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Zwooks: I knew a slave would jump to his white master's defence typing irrelevant rubbish. What has any of this nonsense you typed got to do with Russia facing new competition as a gas supplier to Europe? The BBC aired an article in 2022 on the opportunity for African gas to help end European dependency on Putin's gas post-Ukraine war. What? Your white superhuman god Putin is untroubled by this possibility because he has ''fertiliser factories, crude reserves''' or whatever nonsense you typed? Ukraine crisis: Can Africa replace Russian gas supplies to Europe? African countries are among those hoping to increase their exports of gas to the European Union, after the EU committed to reduce its reliance on Russian supplies following the invasion of Ukraine. Russia's suspension of deliveries to Poland and Bulgaria over their refusal to pay in roubles, the Russian currency, was a stark reminder of the threat facing the Eurozone. Russia has the largest natural gas reserves in the world and is the largest exporter, accounting for around 40% of Europe's imports. The EU wants to cut supplies by two-thirds by the end of the year and become independent of all its fossil fuels by 2030. However, energy economist Carole Nakhle says that with the combined exports of Africa's big players in the industry - Algeria, Egypt and Nigeria - amounting to less than half of what Russia supplies to Europe, they are "unlikely at the moment to compensate for any losses in Russian supplies". "The good news is there will be greater interest in countries that already have the resources to replace Russian gas and Africa is in a very good position. We're going to see more investment," she says. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-61334470 2 Likes |
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This country will shake the world. In fact we're already shaking the world. But more to come. See how Dangote Refinery is making the whole world tremble, especially Europe. What will they say when we now complete our 35 billion dollar gas pipeline that is heading straight to Europe as we speak? That will end Russia's status as the monopoly supplier to Europe, and triple our annual income. We better go and start adding nuclear capability to our military. ![]() Because I don't think Putin is finding all these moves by Nigeria funny at all. I'm sure he's sitting somewhere laughing and saying ''see small nyash dey shake''. But we go show am say Naija no dey carry last. ![]() 74 Likes 8 Shares |
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Nigeria Is Turning Into an Oil Market Juggernaut The massive Dangote refinery establishes the African nation as a major influencer — and a potential disruptor for Europe. Bloomberg News In a finely balanced oil market, Nigeria has suddenly reemerged as a key player. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2024-08-15/nigeria-s-dangote-refinery-is-fueling-an-oil-juggernaut-to-challenge-europe 24 Likes 6 Shares
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Skooltynz: You don't need to be a science student to do something scientific. Shebi they said Bill Gates dropped out of school to establish Microsoft? All you need to do is brainstorm. You will come up with something. After all your ancestors 100,000 years ago were not answering ''science student'', when they were combining various chemicals to MANUFACTURE PAINT, something that most countries can't even do today. |
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Skooltynz: I hate people pontificating from their arm chair. What I want to hear from you is ''I WANT TO START SOMETHING SCIENTIFIC...'' Don't preach to others. |
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helinues: Same thing I was wondering. What he typed was completely off-point. I honestly don't know the kind of students our schools produce these days. |
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Ancient Paint Factory Unearthed In South Africa, Carbon-Dated to 100,000 Old!!! But according to the imported religion called christianity, the first humans were two white people named 'Adam and Eve', created 6,000 years ago in the middle east. When will you people stop swallowing Roman lies? Maybe 'Adam and Eve' were the first white people or albinos that emerged. But no way were they the first HUMAN BEINGS on Earth, assuming they actually existed. The first MODERN HUMANS emerged in SOUTHERN AFRICA OVER 200,000 YEARS AGO. NOT in the Middle East 6,000 years ago. READ ON..... Ancient Paint Factory Unearthed In South Africa, Dated to 100,000 old!!! https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-15257259 ![]() The kits used by humans 100,000 years ago to make paint have been found at the famous archaeological site of Blombos Cave in South Africa. The hoard includes red and yellow pigments, shell containers, and the grinding cobbles and bone spatulas to work up a paste - everything an ancient artist might need in their workshop. This extraordinary discovery is reported in the journal Science. It is proof, say researchers, of our early ancestors' complexity of thought. "This is significant because it is pushing back the boundaries of our understanding of when Homo sapiens - people like us - first became modern," said Prof Christopher Henshilwood from the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. "These finds indicate that humans were certainly thinking in a modern way, in a way that is cognitively advanced, at least 100,000 years ago," he told BBC News. Blombos Cave on the southern Cape Coast, 300km east of Cape Town, has been giving up remarkable archaeological treasures for more than 20 years. Scientists have been scraping down through its sandy sediments to find all manner of artefacts left by the Middle Stone Age people who occupied the limestone cavity. In 2002, researchers described 70,000-year-old blocks of ochre. This soft stone contains iron oxides that can be used as a pigment, or colouring agent. But apart from some engravings on the blocks, there was little hard evidence to determine the precise purpose of the Blombos ochre. The new items seem to have had a much more obvious use - as the equipment to process paints. The finds include abalone shells with ochre residues inside. There are tools made of quartzite that were presumably employed to hammer and grind ochre into a powder in the shells. And there is evidence that charcoal and oil from seal bones were being added to the mix. It seems bone implements were also being used to turn and lift the paint pastes. All these artefacts were found together, almost as if someone had put them down intending to retrieve them at a later time, but then never coming back. Sands blown in through the cave entrance subsequently buried the kits and locked them away until they were excavated in 2008. In the intervening three years, the finds have been subjected to a series of tests and assessments. Ochre can have non-artistic applications such as an additive in glues, but co-researcher Francesco d'Errico from the University of Bordeaux says the analysis of the residues in the shells points strongly to the production of paints. "The absence of a resin or a wax suggests the ochre was not used to make a glue or a mastic. We think it may have been used to make a paint or a design," he explained. Prof Henshilwood added: "It's possible the paint was used to paint bodies, human skin. It could have been used to paint designs on leather or other objects. It could have been used for paintings on walls, although the surfaces of southern African caves are not ideal for the long-term preservation of rock art." The mere fact though that paints are being manufactured in a systematic way is indicative of a level of advanced thinking. It would have required a high degree of planning to bring together all of the elements of the kits; and if art really was the purpose, it suggests the cave dwellers of Blombos were capable of symbolic thought - the ability to let one thing represent another in the mind. This ability has been posited as the giant leap in human evolution that set our species apart from the rest of the animal world. Understanding when and where this behaviour first emerged is a key quest for scientists studying human origins. ...Prof Chris Stringer from London's Natural History Museum commented: "Twenty or 30 years ago, there was a view that Europe was really the place where all the big action was taking place - wonderful painted caves 30,000-35,000 years ago, and people decorating their bodies. "We now know that this behaviour goes back far further in Africa; it goes back to 100,000 years, perhaps even more than 100,000 years. "People were starting to express social identity in completely new ways. And there is a view that this behaviour is linked with complex language. So, it may indicate these people were communicating in a fully modern way," he told BBC News. |
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ednut1: Thanks for that, bruv. |
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ednut1: THANK YOU VERY MUCH AND GOD BLESS YOU. Can you people see what I'm saying? So Nigeria wasn't even scheduled to be in the road cycling event, and was called up at the very last minute following Egypt's disqualification! SO IN THE MINDS OF THESE HATERS OF NIGERIA, NIGERIA should have anticipated the disqualification of another country in an event she was not scheduled to contest in, and should have provided a 50,000 dollar bicycle ''JUST IN CASE''. Can you see the type of MONSTERS we have on this forum? Enemies of Nigeria? They are truly SICK people. |
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Cmanforall: Sorry, there is nothing like ''at the highest level''. ALL CYCLISTS HAVE A BIKE. EVEN NON-PROFESSIONAL CYCLISTS OWN A BIKE. TALK LESS OF PROFESSIONAL AND OLYMPICS GRADE CYCLISTS! Somebody needs to ask her WHAT she did with her bike? Did she sell it? And then expect ''NIGERIA'' to provide a new one for her ''AT SHORT NOTICE''? |
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FORUM OF ILLITERATE HATERS OF NIGERIA. ''Due to the short notice of me competing at the keirin & Sprint, #teamNigeria I had no bicycle to race with on the tracks. In d spirit of sportsmanship the German team @bunddeutscherradfahr came to my rescue by offering me a bicycle. This statement leaves a LOT of unanswered questions. What does she mean by ''short notice''? Why does she not have a bike if she is a cyclist? Why did she fly to the Olympics if she has no bike? How has she been training if she has no bike? Whose job was it to provide her a bike? Professional cyclists use their OWN chosen bikes, based on their preference. Their bike is their baby. They don't just use ANY bike you throw at them and contest at the Olympic Games. So what is she talking about and what Is she doing there, and WHERE is her bike if she calls herself a cyclist?? THESE ARE THE QUESTIONS THAT NEED TO BE ANSWERED FIRST BEFORE YOU IPOB WASTRELS INFEST OUR SPACE WITH YOUR ANTI-NIGERIAN NASTINESS. |
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FORUM OF ILLITERATE HATERS OF NIGERIA. ''Due to the short notice of me competing at the keirin & Sprint, #teamNigeria I had no bicycle to race with on the tracks. In d spirit of sportsmanship the German team @bunddeutscherradfahr came to my rescue by offering me a bicycle. This statement leaves a LOT of unanswered questions. What does she mean by ''short notice''? Why does she not have a bike if she is a cyclist? Why did she fly to the Olympics if she has no bike? How has she been training if she has no bike? Whose job was it to provide her a bike? Professional cyclists use their OWN chosen bikes, based on their preference. Their bike is their baby. They don't just use ANY bike you throw at them and contest at the Olympics. So what is she talking about and what Is she doing there, and WHERE is her bike if she calls herself a cyclist?? THESE ARE THE QUESTIONS THAT NEED TO BE ANSWERED FIRST BEFORE YOU IPOB WASTRELS INFEST OUR SPACE WITH YOUR ANTI-NIGERIAN NASTINESS. |
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whytediamond: Think about the 20th century. Why are Europeans the only people to have slaughtered over 100 million of their own brothers in 2 tribal wars they deceptively termed “world wars”? Africans allegedly sold 12 million Africans in a 300 year period. Europeans slaughtered 100 million Europeans in a 40 year period. But African are the ones that are made out to be idiots? Let that make sense. It’s certain that all those millions of his fellow white brothers Adolf Hitler marched into GAS CHAMBERS would have much preferred to be sold into slavery instead. 1 Like |
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Paraphrasing an irate northerner: ''They incited our youths online to go around vandalizing the north. We thought everybody was going to do the same in their own region. Only to see that as our cities BURNED in the north, with buildings and vehicles set ablaze, the rest of the country, especially the South East, was a picture of tranquility, silence and peace. Leading us to wonder If we are in the same Nigeria as them. A country that decided to go on nationwide protests. Or they reached a different agreement among themselves not to protest? If so, why didn't they tell us? It is most unfair. Henceforth, count us out of future protests. We will wait to see that you are destroying your own side first, then maybe we will join after. Shege barawo banza, all of you!''. 13 Likes 7 Shares |
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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 |
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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. |
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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. |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 ![]() |
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Cromagnon: Don't mind the idiot. I'm sure his father can't even afford to buy keke. |
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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. |
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This man sef. 2 Likes 1 Share |
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Amedu3: What a dumb comment. ''Third world'' means you have no rights, in your stupid head. Mumu. |
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