dabrake: idiot. If you follow your bible well, you will realize that from the creation of the world till date is less than 7000 years and we are talkin' bout a boat of over 8000 years. Oops, I forgot you are just a church goer.

A day is like a thousand years to God. So 7000 years could be a billion. Let's not forget that conventions were first arbitrary until we accept them to be standards.

I do hope you grasp what I'm trying to say.

[color=#006600][/color] Actually, Nigeria is blessed by God but we lost our value through mismanagement, misappropriation & corruption. May God have mercy on us in Jesus' name.

No 13 we av highest no of blackberry users in d world

This is great. Look at our own "Stonehenges" and nobody teaches us all these in school neither do students go for
excursion to these places.I believe more should be done to preserve and showcase Nigeria's heritage.

Watch the animated teaser of the movie that will showcase these facts and many others to the world


http://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=plcp&v=UMzNjVE6aKU

We have heard. Shocking fact 13) Nigerias leaders know the forces behind Boko Haram and have refused to unearth it,preferring to sacrifice innocent souls daily.

Check out number 4, my great King, ori e wa nbe!

Shocking is the wrong tern here.
You should have used AMAZING.

Photo: Jos Plateau Indigobird.

i bet evry body on NL except yourself neva knew these.so much for history in our schools,all of us can with the flip of a finger discuss in detail the americam=n declaration of independence,the 1st and 2nd worl wars,abolition of slave trade and the story of jesus-the most popular man tht ever lived but we know next to nothng abt our own history.
A nation shapes its destiny by taking into cognisance whr it is coming from.

very lovely info, one came from my town Ijebu Ode

ewet: i bet evry body on NL except yourself neva knew these.so much for history in our schools,all of us can with the flip of a finger discuss in detail the americam=n declaration of independence,the 1st and 2nd worl wars,abolition of slave trade and the story of jesus-the most popular man tht ever lived but we know next to nothng abt our own history.
A nation shapes its destiny by taking into cognisance whr it is coming from.

Exactly ewet! In fact if you check the original article where this topic was excerpted from, the author Samuel Okopi even said there are 75 more facts they have discovered!

The full article is here:http://thenationonlineng.net/new/online-special/12-shocking-facts-about-nigeria/

Swhat has all these listed here contributed to making Nigeria or even those places mentioned better.
Useless knowledge for useless purpose.

To what economic value are these acclaimed shocking facts @op

splashbaby: Na wa ooo...Wetin we don achieve with all these unique stuff? I read in one Awolowo write up that the whole of plateau state is on top an underground lake that would provide water for all the Northern states

And since when did your awolowowo become an aquatic surveyor?

MacLovington: .

If we were a bit more serious, we would exploit it for twin research, a great medical research tool.

na wash jare.

pat4love: Great to know all this but we should also lean how to live in the present ant not in the past.

Time is transient. We need to find our past and live in our history. Our historical disconnect thwarted our post-1960 ambitions.

Sec5: To what economic value are these acclaimed shocking facts @op

Economic and Technological Independence is elusive without cultural independence.

That is the difference b/w us and China.

Engineer96: Swhat has all these listed here contributed to making Nigeria or even those places mentioned better.
Useless knowledge for useless purpose.

The challenge facing the engineering curriculum is the separation of the Sciences from the Arts. Textbooks praising white europeans as originators of civil engineering is daylight robbery. It affects the confidence of the larger society in our technical potentials, ensuring that we depend on Julius Berger that is unknown in Germany. Btw, in the 1400s and 1500s the King of the Germans was not yet a White Man.
https://www.nairaland.com/955076/black-african-nobility-ancient-europe/2#11899566


To avoid going off-topic, let me conclude by saying that Nigerian engineers need to excavate more of African history and less of white-centered African history that gives us conflicting Gods in white euro-arab images.

jantavanta:

The challenge facing the engineering curriculum is the separation of the Sciences from the Arts. Textbooks praising white europeans as originators of civil engineering is daylight robbery. It affects the confidence of the larger society in our technical potentials, ensuring that we depend on Julius Berger that is unknown in Germany. Btw, in the 1400s and 1500s the King of the Germans was not yet a White Man.
https://www.nairaland.com/955076/black-african-nobility-ancient-europe/2#11899566


To avoid going off-topic, let me conclude by saying that Nigerian engineers need to excavate more of African history and less of white-centered African history that gives us conflicting Gods in white euro-arab images.

Jantavanta you are somehow correct in most of your submission on Nairaland, I agree with some of your arguments in the "Black African Nobility Of Ancient Europe" thread but maybe you never knew you could buttress your hypothesis by connecting modern archaeo-anthropological findings and evidence with your otherwise suppositions. On the other hand, I know and I believe that civilization, science and technology originated by the ancient Yorubas Oduduans of Old, precisely from 'Otu-Ife' as stated in Ifa. If you can go through my past post, you will realize I am one for black pan-Africanist anything dudu-ist.

Nigeria is blessed in all ramification; Culture Resources weather etc. but we fail to utilize them well

Obi1kenobi: ............

Another joke is the claim there was contact a millenia ago with ancient Americans. Really? With which boats and whick knowledge of bearings and sea navigation that could row thousands of miles across the Atlantic? People just absorb spurious quoted facts with no questions.

We have already absorbed a lot of spurious claims from european writers of African history.

Read "They Came Before Columbus, The African Presence in Ancient America" first published 1976 by Ivan Van Sertima.

ghostofsparta:

Jantavanta you are somehow correct in most of your submission on Nairaland, I agree with some of your arguments in the "Black African Nobility Of Ancient Europe" thread but maybe you never knew you could buttress your hypothesis by connecting modern archaeo-anthropological findings and evidence with your otherwise suppositions. On the other hand, I know and I believe that civilization, science and technology originated by the ancient Yorubas Oduduans of Old, precisely from 'Otu-Ife' as stated in Ifa. If you can go through my past post, you will realize I am one for black pan-Africanist anything dudu-ist.

It is good to see that modern anthropological findings

ghostofsparta:

Jantavanta you are somehow correct in most of your submission on Nairaland, I agree with some of your arguments in the "Black African Nobility Of Ancient Europe" thread but maybe you never knew you could buttress your hypothesis by connecting modern archaeo-anthropological findings and evidence with your otherwise suppositions. On the other hand, I know and I believe that civilization, science and technology originated by the ancient Yorubas Oduduans of Old, precisely from 'Otu-Ife' as stated in Ifa. If you can go through my past post, you will realize I am one for black pan-Africanist anything dudu-ist.

It is good to see that these modern anthropological findings are now accessible on the internet. When I tell people that Sango, the Oduduan God of Thunder and Lightning is my adopted deity, they wonder why. Thunder an Lightning are forms of electromagnetic waves, the same electromagnetic waves that are information carriers for mobile and space communications.

The Norwegians launch a satellite named "Thor", the Norse God of thunder and lightning. Are we ready to launch one and name it Shango? We would say " No, it is primitive".

My postings on the African Nobility of Ancient Europe was prompted by my observation that of European self-acclaimed experts of African History, whereas we are not expected to be in turn, experts in European History.

History is the negotiating tool that is being used to rob Africans in broad daylight. That is why their investment in National Geographic and Discovery World.

Please I would like to confirm from you, is it Ile-Ife or Otu-Ife? I originally planned to investigate Oduduan History, starting out with Wande Abimbola's books, but I had to go off to treat Ancient Egypt because it was the Asian and european back-door to the interior nucleus culture in ancient Nigeria and a lot theological obfuscations took place there.

ozodigboo:
The Igbo ancestors who were taken as slaves went to USA - God's own country.
The Iyoruba slaves were dumped in Brazil to procreate more slaves for the plantations - because of the high rate of twins productions.
thats why most Brazilian blacks look like Iyoruba.
Ramires - Chelsea, Anderson - Manchester United.
Ramires has tribal marks - check his profile on Google.

Very very childish, remember, no one is competing with you, you are on your own...OYO....lol