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Re: Port-harcourt Is Igweocha! What Is The Yoruba Name Of Lagos? by 0m0nnakoda: 2:39pm On Feb 24, 2020
Port Harcourt was NEVER called Igweocha.
That is a lie from the Pit of hell.

Like all lies if ignored and repeated often it becomes a truism

Port Harcourt originally referred to the Port full stop. As development came and the area developed into a city all the villages around became subsumed in what we now call Port Harcourt

These are villages around Diobu Ogbunabali all the way to to Rebisi Elelenwo and Woji.
There are hundreds of villages in Obio Akpor and Rebisi e.g Rumubiakani Rumuomasi Rumueme Rumuadaolu Rumuola Rumuogba etc mostly Ikwerre whilst a few places have Ijaw names e.g. Borokiri, Abuloma.


There is nothing like Igweocha anywhere. Those who propagate this lie do not know PH.

There is no place that does not have a name. So where exactly is this "Igweocha" ?


These desperate folk have gone to the extent of writing fake stories on Wikipedia but a simple question busts their lie.


Which place exactly in PH is called Igweocha?

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Re: Port-harcourt Is Igweocha! What Is The Yoruba Name Of Lagos? by Biafrannuke: 2:42pm On Feb 24, 2020
SonofDevil:
eko is a corruption of awori word for eko'ata. Meaning where pepper is been packed. Idumota was originally a pepper farm for the aworis who re the first settler in lagos.
Idumota is known as eko ,but people that come to idumota for trading popularize the name
you are a victim of your own people's propaganda. "idu" means "Edo". Anywhere in Lagos that has such prefix, bears strong testament of Edo ancestral lordship of Lagos.

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Re: Port-harcourt Is Igweocha! What Is The Yoruba Name Of Lagos? by Biafrannuke: 2:45pm On Feb 24, 2020
0m0nnakoda:
[s] Port Harcourt was NEVER called Igweocha.
That is a lie from the Pit of hell.

Like all lies if ignored and repeated often it becomes a truism

Port Harcourt originally referred to the Port full stop. As development came and the area developed into a city all the villages around became subsumed in what we now call Port Harcourt

These are villages around Diobu Ogbunabali all the way to to Rebisi Elelenwo and Woji.
There are hundreds of villages in Obio Akpor and Rebisi e.g Rumubiakani Rumuomasi Rumueme Rumuadaolu Rumuola Rumuogba etc mostly Ikwerre whilst a few places have Ijaw names e.g. Borokiri, Abuloma.


There is nothing like Igweocha anywhere. Those who propagate this lie do not know PH.

There is no place that does not have a name. So where exactly is this "Igweocha" ?


These desperate folk have gone to the extent of writing fake stories on Wikipedia but a simple question busts their lie.


Which place exactly in PH is called Igweocha? [/s]
What Yoruba name do Yoruba's call Lagos?

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Re: Port-harcourt Is Igweocha! What Is The Yoruba Name Of Lagos? by 0m0nnakoda: 2:45pm On Feb 24, 2020
Port Harcourt is not Igweocha and it never was.Thatis a dirty liePort Harcourt is not Igweocha and it never was.Thatis a dirty liePort Harcourt is not Igweocha and it never was.Thatis a dirty liePort Harcourt is not Igweocha and it never was.Thatis a dirty liePort Harcourt is not Igweocha and it never was.Thatis a dirty liePort Harcourt is not Igweocha and it never was.Thatis a dirty liePort Harcourt is not Igweocha and it never was.Thatis a dirty liePort Harcourt is not Igweocha and it never was.Thatis a dirty liePort Harcourt is not Igweocha and it never was.Thatis a dirty liePort Harcourt is not Igweocha and it never was.Thatis a dirty liePort Harcourt is not Igweocha and it never was.Thatis a dirty liePort Harcourt is not Igweocha and it never was.Thatis a dirty lie
Re: Port-harcourt Is Igweocha! What Is The Yoruba Name Of Lagos? by 0m0nnakoda: 2:46pm On Feb 24, 2020
Biafrannuke:
What Yoruba name do Yoruba's call Lagos?
Port Harcourt is not Igweocha and it never was.Thatis a dirty liePort Harcourt is not Igweocha and it never was.Thatis a dirty liePort Harcourt is not Igweocha and it never was.Thatis a dirty liePort Harcourt is not Igweocha and it never was.Thatis a dirty lie
Re: Port-harcourt Is Igweocha! What Is The Yoruba Name Of Lagos? by Biafrannuke: 2:49pm On Feb 24, 2020
0m0nnakoda:

Port Harcourt is not Igweocha and it never was.Thatis a dirty liePort Harcourt is not Igweocha and it never was.Thatis a dirty liePort Harcourt is not Igweocha and it never was.Thatis a dirty liePort Harcourt is not Igweocha and it never was.Thatis a dirty lie
we know but we now want to know the Yoruba name of the place called Lagos.

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Re: Port-harcourt Is Igweocha! What Is The Yoruba Name Of Lagos? by 0m0nnakoda: 2:53pm On Feb 24, 2020
Biafrannuke:
we know but we now want to know the Yoruba name of the place called Lagos.
So create a thread for that and remove Port Harcourt from the subject.
Linking the two subjects means that this thread is dead on arrival.

Port Harcourt is not Igweocha and it never was.Thatis a dirty liePort Harcourt is not Igweocha and it never was.Thatis a dirty liePort Harcourt is not Igweocha and it never was.Thatis a dirty liePort Harcourt is not Igweocha and it never was.Thatis a dirty lie
Re: Port-harcourt Is Igweocha! What Is The Yoruba Name Of Lagos? by Biafrannuke: 2:59pm On Feb 24, 2020
0m0nnakoda:

So create a thread for that and remove Port Harcourt from the subject.
Linking the two subjects means that this thread is dead on arrival.

Port Harcourt is not Igweocha and it never was.Thatis a dirty liePort Harcourt is not Igweocha and it never was.Thatis a dirty liePort Harcourt is not Igweocha and it never was.Thatis a dirty liePort Harcourt is not Igweocha and it never was.Thatis a dirty lie
what is the Yoruba name of Lagos? I m still waiting for your answer?

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Re: Port-harcourt Is Igweocha! What Is The Yoruba Name Of Lagos? by 0m0nnakoda: 3:00pm On Feb 24, 2020
Biafrannuke:
what is the Yoruba name of Lagos? I m still waiting for your answer?
You will wait till you die


Port Harcourt is not Igweocha and it never was.Thatis a dirty liePort Harcourt is not Igweocha and it never was.Thatis a dirty liePort Harcourt is not Igweocha and it never was.Thatis a dirty liePort Harcourt is not Igweocha and it never was.Thatis a dirty lie
Re: Port-harcourt Is Igweocha! What Is The Yoruba Name Of Lagos? by Biafrannuke: 3:04pm On Feb 24, 2020
0m0nnakoda:
You will wait till you die

because there is no Yoruba name for lagos

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Re: Port-harcourt Is Igweocha! What Is The Yoruba Name Of Lagos? by 0m0nnakoda: 3:06pm On Feb 24, 2020
Biafrannuke:
because there is no Yoruba name for lagos

Port Harcourt is not Igweocha and it never was.Thatis a dirty liePort Harcourt is not Igweocha and it never was.Thatis a dirty liePort Harcourt is not Igweocha and it never was.Thatis a dirty liePort Harcourt is not Igweocha and it never was.Thatis a dirty lie
Re: Port-harcourt Is Igweocha! What Is The Yoruba Name Of Lagos? by Attamimi: 3:10pm On Feb 24, 2020
Lol Some people can be so funny � So, Lagos is not a Yoruba city yet they have an Oba? Someone just said it belongs to Igbo up there... Please stop killing me hhhhhhh
Re: Port-harcourt Is Igweocha! What Is The Yoruba Name Of Lagos? by SonofDevil: 3:12pm On Feb 24, 2020
Biafrannuke:
you are a victim of your own people's propaganda. "idu" means "Edo". Anywhere in Lagos that has such prefix, bears strong testament of Edo ancestral lordship of Lagos.
that means benin city is yorubaland
Re: Port-harcourt Is Igweocha! What Is The Yoruba Name Of Lagos? by Area4Area: 3:49pm On Feb 24, 2020
IPOBians and Biafrans in the house, don't mind our Yoruba brothers, the name for Lagos in Yoruba is Enugu.

Now go claim Lagos and add it into Biafra since it's now no man's land.

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Re: Port-harcourt Is Igweocha! What Is The Yoruba Name Of Lagos? by Area4Area: 3:53pm On Feb 24, 2020
Biafrannuke:
what is the Yoruba name of Lagos? I m still waiting for your answer?
What is the name of Nigeria before the British came?

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Re: Port-harcourt Is Igweocha! What Is The Yoruba Name Of Lagos? by Donkalio: 3:53pm On Feb 24, 2020
Biafrannuke:
It's difficult to swallow that an indigenous people does not have a name for a place belonging to them, except that place does not in fact belong to them.

Portharcourt was so named by luguard in 1912. Before the Christening, the area was called Igweocha by the natives. No wonder till this day some people in Elele will rather say "I am going to Igweocha" than saying "I am going to Port Harcourt"

On the contrast, Yoruba's fiercely lay claim to Lagos. But I do not know or have not heard about its Yoruba name. Maybe there simply isn't . I hope I would be proved wrong. This is because "Lagos" is a name that takes after a port in Portugal and was given by the Portuguese. Eko the only known native name is an Edo name (meaning war camp) given by the Benin kingdom.

I need Yoruba to tell us, What is the Yoruba name of Lagos?




Port-Harcourt is Borikiri and not the Rubbish you called it.
Re: Port-harcourt Is Igweocha! What Is The Yoruba Name Of Lagos? by googi: 4:34pm On Feb 24, 2020
Wait O! Make I go come until you are black and blue.

In the meantime, find out about Oko-Ata, Oko-Awo and Oko-Baba.


Biafrannuke:
what is the Yoruba name of Lagos? I m still waiting for your answer?
Re: Port-harcourt Is Igweocha! What Is The Yoruba Name Of Lagos? by Nobody: 4:37pm On Feb 24, 2020
Biafrannuke:
It's difficult to swallow that an indigenous people does not have a name for a place belonging to them, except that place does not in fact belong to them.

Portharcourt was so named by luguard in 1912. Before the Christening, the area was called Igweocha by the natives. No wonder till this day some people in Elele will rather say "I am going to Igweocha" than saying "I am going to Port Harcourt"

On the contrast, Yoruba's fiercely lay claim to Lagos. But I do not know or have not heard about its Yoruba name. Maybe there simply isn't . I hope I would be proved wrong. This is because "Lagos" is a name that takes after a port in Portugal and was given by the Portuguese. Eko the only known native name is an Edo name (meaning war camp) given by the Benin kingdom.

I need Yoruba to tell us, What is the Yoruba name of Lagos?

Eko Akete Aromisa Legbelegbe
Re: Port-harcourt Is Igweocha! What Is The Yoruba Name Of Lagos? by Gabriel004: 4:43pm On Feb 24, 2020
backnbeta:

You forgot Osun and Oyo grin

Edo jumped over four Yoruba states to 'own' Eko grin grin
I wonder o. Edo wey no get single boundary with ogun talkless of Lagos. Make the come collect am na, sebi na osu gave it t oh them.

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Re: Port-harcourt Is Igweocha! What Is The Yoruba Name Of Lagos? by nlPoster: 4:46pm On Feb 24, 2020
What's the problem?

@ op
Re: Port-harcourt Is Igweocha! What Is The Yoruba Name Of Lagos? by Xzellentgraphic: 4:46pm On Feb 24, 2020
Biafrannuke:
No. Eko is an Edo word meaning "war camp" not Yoruba. Idumota, Idumagbo, Oshodi etc are Edo words.

What is the Yoruba name of Lagos?
Oponu
Re: Port-harcourt Is Igweocha! What Is The Yoruba Name Of Lagos? by damtan(m): 4:48pm On Feb 24, 2020
Some people get time sha
Re: Port-harcourt Is Igweocha! What Is The Yoruba Name Of Lagos? by DSoj(m): 4:57pm On Feb 24, 2020
How will this baseless irrelevant shiit talk add to ur lifr? Go find work do!! #Jobless
Re: Port-harcourt Is Igweocha! What Is The Yoruba Name Of Lagos? by duncun: 5:12pm On Feb 24, 2020
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Re: Port-harcourt Is Igweocha! What Is The Yoruba Name Of Lagos? by ololade5597: 5:16pm On Feb 24, 2020
Before you start feeling yourself, it’s originally Ilu-Awori, conquered by the Edo king with the assistance of Ashipa(in Yoruba it means war starter) which was believed to be a prince, after they settle the dispute, the awori told ashipa to be their king which is the first known king, some places in Yoruba land are set up without a king(example is Ibadan which was set up mostly by warriors) and you can check the names of the king after Ashipa, from kosoko to Akintoye, to Adele all are Yoruba names now lemme burst your brain, this history is mainly for Lagos island, During the Yoruba revolution war, Epe and ikeja(then ikija) were under command of alake of Egba which was a block for the Ibadan warrior supply. Don’t be an ignorant in history, Wikipedia you are reading is just to fuel your hate Eko was adopted as the name same way America is Portuguese, or will you ask the Navajos or the cowboys the real name of America?. Epe, ikorodu, ikija,Eko(lagos island) all have different history so calm your balls, check the picture below(b4 British happened)

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Re: Port-harcourt Is Igweocha! What Is The Yoruba Name Of Lagos? by duncun: 5:21pm On Feb 24, 2020
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Re: Port-harcourt Is Igweocha! What Is The Yoruba Name Of Lagos? by Nobody: 5:29pm On Feb 24, 2020
duncun:
I always knew you have a dark heart, you can only deceive ppl that buy into your hypocritical nature.

Of course I have a dark heart. The dark heart that won't hold still when you lots peddle your foolishness here.

I don't have time for a hypocrite calling others hypocrite.

Hypocrisy is not a crime in Nigeria, otherwise sue me.

Can't wait for Biafra to be real. Praying real hard.

You will understand that ECOWAS won't save you from deportation.
Re: Port-harcourt Is Igweocha! What Is The Yoruba Name Of Lagos? by johnkey: 5:32pm On Feb 24, 2020
Biafrannuke:
what is the Yoruba name of Lagos? we want to learn.
dude you sound so stupid with this question quit it already.
Re: Port-harcourt Is Igweocha! What Is The Yoruba Name Of Lagos? by Iamgrey5(m): 5:33pm On Feb 24, 2020
Biafrannuke:
No. Eko is an Edo word meaning "war camp" not Yoruba. Idumota, Idumagbo, Oshodi etc are Edo words.

What is the Yoruba name of Lagos?
You have no idea what you are talking about

Eko(Benin) means Oko (Yoruba)

Bush or Farm

The island was a big farm before colonisation

Oshodi is not an Edo word But Tapa(Nupe) word named after a prominent Tapa son in Lagos history who was Balogun Tapa Oshodi

Balogun Oshodi fled Nupe land to escape Fulani prosecution of those Nupe that refused to accept Islam

His kinsmen that fled with him are now found in Ibarapa area of Oyo state and their town is called Tapa (Yoruba name for nupe)
Re: Port-harcourt Is Igweocha! What Is The Yoruba Name Of Lagos? by duncun: 5:33pm On Feb 24, 2020
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Re: Port-harcourt Is Igweocha! What Is The Yoruba Name Of Lagos? by Nobody: 5:37pm On Feb 24, 2020
duncun:
Save your sermon for the people that care, your instincts is probably deceiving you.

Shift jare. Mi o raye regberegbe.

Respect begets respect. You want respect, you damn well better start earning it.

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Re: Port-harcourt Is Igweocha! What Is The Yoruba Name Of Lagos? by Tochi3(m): 5:38pm On Feb 24, 2020
obiekunie2:
@poster

iburu bata 18 ndi ofe! cheesy grin grin


oya our afonja blodas over to you!

do something before it is a goal! cheesy cheesy




















Lagos may truly be no mans land! undecided
grin grin

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