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FarahAideed:
They will follow projected winnings so Biden wins

"Faithless Electors" are constitutionally allowed to change their votes. Several of them switched votes last time in 2016; just not enough to affect anything.

In the United States Electoral College, a faithless elector is an elector who does not vote for the candidates for U.S. President and U.S. Vice President for whom the elector had pledged to vote and instead votes for another person for one or both offices or abstains from voting

Israeli authorities will open King Herod’s palace-fortress in Herodium this Sunday, affording tourists the opportunity to peer back some 2,000 years and discover the lavish lifestyle of the tyrannical Roman-era leader.

The already-popular tourist destination near Bethlehem has been undergoing excavation for the past 13 years, following the discovery of Herod’s grave.
Archaeologists believe Herod decided to bury his palace near the end of his life, and this decision has paid huge dividends for the archaeological community, helping to almost perfectly preserve
much of the site for the past 2,000 years.

The king is perhaps best known for ordering the Massacre of the Innocents at the time of the birth of Jesus, according to the Gospel of Matthew in the Christian bible.

Israel’s Nature and Parks Authority will reopen the site on Sunday and it will be the first time tourists will be able to view Herodium’s arched
stairway, foyer and private, 300-seat theater.

Herod was the Roman-appointed king who ruled Judea from 37 to 4 BC. He initially stuck with Jewish traditions but gradually adopted more Roman tastes over time, as visible in the plush paintings and decorations which adorned his palace-cum-mausoleum.

This is an unparalleled archaeological laboratory,” Roi Porat, the Hebrew University archaeologist in charge of the excavations, who compared it to Pompeii’s preservation under the lava that covered it.

Features such as the palace’s broad staircase, its main foyer replete with striped frescoes with their original colors, three tiers of arches, as well as the site’s private theater booth and royal visiting room will all be open to the public.

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The Face.

Full Length.

People who believe the authenticity of the shroud point to the marks of blood on it.

The Shroud of Turin is one of the most compelling artifacts on Earth; its believed by some to be one of the greatest forgeries that exist; but by many more to be one of the most compelling evidence of the resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth.

Its believed to be the cloth used to wrap Jesus after the crucifixion; apparently so much power was used to raise the Christ from the dead ( Ephesians 1: 19-20); it left an imprint of his face and body on the cloth. The cloth now known as the Shroud of Turin has several compelling evidences to support this:

1) It has human blood stains.
2) The blood stains coincide with the points where a man would have been crucified ( palms, feet) including bleed from the head indicating the bibilical account of a crown on the head of the Master.
3) The cloth was discovered to have dna of a seed of a certain plant that not only grows in the area around Jerusalem, but has not being grown like that in over 1500 years.

The Vatican which retains possession of it, has not allowed much testing in order not to let too many hands touch it. At a point in time, when it did allow testing, the news spread that it was found to be a fake. The scientists had tested a part of the cloth and found it to be about 500 years old, not 2000 years old which it should be if it was from the time of the crucifixion. But apparently, the part that was tested was a portion that was sown onto it in the 1500s after a fire had almost destroyed the shroud in the year 1532.

In the 1970s, the Shroud of Turin Research Project said the markings on the cloth were consistent with a crucified body and that the stains were real human blood. In 1988, one group of scientists said their analysis showed the shroud originated between 1260 and 1390, while another said their analysis showed it originated between 300 B.C. and A.D. 400. In 2018, researchers used forensic techniques to argue the blood stains on the shroud couldn’t have come from Christ.
-From The History Channel.

Present Consensus: its not a fake, but no evidence to truly test it unless the Vatican releases it for full testing.

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aurorae1:
Unfortunately I'm not. You may visit though.

Thanks

aurorae1:
For those who want to see the Sungbo Eredo, part of the wall runs through my university... Augustine University in Ilara-Epe, Lagos. Well noted that our government cares not about scientific research and pursuits until it's glorious and brings immediate money... Shame on them.
It took scientists(professors and Drs) from abroad with a partnership with UI to come to the school to do heavy excavation work to unearth some of it, we'd have fun climbing down to see some of the ruins, it was beautiful. I think earth has covered most of it.
A student of UI got a scholarship for further studies from the foreign university for his work with them.
Those doctorate students still come and it's a pity they take some of those artifacts back with them for further research.

Are you still in the University? Please contact me if you can help take photographs and videos of the ones in your school.

DebbieBianca:
Lagos-based socialite, Pretty Mike who pulled a stunt of showing up at Actor and Comedian, Williams Uchemba's wedding over the weekend with 'pregnant girlfriends' have made it to the Wendy Williams show over the act.

Watch the video below.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6kEDl8LN8c

Quoting your post on our website and will credit you.

Come Learn. Come share experiences. Come observe. Come teach.

symbianDON:
impressive!!! unfortunately, the tourism sector is practically non-existent in Nigeria.

I dont know why our leaders dont see the importance of not just history; but tourism as well.Of course tourism is hard in a dis organized society with bad roads, security issues , no public toilets etc

longetivity:
you see that woman, mrs bilikisu sungbo, she is the mother of my greatest of the great grandfathers.she will be 1,300 years old if she was still alive, RIP my great (times) 48 Grandma

Haha, that is serious. You are from a great heritage.

I ll be there myself soon God willing. We need to make this global!

majamajic:
160km is like from Lagos to Ibadan

Yes I know. Several internationally acclaimed professors including Geographers determined that so I cant doubt them.

If you are like me; you might have spent some time and money trying to make money online whether as a full time venture or just as a side hustle. Especially when one hears of so many people doing it and doing it big without doing Yahoo Yahoo! Then I finally met one of those actually doing it and it really isnt rocket science!

Come listen to[b] Mr. InternetGuru[/b] show you the way and he is not charging you a dime or selling any manual, seminar or book. Tap from his experience at https://v7place.com/index.php?topic=809.0

This is just a snippet. Hear him

If you are willing to learn, Im willing to teach. Im also willing to learn from you too. Stop wasting your money sowing corn and hoping to harvest cassava. You can make money online if you do it the right way.
First the tough part:
Let me be upfront with you:
• Linda DID NOT MAKE N500 Million from Blogging.
• Most people will not make money online.
• Making Money (serious money) is hard.
The Good Part
• Human beings like you have made N1 Trillion from the Internet
• I have personally made over N30 million in one year and over N400 million in my time online and there are people like you that have made more.
• Making Money on the Internet is Easy (I know I just said it was hard; but yes its easy)

People wrongly assume the Internet is some mysterious money making oddity. No the Internet is just a marketplace where you can buy and sell. Not knowing this, is what has made millions of people waste billions buying materials, books, manuals and attending meaningless trainings.
EVERY WAY to make Money Online falls into 3 Categories
1) Take something offline and sell it online, Sell a restaurant’s food online by building a website where people can order online. Or take a service you have like graphic design, proof reading and offering it online. Or Like Blogging: Take news that happens and put it online.
2) Take something online and resell online: Buy something on ebay or nairaland and sell it again on your website. Or offer an online brokerage services. Or like Forex , Stock trading.
3) Take something online and sell offline: Buy something on Amazon and sell in your shop or to your neighbor.
EVERYTHING falls in that category.
Clickbank
Fiver
Forex
Google Adsense
Blogging
Etc
Even 419 & Yahoo Yahoo.

The Internet just gives you the opportunity to sell to millions of people instead of only those on your street or in your city.
The big problem for Internet Entrepreneurs like you and me is people who claim to teach others how to make millions online; when the only way they have made money IS BY TEACHING PEOPLE HOW TO MAKE MONEY. Not that teaching is wrong, but there are some things you can’t teach IF you haven’t experienced it.

About 15 years ago, I was at a seminar in Lagos that was heavily advertised in the newspapers. The coordinator was offering to teach people how to make 200k a week online: that was 2003 or thereabouts o, when naira was much stronger. The packaging for the seminar was excellent: from the half page ad in major newspapers to renting a classy hotel, good refreshment, internet access. The fee was like N10,000 (that was some people’s salary at that time). The Hotel was jam-packed; there were at least 200 people there (that’s 2 million naira he made in about 5 hours). He held the seminar every Saturday for months and thousands paid 10k each. I later discovered the guy had NEVER made a kobo online in any form. He was simply making money teaching people how to make money.
Note: Not that teaching is bad, but delusional offers are bad. How can you promise people they will make 200k a week when the teacher himself HAS NEVER made 1 kobo.
If you want to make money online-don’t forget the rules of making money are the same online and offline.


You make money by solving problems. If you want to make money; solve problems. If you are not making money, you are either not solving problems or solving them for the wrong people.
If you want to make money online, the first question you should ask yourself is this: What problem is this business going to solve? Who needs that problem solved?
Blogging Is the New Gold
Really?
Is it? Blogging in Nigeria became extremely popular with the success of blogger Linda Ikeji with her online gossip blog. What Linda did was take what Lagos Weekend and Prime People did in the 1980s and Fame & City People in the 1990s and 2000s did with the printed paper. She simply took it online and with online, you don’t have to wait for a week or the next morning (if it’s a daily newspaper), you release stories every second and keep your readers occupied.
But Linda did not make N500 million from blogging. Not that she didn’t make N500 million, but not from blogging in that period.
This rumor or wrong assumption has made many run to blogging and run away frustrated.
How does a blogger make money? Just like the newspapers of old: subscription, people buying the content AND advertising! Whether regular adverts or feature adverts. If the highest circulating newspaper was charging N300, 000 or thereabouts at that time for a full page advert and the largest website at that time in the country was getting paid cents and dollars for web ads, how did a website that 90% of Nigerians had never heard of made N500 Million? Advertisers pay based on viewership, circulation, visits etc.
The only way a blog in Nigeria could make N500 million AT THAT TIME ( 5 TO 8 years ago)would be the Nigerian factor. Your brother , Uncle, relative etc is a Minister and decides to give you his Ministry’s media budget for that year or a Commissioner giving you N200 million to advertise the ministry campaign for safe driving, or mosquitoes prevention etc. Or a private sector contact in a major company giving you a chunk of their advertising budget or a politician campaigning for office needing exposure and adverts. The vast majority of these people though would prefer to give the advertising money to an establish media firm or THE NIGERIAN FACTOR: someone that they can benefit from (and that could be you)

My point, the likelihood of ANYONE paying your blog tens of millions is very low unless like some bloggers your resort to blackmail. Bad idea! Some did,blackmailing celebrities and famous people and ended up in jail.
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majamajic:
160km ?

Yes 160km

More Pictures.

Pictures from the site.

The biggest man made structure in Africa is not in Egypt nor in Mali nor in Zimbabwe; its is Nigeria; precisely in Ijebu Ode. It is Sungbo's Eredo or in Yoruba Eredo Sungbo

It it’s the 1200 year old 160km system of walls built by Bilikisu Sungbo ;a noble woman whom history describes as a childless widow. While some have linked her to the biblical Queen of Sheba , this is very likely inaccurate as they are separated by about 3000 years. It occupies an area bigger than Greater London and 30 times the size of Manhattan.
This structure is believed by some archaeologists to be a city and if so will make it one of the biggest if not the biggest city in human history. Known mostly to the inhabitants of Ijebu Ode and a few interested people in Nigeria; it came again into the limelight when British geographer Patrick Darling from the University of Bournemouth was traveling in the area and briefly stopped his car on the expressway in 1999.

"Built long before the mechanical era, it was all hand-built, requiring a large labor force and a well co-ordinated labor force working to a master plan,” Dr Darling explains.

FROM WIKIPEDIA
Sungbo's Eredo is a system of defensive walls and ditches that is located to the southwest of the Yoruba town of Ijebu Ode in Ogun State, southwest Nigeria (6.78700°N 3.87488°E). It was built in 800-1000 AD in honour of the Ijebu noblewoman Oloye Bilikisu Sungbo.The location is on Nigeria's tentative list of potential UNESCO World Heritage Sites.

The total length of the fortifications is more than 160 kilometres (99 mi). The fortifications consist of a ditch with unusually smooth walls and a bank in the inner side of ditch. The height difference between the bottom of the ditch and the upper rim of the bank on the inner side can reach 20 metres (66 ft). Works have been performed in laterite, a typical African soil consisting of clay and iron oxides. The ditch forms an uneven ring around the area of the ancient Ijebu Kingdom, an area approximately 40 kilometres (25 mi) wide in north–south, with the walls flanked by trees and other vegetation, turning the ditch into a green tunnel.

Myths
Legends of the contemporary Ijebu clan link the Eredo to a fabled wealthy and childless widow named Bilikisu Sungbo.[5] According to them, the monument was built as her personal memorial. In addition to this, her grave is believed to be located in Oke-Eiri,[6] a town in a Muslim area just north of the Eredo. Pilgrims of Christian, Muslim and traditional African religions annually trek to this holy site in tribute to her.

Some have connected Bilikisu Sungbo with the legend of the Queen of Sheba, a figure who is mentioned in both the Bible and Quran. In the Hebrew Bible, she is described as having sent a caravan of gold, ivory and other goods from her kingdom to Solomon. In the Quran she is an Ethiopian sun-worshipper involved in the incense trade who converts to Islam; commentators added that her name was "Bilqis".

After excavations in 1999 the archaeologist Patrick Darling was quoted as saying, "I don't want to overplay the Sheba theory, but it cannot be discounted ... The local people believe it and that's what is important ... The most cogent argument against it at the moment is the dating.

The archaeology of Sungbo's Eredo points to the presence of a large polity in the area before the opening of the Trans-Atlantic trade.

The Eredo served a defensive purpose when it was built in 800–1000 AD, a period of political confrontation and consolidation in the southern Nigerian rainforest. It was likely to have been inspired by the same process that led to the construction of similar walls and ditches throughout western Nigeria, including earthworks around Ifẹ̀, Ilesa, and the Benin Iya, a 6,500-kilometre (4,000 mi) series of connected but separate earthworks in the neighboring Edo-speaking region. It is believed that the Eredo was a means of unifying an area of diverse communities into a single kingdom. It seems that the builders of these fortifications deliberately tried to reach groundwater or clay to create a swampy bottom for the ditch. If this could be achieved in shallow depth, builders stopped, even if only at the depth of 1 meter. In some places small, conical idol statues had been placed on the bottom of the ditch.[9]

Modern times
The impressive size and complex construction of the Eredo drew worldwide media attention in September 1999 when Dr Patrick Darling, a British archaeologist then with Bournemouth University, surveyed the site and began publicizing his bid to preserve the Eredo and bring the site some prominence. Previously, the Eredo had been little-known outside of the small community of residents and specialists in Yoruba history. Forty years passed between Professor Peter Lloyd's publication of his analysis of the site and that of Darling, but it still served to necessitate a complete rethinking of West Africa's past. In 2017, technologist Olufeko led a freelance team inside the rampart bringing the location and its narrative back into social dialogue.


Unfortunately neither the Nigerian government nor Nigerian academicians seem interested in this marvel of the human race at a time when tourism has brought billions of dollars to many countries. Egypt alone makes an average of $12 billion a year from tourists who visit the pyramids and ancient structures' . Nigeria's oil export in 2019 was about $11 billion according to Nairametrics.com . So even if the leaders don't care about history and archaeology; they definitely care about money or maybe they dont !

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Abacha and IBB

Colonel Lawan Gwadabe

MKO in a strategy meeting with loyalists after the annulment of June 12 elections.

General Sani Abacha in 1998 few hours before he died, welcoming PLO Leader Arafat to a meeting.

MKO Abiola a day after Sani Abacha took control leaving a meeting at the State House,Lagos. MKO seemed to believe Abacha would correct the June 12 error and hand over to him. Abacha had other plans and in co opting Babagana Kingibe ( MKO's vice) and other SDP bigwigs into his government, Abacha probably thought he had done well.

27 Years ago today, history was made in Nigeria and the country has never been the same. Leading several senior officers, the Minister of Defence and Chief of Army Staff, General Sani Abacha went to the Aso Rock Presidential Villa and forced Chief Ernest Shonekan, Head of the Interim National Government to resign. A first in the history of Nigeria.
Chief Shonekan had in fact just moved into the Villa as he had been prevented from using the Villa; making us of the Akinola Aguda House, once the seat of power; but now home to whoever was second in command in Nigeria.
Why was Chief Shonekan not allowed to use the Villa? Well it all goes back to 3 months earlier on August 26th when Military President Ibrahim Babangida had been forced to step aside. IBB had indeed scheduled August 27th 1993 as the hand over date to a civilian government; a new date from the original January 2nd 1992 which had been cancelled following the failure of the 1991 Presidential primaries.
It is the opinion of many historians that IBB firmly believed he would be back in power by March 1994 so Aso Rock was kept under lock and key and the keys taken by IBB to Minna.
IBB in fact had always wanted to remain President; for some reason though he didn’t want to be an unnecessary sit tight ruler, but one that had the will of the people in some form or fashion.
The Political Bureau set up in 1986 to determine the future of the country and headed by Professor Cookey had actually recommended Socialism for Nigeria based on the views of most Nigerians in surveys the Bureau conducted over a year. If IBB had accepted, he could have ”sat tight”; he didn’t for unknown reasons; possibly because the direction the world was going with what Mikhail Gorbechev was doing in the USSR dismantling socialism and communism.
IBB in fact was said to have sent his trusted loyalist Colonel Lawan Gwadabe to South America to investigate a system of government that would involve the military and civilians in a democracy as this was quite popular in that part of the world. This may have led to IBB dumping the Cookey report and setting up the famed two party system : NRC and SDP. The government spent billions in organizing the two parties: Including building party offices in every local government in just months. Analysts actually site this two party system as IBBs greatest achievement. Conservatives lined on one side and Progressives on another side. Parties cut across tribe and religion.
But it seems IBB wanted to remain in power as the strongman and rather than come out and say it, kept playing from behind the scenes. Intense riots, international pressure and the unfounded fear that the United States was about to attack Nigeria ( military formations all over Nigeria went into high level preparedness) and Install MKO Abiola, made IBB hurriedly step aside ( those were his actual words in his speech to the National Assembly, “ I am stepping aside”).
Nigeria did practice military –civilian governance for almost two years with Civilian National Assembly, political parties and civilian governors and Military President.
So acting on immense goodwill and calls by notable Nigerians including surprisingly the great Chief Gani Fawehinmi to act; Sani Abacha acted and forced Shonekan to resign. Chief Shonekan is said to have requested a final national broadcast; it was refused.
For a while, it had seemed the Chief was not in total control of his government as displayed at an event where he was ushered in and two “powerful” ministers refused to stand up as is customary when the Head of Government walks into a function and everyone stands up in respect. But in the days leading up to November 17th, 1993; things were looking up for Chief Ernest Shonekan and the Interim National Government including the opening up of Aso Rock; until that morning.
Later that evening, the new Head of State would address the nation. Within months, the honeymoon was over and Nigeria would begin its darkest period since independence rivaling even the civil war in intensity.

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RenaissanceGuy:
Go and watch Black November; the storyline is about 90% related to this. One of the best-produced Nollywood movies I've ever watched - a collaboration with American producers anyway.

Black November? Interesting!