MY HOOD
A hood is a neighbourhood, especially one in an urban area. Hmmmmm AGEGE is where I grew up, though my parent are not from agege but I was born and brought up in this great neighborhood.
I will take us briefly into the history of AGEGE according to my research
AGEGE
The Agege Local Government was created in 1954 and was operative until 1967 after the first military takeover when it was merged with the Ikeja District council for a period of thirteen years. Agege was removed from the Ikeja Local Government in 1980 and remained so until 1983 when the Military took over power again and abolished the existing system of Local Government at the time . Again the Governance of Agege remained with Ikeja for another six (6) years. Subsequently, there have been three other local governments carved out from Agege Local Government. They are: Alimosho, Ifako Ijaye and Orile-Agege Local Government Areas.
The inhabitants of Agege Local Government are multi-ethnic although the Awori are the indigenous inhabitants. Some major communities making up the Agege Local Government are Ogba, Asade, Dopemu, Orile, Magbon, Oko-Oba, Atobaje, Gbogunleri, Isale Oja, Oke-Koto, Panada, Tabon-Tabon, Ajegunle, Sango, Keke, Papa uku/Olusanya, Oniwaya, Moricas, Iloro, Mangoro, Darocha, Onipetesi, Alfa Nla and Agbotikuyo. The inhabitants of Agege Local Government are essentially Yorubas with the presence of sparse population of non-Yoruba speaking people.
Agege is known for kolanut plantation,
When the kolanut plantations in the Agege area started to flourish it attracted huge settlements. Agege experienced rapid development and became a powerful center of the kolanut trade. These settlements attracted different people of different backgrounds and interests such as laborers, and most of these were Hausa. Whenever the Yorubas needed labourers for jobs such as cutting of trees, they would engage the services of the Hausa people. Because of this work the immediate area where the Hausas lived was named ‘Ilu Awon Ageigi’ which translates as ‘Town (Ilu) of the tree cutters’. The name Agege was thus formed out of the word Ageigi. That is a briefly history of AGEGE.
OUR HUSTLE
Lagos state is know to us as a centre of excellence but you have to hustle to exhibit that excellency. In the street of agege is where you find even a small child hustling after school on order to help parent. You will find out that people sleep quite late and this same set of people will wake as early as 3am or 4am to work in order to balance their want.
We are truly blessed with a lot of things in agege, my hood is full of talent. That is where the popular agege bread erupt from. The bread was produced in order to reach out to the poor who couldn't afford expensive bread.
Our food vendors are the best, as they prepare special delicacies especially the AGANYI BEANS ( a beans prepared by some French women, which is very delicious)
The most interesting part is no matter how bad the is, we still protect each from harms. I could remember when some gang decides to rob people of their property , boys were on the street to protect themselves.
Pictures below shows boys on the lookout to defend themselves
A lot interesting things about my hood. As we will always say if you can survive in agege then you can survive any where because we don't give up easily.
Thanks for taking your time reading this. God bless you
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