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 Autos / Re: ROXETTES Motors: 40,000 Units Capacity Automobile Plant In ABIA Nears Completion by Rossikk(m): 10:05pm On Jun 29 |
DeepSight: Mr Man, there are many functional steel plants in this country. Many of you are so ignorant about Nigeria. You think Ajaokuta is the only steel plant in Nigeria because you are too lazy and negative to research anything. Just Google 'Steel plants in Nigeria' and educate yourself. It's not hard. 1 Like |
| Politics / Re: Benin City Should Reclaim It's GLORY by Rossikk(m): 6:49pm On Jun 25 |
Ojiofor: Dude, BENIN CITY WAS REBUILT AND REOCCUPIED after its total destruction. That is why you cannot see any ‘ruins’. It’s like saying they were was never a city called Hiroshima or Nagasaki in 1940, since they are no ruins of them. Those cities were destroyed totally by bombardment by the US. Go there today, and you will see new cities called Hiroshima and Nagasaki. No ‘ruins’. Even Chicago and Atlanta were destroyed in the US civil war. Go there today. No ‘ruins’. Just modern, rebuilt cities. London itself was almost entirely destroyed in the Great Fire of London in 1666. Go to London today. No ‘ruins’ of ancient London. So saying that ancient Benin City did not exist because you cannot see the ruins is beyond clownish. It’s rank idiocy. |
| Politics / Re: Benin City Should Reclaim It's GLORY by Rossikk(m): 5:19pm On Jun 25 |
Goodlyhrt: Stupid brainless dunce, brainwashed to self hate. Are you even aware that the British bombarded and burnt down the entire city of Benin and surrounding communities after looting the palace and public buildings of everything therein, in 1897? Did they not seize power and rule for nearly a century afterwards? What ''records'' should have been kept in the smouldering ash of burnt down cities and fleeing survivors, you brainless imbe.cil.e? Whoever cursed you to hate your own self to this extent, must be truly satanic. |
| Politics / Re: Benin City Should Reclaim It's GLORY by Rossikk(m): 5:09pm On Jun 25 |
UK Guardian Report 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? Mawuna Koutonin 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”. 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”.... 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. 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.” World famous Benin Bronzes   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. https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/mar/18/story-of-cities-5-benin-city-edo-nigeria-mighty-medieval-capital-lost-without-trace |
| Politics / Re: Benin City Should Reclaim It's GLORY by Rossikk(m): 5:00pm On Jun 25 |
Goodlyhrt: Ojiofor: SHUT UP, YOU MENTALLY COLONISED, IGNORANT BUFFOONS. This is why you all feel so inferior to other races, because you are so TRAGICALLY IGNORANT of your glorious African history. Benin City was described as one of the world's most beautiful cities by European visitors from the 1500s through to the late 1600s. It had street lights powered by palm oil, underground drainage, and large multi-storeyed buildings and public monuments. A city described as being so crime-free that the people did not bother to build FRONT DOORS to their houses, because theft was ''UNKNOWN''. The emperors of Benin built a massive wall surrounding the entire kingdom, and even walls separating cities and villages, as a form of military defence against invaders, and the wall was recorded in the 1974 and 1982 Guinness Book of Records, and being the largest man-made structure ON EARTH. 1834 drawing of Benin City by English visitor, Mary Evans, showing a vibrant city with large monuments and public buildings. This was 63 years before the British invasion of Nigeria, and destruction, bombardment of Benin City, whose inhabitants fought gallantly and desperately to defend their city from the invading British vandals.  So this whole idea that Nigerians needed ''white people'' to become ''civilised'' is a BIG FAT LIE. If anything, contact with them stunted our development. Here. See. The whites know your history better than you: UK Guardian report on Ancient Benin City ''Benin City, the mighty medieval capital now lost without trace'' https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/mar/18/story-of-cities-5-benin-city-edo-nigeria-mighty-medieval-capital-lost-without-trace |
| Politics / Re: African Trad Religion Was Largely Abandoned Cos It Couldn't Save Africans by Rossikk(m): 8:18pm On Jun 24 |
I'VE READ SO MUCH GARBAGE ON THIS THREAD. Everybody is WRONG. The ONLY REASON Nigerians/Africans abandoned their traditional religion was because the colonialists seized NOT just the land, but the resources and riches of the land. Access to those resources became dependent on your getting a British-style education in one of their wretched 'missionary schools', become a clerk, typist or whatever. A COLONIAL JOB. (In areas where Islam was prevalent, they made no such demands to abandon Islam.) Now to gain ADMITTANCE into those ''missionary schools'', you had to renounce your traditional religion, adopt christianity, get baptised, and get an English name, like John, 'Henry', or 'Jonathan'. So all the chiefs and great traditional leaders began sending their wards to the missionary schools, and those later became powerful leaders who were christian, and who entrenched the new belief systems across their regions. Guys like Samuel Ajayi Crowther and co. One thing you people need to realise is that Nigerians have been aware of christianity since at least the 1400s. The Benin Empire had extensive trade relations with Europe, especially Portugal, with whom she exchanged ambassadors in the 1500s. Yes, there actually was an Embassy of the Benin Empire in Lisbon, Portugal, in the 1500s, staffed by Benin bureaucrats, and an ambassador. King Alfonso in the early 1500s had tried severally to get Oba Esigie to allow the establishment of churches in the Benin kingdom. These overtures were bluntly rejected by the Oba, who only allowed the establishment of one or two churches in the kingdom. And no more. And so it remained for many centuries, until 1897, when the British invaded, bombarded, burnt down and looted the great city of its treasures, like the pack of savage vandals they are, and today display their loot shamelessly in their 'museums'. SO THIS WHOLE GARBAGE THAT ''Oh, it was because Africans saw that their gods did not work'' etc etc is just that , PURE GARBAGE. It was ECONOMIC BLACKMAIL BY COLONIAL INVADERS WHO PREDICATED INDIVIDUAL SUCCESS UPON ABANDONMENT OF AFRICAN RELIGION, that forced them to do so. Ancient Nigerians always saw the christian story as BULLCRAP. The entire story made no sense to them. They laughed it off as the story of children. They stopped laughing when the 'holy' christian guns by colonial thieves pointed at them. If Africans abandoned religions because of military defeat or setbacks, why do the descendants of slaves practice their Yoruba religions till today in Brazil, Cuba, Trinidad and elsewhere? Why didn't they say ''Oh well our African gods did not save us from being enslaved, so let us run and accept the 'white man Jesus' as our ''personal lord and saviour''? NONSENSE. ECONOMIC BLACKMAIL is the answer. Here's what would have happened if the British had not IMPOSED Christianity on Nigerians. They would have handed over to an educated leadership practicing a modernised version of TRADITIONAL RELIGION, just like JAPAN is doing today. Japan's religion is Shintoism. There is very little difference between Shintoism and African Traditional Religion. In Japan there are over 200,000 public shrines, many built and maintained by the govt. When a Japanese man buys a car, he takes it to a shrine where the traditional priest pours a strange concoction over the car, to guarantee safe journeys. The Japanese simply replaced blood sacrifice with sacrifice of food, flowers, etc. They upgraded with the times. THAT IS WHAT SHOULD HAVE HAPPENED IN NIGERIA, if the British were not ASSHOLES. By now we should have BEAUTIFUL SHRINES AND TEMPLES to our various orishas and to the Most High. Shrine in Osaka, Japan  |
| Politics / Re: Nigerian Army Air Brigade Takes Form With Assault Helicopters by Rossikk(m): 10:58pm On Jun 21 |
Cromagnon: Don't mind the idiot. I'm sure his father can't even afford to buy keke. |
| Politics / Re: Nigerian Army Air Brigade Takes Form With Assault Helicopters by Rossikk(m): 10:56pm On Jun 21 |
Dogalmighty17: YOU LIAR FROM THE PITS OF HELL. List of countries that use the Huey today include, but are not limited to: China USA Italy Turkey Japan South Korea Kenya Indonesia Brazil Saudi Arabia Greece Argentina Chile Colombia Pakistan Morocco https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Bell_UH-1_Iroquois_operators One thing you anti-Nigerian elements need to understand is that in this digital age, if you come online and make wild claims and lie against Nigeria, you will be fact-checked on the spot. Idiots. |
| Politics / Re: Obi To Tinubu: Stop Pretending, Nigeria Remains Poverty Capital Of The World by Rossikk(m): 10:44pm On Jun 21 |
This man sef. 2 Likes 1 Share |
| Business / Re: US Lawmakers Visit Tigran Gambaryan (Binance Executive) In Kuje Prison by Rossikk(m): 10:37pm On Jun 21 |
Amedu3: What a dumb comment. ''Third world'' means you have no rights, in your stupid head. Mumu. |
| Politics / Re: Nigerian Airforce To Acquire 50 Aircraft, Including 24 Fighter Jets by Rossikk(m): 12:27am On Jun 20 |
Beautifulday: Mr Man, no Nigerian is sponsoring any blasted Boko Haram. THEY ARE 100% FOREIGN FUNDED. Who are these mysterious Nigerian 'funders' of your imagination, that have been supposedly 'funding' Boko Haram for 20 years plus? Their money no dey finish? Better get this: All this stuff you see is externally-funded. From Iran, Western intelligence agencies, eg Mossad, CIA, MI5, Libyan terrorists, etc... If you think it's some Hausa man sitting in his parlour in Kano, you're extremely naive. 18 Likes 2 Shares |
| Politics / Re: Onanuga, O'tega Criticse Aisha Yesufu Over False Claims On Tinubu And Ramaphosa by Rossikk(m): 12:08am On Jun 20 |
HAS AISHA THE THIEF ACCOUNTED FOR HER CAMPAIGN FUND SPENDING? MADAM CHOP AND CLEAN MOUTH FORMING SAINT. CORRUPT W.HORE. 8 Likes |
| Politics / Re: Nigerian Airforce To Acquire 50 Aircraft, Including 24 Fighter Jets by Rossikk(m): 11:52pm On Jun 19 |
Beautifulday: What is the ''right thing''? Enlighten us. 8 Likes |
| Politics / Re: Nigerian Airforce To Acquire 50 Aircraft, Including 24 Fighter Jets by Rossikk(m): 11:44pm On Jun 19 |
Beautifulday: It's 24 fighter jets brother.. Plus those 'ragtag' guys are more organized and plentiful than you think. They are literally tens of thousands of them in total. You guys don't seem to realise there is a low scale war in the north between the military and those insurgents. Bombs are dropped almost daily by the airforce in their forest hideouts and it's not even reported, so you think nothing is happening. 23 Likes 1 Share |
| Politics / Re: Nigerian Airforce To Acquire 50 Aircraft, Including 24 Fighter Jets by Rossikk(m): 11:37pm On Jun 19 |
Beautifulday: Insecurity nko? Or we should just leave Boko boys and bandits to take over the country?  16 Likes |
| Politics / Nigerian Airforce To Acquire 50 Aircraft, Including 24 Fighter Jets by Rossikk(m): 11:33pm On Jun 19 |
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.voanews.com/amp/nigeria-announces-plans-to-acquire-50-military-aircraft/7662588.html 3 Likes
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| Politics / Re: Original Plans Of Europeans For Africa by Rossikk(m): 10:26pm On Jun 19 |
Biggie225: Many thanks for keeping an open mind unlike some mugus here that would have started abusing me, to defend their white 'gods'. |
| Politics / Re: Original Plans Of Europeans For Africa by Rossikk(m): 10:19pm On Jun 19 |
LordIsaac: NO, THEY ARE NOT. In fact the only reason you can read and write today is because of Independence in 1960, following which Nigerian leaders built thousands of public schools across the nation, which educated your parents, who then ensured your education. Your grandparents were illiterate village peasants NOT because there was no money to educate them to become bankers and doctors, but because the British were LOOTING ALL THE MONEY from the export of your resources. At independence - after 80 years of British colonial looting - national literacy rate was 5% compared to 70% today, after just 60 odd years of Independence. The British built no industries, no power plants, no universities, no public schools, no expressways. Today we have thousands of public schools, 300 universities, multiple power facilities and industries, and ever expanding infrastructure, courtesy of self-rule. So don't get it twisted and start playing happy slave to colonialists. |
| Politics / Re: FG To Send First Nigerian Civilian To Space by Rossikk(m): 10:08pm On Jun 19 |
fortunechy: IPOB outcast, what are you doing on a Nigerian forum? Shouldn't you be sitting at home, getting flogged by Simon Ekpa, your Finnish Prime Minister? Stupid attache.. Unwanted IPOB criminal terrorist with irrelevant input playing Emergency 'Nigerian'. |
| Politics / Re: FG To Send First Nigerian Civilian To Space by Rossikk(m): 10:04pm On Jun 19 |
Meteng: SHUT UP. India has daily power cuts and still went to space, and your DUMB, SELF HATING HEAD likely praised them to high heavens and vilified Nigeria when you heard about their feat. https://www.reddit.com/r/india/comments/14gfgxy/rant_indias_power_crisis_is_absolutely/ |
| Politics / Re: FG To Send First Nigerian Civilian To Space by Rossikk(m): 10:02pm On Jun 19 |
ssogundele2003: ''We've not mastered''? Who is ''we''? You think we don't have Nigerian rocket scientists? Who is ''we''? Nobody asked your father or mother to build space vessels. That will be the job of QUALIFIED NIGERIAN of which there are thousands. Mr ''we''. |
| Politics / Re: FG To Send First Nigerian Civilian To Space by Rossikk(m): 9:53pm On Jun 19 |
fortunechy: ANIMAL. Tomorrow you will start telling us how INDIA is 'better than Nigeria' because despite their being a developing country, they went to space, to justify your wretched self hatred and inferiority complex. Now Nigeria contemplates the same, and this is the nasty reaction from your sick head. Until we round up all you anti-African traitors on the continent and either shoot or jail you, I see no progress for Africa. Dirty, worthless thing. |
| Politics / Re: FG To Send First Nigerian Civilian To Space by Rossikk(m): 9:48pm On Jun 19 |
Validated: Animal. The USA, UK, Germany, do not ''operate an airline''. The major carriers are all private airlines, from BA to Virgin to KLM. Nigeria has many private airlines. Yet your illiterate, stupid comment drowned in inferiority complex received 100+ likes from your fellow stupid, worthless, ignorant, inferior-minded animals on Nairaland. |
| Politics / Re: US, UK Owe The World Responsibility For Peace In Middle East – Onanuga by Rossikk(m): 5:21am On Apr 15 |
JastSiryin: DON'T MIND YOUR DIRTY, STINKING CUN.T W.H.OR.E MOTHER. FILTHY, REPULSIVE ANIMAL. |
| Sports / Re: KANU Nwankwo At Inter Milan In 1998 by Rossikk(m): 3:48am On Apr 15 |
Bintasukai: SHUT YOUR DIRTY LIPS, YOU COLONISED FREAK OF NATURE. This is about the most skilful player on earth, not who is ''better'' - a highly nebulous term. You are in NO POSITION to make a judgement about Okocha with your pre-conditioned-to-self-loathe, reflex anti-Nigerian, racial inferiority complex cum tribalism-destroyed mindset. You dig? Go and clear your head of all the extraneous, nasty conditioning its been subjected to before you can make an objective assessment. So I'm not ASKING your opinion about Okocha. I am TELLING YOU what he is, ie the MOST SKILFUL FOOTBALLER WHO EVER LIVED, BAR NONE. And you can take that colonial term ''coloured people'' and stick it up your flat, colonised behind. |
| Foreign Affairs / Re: Israel Military Chiefs Approve Offensive And Defensive Action Against IRAN by Rossikk(m): 3:31am On Apr 15 |
kuboy: Slave, ''The lord'' does not support the mass murder of tens of thousands of innocent children, except in your sick head, you psychopath. 1 Like |
| Politics / Re: US, UK Owe The World Responsibility For Peace In Middle East – Onanuga by Rossikk(m): 12:59am On Apr 15 |
Benrosaria: Nigeria's peace is IRRELEVANT AND IMMATERIAL set against the threat of a WORLD NUCLEAR HOLOCAUST. IF YOU HAVE 'PEACE' IN NIGERIA WHILE THE WHOLE WORLD IS ON A NUCLEAR HOLOCAUST PRECIPICE, OF WHAT VALUE IS YOUR PEACE? WHAT 'PEACE'? Onanuga is 10000000% CORRECT in calling for COOL HEADS to prevail in the middle east, and that the PROTAGONISTS of the violence there, including the USA, have a DUTY to ensure it does not escalate to create a NUCLEAR CONFLAGRATION that draws in Russia, the US, China, UK etc, which could threaten ALL LIFE on the ENTIRE PLANET. WHY THIS SIMPLE BASIC COMMON SENSE eludes you people is mind boggling, YET YOU CLAIM TO BE EDUCATED. Which one of you has a NUCLEAR BUNKER to hide in? DO YOU KNOW THAT NETANYAHU, BIDEN, SUNAK, Xi JINPING, IRANIAN LEADERS, HAMAS LEADERS, ARAB LEADERS, AND EVEN NIGERIAN LEADERS, ALL HAVE NUCLEAR BUNKERS TO HIDE IN? DO YOU KNOW ASO ROCK HAS A NUCLEAR BUNKER? DO YOU KNOW DANGOTE HAS A NUCLEAR BUNKER? PLUS OTEDOLA, ADENUGA AND THE REST OF THEM? ONANUGA IS SPEAKING UP FOR YOU, WHO HAVE NO BUNKER TO HIDE IN. YOU ARE SITTING DUCKS FOR NUCLEAR RADIATION. NUCLEAR WINTER. DO YOU HAVE THE SLIGHTEST IDEA WHAT NUCLEAR RADIATION, WHICH KNOWS NO BORDERS, DOES TO PEOPLE? BUT WILL YOUR TRIBALISM AND MYOPIC STUPIDITY ALLOW YOU TO SEE BEYOND YOUR NOSE AND SEE THE WIDER PICTURE, AND REALISE THAT YOU ARE ALL SEVERELY THREATENED BY WHAT IS GOING ON IN THE MIDDLE EAST? SHORT-SIGHTED, IGNORANT PEOPLE WITH NO SENSE. |
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