HISTORY OF YORUBA TRIBE

History of the Yoruba people
The documented history of the Yoruba peoplebegins with the Oyo Empire,
which became dominant in the early 17th century. Older traditions of
the formerly dominant Ifekingdom are sparse and unreliable.
Prehistory

FOOLISH QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS- JOKE

1. Someone calls you at 2
a.m in
the mid-night and
ask you, are you
sleeping?
Answer: no, I'm picking
beans to cook.
2. When its raining and

LAWYER & JAMAICAN - JOKE

 
A lawyer and a Jamaican are sitting next to each other on a long flight.
The lawyer is thinking that Jamaicans are so dumb that he can fool them easy...
So the lawyer asks if the Jamaican would like to play a fun game.

Collection 2

Collection 1

Human Evolution

Human evolution

  This article is about the divergence of Homo sapiens from other species. For a complete timeline of human evolution, see Timeline of human evolution. For other uses, see Human evolution (disambiguation).

"Evolution of Man" redirects here. For the album by Example, see The Evolution of Man.

Part of a series on
Evolutionary biology
Diagrammatic representation of the divergence of modern taxonomic groups from their common ancestor.

Human evolution is the evolutionary process leading up to the appearance of modern humans. While it began with the last common ancestor of all life, the topic usually covers

WONDERS OF THE WORLD

 WONDERS OF THE WORLD

This article is about natural and constructed phenomena and structures
of the world. For other uses of "Wonders of the World", see Wonders of
the World (disambiguation).
The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World(from left to right, top to
bottom): Great Pyramid of Giza, Hanging Gardens of Babylon, Temple of

History Of Football

Football (as well as rugby and soccer) are believed to have descended
from the ancient Greek game ofharpaston.Harpaston is mentioned
frequently in classical literature, where it is often referred to as a
"very rough and brutal game".The rules of this ancient sport were

DINOSAUR

 DINOSAUR

Dinosaurs are a diverse group of animals of the clade Dinosauria. They
first appeared during the Triassicperiod, 231.4 million years ago, and
were the dominant terrestrial vertebratesfor 135 million years, from
the beginning of the Jurassic (about 201 million years ago) until the
end of the Cretaceous(66 million years ago), when the Cretaceous–
Paleogene extinction eventled to the extinction of most dinosaur
groups at the close of the Mesozoic Era.

Akpos- Joke- The Forest

An Igbo man, a Yoruba man and an Hausa man were lost in a forest and
then captured by cannibals.
The king of the cannibals told the prisoners that they could live if
they pass a trial. The first step was to go deep into the forest and
get ten pieces of the same kind of fruits.
The three men went their separate ways to gather fruits.

List of Countries and Capitals

 Countries and Capitals

 

Afghanistan-Kabul
Albania-Tirane
Algeria-Algiers
Andorra-Andorra la Vella
Angola-Luanda
Antigua and Barbuda-Saint John's
Argentina-Buenos Aires
Armenia-Yerevan
Australia-Canberra

MONALISA PAINTING_ The most famous painting

 MONALISA PAINTING

TheMona Lisa(Monna LisaorLa Giocondain Italian;La Jocondein French) is
a half-length portrait of a woman by the Italianartist Leonardo da
Vinci, which has been acclaimed as "the best known, the most visited,

Facts About First World War

Here are some facts about World War 1
*.World War 1 began on July 28, 1914 and lasted until November 11,
1918. Differences in foreign policies were to blame, although the
immediate cause was the assassination of Austria's Archduke Ferdinand.
*.The two main sides were the Allies, which included France, Great

Akpos Ligali Midnight Joke

Akpos Ligali was coming from a club at the midnight, when he got home,
his wife refused to open the door for him and he thought of a trick he

Shortest Man

SHORTEST MAN

Guinness World Records can today confirm that Chandra Bahadur Dangi from Nepal is the world's new Shortest Living Man, measuring 54.6cm (21.5 in).

Tallest Man

The tallest man living is Sultan Kösen (Turkey, b.10 December 1982) who measured 251 cm (8 ft 3 in) in Ankara, Turkey, on 08 February 2011.
The part-time farmer was the first man over 8 ft (2.43 m) to be measured by Guinness World Records in over 20 years.
Indeed, GWR only knows of 10 confirmed or reliable cases in history of humans reaching 8 ft or more.

Richest People In The World

1. Bill Gates
Net Worth: $76 B
Source of wealth: Microsoft
2. Carlos Slim Helu & family
Net Worth: $72 B
Source of wealth: telecom
3. Amancio Ortega
Net Worth: $64 B

Novel & Novella

 

 Novel

A Novel is a long fictive work (prose) peopled by imaginative
characters and events, and events are artistically presented as if

GREAT INVENTORS

 

 GREAT INVENTORS

1. Onville and Wibur Writh of USA invented Aerpolane in 1903.
2. John B. Logies of Scotland invented Television in 1922.
3. Cardbenixim of Germany invented Motor Car in 1885.
4. Graham Bell of Scotland invented Telephone in 1876.

States Creation In Nigeria

 States Creation In Nigeria

1. May 27th 1967- Gen. Yakubu Gowon created 12 States.
2. Feb. 3rd 1976- Gen Murtala Muhammed created 7 States.
3. Sept. 23rd 1987- Gen. Ibrahim Babangida created 2 States.
4. Aug. 27th 1991- Gen. Ibrahim Babangida created 9 States.
5. Oct. 1st 1996- Gen. Sanni Abacha created 6 States.

Tallest Mountain On Each Continent

 

Tallest Mountain On Each Continent

1. Mount Everest 8850m. (29035ft) ASIA
2. Aconcagua 6959m (22831ft) SOUTH AMERICA
3. Mount McKinley 6194m (20320ft) NORTH AMERICA
4. Mount Kilimanjaro 5963m (19563ft) AFRICA
5. Mount Elbrus 5633m (18481ft) EUROPE
6. Puncak Jaya 4884m (16023ft) OCEANIA
7. Vinson Massif 4897m (16066ft) ANTARCTICA

Political Apathy & Factors

 

POLITICAL APATHY

This refers to the degree to which citizens show no interest in the
political activities of their country. It is direct opposite of
political participation.

FACTORS THAT CAUSE POLITICAL APATHY

The Short Story & Fable _ Prose, Fictive Category

Short Story is a small continent of the Novel. The novel normally have
many characters but a short story has a few characters whose actions
centers arround a single event and would still enjoy a sense of
completeness. E.g. Ngugi's 'The Return' in his short story collection,
Secret Lives (1975).

Fable
It is a narrative which posses the twin attribute of straight and
surface meaning (denotation) and deeper and metaphorical meaning
(conotation). It points out moral truth in a civilized manner.
Characters in Fable are usually Animals which are meant to talk and
dialogue among themselves as if they were human beings. E.g. Animal
Farm by George Orwell (1945).

Deaf & Dumb_ Jokes

Akpos Ligali was coming from an interview one hot afternoon. He had
only #20 with him and he is going to board #2000 cab. He stopped a
taxi and entered, he bought two plantains with the last #20 he had on
him and gave the driver one. The driver was so happy and he thought he

Synedoche, Metonymy

 

Synedoche

this is when a part is used to represent a whole. E.g The gray hair
are respected in Africa.( grey hair represents or stands for old
people).

Alliteration, Assonance

 

Alliteration

this is the initial repetition of consonant sounds at in a sentence or
phrase. E.g Peter Piper Pick a Pepper

Communalism

 

Communalism

 Communalism is a political and economic arrangement which emphasis on
collectivity. The member of the community gather all their resource

Features of Communalism

  Features of Communalism

 1. There is collective ownership of the resources.
 2. There is the opportunity for individuals to participate in
     community development.

Antonomasia, Epigram

 

Antonomasia

This is a type of Synedoche that puts an individual for a class. E.g.
A Solomon has come to judgement. A Samuel was born.

Three Friends_ Joke

Three friends went to an herbalist to do money ritual, the herbalist
then instructed them not to utter a single word on their way home or

Akpos Ligali & Devil_ Joke

Akpos Ligali was inside a plane, and the plane was about to crash.
Suddenly devil appeared to them, and gave them a test, that anyone who
could throw an object inside the water and he (devil) wont be able to

Joke_ Beauty

A pastor told all men in a church to come and donate money to the
church's box according to the beauty of their wife. Several men came
out and donated 100,000, 20,000, 5,000. A man suddenly came out and
donated #10, the pastor was shocked and asked the man why he donated

Akpos Ligali and Barber

 Akpos Ligali and Barber

Akpos Ligali: barber
Barber: yeess?
Akpos Ligali: how much do you barb hair
Barber: #300
Akpos Ligali: what about shaving?
Barber: #150
Akpos Ligali: ok, then shave my hair

DERRTYBOOKS FORUM

DERRTYBOOKS FORUM

THE TEMPEST_ PLAY

 

 

ACT I

SCENE I. On a ship at sea: a tempestuous noise

of thunder and lightning heard.
Enter a Master and a Boatswain

Master

Boatswain!

Boatswain

Here, master: what cheer?

Master

Good, speak to the mariners: fall to't, yarely,
or we run ourselves aground: bestir, bestir.
Exit
Enter Mariners

Boatswain

Heigh, my hearts! cheerly, cheerly, my hearts!
yare, yare! Take in the topsail. Tend to the
master's whistle. Blow, till thou burst thy wind,
if room enough!
Enter ALONSO, SEBASTIAN, ANTONIO, FERDINAND, GONZALO, and others

ALONSO

Good boatswain, have care. Where's the master?
Play the men.

Boatswain

I pray now, keep below.

ANTONIO

Where is the master, boatswain?

Boatswain

Do you not hear him? You mar our labour: keep your
cabins: you do assist the storm.

GONZALO

Nay, good, be patient.

Boatswain

When the sea is. Hence! What cares these roarers
for the name of king? To cabin: silence! trouble us not.

GONZALO

Good, yet remember whom thou hast aboard.

Boatswain

None that I more love than myself. You are a
counsellor; if you can command these elements to
silence, and work the peace of the present, we will
not hand a rope more; use your authority: if you
cannot, give thanks you have lived so long, and make
yourself ready in your cabin for the mischance of
the hour, if it so hap. Cheerly, good hearts! Out
of our way, I say.
Exit

GONZALO

I have great comfort from this fellow: methinks he
hath no drowning mark upon him; his complexion is
perfect gallows. Stand fast, good Fate, to his
hanging: make the rope of his destiny our cable,
for our own doth little advantage. If he be not
born to be hanged, our case is miserable.
Exeunt
Re-enter Boatswain

Boatswain

Down with the topmast! yare! lower, lower! Bring
her to try with main-course.
A cry within
A plague upon this howling! they are louder than
the weather or our office.
Re-enter SEBASTIAN, ANTONIO, and GONZALO

Myopia by Syl Chene Coker

MYOPIA

 Syl Chene Coker

On the rainy mornings
you will see them drenched
PEASANTS! shivering in their emaciated bones
along the boulevard of misery
the boulevard of this country
are railway trucks in my heart
a train of anguish run on them

HardLines_ Gemisola Adeoti

 Gbemisola Adeoti

Some lines are bitter pills
hard to swallow with laughter
like a tongue licking a weeping sore
to douse embers of thirst
Some lines are moistened rock
hard on the tongue
like a breakfast of toad
spiced with roasted cockroaches
Washed down with stale wine
Mixed with mucus and urine
Will a beauty bathe in mustard gas
Cook with sodium cyanide
When heaven holds it tears
And rivulets run dry?
Scream she will,across the stream
Tightly hugging the air in anguish
In our napping homeland
Truth is hard on the palate
As lion’s fiery tales turn fairy tales
In sporting grips of goats
While elergies are sung with glee
Heralding birth and christening
Bones spring in eggs,horns on chicks
Hooves on ducks,feathers on foxed
Dusty buttocks are decked in caps
Seized from harried heads of the honest
Who stirred the hornet’s nest
For leveling the house of deceit…..
Just like “Ambassadors Of Poverty”,Hard Lines is a poem of truth,a poem that brings out the problems of our society. Just like the poem reflects,no matter how much we want to sugar coat the truth it is still a bitter pill to swallow. Hard lines means “The Bitter Truth”,no matter how much we want to avoid It,nobody wants to hear the truth,it is easier to accept the lies because lies are interesting to hear. This poem also reflects how “the cap” has been taken from the honest ones and given to those who does not deserve it. Our society is a society where lies and corruption is the order of the day and when the honest ones decide to come out and unravel the deceit of those dishonest ones what happens??? It’s either they are found dead or incapacitated…I then ask myself where are those who claim to fight for justice,why can’t they do anything the answer is because they’ve been bought…Our will is no longer strong,we are easily bought by the lies and material things…
In short our society is one where lies and deceit has grown so deep it’s hard for the truth to prevail…Now why don’t we ask ourselves this: If things were to be different and I am given the choice to choose,would I choose the bitter truth that will put my conscience at peace or would I choose the lies and deceit that would make my conscience keep asking and judging me? This question is to those of us who have conscience and would like to see our society change for the better…

Source: adamsy2013.wordpress.com

The Sun Rising_ Johnn Donne

JOHN DONNE

 

Busy old fool, unruly Sun,
        Why dost thou thus,
Through windows and through curtains call on us?
Must to thy motions lovers' seasons run?
        Saucy pedantic wretch, go chide
        Late schoolboys and sour 'prentices,
    Go tell court huntsmen that the King will ride,
    Call country ants to harvest offices;
Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime,
Nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

        Thy beams, so reverend and strong
        Why shoulds't thou think?
I could eclipse and cloud them with a wink,
But that I would not lose her sight so long;
        If her eyes have not blinded thine,
        Look, and tomorrow late, tell me,
    Whether both th'Indias of spice and mine
    Be where thou left'st them, or lie here with me?
Ask for those kings whom thou saw'st yesterday,
And thou shalt hear, 'All here in one bed lay.'

        She's all states, and all princes, I;
        Nothing else is.
Princes do but play us; compared to this,
All honour's mimic, all wealth alchemy.
        Thou, Sun, art half as happy as we,
        In that the world's contracted thus;
    Thine age asks ease, and since thy duties be
    To warm the world, that's done in warming us.
Shine here, to us, and thou art everywhere;
This bed thy centre is, these walls, thy sphere.

About The Poem

Almost 30 years before John Donne's birth in 1572, Copernicus had published his revolutionary theory of a heliocentric universe. Although it made little impact at the time, later on, when Galileo was basing his own astronomical research on the work of his predecessor, the theory scandalised the Church of Rome. In 1616, heliocentrism was officially pronounced "false and contrary to scripture".
Donne must have been well aware of these developments when he wrote "The Sun Rising", this week's poem. Perhaps they are even reflected in that little unexpected epithet, "unruly" – suggesting the sun himself had challenged the Roman inquisition. The unimpressed invocation, "Busy old fool, unruly Sun", sets the scene for Donne's own lyrical revisionism. While plenty of other poets before him had ranked the sun secondary to their mistresses' eyes, Donne is far more original. He creates his own erotic cosmology, and

Primary Election

Primary Election

This involves political parties presenting their candidate for any
election in a country. It is an election conducted within a political

By Election

 By Election

This is an election conducted in order to fill a vacant post in
political offices. This comes up as a result of impeachment, recall

Akpos Ligali wife Joke

 

 Akpos Ligali

Akpos Ligali caught his friend and his wife on his bed. Out of anger,
he took his gun and shot his friend. His wife shouted AKPOS, AKPOS, if
you continue this way you will loose all your friends o.

Jokes

 

GRANDMA

Son: mum, grandma is so annoying, I wish she could just die
Mum: idiot, its your mother that will die not mine

BOBO

Jokes_ question tag

JOKES

 Teacher: Today's lesson is question tag. E.g chuks is a boy. Isn't he? Yes he is. Can I have any other examples?
Solo: we go chop yam today. Chopin't we?
Teacher: wrong, can anybody correct him

Boy on a swing- Oswald Mtshali_ Poem

Oswald Mtshali's

BOY ON A SWING

Slowly he moves

to and fro, to and fro,

then faster and faster

he swishes up and down.

His blue shirt

The fence

Lenrie Peters

THE FENCE

There where the dim past and future mingle

their nebulous hopes and aspirations

there I lie.

There where truth and untruth struggle

in endless and bloody combat,

there I lie.

There where time moves forwards and backwards

with not one moment's pause for sighing,

there I lie.

There where the body ages relentlessly

Expelled- Jared Angira_ Poem

Jared Angira

 

EXPELLED

We had traded in the market competitively perfect

till you came in the boat, and polished goodwill

approval from high order

all pepper differentials, denied flag-bearers

and cut our ribs, dried our cows

the vaccine from the lake

burst the cowshed, the drought you brought

planted on the market place, the tree of memory

Akpos Ligali and Doctor

 

Akpos Ligali and Doctor

Akpos Ligali went to the doctor to lodge a complaint concerning his dick. He told the doctor not to laugh when he showed him his dick and the doctor promised to do so. When he pulled down his shorts, the doctor burst into laughter on seeing the finger size dick and later apologized for not keeping his promise. He then asked Akpos Ligali maybe he need an enlargement. Akpos Ligali was angry and said, “can’t you see that my dick is swollen, I need a reduction”!

Legitimacy and Factors

 

Legitimacy

The word legitimacy is coined from the latin word legitimus which means according to law. Therefore it is defined as lawful and constitutional claims to power. It is also said to be the recognition and acceptance by the citizen the right of their ruler or leader to govern them. In a legitimate government, obedience is not based on fear of sanctions but on loyalty to the ruler and the state.

Factors that determine legitimacy

Types of authority

 Types of Authority

1. Political Authority: This is the right to rule , make and implement
laws and policies for a state.
2. Military Authority: This is the legitimate power of the armed
forces or military to defend the country from external attack or
aggression.
3. Judicial Authority: This is the power of judges to give judgment in
courts and secure obedience from the public.

Authority and Sources

 

Authority

Authority can be defined as the legal right to make or enforce law or
policy which a citizen must obey.

SOURCES OF AUTHORITY

1. Legal Authority: The exercise of legal authority is derived from a
body of rules, regulations, laws, constitutions and decree governing a
state. For example, people obey policemen because they have the
backing of the law.

Akpos Ligali Jokes

 Funny

Teacher: Name two tourist attraction and their location in Nigeria.

Akpos Ligali: Chibok at Bornu and Soka at Ibadan.

 

Crime

Akpos Ligali went to stole a wall clock at the church and was caught red handed. He was asked the reason why he did such a thing and he replied "don't you know that God's time is the best"

 

Stupidity

Akpos Ligali climbed a mange tree to check if it has gotten ripe and
he climbed down and started throwing stones at it.

Akpos Ligali polished his shoes just because he wants to take a