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jimetagambo: Obi is just a desperado. Anywhere belle face politician. Real Jibiti man. |
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Just use extra onions bruv. It’ll get soft real quick. |
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cedricksly: Don’t mind them. They think you are their slave if you hold public office, and everything should be about them. I like how the governor has brought a more enlightened approach to being a governor or administrator. It doesn’t mean you cease to exist as a normal person with interests and hobbies. |
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nony43: Exactly. One thing I’ve noticed is that people like him ALWAYS perform, because they know you will attack them for their lifestyle if they don’t. So they make sure they cover themselves, by doing a decent job in office. 3 Likes |
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Wole Soyinka did not ask you Igbos to go around killing each other in the name of Fraternity. Stop blaming him for your PRIMITIVISM and intolerance for one another. In the old days the Pyrates were simply a gathering of the coolest dudes on campus. The ladies loved them, and they were sharp dressers. It was these IGBOS at places like ASUTECH, UNN, IMSU, UNIPORT, etc, who turned it into a toxic urban warfare scenario. So get your Igbo boys to stop their violence, and stop blaming Soyinka. Even till today, you hardly hear about cult violence in UNILAG or OAU or UI. Just these mushroom universities in the East, and they say it’s Soyinka’s fault. Rubbish. |
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ajasbaba: He freed them from eternal slavery to a tiny white minority who seized their land for a century. 1 Like |
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The people of Zimbabwe WORSHIP Mugabe today, because they are now enjoying what he fought for. The people now own land and can build houses and farms, and industries, unlike when the tiny white minority of 5% owned 80% of the land, and the blacks were just peasants and tenants on their own ancestral land. Mugabe said “”HELL NO””, and drove out the bastards, sent them packing, and was condemned by the west, and by some mumu Africans, as a dictator, and the west placed heavy economic sanctions on Zimbabwe which led to widespread suffering. The white devils believed it was their right to steal and own all the land in Zimbabwe at the expense of the black majority. HELL YEAH MUGABE WAS A DICTATOR AND RIGHTFULLY SO. You don’t end that sort of demonic injustice with ‘democracy’. You end it with a WHIP, and FLOG them out like the vermin they are. 1 Like |
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We need every African president to be like Bob Mugabe. See how the great man rubbished a British reporter asking him a stupid question. https://youtube.com/shorts/GFgrhqxttwg?si=Uu9s7iegahlOE08l |
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Shameless Nigerians. Where are your pedestrians supposed to walk? Low IQ country building rubbish. See what you call a road in a civilised society. Kigali, Rwanda. They have no oil, no gold, no diamonds. But they have something you people lack. COMMON SENSE. ![]() 1 Like 1 Share |
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ALLNIGERIANSMAD: Who was the ''they'' that ''collected'' your phone and your money? How did they ''collect'' it? You ''almost'' got killed? What does that mean? They shot at you and missed? They pointed a gun at you and you said a prayer to 'Jesus' and they changed their mind? You sound like you are lying. In fact I'm 90% sure you are lying. |
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richiemcgold: That's better. |
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Beverlyjean: You can be robbed anywhere on EARTH INCLUDING LONDON. In LA where Harry and Meghan live, there are daily shootings and gang warfare in the city. Majority of the population own a gun! In fact LA is divided into territories for gangs. It is the centre of the US drug trade and a major hub for organized crime syndicates from Mexico, Colombia, and Russia. But do you see AMERICANS online trashing Los Angeles and saying it's too dangerous for Harry and Meghan to be in?? NEVER. Don't use your head like other nations, you hear? Your own children will suffer as the world shuns them based on YOUR loud, brainless exaggerations. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yY_khqI-EcI&ab_channel=CaliforniaInsider 2 Likes |
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Wawelexy: I swear you no get brain. In CALIFORNIA THERE where Harry and Meghan live, do you think everywhere in Los Angeles is safe for them to go without escorts? Do you know the amount of gang warfare that goes on in LA? Do you know the number of homeless addicts living under the bridge in LA? So, do you see the British or Americans saying California is too dangerous to visit? Low IQ. 3 Likes |
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ibechris: What a defeatist attitude. He is “trying” indeed. He is NOT trying if he’s building primitive roads with open drainage and no pedestrian sidewalks. The problem with you people is lack of exposure. You don’t know you are being cheated by having such roads built for you. These governors go abroad and know how roads are supposed to be built. In front of their beautiful mansions abroad are sidewalks with not an open drain in sight. When they take a walk around the town, same thing. Sidewalks and covered drainage And then they come back to Nigeria and build these wretched things, and you say they’re “trying”? Smh. |
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okoro: 😂 |
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Racoon: You're a seriously sick person. Honestly, you need help. 8 Likes |
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Sirianese: I don't feel like touching him. I feel like running away from him. 5 Likes |
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This man was calling for a religious conflict during his election campaign. If he'd won, some of us might have returned to the Great Beyond by now, following a bloody religious war. Some of us might have been in refugee camps in Cameroun by now, fed by the International Red Cross. The entire country right now could have been engulfed in flames, with bombs and bullets flying around everywhere. I think we are lucky that this man was not voted into power as president of this country. He's a danger to national security. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfhpeA5D2Bg&t=15s&ab_channel=ObjectvMedia 3 Likes 1 Share |
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MindHacker9009: AFRICANS of Ancient Egypt, and later on the Mali Empire, Ghana Empire etc could have easily developed firearms. Even the Chinese used gunpowder mixtures to make fireworks at festivals, with only a token production of more lethal armaments. Because they all knew the terrible damage it would cost in terms of casualties, and there was a worldwide 'gentleman's agreement' for this not to happen. Similar to how we have nuclear treaties today. The whites of Europe breached this millennia-long convention of sticking with iron weapons for combat, and began mass-producing firearms and bombs, which they used to subdue the rest of the world and loot their riches. And now, suitably fat and enriched with the world's riches, they look down on the rest of humanity as 'uncivilised'. Their cup is full and their comeuppance is near. |
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KEMET ![]() AS THEY ONCE LOOKED ![]() ![]() |
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PYRAMIDS & TEMPLES OF NUBIA (SUDAN) TODAY ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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Pharaoh Mentuhotep ![]() Pharaoh Narmer (Menes I) Reign: 2650 B.C. -- 2632 BCE ![]() Pharaoh Tutankhamun ![]() |
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The Great SPHINX Of Giza, EGYPT ![]() When French aristocrat, Count Volney visited Egypt in 1787, he wrote: “All of them are puffy-faced, heavy-eyed and thick-lipped, in a word, real mulatto faces. I was tempted to attribute this to the climate until, on visiting the Sphinx, the look of it gave me the clue to the enigma. Beholding that head characteristically Negro in all its features, I recalled the well-known passage of Herodotus which reads: 'For my part I consider the Colchoi are a colony of the Egyptians because, like them, they are black-skinned and kinky-haired'. In other words the ancient Egyptians were true negroes of the same stock as all the autochthonous peoples of Africa and from that datum one sees how their race, after some centuries of mixing with the blood of Romans and Greeks, must have lost the full blackness of its original colour but retained the impress of its original mould. It is even possible to apply this observation very widely and posit in principle that physiognomy is a kind of record usable in many cases for disputing or elucidating the evidence of history on the origins of the peoples ...” (M. C. F. Volney, Voyages en Syrie et en Egypte, Paris, 1787, Vol. I, pp. 74-) Queen Tiye (1401-1341 BCE) New kingdom-18th Dynasty, The Great Royal wife of Pharaoh Amenhotep III ![]() |
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OKAY, TIME TO EDUCATE YOU RETINUE OF IGNORAMUSES ON YOUR GLORIOUS AFRICAN HISTORY, WITHOUT WHICH THERE WOULD BE NO MODERN CIVILISATION TODAY. 12 Amazing African Inventions That CIVILISED The World 1 Speech The first words by humans were spoken by Africans. ''Using statistical methods to estimate the time required to achieve the current spread and diversity in modern languages today, Johanna Nichols — a linguist at the University of California, Berkeley — argues that vocal language must have arisen in our species at least 100,000 years ago. Using phonemic diversity, a more recent analysis offers directly linguistic support for a similar date. Estimates of this kind are independently supported by genetic, archaeological, palaeontological and much other evidence suggesting that language probably emerged somewhere in sub-Saharan Africa during the Middle Stone Age, roughly contemporaneous with the speciation of Homo sapiens.'' http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origin_of_language 2 Writing In 1999, Archaeology Magazine reported that the earliest Egyptian hieroglyphs date back to 3400 BCE which "...challenge the commonly held belief that early logographs, pictographic symbols representing a specific place, object, or quantity, first evolved into more complex phonetic symbols in Mesopotamia." Who were these original Egyptians? The Greek historian Herodotus.. described the Colchians of the Black Sea shores as "Egyptians by race" and pointed out they had "black skins and kinky hair." Apollodorus, the Greek philosopher, described Egypt as "the country of the black-footed ones" and the Latin historian Ammianus Marcellinus said "the men of Egypt are mostly brown or black with a skinny desiccated look." http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/specials/1624_story_of_africa/page88.shtml In his book 'Egypt', British scholar Sir E.A. Wallis Budge says: "The prehistoric native of Egypt, both in the old and in the new Stone Ages, was African and there is every reason for saying that the earliest settlers came from the South." He further states: "There are many things in the manners and customs and religions of the historic Egyptians that suggests that the original home of their prehistoric ancestors was in a country in the neighborhood of Uganda and Punt [present day Somalia]." ''Greek historian Diodorus Siculus devoted an entire chapter of his world history, the Bibliotheke Historica, or Library of History (Book 3), to the Kushites ["Aithiopians"] of Meroe. Here he repeats the story of their great piety, their high favor with the gods, and adds the fascinating legend that they were.. the founders of Egyptian civilization, invented writing, and had given the Egyptians their religion and culture.'' (1st century B.C., Diodorus Siculus of Sicily, Greek historian and contemporary of Caesar Augustus, Universal History Book III. 2. 4-3. 3) http://wysinger.homestead.com/blackegypt101.html To summarise: "Ancient Egypt was a Negro civilisation. The history of Black Africa will remain suspended in the air and cannot be written correctly until African historians connect it with the history of Egypt. The African historian who evades the problem of Egypt is neither modest nor objective nor unruffled. He is ignorant, cowardly and neurotic. The ancient Egyptians were Negroes. The moral fruit of their civilisation is to be counted among the assets of the Black world." - Cheikh Anta Diop, The African Origin of Civilisation. 3 Medicine ''The earliest known surgery was performed in Egypt around 2750 BC.... The Ebers papyrus (1550 BC) is full of incantations and foul applications meant to turn away disease-causing demons, and also includes 877 prescriptions. It may also contain the earliest documented awareness of tumors.. Homer (800 BC) remarked in the Odyssey: "In Egypt, the men are more skilled in medicine than any of human kind" and "the Egyptians were skilled in medicine more than any other art". The Greek historian Herodotus visited Egypt around 440 BC and wrote extensively of his observations of their medicinal practices. Pliny the Elder also wrote favourably of them in historical review. Hippocrates (the 'father of medicine'), Herophilos, Erasistratus and later Galen studied at the temple of Amenhotep, and acknowledged the contribution of ancient Egyptian medicine to Greek medicine. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Egyptian_medicine 4 Architecture The African empire of Egypt developed a vast array of diverse structures and great architectural monuments along the Nile, among the largest and most famous of which are the Great Pyramid of Giza and the Great Sphinx of Giza The pyramids, which were built in the Fourth Dynasty, testify to the power of the pharaonic religion and state. They were built to serve both as grave sites and also as a way to make their names last forever. The size and simple design show the high skill level of Egyptian design and engineering on a large scale. The Great Pyramid of Giza, which was probably completed c. 2580 BC, is the oldest and largest of the pyramids, and is the only surviving monument of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. The pyramid of Khafre is believed to have been completed around 2532 BC, at the end of Khafre's reign. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Egyptian_architecture 5 Mathematics The invention of mathematics is placed firmly in African PRE-HISTORY. ''The oldest known possibly mathematical object is the Lebombo bone, discovered in the Lebombo mountains of Swaziland and dated to approximately 35,000 BC. It consists of 29 distinct notches cut into a baboon's fibula. Also prehistoric artifacts discovered in Africa and France, dated between 35,000 and 20,000 years old [respectively], suggest early attempts to quantify time. The Ishango bone, found near the headwaters of the Nile river (northeastern Congo), may be as much as 20,000 years old and consists of a series of tally marks carved in three columns running the length of the bone. Common interpretations are that the Ishango bone shows either the earliest known demonstration of sequences of prime numbers or a six month lunar calendar. Also, Predynastic Egyptians of the 5th millennium BC pictorially represented geometric designs. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_mathematics#Prehistoric_mathematics ''Numeral systems have been many and diverse, with the first known written numerals created by Egyptians in Middle Kingdom texts such as the Rhind Mathematical Papyrus. The earliest uses of mathematics were in trading, land measurement, painting and weaving patterns and the recording of time. More complex mathematics did not appear until around 3000 BC, when the Egyptians and Babylonians began using arithmetic, algebra and geometry for taxation and other financial calculations, for building and construction, and for astronomy'' http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematics 6 Mining of minerals The oldest known mine on archaeological record is the "Lion Cave" in Swaziland, which radiocarbon dating shows to be about 43,000 years old. Much later on, the Africans of Egypt mined malachite....Quarries for turquoise and copper were also found at "Wadi Hamamat, Tura, Aswan and various other Nubian sites"..The gold mines of Nubia were among the largest and most extensive in the world, and are described by the Greek author Diodorus Siculus. He mentions that fire-setting was one method used to break down the hard rock holding the gold. One of the complexes is shown in one of earliest known maps. They crushed the ore and ground it to a fine powder before washing the powder for the gold dust. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mining#Prehistoric_mining 7 Iron Smelting Iron smelting is a form of extractive metallurgy; its main use is to produce a metal from its ore. This includes production of silver, iron, copper and other base metals from their ores. Smelting uses heat and a chemical reducing agent to decompose the ore, driving off other elements as gasses or slag and leaving just the metal behind. Early iron smelting: ''Where and how iron smelting was discovered is widely debated, and remains uncertain due to the significant lack of production finds.. [but] there is a further possibility of iron smelting and working in West Africa by 1200 BC. In addition, very early instances of carbon steel were found to be in production around 2000 years before the present in northwest Tanzania, based on complex preheating principles. These discoveries are significant for the history of metallurgy.'' http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smelting 8 Religion Greek historian Diodorus Siculus. From his own statements we learn that he traveled in Egypt around 60 BC. His travels in Egypt probably took him as far south as the first Cataract. He wrote about the black races of inner Africa whom he called ''Ethiopians'', dwelling south of Egypt. "They further write that it was among them that people were first taught to honor the gods and offer sacrifices and arrange processions and festivals and perform other things by which people honor the divine. For this reason their piety is famous among all men, and the sacrifices among the Ethiopians are believed to be particularly pleasing to the divinity." 9 Laws Stephanus of Byzantium, who is said to represent the opinions of the most ancient Greeks, says: "Ethiopia was the first established country on the earth, and the Ethiopians were the first who introduced the worship of the Gods and who established laws." Quoted by John D. Baldwin, Prehistoric Nations, p. 62. 10 International Trade In 1825, Arnold Hermann Heeren (1760-1842), Professor of History and Politics in the University of Gottengen and one of the ablest of the early exponents of the economic interpretation of history, published, in the fourth and revised edition of his great work Ideen Uber Die Politik, Den Verkehr Und Den Handel Der Vornehmsten Volker Der Alten Weld, a lengthy essay on the history, culture, and commerce of the ancient Ethiopians, which had profound influence on contemporary writers in the conclusion that it was among these ancient Black people of Africa and Asia that international trade was first developed. He wrote that as a by-product of these international contacts there was an exchange of ideas and cultural practices that laid the foundations of the earliest civilizations of the ancient world. Heeren in his researches says: "From the remotest times to the present, the Ethiopians (ancient name for blacks south of the Sahara) have been one of the most celebrated, and yet the most mysterious of nations. In the earliest traditions of nearly all the..civilized nations of antiquity, the name of this distant people is found. ..The annals of the Egyptian priests are full of them, and the nations of inner Asia, on the Euphrates and Tigris, have interwoven the fictions of the Ethiopians with their traditions of the wars and conquests of their heroes; and, at a period equally remote, they glimmer in Greek mythology. When the Greeks scarcely knew Italy and Sicily by name, the Ethiopians were celebrated in the verses of their poets, and when the faint gleam of tradition and fable gives way to the clear light of history, the lustre of the Ethiopians is not diminished. They still continue to be the objects of curiosity and admiration, and the pen of clear-sighted, cautious historians places them in the highest rank of knowledge and civilization." https://www.jstor.org/stable/3025163?seq=2#metadata_info_tab_contents 11 Philosophy Philosophy is the study of general and fundamental problems, such as those connected with reality, existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language. Philosophy is distinguished from other ways of addressing such problems by its critical, generally systematic approach and its reliance on rational argument. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy#Ancient_philosophy Philosophy in Africa has a rich and varied history, dating from pre-dynastic Egypt, continuing through the birth of Christianity and Islam. Arguably central to the ancients was the conception of "ma'at", which roughly translated refers to "justice", "truth", or simply "that which is right". One of the earliest works of political philosophy was the Maxims of Ptah-Hotep, which were taught to Egyptian schoolboys for centuries...Ancient Egyptian philosophers made extremely important contributions to Hellenistic philosophy, Christian philosophy, and Islamic philosophy. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_philosophy ''Ancient Egyptian philosophy has been credited by the ancient Greeks as being the beginning of philosophy''. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Egyptian_philosophy 12 Art The oldest art objects in the world—a series of tiny, drilled snail shells about 75,000 years old—were discovered in a South African cave. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art |
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Bliss4Lyfe: Please exit TODAY. Madam Hole in a Circle. If you DARE touch the south-south or try to claim it as part of your wretched new country, the South East will be turned to a PARKING LOT. Spit. 2 Likes |
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AnambraPikinSel: YOU ARE A TERRORIST. |
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Benrosaria: YOU ARE A MOR.ON. Empty head. Who told you we do not mine or process metal in Nigeria? Those vehicles and others being produced in Nigeria are MADE IN NIGERIA. It’s only in Nigeria that ILLITERATES like you suffering from deep inferiority complex have invented a “difference” between manufacturing and “assembly”. In the rest of the world the two words mean the EXACT SAME THING. Zero difference. To assemble IS to manufacture, and to manufacture is to assemble. Manufacturing a vehicle is done by acquiring parts from multiple vendors and then ‘assembling’ the vehicle. That’s how EVERY vehicle manufacturer operates. So get rid of your complex and accept that manufacturing is taking place IN Nigeria. 1 Like |
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ignis: I noticed the same thing. |
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