Viktoreze:
6. Oba of Benin Palace, Edo

Listed as a UNESCO Heritage Site in 1999, this ancient building was first constructed around the 13th century by Oba Ewedo of Benin and later rebuilt by his successor, Oba Eweka II in the 20th. This landmark site is among the enduring legacies of one of the most powerful empires in West Africa.

The original palace was destroyed by the British. That building is relatively modern.

Viktoreze:
5. Ancient Nok Settlement, Kaduna

This tiny settlement is the site of the famous Nok terracotta findings of the early 20th century. It is situated in Jaba Local Government in the southern crook of Kaduna State, and is generally regarded as the site of Africa’s first civilisation. It also has breath taking mountains and a museum housing unique terracotta artefacts.

That image is not an ancient Nok settlement as it shows medieval Sahelian architecture. There are many Nok sites and most lay in ruins and are not that well preserved.

Viktoreze:
3. First Storey Building In Nigeria, Badagry

Widely reputed to be the first storey building erected by foreigners in Nigeria, this edifice was once used as a primary school by the Methodist Church. Its foundations were laid by the famous missionary Henry Townsend in 1842 and completed in 1845 by Rev. Bernard Freeman and other notable missionaries. This historic building would later house the first African C.M.S (Church Missionary Society) bishop, Samuel Ajayi Crowther who translated the Bible from English to Yoruba

That's not the first storey building in Nigeria, that is a colonial lie. The Gobarau minaret is centuries older.

donstan18:
I want to criticize them, but I’ll buy properties abroad too if I happen to be in their position.


Thanks!

That's the same mindset that's preventing Nigeria from advancing beyond where it is. Politicians are busy squandering money that's supposed to help the people and here you are praising them and hoping to emulate them.

People with your mindset only serve as evidence that corruption and greed are simply impeded deep in our culture. How can we expect better governance, when we celebrate corrupt people who couldn't care less if you starve or die?

And ogbeni it's not criticize but rather holding people accountable.

RealAlubarika:


You're right? Employer of labour faces jail term if caught that he/she employed immigrant without a legal status. Most Nigerians(not all) who engages in such activities are undocumented and getting a legit job as an undocumented migrant is impossible. Being undocumented is not a valid reasons to take into crime

We rise by lifting others

I agree with the bolded, there are certainly no excuses for criminally and I am not excusing it. Those companies that chose to hire undocumented people under the table do it so they can take advantage of their workers and not pay them equitable pay. I still don't recommend it because you are in a hostile environment and risk deportation. I encourage immigration, but you'll save your mind and soul extra work if you put in the time and effort to do it right.

seeker121:
Hmnn we even carry this enter obodo Oyinbo

This is why going abroad without proper documentation is not advisable. Italy is already one of the countries in the EU that struggles to provide employment for its citizens, so foreigners, especially those who don't have legal status are in a tough spot to find employment. Many have to resort to illicit activities like drug dealing, prostitution, and hawking while facing the risk of deportation.

Imaging fleeing Nigeria just to go and sell hand bags on the streets of Europe while you are trying to avoid authorities. It's not dignifying!

Edeyoung:
Reminds me of a yoruba guy from my department back in 100l who tried greeting our edi lecturer like that, he was almost lying down, omo everybody burst laff even his fellow yoruba courssmate in the class, and the lecturer was like “hey we don't do that here,

We edos kneel to greet or beg for something...

That of the yoruba is just as barbaric as that of the hausa who blocks majour road to pray...

How do they do this greeting or plead on earth roads, by the time you do this potration for one week after inhaling dust and peoples mess you go look for procold buy


The greeting is disgusting and barbaric and should be abolish

Nothing barbaric about this! It's culture plain and simple! And in an era where traditions are eroding away day by day and generation after generation, it's refreshing to see the presence of the old in today's world. I'm stunned to see people who can't even speak their native language and only know how to speak Pidgin or English.



Also, I don't know if you are intentionally being disingenuous, but most people don't prostrate fully directly on dirt as you make it sound. There are levels and variations to courtesy and greetings.

golddust6000:
Check out the first story building in Nigeria

The so-called first storey in Nigeria was built by a European on African soil. Is that something to celebrate? The same lies we've been fed since school. The so-called "first well in Nigeria" built in the 1800s in Badagry was another lie as if our forefathers didn't know how to tap water from the ground till the white man showed up. We celebrate this as if it's an achievement, but it's mediocrity and makes us look like laughing stock of the world.


Pay in mind that the Goborau minaret in Katsina was built in the late 1300s by Africans and it's three stories high.

Lostchild:


Nigerians don't adopt children. Adoption is not for us. We are religious and we have faith in God to help us in areas where we cant help ourself

I check your profile and i saw that you are even a Nigerian and you are asking all this questions

Nigeria is not America. Hope you get me.

So, the same God that cares about the plights of orphans and children with no homes doesn't want people to adopt?

People adopt children all the time in Nigeria so I don't know what you are talking about. Thinking like this just adds to the stigma that infertile people face.

spiceadole:


Unnecessary division.
All these tribes understand and speak HAUSA.
Yes or Yes?

See ignorance.

ceeceeuwa:

Have you heard the ikpe dialect of undo state. Don't know if I got the spelling right. The first time I heard them speak, I was forced to ask if they are kogi or Benue indigene. I was shocked when they said they are from Ondo. Ikpe akoko

The language of ukpe is Ekue. Akoko is a very linguistically diverse area.

Ibrahimmrfish:

The 50 Tuareg they killed in Niger republic last week are they Christians? The villages they destroyed in Niger,Katsina,Kebbi,Zamfara are they Christians? Instead of you people to joine hand and find a lasting solution to the Fulani problem that we are facing, you guys are trying to turn it into Muslim vs Christian thing.Tell me,how is Igala,Nupe,Hausa,Gwari Muslims who are also victims,responsible to what Fulani are doing all across west Africa. You do realize that each time you guys attack Hausa a.k.a northerners, people like me are also target,people you guys call middle belters,you do realize that state like Niger,Kogi,Nasarawa are all Muslim majority state. And each time you kill our people,you are making your people potential target for reprisal attacks.

Did I say muslims are not victims of Fulani attacks? However, It's naive to think there is not even a subtle religious angle to the conflict, but you can deny it all day long and keep gaslighting. You really think a band of violent marauding murderers just stop at being tribalists and don't have an ounce of hatred for other religious groups?

Also don't mistake me for a bigot, because I know that innocent people are always made scapegoat of these conflicts.

Ibrahimmrfish:

Herdsmen killed more northerners than southerners and the herdsmen problem is all across west Africa,Niger republic, Mali,Ghana,Senegal, Nigeria have this problem but somehow your stu-pid brain find a way to blame it on northerners, who are also victims of Fulani. Seriously if you push us,it's not going to end the way your delusional mind is playing it.

Correction herdsmen target christians more than muslims. We know places like Benue and Southern Kaduna where the herdsmen would go on bloody rampage during the early days of the crisis are in the North and they are mainly christian areas which is where the herdsmen target the most.

Be honest!

We clearly have no culture of appreciation for nature in Nigeria. Other countries in Africa like Kenya and SA have open national parks that tourists flock to visit and provide tourist earnings for the countries. In Nigeria, we have lousy zoos with one starving lion. The zoo in Ibadan is also in bad stage and the lion in their enclosure looks to be in very bad condition. Most of our big games in Nigeria are either extinct or endangered! Most of our rainforests gone, our national parks in shambles. Where in Nigeria can you see zebras? Where are the cheetahs? All hunted and driven into extinction. We used to sing songs about these animals when we were young, but that's all a thing of the past.

Fahdiga:
How about if you become the victim

How many people have been victims to bad leadership?

That's the real question!

BKayy:

I told the fact that Yorubas were naked before they had contact with Fulani but you think that attaching yourselves to Igbo Akwete clothes will make people say otherwise when it is only your blog is the doing the abominable linking.
Ndigbo never met you Yoruba guys as trade partners but as Opposite warring sides in Agha Idu na Oba in Igodomigodo (present Bini)
We share nothing in common.
Now take a look at the article FROM Vanguard on Akwete (I choose sites the person can relate to).

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/07/akwete-cloth-an-igbo-textile-art/

They specifically said that Akwete is as Old as the Igbo nation
The question is this, did Ijebu ode form the Igbo nation with us?
Oga you people were butt ass naked before the Fulani clothed your ancestors

1. Did I say Yorubas traded with Igbos? or did I say they traded with Ijaws, which through them is how you acquire the Ijebu fabric?

2. Who are they? Who are they that claim that it's as old as Igbo nation? Experts in Igbo history? I gave you a non bias perspective from an academic institution and you gave me a bias news story written by two of your fellow kinsmen who are indeed journalists and were sharing their opinions. Also, they never denigrated other tribes in their article and were very respectful in speaking of the textile tradition of other tribes unlike you.

BKayy:
In Nigeria Ndigbo are the only people with Indigenous cloth production known as "Akwete" and "Ákwá mmiri"
A feat that was later shared with Kano but after kano had contact with the Arabs.
OTHER groups in Nigeria like Yoruba were basically naked until they had contact with the Fulani and Europeans.
Akwete clothes also serve as a means of exchange in ancient Igboland.
Unlike other ethnic groups in Nigeria that started wearing clothes in 18th century (Yoruba) and 11th century (Hausa). The date of Akwete clothing can't be determined with many archeologists and historian saying it is as old as the Igbo nation.

https://tdsblog.com/akwete-igbo-traditional-textile-made-in-nigeria/

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akwete_cloth

This is clearly a boldface lie and you are very shameless.

You can big up your tribe without distorting the truth or denigrating others. Your insecurities are glaring.

1. It's laughable to suggest that Yorubas were 'basically naked' until 18th century after trading with the Fulanis and Europeans, when some of the easiest sculptures from Ife dating back a thousand years clearly show people wearing clothes. Even claiming the Hausas got their clothes from the Arabs is a misconception, because the tagelmust worn by Mauritanian Arabs were historically produced by Hausas and exported from Kano.

2. Claiming akwete as an independent Igbo creation ignores the contribution that the Ijebus had on the creation of akwete cloth. Akwete designs were appropriated from an older Ijebu weft float textile that Ijebus used to sell to the Ijaws centuries ago. This textile was introduced to the Ndokis via trade with Eastern Ijaws giving rise to the akwete cloth as we know it. And here you are chest-beating that Igbos are the only people in Nigeria with Indigenous cloth production and other tribes were influenced by foreigners.

By the early nineteenth-century, Ijebu cloths of this type, bearing intricate weft-float designs, were being traded across the Niger Delta and into the hands of Eastern Ijo peoples who then assimilated them within their own local culture. In turn, Eastern Ijo people introduced Ijebu and other cherished imported cloth designs to women weavers in the Igbo village of Akwete just fifty miles to their north. As a result, Akwete Igbo weavers have come to appropriate a wide range of foreign-introduced patterns, including those from the Ijebu Yoruba area.

from: https://africa.uima.uiowa.edu/topic-essays/show/19?start=5

Yes we know it is Port Harcourt not Dubai. The zebra stripe pattern on the road is dead giveaway.

I don't know why we Nigerians have to compare everything we do to Dubai. Dubai this Dubai that, it's annoying.

geemd434:



Shut up stupid. Yorubas are slaves. You cannot fight the north but you seek sovereignty. Keep dreaming slaves.

Slave is the only vocabulary you know of. Shouting slave day and night. It's ok if you think you are a slave, but please don't project that onto others.

Isn't this the same girl who took the presidential private jet to go take ordinary pictures?! Politicians and their offspring are one and the same! Entitled and spoiled

Uchasa:


Illaje is not Yoruba,period!

Ikwerre bu Igbo, period!

Uchasa:


Illajes are not Yorubas period!
Ijebus are not Yorubas!!
The real Yorubas are the poor Eguns in Makoko and the Afonjas in Oyo,Osun and Kwarra State.

An Ikwerre being a spokesperson for Ijebu and Ilaje people and their identity. Only on nairaland, do you see foolishness like this!

Make I speak for your own na!

Ikwerre are 100% Igbo undiluted!

Uchasa:


Funny enough, Illaje are not Yorubas. Stop claiming people who are not yours.
Unity beggars!!!

Bloody liar!

Show me an Ilaje who's not Yoruba! Proud Ilaje people are not known to deny their Yoruba heritage.

Again speaking on things you have no clue about!

Givaxy:

Well everyone knows ijaws very well. Ondo state know them very well
But considering the fact that even ijaws now speak Yoruba and yorubas also speak Yoruba only in ondo state, ijaws have no option than to continue singing the odua anthem
They aren't even up to 50,000 in ondo state with 4m indigineous population
Ijaws have had trouble with ilaje Yoruba's in the past which made ilajes invite opc who dealt with them then.
So theres no cause for alarm

What I don't get is that how can you reject an anthem in Yoruba, when the Ijaws (at least the Apois) ONLY speak Yoruba, the Apoi dialect specifically. Also Apoi claim distant origin from Ile-Ife, so I'm inclined to believe that they aren't the ones making the most noise in Ese Odo.

My guess is that the much of the noise is probably coming from the Arogbo Ijaws, the other Ijaw clan in Ondo. They are actually dwarfed in number by the larger Apoi and settled after the Apois, so they were able to retain their Ijaw language. They are probably the ones making much of the noise. Torhukerhijo is clearly an Arogbo man, so I can see where his grievances are coming from.

Uchasa:


If Ijaw was not in Ondo, you think they would have had crude oil?
Afonja land na barren land.

See, this is why you shouldn't speak on issues you have no knowledge on.

Ese Odo LGA does not produce oil. The only oil producing LGA in Ondo state is Ilaje, which is Yoruba and interestingly enough it's also the only LGA in Ondo that touches the Atlantic.

A picture of a yellow penguin and no side by side comparison of when it was alive and when it's in a pot of pepper soup? If this was Nigeria, one bush boy would be jumping up and down.

ogbonti:



Bia, Nwoke- of what socio-political or economic value is Nigeria to the US right now? of what strategic importance is Nigeria to the US ? We have a common language in Nigeria which is Queens English and Pidgin English- No American has visited Nigeria and had difficulty communicating with a Nigerian in Nigeria, even the most illiterate yoruba person can at least speak pidgin English today. Is there oil in the north? what will Americans be looking for in Northern Nigeria? Ordinary to help us fight insurgency, they came and left abruptly. As unsafe as Nigeria is right now, as economically leprous as Nigeria is right now- of what value is this sudden requisition to the US nation for yoruba and hausa teachers?

This is not Mandarin, Russian or even Swahili (which is spoken in almost 10 African countries) we are talking about here - this is yoruba and hausa language and culture.

While I applaud the move for people to come have a shot at living the dream using this avenue, but let’s look at the bigger picture and understand this is not about learning any language or culture. It is an attempt to increase migration maybe when the people get here, they will be retrained to work in nursing homes (if they want to remain in the US) after their so called short teaching program expires. Something is just not clear about this policy, ONLY TIME WILL TELL. It’s a positive move to offer travel opportunities but let’s call it what it is - that’s all

I get your point that there are more Yoruba and Igbo speakers in America than Hausa speakers, but that's really not the point. You really think these American students are learning Hausa and Yoruba to speak to the average Nigerian in the diaspora or communicate with Nigerians in Africa? That would be laughable!

The answer is that language is a gateway to learning about the culture of a people. For example, you cannot learn Yoruba without understanding the culture. It's the same way many Westerners are intrigued by Ifa. It's sad that Westerners value investing in history and humanities of Africa more than Africans. If I read an academic piece on the history or culture of Nigeria, 75% of the time it's written by a Western scholar or an African trained in the West. How much money does the Nigerian government spend on academic institutions, research, history, archeology, museums or cultural preservation? The Americans are learning for fascination and interest rather than for translation purposes. You cannot blame them for wanting to learn about other people.

It's unfortunate that America is stealing the talents from Nigeria as you put it, but honestly that's the fault of the Nigerian government not the Americans.

ogbonti:



They are looking for ways to pack people into the US - Goal is to neutralize white majority, the globalist have started, next if they can’t find enough people, they will ask for Pidgin English teachers and repented yahoo boys to teach in community colleges. Hmmm, this agenda is too glaring but what do I know...? where dem dey speak hausa for US? The number of yorubas I know alone in California who can read, speak and write yoruba are up to 1,000 and some of them are driving UBER, other working security, some doing home health and others driving ice cream truck and they have degrees from Nigeria, why not hire those ones and legalize them ? rabbish! NEXT ....

The Yankees are only concerned now about maintaining a white majority, but weren't thinking of that when they were busing importing millions of slaves from Africa for LABOUR. Africans are only good for SLAVE LABOUR but God forbid they are actual immigrants?

Were White people worried about maintaining their majority when they were busy colonizing the Americas, a land that they are not indigenous to? Were they worried about their white majority when they annexed Hawaii, an island literally inhabited by the Polynesian race? Or were they worried when they took control of Northern Mexico, which includes the present state of California, a place you reside in?

Are we talking about the same America that white people fled to in order to escape poverty and famine in Europe? But Nigerians are not allowed to be economic immigrants and make a better life for themselves because of the so-called Globalist Agenda. Till date, more Europeans migrate to the US than from Africans. That should tell you a lot!

Some American students are interested in learning Nigerian languages and they need teachers who are fluent in said languages. Oh the terrible globalists and their agenda are at it again!

Arewa1stSon:


Hausas knows that the Fulanis are the back bone of Northern political structures!!

It’s funny you said political backbone, which is just a coded term for unbalanced share of power or political monopoly of the Fulani in Hausaland. Hausas are considered a majority ethnic group but have not provided a single head of state in Nigeria’s history. Shagari, Murtala, Buhari and Yar’Adua are all Fulani.

We bring development, institutions, appointment, Bussiness and power to the north.

Even the Hausas themselves know that the Diallos are blessing to northern Nigeria!!

All we lack is a president that will actively fight crime.

Everyone knows that it’s the Hausas, not Fulanis that control much of the economic activity of the North. It’s no accident Kano became one of the largest centers for trade in midieval Africa centuries before the Sokoto Caliphate was even born. Go to any market in the south, go to Ghana, you will find lots of Hausas doing trade. You bring up business and appointment in the same breath? You really are shameless! When are political appointment and nepotism considered contributions?

The relationship appears mutualistic on the surface but it’s really parasitic because if we separate the yolk, the Hausas lose nothing, but the Fulani would have everything to lose. Fulanis do not have a true indigenous ethnic land they can claim in Nigeria and their influence comes from associating with the larger Hausa entity. The cold truth is that they need the Hausas, but the Hausas don’t need them. Hypothetically if the Hausas were not a muslim majority ethnic group, the conversation would be very different.

I thought Hausa and Fulanis have intermingled for so long that they've forgotten who they are and transformed into a new ethnic group, Hausa-Fulani. It would seem that the Hausas do know themselves after all lol.

I've always said the Hausa-Fulani tag is overplayed.

Elvinci101:

Pathetic Idiot and a fool! In 2015 when you and your so called sophisticated tribalists of a people where chanting "Sai Baba" "Change" just to spite the people of South south and south east your tiny good-for-nothing ewedu infested brain didn't allow you to think properly, abi?

When the daughter of a prominent Yoruba elder statesman was shot and killed by maurading and bloodsucking Fulanis you and your Ewedu tribalists clapped and cheered El Yellow teeth, the Bourdilion Bullion Van maestro Tinubu when he accussed Evans.

What about your runaway Oba Lagoon, former Police Boss Criminal who said a particular tribe would all drown inside the lagoon if they fail to vote for APC? Did You and your fellow coneheads not rejoice and organised Owambe party over the statement?

Nonsense! Now the hen has finally come home to roost you're here talking rubbish.

You guys should enjoy the calamity you brought upon yourselves till it last.

Shut your dirty mouth!

My tribe and I

I don't worship Tinubu or oba eko and APC and PDP matter doesn't concern me.

You keeping a tally of the reasons to be spiteful just shows how childish you are. You would literally pray for your own downfall just to see the destruction of someone else. It's funny because you are lamenting that people in SW rejected your candidate. Grow up and stop being thin-skinned and holding grudges for so long is not good mentally. But then again, that explains so much!

Qelvin:
Fake news.

Fulani are indigenous to Kwara, how can they be evicted from a territory they conquered?

That's like saying the Nigerian army is indigenous to the SE, how can they be evicted from a territory they conquered.

Likewise, the British are indigenous to Nigeria, how can they be evicted from a territory they conquered?


We can discuss the merit of your argument, but your tone seems off and ill-intent.