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Heard him playing violin on Wyclef's track "Welcome to the East"


He was ok.


As for politics, he should .

R.I.P.

@ Kilode?!, I see. Thanks for the explanation. Good quote.



[size=3pt]by Tuesday. . .[/size]

hmmmmm. . .

(guess nothing has started)

If he feels the need to protect himself from being kidnapped by MEND thugs or other militants, he shouldn't be arrested for it - especially considering the lack of success of the police in freeing kidnap victims.

[quote author=Kilode?! link=topic=590933.msg7952634#msg7952634 date=1300676408]Bini man, You are late, Stormfront placed this thread on it's Prestigious "ni*gers with serious attitude" list a long time ago!

We already sent them a thank you note. [/quote]What does this mean:

"Oyinbo fe daku la se ni ko ma pe worukutimbitimbi mo. . ."

Translation needed.

gohome:
Mrs. Jonathan started her career as a teacher at the Stella Maris College, Port Harcourt and Sports Institute Isake. She then moved to the banking sector in 1997, where she established the first community bank in Port Harcourt called the Akpo Community Bank. Mrs. Jonathan also served as Marketing Manager of Imiete Community Bank. She returned to the classroom briefly again as teacher. Eventually she was transferred to the Bayelsa State Ministry of Education, where she served until May 29th 1999 when her husband became the Deputy Governor of the state.

I'm genuinely shocked that she was in the ministry of education.

What's so offensive about trousers or about women wearing trousers to the masqueraders?

BetaThings:
“The PDP remains an agglomeration of interest groups formed around persons of prominence and power which are loosely tied together by a desire to remain in office and maintain access to the “national cake” or resources of the state”, Ms. Piascik declared.

“The PDP remains a highly fractious and opportunistic coalition of interests. True opposition, in the form of a powerful group with access to the pillars of power, comes from within the PDP - not from without as would be expected in a democratic party structure.”

She added that the party, which claims to be the biggest political platform in Africa, has no “ideological consensus” whatsoever and had remained divided from the start.

Quoted for truth.

A suit actually helps conceal an out of shape physique better than an agbada or babban riga.


@ post, most of those African nations where the leaders wear suits are from places where the traditional attire didn't develop to the level where it was presentable enough for formal diplomatic events, in my opinion. I'm pretty sure in Mali, Guinea, etc., the politicians wear traditional attire.

R.I.P.


I wonder how many have died on that road. Over 500? Over 1000?

lol, edited

violent:
A country's real strength in terms of military does not only depend on what it has in its arsenal, but more on the kind of allies it has.

Britain has recently cut down it's military spending by a significant amount, but yet, it will take balls more than the size of watermelon for you to even think of invading Britain.

For the dolt who thinks nothing continues forever, I have always known that you couldn't think beyond your nose, if a country spends an amount on military, more than twice the figure of other country's yearly budget, how the hell would its dominance in military terms not continue forever?

Those dudes are making weapons of the future, what the fúck does Nigeria boast of? Libya has a far advanced military system than Nigeria does and its military capability was crippled in one night. The storm shadow cruise missile could be shot through your window from 200 miles away!

Basically.

[quote author=isale_gan2 link=topic=590933.msg7952503#msg7952503 date=1300672660]Physics, darling buddy.  Do you find it hard to communicate with regular folk?  I mean, people who don't have a 250 IQ, like pretty much 99.99% of the rest of the world?! 

  Anyway, where and how have you been, my favourite cranky Bini man?  [/quote]I wasn't serious, obviously.

I can communicate just fine with "regular" folk, but they're usually uninteresting.

I've been studying, reading, and internet browsing. Not much else. Occasionally, I check in on this thread to see whether it's collapsed under the burden of its own aimlessness, but your suitors seem to be propping it up. That's about it.

I'm Nigerian, and in my personal opinion, African Americans have more to be proud of, in terms of modern (20th and 21st century) achievements - across a whole range of areas - than the majority of African nations, including Nigeria. It's just that in real life, the behavior of a lot of (young) African Americans negates this perception of them as a progressive people and is also kind of off-putting, to say the least. I'm not even trying to offend anyone, but that's just the reality.

https://www.galerie-herrmann.com/arts/art3/Ife_Benin/52_1_Relief_Watchmen/Waechter_gr.jpg

Relief Plaque with Palace Guard
Benin, Nigeria
17th/ 18th century
Bronze
50 x 40 cm


Though the established and apparently conclusive interpretation of this motif is as gateway to the royal palace (see previous plaque), the latest research presents alternative readings. Both Frank Willett and Barbara Blackmun see this as neither entranceway nor passageway, but rather as an alter at whose entrance stood something to be guarded - something invisible to the viewer.

The lack of mounting holes in this plaque is unusual, given that all those plaques ripped from the palace walls by the British expedition in the course of its 1897 robbery feature them. Some plaques were apparently embedded directly in doors and panels without the aid of such holes. According to oral tradition, the bronze guild often cast at least two plaques of one motif; one would be hung and the other stored. Today, the stored pieces exhibit no wear and tear whatsoever.



Cp.:
Felix von LUSCHAN: Die Altertümer von Benin, Band 1, Berlin 1919, S. 253/ 254.
Armand DUCHATEAU: Benin. Kunst einer afrikanischen Königskultur, München 1995, S. 58.
Barbara PLANKENSTEINER (Hg.): Benin. Könige und Rituale. Höfische Kunst aus Nigeria, Wien 2007, S. 278.

https://www.galerie-herrmann.com/arts/art3/Ife_Benin/52_2_Relief_Watchmen/Waechter_gr.jpg

Relief Plaque with Palace Guard
Benin, Nigeria
17th century
Bronze
52 x 40 cm


To a certain extent, one can envisage the architecture of Benin's palace on the basis of descriptions provided by Dutchman Olfert Dapper (1635-1689); accordingly, the scene depicted here can be reasonably interpreted as the gateway to the Oba's palace. Dapper's descriptions, for example, mention a tower crowned with bronze-cast bird and snake. Such towers were used to mark the entrance to the palace or the passageways from one courtyard to the next. The roof is not, however, decorated with palm leaves as Dapper describes, but rather with wood shingles.

It is supported by pillars engraved with decorative faces, and the bird that tops it is an attribute typical for this motif. It is usually seen as an ibis, though sometimes as a thrush, and it has special meaning in Benin's culture as a soothsaying and prophesying bird.
The two armed palace guards on the steps wear aprons and tall coral collars, which designate them as high-ranking members of royal court society. The two other attendants are unclothed but for a small coral necklace and a handheld fan. Above the roof, a four-leaf motif dominates the background. This motif appears very often on bronze plaques from Benin and is associated with Olokun, god of the water.




Cp.:
Felix von LUSCHAN: Die Altertümer von Benin, Band 1, Berlin 1919, S. 253/ 254.
Barbara PLANKENSTEINER (Hg.): Benin. Könige und Rituale. Höfische Kunst aus Nigeria, Wien 2007, S. 278.

There's a very good image in a Benin art book I read of an upper torso of Benin armor that's in a British (not Nigerian) museum.

It looks like the outfit in this:

https://a5.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/25798_380765675193_672240193_4226651_7707841_n.jpg

So the image in that book might be the same as this image.

I'll post some rarer images of different military outfits on plaques from some books that I have later.


But in general, the military outfits seen on Benin bronze plaques are neither worn by Benin chiefs (which makes sense, since there would be no reason to wear them), nor have I seen any replicas of them made. Maybe some chiefs or some people in the palace might have some traditional military outfits, but I haven't seen any that have been published.

Some of the chiefs' ceremonial robes seen on the plaques, such as the pangolin skin robe as seen here: https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-582176.32.html#msg7493255 are worn in modern times by chiefs during some ceremonies. There are pictures in books and on various sites of modern chiefs in non-military outfits like the ones on the plaques, but I've never seen any military outfits.

190:
[color=deeppink]Its true,

This problem now a national issue Nigeria is trying to resolve[/color]

lol



A lot of (older) Nigerian men are in the same situation.

There's no excuse for it among young people though.

[quote author=Yoruba-man link=topic=590933.msg7950768#msg7950768 date=1300649904]racist thread[/quote]Yeah, a lot of racism in here. See here for example: https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-590933.1408.html#msg7880225


Here's some more:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrKqReuYNuA&feature=related


Let's keep the racism going, folks. I want this thread to be a 100% supremacist thread by Tuesday.

Abia State Governor, Theodore Orji, has described as rascally, the statement attributed to former governor of Lagos State, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, that Abia state lacks visible development.

Orji, in a statement by his media assistant, Mr. Ben Onyechere , said Tinubu’s utterances are a [b]confirmation of his rascally disposition [/b]as noted by President Goodluck Jonathan during a South-west rally of the Peoples Democratic Party  in Ibadan, Oyo State.

lol

I don't why, but I'm glad that this phrase is spreading.

?

[quote author=MzD@rkSkin link=topic=624633.msg7944705#msg7944705 date=1300554508][color=#0066ff]@physics did u really find it necessary to post someone's profile picture in the middle of a forum when
ppl can simply click on their names? that was tacky and classless. I dont care how well 2buff takes it, im not feeling that.[/quote]


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4k2dFO_lVsI

https://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lgqtrh3GWd1qczyuqo1_500.jpg

MzDarkSkin:
2buff bro. . .errrm. I have a confession. . .i saved that picture! 
           

But stalking is classy?


Nonsense.

He's always saying all the right things, but his audience/following never seems to increase.

On an unrelated note, is it just me, or does his nose look kind of strange. . .? Not an insult, just wondering.

This Blazay guy is a comedic genius.

Glad to hear he's alright.

ezeagu:
Instead of marble fountains, Benin should dedicate one part of the city to historical site seeing where they would rebuild a part of the old Benin City. They can't be surprised how many international visitors would show up.

I have to cosign this 100%.

I used to think it was an issue of money (to build and maintain the site, and protect it from the rain), but I think there's more than enough money to do it.

The Nigerian government did at least build one replica (maybe more, I don't know) of a traditional Benin building at the museum of traditional Nigerian architecture at Jos decades ago.

It's the building I mistakenly identified as the rebuilt house of a chief in this post https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-582176.0.html#msg7492991


The initiative for the museum of traditional architecture and consequently, the replica, was by Zbigniew Dmochowski, who was responsible for the three volume book Introduction to Traditional Nigerian Architecture, a large and obscure book full of photos, drawings, commentary, etc. on the architecture of all regions of Nigeria that I have not been able to obtain or read at any library. If not for this Dmochowski fellow, who was a Pole, I doubt any Nigerian government, whether federal or state, would have commissioned any studies, museums, or replicas of any Nigerian architecture. 

@ topic.

No.

https://img4.imageshack.us/img4/65/theexteriorofthehouseof.jpg

(f) The exterior of the house of Chief Iyase the Younger, Benin, 1953.

https://img607.imageshack.us/img607/3690/acourtyardinthehouseoft.jpg

(g) A courtyard in the house of the Enogie of Egban-En, near Benin, 1953.


BENIN HOUSES The primitive huts of the Plateau may hardly deserve the name of architecture, but at Benin a highly developed method of mud building and a traditional and formal way of house-planning have combined to produce buildings of real architectural quality. At the height of its power Benin was the prosperous capital of a powerful empire. The city was laid out on a formal pattern of broad streets running at right angles to each other along which the houses were built to a regular frontage, a rare thing for Africa. After the punitive expedition of I897 the major part of the city was destroyed by fire, but in the modern town the ancient formal plan is still recognizable, while around the perimeter can be traced the outline of the great wall. This was originally double-palisaded with thick tree trunks, against which were laid spars five or six feet long fastened together and plastered over with red clay, while in front of it was a ditch and a hedge of thorns. The wall is now entirely ruined and in many places is so overgrown with bush that the traces of it are practically lost. Most of the buildings in the African town are little more than mean shacks, sub- divided over and over again with a separate family occupying each compartment, but there still remain a few chiefs' houses planned in the traditional manner, while in the surrounding villages there are some important buildings which certainly antedate the Great Fire (Plate Ag). The houses of Benin chiefs are planned so that the rooms are arranged around a series of internal courtyards (Plate Ae), leading one into the other much on the pattern of the Classical Roman house with its sequence of atria. In the centre of the roof of each courtyard is a hole which serves to admit light and air, while immediately below it in the floor is a sunken impluvium with an outlet to carry away the storm water. Indeed, so striking is the resemblance to Roman examples that theories have been advanced linking the Benin plans with Roman sources via Egypt. The internal courtyard, however, is a typical Mediterranean feature and here is more likely to be due to Portuguese influence. Or perhaps the Portuguese simply introduced some formality into the courtyard arrangement which in itself is common throughout southern Nigeria. The various courtyards may be with or without a peristyle of columns, depending on their size, but a common feature in them all are couches and shrines constructed entirely of mud, the surface of which is polished to a high glaze and has a remarkable quality of endurance so that even the oldest examples appear to have been but recently built. The sequence of courtyards culminates in the private apartments of the chief, while on each side are arranged the wives' and boys' quarters. Externally the mud walls are finished in a pattern of horizontal ribs, a fashion of building which has now practically died out, and old houses are usually recognizable by this kind of work. The roofs were originally of thatch-it was through one of these roofs catching alight that the Great Fire began-but this has now been replaced practically everywhere by corrugated iron, although the old method of providing a thatched coping on a light wooden framework to the tops of courtyard walls still persists. In contrast to Yoruba and Ibo houses the roof construction is of heavy timbers carefully framed together around the opening in the roof, and they are sometimes ornamented with carving. Doors and their jambs and the wooden posts supporting the peristyle around the larger courtyards are often ornamented in the same way.

Behind the rather unimpressive exterior (Plate Af) of the house of Chief lyase the Younger lies one of the best preserved examples of a chief's house still to be found in the city, although various alterations have been made to it from time to time, particularly to the street frontage where a small brick portico has been added. The general lines of the plan (fig. 2)

https://img691.imageshack.us/img691/6296/captureplanofthehouseof.jpg

FIG. 2. PLAN OF THE HOUSE OF CHIEF IYASE THE YOUNGER, BENIN

show a central block in which there is the main sequence of courtyards and apartments, surrounded on each side by rooms of lesser importance for the women- folk and the boys, while the odd corners are taken up by numerous small rooms without windows which are used for storage. In this particular house the courtyards are small, being little larger than room size, and the first contains the shrine of Erha, the Paternal or Ancestral Altar. On it stands a row of brass-plated wooden heads, shown wearing coral-bead collars, in front of a line of rattle sticks.

https://img194.imageshack.us/img194/2661/acourtyardinthehouseofc.jpg


(e) A courtyard in the house of Chief Iyase the Elder, Benin, 1953.