allcomage:

Abeg, are the laws only for Igbo or Nigerians of all ethnicities living in lagos?

Nordy:
Is that what he called robustful legislation am not surprised. When we have glorified agberos at strategic position they find it difficult to identify whether chicken or egg which comes first. Lagos is multifaceted in so many ways and that can't be changed overnight. Oba_saa and his goons will come and go but the people of Lagos will remain.

Christistruth03:


at least 8 Yoruba Clans have Ancient Ancestral Territories in Lagos State
Awori with the most population,Ijebu with the most land,Ilaje,Egba,Egbado,Oyo,Owu,Ketu,Ijesha,Igbomina
Everyone of them arrived before Gbadebo Rhodes Enslaved returnee Ancestors
You cannot drive them


Imagine Gbadebo Rhodes telling an Ijebu man to shut up over Lagos

Who exactly does he think Kindly received and rehabilitated his enslaved returnee Saro Ancestors when they turned up on the Shores of Lagos with no friends or family to turn to?
Awori,Egba,Ijebu

What some people have refused to learn about their Ancestors can kill them completely

Librason:



They are not stopping nada . .. they just want to give more considerations to the disrespected and disregarded indigenes, more or less like a favour, like the catchment area we find in University admission and don't see matter from a one sided view, this thing didn't just arrive from no where , action begets reaction, don't be blind to what is influencing the decision for this bill..

And don't describe someone as dumb , if you are no better, can't you give superior argument without abuse?

JohnnA1:
Thank you greatly for this piece of our history as YORUBAS. If chanced, an ongoing thread for this will be appreciated for we Young guns.

OloYeOfEgbE:
Good.. ..

Can we please bring back all Oil companies back to delta state..

UBA bank too biko oh and Northwest filling station plus providus bank

e Don due

Creeper:


This is a great post. There was a thread about the people who founded different parts of Lagos on here a few days ago and if you understand the etymology of Yoruba names - you can pretty much tell the subgroups of Yoruba a lot of them belong to.

I think Oyo seems to always get neglected when it comes to indigenous Lagosians despite Oyo people being one of the original inhabitants of what’s known as Lagos today. With Badagry for example: Oyo and Aworis have a better claim to it than the Eguns (Ogus) who’re settlers that arrived there after leaving Whydah (I think or is it Quidah?) - due to the King Ghezo. I don’t know if you have seen Viola Davis and John Boyega’s “The Warrior King” (the movie isn’t 100% historically accurate tho) but it did show when the people of Quidah were attacked by King Ghezo. I believe that’s when a lot of them migrated to what’s know today’s as Badagry. Ikoyi is another one: Onikoyi anywhere in Yorubaland is Oyo, so that’s pretty straightforward. Also, with Eyo festival - the Dosunmu family inherited Eyo from Ijebu (Iperu-Remo) via marriage thus making them the custodian of Eyo in Lagos as Adimu orisha but the 2nd most powerful Eyo (I can’t remember its name) is Oyo (from Iseyin). Etc.

Let me go on a tangent a bit with the excerpt about Ijebuland sharing borders with Osun. I didn’t really know that and thanks for the heads up. It makes the claim that Ijebus stationed tens of thousands of Ijebu warriors in Ife to protect Ife during the Yoruba wars much more plausible now. I always thought Ijebus just shared borders Oyo state since Ijebus are part of the integral part of the Yoruba settlers in Ibadan - after the Egbas vacated the city and migrated to their current abode in Abeokuta. I was going to delve more into Ife and the pre-Oduduwa migration of Yoruba groups like Aworis and Eastern Yoruba subgroups from Ife and Ife empire but I’ll leave that for another day.

Segzy19:
Thanks but this not about resource control but citing of corporate head offices. There was a time the government actually told those multinationals to relocate to their host states but they refused.

ofcourse resource control will be a good idea anyway. It's part of the restructuring that we have been clamouring for... So no qualms about that. Lagos will always survive on its own no matter what....

slawomir:
Damnnn niggar

Funny people
In this twenty first century

Na im people dey come up with this kind ancient and primitive ideas


If we should even discuss the real owner of lagos u be mumu, which tribe the bini people meet when they arrive lagos


The Binis own lagos

Please if you don't know your history don't quote me

Meet any of your elderly ones and ask them or rather walk into any of your monarch Palace and seek for knowledge

Librason:


Don't mix orange with apple , it depends on the type of law , the states have power to make laws but it depends on the type of laws , in Kano state for example , you can't just flex yourself in the open taking Trophy or Goldberg even if you take these drinks, and there is a particular punishment you will get for a particular offence which will be different from the one you get in Port - Harcourt for the same offence, so state have different laws, especially if they are not in contradiction with the national law.

So for the fact that states have this different minor laws , will not make South - South or all oil producing states to pass any major law that will put oil control under them, where it's on the exclusive list not even on the concurrent list let alone residual list .

Creeper:


I was alluding to aviation, customs, corporate tax, VAT, etc. Igbps do petty trading and that type of low-level trading doesn't contribute anything to the coffers since Lagos isn't advanced enough to tax them. The IGR breakdown of Lagos was on this forum a few months ago and they contribute zilch to the IGR. Even in advanced countries like the UK and US - that type of business isn't taxed effectively because it's pretty difficult to know how much they make.

You Igbos overrate yourselves with unnecessary noise whilst being vacuous - for a destitue ethnic group of mostly economic refugees. You contribute zilch everywhere but act like the life of the party. And I must commend you because you have done a good job in bamboozling semi-educated Nigerians to believe the vacuous hype. But too bad you can't fool educated people.

Nairaland doesn't really tell much when it comes to understanding how other Nigerians feel about Igbos because there are too many impostors claiming what they're not on here. You have to go to the rabbit hole of Twitter (which I do from time to time) - to understand what other Nigerians feel about Igbos. In Delta, amongst the ANIOMA people, they don't like Igbos and I only recently discovered (via them) that Asaba was founded by Igalas and it's an Igala town. And that's a contrast to what I've been made to believe on Nairaland. Other ethnic groups in Delta also don't like Igbos. Ditto Akwa Ibom, Rivers, Calabar and Ijaw people.

Evidently, the anti-Igbo sentiment is universal across Southern Nigeria and the only group with a section of people that wear pom-poms for Igbos seem to Yorubas. But it's good to see those in this misguided/miseducated group of Yorubas are finally waking up. And hopefully, now that Lagos has taken the lead - other Yoruba states will follow its lead.

Igbos are like that irritant neighbour who refuses to stay in his/her house whilst laying claims to other people's houses. Why can't Igbos go home and stay in Igboland? Yes, I know Igboland is a desolate pigstyl but the energy you lot expend on laying claims to other people's lands - with grossly exaggerated claims of ownership you don't have, phantom wealth and junk pseudo-history - would be very useful in making Igboland habitable. You're hated everywhere and it's time you started looking at home (home is in Igboland).

Tommydare:
Funny guy. Saying Dubai is a city...who doesn't know that? So as Indians has many investments in dubai...na dem get Dubai? Abi na dem be indigenes? Or do you think there won't be preferential treatment?

XAUBulls:



I agree that more concise info is needed and the mass media back in Nigeria will have to be used to educate the larger public about the history of Lagos and more. For instance, it is only Lagos Island that was the capital of Nigeria from 1914 to 1991, but a lot of ignorant folks from another ethnic group FALSELY think it is the whole of Lagos State that was used as the capital of the British. Lagos State only came into existence on May 27, 1967, so, Lagos (Island) and Lagos State are two different geographical and political areas.

All the best.

cktheluckyman:


The way you guys have all this imagination!!! Do you think anyone can just pass anything and it becomes law?

aswani:


Keep up the good work XAUBulls but I believe a Western Region and Lagos border was at the Jibowu end of Ikorodu Road.

Tommydare:
Don't worry. U will understand anytime u wan buy property in lagos.

OloYeOfEgbE:
Good.. ..

Can we please bring back all Oil companies back to delta state..

UBA bank too biko oh and Northwest filling station plus providus bank

e Don due

porthouse7:
who invite them in the first instance

cktheluckyman:


I am actually suprised you cowardly hypocrites know so much about the exclusive and concurrent list.So which list is citizenship or indigeneship?

aswani:
All of the Igbo this Yoruba that in Lagos state is a misunderstanding of sorts.

In ala Igbo, the concept of states in very important and held on to tightly for identity purposes.
That is why for example an Enugu State man whose ancestry up to his great grandfather have lived in Owerri for donkey years will cause consternation when he puts himself forward for political office. I am sure we have all seen the video that did the rounds around election time pertaining to this.

Slightly different in the Western Region aka Yorubaland where Yoruba people whose ancestry can be traced to other states can and do put themselves forward for elective offices and the "indigines" don't complain as they see each other as one unlike in ala igbo.

So anyone trying to make out the status of non Yorùbá's and Yorùbá's from other states in Lagos are the same is wasting their time really.

Ttipsy:
you just jumped in middle of the conversation. .

Well I think it's foolish bringing California and Florida in this argument..
There's clearly a difference between dumb and literates

ImperialYoruba:
Start renaming streets. All street named after Ibo, change it. There is no constitution protecting naming of streets.

After that, next reversal is redistricting and rezoning of Ibo clusters. Use Municipal edicts to remap into commercial and residential districts, then create buffers for ecological rehabilitation areas. Use overlay of tax laws to enforce the changes. Constitution grants freedom of movement, not settlement or take over of indigeneous properties. Occupying and controlling an entire space is a occupation, quite contrary to the liberty ceeded by constitution to Nigerians.

Start with these two before next election. After these are implemented let me know. I'll give hint for next reversals to tackle. There are twenty reversals can be implemented right away, none of which has any legal variable.

By time we get to reversal number 6 nobody go tell Ibo that Lagos is a hostile and unaccomodating city to live in.

Tommydare:
[Yeah, politicians created the stunt but many igbos joined them in saying lagos is a no man's land. Yoruba people will say eni ti a ko Nika to hu iwa ika, oun naa fe tinu e se ni ."person wey dem teach bad things
and he do am wanted to do it in the first place." So those people shouting no man's land wanted to do it before but are waiting for someone to trigger them. Nobody hate igbos as long as everybody act and behave accordingly. I can't go to onitsha or Aba and be shouting no man's land. It's total disrespect
to the people there. author=Touchypro post=123649795]

I would also want to know how Igbos are destroying Lagos cos I've lived in Lagos before and I don't see what Igbos are doing to warrant anyone's hatred. APC as a party in Lagos just doesn't want any opposition and they see that majority of Igbos are not voting for them so they started creating some fake propaganda about Igbos taking over Lagos just to gather sentiment seeing that more Yoruba people especially the youths are also getting fed up with them. It is the only way they would stay in power.

Because in Lagos there are Yoruba traditional practices that everyone adheres to including the Oro festivals. I've never seen an Igbo man that decided to be in his shop when Oro is going on. We obey. There are still Yoruba traditional rulers in Lagos and I've never seen an Igbo man dragging the position of an Oba in Lagos. In 2015 election the Igbos humbly answered obas call for meeting only for the Oba to tell them to their faces that they'll be thrown into the lagoon if they didn't vote Ambode. I watched how they still clapped for the Oba despite all the insults he heaped on them, no one opposed him and Oba was never questioned by anyone. That's being humble and respectful even in face of humiliation.

Yoruba people are still the only ones doing Omonile in Lagos and Igbos are not opposing, they all settle when they buy land.

It is still a Yoruba woman that is an Iya oloja in Lagos, every Igbo market woman follow her directive and pay tribute when needed.

I stayed at Idumota and there are people who come to collect money from us, they are Yoruba people and Igbos have never opposed it. We all pay.

Igbos that are appointed in Lagos government does not occupy a top position where they can make or influence decisions. I just don't know how Igbos turned out to be problem of Yoruba people in Lagos because of election. If every other tribe leave Lagos it won't be Lagos again, ask yourself aside Lagos which other State in South West can be like Lagos. Why do you think it is like that? Visitors. In my community sef preferential treatment are given to the visitors cos we believe it is visitors that makes a place develop. Check every metropolitan City they all have one thing in common which is high number of non indigenes.

randymirrors:
I don't even know why this was announced. Just make the laws, implement it and give them shockers. There's power in SILENCE.

Librason:


He made his point in California and Florida at least for a reason, and dumb is the best term to describe him, where you can make things better, no, it's bad, there is maturity in giving superior argument without an abuse(especially if he has not abused you.)