SirShymexx:


Yes. Read about her.

A lot of these overgrown idiots on this forum are uneducated louts. Most of them don't even read and they expose themselves every time they post. I'm sure none of them know what Lady Liberty represents and its origin. Yet they keep spamming the thread with it.

Imagine the other clown asking if he's still in the era of statues when former NBA players who're legends are getting statues erected for them...Shaq just got one this year at the staples centre and Kobe should get one as well in the next few years. The Queen would get a big statue when she dies as well. They don't even know the symbolism of statues, yet they always feel the need to post their illiterate opinions everywhere.

These folks are the most backward and dumbest people on the planet. The ignorance is just appalling most times.

alaskido:
Before I go comment, una don comment full everywhere. Abi na for air una dey comment before the story go reach system. na wa for una. Me I want to be FTC one day o.

Enybliss:
why do i have the feeling that this is a distasteful mimicry of lady liberty

Funnicator:
How will this provide jobs for the unemployed villagers of Ife?
How will it improve their standard of living and provide affordable and standard education?


Infact, who statue epp?

Funnicator:


Tourist destination? Where is the infrastructure on ground to accomodate the tourists? Village Ife with its delapidated roads and hotels? Little power supply? Zero shopping malls?
Abeg go sleep.

justmenoni:
Stop contradicting yourself, Tourism generates billions no doubt, but saying moremi's statue will generate million of dollars from tourism is a SHAM.

Funnicator:


People never go toursim for Calabar wey get better tourist sites na to enter flight come see this one statue inside a village?


Ogbeni, oyibo no dey dat mumu. Abi u think they dnt have beta statues for oyiboland?

Funnicator:
How will this provide jobs for the unemployed villagers of Ife?
How will it improve their standard of living and provide affordable and standard education?


Infact, who statue epp?

thesicilian:

One word: Tourism. People troop in to see the statue from all over the word, and these people spend millions of dollars yearly in the process of buying food, staying in hotels, transport, etc. Not to talk of the aspect of exposure to other peoples cultures and ideas, which is a fast track to economic and infrastructural development.

Funnicator:
How will this provide jobs for the unemployed villagers of Ife?
How will it improve their standard of living and provide affordable and standard education?


Infact, who statue epp?

Funnicator:


People never go toursim for Calabar wey get better tourist sites na to enter flight come see this one statue inside a village?


Ogbeni, oyibo no dey dat mumu. Abi u think they dnt have beta statues for oyiboland?

ManTiger:
I became a fan of YourNemesis today... I swear an allegiance.

You fought and won... Wonderful.

teeghurl:
Statue of Liberty wannabe

Codes151:
Lol!!! Una funny!!! Actually tot it was a building not knowing it was rubbish!

Enybliss:
why do i have the feeling that this is a distasteful mimicry of lady liberty

fotadmowmend:

No.... That status has been there ever since! This new king just magnified it to a bigger size

Funnicator:


Jealous of not having a statue?

If it were an industry generating jobs and tax, ehenn, but this one?

Mtchew.

bangging:
pls mr, the only issues of the day I kw is nigerian economy not a statue...eat the statue nah...sufrin and smiling

bangging:
pls mr, the only issues of the day I kw is nigerian economy not a statue...eat the statue nah...sufrin and smiling

islandmoon:
The Ayaba Moremi hailed from Oyo, married to the then king of Ile Ife, a kingdom that is said to have been at war with an adjoining tribe who were known to them as the Forest people (Ìgbò in the Yoruba language, though the said tribe is believed by scholars to have had no relation to the contemporary Ìgbòs of modern Nigeria). Scores of Ife citizens were being enslaved by these people, and because of this they were generally regarded with disdain by the Yoruba city-states.

Moremi was a very brave and beautiful woman who, in order to deal with the problem facing her people, offered anything she had to give in sacrifice to the Spirit of the river Esimirin so that she could discover the strength of her nation's enemies.

She is said to have been taken as a slave by the Igbo and, due to her beauty, married their ruler as his anointed queen. After familiarising herself with the secrets of her new husband's army, she escaped to Ile-Ife and revealed this to the Yorubas who were able to subsequently defeat them in battle.

Following the war she returned to her first husband, King Oramiyan of Ife (and later Oyo), who immediately had her re-instated as his Princess Consort. In order to fulfil the pledge she made to Esimirin before embarking on her mission, her son Olurogbo was given in sacrifice to the Spirit because this is what it asked her for when she returned to its shrine.

The Edi Festival is said to have then been started as a means of celebrating the sacrifice the princess made for the people of Yorubaland. Furthermore, a number of public places are named after her in contemporary Nigeria, such as the female residence halls at the University of Lagos and Obafemi Awolowo University.