Ashipa
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| name = Aṣípa
| title = 1st Oba of Lagos
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| succession = Oba of Lagos
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| reign = {{c.|1682|1716}}{{cite book |url={{Google books |plainurl=yes |id=MCHSd62Tse8C |page=29 }} |title=Slavery and the Birth of an African City |page=29 }}
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| birth_name = Ashipa (Yoruba: Aṣípa)
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| birth_place = Isheri Olofin, Aworiland
| death_date = 1716
| death_place = Lagos
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| issue = Ado
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| house = House of Olofin
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| father = Unknown
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| religion = Ifá
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Ashipa, the founder of the Lagos royal dynasty but uncrowned as Oba of Lagos,{{cite book|author=Aimiuwu, O.E.I.|title=Ashipa: the first Oba of Lagos|publisher=Nigeria Magazine, Issues 100-104, Government of Nigeria 1969|pages=624–627|url= http://www.africabib.org/rec.php?RID=183298764|accessdate=3 August 2017}} whom all Obas of Lagos trace their lineage to,{{cite book|last1=Mann|first1=Kristin|title=Slavery and the Birth of an African City: Lagos, 1760-1900|url=https://archive.org/details/slaverybirthafri00mann|url-access=limited|publisher=Indiana University Press, 2007|isbn=9780253348845|page=[https://archive.org/details/slaverybirthafri00mann/page/n59 45]|year=2007}} was an Awori Chieftain from Isheri. Ashipa was rewarded with title of Oloriogun (war chief) after returning the body of one Asheru, a Benin war captain to Benin{{cite book |last1=Smith |first1=Robert |title=Kingdoms of the Yoruba |date=20 December 2023 |publisher=Taylor & Francis |isbn=978-1-003-80417-8 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RFneEAAAQBAJ&q=ashipa+asheruhttps%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.ca%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DRFneEAAAQBAJ&pg=PT80 |access-date=27 October 2023 |language=en}}{{cite book|last1=Herskovits Kopytoff|first1=Jean|title=A Preface to Modern Nigeria: The "Sierra Leoneans" in Yoruba, 1830 - 1890|publisher=University of Wisconsin Press|pages=64–65}} and received the Oba of Benin's sanction to govern Lagos.{{cite book|last1=Folami|first1=Takiu|title=A History of Lagos, Nigeria: The Shaping of an African City|publisher=Exposition Press|isbn=9780682497725|pages=22|year=1982}} Some Benin accounts of history have the Ashipa as son or grandson of the Oba of Benin.{{cite book|last1=Smith|first1=Robert|title=The Lagos Consulate, 1851-1861|publisher=University of California Press, 1979|isbn=9780520037465|page=4|date=January 1979}}
According to the Lagos traditional account however, Ashípa (Yoruba: Aṣípa) was a local native, an Awori Yoruba chieftain of Isheri.
Ashipa received a sword and royal drum as symbols of authority from the Oba of Benin on his mission to Lagos. Additionally, the Oba of Benin deployed a group of Benin officers charged with preserving Benin's interests in Lagos. These officers, led by Eletu Odibo, were the initial members of the Akarigbere class of Lagos White Cap Chiefs.