lexylaw09:
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lexylaw09:
take a look at the house Where Queen Elizabeth Spent A Night In Ijebu Ode 1956.... Cheif Odutolas castle

wirinet:


I don’t know who the loudest chest beater us between IPOB and Yoruba tribalists, it would be a very close match. Both are always making stupendous claims of greatness. Lagos Island that was never under the Regional Western government was the one Awolowo built with cocoa money? Lagos Island all the way Akpongbon to Tafawa Balewa Square to Ikoyi and Victoria Island was seat of the colonial government from 1914, when Southern and Northern Nigeria was almalgated till 1991 when the capital was noted to Abuja.

See Carter Bridge that was built in 1901(first picture). Awolowo must have travelled back in time to build it as Awolowo was born 1906.

Second picture is Victoria Island as of 1929

Third picture is Lagos Island in 1935.

GoodLife4live:
Lagos the pride of every African...

Yorubaland Lagos koni baje

2mch:

What is your point? The point is Lagos was not built with any Oil money. But Cocoa money and our own trade. Yoruba came together and built Lagos. It is ours and we have a right to protect and be proud of it. There is nothing like chest beating here.

wirinet:

I will say it once again and maybe it will begin to sink in. The Portuguese, British and returned slaves built Lagos. Yorubas never came together and decided to build a city called Lagos. Even the name Lagos is a Portuguese name. Until very recently most places and streets in Lagos Island (which eventually led to the development of the whole of Lagos State) were name after Portuguese English or Edo names. The place that yorubas came together to develop was Ibadan.

lexylaw40:
I don't want to use bad words but what are you really complaining about, ok fine federal contribution but during those times Nigerian economy is mainly based on wealth we got from exporting cocoa and also palm oil, all from the western region of Nigeria, you have to understand that the western region is from kwara to Benin ( Bendel state) down to Itshekiri ( delta state) is the real southwest so most of the nations resources was coming from the western part of the country before we discovered oil. ...that's just what I'm saying bro

enemybulldozer:
You sad wasterners are the ones that are so much involved in social media scamming. And for your info, Lagos was not developed by yoruba leaders that is the fact.

Yorubas did not develop their region themselves that is another fact.
If anybody is in doubt of what am saying, let the person show me any sad waste state that is as developed as lagos, which happened to be nigerian capital territory for many decades before abuja took over.

We all know how Abuja was before babangida decided to make it a capital territory. I hope that the gwari tribe who happens to be the owners of abuja will not come out tomorrow (like the yorubas are doing) and start telling us how they developed abuja by themselves.

Igboland has never been a baren land and can never be. And this is one of the reasons why the nigerian state dont want Igbos to have their biafra.

This lie and propaganda from sad waste that Igbo has no oil in commercial quantity, is one lie that has been over flogged. I dont know why you lots chose to always tell lies through half baked stats. Igboland dont have oil, Igboland is baren yet the nigerian state has refused to let them go. They even fought a war in 1967-1970 to stop the Igbos from seceding.

I don't know why sad waste is a land of liars and mischief makers.

Tufiakwa!

wirinet:

I will say it once again and maybe it will begin to sink in. The Portuguese, British and returned slaves built Lagos. Yorubas never came together and decided to build a city called Lagos. Even the name Lagos is a Portuguese name. Until very recently most places and streets in Lagos Island (which eventually led to the development of the whole of Lagos State) were name after Portuguese English or Edo names. The place that yorubas came together to develop was Ibadan.

I am sure if I ask where your ancestral home is, I am sure it will be either Ijebu or Egbaland of Ogun State. Most people that shout "Lagos Belongs to all Yorubas" are recent immigrants to Lagos.

lawani:


Lagos or Eko will have an odu ifa that founded it at inauguration and those people present when the Odu was received if only ten are the founders of Lagos. All cities want people added to them and all cities including Tokyo the largest metropolis, London, New York started as small settlements but they all have a dominant culture despite how cosmopolitan they may have now become

wirinet:


Thats not what the argument is about. The argument is about claims that certain people developed Lagos, and all these claims are fairly recent. First the igbos who started coming to Lagos at the end of the civil war, claimed they developed Lagos, then during elections we hear Tinubu developed Lagos, now Yorubas are claiming to develop Lagos.
People like me try to educate these groups that Lagos was just a tiny fishing settlement before the coming of the Portuguese. What attracted the Portuguese and British to choose Lagos as a trading port was not because they met a developed Yoruba settlement, but because of its natural harbours and lagoons that allowed them berth their ships very close to shore and navigate far inland through creeks and lagoons.

wirinet:


Thats not what the argument is about. The argument is about claims that certain people developed Lagos, and all these claims are fairly recent. First the igbos who started coming to Lagos at the end of the civil war, claimed they developed Lagos, then during elections we hear Tinubu developed Lagos, now Yorubas are claiming to develop Lagos.
People like me try to educate these groups that Lagos was just a tiny fishing settlement before the coming of the Portuguese. What attracted the Portuguese and British to choose Lagos as a trading port was not because they met a developed Yoruba settlement, but because of its natural harbours and lagoons that allowed them berth their ships very close to shore and navigate far inland through creeks and lagoons.

lawani:


Leaders develop their land and it starts from town planning, prayers and etc. Can you go to Germany and tell them it was not developed by Germans?. It would be an insult. Which Igbo or Hausa as ever held any important position on Yoruba soil to lead initiative for development? Don't you agree that without Nigeria no Yoruba city would be behind Abidjan or Nairobi? That we are behind them in organisation and development is because of Nigeria. Don't you agree?

enemybulldozer:
The germany you used as a case study is an advanced country unlike nigeria talkless of lagos. People from other tribes has ruled lagos before including Igbos. The british started the development of lagos with mineral resources gotten from from the east and northern regions. And after the british gave nigeria independence, the nigerian state and nigerians took over from the british in developing lagos. These are already known facts Oga.

GoodLife4live:
Land of city boy... PRESIDENT tinubu

Jogs1900:

If not for ibadan, many of their people would have been palm wine tappers...
It was in Ibadan many of them saw sktscrapper and tv first.

Till date, no sky scrapper in the whole of south east.

DeepSight:


Wow, what a great man who also built the National Theatre!