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Re: Some Facts About Nigeria You Never Knew by nairaman66(m): 5:54pm On Oct 30, 2017
All about birds not snakes! Lala would be disappointed
Re: Some Facts About Nigeria You Never Knew by Boyooosa(m): 5:55pm On Oct 30, 2017
Had I known, I would have bought 20 cars in 1975, by now, me and dino for dey drag treasure now

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Re: Some Facts About Nigeria You Never Knew by mykh01(m): 5:55pm On Oct 30, 2017
Ok
Re: Some Facts About Nigeria You Never Knew by Seeker17(m): 5:56pm On Oct 30, 2017
I thought the twin capital was in one Indian village..
Nice one Op

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Re: Some Facts About Nigeria You Never Knew by Orobo2Lekpa: 5:56pm On Oct 30, 2017
nairafacts:
1. 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.

This Benin one has to be a lie. There is no archaeological evidence of any great wall. What Benin had was a Moat and its only around Sakponba and 3rd Circular

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Re: Some Facts About Nigeria You Never Knew by alatbaba1(m): 5:57pm On Oct 30, 2017
I love naija.
Re: Some Facts About Nigeria You Never Knew by BornAgainMay: 5:58pm On Oct 30, 2017
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Re: Some Facts About Nigeria You Never Knew by Spicecube(m): 5:59pm On Oct 30, 2017
ReneeNuttall:
I love Edo people, especially the binis with all my heart.Great people.

are u also Edo?
Re: Some Facts About Nigeria You Never Knew by EazyMoh(m): 6:00pm On Oct 30, 2017
nairafacts:
1. 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.
When are you guys going to stop repeating this lie?

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Re: Some Facts About Nigeria You Never Knew by Empiree: 6:00pm On Oct 30, 2017
nairafacts:
1. 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.
Bro, this picture of wall you posted has long been attributed to area in Oke Eri in Ijebu near burial ground of Bilikis Sugbo known as Queen Sheba as written historically. How come this same wall is in benin?.


I dont understand again. Immediately i saw the pic I recognized it since my childhood, attributed to Oke Eri in Ijebu. Who is telling lie here? sad sad shocked

see attachment

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Re: Some Facts About Nigeria You Never Knew by Abudu2000(m): 6:00pm On Oct 30, 2017
Blackfyre:


My folks told me about this sad
same here, my uncle who was born 1960 told me how he had 3000 and wanted to buy a bettle car before my dad( his younger brother) adviced him to build his house which he later started immediately...mhen this is real grin

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Re: Some Facts About Nigeria You Never Knew by Nobody: 6:03pm On Oct 30, 2017
Abudu2000:
same here, my uncle who was born 1960 told me how he had 3000 and wanted to buy a bettle car before my dad( his younger brother) adviced him to build his house which he later started immediately...mhen this is real grin

With just 3k? Not even enough to buy sand or a truck of cement. They really fuckd this country up.

I was told a carton of tin milk is #4.50k.

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Re: Some Facts About Nigeria You Never Knew by wickyyolo: 6:03pm On Oct 30, 2017
ReneeNuttall:
I love Edo people, especially the binis with all my heart.Great people.

i like edo girls i enjoy their Punna
Re: Some Facts About Nigeria You Never Knew by Ttipsy(f): 6:06pm On Oct 30, 2017
another fact
1* buhari is fighting corruption 2* Nigeria's President is the highest travled presido in the world 3* only in Nigeria that zebra crossing is meant for cows and their headsman 4* you can add your own

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Re: Some Facts About Nigeria You Never Knew by PapaOyoyo: 6:07pm On Oct 30, 2017
RIPEnglish:
Op, how will this went to change the presently current hardships we are faced in the country? angry .

Na so the hardship hold u reach?
Re: Some Facts About Nigeria You Never Knew by Abudu2000(m): 6:08pm On Oct 30, 2017
Blackfyre:


With just 3k? Not even enough to buy sand or a truck of cement. They really fuckd this country up.

I was told a carton of tin milk is #4.50k.
I wonder the type of car even 500k will get you today, maybe one of like 150k mile age from baba gbemi the mechanic grin grin. Our leaders are wicked , it won't be well with whoever did this to us...

My dad still have all his receipts and all I see there is Kobos , maximum of 2naira for even a deck player

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Re: Some Facts About Nigeria You Never Knew by Nobody: 6:11pm On Oct 30, 2017
Abudu2000:
I wonder the type of car even 500k will get you today, maybe one of like 150k mile age from baba gbemi the mechanic grin grin. Our leaders are wicked , it won't be well with whoever did this to us

You will be lucky if you don't have to do body work sef.

This whole thing i heard started from the gap tooth general's regime. All that IMF brouhaha, set the country on the path of agony and confusion. Then they decided to insitutionalise corruption. Here we are....

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Re: Some Facts About Nigeria You Never Knew by femarse: 6:15pm On Oct 30, 2017
The common waxbill (Estrilda astrild), also known as the St Helena waxbill, is a small passerine bird belonging to the estrildid finch family. It is native to sub-Saharan Africa but has been introduced to many other regions of the world and now has an estimated global extent of occurrence of 10,000,000 km2. It is popular and easy to keep in captivity.

There are about 17 subspecies distributed widely across much of Africa south of theSahara. They are present in most parts of East, Central and Southern Africa except for regions of desert or dense forest. In West Africa they are more local with the main population centred on Sierra Leone, Liberia and the Ivory Coast. Common waxbills inhabit open country with long grass and rank vegetation. They are often found near water in marshes and among reeds. They can be tame and will enter gardens, parks and farmland.

source Wikipedia

so much for can be found only in Anambra seriously?? the bird was tame with something at the border ?

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Re: Some Facts About Nigeria You Never Knew by kiddapunk: 6:18pm On Oct 30, 2017
cstr1000:
That is all?
For a nation of 180 million?
I was expecting things like Africa's'' highest number of nobel prize winners, the biggest electronics manufacturers in Africa, the biggest fertilizer producer in the world, e.t.c
industrialization is not an acumen for measuring development
Re: Some Facts About Nigeria You Never Knew by idris4eva(m): 6:30pm On Oct 30, 2017
nairafacts:
3. The Yoruba tribe has the highest rate of twin births in the world. Igbo-Ora, a little town in Oyo state, has been nicknamed Twin capital of the World because of its unusually high rate of twins that is put as high as 158 twins per 1000 births. In a video I watched last year on YouTube presented by Titi (a white lady who speaks Yoruba), and which was centred on twin births in Igbo-Ora, one of the locals boasted that every family in the town has at least one twin!
I'm from igbo-ora and in my family alone we have 3 set of twins.....

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Re: Some Facts About Nigeria You Never Knew by kingemmybxt(m): 6:30pm On Oct 30, 2017
scammer.. scam alert
Re: Some Facts About Nigeria You Never Knew by FisifunKododada: 6:31pm On Oct 30, 2017
That pic is not the wall of Bini. That pic is an ancient wall in Ogun state.

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Re: Some Facts About Nigeria You Never Knew by seunmohmoh(f): 6:33pm On Oct 30, 2017
still searching for number2

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Re: Some Facts About Nigeria You Never Knew by Nobody: 6:38pm On Oct 30, 2017
EliteBiz:
Another fact - Nigerians survive virtually in any country in the world !
There is no country in the world u wont see a Nigerian grin
Nigeria has the best social media army in the world
You wouldn't want to start a fight grin


Igbos.

Not Nigerians.

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Re: Some Facts About Nigeria You Never Knew by Nobody: 6:41pm On Oct 30, 2017
PrecisionFx:



Igbos.

Not Nigerians.
U mean biafrans undecided
Re: Some Facts About Nigeria You Never Knew by sepalapen(m): 6:47pm On Oct 30, 2017
Lie specialist full every corner of the country from presidency to grass root.

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Re: Some Facts About Nigeria You Never Knew by brightalo17: 6:47pm On Oct 30, 2017
RIPEnglish:
Op, how will this went to change the presently current hardships we are faced in the country? angry .
word hard and earn a living.
Re: Some Facts About Nigeria You Never Knew by Ncsamuel(m): 6:48pm On Oct 30, 2017
nairafacts:
1. 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.
what nonesense! From the atlantic ocean in bayelsa state to the nigerian/nigerein border at katsina state is almost 1500km..... So how come ''benin wall'' is 16000 km?!

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Re: Some Facts About Nigeria You Never Knew by samsobo24(m): 6:50pm On Oct 30, 2017
nairafacts:
Hello Readers, Nigeria as you all know is a blessed country but how much do you know about it? Here are some wonderful facts
That pics is not for Nigeria, RSA I guess
Re: Some Facts About Nigeria You Never Knew by Dsov2016: 6:51pm On Oct 30, 2017
Orobo2Lekpa:


This Benin one has to be a lie. There is no archaeological evidence of any great wall. What Benin had was a Moat and its only around Sakponba and 3rd Circular

what I really find funny is when someone just sees something then come online to assert it as a known fact. the Benin most is not just at sakponba and 3rd circular. if was so it would not be called a most but a ditch. my friend go and find the meaning of a moat, and FYI the most cuts across all corners of Benin from evotubu/erhunsee, ezoti, uselu, parts of sapele road area(around ebe school), ugbowo, siluko, iya-ero( which literally means moat of ero),. so Mr man stop dropping names to make yourself look smart/ an authority. It only makes you appear foolish. secondly a Benin wall existed but ignorant people like you pulled the remaining blocks down between the 50s - 70s and used it to build some of those mud houses you see. During the sack of Benin by the British they destroyed parts of the walls. if you look at the pictures of Benin taken by the British of Benin during this period you will notice the walls. some small fragments of this wall can be noticed around the akpakpava area( some parts of the holy aruosa church)

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Re: Some Facts About Nigeria You Never Knew by omoiyamayor(m): 6:58pm On Oct 30, 2017
nairafacts:
And finally:
Nollywood industry has been ranked the 3rd biggest in the world. wink
biggest but not among the best with there stupid ghost story that makes one look insane at a funeral service elsewhere in the world,u b the only one too scared and too remorseful

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