₦airaland Forum

solreb:
You need to read this
________________________________________________________________________________
LAGOS MY STATE. WHO OWNS LAGOS? HISTORY 101: POINT OF INFORMATION

"By 1872 Lagos was a cosmopolitan trading center with a population of over 60,000 people. Colonial Lagos developed into a busy, cosmopolitan port, with an architecture that blended Victorian and Brazilian styles.The Brazilian element was imparted by skilled builders and masons who had returned from Brazil The black elite was composed of English-speaking "Saros" from Sierra Leone and other emancipated slaves who had been repatriated from Brazil and Cuba.
By 1872 the population of the colony was over 60,000, of whom less than 100 were of European origin.

In 1876 imports were valued at £476,813 and exports at £619,260. Telephone links with Britain were established by 1886, and electric street lighting in 1898.
In August 1896, Charles Joseph George and G.W. Neville,both merchants and both unofficial members of the Legislative Council, presented a petition urging construction of the railway terminus on Lagos Island rather than at Ido, and also asking for the railway to be extended to Abeokuta. Lagos history is rich in Yoruba tradition,trade and commerce, infrastructural development and cosmopolitanism." -EXTRACTED

With the little facts above, I would like to educate some illiterates making stupid assumption from blind sentiments that they developed Lagos.

Lagosians had telephone presence in 1886, Itu and Calabar got connected to Telephone in 1923, while between 1946 and 1952, a three-channel line carrier system was commissioned between Lagos and Ibadan and was later extended to Osogbo, Kaduna, Kano, Benin, and Enugu.

Communication technology is a major signifier of civilizations and if Lagosians were already making telephone calls more than 70 years before Igbo citizens, where then did you get the warped idea that you came to develop Lagos?

By 1856 Cable and Wireless Company of the UK had commissioned a submarine cable link between Lagos and London and in 1851 a post office was established in Lagos; all these before the emergence of Nigeria as an amalgamated country. If I may ask again, where did the stupid idea that Igbo developed Lagos come from? Or that Lagos was developed with Nigeria's money when Lagos was not even part of Nigeria until 1914.

I always feel embarrassed anytime I read and hear even so-called educated people from the East making these stupid assertions.

The first Yoruba lawyer Christopher Alexander Sapara Williams was called to the English Bar in 1879 whilst the first Igbo lawyer, Sir Louis Mbanefo, was called to the English bar in 1937.

Again the first Yoruba medical practitioner, Dr. Nathaniel King, graduated in 1875 from the University of Edinburgh whilst the first Igbo medical practitioner, Dr. Akannu Ibiam, graduated from another Scottish University in 1935. Again I ask, where did the ignorant hypothesis of the backward Yoruba race who needed development by the superior Igbo race come from?

For the sake of our generation and posterity, we need to teach factual history and not just cook up some cock and bull ego-centric concoctions as facts. The attitude of recycling long tales steeped in empty arrogance should be discarded before you miseducate your kids with fictions.

Awolowo will continue to be the Yoruba hero not because of blind followership but because he gave his people the system of free education, free healthcare and he introduced Television to the Yoruba; making Yorubaland the first region to have a TV station in Africa, all done with revenues from Cocoa. It is crass ignorance and naked buffonery to claim Lagos was built with Nigeria's money. In addition, where did the foolish idea that the Igbo brought civilization to Lagos and Yoruba-land come from?

The aim of this post is not to deride any tribe but to correct the dangerous misinformation trending among some Igbo youths and common in their narratives that Lagos is a no-man's land and that their fathers built and developed Lagos.

Ancestors of Igbo people came to Yoruba-land like all other settlers and we appreciate their contributions. But the stupid claim that Igbo built and developed Lagos is a gross display of stupidity because Lagos was already developed before Igbo ancestors came here from their villages and towns.

The first storey building in Nigeria was built in Marina, Badagry in 1845, long before some of hinterland people gave up the idea of conical mud houses with thatched roofs which some boastfully called 'ancient mansions.' How can you now claim your grand-sires developed Lagos? Please if you are one of those spreading the fiction, I expect you to desist from self-delusion and collective amnesia forthwith.

The first Igbo alphabet-character set and Igbo primer (Isoama-Ibo) was published by Bishop Samuel Ajayi Crowther (a Yoruba man from Osogun) in 1857. How can you now claim superiority over the Yoruba race and even carelessly affirm that your forebears should be thanked for bringing enlightenment to Yoruba Land?

While I do not see all these achievements as a sign of Yoruba superiority over the Igbo or any other tribe, for I do not believe in racial superiority; I will not also tolerate any attempt by bigots who stoke ethnic hatred through incitement and arrogant claims of superiority over others

Marvelbars:
One thing I know is that yorubas are lazy that's why the igbos will come and develop your land then letter you will start barking like a dog's just for the igbos to leave your land, you guys are lazy and Lagos will never be develop with the igbos and if you guys think you can stand the igbos then make the move and all will be like a film. Don't say I didn't tell you

Mboi:
Even people from Ogun state, Ikere Ekiti and Oshogbo are here claiming Lagos state.. very laughable. Igbos have equal rights with you people in Lagos state because all of you are migrants. Even your small God Tinubu is not a Lagosian that is why he has never and can never say openly Igbos should leave Lagos. Real men are not talking, only cowards are ranting. Igbos even have more rights in Lagos that all these Oshogbo, Oyo and Ogun migrants here talking rubbish because they own property and businesses in LAGOS State and they pay tax. So all these e-yoruba rats making noise here and there that Igbos should leave Lagos, go and fight your fathers who sold all your inheritance to Igbos because of hunger and greed. You guys should stop making noise biko...

Viergeachar:
Because you are currently naccking a pigiyeasternr

The overwhelming majority of Yorubas support the cutting to size of Igbos in Lagos.

OlawaleSmarter1:
Lol what do you think you can do that other people can't do in Nigeria? This is exactly what we are talking about. If you leave Lagos today other people will replace you and it will be a door for new opportunities for many people and tribes in Nigeria, if one door close another door will open. No tribes is indispensable in Nigeria

K00da:
Only a dullard will go far n far into another man's home and be claiming it.
The problems Igbos in foreign land face is usually as a result of the mouth of their village people. Most of them just want to stir things up so that people will turn against them n probably they will run back home to develop their homes.

Kip the insults coming....the truth still stands

civilserva:
What if Britain ask all Yoruba to leave?
What if Niger Delta ask all Yoruba in Oil companies should leave?

immhotep:
Igbos left Lagos for you in 1966, your dvllard leaders went to bring Igbos back.
Receive sense abeg.

Cc lzaa velocity25 sarrki pointzerom pythonamaka

OlawaleSmarter1:
Keep Deceiving yourselves lol, and every tribes is important in Nigeria but that doesn't mean you shouldn't know you place.

OlawaleSmarter1:
Why will Britain ask us to leave our Ancestors Land? We don't have any Problem with the Niger Delta. Despite the Violent character of Hausa in Yoruba Land we still don't ask them to leave because they don't rant Lagos is no man's Land and they don't openly work against the interest of the people they live among. No one is asking Igbo to leave Lagos what they ask you to do is to Respect them, and you should stop Forcing your interest on them

princfred:
For there doing what exactly? Coming out to vote, skull mining or snatching ballot box? Go cut down on FH first.

immhotep:
Igbos left Lagos for you in 1966, your dvllard leaders went to bring Igbos back.
Receive sense abeg.

Cc lzaa velocity25 sarrki pointzerom pythonamaka

Viergeachar:
For contesting...

What an aberration!

LZAA:
Olawalesmarter1 wants to please his kaliphate masters
Deomelo comes to mind

LZAA:

Kagawa10:
Lol. If dangote the most renowned entrepreneur was an Ibo, we wouldn't hear word again on Nigeria. Ibo and their delusion.

Viergeachar:
For contesting...

What an aberration!

Iamgrey5:
Tinubu personal stalkers

FFK and Reno


Shey those Killing told you that Tinubu sent them


Before ibos begin to praise the two faced Stalker, they need to read this

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/06/bitter-truth-igbo-femi-fani-kayode/

"The suggestion that Lagos is a ”no-man’s land’ and that the Igbo or any other nationality outside the Yoruba generate up to 55 per cent of it’s revenue or business is absolutely absurd and frankly it has no basis in reality or rationality. It is not only a dirty lie but it is also very insulting. Guests, no matter how welcome, esteemed, cherished and valued they are, cannot become the owners of the house no matter how comfortable they are made to feel within it. Those guests will always be guests. Lagos belongs to the Yoruba and to the Yoruba alone. ALL others that reside there are guests, though some guests are far closer to us than others. The Igbo are the least close, the most distant and the least familiar with our customs and our ways. They ought to be the last to be claiming our heritage and coveting our land and neither can they claim to have made any real input to our glaring success. For them to think otherwise is nothing but delusion"

Ref FFK 2013

LZAA:
Olawalesmarter1 wants to please his kaliphate masters
Deomelo comes to mind

immhotep:
Olawalesmarter1 is not even a Lagosian

goldenarrow:
They told you that Lagos is an impoverished enclave like your hamlets. Please leave Lagos. An immigrant that is supposed to be thankful he is enjoying a conducive environment provided by host community!

OlawaleSmarter1:
Who told you i am not a Lagosian? I have families in Lagos with properties.

immhotep:
You are not from Lagos