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Re: 12 Shocking Facts About Nigeria by Ejiekwu1(m): 6:39am On Mar 30, 2013 |
Wonderful info |
Re: 12 Shocking Facts About Nigeria by lightofjoy(m): 6:40am On Mar 30, 2013 |
This is nice to know. |
Re: 12 Shocking Facts About Nigeria by uromicom: 6:41am On Mar 30, 2013 |
youth no get job youth no get job when u no fit pass interview you say you be graduate |
Re: 12 Shocking Facts About Nigeria by HonKontigi: 7:10am On Mar 30, 2013 |
chiover: I cannot love or like these irrelevant facts when 80% of Nigerian Youths are unemployed. Enough of wash wash jargos. Nobe the same language barrier make Boko Haram dey roast their own countrymen? Abeg pack well joorIn addition, kidnappers,armed robbers, ritualists, lawless state security personnel are committing even worse atrocities against the people. |
Re: 12 Shocking Facts About Nigeria by badmeat(m): 7:20am On Mar 30, 2013 |
Tomorrow is for those who plan today,yesterday is used by those who plan for tomorrow to succeed!nice post |
Re: 12 Shocking Facts About Nigeria by HonKontigi: 7:24am On Mar 30, 2013 |
Obijulius: 13. All of Nigeria's wealth comes from the oil & gas rich regions of the SS & SE. Yet the pple and the land have not been adequately compensated. No other place on d earth has been treated so unjustly.The country generate revenue from oil & gas resources but it's erroneous to say "All of Nigeria's wealth comes from the oil & gas rich regions of the SS & SE". Trillions of Naira from 13% derivation, federation account allocation,NNDC funds etc which should go for development is being stolen by SS & SE corrupt political leaders, leaving the ordinary people in the region in poverty. 1 Like |
Re: 12 Shocking Facts About Nigeria by Nwogbe: 7:24am On Mar 30, 2013 |
nice piece |
Re: 12 Shocking Facts About Nigeria by rman: 7:31am On Mar 30, 2013 |
ozodigboo: Distances in geography are measured "as crow Flies" , you are the one that maybe wrong with the quote above. By road is completely different from measurement on a straight line. 1 Like |
Re: 12 Shocking Facts About Nigeria by Greatlydia(f): 7:34am On Mar 30, 2013 |
dats great |
Re: 12 Shocking Facts About Nigeria by Ijebulogic(m): 7:39am On Mar 30, 2013 |
Excellent and informative post by the OP I remain convinced that God loves Nigeria by blessing us with so much heritage, culture and natural resources. Sadly when I see a few of the comments that follow (tribal, ignorant and abusive), I realise that it is always Man that causes problems for himself. The positives about this country far outweigh the negatives but we are a people who seem obsessed with tribal issues and sad to say, until we step above tribal sentiments, we will never progress as one country. The USA is made up of dozens of nationalities , but view themselves as American first. This "internet" generation is just as lethal and backward as the civil war generation. |
Re: 12 Shocking Facts About Nigeria by phapi(m): 7:43am On Mar 30, 2013 |
aare07: Here are some facts from our common heritage that should make you proud to be called a Nigerian: Am so proud to cum from dis part of d earth......God has really blessed dis NAtion called Nigeria Thumbs up for research |
Re: 12 Shocking Facts About Nigeria by vislabraye(m): 7:49am On Mar 30, 2013 |
I'll like to travel round Nigeria. |
Re: 12 Shocking Facts About Nigeria by tomzman: 7:49am On Mar 30, 2013 |
nice one. |
Re: 12 Shocking Facts About Nigeria by valicious1(m): 7:50am On Mar 30, 2013 |
The most useless thread I've ever come across on NL. @op so the only historical fact from the SE is just the presence of a kinnda bird? Asif the whole region was once a hell of a jungle u de craze. Infact ur head no koret. 1 Like |
Re: 12 Shocking Facts About Nigeria by vislabraye(m): 7:54am On Mar 30, 2013 |
From this research I can say that God is not tribalistic. He did not put everything in the East so that some people will say that He's an Ndigbo God. He didn't put them all in the West so that people will say He's an Yoruba God or in South South or the nOrth. He destributed them in His wisdom. Thank you Lord. |
Re: 12 Shocking Facts About Nigeria by KDULAR: 7:57am On Mar 30, 2013 |
Thank you OP informative and educating. For the guy that questioned distance let him try this, make a 20cm by 20cm square with a thread, then make different convoluted shapes within the same square with another thread. When he's done , he should remove the 2 threads and measure their distances. He'll discover that the thread that was used to make convolutions within the known border( square) is longer. MeaningNigeria may be about 1200km from Lagos to the end somewhere in Gasua or Portiskum but the road network is Nigeria is well over 140000 yes 140,000Km. The Benin moat may really be that long. Believe in yourself "Blackman know yourself, don't forget your past" Femi Kuti. |
Re: 12 Shocking Facts About Nigeria by autchman144(m): 8:01am On Mar 30, 2013 |
2. The Walls of Benin (800-1400AD), in present day Edo State, are the longest ancient earthworks in the world, and probably the largest man-made structure on earth. They enclose 6500 square kilometers of community lands that connected about 500 communities. At over 16000km long, it was thought to be twice the length of the Great Wall of China, until it was announced in 2012 (after five years of meticulous measurement by Chinese surveyors) that the Great Wall is about 21,000km long. Wrong info! A wall that encloses 6500sqkm land cannot be 16000km long. Do ur calculations well. For example, if the area were to be a rectangle, the side could be 65km by 100km (FOR EXAMPLE), which translates to 330km by perimeter. Moreover, distance from Benin to Lagos is about 500km, so how could a wall encircling some communities then be 16000km long... 1 Like |
Re: 12 Shocking Facts About Nigeria by autchman144(m): 8:05am On Mar 30, 2013 |
KDULAR: Thank you OP informative and educating. For the guy that questioned distance let him try this, make a 20cm by 20cm square with a thread, then make different convoluted shapes within the same square with another thread. When he's done , he should remove the 2 threads and measure their distances. He'll discover that the thread that was used to make convolutions within the known border( square) is longer. MeaningNigeria may be about 1200km from Lagos to the end somewhere in Gasua or Portiskum but the road network is Nigeria is well over 140000 yes 140,000Km. The Benin moat may really be that long. Believe in yourself "Blackman know yourself, don't forget your past" Femi Kuti. "road network" and "perimeter wall" are 2 different things, get it. Network has several roads in it, hence the term network. Here, we're talking of a single stretch of wall |
Re: 12 Shocking Facts About Nigeria by omartins(m): 8:13am On Mar 30, 2013 |
Nice job done. Welldone poster. |
Re: 12 Shocking Facts About Nigeria by Mendo007(m): 8:20am On Mar 30, 2013 |
Now this is wat i call research! Gud work poster i luv dis |
Re: 12 Shocking Facts About Nigeria by Tinyemeka(m): 8:23am On Mar 30, 2013 |
aare07:Wow. I remember reading about this fact in JS class. Nostalgic memories. |
Re: 12 Shocking Facts About Nigeria by Tinyemeka(m): 8:27am On Mar 30, 2013 |
autchman144: You didn't get the point made by the poster you'd just quoted. The moat was not exactly straight. There would have been corners and bends. Adding to its total length. It was not exactly a straight line. |
Re: 12 Shocking Facts About Nigeria by efe22(m): 8:36am On Mar 30, 2013 |
Ijebulogic:You have spoken well. Igbo, Yoruba and Hausa rat race mentallity has become a torn in the flesh in this country. Nigeria will remain in vicious circle of corruption and backwardness if this demon is not exorcised from her. |
Re: 12 Shocking Facts About Nigeria by alphaconde(m): 8:39am On Mar 30, 2013 |
johnwizey: Another fact: Nigeria has the highest number of Agberos and tout in the world It can be true where jamaica and mexico exists |
Re: 12 Shocking Facts About Nigeria by crackhouse(m): 8:43am On Mar 30, 2013 |
Baseless facts. it's very easy for people to come out and make assumptions on some certain things they can't figure out in their long years of thinking and trying to finding solutions to something that senior their grand papa. |
Re: 12 Shocking Facts About Nigeria by drzed: 9:00am On Mar 30, 2013 |
Some Nigerians can be These are 12 things that are truly wonderful and inspiring about Nigeria that we ought to be pleased about. Nothing shocking, just amazing! Now, if the OP had posted 12 bad things about Nigeria, the same people whinging, hissing and spitting now will still whinge, hiss and spit. There is a time for everything. There is a time to complain and to be bitter and there is a time to count your blessings and to be grateful. To all those who are complaining: if all you do when your work, relationship or business is not going well is to complain, lament and hiss, you better step back once in a while and appreciate having a job, a partner or self employment. Else, you lose everything due to your ingratitude. Especially the partner. These 12 things wont make boko haram, corruption or PDP disappear overnight. But at least they educate or remind us of our rich heritage. If your child is stubborn or a truant at school and you suddenly find that he is good in sports or art, will you not be grateful for the good in him? And even thank God that you have a child?...and even help him/her excel in what he/she is good at. The level of cynicism, sadism and negativity in some of us is astonishing. I was not aware of 90% of these 12 facts. I am at least better educated about Nigeria today than I was yesterday. It seems the Chinese were determined not to be outdone by the Great Wall of Benin, that they 'discovered' some extra kilometers of their wall. LOL. @OP: these are 12 amazing (and not shocking) things about Nigeria. Edit the title asap! But thanks. Made my day. |
Re: 12 Shocking Facts About Nigeria by kpozite(m): 9:04am On Mar 30, 2013 |
johnwizey: Another fact: Nigeria has the highest number of Agberos and tout in the worldlike you |
Re: 12 Shocking Facts About Nigeria by damola311: 9:05am On Mar 30, 2013 |
dabrake: If number 5 is true, then we can boldly say the creation of the world, according to the bible, is false. Mumu.........did you think d world is 2013 years old?......or haven't you heard about research where they will mention 1 billion years ago?.......say something about it.....and maybe you can explain creation of d world according to uur thought!!! |
Re: 12 Shocking Facts About Nigeria by toluene12: 9:05am On Mar 30, 2013 |
autchman144:the average height of a 70kg man is 1.7m yet the length of the intestine located in his abdomen is 8m. The benin walls are convoluted like the example given above, its are not a single stretch. |
Re: 12 Shocking Facts About Nigeria by ugonwanneokoye: 9:06am On Mar 30, 2013 |
When i visited the museum in Argungu town kebbi state.I read about Sarki Muhammad Kanta The Great of Kebbi.The man was so strong that he even had a bulletproof vest,that is displayed there with his sword.We were allowed to touch the vest everyone was wondering the sought of technology that was used because it's made of iron and very heavy. |
Re: 12 Shocking Facts About Nigeria by drzed: 9:06am On Mar 30, 2013 |
Ijebulogic: Excellent and informative post by the OP May God multiply your wisdom and leave it intact for your future generations to download from eternity using galactic bandwidth. |
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