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Ex-FC Barcelona player Carles Rexach believes Barça are more than capable of staging a historic comeback against Bayern on Wednesday

Ex-FC Barcelona player Carles Rexach talked to Xarxa Radio ahead of Wednesday’s crucial Champions League match against Bayern Munich. When asked if the Catalans can mount a comeback against the German side, the Barça legend said that in order for the Blaugrana to make it to their third Wembley final they must “believe and dream that turning the tie around is possible.” He continued, “it will be complicated because Bayern have a great team and they can score easily. The most important thing is not to concede ... Can we score four? Barça are more than able to do it.”

“Messi is at 100%”

Leo Messi, who has scored two goals from three games against Bayern, looks to be in top shape for Wednesday’s showdown. Rexach noted that “Messi is at 100%. In Munich he was a bit afraid of reproducing his injury, but on Wednesday he’ll give it his all. We’re going to see the best possible version of Messi.”

Dani Alves’ battle cry

Dani Alves echoed Carles Rexach’s statements this Monday when he took to social media to give his take on Wednesday’s match, his comments were later picked up by the Catalan sports daily Mundo Deportivo: “‘Impossible’ is only a word that weak men use to live more easily in the world that they find themselves in, these are men that don’t dare explore their ability to change it,” declared Dani Alves. He continued: “‘Impossible’ is not a fact, it’s an opinion. ‘Impossible’ is not a declaration, it’s a challenge. ‘Impossible’ is temporary. Impossible is nothing!’

This is serious, lets see how it goes but Ubuntu is really in a different category.....i'll love to turn my phone into my pc whenever i need to, on the road its a phone, in the office it turns to a pc @home, its a combination of pc & a phone......we are waiting

i think the way we are moving in this country is not ideal, why must we all take criticism as harmful and bad? Sit for a while and think deep about your own personal life, evaluate how criticism from your relatives and close associates have helped in transforming who you are, be sincere please! criticism serves as checkmate, it checkmate us to make sure we re-evaluate our steps and not actually as destructive as we take it to be....assume OBJ wasnt criticised during his tenure, do you ever think our polity would be as good as it is now? No blame game, we are all guilty of this serious offence, all tribal-ethnic groups in the country are all guilty please let us all make amends both in our private and political lives please.

I keep on asking myself if we can ever attain growth and development in this country, by the extreme contempt we have for criticism, great leaders and strong men world over are continually subjects of criticism and they learn to tolerate them and live with them, why cant we in Nigeria do the same, why cant we take note of the criticism of our critics and make amends where necessary, must we react to all acts of criticism,i wonder, do we really want to grow or are we contented with the poor level of development we have?

MekT: Buy Land!!!

I totally support dt idea....u re 100% sure it wnt depreciate so far u buy from genuine source

bestower: To those who have not eaten ewa agonyin with agege bread,infact,u don loose big time.u beta try to find where the delicacy is still selling fast to have a taste before u go afterlife.

Seconded

Tunjman: During my secondary school days, we called it burger. The sellers were always together, we would buy the bread and split it into two equal parts and we would ask the bean seller to sell ewa agonyin in the middle of the split bread..#Omo you go fear sandwich#

Guy u sabi d thin jare, u wont bliv it, d white guys in my school then wld send d cleaners to go get d ewa agoyin burger, it makes them remember burger itself

bidex: well, its not available in the rich people zone because good food is not meant for the rich people. good food is for the poor. we enjoy it daily at Osodi, Ajegunle, Bariga, Somolu, Mushin and many more hoodlums. All the rich knows to eat is fatty food. but we poor eats balanced diet. check out the combination
beans.... rich in protein
bread, yam or garry.... rich in carborhydrate
the stew....... rich in ion
plantain....... rich in vitamins
the oil........ rich in fat
and the accossories are not left out such as kpomo, bone marrow etc.
I LOVE EWA AGANYIN

Orie wa nbe joor!

Lilimax: But you have Kirishi and Fura de nunu at your disposal. Make do with them nah.

Kilishi, fura & and nunu, dey r in different classes, there's no way u wld take dem at regular intervals lyk u take ewa agoyin wt agege bread...ewa agoyin is incomparable jooooooooor

debetmx: Shite go dey hold u wella 4 bus

Hahahahaha........i no fit remember if ewa agoyin don eva make m shit lyk dat, but bro, d beans make sense no b small....u need to hav a taste

Temismith: Sleeping in a bus is stil better naow! I know som1 dat sleeps on a bike(okada)! Lols. Funny dou, but its true

Una no go scatter pers head wt laughter o, i no fit, babe pls small small

Okiki_Oluwa: It's understandable if it's a long distance journey of over 8hrs.
But if it's between a short distance of one state to another which is between 1-2hrs i.e: Plateau to Kaduna State, it's not good.
However, if you wanna sleep, carry dark shaded glasses for your face if you are the shy type & place your head where you ll not likely rest it on the shoulder of the passenger(s) beside you.
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Last Bullet: Some people can't even hold their sleep for 30minutes when they are in a commercial vehicle. Imagine a short journey in a BRT from Ketu Mile 12 to Ojota in Lagos which is not up to 15minutes if the road is traffic free. You ll see people dozing off like fowls wey get bird flu.
The most annoying are those that ll rest their heads on your shoulder, snore & even drop a litre of stinking saliva on your cloth. Damm it's just so irritating.

Guy u wicked o, wat abt if d pers cant help it nko, dt litre of daliva, na offering, jst manage am,

i remember those days, when ewa agoyin and agege bread was a morning ritual, i missed those good old days of lagos......abuja is not just as swagalicious as lagos

Saying that Ewa Agoyin, a meal of mashed beans, topped with specially prepared palm-oil stew, was one popular meal in which captured virtually every Lagosian’s heart, would not be an exaggeration.

Coined from Ewa, a Yoruba word meaning beans and Agoyin, a name that was used by Nigerians to describe people from Ghana, Togo and Benin Republic, Ewa Agoyin is simply a word used to describe how people from these regions make their beans meal. It is, however, more peculiar to the Togolese and Cotonou people.

Ewa Agoyin was introduced into the Nigerians’ diet by the migrating Agoyin people, who came to Nigeria as early as far back as the sixties. It became more popular in the 80s’, until its fame and craving for it began to dissipate in the mid-nineties.

One of the special things about Ewa Agoin was the way it cut across all the social strata or economic classes in the Lagos metropolis. It is a meal, arguably loved by all, the poor, the middle class and the rich, cheap, but definitely unique; a perfect escape for the boring Nigerian method of preparing beans. According to its lovers, even people, who did not ordinarily like beans professed love for Ewa Agoyin. Some people preferred to combine with yam, others preferred garri sprinkled on it, some others chose dodo (fried plantain), ranging on personal preference.

The most popular combination was, however, with the equally famous Agege bread especially when freshly baked, soft and slightly stretchy (Ewa Agoyin was probably the reason behind the Agege bread’s fame too).

Recounting her love for Ewa Agoyin, United States of America (USA) based Adebisi Shodare said, “the first time I ate Ewa Agoyin was at a cousin’s place at Bariga. I was about six years old then and it always made me want to go to their place every holiday I had. And then, when I was old enough, I would drive all the way down from Ikoyi to Bariga just to buy Ewa Agoyin. Having relocated from Nigeria for a while now, I miss it so much.”

Preferring her Ewa Agoyin with fried plantain, Adebisi added that, “whenever I visit Nigeria, I search everywhere for it and make sure I eat a lot of it before leaving the country again.”

However, the food had, over the years, surprisingly suffered a huge decline not only in popularity but in the savouring taste it offered back then. Mrs Janet Samuel, a Nigeria-based Togolese, who sells Ewa Agoyin at Ebute-Metta, said it was more popular back then because it was usually hawked and the hawkers could easily access the nooks and crannies.

“At some point,” she added, “we began to get arrested for hawking and we had to stop. We still hawk it very early in the mornings or late in the evenings, to avoid getting arrested. It is our major source of survival here in Nigeria, so we take the risk,” she said.

Asked on the recipe for the meal, particularly the sauce, which is the basic uniqueness of Ewa Agoyin, Janet, after a little reluctance shared, “we make the stew with seedlings from red pepper only, it is usually grinded together with ginger. This is then poured into hot boiling palm oil, salt is added, you allow it to fry for a while, when its almost done, already sliced onions are poured into it to for flavour and aroma, stir the stew till well fried and that’s it,” she said.

For the preparation of the beans which is much easier, brown beans is cooked till it gets really soft and then mashed with a pestle, according to Janet. Speaking with Dede, who is from Cotonu, she said that she does not mash the whole beans together in the pot but mashes a portion that is about to be served/sold.

The sauce preparation recipe was, however, same.

Asked if it was peculiar to any part of Togo, she said it was a general meal in her country, just the way rice is eaten here.

Asiata, another Togolese who is based in Nigeria and sells Ewa Agoyin, said that the change or decline in the taste of the food was not because the original makers of the meal were no longer up to the task but that there were a lot of Nigerians who now also make it for sale and were incapable of preparing it as well as the Agoyins will, try as they might.

“A lot of people, especially Yorubas in Nigeria, have also delved into the Ewa Agoyin business and they are not getting it right. We were born into it, they are only trying to imitate but really cannot get it as perfectly as a Togolese would prepare it,” Asiata proudly said.

According to Mrs Titilola Osho, the decline in the popularity of Ewa Agoyin was because of the arrival of more varieties of food over the years, “back then, meals like rice was sort of like a special meal, taken on Sundays or during parties or special occasions,” but now, she added it had become the everyday meal of the average Nigerian on a daily basis.

She added that the popularity it used to enjoy was because it was one of the fastest meals you could get around but that the arrival of the two-minute noodles and several other fast meals also contended with Ewa Agoyin in that regards, generally weakening its hold on the diet of Lagosians.

Seun, a medical doctor’s opinion on the decline of Ewa Agoyin and Agege bread’s popularity could also be attached to the awareness given Nigerians on the dangerous chemical, bromate, put in the bread by bakers to make it puffed, which, according to research could cause blindness.

“Whenever I bought Agege bread back then, the next thing that came to my mind was getting Ewa Agoyin to back it up, but since the bromate awareness in Agege Bread, I stopped buying it, so Ewa Agoyin gradually faded from my mind. But I have to admit that I still miss that combination very much”, he said.

In a lot of ways, this is quite true and there are certainly many people out there who, having diverted from taking the Agege bread, had Ewa Agoyin gradually faded from their minds.

In Babatunde’s opinion, just like almost every other thing being produced in Nigeria which is fast losing value, so has the Ewa Agoyin delicacy, as it is no longer as popular as it used to be back then.

It is worthy of note that the deteriorating Nigerian economy may also be responsible for the gradual fading of the Ewa Agoyin and Agege bread, because, as mentioned earlier, it was a meal for the poor. The Agege bread is now bought at the rate of N40 against what used to sold back then for 20 naira. Those times you could still buy N5 Ewa Agoyin but that is no more, because the least you can get is N20 which is about the same quantity as what used to be sold for N5 or even less.

Ewa Agoyin may no longer be ubiquitous as it used to be and getting it may be more difficult now, but it is one meal that will always remain in the hearts of Lagosians. If you never had the opputunity (or luck) to eat EwaAgoyin and Agege bread, hopefully, Lagosians claim that it won’t go into full extinction and you may be lucky enough to taste it someday.
source(http://tribune.com.ng/news2013/index.php/en/component/k2/item/9543-ewa-agoyin-and-agege-bread-the-fading-delicacy-of-lagosians)

The two probs wt registering .ng domain has to do wt d cost & awareness and d requirement u hav to meet b4 u can, a time lyk dt i wanted to register a domain name i tried registering a .ng but d moment i started seeing unnecessary bottlenecks, i immediately reverted back to my usual .com & .net, theyre easier, straight forward and cheap. Let NiRa ease the process of registration.

Ds is serious if what u hav said is true, i wld rather advice that d victims of ds scandals come togeda & take strategic steps and get to d bottom of d whole huruhuru at play, probably get an activist lawyer to pursue your course...

raynold: emmm airtel 1g for 1400 and mtn 1500(bis) both for my android phone..

pls guide me, how does d mtn BIS work on ur android, i once tried on my android it didnt work...thanks in advance

Bismillahi rahmani raheem
this particular case wt bro. X is not new and its will never b d last one to be experienced by our muslim brothers.
he shd knw clearly he is not d only one in ds leve of challenge....so, if he shd take dubious means to achieve his means then whr is the Islam in him? and if other brothers going thru ds challenge do dsame then its certain dt muslims as a whole hav left d minhaj of Rasul ~SAW
i wldnt advice him to take a paid job, he wldnt b paid more than 20k a month wch cant cater for his cost of living and surely, he'll hav almost nothing to save @ d end of d month, and if he wld save it 'll take him yrs of paid job to achieve dt, to ds effect, he can switch to oda option like petty businesses around like trading, d last time i was in lagos island, i was suprised wt all sorts of road side business ppl re engaged in, i even had to some stuffs myself to sell in my place, i'll advice he look around there re lots of stuffs he can engage wch wld b better off paid job. u'll be surprised dt there stuffs u can buy in lagos island, especially around oluwole market and still sell within dt vicinity of lagos and make tangible number of sales and make good profit on, look around, idumota axis, although it may look too low for ur level but keep ur mind on ur focus, u want to raise money 4 ur education.
You may thnk ds is too absurd, but a number of brothers i knw personally hav don dt to achieve what they needed to achieve wch is halal and they cld measure their progress. the other part to it is dt u'll have time 4 d programmes u talked abt, and lots of concentration since their'll b no demand frm a boss or ur wrk, u can even quit d business for a number of days to concentrate on ur studies. The part of not considering university education due to financial constraint to me is extremely wrong. University education is indispensable at ds material time, u can still use d method i highlighted above to sponsor urself to d university, i'm a practical example in dt respect, i sponsored myself to d university engaging in all these hustling type of life, and today hamdalillah....if u still need more clarification, let me knw

the simple questions i usually ask ppl concerning boko-haram re these;

me: who is boko-haram fighting
answer: the government

me: y re they fighting d gov't
answer: cos dey want shariah governance/ cos d govt killed their leader & their members

me: how hv dey bn fighting d govt
answer: by bombing borno, kano & diff. parts of d north.

me: re d targeted victims of d bombing govt officials?
answer: no

me:how many govt officials hav so far bn killed
answer: none

me: how many failed attempts hav bn launched on these officials
answer: none

me: no senator has attacked, no member house of reps has bn attacked, no failed attempt on govs or even d president
answer: yes, no attempt on any govt officials

me: and do u believe ds group is actually fighting d govt
answer: dts what every1 knws

me: but lets be objective here and analyse d situation critically, has any institutions of govt bn attacked?
answer: yes

me: wch 1
answer: schools

me: dt's still d same as bombing innocent civilians in maiduguri cos no govt official lives in those schools
answer: its still a fight against d govt

me: has any state house of assembly bn attacked? cos i knw a handful of thses state assembly can b easily attacked, has any local govt secretariat bn attacked, has any govt house bn attacked, no attacked on any senator, chairman, member house of rep and we still call ds boko-haram, lets be objective, d govt knws clearly what its doing.....i have clear convictn ds is pdp tactics of discrediting its opposition or excuse for non-performance in office and a leak by wch public fund can be pocketed,:look at ds years budget but lets come to think of it, all these points do not follow common sense, common sense in no more common these days

sorry, my last response was directed @deshclones

ARES: U said I should shut up, because I told her the hard truth? Ok let's get pro here, women cheat on an emotional level. Before a woman sleeps with a man, willingly, there is an emotional attachment to that man, u wanna tell her everything will be peachy, go ahead lie to her.
BTW u sound like u have been in this jam before and begged ur way out. Congrats

u make sense bro, but u re looking at it frm an annoyed heart perspective, but what abt after weighing and analysing circumstances surrounding d occurence, u'll make d best conclusion, wht assures u dt d next gal u'll get is not worse?....do u knw d anticident of d next 1, or wht makes u feel d next 1 is a saint, my conclusion is dt women are "all of d same specie". Some1 whose background u knw, parents, siblings and all of dt u hav clear knwldge of whr she comes, but committed a grave mistake and who realises her mistake ( ti eru bati mo ejo e lebi koni pe lori ikunle) so soon is better than bunch of girls who replace partners like they replace worn out tire, most girls i'v examined frm closed distance in my opinion hv committed deadlier atrocities compared to wht she has done, d anger is just cos i was d victim....chikena! am not saying there re no beta girls out there, there re but what's d assurance u'll pick a good 1 and not still fall into d same problem. eni ija o de ba lo npe ra e lokunrin....thanks 4 ur concern though but d issue at hand goes beyond anger but to look deeper into d situation, jst like u felt, i felt angry ofcourse, months after she sent me text messages apologising, bt i saw no reason y i shd accept her apologies and i prefer to go search 4 saint who do not commit mistakes, but d odas u found re even greater cheaters,greater devil and ds very 1 has come, realised her mistake, changed ways.....................i tend to analyse issues critically, u can direct towards d road if am treading the path dt leads to d bush o!

Osareime: My case is a bad one.

This sounds almost exactly like d same situation as mine, i wldnt knw if ds pers. is really my ex, either way, if i were d 1, am ready to take her back cos i still love her, i heard she's a changed person, her actions really soiled my plan, and since then i've never gotten a stable partner.....and now am ready to settle down, am putting all plans in place to make sure i marry next year and hopefully it wnt be later than then bt d pathetic part of it is dt up to ds moment i've not a partner, looks ironic, making plan 4 marriage but d wife to marry in not on ground. am ready to take her back not cos i dnt hav a partner but cos i've not recoverd frm d injury she caused, and cldnt find som1 who's fit enough to heal dt injury, if she'll b back to heal it i'll be glad. d issue of not trusting her wld nt b there if actually d report i hear abt her is true i.e dt she's a changed person, honest, hardworking, more religious and all of dt, stuffs i wanted her to be doing then, i heard she's doing then voluntarily i.e w/out my presence, thng i dnt want her doing, heard she has shun then, if really all those reports are true, am perfectly ok wt her...................if ur guy were to be som1 like me, call him, let him knw how u feel, let him see himself dt u've really changed, i pray God help u

Castos: Please I do have questions to ask. All these bad reputations of islam, was it that islamic teachings were not properly taught and the believers lacked orientation? Do islam hate other religion? How did the seven virgin story came about? Did prophet Muhamed made mistakes in delivering the teachings of Allah? Why must the it be muslims that are the most feared when they claim peace? Why must it be that religion Islam? Why?

thanks, every1,@castos, @cyril83 and every other person, i'll say big thank u for giving me the opportunity to be understoood...i know it very surely that many ppl will have lots of questions to ask, and lots of clearifications to make, just the way it was when i was a youth corp member, but i dont know how i can do that right now, cos most times i just pass bye on nl, read ppl's comment and dont post anything...cos posting wld require high level of concentration so dt u'll not be misunderstood, its tasking and time consuming, if i shd start some of those issues we may not conclude them today and i have lots of work on my desk right now, u can drop ur email contact and i'll surely contact u guys on some of those issue...Thanks alot, i love and appreciate u guys!

@Cyril83
my brother take it easy...and it is the same islam they practice in malaysia, indonesia, Dubai and so many other peaceful regions of the world...i understand ur annoyance, but take it easy, and there are so many muslim regions in the world that u dont hear such things as terrorism, is it not the same islam they practice in those regions as Tunisia, egypt, Jordan, Qatar e.t.c. its only that the unfortunate incidents make the headline news...i'll advice u try to understand islam itself and not base ur assumptions on what muslims do.

Castos: yeah...... but some muslims have really derailed and tarnished the islamic image already and non muslims now regard all muslims like those ones. Now i know that there are blacksheep and saints in islam just as there are judas and saints in christians alike, but that of the muslims are so shouty.

that of the muslims are shouty...there are many factors to that, and the biggest of these factor is the issue of terrorism, world trade center attack and attacks in other regions plus BOKO HARAMIC issues...frm our situation in Nigeria, facing the fact squarely, there are clear indications pointing to the gov't officials as the perpetrators, but look at the damage it has done to the muslims' reputations...all of these are not new, it has been frm time immemorial, its when findings are well conducted that u understand that activities behind the scene in not exacting the way we see them, although, muslims most times are always part of it but they are not actually the way they seem to be...

bigboy3: I am just curious, how do scandanavians sight the moon, there are months it doesn't go dark for example in Finland.

yes, the scandanavians cannot sight the moon, just like ppl around the pole regions do have longer period of darkness and also sometimes up to 21 hours period of day light, so how do they calculate when its night or day, so they will have to get such info. from the regions most close to them...(Allahu A'lam) that's to the best of my understanding!(God knows best)

Castos: Now some of u are making sense, that shows that u really fasted and not those belle fulled pretenders laying abuses here and there.

yeah! i'll want u to understand that muslims just like humans generally are of different categories and those categories are xterised by personalties, some muslims have bad personalties doesn't mean that islam is bad just like humans with bad personalties does not mean that the concept onwch humanity is based upon is bad, u wld never understand islam if u look at muslims...try to understand islam and u'll knw muslims in our environment are not what they are suppose to be though they're trying to catch up with islam, but they are nowhere around it.

Super1759: So what if the moon refuses to show up till next month.. Ara agba ndi ara

yeah! from the counting of days in the lunar month, the moon is suppose to show up on the 29th day wch signifies that the days of that particular month is 29 days, and if it doesnt show up on the night of 29th day, then the month extends to 30 days...so, since its not showing up today, we'll fast tomorrow wch makes our fast 30 days and we'll break the fast...i hope this is informative!

Billyonaire: so the Moon is becoming a religious significance? Na wa o

the moon has been religious significant right from time immemorial in islam, so its not a new thing...and that tells you that islam is a religion which has direct link with the divine, divine in the way it is been practiced and its ideologies, it is neither man made laws nor made made principles...go make some research and you'll understand better!

denko: Pls stop this propaganda how will they kill their sponsor

i wouldn't be surprised that some ppl argue with the black dots in their brain,the other day we were arguing about the originators of BH in my office, my boss called me to stop arguing with the idiots, he said they are hypocrites and its clear whr BH is coming from and who are their sponsors, we all know it that the government of the day has a hand in it. But despite all these facts, some hypocritical xtians will always put the blames on the muslims irrespective of the facts proving that its not a muslim thing! keep up with the hypocrisy,it doesn't change the fact that JONATHAN HAS A HAND IN IT!

Thank God they didn't arrest non-muslims...whatever reason they might have arrested non-fasting muslims for is uncalled for...my personal opinion sha!

seun, it's nice you're trying to improve your asset and your relevance but i want you to know there are other guys out there thinking and trying to put up competitive initiative and any mistake in yours will expose the hole and those guys can pick you up from there so, i strongly advise you either revert back to the old site or bring up an improvement that is unique and not this crab!