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seppuku:
Can you prove this?

Are you joking??

Good gracious.

This deserves no response. I'm done with you people. You are hopeless.

Go and seek a refund from whatever school you attended, I swear.

I HOPE YOU PEOPLE REALISE THAT IT HAS BEEN SNOWING IN SOUTH AFRICA FOR THE PAST 200,000 YEARS, A FULL 194,000 YEARS BEFORE "WHITE PEOPLE" EXISTED ON THIS EARTH?

BECAUSE SOME OF YOU TALK AS IF THE SNOW FOLLOWED WHITE PEOPLE TO SOUTH AFRICA, AND IF THEY LEAVE, SNOW WILL STOP FALLING THERE. 🙄

The lost policemen are a real sad story. These are men who gave their lives to protect their fellow Nigerians from these demons.

These bandits deserve no mercy.

RedPilChurchBoy:
Cry cry baby.

Tinubu will take Osun State and nothing will happen.

I DIDN'T EVEN CARE ABOUT THE ELECTION BEFORE, BUT BECAUSE OF THIS DAVIDO/TRUMP ISSUE, LET TINUBU EVEN RIG IT AND WIN!

WE DON'T WANT AMERICAN SLAVES RULING US.

So, only in your old age you realise this, abi?

Was this not what FELA was singing about, and you despised and persecuted him back then?

FELA said it repeatedly that our system of government must be based on our inherited precolonial systems of administration, not European/American systems with no roots in Africa.

Now your eye don clear, abi?

Hope you will also remind them that our GLORIOUS TRADITIONAL RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY MUST BE REVIVED, UPDATED, REBRANDED, AND RE-EMBRACED, BECAUSE NO WHITE MAN OR ARAB HAD THE RIGHT TO INVADE OUR LAND, SLAUGHTER OUR ANCESTORS, LOOT OUR RESOURCES AND FORCE US TO WORSHIP THEIR FILTHY GODS AS OUR "LORD AND SAVIOUR".

THE VERY INSULT!

Goddyuduak:
Oh typical selfish black man. Because it has affected him and his interest, he now knows how to speak out. He knows how to cry out because it is affecting him and his interest. Oh black race who did this to you?

SHUT UP AND STOP TALKING RACIST RUBBISH.

SELFISHNESS IS NOT CONFINED TO ANY RACE OF PEOPLE.

aariwa:
Musicians, entertainers, sportspersons etc have stronger voices in western world than politicians. You will be suprised at the kind of people who will pick up and elevate this fight about a country they know nothing about to higher level just because their star is crying out in pain. Entertainers brought the world attention to the genocide in Israel and they all band together to fight oppression now US have withdrawn support so Davido knows what he is doing., play with him at your own risk

Davido cannot do Jackshiit about ANYTHING in Nigeria.

Understood?

Who is he?

Not all of us care about this your pangolo music you people think is everything, okay?

FSBoperator:
Which one your obi start sef talk more of finish?

Someone who seized all of Anambra collective wealth to invest in his inFidelity bank and stashed the remaining under his daughter's name in an offshore Panamanian account while diverting the rest to build a brewery.

Pls, don't ever mention that thief and charlatan as an option.

If you like him so much get him to be your governor again

Even the so-called brewery, he drank half the beer it produced.

saintbillion:
Seems nairaland is now campaigning for Tinubu. Well presido is a failure. I didn't see any bridge in the video. If he can hire fake bishops, tender fake sch cert, then inaugurating fake bridges shouldn't be a big deal

You people are just spiteful..

God didn't create you to be like this.

ednut1:
Trado cannot cure cancer

HOW THE HELL DO YOU KNOW THAT?

UNLESS YOU HAVE DONE THE RESEARCH, SHUT UP!

kpankpangolo:
If it’s not conventional medicine, do not waste your time. The trado-medicine consultants will throw any strategy at the wall, hoping one sticks. If all fail, they will always come up with an excuse which’ll blame the sick person. It’s no different from pastors who’ll claim a person didn’t have enough faith when prayers fail.

SHUT UP AND STOP TALKING RUBBISH.

MILLIONS OF NIGERIANS HAVE BEEN CURED BY TRADITIONAL MEDICINE SINCE BEFORE YOUR GREAT GRANDPARENTS WERE BORN.

MENTALLY COLONISED PEOPLE FOR WHOM THE WORLD ONLY STARTED WHEN WHITE PEOPLE INVADED WITH BOMBS AND GUNS IN 1900.

DrAda:
It's very possible that our traditional herbs may work in treating cancer. The challenge is to prove it scientifically beyond all reasonable doubt. Until that day comes, please stick to conventional medicine

The European medicine you call "conventional medicine", can you "prove it scientifically beyond all reasonable doubt" that it will cure cancer?

Why do millions of people perish from it if so?

THE ONLY CURE YOU PEOPLE NEED IS A CURE FROM COLONIAL MENTALITY + HISTORICAL IGNORANCE ABOUT AFRICAN KNOWLEDGE AND CIVILISATION.

LordLicifer:
Okay, anything sensible you want to add?

Yes. GO AND START ANOTHER 'SIT AT HOME' AND STOP SAYING "OUR".

WHY IS POUNDO NOT ON YOUR LIST, OGA?

THAT SHOULD BE NUMBER 1 BEFORE ALL THESE THINGS YOU'RE POSTING.

Moustache:
Yam with egg... I meant a lot of egg, not struggling to manage the eggs ooo...

OLEH..

ZombieDredd:
All these self praises without any benefit or positive impact on your home country and her people is trash talk

Dangote employs tens of thousands of Nigerians, and thousands of ancillary businesses are operating today because Dangote Refinery is in existence.

What kind of "positive impact" were you expecting?

Free fuel?

Go and get free fuel from your Village in Anambra.

helinues:
The unfortunate opposition
If this nonsense did not work in 2023, why are they wasting their time again towards the 2027 election

Someone who was once a senator, 2 terms governor of Lagos state is still thr person you are questioning his nationality.

Are these people normal like this

They are just a bunch of wastrels.

They asked Peter Obi on Channels TV to discuss his new Manifesto, and he said in his raspy market woman voice "I'm still using the one from last time [2022]".

That tells you all you need to know about them.

Sheuns:
500 years ago?

LOL you call 500 years ago ancient. Do you know walls have been built around cities as far back as 1184 BCE?

Stop talking rubbish.

If you want to go back 100,000 years ago, we can go there. Black Africans were still the builders and pioneers.

The Black Africans are the first of all men. We civilised the world.

In your next door neighbour Sudan are over 250 Nubian pyramids dated thousands of years old, older than any building in Europe or America.

Iron smelting, the technology of extracting metal from ore using specific heating principles was invented in Lejja, Nsukka, where the world's oldest smelting site was discovered and carbon-dated to 2650 BCE.

Without Iron Smelting, you would have no phones, cars, planes, fridges, trains, or anything made of metal today.

The entire world would be in caves of the Stone Age.

That is why we tell you that BLACK AFRICA is the Cradle of Civilisation.

Kushites:
YOU ARE A VICTIM OF BRITISH PROPAGANDA.

THAT IS WHY YOU REASON LIKE THIS.

Here is the truth about our past, which was Paradise on Earth compared to the rotten, corrupt, violent post-colonial mess you inhabit today, surrounded by bandits, robbers and corrupt looters of public funds.


GUARDIAN UK REPORT: BENIN-THE MIGHTY MEDIEVAL CAPITAL NOW LOST WITHOUT TRACE


"Benin City was also one of the first cities [ON EARTH] 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”... Indeed, they classified Benin City as one of the most beautiful and best planned cities in the world.

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 pocket”.


African fractals

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.”


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 [in Egypt]”.

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 to construct, and are perhaps the largest single archaeological phenomenon on the planet”.


At the centre of Benin city stood the king’s court, from which extended 30 very straight, broad streets, each about 120-ft wide.

These main streets, which ran at right angles to each other, had underground drainage made of a sunken impluvium with an outlet to carry away storm water."


(UNDERGROUND DRAINAGE THAT ONLY ABUJA CAN BOAST OF TODAY, BENIN CITY HAD IT 600 YEARS AGO)

"Many narrower side and intersecting streets extended off them...

“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”..

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/mar/18/story-of-cities-5-benin-city-edo-nigeria-mighty-medieval-capital-lost-without-trace

So 500 years ago, while PRACTICING TRADITIONAL RELIGION the Benin Empire built a wall 4 times longer than the Great Wall of China, had streetlights, underground drainage, large houses, multistorey buildings and public monuments, zero hunger, zero poverty, zero crime, no front doors on houses because the idea of theft was "unknown", according to European visitors.

THAT'S WHAT WE CALL "CIVILISATION".

WHAT THE BRITISH BROUGHT HERE WAS REGRESSION, NOT CIVILISATION.

BECAUSE TODAY YOU CAN'T LEAVE YOUR HOME AT NIGHT OR BUILD A HOUSE WITHOUT HIGH FENCING, MASSIVE GATES, BARBED WIRE. PLUS GATEMAN ON TOP.

OR SLEEP WITH TWO EYES CLOSED.

PRAISE THE LORD JESUS AND MUHAMMED, YOUR NEW IMPORTED GODS.

THEY CAME PREACHING "FORGIVENESS OF SINS" ONCE YOU "ACCEPT" THEM AS YOUR "SAVIOUR".

IN OTHER WORDS, LICENCE TO TURN CRIMINALS AND LOOTERS WITH NO ACCOUNTABILITY.

AFRICAN TRADITIONAL RELIGION DOES NOT BELIEVE IN "FORGIVENESS".

YOU STEAL OR KILL, YOU COMMITTED AN ABOMINATION AGAINST THE LAND ITSELF, AND YOU MUST PAY, NO MATTER WHO YOU ARE.

THE BRITISH KNEW THEY COULD NEVER GET THEIR WAY WITH YOU PRACTICING SUCH A POWERFUL SPIRITUAL SYSTEM.

THAT'S WHY THEY FORCED CHRISTIANITY ON YOU.

NOW, YOUR MORALS ARE GONE, AND YOUR LAND OF NOBLE CITIZENS HAS BECOME A DEN OF CRIMINALS AND SCAMMERS OF ALL TYPES.

Blunt99:
It was because your an ancestors were dumb, and were not living any better.

They accepted, because the new way looks more human than their existing life style.

Reason, they easily abandoned their old.

Who wouldn't with the barbarism of their old traditions, which still existed in many places up till now.

I came from a family that is traditionally dreaded by our local community,

So I know what I am talking about.

YOU ARE A VICTIM OF BRITISH PROPAGANDA.

THAT IS WHY YOU REASON LIKE THIS.

Here is the truth about our past, which was Paradise on Earth compared to the rotten, corrupt, violent post-colonial mess you inhabit today, surrounded by bandits, robbers and corrupt looters of public funds.


GUARDIAN UK REPORT: BENIN-THE MIGHTY MEDIEVAL CAPITAL NOW LOST WITHOUT TRACE


"Benin City was also one of the first cities [ON EARTH] 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”... Indeed, they classified Benin City as one of the most beautiful and best planned cities in the world.

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 pocket”.


African fractals

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.”


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 [in Egypt]”.

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 to construct, and are perhaps the largest single archaeological phenomenon on the planet”.


At the centre of Benin city stood the king’s court, from which extended 30 very straight, broad streets, each about 120-ft wide.

These main streets, which ran at right angles to each other, had underground drainage made of a sunken impluvium with an outlet to carry away storm water."


(UNDERGROUND DRAINAGE THAT ONLY ABUJA CAN BOAST OF TODAY, BENIN CITY HAD IT 600 YEARS AGO)

"Many narrower side and intersecting streets extended off them...

“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”..

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/mar/18/story-of-cities-5-benin-city-edo-nigeria-mighty-medieval-capital-lost-without-trace

Deblow:
Methinks the woman should go to court. No such offence is in our statue books and violating the woman is a serious breach of her rights to life and human dignity

Have you heard of Customary Law?

You think only your Colonial law operates in Nigeria?

Think again!!

Customary Law is in full operation in Nigeria, okay?

You can't just violate and ignore the customs of the land just because you can speak English. So be cautioned!

Eriokanmi:
Small tin dem don carry camera phone,dey film. Genz go learn by force sęęę

DON'T MIND THEM!

Blunt99:
They didn't weaken anything.

Stop consoling yourself with that.

The way they told the lady to bring money and goat for cleansing,

That was how Oyibo used rare items then, like mirrors, guns and money to either bribe the worshipers, or forced the worshippers.

It was all business.

WRONG.

THE BRITISH FORCED CHRISTIANITY ON YOUR ANCESTORS BY PREDICATING ACCESS TO WESTERN EDUCATION NEEDED TO PROSPER UNDER COLONIAL RULE, ON ABANDONING THEIR TRADITIONAL RELIGION AND GETTING BAPTISED AS CHRISTIAN BEFORE ADMISSION TO A MISSIONARY SCHOOL.

IT WAS CONVERSION BY ECONOMIC BLACKMAIL.

TO PROSPER IN THE NEW SYSTEM YOU MUST ACQUIRE A WESTERN EDUCATION.

TO GET THE WESTERN EDUCATION YOU MUST GO THROUGH A MISSIONARY SCHOOL.

TO BE ADMITTED INTO THE MISSIONARY SCHOOL YOU MUST RELINQUISH YOUR TRADITIONAL RELIGION, GET BAPTISED, GET AN ENGLISH NAME, AND WORSHIP A FAKE WHITE MAGICIAN WHO NEVER EXISTED AS YOUR "PERSONAL LORD AND SAVIOUR".

THAT IS WHY YOU ARE ALL "CHRISTIANS" TODAY - BRITISH ECONOMIC BLACKMAIL.

99thEnemy:
Some cultures are just stupid in this present age.

And humans who practice them are extremely primitive to a fault.

YOUR CHRISTIAN CULTURE SUPPORTS GENOCIDE OF INNOCENT CHILDREN AND WOMEN IN PALESTINE, GAZA, IRAN, AND ELSEWHERE, SO SHUT UP!

IFA IS 1000000000 TIMES MORE CIVILISED THAN GENOCIDAL FOREIGN RELIGIONS LIKE YOURS.

femi4:
stupid culture...the god that cannot fight for himself

WHAT ABOUT YOUR IMPORTED GOD THAT THEY CRUCIFIED LIKE A HE-GOAT?

WHY COULDN'T HE PERFORM MIRACLE TO FREE HIMSELF?

The magnificent World Ifa Temple under construction in Ife will be a mighty architectural masterpiece attracting pilgrims from all over the world.

WE CAN'T WAIT.

Nigeria is the Holy Land where people should be coming on Pilgrimage. 🇳🇬


The Construction of the World Ifa Temple: Architecture, Funding, and Global Timelines

Introduction

The preservation of ancestral traditions is a cornerstone of cultural identity, a reality vividly demonstrated by recent developments in Ile-Ife, Osun State, Nigeria.

As the cradle of Yoruba civilization, Ile-Ife has long stood as the spiritual epicentre for Millions of Ifa and Orisha devotees worldwide.

This status was profoundly solidified when the Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi, donated three acres of prime ancestral land to the International Council for Ifa Religion (ICIR).

Located in the Stadium Area along Route 7, this land is designated for the construction of the World Ifa Temple, an ambitious project poised to become the largest global pilgrimage hub for traditional IFA adherents.


Financial Mobilisation and Global Philanthropy

The execution of a project of this magnitude requires a highly organised financial framework.

Because the World Ifa Temple operates independently of direct state budgets, its construction relies on a structured, multi-tiered crowdfunding and institutional grant strategy.

The International Council for Ifa Religion (ICIR):

Led by its President, Dr. Fayemi Fatunde Fakayode, the ICIR acts as the principal financial administrator, ensuring all capital allocations directly support ongoing site development.

The Council of Araba and Oluwo: Spearheaded by His Eminence, Aworeni Adimula, the Araba/Olu-Isese Agbaye, this council organises financial logistics among elite traditional custodians and regional elders across West Africa.


The Global Diaspora:

A substantial portion of the financial pool is driven by international Orisha and Ifa devotee communities across the Americas, the Caribbean, and Europe.

These groups pool resources via cultural preservation grants, direct donations, and diaspora-led fundraising initiatives.


Architectural Vision and Pilgrimage Infrastructure

Architectural plans for the three-acre complex are meticulously designed to handle high volumes of international visitors while maintaining the sacred integrity of the space.

The temple complex is engineered to serve as both a spiritual sanctuary and an educational institution.

Grand Assembly Pavilion:

This central structure is designed to host massive global gatherings during annual World Ifa festivals, providing a unified space for shared rituals and ceremonies.


Ancestral Devotional Altars:

Specially designated sacred spaces will be integrated throughout the complex to allow for private and corporate prayers, offerings, and consultations with traditional priests.


Spiritual Education and Research Wing:

Recognising the need for scholarly preservation, this wing will function as a repository for oral histories, literature, and philosophical documentation, welcoming researchers from around the globe.


Pilgrim Lodging Infrastructure:

To accommodate the anticipated influx of tourists and worshippers, the project features built-in hospitality and reception areas to ensure safe and accessible lodging within the cradle of Yoruba civilization.


Infrastructure Synergy and Project Timelines

A project of this scale cannot exist in isolation; its timeline is deeply intertwined with regional civil development.

Groundwork and site clearance have already advanced significantly, utilizing heavy machinery to prepare the landscape for structural layout development.

Because funding relies on staggered international donations, construction is executed in phases rather than a single, continuous build.

The initial phase of site preparation is complete, shifting focus toward structural foundations and perimeter security.

Crucially, this timeline aligns with major regional infrastructure projects, such as the Lagere flyover bridge in Ile-Ife.

This state-backed infrastructure expansion ensures that the local transport network can successfully handle the heavy transit and machinery required for the temple’s multi-year construction lifecycle.

Conclusion

The construction of the World Ifa Temple represents a monumental shift from localized worship to a unified global institution.

Through the vision of the Ooni of Ife and the strategic coordination of the ICIR, the project bridges the gap between historical heritage and modern global infrastructure.

Funded by a passionate global diaspora and designed to educate future generations, the temple stands as a testament to the endurance and global relevance of Orisha spirituality.

- AI

Lamasta:
This is academic research and the product is what was displayed by the students, it is pertinent to compare the research and product of developing or developed nations and see if we are making progress or sigmarolling in one direction.....

China is world power now in terms of technology and innovation and its good if we look up to them for improvement cos you can't see an undergraduate in China doing this mayonaise, never ever

YOU PEOPLE REASON LIKE TODDLERS.

YOU SAW ONE VIDEO OF FOOD PROCESSING (A LEGITIMATE ACADEMIC PURSUIT, BY THE WAY) IN UNIJOS, AND HAVE CONCLUDED BASED ON THAT VIDEO THAT THAT IS ALL THE 300 PLUS UNIVERSITIES IN NIGERIA ARE DOING!

AND THEN YOU ALSO LIKE A TODDLER, HAVING SEEN CHINESE TECHNOLOGICAL PROGRESS, ASSUME THAT ALL THE UNIVERSITY STUDENTS IN CHINA ARE DEVELOPING TECHNOLOGICAL EQUIPMENT. NOTHING ELSE.

TODDLERS.

CHILDREN.