Intriguing Facts About Lagos You Need To Know (Photos)

EKO HOT BLOG Here are intriguing facts about Lagos that you need to know at a glance.

• The official name of Lagos before Colonization was Eko
• Third Mainland Bridge was officially named after IBB

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Intriguing Facts About Lagos You Need To Know

• Before colonization, Lagos was known as Eko. It was a major slave-trading centre, which the then Oba of Benin Ado and all of his successors supported for over four centuries, until 1841 when Oba Akitoye ascended to the throne of Lagos and attempted to outlaw slave trading. Local merchants were outraged by the planned relocation and toppled the king, exiling him and installing Akitoye’s brother Kosoko as Oba

Oba Akitoye of Lagos in 1850

• .When Nigeria gained independence from the United Kingdom in 1960, Lagos remained the capital.
  As a result, Lagos served as Nigeria’s capital from 1914 to 1991, when it was replaced by Abuja as the Federal Capital Territory.

Yaba Lagos in 1960

• Lagos’s geographic limit was Lagos Mainland until the arrival of Benin. Lagos Island was originally a pepper farm and fishing post.

Lagos Island was originally a pepper farm and fishing post.

• Lagos was the seat of the Oba of Lagos. There was no one living there. During its early history, its first king, Oba Ado, gave it the name Eko.
• Lagos was also ruled by the Kingdom of Benin for a while

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Intriguing Facts About Lagos You Need To Know

• Lagos is responsible for 80% of the country’s imports. The majority of Nigeria’s imports are handled at Lagos.
  Lagos port, which is located on Nigeria’s southwest coast, processes 80 per cent of the country’s cargo. This port is also regarded as one of Africa’s top ten.

• Until 1996, the Third Mainland Bridge, which connects Lagos Island to the mainland, was Africa’s longest bridge, extending 11.8 kilometres.
  Ibrahim Babangida Bridge is the official name of the bridge, which was built by Julius Berger Nigeria Plc.

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