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NIGERIAisComedy:There is no ''24/7 electricity'' in most developing countries on Earth, which comprise 80% of countries. India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, etc all suffer DAILY power cuts. The larger the developing country, the longer it takes to provide full access. Even South Africa is experiencing daily outages. Nigeria has a 25 billion dollar project ongoing with Siemens to solve the transmission problem we have, and radically improve power, so we're not standing still. This is about common sense, which you guys seem to lack.If YOU had any common sense, you would respect the democratic choice of every Nigerian. You forget that millions of Nigerians actually consider Tinubu an excellent administrator and technocrat based on his tenure as Lagos state governor, and voted for him based on that. Who are you to start insulting them and calling them stupid? Your nastiness and intolerance of opposition as Obidients cost you many votes. |
Why exactly are we supposed to care what some jobless riffraff in Kenya or Zimbabwe thinks about the Nigerian president? Do Americans care what Venezuelans and Bolivians think about their 80 year old president, Joe Biden? It is low self-esteem that makes you care what foreigners think about you. |
nlfpmod:Fantastic. Just like in the days of our ancestors. ![]() |
THE WINNERS YOU ''CELEBRATED'' IN THE PAST ON THE STREETS, WHAT DID THEY ACHIEVE? ABEG MAKE WE HEAR WORD. |
flokii: LYING DEMON. CHOKE ON YOUR HATE. ASSWIPE. |
Olurondo:Don't mind the foolish, mentally colonised girl. America where democracy is in reverse, with Trump, DeSantis and co, causing chaos everywhere, Trump calling for their constitution to be abandoned, and Americans claiming Biden was rigged into office, is the same America this foolish girl is crying to to save Nigerian democracy. |
flokii:Don't be ignorant. Do you know how many Yoruba-Igbo marriages happen every week in this country? Stop equating Nairaland with Nigeria. |
WHO CARES WHAT SOME RIFFRAFF IN KENYA OR SIERRA LEONE THINKS ABOUT NIGERIA'S PRESIDENT? DO AMERICANS CARE WHAT WE THINK ABOUT THEIR 80 YR OLD JOE BIDEN? ABEG TALK SOMETHING ELSE. RUBBISH. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EahgmNmMsM&ab_channel=GuardianNews |
flokii:She knows all this. But her tribalistic loyalty to Obi has overtaken her brain. |
Missy89:Igbos suffer from Collective Narcissism. |
Gbagura:That Biafra thing is over. Peter Obi's spectacular rise and nationwide popularity has instilled a new sense in Igbos of belonging to the Nigerian family. Across the nation, thousands of Yorubas, Hausas, Fulanis, Ijaws, Edos, and Itsekiris queued up in the hot sun to vote in their son from Anambra state as president, putting a lie to the myth that Nigerians cannot elect an Igbo person president. Obi came very close, and incredibly, beat Bola Tinubu in Lagos. If he keeps this momentum, he will be an extremely formidable force in the next elections, especially if Tinubu fails to perform. Obi may not be president just yet, but in a sense, he has already helped to create a new Nigeria. Igbos are going nowhere. |
I was neutral, but I'm sure Tinubu will perform better than Buhari. All jokes aside, the guy is a good administrator and technocrat. |
Throwback:I'm referring to action at the polling stations, like ballot box snatching, thuggery, voter intimidation, and alleged vote-buying. |
Throwback:His tactics included thuggery and intimidation of voters. You approve of that? |
DispatcherLagos:SHUT UP. |
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DeLaRue:THAT IS WHAT I KEEP TELLING ALL THESE YOUTHS FIGHTING EACH OTHER OVER THESE MEN. I WAS EVEN EXPECTING TO SEE OBI THERE. MAYBE HE'S HIDING IN THE CAR. THEY'RE ALL FRIENDS. |
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Obidients in Mourning As Tinubu Wins Election! |
FSU:Bullcrap. When I lived in the US, some people I spoke to didn't know where Nigeria was. Had to tell them ''it's a country in West Africa.'' Even Afro-Americans I told I was raised in Lagos would say ''where's that?" |
FSU:Americans don't give a damn what's going on outside the US. Especially not Africa. The average American can barely name 3 African countries. You people overestimate your popularity in the world. |
Idiotseverywher:You wrote this on Feb 24. Let me ask you, in your dreams, to be sincere to yourself, can tinubu win presidential election in Nigeria? Mark this here , Tinubu can never never be president of Nigeria even til the next century and even in the next creation, gift of attainment has left him, the khamic justice is after him, he has already been condemned here on earth, the gift of greatness is not with him, even if him continue to sacrifice blood to INFINITY he will no more attain greatness, he is just wasting his time, the INFINITY has rejected his blood offers, THIS IS THE WORD FROM THE AGES, he have been rejected by power of creation and cosmic circle.Regretting your words? ![]() |
Horus:Singing like a fcking canary.. Imagine if this leads directly to Tinubu, and Buhari orders his arrest? |
Idiko1:Shut up. You're talking racist rubbish. Oh, so YOU just happen to be one of the few Africans blessed with the ability to ''think'' unlike the mass of ''unthinking'' Africans. Talk about delusions of grandeur. Uncle Tom, House negro, African sellouts like you always think they are better than other Africans. But you're actually worse.. |
LikeAking:If our leaders are corrupt, it is because WE are corrupt. The leaders came from where? Another country? The problem we have is that the average Nigerian sees govt office as a get rich quick opportunity. Which means, casting aside your holier than thou pretensions on nairaland, if YOU were today made a state governor or minster, you will end up wayyyy richer at the end of your tenure than you were at the beginning. As a matter of course. If you don't, your own kids and your wife will curse you. Your family will call you a big fool. The man who spat out the juicy morsel the gods placed in his mouth. So any attempt to end corruption has to involve all of us, not just ''our leaders''. Because if the PEOPLE are corrupt, the leaders will be corrupt. As per the bolded below ...Let me school you.ABSOLUTELY Igbos, Yorubas, Hausas, are all descended from ancient Nile Valley/Levant migrants. Numerous studies have been done on this. I suggest you read African history books because you are clearly ignorant. Nigeria itself was home to the amazing Benin Empire of which the UK Guardian newspaper wrote: ''With its mathematical layout and earthworks longer than the Great Wall of China, Benin City was one of the best planned cities in the world when London was a place of thievery and murder. The Benin empire was one of the oldest and most highly developed states in west Africa, dating back to the 11th century. 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”. 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.”'' Read more https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/mar/18/story-of-cities-5-benin-city-edo-nigeria-mighty-medieval-capital-lost-without-trace |
LikeAking:This is really really simple. Would you rather NOT have the education you have? If the answer is no, then please shush. You have nothing to say. Education, like religion, can be used for good or for ill. After all, you have American professors who have misused their education to build nuclear bombs that can destroy the Earth many times over. In fact right now they are at it again with their nuclear threats with Russia and all that madness brewing. You also have educated Nigerians who have formed successful businesses all over the country and across the world, courtesy of the Nigerian education they received. The Nigerian government has educated you to the point you can go on YouTube and learn ANY skill for free, and become an expert. That is the type of opportunity your illiterate grandpa under colonialism couldn't even dare dream of. See, hating everything about your background, and only seeing negatives, is a terrible complex to have. |
So the black man invented speech, language, writing, art, mathematics, architecture, law, metallurgy, philosophy, and religion. Discovered medicine, mining of minerals. Pioneered in seafaring and international trade. These are the basic foundations of our current civilization. HOW DARE ANYONE suggest the black race to be ''inferior''? Without the black race, the whole world would still be grunting like pigs! |
NIGERIAisComedy:YAWN... WITHOUT THE BLACK MAN, THERE WOULD BE ZERO MODERN EXISTENCE AND ZERO MODERN CIVILIZATION TODAY. Go tell that to the white boy whose nuts you suck, you Uncle Tom, brainwashed to self-hate historical illiterate. 12 Amazing African Inventions and Innovations That Led To World Civilization 1 Speech The first words by humans were spoken by Africans. ''Using statistical methods to estimate the time required to achieve the current spread and diversity in modern languages today, Johanna Nichols — a linguist at the University of California, Berkeley — argues that vocal language must have arisen in our species at least 100,000 years ago. Using phonemic diversity, a more recent analysis offers directly linguistic support for a similar date. Estimates of this kind are independently supported by genetic, archaeological, palaeontological and much other evidence suggesting that language probably emerged somewhere in sub-Saharan Africa during the Middle Stone Age, roughly contemporaneous with the speciation of Homo sapiens.'' http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origin_of_language 2 Writing In 1999, Archaeology Magazine reported that the earliest Egyptian hieroglyphs date back to 3400 BCE which "...challenge the commonly held belief that early logographs, pictographic symbols representing a specific place, object, or quantity, first evolved into more complex phonetic symbols in Mesopotamia." Who were these original Egyptians? The Greek historian Herodotus.. described the Colchians of the Black Sea shores as "Egyptians by race" and pointed out they had "black skins and kinky hair." Apollodorus, the Greek philosopher, described Egypt as "the country of the black-footed ones" and the Latin historian Ammianus Marcellinus said "the men of Egypt are mostly brown or black with a skinny desiccated look." http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/specials/1624_story_of_africa/page88.shtml In his book 'Egypt', British scholar Sir E.A. Wallis Budge says: "The prehistoric native of Egypt, both in the old and in the new Stone Ages, was African and there is every reason for saying that the earliest settlers came from the South." He further states: "There are many things in the manners and customs and religions of the historic Egyptians that suggests that the original home of their prehistoric ancestors was in a country in the neighborhood of Uganda and Punt [present day Somalia]." https://i.pinimg.com/564x/4a/70/3b/4a703be4f22ca99f45c67e4ba05b3426.jpg ''Greek historian Diodorus Siculus devoted an entire chapter of his world history, the Bibliotheke Historica, or Library of History (Book 3), to the Kushites ["Aithiopians"] of Meroe. Here he repeats the story of their great piety, their high favor with the gods, and adds the fascinating legend that they were.. the founders of Egyptian civilization, invented writing, and had given the Egyptians their religion and culture.'' (1st century B.C., Diodorus Siculus of Sicily, Greek historian and contemporary of Caesar Augustus, Universal History Book III. 2. 4-3. 3) http://wysinger.homestead.com/blackegypt101.html To summarise: "Ancient Egypt was a Negro civilisation. The history of Black Africa will remain suspended in the air and cannot be written correctly until African historians connect it with the history of Egypt. The African historian who evades the problem of Egypt is neither modest nor objective nor unruffled. He is ignorant, cowardly and neurotic. The ancient Egyptians were Negroes. The moral fruit of their civilisation is to be counted among the assets of the Black world." - Cheikh Anta Diop, The African Origin of Civilisation. https://i.pinimg.com/564x/8e/df/df/8edfdfeff02c69723959a961a6b524ea.jpg 3 Medicine ''The earliest known surgery was performed in Egypt around 2750 BC.... The Ebers papyrus (1550 BC) is full of incantations and foul applications meant to turn away disease-causing demons, and also includes 877 prescriptions. It may also contain the earliest documented awareness of tumors.. Homer (800 BC) remarked in the Odyssey: "In Egypt, the men are more skilled in medicine than any of human kind" and "the Egyptians were skilled in medicine more than any other art". The Greek historian Herodotus visited Egypt around 440 BC and wrote extensively of his observations of their medicinal practices. Pliny the Elder also wrote favourably of them in historical review. Hippocrates (the 'father of medicine'), Herophilos, Erasistratus and later Galen studied at the temple of Amenhotep, and acknowledged the contribution of ancient Egyptian medicine to Greek medicine. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Egyptian_medicine 4 Architecture The African empire of Egypt developed a vast array of diverse structures and great architectural monuments along the Nile, among the largest and most famous of which are the Great Pyramid of Giza and the Great Sphinx of Giza The pyramids, which were built in the Fourth Dynasty, testify to the power of the pharaonic religion and state. They were built for reasons that remain mysterious to modern knowledge. The size and simple design show the high skill level of African design and engineering on a large scale. The Great Pyramid of Giza, which was probably completed c. 2580 BC, is the oldest and largest of the pyramids, and is the only surviving monument of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. The pyramid of Khafre is believed to have been completed around 2532 BC, at the end of Khafre's reign. https://i.pinimg.com/564x/21/32/59/2132596353cacee7484fdef5947cb8df.jpg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Egyptian_architecture 5 Mathematics The invention of mathematics is placed firmly in African PRE-HISTORY. ''The oldest known possibly mathematical object is the Lebombo bone, discovered in the Lebombo mountains of Swaziland and dated to approximately 35,000 BC. It consists of 29 distinct notches cut into a baboon's fibula. Also prehistoric artifacts discovered in Africa and France, dated between 35,000 and 20,000 years old [respectively], suggest early attempts to quantify time. The Ishango bone, found near the headwaters of the Nile river (northeastern Congo), may be as much as 20,000 years old and consists of a series of tally marks carved in three columns running the length of the bone. Common interpretations are that the Ishango bone shows either the earliest known demonstration of sequences of prime numbers or a six month lunar calendar. Also, Predynastic Egyptians of the 5th millennium BC pictorially represented geometric designs. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_mathematics#Prehistoric_mathematics ''Numeral systems have been many and diverse, with the first known written numerals created by Egyptians in Middle Kingdom texts such as the Rhind Mathematical Papyrus. The earliest uses of mathematics were in trading, land measurement, painting and weaving patterns and the recording of time. More complex mathematics did not appear until around 3000 BC, when the Egyptians and Babylonians began using arithmetic, algebra and geometry for taxation and other financial calculations, for building and construction, and for astronomy'' http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematics 6 Mining of minerals The oldest known mine on archaeological record is the "Lion Cave" in Swaziland, which radiocarbon dating shows to be about 43,000 years old. Much later on, the Africans of Egypt mined malachite....Quarries for turquoise and copper were also found at "Wadi Hamamat, Tura, Aswan and various other Nubian sites"..The gold mines of Nubia were among the largest and most extensive in the world, and are described by the Greek author Diodorus Siculus. He mentions that fire-setting was one method used to break down the hard rock holding the gold. One of the complexes is shown in one of earliest known maps. They crushed the ore and ground it to a fine powder before washing the powder for the gold dust. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mining#Prehistoric_mining 7 Iron Smelting Iron smelting is a form of extractive metallurgy; its main use is to produce a metal from its ore. This includes production of silver, iron, copper and other base metals from their ores. Smelting uses heat and a chemical reducing agent to decompose the ore, driving off other elements as gasses or slag and leaving just the metal behind. Early iron smelting: ''Where and how iron smelting was discovered is widely debated, and remains uncertain due to the significant lack of production finds.. [but] there is a further possibility of iron smelting and working in West Africa by 1200 BC. In addition, very early instances of carbon steel were found to be in production around 2000 years before the present in northwest Tanzania, based on complex preheating principles. These discoveries are significant for the history of metallurgy.'' http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smelting 8 Religion Greek historian Diodorus Siculus. From his own statements we learn that he traveled in Egypt around 60 BC. His travels in Egypt probably took him as far south as the first Cataract. He wrote about the ''Ethiopians'' south of Egypt. "They further write that it was among them that people were first taught to honour the gods and offer sacrifices and arrange processions and festivals and perform other things by which people honor the divine. For this reason their piety is famous among all men, and the sacrifices among the Aithiopians are believed to be particularly pleasing to the divinity," 9 Laws Stephanus of Byzantium, who is said to represent the opinions of the most ancient Greeks, says: "Ethiopia was the first established country on the earth, and the Ethiopians were the first who introduced the worship of the Gods and who established laws." Quoted by John D. Baldwin, Prehistoric Nations, p. 62. 10 International Trade In 1825, Arnold Hermann Heeren (1760-1842), Professor of History and Politics in the University of Gottengen and one of the ablest of the early exponents of the economic interpretation of history, published, in the fourth and revised edition of his great work Ideen Uber Die Politik, Den Verkehr Und Den Handel Der Vornehmsten Volker Der Alten Weld, a lengthy essay on the history, culture, and commerce of the ancient Ethiopians, which had profound influence on contemporary writers in the conclusion that it was among these ancient Black people of Africa and Asia that international trade was first developed. He thinks that as a by-product of these international contacts there was an exchange of ideas and cultural practices that laid the foundations of the earliest civilizations of the ancient world. Heeren in his researches says: "From the remotest times to the present, the Ethiopians [ancient name for blacks south of the Sahara] have been one of the most celebrated, and yet the most mysterious of nations. In the earliest traditions of nearly all the..civilized nations of antiquity, the name of this distant people is found. The annals of the Egyptian priests are full of them, and the nations of inner Asia, on the Euphrates and Tigris, have interwoven the fictions of the Ethiopians with their traditions of the wars and conquests of their heroes; and, at a period equally remote, they glimmer in Greek mythology. When the Greeks scarcely knew Italy and Sicily by name, the Ethiopians were celebrated in the verses of their poets, and when the faint gleam of tradition and fable gives way to the clear light of history, the lustre of the Ethiopians is not diminished." http://wysinger.homestead.com/blackegypt101.html 11 Philosophy Philosophy is the study of general and fundamental problems, such as those connected with reality, existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language. Philosophy is distinguished from other ways of addressing such problems by its critical, generally systematic approach and its reliance on rational argument. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy#Ancient_philosophy Philosophy in Africa has a rich and varied history, dating from pre-dynastic Egypt, continuing through the birth of Christianity and Islam. Arguably central to the ancients was the conception of "ma'at", which roughly translated refers to "justice", "truth", or simply "that which is right". One of the earliest works of political philosophy was the Maxims of Ptah-Hotep, which were taught to Egyptian schoolboys for centuries...Ancient Egyptian philosophers made extremely important contributions to Hellenistic philosophy, Christian philosophy, and Islamic philosophy. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_philosophy ''Ancient Egyptian philosophy has been credited by the ancient Greeks as being the beginning of philosophy''. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Egyptian_philosophy 12 Art The oldest art objects in the world—a series of tiny, drilled snail shells about 75,000 years old—were discovered in a South African cave. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art |
LikeAking:Would you rather literacy rate was 5% and poverty 99.5% as it was in 1960, after a CENTURY of uninterrupted British rule? The fact that you have literacy means you can change your circumstances using KNOWLEDGE. Knowledge is POWER. Black leaders have given you that POWER to succeed. USE IT. Do you know that even when you JAPA, it is due to the achievement of our heroes past in EDUCATING YOU? Could your illiterate grandpa under British rule JAPA from the drudgery of his toil in the farm? Did he know what an airport was? Where America was, or what he would do if he got there? Today most Nigerians can stand upmand say , ''You know what? I'm off to the United States!" or ''I'm off to Germany!'', with no concerns about if they could survive there. It was the black government, black people you despise, that gave you that power and confidence to do that. 98% of Nigerians were bush villagers in 1960. You are not French or Italians. You're barely a generation removed from village peasants, and yet you have this pompous expectation that your country should suddenly become a Japan or USA overnight, or else it means you are ''inferior'', or ''have a low IQ'', and such demeaning categorisations of yourselves. I mean, if you don't know your history and are ignorant of the achievements of your people over thousands of years of human habitation of Earth, and don't know that AFRICANS civilized the entire world, ASK, and we can provide you information. |
NIGERIAisComedy:I've heard enough of your horse crap. Get this, you ignorant dunce with acute racial inferiority complex, were it not for independence in 1960, YOU would be a village illiterate today. 100% The colonialists did not invest in public education. Only a tiny handful of missionary schools existed for the 'lucky' few. Ths was right up till 1960 when they were driven out for chronic non-performance and looting of the nation's resources. Literacy rate was 5% in 1960, after 100 years of British dominance and extracting/exporting of your resources (the only reason for colonisation is to exploit the resources of the colonised for the benefit of the colonising nation). Today. literacy rate is over 70% and climbing, thanks to black rule. The FIRST thing the black leaders did upon assuming power in 1960 was to embark on the building of thousands of public schools nationwide, in various free universal education programmes. It was one of those schools that educated your parents, who in turn educated you. Without that independence, you, A TOAD LIKE YOU, would be a village illiterate peasant like your grandparents were under colonial rule. If BLACK PEOPLE DID NOT EDUCATE YOU, would you know what ''IQ'' is that you are using to insult your father and your mother? Does a village illiterate palm wine tapper know what ''IQ'' means? That is YOU without the blacks who came along and changed your life. Keep hating your race and seeing white people as angels. Ignorant, lost peabrain. |
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