Biafrannuke:
what is the Yoruba name of Lagos? how does learning translate to tribalism? If you have no answer, better not comment.

Biafrannuke:
Eko does not mean anything in Yoruba. what is the Yoruba name of lagos?

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?

gidgiddy:


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?

Biafrannuke:
There isn't because it doesn't belong to Yoruba's. what is the Yoruba name of Lagos?

Area4Area:
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.

georjay:


"we will give Lagos back to the rightful owner"

who are the we

you mean biafra will give Lagos back to Edo people?

fine but how

tsdarkside:


not true....their was a english guy that beared that name,that ph was named after....

Biafrannuke:
This thread is not about the size of Lagos but its Yoruba name. Even the so called occupied west bank has a Jewish name Judea and Samaria but Arabs of Palestine don't have a name for it. meaning they are not the owners.

0m0nnakoda:
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?

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.

duncun:
fura there was nothing like naija area before the Brits came. Your ppl were never part of the south.

yomexp:
@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

Biafrannuke:
what is the Yoruba name of Lagos? how does learning translate to tribalism? If you have no answer, better not comment.

Ooni:
Not every part of Lagos belongs to Edo. There are those that belongs to Yorubas. But as my father would say Lagos is a colonial settlement so arguments like this shouldn't matter.

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?

duncun:
So what was Nigeria as a country called before the coming of the Brits?

Donaldoni:
Jobless piggiiiddiiooott on the beat...

Success1020:
Don't mind that afonja who opened that Port Harcourt Igbo language thread and used his other handlers to reply himself as second, third and fourth posters. Let Biafra come, we will give Lagos back to the rightful owner...Edo people, not Edo with Yoruba blood who are invaders but real natives of that land called Igodomigido Edo people, who are Igbo blood....the Esan, Ogbonna, Afamai , e.t.c.

oyatz:


The Edo's and Yorubas have long historical interactions, not only on the Island of Lagos but in many areas.

The Edos influenced, ruled and settled in some parts of Lagos just as the British did in centuries later but today, neither the Edos nor the British can be regarded as owing anywhere in Lagos.

Fl3xN3Esses:


EDOS AND YORUBAS ARE BASICALLY ONE PEOPLE---- WHY IS IT SO HARD FOR YOU GUYS FROM THE EAST (THAT JUST GOT BROUGHT INTO CIVILIZATION--- AND OUT OF THE RAIN FORESTS--- LESS THAN 200 YRS AGO) TO GET THAT INTO YOUR FLAT SKULLS?

Biafrannuke:
This thread is not about the size of Lagos but its Yoruba name. Even the so called occupied west bank has a Jewish name Judea and Samaria but Arabs of Palestine don't have a name for it. meaning they are not the owners.

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?

Biafrannuke:
we know but we now want to know the Yoruba name of the place called Lagos.

oyatz:



Igweocha is the term used by later Igbo immigrants to Port Harcourt but the Natives didn't call their villages Igweocha.


This is just like Igbos call London Obodo Oyinbo but this doesn't mean 'Obodi Oyinbo' is a valid name for London.

femolii:
Port Harcourt never answering Igweocha as a name. since the creation of ph nothing like igweocha just stop that nonsense you are now trying to claim ph, don't attach Igbo's name to port Harcourt.

Arda1000:
so what was the name the native called it?,and how come Ikwerres call it Igweocha today,since it was not their original name?

Biafrannuke:
For the records, no Yoruba can tell us the Yoruba name of lagos.