Northerners have been in Lagos for centuries. Hausas, Fulanis, and other Northern ethnic nationalities have helped develop Lagos for hundreds of years. The biggest public or private sector investor in Lagos, Nigeria, is not the Federal Government, the Lagos State Government, or any International Oil Company.

Aliko Dangote, of mixed Hausa and Fulani origin, is the largest investor in Lagos State bar none, with an investment in excess of $23 billion, or 9% of the entire GDP of Lagos.

Yet, never in the history of Nigeria's creation have Northerners, collectively or individually, claimed that they built Lagos or developed it into what it is today.

They have also, whether collectively or singularly, insulted Lagos State and their hosts, the Lukumi Yoruba people, of being smelly.

Yet, in this record of the ethnic breakdown of the population of Lagos as of 1891 from the colonial office in London, we see that they have been in Lagos before almost every other set of Nigerians except Lukumi Yorubas.

For those interested in this document, it is still available via the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, London. It is sourced from John Payne's book, Table of Principal Events in Yoruba History, published by A. M. Thomas in 1893.

If we all learn good neighbourliness qualities from our Northern brothers and sisters, Lagos and Nigeria will be even more peaceful, prosperous, and progressive.

Reno Omokri

Source: https://x.com/renoomokri/status/1903005609395372091
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