₦airaland Forum

lawani:
What is the name of the war? During the reign of which King? Remember also that invading Lagos island from Benin would not have been a small undertaking. They will need to come through the sea. If there was war, the locals would have had it in their history. Any confrontation with the local Aworis would have seen Lagos island swept into the sea

Islander23:
it was simply because of Benin empire invasion albeit did you know the present day "Eyin Igbeti"?

Christistruth03:


Lagos is Yorubaland 100%

kingbee90:
Lagos is a no man's land.
Lagos was founded & built by the European slave traders which later became the capital of Nigeria & was developed with Nigerian resources long ago when one man whom they claim built Lagos was still selling CoCo in the streets of Ch!c@g⁰ as a teenager.

Period!!

Christistruth03:
Lagos was already a Brtish Colony in 1890
7 years before the Benin expedition
The British already knew Lagos was Yorubaland

Islander23:
..Answer to the name of the war-British punitive expedition,year-1897...cause-Succession claims to the throne by the different factions of the locals

Islander23:
you are right about this but the British were not fully grounded,this main expedition caused the fall of Benin empire...the British had to invade Benin to diminish their influence &power

lawani:
You said Benin invaded Lagos. I asked for the details of that particular war. The war you are talking about must have happened more than a century before 1897

Islander23:
at least you &I weren't born as that time...but we solely rely on research... that's why I gave a snippet of what you should research about...Benin punitive expedition of February 1897

lawani:
No the British did not cause the fall of the Benin empire. There was no Benin empire in 1897. The last person that collected tribute in Benin was Balogun Ogedengbe of Ijesa who did so on behalf of Ibadan before the Yoruba civil war broke out. Ogedengbe is well known throughout the Delta, Edo states. Which city was tributary to Benin in 1897? It is wrong history to say the British truncated the Benin empire with one so called punitive expedition. The British were not able to suppress the Anioma for over thirty years

Christistruth00:
Thank you!!!!
It was Oba of Benin’s begging and pleading that pacified Ogedengbe and the EkitiParapo Army from taking over Benin.
They went back to fighting Ibadan instead
Ogedengbe invaded parts of Benin but not Benin City itself

lawani:
Accounts say an alliance was negotiated. Ogedengbe could not have acted without the go ahead of Ibadan because as at then the civil war had not yet broken out. The expedition was on behalf of Ibadan obviously.

Christistruth00:
What I read was that Ogedengbe was angry at Benin supplying Firearms to Ibadan that he and the EkitiParapo were fighting against and so he turned on Benin for doing so

It was one of the side shows of the Kiriji War

lawani:
Accounts say an alliance was negotiated. Ogedengbe could not have acted without the go ahead of Ibadan because as at then the civil war had not yet broken out. The expedition was on behalf of Ibadan obviously.

Christistruth00:
What I read was that Ogedengbe was angry at Benin supplying Firearms to Ibadan that he and the EkitiParapo were fighting against and so he turned on Benin for doing so

lawani:
But the Benin punitive expedition have nothing to do with Lagos island being discussed. Benin had no influence in Lagos to be diminished as at 1897.

Islander23:
first& foremost,I am a pure Yoruba man&I can't distort historical facts so back to the discussion, it has a whole lot to do with it because the main Oba of Lagos"s palace was situated at present day Ido...it was due to the war that it was moved to its present location...

lawani:
You are saying it was because of the British expedition against Benin that they moved the palace in Lagos island?. Or are you saying the Benin invaded Lagos and they moved the palace because of that? I don't really understand you

Islander23:
.....are you saying the Benin invaded Lagos and they moved the palace because of that....Yeah

lawani:
If that happened it will be recorded in history and the name of the war will be well known. Lagos island is very small and far from Benin and it can't be held by force by Benin. I doubt they had the logistics to invade the place since it would have had to be by the sea. Then how do you explain the fact that the Awo that established the town was an Ijesa man?.

Christistruth00:
The Ilaje even drowned Oba Ehengbuda of Benin and his War entourage in Lagos
It was a very big disaster for Benin

lawani:
If that happened it will be recorded in history and the name of the war will be well known. Lagos island is very small and far from Benin and it can't be held by force by Benin. I doubt they had the logistics to invade the place since it would have had to be by the sea. Then how do you explain the fact that the Awo that established the town was an Ijesa man?.

Islander23:
To be candid I don't know how about an Ijesha man being the founder of the town but Benin did invaded Lagos using the Uromi warriors...I think Wikipedia can be of help here.

ayoncox:
All this people go just dey Yan nonsense. So what do we gain from your saying Yoruba are not the originators, okay na Benin people as you said. Mr Akinolu why you dey hear Yoruba name like some of your people in Benin. Even Edo is not Benin and Benin is not Edo. Even the Eko you are claiming is just a fraction of Lagos. Abeg go and sit down for one side

lawani:
The whole population of Lagos island when it was founded would be a few hundreds or much less. Nobody knew it would become big except maybe the priests who insisted it would become big. There was nothing to invade.

Hankim:
Do you even know some parts of Lagos belong to Ewe people?

Islander23:
...oh my dear brother,I find this hard to believe...we have major sub tribes like the Aworis,Ijebus,Egbas,Igbominas.... Okie,lemme make understand those that discovered the island are the Ilajes due to their fishing activities but they did not settle down as residents,A former Lagos state governor"s ancestry is rooted in Ilaje

lawani:
Are you now saying Lagos island owns the whole Lagos state? Ikoyi for example was established by Oyo.

Gjrich:

“The exiled Benin Prince Izoduwa known to the Yorubas as Ooduwa (Oduduwa) was made ruler of the Ife people due to his powers and followers from the Great Benin-Kingdom

The person that wrote this piece showed that it is not worth reading as they did no research just by the above alone.

Ifá told the kingmakers that the next king would walk in from the forests in the Eastern side of town.

Izoduwa had been exiled from Benin and for safety reasons was travelling westwards with his full regalia.

As soon as he walked into town, he was made king as instructed by Ifa, not because of any powers of him and his entourage.

He was confused with his rousing welcome, who won't be, but thankfully what was happening was eventually made clear to him.

Izoduwa ruled over Ifẹ and never returned despite entreaties and pleas made to him from Benin when the plot to stop him being King, which caused him to leave in the first place, was unravelled.

Benin kingdom had a military outpost in Lagos by the sea, that was it.

Whoever wants to know who owns Lagos (island) should ask the palace what language they speak there

Hankim:
Do you even know some parts of Lagos belong to Ewe people?

Islander23:
I never said that Bro but Lagos island as the major seat of power dominated other sub towns...you should know that in any major invasion what comes to the mind of the invaders is to capture the seat of power...No doubt ikoyi was founded by the Oyos admittedly but yet to confirm it...My family also gained not by conquest but by being the first settlers of a high end part of Lagos

lawani:
The Oba of Lagos or Eleko of Eko is the most popular Lagos King but I don't think his land contains up to one million people. It can't be up to five percent of Lagos land mass