As much as we take pride in our history, we should also be careful to tell our story in a more believable way without exaggeration. Yes, our ancestors built moats and ramparts (rather than walls in many places) for which many portions of it did not survive till the present day.

However, boldly saying that the Benin Walls were three times longer than the Great Wall of China is totally false and utterly ludicrous. The total length of the Great Wall of China is 21,000Kms and a greater portion of it is still standing to date. While the total land area perimeter of present-day Benin City is far larger than the total inhabited land area of old Benin City standing at approximately 130Km, obviously, there is no way you want to build moats and ramparts of 16,000Km length within 130Km to except building it like we do with perimeter fence for each house today.

Even if the claim of 16,000Km is true a large portion of the moats or ramparts (wall) should still be standing today.

Pic 1. Benin City Map and measurement from Google Map https://www.google.com/maps/place/Benin+City,+Edo,+Nigeria/@6.2691952,5.6448565,10.42z/data=!4m6!3m5!1s0x1040d36279cfacf1:0x84aa10c05758dfa0!8m2!3d6.334986!4d5.6037465!16zL20vMDF2MjRr?entry=ttu

Pic 2. Benin Walls Historical Map
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benin_Moat#/media/File:Map_of_the_Benin_Moat_in_Rural_Areas.jpg

Pic 3. Map of the Great Wall of China
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Wall_of_China#/media/File:Map_of_the_Great_Wall_of_China.jpg

Pic 4. Great Wall of China Lenght
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Wall_of_China

aca77:
Experienced brothers what could be the cause? The car starts normally when engine is cool, but when you drive around for some time and then put off the engine, if you try to start it back almost immediately it drags slowly and refuses to start one hand.

Also, the acceleration is poor when trying to ascend a hilly road. Sounds like it's struggling (like exhaust leakage kinda sound), but it's not the exhaust.

I'll appreciate any expert advice on this before I take it to the mechanic, to avoid rip-off.

Nothing is wrong with your engine, it is most likely your battery. Forget that your battery indicator might be showing that it is still OK, most of the batteries we have in the market now will not last more than 18 months. If your battery is older or around 18 months old your might want to drive to your battery dealer to check your battery health and if it is around 75% or lower, then it is time to change it. The dealer might also help you to see if there is electricity leakage which might weaken your battery. It is also good to make sure when replacing your battery that you stick with the recommended Amperes rating which is in your case 75 Amp for Honda Accord 8th Gen AKA 08 Accord.
Good luck �

Please how can I stabilize the signal from NIGCOMSAT in Lagos? Quite a number of guys have tried to do if for me to no avail, it will be stabilized for some days and start misbehaving again. It will even go off for days only to show again some other days. I am using a 1m dish. The last guy even said the issue was from the Diseq switch and signal interference but after sometimes it's back to square one again. Thanks

This is not Lagos this is Nkpor in Onitsha, Anambra State.

Islie:








http://dailypost.ng/2019/02/08/uproar-police-fixes-shooting-range-near-atikus-campaign-rally-cross-river/

Let me put the distance of the shooting range (Asabanka Shooting Range @ Akpabuyo) to the Atiku campaign venue (U.J. Esuene Stadium @ Big Qua) into perspective for people who don't know where the two venues are located. It is like from Ikoyi to National Stadium Surulere or From Ojodu-Berger to National Stadium Surulere. That is how far distance of the two venue apart from each other is like. You will also travel through a forest and cross a major river before you get to Calabar from Akpabuyo.
How can somebody in Surulere be crying over an event taking place in Ikoyi or Berger.
Nigeria go dey alright las las.

Which uproar? the shooting range is in Akpabuyo Local Government and Atiku campaign will be taking place at UJ Esuene Stadium at Calabar Municipality Local Government with a distance of about 25 Kilometer apart. May God help Nigeria with the way we play politics.

Please I discovered that the navigation keys of my Infinix Note 4 pro stopped working few days after upgrading to Android Oreo from Nougat. Please what can I do to rectify this. Thanks

This is simply classic. The most inspiring read ever for me on Nairaland. Try your best, make mistakes, keep going, never stop whether in success or defeat you still remains a victor, because when the story is told the one that never tried will never get a mention.
Thank Paddy for tell your story.

Hello Hillary,
How much can I get the following cars;

Toyota Highlander 2008
Honda Accord 2009
Honda Accord 2010
Honda Accord 2011
Infinity FX45 2007

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More interior pictures and remember to include your number and car location.

His home town is Ikot Ekpene and that is the town centre in the first picture. The second picture is the same as the first and the third picture is the road leading to the government house in Uyo. Please show the picture of Ikot Ekpene.

OP please if you are not a civil engineer, kindly contact a professional engineer to handle this job for you. Do not be penny wise and pound foolish. The bitterness of poor quality remains after the sweetness of low price is long forgotten.

Please where can I buy or replace the digitizer of a Lenovo A3000-H Tablet? If you have a board dead Lenovo A3000-H I could buy that also.

If truly the prophet that identified them as witches have the Spirit of God why can't he at the same time cast out the demon of witchcraft from them?

Are the prices quoted above still valid?

from the picture showing the crack from the wall extending all across the floor and with all you have said about other buildings within that locality, I can confidently say that those cracks are as a result of differential settlement.
The problem with this is that, no matter the numbers of repairs you embark upon to restore the building, until the settlement is final (which can take quite some time even years) it will keep on coming back.
One way to forestall this kind of case, is to do proper soil investigation before you build, because if the bearing capacity and the type of soil was put in consideration before building the foundation would have been designed to redistribute the loads so that there can be an even settlement.

Kagawa10:

Lol! Copy and pasting engineer!
Yeye villager!

Copy and paste engineer? No from the village? Yesssssssss , Seasoned and worth my salt? Yes . Check out this ongoing project in another quiet corner of Nigeria.
Carefully check the flag on the concrete paver.
Bro, this is a faceless forum or else, your comment will be that of respect if we are to meet in person.

I am sorry this what is been done in Abia state as a concrete road is an insult on the civil engineering profession. My reason is as below;
1. There two main types of rigid pavement Continuously reinforced concrete pavement and Jointed Plain Concrete Pavement.
2. For a good concrete pavement the slump of the concrete should be between 0 and 60mm but what we can see in these pictures is a flowing concrete.
3. The sub-base should be of packed crushed aggregate (mixed material) of 0-20mm.
4. The concrete should not be below 30 Mpa i.e 30N/mm2
5. Because the road will be subjected to flexural stress rather than compressive stress, the minimum flexural strength in concrete pavement by standard is 4.5Mpa, considering a concrete that is not reinforced that should make the compressive strength be not less than 45 Mpa, since flexural strength by the rule of thumb is 10% of compressive strength of any concrete specimen.
6. There should be a prime course for water proofing but there was none in that picture.
7. For the Jointed plane concrete pavement, which it appears they are working on, dowel should be provided between 3 to 6 meter or the lesser of 20 time the depth of the pavement.
8. Tie bars should be provided between two lane constructed at different times.
9. Contraction joint should be provided at every 3 to 6 meter or the lesser of 20 times the depth of the pavement.
10. Curing compound should be sprayed for proper curing of the pavement immediately after surface grooving with broom.

We can continue on and on to show that the work is a failure on arrival. The painful thing is that the ministry engineers that are suppose to supervise do not know their right from left, archaic set of professionals.

I am busy now,I will still modify this comment after.

This should help http://emmanuelaviation.com/
@ OP Please stop spreading lies

Dear All. Do anyone in the house have a Lenovo S850 Touch Screen (Digitizer) for sale? Thanks

Lol .......Politicians are liers of the highest order......the distance the monorail will cover is approximately 400 meters from Tinapa to The International Conference Center which also is a gargantuan waste of money. A bridge of less than 50 meters over the artificial lake separating the two location or a 1.5 km road circumventing the Tinapa Resort lake would have been of enormous benefit, to the plan residential estate around WAEC which is near the International Conference Center. The bridge or link road would also have directed more traffic to Tinapa to resurrect business activities there from the international conference center end.
But I guess the 1.5Km road could not be used to defraud the state enough neither will the cost of a 50 meter bridge over the lake. I pity my country.

PointB:


And Olu Falae wasn't their son?

How were you able to determine the choice of whole Nigeria in 1999 prior to election? Are you a seer?

Check the post above for answer.^^^^^^^^

This is what Yoruba did for Jonathan whom they believed in in 2011

　 Jonathan (PDP) Buhari (CPC) Ribadu (ACN)
TOTAL 58.89% 31.98% 5.41%
1. Abuja 63.66% 33.05% 0.58%
2. Anambra 98.96% 0.36% 0.30%
3. Enugu 98.54% 0.46% 0.22%
4. Akwa Ibom 94.58% 0.43% 4.39%
5. Adamawa 37.96% 56.00% 3.61%
6. Abia 98.96% 0.31% 0.37%
7. Bauchi 16.05% 81.69% 1.04%
8. Bayelsa 99.63% 0.14% 0.07%
9. Benue 66.31% 10.47% 21.29%
10. Borno 77.25% 17.58% 0.64%
11. Cross River 97.67% 0.55% 0.81%
12. Delta 98.59% 0.64% 0.09%
13. Ebonyi 95.97% 0.20% 0.22%
14. Edo 87.28% 2.86% 8.73%
15. Ekiti 51.56% 1.03% 44.67%
16. Gombe 37.71% 59.73% 0.44%
17. Imo 97.98% 0.54% 1.05%
18. Jigawa 36.75% 58.21% 1.52%
19. Kaduna 46.31% 51.92% 0.44%
20. Kano 16.48% 60.77% 1.58%
21. Katsina 26.13% 70.99% 0.67%
22. Kebbi 54.26% 39.95% 2.83%
23. Kogi 71.17% 23.53% 1.16%
24. Kwara 64.68% 20.16% 12.64%
25. Lagos 65.90% 9.77% 21.96%
26. Nasarawa 58.89% 40.08% 0.17%
27. Niger 31.54% 64.03% 1.31%
28. Ogun 56.86% 3.25% 36.70%
29. Ondo 79.57% 2.44% 15.25%
30. Osun 36.75% 1.36% 58.46%
31. Oyo 56.14% 10.70% 29.21%
32. Plateau 72.98% 25.27% 0.72%
33. Rivers 98.04% 0.71% 0.88%
34. Sokoto 33.97% 59.44% 2.21%
35. Taraba 61.06% 34.91% 2.41%
36. Yobe 18.83% 54.26% 0.98%
37. Zamfara 25.35% 66.25% 1.91%

This is what the Yorubas did to their own son, whom they know is the choice of the whole Nigeria in 1999.

REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA
PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION OF 27 FEBRUARY 1999
===================================================================
Source: Nigerian Congress website, People's Democratic Party
website

Parties
-------------------------------------------------------------------
* AD - Alliance for Democracy
* APP - All People's Party
* PDP - People's Democratic Party

NATIONAL SUMMARY
===================================================================
Registered Voters: 57,938,945
Votes Cast: 30,280,052 (52.3)
Invalid Votes: 431,611 (01.4)
Valid Votes: 29,848,441 (98.6)
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Candidate Party Votes %
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Samuel Oluyemi Falae AD-APP 11,110,287 37.2
Olusegun OBASANJO PDP 18,738,154 62.8
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Total 29,848,441 (98.6)
-------------------------------------------------------------------

VOTE BY STATE
===================================================================
State Falae (APP/AD) Obasanjo (PDP) Total
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Abia 175,095 32.7 360,823 67.3 535,918
Abuja 39,788 40.2 59,234 59.8 99,022
Adamawa 177,868 21.0 667,239 78.9 845,107
Akwa Ibom 152,534 17.3 730,744 82.7 883,278
Anambra 199,461 23.9 633,717 76.1 833,278
Bauchi 342,233 29.1 834,309 70.9 1,176,542
Bayelsa 152,220 24.4 457,812 75.0 610,032
Benue 269,045 21.5 983,912 78.5 1,252,957
Borno 334,593 36.5 581,382 63.5 915,975
Cross River 283,468 32.2 592,688 67.3 876,156
Delta 240,334 29.4 576,230 70.7 816,574
Ebonyi 94,934 27.4 250,987 72.6 345,921
Edo 163,203 24.0 516,581 76.0 679,784
Ekiti 522,072 73.1 191,618 26.8 713,690
Enugu 195,168 23.4 640,418 76.6 835,586
Gombe 311,381 36.9 533,158 63.1 844,539
Imo 314,339 42.7 421,767 57.3 736,306
Jigawa 237,025 43.2 311,571 56.8 548,596
Kaduna 381,350 22.7 1,294,679 77.2 1,676,029
Kano 222,458 24.6 682,255 75.4 904,713
Katsina 229,181 19.2 964,216 86.8 1,193,397
Kebbi 172,336 33.6 339,893 66.4 512,229
Kogi 476,807 48.4 507,903 51.6 984,710
Kwara 189,088 28.7 470,510 71.3 659,598
Lagos 1,542,969 88.1 209,012 11.9 1,751,981
Nassarawa 173,277 29.0 423,731 71.0 397,008
Niger 140,465 16.2 730,665 83.9 871,130
Ondo 668,474 85.0 133,323 150 801,797
Ogun 332,340 69.8 143,564 30.2 475,904
Osun 607,628 76.5 187,011 23.5 854,639
Oyo 693,510 75.3 227,688 24.7 921,178
Plateau 173,370 25.8 499,072 74.2 672,442
Rivers 213,328 13.6 1,352,275 86.4 1,565,603
Sokto 198,829 56.1 155,598 43.9 354,427
Taraba 81,290 09.3 789,749 90.7 871,039
Yobe 165,061 53.0 146,517 47.0 311,578
Zamfara 243,755 64.1 136,324 35.9 380,079
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Total 11,110,287 37.2 18,738,154 62.7 29,848,441
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http://www.electoralgeography.com/new/en/countries/n/nigeria/nigeria-presidential-election-1999.html

xtremely9ja:
http://www.aliexpress.com/item/Siemens-High-Power-Touching-Digital-BTE-Hearing-Aid-Simple-to-Use/2019979370.html

Need 2 pieces of those. Please revert ASAP

nisiborps:

item cost $61.6 x #198 = #12,200 x 2 =#24,400
Shipping within China $3 x #198 =#595
Express shipping $12.65 x #198 =#2,505
Service charge #500

Total Amount To Pay #28,000

N.B item is on discount with just 1 day left.

Please how much are those now and how do I pay? Thanks

If you want a comprehensive and detailed comparision of the mobile OSs please go here- http://myphonedeals.co.uk/blog/33-the-smartphone-os-complete-comparison-chart

Why do people take pleasure in lying. Calabar Port is still as dry as ever. The vessels that comes into Calabar port these days are small vessels conveying petroleum products for the tank farms at EPZ, grains for FlourMill & Dangote and parts for UniCem cement second line. The main port is always dry of activities except the tank farms at EPZ. The business resort at TINAPA that the port is suppose to serve is as dead as ever and the facilities are gradually decaying. Most of the shops in the arcades are under lock and key. The two major retailer left at TINAPA are DaViva and Woodin selling printed textile materials.
The only vessel that comes with other products into the port comes once in two month after been trans-loaded from Tema in Ghana.
Come to Calabar port and TINAPA and you will weep for Nigeria.

sunene1:
90cm can track bardr 26degree african beam anywhere in nigeria for mbchd packages even trackable with multitv packages on one lnb.

90cm dish for MBC in south east Nigeria? Please how can one go about achieving this feat? It will be good to share. Thanks

Please anybody in Calabar that can track MBC channels with 90cm dish? I need to connect you to a friend.

Though the music is that of Davido but sorry those are not Nigerian Soldiers.

1. The Uniform is not that of NA.

2. The NA mostly wears the desert fatigue in the north-east

3. Non of those soldiers is wearing helmet too.

This is epic!!! This piece just answered a lot of questions, Like why was this woman performance under Obasanjo so stellar that Nigerians were clamoring for her return and suddenly we cannot see her perform again like it was attributed to her the first time.
So she was just shinning with other peoples star.