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Redcrafton:
Not readable. Sorry mate!

Redcrafton:
The number of property I and my siblings have in Lagos will shock you. We were born Lagosians at Obalenda area, We invest where we live. We are not clannish who will leave depart from where have lived to our own towns empty handed, like you do.

Redcrafton:
Which 1889 article did you present?

Ogunlewe eve started the migration started far back in 15 century when you were still in distance Oshogbo before you started migrating enmass from 1931. Greedy as usual claiming what has been already developed. leaving you western capital in ruins.

I have given you evidence by your own people, Ogunlewe and Adetayo and you said I am imaging things?

Redcrafton:
I don't care what article you bring. I have been consistent about Lagos...but you have been chasing the wind all day,

Redcrafton:
E pain am. Even if I bring a link where you family tells the true you will do somethin harmful to them.

I understand your pain....I know the truth hurts like hell. Sorry.

"....The Igbo had the skill and the industry, and Lagos was the seat of the Federal Government of Nigeria and its major port. The Igbo have lived in Lagos since the 15th century when the Aro and other Igbo first settled in good number in a place we now call “Oyingbo” in the era of Benin and the Portuguese trade..." Senator Adeseye Ogunlewe

Redcrafton:
Adetayo Adesola is now Igbo...the ACF are Igbos.

You have no idea mate.

Redcrafton:
Lagos State belongs as much to the ethnic Igbo as to the Yoruba, Ijaw, Hausa, Fulani, Efik, Idoma, Urhobo, Itshekiri, Edo, and so on who live in it, pay tax, identify with it, and settle in it. That compact was made the moment Nigeria became a single nation, and a successor power to the old principalities who were subdued and who ceded their sovereignty for the new commonwealth of Nigeria .
It was pragmatic. The Igbo had the skill and the industry, and Lagos was the seat of the Federal Government of Nigeria and its major port. The Igbo have lived in Lagos since the 15th century when the Aro and other Igbo first settled in good number in a place we now call “Oyingbo” in the era of Benin and the Portuguese trade.
The arrival of Dr. Namdi Azikiwe to Lagos in 1937 from Accra after his studies in the United States, stimulated the political and cultural environment of Lagos as no other has before or after him. Zik literally resurrected the wizard of Kirsten hall from political death. Zik represented Lagos in the western house. The NCNC was the power in Lagos , and not the Action Group. The Igbo were prominent in the governance of Lagos in the Lagos City Hall .
The institutional development of Lagos – the railways, the ports and ship yards; the education and research facilities; the Banking and Commodities Exchange, the development of towns like Yaba, Surulere, Ebutta-Metta, Festac Town, Victoria Island, and now increasing the Ajah-Lekki axis, and of course, the ghettoes along the Orile-Badagry axis, have profound Igbo imprimatur. The circulation of the image of Lagos is to date best reflected in the cosmopolitan Igbo imagination of one of the greatest African writers of the 20th century, Cyprian Ekwensi, a thorough Lagosian if there was any. Igbo have built industries in Lagos and have been drivers of commerce and exchange.
Interestingly, I was born at plot number 8, Okoya Street , Idumagbo- Lagos, while the Ojukwu families were residing at number one to three on the same street. I grew up to know the father of Odumegwu Ojukwu. Chimbizie and Azuka grew up with us on the same street. Even the Chibeze small parking space at the end of Okoya Street is called Ojukwu. I later attended St. Patrick Primary School , Idumagbo, where I had very amiable classmates of Igbo origin in the persons of Azubike Ezenwa and Damian, Ihekuna, both now professors and doctors of today. They were brilliant, resourceful and friendly.
When we were playing bamboo and Tene Felele at Orikoriko at Onola playing ground, the Igbo participated actively. In the area of sports, school football and athletes, Igbo were dominant at Kings College, St. Gregory school, St. Finbars, Akoka, Igbobi College and Ahmadiyya College, Agege. Such boys, Njokwu, George Amu, Stephen Keshi, Henry Nwosu, Patrick Noquapor, Peter Anieke and Sammy Opone were dominant on the field of football, while Asiodu, Empire Kanu were prominent on the field of athletics.
Anytime we went to watch football match at Onikan stadium, my darling team, Stationery Stores and our adversary team I hated most was the E. C. N, where the centre forward, Paul Hamilton, the National Team, Fabian the captain who bit the dust. Our greatest captain was Duru, Oduah Onyenrekwa, Onyeador Onyeali and Opel, the greatest outside right Nigeria ever had, Cyril Azuluka. So, during my early life at primary school, the Igbo were always there and delightful to watch, both in athletes and on the football field.
When I listened to radio at that time, both the commentary and drama series, the Igbo were there for you. The likes of Chris Ndaguba, Ernest Okwonkwo, Ralph Okpara ‘Alawo Sekiseki the traveler’. The episode will end with – The script was written by Ralph Okpara and edited by Yemi Lijadu.
Anytime I visited where I was born today in Idumagbo at Lagos Island , the entire place is covered by Igbo traders in their thousands. They were never troublesome but decent and accommodating. They have virtually taken over all properties of the indigenes. They succeeded in developing all our properties, married to most of our children even from the royal families. There is no single house you will visit without an Igbo man selling wares there.
So, who is saying something else? Only the strangers in our midst will not notice participation of economic development in our state by the Igbos. Most houses and shops in Lagos Island have been purchased, developed and occupied by the Igbos. The value of their investments in Lagos Island alone is in trillions of naira.
Instead of deporting the Igbos, whose contributions to the development of Lagos state are immensurable, you must keep on praising and encouraging them to keep on developing Lagos State .
•Senator Adeseye Ogunlewe is a former Nigerian minister for Works and Housing.

Redcrafton:
......In Lagos here alone, they dominate the retail and wholesale markets at Computer Village, Alaba International, and the Okirika markets on the Island. The markets at Iwo Road Ibadan are also dominated by the Igbos. After threats of expulsion from the North by the Arewa youths, we got to find out; they cannot leave the North because the Igbos has 44 trillion naira worth of investments in North.

Redcrafton:
I am but you are not interested in 1930 article, so?

This shows you are not okay.

Goke7:
just like people who speak igbo and want to lie that they are from Lagos

Redcrafton:
In 1898...How many of you from other places helped to build Lagos?

You need to check you are okay...

Goke7:
I said it, they will never give up on their lies

Redcrafton:
Nothing settled it. Stop claiming what is not yours.

You don't still get it. When these were happening, you guys from the Oyo and Osun were nowhere to be found.

The Aros from the east migrated to Lagos before you started migrating by 1931. See pic.

Someone talked about New York. The Irish and others who migrated there are part of New York.

Goke7:
you are just funny, New York is what it is because of all sort of investments from all over the world, if anything happens to America and it splits so you mean NewYork too same as London will compensate the entire world for their contributions abi? You lack understanding of what a Global city is. The investments you see today in Lagos is not a Nigerian thing but a global affair, the seaports are still underutilized because the Lagos ports are not transshipping locations from which goods coming in can even go on to other Nations down southern Africa, the day we have more enlightened people in govt, this will start so how can Lagos become a shadow of itself when its yet to be optimized especially its abundant aquatic splendor. Nigeria is the one slowing Lagos down, more international investments [which is we want and not dirty corner corner shops] will flow more into Lagos the day the seaports and airports are free from useless FG bureaucracies.

Covidodo:
3 years hiding in a bunker actually

Redcrafton:
Stop taking harmful substance.,,you guys are well known for...like lizard poo, etc.

Redcrafton:
We have not even started when I made the request..as you can see...
Who is suffering now. Creating another moniker...asking what was the essence of the thread when he was pummeled.

Redcrafton:
I advised that the thread be deleted as from experience, they can ban someone and let the others go. So its a preemptive request.

So now who is taken to the cleaners?

Redcrafton:
What a beautiful and resilient city of enugu. Even our musician use our pride in their music video. Thank you phyno for showcasing our resilient city. Very beautiful than Birmingham.

DanArrewa, Totit, come an see our resilient enugu city.

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See the guys who are the architect of the thread. Both the Yoruba guy and his friends DanArewaa and totit have been taken to the sword in both in the thread.

Redcrafton:
Mod delete this thread. Bighead and totit are about to shoot themselves..

ogenyi1:
Hahahaha

He had to run even to Google earth. See Ibadan here, it is a huge stone age in the present age