On the debate of the ownership of Lagos, it will be almost impractibale to have the status of the state asinged to a particular ethinc group in Nigeria for so many reasons which I shall discuss at the end of the series of this article, possibly in the part 3.

However, for the peculiarity of Nigerian politics, dugged in ethnicity, sentiments discrimination and all sorts of realities that undermine National Identity and solidarity, Lagos belongs to a particular ethnic group which is Yoruba. 

I shall deliberate extensively and intensively on this discourse at the end of the series like I had said. Nevertheless, I shall present part by part, this article which sums the view point of Fani Femi-Kayode on the STATUS OF LAGOS in which he meant, Igbo people should return to their land or better put, remember to develop their land as well.

Ndi-Igbo, as is obtained all over Nigeria, have contributed immensely in building Lagos to the status of biggest West African commercial hub it is today. They have most of the companies, the factories, the firms, the commercial centres, the stores and the kiosks that make Lagos what it is today.

It is however unfortunate and rather saddening that same people who invest in Lagos and elsewhere, even places in the north with little modern commercial appeal, have abandoned their home land, the south east and rendered the highly commercial part of the country unproductive. The best investment they make is to erect magnificient buildings and acquire exotic cars, none of which gives meaning and essence to the commercialisation of the southeast. 

Let us first take on FFK on this....

Permit me to make my second and final contribution to the raging debate about Lagos, who owns it and the seemingly endless tensions that exist between the Igbo and the Yoruba. It is amazing how one or two of the numerous nationalities that make up Nigeria secretly wish that they were Yoruba and consistently lay claim to Lagos as being partly theirs. Have they forgotten where they came from? I have never heard of a Yoruba wanting to give the impression to the world that he is an Igbo, an Ijaw, an Efik or a Hausa-Fulani  or claiming that he is a co-owner of Port Harcourt, Enugu, Calabar, Kano or Kaduna. Yet more often than not, some of those that are not of Yoruba extraction but that have lived in Lagos for some part of their lives have tried to claim that they are bona fide Lagosians and honorary members of the Yoruba race.

Clearly it is time for us to answer the nationality question. These matters have to be settled once and for all. Lagos and the South-west are the land and the patrimony of the Yoruba and we will not allow anyone, no matter how fond of them we may be, to take it away from us or share it with us in the name of ”being nice”, ”patriotism”, ”one Nigeria” or anything else. The day that the Yoruba are allowed to lay claim to exactly the same rights and privileges that the indigenous people in non-Yoruba states and zones enjoy and the day they can operate freely and become commissioners and governors in the Niger Delta states, the North, the Middle Belt and the South-east, we may reconsider our position. But up until then, we shall not do so. Lagos is not a ”no-man’s land” but the land and heritage of the Yoruba people. Others should not try to claim what is not theirs.

I am not involved in this debate for fun or for political gain and I am not participating in it to play politics but rather to speak the truth, to present the relevant historical facts to those that wish to learn and to educate the uninformed. That is why I write without fear or favour and that is why I intend to be thoroughly candid and brutally frank in this essay. And I am not too concerned or worried about what anyone may think or how they may feel about what I am about to say because I am a servant of truth and the truth must be told no matter how bitter it is and no matter whose ox is gored. That truth is as follows. The Yoruba, more than any other nationality in this country in the last 100 years, have been far too accommodating and tolerant when it comes to their relationship with other nationalities in this country and this is often done to their own detriment. That is why some of our Igbo brothers can make some of the sort of asinine remarks and contributions that a few of them  have been making in this debate both in the print media and in numerous social media portals and networks ever since Governor Fashola ”deported” 19 Igbo destitute back to Anambra state a while ago.  In the last 80 years, the Igbo have been shown more generosity, accommodation, warmth and kindness and given more opportunities and leverage by the Yoruba than they have been offered by ANY other ethnic group in Nigeria. This is a historical fact. The Yoruba do not have any resentment for the Igbo and we have allowed them to do in our land and our territory what they have never allowed us to do in theirs. This has been so for 80 long years and it is something that we are very proud of. As I said elsewhere recently, to be accommodating and generous is a mark of civilisation and it comes easily to people that once had empires. The reason why many of our people take strong exception to the apparent outrage of the Igbo over this ”deportation” issue and the provocative comments of my friend and brother Chief Orji Uzor Kalu when he described Lagos as being a ”no man’s land”  is because the Igbo have not only taken us for granted but they have also taken liberty for licence.
Complete reading: http://igbobia.com/?q=igbos-have-no-claim-over-lagosthey-should-go-back-homeaug-8-2013-article-of-femi-fani-kayode-part-1

I shall present part by part, this article which sums the view point of Fani Femi-Kayode on the STATUS OF LAGOS in which he meant, Igbo people should return to their land or better put, remember to develop their land as well.

He's right. Anyone who's proudly Igbo would agree with this.

See them again. They have gone to resurrect an old article and when Igbos respond, they'll start crying all over the place.

Igbos are not indegenous to Lagos as it's Yorubaland. Some Igbos just use it to taunt their Yoruba adversaries. though lagos is home to a lot of us just like it is to Yorubas as long as we're ONE Nigeria.

ONE NIGERIA

Of course Lagos is Yorubaland.

Are we no longer one Nigeria

Nice write-up!!! He made a point... No room for flibbertigibbets...

Iboes can lay claim to Lagos as long as they own majority of properties there, is it in any where stated in the constitution that a non indigene can't own a land in another state? In real estate, interest/structure on land are considered of higher value than land itself, so why will someone who has face lifted a place after he has legally purchased the place be called a tenant; that is what your statement implies

Make I buy land here first

Lagos belongs to Yoruba the only reason the people were there in the first place is because they were brought there for sale


No insults intended



And FfK is an ediot

GQaguolu:
Iboes can lay claim to Lagos as long as they own majority of properties there, is it in any where stated in the constitution that a non indigene can't own a land in another state? In real estate, interest/structure on land are considered of higher value than land itself, so why will someone who has face lifted a place after he has legally purchased the place be called a tenant; that is what your statement implies

Igbos and anyone from.otber tribes who own properties in Lagos is a landlord but it does not blur the fact who Lagos is indigenous to as no matter how any other tribe develop Kano, they dare not openly drag ownership of Kano with the people they bought their land from because we know what will follow.

Lagos is Yoruba Land because the King of Lagos is Yoruba. Igbo or any non-Yoruba group owning land in Lagos or becoming Governor of Lagos cannot change that fact. Fact.

In fact, Igbo know this. That is why they call Yoruba in Lagos 'Ndi Obodo a', meaning The People Of This Land.

So Yoruba's, relax. No one will take your land from you (the age for ethnic wars is over). But you must treat the Igbo in Lagos courteously. They are your cousins. They are your fellow countrymen. Your land is secure.

Summary...Igbos are parasitic.

From where did you get these nonsensical assertions?

1. This is one of the many reasons igbos can never get their left from right. When you say you abandon your own father's house to go develop another man's land, isn't that the height of stupidity? It is even dumber when you say these things with gusto.

2. As if that's not enough. You will now believe your own delusions that it's impracticable to "assign" the ownership of Lagos to those who own it. See your mouth like "assign". What is assign? Who will be doing the "assigning". Is it you that are yet to get it right even for your own people and village? Hello, somebody?! Anybody?

3. I can't wait for your nonsense Biafra to happen but have you thought about what would be when you have your Biafra? The Lagos State government would buy your little investments and the proceeds could be used to set up in your arid-ridden state. Let's see how you'd thrive...then we would know if Biafra was worth it.

Youngadvocate:
On the debate of the ownership of Lagos, it will be almost impractibale to have the status of the state asinged to a particular ethinc group in Nigeria for so many reasons which I shall discuss at the end of the series of this article, possibly in the part 3.

Ndi-Igbo, as is obtained all over Nigeria, have contributed immensely in building Lagos to the status of biggest West African commercial hub it is today. They have most of the companies, the factories, the firms, the commercial centres, the stores and the kiosks that make Lagos what it is today. 


Complete reading: http://igbobia.com/?q=igbos-have-no-claim-over-lagosthey-should-go-back-homeaug-8-2013-article-of-femi-fani-kayode-part-1

Zirah:
Summary...Igbos are parasitic.

What on earth does that even mean? Are you aware that the iboes are indisputably regarded the most industrious in Nigeria, How do you call somebody who has earned his harvest a parasite please

Yes. Since you can turn stone to bread and can roam the streets of Lagos well in traffic hawking gala and bottle water. It's why l like igbos. They're very industrious. They've somehow developed Alaba market. As long as you think pirated CDs are cool and you don't mind made in Aba clothes.

Need I remind you that when it comes to making rags out of nothing, Igbos top the chart? That's development! Infact, there's a lot of development going on in Ago/Okota as we speak. The igbos have been, through their economic strength, able to transform dry land into pubs and hotels. This is what they're doing in..is it Abia? A certain governor confirmed what we already knew. Harlotry is the mainstay...the average igbo.

You must be careful though if you're a landlord. Cos once you let chinedu in, amaka, his sister must join, then bro Paul and chukwudi, even chukwudi's son and chukwudi's son's sister from another mother. The parasitic DNA must set in. Or can you separate sand from garri?

GQaguolu:
What on earth does that even mean? Are you aware that the iboes are indisputably regarded the most industrious in Nigeria, How do you call somebody who has earned his harvest a parasite please

Who built Lagos? We are talking of Lagos, not osogbo

Lagos is not part of yoruba land, land grabbing afonjas with their jealous altitude,,
Lagos belongs to egun, all afonjas are settlers in lagos

Here are yoruba states
Ekiti.
Ogun.
Ondo.
Osun.
Oyo.

Afam4eva:
See them again. They have gone to resurrect an old article and when Igbos respond, they'll start crying all over the place.

Igbos are not indegenous to Lagos as it's Yorubaland. Some Igbos just use it to taunt their Yoruba adversaries. though lagos is home to a lot of us just like it is to Yorubas as long as we're ONE Nigeria.

ONE NIGERIA

U are a mod, u are not suppose to be behaving childishly......
Please leave bigotry taunts to kids and act maturely.....
At least for once.....
Besides, if u are not comfortable with the thread, u can simply lock it.

Zirah:
From where did you get these nonsensical assertions?

1. This is one of the many reasons igbos can never get their left from right. When you say you abandon your own father's house to go develop another man's land, isn't that the height of stupidity? It is even dumber when you say these things with gusto.

2. As if that's not enough. You will now believe your own delusions that it's impracticable to "assign" the ownership of Lagos to those who own it. See your mouth like "assign". What is assign? Who will be doing the "assigning". Is it you that are yet to get it right even for your own people and village? Hello, somebody?! Anybody?

3. I can't wait for your nonsense Biafra to happen but have you thought about what would be when you have your Biafra? The Lagos State government would buy your little investments and the proceeds could be used to set up in your arid-ridden state. Let's see how you'd thrive...then we would know if Biafra was worth it.

Okay...thank you for saying something...I would rather you waited for my submission, but since you couldn't go through beginning of the article, you will see PECULIARITY

Fear of Igbos. why should it even be a subject of discussion? we're not claiming your lagos biko.. we are just here for business, show me the money

Zirah:
Summary...Igbos are parasitic.

Shut up your stinking hole you called a mouth

Afam4eva:
See them again. They have gone to resurrect an old article and when Igbos respond, they'll start crying all over the place.

Igbos are not indegenous to Lagos as it's Yorubaland. Some Igbos just use it to taunt their Yoruba adversaries. though lagos is home to a lot of us just like it is to Yorubas as long as we're ONE Nigeria.

ONE NIGERIA

The OP is IGBO , the site is Pro-IGBO , so if anyone is looking for trouble then it's the igbos

Okay nah.... Okada, biko drop me here. Wey my zobo, groundnut and kuli-kuli? Na on top dis thread I go match brake today.

Is this what you call a stinking hole of a mouth?

Biggty:
Shut up your stinking hole you called a mouth

Zirah:
Is this what you call a stinking hole of a mouth?

look at your life, you think am a Igbo??