GuyFawkes:


Ikeja means Ikorodu and Epe joint administration, you can take that to the bank. It was developed under the then Western region.

thesicilian:

Sounds quite idiotic that you have to name your own town after a visitor's beard. Didn't the place have a name before the colonial masters came? Were there no villagers dwelling there?!

jungleboy007:
. It is history fool!

ollaxworld:

it belongs to the igbo nau... una sixth state

1bkaye:
The Victoria one particularly annoys me

masseratti:
Naptu2 come oooo,come and ,clarify this claims ooo,but op agindigbi is in ikeja not lagos island where the war happened

Tunbolity:

That Ojota history is incorrect, Ojota had and still has the shrine of Esu whose other name is Ota and that was why it used to be called Oju Ota before it metamorphosed into Ojota. Your story on Ikeja is quite amazing and I appreciate it cos I am hearing it for the 1st time

1bkaye:
The Victoria one particularly annoys me

jd1986:
Ibeju-lekki??

ibeju means to rest right?

What da hell is lekki?

tripoli007:


I read sometime that lekki is the name of an early portuguess who settled in that area and still has his tomb located around there,u can Google this too

realtalk19:



http://omgvoice.com/lifestyle/original-meaning-areas-lagos/?geoip&country=GH

Vorpal:


Hehehe

There are many roads named after the whites in the streets of ikoyi.

Evinsco:


google at your footstep

realtalk19:
thesicilian u dnt av to sound dumb to make a comment. u could at least pass. am sure u dnt know shit about ur village. if u know d original name say it nd stop acting idiotic

1bkaye:

Lol it's more the colonial element of it, not solely the fact that they're white

Vorpal:


I know but I like to think it only seem offensive if you think of it that way.

What about "Victoria falls"? Or the naming of Nigeria being "Niger" and "area". Even though they pronounce the "Niger" different. Or the "Niger" river?

Why I wonder when people get pissed when they call you "Niger", we have been called that for long but we can choose to put a definition to that name that will be of positive repute.

#just saying.

Tunbolity:

That Ojota history is incorrect, Ojota had and still has the shrine of Esu whose other name is Ota and that was why it used to be called Oju Ota before it metamorphosed into Ojota. Your story on Ikeja is quite amazing and I appreciate it cos I am hearing it for the 1st time

1bkaye:

One may choose not allow the words in question to have an effect on them and that's fair enough but the history can never be ignored in my opinion and I personally choose not to ignore it or make the word 'positive'.

Pointblank09:
There used to be Agidingbi house in Benin.
I want clarification on it, pls.

deeptechcool:


Most of the points by the Op are just figments of his imagination. Look at that Ikeja nonsense up there. So the Akeja of Ikejaland is a king of Ikorodu and Epe joint administration? Ikeja is an Awori name.. .

Vorpal:


History is history, one will not attain the full potential of the present if one is not unencumbered from the past. In the words of tyrion when he was speaking to Jon snow, "let me give you some advice bastard,never forget who you are. The world will never forget it,wear it like an armour and it will never be used to hurt you".

bilulu:
Eko:
Meaning camp in Benin language. It was a settlement n under d control of d Benin empire. the western merchants always make use of d camp (Eko) which was under d Benin empire.... if u doubt me Wats d meaning of Eko in Yoruba