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One Way View Of Cultism In Nigeria

Tuesday, March 22nd, 2011

According to Dare Adekanmbi “NO fewer than 15,790 lives have been lost to cultism and youth violence in the nation’s tertiary institutions of learning in the last four years.” This statistic statement is enough snapshot of this ugly trend of cultism clogging the wheels of development in Nigeria. In the midst of social violence, there is little possibility for social development. No matter how we may look at it, the development of cultism is invariably related to the development of the nation. Any intelligible infant in Nigeria knows two things. Cultism is an empirical virus that rears itself in all social divide of the nation. Each cult group, no matter the positive motivation for her formation, consequently metamorphose into sinister manifestations due to doctrinal and eventual conflicts with rival cults.

Anthropologically speaking, cultism is a creation of man’s desire to assert himself, to protect himself from negative environmental and social factors. In this process of cultic integration, there is a possibility that a man may forget his moral self and lose essence of his personal drive for the high ideals of freedom and progress. This also the prime damage of mismanagement of power at the hierarchy of the cult, where the use the code of full obedience to turn human agents into social machines, that serves their own private and selfish interests. Based on this premise, we can say with some certainty that, there is always a higher possibility for the transformation and manifestation of cultic existence as social negativity.

Some Museums in Jos Plateau State Nigeria

Wednesday, November 3rd, 2010

Among the many fruits of tin mining now being enjoyed by Plateau State is the Jos Museum which was established to house the many exhibits of archeological interest which were constantly being dug out of the alluvial planes in the quest for tin. The museum is built under the foot of tree-granite hill and close to wooded stream. It is devoted primarily to the archeological and ethnography of the Plateau area, but it is also the research centre for the pre-history of the entire Nigerian Federation. The Museum the first to be established in Nigeria is remarkable for its relics of a highly sophisticated and widespread culture named after the village of Nok in southern Zaria. The Nok culture flourished over a wide area in Nigeria about 2,000 years ago and produced a very remarkable sculpture in Terra Cotta.

Examples of sculptures from all over Nigeria gives the visitor a glimpse of the richness of Nigerian traditional culture and others exhibits including the stone age of the Plateau, as well as skills of local craftsmen. Jos Museum is also famous for its rich collection of the country’s traditional pottery displayed in a triangular enclosure of trees and ponds. A Museum of Traditional Nigerian Architecture (MOTNA) has been established in Jos. This section of the museum is primarily occupied with reproducing past and existing fascinating and original architectural designs from different parts of the country.

Facing the Jos Museum is the Jos Zoological garden which harbors different types of animals, reptiles and birds. Close to the Jos Museum is the Bright of Benin restaurant. The restaurant replicates a Benin boble man’s house. Markets & places of interest on the Jos-Plateau; Building Materials and Vegetable Market, Gada Biyu Market, Faringada Tomatoes Market,, Langtang Street, Rukuba Road Market,, Jama’a Junction, Mangu Market, Jengre Market, etc.

The Jos-Plateau in Nigeria is also the place to find the following commodities in abundance and at good wholesale and retail prices. Commodities like; vegetables (including Irish potatoes, Cucumber, Cabbage, Tomatoes, Green pepper, Green peas, water melon, Water, Onions, Carrots), grains (including Popcorn, Sorghum, Millet, Yellow Maize, White Maize, Beans, Acha, Rice, Soybeans, Sesame seeds), fruits (including; Oranges, Bananas, Mango, Pineapples, Strawberry, Grape), livestock (including Cow, Calf, Goat, Sheep, Goat, Chicken Eggs, Broiler chicken), and gem stones (including Topaz, Ruby, Tourmaline Blue, Pink Tourmaline, Aquamarine, Quartz, Sapphire), and many more.