Nigerian united Golden Eaglet.....Mohammad to Iheanacho....Iheanacho to Awoniyi....its a goal....sooooooooooo sweeeeeeet.

Congratulations to the federal government, their policy on football so far is working.

fckyourman: I feel so honored to be the first comment. All of my hard work and dedication has paid off. Getting the top comment has been a dream of mine for many years, and i would like to thank those who have helped me along the way. First and foremost i would like to thank god for giving me this opportunity. Next i would like to thank my parents. I want to thank my friend Josh Arcaro, for being really skinny and always there for me. I would also like to thank my pet tadpole for surviving against all odds for over a week. Next i would like to thank the squirrel that lives in my backyard for climbing trees because that gives me inspiration that i need to get through the day. This is a special moment in my life and i would like to thank any of my unmentioned friends and family that have helped me along the way. This moment will be a moment that i will never forget. I just remembered a few other people i would like to thank; Facebook the fish i caught in the third grade, my light in my room bc i wouldn't be able to see the keyboard without it, the internet for letting me go on Facebook my house because without it i would be homeless, and last but not least i would like to thank all the people out there that actually took time out of their day to read this. I cannot stress how much of a big deal to me this is. I have been trying to be the first comment on a post for years, but that has not been possible until this amazing day. Hopefully my good luck will continue, but this is undoubtedly a rare occasion. If you asked me how i did this, i would say, you can achieve anything u set your mind on. To all the kids out there reading this, i would like to tell them to follow their dreams. Being the top comment is amazing, thank you everyone and for your likes.

Na wa o

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nigeria government wants nigerians to do them proud outside and they dont want to do us proud at home

Yusluv77: OPEN LETTER TO NIGERIANS: Dear fellow Nigerians,
How are you all doing? I know all is not well but i
believe things will change for good in the nearest
future. I would like to use this medium to point out a
certain fact to all of us. Did you know that When a
Nigerian National team scores a goal......Nigerians of
all ethnicity and religion will jump up in jubilation
and be screaming one word, one language in one
voice "GOOAALLL!!!". That moment, we forget our
ethnic & tribalistic sentiments wether it was scored
by an Hausa, an Igbo or a Yoruba man. We love the
feelings, we cherish the moments, we adore the
players and we sing with one voice....."Up Super
Eagles, Up Flying Eagles, Up Golden Eaglets and Up
Green Eagles". When we talk about those
games....we talk about "Nigeria" with one voice. We
always wish Nigeria the best and support Nigeria
with our great man power to go all out for the
"Glory", for the interest of "One Nigeria". Nigeria can
work, Nigeria can be a better place, Nigeria can
move forward if the Hausa man can support the
Yoruba man in government, if the Yoruba man can
shun every ethnic sentiments and support the
administration of the Igbo government. Look at the
Golden Eaglets...the Hausa man [YAHAYA] passes
the ball to the Igbo man [IHEANACHO] & the Igbo
man tries and dribbles his way out of the huddles
just to set up the Yoruba man [AWONIYI] to score
the goal. That one goal that was fought for by the
collective responsibility, hard work and contributions
of all the ethnic Nationality for one common goal
[interest] that will benefit, elevate and sky rocket
this One Nation to a greater hight and achievement
(s). We should learn from this... we are one Nigeria,
and that one greater Nigeria will only be possible if
we eschew this our habit of ethnic sentiments and
religious bias. UP GOLDEN EAGLETS, UP UP
UPPER #NIGERIA. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

All d Nna's & Nne's dem gor vex 4 u 4 dis thin wey u yan so oo!

As far as dey are concern, it's either Nigerian Presidency (2015 or 2306 ) or total BIAFRA!
No more no less

caprini: Nigerian united Golden Eaglet.....Mohammad to Iheanacho....Iheanacho to Awoniyi....its a goal....sooooooooooo sweeeeeeet.

We give God d glory!
It's no longer boko haram 2 kidnappers or money ritualists... Or Biafra to Awolowo ... Or Owambes to Otuoke fishermen?
we thank God

One Nigeria!!!

dailywealth1967: Thank u my president.Pls,do all within ur powers to eliminate curruption

Suicide mission u dey send am 2 embark upon.

iykofias: I'm sure ur maths n logistic teacher was a pessimist. Simply calculation n deduction of facts eludes u. Who should we blame if d ecomonic is crumbling (mayb u blame ur village chiefs): d leader shuld b blame I.e mr president.
Who shuld be praise wen we win a football tournament: d coaches n d players only,wen ds boys wia preparing jona was busy ringing bell, did he recommend any player to d coaching staffs? NO! #CaseClose!!!

we got a democratic system of government which allows the country to hv ministers heading every sector... If the President gets the sticks for every failure in the sector, why cnt he get the praise for any success in the sectors too??
You cn insult all u like buh the fact stays.

20584 views on my thread as at 10:45am 09-11-13.......... quite a huge achievement, LAWD bless my hustle on Nairaland...........To the peeps who wanna be like me

go sit down jooor,if dem take 2nd u go cheer dem?

GustavoFring: Jonathan should hide his face in shame...

There are under 17 students that have been sitting at home for months because of his incompetence.

If he had any self esteem, he wouldn't even show his ugly face on TV

You obviously don't come from a good home!

Emzybrown: 20584 views on my thread as at 10:45am 09-11-13.......... quite a huge achievement, LAWD bless my hustle on Nairaland...........To the peeps who wanna be like me

.....look at this small boy.......

SELFWORTH:


.....look at this small boy.......

Haters...... Am not in your levels

GEJ 3 - Mexico 0
Reports reaching our desk indicates that APC is holding a meeting to hear from Tinubu on how they will respond to yet another Jonathan win. So, what do you think?

macfarland: GEJ 3 - Mexico 0
Reports reaching our desk indicates that APC is holding a meeting to hear from Tinubu on how they will respond to yet another Jonathan win. So, what do you think?

Did I miss something here? What did GEJ win?

FIFA: POLICY OF STRATEGIC AMBIGUITY ON FOOTBALL PLAYERS' ON-FIELD DISPLAY OF RELIGIOSITY!©
(a.k.a., Pragmatism and Paradox of Profit, Pox and Purity)©
--Attorney Patryk Utulu

As a hugely successful, multi-billion dollar business enterprise, which so far, has successfully created the perception that it is owned-by-the-world, and therefore “ownerless,” FIFA has a billion reasons to be tolerant of football players’ ostentatious on-field display of religious piety. After all, FIFA is aware that even in our rapidly secularizing world, majority of football followers are people who are either religiously-observant, or at least, tolerant of religion. Despite what you hear a majority of people on earth don’t hate religion. People don’t hate religion per se. People just hate other peoples’ religion.

CONTEXT tends to bring better clarity so a brief re-introduction of FIFA is useful. The Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) was founded on May 21, 1904 to govern national football associations. Despite marketing itself like one, FIFA is not a philanthropic organization. It is, first and always, a profit-oriented enterprise with powerful financial stakeholders [mostly European nations in collaboration with multinational corporations in Asia, Europe and North America] who make millions of dollars in yearly profits by marketing products, fame and physique. Far removed from the patriotic chants of cheering global audiences – and operating from corporate boardrooms and V.I.P. boxes – these financial stakeholders have two primary objectives: (1) ensure that FIFA uses every technological tool (public relations and mass media) to expand football’s fan base from slums to suburbs, and from every house on every hill to every village in every valley; (2) provide corporate and public relations infrastructure to enable FIFA achieve objective #1 without attracting competition and/or controversies.

But the world is an irritable polygamy of cultures, politics, religions and regional idiosyncrasies!

PRAGMATISM is great but not magical! By successfully marketing the perception that it is owned-by-the-world FIFA also created expectation in billions of people that their biases will have central consideration in its decisions. Starting in the 1960’s FIFA adopted a 3-prong global strategy: (1) Grow the game by developing pockets of indigenous talents around the world, (2) Maintain fan loyalty in existing football markets by participating in token but visible social programs, and (3) Avoid controversies by avoiding issues of cultures/politics/religion. Indeed, so faithful was FIFA to its policy of avoidance (worried about alienating ticket-buying fans in Europe) that it didn’t begin to seriously confront overt racism against players by other players, and rich unruly fan clubs, until just very recently.

21ST CENTURY ISSUES! Like all global actors, FIFA has had to deal with a new world filled with new possibilities and petty insecurities. Unfortunately, bureaucracies are creatures of habit so FIFA tried to solve modern problems with outdated solutions. For example, when developing nations demanded (i) Stronger representation in FIFA’s Executive Committee, (ii) Greater financial transparency, (iii) More slots at World Cup Finals, (iv) Profit-Sharing, (v) Compensation for houses demolished to build world cup stadiums, (vi) Affordable tickets for low wealth nations, (vii) Display of religious/cultural insignia, (viii) Reducing the suffocating presence of corporate sponsors, etc., FIFA often responded not by addressing the issues but by spending millions of dollars on commercial outreach, public relation campaigns, and high profile visits by famous players on the mistaken belief that all that glitters is gold. Sometimes FIFA simply avoided the issues outright by declaring them “too political” or too “localized.”

TRADITION VS. MODERNITY! FIFA’s greatest weakness is that even though its products are marketed to mass audiences it seldom cultivated horizontal relationships with grassroots community organizations. Instead, FIFA relies on aging sport legends, models and social playmakers as vertical spokespersons. That approached worked well in past decades when superstars were rarely seen in public. But in our current autobiographical, Facebook/YouTube world of oversaturated images, the words of superstars has fleeting durability. Also, outside of their comfort zones stars are unpredictable. Often, they used FIFA’s platform to publicize not what FIFA wanted but instead, the social/cultural/political issues the stars care about. [Hmmm, OK, now you know why FIFA instituted the 30-seconds transmission delay policy].

The paradox of pragmatism, profit, (small)pox and purity confronts FIFA. Alliances of tradition and modernity are possible but these are always partnerships of nervous tension and mutual suspicions. Things haven’t yet fallen apart at FIFA’s Zurich (Switzerland) headquarters but there is a siege mentality as it tries to harmonize the competing – and often, contradictory – interests of various segments of its global audiences. One emerging crisis is how far to accommodate football players’ on-field display of religious piety on the global stage [which FIFA’s customary audiences don’t mind] without alienating millions of viewers in new frontier markets of China/USA/secular youths [who are uncomfortable with open display of religiosity]. FIFA may avoid providing a clear statement on this vexing issue that won’t go away. But it must provide guidelines even if it is one of strategic ambiguity that muddles the water. Even an ostrich knows the futility of merely burying its head in the sand when cornered by a fierce predator.

CONTROVERSIES! FIFA is an expert at controversies. One way to view FIFA’s situation is to imagine a Used Car dealer with a questionable reputation and a team of good lawyers that keeps him out of jail. Injustice breeds controversies. For example, FIFA’s membership is comprised of 209 “national associations” [by that standard, FIFA is bigger than the U.N. which has 193 members]. In theory, FIFA Congress (Reps of national associations) is the supreme body. In practice, the real power rests with FIFA’s Executive Committee (FIFA President, General Secretary and selected officers). Since its founding (excepting for Joao Havelange of Brazil) all FIFA Presidents/Secretaries General have been Europeans!

Another source of controversy is the allocation of slots at World Cup Finals. FIFA has 6 “Confederations”:
AFC: Asia Football Association. Asia has 44 nations but gets only 4.5 slots at the world cup finals
CAF: Confederation of African Football. Africa has 54 nations but gets only 5 slots
CONCACAF: North/Central America/Caribbean has 23 nations but gets 3.5 slots
CONMEBOL: South American Football has 12 nations but gets 4.5 slots [Brazil, as host, gets 1]
OFC: Oceania Football Confederation has 14 nations but gets 0.5 slot
UEFA: Europe has 47 nations but gets 13 slots (Asian nations of Israel, Russia, Turkey, Cyprus and Kazakhstan play under UEFA qualification due to political reasons. Still it is manifestly unfair that at the world cup finals, Europe has 3 slots more than the 113 nations of Africa, Asia and Oceania combined!)

FIFA praises democratic traditions and suspends national associations at the slightest hint of domestic political interference, but it doesn’t practice democracy. International Football Association Board (IFAB) enforces FIFA rules. Six of its eight members are required to change any rules. FIFA nominates 4 of the 8 while the UK [England, Northern Island, Scotland and Wales] provides the other 4 “permanent” members. FOUR PERMANENT MEMBERS! The excuse is that these UK nations helped to develop IFAB in 1882. The Greeks also founded the Olympics in 8th Century BC but does anyone believe that Greece should have a permanent right to host the Olympiad “every other” 4 years?

FIFA is beset by allegations of bribery, vote-rigging, match-fixing and even vote-tampering. In his book, “Foul! The Secret World of FIFA: Bribes, Vote-Rigging and Ticket Scandals,”[2006] British investigative reporter, Andrew Jennings, meticulously documented evidence of massive Pay2Play, cash for contract corruption at FIFA. Mr. Jennings alleged, with proof, that FIFA’s marketing partner, International Sports Leisure (ISL), paid over 170 bribes worth more than $100 Million to top FIFA officials to secure contracts.
FIFA’S LIST OF ACCOMPLISHMENT deserves favorable mention too. It includes, but is not limited to:
1) Organizing the first truly global sport event in history and keeping it relatively free of politics
2) Helping low wealth nations in Europe/Africa/Asia/Caribbean to compete on the global stage
3) Reducing global tensions by crystallizing the Culture that Sports-is-above-Politics
4) Partnering with International Olympics Committee to build international standards for global sports
5) Developing Football Goodwill Ambassadors (a model for other international organizations)
6) Getting infrastructural development by asking for improved infrastructures to meet global standard
From Africa to Arabia, Argentina to Australia, Canada to Columbia, Europe to Eurasia and all the way to the Plains of Outer Mongolia, football has been true to FIFA’s motto, “For the Game. For the World.” It is the biggest individual global sport, and since the first World Cup was played in Uruguay in 1930, the event has been held without interruption every 4 years except in 1942 (during World War II, 1939-1945).

FORWARD TO THE PAST? Wherever collective human endeavor goes culture/politics/religion follows. In addition to those passions that civilization and decorum have restricted to bedrooms, sports gives us the greatest social licenses to publicly express animalistic passions. It offers occasions to live our lives but also to pretend that we can do better than society’s best. For example, sports can give a morbidly obese man in front of a TV the license to complain that an athlete in peak condition isn’t good enough and that he, the fat man, could do better. The essence of sports is participation. We partake through personal involvement or by supporting participants or adopting teams/mascots. The social objective of sports is to live vicariously so as to forget our individual differences and celebrate our common humanity.

So, what modern position should we assign ancient passions of culture/politics/religion at FIFA events? FIFA might be well-served to review opinions of U.S. Supreme Court on the vexing issue of “Separation of Church & State (nation)." In America’s first 200 years the role of religion in public space wasn’t a major issue as U.S. population was mainly Christian. But as racial, ethnic, cultural and religious diversity has grown the Supreme Court was obliged to provide guidelines. Loosely speaking, the Court’s common sense views on religion in the public space are: (1) religious objects may remain in public space if they have historical significance beyond mere religious purpose, (2) prayers, except in few exceptions, should be limited to private venues, (3) some religious displays are acceptable if there is no discriminatory intent [it’s OK to display a “Cross” if you also display Islamic “Crescent” or Jewish “Menorah,” etc.], (4) guidelines are not exclusive, so the Supreme Court may limit or expand rules based on circumstances.

FIFA needs to speak up otherwise FIFA will continue to behave like the duplicitous and cowardly polygamist who brings daily misery on his family by telling the older wife (in front of her ferocious sons) that marrying the second wife was a mistake he intends to correct, while simultaneously (and always in the privacy of the bedroom), promising the younger wife that tomorrow – and always tomorrow! – he would get rid of the older wife.

Patryk Utulu is a U.S.-based attorney and Strategic Communications Consultant
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Michael Sokoto:
Eh, my oga, me I nah knw wetin d name mean oo
My 2cent & kunu

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caseless: *grabs d bowl of kunu* likita boka=native doctor(baba alawo)

native doctor?
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