❝As I retired, I regret not playing international football.❞
Nedum Onuoha explains why he rejected Nigeria’s invitation and why he now regrets never representing a country at senior level.
LAGOS STATE - A COLLECTION OF ANCIENT ANCESTRAL LANDS.
There are evil manipulators and some idiots who think they can talk or write us out of our own history and inheritance.
Dey play!!!
Our Elders say when the child is unlucky to have missed being fed with history he can't also miss being schooled in stories from those who know history. His duty is to piece together what he is told.
I am very conversant with the physical and cultural composition of the place now known as Lagos State, I know it so thoroughly from Seme border in Badagry to the edge of the delineations at Naforija area of Epe, from the edges of Abule-Egba to the Ocean lines of Okogbàdo in Ojo LGA and diagonally from Ilase and Ibese braces to Ikorodu.
I am not kidding, I know Ìdólúwo Ilé, an Island and riverine area, the ancestral lands of the Idejo Chief, Obanikoro of Lagos situated in Ojo LGA from where he moved to the site on Lagos Island and got Lordship of the more popular Obanikoro lands off Ikorodu road.
Let me tell you the little I know about Lagos State, the larger place now commonly and carelessly called Lagos.
1. Do you know that as at 1979 when Governor Lateef Jakande was sworn in as Governor of Lagos State there were ONLY FIVE (5) LGAs in the state viz.
Lagos Island, Lagos Mainland, Ikorodu, Epe and Badagry ?
At that time, Badagry LGA started from present Ajeromi-Ifelodun LGA covering the present Amuwo-Odofin and Ojo LGAs
At that time Lagos State was divided into the three (3) divisions of the Senatorial zone namely Badagry, Epe and Lagos divisions.
The Badagry division cover from that Badagry up to present Alimosho LGA, Epe Division covered Ikorodu and Epe and the rest was Lagos division.
2. Let us break down Lagos State from the old templates. Believe me I am writing straight from my heart.
BADAGRY DIVISION
Badagry Town: It starts from the popular border town of Seme. There are many other towns there e.g Tọpó, Àjárá, Apá etc. They are ÈGÙN people who are under the general rulership of Aholu Menutoyi, the Oba of Badagry. They have been there for centuries
Àgé Muwó Town: This particular town and others like Àràdàgún and Àjìdò are just next to Badagry. They are ÀWÓRÌS. I was with the Kábíyèsí of Àgé-Muwó just last year and he will tell you that his ancestors migrated from Ilé-ifé centuries ago.
Ìlogbò Erémi near Àgbárá is the next major town and kingdom. They are ÀWÓRÌS. I have been there several times.
After Ìlogbò Erémi is Adó- Odò. It is a very major Awori town. The Oba in that town bears the Olofin title synonymous with Ilé-ifé. He is very close to the Oba in Àgé-Muwó because their ancestors were related and did the migration together from Ilé-ifé. That was many centuries ago. Unfortunately and very unfairly the lands of Ado-odo like many other very important AWORI towns of Ọ̀tà, Ìgbẹ̀sà, Kétu, Àgbárá etc are listed under the geopolitical area of Ogun State but which in reality, to the stupid people living with us in Yoruba land, are classified under "Lagos".
Along that line, coming from Àgé-Muwó to Orile-iganmu, there are major AWORI kingdoms such as Ọlọ́tọ̀, Oníjànikin, Oníbà Ẹkùn, Ọlọjọ, Osólú, Ọnígbànkọ̀n, Alámūwò, Oníbèsè, Onílásẹ̀, Onímọ̀rẹ́ etc.
You have Ajegunle of Olùwá and Ijora of the Ojoras two of Lagos original Idejos chiefs.
There are ancient towns in the riverine of Ọ̀jọ́ and Amuwo-Odofin like Ẹgàn, Ìsàgíra, Ẹsọ̀fìn, Orígele, Irewe, Ìyagbè, Ìdólúwo, Igbógò, Ọjota, Ibese, Ilase, ìréde etc
On the Uplands there are Mushin, Itire, Isolo, Ikate, Ojuelegba, Èjìgbò, ìdímù, Egbè, Ikotun, Ijegun, Ẹgbẹ́dá, Akẹ̀sán, Orile-Agege, Ipaja, Abẹ̀sán, which goes to connect back with Ọ̀tà
There is Onigbongbo in Maryland. You will be shocked to see that there are ancient villages preserved there because of the kinds of stories of today.....
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Hold up so netflix took off a documentary because of WHAT?!
The controversy around the Netflix documentary called Root Cause... did you hear about this ??? 🤔
When I hear patients tell me they have “no energy”, no matter how much they sleep, I instantly know they have metabolic dysfunction.
This is very common when patients first come in.
But it doesn’t have to be.
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