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Saddamochieng00:
Let's leave flat earth for another day...cause I'm not interested in irrelevant discussions right now.

You didn't answer all the other questions I asked you regarding science?? Does it have all the answers??

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Rugaria:
This is what Rochas was not able to do in Orlu for 8 solid years... Busy shouting "my people my people" while others were busy working..

Funny guy..

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So they still kept that bad luck dark green away jersey?

Expect more losses in crucial games.

That dark green is NOT Eagles colour.

Easternmind:
Wow,Ok,In the case of Saudi Arabia the power structure is sure because it's a monarch and it is hereditary as you stated but in Nigeria their hold of power is not sure because of the much violence that is prevalent during elections and in the society in Nigeria.
If Nigeria wants to do democracy like other nations the leaders should do it well because it's surely them that send those thugs to cause nuisance during the elections, they did this to the extent that it got to the notice of the international bodies and when the wrong people are in power it then causes havoc and shame automatically like the case of increasing poverty and the shameful almajiri system,if only the Nigerian government can respect their own citizens and serve them as it's necessary this kind of things won't happen.

Garbage. You paint an image of a stable Saudi monarchical system in which leader and led are in agreement as to the one's inherent superiority and the other's inferior status, with no civil rights.

See how you rationalise the atrocities of foreigners even at the risk of sounding mad?

Just to make yourself worse?

Where does this self-hate come from?

Saudi Arabia holds thousands of political prisoners, with many suffering unspeakable cruelties.

''Political prisoners in Saudi Arabia are facing severe abuses by prison authorities, according to a medical report leaked to the Guardian (UK) newspaper ..The leaked report documented evidence that political prisoners -- both men and women -- are suffering from malnutrition as well as cuts, burns and bruises due to severe physical abuse by authorities.

“Saudi detainees including women activists have alleged that authorities mistreated them with unspeakable cruelty, including electric shocks, whippings and sexual harassment, and new revelations of medical reports appear to confirm what they have said for months,”....

Saudi is a country with no free speech, no protests allowed, widespread discrimination against women, increasing number of executions by beheading. You can be detained and arrested with no good reason.

''Scores of people have been arrested and detained in pre-trial detention for six months or more, which breaches the Kingdom’s own criminal codes. Detainees are frequently held incommunicado during their interrogation and denied access to their lawyers. Some human rights activists have been detained without charge or trial for more than two years.''

https://www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/saudi-political-prisoners-face-severe-abuse-report/1438212

Why have the US and UK never once rebuked the leaders of this country?

Yet your own country, which is 100 times freer and more democratic, is being publicly denounced and threatened?

THAT is what you should be asking if you had your heads screwed on right.

Sadly you don't.

Easternmind:
Ok I know it is disrespect for the UK and Us to restrict them and ban their politicians from entering their country because of something internal like election,but it's the fault of the Nigerian govenment that this is happening.

Have you ever asked yourself why the USA and UK are bosom friends with Saudi Arabia, and have never criticised or threatened them, or ''banned their leaders''?

A country which holds no elections at all, where power is hereditary, from father to son - as a matter of law, and where billions are siphoned by 'oil sheikhs' monthly and used to build inter alia, the biggest mansions on 'Millionaires Row', London, and Beverley Hills. A country where Sharia is the law of the land, and where people are amputated for stealing bread? A country which - believe it or not - is the biggest funder of Isis and Al Qaeda, and birthplace of Osama Bin Laden?

Until you naive people stop thinking that western leaders act out of altruism towards you, rather than bare-faced, rank hypocrisy, selfish greed and deceit, you will continue being their b..tches.

Tochj:
Your Nigeria is not a Nation and doesn't deserve Respect

See, the problem with animals like you is that when foreigners treat you like dogs outside the country, based on such sentiments, you call on the same Nigeria you hate to send you aeroplanes to rescue you and return you home.

It's happened in Libya, Lebanon, Ghana, USA, UK etc.

Keep saying your country deserves no respect, thinking you are hurting Buhari.

Too dumb and stupid to realise it is yourself and your children you are hurting by begging foreigners to spit on you.

Low IQ dullards.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9ZINDysNrA&t=7s

CoolAmbience:
We don't need their respect in the first place.

Is it not in the same US that policemen hacked a man to death in a viral video?

Was there no bomb blast in the US elections which led to Candidate, Donald Trump, being whisked a way to safety?

They are just too meddlesome jare...with their mumu president.

Mtchewww...

Do you mind Nigerians with their self hate and inferiority complex?

Look at a criminal like Trump that is telling them how to run elections. Even a very brief look at US politics today shows you Trump is a criminal election rigger and manipulator of the first order with NO INTENT of leaving power via free and fair elections.

In fact he has said publicly that the only way he will lose the November election is if it is rigged.

This, despite the fact that he is behind the frontrunner, Joe Biden, by 10 percentage points or more.

How much more anti-democratic can you get?

This is the CRIMINAL that Nigerians are bowing to like slaves, out of self-hate and inferiority complex.

Worthless set of people.

Wait till you see the mayhem coming to America in the next few weeks courtesy of the criminal in their white house.

goodmorning40:
The ones under your nose have not get justice finish, na the ones in Gana go get am

Story tellers

What justice were you deprived of in Nigeria?

Did anyone lock your shop and demand you pay 1 million dollars to reopen?

mumu

Go and join them in Ghana or Libya where they'll enslave and insult you, and feed you dog food, then you'll call Nigerian govt to send you planes.

Idiots.

Nigerians stranded in Lebanon beg Nigerian govt to send them planes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9ZINDysNrA

goodmorning40:
The ones under your nose have not get justice finish, na the ones in Gana go get am

Story tellers

Did anyone lock your fcking shop in Nigeria? ....Idiatt.

RuudVanNisteroy:
Lagos looks good from the air.You need to go on the streets to see the real Lagos, and find out the damage Bullion Van democracy has done to the state.

All this pictures shown is less than how 5% live in Lagos, the rest live in abject poverty and are surviving hand to mouth.

Satan get lost. Lying, hateful demon on Nairaland.

Why are our sidewalks always so damn narrow?

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Build proper wide sidewalks abeg, not this thing.

agabusta:
Naija is not a rich country. People should stop deceiving themselves otherwise.

USA annual budget: 7.6 Trillion dollars

Germany: 2.1 Trillion dollars

UK: 1.6 Trillion dollars

France: 1.7 Trillion dollars

Brazil: 786 billion dollars

South Africa: 125 billion dollars

Nigeria: 35 billion dollars


Our number 1 issue to face in the country is economic diversification to increase govt revenues.

The oil and gas income is grossly insufficient for a nation of 200 million people, even without corruption.

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illicit:
Maybe it was bombarded during the civil war

I reckon it happened much earlier, or we would have had many photos of them from the 50s, 60s etc. I suspect the Brits blew it up.

mcjohny:
Op nice one, atleast its good learning more on the igbo culture. quite educative

Thanks bro.

nairalandankrah:
APC or the Fulani's..
Either of them

The British more like...

Excellent report by the Vanguard


Nsude Pyramids: Black Africa’s Lost Heritage?

On the Udi highlands of Enugu state, the Nsude pyramids once stood as a testimony to Black Africa’s level of cultural enlightenment. Built with hardened red earth and clay, the structures lasted centuries until the 1930s when degradation followed years of negligence, so much that today only their faint outlines can be traced. A report on the monuments published in Wikipedia describes them as “one of the unique structures of Igbo culture”.

Appeals have been made in the past by the community leaders as well as historians for the restoration of the circular pyramids which bear a striking resemblance to the Step Pyramid of Saqqara, in Egypt. Unless the Nigerian government takes appropriate steps to reconstruct them, that historical monument will remain, perhaps, one of black Africa’s greatest losses to world civilization.

Now, scholars believe there were more of them, with the possibility they may rewrite the history of black Africa. Even more compelling is the attraction it holds for tourism in Nigeria. At a time the pyramids in Egypt have turned the economic mainstay of the North African country with approximately 14.7 million tourists flocking in a year, revenues peaked in excess of $12.5 billion as recently as in 2010. It is still a mystery why the Nsude pyramids which once stood with circumferences of about eighty feet and a pinnacle reaching up to 40 feet, were constructed in the first place.

Much of what were known of them were tales about how they were used in times past for surveillance against hostile neighbours during inter-community wars. Historical accounts say the pyramids were first constructed in the topmost altitudes of the community’s boundary villages at Umuaka and Ugwuto: while only one large pyramid stood at Umuaka part of the community overlooking Ngwo and parts of Nkanu land, a set of 10 pyramids—standing five-a-side on two rows—was located at Ugwuto, overlooking Owa in Ezeagu Local Government Area.

While this surveillance theory is the most believable considering the community’s fame in inter-community wars in times past, other accounts, however, attribute the construction of the monuments to the memory of Uto-Nsude, the community’s war hero that has since become a deity. The third theory that the pyramids may have served as furnaces for iron smelting lacks credibility as not much by way of history has linked Nsude and the larger Udi area to iron smelting. Europeans who carried out extensive geographical survey and explorations for solid mineral in various places around the Udi hills had first ‘discovered’ the pyramids.

The first 'discovery' was credited to one Luke Walter, a British who led one of the exploration missions in 1891. It is either Mr. Walters did not document his ‘discovery’ probably because he did not consider it of historical significance, or whatever he did has been lost in time. It was not until 1935 that an anthropologist and colonial administrator in the area, Mr. G.I. Jones took what is, perhaps, the only surviving photographs of the historical monuments and after printing them, scribbled behind them what has today become vital information. His photographs were not made public until a few years back when they were published by his estate. Apart from oral historical accounts of the pyramids, the limited information provided are reproduced from notes written by Jones on the black and white photographs.

Recently, the Nsude community leader Mr. Emmanuel Ozoani had ordered an inspection of the site of the set of 10 pyramids in Ugwuto, with a view to renewing the call for their restoration. The pyramids which were said to have been maintained annually with red mud mixed with cow dung, were robbed of this preservation by the advent of modernity and sheer negligence. It is believed that since the 1930s, they were not preserved in any way and have over the years been totally degraded.

There is even a theory that the British colonialists may have conspired to degrade the structures whose ‘discovery’ sharply contradicted their position that Black Africa lived with no civilization until their arrival.

The visit by community officials to the site, however, revealed that it was still possible to fully restore them.

The story is the same with the lone pyramid that once stood at Umuaka area of Nsude. According to another community leader, Mr. Gab Ozougwu, the pyramid once stood at the eastern entry point where the community had maintained the mysterious Iga gate. While he explained that it has been degraded and almost submerged by erosion that has since developed a gully at the site, Ozougwu who now heads the village union, says it has been a subject of enquiries by some Europeans in recent years. He disclosed that one of his predecessors, well aware of the historical relevance of the pyramid, constructed a miniature version in front of the Umuaka community hall at Obu Anukwu in the 1970s.

The replica made of concrete cement, with the same five circular cones, still stands to this day. Between the Nigerian pyramids and those of Egypt, the similarity ends with the conical shape. It still remains a mystery for instance, when and how the Nsude Pyramids were built. Archaelogists believe the clay/mud pyramids may have been built at the same time the first or second wave of Egyptian pyramids were built by the Nubians, but no records are available on the actual period when they came into being.

The Egyptian pyramids were built by moving huge stones from a quarry and dragging and lifting them into place. Built during the reign of Fourth Dynasty Egyptian Pharaoh Khufu over a 20 year period ending in 2540 B.C., the 2.3 million cubic meters pyramid at Giza, with base measurement of 227.5 meters and vertical height of 137.2 meters, is believed to have involved about 60,000 labourers.

The Nsude pyramids were made of tons of hardened red earth and clay.

While those great pyramids on the Giza Plateau of Egypt including the massive sculpture known as the Great Sphinx have historically become symbols of Egyptian culture and world civilization, Nigeria and the Black race have not benefitted culturally from the Nsude pyramids in any way. If restored, they may yet rewrite Black Africa’s history. More importantly, in terms of potentials for tourism in Nigeria, it is a gold mine waiting to be tapped.

Read more at: https://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/11/nsude-pyramids-black-africas-lost-heritage/

Pyramids are as African as apple pie is American.

Sudan, Niger Republic, and Egypt are homes to hundreds of magnificent ancient pyramids, built by our illustrious ancestors.

Few people know however, that the pyramid building culture, did not escape the area known today as Nigeria.

Specifically among the Igbo people.

The British colonialists were stunned to find in the area of Udi (Enugu State), rows of pyramids up to 40 feet high, that resembled sharply the famous Step Pyramid of Saqqara, in Egypt, built over 5,000 years ago.

The Nsude Pyramids of Igboland are of course, of a smaller size than their mighty examples further up the continent, and were built of locally available red clay.

But they do attest to a complex, sophisticated culture deep in the Igbo forest regions in antiquity.

Who destroyed those pyramids?

Did they just fall into disrepair naturally in this short time between the British 'discovery' and today?

Doubtful.

They surely need restoration to serve as historical education, and tourist attractions.


Nsude Pyramids

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Step Pyramid, Saqqara Egypt

These Nsude Pyramids closely resemble the Step Pyramid of Saqqara, Egypt (constructed in 2648 BC). They are undoubtedly of the same tradition.

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marsman:
�*Nigerians and there self hate*
As a Nigerian one thing i have noticed about the other citizens of this country, is the hatred and dislike we possess for it. Most of us hate her so much, we are ready to accept that it can be compared, to a zoo or a common animal playground, even if said by the most insane human being. How will you hate your country to the extent that you choose to compare it to an animal shelter? Whether metaphorically or not, it still remains your fathers land, and still deserves your respect.
When you meet an Average America anywhere, even with the level of barbarism happening there, sure as the gun violence, the blm protest, the failure of the government to handle the covid 19 out break well. They won't condemn there country internationally, in fact they will first attest to the fact, that there country is the most blessed Nation in the world, And proudly shout God bless America, and they have being saying this since the industrial age. If not for globalization we won't know what is going on in there midst. But let an international reporter, come to this country, and ask some of us about Nigeria, the first thing they will do is call it a shit hole, then a zoo, and then a retarding Nation. You are calling it all this and you want the nation to develop, you want it to move forward, you want foreign investors to invest and create opportunities, you want the economy to flow smoothly, you want Nigerian made business to thrive but you are using your mouth, to chase away the external factors that will help Stimulate the growth of the country. I was speaking with a Chinese the other day, while conversing i asked him about the issue of corona virus in his country, with the fact that millions have died in that country, this guy still had hope and said we trust the Chinese Government. How do you develop something you already hate? Hatred also known as too abhor which means to reject, turn aside and despise something deeply, so tell me how do you build a nation you are rejecting, a nation you hate with all your might?
We have failed to differentiate, between the past unfortunate leaders we should condemn and hate, and the Nation we should build and develop.
The Nation is not the reason for any bodies misfortune, if we as citizens don't see the Nation, as something that needs to be developed and not rejected and totally condemned, nobody else will. The only thing the outside world will help us with, after seeing our malicious over exaggerated ranking among bad deeds is aides, they wouldn't build or develop her for us. #Stoptheselfhate.

I am not a writer neither am i a motivational speaker, but just an ordinary observer. This nation is not cursed, neither is it failed only the past unfortunate leaders, are failures and cursed, same for the people that failed to fight for there rights of a better Nation. *If you want to condemn at all, condemn the people responsible for the misfortune, a nation just doesn't go bad, there were catalyst, curse, harm the catalyst, not the Father land*.

They don't realise that words and thoughts have the power to ...actualize.

If enough people believe the country is 'irredeemable', then irredeemable it will be.

The good thing about this law of the universe, that Thought Creates Reality, is that it only takes about 20 to 30% of people feeling positive, to overturn the impact of the negative population, and shift the nation's fortunes in the right direction, because the power of positivity is far greater than that of negativity.

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saphiere:
America acts movie about terrorists even going to middle east to act and starring Muslims in their movies and nothing happens. Here in my country is a problem.

America is not divided by half into muslims and christians, so that kind of politics does not play there. The frictions there center around race and ethnicity, not religion.

At least try and think a little before including USA and Germany in everything.

Ogbuu101:
Naija isn't testing as much as they are.
That's y it seems their our cases are few.

Bro, that's why many people say the whole covid thing is a scam.

The more people you test for anything, the more 'positive' results you'll get.

Go out and test people for diabetes. Test 1 million Nigerians a day.

Overnight the 'cases' of diabetes will shoot up to 1000 times the current figures.

You can then claim there is a diabetes 'pandemic'.

It's a very simple, but effective sleight of hand.

In the early 2000s Ghana's President John Kufuor went to see Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo to tell him the Ghana Police Service had 100 vehicles to its name and Nigeria gave us vehicles for our police.

I didn't even know this. Yet they mock us for being a less 'secure' country even as we contributed to their security.

What Kanu is saying is not surprising to those of us who have studied the Biafra phenomenon.

Ojukwu had the same mentality.

For him, 2 million Igbos was an acceptable 'sacrifice'.

People who lead this 'Biafra' movement care the LEAST about Igbo lives than even the Fulani and other ethnicities they love to smear.

Their ONLY REAL AIM is to secure control of the Niger Delta oil & gas resources.

THAT is why they always rope in the delta to the secessionist agenda, even without the consent of the delta people.

THAT is what the whole 'Biafra' agitation has always been about.

A rogue section of the Igbo elite, led first by Ojukwu, and lately by Kanu, are prepared to sacrifice millions of Igbo lives - even more than 5 million - to actualize their selfish ambition of cornering Nigeria's oil and gas resources. NOT for the Igbos, but for themselves and their children.

THAT is what 'Biafra' is all about, and has ALWAYS been about.

The Igbo majority are just manipulated cannon-fodder.

Their lives mean nothing to these animals.

desiredhome:
Yes but cleaners are human being...... some of these people behave worst than animal.......

These are all as a result of selfishness in we Africans....
No love for one another, no body cares about the other person.....
No body want to build/give ...everybody want to destroy/collect.......

That is the highest level of poverty in the land..

Please leave ''Africans'' out of this.

Have you been to even 1/10th of the 54 African countries to know what they do there?

Just stay in your Naija lane abeg.

Kerosenehawker:
Yes, go and tell all that to the government

But the truth is , you people want UNN to be like universities in Europe tht get subvention and charge fees ten times larger than UNN's own. And are located in countries where the tax and gdp is higher.

What you are seeing is what you get for 200 dollars school fees. If you want Cambridge level or Harvard level, pay Cambridge or Harvard level school fees.

That is life.

Covenat looks like hotel coomared to this place, because Covenant charges fees in the millions.



If you like, you can abuse me and my cat and my pet chicken. You can call me Buhari supporter. But in life, you get what you pay for.

This is really the long and short of it.

Thanks for educating these people who love the good life but don't want to pay for it.

You want UNN to be like Harvard.

Harvard's annual budget is 4 BILLION dollars.

UNN's is 50 million dollars.

Nuff said!

SegFault:
Just look at what you are saying, you have forgotten that most of the funds that are sent to these schools are looted first by the people allocating them then the chicken change is then cleared by some characters in the universities, so keep quiet, Brazil operates a free public university system but is it like this, countries like Germany have free public universities but are they like this. Mtccheew you want to increase tax on top of 30k minimum wage.

Germany's annual budget is 2 TRILLION dollars.

Brazil's is 780 billion dollars.

Nigeria's is 35 billion dollars.

Please, use your head when making comparisons.