Msmither:


Why do you think the god from the Bible is the real god when we have over 5000 religion?
That they are way ahead of us to detail the words of God in books, animal skin doesn't mean ours is inferior.

The old testament way of religion is very similar to our own, they sacrifice lambs and fruits to god and we do the same here. So what is the difference?

The Arab Islam sacrifices rams to God but if we do the same it's seen as idol worshipping why?

China wouldn't have been what it is today if they let other people's religion sink into their culture.

Evidenx:
This festac was what enthroned Satan in Nigeria, Today Nigeria is one of the countries that Satan have office in. I speak by divine Revelation.
From 77 till now Nigeria began to go downward. Because people in their ignorance welcome the devil to take over their country.

aieromon:


Fact.

My dad was one of the winners of a 3 bedroom flat. The flat came furnished with bunk beds, ceiling fans and mattresses.

Proudly Festac Baby.

GeneralPula:
Wow. Never heard of this

Reflect7:


Most Asians countries have not ''made it''. Nepal, Burma, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Afghanistan, Laos, Tibet etc. The few 'tigers' that 'made it' were deliberately selected and elevated by the west after world war 2 (via technology transfer, massive, cheap credit facilities and opening their markets to their manufactures) in order to have them serve as capitalist bulwarks against rampaging Soviet communism in the Asia Pacific.



For Africa, their policy has always been to have it remain a supplier of raw materials for western industry. And they go to every length to maintain that, including imposing import restrictions and high tariffs on goods manufactured in Africa (No tariffs on raw materials though).

Scribx:


You took the words out of my mouth. How do you celebrate being a prosperous nation by hosting one of the biggest gathering of idols (and gods) in the name of Arts and culture? This reminds me of what Apostle Paul said about 'curious arts' by pagans in Ephesus before their conversion ( Acts 19:19). This is to tell you Nigeria played host to more than want she imagined. Since then, the once blossoming nation has lost its relevance and spiralling down the depth of misery and woes. Only few people would understand.

OldNairalander:
I still believed the West have a hand in Nigeria's current woes.
This country was fast rising to become a rich and powerful black empire of sort that will liberate all black men all over the world. Unfortunately for her,the West can't survive without Africa's resources. Hence the coded Carthage like treatment on Nigeria to destroy it's influence.

OldNairalander:
I still believed the West have a hand in Nigeria's current woes.
This country was fast rising to become a rich and powerful black empire of sort that will liberate all black men all over the world. Unfortunately for her,the West can't survive without Africa's resources. Hence the coded Carthage like treatment on Nigeria to destroy it's influence.

AmazingELixir:


There were no agberos then and certainly no "owo mi da"

Who ever engineered this group of persons into creation in our society will live to regret it....that is if they ain't already.

aieromon:


Fact.

My dad was one of the winners of a 3 bedroom flat. The flat came furnished with bunk beds, ceiling fans and mattresses.

Proudly Festac Baby.

aieromon:


Fact.

My dad was one of the winners of a 3 bedroom flat. The flat came furnished with bunk beds, ceiling fans and mattresses.

Proudly Festac Baby.

Reflect7:


Most Asians countries have not ''made it''. Nepal, Burma, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Afghanistan, Laos, Tibet etc. The few 'tigers' that 'made it' were deliberately selected and elevated by the west after world war 2 (via technology transfer, massive, cheap credit facilities and opening their markets to their manufactures) in order to have them serve as capitalist bulwarks against rampaging Soviet communism in the Asia Pacific.

For Africa, their policy has always been to have it remain a supplier of raw materials for western industry. And they go to every length to maintain that, including imposing import restrictions and high tariffs on goods manufactured in Africa (No tariffs on raw materials though).

virginchaser:


.. And how did you guys managed it nowadays and those days?

GeneralPula:
Wow. Never heard of this

aieromon:


I don't understand the question

virginchaser:


I meant the estate flat you grew up in term of maintenance.

Ikem11:


It's not that easy to explain but after that festac the economy suffered. Too much padding in budgets and embezzlement was high.

Nigeria never recovered from it again till date

Scribx:


You took the words out of my mouth. How do you celebrate being a prosperous nation by hosting one of the biggest gathering of idols (and gods) in the name of Arts and culture? This reminds me of what Apostle Paul said about 'curious arts' by pagans in Ephesus before their conversion ( Acts 19:19). This is to tell you Nigeria played host to more than want she imagined. Since then, the once blossoming nation has lost its relevance and spiralling down the depth of misery and woes. Only few people would understand.

RighteousI:
According to MUMMY G. O (Evangelist Funmilayo Adebayo), the festac 77 festival was used to introduce demons, evil spirits and satan to Nigeria.
Festac 77 was not an African cultural games or festival but a satanic festival.

Msmither:


Very stupid assumption.

The white man had Christainity yet they enslaved your people for 400 years

The Arabs had Islam yet they enslaved Africa for 1300 years and they haven't stopped, there is underground SLAVERy going on in UAE as we speak.


You all go to church and vilify your ancestors by casting out some imaginary curse with the white man's religion, if that's not stupidity I don't know what it is.

As if the Religious practices by modern day clerics and pastors in Nigeria is even genuine.

Alfas are selling charms and giving fake prophesies.

Pastors are doing fake miracles, building schools with public tithes and offerings and making it private, they have no hospital, no motherless baby homes, no food bank, little or no humanitarian services yet they go around cruising on private jets and do not follow their own teachings.

Black Brothers are killing their kinsmen in the name of Islam, if that's not stupidity I don't know what it is.

Free yourself from colonialism and Religious reconditioning.

FullBlastLight:



Celebrating idols & fetish stuff they called Festac was an immortal error Nig shldn't hv misguidedly committed!

What a whopping & colossal waste of money & resources on a show of vanity as dis!


That demonic error was d remote & fundamental undoing of Nig till 2day!

engrchykae:
now I understand,festac meant something bigger than a mere carnival.
It was a rallying point for blacks world over.
I believe the West won't want such a program again
It scares them.
A program that disrupts Anglo Franco pseudo boundaries in Africa
I don't know why we stopped such programs

semitunde:
Festac is still the best planned estate in the country to date. Many of the infrastructure were messed up by the military and their lackeys though.
1. Underground sewage and flood water drainage system with mechanical sewage system plants stationed and working to put clean water into the manmade canal and green areas surrounding the town.

2. Underground electrical supply system. With equipments to spot and pinpoint where a cable underground might be faulty. The transformers stations were so ahead of their time that it had emergency backup light to work in the stations when there was no light ( which was rare at the time). The transformers were housed and had several gadgets to make sure fault from any close or block can be located, isolated, and worked upon with minimal fuss.

3. There were traffic lights everywhere. And they were so we'll programmed that there were hardly and strain waiting on a red light. It taught me from that childhood to always wait on a red light because my dad would always wait.

4. There were so many interconnecting roads that it was not possible to have a hold up in festac at that time. There were always options.

5. There were phone booths everywhere, and they worked. You had coins? You can call anywhere in the world if you have the phone number.

6. Phones in every block of flats for emergency. This was actually phenomenal. And yes, they worked. Not that we as children at that time knew what it was for. We probably damaged it while playing with it.

7. There were play areas everywhere. These had things like swings, seesaws, slides and other children play things. You can't walk for 15minutes and not find a play area to rest or play at. This was one of the first things subsequent military juntas focused on and destroyed. They sold or built on almost all the play areas to the extent that residents started physically resisting without success people that bought lands. There were areas earmarked for further development, but those in government wanted the already developed part of the town and decided to mess up infrastructure as a means to that end. They built over several underground electrical and drainage nexus ( which were located in the play areas for easy servicing) that festac started having drainge and electrics issues that could only be solved if they removed the huge mansions built on top of those places. Of course the owners with connections in government resisted. In the end, festac had to abandon the still working underground system, cut the trees lining most of the roads, so as to install overhead election lines and transformes. The original festac transformers were mostly stolen piece by piece by NEPA workers. Equipments for maintenance were stolen too.

8. It's the only estate that actually brought together and intermingled homes of different and diverse financial levels. It made any resident of festac, whether poor or rich, very confident in outlook to life. They've seen the best. You couldn't oppress them with even pictures of other places. There were always similar or better places to point to in festac.

9. Those luxury buses mentioned in the thread were true. I remember my mom would take me walking to 5th avenue to take a bus. That was their last busstop then. It was still called last busstop for a long time after the buses stoped coming. But a change of route by danfos meant 5th avenue became less popular as they preferred going through 23 road.

10. Most festac resident then were used to walking around. No bikes. Keke marwa didn't exist. But most importantly, there were trees lining both sides of every road such that you hardly feel the sun and would walk long distances to visit friends without feeling the strain. Festac is very big. But as children, we would take long walks to far places without thinking twice about it.

11. The canal was a good fishing spot for both adults and children. Since the water going into it was both from storm runoff and treated sewage, many people took it as just a normal river encircling festac and going all the way to Apapa.

12. The only town were you could actually find people from ALL parts of the country staying together. The education from this, you can't get in in any book. You'll hardly find any festac person, especially of my generation holding in to tribal beliefs or tribalism because you just have too many of friends and neighbors from other tribes!

Talking in detail about how things were messed up along the way is a long discourse in it's own that showed and shows Nigeria's selfishness, shallowness, nepotism, greed, and all other bad traits especially in people who should be leaders.