₦airaland Forum

FreeStuffsNG:
The ignorance in your comment gave you away so easily that you are an outsider. I will not educate you on how Western Region built the first infrastructures in Africa even at a time Western civilization and education had not reached your side.


Oil kọ boil ni. Smh

Brendaniel:
I'm not too bothered about where was Lagos or not Lagos island and what not... My concern here are projects, investments by the FG whether in Lagos or Lagos island, give the FG its credits...

T9ksy:
But why are you pretending to be this dense? Whatever projects, investments by the FG was in Lagos Island and not the whole of Lagos.

Brendaniel:
So Lagos airport, Air force base, Police college, Ikeja Army cantoment, Ikeja GRA were all on the island abi?

T9ksy:
Those afore-mentioned infrastructures were built by the colonial govt and not by the FG, as you keep insinuating.

Brendaniel:
Can you show me proof?

delpee:
Just read up on the history of the Western Region.
I don't need to look for proof. I grew up in that era. Welcome to Western Region signboard was at Fadeyi, on Ikorodu Rd.

Brendaniel:
So why was the Airport at Ikeja called Lagos airport from inception ?

delpee:
The airport was first built during WW2 and in the colonial era. It wasn't built by the Western Region. The colonial authorities could make use of land anywhere they deemed fit.

It was modernised in the late 70s.

nairalanda1:
Before anyone comes and starts saying the good old days

1. Under colonial rule,most people did not have access to good roads, good power supply, and potable water

2. Only a tiny minority went to school,even fewer went to colleges like these

3. Most people were not rich. They were poor.

4. Development was dependent on whether the colonialists found your area useful to their purposes. Hence the police college being built in Lagos.

FreeStuffsNG:
That was not Lagos. It was part of Western Region i.e Ikeja, planned and administered from Ibadan, capital of Western Region

Ikeja was carved out from the defunct Western region to give the Lagos State created in 1967 sufficient land mass and access to some strategic assets still under control of OODUA till date.

That's why it's laughable when outsiders confuse Lagos with Lagos State.

Predictor3:
Life was better then than now I guess. Of course they had challenges then but now society has bigger challenges.

They didn't worry so much about food nor high rents.

Savage crimes were minimal. People were more contented. They respected one another more.

And look how uncongested that place is. Even Ibadan and osogbo are congested today.

You hardly see any green space in any town or village today. Everywhere na so so concrete, heat and noise.

MrSly:
You guys always come up with preposterous argument. Who ever confused Lagos with Lagos State. Have people been confusing Kano with Kano state or Jigawa with Jigawa state. You guys create argument out of your own stack illiteracy.

nairalanda1:
Actually, they did. Also, you won't like to live in a house from back then.


Largely because arms and ammo were more difficult to get, I guess.


Populaiton of Nigeria in 1940, seven years after the photo was taken : 40 million people
POpulation of Nigeria today...230 million and growing.


Because Nigerians are corrupt jokers. Every city had planned green spaces...but then people bribe officials to build on them.

Even Abuja where I live, it has a lot of green spaces...some of which has been built on..because someone paid bribes.

Predictor3:
You just buttressed my points

Predictor3:
Life was better then than now I guess. Of course they had challenges then but now society has bigger challenges.

They didn't worry so much about food nor high rents.
Savage crimes were minimal. People were more contented. They respected one another more.
And look how uncongested that place is. Even Ibadan and osogbo are congested today.

You hardly see any green space in any town or village today. Everywhere na so so concrete, heat and noise.

Kushites:
If they put you in that era you will complain till kingdom come.

Who told you they didn't worry about food?

So you don't know that malnutrition and infant mortality figures were highest during the colonial era?

You people are so ignorant, it's sad.

Go on ChatGPT and ask about infant mortality rates etc in 1950s versus 2026.

TokoEkambi:
The irony of accusing others of illiteracy and then use "stack" instead of "stark". Lolz.

Kushites:
If they put you in that era you will complain till kingdom come.

Who told you they didn't worry about food?

So you don't know that malnutrition and infant mortality figures were highest during the colonial era?

You people are so ignorant, it's sad.

Go on ChatGPT and ask about infant mortality rates etc in 1950s versus 2026.

SOMEBODY NEEDS TO DRUM INTO YOUR HEADS that the COLONIAL ERA was one of PLUNDER of the Nigerian economy and resources by the British invaders.

The very reason for INVADING AND COLONISING a country, is to exploit its resources for the benefit of the invading country.

It's not to develop YOU and make your lives better.

IT WAS TO STEAL FROM YOU!!

$50 TRILLION is the amount Britain looted in Nigerian resources, according to ChatGPT AI calculations.

That's why we were underdeveloped in 1960, and lacked even a single power plant, university, or industry worthy of the name, despite your almighty "oyinbo" ruling for nearly a century.

Brendaniel:
My question is: why was it called Lagos airport from inception since you people always claim those parts were not Lagos but south west region.

Why wasn't it ever called south west Airport?

delpee:
Ask the colonialists.

Brendaniel:
You guys and trying to twist history

delpee:
I'm old enough to know our history.

Brendaniel:
And yet telling me to ask the colonial masters?

delpee:
Yes, because that was their decision and you want to know why.

Brendaniel:
I already know why, it is you that is denying the why, the why is because it was all part of Lagos, since you are saying it was not, you have to give a reason why the airport in Ikeja was called Lagos from its foundation.

delpee:
Different generation perhaps. I know what I know from growing up in Western Region and Lagos.