₦airaland Forum

Oblitz:
I don't think our president can do up to that. even Obi may not measure up to the intellectual standards of these African presidents.

It’s not really about intellectual standards with regard to Nigerian leaders. They are well educated. It’s more about their ideological stance in terms of their relationship with the west. Nigerian leaders tend to be pro-western, and not as willing to publicly criticise their western ‘partners’.

I’m not exactly sure why, but it’s been the case since independence, with the notable exception of the Murtala Muhammed administration.

XerXers:
Next time, compare shitty Lagos with Abidjan, not with ordinary local government like Onitsha. Secondly, note that everybody in that country can become anything they want in that city unlike shitty Lagos where lazy tribe have been unleashing terror on fellow citizens

What is your business with Lagos and Nigeria?

You are not one of us and we don’t care what you think, Mr IPOB.

Focus on Aba and Nnewi.

XerXers:
Many small African countries have great cities.. Not the mega shitty Lagos where Ronu miscreants are harassing fellow citizens

Take your nasty, filthy tribalism out of this beautiful, positive thread.

Africa is powering ahead and putting their brains to good use with development, while primitive scumbags like you wallow in tribalism.

Just go away.

A Nigerian will decide on where to go on vacation. He thinks, London, Dubai, Paris, New York, LA, Rome, Chicago, San Francisco, Mexico, Brazil, Switzerland.

ANYWHERE BUT AFRICA.

Look at a BEAUTIFUL CITY like Abidjan in your backyard.

You know nothing about it.

ZERO.

ZILCH.

In fact, it might as well not exist as far your brain is concerned.

THIS BEAUTIFUL CITY IN YOUR BACKYARD THAT YOU DON'T NEED VISA TO GO TO AND CHILL.

But you know everything about London.

About New York.

About Paris.

Our so-called leaders, when they want to 'rest' , they don't choose ABIDJAN.

They choose London.

NAME ME ONE THING THAT IS IN LONDON THAT IS NOT IN ABIDJAN.

Look...

We are a sick people and we need to change.

The Africa CNN & BBC Will Never Show The World


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xPQm3V6-bM&ab_channel=WODEMAYA

The article doesn't say 14 people drowned.

EyeCumInPiece:
Is there anything worth celebrating in pictures of:
Tinubu hugs Macron...
Tinubu meets Swiss..
Tinubu arrives France...
Tinubu shakes hands with...

Would you say the same if that was Peter Obi?

kyber:
Mine is due to excessive and aggressive masturbation

Na wa o...... O boy cool down o......no be fight.

AfonjaConehead:
Maybe they should apply the dogs and baboons will be soaked in blood approach...after all you busy bodies gave a certain dogs and baboons will be soaked in blood exponent election victory some years ago nah.
Ogbeni,we are begging you, go and find work do with your life nah...can't you just leave Igbo affairs magana for one day? So you yorubas have been pretending over the years? So you are the real enemy of the other south?!!!

Typical Igbo NARCISSISTS.

When you highlight their idiocy and traitorous behaviour, they will find an issue from 100 years ago to justify themselves.

A narcissist is NEVER wrong in his own eyes.

You IPOBS masquerading as Obidients need to just go away.

You are an embarrassment.

helinues:
At least if they are not considering the consequences of their actions now in the future, how about the past that's hunting them politically, I really don't know if they are just too busy to think and reflect.

Nothing like long term political plans, not interested in making friends or building bridges, they would abuse all Nigerians for the next 3 years and when it's a year to the election, that's when they will remember they want to take their country back, from who? those who have been defending the country from same you people as they wouldn't mind for everything to scatter just to be vindicated.

I am yet to see where this kind of method ever won any election on this crust.

Nzogbu Nzogbu.

My political opponent is my sworn enemy.

Primitive spear chuckers.

Don’t bother trying to reason with them.

They are not capable.

Procashtips:
How much was she earning then and how much do you earn now?

BEST QUESTION EVER.

Her salary was less than 300 naira a month.

In the 1970s a fairly used VW Beetle cost 400 naira.

In America and UK now, when you're filling out a form, you're no longer asked what gender you are, whether male or female.

Instead the question is ''what is your chosen gender?''

Or ''what gender do you believe yourself to be?''

Meanwhile male prisoners are taking advantage of this in the US, by suddenly claiming they believe themselves to be female, and by law they are moved to female prisons where conditions are less harsh.


Why Biological Men Are Entering Women’s Prisons Across America

https://davidicke.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/bilogical-males-in-women-prisons-1024x600.jpg

Biological men are transferring into female prisons across America by claiming themselves to be women—a situation arising as a result of the Biden administration trying to “change the definition of woman,” according to Libby Emmons, editor-in-chief of The Post Millennial.

In an April 15 interview with Jan Jekielek on the “American Thought Leaders” program, Emmons pointed out that there are male prisoners who decide they’re women after being locked up and then seek entry into women’s prisons. “That happens a lot, as it turns out. I don’t think those men are doing anything other than trying to get a better housing situation for their time in lockup, really.” Many of the men who are put in female prisons “are violent, and many of these men have committed crimes against women.”

There are multiple benefits for men wanting to enter women’s prisons. “They find themselves then surrounded by women in prisons that are remarkably less secure and locked down than the male prisons are.”

Even though women’s prison might technically be “maximum security,” it differs massively from men’s, Emmons pointed out. “A women’s maximum security prison is more like a man’s medium security prison. You get a lot more benefits and freedoms, such as they are, than you would in a male prison.”

Emmons blamed the Biden administration and “changes in law and in the definition of words” for the situation. “President Biden has been working really hard with his team to change the definition of woman to be anyone who identifies as a woman,” she said.

https://davidicke.com/2023/06/23/why-biological-men-are-entering-womens-prisons-across-america/

dawnomike:
She's right about that... But so did Nigerian music of Fuji, juju, highlife etc

Not as much as Nollywood.

Nowhere near.

Nollywood broke a lot of barriers and records.

It was because of Nollywood that Nigeria became a household name across Africa and the black diaspora nations like Jamaica, Barbados, Trinidad etc.

One might even argue that it was their familiarity with Nollywood, and consequently, Nigerian pidgin and mannerisms, that made their patronisation of Afrobeats easier and more logical.

Agunesinjaweola:
Your argument doesn't add up folks !
Conspiracy theory of this magnitude retarded the Black folks from achieving any significant breakthrough in all spheres of life.

Really?

If you weren't a brainwashed mumu conditioned to hate his skin colour, you would know that without BLACK AFRICANS there would be ZERO civilization or modern world today.

And the whites you worship would still be running around in caves.

Blasted idiot.

12 Amazing African Inventions That Created The Civilized 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

Sudan (Ancient Nubia) is also a site of MORE pyramids than Egypt, many older and smaller-sized.

Sudan has 255 pyramids in total, dated several thousands of years old.

https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2015/4/5/pictures-of-sudans-forgotten-nubian-pyramids



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 ''Ethiopians'' 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 Aithiopians 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 thinks 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."

http://wysinger.homestead.com/blackegypt101.html


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

Sum1 once insinuated Steve Jobs faked own death to escape Taxes and I wonder 🤔

Get rid of your racial inferiority complex.

If you had a working brain, you would know that the biggest conspiracy theorists on Earth are the same white people you worship like a slave.

They have thousands of forums and websites dedicated to conspiracies, from David Icke.com to Alex Jones to Henry Makow.

In fact, Africans are learners - neophytes - when it comes to conspiracy theories regarding the world around us.

Newcomers.

Majority of Africans are among those the conspiracy theorists refer to as the 'sheeple'.

Naive sheep who form the human majority, and follow the dictates of the international banking elite cult, of whose existence they are unaware of, never mind their influence.

DefKon:
As wealthy as Nigeria is our leaders still refurbish military hardware nawa oh

Another mumu who thinks Nigeria is “wealthy”.

Nigeria is not wealthy.

Her annual budget is 50 billion dollars. South Africa’s is 120 billion. USA is 7.7 TRILLION. UK, France, Germany, 1 to 2 TRILLION EACH.

Olachase:
make them organize friendly 10mins fight between Nigeria Navy and Egypt Navy, make we check straight and power

Grow up.

EnEnPeecee:
Obi at your present age is already a billionaire, a governor, chairman of banks and owner of many businesses. But since you chose to remain here and be useless, who am i to be against that?

With money he made working for Abacha the military dictator.

DeLaRue:
Finally, a confident Nigerian President who knows his worth as the leader of the largest economy and most populous country in Africa.

Mr Tinubu will stand shoulder to shoulder with any world leader as equals.

Before nko?

Tinubu is a Lagos bobo. He's on the level.

FreedomArmy:
and then you closed it and wicked people increased the price of local tasteless rice that is full of sand. I believe in free market economy. Banning importation is not the way to encourage local production. Improving the quality of local production to be at par or above that of foreign products is the way forward

How do you improve the quality if there is no money coming in from patronage? They need to protect local rice producers from competition at the outset so they can grow.