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^^ op, that's your answer.

This is a glimpse of what we could witness if Biafra comes to pass. There'll be fight/tussle for leadership positions. And it might not end well because the new state might be embroiled in conflict from the start.

Some Info

Most Individual goals in the Last 13 meetings between both sides:
1. Gambo Muhammed (Pillars) -5 Goals
2. Sibi Gwar (Enyimba) - 3 goals
3. Rabiu Ali (Pillars) - 3 goals

Before today's game would be played, Enyimba are one match away from playing 70 home matches without a defeat in the NPFL.
Played:69, W:54, D:15, L:0

Between this two sides, they have won 11 of the last 16 NPFL titles. Enyimba with 7 titles and Kano Pillars with 4 titles.

Why Enyimba vs Pillars clash is pick of the pack

Enyimba FC defender Ifeanyi Anaemena eyes victory over Kano Pillars

Two of the best sides in the Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL) this past decade, Enyimba and Kano Pillars weigh in on each other on Sunday in a Match Day 32 encounter which promises not just a clash of former heavy weights but also the reunion of old team mates that have switched sides.

The two sides with symbolic aliases that aptly depict what they stand for have had a stranglehold on the domestic league in Nigeria since the turn of the millennium, leaving occasional spaces for other teams to have a taste of the league diadem.

Matches between both sides have also, always had a bearing on the eventual destination of the league trophy but despite Sunday’s game lacking such agenda, there would still be more to be contested for in the game than just a mere fight for the three points.

When the People’s Elephant – as Enyimba are called – file out at the chunky UJ Esuene Stadium, they will be hoping to continue their impregnable home record against Pillars who are yet to secure any away victory against Enyimba in the past twelve years, be it at the frenzied Enyimba Stadium in Aba, the quiet Yakubu Gowon Stadium in Port Harcourt or perhaps anywhere Enyimba call “home ground” per time.

With seven games left to play including Sunday’s clash, both teams are certainly not where they set-out to be on the log at the start of the season. While Enyimba can view the summit of the table from a very vintage 4th position, they still sit 3 points below the last continental spot and eight behind league leaders, Plateau United.

It is not any better for Sai Masu Gida – as Pillars are gallantly called – as they occupy the 10th spot on the log, three points behind Sunday’s opponents Enyimba. The series of chop and changes in both playing and managerial personnel of Kano Pillars seem to underline the team’s struggles this season as they look set for another underwhelming position at the end of the season.

In this fixture last term, Enyimba produced an efficient display to edge out Pillars 2-1 in Port Harcourt to complete a rare double over the former Champions. Enyimba had won the reverse fixture by same score line in Kano earlier in the season. Although Pillars have exacted some sort of revenge this season in Kano with a 3-1 victory, the Ibrahim Musa led team will be hoping to complete a memorable double over the former African champions.

Enyimba are unbeaten in their last 69 home games in the league and have somewhat adapted fully to their difficult home ground in Calabar having won their last eight home games, scoring 16 goals while conceding just 3 in the process. Nine of those goals have come in their last three home games as Enyimba look to step up an unlikely title chase on the home stretch.

Such is the huge task confronting Pillars who have failed to win any of their last 27 away games in the league and interestingly, the responsibility of stopping Enyimba will lie majorly on the shoulders of an Enyimba legend, Chinedu Udoji who joined Pillars at the start of this season after years of meritorious service to the People’s Elephant.

Udoji holds the record as the only player to have been red carded for both teams in games involving the two sides (having been sent off for Enyimba in Kano on April 2015 and for Pillars in this season’s reverse fixture). He however is not the only former Enyimba star that would be in Pillars’ jersey on Sunday as the trio of Idris Aloma, Kamal Sikiru and Bala Zakka have very recently defended Enyimba’s blue and white colours.

While a former Enyimba captain will be hoping to keep the Elephants at bay, former Kano Pillars captain and also a club legend, Theophilus Afelokhai (if selected) will be hoping to get one over his former employers. Just like Udoji, Afelokhai spent about a decade of his career with Pillars, achieving a cult hero status before leaving to join arch-rivals Enyimba before the 2015/16 season.

An Enyimba vs Kano Pillars game is always one to provide the thrills, passion and goals as none of the last eight fixtures involving both sides ended goalless. Another tantalizing “Derby du Nigerie” waits on Sunday

Source: http://www.thatenyimbafan.com/2017/07/30/enyimba-pillars-return-trenches-calabar/

Lagos is serious about this tax issue.

Ambode should first maintain the IPPs done by Fashola. Some of them are no longer working.

He should also complete the blue light rail. 2 years into his tenure and work is still "ongoing".

Besides Dangote refinery when it comes on stream would supply power to Lagos.

[quote author= post=58764528]This shows the difference between the Fashola and Ambode administration. The former tries to prevent the situation while the latter tries to cure the aftermath.[/quote]The former had already a waste program policy in place which all that needed to be done by the latter was to improve on it and make it more efficient.

But No, the latter wants to starts its own and not be associated with the former.

hahn:
I have interest in it but it is a very capital intensive business. Waste can even be recycled into biogas but the Nigerian system is just too difficult to maneuver.

Oh, well I don't know much about the financial strength you must have to start.

Have you heard of we-recyclers or something. They operate too in Lagos and got investor funding. You might wanna check out their own model and know how they operate.

JeffreyJamez:
The recycling business has started already, hence the company VisionScape.

Yea, I've read about them in addition to LASG cleaner Lagos initiative but can they handle the whole of Lagos? Because I think they were the only company given.

I suggest about 5 companies to manage each division of the state.

I heard Lagos state generates more tonnes of waste than New York.

If this waste can be properly disposed and recycled, this could lead to a big interest and sudden boom in the waste recycling business.

Lol by now y'all should know all's not well between Fashola and Lagos APC.

He stepped on so many toes while he was the governor and many still feel aggrieved for what they claimed he did to them.

Free BRF abeg let him concentrate on the bigger task of improving our power supply and make our federal roads more motorable.

fowosh:
he didn't stop the monthly sanitation...an issue erupted some months ago , a man was arrested on a faithful sat DAT was meant to b for sanitation,in lieu of dat,d man sued Lagos state to court and he won...den d court asked Lagos state to truncate d monthly saturday sanitation

Bro, it was under Fashola that the court awarded the case against LASG but Fash refused and insisted on the decision not to stop the monthly sanitation citing instances of what could happen.

Ambode came in and in his bid to show he has human sympathy decided to agree with the court decision instead of appealing. Now see where his human sympathy has led us to. Those he is showing sympathy for are not even showing sympathy in return to the environment.

NwaAmaikpe:


It's a shame

If Lagos will still vote for APC after seeing the mess APC has gotten this country into.

Flooded Zombieland

Pls don't compare the FG led apc to Lagos led Apc.

Labour party is really trying though. But I know APC would still carry the day. The performance of Ambode in Lagos would sway the voters to favour apc candidates

obataokenwa:
I don't know how people enjoy life in Lagos. The govt knows how to use media to hype little achievement. It's obvious Tinubu has milked the smallest state in Nigeria with the highest IGR. Thank God my Igbo brothers have started relocating their businesses gradually to the east to avert the impending ocean surge

Bro, all you typed here makes no sense. It only exposes you as a Lagos hater and we know why.

Ambode is to be blamed for this. Because of his beef with Fashola, he stopped Fashola's waste program for his. Stopped the monthly sanitation and here, look at what we have.

jide219:
Don't know I heard an Igbo is also contesting don't know if its true

Many are contesting as vice in my area because it is Igbo dominated.

Mba oooo

You can only vote in a place where you got your PVC.

By the way, which party/ candidate are you supporting tomorrow even if you wont vote?

dannyyoll:
Am working on a django project (nrw to django) i have a puzzle i can not solve. Can u please give me ur number to call u or u call me with this number 08032385253. Please is very urgent

What's the puzzle?

OAFMods:
How I which I was part of this Buhari led govt this KANU debacle is so insignificant that it will be use to quell any / every other uprising in Nigeria if the leaders are sincere. The solution for agitation like this have been seen in China and Russia severally.

The govt simply need to get some Igbo touts paid them handsomely to foment chaos at any or several event KANU / Ipob is having. The police or army should always be handy in several numbers at the background. The tout sponsored by the federal govt should shoot killing like 5 Ipob member the entire place will scatter the govt sponsored tout should stand their ground n fight for the police to quickly step in arrest like 100 Ipob n KANU.

A charade of an investigation should be carried out, KANU and few Ipob arrested should be release with the govt sponsored touts. If KANU hold any public agitation anywhere in the country again the sane tactics should be employed with the killing increasing in geometric proportion. I swear before this happen 7 times it is Igbo's that will hand over KANU to life of entity in prison. If the govt can not prosecute this plan they should simply send me a private message. If KANU led Biafra agitation does not end before December the govt should behead me.

Bro I don laff taya

Lol

Min. Of state for Petroleum and the Min. Of Power, Works and Housing.

So some of you want to reverse the progress we are already making in the Power sector just because you dont like Fashola or because you're envious of the position he occupies in this administration?

It's those who dont follow the happenings in the Power sector anyway that calls for his removal

But remember we have to spend a whole lot now again if the Power, Works and Housing ministry would be unbundled.

I'll just advice that the current merger should be left until 2019, after that the unbundling can then take place.

We can then have Ministry of Power, Ministry of Works and Housing.

Despite the limited funds, Fashola is doing his best so far in coordinating the affairs of those merged ministries.

But I dont envy the pressure he is on though.

deomelo:
Do you do things without your boss's knowledge?

I thought in this case sir, it is different since the President has already handed over power to his Vice to act in his capacity and take decisions.

I wont question if he was still the vice and had to take permission from his boss.

But now that he can function in the capacity of his boss as the Acting president, is there still a need to seek permission from the boss?

I just want to be clear about that and what if necessary, the constitution says about the limitations of the AgP powers if any

I'm poor at interpreting the constitution correctly.

Thanks.

reuben79:
for dat reason hang urself and die

Alright sir. I will. Thanks

Osinbajo wanted “undiluted information” on Buhari’s health, to brief his boss on decisions he had taken in his absence and get approval for policy, the second source added.


I did mention sometime that the powers of an acting President is limited. If not, why would the AgP have to get approval from his Boss to take certain policies?

I wish I can understand better the powers and limitations of the AgP here.

You could have just said a cabinet reshuffle and not mention any names.

Mentioning Fashola makes it clear that your report is absolutely Fake.

I just have to encourage you.

Just keep learning so that you can build something better as you gain more knowledge. All the best bro.

amachuk:
Thank God you admit that Biafra is the majority and democracy is a game of numbers.

If you say so for Biafra, why then do you grumble about the set up in Nigeria?

Isnt the Hausa/ Fulanis currently the majority in Nigeria?

Why do you feel offended because they take the share of most things when you're going to do the same to minorities in your Biafran nation?

veekid:
Lola Rae; one of my celebrity crush, started loving her from the days of "love my tingo"

Same here