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 Politics › Re: Court Declare Lagos State Demolitions Illegal by shortgun(op): 12:52pm On Oct 07, 2025 |
Lanretoye:When truth choke, una go leave the message attack the messenger. 😂 I no need to own a block before I know Lagos state government dey do illegal demolition. No be me talk am. Oya cry to Supreme Court if e pain you. Una dey happy say state government dey behave like agbero. 1 Like |
| Politics › Re: Court Declare Lagos State Demolitions Illegal by shortgun(op): 12:23pm On Oct 07, 2025 |
WesleyPepper:Law and order you say? Lagos State has lost more court cases for illegal demolitions and land grabbing than any other state government in Nigeria. If disobeying court judgments and stealing people’s land is your idea of law and order, then congratulations you just redefined hypocrisy. Abeg shift, You’re defending a state government that the Supreme Court itself called lawless in many cases 1 Like |
| Politics › Re: Court Declare Lagos State Demolitions Illegal by shortgun(op): 11:42am On Oct 07, 2025 |
FreeStuffsNG:Lagos state government lost all the cases listed in my post, so which one are you referring to? |
| Politics › Re: Court Declare Lagos State Demolitions Illegal by shortgun(op): 11:17am On Oct 07, 2025 |
FreeStuffsNG:lets not pretend like we don't know what "go to court " means since APC happened to this country 1 Like |
| Politics › Court Declare Lagos State Demolitions Illegal by shortgun(op): 11:06am On Oct 07, 2025*. Modified: 12:24pm On Oct 07, 2025 |
Demolishing people’s houses and grabbing land by the Lagos State Government is nothing new. It’s an old pattern of theft and abuse that goes back to the 1980s. Successive Lagos governments have shamelessly taken over people’s lawful properties, acting above the laws of Nigeria. These are not isolated cases, they’re part of a long, dirty tradition of government-backed robbery. Lagos State government ends up losing the cases that are taken to court, because the evidence of illegality and impunity are undeniable. Many Judges in the past have declared many of these demolitions and seizures as illegal and have ordered compensation for the victims. Below are some of the well-documented cases where the courts declared Lagos State’s governments demolitions illegal. It’s a disgrace that a state government constantly finds itself on the wrong side of the law it is meant to uphold. 1.Makoko / Oko-Agbon / Sogunro / Iwaya waterfront communities case (Suit No. FHC/L/CS/70/2025) Presided by Justice F. N. Ogazi. Respondents:Lagos State Government, its relevant agencies and the Nigeria Police Force. Also implicated is FBT Coral Limited (private developer) for being allocated parts of the land Background: Lagos State government and its agents used brute force and threats to demolish houses and business premises without compensation or resettlement. Re-alocated the land to a private developer, FBT Coral, for luxury development. Residents claim loss of livelihoods, businesses, homes, Police harassment and the killing of a community leader. Judgment and Court Ruling The court restrained Lagos State Government & the authorities including the Police command from any further unlawful evictions or demolitions in the Makoko / Oko-Agbon / Sogunro / Iwaya waterfront communities. Also, from continuing threats of such actions. ₦3.5 billion was awarded as damages to the residents. These damages cover past demolitions, past threats of demolition and the unlawful killing of a community leader. 2.Shangisha / Magodo Scheme II case. Supreme court SC/112/2002 Background: Between June 1984 and May 1985, Lagos State Government moved into Shangisha Village now known as Magodo Scheme II demolishing homes and seizing land from citizens who had done nothing wrong. Many of them who had legally bought their plots and built houses long before the state’s invasion. Judgment and Court Ruling In 1993, the Lagos State High Court declared the Lagos state government’s actions illegal, ordering Lagos to allocate 549 plots to the landlords as restitution. The lagos state government refused and appealed — but the Court of Appeal in 2001 upheld the decision of the high court. Yet, again the state dragged the matter to the Supreme Court, the apex court. Led by Justice Adekeye, The Supreme court delivered a final judgment on 10 February 2012, unanimously ordering Lagos to comply and give the landlords first choice of 549 plots in Shangisha or equivalent plots elsewhere. Lagos lost again After nearly three decades, In 2024, Lagos State government filed an application again at the Supreme Court seeking a review of its 2012 decision in SC/1/2/2002. The Supreme Court rejected that application. It held that the 2012 judgment was unambiguous, that the Court lacks the power to review its own judgment and that what Lagos was asking was essentially a re-opening of final judgment which is not permissible under the law! 3.Lagos State goverment vs Chief Emeka Odumegwu Ojukwu (1986) – Supreme Court (SC.241/1985) Background: Chief Emeka Odumegwu Ojukwu had secured an ex parte interim injunction restraining the Lagos State Government from ejecting him from his legal residence. Despite this clear court order, the Lagos State Government defied the order and sent about 150 armed men to forcibly eject Chief Ojukwu, his family and other occupants while the suit was still pending in court. The Court of Appeal condemned the government’s actions as illegal, ordering that Ojukwu be reinstated into possession and describing Lagos State’s conduct as an act of rascality and self-help — a violation of due process and the rule of law. The Lagos State Government not satisfied appealed to the Supreme Court, which unanimously dismissed the appeal. The apex court ruled that the forced eviction of Ojukwu while litigation was ongoing was unlawful, amounted to executive lawlessness and was rascality and self-help, acts forbidden under the law. The case remains a landmark precedent in Nigerian jurisprudence affirming that no individual or authority not even the government, may use force to evict or reclaim property when a case is pending before the court. National Inland Waterways Authority (NIWA) vs Lagos Lagos State Government....( this case is similar to trade fair demolitions) Court: Supreme Court of Nigeria Case No./Appeal No.: SC/CV/17/2018 Background: Lagos State government with it's LASWA (2008 law) state law, had been regulating, licensing, levying boat operators, dredgers, tour‐boats etc illegally on inland waterways..lagoons, rivers, etc) within Lagos State. NIWA (a Federal agency) challenged that Lagos State’s regulation / levy imposition was illegal and unconstitutional; claiming that all inland waterways fall under the Exclusive Legislative List in the Constitution, which is a federal jurisdiction,so states cannot usurp that authority. There was some back-and-forth. The Federal High Court then ruled in favor of NIWA. Not satisfied, Lagos state government appealed the judgement and the Court of Appeal later reversed the ruling of the high court, giving Lagos some regulatory space over waterways within the state. The case then went to the Supreme Court. Judgment and Court Ruling The Supreme Court reversed the Court of Appeal’s judgment. It affirmed the earlier Federal High Court decision of March 28, 2014, by Justice Tsoho that NIWA/NMSSA / that the Federal Government have exclusive authority over the inland waterways in Nigeria—this includes licensing, levies, regulation and all related commercial activity. Held that Lagos State’s legislation (LASWA Law 2008) is illegal and unconstitutional, to the extent it attempts to regulate, charge, license or control inland waterways, in conflict with the NIWA Act and the Constitution’s Exclusive Legislative List. The Supreme Court declared the actions of lagos state illegal. Lagos State lost the legal authority to impose levies, licenses or regulatory fees on inland waterways operators boats, tours, dredgers etc. under the LASWA law or similar state laws. Such regulatory power rests solely with federal agencies NIWA / NMSSA. Conclusion: A clear pattern runs through all these cases: the Lagos State Government has repeatedly shown utter disregard for the laws of Nigeria. It has made illegality a habit, operating above the law and using state power to dispossess citizens of their properties. No other state in Nigeria or anywhere else in the world has this long and shameful record of being legally proven wrong so many times in courts So, before you assume that Lagos State’s demolitions are justified, remember its history of lawlessness, a government that has been found guilty over and over again of illegally seizing people’s land. The real tragedy in all this is that many victims will never get justice simply because they cannot afford the long legal battle with a state government,while the Lagos government bloated with public funds has demonstrated that it will chase people’s private legal properties all the way to the Supreme Court — just to keep what it stole. 1 Like
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| Politics › Re: Trade Fair Demolitions: Senator Umeh Condemns LASG Action, Labels It Illegal by shortgun(m): 7:23am On Oct 07, 2025 |
This is not the first time the Lagos State Government is engaging in illegality and behaving like lawless rascals.
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| Politics › Re: Make Professor Nnenna Oti The New INEC Chairperson by shortgun(m): 8:27pm On Oct 06, 2025 |
Supported She's the right person for the INEC Chair role. She has proven herself 1 Like |
| Politics › Re: Benin Market Women Celebrate Oba’s Bold Stand Against Tinubu’s Daughter (photos) by shortgun(m): 8:09pm On Oct 05, 2025 |
This is commendable. Even real Yorubas recently in Oyo state have come out to condemn the bigotry and the rascality happening in Lagos 3 Likes |
| Politics › Re: I Inherited Islam From My Parents, My Wife Is A Pastor, No Conflict - Tinubu by shortgun(m): 8:33am On Oct 05, 2025 |
Tinubu has brought untold suffering upon this nation. Insecurity haunts every state, hunger torments children and poverty is swallowing families. The only way to end the suffering and pains in this country is to kick Tinubu out of office. He has failed completely in everything 3 Likes 2 Shares |
| Politics › Re: Fubara Dissolves Microfinance Board Appointed By Ibas by shortgun(m): 9:10am On Oct 04, 2025 |
The only reason Tinubu removed Fubara was to steal the resources of rivers state through Wike and his cronies. They stole billions in the last 6 months |
| Politics › Re: Port Harcourt Road, Aba At Night (Pictured) by shortgun(m): 5:18pm On Oct 03, 2025 |
God bless Enyimba City God bless Ala Igbo God bless Ndi Igbo God bless Nigerians 1 Like |
| Politics › Re: I Am An Igbo Man - Nyesom Wike by shortgun(m): 5:01pm On Oct 03, 2025 |
Wike lacks what it takes to be Igbo. We Igbos don't have oppression in our DNA. Wike is an Oppressor who has committed alot of atrocities. Even if he's Igbo, he would have been banished and thrown into the evil forest long time ago.  1 Like |
| Car Talk › Re: Court Bars Police From Enforcing Tinted Glass Regulation by shortgun(m): 4:52pm On Oct 03, 2025 |
Not after I've already paid and did biometrics |
| Politics › Re: All Obas In Yorubaland Are Useless Except Three —Tinubu (2014) by shortgun(op): 7:19am On Oct 02, 2025 |
| Politics › Re: All Obas In Yorubaland Are Useless Except Three —Tinubu (2014) by shortgun(op): 5:38pm On Oct 01, 2025 |
Softmirror:Are you sure you want to go this route?  3 Likes
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| Politics › Re: All Obas In Yorubaland Are Useless Except Three —Tinubu (2014) by shortgun(op): 4:09pm On Oct 01, 2025 |
Softmirror:Does this mean you have confirmed all your Obas are betrayers 5 Likes |
| Politics › Re: All Obas In Yorubaland Are Useless Except Three —Tinubu (2014) by shortgun(op): 4:02pm On Oct 01, 2025 |
From what Tinubu’s said in that interview, it means either the Ooni of Ife or the Alaafin of Oyo is useless and a sellout. Tinubu must clarify  6 Likes |
| Politics › Re: All Obas In Yorubaland Are Useless Except Three —Tinubu (2014) by shortgun(op): 3:52pm On Oct 01, 2025 |
kimjongJezebel:That alone proves the shameless bigotry in this administration has mr President’s full blessing 😂 3 Likes |
| Politics › Re: All Obas In Yorubaland Are Useless Except Three —Tinubu (2014) by shortgun(op): 3:28pm On Oct 01, 2025 |
3exe3:Only Tinubu alone will have the answer to that. Let's wait for his supporters maybe they will have something to say 🤣🤣 5 Likes |
| Politics › All Obas In Yorubaland Are Useless Except Three —Tinubu (2014) by shortgun(op): 3:08pm On Oct 01, 2025 |
Nigerians have dug up an interview granted by Bola Ahmed Tinubu in 2014, where he strongly condemned every Oba in Yorubaland, calling all of them useless and sellouts. Tinubu went ahead to mention only three Obas as credible, and the names include Oba Awujale, Oba Akiolu and one other. Excerpts: A former governor of Lagos state and national leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu has stated that the Awujale and Paramount ruler of Ijebuland, Oba Sikiru Kayode Adetona, Ogbagba II remains the best traditional ruler in Yorubaland. He made this declaration, yesterday at the Central mosque in Ijebu Ode during the special prayer session to mark the 80th birthday celebration of the monarch. Speaking during the well-attended event, Tinubu said the history of Yoruba’s political voyage is incomplete without the inclusion of Awujale. ....You are not part of the useless Obas in Yorubaland who will sell out, we know them and it is not yet time to mention names. In Yorubaland today, you are the best monarch and that is not contestable. The good Obas’ in Yorubaland, who are forthright, firm and stand by the truth are not up to five, they are just three. Oba Awujale, Oba Akiolu and another. May you live long in good health and abundant God blessing,” he stated. https://dailypost.ng/2014/05/10/part-useless-obas-yorubaland-tinubu-hails-paramount-ruler-ijebuland 1 Like
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| Culture › Re: Igboland Is Good, That’s Why I Brought My Relatives,” Says Yoruba Oba In Enugu by shortgun(op): 9:38pm On Sep 28, 2025 |
Judolisco:Peter Obi won the last election. Afenifere, the apex Yoruba socio-cultural group, openly confirmed it. Babachir Lawal, former Secretary to the Government of the Federation also stated that Obi won the presidential election, Atiku came second and Tinubu only managed third place. Even with all the manipulation and rigging, Nigerians still didn’t vote for Tinubu. He scraped together just about 30% of the total votes cast....the lowest percentage ever secured by anyone declared president since independence. |
| Culture › Re: Igboland Is Good, That’s Why I Brought My Relatives,” Says Yoruba Oba In Enugu by shortgun(op): 2:45pm On Sep 28, 2025 |
lawani:I think I now see where your confusion is coming from. There has never been any census conducted anywhere in the world including in Nigeria to determine the population of Yorubas or Igbos. What you people keep citing is the “language spoken at home” section of the 2011 Ireland census. That section simply recorded what language migrants spoke at their homes in Ireland. An Igbo person who speaks English at home in Ireland will not be recorded under Igbo. A Hausa man who speaks Yoruba at home will be counted under Yoruba. Migrants from Benin Republic or Togo who speak Yoruba will also be recorded as Yoruba. This is why you cannot take that section and claim there are more Yorubas.The numbers only show which languages migrants happened to use abroad, not population sizes. No census in Asia or West Africa has ever broken down Nigerians by tribe. Yet we all know Igbos dominate trade and settlement in Ghana, Equatorial Guinea, Côte d’Ivoire, Cameroon, Gabon even Malaysia and China. That’s visible presence. But even that can’t be used to make wild assumptions about Igbos being more than Yorubas. Every serious demographic estimate from UN data to Nigerian projections puts both Yoruba Igbo populations in the same bracket roughly 42 to 50 million each. So stop recycling fairy tales. Until Nigeria conducts an ethnic census, your Yoruba double Igbo line remains propaganda and not fact. At best, both groups are roughly equal in size. Anything else is pure wishful thinking. Don’t forget that it was the Northern leaders Ahmadu Bello and Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa alongside some South-West leaders like Chief Samuel Ladoke Akintola and Chief Remi Fani-Kayode who opposed including ethnicity in Nigeria’s census. When Festus Okotie-Eboh, the Finance Minister from Warri, suggested in 1962 that ethnicity should be included, he pushed for it to properly capture Nigeria’s ethnic composition — Igbo, Hausa-Fulani, Yoruba, and the many minority groups. Nnamdi Azikiwe and Eastern leaders supported the idea, believing it would show the Igbo’s true demographic spread across Nigeria. Chief Obafemi Awolowo also backed it, arguing that a genuine census must capture vital demographics like ethnicity, religion, and occupation for proper planning. He warned that omitting them was politically motivated to inflate numbers. After enumeration, when it became clear the Igbo were gaining an upper hand in the population figures, accusations of inflated numbers, rigging, and bias started flying. The results were rejected and the 1962 census collapsed at the point of official announcement. It was cancelled and a fresh one was conducted in 1963 this time with no ethnicity. Since then Nigeria has deliberately avoided putting ethnicity in census questionnaires. That is why today, nobody has an official ethnic population figure for Nigeria. Every Yoruba vs Igbo vs Hausa population you see is just beer parlor gossips |
| Culture › Re: Igboland Is Good, That’s Why I Brought My Relatives,” Says Yoruba Oba In Enugu by shortgun(op): 12:12pm On Sep 28, 2025 |
lawani:Your logic is all over the place. First of all, diaspora headcounts don’t prove Yorubas are more than Igbos anywhere. Migration flows depend on work networks, visa policies, colonial ties and personal decisions not on Nigeria’s actual demographics. By your reasoning, because Igbos dominate in China, Malaysia, Equatorial Guinea and huge swathes of West Africa, that means they must outnumber Yorubas in Nigeria. Stop twisting voter registration and NIN numbers like they are ethnic census. INEC doesn’t register people by tribe and the fact that Lagos has more NIN than the South-East is simply because Lagos is a federal city pulling migrants from everywhere....Igbo, Yoruba, Hausa, Edo,Ijaw you name it. So quoting Lagos NIN as Yoruba numbers is either ignorance or mischief. This claim that the South-West is ‘more than double’ the South-East in population is a blatant lie. Check the official figures; in 2023 INEC register shows South-West with about 17.9m voters and South-East with about 10.9m and we when we remove non Yorubas from that of Southwest.... So where are you getting the double? let alone ‘more than double’. Voter rolls are never equal to population, millions of Igbo live outside the South-East and register in other regions, especially Lagos, Abuja, Kano kaduna, Port Harcourt and other Non Igbo states. Every credible demographic estimate puts Yoruba and Igbo populations in the same broad bracket of 42 to 50 million each. So stop packaging propaganda as arithmetic. Until Nigeria conducts a proper ethnic census, all your ‘double this, half that’ claims remain beer-parlour statistics, nothing more. |
| Culture › Re: Igboland Is Good, That’s Why I Brought My Relatives,” Says Yoruba Oba In Enugu by shortgun(op): 10:27am On Sep 28, 2025 |
lawani:Your so-called ‘facts’ collapse under scrutiny again. Quoting diaspora language surveys in the US or Ireland doesn’t prove Yorubas are more than Igbos in Nigeria. If such surveys were taken in China, Malaysia, South Africa, India or even in Equatorial Guinea, Igbos would outnumber Yorubas 20 to 1. These surveys only show who migrated where and not actual population size. And this nonsense about Yoruba being the second largest group in the North after Hausa is pure fiction. No census or credible demographic study backs that up. What is generally accepted though, is that almost all Northerners have at least encountered an Igbo person their lifetime. Also, the South-West being larger than the South-East in land mass doesn’t mean Yorubas outnumber Igbos. Niger State alone is nearly the size of the entire South-West does that mean the Nupe people of Niger State are more than the Yorubas by population? Every demographic estimate puts Yoruba and Igbo populations in the same bracket — roughly 42 to 50 million each. So stop dressing up village anecdotes and diaspora quirks as statistics. Until there’s an official census with ethnic breakdowns your sweeping claims remain propaganda and not facts. |
| Culture › Re: Igboland Is Good, That’s Why I Brought My Relatives,” Says Yoruba Oba In Enugu by shortgun(op): 9:48am On Sep 28, 2025 |
Judolisco:I don’t know if you’re ignorant or just being deliberately mischievous. Peter Obi got 88% of South-East votes in the last election and that’s nothing unusual. Igbos have always voted massively for the most viable candidate and never voted based on tribe. In 2003, Obasanjo a Yoruba man from the Southwest got 87% of South-East votes while Ojukwu an Igbo war hero managed only 25%. In 2007, Yar’Adua, a Fulani man from the north received 72% of Southeast votes. In 2011, Goodluck Jonathan, an Ijaw man from south south, got 98%. If Igbos were tribalistic, they wouldn’t have voted overwhelmingly for leaders from every corner of Nigeria. The facts completely shatters your lazy mischievous narrative. |
| Culture › Re: Igboland Is Good, That’s Why I Brought My Relatives,” Says Yoruba Oba In Enugu by shortgun(op): 1:56am On Sep 28, 2025 |
lawani:Abeg stop embarrassing yourself. Quoting your small village in Osun as evidence of national demographics is laughable. Dry-season Hausa farmers in your backyard don’t translate into national population data. Nigeria’s statistical agencies and the last national census releases did not provide any official ethnic-breakdown. Ethnicity counts are politically sensitive and have never been published as an official dataset. Every official estimate shows Yorubas and Igbos as nearly equal in Nigeria and Igbos clearly dominate in different parts of Nigeria and the diaspora worldwide. That’s why in Europe, America and Asia you meet Igbos in droves running businesses and excelling professionally. Your Northern university claim is pure fiction go and look at the staff and student rosters in the North, you’ll see Igbos everywhere. Facts are facts, your village gossip isn’t a census, it’s just noise |
| Politics › Re: 2023 Was A Mistake, South East No More Obidient, We Are For Tinubu - Umahi by shortgun(m): 6:48pm On Sep 27, 2025*. Modified: 7:11pm On Sep 27, 2025 |
Speak for yourself oga. Southeast will always vote for the most viable candidate that's why the southeast voted for Obasanjo, Yaradua and Jonathan. With the suffering, insecurity and poverty all over the country Tinubu should not be a candidate in 2027. Tinubu contesting in 2027 is an insult to common sense. 29 Likes 2 Shares |
| Culture › Re: Igboland Is Good, That’s Why I Brought My Relatives,” Says Yoruba Oba In Enugu by shortgun(op): 5:37pm On Sep 27, 2025 |
WizardOfNG:First off, Population figures don’t prove hospitality or hostility. Fewer Yorubas living in the Southeast doesn’t mean they’re unaccommodated or mistreated...it could be due to migration choices, economic pull factors, or cultural preferences. So stop twisting numbers to fit a weak narrative. And your 8 million Igbos thriving in the Southwest point is actually laughable. Thriving with constant harassment, election-day intimidation and state backed bigotry? The survival of Igbo people in the southwest only proves resilience and not Yoruba magnanimity. Don’t mistake survival under pressure for hospitality. There are countless Yorubas like this oba thriving in the southeast and nobody in the East is perturbed with the name or title they choose to give themselves. |
| Culture › Re: Igboland Is Good, That’s Why I Brought My Relatives,” Says Yoruba Oba In Enugu by shortgun(op): 1:49pm On Sep 27, 2025 |
omooba969:Apart from the Igbos, which other tribe makes up the largest population after the indigenes? In almost every state in Nigeria, the Igbos are always the dominant non-indigenous group. |
| Culture › Re: Igboland Is Good, That’s Why I Brought My Relatives,” Says Yoruba Oba In Enugu by shortgun(op): 10:37am On Sep 27, 2025 |
plumcomm:Always moving the goal post. First it was Yorubas don’t become kings outside their land and now it’s about giving credits? 28 Likes |
| Culture › Re: Igboland Is Good, That’s Why I Brought My Relatives,” Says Yoruba Oba In Enugu by shortgun(op): 9:05am On Sep 27, 2025 |
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| Culture › Re: Igboland Is Good, That’s Why I Brought My Relatives,” Says Yoruba Oba In Enugu by shortgun(op): 8:35am On Sep 27, 2025 |
gidgiddy:Exactly, you’re right. In Igbo land nobody disturbs other ethnic groups from organizing themselves, choosing their leaders or living freely. This Yoruba king in Enugu is proof , he’s respected and not harassed, I even saw a video where the Yoruba king is recognized during a cultural event in Igboland. Meanwhile, the same freedom is never extended to Igbos in Yoruba land, their harmless cultural expressions are often viewed with suspicion, hostility, arrests and threats. This clearly shows who the natural accommodators are 26 Likes |
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