HISTORY OF LAGOS Lagos (Yoruba: Èkó) is a city in the Nigerian state of Lagos. The city, with its adjoining conurbation, is the largest in Nigeria, as well as on the African continent. It is one of the fastest growing cities in the world and also one of the most populous urban agglomerations in the world. Lagos is a major financial centre in Africa; the mega city has the highest GDP, and also houses one of the largest and busiest ports on the continent. Lagos initially emerged as a port city which originated on a collection of islands, which are contained in the present day Local Government Areas (LGAs) of Lagos Island, Eti-Osa, Amuwo-Odofin and Apapa; the islands are separated by creeks, fringing the southwest mouth of Lagos Lagoon, while protected from the Atlantic Ocean by barrier islands and long sand spits such as Bar Beach, which stretch up to 100 km (60 mi) east and west of the mouth. Due to rapid urbanization, the city expanded to the west of the lagoon to include areas in the present day Lagos Mainland, Ajeromi- Ifelodun and Surulere. This led to the classification of Lagos into two main areas - the Island, which was the initial city of Lagos, before it expanded into the area known as the Mainland. This city area was governed directly by the Federal Government through the Lagos City Council, until the creation of Lagos State in 1967, which led to the splitting of Lagos city into the present day seven Local Government Areas (LGAs), and an addition of other towns (which now make up 13 LGAs) from the then Western Region, to form the state. Lagos which was the capital of Nigeria since its amalgamation in 1914, went on to become the capital of Lagos State, after its creation. However, the state capital was later moved to Ikeja in 1976, while the federal capital also moved to Abuja in 1991. Even though Lagos is still widely referred to as a city, the present day Lagos, also known as "Metropolitan Lagos", and officially as "Lagos Metropolitan Area" is an urban agglomeration or conurbation, consisting of 16 LGAs, including Ikeja, the state capital of Lagos State. This conurbation makes up 37% of Lagos State's total land area, but houses about 85% of the state's total population. The population of Metropolitan Lagos is approximately 20 million as at 2015. Lagos was originally inhabited by the Awori subgroup of the Yoruba people in the 15th century, who called it "Oko". Under the leadership of the Oloye Olofin, the Awori moved to an island now called Iddo and then to the larger Lagos Island. In the 16th century, the Awori settlement was conquered by the Benin Empire and the island became a Benin war-camp called "Eko" under Oba Orhogba, the Oba of Benin at the time. Eko is still the native name for Lagos. Lagos, which means "lakes", was a name given to the settlement by the Portuguese. The present-day Lagos state has a high percentage of Awori, who migrated to the area from Isheri along the Ogun river. Throughout history, it was home to a number of warring ethnic groups who had settled in the area. Following its early settlement by the Awori nobility, and its conquest by the Bini warlords of Benin, the state first came to the attention of the Portuguese in the 15th century. Portuguese explorer Rui de Sequeira visited the area in 1472, naming the area around the city Lago de Curamo. Another explanation is that Lagos was named for Lagos, Portugal – a maritime town which, at the time, was the main centre of Portuguese expeditions down the African coast. In Britain's early 19th century fight against the transatlantic slave trade, its West Africa Squadron or Preventative Squadron as it was also known, continued to pursue Portuguese, American, French, and Cuban slave ships and to impose anti-slavery treaties with West African coastal chiefs with so much doggedness that they created a strong presence along the West African coast from Sierra Leone all the way to the Niger Delta (today's Nigeria) and as far south as Congo. In 1849, Britain appointed John Beecroft Consul of the Bights of Benin and Biafra, a position he held (along with his governorship of Fernando Po) until his death in 1854. John Duncan was appointed Vice Consul and was located at Wydah. At the time of Beecroft's appointment, the Kingdom of Lagos (under Oba Kosoko) was in the western part of the Consulate of the Bights of Benin and Biafra and was a key slave trading port. In 1851 and with pressure from liberated slaves who now wielded political and business influence, Britain intervened in Lagos in what is now known as the Bombardment of Lagos or Capture of Lagos resulting in the installation of Oba Akitoye (and the ouster of Oba Kosoko) who signed Treaty Between Great Britain and Lagos, 1 January 1852. The signing of the 1852 treaty ushered in the Consular Period in Lagos' history wherein Britain provided military protection to Lagos. Following threats from Kosoko and the French who were positioned at Wydah, a decision was made by Lord Palmerston (British Prime Minister) who noted in 1861, "the expediency of losing no time in assuming the formal Protectorate of Lagos". William McCoskry, the Acting Consul in Lagos with Commander Bedingfield convened a meeting with Oba Dosunmu on July 30, 1861 aboard HMS Prometheus where Britain's intent was explained and a response to the terms were required by August 1861. Dosunmu resisted the terms of the treaty but under the threat to unleash violence on Lagos by Commander Bedingfield, Dosunmu relented and signed the Lagos Treaty of Cession on August 6, 1861. The remainder of modern-day Nigeria was seized in 1887, and when the Colony and Protectorate of Nigeria was established in 1914, Lagos was declared its capital, continuing as such after the country's independence from Britain in 1960. Along with migrants from all over Nigeria and other West African nations were the returnee ex-slaves known as Creoles, who came from Freetown, Sierra Leone, Brazil and the West Indies to Lagos. The Creoles contributed to Lagos' modernisation and their knowledge of Portuguese architecture can still be seen from the architecture on Lagos Island. Electric street lighting was introduced in the city in 1898. Lagos experienced rapid growth throughout the 1960s and 1970s as a result of Nigeria's economic boom. Before the creation of Lagos State on 27 May 1967, Lagos, which was the country's capital had been administered directly by the Federal Government as a Federal Territory through the Federal Ministry of Lagos Affairs, while the Lagos City Council (LCC) governed the city. Lagos, along with the towns from the then Western region (Ikeja, Agege, Mushin, Ikorodu, Epe and Badagry), were eventually captured to create Lagos State. Lagos city was split into the present day seven Local Government Areas(LGAs), while the other towns now make up 13 LGAs in the state. Lagos played the dual role of being the State and Federal Capital until 1976, when the state capital was moved to Ikeja. Lagos was adversely affected during Nigeria's military rule. Also, on 12 December 1991, the seat of the Federal Government was also formally relocated to Abuja. However, Lagos still remains the financial centre of the country, and also grew to become the most populous conurbation in the country.

Please MODs should take this dirty post down. We are tired of these bigotic posts on NL. It is time we unite as a country and stop this tribal shit

OP, trouble dey sleep you carry your yanga go wake am abi? Anything you see make you carry, I don comot before global developers carry me join.

OP.

Learn more about Paragraphs.It makes your write-up appealing to the eyes.

Who will read this very badly written trash

This is just what's giving this one sleepless night...People are stealing your future, your children's future and the future of your children's children but this is your problem..

Smh.

Some people are really mad but they have no one to tell them..

Now I know y the ss don't want to go with biafra, just imagine these ipobaboons claiming Lagos imagine what they will do to ss if ss follow them? they will just grab those people land

Hofbrauhaus:
This is just what's giving this one sleepless night...People are stealing your future, your children's future and the future of your children's children but this is your problem..

Smh.

Some people are really mad but they have no one to tell them..

None can be mad than a person that crossed many bridges and rivers to dictate to us what language to make compulsory in our schools to teach our younger ones or who to make our Governor.

As it does not always catch my fancy to reply a paedophile or a puerile comment, I wish to let you know that the write-up was only meant to guide you and stop the obsession of you lots as I read daily on this platform.

Why, why? Is it by force to annex another man's land?

hollah123:
Now I know y the ss don't want to go with biafra, just imagine these ipobaboons claiming Lagos imagine what they will do to ss if ss follow them? they will just grab those people land

The whole agitation is about SS oil, nothing more. Dem want corner am to themselves alone but dey no go allow people rest, busy calling everybody parasites. Wetin their land dey produce wey make other people parasites?

NDelta:
Please MODs should take this dirty post down. We are tired of these bigotic posts on NL. It is time we unite as a country and stop this tribal shit

Yeah, you are right but we also need to caution those calling the state a no Man's land.

Op, you don't need to stress yourself on those people. The world knows they are just noise makers. Was it not here some of them were claiming the development of America, Brazil and South Africa? They are bunch of jokers who his own backyard is as dirty and rotten as pig cage but shouting the development of another man's backyard.

hollah123:
Now I know y the ss don't want to go with biafra, just imagine these ipobaboons claiming Lagos imagine what they will do to ss if ss follow them? they will just grab those people land

shut ur mouth.
Lagos remains a no man's land.

Op, don’t mind those people with their misplaced obsession with Lagos. They are just day dreaming. Let’s facr the arduous task of developing our land to the envy and chagrin of the potorians.

Wether Lagos was developed by Igbos or not, it is still Yoruba Land. If you think we lie, go ask Oba of Lagos if Lagos is Yoruba Land or not.

There is a difference between the words 'owner' and 'developer'. People should try use the dictionary sometimes.

NDelta:
Please MODs should take this dirty post down. We are tired of these bigotic posts on NL. It is time we unite as a country and stop this tribal shit

lol..I enjoy this kind of ish most but to be candid,I think it must stop so that the South can take its rightful leader's role in Nigeria. Almost all indices for a great nation lie in the South..both human and otherwise.

Izumarock70:
shut ur mouth.
Lagos remains a no man's land.

You are coming to bit late. Maybe you would have succeeded during the time Ilorin was ceded to the northerners.

Any semblance of that will not be allowed never again under our watch.

Flagilator:


You are coming to bit late. Maybe you would have succeeded during the time Ilorin was ceded to the northerners.

Any semblance of that will no be allowed never again under our watch.

Don't worry yourself. Foreigners can only develop but not own your land. Let the South unite.

Who profits from dividing flateenos and afonjas?

is it giving you sleepless night ?

Just when you think the Southerners are beginning to get their acts together, you'll see one efulefu creating a useless topic to further reassure their masters up north.

igbodefender:
Wether Lagos was developed by Igbos or not, it is still Yoruba Land. If you think we lie, go ask Oba of Lagos if Lagos is Yoruba Land or not.

There is a difference between the words 'owner' and 'developer'. People should try use the dictionary sometimes.

There is one thing I love about you and it is your own brand of hypocrisy. Very twisted, pretentious and extremely subtle. Listen madam, Igbo's did not in anyway or at anytime develop Lagos state. Igbos make up barely 15% of Lagos population. 98% of that are itinerant traders, market women/men, pirated CD sellers, etc. I'm not saying this to spite them just pointing the obvious. The rest 2% are the ones who are lucky to either be in civil service or the likes of Elumelu. Igbos did NOT develop anywhere. You all are only accustomed to your stupid fantasy and chest beating and you're lucky Yorubas are not like you in manner of loud-mouthedness that's why you can get away with the shitty lies you pull out of your anus. Try such with the northerners and watch how the October 1st quit notice begins to look like a joke compared to what you shall get.
BTW, everytime we hear news of igbos in Lagos, it always comes with something like "Nkem who is a tenant at 20, xyz street, Lagos and I begin to wonder where all the mansions and duplexes you claim to own in Lagos are.

python1:

The whole agitation is about SS oil, nothing more. Dem want corner am to themselves alone but dey no go allow people rest, busy calling everybody parasites. Wetin their land dey produce wey make other people parasites?

God bless you for this comment. They are trying to drag SS into their agitation to steal their oil. We all know SE got hardly any resources which is why someone will harvest one single bulb of ordinary onion and start terrorising social media. Such loud mouthed fellows.

hollah123:
Now I know y the ss don't want to go with biafra, just imagine these ipobaboons claiming Lagos imagine what they will do to ss if ss follow them? they will just grab those people land

Land grabbing is their profession na. Always want to form attache by force once they discover a wealth of opportunities/resources somewhere.People wey no reach 20% for Lagos and wey get the highest record of tax evasion, dey get mouth talk. Kikikiki.

Lagos was developed with the collective resources of all Nigerians. There was a time in history when western Nigerian regional government wanted to takeover or assume the governance of Lagos however such goofy idea met dogged resistance from Lagosians especially the returnees.

Dedetwo:
Lagos was developed with the collective resources of all Nigerians. There was a time in history when western Nigerian regional government wanted to takeover or assume the governance of Lagos however such goofy idea met dogged resistance from Lagosians especially the returnees.

Onitsha, Enugu, Owerri were developed with what resources?

Henryyy:

There is one thing I love about you and it is your own brand of hypocrisy. Very twisted, pretentious and extremely subtle. Listen madam, Igbo's did not in anyway or at anytime develop Lagos state. Igbos make up barely 15% of Lagos population. 98% of that are itinerant traders, market women/men, pirated CD sellers, etc. I'm not saying this to spite them just pointing the obvious. The rest 2% are the ones who are lucky to either be in civil service or the likes of Elumelu. Igbos did NOT develop anywhere. You all are only accustomed to your stupid fantasy and chest beating and you're lucky Yorubas are not like you in manner of loud-mouthedness that's why you can get away with the shitty lies you pull out of your anus. Try such with the northerners and watch how the October 1st quit notice begins to look like a joke compared to what you shall get.
BTW, everytime we hear news of igbos in Lagos, it always comes with something like "Nkem who is a tenant at 20, xyz street, Lagos and I begin to wonder where all the mansions and duplexes you claim to own in Lagos are.


God bless you for this comment. They are trying to drag SS into their agitation to steal their oil. We all know SE got hardly any resources which is why someone will harvest one single bulb of ordinary onion and start terrorising social media. Such loud mouthed fellows.
Land grabbing is their profession na. Always want to form attache by force once they discover a wealth of opportunities/resources somewhere.People wey no reach 20% for Lagos and wey get the highest record of tax evasion, dey get mouth talk. Kikikiki.

There are many dingbats in the zoo called Nigeria. There was a time Ndigbo wanted to stay faraway from Yari.ba, Hausawa, Fulde, Kanuri and other mushroom ethnicities in the zoo called Nigeria. It must be told that the punks from the mentioned ethnic nationalities precipitated an internecine war of attrition against Ndigbo and the easterners. If Ndigbo wanted to grab the seasoned gutter called Lagos, why would they want to stay away from it? Have the ninnies suddenly and quickly forgotten the slogan of "One-Nigeria"?

Dedetwo:


There are many dingbats in the zoo called Nigeria. There was a time Ndigbo wanted to stay faraway from Yari.ba, Hausawa, Fulde, Kanuri and other mushroom ethnicities in the zoo called Nigeria. It must be told that the punks from the mentioned ethnic nationalities precipitated an internecine war of attrition against Ndigbo and the easterners. If Ndigbo wanted to grab the seasoned gutter called Lagos, why would they want to stay away from it? Have the ninnies suddenly and quickly forgotten the slogan of "One-Nigeria"?

Seasoned gutter? Yet you all are on our highways hawking gala in Lagos traffic. Yet you all troop in on a daily in search of a better life your pig sty SE denied you. Yet you are on nairaland wailing about the Yoruba language bill which was passed because it spells doom for you all. Yet you keep chanting "no man's land" just to feel among. And you open your mouth to call Lagos seasoned gutter. Very funny. Is there any gutter more filthy and disgusting than Onitsha which happens to be the commercial capital of the SE? Is there a more uninhabitable region than SE? Please spare me the crap and stop crying like galagos in my mentions. You got nothing meaningful to say. The only resources you posess are a loud mouth and empty chest. Now be gone.

Just now i know y our politicans are doin wat dey are doin imagine d afonjas talking trash who is draging lagos wit u open ur eyes before u become a slave to d north like d pple of kwara eat ur lagos by d way only a lazy man kips draging for land a handworking man makes a livin out of a lazy man's land

Izumarock70:
shut ur mouth.
Lagos remains a no man's land.

now I understand why the Hausa are going to the extreme in taming u people, how can u come all the way from that landlocked region of yours to claim Lagos? makawhy, I just wonder what will b the fate of ss people if they decide to follow u. it's obvious u people don't have anything I mean anything cos all u always do is claim other people things. just imagine NK said he was given 5 Eastern state as biafra when he was in prison but refused because he wanted Rivers state n benue, y? y are u not satisfied with your region if truly u have something, y do u always grab others property? now I realize y ahmadu bello said igbos are very dangerous set of people because if they come to your farm as labourers they will want to take over your farm n claim ownership, is that not what is happening now? that's y Hausa's don't like u,despite the fact that we have many igbos in kaduna than in abia state can an igbo man lay claim to kaduna as no man's land? Hausa man go kill u sharp sharp. now I realize that the Hausa know the igbos better than any other tribe in Nigeria

Dedetwo:


There are many dingbats in the zoo called Nigeria. There was a time Ndigbo wanted to stay faraway from Yari.ba, Hausawa, Fulde, Kanuri and other mushroom ethnicities in the zoo called Nigeria. It must be told that the punks from the mentioned ethnic nationalities precipitated an internecine war of attrition against Ndigbo and the easterners. If Ndigbo wanted to grab the seasoned gutter called Lagos, why would they want to stay away from it? Have the ninnies suddenly and quickly forgotten the slogan of "One-Nigeria"?

it is a gutter but the life of u an your fellow ipobaboons can never be complete without visiting the gutter. even when u people come back from Lagos n go back to your erosion laden landlocked hole u go n form big boy there just because u went to Lagos n many of them will start calling u Lagos boy. we saw more than enough during my service year in ebonyi, Lagos is like London to an average igbo man. u fit swear say u no get family for Lagos?

Frustrated skull miners trying to claim Lagos again

its masturbation galore for ewedugerians once again.



igbos steer clear else dey drench u in cum

This TOPIC never tire you...
Are you this childish...??

It's really preposterous, to have someone like you bemoan about such topics.

What a nation
Think of what you can offer because "TIME IS GOING"
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Lagos is not developed. https://www.naijiant.com/articles/lagos-case-study-growth-without-development/