After taking power, the new Niger government has increased the price of uranium from 4000 Fr (€0.80 cent) per 1 kg imposed by France to the current 137,000 Fr (€200 ) per Kg the same price as Canada. Now you understand why France can't leave its former colonies.

You people will just be spreading Lies. Uranium is a global commodity and no single country can set the price as they like,just as Nigeria cannot set the price of our oil. Uranium is not more than 56 dollars per pounds at the moment. Get your fact right before spreading rumours.

Thedon12:
You people will just be spreading Lies. Uranium is a global commodity and no single country can set the price as they like,just as Nigeria cannot set the price of our oil. Uranium is not more than 56 dollars per pounds at the moment. Get your fact right before spreading rumours.

you see how you just embarrassed your self? Did you read what I post at all? Niger is not setting international price, to have made there uranium priced well no more stealing

So cry you and all your fellow western ass licker's would be kicked out of Africa

ken6488:
you see how you just embarrassed your self? Did you read what I post at all? Niger is not setting international price, to have made there uranium priced well no more stealing

So cry you and all your fellow western ass licker's would be kicked out of Africa

Don't mind the fool and his corn brain..!!
No wonder they prefer and chosed a criminal to lead them...!!

I don't argue with people who spread lies. So you don't know how much they sell uranium in the global market? Find out first before abusing me.

ken6488:
you see how you just embarrassed your self? Did you read what I post at all? Niger is not setting international price, to have made there uranium priced well no more stealing

So cry you and all your fellow western ass licker's would be kicked out of Africa

Time will tell who is a fool between you and me. You Africans should look inward and solve your problems than putting the blame a foreigners. Stop your Wickedness, ignorance, nepotism, greedness and all the evils that put Africa in this state. Mind you it started before white even came in contact with us.Go and read the proper history of Africa. You will understand we are responsible for our problems. Nothing will change unless we change ourselves.

Floky215:


Don't mind the fool and his corn brain..!!
No wonder they prefer and chosed a criminal to lead them...!!

Is only a fool that will just open mouth and called a fellow man fool for trying to set the record straight. It just shows the level of ignorance in Nigeria.

quote author=Floky215 post=125572578]

Don't mind the fool and his corn brain..!!
No wonder they prefer and chosed a criminal to lead them...!![/quote]g2du

Thedon12:
I don't argue with people who spread lies. So you don't know how much they sell uranium in the global market? Find out first before abusing me.

ok I understand that might not be the price but €0.80 cent per kilo is a reap off , tell me a country that sells that low?

I don't think Nigerians would have been stupid to that extent of selling at that price before. It was a joint venture and 90% of the direct revenue from the mines went to the state of Niger.” The politicians are the problem, even In our Nigeria. See your president who is almost richer than lagos state, the senate president too is there.

ken6488:
ok I understand that might not be the price but €0.80 cent per kilo is a reap off , tell me a country that sells that low?

Thedon12:
You people will just be spreading Lies. Uranium is a global commodity and no single country can set the price as they like,just as Nigeria cannot set the price of our oil. Uranium is not more than 56 dollars per pounds at the moment. Get your fact right before spreading rumours.

I hope the below explains it
CC: ken6488, Floky215

Thedon12:
You people will just be spreading Lies. Uranium is a global commodity and no single country can set the price as they like,just as Nigeria cannot set the price of our oil. Uranium is not more than 56 dollars per pounds at the moment. Get your fact right before spreading rumours.

Read and understand before quoting someone

He said "Niger set their price", so what is there to understand again, I pity most African ignorance. Your politicians are using the same ignorance to enslave you.

Cabalgeneral:


Read and understand before quoting someone

Thedon12:
He said "Niger set their price", so what is there to understand again, I pity most African ignorance. Your politicians are using the same ignorance to enslave you.

The context was very clear. He mentioned same price as Canada, he mentioned imposed by France. Honestly, I don't know what you are arguing again.

Most of you lack knowledge of how they trade commodities in the global market. Hence, you can believe whatever lies some people share online. First go and learn about global commodity trading and come back to argue with me.


quote author=rottennaija post=125578322]

The context was very clear. He mentioned same price as Canada, he mentioned imposed by France. Honestly, I don't know what you are arguing again. [/quote]

Thedon12:
Most of you lack knowledge of how they trade commodities in the global market. Hence, you can believe whatever lies some people share online. First go and learn about global commodity trading and come back to argue with me.


quote author=rottennaija post=125578322]

The context was very clear. He mentioned same price as Canada, he mentioned imposed by France. Honestly, I don't know what you are arguing again.

yes imposed by France is it France uranium?

You fucking western ass licker??

Thedon12:
Most of you lack knowledge of how they trade commodities in the global market. Hence, you can believe whatever lies some people share online. First go and learn about global commodity trading and come back to argue with me.


quote author=rottennaija post=125578322]

The context was very clear. He mentioned same price as Canada, he mentioned imposed by France. Honestly, I don't know what you are arguing again.

You are irredeemable

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJbJBbZIKlI?si=gxynCmieHhR_0Vjp

Niger Raises Its Uranium Prices From €0.80 per kilo to €200 per kilo

Thedon12:
Time will tell who is a fool between you and me. You Africans should look inward and solve your problems than putting the blame a foreigners. Stop your Wickedness, ignorance, nepotism, greedness and all the evils that put Africa in this state. Mind you it started before white even came in contact with us.Go and read the proper history of Africa. You will understand we are responsible for our problems. Nothing will change unless we change ourselves.

LET ME TEACH YOU YOUR HISTORY, YOU IGNORAMUS. OR SHOULD I SAY, LET THE WHITE PEOPLE YOU WORSHIP TELL YOU YOUR GLORIOUS HSTORY, OF WHICH YOU KNOW NOTHING:


Benin City, The Mighty Medieval Capital Now Lost Without Trace


Benin City was described as ‘wealthy and industrious, well-governed and richly decorated’. Illustration: Decompiling Dapper: A Preliminary Search for Evidence


Guardian Newspaper, UK

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/mar/18/story-of-cities-5-benin-city-edo-nigeria-mighty-medieval-capital-lost-without-trace


With its mathematical layout and earthworks longer than the Great Wall of China, Benin City was one of the best planned cities in the world when London was a place of ‘thievery and murder’. So why is nothing left?

This is the story of a lost medieval city you’ve probably never heard about. Benin City, originally known as Edo, was once the capital of a pre-colonial African empire located in what is now southern Nigeria. The Benin empire was one of the oldest and most highly developed states in west Africa, dating back to the 11th century.

The Guinness Book of Records (1974 edition) described the walls of Benin City and its surrounding kingdom as the world’s largest earthworks carried out prior to the mechanical era. According to estimates by the New Scientist’s Fred Pearce, Benin City’s walls were at one point “four times longer than the Great Wall of China, and consumed a hundred times more material than the Great Pyramid of Cheops [in Egypt]”.

Situated on a plain, Benin City was enclosed by massive walls in the south and deep ditches in the north. Beyond the city walls, numerous further walls were erected that separated the surroundings of the capital into around 500 distinct villages.

Pearce writes that these walls “extended for some 16,000 km in all, in a mosaic of more than 500 interconnected settlement boundaries. They covered 6,500 sq km and were all dug by the Edo people … They took an estimated 150 million hours of digging to construct, and are perhaps the largest single archaeological phenomenon on the planet”.

Barely any trace of these walls exist today.

Benin City was also one of the first cities to have a semblance of street lighting. Huge metal lamps, many feet high, were built and placed around the city, especially near the king’s palace. Fuelled by palm oil, their burning wicks were lit at night to provide illumination for traffic to and from the palace.

When the Portuguese first “discovered” the city in 1485, they were stunned to find this vast kingdom made of hundreds of interlocked cities and villages in the middle of the African jungle. They called it the “Great City of Benin”, at a time when there were hardly any other places in Africa the Europeans acknowledged as a city. Indeed, they classified Benin City as one of the most beautiful and best planned cities in the world.

In 1691, the Portuguese ship captain Lourenco Pinto observed: “Great Benin, where the king resides, is larger than Lisbon; all the streets run straight and as far as the eye can see. The houses are large, especially that of the king, which is richly decorated and has fine columns. The city is wealthy and industrious. It is so well governed that theft is unknown and the people live in such security that they have no doors to their houses.”

In contrast, London at the same time is described by Bruce Holsinger, professor of English at the University of Virginia, as being a city of “thievery, prostitution, murder, bribery and a thriving black market made the medieval city ripe for exploitation by those with a skill for the quick blade or picking a pocket”.

African fractals

Benin City’s planning and design was done according to careful rules of symmetry, proportionality and repetition now known as fractal design. The mathematician Ron Eglash, author of African Fractals – which examines the patterns underpinning architecture, art and design in many parts of Africa – notes that the city and its surrounding villages were purposely laid out to form perfect fractals, with similar shapes repeated in the rooms of each house, and the house itself, and the clusters of houses in the village in mathematically predictable patterns.

As he puts it: “When Europeans first came to Africa, they considered the architecture very disorganised and thus primitive. It never occurred to them that the Africans might have been using a form of mathematics that they hadn’t even discovered yet.”


At the centre of the city stood the king’s court, from which extended 30 very straight, broad streets, each about 120-ft wide. These main streets, which ran at right angles to each other, had underground drainage made of a sunken impluvium with an outlet to carry away storm water. Many narrower side and intersecting streets extended off them. In the middle of the streets were turf on which animals fed.

“Houses are built alongside the streets in good order, the one close to the other,” writes the 17th-century Dutch visitor Olfert Dapper. “Adorned with gables and steps … they are usually broad with long galleries inside, especially so in the case of the houses of the nobility, and divided into many rooms which are separated by walls made of red clay, very well erected.”

Dapper adds that wealthy residents kept these walls “as shiny and smooth by washing and rubbing as any wall in Holland can be made with chalk, and they are like mirrors. The upper storeys are made of the same sort of clay. Moreover, every house is provided with a well for the supply of fresh water”.

Family houses were divided into three sections: the central part was the husband’s quarters, looking towards the road; to the left the wives’ quarters (oderie), and to the right the young men’s quarters (yekogbe).

Daily street life in Benin City might have consisted of large crowds going though even larger streets, with people colourfully dressed – some in white, others in yellow, blue or green – and the city captains acting as judges to resolve lawsuits, moderating debates in the numerous galleries, and arbitrating petty conflicts in the markets.

The early foreign explorers’ descriptions of Benin City portrayed it as a place free of crime and hunger, with large streets and houses kept clean; a city filled with courteous, honest people, and run by a centralised and highly sophisticated bureaucracy.

The city was split into 11 divisions, each a smaller replication of the king’s court, comprising a sprawling series of compounds containing accommodation, workshops and public buildings – interconnected by innumerable doors and passageways, all richly decorated with the art that made Benin famous. The city was literally covered in it.

The exterior walls of the courts and compounds were decorated with horizontal ridge designs (agben) and clay carvings portraying animals, warriors and other symbols of power – the carvings would create contrasting patterns in the strong sunlight. Natural objects (pebbles or pieces of mica) were also pressed into the wet clay, while in the palaces, pillars were covered with bronze plaques illustrating the victories and deeds of former kings and nobles.

At the height of its greatness in the 12th century – well before the start of the European Renaissance – the kings and nobles of Benin City patronised craftsmen and lavished them with gifts and wealth, in return for their depiction of the kings’ and dignitaries’ great exploits in intricate bronze sculptures.

“These works from Benin are equal to the very finest examples of European casting technique,” wrote Professor Felix von Luschan, formerly of the Berlin Ethnological Museum. “Benvenuto Celini could not have cast them better, nor could anyone else before or after him. Technically, these bronzes represent the very highest possible achievement.”







What impressed the first visiting Europeans most was the wealth, artistic beauty and magnificence of the city. Immediately European nations saw the opportunity to develop trade with the wealthy kingdom, importing ivory, palm oil and pepper – and exporting guns. At the beginning of the 16th century, word quickly spread around Europe about the beautiful African city, and new visitors flocked in from all parts of Europe, with ever glowing testimonies, recorded in numerous voyage notes and illustrations.

Lost world

Now, however, the great Benin City is lost to history. Its decline began in the 15th century, sparked by internal conflicts linked to the increasing European intrusion and slavery trade at the borders of the Benin empire.

Then in 1897, the city was destroyed by British soldiers – looted, blown up and burnt to the ground. My great grandparents were among the many who fled following the sacking of the city; they were members of the elite corps of the king’s doctors.

Nowadays, while a modern Benin City has risen on the same plain, the ruins of its former, grander namesake are not mentioned in any tourist guidebook to the area. They have not been preserved, nor has a miniature city or touristic replica been made to keep alive the memory of this great ancient city.

A house composed of a courtyard in Obasagbon, known as Chief Enogie Aikoriogie’s house – probably built in the second half of the 19th century – is considered the only vestige that survives from Benin City. The house possesses features that match the horizontally fluted walls, pillars, central impluvium and carved decorations observed in the architecture of ancient Benin.

Curious tourists visiting Edo state in Nigeria are often shown places that might once have been part of the ancient city – but its walls and moats are nowhere to be seen. Perhaps a section of the great city wall, one of the world’s largest man-made monuments, now lies bruised and battered, neglected and forgotten in the Nigerian bush.

A discontented Nigerian puts it this way: “Imagine if this monument was in England, USA, Germany, Canada or India? It would be the most visited place on earth, and a tourist mecca for millions of the world’s people. A money-spinner worth countless billions in annual tourist revenue.”

Instead, if you wish to get a glimpse into the glorious past of the ancient Benin kingdom – and a better understanding of this groundbreaking city – you are better off visiting the Benin Bronze Sculptures section of the British Museum in central London.

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/mar/18/story-of-cities-5-benin-city-edo-nigeria-mighty-medieval-capital-lost-without-trace

The way you respond to people on this platform shows the level of your intellectual ability. I don't discuss with people that throw insults instead of engaging in reasonable and educative arguments.

Quintessence44:


LET ME TEACH YOU YOUR HISTORY, YOU IGNORAMUS. OR SHOULD I SAY, LET THE WHITE PEOPLE YOU WORSHIP TELL YOU YOUR GLORIOUS HSTORY, OF WHICH YOU KNOW NOTHING:


Benin City, The Mighty Medieval Capital Now Lost Without Trace


Benin City was described as ‘wealthy and industrious, well-governed and richly decorated’. Illustration: Decompiling Dapper: A Preliminary Search for Evidence


Guardian Newspaper, UK

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/mar/18/story-of-cities-5-benin-city-edo-nigeria-mighty-medieval-capital-lost-without-trace


With its mathematical layout and earthworks longer than the Great Wall of China, Benin City was one of the best planned cities in the world when London was a place of ‘thievery and murder’. So why is nothing left?

This is the story of a lost medieval city you’ve probably never heard about. Benin City, originally known as Edo, was once the capital of a pre-colonial African empire located in what is now southern Nigeria. The Benin empire was one of the oldest and most highly developed states in west Africa, dating back to the 11th century.

The Guinness Book of Records (1974 edition) described the walls of Benin City and its surrounding kingdom as the world’s largest earthworks carried out prior to the mechanical era. According to estimates by the New Scientist’s Fred Pearce, Benin City’s walls were at one point “four times longer than the Great Wall of China, and consumed a hundred times more material than the Great Pyramid of Cheops [in Egypt]”.

Situated on a plain, Benin City was enclosed by massive walls in the south and deep ditches in the north. Beyond the city walls, numerous further walls were erected that separated the surroundings of the capital into around 500 distinct villages.

Pearce writes that these walls “extended for some 16,000 km in all, in a mosaic of more than 500 interconnected settlement boundaries. They covered 6,500 sq km and were all dug by the Edo people … They took an estimated 150 million hours of digging to construct, and are perhaps the largest single archaeological phenomenon on the planet”.

Barely any trace of these walls exist today.

Benin City was also one of the first cities to have a semblance of street lighting. Huge metal lamps, many feet high, were built and placed around the city, especially near the king’s palace. Fuelled by palm oil, their burning wicks were lit at night to provide illumination for traffic to and from the palace.

When the Portuguese first “discovered” the city in 1485, they were stunned to find this vast kingdom made of hundreds of interlocked cities and villages in the middle of the African jungle. They called it the “Great City of Benin”, at a time when there were hardly any other places in Africa the Europeans acknowledged as a city. Indeed, they classified Benin City as one of the most beautiful and best planned cities in the world.

In 1691, the Portuguese ship captain Lourenco Pinto observed: “Great Benin, where the king resides, is larger than Lisbon; all the streets run straight and as far as the eye can see. The houses are large, especially that of the king, which is richly decorated and has fine columns. The city is wealthy and industrious. It is so well governed that theft is unknown and the people live in such security that they have no doors to their houses.”

In contrast, London at the same time is described by Bruce Holsinger, professor of English at the University of Virginia, as being a city of “thievery, prostitution, murder, bribery and a thriving black market made the medieval city ripe for exploitation by those with a skill for the quick blade or picking a pocket”.

African fractals

Benin City’s planning and design was done according to careful rules of symmetry, proportionality and repetition now known as fractal design. The mathematician Ron Eglash, author of African Fractals – which examines the patterns underpinning architecture, art and design in many parts of Africa – notes that the city and its surrounding villages were purposely laid out to form perfect fractals, with similar shapes repeated in the rooms of each house, and the house itself, and the clusters of houses in the village in mathematically predictable patterns.

As he puts it: “When Europeans first came to Africa, they considered the architecture very disorganised and thus primitive. It never occurred to them that the Africans might have been using a form of mathematics that they hadn’t even discovered yet.”


At the centre of the city stood the king’s court, from which extended 30 very straight, broad streets, each about 120-ft wide. These main streets, which ran at right angles to each other, had underground drainage made of a sunken impluvium with an outlet to carry away storm water. Many narrower side and intersecting streets extended off them. In the middle of the streets were turf on which animals fed.

“Houses are built alongside the streets in good order, the one close to the other,” writes the 17th-century Dutch visitor Olfert Dapper. “Adorned with gables and steps … they are usually broad with long galleries inside, especially so in the case of the houses of the nobility, and divided into many rooms which are separated by walls made of red clay, very well erected.”

Dapper adds that wealthy residents kept these walls “as shiny and smooth by washing and rubbing as any wall in Holland can be made with chalk, and they are like mirrors. The upper storeys are made of the same sort of clay. Moreover, every house is provided with a well for the supply of fresh water”.

Family houses were divided into three sections: the central part was the husband’s quarters, looking towards the road; to the left the wives’ quarters (oderie), and to the right the young men’s quarters (yekogbe).

Daily street life in Benin City might have consisted of large crowds going though even larger streets, with people colourfully dressed – some in white, others in yellow, blue or green – and the city captains acting as judges to resolve lawsuits, moderating debates in the numerous galleries, and arbitrating petty conflicts in the markets.

The early foreign explorers’ descriptions of Benin City portrayed it as a place free of crime and hunger, with large streets and houses kept clean; a city filled with courteous, honest people, and run by a centralised and highly sophisticated bureaucracy.