₦airaland Forum

RuudVanNisteroy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wg7lfHL_l1w

mikeapollo:
Impossible!!!
Nigeria does not have the infrastructure to carry or accommodate 25,000MW in six years! And we cannot put the infrastructure in place in six years!
All lies and wishful thinking!!
It will take a minimum of 15-20 years to achieve 25,000mMW

Rossnitti:
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THE WORLD'S LARGEST MAN-MADE STRUCTURE IS IN NIGERIA

The Walls of Benin City are collectively the world's largest man-made structure and were semi-destroyed by the British in 1897.


Fred Pearce wrote in New Scientist:

"They extend for some 16,000 kilometres in all, in a mosaic of more than 500 interconnected settlement boundaries. They cover 6500 square kilometres and were all dug by the Edo people. In all, they are four times longer than the Great Wall of China, and consumed a hundred times more material than the Great Pyramid of Cheops [in Egypt]. They took an estimated 150 million hours... to construct, and are perhaps the largest single archaeological phenomenon on the planet."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_science_and_technology_in_Africa

https://i0.wp.com/thinkafrica.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/benin-moat-and-rampart.jpg?w=661&ssl=1
BENIN MOAT AND RAMPART TODAY


STRUCTURE AND FUNCTIONALITY

These enormous earthworks known to be the lengthiest in the world were constructed by the Edo people of the defunct Great Kingdom of Benin. An ancient marvel on par with world wonders like the Taj Mahal of India or the Great Wall of China, it was constructed to secure and protect the kingdom from invaders.

Work first began around 800 AD and continued up until around 1460. The structure upon completion comprised of moats and ramparts, covered a border distance of about 16,000 kilometres, the 16,000 sq. kilometres and enclosed about 6,500 square kilometres of community land in a mosaic of more than 500 interconnected settlements. Altogether this was double the length of the Ming Great Wall of China, which measured 8,851 kilometres. The new official length of 21,196 kilometres was announced on June 5th 2012, after the discovery of the Walls of Benin displaced the Great Wall of China, under its old measurements.

The Benin wall sharply defined boundaries, restricted access to the kingdom especially the capital Benin City and provided security. In the late 13th century Oba Oguola (1274-1287) completed the first and second moats and ordered the construction of 20 more moats around essential towns and villages; during this period the kingdom was near its peak and was engaged in many wars. The moats were therefore built as a defensive fortification. In the late 16th Century Oba Ewuare The Great (1440-1473) further fortified and extended the moats by about 3200 kilometres, erected Nine fortified gates and put up thoroughfares.

https://i0.wp.com/thinkafrica.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/benin-section-of-wall.jpg?w=500&ssl=1
Raised Section of the Benin Wall


The materials for the construction as widely reported by most researchers was over a hundred times more than the materials used to build the great pyramid of Cheops and was estimated to have taken at least 150 million man hours of digging and hundreds of years to build. Its construction method predates the use of earth moving equipment or technology.

The earth from the dug moat was used to construct the rampart; these ramparts are steep banks of earth and any invader trying to climb over them could be buried in a sand avalanche. The rampart varied in size, from shallow traces to as high as 66 feet. The moats were guarded round the clock, and any invader that was trying to get through could be seen and killed or captured by Benin soldiers.

The very high walls were a nightmare to scale through. Attackers and invaders trying to climb over were target practice for Benin soldiers with their spears and poisoned arrows. The Outer walls formed a thick shield around the city, and its nine gates restricted access. It was heavily guarded round the clock and shut at night.

The heart of Benin city – the capital that housed very important abodes like the Royal Palace and chiefs houses – were enclosed by an inner wall about 10 kilometres long, that was as high and wide as a two-story building. Outside the wall was a deep ditch as deep and wide as the wall. The inner wall had a massive gateway made of wood and earth that was heavily fortified and had a heavy wooden door; travellers and merchants bringing goods into the city usually paid a toll before the gates were open and they were let in.

The walls to a great extent prevented the notorious European and African slavers from their routine raids on towns and villages in search of slaves, these raids were common at the time.

THE FORGOTTEN RUINS

These walls in 1974 made the Guinness Book Of World Records as the world’s largest earthworks before the mechanical era and in 1994 as the second largest man-made structure in the world after the Great Wall of China. In 1995 it was recognized in the cultural category of the UNESCO World Heritage Tentative list.

https://thinkafrica.net/walls-of-benin/

austinvsb:
Oh man! I can read your write ups all day! Glad there are people like this still lurking around on NL

Apawicked:
We have seen the way bandits beat the drum for you masquerades while your governors donate in millions to them after kidnapping and raping you

CodeTemplar:
The man is trying small small sha...

jimyjames:
Yorubas have the most underdeveloped villages in Nigeria I wasn't joking when I said that
Come to igbo villages they're mansions all over igbo villages clean and neat, in fact it's a thing of shame for a grown up igbo man old enough to have a wife not to have a well built house in his village, your mates will laugh at you

raphy:
That why I love this white people and there pets ..just imagine a pet worth millions to his name .

Even lion can't worth a coin. nd they he is the stronger broke strong lion.

pacespot:
Oyinbo and simple life, they treat animals better than Africans treat humans

Mrsoft3:
When you see things like things you wonder if the person doesn't have a family or the person didn't see a charity home to give this money to...at tops that dog will not last more than 5 years more and in that duration that dog won't spent up to 500,000 dollars...... And there are people who will die during that period because they don't have money or they need a specific amount to do some operation.


Value is very important, if you are valuable not matter what you are the reward will definitely come, this dog was so valuable to the owner and the owner could see the value he wanted in a dog and rewarded the �.



Get priceless value and pray for someone who can see and reward that value.

primestreams:
Stupid country that's has zero economic policy, 100% nepotism

Rubbish country

primestreams:
Shut your trap I pray my children will not grow in a country where the government pays 800 million weekly to bandits

zoedew:
And Togo will be the 38th State!

fujirice:
Why are we taking what the minister said literally?
What I deduced from what he said is that Nigeria and Benin should be good neighbors, afterall, Benin is like a 37th state in Nigeria given the amount of Nigerians there and the similarities we share.
Not that a sovereign state would want to give up their ‘sovereincy’ to another state. For what na? France sef no go gree make that one happen.

My humble submission

Obalowe:
This is best described as DISTRACTION, FG trying to frustrate and distract Biafra and Oduduwa Republic agitators.
Nigeria will disintegrate but how it will happen I don't know.

Teejay13:
This does not make any sense to me.

We re yet to manage the 36 states we have and all we could think about is to add more state.

This is insanity of the highest order.

primestreams:
Lol

You will shocked how other African countries want to be Nigerians


I don't know what this African countries, Lebanon, India, see in Nigeria,


While most of us are tired of this failed union

oluwaSavage:
Huh
You call this Ultra Modern?

So what do we call the below stadium?

www.nairaland.com/attachments/13159450_screenshot202102181025491613640411951_jpeg7452961a0195bd55dbeab89dc959314c

Nigeria sha!

We will get there someday...

Poloyanabo2:
To me solar energy is not development, the west majorly relies on Nuclear energy and Gas turbines and sells solar energy to us... Foolishly our leaders will accept it as development not knowing it's same thing as giving leftovers to a poor man.

Solar power can't serve our energy needs as a country.
But as usual they're after the money they can loot.

LastProphet:
Let's stop all these "largest in west Africa or africa" nonsense, yes it should be the largest in west Africa because the whole west Africa is less than half of nigeria, so why shouldn't it be the largest in WA? If you have 200 children on a street where your neighbors have less than 4 each why won't you have the largest cooking pot? That's how we celebrate mediocrity because it makes us happy to compare our tiny results with poorer neighbors. And what is 200MW by the way? It can't even power an airport like Heathrow, why do we have so many stewpid black people?

nairalandankrah:
Racism lives my brother

BigBashiru:
since the white man left in 1960, nigeria has been in decline. its not racism its the truth....

angelfallz:
I saw a tweet of a white woman complaining they have not had light for 30hrs.
Ordinary 30hrs. We that sometimes we don't see light for 2 weeks nko.

michlins:
See how Nigeria government will use this rare scene to ask Nigerians to endure suffering and lack of social amenities

Prolific007:
Op this is commendable, we Nigerian need to start valuing our own. This so called pigin language can be advanced whereby structures can be made in a in other to refine it.

America has their own english language which was carved out of the one of their colonial master. We need to start using our heads in this country.

BlackfireX:
Op your mates are looking for solutions to some world problems, you are here yapping....

Naijois

(Derived from patois)