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Kingcalls:Wrong. He is in for LIFE IMPRISONMENT. HE'S LUCKY HE HASN'T GOT THE DEATH PENALTY WHICH IS WHAT HE DESERVES. |
ROT IN HELL YOU DEVIL. I HOPE HE IS HANGED FOR HIS CRIME!!! |
The backlash was just too much against this thing. They had no choice but to abandon the idea. |
Papachie:Standard wetin. My friend sharrap there. Ghana has maybe 12 'standard' universities, and the rest are just mushroom 'universities' or glorified polythecnics. NONE of Ghana's universities are in Africa's Top 20. Nigeria has 4 universities in Africa's Top 20, as rated by the World's No 1 university ranking body, Times Higher Education. These are: University of Ibadan Lagos State University University of Lagos Covenant University https://www.timeshighereducation.com/student/best-universities/best-universities-africa |
https://i0.wp.com/schoolings.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/IUO-School-Fees-for-Fresh-Students.jpg Federal University of Technology, Akure https://www.oasdom.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/cropped-Oasdom-Federal-University-of-Technology-FUTA-courses-696x392.jpg https://media.premiumtimesng.com/wp-content/files/2020/03/IMG_20200310_113538_0-001.jpg |
Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University, Bauchi https://von.gov.ng/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Abubakar-Tafawa-Balewa-University-Bauchi.jpg Landmark University, Kwara state www.nairaland.com/attachments/4768536_690508landmark6jpg195855ab7ec1ce2e4f9805aea9cc594e_jpeg8b08c58e2e805f007944689a5765f38b www.nairaland.com/attachments/6670944_fbimg1518015150958_jpeg657d12a08598b8a36419235836872670 |
Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta https://worldfoodpreservationcenter.com/uploads/3/4/6/9/34690052/7864775_orig.jpg https://worldfoodpreservationcenter.com/uploads/3/4/6/9/34690052/8405065_orig.jpg https://i0.wp.com/topnaija.ng/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Delta-university-topnaija.ng_.png?fit=600%2C247&ssl=1 |
Little Ghana has come again with her cheap rubbish. Nigeria has over 200 universities. Ghana has 5 or 6. See Nigerian universities. These are the ones most Nigerians don't even KNOW about. Afe Babalola University https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b1/Overview_of_the_ABUAD_Colleges.JPG https://guardian.ng/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Untitled-2-2.jpg https://media.abuad.edu.ng/cache/Afe%20Babalola%20University%20Facility/IMG_5936_595.jpg |
DFOmobolla:Firstly I've no clue what you're talking about white people ''discovering writing''. Black Africans invented writing thousands of years before any white people could write. The Sankore University in Timbuktu, Mali, was just one of the many universities that were in Africa long before they were any in Europe. In fact, black African Moors took literacy and education to many parts of Europe starting from the 11th century up till the 16th, which was what led to their exit from their 'Dark Ages' into the Renaissance, a prelude to the Industrial Revolution. Secondly, there was NOT ''limited mobility during precolonial times''. People did A LOT of travelling and migrating in search of arable land and water. Many migrated from the Nile Valley, as a result of desertification and foreign invasions. The entire West Africa was in a state of flux for several hundred years before colonisation, and migration was the order of the day. There is almost no village that you will visit today in Nigeria where they will not tell you they migrated from somewhere else in the last few hundred years. |
gwafaeziokwu:You misunderstand what that quote is saying. The writer was comparing the race situation in AMERICA with that of Africa, and was saying that the colonialists could not afford to have a united black majority in their African territories, ie since blacks comprised the majority in those territories, they could not afford to have them unite as one group of blacks in opposition to colonial rule. Hence their need to create 'tribal divisions'. This was why they created these artificial language-based 'tribes', to create BLOCS OF DIVISION which would prevent the black majority from unifying against them. Instead, they would compete against one another in rivalries for access to state resources. And their plan succeeded, and still succeeds today actually, if you look at it... ![]() |
Etrusen:Nice one bro. You completely understand. ![]() |
johnmartus:Knowing African history is not a question of your skin colour, otherwise we would all be African history professors on this site. History is learned through study of the subject-matter, and research. Plus I quoted several researchers, not just one. There is actually no dispute over these facts in academic circles. ![]() |
johnmartus:I posted the links to all sources. |
StaffofOrayan:What ''indigenous people'' are you referring to? No one actually knows who the hell Oduduwa really was or when he actually lived. In precolonial times many people claimed to be descended from 'Oduduwa'. Even the Kanuris! Meaning that ancestral connection to Oduduwa WAS NOT LANGUAGE-BASED. It was LINEAGE based, and the same lineage of people could speak several different languages over time depending on where they settled! So it is a colonialism derived LIE that only Yoruba speakers are descendants of Oduduwa! Heck, for all we know, Oduduwa himself probably couldn't speak a single word of Yoruba! He seems to have been a settler from the Nile Valley region. But his descendants landed here and finally settled en masse in parts of Nigeria where Yoruba was widely spoken, hence his association with the Yoruba language. They may have settled further up north before finally settling in Yoruba-speaking regions. As explained by scholars: ''Certain other peoples have claimed a connection to Oduduwa. According to the Kanuri, Yauri, Gobir, Acipu, Jukun and Borgu tribes - whose founding ancestors were said to be Oduduwa's brothers (as recorded in the early 20th century by Samuel Johnson), Oduduwa was the son of Damerudu, whom Yoruba call either Lamurudu or Lamerudu, [whom some call NIMROD of the bible!] a prince who was himself the son of the magician King Kisra. Kisra and his allies are said to have fought Mohammed in the Battle of Badr. Kisra was forced to migrate from Arabia into Africa after losing the war to the jihadists in 624 AD. He and his followers founded many kingdoms and ruling dynasties along their migration route into West Africa. This tradition is a variant of the belief that held that Oduduwa was a prince originating from Mecca.'' https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oduduwa So any attachment to an individual named 'Oduduwa' is based more on myth and belief than actual verifiable ancestry. This dissonance is reinforced by the fact that numerous Yoruba speaking communities today comprise descendants of ancient settlers from other parts of Nigeria, such as Igbo speaking regions! And vice versa. So anyone claiming direct ancestry to 'Oduduwa' today is merely indulging in mythology, and propagating an unfounded belief which may or may not be true. There are no traceable lineage, DNA, or ancestral links to such a figure, whose period of existence is itself disputed. And merely being a Yoruba speaker does not establish such links, for the aforementioned reasons, any more than my being an English speaker means I am related to King Edward the 5th of England. [In Africa], however, racial strategies were unsuited for the task at hand since a black majority with a united race consciousness would pose a threat to white minority control. European powers therefore turned towards a tribal strategy of creating and enforcing divisions in the majority. They entrenched the “tribe” as the basis of social, economic and political life through a policy known as indirect rule.I fully understand what is being said. The question we should ask is DO YOU understand what is being said? ![]() |
helinues:The tribes of the bible were based on lineage and ancestry. For instance, members of the ''tribe of Judah'' were traceable through generation after generation, due to lack of admixture within groups. But the Igbos of today cannot be said to be connected by lineage of any sort. For starters, no one can trace their lineage beyond a few generations of early settlers of their village. So what we have are hundreds or thousands of village lineage based 'tribes' within the Igbo language grouping. The language grouping itself is NOT a 'tribe'. It is merely a language grouping. Just as English speakers do not constitute an 'English tribe' today, but merely English speakers, each with his own specific, unique ancestral lineage or ''tribe''. In precolonial times these language groupings - Igbo, Yoruba, Efik, Edo, were not unified in any way as 'tribes' in themselves. WITHIN such groupings you would find lineages or ancestral bonds shared by small numbers of people, say the people that settled in your village 500 years ago. THEIR lineage would be different from even the next village, which would comprise a different set of people who arrived there 500 years ago from goodness knows where. THEY would share a different lineage. Now fast forward to today, THEY will be your neighbouring village but they would share NO TIES or ancestry with you even if they are proximate and you both speak Igbo. It was the colonialists WHO CAME IN and declared that THAT village and yours were ''related'' and part of the ''Igbo tribe''. But there was no such concept or understanding of such 'connection' between your two villages prior to their arrival. The only connection was that that village spoke Igbo and yours spoke Igbo. THAT did not make your two villages consider each other as ''related'' any more than my speaking English now makes me feel related to you. Hope you're getting it now, sort of... ![]() It was actually why the slave trade was so easy for the Europeans to accomplish - this conception that the next village was a different country with no relation to yours. So your chiefs had no problem invading the next village to capture people and sell to the invaders. They did not see it as ''selling their own people to the white man'', because they did not consider the next village as ''their own people''. |
helinues:What has bible got to do with this? Tell me, have you actually read the posts and links on this thread? |
helinues:Try and understand what is being said. Go back and read everything I posted. The reason you associate language spoken with belonging to a 'tribe' is the colonialists. Before they came, the language you spoke did not indicate anything about you in terms of your ancestry or identity. It's like how you speak English today. Does that make you an Englishman? Or if you speak French, does that make you a French man? No. That is exactly how it was for us before colonialism. Your ancestor spoke Igbo or Yoruba because that was the language commonly spoken in his area or region, not because he was an ''Igbo man'' or a ''Yoruba man''. His ancestors may have migrated a couple centuries ago from Benue or even Oyo area. This happened as a matter of course in precolonial times as people migrated constantly for land, water, arable soil purposes. It was the colonialists that came and declared that ''all those who speak Yoruba are of the ''Yoruba tribe''. ''All those who speak Igbo are of the ''Igbo tribe.'''' etc etc. They did this to create blocs of division aka divide and rule. |
selemempe:80% of countries on Earth are developing countries, which all suffer REGULAR power cuts. Nigeria is not unique in that respect. It is just that many Nigerians like you are filled with self hate, and so you broadcast your problems to the whole world endlessly. India Power Cuts: https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/chandigarh/zirakpur-residents-reel-under-9-hr-power-cut-240481 Pakistan Power Cuts https://tribune.com.pk/story/2291125/locally-manufactured-solar-panels-set-to-roll-out |
Nemere2020:What is this rubbish again? This forum is filled with traitors, including the OP and moderators. So we won't hear word again because Twitter opened an office in Ghana? Did Seun sell this site to Ghanaians or 'Biafrans' or what? It won't surprise me if this filthy thread makes it to front page, since it tries to tarnish Nigeria. |
RuudVanNisteroy:Don't give me that crap. Who is to decide when Nigeria has ''a responsible government''? The same THIEVES HOLDING OUR MONEY? Why would they EVER admit Nigeria has a ''responsible govt'' if doing so means handing back the loot to Nigeria? Look, Mr Man, take your bullcrap elsewhere. To return the loot, all they have to do is work with the Nigerian govt and people on what infrastructure projects are required in the country, and use the money to fund the projects. FINISH. |
SarkinYarki:You see your problem? So because you don't like Buhari, you don't want Nigerians to be employed or for Nigeria to grow or develop? WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE? Is Buhari Nigeria? When facebook comes, and employs your family member, will you care about Buhari? I mean, you people are just so ignorant and stupid, the way you reason. Because you don't like the president, you don't want your country to progress, because you think he will take the credit. You are utterly disgusting, YOU and everyone who thinks like you. You are TRAITORS, and we need to be rid of your type in Nigeria. |
Chatflick:By saying Facebook should ''abort the mission'' of something that would bring employment to Nigerians, means your mother should have aborted you. Because your existence means death for others. Satan. |
I wonder if the mods will shoot this thread to FRONT PAGE the same way they quickly did the Ghana one about Twitter. Sometimes one wonders at the nationality of people who actually run this site. I will be SHOCKED if this makes front page, since it is positive news about NIGERIA. |
- First Main Office Opened in South Africa 2015 - 2nd Main Office will be opened in NIGERIA in 2021 Facebook is moving closer to local talent and key markets with a second African office in Nigeria In 2016, Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg visited Nigeria in what was his first trip to sub-Saharan Africa. While the attraction to the budding tech ecosystem which was already producing some of Africa’s best known startups was obvious, there was also the underlying influence of Facebook’s pool of high-ranking Nigerian-American executives. Four years later, that influence may be yielding more results as Facebook is set to open its second Africa office in Lagos in the second half of 2021. The office will house a cross-section of Facebook teams from sales, policy, and communications to engineering. It is the company’s latest commitment to Nigeria—Africa’s largest internet market, after it opened a hub space in partnership with Co-Creation Hub, a leading Nigerian startup accelerator, in 2018. Facebook opened its first Africa office in Johannesburg, South Africa in 2015. https://qz.com/africa/1905838/facebook-to-open-africa-office-in-lagos-nigeria-in-2021/ |
A corrupt moderator moved this highly charged, highly political, African History thread to ''Arts, Graphics and Video'' section where nobody visits. Not even to the Culture section. ''Arts, Graphics, and Video'' section. Can you imagine? African History? There are some really debased, twisted people on this site who call themselves ''moderators''. Here is the fantastic, highly charged thread, which they put in ''Arts and Graphics'' section. Hopefully they don't delete this thread, or the main thread, because it seems they don't want people to know about that subject. Visit while you can!! https://www.nairaland.com/6498082/why-europeans-steal-black-history . . |

