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Re: The First Capital City Of Nigeria, Was Not Lagos Or Abuja Or Calabar by goalernestman: 2:05pm On Mar 14, 2019
[quote author=goalernestman post=76650047][/quote]

You wrote many words but rubbish am even ashamed taken you seriously

googling gulf of GUINEA you will found out it was not named to any empire according to many source but some source also claim it was named to Ghana empire.

But when you google bight of Benin every original source say it was named to Benin empire. same empire they say it stress up to Ghana not the bight anymore, so who are you writing all those long rubbish article for? what point do you want to prove.

Google will cure you of this not me, google it if bight of Benin was not named to Benin empire and come back to show us what google teach u.

Because i cant waste my time for your stupidity because i see am the only one even paying attention to you.
Re: The First Capital City Of Nigeria, Was Not Lagos Or Abuja Or Calabar by DonCandido(f): 3:40pm On Mar 14, 2019
EXPOSED!

YOU ARE A SEMI ILLITERATE WITH INTERNET DATA AND FORMING EXPERT AND CREATING THREAD ON TOPICS YOU KNOW ZILCH ABOUT.

YOU ARE A PHONY AND A PRETENDER!

I SCARED YOU WITH HARD FACTS AND PUNCHED HOLES IN YOUR NONSENSE ABOUT BENIN HEGEMONY OVER OLDER AND MORE ESTABLISHED EMPIRE AND YOU HAVING A NERVOUS BREAK DOWN.

KISS THE TRUTH, YOUR VAUNTED BENIN KINGDOM WAS NOT EVEN GREATER THAN IJEBU KINGDOM IN TERMS OF HISTORY AND ACHIEVEMENT. GO TO THE PLACE AND FIND OUT.

BENIN EMPIRE MY FOOT!

Re: The First Capital City Of Nigeria, Was Not Lagos Or Abuja Or Calabar by goalernestman: 1:31am On Mar 15, 2019
DonCandido:
EXPOSED!

YOU ARE A SEMI ILLITERATE WITH INTERNET DATA AND FORMING EXPERT AND CREATING THREAD ON TOPICS YOU KNOW ZILCH ABOUT.

YOU ARE A PHONY AND A PRETENDER!

I SCARED YOU WITH HARD FACTS AND PUNCHED HOLES IN YOUR NONSENSE ABOUT BENIN HEGEMONY OVER OLDER AND MORE ESTABLISHED EMPIRE AND YOU HAVING A NERVOUS BREAK DOWN.

KISS THE TRUTH, YOUR VAUNTED BENIN KINGDOM WAS NOT EVEN GREATER THAN IJEBU KINGDOM IN TERMS OF HISTORY AND ACHIEVEMENT. GO TO THE PLACE AND FIND OUT.

BENIN EMPIRE MY FOOT!


You scared me with fact lol or you are the one who cant face the fact.

I bring European source for you but you trying to search for European source and you found out there is no Oyo history in it and then trying to look for Arab Muslim account of Oyo since they also came to Africa then and it hurt you again that you didn't still found Oyo in Arab map of Africa account then.

The map you brought out have no Oyo even the the Greatest Arab Explorer of all Time Ibn Battuta, Marco Polo still claim Oyo empire never existed. No wonder you are so dissapointed I feel your pain bro and your bitterness.
Re: The First Capital City Of Nigeria, Was Not Lagos Or Abuja Or Calabar by DonCandido(f): 8:32am On Mar 15, 2019
goalernestman:



You scared me with fact lol or you are the one who cant face the fact.

I bring European source for you but you trying to search for European source and you found out there is no Oyo history in it and then trying to look for Arab Muslim account of Oyo since they also came to Africa then and it hurt you again that you didn't still found Oyo in Arab map of Africa account then.

The map you brought out have no Oyo even the the Greatest Arab Explorer of all Time Ibn Battuta, Marco Polo still claim Oyo empire never existed. No wonder you are so dissapointed I feel your pain bro and your bitterness.

I OBSERVED THAT SOMEONE ELSE HAS TAKEN OVER THE ARGUMENTS FOR YOU. NICE!

THE FLOUNCY IMPERSONATING YOU IS A CLASS "A" IDIOT.

HE OR SHE HAS NO INKLING OF WHAT THE THREAD IS ABOUT AND IS SERIOUSLY JUMPING FROM ONE TOPIC TO THE OTHER TO FIND TRACTION FOR YOUR ALREADY FAILED THREAD TOPIC AIMED AT PROMOTING THE MORONIC AND RIDICULOUS IDEA THAT BENIN KINGDOM WAS MADE THE FIRST CAPITAL OF NIGERIA WHEN IT WAS VISITED BY THE EUROPEAN IN 1691 "BEFORE IT WAS MOVED OUT IN 1970". A POINT YOU NEITHER PROVED WITH FACTS NOR DEFENDED WITH RESEARCHED EVIDENCE ON GROUND WHEN CHALLENGED ON THIS POINT BY SEVERAL CONTRIBUTORS ON NL.

INSTEAD OF BEING BRAVE BY JUSTIFYING YOUR IDIOTIC THREAD TOPIC OR FAILING WHICH YOU APOLOGIZE TO NLANDERS FOR TRYING TO MISLEAD THEM WITH LIES IN ORDER TO PROMOTE YOUR NARROW AND SOPHOMORE IDEA THAT BENIN KINGDOM WAS INDEED AN EMPIRE THAT SPREAD ALL THE WAY UP TO MODERN GHANA. WHAT A WHOOPER!

NEXT, YOU TRIED TO DISTRACT ATTENTION FROM THE MAIN POINT OF THE THREAD -WHEN CHECKMATED SUCCESSFULLY BY EDUCATED AND MORE DISCERNING NLANDERS ABOUT YOUR PATHOLOGICAL LIES- BY CLAIMING FALSELY -AGAIN WITHOUT PROOF- THAT THE NATURAL GEOGRAPHICAL FEATURE CALLED A "BIGHT" IN WHICH THE KINGDOM OF BENIN AND MANY COUNTRIES FALL MEANS IT IS COTERMINOUS WITH THE "EMPIRE" OF BENIN. YOU FAILED TO PROOF THIS POINT WITH FACTS. WHAT A DOLT.

YOU COWARDLY DODGED A CLEAR HISTORICAL FACT THAT NO EUROPEAN EVER VISITED ANCIENT GHANA IN 1471 BECAUSE THE EMPIRE OF ANCIENT GHANA COLLAPSED IN THE 11TH CENTURY AND THE FIRST EUROPEAN DID NOT GET TO WEST AFRICA UNTIL THE 15TH CENTURY DURING THE GREAT EMPIRE OF SONGHAI LED BY THE ASKIAS. YOU NEED TO ASK FOR SCHOOL FEES REFUND FROM THE SECONDARY SCHOOL WHERE YOU DROPPED OUT. YOUR ASSERTION IS SHAMEFUL. YOU DEFINITELY CANNOT BE A GRADUATE!

WHAT HAS OYO GOT TO DO WITH THE THREAD? OH YOU HAVE CONCLUDED THAT I AM FROM THE SOUTH WEST? I DON'T GIVE A RATS ASS ABOUT OYO AND DON'T TRY TO CHANGE THE TOPIC AGAIN. SHOW WITH FACTS, DATES, NAMES, PLACES, BOOKS ETC WHEN BENIN WAS MADE THE CAPITAL OF NIGERIA IN 1691. WAS NIGERIA IN EXISTENCE IN 1691? WHO NAMED IT AS SUCH? LIST THE GOVERNORS OR PRESIDENTS OF NIGERIA SINCE 1691? WHO WAS THE LAST GOVERNOR OR PRESIDENT OF NIGERIA BEFORE THE CAPITAL WAS MOVED OUT OF BENIN CITY IN 1979? ANSWER THIS QUESTIONS OR APOLOGIZE FOR DELIBERATELY MISLEADING NLANDERS WITH LIES!

I ALREADY STATED THAT YOU ARE A SEMI ILLITERATE WITH AN UNHEALTHY DOSAGE OF ETHNOCENTRISM WHICH HAS GONE RABID BASED ON THE NUMBER OF STUPID THREADS YOU HAVE CREATED ON NL ON DISSIMILAR TOPICS AIMED PRIMARILY AT PROMOTING THE NOTION THAT A BLACK AFRICAN GROUP (BENIN) IS GREATER THAN OR SUPERIOR ANOTHER BLACK AFRICAN GROUP (ALL COUNTRIES AND PEOPLES IN THE BIGHT OF BENIN) BASED ON NEBULOUS UNPROVED FABLES OR TALES BY THE MOONLIGHT.

I HAVE SHOWN YOU A MAP MADE BY CREDIBLE CARTOGRAPHERS OF THE JOURNEYS OF A WORLD ACCLAIMED TRAVELER WHO VISITED WEST AFRICA AND WHO IN FACT EXPLORED THE AREA OF ANCIENT GHANA EMPIRE AND DID NOT MENTION THE EXISTENCE OF A "GUINEA EMPIRE" OR A BENIN EMPIRE FOR THAT MATTER.

CHECK OUT THE YEAR OF RAVEL TOO, DID YOU NOTICE THAT HE EXPLORED NIGERIA UP TO THE NIGER RIVER WHERE HE LEARNT THE LOCAL NAME FOR THE NIGER RIVER TO BE "KWARA" FROM THE LOCAL. THE MAP CLEARLY DID NOT SHOW ANY BENIN KINGDOM OR EMPIRE, RIGHT?

THE ONLY CONCLUSION IS THAT AT THAT TIME THERE WAS NO BENIN EMPIRE OR ANY VILLAGE CALLED IGODOMIGODO AT THE TIME OTHERWISE, HE WOULD HAVE LEARNT OF ITS EXISTENCE FROM THE NUPE, IGALA, BARIBA BOATMEN ETC ON THE NIGER RIVER.

THE MAPS MADE BY THE UNEDUCATED PORTUGUESE SAILORS AND CUTTHROATS WHO VISITED WEST AFRICA WHO ONLY STAYED IN THEIR TRADING FORTS BUILT ON THE COAST IS NOT A RESULT OF ANY EXPLORATION. UNTIL THE ARRIVAL OF THE BRITISH, THERE WAS NO EFFORT BY THE PORTUGUESE TO EXPLORE THE HINTERLAND OF WEST AFRICA. CREDIT FOR THAT GOES TO THE METHODICAL BRITISH WHO MADE WELL COORDINATED AND HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL EXPLORATION OF THE HINTERLAND OF AFRICA.

CHIEF BRO, THE MAP ND THE BOOK SHOWING THE JOURNEYS OF IBN BATUTTA IS A MORE CREDIBLE EXPOSE OF THE HINTERLAND OF WEST AFRICA AND OF ALL THE PLACES BATUTTA TRAVELED TO ALL OVER THE WORLD UP TO THE PLACES HE REACHED ON THE DATES/YEARS OF THE TRAVELS; THE ACCOUNTS OF THE CITIES HE VISITED; REIGNING RULERS HE MET AT THE TIME; THE EVENTS HE WITNESSED ETC IT WAS AND IS still A POINT OF REVERENCE FOR MANY AUTHORS INTERESTED IN THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD.

PARTING SHOT, RESEARCH AND KNOW YOUR TOPICS VERY WELL BEFORE YOU CREATE A THREAD ON NL; NOT ALL NLANDERS LOVE COW-DUNG BEING THROWN AT THEM BY A BENIN DROP OUT AND A TRIBAL BIGOT.

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