enemyofprogress:
There is a need to draw attention to the difference between the two families.
While the RHODES family are post slave trade generational Lagosians of Popo Aguda extraction the RHODES VIVOUR family are later day migrants from Opobo in Rivers State. Not that it matters much but it helps to understand the Pan Nigerian inclination of the Rhodes-Vivour.
The Rhodes family heritage is being confused and attributed to Rhodes Vivour in respect of City Hall Lagos without any attempt by the family to correct the wrong optics thereby passing off its own antecedents.

*This was sent to me Privately by an Aburo. I come in Peace ✌️*
Rubakoye.

enemyofprogress:
There is a need to draw attention to the difference between the two families.
While the RHODES family are post slave trade generational Lagosians of Popo Aguda extraction the RHODES VIVOUR family are later day migrants from Opobo in Rivers State. Not that it matters much but it helps to understand the Pan Nigerian inclination of the Rhodes-Vivour.
The Rhodes family heritage is being confused and attributed to Rhodes Vivour in respect of City Hall Lagos without any attempt by the family to correct the wrong optics thereby passing off its own antecedents.

*This was sent to me Privately by an Aburo. I come in Peace ✌️*
Rubakoye.

kingthreat:
No wonder Bode George is the godfather of GRV. Bode George is another descendant of returned slaves who came to settle in Yoruba land.
Well their background doesn't matter. GRV should not have been stupid enough to insult the Yorubas on Twitter. Even in Lagos Island, he will never win House of Rep or Senate.

XAUBulls:

Returnee FORMER slaves of Yoruba descent OR returnee formerly enslaved Yorubas is a better way to put it. Many were happy to see their missing relatives again.

Ajayi Crowther who is from Osogun in Iseyin area of Oyo State but was buried in the Cathedral Church of Christ, Marina, Lagos Island in the late 1890s, miraculously found his biological mother in her Yoruba hometown of Ketu in Benin Republic, but never saw his father and younger sister again since the day the Muslim slave traders invaded Osogun and took them all into captivity.

Many Yorubas of Nigeria and Benin Republic lost family members in the late 1700s but majorly in the 1800s due to the slave ship deportations to Cuba, Brazil, USA, Trinidad, British Guiana now Guyana, Venezuela, Jamaica, Sierra Leone, etc.

The major victims of the deportations on slave ships from
Yorubaland were the Oyos, Egbas, Ijesas, Ekitis, Ijebus, Bantes, Anagos, Ketus, with the last 3 being from Yoruba-speaking Benin Republic.

Some like Ajayi Crowther, Shitta Bey, and the first Nigerian pound sterling millionaire and financier, Candido da Rocha (who was born to an Ijesa father in Bahia, Brazil), returned to Nigeria and settled on Lagos Island in the 1800s after being freed OR their parents freed, and some did not return. Those who did not return to Yorubaland and their descendants have kept the Yoruba culture and religion alive in Cuba, Brazil, Trinidad, etc, till today.


May the memories of the ancestors never be forgotten.

kingthreat:


Thank you for enlightening

XAUBulls:

You are welcome @Kingthreat.

I'm glad you found my sobering but true historical summations of our people on both sides of the Atlantic ocean useful. We must never forget.


All the best.

kingthreat:
No wonder Bode George is the godfather of GRV. Bode George is another descendant of returned slaves who came to settle in Yoruba land.
Well their background doesn't matter. GRV should not have been stupid enough to insult the Yorubas on Twitter. Even in Lagos Island, he will never win House of Rep or Senate.

christistruth01:


Bode George is descended from Ajayi Crowther and Herbert Macauley who was his Great Grandfather

christistruth01:


Bode George is descended from Ajayi Crowther and Herbert Macauley who was his Great Grandfather

aguluobi:
Let Bode George come out n claim this himself if he will not be stoned.

enemyofprogress:
There is a need to draw attention to the difference between the two families.
While the RHODES family are post slave trade generational Lagosians of Popo Aguda extraction the RHODES VIVOUR family are later day migrants from Opobo in Rivers State. Not that it matters much but it helps to understand the Pan Nigerian inclination of the Rhodes-Vivour.
The Rhodes family heritage is being confused and attributed to Rhodes Vivour in respect of City Hall Lagos without any attempt by the family to correct the wrong optics thereby passing off its own antecedents.

*This was sent to me Privately by an Aburo. I come in Peace ✌️*
Rubakoye.

BabaRamota1980:


It matters a lot if what you say is true.

I raised a similar issue during the campaign, where I wondered why none of the descendants in the supposed Lagos family come out to speak on his behalf.

If his last name was Savage, Cardoso, Pereira, Salvador, Bank Anthony, Babbington, Bucknor, ....i am certain family members, particularly head of that family would have issued press release to reauthenticate his omonile identity. The fact that no one in the Rhodes family came out in his defense raised more suspicion than answered questions.

Efiks in particular, and Kalabari, had been living in Lagos much earlier than the first immigrant Ibo in Lagos. When capital of Southern Protectorate relocated from Calabar to Lagos, many Efiks and Kalabari that were domestic staffs and clerks to Colonial Government officials uprooted and followed their oga to Lagos. It would not be impossible, using your scenario coupled with absence of the head of Rhodes family in Lagos, to conclude that Rhodes Vivour, the ancestor of GRV was a Calabar man originaly, and was never Yoruba at all. .

OneCandleAway:


Cho cho cho

Continue hating on a lagosian whose last 5 ancestors were integral in lagos development but suck on the balls of an iragbiji man who is holding the financial destiny of lagosians