If Peter Obi did betray Ojukwu by dumping APGA that made him and also betrayed Atiku and dump PDP that made him popular, if Peter Obi said he won't die with Labour Party which means he can still dump Labour Party, who is Abure that Peter Obi won't dump.
Question: What is the value of Peter Obi given that dump and Betray are constant.
Oxb90: Can you close your mouth? Where's the 'effort', and where's the 'work'. Until we have seen its result, all na propaganda.
Appreciate the effort people like Ben Kalu is making. The problem Nnamdi Kanu and his ipob have is believeing they can win FG in their own courts and come out a freeman uncondirionally that is not possible that is the reason he is still in prison until he face reality and ask for amnesty that is when FG consider his release. It is either Kanu bows to FG and get released or FG bows to Kanu and release him uncondirionally I dont see the later happening.
Reflect7: SCHOOL DROPOUT, I JUST SHOWED YOU THE GREAT WALL OF BENIN WHICH IS THE LARGEST SINGLE MAN MADE STRUCTURE ON THE FACE OF THE EARTH.
YET YOUR LOW IQ CAME OUT WITH NONSENSE ABOUT ''NO EVIDENCE''?
DRUNKEN SELF-HATER. SO STUPID AND DUMB HE CAN'T EVEN REMEMBER THE LAST POST OF EDUCATION HE RECEIVED.
EGYPT AND ISRAEL WERE OUR BLACK AFRICAN ANCESTORS, SO THEIR ACHIEVEMENTS ARE OUR ACHIEVEMENTS.
REGARDING THE WORLD FAMOUS BENIN BRONZES, MANY OF WHICH WERE STOLEN BY THE BRITISH, AND NOW SELL FOR MILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN VARIOUS COLLECTIONS AROUND THE WORLD, HERE'S WHAT THE GUARDIAN UK WROTE:
''At the height of its greatness in the 12th century – well before the start of the European Renaissance – the kings and nobles of Benin City patronised craftsmen and lavished them with gifts and wealth, in return for their depiction of the kings’ and dignitaries’ great exploits in intricate bronze sculptures.
“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.”
WHEN FOREIGNERS KNOW, RESPECT, AND APPRECIATE YOUR OWN HISTORY BETTER THAN YOU, IT'S A CLEAR SIGN THAT YOU HAVE BEEN THOROUGHLY BRAINWASHED TO HATE YOURSELF AND YOUR BACKGROUND BY COLONISERS, AND YOU ARE A DISGRACE OF A PERSON.
FELA HAD MENTALLY COLONISED PEOPLE LIKE YOU IN MIND WHEN HE SANG HIS EPIC SONG, 'COLOMENTALITY'..
Colomentality E be say you be colonial man You don be slaveman before Dem don release you now But you never release yourself
Even ants will make a better mould than that anthill in in your juju kingdom. This Egyptian structure is almost 4000 years old.That is civilization not some ant mould you have in bini and called it largest earth structure. Second picture is Aya Sofia built in 537 AD by the Greeks in Constantinopole now Istanbul by Emperor Constantine the great. Keep crying!
Reflect7: No, we’re discussing your head that’s filled with Juju fantasies from Rome.
Explain the method your juju priest ‘Jesus’ used to fly up to heaven from a dinner table.
If you go to Rome,Constantinopole(Istanbul)Egypt,Israel in fact you will see 2000 years old evidence of christian religeous civilization.But you have no evidence that bini ever existed as an empire except some Oka made bronze artifacts
Reflect7: What is your fantasy, magician white saviour who rose up from inside a grave, ate dinner at a table before flying up into heaven before amazed onlookers, called in your little head brainwashed by Roman fantasies and fairytales?
It is called ressurection of Christ And the religion is called christianity.
Reflect7: African Religion, which your British brainwashed head has reduced to “juju”, is the world’s oldest and purest religion.
Africans INVENTED religion, as was noted by Greek historian Diodorus Sicilus after his 300 BC visit to Africa south of the Sahara, which he called in its entirety, Ethiopia.
He noted that “the Ethiopians invented writing, and have given the Egyptians their religion and culture”.
Egypt practiced the SAME religion as the Edo and other Nigerian traditional religion.
The Pharaohs were Black Africans, and Egypt, like Nubia to its south, were Black African nations.
Africa was referred to as “the land of the Gods” by the ancient Greeks. They referred to Black Africans as “the blameless Ethiopians”.
In his epic work, The Iliad, Homer wrote about the Greek god Zeus saying:
“Zeus went yesterday to Ocean, to a feast With the blameless Ethiopians and all the Gods followed. There is no time to sit. To the Streams of Ocean.. To the Land of the Ethiopians Where they offer a Hecatomb to the Gods. I go once again So as to receive my share of the feast.”
- Iliad, by Homer
Okay what is your african juju religion called in your native bini language?
blacknp: How can a man born & grew up in old Bendel State, moved to Lagos state after NYSC, married a woman from Benue State, still lives & does business from Lagos State, give a fuckery about Nonsense Biafra?
He dont have to give a f0ck about Biafra cos it doesn't exist and no Igbo Business man of his level talks about Biafra irrespective of their place of birth. So your point is invalid.
Goodvibes007: Lol. That dude is right. I schooled in the UK and I come to Nigeria atleast 4 times every year. The plane is always full of Yoruba people. The only leg of the flight you would see ibos are those having stop over in Amsterdam, Frankfurt or Paris. Planes from far east Asia often have a stop over at those airports.
Igbos still full UK. I have over 10 family members who lives in UK not to talk about distance relations. If there are 10 Yoruba in UK flight there will be at least 8 Igbos in same flight.
adamusuleiman1: The UK is literally extension of SW Nigeria.
Yes there are good number of Yoruba living in UK so is Igbo people but the question is what percentage of Yoruba travel Home as often as Igbos? Dont even argue if you are not İnternational traveler or never lived abroad before.
HOWEVER, IF E NO WORK BECAUSE OF TRIBALISM, WHAT SHOULD BE DONE?
HELP ME ANSWER THAT SIMPLE QUESTION?
Biafra is never an option because it doesn't exist in today 's world. Nigeria is actually not working for any region not Just the Igbos. Does any part of Nigeria have constant electricity, water, good roads, good hospitals, good Schools etc?
mrvitalis: Lol same Nigeria refused to give him land to build plan maintainace hub in Enugu ... Now they are faking smiles like they are happy
Yet Allen is still doing one Nigeria
I have done one Nigeria here on nairaland... Was one of the biggest advocates
But truth is... As long as you are an Igbo man in Nigeria they would never give you a level playing ground ... The sooner igbos like Allen understand this the better
Allen Onyema have no choice than to be one Nigerianist to remain in Business he need FG patronage but he shouldn't over do it.You dont expect him to be pro Biafra or do you?
Tellmeastory: The MOST IMPORTANT STRUCTURE THERE STILL STANDS.
The Great WALL of Benin, which was in the 1974 Guinness Book of Records, and is recorded as being 4 tmes lomngert than the Great Wall of China, and as being the largest single archaeological phenomenon on the planet!
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’. So why is nothing left?
This is the story of a lost medieval city you’ve probably never heard about. Benin City, originally known as Edo, was once the capital of a pre-colonial African empire located in what is now southern Nigeria. 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 [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 of digging to construct, and are perhaps the largest single archaeological phenomenon on the planet”.
Barely any trace of these walls exist today.
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.
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.”
At the centre of the 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. Many narrower side and intersecting streets extended off them. In the middle of the streets were turf on which animals fed.
“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”.
Family houses were divided into three sections: the central part was the husband’s quarters, looking towards the road; to the left the wives’ quarters (oderie), and to the right the young men’s quarters (yekogbe).
Daily street life in Benin City might have consisted of large crowds going though even larger streets, with people colourfully dressed – some in white, others in yellow, blue or green – and the city captains acting as judges to resolve lawsuits, moderating debates in the numerous galleries, and arbitrating petty conflicts in the markets.
The early foreign explorers’ descriptions of Benin City portrayed it as a place free of crime and hunger, with large streets and houses kept clean; a city filled with courteous, honest people, and run by a centralised and highly sophisticated bureaucracy.
Nothing left of your juju empire because it lacked solid structures.The Romans completely destroyed Jerusalam in 70ad but the ruins of that city is still there till today.You can visit the Jewish temples etc....
Tellmeastory: Are you aware that Benin City was invaded, looted, bombed and burnt down by British forces in 1897 after heavy resistance by the people of Benin?
And you are beyond IGNORANT and DUMB to call your own ancient civilizations ''so-called'', and it is a sign of your tragic colonial inferiority complex, brainwashing, and self-hatred which is utterly disgusting to behold.
That is long story and nothing like inferiority complex, do you know how many foreign powers that invaded egypt? The last to do so was Arabs who now occupied the land. So tell me any thing of significant left of your juju empire? Millions of tourist visit Greece anually to see Ancient civilization of the Greeks dated thousands of years. Britain destroyed your juju mud houses because it easy to destroy.
Tellmeastory: Are you aware that Benin City was invaded, looted, bombed and burnt down by British forces in 1897 after heavy resistance by the people of Benin?
And you are beyond IGNORANT and DUMB to call your own ancient civilizations ''so-called'', and it is a sign of your tragic colonial inferiority complex, brainwashing, and self-hatred which is utterly disgusting to behold.
That is long story and nothing like inferiority complex, do you know how many foreign powers that invaded egypt? The last to do so is Arabs who now occupied the land. So tell me any thing of significant left of your juju empire?
Politics › Re: Why Peter Obi Dumped Julius Abure – Labour Party Chieftain, Tanko by paramakina202: 10:46am On Apr 02, 2024
