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Re: The Forgotten Groundnut Pyramids Of Northern Nigeria (Photos) by Nobody: 7:13pm On Jul 03, 2015
who chop them finish?
Re: The Forgotten Groundnut Pyramids Of Northern Nigeria (Photos) by Spybradd: 7:16pm On Jul 03, 2015
Curses..now they are plundering other people's land cos of oil..north is a curse. West is waste and cursed.
Re: The Forgotten Groundnut Pyramids Of Northern Nigeria (Photos) by Nobody: 7:16pm On Jul 03, 2015
It is not enough to return the ground nut pyramids....we must also use the groundnuts for industrial products (not just food products!)....which will provide jobs for many Nigerians.

Nigeria cannot live by selling resources....agric or otherwise.We must become an industrial nation.We must use our available resources to fuel an industrial rebirth...that will make us a first world nation.

And it starts with us reforming our education system....and making the lights work.

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Re: The Forgotten Groundnut Pyramids Of Northern Nigeria (Photos) by Smooyis(m): 7:16pm On Jul 03, 2015
Pls i want to know if rain was not affecting the groundnut seeds back then. Just thinking
Re: The Forgotten Groundnut Pyramids Of Northern Nigeria (Photos) by Nobody: 7:21pm On Jul 03, 2015
They won't mind their resources but rather prefer to fight our oil with us. Ndi usapa.
Re: The Forgotten Groundnut Pyramids Of Northern Nigeria (Photos) by ifeanyi83(m): 7:22pm On Jul 03, 2015
BabyDaddy20:
That was [size=20pt]300[/size] years ago.
The lost everything to Buhari's children (BOKO HARAM)

Even the groundnut pyramids?...Really!!!....
Re: The Forgotten Groundnut Pyramids Of Northern Nigeria (Photos) by ideatoprince18(m): 7:25pm On Jul 03, 2015
this is d natural resources of d north but due to greediness they mismanaged it...... NOW they are coming to dray our own God given oyel......NA THUNDER GO STRIKE ALL OF THEM!!!!!"
Re: The Forgotten Groundnut Pyramids Of Northern Nigeria (Photos) by juman(m): 7:27pm On Jul 03, 2015
Time when agriculture was the order of the day.

This kind of pyramid cannot happen in this country in a very long time.
Re: The Forgotten Groundnut Pyramids Of Northern Nigeria (Photos) by Nobody: 7:30pm On Jul 03, 2015
... see dis country' potential.




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Re: The Forgotten Groundnut Pyramids Of Northern Nigeria (Photos) by sanmibukunmi: 7:31pm On Jul 03, 2015
What happened to this country.....I bet during dt time, we were more unified than we are now.....Crude oil is indeed a curse to the Black Race.
Re: The Forgotten Groundnut Pyramids Of Northern Nigeria (Photos) by stag: 7:37pm On Jul 03, 2015
How are these bags of pyramids preserved? Or do groundnuts not get spoilt?
In what state are they piled in these pyramids? Raw or processed?

Anyone pls enlighten me?
Re: The Forgotten Groundnut Pyramids Of Northern Nigeria (Photos) by Kanmyos(m): 7:38pm On Jul 03, 2015
Nigeria will rise one day..... that I strongly believe...... might just be sooner or later... buh Nigeria will rise again!!

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Re: The Forgotten Groundnut Pyramids Of Northern Nigeria (Photos) by hasonjack: 7:42pm On Jul 03, 2015
BabyDaddy20:
That was [size=20pt]300[/size] years ago.
The lost everything to Buhari's children (BOKO HARAM)

See this akuya
Re: The Forgotten Groundnut Pyramids Of Northern Nigeria (Photos) by hasonjack: 7:43pm On Jul 03, 2015
Kanmyos:
Nigeria will rise one day..... that I strongly believe...... might just be sooner or later... buh Nigeria will rise again!!

Amen my brother. I believe too.
Re: The Forgotten Groundnut Pyramids Of Northern Nigeria (Photos) by hasonjack: 7:44pm On Jul 03, 2015
Spybradd:
Curses..now they are plundering other people's land cos of oil..north is a curse. West is waste and cursed.

See this big akuya
Re: The Forgotten Groundnut Pyramids Of Northern Nigeria (Photos) by misterjosh(m): 7:54pm On Jul 03, 2015
undecided pls can som1 tell me y they were arranged lyk dat, is it dat those ones were not for eating or dat's how they stored/preserved groundnut then?
Re: The Forgotten Groundnut Pyramids Of Northern Nigeria (Photos) by Nobody: 7:59pm On Jul 03, 2015
When northerners were thinking properly cheesy cheesy cheesy
Re: The Forgotten Groundnut Pyramids Of Northern Nigeria (Photos) by joganut(m): 8:01pm On Jul 03, 2015
na 2 come organize garri pyramid join...

Re: The Forgotten Groundnut Pyramids Of Northern Nigeria (Photos) by searider(m): 8:03pm On Jul 03, 2015
After the oil boom in the 70s, Nigeria shifted from a diversified economy to a mono-cultural and mixed economy thereby making the Nigerian economy as complex as the problem in PDP.

we are talking about the groundnut pyramid of the north when the northerners are no longer interested in agriculture. Most of the petroleum tankers in lagos and oil blocs in the south-south are owned by the northerners.

So tell me; who is going to bring back the pyramid? Hahaha... maybe the Egyptians will...
Re: The Forgotten Groundnut Pyramids Of Northern Nigeria (Photos) by bosunjohns(m): 8:03pm On Jul 03, 2015
And what were these pyramids use for? Were they later sold off? What happened to all the groundnuts?
Re: The Forgotten Groundnut Pyramids Of Northern Nigeria (Photos) by Octaves(m): 8:08pm On Jul 03, 2015
every body is eyeing the oil in the nether region. they should be weaned off the oil resources of the south so that they can rebuild their agrarian economy
Re: The Forgotten Groundnut Pyramids Of Northern Nigeria (Photos) by NaijaCuzin: 8:10pm On Jul 03, 2015
OkAy next pls
Re: The Forgotten Groundnut Pyramids Of Northern Nigeria (Photos) by bosunjohns(m): 8:11pm On Jul 03, 2015
fctguy:
The groundnut pyramids of Kano were a sight to behold and told a wonderful story of agricultural sufficiency and of a fruitful nation. It revealed a country that knew the way to sustainable development, through agriculture, self sustainability and hard work.



Over the years Nigeria has gone away from farming as we started to over rely on oil, a resource with a finite life shelf. The land of Nigeria is blessed, sow a seed and it will surely grow. We have the potential to be the food basket of all of Africa. When we produce our own food as we used to do in the past to a larger degree than we do today we can rest assured that no matter the global economic outlook, inflation would always be under control because we would have more than enough internally generated food to feed the population. As our imports grew and grew so did inflation.





It is appropriate to look back and remember the things that made us great back then and agriculture was certainly one of them. As the picture shows, the groundnut industry alone provided employment of many youths, youths today are easily enticed into militancy because of the lack of jobs yet we have resources to create thousands of jobs off the God given fertile land we sit on.


They were viewed as both a tourist attraction and a symbol of wealth. In the 1960s and 70s, as production in Nigeria shifted from agriculture to oil, the groundnut pyramids disappeared.

I am reflecting on the Groundnut Pyramids of Kano and I’m wondering; would we be able to recreate something like this again?

credits http://www.jesus4nigeria.com/comment/discussion_forum.php?id=73, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groundnut_pyramids
Re: The Forgotten Groundnut Pyramids Of Northern Nigeria (Photos) by Otunbatrafford: 8:25pm On Jul 03, 2015
[quote author=BabyDaddy20 post=35448714]That was [size=20pt]300[/size] years ago.
The lost everything to Buhari's children (BOKO HARAM)[/fquote]
God punish you for making that comment. Useless Idiot.
Re: The Forgotten Groundnut Pyramids Of Northern Nigeria (Photos) by damiloladuke: 8:26pm On Jul 03, 2015
good old days




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Re: The Forgotten Groundnut Pyramids Of Northern Nigeria (Photos) by FranQlin(m): 8:27pm On Jul 03, 2015
... Let's b creative to process d groundnuts to other end products like peanut butter and co not just pyramid for mouth sake....d pyramid is even old fashioned
Re: The Forgotten Groundnut Pyramids Of Northern Nigeria (Photos) by kashrush: 8:36pm On Jul 03, 2015
Wow wow. May our and Nig be restored
Re: The Forgotten Groundnut Pyramids Of Northern Nigeria (Photos) by Robinhood477: 8:45pm On Jul 03, 2015
e look like daura
Re: The Forgotten Groundnut Pyramids Of Northern Nigeria (Photos) by NewNigeriaMind: 8:46pm On Jul 03, 2015
Until Nigeria goes back to regionalism, both the cocoa industry and groundnut pyramids will not come back.

Oil is both a blessing and a curse to nigeria.

How Nigeria got it wrong beats my imagination.

Instead of biafra, what we should be asking for is regionalism

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Re: The Forgotten Groundnut Pyramids Of Northern Nigeria (Photos) by stuff46(m): 8:52pm On Jul 03, 2015
Good old times. With the way oil sales are, the federal government should just see thru this things and implement them.


They are just too beautiful!
Re: The Forgotten Groundnut Pyramids Of Northern Nigeria (Photos) by Ademat7(m): 9:24pm On Jul 03, 2015
All I see is what our colonial master has been taking from us at no cost
Re: The Forgotten Groundnut Pyramids Of Northern Nigeria (Photos) by Topman0001(m): 9:34pm On Jul 03, 2015
oluwafemi1993:
Do they still exist shocked
exist ke, those days has passed before Ɣ☺u were born.

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