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I first heard this news from Ajebo on NaijaFm.

arsetalks:
You just called me uniformed and you just posted exactly the same thing I was kicking against.

Why do you think a player will refuse an offer to collect $2000 or N300,000 per week to play in a league where minimum is N150,000 per month?

And you say two players were fired, so why is that the problem of the players? What did LMC do to that? What are the rights of the players? Can such be attainable in England or even in India? Be honest.

Bros, LMC had to make the limit #150k. Do you know that even some clubs cant still afford to pay that? So you want LMC to put it at 500k, then we would have no league. All these clubs are govt sponsored besides 2, so the fee is reasonable. You would be unfair to LMC to blame them for putting the minimum wage at 150k.

Is it the LMC's responsibility to punishh Dolphins? There are Player unions. Bros, maybe you should go read up on what LMC was formed for before you think they are here to do everything including fixing bad stadia. Most players dont know their right and that is the responsibility of Players union/ Club management and not LMC...

And FC IfeanyiUba are out of FedCup

Money no be everything

honeric01:
How about Enyimba, how did they get their 8 penalties? how many at home and how many away since they have most PKs this season?

Let's deal with the highest PKs owners first.

Enyimba got a PK in these away games I think: Wolves (1), Kwara utd (2), Rangers (1) and I more.

Enyimba has also conceded about 5 PKs both home and away.

So our 5 that we concede nullifies the ones we got and scored.

honeric01:
Stats bro..

And how come no one is talking about the PKs Enyimba got so far?

Cuz Enyimba gets PKs in away matches too. When was the last time Pillars got theirs away?. It is always at home, whenever they are trailing.

texazzpete:
Rubbish

These clowns keep making the fundamental mistakes many Nigerians do...trying to enforce how private individuals or companies spend their own money.

The LMC will not invest in better cameras for their stadia, will not invest in security to make the experience of live stadium visits salubrious. They will not pay players well to retain talent. They will not provide adequate protection for refs.

Yet they want Nigerians to come and watch the local league.

Enough of this silly and stoopid pseudo-patriotism. Make your games more palatable to watch and people will come. As long as they continue to try to invest the least amount of money while expecting miraculous returns, nothing will change!

That is what other Europeans did back then to protect their League too. When they did that, their citizens applauded it but look at us here, condemning such bold move. smh

LMC Invest in camera for the stadia? So, it is the responsibility of LMC now to do the job of Club mgts

Invest in Security When was the last time, you heard about Violence at league venues And if you want to know, the LMC chairman met with the IGP on ways to improve security at league venues and he got a positive response from the IGP.

So LMC are the club owners to pay the Players

Adequate protection for Referee? You are still in the dark about the recent developments obviously.

Yes, you should watch/follow/support the league.

hernars:
i dont see how this will make local companies reduce their partnership with foreign clubs...... would you have or firms like CHIVITA use players from kano pillers or 3SC instead of players from MAN UTD or ARSENAL for their adverts

Rubbish talk! Why are the likes of Glo and Airtel using Olamide, Wizkid and co. instead of Jay Z, Rihanna

wordcat:
Home team must win is the problem of the Nigerian league. Put ur house in order and people will patronize u.

I remember those days in secondary sch, it was all Celine Dion, R. Kelly, KC and Jojo e.t.c but today everybody is playing and enjoying Naija music and videos without anybody forcing us to patronize them.

Nigerians really like made in Nigeria but............................

Please, do you follow or #SupportTheNPFL at all. If not, please do, then you would know that your assertion is entirely false. Enyimba FC currently has four away wins. Enyimba FC currently has drawn four home matches. So, the home must win syndrome is a thing of the past.

arsetalks:
LMC is mad if they think this is what will make the league attractive. How about ensuring a certain standard in the stadia? How about having a fix amount as the minimum weekly wage for players? In England, when you are on a professional contract with a club in the EPL you get not lower than £15,000 a month. A situation whereby players are been paid 150,000 naira a month is extreme madness.

The biggest challenge facing the league if the flight of players from the league. A situation whereby our players will find the league attractive should be worked on.

Commend the clubs to pay the players well and half of the problem is solved.

Another uninformed Poster

Ensuring standard in stadia: Do you know that some clubs have been banned from playing in their stadium, until they fix their respective stadium Aboout 16 clubs were affected.

Do you know that LMC has already set a minimum amount to be paid at #150,000 and any club that doesn't pay their players and they get information of such, they'll deduct points from such club till they pay their players

LMC can only enforce rules IF the players are willing to co-operate. Two dolphins players reported the club to the LMC over non-payment, today, the players are no longer with the club. They were fired! So, players are scared to report their club.

So many ignorant comments by Posters on this thread. What makes it unfortunate is that, such comments are on the first page, and hav received prominence, thereby misleading the general public on the state of affairs of our league.

Imagine one saying, LMC should pay players regularly

I wish I saw this thread earlier

#SupportTheNPFL.com

mmm, well I'm also about to go this route. Integrating a payment platform on a website, client wants me to use Remita... I was completely, at lost

been praying to google, and she answered me within 0.15secs with results, a link to this thread being one of them...

ok, well, there is always a first time.

seunwen2:
NB: am currently serving

With Physics, you can dive into Game programming. I was doing it before I unceremoniously left school.

And still the club, couldnt win their home game today, now Sunshine stars is breathing down my neck

FC IU should go on relegation, waste of space in the NPFL

Who has this handle? https://twitter.com/Troll_Npfl

Osita Iheme watching the Enyimba v Lobi game

adioolayi:
what's the score update before rain forced them to postpone the match?

0-0

Enyimba 2-0 Lobi

Orikinla:
I have been using Swift for my internet since 2013. But I have noticed some sharp practice since January this year. I have been paying N10, 000 monthly through one the agents of Swift who pays N7000 monthly and keeps the remaining N3,000. But suddenly I got disconnected even before the end of the last two months. Then just this morning I was disconnected when my last monthly payment was last month on July 25 for another month. Is one month now 13 days? I have not been doing much this year compared to the previous years. Data consumption is not much. I suspect sharp practices by members of staff at Swift who know the usernames and passwords. They can be using my account for downloads, because they know I don't share it. Someone recommended Smile to me.

I use Smile. 4k for 3gig but there is also a 4k for 5gig plan that works only in the evening during weekdays and all thro' the weekend.

It is fast, the only problem is that if you are not careful, you can finish it within a week

The first time I bought it (4k for 3gig), it lasted for just 14days instead of 30 days. But it is more reliable.

Wow, and it was only yesterday I followed Reekaddict

Reekado Banks would be the first Nigerian musician I have followed on Twitter. I just like the guys music

FT
Sunshine 2-0 Sharks

Nna, I cant live without data. Now that I have no smartphone and I need to be online 24/7

Na Smile communication I dey use sha. 4k for 3g. I renew 2ce a month = 8k

Source: http://www.thatenyimbafan.com/blogs/my-enyimba-love-story-emmanuel-obika/

Good morning Guys.

We promised a few weeks ago that we were working on dedicating a specific day of the week to accommodate tales from other Enyimba fans far and near. It must not necessarily be a story of how you fell in love with the club, it could be a match day story, it could be a day the club broke your heart, whatever you deem good enough and true enough to share with other fans. The platform is ready now.

The idea of course as you share with us your experience (whether good or bad) is for us to know just how much Enyimba means to you. So we kick off this column up today with Emmanuel Obika who tells us his love tale with the People's Elephant. Remember you can share your tales via our email- thatenyimbafan@gmail.com

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How do I start explaining my romance with the peoples elephant? I don't think its something I can rattle out whenever am called on to explain. I mean a man on a journey of self discovery can't really point out where the rain started beating him.

But Wait o! do you remember that sports daily paper back in d day, produced by Paul Bassey (MON)? The one In black and white? Yeah it was called TODAY'S SPORTS, that's how this love story gained momentum.

I remember picking one up and read of the 6-1 drubbing of Enyimba by Ismaily. Kaii! A whole Nigerian Premier League Champion, being beaten silly by Ismaily, not even the dreaded Al Ahly oo, but ismaily. I dropped d paper immediately I picked it up as if it had a venomous sting.

But on continuous buying of daily sport (which was 10naira back then, easily affordable by a teenage me) I realised Enyimba was not just any other club, they just won the league on a row, hardly shuffled players at d end of every season like the wee clubs, valued and paid players well, had a sole administrator who wasn't gonna be fired in the near future, had sponsors at their beck and call. The big one, wait for it...they were the only one back then with a home stadium named after them. I mean it was their ground they didn't share. That's stability and I do believe you know how much stability and consistency matter in life.

Enyimba was like the perfect bride whose accomplishment was enough to rope the best man in the land to her. I was that man. Enyimba would rope you in and serenade you, whisper words sunday school swore they never existed into your ear, your mouth would be ajar, salivating and gasping for breath at the same time. Even when u go to sleep she's there in your dreams telling you how much she appreciates you in her life.(Kaii see what good football can do). Ok enough of this love making story.

We went on to win the African Champions League back to back. Good football, awesome away results of which two were outstanding for me- the first final against Ismaily (Revenge is a meal best served cold, right?) and the one with Esperance, against all odds. I still have a wallpaper from that match in my room depicting Onyekachi Okonkwo pointing towards the sky). Enyimba had mastered the North Africans and their antics that we almost always came out tops (oh glory).

Africa feared us, SA clubs with all their money were envious, the clubs at home were scared, coming to aba always seemed just a formality for them because they had only two options either loose or loose, no bargaining. All the best players in the land would die to don our jersey. Good old days I'd say.

Now let me take a look at that legendary squad that won us a Champions League title back to back. Indefatigable Enyeama manned the posts, he held sway like Thor. In fact he's the real Thor the other is a copycat. Yes I said so. He was ably deputized by Dele Aiyenugba "the cat". Believe me when I say, Dele had penalties for breakfast, lunch and dinner. He could catch penalties and at the same time sing the national anthem.

Then comes the legendary Romanus Orjinta (RIP) Captain of the whole universe, protector of the back four and the leader of the blue army. Hard as nail. He wasn't just our captain but also captain to hundred of thousands of Enyimba fans. If he ever said jump we would only ask how high? He was ably deputized by Obinna Nwaneri 'aba boy' calm as casmir(lol), and he became captain after Orjinta left.

We had Yusuf Mohammed, Ogbonnaya Okemiri who marauded the flanks like guys on a drive by shootout. Was always amazed how Okey despite his handicap was so efficient still sad he plays for those small boys across town.

In midfield was Muri Ogunbiyi so cool as a cucumber, never for once will you see emotions on his face, you never knew if he was happy or boiling deep down but his vision was 99%. He was partnered by Onyekachi Okonkwo "Mr Smiles" that's that much talked about engine room you always hear, yep, both of them.

Behind the front three was David Tyakavse who was so so good in the "hole". Applause for the Three Musketeers in African football. Joetex Frimpong, Emeka Nwanna (First Million Man buy in the NPL), Ndidi Anumunu and Victor Ezeji. Those guys plundered goals at will. I would swear they screamed goal at every other interval in their personal lives.

These guys entangled me into the fabric that is Enyimba. Made me look forward to every 90mins involving Enyimba. We truimphed and shared backslaps every other week.

Oh Enyimba, May this romance never end.

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I gotta say this fan is as poetic as he is crazy. Nice choice of words in some of his descriptions and although mixed up some of the player sets mixed up, nice relieving those memories.

Back tomorrow with a preview for the Akwa United game.

'EnyimbaEnyi

chudionu58:
npfl. ng

Nah, I know how that site looks like

I've even been contacted to improve the interface.

honeric01:
www. livescores dot com bro.

Okay, thanks...

honeric01:
Results so far... Kano pillars climbing gradually.

just 7 points separating the top team from the 7th position.

Enyimba be afraid.

Be very afraid.

Hey bro, what's the link to this site you got the table from?

Sunkaeme:
Dis list without Ezekiel Bassey & Chinedu Udoji of Enyimba is not complete. Dat guy Bassey is very good

I agree with you on Bassey...

kenonze:
Consider Nig factor, its gonna be real hard unless billionaire like Ifeanyi uba or Dangote bought it over. no community can sustain enyimba. No good cash price in the NPL. How do u think they gonna execute their intercontinental engagements?

Enyimba's budget every season should be about 500million naira. Enyimba has an aggregrate of about 20,000 fans on social media. If those fans can be "monetized", it is worth the try. We can start and see if it can work while the govt watches and intervenes when necessary. That way sponsors too will rush in because of fan engagement...

The Nig factor shouldnt be considered cuz we love football here. If you know how much we spend to watch epl games, bro, you'd know that this model can be sustained.

kenonze:
I love everything about Ebyimba.
I wish Orji Uzo kalu is still the Governor of Abia state just for the sake of Enyimba.
Enyimba could have b quoted in the Nig stock Exchange by now

Well, for me, I think the best thing is for Enyimba to be disengaged from the State Government.

Supporter's club/trust and community ownership can manage Enyimba better...

lalasticlala

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