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frankdoz21:
I weep for Yoruba's, they busy doing "motor park alaye" while Igbo's are buying up lagos. Igbo's now own 80℅ of lagos.

You are right, igbo also own 200% of south africa and 800% of Amelica

Odkosh:
You are right, igbo also own 200% of south africa and 800% of Amelica

if you disagree why are Yoruba's homeless in lagos, with many sleeping under bridges and flyovers?

immhotep:
odkosh is not even an indigene of Lagos but he will still be complaining upandan

See the home of developers of the universe. , it lloks like rondon

frankdoz21:
if you disagree why are Yoruba's homeless in lagos, with many sleeping under bridges and flyovers?

Why are igbos in onitsa homeless?

They have started again, that was how their progenitors boast of rulling Nigeria for ever that cause them annihilation by the northernant. Maybe they have forgotten what happened to them during the civil war.
This time around i don't think they will even have a place in the affairs of Nigeria when they will get the result in form of thunder bolt.

Odkosh:
See the home of developers of the universe. , it lloks like rondon

Say the truth, have you paid what you owe your Igbo landlord in Lagos?

Frankdoz27:
Lagos state may geographically be located in southwestern Nigeria, a region dominated by ethnic Yoruba's but with increasing indigenous Lagos Igbo's ( Igbo generation born in Lagos) and continual influx of southeastherners is a major threat which may eventually strip Yoruba's their waning owneri of Lagos. As may be noted, Igbo's have fully integrated in every polity of lagos; socially, politically and economically. Below are list of evidence that Lagos will soon become the first Igbo territory outside their conventional southeast and parts of south south.

* The biggest international markets in lagos is owned by Igbo's(Trade fair, Alaba international market, ladikpo etc).

* Igbo's now dominates major political positions in lagos ( many Igbo's are appointed commissioner in lagos, many constituency in lagos state house of assembly are represented by lagos indigenous Igbo's, lagos indigenous Igbo's have headed different LG as chairman, the recent southwest APC publicity sectary, JOE IGBOKWE is a Lagos indigenous Igbo.

* Notable Igbo Entrepreneur's established their enterprise in lagos with majority of its employees being Igbo's example include nest oil, Capital oil, ABC transport, GUO transport,etc.

* Igbo millionaire's are buying up lagos. From lagos mainland to lagos island, most building's, companies and shops/ stores are own by Igbo's. Some even said festac and satlight town are completely Igbo areas. Rumors have it that Innoson and orange drugs have purchased half of Vitoria and banana islands.

*Most landlord in lagos are Igbo's. Igbo's now closing swamps to erect more buildings in lagos leaving the Yoruba's houseless.

It is an expectation of every indigenous Lagos Igbo son's and daughter's that one day an Igbo man will become the governor of Lagos state to complete the full integration of indigenous Lagos Igbo's.

This guy is probably a newbie in Lagos or is probably writing from a distant location. Oga wake up from sleep

Flatheadpig:
Don't die on top my matter

stop messing up nairaland

immhotep:
Igbos In Lagos State: My Experience, By Senator Adeseye Ogunlewe

Lagos State belongs as much to the ethnic Igbo as to the Yoruba, Ijaw, Hausa, Fulani, Efik, Idoma, Urhobo, Itshekiri, Edo, and so on who live in it, pay tax, identify with it, and settle in it. That compact was made the moment Nigeria became a single nation, and a successor power to the old principalities who were subdued and who ceded their sovereignty for the new commonwealth of Nigeria.

It was pragmatic. The Igbo had the skill and the industry, and Lagos was the seat of the Federal Government of Nigeria and its major port. The Igbo have lived in Lagos since the 15th century when the Aro and other Igbo first settled in good number in a place we now call “Oyingbo” in the era of Benin and the Portuguese trade.

The arrival of Dr. Namdi Azikiwe to Lagos in 1937 from Accra after his studies in the United States, stimulated the political and cultural environment of Lagos as no other has before or after him. Zik literally resurrected the wizard of Kirsten hall from political death. Zik represented Lagos in the western house. The NCNC was the power in Lagos , and not the Action Group. The Igbo were prominent in the governance of Lagos in the Lagos City Hall.

The institutional development of Lagos – the railways, the ports and ship yards; the education and research facilities; the Banking and Commodities Exchange, the development of towns like Yaba, Surulere, Ebutta-Metta, Festac Town, Victoria Island, and now increasing the Ajah-Lekki axis, and of course, the ghettoes along the Orile-Badagry axis, have profound Igbo imprimatur. The circulation of the image of Lagos is to date best reflected in the cosmopolitan Igbo imagination of one of the greatest African writers of the 20th century, Cyprian Ekwensi, a thorough Lagosian if there was any. Igbo have built industries in Lagos and have been drivers of commerce and exchange.


Interestingly, I was born at plot number 8, Okoya Street , Idumagbo- Lagos, while the Ojukwu families were residing at number one to three on the same street. I grew up to know the father of Odumegwu Ojukwu. Chimbizie and Azuka grew up with us on the same street. Even the Chibeze small parking space at the end of Okoya Street is called Ojukwu. I later attended St. Patrick Primary School , Idumagbo, where I had very amiable classmates of Igbo origin in the persons of Azubike Ezenwa and Damian, Ihekuna, both now professors and doctors of today. They were brilliant, resourceful and friendly.


When we were playing bamboo and Tene Felele at Orikoriko at Onola playing ground, the Igbo participated actively. In the area of sports, school football and athletes, Igbo were dominant at Kings College, St. Gregory school, St. Finbars, Akoka, Igbobi College and Ahmadiyya College, Agege. Such boys, Njokwu, George Amu, Stephen Keshi, Henry Nwosu, Patrick Noquapor, Peter Anieke and Sammy Opone were dominant on the field of football, while Asiodu, Empire Kanu were prominent on the field of athletics.


Anytime we went to watch football match at Onikan stadium, my darling team, Stationery Stores and our adversary team I hated most was the E. C. N, where the centre forward, Paul Hamilton, the National Team, Fabian the captain who bit the dust. Our greatest captain was Duru, Oduah Onyenrekwa, Onyeador Onyeali and Opel, the greatest outside right Nigeria ever had, Cyril Azuluka. So, during my early life at primary school, the Igbo were always there and delightful to watch, both in athletes and on the football field.


When I listened to radio at that time, both the commentary and drama series, the Igbo were there for you. The likes of Chris Ndaguba, Ernest Okwonkwo, Ralph Okpara ‘Alawo Sekiseki the traveler’. The episode will end with – The script was written by Ralph Okpara and edited by Yemi Lijadu.

Anytime I visited where I was born today in Idumagbo at Lagos Island , the entire place is covered by Igbo traders in their thousands. They were never troublesome but decent and accommodating. They have virtually taken over all properties of the indigenes. They succeeded in developing all our properties, married to most of our children even from the royal families. There is no single house you will visit without an Igbo man selling wares there.

So, who is saying something else? Only the strangers in our midst will not notice participation of economic development in our state by the Igbos. Most houses and shops in Lagos Island have been purchased, developed and occupied by the Igbos. The value of their investments in Lagos Island alone is in trillions of naira.

Instead of deporting the Igbos, whose contributions to the development of Lagos state are immensurable, you must keep on praising and encouraging them to keep on developing Lagos State .

•Senator Adeseye Ogunlewe is a former Nigerian minister for Works and Housing.

Source https://www.premiumtimesng.com/opinion/143249-igbos-in-lagos-state-my-experience-by-senator-adeseye-ogunlewe.html

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Indeed Lagos is a no man's land..
Where are the YORUBA moslems

ngadaAwo:
stop messing up nairaland

Is nairaland your Father's property?

rubbish post from a Tinubu erat, to stock up sentiments. Between IBos and Yorubas. They used this sentiments in 2015, to decieve the Yorubas in lagos that ObOs would soon take over Lagos and it worked, nowbthesame people are using thesame methods but sadly the IBos here cant even see they are playing into their hands. IBOs and Yorubas have always lived in peace. From Kano, Kaduna, Sokoto, to Delta, South East and Middle belt up to Lagos. Yorubas and IBOs might insult themselves, shame themselves, but the have always lived in peace.
Why? They are sensable people not barbaric or primitive, They worship in thesame churches, they interact businesses together and live together.
This type of write ups and tendercies is why I disdain The APC, they have absoluteky nothing to show for the last 3 plus years in power, just hate speech.
Soon the next move will to bring up the Civil war to rave up sentiments and division.

My IBO brothers please be very careful with these people, an average Yoruba man in the street is not your enemy, its the Tinubu and Oba Akiola group of Muslemus that wants to pitch you against your Yoruba neighbours.
As per my Yoruba brothers, the IBOs i knw of are not after you either, they are against Buhari and his repressive govt of no progress. Its impossible to enjoy your succeess in peace when your neighbours are beibg killed and slaughtered for their lands. Dont let them decieve you into thinking you can never be effected. 25% of the money Lagos generates for the FG is pumped to the North East and stolen, they are not using to build bridges, but to fund the embargo on information and to enforce the carpeting of news eminating from the North East.
Nigerians should wake up.

Lol

immhotep:
Say the truth, have you paid what you owe your Igbo landlord in Lagos?

I can bet with my house at festac, before 2030, Igbo's will relegate Yoruba's from Lagos to Ibadan.

immhotep:
Igbos In Lagos State: My Experience, By Senator Adeseye Ogunlewe

Lagos State belongs as much to the ethnic Igbo as to the Yoruba, Ijaw, Hausa, Fulani, Efik, Idoma, Urhobo, Itshekiri, Edo, and so on who live in it, pay tax, identify with it, and settle in it. That compact was made the moment Nigeria became a single nation, and a successor power to the old principalities who were subdued and who ceded their sovereignty for the new commonwealth of Nigeria.

It was pragmatic. The Igbo had the skill and the industry, and Lagos was the seat of the Federal Government of Nigeria and its major port. The Igbo have lived in Lagos since the 15th century when the Aro and other Igbo first settled in good number in a place we now call “Oyingbo” in the era of Benin and the Portuguese trade.

The arrival of Dr. Namdi Azikiwe to Lagos in 1937 from Accra after his studies in the United States, stimulated the political and cultural environment of Lagos as no other has before or after him. Zik literally resurrected the wizard of Kirsten hall from political death. Zik represented Lagos in the western house. The NCNC was the power in Lagos , and not the Action Group. The Igbo were prominent in the governance of Lagos in the Lagos City Hall.

The institutional development of Lagos – the railways, the ports and ship yards; the education and research facilities; the Banking and Commodities Exchange, the development of towns like Yaba, Surulere, Ebutta-Metta, Festac Town, Victoria Island, and now increasing the Ajah-Lekki axis, and of course, the ghettoes along the Orile-Badagry axis, have profound Igbo imprimatur. The circulation of the image of Lagos is to date best reflected in the cosmopolitan Igbo imagination of one of the greatest African writers of the 20th century, Cyprian Ekwensi, a thorough Lagosian if there was any. Igbo have built industries in Lagos and have been drivers of commerce and exchange.


Interestingly, I was born at plot number 8, Okoya Street , Idumagbo- Lagos, while the Ojukwu families were residing at number one to three on the same street. I grew up to know the father of Odumegwu Ojukwu. Chimbizie and Azuka grew up with us on the same street. Even the Chibeze small parking space at the end of Okoya Street is called Ojukwu. I later attended St. Patrick Primary School , Idumagbo, where I had very amiable classmates of Igbo origin in the persons of Azubike Ezenwa and Damian, Ihekuna, both now professors and doctors of today. They were brilliant, resourceful and friendly.


When we were playing bamboo and Tene Felele at Orikoriko at Onola playing ground, the Igbo participated actively. In the area of sports, school football and athletes, Igbo were dominant at Kings College, St. Gregory school, St. Finbars, Akoka, Igbobi College and Ahmadiyya College, Agege. Such boys, Njokwu, George Amu, Stephen Keshi, Henry Nwosu, Patrick Noquapor, Peter Anieke and Sammy Opone were dominant on the field of football, while Asiodu, Empire Kanu were prominent on the field of athletics.


Anytime we went to watch football match at Onikan stadium, my darling team, Stationery Stores and our adversary team I hated most was the E. C. N, where the centre forward, Paul Hamilton, the National Team, Fabian the captain who bit the dust. Our greatest captain was Duru, Oduah Onyenrekwa, Onyeador Onyeali and Opel, the greatest outside right Nigeria ever had, Cyril Azuluka. So, during my early life at primary school, the Igbo were always there and delightful to watch, both in athletes and on the football field.


When I listened to radio at that time, both the commentary and drama series, the Igbo were there for you. The likes of Chris Ndaguba, Ernest Okwonkwo, Ralph Okpara ‘Alawo Sekiseki the traveler’. The episode will end with – The script was written by Ralph Okpara and edited by Yemi Lijadu.

Anytime I visited where I was born today in Idumagbo at Lagos Island , the entire place is covered by Igbo traders in their thousands. They were never troublesome but decent and accommodating. They have virtually taken over all properties of the indigenes. They succeeded in developing all our properties, married to most of our children even from the royal families. There is no single house you will visit without an Igbo man selling wares there.

So, who is saying something else? Only the strangers in our midst will not notice participation of economic development in our state by the Igbos. Most houses and shops in Lagos Island have been purchased, developed and occupied by the Igbos. The value of their investments in Lagos Island alone is in trillions of naira.

Instead of deporting the Igbos, whose contributions to the development of Lagos state are immensurable, you must keep on praising and encouraging them to keep on developing Lagos State .

•Senator Adeseye Ogunlewe is a former Nigerian minister for Works and Housing.

Source https://www.premiumtimesng.com/opinion/143249-igbos-in-lagos-state-my-experience-by-senator-adeseye-ogunlewe.html

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Roger3D and sarrki right now

Modarun:
rubbish post from a Tinubu erat, to stock up sentiments. Between IBos and Yorubas. They used this sentiments in 2015, to decieve the Yorubas in lagos that ObOs would soon take over Lagos and it worked, nowbthesame people are using thesame methods but sadly the IBos here cant even see they are playing into their hands. IBOs and Yorubas have always lived in peace. From Kano, Kaduna, Sokoto, to Delta, South East and Middle belt up to Lagos. Yorubas and IBOs might insult themselves, shame themselves, but the have always lived in peace.
Why? They are sensable people not barbaric or primitive, They worship in thesame churches, they interact businesses together and live together.
This type of write ups and tendercies is why I disdain The APC, they have absoluteky nothing to show for the last 3 plus years in power, just hate speech.
Soon the next move will to bring up the Civil war to rave up sentiments and division.

My IBO brothers please be very careful with these people, an average Yoruba man in the street is not your enemy, its the Tinubu and Oba Akiola group of Muslemus that wants to pitch you against your Yoruba neighbours.
As per my Yoruba brothers, the IBOs i knw of are not after you either, they are against Buhari and his repressive govt of no progress. Its impossible to enjoy your succeess in peace when your neighbours are beibg killed and slaughtered for their lands. Dont let them decieve you into thinking you can never be effected. 25% of the money Lagos generates for the FG is pumped to the North East and stolen, they are not using to build bridges, but to fund the embargo on information and to enforce the carpeting of news eminating from the North East.
Nigerians should wake up.

we can never live in peace with Yoruba Muslims.

frankdoz21:
I can bet with my house at festac, before 2030, Igbo's will relegate Yoruba's from Lagos to Ibadan.

Your house in festac , no, let us bet with your both parents. When is nnamdiot cownu shutting down lagos as part of bafla

Odkosh:
Are you not going to show us Otunba's house n igboman's house. We are patiently waiting
Contribution to the development of lagos like building the bridges, constructing the roads, national theatre, nathional stadium. While onitsa n aba are world dirtiest.

please leave backward osun state and travel Oshogbo is too dirty and affects ones reasoning capability .....village Yoruba boy

odduduwa:
please leave backward osun state and travel Oshogbo is too dirty and affects ones reasoning capability .....village Yoruba boy

Are you refering to onitsa, the world dirtiest city?

OldBeer:
Yorubas, I only have you people to blame.

I know you are hospitable in nature because I enjoyed it while I was still around. But when it comes to ibos, your hospitality is wasted.

I will know because we are neighbours.

Ibos are vermin.

Until you learn from the Hausa and put them in their place, this is what you will continue getting.

why cant you, a blooming cunting coward, tell us proudly from which inconsequential, forsaken, bloodclot tribe your diseased twatty self emerged from?

c0cksucker!!

Odkosh:
Are you refering to onitsa, the world dirtiest city?

Be warned that indiscriminate Igbo-phobia leads to high blood pressure.

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OldBeer:
Yorubas, I only have you people to blame.

I know you are hospitable in nature because I enjoyed it while I was still around. But when it comes to ibos, your hospitality is wasted.

I will know because we are neighbours.

Ibos are vermin.

Until you learn from the Hausa and put them in their place, this is what you will continue getting.

Meanwhile, Hausa men like El-Rufai have already Igbo-fied their states

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