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ITbomb: Yea, we want our historic artifacts back , with some Ipad, Galaxy or play book

LOL, that would be nice though is the offer Ipad with that as well

[quote author=PAGAN 9JA]wow thats a great victory! [/quote]I know lets hope the British Museum follows up and do the same but I doubt it and I wonder if it is worth it because some Nigerian will not take the importance of it seriously

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsocrGSlUOI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVT--v-fAKw

Chanchit: I jst hate stories that has no pix, like this one... We should @least see the 2500yrs old artifact nau...

Sorry I will post the pix now, lol

[b]"THE United States has returned 11 cultural artifacts to Nigeria.

Authorities said French customs officials tipped off the U.S. in April 2010 about a shipment headed to New York’s Kennedy Airport.

The 10 Nok statues and a carved tusk were seized from a Manhattan gallery owner, and an investigation determined they were bona fide antiquities. The artifacts are to be displayed in Nigeria’s national museum.

Nok statues are about 2,000 to 2,500 years old, among the oldest sculptures in West Africa. They were first unearthed in 1943 at a tin mine near the village of Nok in Plateau State.

Homeland Security investigators say two Nok statues and a carved ivory tusk were previously seized at Chicago O’Hare International Airport.

At a repatriation ceremony held at Homeland Security Investigationoffices on the west side of Manhattan on Thursday, Nigeria’s Consul General Habib Baba Habu, took legal possession of the terracotta sculptures, which he said had been stolen from the National Museum.

“It is the day that America has extended a gift of friendship that we will never forget,” he said.

On display for the ceremony were seven pieces of figurines, which resembled bits of cylindrical gingerbread men thanks to the orange hue of the terracotta. The two best preserved pieces, a head and torso, and a pair of legs standing on a pedestal, appeared to have once belonged to a single figure.

All are the work of the Nok culture, which existed within what would become Nigeria from more than 2,000 years ago, before disappearing in the early centuries of the first millennium.

Each of the six terracotta heads bore a distinctive face, which is typical of Nok sculpture, Habu said, explaining that the ancient artisans drew from individual people in normal life, depicting them riding horsesor donkeys, for example, or with farm tools.

Nok artisans were prolific, many similar figurines have left Nigeria, Habu said: “Many of them are at museums all over the world, some were taken out legally.”

Nigeria has laws that control the export of Nok pieces; however, the sculptures have flooded out of the country. In the 1990s, so many reached the European art market that the prices dropped sharply, according to a New York Times article in 2000."[/b]
http://www.thenationonlineng.net/2011/index.php/news/55463-us-returns-11-cultural-artifacts-to-nigeria.html

Some will some won't, so it is a yes/no to me or it depends

Opinions?

shymmex: Miss Nigeria - I like your patriotism.

I admire yours Mr. Nigeria, lol

warya123: Interesting...that the only subsharan africans who have their ethnic langauge as their national language is Ethiopia, and SOMALIA...


another reason why we are superior...


SOMALIS ARE NOT ARABS OR BERBERS BY THE WAY....WE ARE SOMALI. THATS OUR ETHNICITY...ETHIOPIANS HAVE 80 ETHINICITIES.

Somalia is at war and has been since the 90's: "The Somali Civil War is an ongoing civil war taking place in Somalia. It began in 1991, when a coalition of clan-based armed opposition groups ousted the nation's long-standing military government."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somali_Civil_War
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_in_Somalia_%282009%E2%80%93present%29

So I guess you need to rethink that thinking

Also their are Arab mixed race people in Somalia

TerryCarr: Lets take a look at Indonesia and Nigeria, like Nigeria it has colonial borders with a big population and a lot of languages. Nigeria has about 521 languages were Indonesia has about 742. now here where the things get fun. yes English is the language of trade but does it need the be Official? because Indonesia Official language is Indonesian(a version of Malay) and Indonesia is doing better than Nigeria. Cambodia and Niger were french colonies but one speaks Khmer and the other speaks French. why is this? Neo colonialism, Tribalism, or are African Languages not worth it? why can't the Nigeria's "national languages" be official with English

feel free to post

because it is not possible because of trade and if it is that mean one language in Nigeria has to take the top seat and that will bread tribalism, which won't make things better. Each region will not care to learn english which will make it more difficult for tribes to communicate with each other besides pigeon english to a extent in certain regions. However in Hausaland, many speak their native language completely over English, that federal is 50/50 with them there and in Yorubaland, they communicate in yoruba amongst themselves unless the person is non-yoruba, and in the east pigeon english supercedes there. So that Federal law that makes English a official language, well id doesn't pass trade as you mentioned.

Lastly the official language in Lagos State is Yoruba: http://nigeriavillagesquare.com/forum/main-square/21351-lagos-house-adopts-yoruba-official-language.html
http://www.naijarules.com/vb/news-books-art-culture/25586-lagos-assembly-use-yoruba-official-language.html
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TalkNigeria/message/45986?var=1

Rgp92: Ha! thank you, i was looking for that video! PROUD NIGERIAN!!

You welcome, I had to look through the forum just to find this excellent video representing our beautiful culture

Off topic just wanted to add this video for proud Nigerians every where

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HI1uWf8y_MI

shymmex: Video of Naija's parade..

This is the link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HI1uWf8y_MI

Nigeria was on point as usual

It is inevitable that both will have similarities since Yoruba and bini have similar paternal heritage

wow I can see the resemblance

odumchi: I didn't see any hidden post there.



My apologies. Your post has been revealed and you'll be unbanned shortly.

after the joelle kayembe post

PhysicsQED: Royal, I think you're trying to be "clever by half" or being mischievous in pretending that you don't know what is meant by "ghetto culture", especially considering that you earlier claimed explicitly above that



(despite not being an expert on all of these cultures)

Now look again at the very literal and strict definition you posted of "ghetto" in your later comment.

There is no way, in light of that definition and that definition only, to really claim that a culture is ghetto. But you already did make that claim - so you acknowledged and were aware of what everybody else in this thread was talking about - the perpetuation, toleration, and the acceptance within a culture as even slightly normal of unpleasant and wayward social behaviors from the lower classes from slum areas in cities. That was what the thread starter was worried about - what would ordinarily be considered socially wayward behavior becoming more and more normal to people.

And no, actually I would disagree with the idea that these wayward social behaviors would have been seriously tolerated and treated as normal behaviors within the cultures prior to westernization because of what I've read about many of these cultures prior to westernization.

The rest of what you posted is rather irrelevant and seems like you're trying to go off into arguments about different issues that I never even brought up.

I agree with you and understand what you are saying, can I ask, are you Nigerian?

[quote author=Ileke-IdI]Thanks. That's what I told am o.


It's funny how the Olympics is not hyped as much as the 2008 one. I even forgot it was today until somborry invited me over to watch it.
The economy, perhaps.[/quote]It is true, it was my father that kept talking about it that reminded me of it, he wants to see when Nigeria comes out in the opening ceremony.

[quote author=Ileke-IdI]Hey does anyone know which network the Olympics is going to aired??[/quote]NBC & BBC world; but I prefer the BBC one; I am watching BBC world right now, broadcast is very good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDjaON0ePbU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNvCnD0Dhqc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fhuqt7dbNL8

lepasharon: .

ia that her real hair in a mo hawk

ozoebuka1: nonsense! he should urge unity amongst every of his doings first.

you mean people in his tribe or under his command in the Navy? don't understand

can you unhidden my post on page 1 of this thread: https://www.nairaland.com/844873/beauty-extremely-dark-skinned-black/1 , thank you

kengis: ah okay !I thought you were igbo ,don't know why
your parents are nigerians and what about you ?LOL

I consider myself Nigerian American, Nigerian or a American born Nigerian

kengis: Where you're from ?

Born and raised in America but my parents are Nigerian(Yoruba)

kengis: o bu ndi a mag(h)i ihe na ichefu ome nala ndi nna ha

Not being rude but please respond in english