₦airaland Forum

OYEDIPE:
You call someone's tradition fetish !!!

How can someone who invaded your land to steal and loot your resources tell you that what you are doing is wrong?

If he is so wise to know what is right and wrong, why did he come to your land to steal?

Is stealing and looting my resources at gunpoint to enrich your society right?

So how can you come with a “Holy Book”?

Did you not read your “holy book” before coming here to pillage and plunder, and massacre?

I keep telling Nigerians - take that book they gave you, and Bin it.

TruthHurts1:
Na fetish renaming be dis one😂

We are Proud of our Traditional African Religion which predates christianity and islam by more than 150,000 years.

That thieving colonialists came with bombs, a dubious ‘holy book’, and guns barely 100 years ago doesn’t mean we abandon 150,000 years of knowledge, identity and history.

There is definitely a positive vibe coming back to people.

The worst is behind us. The only way now is up.

May God, his Orishas, and the Ancestors bless these people as they embrace their African spirituality by opening an IFA Temple in Oshogbo.

Sad to see the poor environment that foreign religion has left them.

No doubt the elevation of their ancestral Glory and indigenous spiritual power will create a better, beautiful future for them.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5lBSroMxuU?si=2SW8bG2zlFhOR9Aj

NOETHNICITY:
It is not possible not to know someone of the caliber of Dangote.

Those ones you are talking about aren’t known because they simply don’t exist or they haven’t reached 10% of Dangote’s milestone.


Like you said — you truly don’t know what my point.

I’ll try one last time to explain

Elon Musk is known not because of the money in his account, but because of the strides he’s made that are obvious in Starlink, Starships, Tesla electric vehicles. We can say that Elon Musk revolutionized electric vehicles in USA

Also, Zuchaberg revolutionized social media platforms as evident in Facebook, Instagram and general ‘Meta’ enterprises.

Jeff Besos revolutionized online marketing

The list of these guys and what they do can’t be missed or overlooked.

And you can’t tell me that people like these guys can be unknown. It’s not possible.

Back to Nigeria.

Imgine that we have someone (who is just like Dangote) known for milk production for example. Nigeria will not have to be importing peak milk from Denmark (I think)

Imagine we have someone like dangote in the Textile industry. We wouldn’t have to be importing all our textile from China

Imagine we have a someone like Dangote investing in meat production, Nigeria would have our Fulani headmen problem resolved and we would be exporting meat to other countries.

If you still don’t understand what my point is, then forget it.

Fair points. But we’re a post-colonial society, so we probably needed one “Dangote” to show the way. Expect more of such personalities to emerge in the years and decades ahead -
Industrialists who think Big like Aliko Dangote.

HydraFeeds:
We need to integrate machinery and AI into our manufacturing, that's how we can mass produced and at the same time safely increase workers pay .

Nigeria just established Africa’s first AI University, or is building it as we speak.

Solely for studying AI.

This is what we call Early Positioning as far as AI is concerned, in Africa.

thesicilian:
There's no top ten anything in Africa without Nigeria

Exactly.

The question is never if Nigeria is on the list.

It’s only about what position we are on the list.

IPDGP:
Some people will still come and blame Tinubu say we no dey number 1, and their state no be number 1 for Nigeria

😂😂😂

okpouman:
Lol,face the facts,the trail of arab expansion from Arabia to north Africa to Spain is evident

AI is wrong, and you are right, abi?

Who are you?

EzeCanada:
Life began in Igbo heartland and the first human language is Igbo

Iron smelting was invented in Lejja, Nsukka.

Without the invention of the technology of Iron Smelting, there would be nothing like cars or planes or fridges or phones, or anything useful made with metal today.

In fact the whole world would be living in caves.

The oldest iron smelting site on Earth was discovered in Lejja, and carbon dated to 2,000 BCE.

According to AI ChatGPT

''The Lejja iron smelting site, located in present-day Enugu State, Nigeria, is recognized as the oldest known iron smelting site in the world. Dating back to approximately 2000 BC, it predates other well-known iron-working sites, challenging previous assumptions about the origin of iron smelting technology. The site provides evidence of large-scale iron production and offers insights into the early development of West African societies.''

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b2/Lejja_iron_slags.png/500px-Lejja_iron_slags.png

https://thingsnigeria.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/p1020292508540819.jpg

https://thingsnigeria.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/20180106_175051332442245.jpg

esnbrutality:
I told my friend about this and when he researched he confirmed it.

IGBO AMAKA

But Igbos are not the only southern Nigerians nau..

The report did not mention Igbos. It just said southern Nigerians.

Yoruba, Edo, Itsekiri, Efik and Ijaw people nko?

Na wa for una.

King Duke IX of Old Calabar, 1895

https://i.pinimg.com/736x/b6/ef/89/b6ef8915fd60aeba2efad0dbb37de336.jpg

Do any Nairalanders from Calabar or Cross River know about this king?

He looks very powerful, confident and comfortable.

But I sense a certain unhappiness in his gaze.

Something is bothering him a bit. He's worried about something

It's 1895.

Just two years before British forces bombarded, destroyed, looted and burned down the Great Benin City.

What is this King of Calabar thinking about?

Look in his eyes. There's something bothering him..

A certain foreboding...

okpouman:
There are paintings showing Arabs,the names of the Arab leaders of the invaders are widely known, you can use chatgpt to know them.

Here are the Moors of Europe, so stop lying because you feel inferior:

Amsterdam
https://i.pinimg.com/1200x/40/6d/25/406d2561cc8efe9526fbbf5a3eae240e.jpg


Frederick III with the Hapsburg coat of arms.
This is the progenitor of the famous aristocratic Habsburg family in Europe.
https://i.pinimg.com/736x/dc/c3/49/dcc349f4b6565b63752270775347a6ea.jpg


Statue of a Moorish King, Spain, 13th Century
https://i.pinimg.com/736x/28/41/2d/28412df852c9928ae025c8a9aa66e6f0.jpg

seunowa:
Everyone is commending Tinubu for his visionary economic policies from soludo to Otti, from Otti to madam Ngozi to MBA....only obi is saying otherwise.

Obi prefers the one happening in Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.

I suggest we contribute to buy him a house there, so he can go there and live.

yemre:
they want to prosper but don't want development, they forgot that nobody and no government will share free money to them but can only help them to achieve their goals by giving them infrastructures that will enable them do their business. Besides , they have not yet recovered from election loss and they just hate everything because the person calling the shot is not their man.

Whether they like it or not, Nigeria will develop whoever doesn't want Nigeria to develop is free to relocate.

God bless you for this comment.

JuanDeDios:
Interesting figures. No financially literate person will believe you can build a road from the Cape to Cairo for $1.65 billion though.

Honestly, the kind of low-lifes we have on this forum is so depressing.

Tell me how an expressway from Cape Town to Cairo will cost $1.65 billion?

And I'm sure he goes across social media posting this garbage.

okpouman:
These motors were Muslims,probably Malians etc,they got nothing to do with my ancestors who weren't Muslims,I don't self loathe and I know my ancestors were great,I don't need to derive self esteem from strangers. They weren't my ancestors

We are talking about Black Africans.

Nobody said they are your direct ancestors.

Do you know you share DNA with them, even though they are “Muslims”?

In fact how do you know your distant ancestors did not migrate from Mali or Sudan?

Do you know Africans travelled around the continent and beyond, before the colonial era?

Truth is until you do an ancestral DNA test, you’ve no idea where your ancestors really came from.

They could have migrated from Congo or the Songhai empire to the north, of which north east Nigeria was a part, and hence contributed to the Moorish population which civilised Europe.

So it’s more than possible that you are descended from the Moors.

okpouman:
It shows that they were an already colonised people somewhat,as they did not practice native spirituality

Who told you they didn’t practice native spirituality? There was always an incorporation of the native dimension. It wasn’t shunned.

The reason they adopted Islam was that after the loss of Kemet (or Egypt) to Arab invaders in the 7th century the trans-Saharan trade became dependent on having good relations with the fanatical Arab Islamists and nomads of the north, who would attack or block caravans from non-Muslim kings etc.

So it was economic.

In no way does that deviate from their indigenous knowledge of astronomy, mathematics, law, ethics, metallurgy, philosophy, architecture, medicine and the sciences, which Enriched Islam, since African knowledge in those areas predated Islam by over 150,000 years.

SpatialKing:
When fanatic Tinubu supporter nearly hijacked a moving Plane

What??

See Lagos turning to Singapore and Tokyo before our eyes.

See enjoyment.

Onitsha, Aba, Enugu also deserves this metro of a thing.

Soludo, Otti and co, how far nau?

You have to go beyond tarring roads and start building stuff like this.

Or do people in Lagos have two heads?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSC_T61zxlI?si=xE81AJbYF2T-wiah

But I thought they were married a long time ago, with kids.

I’m surprised to hear about this wedding stuff in Miami.

walosky:
But Igbo girls dey fine o nipe Tori oloun.........no cap, bro !

In your colonised heads that equate light skin with beauty, perhaps.

I don’t understand why they did this in LA instead of Lagos or Abuja.

Are they Americans?

Pls which party is Obi in now?

The man seems to be in every party.

Does anyone know which party he is in

A fanatical supporter of Peter Obi causing commotion inside the aeroplane.

Had to be dragged out by security as he screamed “Obi Datti! Obi Datti!”

https://youtube.com/shorts/E7zvmtfHFNE?si=39rFugtUmdIQRZZQ

Seriously, Obi needs to call his boys to order. I don’t know why they have to be so thuggish in everything they do.

mecuries:
At his peak, he didn't create something out of nothing. Check his stats out for club and country, below average for an "attacking midfielder". He was all skill and no end product

Football is about far more than stats.

I’m sure Jack Grealish has better ‘stats’ than Okocha, but he is not fit to wipe Okocha’s boots.

Also, it’s only among you young “Nigerians” that we see this constant swipe at Okocha over his ‘stats’.

How many of his games did you watch?

Or you just watched a few clips, checked his ‘stats’ and then think you know him?

On YouTube, videos of him get millions of views and comments of admiration from across the world. Nobody gives a damn about his ‘stats’.

Just like no one cares about Ronaldinho’s stats.

Or Bebeto.

Or Pele.

Or Neymar.

Or Maradona.

Some players are above ‘stats’.

Jay Jay Okocha is one of them.

Real football fans who love the game, know this.