₦airaland Forum

Kalulu44:
You're talking off point bro. Osimhen, Kanu, Ndidi, Udeze, Taribo and thousands of them ex and current players have Nigeria to thank for choosing them for int'l competition

You obviously know nothing about Nigeria football

Why do we beg players playing outside to come play for us if your claim is right?

What is the percentage of players playing abroad to the ones playing locally?

The fact is the country needs to always bestow honour upon those who have worn her jersey with pride

Whether soldiers, ex-sportsmen, teachers and what have you

You saying Nigeria owe them nothing is a no sense statement

Lekby25:
Abi, sebi na him dey clamour for the south presidential candidate since. He don get am now, let's see what he is going to do with it

Yes ooo, he must to contest now

Abi the nigga like FCT minister pass president ni?

GadoosGadoo:
Pdp please come and rescue us. Quote me anywhere no presidency or governance performs better on second term in office than first. Going by this, it means what we are experiencing now is child's play compared to what is coming if Tinu enters in 2027

That is my major, cause all of majority of leaders we've had always use their first term to even pacify the people before they start showing their colours

Now imagine if first term we don dey see this kind of shege, how second term wan be abeg

RSAV:
It's unreasonable entitlement. You said they took football as war, what about Soldiers who actually go to war? How much is the pension of soldiers? Playing for Nigeria gave many of these ex-sportsmen the spotlight for club-side professional football and the accompanying wealth. The allowances Nigeria paid them was 10 times more than the salaries of University Professors. Peter Rufai himself never blamed Nigeria for his misfortune. Taribo should take responsibility for his predicaments, if any.

Nigerians and always being sentimental, are we talking about soldiers here??

Maybe you should try to find out how some of them became star, did Nigeria have any hand in that??

Let's call a spade a spade, we need to work more on our nation, that's the basic thing whether soldiers, police, teachers or what have you

helinues:
President Tinubu would likely retired from active politics just like late president Buhari.

There should be a new regional party before 2031

So the APC was just created for the sole reason of Tinubu becoming president

Una dey do ooo

Putindbutt:
I thought you people will dare Wike and touch his zonal committees. And for that convention, until Wike approve am, it will be a beer parlour exercise.

Make he kukuma go pick their ticket now, abi he also don't want to be a president??

Some niggas dey bloat say why would the government help out our ex-international in the other thread now they should be happy with this

Lawmakers need to live large, while the citizens must suffer

No surprises there Sha, cos majority of Nigerian workers will leave their job if they get something better

Many workers are being paid less than 100k monthly and still with massive work load, not to mention cost of living wey dey make them even borrow join their salary sef

Those APC guys know wetin dem dey do jere

Infact this Tinubu era just worst in al forms

Buhari was still even pretending in his own first tenure like say he be better person, but this one henn

Wike should contest abeg, abi he no want president again??

NOETHNICITY:
Most of them played their names and their pockets which is fine with me. If you play well for your country you stand a huge chance of benefiting in the form of earning huge contracts at club levels

You guys are not getting it, these guys go all out to find a way to run to Europe where there are working systems to learn footballing skills, come back to use that same skills for the benefit of the nation

Abi u think say that jeun jeun stuff we do in Nigeria can even make us win the nations cup??

Can you count five players that were home based that made it to the apex of their career??

Kalulu44:
And I ask again, which country are they putting on the world map or it's the country that's putting them the players on the world map.
Bench or drop any of them from any tournament list and see how they'll be claiming partiality.
See let me tell you, athletes are not doing Nigeria any favors, rather it's Naija that is favouring them

Europeans have a standard already, they train you from a child till you become a professional

Can that be said about Nigeria??

If not that our talents run to Europe to Garner some sort of experience, do you even think we would be regarded as a footballing nation??

PAWG:
What world map? Was playing for Nigeria their full time job? You guys are outrageous. I have little pity for the ones that played in Europe. Imagine someone like Obafemi Martins (God forbid) going broke me you want me to pity him. Wake up abeg


How many games did they play for Nigeria compared to their clubs that Nigeria should fund them for life?

They played more for clubs than county

But it is good to buy vehicles for Lawmakers who practically just sit their asses down all year right??

Dem dey thief oil, our leaders dey do their own, APC supporters dey defend all

helinues:
Have any of you or your relatives have experienced the bandits and armed insurgents? Or you crying on behalf of the bereaved as usual?

So his/her family must witness it first before anything can be done

Una Sha just wan justify una pay, even if it meant to twerk for the devil

Kemetian:
They will LOSE the elections and cry rigging.

What else do they have?

Toxic set of people.

And after losing election, all of us go to dey eating the shege well prepared by your lord and saviour

Whether you like or not, we all dey inside am

100k don dey resemble 5k these days, no wahala

Maxymilliano:
What has his salary at club level had to do with the NFF not doing enough for ex players who fought to put the country name on global list ?

And can we see what Rufai salary was as at then

Asin Nigerians just funny at times ooo

Yet they want the current set of players to die for the country with this sort of mindset

These guys practically took football as war then, with life threatening injuries, constantly keeping fit so the country can be put in the world map and yet ordinary support them after retirement na him be problem

helinues:
Oya tell us which single country created by your sky God

Now we know why you don't love the country

BabaO2:
You can't compare Diego jota's situation, not similar man. Jota's situation is unplanned sudden ending. Moreover, the family are not crying for help or labelling their country or club authority in a bad light. Jota situation is a compassionate driven, individuals, clubs are willing to give to support the family left behind. We have not even heard gift announcement from Portugal his country

How is it different, infact Rufai had a greater impact than Jota, yet the NFF failed to recognize that

Is Former President Buhari family also not wealthy enough to bury their father, so why did the government took everything upon themselves

There are stuffs that are not justifiable

chidi2003:
Every family? You are remote from the truth!

It's a fact now

Even if you no accept it

helinues:
It might not be almost next time. The boy should receive sense with his activism

Instead of you to call out the government to avoid any next time, see what you're yapping

And you claim to love Nigeria too

chidi2003:
Why were you so fast to conclude? Fraud is bad, but do you know that: Nigerians are not the number one scammers in the world? Nigerians are just loud about their activities.
Do your research about deadly scammers of the world; you will get countries like: China, Russia, India, Mexico, Colombia, Iran, North Korea, Pakistan,etc.
Nigerians are juniors scammers to many people from this countries.
In all: criminality of any kind is Deplorable; let's all be a wonderful part of Humanity!

See we no just get the enablement of those countries ni ooo

Almost every family in Nigeria today have someone claiming to be yahoo boy or fraudster

Can you say that for every other nation?

BabaO2:
True
Why did Odegbamis, Amasiemekas not turn beggars, not to talk of Ahmed Musa, Mikel Obis, Drogbas, Etos, George Weahs, after Nigeria has given them platform to showcase them to the world, most of them still want Nigerian government to finance their weddings, buy diapers for their babies etc as if their services brought goldmine to Nigeria, bunch of lazy and ungrateful people. It is even annoying, not as if some of them even deserved to play for Nigeria on merit.

But Liverpool did everything to honour diogo Jota

Our values has a nation is being faded away right in our sight and because we want to sound right, we keep ignoring that

Africa needs to create a market for sport that can keep these guys busy even after retirement

We need to also invest in having professional certification schools, not everyone will want to go back to school after fame

But if there are these schools where you can learn just one thing professionally, many of them will jump on it

Does it please you to know that even most of the ex-athlete that even manages to do well in life after retirement run out of Nigeria cos there are no markets for them here

You can't even contest to be a State FA chairman, not to talk of MFA president, not to talk of being the super eagles coach

Our economy is also mostly an underpaid one, so persons that have been enjoying salaries in foreign currency now start living with the small change that they get here

In all, we need to still improve our standards as a nation, it is wrong for us to accept this current situation as the best we can have at the moment

cunny88:
They want to pile on all the problems on the government with tax payers money.

Forget that thing wey Ideye dey talk, even sports can pay them for life, we don't just have the right system

The European clubs you are talking about, they have a system where even ex-footballers are valued

Many Ex-footballers have gone on to become great coaches and administrators but here na civil servant still dey do all of these stuffs

Tell me why a sport minister slot will be allotted to those who have never played any sport professionally?

Sports is a big business on its own that can accommodate all ex-players and feed them for life sef

We are obviously not ready in this country with this blame game, even the Europeans una dey quote, their players still dey inside the system after retirement

One thing is back home football is shitty

Deco is barca sporting director today, it was Abidal formerly

Alonso is a Real Madrid coach today same as Vincent Kompany

But our own football has no imprint of ex-footballers and we think they won't be growing broke

Not every will succeed in business, but if you succeed in a particular sport, it is still easier to find your way around that.

zero8zero:
Has he won the election before turning himself into condolence minister and visiting every victims?.

So Peter Rufai is just another victim abi??

How old are you sef??

ChiefOloye:
Nobody is obsessed with him, people only marvel at his desperations, which oftentimes are not well thought out, which results in gaffes, causing him needless embarrassments.

Even if it's because of the call out by Taribo, what's bad in visiting the family of a legend??

Nigerians this thing una dey do make sense laidis

Imagine is it this same Abuja abi another one

Something has simple as having even a colour for public transport vehicles sef no dey, you can easily get kidnapped here cos you don't know private vehicles from public transport vehicles

The cost of living is on an all time highest now sef

Even satellite towns in the FCT are no longer affordable, so what is this one talking about

helinues:
That should be logical now. Abi which narration would the opposition tell the Abuja people to convince them

You dey live Abuja too??

A city that has no transport system, that one dey work😂

Image123:
And he miraculously forgot to tell us the names already. If General too dey fear, why he dey accuse civilians? What stopped him from anonymously giving the proof?

But it is a common knowledge to every reasonable person that these guys have some sort of cover now

You don't even need investigation to uncover that

We see it right in our own eyes on a daily.

Recently a prominent friend of the president did something very terrible and it was swept under the carpet even when it was in public glare

Now imagine what goes on if it's not made public

Care4:
It's so pathetic that Abuja has no public transport system. You can count the number of covered bus stops. Most passengers wait under bridges or trees. It's terrible for a city built from scratch and purportedly planned.

Asin a big disgrace ooo, if you are not strong in this Abuja, you go just waka in circles ni

Almost all bus stops na until driver tell you before you can decode as a first timer

Poorly planned and yet these guys don't want us to hear word about their lord

The problem is we are too slow or even stagnant in our development drive and yet some of us are just okay with the slow development becos they pay us peanuts

Burob:
which 3rd term bid, by who? The same person that says the judiciary is corrupt?

Obasanjo has disgraced himself for making such a reckless statement just to sell his nonsense book.

What is this one saying abeg??

How old were you when Obasanjo was lobbying for third term bid??