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Re: Port-harcourt Is Igweocha! What Is The Yoruba Name Of Lagos? by Iamgrey5(m): 5:41pm On Feb 24, 2020 |
ololade5597:Edo never conquered Aworis They actually struck a deal with the Oba of bini to allow him use parts of Aromire( Awori on the island) as vessel state in exchange for keeping their lands The Aworis then became the white cap chiefs( the real land owners) , while the bini chiefs became the red cap chiefs The Elegushi, Oni ikoyi, Oniru etc today are the white cap chiefs. Bear in mind This was only on the lagos island and Parts of Eti osa of today. The Epe, Ibeju, Ajah, Ikorodu, and most of mainland had their own history. 3 Likes |
Re: Port-harcourt Is Igweocha! What Is The Yoruba Name Of Lagos? by Iamgrey5(m): 5:42pm On Feb 24, 2020 |
Biafrannuke:Oko was what Yoruba called lagos island. 1 Like |
Re: Port-harcourt Is Igweocha! What Is The Yoruba Name Of Lagos? by duncun: 6:12pm On Feb 24, 2020 |
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Re: Port-harcourt Is Igweocha! What Is The Yoruba Name Of Lagos? by farem: 6:15pm On Feb 24, 2020 |
Biafrannuke: If you are still asking this same question after reading the above, your situation is ancestral. Yours is not just a spiritual blindness, it's physical as well. The self-inflicted one at that. 4 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Port-harcourt Is Igweocha! What Is The Yoruba Name Of Lagos? by Biafrannuke: 6:29pm On Feb 24, 2020 |
No Yoruba has been able to tell us the Yoruba name of a city they call their own. some were calling their surname, some called it elegbelegbe, some were even mentioning random Yoruba words like oko. We are still waiting for answers. 1 Like |
Re: Port-harcourt Is Igweocha! What Is The Yoruba Name Of Lagos? by yomexp(m): 6:29pm On Feb 24, 2020 |
ololade5597:@the bold... The name Ikeja is actually an abbreviation for “Ikorodu And Epe Joint Administration”. The colonial masters coined the name for ease of administration |
Re: Port-harcourt Is Igweocha! What Is The Yoruba Name Of Lagos? by Biafrannuke: 6:31pm On Feb 24, 2020 |
farem:Tell me the answer, I am waiting. |
Re: Port-harcourt Is Igweocha! What Is The Yoruba Name Of Lagos? by mercyville: 6:45pm On Feb 24, 2020 |
Biafrannuke: The Yoruba name for Lagos is Eko Akete which was shortened to Eko.. |
Re: Port-harcourt Is Igweocha! What Is The Yoruba Name Of Lagos? by sparog(m): 6:49pm On Feb 24, 2020 |
wwwihy: You get time to dey answer this tribalistic, chest beating people Instead of them to focus on how to achieve their Biafra, they are meddling into things that don't concern them as usual. It's funny how they never mind their business but claim to knw other people's business 3 Likes |
Re: Port-harcourt Is Igweocha! What Is The Yoruba Name Of Lagos? by 0m0nnakoda: 7:03pm On Feb 24, 2020 |
gidgiddy:Kwayet Igweocha is not the original name. What we call PH today is an ever growing space made up of hundreds of villages. They all have names from Rumuepirikom to Choba ,from Elelenwo to Woji to Rumuola Under Eastern Nigeria Eboes flocked to the city and started their usual domineering behaviour attempting to rename towns to suit their tongue and whims. This was so bad that the NCNC imposed a candidate from ABA in the 1965 election. The Ikwerre reacted by fielding an independent candidate Ikwunga Wonodi. who disgraced the ABA man Elugwaraonu. The Ikwerre rejected the Ibo people,rejected the Ibo bible which had been forced on them for decades and rejected Biafra. They now have their own Ikwerre bible In Port Harcourt after the war they renamed their towns which the Ibos had named with Igbo names and seized abandoned Ibo property in Port Harcourt 3 Likes |
Re: Port-harcourt Is Igweocha! What Is The Yoruba Name Of Lagos? by Biafrannuke: 7:07pm On Feb 24, 2020 |
sparog:what is the Yoruba name of Lagos? how does learning translate to tribalism? If you have no answer, better not comment. |
Re: Port-harcourt Is Igweocha! What Is The Yoruba Name Of Lagos? by kayfra: 7:16pm On Feb 24, 2020 |
Biafrannuke: Your logic is upside down 1 Like |
Re: Port-harcourt Is Igweocha! What Is The Yoruba Name Of Lagos? by 0m0nnakoda: 7:20pm On Feb 24, 2020 |
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Re: Port-harcourt Is Igweocha! What Is The Yoruba Name Of Lagos? by enemybulldozer(m): 7:26pm On Feb 24, 2020 |
Area4Area:Pained and frustrated Afonja is on the prowl |
Re: Port-harcourt Is Igweocha! What Is The Yoruba Name Of Lagos? by Nobody: 7:48pm On Feb 24, 2020 |
duncun: Ika njo. Ogbeni shift. Who's wearing ropes? Go and be looking for the Yoruba name of Lagos. After you secede, you can make it the capital of Biafra. I'd like to see that. Like I said earlier, thank God Oodua land doesn't share any kind of boundary with you. 2 Likes |
Re: Port-harcourt Is Igweocha! What Is The Yoruba Name Of Lagos? by enemybulldozer(m): 8:02pm On Feb 24, 2020 |
Area4Area:What kind of stupid question is that?? Biafrannuke, ask this Afonja if there was anything like the zoo before the British came. |
Re: Port-harcourt Is Igweocha! What Is The Yoruba Name Of Lagos? by duncun: 8:14pm On Feb 24, 2020 |
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Re: Port-harcourt Is Igweocha! What Is The Yoruba Name Of Lagos? by jyz200(m): 8:25pm On Feb 24, 2020 |
Go and ask ifa Or better still Ask tinubu |
Re: Port-harcourt Is Igweocha! What Is The Yoruba Name Of Lagos? by theManOfGod(m): 8:27pm On Feb 24, 2020 |
Dear OP, send your account details so I can wire some cash to you as appreciation for the rubbish you posted. Others are making money/impact and grabbing opportunities that abound, you are arguing about the indigenous name of a city. Get a job, man. 2 Likes |
Re: Port-harcourt Is Igweocha! What Is The Yoruba Name Of Lagos? by Nobody: 8:28pm On Feb 24, 2020 |
duncun: "Sharing" bro. It's okay. Don't let's quarrel over this. Ayam tired. |
Re: Port-harcourt Is Igweocha! What Is The Yoruba Name Of Lagos? by gidgiddy: 8:31pm On Feb 24, 2020 |
0m0nnakoda: The Original land on which the Sea Port that was later called 'Portharcourt' was built was called Igweocha. It was the farmlands of the Ikwerre people of Diobu. That a city emerged from the creation of this Port and the city took the name of this Port what is being debated. Most Ikwerre people still refer to the city of Portharcourt as Igweocha, the original area from which the city and port began. When people talk about Ikwerre and Igbo I laugh. What is the difference between an Ikwerre man, an Nsukka man, an Ngwa man or an an Abakiliki man? Nothing except the minor differences in dialect. They all speak a language that belongs to the Niger-Congo family called Igbo. It doesnt matter if the Ikwerre, Ngwa, Abakiliki man or Nsukka man all decide to have a bible in their dialect, an Ijekebe msn like me from Anambra will read and understand all their bibles because they are all Igbo. The Ngwa people can rise up tomorrow and decide for political reasons that they are not Igbo but they wouldn't be fooling anyone as their ancestral language and surnames are all Igbo. Same goes for the Ikwerre One Ikwerre called Elechi Amadi will say he is not an Igbo man, another Ikwerre man called Chibuike Amaechi will go on national Tv to say he is Igbo. An Ikwerre man called Uche Okwukwu is the Secretary General of Ohanaeze So which Ikwerre is Igbo and which is not? 1 Like 1 Share |
Re: Port-harcourt Is Igweocha! What Is The Yoruba Name Of Lagos? by Iamgrey5(m): 8:32pm On Feb 24, 2020 |
Biafrannuke:You need to spend more time in the library Oko (Farm) is not random because even the Bini king stooge built his palace on a pepper farm. The island area in which the Bini built his palace is the land of Aromire Apart from idumota where the king built his palace in the land of Aromire, I challenge you to mention another area of Lagos that has bini sounding name. |
Re: Port-harcourt Is Igweocha! What Is The Yoruba Name Of Lagos? by Biafrannuke: 8:35pm On Feb 24, 2020 |
Iamgrey5:OK. But I am here to know the Yoruba name of Lagos. what is it? |
Re: Port-harcourt Is Igweocha! What Is The Yoruba Name Of Lagos? by Iamgrey5(m): 8:36pm On Feb 24, 2020 |
Biafrannuke:You are not willing to learn Learning is about opening ones mind for further education not trying to promote dubious yet silly points. I am ready to school you on the history of Lagos for free. |
Re: Port-harcourt Is Igweocha! What Is The Yoruba Name Of Lagos? by Biafrannuke: 8:37pm On Feb 24, 2020 |
gidgiddy:pls don't help him derail the thread. 1 Like |
Re: Port-harcourt Is Igweocha! What Is The Yoruba Name Of Lagos? by Biafrannuke: 8:37pm On Feb 24, 2020 |
Iamgrey5:Start with the Yoruba name of Lagos or keep quiet. 1 Like |
Re: Port-harcourt Is Igweocha! What Is The Yoruba Name Of Lagos? by Iamgrey5(m): 8:47pm On Feb 24, 2020 |
Biafrannuke:Oko is the name Yoruba gave to the Lagos island before the advent of Bini in the 17 century to Lagos to rename the place Eko. However, the Yorubas still kept their land in the deal and were called white cap chiefs. They are the Oniru, Oni koyi, Elegushi of today. Who are now kings of their respective kingdoms on Lagos island and Eti osa communities Lagos state in itself is a creation of Nigeria government.. Notwithstanding, that is just the history of Lagos island and parts of Eti osa communities originally renamed Eko by the Binis who settled amongst a majority Yoruba population. In lagos state, we have different mini towns just like we have in Rivers state with different histories. Hence the likes of Epe, Ikorodu, Ibeju, Isehri, Ikeja and majority of the island were never called Eko until Nigeria was created. The fact that you are comparing Lagos state to Port Hacourt not Rivers state is extremely funny.. 2 Likes |
Re: Port-harcourt Is Igweocha! What Is The Yoruba Name Of Lagos? by Iamgrey5(m): 8:49pm On Feb 24, 2020 |
Biafrannuke:You are obviously not willing to learn.. What is original name of Rivers state? |
Re: Port-harcourt Is Igweocha! What Is The Yoruba Name Of Lagos? by wwwihy: 8:52pm On Feb 24, 2020 |
yomexp:Nope.... when Ikeja people are doing their annual festival and close every market and shops ... you can come and narrate this to them as a historian Smh |
Re: Port-harcourt Is Igweocha! What Is The Yoruba Name Of Lagos? by ololade5597: 8:57pm On Feb 24, 2020 |
Biafrannuke: Stop reading wiki for history you won’t hear, it’s called Ilu-Awori make your findings on the first settler, Benin met them there, find out from any historian you know, to save your time you can go on twitter |
Re: Port-harcourt Is Igweocha! What Is The Yoruba Name Of Lagos? by duncun: 8:58pm On Feb 24, 2020 |
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