the Nigerian constitution dictates that one can only claim one state of origin even if one is a product of parents from different states.

The beauty in that law was not foreseen until Ben Kalu's bill was presented and was used to have him withdraw it. The original reason for barring anyone from claiming to be from more than one state was to prevent people benefiting from 2 States. But the same law was used to ask Kalu how he can claim state of origin in Abia and benefit from it and still want to use state of residence in places like Lagos to also benefit from Lagos?

You people should learn to respect ethnic identities .

malali:
Constitutions often contain legacy identity clauses, but weaponizing ancestry to gate access to services, education, or state benefits becomes discriminatory under modern human-rights norms.

Nigeria’s Constitution forbids discrimination based on community, ethnic group, or place of origin. When states operationalize indigeneship in ways that exclude long-term residents, Lagos-born children, or multi-generational families who built the city, they convert an identity definition into a mechanism of inequality.