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Lunch ideas
Quick fix Egusi ijebu with plantain fufu.
(Egusi ijebu is a native soup peculiar to the ijebu people. It is cooked without vegetables.
It is quite easy to prepare and very delicious 😋.)
See recipe below 👇🏼

https://youtu.be/NkIa8JaaYWw

Good day folks.

ANCIENT YORUBA PEOPLE CIVILIZATION
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One of the great achievements of the Yoruba was their urban culture. “By the year A.D. 1300,” says a modern scholar, “the Yoruba people built numerous walled cities surrounded by farms”. The cities were Owu, Oyo, Ijebu, Ijesa, Ketu, Popo, Egba, Sabe, Dassa, Egbado, Igbomina, the sixteen Ekiti principalities, Owo and Ondo.

Yoruba metal art of the mediaeval period was of world class. One scholar wrote that Yoruba art “would stand comparison with anything which Ancient Egypt, Classical Greece and Rome, or Renaissance Europe had to offer, created with techniques which are loss today.”

In the mid-nineteenth century, William Clarke, an English visitor to Nigeria, remarked that: “As good an article of cloth can be woven by the Yoruba weavers as by any people . . . in durability, their cloths far excel the prints and home-spuns of Manchester.”

The recently discovered 9th century Nigerian city of Eredo was found to be surrounded by a wall that was 100 miles long and seventy feet high in places. The internal area was a staggering 400 square miles...Blacksregion.com

KITCHEN TIPS

1. Never store Onions and Potatoes together because both produce a gas that causes either of them to spoil quickly.

2. Put two or three orange leaves in your hot palm oil on the fire. Let the leaves turn black before removing it. By then your palm oil becomes pure groundnut oil also giving your food a nice taste.

3. To avoid feeling a peppering hotness on your hands after cutting pepper with bare hand scrub your hand with salt and red oil then wash it.

4. If you happen to over salt a pot of soup, just drop in a peeled potato. The potato will absorb the excess salt.

5. If your Soup or Stew goes sour while warming it, add little piece of Charcoal and remove after warming, the taste will come back.

6. Never put citrus fruits (oranges, lemon, lime, etc) or tomatoes in the fridge. The low temperature degrades the aroma and flavor of these fruits.

7. When storing empty airtight containers, throw in a pinch of salt to keep them from getting stinky.

8. If your salt is becoming lumpy, put a few grains of rice in with it to absorb excess moisture.

9. To reuse cooking oil without tasting whatever was cooked in the oil previously, cook a 1/4" piece of ginger in the oil. It will remove any remaining flavors and odors.

Credit to owner. Hope you learnt something

History of Ondo Kingdom:

1510: Ondo town founded by HRM Oba Pupupu.

1516: Pupupu, the first Osemawe of Ondo (a lady), was installed.

1528: Oba AIRO the first male Osemawe and the first Son of Oba Pupupu was installed.

1590: Township development scheme began with the creation of two quarters, namely: Olurowo and Aruwa, by Oba Okuta.

1731: Oba Aganmide established Losare and Sokoti quarters.

1768: Jogunde was banished to Akure. He returned to Ondo in 1770.

1770: Oba Terere introduced the ‘Eku’ festival.

1866: Oke-Igbo founded by Ago (a slave of Oba Arilekolasi).

1870: A civil disturbance broke out. Oba Arilekolasi (A.D. 1861) was very oppressive and not liked by the Ondo. He died without repenting or resolving the unpleasant situation he created. The atmosphere of Ondo was still saturated with trouble and chaos when Oba Osungbedelola ascended the throne (A.D. 1870). Unfortunately, the trouble which had loomed for so long broke into the open, and as a result the grave disorder and strife that followed, the Ondo fled the town and sought shelter and peace in places like Igbado, Erinla, Ajue, Oke-Opa, etc.

1875: The beginning of Christian missionary work in Ondo by Rev. (later Bishop) Phillips; and Ondo entered history in its finest hour. (March 25)

1880: The civil disorder which broke out in 1870 ended completely. Ago, with his rebel followers, had constituted himself an implacable enemy of Ondo. No sooner Oba Afaidunjoye ascended the throne (A.D. 1876), than a vigorous campaign was mounted by Ondo army and they succeeded in capturing Ago at Oke-Igbo. A string of 200 cowries was tied round his neck by his captors who finally got rid of him by casting him into the Oni river where he died in 1881.

1881: The people of Ondo, who had deserted the town following the outbreak of the hostility of 1880, returned home on the intervention of Capt. Glover and Mr. Abayomi from Lagos.

1906: Bishop Phillips died (December 26)

1908: Eleyinsakele (a highly notorious gangster) was killed.

1909: High Chief Sasere Ayotilerewa Awosika died (April 9)

1915: Rev. Fathers Matthew Wouters and Freburger (Catholic Missionaries) arrived in Ondo to start missionary work. (February 25)

1919: The Ondo Boys’ High School was founded by the Rev. Canon Moses Craig Akinpelu Adeyemi. (January 13) The Ondo Boys High School was, easily the first Community Grammar School “from Sierra Leone down to Nigeria here”. It started as C. M. S. Grammar School in St. Stephens’ Vicarage, Ondo, on January 13,

1919. Twenty-six students were enrolled that day. The Late Mr.(later Bishop) D. O. Awosika and the Late Mr. S. R. Fadase – both of them sons of the soil, were the first tutors. Mrs. V. O. Akinrele (nee Akinkugbe) and Mrs. T. Osho (nee Ojojo) joined the staff in 1921 and taught in the kindergarten classes attached to the school. Work progressed satisfactorily and later, the school was renamed Ondo Boys Public High School, and the Osemawe of Ondo appointed as its Proprietor. The Late Chief Sara Oladapo, a famous moslem leader, gave up his house at Alo Street to be used as classrooms. The late High Chief Sasere Ayodeji handed over his house to accommodate the Founder and (first) Principal, Rev. M. C. Adeyemi. The School first moved out of the Vicarage to an old Bookshop building at Oke-Otunba, where it spent only a term; and later settled at Alo Street until 1923, when it arrived at its present site, a 90-acre piece of land given by Oba Jisomosun II, the Osemawe, and Proprietor. The Osemawe also awarded the first scholarship of £20 (then N40) a year for three years, 1919-1922. Rev. Adeyemi gave his strength to the work of the School. The curriculum included Greek, Latin, Shorthand, Logic, etc. He introduced Scouting in 1920; established the OBHS Press in 1928 and suggested the formation of the Aionian Brotherhood of Secondary Schools in 1929. The school has passed through a long and unbroken period of successes. In September 1968, it became coeducational and comprehensive. Top civil servants, professionals and business men, University Dons, Diplomats, first class educationists, among them, Canon J. A. Iluyomade – Head of the International School, University of Ibadan – and Church Leaders are a few eminent Nigerians the School has produced. March 4: The first conference of the District Church Council of the C. M. S. held.

1921: Motor vehicle reached Ondo town for the first time (in the reign of Oba Jisomosun II). Henceforth, the simple commodities of life – the wares of Birmingham and Manchester – hitherto unknown to us were brought to our door-steps and became our new treasures in space of time. Special tribute is to the memory of Mr. Jacob Adeniyi Fawehinmi, popularly known as ‘OWIWA’ in his days , for it was he who drove in the first automobile from Lagos.

1923: Chief Sasere Bombata installed (December 12)

1925 March 29: Fifty years (Golden Jubilee) of C. M. S. works in Ondo celebrated. June 6: Oba Jisomosun II exiled to Ile-Ife.

1926: November 28: Women, for the first time, demonstrated openly against an old-age tradition which confined them indoors on the ‘imuko’ festival day. Muko festival was brought to Ondo from Ife by Adegbonmilo a Son of Oni of Ife who later became Oloja of Udoko. December 13: Rev. E. M. Lijadu died. For a long time, Rev. Lijadu will be remembered for his historic service. Immediately after the first Session of the Anglican Synod, held in Abeokuta in May, 1908, Rev. Lijadu went on to England specially to pass the Revised Version of the Yoruba Bible for the Press.

1927: August 11: Telegraphic service introduced for the first time. November 7: White merchants (the Portuguese) opened trading stores/shops in Ondo.

1928: The first printing press was established. Originally, the press was established to train the students of Ondo Boys High School in the printing trade. Time wore on, however, and there was reason to change the name to ‘IGBEHIN ADUN PRINTING WORKS” and full control and management had to be transferred to Mr. Ola Awosika, himself, an old boy of the OBHS, who had extensive training in printing in Lagos. U. A. C. was established at Ondo on November 7.

1931: A Middle School at Odosida was formally opened by Capt. Montomorrency (April 21). Oloja Udoko was baptised.

1936: Chief Sara Kadiri Oladapo died (December 30)

1942: The Rev. Canon M. C. Adeyemi died (December 3).

1943: The Rev. Thomas Hughes was consecrated Catholic Bishop of Ondo Diocese (May 9).

1948: Telephone service opened (May 26).

1952: February 25, The Rt. Rev. S. O. Odutola became first Bishop of Anglican Diocese of Ondo-Benin.

1953: The Ondo Town Hall was opened on 24th February.

1954: The Ondo General Hospital was opened. St. Louis Girls Secondary School was established.

1955: St. Joseph’s College was established. St. Monica’s Anglican Girls Grammar School was established.

1959: The Ondo Anglican Boys Grammar School was established.

1961: Public Electricity and Water supplies were both commissioned.

1964: Adeyemi College of Education was established.

1974 January 7: The Osemawe, Oba Rufus Adesokeji Aderele, Tewogboye II, died. (January 1974 – December 1975: Second period of interregnum in the history of Ondo. First interregnum: 1896 – when no suitable prince could be selected immediately to succeed Oba Jilo Ajiboro who died in that year).

1975 May 12: High Chief Lisa Fawehinmi (Emmanuel Adesuyi) died.

1976 February 3: Creation of Ondo state with Akure as Administrative Headquarters, was announced by the Federal Government. April 3, The staff and instrument of office was presented to the new Osemawe, Oba Adekolurejo, at a colourful ceremony at the sports stadium by the then State Governor, Wing Commander I. D . Ikpeme.

1980: The Most Rev. T. O. Olufosoye (an Ondo indigene) became the first African to be consecrated Archbishop of Nigeria and Metropolitan.

1986: Establishment of Ondo Development Committee by Oba Itiade Adekolurejo.

1992: Installation of Oba (Dr) Ibidapo Adedinsewo Adesanoye

1997: Establishment of fifteen quarters of Ijama Chieftaincy.

Source By: Ondo development Committee Archive.

How Yoruba cities were found

NOTABLE CITIES IN YORUBALAND &THEIR FOUNDERS.
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(1) Ile-Ife was founded by Obatala
(2) Owo was founded by Ojugbelu.
(3) Oshogbo was founded by Queen Oso-Igbo
(4) Akure was founded by Omoremi Omoluabi
(5) Ondo was founded by Queen Pupupu
(6) Iwo was founded by prince Ogbaigbai.
(7) Oyo was founded by prince Oranmiyan
(8) Igede Ekiti was founded by Ake
(9) Abeokuta was founded by Shodeke
(10) Ilesha was founded by Owalushe Ajaka.
(11) Esie was founded by prince Baragbon
(12) Ijero Ekiti was founded by Prince Ogbe
(13) Sango-Otta was founded by Osolo and Eleidi Atalabi
(14) Igbesa was founded by Akeredun
(15) Iperu was founded by Akesan
(16) Ikire was founded by Akinere
(17) Ado Ekiti was founded by Awamaro
(18) Esa-Oke was founded by Omiran Adebolu.
(19) Ilorin was founded by Ojo Isekuse
(20) Ikorodu was founded by Oga.
(21) Ijebu-Ode founded by Olode
(22) Iree (Osun) was founded by three brothers: Larooye, Arolu and Oyekun.
(23) Ila-Orangun was founded by Fagbamila Ajagun-nla.
(24) Ikere-Ekiti was founded by Aladeshelu
(25) Ikole Ekiti was founded by Akinsale
(26) Ede was founded by Timi
Agbale.
(27) Omu-Aran was founded by prince Olomu-Aperan
(28) Ode-Remo was founded by two hunters: Arapetu and Liworu.
(29) Ikirun was founded by Akinorun
(30) Saki was founded by Ogun
(31) Eruwa was founded by Obaseeku
(32) Iraye was founded by Odudu-Orunku
(33) Ogbomosho was founded by Ogunlola
(34) Offa was founded by Olalomi Olofa-gangan
(35) Inisa was founded by prince Ooku Eesun
(36) Ido Ani was founded by Oba Ozolua
(37) Ejigbo (Osun) was founded by Akinjole Ogiyan (Ogiriniyan)
(38) Okuku was founded by Oladile
(39) Efon Alaye-Ekiti was founded by Iji-Emigun
(40) Ijebu was founded by Obanta
(41) Isara-Remo was founded by prince Adeyemo
(42) Odeogbolu was founded by Eleshi Ekun Ogoji
(43) Ise-Ekiti was founded by Akinluaduse (Akinluse)
(44) Isara-Remo was founded by prince Adeyemo
(45) Itele-Ijebu was founded by Ojigi Amoyegeso
(46) Ijebu-Jesha was founded by Oba Agigiri Egboroganlada
(47) Ibokun (Ilemure) was founded by Obokun
(48) Ikoro-Ekiti(Eso -Obe) was founded by two hunters: Olushe and Olugona.
(49) Ilara Mokin was founded by Obalufon Modulua Olutipin.
(50) Igbara Oke was founded by Olowa Arajaka

(51)Epe was founded by Hu-Raka
(52) Malete (Iseyin) was founded by Adenle Atologuntele
(53) Igbo-Ifa(Kishi) was founded by Kilisi Yeruma
(54) Ijebu-Igbo was created by Ademakin Orimolusi.
(55) Ilobu was founded by Laarosin
(56) Gbongan was founded by Akinfenwa
(57) Ire-Ekiti was founded by Ogun
(58) Iwoye (Ayedun) was founded by Atabata.
(59) Igbajo was founded by prince Akeran
(60) Imesi-Ile was founded by Odunmorun and Eye.
(61) Orile-Owu was founded by Pawu.
(62)Otun-Ekiti was founded by Oore
(63) Igbo Asako( Igbo-Ora) was founded by Obe Alade.
(64) Idanre was founded by Olofin, a younger brother to Ododuwa. He came to Ufe after the demise of his senior brother.
(65) Iresi was founded by Ifadumila Olatimirin from Latale's compound in Ile-Ife. He was a friend to Ebekun from Abewela's compound in Ile-Ife. He was the maternal grandfather of Adebuba (Iresi acclaimed first king in the present Aworo Ebekun's compound). His house which happened to be the first house in Iresi is situated in the present Saloro's compound. Till date any dead king in Iresi is buried in his backyard. His descendants are called The ALANAS .
Culled from: Late Chief Farinde Owolabi Ajeigbe Joseph. Late Saloro of Iresi Town

"Portable is an incredible talent"- Music star Roc Hassani gives the IKA of AFRICA his flowers .

Even Olamide made this same statement about Portable. You can decide not to like portable because of his actions and behavior but most of his music have very deep and meaningful message .

🚨8 THINGS YOU DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT FELA ANIKULAPO KUTI (The father of Afrobeats)🚨

1. His father was responsible for the primary education of Obasanjo. Fela's father Mr Ransome Kuti was known then as "Baba gbomgbomo"(the man that steals children) because he use to steal children away from the streets and their mother's house and take them to school to learn...one of those who benefited from this was Olusegun Obasanjo.

2. Fela was predestined to be who he is today. In an interview his mother, Funmilayo Ransome Kuti said an ifa priest had already told her and husband about the destiny of the Fela when he was a child that he would be very stubborn and he would challenge government. For this, his father took extra interest in his education hoping it would lead to one of two things, (1) that the education would change him or (2) even if he was going to challenge the government he do it as an activist and not a hooligan.

3. Fela did not start smoking at a young age infact he was still a well behaved young man until his early 20s.

4. Fela loved s*x, in a book, he said "s*x to me is life, it's a source of life that give great pleasure"

5. Fela was supposed to study medicine and be a doctor but instead he chose music and his brother Beko did medicine. Thank God he chose music and gave us the sound we have today, Afrobeat.

6. He changed his name from Olufela Ransome-Kuti to Fela Anikulapo Kuti. He claimed "Ransome" was a slave name given to his grand father when he converted to Christianity.

7. Fela was not a Christian, he chose ATR, African Traditional Religion till he died.

8. Fela once named a pet after former Nigerian Head of State Yakubu Gowon.

Source: NIGERIA STORIES— Twitter

Once in a village, Woman saw three old Men sitting outside her house. They were sitting there for quite a while.

Woman went outside and said,
I saw that you are sitting here for long, you must be hungry. Please come in and have something to eat.

Men asked,
Is the man of the house at home ?

Woman replied, No.

Men replied,
Then we cannot come in.

Woman went inside. In the evening when her husband came, she told him about people sitting outside and all that had happened.

The husband told his wife to go and ask those Men to come in and have some food.

Woman went out and said,
My husband is home. He is inviting you all. Please come inside and have food.

They replied,
We do not go inside a house together.

Woman questioned, Why ?

Then one of those old Men explained.

Pointing to one of his friends, he said :
His name is Wealth.
If he goes with you, your home will be filled with wealth always.
Then pointing to another old Man he said :
He is Success.
If he goes with you, you will always be successful in any endeavor you start.

He then introduced himself as Love.
If I go with you, then your home will be filled with love always.

Then he said,
Now you go in and discuss with your husband which one of us you want in your home.

Woman went inside and told her husband about what the old Man said.
Her husband was overjoyed hearing about it and said,
Let’s invite Wealth.
Let him come and fill our home with wealth.

Wife disagreed and said, Why don’t we invite Success ?

Their daughter-in-law was listening to this.
She came to them and suggested,
Wouldn’t it be better if we invite Love in our home ?
Then our home will be filled with love forever.

Husband and wife agreed to this advice.

Woman again went out and said,
Which one of you is Love ? Please come in and be our guest.

Love got up and started walking toward the house. Just then the other two also got up and started following him.

Woman asked,
You said that not all can come together.
I invited only Love.
Why are you all coming in ?

The old Men replied,
If you had invited Wealth or Success then the other two would have stayed outside, but since you invite Love, wherever he goes, we go with him.

Wherever there is Love, Wealth and Success will follow.

Sufi Story 💙

THE OLDEST KINGDOMS IN NIGERIA

The history of Nigeria could be dated far back before the colonial era. In this period around 900AD, few kingdoms which still survive till now, were in existence then. In this write-up, we will investigate the history of Nigeria, and subsequently infer the oldest kingdom in the country.

HISTORY OF KINGDOMS IN NIGERIA

Evidence of Nigerian kingdoms dates back thousands of years before the country was known of its current name. This was preceeding the colonial rule when the country eventually got independence. Before the British invasion of West Africa, i.e Nigeria’s colonial masters taking control in the late 19th century, many indigenous polities emerged in the country.

The prominent Hausa empire was what is now the northern part of the country. This included states of Kano, Katsina, Zaria, Gombe, and the rest of others which make up the largest kingdom in Nigeria then. The Kanem-Borno empire was what is now Borno and Adamawa states; and the Jukun states of Kwararafa, Kona, Pinduga, and Wukari were other smaller kingdoms which were in the northern part of Nigeria. Others included those of the Igala, Nupe, and Ebira.

Down south, a lot of notable kingdoms existed even till the present time. The Yoruba empires of Ife and Oyo were the occupants of the southwestern region of the country. Edo kingdom of Benin, which is an ancient empire in the country, make up what is now Edo state. The Ibibio-Efik kingdom make up the present day Akwa Ibom and Cross River states. In the delta region of the Niger, the Itsekiri kingdom of Warri, the Ibibio kingdom of Akwa-Cross, and the Ijo (Ijaw) city-states of Nembe, Elem Kalabari, Bonny, and Okrika complements the list of old empires in the country.

Be that as it may, this article provides more information on the oldest kingdoms in Nigeria. Below, we outline the kingdoms and empires that existed first in the country.

THE OLDEST KINGDOM IN NIGERIA

When considering which kingdom or empire is the oldest in Nigeria, one must take a critical look at the history of all the kingdoms in the country. Here is the oldest kingdom in Nigeria, after deducing from the dates each empire in the country came into existence.

Benin Kingdom

The kingdom of Benin is the oldest kingdom in Nigeria. Their dated history which could be traced thousands of years ago made them earn this mark as the most ancient empire in the country.

Far back in the 900s, the Kingdom of Benin began when the Edo people settled in the rainforests of West Africa, which is the present day Edo state. These people were had a sudden rise, as before 1400s they created a wealthy kingdom with a powerful ruler. The Obas were the supreme ruler in the Edo kingdom. They were highly honored and they lived in beautiful palaces decorated with shining brass.

These rulers, the Obas spearheaded the affairs of the kingdom and won more land which eventually made them rise to an empire. The kingdoms in the empire was called Igodomigodo. It was ruled by a series of kings, known as Ogisos (‘rulers of the sky’), which were subject to the Obas. Still on, history has it that around the 1100s, there were struggles for power and the Ogisos lost control of their kingdom.

This resulted to the Edo people seeking for help from their neighbour, the King of Ife. In response to it, the king sent his son Prince Oranmiyan to restore peace to the Benin kingdom. The king of Ife eventually chose his son Eweka to be the first Oba of Benin. Eweka was the first in a long line of Obas, who reached the peak of their power in the 1500s. After his reign, other Obas took over in succession, of which till now the kingdom still have a recognisable Oba as their ruler.

At its came in the 16th and 17th centuries, the Benin or Edo kingdom encompassed parts of southeastern Yorubaland, and the western parts of the present Delta State. But at present, due to regional divisions, the trace of the old Benin kingdom is significant in Edo state of Nigeria. Nonetheless, let’s now peek at other old kingdoms and empires in Nigeria which followed the Bini group.

Other Old Kingdoms in Nigeria

Here are some other ancient empires that were in existence many years ago before the foreigners entry to the country.

Kanem-Borno

The once powerful Borno empire was in existence in 9th century, when Arabic writers in North Africa first noted the kingdom of Kanem, east of Lake Chad. A centralized state was established over the Sao by a pastoral group and ancestors of the Kanuri. The Kanem rulers tried to dominate the areas south and west of Lake Chad and they gain size and populace. The history book has it that around the 12th century, the Kanem-Borno empire had been compelled by attacks from the Sao to move their capital to the region west of Lake Chad, and they gradually lost control of most of the original Kanem. Today, what was once the most powerful empire in Nigeria makes up the Borno and Adamawa states, and some bordering parts of the Lake Chad.

Hausaland

The history of the Hausa kingdom could be dated centuries back when they arrived Northern Region of Nigeria from Mali. The kingdom of Hausa extends beyond the Jos Plateau, up to Niger republic. This empire was an enviable one as it rose to become one of the leading kingdoms as at then. They were very redoubtable because of their strong war force which supersede the neighbouring kingdoms. This prowess made the Hausa to one conquer parts of the Kanem-Borno empire and render the latter in extinction. A number of places—such as Daura, Katsina, Kano, Zaria, Gobir, and, later, Kebbi—each with a walled city, a market centre, and a monarchical system of government make up the Hausa kingdom.

Yoruba and Oyo Empire

The Ife, which is a sovereign kingdom under the Yoruba land, came to existence between the 11th and 15th centuries. Their presence in the forested areas west of the Niger and south of Hausaland made them to be the most powerful kingdom there. Their history is traced to Oduduwa in the ancestral town of Ile Ife in the present day Osun State.

Also, Oyo Empire is closely related to the Ife in the Yoruba empire. They existed since in the 14th century and are found in the savanna to the north of the forest. The Oyo empire was a renown entity in the western part of Nigeria and from the colonial rule down to the present day, they still have a significance.

The final burial rites of Bàbá Adetiran had begun...

I deliberately did not talk about it publicly because it will make me face the fact that his space has become "empty" on this side...

But I will be performing at the Tribute Concert in his honor today, so I have to face it...

My friend. My friend. My friend. My Teacher. My guide. The one who filled an empty space and called me good...

The one who made me own my gift and uniqueness COMPLETELY.

I miss him. And I believe I will always do. The space he held is empty now and I sometimes want to just talk to him. I liked to hear him say some things to me. He had a child's heart. Pure. I liked to see and hear him laugh. His laughter! Oh.🥹

My kind. My senior man kind. Good soul.

I learnt from him.
I learnt by him.
I learnt through him...

The essence of meeting a senior kind is to learn from them and do better...

I will do better. I promise. So help me GOD.

May help surround him as he was great help for me and many here...

May light shine for his soul as he travels on as he was light to us...

May joy fill his soul and surround him as he gave us joy...

He taught me to always move on and have joy whatsoever. He taught me to always do what's needed to be done. To laugh in the face of anything. So therefore, we mouveeeeeee!!!

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- The richest person in the history of earth was Mansa Musa from mali( Black )
- The Greatest Pop Musician was Michael Jackson (black)
-The greatest jazz singer" The famous Aretha Franklin. (Black)
- The greatest footballer was Pele (black)
- The Greatest boxer was Muhammed Ali (black)
- The largest and richest golfer is Tiger Woods (black)
- The greatest basketball player was Michael Jordan (black)
- The world's tallest runner and only record is Usain Bolt (Black)
-The greatest female tennis player is Serena Williams (black)
- Greatest Hip Hop Artist Was 2PAC (Black)
-The greatest philosophers were Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr (black)
- The Greatest Reggae Artist Was Bob Marley (Black)
-The most educated president was Robert Mugabe (black)
- The greatest president of the world was Nelson Mandela (black)
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- The greatest medical invention.. The revolutionary robot used in brain surgery of the French Beninese Bertin Nahum (Black).

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This 15-year-old girl lived in the Inca empire and was sacrificed 500 years ago as an offering to the gods.
She is preserved this well because she was frozen during sleep and kept in a dry cold condition at more than 6000 meters above sea level all this time. No other treatment was necessary.
Found in 1999 near the top of the Llullaillaco volcano, in northwestern Argentina, she was an archaeological revolution for being one of the best preserved mummies, since there was even blood in her body and her internal organs remained.

WHO SOLD NIGERIA TO THE BRITISH FOR £865K IN 1899?

This is the story of the first oil war, which was fought in the 19th century, in the area that became Nigeria.

All through the 19th century, palm oil was highly sought-after by the British, for use as an industrial lubricant for machinery. Remember that Britain was the world’s first industrialised nation, so they needed resources such as palm oil to maintain that.

Palm oil, of course, is a tropical plant, which is native to the Niger Delta. Malaysia’s dominance came a century later. By 1870, palm oil had replaced slaves as the main export of the Niger Delta, the area which was once known as the Slave Coast. At first, most of the trade in the oil palm was uncoordinated, with natives selling to those who gave them the best deals. Native chiefs such as former slave, Jaja of Opobo became immensely wealthy because of oil palm. With this wealth came influence.

However, among the Europeans, there was competition for who would get preferential access to the lucrative oil palm trade. In 1879, George Goldie formed the United African Company (UAC), which was modelled on the former East India Company. Goldie effectively took control of the Lower Niger River. By 1884, his company had 30 trading posts along the Lower Niger. This monopoly gave the British a strong hand against the French and Germans in the 1884 Berlin Conference. The British got the area that the UAC operated in, included in their sphere of influence after the Berlin Conference.

When the Brits got the terms they wanted from other Europeans, they began to deal with the African chiefs. Within two years of 1886, Goldie had signed treaties with tribal chiefs along the Benue and Niger Rivers whilst also penetrating inland. This move inland was against the spirit of verbal agreements that had been made to restrict the organisation’s activities to coastal regions.

By 1886, the company name changed to The National Africa Company and was granted a royal charter (incorporated). The charter authorised the company to administer the Niger Delta and all lands around the banks of the Benue and Niger Rivers. Soon after, the company was again renamed. The new name was Royal Niger Company, which survives, as Unilever, till this day.

To local chiefs, the Royal Niger Company negotiators had pledged free trade in the region. Behind, they entered private contracts on their terms. Because the (deceitful) private contracts were often written in English and signed by the local chiefs, the British government enforced them. So for example, Jaja of Opobo, when he tried to export palm oil on his own, was forced into exile for “obstructing commerce”. As an aside, Jaja was “forgiven” in 1891 and allowed to return home, but he died on the way back, poisoned with a cup of tea.

Seeing what happened to Jaja, some other native rulers began to look more closely at the deals they were getting from the Royal Nigeria Company. One of such kingdoms was Nembe, whose king, Koko Mingi VIII, ascended the throne in 1889 after being a Christian schoolteacher. Koko Mingi VIII, King Koko for short, like most rulers in the yard, was faced with the Royal Nigeria Company encroachment. He also resented the monopoly enjoyed by the Royal Nigeria Company and tried to seek out favourable trading terms, with particularly the Germans in Kamerun (Cameroon).

By 1894, the Royal Nigeria Company increasingly dictated whom the natives could trade with, and denied them direct access to their former markets. In late 1894, King Koko renounced Christianity and tried to form an alliance with Bonny and Okpoma against the Royal Nigeria Company to take back the trade. This is significant because while Okpoma joined up, Bonny refused. A harbinger of the successful “divide and rule” tactic.

On 29 January 1895, King Koko led an attack on the Royal Niger Company’s headquarters, which was in Akassa in today’s Bayelsa state. The pre-dawn raid had more than a thousand men involved. King Koko’s attack succeeded in capturing the base. Losing 40 of his men, King Koko captured 60 white men as hostages, as well as a lot of goods, ammunition and a Maxim gun. Koko then attempted to negotiate a release of the hostages in exchange for being allowed to chose his trading partners. The British refused to negotiate with Koko, and he had forty of the hostages killed. A British report claimed that the Nembe people ate them. On 20 February 1895, Britain’s Royal Navy, under Admiral Bedford attacked Brass and burned it to the ground. Many Nembe people died and smallpox finished off a lot of others.

By April 1895, business had returned to “normal”, normal being the conditions that the British wanted, and King Koko was on the run. Brass was fined £500 by the British, £62,494 (NGN29 million) in today’s money, and the looted weapons were returned as well as the surviving prisoners. After a British Parliamentary Commission sat, King Koko was offered terms of settlement by the British, which he rejected and disappeared. The British promptly declared him an outlaw and offered a reward of £200 (£26,000; NGN12 million today) for him. He committed su***de in exile in 1898.

About that time, another “recalcitrant King”, the Oba of Benin, was run out of town. The pacification of the Lower Niger was well and truly underway. The immediate effect of the Brass Oil War was that public opinion in Britain turned against the Royal Nigeria Company, so its charter was revoked in 1899. Following the revoking of its charter, the Royal Niger Company sold its holdings to the British government for £865,000 (£108 million today). That amount, £46,407,250 (NGN 50,386,455,032,400, at today’s exchange rate) was effectively the price Britain paid, to buy the territory which was to become known as Nigeria.

N.B: This post was originally published on May 19, 2014