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Like the Oba of Benin, Omo n’Oba n’Edo Uku Akpolokpolo, Ewuare II predicted before uttering the comment that it would snowball into a controversy, it has actually since he made the comment that the Binis founded Lagos.

What the visit of the Oba of Benin to Lagos has thrown up is that we are still a nation that major in minor.

By Kazeem Akintunde The Oba of Benin, Oba Ewuare II, was in Lagos last week, and took time out to pay a courtesy call on the Governor of the state, Babajide Sanwo-Olu. During the visit, he told his host that his forefathers were the founders of Lagos. Even before he made his mind known, the

Speaking on the controversy trailing the history of Lagos’ original settlers, she said one of the reasons her foundation instituted the new centre was to address such controversy relating to history, culture, art, lifestyle and other issues about Africans.

The Olofin of Isheri and Adimula of Awori Kingdom, Oba Sulaimon Bamgbade, on Thursday said the Aworis were the first settlers in Lagos.

Oba Sulaimon Bamgbade, the Olofin of Isheri and Adimula of Awori Kingdom, asserted on Thursday that the Aworis were the initial settlers in Lagos. In response to Oba Ewuare IIs recent statement at

The last eight years or so in Nigeria had to convince even the doubting Thomases that we have not been living in normal political times. With a paralyzed leadership, most Nigerians have had their intelligence vacated or ruptured. The thinking of some Nigerians has been damaged severely and severally. All these contributed to the distortion of the history of Lagos.      

Historians and other agents saddled with the responsibilities of keeping records of past events have become victims of misrepresentation through the antics of vested interest in our midst.

Historian and other agents saddled with the responsibilities of keeping records of past events have become victims of misrepresentation through the antics of vested - interest in our midst. Unfortunately, the truth of the focus group of these researchers is sometimes not necessarily the fact of history and that is the main reason for those in possession of the reality of the situation of events to speak-up for the sake of posterity.

  The above named body is a cross section of some elites within the Oloto family and cuts across the three Ruling Houses of the Oloto Royal family.