One: The largest man-made Earth structure ever built since creation began was the Great Walls of Benin in Nigeria. Please fact-check me: the Great Walls of Benin were larger and longer than the famous Great Wall of China. Alas, the Walls of Benin were destroyed by the British in 1897 during the so-called Punitive Expedition. A small remnant remains.
Two: The ancient Benin kingdom had streetlights before most of Europe. The kingdom was always lit at night by the earliest form of street lighting: large metal lamps, forged by the kingdom's bronze casters, fuelled by palm oil. This was in the 15th century. Please fact-check me: Streetlights became common in Europe only from the 1660s onward, AFTER Portuguese merchants visited Benin and returned home to replicate what they saw there.
Three: The world's second-oldest boat, the Dufuna canoe, was found in Yobe State, Nigeria. It was discovered by a Fulani herder (you see, Fulanis contribute more than livestock to Nigeria's greatness). The canoe is carbon-dated to be 8,500 years old, proving that our ancestors were a civilised seafaring people long before Europe had its first empire.
Four: Both the Ifẹ̀ monarchical system and the Kanem-Bornu empire are older than the British monarchy, proving that ancient Nigerians were not primitive tribal cultures. They had an organised society with a governing hierarchy that ensured law and order.
Five: At least one Nigerian ethnic nationality is listed in the Jewish Bible. 1 Chronicles 11:4 says, "And David and all Israel went to Jerusalem, which is Jebus; where the Jebusites were, the inhabitants of the land." Please fact-check me: The Biblical Jebus were descendants of Ham. Ham is believed to be the father of the Black race. And the only Black ethnicity with the name Jebu is the Ijebu of Nigeria. However, unknown to most non-Ijebus, the Ijebus of Nigeria do not refer to themselves as I-J-E-B-U, as an outsider would pronounce it. They actually call themselves J-E-B-U, with the I before Jebu silent.
Six: The areas now known as Nigeria and England were among the first to have a female monarch with absolute powers. The first female monarch to rule England in her own right was Queen Mary I, who reigned between 1553 and 1558. Meanwhile, in Zazzau, we had Amina, who ruled as an absolute monarch in today's Zaria from 1576 to 1610.
Seven: While the race and ethnicity of the ancient Egyptian pharaohs remain a source of controversy, no other ethnicity on Earth has as close a name affinity with the pharaohs as the people of the ancient kingdom of Benin. One such name is Tiye, the wife of Pharaoh Amenhotep III and the daughter of Yuya and Tuya. Tiye was Black. This is undisputed in Egyptology. You ought to research this, or at least Google it. Her DNA was tested. But the interesting thing is that the root of Tiye’s name and her parents' names (Yuya and Tuya) is Iye or Iya, which is the pure Lukumi Yoruba and Benin word for mother. Tiye’s son, who succeeded his father as Pharaoh, was Smenkhkare. Google it. That is similar to a pure Bini name still used among the Edo of Benin (also called Bini). You have such similar names as Nosakhare and Nehikhare still in use today. Another of Queen Tiye’s sons, who also became Pharaoh, is Akenaten. This is also a root Bini name still in use in Benin today. In fact, the Binis had a king (Oba) named Oba Akenzua. Another strong similarity between the ancient Egyptians and the Bini people is that neither wrote their history in words. They carved it, in wood, stone, and metal, using symbols. Those symbols are known as hieroglyphs or cartouches.
Additionally, there was a pyramid in front of the Oba of Benin's palace, which was destroyed by the British during their invasion of the Benin Empire in 1897. Why would the British destroy a pyramid? What quarrel did they have with it? I do not know. I can only theorise that they did it because it upset their version of history regarding the origins of the ancient Egyptian pyramids. Unfortunately for them, British missionaries took a picture of the pyramid before it was destroyed (please see attached). This picture is on display at the Jos Museum today. Now, I previously wrote that the biblical Moses is not named Moses, but that his name was Mose, and that he was married to a Black woman (Numbers 21:1). Recall that when the ancient Israelites were dying of snake bites in the wilderness, the Scriptural Moses made a bronze snake and put it up on a pole. Anyone who looked at it was saved from death (see Numbers 21:9). According to 2 Kings 18:4, the name of that snake was Nehushtan. That word Nehushtan is similar to the Bini word N’ehi, which means what destiny did. Could Moses’s snake be the snake of destiny? I ask because on the Oba of Benin’s pyramid, destroyed by the British, there is a coiled snake (see the picture). You will also notice that a coiled snake (cobra) is always found on the ceremonial headdress of ancient Egyptian Pharaohs.
(Everything you read here is from my own independent research from places I have studied and visited. Not a single word or sentence is lifted from anywhere.)
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