History and Archaeology

tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-50712334781131005682025-10-01T10:19:08.078+01:00History and ArchaeologyEvery second, minutes and hours; In everyday of our life, while sleeping and waking up for the day activities , somebody ; some how had made history and that could be in record or archives of people or government and organization body...be it oral source, written source and linguistic....We human being will always and forever continues to have history because that is the only way the world can survive.The Diplomathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11236919397618450875noreply@blogger.comBlogger30125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5071233478113100568.post-10150006028502674792025-10-01T10:18:00.001+01:002025-10-01T10:18:59.905+01:00Happy 65th Nigeria Indenpedence

*NATIONAL BROADCAST BY HIS EXCELLENCY BOLA AHNED TINUBU,* *GCFR, PRESIDENT OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA ON THE 65TH* *INDEPENDENCE ANNIVERSARY OF NIGERIA,**OCTOBER 1, 2025*Fellow Nigerians,Today marks the 65th anniversary of our great nation's Independence. As we reflect on the significance of this day and our journey of nationhood since October 1, 1960, when our founding fathers accepted

The Diplomathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11236919397618450875noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5071233478113100568.post-29941613692391489732023-12-02T04:15:00.003+01:002023-12-02T04:15:23.096+01:00Who Founded Lagos state

 AWORI PEOPLE, Rather Than Benin Empire FOUNDED LAGOS      There is no historical evidence to show that Benin founded Lagos or Eko.  All other ethnic groups, except Awori People in Eko now Lagos, were traders. The city of Lagos, historically known as Eko, has a complex and multi-ethnic history. The origin of Lagos predates the Benin Empire, and it was initially

The Diplomathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11236919397618450875noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5071233478113100568.post-38143482952699707262023-11-27T11:31:00.000+01:002023-11-27T11:31:10.294+01:00Untold Story OF WHY ORA PEOPLE DON'T BOW TO OBA OF BENIN

 It was recorded that Okpameh (also called Uguan) the son of Oba Ewaure left the Benin kingdom after he was banned for commiting murder.He went up to Northern part and settled at a particular place he named Odorlerene (somewhere at the present day Ora).Okpameh was a very powerful and renowned hunter, who was respected for killing dreaded leopard 🐆He took a wife an Uokha Lady who bore him a

The Diplomathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11236919397618450875noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5071233478113100568.post-35988201024596754102023-03-06T18:09:00.003+01:002023-03-06T18:09:49.656+01:00THE UNTOLD TRUTH ABOUT THE IGBO

THIS IS SIMPLY THE REASON WHY HAUSAS, YORUBAS, EDO AND THE NIGER DELTA MAN  WILL NOT TRUST THE IBO MAN AT THE CENTER AND WHY THE HAUSAS MAY NOT WANT TO RELINQUISH POWER IN NIGERIA* Any historians in the house to vet this but no insults or character assassination please:Forgotten History Of Igbo Tribe And Northern Alliance.Do you know that when Tafawa Balewa was Prime Minister of Nigeria

The Diplomathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11236919397618450875noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5071233478113100568.post-81076473310400325642022-09-24T16:40:00.006+01:002022-09-24T16:40:47.446+01:00THE POWER OF AFRICAN WOMEN

 First and foremost i will like to talk about African women as a own because they are strong in nature. My mother is from western part of Africa country called  Nigeria and her native language is Yoruba.I will love to talk about a movie called " The Woman King" and not complete without a strong African woman called   Viola davies...to be Continous......

The Diplomathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11236919397618450875noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5071233478113100568.post-40973129012172908622022-01-10T07:41:00.003+01:002022-01-10T07:41:32.013+01:00Operation Bernhard” by Nazi Germany

  In 1959, a German magazine funded a dive that recovered £700 million of Great British Pound counterfeit notes Hitler planned on using to sabotage the English economy. These fake English notes were perfectly preserved 300 ft below Lake Toplitz, an isolated lake located in the heart of a lush forest in the Alps, Austria.O and it was called operation Bernhard” was s secret

The Diplomathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11236919397618450875noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5071233478113100568.post-40126301496188214922020-10-18T08:01:00.000+01:002020-10-18T08:01:06.911+01:00History will Remember Nigeria Youth

 MODELE WORDSOur Pledge to #EndSarsOctober 16, 2020It is no coincidence that the SARS acronym for the anti-robbery squad is the same as the deadly disease called SARS which affects the respiratory organs. The youths are the respiratory organs of Nigeria and in our call for a better life as youths in our country Nigeria, I remembered the national anthem on my way back from work and analysed

The Diplomathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11236919397618450875noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5071233478113100568.post-44170134430354078852019-11-24T15:26:00.001+01:002019-11-24T15:26:54.821+01:00NOTABLE CITIES IN YORUBALAND &THEIR FOUNDERS.

     NOTABLE CITIES IN YORUBALAND &THEIR FOUNDERS. (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

The Diplomathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11236919397618450875noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5071233478113100568.post-27215868269316929332019-03-19T07:28:00.000+01:002019-11-24T15:19:52.254+01:00Why We Wail....

Why We Wail.. The Arabian Peninsula has a very rich history dating 6000BC. The peninsula was occupied by Bedouins...the modern day Arabs. The peninsula is mostly sandy desert, hard rocky mountains, and wetlands around the coastal areas. To say this is one of the most uninhabitable places on earth is an understatement! Summer temperatures are so high that you'd be convinced your brains were

The Diplomathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11236919397618450875noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5071233478113100568.post-25408256401450505892019-03-19T07:24:00.000+01:002019-03-19T07:24:01.005+01:00Chief Awolowo Interviewin1983(Civil War)

Awo speaks - An excerpt from a town hall interview in Abeokuta in 1983. CIVIL WAR Question: Chief Awolowo, …Your stand on the civil war, however unpopular it might have been to the Biafrans or Ibo people, helped to shorten the war. Today, you’re being castigated as the sole enemy of the Ibo people because of that stand, by among others, some of the people who as members of the Federal

The Diplomathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11236919397618450875noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5071233478113100568.post-40686980595830660342016-06-28T20:02:00.000+01:002016-06-28T20:02:43.510+01:00Fact About Africa

         FACTS ABOUT AFRICA 1. The Gambia has only one university. 2. Equatorial Guinea is Africa’s only spanish speaking country. 3. South Africa is the most visited African country. 4. Nigeria has the richest Black people in Africa. 5. Samuel Eto’o is the highest paid Footballer of all time, he received about £350,000 weekly in Russia in 2011. N 6.

The Diplomathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11236919397618450875noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5071233478113100568.post-54604182752024269522016-06-26T19:46:00.000+01:002016-06-26T19:46:20.007+01:00Fact About Nigeria; You don't know

     Do you know that? 1. The River Niger Bridge at Onitsha was constructed between 1964 and 1965 by Dumez- a French construction company and cost £5 million. 2. Patience Jonathan is one of Nigeria’s most-educated First Ladies, with an NCE, a B.Ed, and a PhD from University of Port-Harcourt. 3. The highest peak in Nigeria is located in Taraba and is called Chappal Waddi which

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                History will never forget Olufunmilayo Ransome Kuti    Know more about your history and the great people who helped shape it. This is the story of Fela's mother...a woman whose story needs to be told over and over again. Read below... Abigail Olufunmilayo Thomas was born on 25 October

The Diplomathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11236919397618450875noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5071233478113100568.post-10175609123471585512010-10-03T20:47:00.000+01:002010-10-03T20:47:36.359+01:0050 event that Nigerian will always remember

50 events that shaped Nigeria's history October 1, 1960 – Nigeria gains independence from Britain, with Abubakar Tafawa Balewa as the Prime Minister leading a coalition government of parliamentary system. October 1, 1963 - Nigeria becomes a republic, breaking away from the British monarchy. January 15, 1966 – Fall of the First Republic, as Prime Minister Tafawa Balewa is killed in

The Diplomathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11236919397618450875noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5071233478113100568.post-43103273488850284452010-10-01T22:49:00.000+01:002010-10-01T22:49:12.419+01:00Nigeria independence mark 50 years of no security

Nigeria celebrate 50 years of  Independence from their colonial master (The British). A country that now comprise of 36 states, 521 languages, 250 ethnics groups, 3 religion, 180 major festival and 9200 castles. Nigerian has nothing to celebrate for because of lack of social amenity, good leaders, security, food, water, health, education, electricity, good road and job

The Diplomathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11236919397618450875noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5071233478113100568.post-4584636811032366932010-09-15T15:52:00.000+01:002010-09-15T15:52:23.635+01:00Nigerian Leaders Since Independence

Nigeria's Leaders From Independence (1960) till Date  The independence proclamation of Gold Coast (Ghana) in March 1957 opened an era called the ‘suns of Independence of sub-Saharan Africa. However, majority of African countries including Nigeria did not attain independence before 1960 which opened the path for African freedom. 2010 marks, for many countries of the continent among which

The Diplomathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11236919397618450875noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5071233478113100568.post-46162741625021388932010-08-19T10:31:00.000+01:002010-08-19T10:31:25.978+01:00Past event that occur in Nigeria History

 Nigerian will never forget what happen in pre history of Nigeria. Notwithstanding the advent of coming of European into Africa as a own will be forever remember neither for good or bad.  Most especially in western part of Africa (Nigeria) undergo what is called colonization, which contribute to the under development of  Nigerian.less not forget that  able body men and women

The Diplomathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11236919397618450875noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5071233478113100568.post-51456207499910516962010-07-07T14:02:00.000+01:002010-07-07T14:02:11.668+01:00THE EMERGENCE OF AMERICA AS A NATION AND AS A WORLD POWER COULD BE ATTRIBUTE TO WHAT STAGE OF HIS HISTORY?

The Emergence of America as a nation and as a world power could be attribute to what stage of his History? The America is Bounded on the east by Atlantic Ocean and on the west by the Pacific Ocean, bordered by Canada to the north and Mexico to the south. Why Did America Become a World Power? During the late 1800s, the fact that America had become a world power became very evident. Events

The Diplomathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11236919397618450875noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5071233478113100568.post-38865575907606394452009-11-10T06:36:00.000+01:002009-11-10T06:36:02.200+01:00Why do we have history and archaeology?

History Today Why do we have history and archaeology? In the light of our understanding of ‘deep time’ Daniel Lord Smail argues that it is high time that the two disciplines were reunited. Though obscure in other respects, 1936 was an important year for the philosophy of the human past. This was the year in which the Australian archaeologist V. Gordon Childe published Man Makes Himself, a book

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African History In pre-colonial times African currency included shells, ingots, arrowheads, iron, human beings, salt, cattle, goats, blankets, axes, beads, and many others. In the early 1800s a slave could be bought in West Africa with manilla currency; multiples of C-shaped rings of bronze or other metal that could be strung on a staff. Slaves could also be bought for salt or for any

The Diplomathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11236919397618450875noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5071233478113100568.post-27916641384283029362009-10-01T10:08:00.000+01:002009-10-01T10:08:25.920+01:00Brief Summary of the History of Nigeria as a country in 'General'

Nigeria officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a federal constitutional republic comprising thirty-six states and one Federal Capital Territory. The country is located in West Africa and shares land borders with the Republic of Benin in the west, Chad and Cameroon in the east, and Niger in the north. Its coast lies on the Gulf of Guinea, a part of the Atlantic Ocean, in the

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if you are looking forward to read about Africa pre-colonial currency and history stuff..check out my blogThanks

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Egg-Larva-Pupa- Woman: A Debut Literary Novel By – Ogọ Akubue-Ogbata This is an inspirational, albeit heart-wrenching story, of two remarkable personalities who vivaciously defy all odds: Nkiru: a privileged young girl who is forced to learn the art of survival after the tragic loss of her family and innocence as she knows it…Nigeria: Africa’s most populous and controversial country –

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