₦airaland Forum

Ironfaceman:
. Why you dey swap moniker. I tire for you.

ESN way Nigerian Army Don kill finish.

OriOko88:
Abeg. Go sit down. Ur fathers built tared road before the whites came?? Who gave ur fore fathers asphalt technology? Abegii. Don't be a clown. Your fathers in Yoruba land were living in huts with fire wood as light in the 17th century.

Ironfaceman:
While many village illiterates on nairaland will celebrate the installation of such a statue.

They never knew that Christopher Colombus,
the father of segregation

why his statues were pulled down across the US.

And why many black heritage site in the US are converted to amusement Park and slave trade emancipation statues are being pulled down by executive order. Is like some people are trying to erase black history in America.

https://www.americanprogress.org/article/the-trump-administration-is-intentionally-erasing-the-black-history-told-by-public-lands-and-waters/#:~:text=In%20January%202026%2C%20the%20Trump,hostility%20toward%20formerly%20enslaved%20people.

2mch:
Yes, my forefathers built all the roads in my region. No White man built anything that lasted in SW except missionary schools. Which then use bread steal Nigeria resources. For your village, how many mansion Oyinbo build for you and your forefathers despite occupying your country for over 100yrs? Even Nigeria is not up to 100years and far more developed than how your White gods left it now.

2mch:
Oyinbo were living in plywood and also using firewood so what is this one talking about. Who built Lagos Ibadan expressway and other major roads and infrastructures in Nigeria? It’s actually Nigerians . Most of the roads, hospitals and schools you see today were built by Nigerians. Awo introduced universal education, free before Oyinbo. Yet you are saying they left Nigeria as heaven. When most people could not even afford the school they left. When politicians like Penkelemesi died, people had to donate money or adopt his kids so they attend school before Awo introduced free education.


Only roads in Lagos and roads leading to port na him concern Oyinbo. And let me tell you, there was segregation even in Lagos but we fought it and destroyed it. Anyway, you don’t have the ability to actually look around you!

OriOko88:
Youre not making sense. Nigeria built those infrastructures you mentioned,as a country but were helped built by the oyinbos. Your fore fathers didn't discover oil before the White came, and nothing like education then too. The first storey building in badagry was built by oyinbos not ur fore fathers. Go sit down somewhere jor

2mch:
Nigeria is named after the River Niger that flows through the country. Same with Niger. What is America named after?

KingRabota:
After amerigo vespucci
Another conquistador
In sane the mould as christobal colon

Ironfaceman:
. Why you dey swap moniker. I tire for you.

ESN way Nigerian Army Don kill finish.

Kalashnikov49:
Why una like to cry like this .. That Esnbrutality guy dey finish all of una for this platform with facts and figures.

Wetin koncern Nnamdi Kanu for here na..is that how deep your pain is?

Esnbrutality said you should face ypur direct challenges...is that bad? Have you used all these propaganda against Trump to ask why your OBAS and citizens are being exterminated without TINUBU saying anything?

Or you need the same TRUMP to come and help you again?

esnbrutality:
Who is this now..

Omo leave me out of your crass reasoning.

zoedew:
Who discovered America? He was white.

Ironfaceman:
It is good you ask yourself the question again.

HacheNoire:
🤣😂🤣😂

How can you discover a place where people already inhabited.

I still don’t know how that narration was forced on us.

A white discovered River Niger, meaning every Nigerian as at that time did not see the huge River Niger until the white man came.

Ironfaceman:
While many village illiterates on nairaland will celebrate the installation of such a statue.

They never knew that Christopher Colombus,
the father of segregation

why his statues were pulled down across the US.

And why many black heritage site in the US are converted to amusement Park and slave trade emancipation statues are being pulled down by executive order. Is like some people are trying to erase black history in America.

https://www.americanprogress.org/article/the-trump-administration-is-intentionally-erasing-the-black-history-told-by-public-lands-and-waters/#:~:text=In%20January%202026%2C%20the%20Trump,hostility%20toward%20formerly%20enslaved%20people.

Ironfaceman:
While many village illiterates on nairaland will celebrate the installation of such a statue.

They never knew that Christopher Colombus,
the father of segregation

why his statues were pulled down across the US.

And why many black heritage site in the US are converted to amusement Park and slave trade emancipation statues are being pulled down by executive order. Is like some people are trying to erase black history in America.

https://www.americanprogress.org/article/the-trump-administration-is-intentionally-erasing-the-black-history-told-by-public-lands-and-waters/#:~:text=In%20January%202026%2C%20the%20Trump,hostility%20toward%20formerly%20enslaved%20people.

Ironfaceman:
A statue of Christopher Columbus has been erected outside of an ornate federal office building on the White House grounds — the latest sign of the Trump administration’s efforts to reshape cultural and historical representations across the nation’s capital.

The installation of the statue — which is a replica of one toppled in Baltimore during racial justice protests in 2020 — occurred over the weekend outside of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building. It comes as the Trump administration pushes forward with its efforts to bring back statues that were removed in the wake of the protests.

President Donald Trump, in a letter published by the Conference of Presidents of Major Italian American Organizations, praised the group for its “incredible generosity” in bringing the statue to Washington after the original was “torn down by anti-American rioters.”

Many statues of Columbus, an Italian often falsely credited as the first overseas explorer to discover America, were taken down at the height of the demonstrations over George Floyd’s murder in 2020. Columbus has long been a contentious figure in history for his treatment of Indigenous communities and for his role ushering in European colonization in the Americas.

The White House said it’s “proud” to honor Columbus. “As we celebrate our Nation’s 250th anniversary of independence, the White House is proud to honor Christopher Columbus’s legendary life and legacy with a well-deserved statue on the White House grounds,” spokesman Davis Ingle said in a statement to CNN on Monday.

“President Trump has rightly hailed Christopher Columbus as ‘the original American hero, a giant of Western civilization, and one of the most gallant and visionary men to ever walk the face of the earth.’ In this White House, Christopher Columbus is a hero, and President Trump will ensure he’s honored as such for generations to come.”


The 13-foot statue recently installed on the White House campus is a copy of a work that was wrenched down from its pedestal and thrown into Baltimore’s harbor in 2020. While it stands across from the Smithsonian’s Renwick Gallery and near the White House building, it’s not accessible for close public viewing and is blocked off by rows of fences.

The new work contains pieces of the statue that were retrieved from the Baltimore Harbor, according to a release from the Conference of Presidents of Major Italian American Organizations, which worked with the White House to bring the statue to Washington in celebration of Italian American culture and the United States’ 250th anniversary.

“Columbus statues have long stood as symbols of pride and cultural identity for more than 18 million Americans of Italian descent,” the group’s president, Basil Russo, said in a news release. “For over a century, Columbus’s legacy helped Italian immigrants navigate prejudice and hardship, serving as a source of unity and belonging as they built new lives in this country.”

“Christopher Columbus was the original American hero and one of the most gallant and visionary men to ever walk the face of the Earth,” Trump said in his letter, adding Columbus’ voyage in 1492 “carried thousands of years of wisdom, philosophy, reason, and culture across the Atlantic into the Americas.”

The installation builds on Trump’s push to bring back statues that were removed in the wake of the Floyd protests. Across the country, controversial statues — especially Confederate monuments — were removed after the mass demonstrations in 2020.


So far, the Trump administration has reinstalled a statue of Confederate officer Albert Pike in Washington, DC, and announced plans to return a Confederate memorial to Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia.

https://edition.cnn.com/2026/03/22/politics/christopher-columbus-statue-white-house-grounds

HacheNoire:
🤣😂🤣😂

How can you discover a place where people already inhabited.

I still don’t know how that narration was forced on us.

A white discovered River Niger, meaning every Nigerian as at that time did not see the huge River Niger until the white man came.

AlphaTaikun:
Now that it's been officially confirmed as of 2025 via DNA tests that Christopher Columbus was indeed born in the Iberian Peninsula as a Sephardic Jew to Sephardic Jewish parents who his their identities, it's NOT surprising that that statue finally made it there.

zoedew:
Until the white man came over I was not told that it was navigable. The natives did not know much about the rivers except to worship them! That was what they excelled at doing.

zoedew:
Until the white man came over I was not told that it was navigable. The natives did not know much about the rivers except to worship them! That was what they excelled at doing.

2mch:
Nigeria is named after the River Niger that flows through the country. Same with Niger. What is America named after?

2mch:
Guy you are so enslaved. My forefathers built all the infrastructure in Nigeria, while still paying royalties to enslavers. The first story building in Badagry was built by Oyinbo or they used Nigerians to build a structure they lived in? Show me one structure they built which we are using till today despite being in Nigeria over 100yrs and compare it with what Nigerians built in 60yrs. They were in charge of all exports in Nigeria including slaves, yet were unable to turn Nigeria to heaven. Where is the evidence of all that money for over 100yrs in Nigeria? And so what if they discovered oil, till today, how has the oil benefitted Nigerians. Are we not still exporting it for kobo to them?

HacheNoire:
Oh! The natives didn’t know there were fishes inside and never navigated through it until the white man came?

lawani:
Who are your teachers? People worshipped rivers. Yes and they still do. They worship rivers, trees and etc all over the world too. Not only in Africa. Before Mungo Park, that river was navigated, crossed by armies and plied for trade. There were naval blockades at least one well known by the Oyo in Badagry. The King of Mali sent hundreds of vessels across the Atlantic to the Americas when no nation in Europe had the resources to do that. You don't seem to know anything of what you are talking about.

Yoruba people living in Lagos in the 15th century knew the River Niger and that still isn't enough for you?

zoedew:
My point is the natives did not navigate the River Niger before the whiteman came.

Kukutente23:
River Niger in badagry
Stop typing abeg 🙏