₦airaland Forum

eDeity:
Another way to exploit Africa with the pretense that there are doing us good. Oyibo na scam!

Whose "there" (sic)?
It's organized by a Nigerian, Paul Okoye.

Don't get why folks are b*tching about a PRIVATE venture...
If you do not like it, abegi go do your own. it's NOT a government venture.

Esseite:
This is an opportunity for Africa to showcase its culture and tourism, it being rotated around African countries yearly would be a show worth looking upto in coming years.

at the same time build that connection between Africans, aswell as show the world Africa is not all that the International media may portray it to be.

This is an opportunity to showcase Africa, build employment, build commerce, encourage African travels, build tourism etc... but Africans would always be Africans.

Why name the show African music Festival and not hold it in an African country.

If you dont promote your own, how do you even think the world would regard your own.

My 2 cents..

They pay in HARD CURRENCY!

Seriously, though, it is aimed at the "African" diaspora....
Which includes non-African blacks and people not born in Africa.

Meanwhile, it's not mutually-exclusive to hold these abroad as well as in Africa...
There are already music festivals in Africa, but if you think one more is needed - HERE IS YOUR OPPORTUNITY!

We should quit b*tching about every perceived 'challenge'...
And instead see it as an OPPORTUNITY to fill such perceived vacuum, and/or create/build what we desire!

Jayslicky:
Davido should come to Oshodi or Bariga without his bodyguards and try punching someone like he did in this video, his life would never remain the same.

SURELAND:
Which one is Agege national stadium? Nah whao ooo

Passionate888:
It will rise for only his wife. Unless he's an idiot, then it will happen again.

banio:
The production cost per barrel for most oil firms is below $20. While they sell above $50. So they make over profit. They and the Nigerian government are just too exceptionally greedy. Otherwise 90% of oil casual workers are supposed to be staffed, with full healthcare and pension benefits.

So don't be deceived, oil companies are making it.

playboy19:
Finally, somebody has bought Kola Aluko's baby. Next is Jide Omokore. I just hope it's not one of their SPVs that's buying it in proxy.

VULCAN:
Ignorance is a disease. So there are still people in 2019 that believe every single headline that they read. Jisos!

Let me educate you. This coy belongs to kola aluko who siphoned at least a billion dollars of our money and ran away mid 2014. He is still on the run

Pls grow up and stop depending on fake headlines to discover what is happening under your nose

SultanOfAbia:
Why Do RICH Men always have Grey Beards??

ornicus:
If a trailer falls dropping hazardous uranium, some Nigerians will still rush and steal it.

Baroba:
Quite sad, respiratory problems loading...

olayemioshiyemi:
See what poverty has turn us to.....may God deliver our land from this affliction called poverty .

THURAFTERNOON:
There's serious hunger in the land.

AmazingELixir:
Poverty and hardship dhan kee Nigerians ooh

Conceptman:
it's time government needs to restrategize, the system is not working, poverty is on the high rate

AreaFada2:
Poverty. Poor moral values. Greed. Quick gain no matter who loses.

fidelmarshal199:
Too much hunger in the land.

exstreve:
seriously wish I could comment on the issue but right now we are having a serious family meeting. Someone opened the new bag of foreign rice we were hiding to use for Christmas, I'll get back to you guys later

blackboy:
Serves him right. Always might what you say. Be constructive in your criticism. And when protesting protest peacefully. Build bridges mend fences and unite never divide

nemelu123:
Didn’t see my name

Awol1:
Delivered by building Secretariat in Nsukka?

For what?

Did Chimaroke build Secretariat in Nkanu?

Did Sullivan build Secretariat in Udi?

Why would Ugwuanyi build Secretariat in Nsukka?

What are u hailing exactly?

comradewanle:
Who washington post epp?

LearnITsmash:
The lady is correct but trust Nigerians to bash her and run away from the truth, he never refuted her claims, he is just rambling his little life's worth, which has nothing to do with the criticism the lady laid, Nigerians and silly sentiments

Some Nigerians like you will never understand SELF-WORTH...

His point is that no-one can control what others think of them, whether criticism or praise...
Ultimately, what's most important is what you think of yourself (and of course the LOVE of family and friends).

Good moring nairalanders.

I want justice pls.

I was jailed 4 years ago when i was arrested,tried and sentenced for fraud.

I was not a criminally minded person but do to the economic hardship and how to provide for my wife and daughter I went into fraud.

My wife was supporting our union with her trade which the income was very low and to feed was war.

To cut the long story short when i was in prison she do visit occasionally but during 3 years spent already she stop visiting.

When i was freed last 2 months and to know what ups I went to where we live and learnt from a neighbour that my wife has parked out from our 2 rooms apartment and is now living with a man.

I got the address,went their and lo and behold she was heavily pregnant for the man.

I felt like fainting that moment and to make matter worse she said it to my face that she can't live with an ex convict.

My 5 years old daughter wants me back but my wife and her family are fighting against that.

I still love my wife despite her betrayal but the pregnancy and her refusal to give me back my daughter is giving me problem.

I want justice against the wife snatcher and i want back my wife and daughter.

Please what is the best ways to go about it so as not to go against the law.

Mods,I want justice.

Ogaga87:
Your problem is more complicated than what a psychic woman is carrying and I'm not ready to drag that with you.. I know you are gonna say this so I'm not surprised at all...

Greyworld:
Yea she can't win because it's not a contest or a debate. Right is Right .

Ogaga87:
Her Ex saw the Olosho spirit in her and has continually thank God for the breakup...

Imagine what the friends of the Ex would be saying about her immature rascality

Shame girl.. That one is desperate to get engage is not by erotica display because real Ashawoo get am tire.. . Carry yourself well and people will come after you.. . Like the saying goes, better garri na dey sell himself...

stagger:
This is why such events should never be free. You charge money to keep away miscreants who have no business being there.

ronalmagic10:
Which kain video be this sef

myright:
Armed soldiers on Friday morning invaded the Jakande market in Ketu, Lagos State, chasing away traders.

One person was allegedly killed in the violence that ensued as touts, in retaliation, took to the streets, destroying property. The death is yet to be confirmed.

However, a PREMIUM TIMES reporter witnessed as a person hit on the face by a stray bullet was rushed to the hospital.

The thugs also went to the police station in the area, destroying cars packed there. They also vandalised BRT buses in the area.

Many traders were seen taking refuse at a filling station close to the market.

The cause of the invasion by the soldiers and the violence was yet to be ascertained at the time of this report.

A police team at the scene later shot sporadically into the air to disperse the thugs.

https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/361562-just-in-violence-as-soldiers-invade-lagos-market-chase-away-traders.html?fbclid=IwAR3pL9Ihsc0hl4s0SnU_qbS4in3TZnYkGbqa5949nDLq3qiGrTH-xQkc10A

CotenantNIG:
Ilojo Bar

Ilojo Bar, also called Olaiya House or Casa da Fernandez, was a Brazilian-styled historic building located near Tinubu Square in Lagos Island, Lagos State, Nigeria. It was originally built as a bar and restaurant in 1855 by the Fernandez family who employed returning ex-slaves who had mastered the art of building while in South America. Ilojo Bar was subsequently sold to Alfred Omolana Olaiya of the Olaiya family in 1933 and was declared a national monument in 1956 by the National Commission for Museums and Monuments.

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The 170-year-old Ilojo Bar that was demolished in 2016...

The demolition was surreptitiously carried out by one faction of the family that owned it, even though the building had been expressly designated as a National Monument by the National Commission for Museums and Monuments, and there were at least 2 different NOTICES on the building clearly warning property speculators and the public that it was a National Monument.

During pre-restoration valuation in 2012

CotenantNIG:
Ilojo Bar

Ilojo Bar, also called Olaiya House or Casa da Fernandez, was a Brazilian-styled historic building located near Tinubu Square in Lagos Island, Lagos State, Nigeria. It was originally built as a bar and restaurant in 1855 by the Fernandez family who employed returning ex-slaves who had mastered the art of building while in South America. Ilojo Bar was subsequently sold to Alfred Omolana Olaiya of the Olaiya family in 1933 and was declared a national monument in 1956 by the National Commission for Museums and Monuments.
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Sungbo's Eredo

Sungbo's Eredo is a system of defensive walls and ditches that is located to the southwest of the Yoruba town of Ijebu Ode in Ogun State, southwest Nigeria. It was built in honour of the Ijebu noblewoman Oloye Bilikisu Sungbo
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The Eredo served a defensive purpose when it was built in 800–1000, a period of political confrontation and consolidation in the southern Nigerian rainforest. It was likely to have been inspired by the same process that led to the construction of similar walls and ditches throughout western Nigeria, including earthworks around Ifẹ̀, Ilesa, and the Benin Iya, a 6,500-kilometre (4,000 mi) series of connected but separate earthworks in the neighboring Edo-speaking region. It is believed that the Eredo was a means of unifying an area of diverse communities into a single kingdom. It seems that the builders of these fortifications deliberately tried to reach groundwater or clay to create a swampy bottom for the ditch. If this could be achieved in shallow depth, builders stopped, even if only at the depth of 1 meter. In some places small, conical idol statues had been placed on the bottom of the ditch

Walls of Benin

The Walls of Benin are a series of earthworks made up of banks and ditches, called Iya in the Edo language in the area around present-day Benin City, the capital of present-day Edo, Nigeria. They consist of 15 kilometres (9.3 miles) of city iya and an estimated 16,000 kilometres (9,900 miles) in the rural area around Benin. Connah estimated that the walls of Benin may have been constructed between the thirteenth and mid-fifteenth century CE. Darling estimated that the walls of Benin (in the Esan region) may have been constructed during the first millennium CE
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Ogbunike Caves

The Ogbunike Caves are located in Ogbunike, Anambra State, southeastern Nigeria.

Located in a valley blanketed by tropical rain forest, the collection of caves has been in use over centuries by local people for whom it has particular spiritual significance. This spiritual significance is still apparent, as the "Ime Ogba" celebration is undertaken every year to commemorate the discovery of the caves.

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Descending into the valley where the caves are located is a lengthy walkway made up of about 317 steps said to have been constructed by the Anambra State Government in the mid 90s. Visitors must remove their shoes before entering the caves, as per tradition. And women who are having their monthly cycle cannot go in.

The main cave consists of a massive structure with a big open chamber of about 5m high, 10m wide and 30m long at the entrance. There are ten tunnels at the main chamber leading to different directions. Within the tunnels are big chambers and other tunnels of varying lengths, some of which are inter connected. The caves are occupied by a large colony of bats of various sizes. There are streams and body of water at various places. A stream flows out from one of the tunnels into a rapid flowing river (River Nkissa). At the meeting point of the river and the stream one can feel the warm water from the caves and the cold river water. Beside this portion of the river is a table land of about 5 X 5 square meters used as a relaxation spot by visitors to the caves. The immediate environment of the caves up to about 200 meters radius is a thick tropical rainforest type of vegetation. The site has sufficient boundaries (20 hectares) to protect its values from direct effects of human encroachment.

CHIEF NANA PALACE

Chief Nana's Palace is a living history museum dedicated to the life and deeds of Chief Nana of Olomu, a powerful nineteenth century entrepreneur who is notable for his extended contact with the British Empire.

Nana Olomu was born into the Itsekiri community of Jakpa around 1852. He was a merchant who later became the fourth Itsekiri chief to hold the position of Governor of Benin River. Although born as "Eriomala", he became known by his pet name "Nana".
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Warri Royal Cemetery

Situated on a massive expanse of land, the Warri Kingdom Royal Cemetery is one exceptional place to visit due to its nature. The royal cemetery, which is the resting place of all the kings that have ever reigned in Warri Kingdom, is a unique forest in Ijala Land.
On the trail to the various locations following a single footpath, one would expect to find tomb stones and other usual markings or landmarks to identify the various resting places, but this is not so.
Like any other forest, the usual lush vegetation with trees and plants of various kinds, coupled with the serene environment and the chirping of birds that breaks the silence to welcome tourists to this place of grandeur is the characteristics of this cemetery.
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Naturally, one would wander around the forest without it leaving significant impression, but being guided by our tour guide, Mr Henry Erikowa and leading us to specific locations made the tour a memorable one.
Making our first stop at an enormous Iroko tree, our guide declared the resting place of Olu Ojoluwa, the fourth King to reign over Warri Kingdom in the year 1550 to 1569. Gazing with awe at the magnificence of this tree that is over 400years old, which was planted immediately Olu Ojoluwa was laid to mother earth as a mark of identification for his resting place, it beat our imagination as to how a tree could last that long with no sign of drying up soon.
Branching out to hold more firmly to the ground, the powerful roots that bear this enormous gift of nature leaves you wondering if it gets its continued sustenance from the royalty that lies peacefully underneath it; or from the land that has lain fallow for hundreds of years.
This also goes for all the other 17 trees standing over the graves of the other kings that ruled over the Warri kingdom, from Olu Ginuwa I that died in 1500 to Olu Erejuwa II who died in 1986.
This is evident that the culture of tree planting, which is being practiced and popularised all over the world, did not begin today. Although not for the same reasons, the culture of ‘preservation’ might as well be said to have begun with the Kingdom of Warri.

Osun-Osogbo Sacred Grove
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The dense forest of the Osun Sacred Grove, on the outskirts of the city of Osogbo, is one of the last remnants of primary high forest in southern Nigeria. Regarded as the abode of the goddess of fertility Osun, one of the pantheon of Yoruba gods, the landscape of the grove and its meandering river is dotted with sanctuaries and shrines, sculptures and art works in honour of Osun and other deities. The sacred grove, which is now seen as a symbol of identity for all Yoruba people, is probably the last in Yoruba culture. It testifies to the once widespread practice of establishing sacred groves outside all settlements.

Erin Ayonigba Fish River

The Erin Ayonigba Fish River, popularly called the sacred river, is filled with fishes that can never be killed or eaten.

Killing the fishes is forbidden, and it is said that whoever manages to kill any of the fish would die in poverty.

It is believed that any fish taken the river will never get cooked no matter how long it is on the fire.
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Rolling Hills, Okigwe

Situated in the northeastern axis of Imo state are the Rolling hills of Okigwe. These hills possess great qualities that make them some of the places to be visited by tourists in Imo state. The rolling hills of Okigwe are characterized by their beautiful environment and serenity. Next time you decide to go for a picnic, this is will be a great site.
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