Ebute Metta is divided into two main areas: Ebute Metta East and Ebute Metta West. Saviour's School, Junior Strides Academy, Ajayi Memorial Hospital, Ijero Baptist Church Nursery and Primary School, Ebute Metta Health Centre, Federal Medical Centre Ebute Metta, and shops of all types. Paul's Catholic Church, the Oyingbo Market, a major bus terminal, Foucos Secondary School (a school built by the former minister for education), St. The Ago Egba people in Ebute Metta constructed the Lisabi Hall which was commissioned in 1938, by which time their third generation descendants had become the engineers, technicians and stationmasters of the Nigerian Railway Corporation with stations and offices nearby.Įbute Metta has a number of notable buildings including the Nigerian Railway Corporation headquarters, the post office, St. After the amalgamation of 1914 and the construction of railways, Ebute Metta became a great destination for many people coming from the hinterland to Lagos, many of whom couldn’t get accommodation on the Island (reserved for only the Europeans and upper class Nigerians). The Egba people went on to form the first set of civil servants in Nigeria. Thus we hadĭenton Street (since renamed Murtala Muhammad Way), Griffith Street, Freeman Street, King George V Street (since renamed Herbert Macaulay Street), Cemetery Street, Bola Street, Osholake Street, Tapa Street and Okobaba Street. The streets were also named after some of the Egba chiefs like Oloye Osholake. Jude’s Church, schools to educate their children, and trading concerns, and they divided the land into streets which were originally named after their European missionaries and colonial officers. These Egba Christians - some of whom were Saros and Amaros - then formed a community which they called Ago Egba, the Yoruba for "Egba Camp". Governor Glover approached the Oloto, who agreed to give the Egbas a large tract of land from Oyingbo (Coates Street) to somewhere just before the lands of Yaba begin (Glover Street, where LSDPC Estate was later built about 130 years later). Instead he suggested that the Colonial Governor, John Hawley Glover, contact his brother Oba, the Oloto, whose territory was located just across the lagoon. In response, the king said Lagos Island was already filled up and he couldn’t afford to give the little available land to the Egba people. On getting to the colony, the European missionaries went to the king of Lagos to ask for him to allocate land for the Egba Christians from Abeokuta. On the eve of the departure of some European missionaries from Abeokuta, the native Christian converts - fearing that the dominant traditionalists would descend on them in the absence of their European proctectors - begged the Europeans to take them along to Lagos. In 1867, there was a great tension between the Christian community and adherents of the traditional religion in Abeokuta which was on the verge of snowballing into a sectarian crisis. In the olden days the king, Oba Oloto of Otto, controlled these harbours and had his agents collecting taxes from ships bringing goods to Lagos by way of them. This was in reference to Iddo, Otto and Oyingbo.
Its capital is at Otto just before Iddo on the way to Lagos Island.Įbute Metta means "The three Harbours" in the Yoruba language. Pre-colonial history Įbute Metta is part of the Awori Kingdom of Otto. It is a very old part of Lagos State, many of its houses were built during the colonial era using Brazilian architecture. Ebute Metta sign-post History Įbute Metta is known for the production and sale of local food and cloths.
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