Barely one week after he snubbed Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi (Ooni of Ife) when they met at a function, Oba Rilwan Akiolu (Oba of Lagos) claimed that Lagos is not part of Yoruba land. In a statement gathered reportedly from Akiolu’s palace, the sovereign traced the historical background of Lagos and why it should not be regarded as part of Yoruba land. The purported statement read: “Coming from the palace, with what I was told by my late paternal grandmother who is a descendant of Oba Ovonramwen Nogbaisi and also reading from factual Historical books, let me share this Knowledge with you all on Eko/Lagos. “Modern day Lagos was founded by Prince Ado, the son of the Oba of Benin, Prince Ado was the first Oba of Lagos, the son of the Bini King, Prince Ado, named the town Eko until the Portuguese explorer Ruy de Segueira changed the Maritime town to Lagos, which at that time from 1942 was Portuguese expedition center down the African Coast. “It was a major centre of the sla...