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[quote author=baby-boy link=topic=831590.msg9831254#msg9831254 date=1324801515]Does he want medal?[/quote]lol

Britta:
of course Nolly begot Gholly

so true

amor4ce:
Aren't they portrayed by many followers of the Crusaders and Jihadists mostly as associated with so-called demonic traditions?

To be real I never heard that but from my observation many Christians Yoruba's and traditionalist Yoruba's embrace it when it comes to historical preservation but Muslim Yoruba's I don't see that from them too much but as I said I not sure but I won't be surprised if Christians and Muslims have some negative views about the sculptures.

[quote author=tpia@ link=topic=797242.msg9844605#msg9844605 date=1325008186]so, do we have any research yet into the effect of the inquisition/s on subsaharan africa- southern nigeria in particular.[/quote]not really, history books tends to talk about the inquisition or Spanish inquisition mostly with religion at times in Latin America but not so much with Africa, unless there is and we don't hear about it

wafa1230:
https://www.pics-site.com/wp-content/uploads/Priyanka-Chopra-Pictures-5.jpg
https://img409.imageshack.us/img409/9543/priyanka1.jpg
my favorite in all is priyanka, hope that many guys and gals will be agree with me

Actresses profiles

She is beautiful no debate there but she is not a Nollywood actress

Basseti:
Is she Nolly wood?? 

exactly, I don't get it, lol

all4naija:
Most of these arts are displayed in Brit museum, which could have earned Nigeria foreign income and serve as tourism potentials.

I agree, I don't know why Nigerians are not taking advantage of that or are they?

check out this link:
http://cometonigeria.com/forum/index.php?topic=1896.0

[b]"Ali Nuhu – born in Gombe state and raised in Kano – has been in the Nigerian film industry for over ten years. The Nollywood actor/producer, who attained his BSE in Geography from University of Jos, started with Hausa movies before taking a big leap into English movies.

Today, the hardworking actor, who has starred alongside people like: Ini Edo, Kevin Uvo, Omotola Jalade-Ekeinde, Jackie Appiah, Olu Jacobs and many more, sat down with Nollywoodgossip’s Inside Nollywood With Joy for an interview. Excerpts:

About.

My name is Ali Nuhu, I’m a Nollywood actor from Gombe state, but was raised in Kano state. I had a BSE in geography from the University of Jos.

Acting.

Been acting for 10 years now, been doing Hausa movies and now English movies.

Movies.

Bitter Generation, Spirit Of A Dancer and lots more – can’t count.

On Nollywood.

Nollywood, well, there is a lot of changes right now compared to how it was before. If you see today the kind of movies, the content of the stories, the technical aspect of the movies, I think they are progressing.

On AGN.

Laughs, well you know AGN is all about conducting an election for the new excos so I won’t really say anything for now.

Challenges.

Yes, there are a lot of challenges, for instant, the kind of atmosphere we use for locations are not so conducive, money is also another challenge.

Becoming an actor.
Well I have never dreamt of it, but had great passion for it, those days when we were small we stayed glued to our TV screens watching movies and you wish to become like who you’re seeing on your TV, you know, laughs. I watched a lot of soap series and that was where I got my decision from.

Producing.
Well apart from being an actor I also produce – that is what most people do not know. Although I have been producing Hausa movies not really English and a few of them are Husseni, Hadamsy and many more.

Love working with.

Although I have worked with her before, but I can never get tired of working with Omotola Jalade-Ekeinde.

Nollywood VS. Ghollywood.

Laughs, I have not heard this before oh, but of course, Nollywood is better, come on let’s be realistic, Nollywood gave birth to Ghollywood, so you see why we are better.

Nollywoodgossip Magazine wishes you the best.

Yes ma, thank you too."[/b]
http://www.nollywoodgossip.net/2011/08/06/nollywood-gave-birth-to-ghollywood-ali-nuhu-tells-nollywoodgossip/

Ali Nuhu
https://www.gloworld.com/images/img_ambassador5.jpg

Nigeria can do a movie without emphasis on religion, I think their have been movies on that but for the majority of movies from Nollywood most will always have a religious theme to it, it's inevitable

ULSHERLAN:
​ℓ̊ just pray we don't end the world ourselves

True, I agree

odumchi:
And anonymous what would be an example of a man without culture?

well for the ones born and raised in the western like me for example; it is those men that don't know much or nothing about the customs, language and etc of their culture, pretend to be of another culture but their own for example dressing like a thug and etc

matoyeh:
In "GEJ Tigers" on facebook, i have stated it that we are not going to discuss on only governmental issues, but on communities and family matters too.
here is a Nigerian Lady that dressed all the way from her house to a party nakedly,  i am now imagining,  are these ladies trained traditionally at all?

what the hell is that lady wearing, that dress is so low down her back that her butt crack is showing disgusting. My mom would slap me across the face if I walk out of the house wearing that get up, and I am in my late twenties. This is beyond culture, any person wearing a dress like that showing her a-s-s out in the open has no class or fashion sense LOL.

when it comes to the question, well it depends because if it is a man as well that doesn't have culture or is the same as the girl, it won't make a difference if he marries her or not. There are some good Nigerians that weren't raised in the culture but have good values and etc and want to learn the culture. I would like to add that you should also ask Can You Marry a Man Without Culture? because it goes both ways to me

Their religion is the biggest reason and most of the time they share the same values and beliefs to a extent that it is hard to see the differences between them. Some Nigerians actually believe Fulani's are a certain group from the Hausa's, until these two groups start showing their differences more and make emphasis on it people will always keep grouping those two tribes as the same.

ULSHERLAN:
Dis day people are much concerned with the world coming to an end

yup, to the extreme also

both are pretty in their own way but I am leaning towards Damilola

Damilola
https://cdn.bellanaija.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/Tinsel-Season-III-Lagos-Bella-Naija0059.jpg

Siena:
I think it would be best if you start a fresh thread, for the top 20, we'll get told off for derailling otherwise, hehehe.

coogar:
where's your list?

Sorry if it took me a while to answer but I am busy with holiday shopping any way here is my top 11-20(after my top ten) list but as I said before, it is in no particular order(well to a extent though)

Nse Ikpe-Etim
Bukky Wright
Chelsea Ada Ezerioha
Biodun Okeowo
Yvonne Jegede
Nadia Buari
Damilola Adegbite
Mosun Filani
Jackie Appiah
Fathia Balogun

[quote author=Jenifa_ link=topic=830197.msg9811998#msg9811998 date=1324493404]Americans have no sense of the spiritual.
hence the need to always interpret messages like this very literally.[/quote]so true, lol

EXAMPLES
Mel Gibson
[img]http://www.topnews.in/files/Mel-Gibson3.jpg[/img]
"Mel Gibson: As if we didn’t know, Mel Gibson is a two-time Academy Award-winning American-Australian actor, director, producer and screenwriter. He shares his belief while directing his ancient epic “Apocalypto”: Us Magazine reported that Gibson said jokingly, “I just wanna draw the parallels. I don’t wanna be a doomsayer, but the Mayan calendar ends in 2012. So have fun, boys and girls!”"

Lil Wayne
[img]http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/252/5648723.jpg[/img]
"Lil’ Wayne: Dwayne Michael Carter, Jr. better known for his stage name Lil Wayne, is one of the best selling rappers in the world. He is convinced the world will soon end after reading about Mayan prophecies on his tour bus, and he is sure recent events in world history prove the Mayans were right about the world ending in 2012. He tells Blender magazine, “The world is about to end in 2012…’cause the Mayans made calendars, and they stop at 2012. I got encyclopedias on the bus.”"

Ashton Kutcher
[img]http://horiwood.files./2011/10/ashton-kutcher.jpg[/img]
"Mr. Demi Moore must know the end is coming -- he signed up for Two and a Half Men, after all!

"It won't take very much, I'm telling you. It will not take much for people to hit the panic button. The amount of convenience that people rely on based on electricity alone. You start taking out electricity and satellites, and people are going to lose their noodle. People don't have maps anymore. People use their iPhones or GPS systems, so if there's no electricity, nobody has maps," Kutcher told Men’s Fitness in 2010.

He’s even taken up Krav Maga to get ready.

"All of my physical fitness regimen is completely tailored around the end of day. I stay fit for no other reason than to save the people I care about.""

to check out the link to see other celebrities who believe in the 2012 dooms day view
http://www.conquer2012.com/famous-people-and-celebrities-believing-in-2012/
http://www.sheknows.com/entertainment/articles/831385/4-celebs-that-think-the-end-of-the-world-is-coming
http://theextinctionprotocol./category/celebrities-and-the-apocalypse/

[b]"The countdown to the apocalypse is on.

We're one year away from Dec. 21, 2012, the date that the ancient Mayan Long Count calendar allegedly marked as the end of an era that would reset the date to zero and signal the end of humanity.

But will it?

There have been many end of times predictions over the years. Christian radio host Harold Camping faced widespread ridicule when his predictions that the world would end twice this year - on May 21, and then on Oct. 21 - failed to materialize.

But in the flurry of doomsday predictions - there have been similar dire warnings about the world coming to an end from various cultures, including Native Americans, the Chinese, Egyptians and even the Irish - the supposed Mayan prophecy seems to have held the most sway with believers.

The Mayan civilization, which reached its height from 300 A.D. to 900 A.D., had a talent for astronomy. Advanced mathematics and primitive astronomy flourished, creating what many have called the most accurate calendar in the world.

The Mayans predicted a final event that included a solar shift, a Venus transit and violent earthquakes.

Their Long Count calendar begins in 3,114 B.C., marking time in roughly 394-year periods known as Baktuns. Thirteen was a significant, sacred number for the Mayas, and they wrote that the 13th Baktun ends on Dec. 21, 2012.

The doomsday theories stem from a stone tablet discovered in the 1960s at the archaeological site of Tortuguero in the Gulf of Mexico state of Tabasco that describes the return of a Mayan god at the end of a 13th period.

"The Maya are viewed by many westerners as exotic folks that were supposed to have had some special, secret knowledge," said Mayan scholar Sven Gronemeyer. "What happens is that our expectations and fears get projected on the Maya calendar."

Gronemeyer, of La Trobe University in Australia, compares the supposed Mayan prophecies to the "Y2K" hype, when people feared all computer systems would crash when the new millennium began on Jan. 1, 2000.

For some reason, Gronemeyer says, people have ignored evidence that dates beyond 2012 were recorded.

The blogosphere exploded with more speculation when Mexico's archaeology institute acknowledged on Nov. 24 a second reference to Dec. 21, 2012, on a brick found at other ruins.

"Human beings seem to be attracted by apocalyptic ideas and always assume the worst," Gronemeyer said.

Believers have taken the end-of-the world fears to the Internet with hundreds of thousands of websites and blogs. Yet others are capitalizing on the heightened interest. Films depicting the end of the world - including the 2009 movie, "2012? - are contributing to the mounting hype as well as to misinformation, experts say.

In southern Mexico, the heart of Maya territory, a yearlong celebration is planned.

Mexico's tourism agency expects to draw 52 million visitors by next year only to the regions of Chiapas, Yucatan, Quintana Roo, Tabasco and Campeche. All of Mexico usually lures about 22 million foreigners in a year.

It's selling the date, the Winter Solstice in the coming year, as a time of renewal. Many archeologists argue that the 2012 reference on a 1,300-year-old stone tablet only marks the end of a cycle in the Mayan calendar.

"The world will not end. It is an era," said Yeanet Zaldo, a tourism spokeswoman for the Caribbean state of Quintana Roo, home to Cancun. "For us, it is a message of hope."

For those who are thinking about how to spend what could be their last year on earth, here's another message of hope: According to recent research, the mythological date of the "end of days" may be off by 50 to 100 years.

To convert the ancient Mayan calendar to the Gregorian (or modern) calendar, scholars use a numerical value (called the GMT). But Gerardo Aldana, a professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, has said the data supporting the widely-adopted conversion factor may be invalid.

Aldana isn't the only detractor.

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration - yes, that's NASA - has also weighed in on the issue.

The agency's scientists posted answers to the most popular questions about the end-of-times theory associated with the prophecy.

"Remember the Y2K scare? It came and went without much of a whimper because of adequate planning and analysis of the situation. Impressive movie special effects aside, Dec. 21, 2012, won't be the end of the world as we know," the 2009 web page post says.

The answers addressed questions about whether there were any known threats to the Earth and the truth about the calendar.

One of answers posted was to the question of the possible approach of Nibiru (or Planet X or Eris), a supposed wayward planet that is said could pose a threat to Earth. The answer was a definitive rejection of the idea.

"Nibiru and other stories about wayward planets are an Internet hoax," scientists wrote. "There is no factual basis for these claims. If Nibiru or Planet X were real and headed for an encounter with the Earth in 2012, astronomers would have been tracking it for at least the past decade, and it would be visible by now to the naked eye. Obviously, it does not exist. Eris is real, but it is a dwarf planet similar to Pluto that will remain in the outer solar system; the closest it can come to Earth is about 4 billion miles.""[/b]
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/abc-blogs/2012-end-world-countdown-based-mayan-calendar-starts-101657134.html

https://krishna.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/end-of-the-world.jpg

lovistic:
I agree on Jackie Appiah. Her beauty is very rare. She deserves top 3 spot. Simple but stunning.

Jackie Appiah is pretty but I don't think her beauty is rare

Ivynwa:
Friend I am the last person to diss on our blackness so let your heart not be troubled.
Where I live (and borrowed the slang "darkie" from) the term "darkie" is used to refer to a beautiful african girl as a beautiful african princess.
There's no negativity to it at all. I ain't being rude, I even love and appreciate beautiful dark complexions. My younger

oh ok, understood

Ivynwa:
Yeah boy! They look good together, two good looking darkies.

umm I think it is rude to call them darkies, I have no problem with then being dark skinned

Freesia:
It must have taken a lot of nerve to talk about it to the media,I remember when Monique talked about her situation a few years ago and there were mixed feelings about it.If your own family doesn't want to hear it or wishes to keep it under wraps then go speak to someone else out there to get it off your chest

Monique is American, american society/media is very open to people who suffer from that, even Oprah talked about what she went through when she got r.aped by her cousin or uncle when she was a young child in her family. In America it is fine because many will side with the victim. However the african american community is still attacking and making fun of Monique about it when she talked about her situation. So I applaud those two for speaking out in AMERICA but if they were in Nigeria it would be a different story.

Outstrip:
Actually that line of thinking is dangerous. It should not be kept in the family. Many children suffer in silence because of that "keep it in the family" mentality when it comes to child molestation. He still carries it with him even at this age. He even said that sex is overrated and that tells me that the experience has given him some hangups about sex. He should be applauded for talking about it. ESPECIALLY BECAUSE OF OUR SOCIETY

I don't mind him speaking out to a pastor or something and etc for him to grow personally but to the media I disagree because they could care less about his feelings they just want to sell magazines and headlines and that's why I don't agree with it and Nigerians can be very brutal and mean about it and many Nigerian won't believe anything he is saying(2 people who commented so far already proved my point). His intentions for talking about it was noble, which I can let slide but the consequences he will get from the Nigerian media as a result from it is a different story. Any way he is lucky he is a man because Nigerians can let it slide to a extent but if he was a Nigerian woman, he would not hear the last of it even many years from now.

onila:
even seal dey manage. .atleast he gave all his kids yoruba names. .you will never know sade is Nigerian unless u read her biography

Sade was raised by her British cultural side(her mother is white British) & lived in England since she was four and doesn't know too much about her Yoruba side, mixed kids know more of their mothers culture then fathers, that is just the way it is(especially if they are in the mothers country of origin or land when raised as a kid). I think we should be grateful though, that at least Sade tells people she is half Nigerian without being ashamed about it, I mean she used her Yoruba middle name instead of her English first name(Helen) to identify herself: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sade_Adu#Biography . So she is not like Taio cruz that avoids any association with Nigeria. Overall though this shouldn't be a surprise

When it comes to Seal well he is half Yoruba & half brazilian and was raised by the foster care system in England not by his parents, so he doesn't know much about his Nigeria culture either(just like Sade); the only difference as you said is he at least tried to find a way to connect to his Nigerian side by giving his kids Yoruba names but that's where it ends with him.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seal_%28musician%29#Early_life

chi jane:
are u d aunty in question

No, but I just think situations like that, should be kept with in the family not to the media but if you agree with him telling the world about it that is fine, I don't though because he won't gain from it in the long run, especially in the Nigerian society.

just say you disagree with my opinion, don't try and spin something on me to make me feel guilty for my opinion.