Rossikk:


I just posted pictures of the wall above here. What are you talking about?

The wall is partly overground and partly moat, which is covered by greenery.

Successive governments have neglected and ignored it.

In a serious country where people took pride in their history and heritage, that wall would have been our BIGGEST INCOME EARNER even more than oil, as a result of tourism.

This is literally the biggest man-made structure ON THE FACE OF THE EARTH!

Yet most NIGERIANS don't even know it exists, talk less of the world's people.

Ordinary Stonehenge in England brings in more than 20 billion dollars annually to the UK in tourism receipts.

Stonehenge is just a few rocks piled on top of each other to form a small circle.

Stonehenge


The whole world knows about Stonehenge, but nobody knows about the Great Benin Wall that is 4 times longer than the Great Wall of China.

In fact we have problems as a people.

Yujin:

Divide Nigeria and see how Bini will rise again. There will be peace around Bini and since people from there will control their land, they will want to maximize whatever tourism they can get from their historical achievements.
Insist on one Nigeria and see more historical artifacts and land marks will be destroyed. The fulanis having a strong control over Nigeria don't have a single landmark therefore they won't hesitate to destroy that of others.
I know you won't ever agree to this proposal but I still put it down for others to read and weigh for themselves.

Rossikk:


You give wayyy too much power to these Fulanis? Who the hell are they?

Are they even up to 5 million in number?

Ok, Tinubu is president now. If the Edo state governor calls him and says “Mr President, we need to resurrect our great Benin wall to attract tourists worldwide”, and Tinubu says ‘’Of course, what do you need?”

How will Fulanis stop it?

You attribute to them way too much power than they actually have.

Yujin:

Divide Nigeria and see how Bini will rise again. There will be peace around Bini and since people from there will control their land, they will want to maximize whatever tourism they can get from their historical achievements.
Insist on one Nigeria and see more historical artifacts and land marks will be destroyed. The fulanis having a strong control over Nigeria don't have a single landmark therefore they won't hesitate to destroy that of others.
I know you won't ever agree to this proposal but I still put it down for others to read and weigh for themselves.

Burob:
You are correct, a Failure will always blame others for his own shortcomings, so I take yujin statement with a pinch of salt.

Rossikk:


You give wayyy too much power to these Fulanis? Who the hell are they?

Are they even up to 5 million in number?

Ok, Tinubu is president now. If the Edo state governor calls him and says “Mr President, we need to resurrect our great Benin wall to attract tourists worldwide”, and Tinubu says ‘’Of course, what do you need?”

How will Fulanis stop it?

You attribute to them way too much power than they actually have.

Rossikk:


The trouble with your position is that there are also many small, largely homogenous African nations that are terribly unstable. Somalia is a great example. Single ethnicity more or less, with over 85% Somali ethnicity. Yet, trouble from morning till night there.

Conversely, Togo has 40 ethnic groups, and is extremely peaceful.

The thing is Africa is by far the most ethnically diverse continent, with HALF the languages on Earth spoken in Africa, which has over 3,000 languages.

So you have NO CHOICE but to abandon tribalism and learn to live in multi-ethnic societies. You cannot have 3,000 countries in Africa, because that would make us extremely vulnerable to western exploitation and manipulation, far worse than exists today.


For get the lies they told you, you can have 3000 countries, if any people want to merge, they will have to do that with a general accepted consesus

Rossikk:
If we had to implement such a project today, we would not believe in our capacity to do it.

We would be looking for China or Julius Berger to do it, and we would be ready to pay them billions of dollars.

Such is the damage that colonial rule did to our sense of confidence in our capacity as a people.

This wall was built long before the Industrial Revolution of the 18th century.

They did not use any machines at all (at least none that we know of. Maybe they invented something they used, who knows? Do we research our history?)

But today, if we want to build a COMMON RAILWAY LINE, we call the Chinese.

We want to build an expressway, we call Julius Berger.

We want to build an airport or shopping mall, we call China.

I mean, we need to snap out of it, and become MEN again.

Just like our illustrious ancestors.

Yujin:

If Obaseki does it, it will amount to waste because Nigeria isn't safe which no tourist will want to waste his life visiting. It is the simple truth.

Your accusation about ascribing power to the fulani is just the typical Yoruba speaking in denial of the reality. Even your Tinubu couldn't speak against them the whole time they were wrecking havoc in Yorubaland. He went as far as deflecting attention towards Igbos and absolved the well established killer fulanis by asking 'where are the cows?'. The current army chief is a Yoruba man and hasn't been able to save communities from the North Central from the incessant fulani attacks. Instead he was threatening the victims to surrender the arms they were using in the defense of their ancestral lands. Even you Rossikk have never been seen speaking against the gruesome terrorism wrought by fulanis on defenseless villagers. That sends a lot of message.
I know in reality they have no significant power which is why we gave them a bloody nose in our territory and sent them packing from our bushes and forests. The question is; what have you guys done on your side to prove they don't have such powers that they so claim to have?

Yujin:

The Anambra International Cargo Airport was built by our own Civil Engineers. You can read up about it. We on our side know our capability and are making giant strides to keep it up but Nigeria is pulling us back.
The only indigenously built power plant is done by some body from our side who wanted to bring his expertise to the centre but was kicked against by others who prefer to bring expatriates. You all know Prof. Barth Nnaji. This is why we say Nigeria is holding us down and we want to exit so we can make heavy progress.

Rossikk:
If we had to implement such a project today, we would not believe in our capacity to do it.

We would be looking for China or Julius Berger to do it, and we would be ready to pay them billions of dollars.

Such is the damage that colonial rule did to our sense of confidence in our capacity as a people.

This wall was built long before the Industrial Revolution of the 18th century.

They did not use any machines at all (at least none that we know of. Maybe they invented something they used, who knows? Do we research our history?)

But today, if we want to build a COMMON RAILWAY LINE, we call the Chinese.

We want to build an expressway, we call Julius Berger.

We want to build an airport or shopping mall, we call China.

I mean, we need to snap out of it, and become MEN again.

Just like our illustrious ancestors.

Rossikk:
I suspect this wall was built to keep out the Arab jihadists invading West Africa many centuries ago.

It clearly worked. For centuries. In fact it could be reasonably argued that had this wall not been built, we would be bearing names like Abdullahi and Muhammed today instead of Ayodele, Chukwuma, and so on, since Benin was the biggest and most powerful kingdom of the south, and had they captured Benin, the rest of the region would have been a breeze for them.

So, a very good and laudable project.

Indigenously envisioned, conceptualized, and executed.

With no stories of mago mago or somebody chopping the money meant for building the wall.

Rossikk:


I just posted pictures of the wall above here. What are you talking about?

The wall is partly overground and partly moat, which is covered by greenery.

Successive governments have neglected and ignored it.

In a serious country where people took pride in their history and heritage, that wall would have been our BIGGEST INCOME EARNER even more than oil, as a result of tourism.

This is literally the biggest man-made structure ON THE FACE OF THE EARTH!

Yet most NIGERIANS don't even know it exists, talk less of the world's people.

Ordinary Stonehenge in England brings in more than 20 billion dollars annually to the UK in tourism receipts.

Stonehenge is just a few rocks piled on top of each other to form a small circle.

Stonehenge


The whole world knows about Stonehenge, but nobody knows about the Great Benin Wall that is 4 times longer than the Great Wall of China.

In fact we have problems as a people.

jumper524:
while the christian jihadist conquered and made you bear names like Gabriel, moses, Simon and the rest.
Keep pushing your failure to others, cone head.

MadamExcellency:


Are you smoking or what? The only human architecture that can be seen from space is the great wall of China.

Rossikk:


There was an international regulation during colonial rule called Terra nova or something whereby international law dictated that a colonial power could only legally take over a foreign country if such country was barren and devoid of 'civilization'. So this requirement spurred the colonialists to burn and destroy all signs of urban development across Africa. Many cities were burnt down just to prove there was no civilization, to legitimize their seizing the territories.

Benin City was one such city, and they made sure they destroyed it and left nothing standing, including the great palace, in 1897.

Another beautiful, great city they destroyed was Mbanza Kongo in present day Rep of Congo.

Rossikk:


Another inferiority complex afflicted slave has entered.

Did you even ATTEMPT to locate the Benin wall on Google Earth before making this loud categorical declaration?

Don’t bother responding because we all know the answer.

See the kind of low self-esteem pea brains this country is cursed with?

Rossikk:


If you exit with your 5 Igbo states, nobody will stop you. You will only get in trouble if you try to annex the delta which accounts for 75% of FG revenues.

Doing that would be tantamount to cutting off Nigeria’s head, so you can expect a fierce military response.

Good luck handling that. You saw how it went the last time you tried.

By the way, states have been given autonomy to do everything and anything they want, from power generation to building railway networks etc, so no one’s stopping you from being innovative.

Nothing stops Soludo from employing the youths to build the railway tracks he says he wants. Yet all we hear from him is that they are signing MOU with foreign companies.

Yujin:

Divide Nigeria and see how Bini will rise again. There will be peace around Bini and since people from there will control their land, they will want to maximize whatever tourism they can get from their historical achievements.
Insist on one Nigeria and see more historical artifacts and land marks will be destroyed. The fulanis having a strong control over Nigeria don't have a single landmark therefore they won't hesitate to destroy that of others.
I know you won't ever agree to this proposal but I still put it down for others to read and weigh for themselves.

Rossikk:


You give wayyy too much power to these Fulanis? Who the hell are they?

Are they even up to 5 million in number?

Ok, Tinubu is president now. If the Edo state governor calls him and says “Mr President, we need to resurrect our great Benin wall to attract tourists worldwide”, and Tinubu says ‘’Of course, what do you need?”

How will Fulanis stop it?

You attribute to them way too much power than they actually have.

It’s as a United Nigeria that we can even AFFORD to resurrect that wall. Where will Bini find the money and expertise to do it on their own after Nigeria is ‘divided’? They will be broke like Sierra Leone!

Burob:
Ok what are you trying to imply? That it is because of Fulanis that Bini people have been fleeing Edo state to Italy, since time immemorial?

Rossikk:


If you exit with your 5 Igbo states, nobody will stop you. You will only get in trouble if you try to annex the delta which accounts for 75% of FG revenues.

Doing that would be tantamount to cutting off Nigeria’s head, so you can expect a fierce military response.

Good luck handling that. You saw how it went the last time you tried.

By the way, states have been given autonomy to do everything and anything they want, from power generation to building railway networks etc, so no one’s stopping you from being innovative.

Nothing stops Soludo from employing the youths to build the railway tracks he says he wants. Yet all we hear from him is that they are signing MOU with foreign companies.

Varunpulyani:
Bola A Thubv say if them release e certificate heaven go fall o

Rossikk:
I suspect this wall was built to keep out the Arab jihadists invading West Africa many centuries ago.

It clearly worked. For centuries. In fact it could be reasonably argued that had this wall not been built, we would be bearing names like Abdullahi and Muhammed today instead of Ayodele, Chukwuma, and so on, since Benin was the biggest and most powerful kingdom of the south, and had they captured Benin, the rest of the region would have been a breeze for them.

So, a very good and laudable project.

Indigenously envisioned, conceptualized, and executed.

With no stories of mago mago or somebody chopping the money meant for building the wall.

Rossikk:


I think you may be confusing the Benin wall with the OTHER massive Nigerian wall, the Eredo Earthworks also known as Sungbo's Eredo, located near Ijebu Ode.

The queen who ordered its construction was Bilikisu Sungbo, and some have posited that she was the legendary Queen of Sheba. ('Ijebu' and 'Sheba' could well be referring to the same place.

'Sheba' sounds like what an oyinbo person would call Ijebu.

Rossikk:


I just posted pictures of the wall above here. What are you talking about?

The wall is partly overground and partly moat, which is covered by greenery.

Successive governments have neglected and ignored it.

In a serious country where people took pride in their history and heritage, that wall would have been our BIGGEST INCOME EARNER even more than oil, as a result of tourism.

This is literally the biggest man-made structure ON THE FACE OF THE EARTH!

Yet most NIGERIANS don't even know it exists, talk less of the world's people.

Ordinary Stonehenge in England brings in more than 20 billion dollars annually to the UK in tourism receipts.

Stonehenge is just a few rocks piled on top of each other to form a small circle.

Stonehenge


The whole world knows about Stonehenge, but nobody knows about the Great Benin Wall that is 4 times longer than the Great Wall of China.

In fact we have problems as a people.

Rossikk:


You are right my brother.

The biggest damage they did to us wasn't even the looting of our resources, which in itself was massive.

It was the damage they did to our MINDS.

They destroyed our self-belief.

Our ancestors never entertained the idea of being unable to build something that they required building.

If they needed it, they gathered round and decided how to go about it and they just did it.

It never even OCCURRED to them to get people from overseas to do it for them.

Today, it is the complete opposite.

The minute we decide on building something even mildly tasking or complex, we look for 'white people' to do it for us, because in our minds we are incapable of doing it, including railway lines or airports.

Why do you need foreigners to build an airport or a railway station, or a road?

It's just pathetic.

The Chinese and others must be wondering to themselves, ''What on Earth is the matter with these people?''

You have other 300 universities in the country filled with multiple professors and lecturers in every field of endeavour.

So why do you need foreigners to build you a railway line or an airport or a mall?