In Nigeria, this phrase was first used in 1947 to describe Lagos by the First Speaker of the House of Representatives and later Minister for Foreign Affairs, Jaja Anucha Nwachukwu. He used this term not because he believed that nobody owns Lagos but because he believed since Lagos was then the Federal Capital Territory, it belongs to all Nigerians. The question is “Which Lagos was Nwachukwu talking about”? Which Lagos was the Federal Capital of Nigeria? Most youths of today are generally disinterested in the history of Nigeria, hence, the profound ignorance about the country and its constituents.

For avoidance of doubt, Lagos State was never the capital of Nigeria. The capital city of the country until the year 1976 when the Justice Akinola Aguda recommended the movement to Abuja was the space between Fadeyi and Victoria Island in Lagos. Any other space from Fadeyi to Asaba to Ondo State to Oyo to Ogbomosho were listed under the Western Region whose Premier was Chief Jeremiah Obafemi Awolowo. For example, Mushin is not Lagos, Palm-grove is not Lagos, Ikeja is not Lagos, Oshodi is not Lagos and so on. This was the situation until the Mid-Western Region was created from the Benin and Delta provinces in 1963. It is the Mid-West that has become Edo and Delta States today.

The Federal Capital Territory which Jaja Nwachukwu referred to as “No Man’s Land” has clear and unambiguous ownership. It is important to mention that Lagos Island belong to the Aromire family and this is undisputable and not Benin. Apapa belongs to the Oluwa family, Lagos Mainland belongs to the Oloto family, Tomaro to Onisiwo, Victoria Island belongs to the Oniru family, Ikate is the land of the Elegushi family, the whole of Ijora including Ajegunle belongs to the Ojora family and so on. These are lands that are well documented and anyone who cares to know the fact should search the archives in Nigeria and London in search of the truth.

The uninformed and flippant individuals who label Lagos as a “no man’s land” should know that the ownership of Lagos was settled on 11 July 1921 when the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in London which is the final Court of Appeal of the British Empire ruled that Lagos lands belong to the Idejo chiefs who are the children of Olofin. Chief Amodu Tijani Oluwa, the Oluwa of Lagos who was the plaintiff in the case took the British Government to Court for stealing his land in the process he won a huge compensation of twenty-two thousand, five-hundred-pound sterling and thirty-nine pence.


Moreover, it is important to mention that it is only one of the five divisions of Lagos State that served as the capital of Nigeria. There is still Ikorodu (Oko Odu) (farm of blackberry) which is an area that includes the entire stretch of the riverine area of Ketu, Owode-Onirin, Itowolo, up to Imota; Badagry (Agbadayigi or simply Agbada) which if from Mile Two to Badagry Town; Ikeja which covers the whole of Bariga, Somolu, Kosofe, Isolo, Mushin, Oshodi, Egbe, Ikotun, Onigbongbo, Ojokoro Ipaja, Ayobo, Ojodu, Orile Agege, Idimu and their neighbourhood; Epe (the forest of black ants) which is from Ibeju to the whole of Epe and its suburbs (Epe shares boundary with Ijebu-Ode). These divisions called ibile were created by Edict number 3 of May 1968.

Lagos as a place has existed long before the country called Nigeria and it is one of the oldest cities in Nigeria. For clear explanation, the Portuguese explorer who gave the name Lagos (Lago de Curamo meaning the Lake of Kuramo) came to the land for the first time in 1472 where he met Olofin and his children (that was 551 years ago) which makes Lagos older than virtually all modern cities in Nigeria.

Let us take a look at the year of existence of some cities. Onitsha (Onicha -mmili ) meaning is a city founded by Benin adventures in the year 1550 (473 year old. Founded almost a century after Lagos had been in existence), Enugu (Enu-Ugwu or Hill Top) was established by the Enugwu-Ngwo and Nike people around 1690). Umuhaia (the Market Place) was established by the British in the early 20th century.

Awka (Place of the blacksmiths) is one of the oldest cities in Igboland and the center of Nri civilization. Sokoto (Seat of the caliphates) was established by Uthman Dan Fodio who used the title Sarkin Musulumi) in 1804. When he died in 1817 his son Mohammed Bello was the first Sultan of Sokoto who ruled the Eastern part of Sokoto while his brother Abdullahi ruled the Western part of it. Kano (Masculinity or Capability) was probably the oldest city in Nigeria as it was established around 999 by the Hausa Bakwai people.

Kaduna (the crocodile city) was founded by Lord Fredrick Lugard in 1900 which is almost 428 years after Lagos has been existing. Abeokuta (city beneath the rock) was founded in 1830 by Sodeke who was the leader of the Egba refugees who escaped from Oyo during the period. Ibadan (near the field) was a war camp created by a group of Oyo warriors in 1829.

We have taken samples of these cities to show that Lagos is older than most cities in Nigeria and therefore it would be childish, naïve and outrightly innocent for anyone to suddenly brand a city that has existed for centuries and adorned with a rich history, an enviable culture and norms with robust traditional administration and a center of Yoruba civilization as a “no man’s land” when the entire civilization of those who are making claim for Lagos was not at all in existence when Lagos was established.

Prof Ojikutu is of the Faculty of Management Sciences, University of Lagos.

https://guardian.ng/opinion/which-lagos-is-a-no-mans-land/

hmmm

2023 same story.

Peterobiisathie:
will Yoruba Muslim remove Yoruba Muslim!?

No we will take nyamrin women as sex slaves.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pm3lY3_ga9g

Ndi Igbo Its Time For Mass Conversion To Islam!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kp9NTN4OIlQ

That will be a dream come true.Igbos in Delta and Rivers should have a say to determine if they will stay with their brothers or Nigeria.

Women protest rape and and ritual murder of 72-year-old woman in Anambra community

Women took to the streets of Umunze community in Orumba South local government area of Anambra State on Tuesday, March 14, 2023, to protest the murder of a 72-year-old woman, Mrs. Charity Okoli, by her domestic worker and his accomplices.

LIB reported that late Mrs. Okoli had her breasts, finger, tongue and private part harvested while alive after the suspected ritualists had raped her at her home two weeks ago.

The victim was rushed to the Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University Teaching Hospital Amaku Awka for treatment, where she later d!ed.

The prime suspect, Onyebuchi Ezeh, who has since been arrested, confessed that they were sent by a native doctor to get the needed organs of the victim in order to become billionaires.

The suspect further confessed that they are a gang of five that resides in the neighbouring Ezira community before the incident but are now at large.

Ezeh is currently cooling off his heels at the State Criminal Investigative Department (SCID) of the Anambra State Police Command in Awka while two others are on the run.

The protesting women with green leaves and placards also demanded a mass exit of all Abakiliki Indigenes out of Umunze town for the atrocious and condemnable killing of Mrs. Okoli.

The women took their complaints to the Umunze Area police command headquarters, the palace of His Royal Highness, Igwe Promise N. Eze and the Transition Committee Chairman of the local government Hon Neville Uchendu as well as other relevant bodies.

Traditional Ruler of the Umunze community Igwe Promise Eze, on his part, lamented that his subjects have suffered so much in the hands of the Abakaliki people who came to the town to do farm work and other jobs.

He noted that the victim d#ed due to loss of blood which made her to be unconscious after she was rushed to the hospital in Amawbia where she later died, a development that angered everybody.

true talk.

regional govt to be a reality.

We are voting PDP top to bottom.Anambra must be free from Corrupt and diabolic Ibo leaders.

2016v2017:

But,they see Igbos as a threat .
They are too afraid to confront their oppressors , but not happy that the Igbos have the guts they don't have

Why did Igbos stop Adaka Boro from declaring Niger delta Republic? Left to me i will prefer Nigeria to divide into 15-20 countries.

Donjazet2:
I look forward to the day we stop seeing tribe in everything we do in this country.

I dream of the day a man of hausa heritage becomes the governor of ebonyi or imo State, the day a man of yoruba heritage becomes the governor of yobe state, the day an igbo man becomes the governor of Lagos state.
Infact I dream of the day, a man of Senegalese descent, (ie born in Nigeria to Senegalese parents) becomes the president of this country.

Tribal identity has to become a thing of the past, just like racism has largely become a thing of the past...

What should matter when it comes to leadership is merit.

I'm sure we are all elated when we hear a Nigerian has been elected or appointed to a very high position in the western world.

We're we not happy when Obama the son of a native Kenyan became the president of the most powerful country in the world??

We need to she's our tribal ideation and identities and see ourselves as one unified black race.

Enough of these diabolical tribal rhetorics being bandied about.
My current babe is of a different ethnic group and Lord knows I love this girl to pieces. Our differences are a learning curve. That's what life should be!

Not this tribe tribe tribe bandied about.

Igbo man will never be Governor of Lagos state.You guys can do power sharing in South South and surrender your useless Eastern region to Fulani herdsmen,unknown gunmen,cannibals he no concern us.

Omo Igbo pretending to be Yoruba

Neckpresser101:


We didn't build any kingdom because we are not conquerors we are traders


Our days of the week is named after our 4 market days


So why are you scared of igbos conquering Lagos?



All the properties we have we bought them at even higher price

Why the hate?

All the C of O's of those properties and Land will be revoked like Umahi did in Ebonyi.You guys will have to repay fees for occupancy rights in Lagos.

mynd44 close this thread

Nawttiboi007:

Is the politician the one saying Lagos is a no mans land .No be nyanmrins dey talk am since 1950's.The new generation of Yorubas are alive to their duties to cure nyanmrin madness if they do anyhow,they will see anyhow.

hmm

By Anayo Okoli
ENUGU- ASSOCIATION of South-East town union, ASETU, the umbrella body of all the town unions in the South-East geopolitical zone has petitioned the United Nations over the influx of young men from the
Northern part of the country who are being smuggled to the zone in droves by yet to be identified persons, warning that the action constitutes danger and security risk to the people on the zone.

ASETU lamented that these illegal movements were taking place at very odd period when both the Federal and all the State Governments have taken measures to restrict movements across the country as a way of
flattening the spread of the rampaging coronavirus global health crisis.

In a petition jointly signed by the National President of ASETU, Chief Emeka Diwe, the National Secretary, Chief Gideon Adikwuru and the presidents of the five South-East states, the association alleged that the aim of the invasion is for purpose of “ethnic cleansing and land grabbing agenda” and urged the United Nation to intervene.

Entitled “Ethnic cleansing and land grabbing agenda in Eastern Nigeria”, the petition said: “It has come to our attention that able-bodied young men from Northern Nigeria are being smuggled into the South East and Eastern part of the country in droves.

This is in spite of the nationwide lockdown, the ban on interstate travel and the 1000 kilometers distance between many parts of North and South on roads which are manned by the Nigerian security agencies.

“The volume of people arriving, the age of the people arriving and frequency and timing of their arrival in spite of the ban interstate travel due to the COVID-19 situation, indicates that this is a coordinated effort masterminded by an unknown group.

“In the last five years, a number of bizarre events have occurred, including the bizarre over the polarization of the country’s security council membership towards people from the North, the numerous reports of helicopters dropping off packages in the middle of forests in Igbo land in the middle of the night and other bizarre occurrences.

“Now we have the strange arrival of able-bodied young men in such a coordinated fashion. These bizarre occurrences can only make sense if there is an equally bizarre plan at foot.

“This letter id to alert that, should there be any seemingly random attack in the South East and Eastern part of Nigeria, it is not at all random but part of a carefully choreographed attack that appears to have been carefully planned over the years and, in an insidious military fashion, is being executed to take advantage of the confusion and weakness caused by the COVID-19 situation.

“It is not clear who the chief proponents of this agenda are but it is clear that these are important people of means in and outside the Government. Building on the menace of herdsmen that have terrorized many in the eastern part of the country, this additional effort joins in furthering the agenda of dispossessing people of their lands and forcing a different religion and lifestyle on them.

[b]“We in the South East and Igbo land will not allow this to happen. We urge you to advise the Federal Government of Nigeria not be a supporter of this initiative and not to acquiesce to it by omission or commission. The Government of Nigeria must identify all those that are part of this sinister plot and put an end to it immediately.

“If these plans are not evil in nature, why would this secret group of Northerners that are masterminding this be obsessed with land in the South-East; for example out of when out of the 19 states of the north, 13 of them are larger than the combined landmass of the 5 South-East states.

Only an agenda of domination, ethnic cleansing and land grabbing can explain this interest.

“We hereby ask the United Nations, the United States of America Government and the International Community to do all in their power to halt this barbaric endeavour which has gone on under the watch of Federal Government of Nigeria for years now.

“On behalf of all Igbo people in and outside the South East of Nigeria, we thank you for coming to our assistance”, ASETU said.[/b]

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2020/05/alleged-ethnic-cleansing-influx-of-northern-youths-to-south-east-asetu-petitions-un/

AdaojoTheUrchin:
Has Sanwo-olu visited the young lady his thugs led by MC OluEran almost killed at the polling unit?.

The one Simon oponu sent thugs to beat.

kk2027:


No celebration anywhere

Since obidients started taunting agbado group that there was no celebration, watch them start faking celebrations one state after the other

watch the video till the end.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dETZ8Dqu8k

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awICrGCIYAw

Black people hunted in Tunisia


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tb2Zl2W-KE

Black people are hunted in Tunisia. There have been xenophobic attacks on Sub-Saharan Africans in Tunisia, following Tunisia's President Kais Said's claim that there is a plot to change his country's racial demography through the influx of undocumented Sub-Saharan African migrants. "The goal of the waves of illegal immigration is for Tunisia to be considered purely African with no affiliation to Arabs".


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1X66KH-XrA

Fahdiga:
They are just wasting their time because Obi will soon reclaim his stolen mandate.

Mandate in Biafraland .

Totilopussylick:


Inauguration that will not take place till the stolen certificate is returned back to Obi the rightful owner and the real winner of the presidential election in the just concluded election in Nigeria

Simon Ekpa will give Obi his certificate of return for Biafran President.