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jln115:
Did Nigeria have electricity before the Brits came? No
did Nigeria have sewage systems before the Brits came? No
Did Nigeria have tarred roads before the Brits came?No

Did British have electricity before they came to Nigeria?

The rest Nigeria had.

gomojam:
That guy is dumber than I thought.

Hahahaha! Na so.

AmenhotepZuid:
@sskia, by now we know the tribes behind the nigger area lie are Yoruba's and hausas using propaganda to fool their population. The truth is there is 1 rich Dangote and 66million hungry, illiterate, poor hausa/Fulani's. there's 1 rich adenuga and 44million ugly, dirty, smelly Yoruba's, others 33million flat head stupid jokes Igbo's who have nothing to show other believe the propaganda fed to them by their afro Asian Hausa masters who sometimes butcher them for fun.

The last time we compared Afonjas with the whole of South Africans in music, you were beaten blue black and left with a black eyes. Now, you wan to compare?

Nigeria has 4 Billionaires my ignoramus man.

AmenhotepZuid:
@edon, you're a stamped and approved idiot I asked you in the past to visit the Nelson Mandela Foundation Site and see that Mandelas travels time line from 1962-1990 the countries are there and listed... Ethiopia, Egypt, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Libya, Algeria. Liberia, Ghana, Senegal, Nigeria etc....in his quotes Mandela mentioned that he takes Ethiopia close to his Heart not the zoo of Jealous minded fools like Chinua Achebe.

You can not rewrite history.


Mnguni made this known in his address at the Abuja Writers Forum’s Guest Writer Session on Saturday in Abuja.


The envoy, who was the special guest of honour at the event with the theme: “Celebrating Mandela,’’ said literature was a tool to strive for freedom.

“ Mandela came to Nigeria in February 1963 to beg for money to help in the struggle for the people of our country and he was given the needed support.

“Nigeria as a country helped South Africa a lot in the struggle for freedom; I want to use this opportunity to thank Nigerians for the role they played in our struggle"

AmenhotepZuid:
@forgiveness, you're a disgrace to Nigerian education everyone around the world know that after the Atlantic Slave Trade year 1440-1900...colonization followed between 1850-1960 in Africa....please Google Frederick Lugard idiot Nigeria was a British colony from 1850-1960 the British controlled, built everything even discovered oil and gas industry there. Lagos was a slave port that was annexed by the British army in 1850 with the help of Kru tribe from Liberia, then British expanded and controlled the whole Nigeria divided you then into 2 North and South. Later amalgamated the 2 regions into one country then they fuckrd off. read your history

Did British build Abuja?

Did British build Ikeja?

Did British build Lekki?

Did British build SRG?

Did British build Mono rail, metro rail, etc?

Did British build the 100 universities in Nigeria?

Did British build dams and reservoirs in Nigeria?

Did British build 8 lanes roads/ express?

Did British build the hydro power dams?

You don't know anything.

jln115:
Tar Roads, Sewage systems, electricity...........Didn't I mention these several times?

You don't have a point. Just grasping for straw.

jln115:
Great Zimbabwe
KHAMI
MAPUNGUBWE
Kilwa Kisiwani
Kweneng

Bhuhahahaha! Bhuhahahaha! Bhuhahahaha! You are desperate now. These places were abandoned long before Boer came and most were never in South Africa. Try again.

TayserMahri:
@ forgiveness,

What happened to your once mighty force
This is beyond embarrassing

Nigeria soldiers elated as they see convoy of Chadian troops,pass by in pursuit of boko haram pic.twitter.com/FyuBW4sS6r

— alex (@africaken1) April 5, 2020

They are celebrating because Chad territory will no longer be safe as an hideous for boko haram.

rvp20182:
Chad army does what Nigeria can never do.
http://saharareporters.com/2020/04/05/chadian-army-kills-more-boko-haram-terrorists-shekau-begs-fighters-not-run-new-audio

That's Chad's territory. They wanted us to pay them before they fight against boko haram but we refused and they tactical withdraw from the war. But after 92 Chad soldiers were killed by boko haram, they realised it's not only a Nigerian thing.

jln115:
Bro I know what infrastructure is, it seems like you are the one that is having a problem defining it

What is infrastructure? You need to answer this because you claimed British gave Nigeria better infrastructures but now they are Worst. Mention those better infrastructures. I want to show you something.

jln115:
How did I lie? The British built Benin.......there were no roads, sewage systems, electricity before the Brits came..........Yes it probably was a nice ancient city just like those in Southern Africa. but it was the Brits that brought the actual infrastructure like roads, sewage systems and electricity!

List the ancient cities in Southern Africa. I want to show you something.

jln115:
I said "For that time" meaning compared to the rest of the world your infrastructure got worse!

I asked you you define infrastructure first before we proceed. Thank you.

jln115:
How did I lie? The British built Benin.......there were no roads, sewage systems, electricity before the Brits came..........Yes it probably was a nice ancient city just like those in Southern Africa. but it was the Brits that brought the actual infrastructure like roads, sewage systems and electricity!

You called it a mere village before the British came, that is a pure lie.

Did British invent electricity? When did British began to use electricity in their homes?

Which road and sewage systems?

Roads and sewage systems excited in the city as declared by the explores who visited the city long before the British came. I have posted it. Maybe you pretended not to see or you're being deluded.

jln115:
Of course it isn't as developed as Modern Nigeria! As is the same for any country!

However for that time the infrastructure was better than it is now!!

Do you know the definition of infrastructure? Know that first before you add "better".

AskiaHarem:
You know this fool can't think beyond his historic wasteland when it comes to pre colonial Africa.

Exactly!

jln115:
LOL!! so from where did you get these so sources? Also is it only Benin City that you built then destroyed then the British built it again and then Nigerians destroyed once more?

Also........why does Benin city look like this now? have Nigerians regressed?

It's not a hidden secret. You question is irrelevant.

The point remains that you lied British met mere villages. I will countered that of Kano too.

jln115:
They were mere villages when the British arrived

TayserMahri:
What did Indians do to you

They are my friend.

AmenhotepZuid:
@Carmit, you're bowing low as usual. Everyone around the globe knows Seal was born in the UK to Afro Brazilian and nigerian parents. He's a Brit of mixed ethnicity not yours. He has 4 Grammies vs Black Mambao has 5 Grammies that's Mambazo alone not counting Soweto Gospel Choir has 3 Grammies and many other SA Grammy winners. no Igbo has won a Grammy only 1 Yoruba late sikiru adepoju won 1. The rest of you motherfvckers know fokol....other than pal climbers/tree climbers am sure you fools fall a lot hence your heads look flat. Dark breed of evil fvcks.

I will be back to cure your ignorance. Busy now.

jln115:
They were mere villages when the British arrived

Do you now realized you have been lied to by the British?

Read the last sentence and see you have been deceived.


“These works from Benin are equal to the very finest examples of European casting technique,” wrote Professor Felix von Luschan, formerly of the Berlin Ethnological Museum. “Benvenuto Celini could not have cast them better, nor could anyone else before or after him. Technically, these bronzes represent the very highest possible achievement.”

A drawing of Benin City made by a British officer in 1897.
A drawing of Benin City made by a British officer in 1897. Illustration: akg-images
What impressed the first visiting Europeans most was the wealth, artistic beauty and magnificence of the city. Immediately European nations saw the opportunity to develop trade with the wealthy kingdom, importing ivory, palm oil and pepper – and exporting guns. At the beginning of the 16th century, word quickly spread around Europe about the beautiful African city, and new visitors flocked in from all parts of Europe, with ever glowing testimonies, recorded in numerous voyage notes and illustrations

jln115:
They were mere villages when the British arrived

The British are bloody liars and thieves. I am still coming to show you Kano.

“Houses are built alongside the streets in good order, the one close to the other,” writes the 17th-century Dutch visitor Olfert Dapper. “Adorned with gables and steps … they are usually broad with long galleries inside, especially so in the case of the houses of the nobility, and divided into many rooms which are separated by walls made of red clay, very well erected.”

Dapper adds that wealthy residents kept these walls “as shiny and smooth by washing and rubbing as any wall in Holland can be made with chalk, and they are like mirrors. The upper storeys are made of the same sort of clay. Moreover, every house is provided with a well for the supply of fresh water”.

jln115:
They were mere villages when the British arrived

Can you open your mouth and call Benin a mere village?

Benin City’s planning and design was done according to careful rules of symmetry, proportionality and repetition now known as fractal design. The mathematician Ron Eglash, author of African Fractals – which examines the patterns underpinning architecture, art and design in many parts of Africa – notes that the city and its surrounding villages were purposely laid out to form perfect fractals, with similar shapes repeated in the rooms of each house, and the house itself, and the clusters of houses in the village in mathematically predictable patterns.

As he puts it: “When Europeans first came to Africa, they considered the architecture very disorganised and thus primitive. It never occurred to them that the Africans might have been using a form of mathematics that they hadn’t even discovered yet.” .

jln115:
They were mere villages when the British arrived

The British tried to destroy West Africans civilization so that they can claim they brought civilization to black West Africans. Fat lies.



In 1691, the Portuguese ship captain Lourenco Pinto observed: “Great Benin, where the king resides, is larger than Lisbon; all the streets run straight and as far as the eye can see. The houses are large, especially that of the king, which is richly decorated and has fine columns. The city is wealthy and industrious. It is so well governed that theft is unknown and the people live in such security that they have no doors to their houses.”

In contrast, London at the same time is described by Bruce Holsinger, professor of English at the University of Virginia, as being a city of “thievery, prostitution, murder, bribery and a thriving black market made the medieval city ripe for exploitation by those with a skill for the quick blade or picking a pockets"

jln115:
They were mere villages when the British arrived

Next time, don't compare Nigerians civilization with what you met in South Africa.

Benin City was also one of the first cities to have a semblance of street lighting. Huge metal lamps, many feet high, were built and placed around the city, especially near the king’s palace. Fuelled by palm oil, their burning wicks were lit at night to provide illumination for traffic to and from the palace.

When the Portuguese first “discovered” the city in 1485, they were stunned to find this vast kingdom made of hundreds of interlocked cities and villages in the middle of the African jungle. They called it the “Great City of Benin”, at a time when there were hardly any other places in Africa the Europeans acknowledged as a city. Indeed, they classified Benin City as one of the most beautiful and best planned cities in the world.

jln115:
They were mere villages when the British arrived

This is in Guinness book of records about Benin city wall.

That was when all cities and countries were encompassed by walls.

Nothing like that was in South Africa.


The Guinness Book of Records (1974 edition) described the walls of Benin City and its surrounding kingdom as the world’s largest earthworks carried out prior to the mechanical era. According to estimates by the New Scientist’s Fred Pearce, Benin City’s walls were at one point “four times longer than the Great Wall of China, and consumed a hundred times more material than the Great Pyramid of Cheops”

Situated on a plain, Benin City was enclosed by massive walls in the south and deep ditches in the north. Beyond the city walls, numerous further walls were erected that separated the surroundings of the capital into around 500 distinct villages.

Pearce writes that these walls “extended for some 16,000 km in all, in a mosaic of more than 500 interconnected settlement boundaries. They covered 6,500 sq km and were all dug by the Edo people … They took an estimated 150 million hours of digging to construct, and are perhaps the largest single archaeological phenomenon on the planet”..

jln115:
They were mere villages when the British arrived

You heard about Benin Empire? Or Sokoto caliphate?

It seems you are an ignoramus.

jln115:
Lagos, Benin City, Kano ect ect ect

You must be deluding yourself. Those cities were already built before British ever stepped a foot in Nigeria.

jln115:
Lagos

Bhuhahahaha! Duuuuuuuuude! British did nothing in Lagos.

We built everything. I mean everything.

TayserMahri:
And finally sammy,

USD 8,962 or 3.3M Naira on Kip's body Enough to feed several families in Lagos the entirety of this lockdown

Is that you, my Indian guy?

Austine1212:
Forgiveness is part of healing

Mental slavery is nigerians believing some people cannot prosper without white influence

Nobody says black South Africans can't prosper without white but we are saying don't intimidate or brag with white man's achievements. And if you want to brag, let us compare what you have achieved as a black South African with other black Africans have achieved. Then we can really figure out who is the underachievers and the achievevers btw both since the black South Africans wanna boast.

Chimezirim121:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uu6zWQG8YA8

Lagos Youth's Blasts Lagos State Govt Over Relief Items Shared
Some Youths Protests Against What Was Given To Them And The Whole Neighborhood To Eat By Lagos State Govt

Mediocre of the highest order. With all the revenue, nothing to show for it. Though I still give it to Tinubu who took Lagos from the debris of infrastructural ruins to where it's today but I think Lagos deserves better.

Kwanza:
Former Aviation Minister, Femi Fani-Kayode, has criticised the Governor of Ogun State, Prince Dapo Abiodun, for exempting Dangote trucks from COVID-19 restriction order in the state.

DAILY POST recalls that Ogun, alongside Lagos and Abuja, have been shut down, in accordance with the directive of President Muhammadu Buhari, to reduce the spread of Coronavirus in Nigeria.

On Friday, the state government announced the closure of 12 major roads into the state to prevent any vehicular movement within and outside Ogun.

However, the state government, through a letter signed by the Secretary to the State Government (SSG), Tokunbo Talabi, on Saturday, told security and traffic agencies to exempt Dangote trucks from the movement restriction order.

The letter reads: “This is to confirm that Dangote Plc. trucks are exempted from the restrictions of movement and total lockdown of the state as a result of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.

“You are requested to permit the trucks to move freely within the state because of the essential multi-sectoral services the company renders to the public. Thank You.”

But, Fani-Kayode, in his reaction, asked Gov Abiodun to explain why Dangote trucks must be granted waivers in spite of the lockdown, asking if some were more equal than others.

Fani-Kayode, on his Facebook page, described as a crying shame, the fact that “a few sons of the South West bow, quiver and tremble before their masters.”

He queried if Dangote trucks “are immune to COVID-19.”

His words: “Governor Dapo Abiodun of Ogun state ought to explain this. Are some more equal than others? It is a crying shame that a few sons of the South West bow, quiver and tremble before their masters.

“Are Dangote’s drivers and trucks immune to COVID-19? Will you give similar exemptions to southern businessmen and traders? Shame on you!”

Meanwhile, the Senior Special Assistant to Governor Abiodun on New Media, Emmanuel Ojo, said the state government has granted exemption to all manufacturers of essential food items like rice, sugar, noodles, flour, salt, water, dairy foods, detergents and others.

He said it was not only Dangote that received the exemption.

However, Nigerians are seeking to know why Dangote was the only company mentioned in the said letter.
https://dailypost.ng/2020/04/06/covid-19-lockdown-gov-abiodun-under-attack-for-exempting-dangote-trucks/

If those trucks are not allowed movement, the economy of Ogun state will fall into comatose. Kudos to the governor.

Mass looting but masses remains helpless.