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igwebuike01:STUPID DUNCE WITH NO BRAIN. THE FIRST TWO IMAGES ARE OF REAL LIVE PAVED ROAD REMNANTS. IFE HISTORY IS ACTUALLY SEPARATED INTO THE PRE-PAVEMENT AND POST-PAVEMENT ERAS BY HISTORIANS AND ARCHAEOLOGISTS. STUPID ILLITERATE. DON'T RESEARCH YOUR OWN AFRICAN HISTORY, YOU HEAR? SO YOU CAN KEEP FEELING INFERIOR. MUMU. |
igwebuike01:SHUT UP THERE, YOU DUNCE. What is false? I just posted images of the ancient paved roads of Ife which are still visible even today, unknown to your mumu empty head. |
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Dar es Salaam, Tanzania https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ej9e6n8WkAAH_35.jpg Harare, Zimbabwe https://assets.thenewhumanitarian.org/s3fs-public/images/2007040412.jpg Accra, Ghana https://cdn.britannica.com/21/128421-050-BD03AB22/Accra-Ghana.jpg LESSON: THE AFRICAN NATIONS ARE DEVELOPING. GIVE THEM TIME. THEY HAVE ONLY BEEN INDEPENDENT FOR 50 ODD YEARS! |
Basic123:Get rid of your racial inferiority complex. These are also BLACK URBAN AREAS: Kigali, Rwanda https://i.ytimg.com/vi/D4NNmFvxJJk/maxresdefault.jpg https://www.nyungweforestnationalpark.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/shutterstock_699139246-scaled-1.jpg Abuja, Nigeria https://www.tolet.com.ng/blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Asokoro.jpg |
NOW THE QUESTION IS, Is it that the people of these regions have FORGOTTEN their own paving technology, such that if they don't have the European style of paving, they will just sit there in the MUD? If they have forgotten have their traditional rulers and priests also forgotten? Do you guys even know that Benin City had streetlights as early as the 13th century? They mounted tall steel poles along the roads, and in the evenings, lit them at the top wicks fuelled by palm oil. This was 500 years before LONDON had any form of streetlights. There's no reason why Nigerian villages cannot do the exacty same thing today, and even some inner city roads with no conventional street lights. |
Christistruth03:I am very happy you raised this history of paved roads in precolonial Nigeria. We had our way of paving roads, and even courtyards which was by using raised broken potsherds. See below: Ife Paved Roads dated 800 AD .................................https://38.media.tumblr.com/c794ccd588659f1b0701b21ef5189b59/tumblr_inline_nc3rvyslUj1qlbiit.jpg ...............................................https://38.media.tumblr.com/ace26965d73d342f3e44a8ea9ee9f6ab/tumblr_inline_nc3rvmbs3H1qlbiit.jpg http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/pave/hd_pave.htm The categories given to the distinct periods of ancient Ife’s artistic production center around the paving of the city’s courtyards and passageways with terracotta bricks sometime around 1000 A.D., marking the beginning of Ife’s Pavement period. This practice is thought to be associated with the urbanization of Ife. The origin of the pavement is explained in a popular story: according to Yoruba mythology, Queen Oluwo ordered the construction of the pavements when her robes were muddied in the dirt. A centre of political and religious power, Ife has been a formidable city-state through much of the second millennium A.D. The flowering of Ife art coincided with the commercial expansion of the neighboring city-state of Oyo, a strategically placed trading centre, that channeled goods coming down the Niger River from the Songhai empire to Ife and other centers. The aesthetic style developed during the Pavement period of Ife art has been an ongoing influence in Yoruba sculptural styles since its inception. ... Excerpt: http://historum.com/middle-eastern-african-history/71640-potsherd-pavements-ile-ife.html ''Ile-Ife is the most ancient Yoruba city, and is still venerated today by the Yoruba as their main cultural and religious center. It's practically a holy city. You may know of Ile-Ife due to its highly sophisticated terracotta and bronze castings, but did you know that the city had a complex system of paved roads? Evidently, an oral tradition concerning the distinguished Yoruba ruler Ono Olowo, apparently she was walking around the capital when her regalia was splattered with mud. Very upset, the Queen ordered the construction of pavements around all of the public and religious places of Ife(courtyards, shrines), made of ceramic tiles from pots. A quote concerning how potsherd pavements are created: How The Pavements Were Built ''The pathway or courtyard to be paved would be prepared by leveling the ground. The potsherds were then prepared by breaking them into pieces. The soil was then well-kneaded to make for a good sub-base providing the working platform. The soil base was mixed with residual water from the palm-oil industry and left to ferment for two to three days. In the absence of residual water from the palm-oil base, the soil was mixed with palm-oil. Where there was no palm-oil, the soil was left to ferment longer, say, one-week. Mixing the soil with palm-oil was done to provide uniform heating when the pavement was being "baked'. After the base was prepared, the potsherds were then stuck into the prepared soil and then arranged into whatever design was desired, be it herringbone or straight-row design. The pavement was then left to dry out before being "baked". In the baking process, dry wood and shrubs were packed on top of the pavement and set on fire''''. Typical Paved Courtyard In Ancient Ife https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ds_L2pWXgAEL9hy.jpg |
seasonstt1:It doesn't work like that. If you want investors, especially as an AFRICAN country, you must reach out, or they will not know anything about you, and care even less. How many times do you see African news on western media that is not negative? I mean, they won't even show proper BUILDINGS when reporting from Africa, in order to create the impression that everyone there is poor and suffering in a shack or mud hut. So you must reach out to investors and break those false narratives and stereotypes about Nigeria and Africa, and reassure them, if you really want them to invest billions of dollars there. |
emcee4love:Honestly. He hasn't even been there two days. Tinubu has big business in his blood. |
Jagaban Speaks to Indian billionaire investors: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cswe2IzuoHE&ab_channel=TVCNewsNigeria |
meum:Utter garbage. That is your colonial miseducation talking. Black Africans invented all those things we take for granted today, and act as if they just appeared out of nowhere - WRITING, MATHEMATICS, THE CALENDAR, CITIES, LAW, RELIGION, MEDICINE, THE ARTS, THE SCIENCES, MARRIAGE, MINING OF MINERALS, IRON SMELTING... All these were black African inventions over thousands of years, and they took these conventions round the world, in the various places they settled. The so called white people are YOUR AFRICAN DESCENDANTS who migrated there tens of thousands of years ago, and lost their melanin skin tones as a DNA adaptation to colder climates. All these are commonly held facts in the scientific community. You have no reason to feel inferior to so-called whites. So while you admire their ''white man's'' phone or ipad, JUST REMEMBER IT DID NOT MATERIALISE OUT OF NOTHING, and that thousands of years of AFRICAN innovation in the aforementioned areas, led up to it. Before the eyes of the law, you are naked without that wig while you are in court doing your thing.You are not a slave to British law. Every law can be changed, especially slave laws like this one. |
topsyking:Please my brother, don't insult the black race by calling this a 'black mindset'. Majority of blacks on Earth have passed this Nigerian inferiority complex towards so-called 'white' people. It is Nigerian colonial mentality, and it needs a serious national reorientation programme to get rid of this mindset. Ghana had Kwame Nkrumah who understood the importance of maintaining your racial dignity as an AFRICAN. Nigeria desperately needs an Nkrumah-type leader with African Consciousness. to rescue Nigerians from mental slavery. |
Zxcvbnmghtr:Ignorant air head. Your African history knowledge is MINUS 100 TRILLION. Precolonial BLACK Africans PIONEERED WORLD CIVILIZATION FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS. They invented speech, writing, mathematics, architecture, astronomy, medicine, religion, and philososophy. The oldest known city on Earth is Jericho. Researchers found that it was built by a people called the Natufians. DNA analysis of human fossils in the ruins of the city found that the Natufians belonged to a ''Niger-Congo'' group of people. KEMET (also known as Ancient Egypt) was a BLACK AFRICAN CIVILIZATION. Black African Pharaohs built the great pyramids and temples of Egypt. They actually built more pyramids in Nubia (Sudan) than in Egypt. Greek civilization borrowed HEAVILY from the black African civilization of KEMET. ALL the main Greek philosophers, visited KEMET for knowledge. More recently, PRECOLONIAL NIGERIA had an EXTENSIVE CLOTHES MAKING INDUSTRY. They actually EXPORTED woven cloth to Europe and Arabia, especially when Europe was largely under BLACK AFRICAN RULE between 711 and the 1500s. Over 800 years. It was BLACK AFRICAN MOORS from West Africa that helped pull Europe out of its Dark Ages and into their Renaissance, which was the springboard for the Industrial Revolution. If you need more history lessons, including documentary and archaeological evidence for all that I have stated, let me know. |
meum:Agreed. But even if they must practice English common law, at least respct yourself while doing it nau? How can you just make it so OBVIOUS by going all the way and wearing their white wigs on top? What's next? To send them skin bleaching allowance? So they can complete the look? Because right now they don't look complete. A black man with white man's flowing hair is a caricature of the black man. An insult to our ancestors, who CIVILIZED this world. |
When Will Our Lawyers DITCH The White Man Wig? Election Tribunal featuring white man wig wearing competition. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F5NVB0FWIAEidv3.jpg Colonialism ended 60 years ago, yet these people continue to disgrace the African race with this CARICATURE of a white man's wig they put on their heads. Is it beyond their colonised block heads to throw open a contest and ask Nigerians to send in an INDIGENOUS lawyer's head dressing, and then they can select the best? India was also colonised by Britain. THEY DITCHED THE WHITE MAN WIG. I believe Kenya and even Ghana have ditched it. What the hell is wrong with Nigerians and their slave mentality? Tufiakwa. Do you people not even wonder how these whites look at you as you make utter idiots of yourselves, wearing their hair wigs, 60 years afyer ur independence? They think you look really stupid and ridiculous in those wigs. |
THE FUNNY THING IS THAT THESE OBIDIENTS WERE SO HOSTILE TO OTHER PEOPLES AND REGIONS BEFORE THE ELECTIONS, YET THEY INSIST THAT THE SAME PEOPLE THEY WERE ABUSING DAILY AND CALLING ZOO ANIMALS ACTUALLY TROOPED OUT EN MASSE TO VOTE FOR THEIR CANDIDATE. I HAVE NEVER SEEN SUCH A DELUDED SET OF PEOPLE. |
StoneLucifer:Shut up. Market trader feeling funky. You illiterate Aba traders always think everyone else is starving except you. Idiots. |
NewDea4:You don't need a luxury jet in heaven. In 'heaven', you imagine anything or anyone and it materialises before you. Thank me later. ![]() |
successmatters:Optimism reigns. |
Na wa o. I've never seen a roundabout of such small size. |
BiafraAburi:Mr Man, if you want a new country for yourself, why don't you go about it in a civilized manner like other people? Get your senators and reps to file a motion for secession at the National Assembly. It is those reps your IPOB thugs should be harassing, not village market women whose wares you scatter in the dust for flouting your torturous, obscene, anti-Igbo sit at home orders, barked from Finland by a wastrel of indeterminate origin. When you're not oppressing and killing your own people, you're viciously attacking Nigeria online. Is there not a single sensible, educated person among you rancid, bloviating herd of cows? |
nnachukz:SURE. JUST LIKE EVERY 'UNIT' IN SIERRA LEONE, SOUTH SUDAN, GUINEA, LIBERIA, AND BURKINA FASO IS ''FLOURISHING''. MUMU PEOPLE. SHEBI YOU SEE HOW THEY INVITED THE PRESIDENT OF YOUR COUNTRY TO G20? WHEN YOU ''DIVIDE'', AND BECOME LITTLE REPLICAS OF GUINEA-BISSAU AND SIERRA LEONE, WHO WILL THINK OF YOU WHEN IT'S TIME FOR G20 OR BRICS MEETINGS? YOUR JOB WILL BE TO SHUT UP AND TAKE ORDERS FROM THEM, NOT JOIN THEM AT THE TABLE. TODAY, TINUBU MET HINDUJA, AN INDIAN BILLIONAIRE WITH OVER 100 BILLION DOLLARS IN ASSETS. HINDUJA PLEADED WITH TINUBU TO FACILITATE HIS COMPANY'S INVESTMENT IN NIGERIAN MANUFACTURING TO THE TUNE OF BILLIONS OF DOLLARS. JUST TODAY! DO YOU THNK IF YOU WERE THE NEW SIERRA LEONE OR NEW SOUTH SUDAN, THAT YOUR PRESIDENT WOULD BE AT THE G20 MEETING IN DELHI DISCUSSING BUSINESS WITH HINDUJA? SMALL-MINDED, SHORT-SIGHTED PEOPLE WHO WANT TO REVERT TO THEIR LITTLE ''TRIBES'' OUT OF HATRED FOR THEIR FELLOW AFRICAN. THANK GOODNESS NONE OF YOU ARE ANYWHERE NEAR THE CORRIDORS OF POWER. RUBBISH. |
Solsix:You're trying to reason with a donkey? Good luck with that. |
ElSudani:Absolutely. He needs good, intelligent technocrats around him who know their job. But his record shows there's hardly anyone better than him at surrounding themselves with such people! |
ElSudani:Honestly bro. If Tinubu works that his Lagos magic on Nigeria as a whole, we will be in a very different place in the next 3 to 5 years. See how foreign investors are rushing the guy! He has an international reputation for delivering. ![]() |
successmatters:lolz ![]() |
BoldBrainz:A deal to invest billions of dollars in Nigeria. ![]() I'm into sales and marketing. I can tell you the exact point where he closed the deal in that conversation. If you ask me nicely. ![]() |
President Bola Tinubu of Nigeria, by special invitation of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, is at the G20 summit in Delhi, and was met immediately by one of the richest men on the face of the Earth. Indian multi-billionaire Gopichand Hinduja, with assets worth over 100 billion US dollars, said to President Tinubu in India today: “We believe in you as a leader who has done this before. You know what the challenges are. You know how to fix them. We are going to make investments into the billions of dollars under your leadership because we see you are already addressing the systemic problems. I am ready now to sign an MoU and to begin execution. You tell me who to liaise with and we will get to work immediately, particularly concerning bus and automobile manufacturing in Nigeria, amongst other areas,” the Industrialist enthusiastically stated.I'M TOTALLY SPEECHLESS. THIS MAN JUST CLOSED A DEAL WORTH BILLIONS OF DOLLARS BEFORE EVEN UNPACKING HIS BAGS IN INDIA. HE HADN'T EVEN REACHED HIS HOTEL ROOM BEFORE HE CLOSED THIS DEAL! GOOD HEAVENS. President Bola Tinubu and Mr Hinduja https://cdn.vanguardngr.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/image-55.png |
President Tinubu said: ''We are here for business. I am here to personally assure our friends and investors that there is no bottleneck that I will not break. Nigeria will become one of the most conducive places on earth to make good profits and create lasting jobs. With my support, nothing is standing in your way of enjoying the unrivalled opportunities presented by our massive market and the ingenious & hardworking nature of the Nigerian people. We are open for business,” the President firmly assured.Tinubu knows how to talk business talk. This is a far cry from Buhari's lethargy. I'm optimistic for the nation. ![]() |
plaindealer:Honestly. He didn't even rest or eat before meeting these business leaders. Very impressive. |
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