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Culture / Re: Did You Know Ijebu-Ode Was Once The Largest City On Earth? by Rossiminku: 7:55am On Jun 27, 2021 |
illicit: You are conditioned to self-hate, and to despise your African heritage. That is your problem - a miseducated negro. 5 Likes 2 Shares |
Culture / Re: Did You Know Ijebu-Ode Was Once The Largest City On Earth? by Rossiminku: 7:41am On Jun 27, 2021 |
illicit: The British don't refer to their far less impressive Stonehenge ruins as ''stupid relics''. They've turned the ruins into a tourist magnet bringing in countless hundreds of millions of pounds annually. You need to change your mentality. 3 Likes 1 Share |
Culture / Re: Did You Know Ijebu-Ode Was Once The Largest City On Earth? by Rossiminku: 7:34am On Jun 27, 2021 |
PeaceforNigeria: What ''fables'', you air head? 2 Likes 1 Share |
Culture / Re: Did You Know Ijebu-Ode Was Once The Largest City On Earth? by Rossiminku: 7:31am On Jun 27, 2021 |
Studies are showing that the Queen of Sheba reference may actually be valid. The Eredo monument is reported by some scholars to be much older than 1,000 years, with some claiming it is over 5,000 years old, which would place it firmly in the time of the 'Queen of Sheba'. . . . New Lights on the Archaeology of Sungbo Eredo, South-Western Nigeria Earlier studies carried out on Sungbo’s Eredo (embankment) showed that it is about 165 km in circumference and surrounds the whole of Ijebu Kingdom. From the date obtained by Aremu et al. (2013: 17), the structure is thought to have been built around 5000 years ago. However, it is possible that the site was also occupied during the medieval period, as evidenced in the remains around the sacred grove. This paper reports on a GPS survey of the site and excavations carried out during 2014 fieldwork archaeology intended to confirm or refute the dates previously obtained from the embankment. It examines the cultural materials recovered from the excavation, including Late Stone Age materials and those of the Neolithic period. Analysis of the Neolithic and Late Stone Age materials suggests that the site may be of greater antiquity than earlier reported and that this forest zone of West Africa was occupied at different time periods. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/335013603_New_Lights_on_the_Archaeology_of_Sungbo_Eredo_South-Western_Nigeria |
Culture / Did You Know Ijebu-Ode Was Once The Largest City On Earth? by Rossiminku: 7:17am On Jun 27, 2021 |
Did you know that the area known today as Ijebu-Ode was once home to the largest metropolis on the face of the Earth? It was bigger than Rome. Bigger than ANY city on Earth. It also had the largest man-made structure on the Earth, the Eredo Earthworks. Happy learning. Eredo: The Largest City in the Ancient World Eredo Earthworks, Ijebu-Ode, Nigeria On 23 May 1999, the Sunday Times (UK) carried an astonishing article entitled ''Jungle reveals traces of Sheba’s fabled kingdom''. Over the next few days many other papers followed suit. Even the Daily Mail one day later asked “Was the Queen of Sheba really a Black woman from Nigeria?” As the evidence emerged, however, the queen of Sheba link proved to be hype. The real Sheba was an Ethiopian queen who lived three thousand years ago. What was undeniable, however, was that the southern Nigerian rainforests had an even more amazing secret to tell. The secret was this. During the Middle Ages, Africans built by far the largest city the world had ever seen. In size, this city dwarfed Baghdad, Cairo, Cordoba and Rome. The achievement was on a scale even bigger that that of the Great Pyramid of Giza, Africa’s most celebrated monument. At one time, scholars used to divide the three thousand-year history of southern Nigeria into four great cultural periods. They used to speak of the Nok Culture, the Igbo-Ukwu Culture, the Yoruba Kingdoms and the Benin Empire. This view was boldly challenged by the findings of a team of Bournemouth University scholars led by archaeologist Dr Patrick Darling. Since 1994, the team discovered and mapped the remains of yet another Nigerian kingdom, this time covered by centuries of forest overgrowth. Barnaby Phillips of the BBC described the discoveries as possibly “Africa’s largest single monument.” As we shall see, this is typical British understatement. At Eredo, in south western Nigeria, Darling’s team found a huge earthen wall with moated sections. This encircled an ancient kingdom or city. From the ditch to the summit of the rampart measured a towering 70 feet. According to Mark Macaskill of the Sunday Times, the rampart was “100 mile[s]” long and formed a rough circle, enclosing “more than 400 square miles.” The building was on a truly epic scale. The builders shifted 3.5 million cubic metres of earth to build just the rampart alone. According to the BBC this is, incidentally, “one million cubic metres more than the amount of rock and earth used in the Great Pyramid at Giza.” Therefore Eredo’s construction is estimated to have “involved about one million more man-hours that were necessary to build the Great Pyramid.” The ramparts may indicate the boundary of the original Ijebu kingdom that was ruled by a spiritual leader called the “Awujale”. Macaskill, however, disagrees. He describes Eredo as a “city”. If he is correct, this would make Eredo one of the very largest cities in all of human history. It was larger than modern London, and was definitely the largest city built in the ancient and mediaeval world. Among the discoveries, a three-story ruin has been tentatively identified as the royal palace. It had living quarters, shrines and courtyards. It is possible that thousands of smaller buildings are still concealed by the forests. These will be mapped in time. Radiocarbon dating has so far established that the buildings and walls were more than 1,000 years old. Dates such as 800 AD have been given as a good ball-park figure. People who live near the ruined kingdom or city today have traditions that a wealthy and childless queen, Bilikisu Sungbo, built the city. Some say that she built the city as a religious offering. It is also claimed that Sungbo’s territory had a gold and ivory trade. Moreover, her royal household are said to have kept eunuchs. Portuguese documents dating back 500 years, allude to the power of an Ijebu kingdom that some scholars think is possibly this very one. Today, the ruins continue to be of great importance. There are yearly pilgrimages to Sungbo’s grave. Despite this great African achievement it is, however, disconcerting to note that racist theories are already being formulated about this kingdom. For example, Barnaby Phillips wrote that the building of Eredo was: “carried out by people who could not read or write, and with only the most basic of tools. Thousands of labourers – probably slaves – must have toiled in the thick rain forests and dark labyrinth swamps for years.” Naturally, he offers no evidence for the assertions of slavery and illiteracy. On the other hand, the evidence of iron smelting and the other highly advanced metallurgical activities for which the Nigerian civilisations were world leaders seems to disprove the notion that the builders had only basic tools at their disposal. On a happy note, Dr Darling, the leader of the archaeological team, suggested that Eredo may well gain World Heritage Status. This will put the Eredo kingdom or city on an equal footing with other African marvels such as the Pyramids of Giza and the city of Djenné. It also places this great achievement on a footing with other great marvels from around the world such as Stonehenge. https://blackhistorystudies.com/shops/the-great-mighty-wall/eredo-the-largest-city-in-the-ancient-world/ https://www.amplifyafrica.org/post/eredo-the-ancient-lost-city 2 Likes |
Politics / Re: What Will Happen To Houses Owned By Igbos Outside Igbo Land If Nigeria Separates by Rossiminku: 12:34am On Jun 27, 2021 |
gidgiddy: ABSOLUTE HORSE SHIIT. DO NOT EXPECT NIGERIA, the same country you have traduced, hated, denigrated, publicly insulted, abused, and rejected, to turn around and grant you ''residency rights'' in the Federal Republic of Nigeria, after you have achieved your secessionist dream. HOW DARE YOU? Fact is Igbos would turn persona non grata in Nigeria. If you think Ghana is giving you a hard time, Nigeria will be 5 times worse. You will be deported en masse to your Dot Republic, and those who remain will be endlessly harassed and extorted by the police. And targeted by ordinary Nigerians. I mean, you'll be foreigners. Illegal aliens needing to show your papers the minute you cross that Niger Bridge in Onitsha. You would have nothing like the rights you hold today in Nigeria. Dot com people. |
Politics / Re: Aisha Yesufu Is Dragging Igbos On Twitter. Captions. by Rossiminku: 12:16am On Jun 27, 2021 |
fozapi: You are tired of Nigeria yet your people are settled all over Nigeria in your millions. Why no stampede home, or you need Buhari to pay your transport fares? 3 Likes 1 Share |
Politics / Re: Aisha Yesufu Is Dragging Igbos On Twitter. Captions. by Rossiminku: 12:05am On Jun 27, 2021 |
owobokiri: Does anyone here think Nnamdi Kanu would submit himself to free and fair elections in a 'Biafra'? This is a guy - a megalomaniac - who ordered his thugs to KILL any person in the East who left their homes on his declared day. You sure have a lot of nerve complaining about Nigerian democracy when your Biafra is a certain banana republic in waiting. 3 Likes |
Politics / Re: Aisha Yesufu Is Dragging Igbos On Twitter. Captions. by Rossiminku: 12:01am On Jun 27, 2021 |
Amaechi2023: No. It's never rigging when they win. Only when they lose. 1 Like |
Politics / Re: Aisha Yesufu Is Dragging Igbos On Twitter. Captions. by Rossiminku: 11:57pm On Jun 26, 2021 |
NGpatriot: Don't mind them. |
Politics / Re: Profiles Of Technocrats Jostling To Govern Anambra State (Photos) by Rossiminku: 10:38pm On Jun 26, 2021 |
Answering technocrat for nothing. When you build road, you'll still build that primitive open gutter rubbish with no sidewalks. |
Science/Technology / Re: Strawberry Super Moon Lite Up The Night In Spectacular Pics Frm Around The World by Rossiminku: 1:26am On Jun 26, 2021 |
Goalnaldo: And America that has invaded, enslaved, massacred and bombarded hundreds of nations and ravaged billions of people economically, is the epitome of goodness in your blinkered, brainwashed, colonised eyes programmed to self hate. If any good comes from these 'supernatural' events, it will be the reconditioning of you Nigerians' wretched self hate and inferiority complex. 1 Like |
Politics / Re: Twitter: Twitter Tech Team Versus Nigeria Tech Team by Rossiminku: 2:22am On Jun 24, 2021 |
mrfreestuff: Nairalanders are WAY TOO DUMB for this your level of reasoning bro. ALL they see is a group of white men dressed in T-shirts, and their colonised brains have automatically told them that their Nigerian hosts ''should'' also be dressed like that. It could never occur to such conditioned, brainwashed, slave-minded people with deep racial inferiority complex, that it is actually the Twitter delegation who are dressed inappropriately for the meeting. If I were the leader of the Nigerian delegation I would insist they return to their hotel and dress appropriately before they can meet any Nigerian officials. Would they turn up at the White House in Washington dressed like that? |
Politics / Re: Guys, There’s A Serious Problem Brewing. It Is Called HUNGER! by Rossiminku: 10:06pm On Jun 21, 2021 |
990ninty: lol |
Politics / Re: OBJ Said Nigeria's Breakup Will Lead To ''Weak Republics''. He Was Right. by Rossiminku: 3:24am On Jun 20, 2021 |
engrchykae: You've no idea where I'm from, so kindly zip it. Kanu is already a dictator. And he DID give that order to his thugs to kill Igbos who step out of their homes. |
Business / Re: Botswana: World's Third Largest Diamond Unearthed In Africa (Photos) by Rossiminku: 3:09am On Jun 20, 2021 |
TheGiftedOne: It is cursed with thoughtless people like you who don't understand how international commerce operates. FYI, in today's world, nobody develops solely or even mostly through the export of raw materials. Not even diamonds. Unless you are a tiny gulf state with huge oil reserves like Kuwait or UAE, you pretty much need to be into heavy manufacturing, to build a developed society today. The income from raw materials export is NOT ENOUGH to develop. The bottlenecks on African manufacturing, ie processing those raw materials into finished goods for export at higher prices than the raw materials, are the monstrous tariffs imposed by western, Asian and other nations on imports of African manufactured products. This makes the African manufactured goods uncompetitive, discouraging manufacturing on the continent. The USA has in recent years, implemented AGOA, to ease this discrimination against African manufactures, but they are only 20% of the world economy. The entire world needs to lift restrictions on the imports of African manufactured goods, to create a level playing field. THAT is when Africa can finally take its rightful place in the comity of nations. In the meantime, Africa will continue to improve on INTRA-African trade, and increasing the buying power of its citizenry, so as to eventually become self-sufficient in the production and sale of its manufactured products within the continent. |
Politics / Re: We Are Against Nnamdi Kanu's Agitation For Biafra - S'east Governors, Ohaneze by Rossiminku: 12:06am On Jun 20, 2021 |
Jack005: It favours you too. That's why you can live anywhere in Nigeria and make money to build that mansion in Nnewi. |
Politics / Re: OBJ Said Nigeria's Breakup Will Lead To ''Weak Republics''. He Was Right. by Rossiminku: 10:29pm On Jun 19, 2021 |
Obindigbo: If you are not able to hold your state government to account today, how will you be able to hold your new small country's govt to account? Are you aware the leadership will comprise pretty much the SAME people leading your state today? In the new country, they will have the added benefit of full control of the military, so how will you hold them to account? You are very naive in thinking that corruption will cease just because you have a new small country. If anything, it will become easier. And there will be no EFCC. 1 Like |
Politics / Re: OBJ Said Nigeria's Breakup Will Lead To ''Weak Republics''. He Was Right. by Rossiminku: 10:21pm On Jun 19, 2021 |
engrchykae: You ALREADY have a dictator. He ordered you all not to leave your houses on the day he commanded or get shot! Do you think Kanu is the type to submit to free and fair elections? I mean, from your rebel leaders' conduct, we can already see the type of governments you will have. Like something out of the Mobutu era. |
Politics / Re: Did You Know Buhari Is Building A TRAIN Manufacturing Plant In Nigeria? by Rossiminku: 10:08pm On Jun 19, 2021 |
PeaceforNigeria: Ignoramus. MANUFACTURING means the EXACT SAME THING AS ASSEMBLY. There is ZERO DIFFERENCE. In the USA, car manufacturing plants are called ''car assembly plants''. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_automotive_assembly_plants_in_the_United_States It is only in NIGERIA that unexposed people with inferiority complex make a distinction between 'manufacturing' and 'assembly'. The Oxford Dictionary describes ''to manufacture'' as .....''to assemble''. https://www.google.com/search?q=manufacture+define&sxsrf=ALeKk01pYSXJHueFsTrfSayAlLL8T-x7MA%3A1624136886540&source=hp&ei=tlzOYITuHpe6gAbD6K6IBA&iflsig=AINFCbYAAAAAYM5qxhnYMY5nE_79UldAKYKFlrCZANSl&oq=manufactire+defin&gs_lcp=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&sclient=gws-wiz If you step out of Nigeria and ask if something was either manufactured OR assembled, they would take you to a psychiatrist. |
Politics / Re: Did You Know Buhari Is Building A TRAIN Manufacturing Plant In Nigeria? by Rossiminku: 10:00pm On Jun 19, 2021 |
chukel: My brotha honestly. These youths today can start an entire business on their smartphones. They've no idea how good they have it. They can go on YouTube, learn a skill for free, and start a small business that could grow as big as they want. My generation had nothing like this. Yet we never moaned and groaned like these youths. 2 Likes 1 Share |
Politics / Re: Did You Know Buhari Is Building A TRAIN Manufacturing Plant In Nigeria? by Rossiminku: 9:45pm On Jun 19, 2021 |
PIMPAR: Don't mind the fools. Everywhere is ''insecure'' yet for some mysterious reason, all OF THEM ARE STILL ALIVE AND POSTING IN COMFORT FROM THEIR VARIOUS BASES. Why are they not fleeing from herdsmen? 1 Like |
Politics / Re: Did You Know Buhari Is Building A TRAIN Manufacturing Plant In Nigeria? by Rossiminku: 9:23pm On Jun 19, 2021 |
Great thread. |
Politics / Re: OBJ Said Nigeria's Breakup Will Lead To ''Weak Republics''. He Was Right. by Rossiminku: 7:25am On Jun 19, 2021 |
History555: Oh, that's just your inferiority complex talking. YOU may have not contributed anything to humanity, but I can assure you that a great many Nigerians have, and will do, well into the future. Here's a word of advice: Be like the Indians, who share our development challenges, but who see them not as reasons to hate and despise their country, but as business opportunities. Your country can't create jobs? Well YOU go on YouTube, learn a skill for free, start a small business, and end up big, employing 100 Nigerians. Many have done something similar here in Nigeria. Why can't YOU? Your junior launched a startup called Paystack in Yaba, Lagos, which was acquired a couple months ago by US giant tech platform Stripe, for 200 million dollars. So, great things are happening in Nigeria. Will YOU be part of them, or will you remain disgruntled, sitting on the fence, pointing fingers and being useless? |
Politics / Re: OBJ Said Nigeria's Breakup Will Lead To ''Weak Republics''. He Was Right. by Rossiminku: 7:06am On Jun 19, 2021 |
Kondomatic: Nigeria's dream is simple. To take Africa and the black world to the next level. She has all the tools to do it, MOST IMPORTANTLY HER POPULATION SIZE, which is her NUMBER 1 ASSET. That guarantees that world investment capital will flow in her direction. When investment capital flows in your direction, YOU HAVE NO CHOICE BUT TO DEVELOP. IT WILL SIMPLY JUST HAPPEN. It's like when a fine girl is heading your way with nice big boobs, fine face and huge bakassi. You will have no choice but to arrange yourself to receive her well. It explains why the FG is spending so much on infrastructural development and upgrades of rail, roads, airports, bridges etc. They know what is coming, and that Nigeria must be ready for it. Like invention, NECESSITY is the mother of development. Investment capital is not money that goes into the pockets of govt officials. No company is coming to Nigeria to give politicians money. This is capital that is going into manufacturing, agriculture, agro-processing, IT, financial and other services, construction, urban and rural development projects etc etc. There is no way Nigeria will not become a developed nation at some point in the near future, based on this investment TSUNAMI heading its way. 2 Likes 1 Share |
Politics / Re: OBJ Said Nigeria's Breakup Will Lead To ''Weak Republics''. He Was Right. by Rossiminku: 6:49am On Jun 19, 2021 |
Ejebleje: America's murder rate is 40,000 a year. They are not talking of breaking up the country because of that. Stop being weak and frail people who cannot stand development pangs. Focus on getting a new government in that can change things. You are a democracy with a rotational presidency which guarantees that power is shared between north and south. There is nothing that can't be done. You southerners will have the chance to rule in a year and half's time. You have not been excluded from the political process. Use your chance when you get it to build the Nigeria you want. 1 Like 1 Share |
Politics / Re: OBJ Said Nigeria's Breakup Will Lead To ''Weak Republics''. He Was Right. by Rossiminku: 6:34am On Jun 19, 2021 |
simple250: IF YOU HAVE NO WATER, DIG A DAMN WELL. Water will not suddenly appear because you've turned to a tiny, unknown country. 1 Like 1 Share |
Politics / Re: OBJ Said Nigeria's Breakup Will Lead To ''Weak Republics''. He Was Right. by Rossiminku: 6:17am On Jun 19, 2021 |
Ejebleje: Doesn't matter. if you take a long-term strategic view of this, Nigeria is a far better proposition than being a Togo or Ghana. I repeat, Nigeria is projected to become the 3rd most populous nation on EARTH after India and China by 2050. That, my friend, is HUGE. That makes Nigeria a global investment magnet of the first order, going forward. Do you have a clue how many THOUSANDS OF FIRMS WORLDWIDE have NIGERIA on their investment radar, based on that projection? Do you think your little new Togo will attract anything like the kind of investment TSUNAMI heading towards the world's soon-to-be 3rd largest consumer market? I mean, who will even remember your name, with your new small republic? You will be forgotten. Just like Burkina Faso and Benin Republic have been forgotten. In today's world, MARKET SIZE is POWER. If we just stay sensible, hold the course, and keep calm, Nigeria will literally become the CHINA of Africa. The industrial giant of the continent. We are already the undisputed largest economy in Africa, much to South Africa's anger. It's really just a matter of time before we become the continent's industrial powerhouse as well. It is not a question of IF. It is a question of How soon? 1 Like 1 Share |
Politics / Re: OBJ Said Nigeria's Breakup Will Lead To ''Weak Republics''. He Was Right. by Rossiminku: 6:07am On Jun 19, 2021 |
FakeUnity: Talk is cheap. |
Politics / Re: OBJ Said Nigeria's Breakup Will Lead To ''Weak Republics''. He Was Right. by Rossiminku: 6:00am On Jun 19, 2021 |
Ejebleje: You don't know what you have until you lose it. Visit Sierra Leone or Liberia. You will quickly rush back to Nigeria. The people there are poor, and don't expect to become wealthy one day, like we all do in Nigeria, because of the sheer amount of opportunity and market size in this country. Nigeria is a country where you can start by selling spare parts in the market, and from there become owner of the largest black-owned vehicle manufacturer on Earth. INNOSON. Pride of Nigeria. Don't be deluded that everyone in Nigeria wants separation. Many SAY they do, but it's largely out of temporal frustration which a new administration or economic upturn could fix. The business community of all ethnicities are not clamouring for separation. They understand the importance of a large consumer market. And they call the shots at the end of the day. 2 Likes 1 Share |
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