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dasphinx1: Dem days when we would turn on the tv by 3.45pm, staring at colored lines on nta cos they would start transmission by 4pm....Who remembers "Rent A Ghost"?

Hahaha. I remember them those days. AIT was the only 24 hours station.

Not a technology but mine 7th will be goody goody or okin biscuit and short cake.

Good old days.

DollyParton1: .
OH Lawd!!!

You have successfully wooed me with this.

I thought this issue was sorted already? Didn't Keshi come out and say that it was sorted just before the world cup? Anyway, I think it is high time we replaced players such as IK. He is what? 32? He is getting to the age where a replacement should be found for him and although I do not know the truth as it will be unfair to judge from one side but truth be told, he may still be banging in the goals, it is time he and alot of others are replaced systematically.

I think the federal government should declare a state of emergency ( sort of ) in our football ( if not sports in General ). The NFF should be told they will be given their full freedom but they must also look for funds to run our football on their own as it is obtainable in other saner nations ( sorry, I love this country but the word SANE does not describe us right now ). To make sure it is easy for them, the FG should sponsor the NFF for 2 years after which they will have to be on their own.

The NFF should be compelled to give Keshi a 6 years contract with 4 years meant to be for building a solid national team that will make us proud in the future. Belgium, a nation of 10 million people did this after Euro 2000 which they co hosted with the Netherlands and see the results now? Keshi and all the other national team coaches should be given a long term contract with the maximum expectation been qualifying for competitions such as the world cup, nations cup and so on. Winning these competitions shouldn't be of importance to us at least for now. In Africa, Ivory Coast after Ibrahim Bakayoko and the likes fumbled at Ghana Nigeria 2000 went back to the drawing board through the help of a foundation funded by Arsene Wenger and his friend ( I am not saying this because I am an Arsenal fan but because it is a fact, Wenger helped massively in developing Ivorien football and I can proof it to whoever wants to take me up on this ) and see what they have been able to achieve in such a short period of time. For every Drogba and Yaya Toure, they have a ready made replacement who may not be as big as those 2 but have the potential. This is because they caught they young and gave them proper education.

This will start with our clubs been made more professional. The NFF should compel our clubs to standardize their stadiums and other infrastructure. The owners of these clubs should be compelled to to raise funds from the stock exchange through private placement or public listing ( I have eagerly been waiting for opportunities to invest in some of our clubs and I am sure many football minded and business minded individuals like me are ready to buy too ) if they cannot fund the running of these clubs on their own. The state governments are not taking football serious and they have no reason why they should be the owners of these clubs if not for their political greed. They have not contributed much, the private investors should be encouraged to come in. Maybe the clubs should not be 100% owned by private investors but private investors should be able to have a considerably high percentage ownership of these clubs. Private investors worked for their money and they will be keen to see profit and through that, our football will be improved. It is obvious that we have talent in this nation, having watched some of the local league matches in the process of doing my job, I believe we just need to make things a bit more professional and things will change.

The clubs should be helped by the government by making a law prohibiting any player playing in the local league from moving until they have played here for say 3-4 years before they can move abroad. This will ensure the very good players continue to play in the league to help develop the league instead of the mass exodus which only does one thing - help develop other countries' leagues. I am not a lawyer but I believe there is no such thing as freedom of labour movement laws in Africa which means enforcing the players to stay here for a while willl actually work unlike in Europe where such laws won't have worked.

The clubs should also take things to the grass root. Each club should have a reserve team and there should be a reserve league. This they can achieve if the government finally see football as business and not a way of siphoning money. In fact, if they do this, there will be more money in football for them to loot if they want ( not encouraging looting but let's call a spade what it is ).

Belgium has just 10 million people, not half as wealthy as Nigeria ( are we wealthy or rich? ) but see what they have achieved with their football in just about 6 years. The clubs who where hitherto poor are now able to sell their young players to continue to finance their own development. Belgian clubs now do considerably well in Europe this and more Nigeria can achieve if we finally go back to the drawing board and do away with the win at all cost sydrome we are currently plagued with.

ekemini007: have studied this two over the years and i must say they bear like resemblance to ALiens; here is why.

1. They way too desperate for power:Aliens are alwys deperate for power and world domination. Whenever they invade your space, they go straight to institute a new order.it al mks proper sense..thy are trying to tk over power so thy cn mk use of nijas command center to start sending alien signals out to their counterparts in outer space..hmm!i2015.

2.Nobody is ever certain where Aliens come from; i mean come to tink of it! Wre do this two come frm anywy? Serzly ask ursef!.. Wre does Atiku and buhari come from exactly..see! Told u, wnt be able to answer.

3.They practise strange mating culture; Atiku is a gay, nid i say mor.

4.They have strange head shapes: Atiku and buhari will nevr tk of their hat even to end world hunger. Have you ever seen their head? No!..thts becus itss way easier to identify Aliens by their head shape. We all have seen one steven speilberg or another. Lets team up, round this two up, tk off their hats and wala...!

5.Finally, Aliens spaceships alwys land in the north.

You need common sense when starting threads. Atiku is gay? Because youurr favorite gossip blog said so? 365 years behind bars will teach you how to watch your mouth.

Continue accusing people without facts.

farano: No. 3 is none of your business or lemme say it's nobody's business @op

Okay. We hear and I agree. When can we meet jare?

noblezone: Boko Haram as part of there demands asked that Sheriff be arrested.

Why??

If you use me and dump me I will find a way of revenge.

barcanista: We need to give Sheriff the chance to Air his own side. I recall that the Governorship Candidate of ANPP in 2011 and Party Chairman were murdered.

Someone is pulling a string somewhere

You are indirectly telling us he will say "yes the allegations are true"? Nah he won't. The FG should do the right thing. Let the international courts which the FG and Sheriff can't easily compromise come out and investigate him.

He could be innocent and he could be guilty too.

Hahaha very funny. And some girls go dey there dey push around those ready to marry them.

I think it is high time we guys start to dey form hard to get now after all good guys are getting increasingly scarce.

This is getting serious. The FG and LSG have done a good job so far but this would have been prevented in the first place if the FG had taken the right steps.

We left it to the last minute and are now suffering big time for our last minute approach. Shameful.

chinology: GEJ till 2019 after which an Igbo man takes over..

Must we be tribalistic in everything? I don't care what region gets the vote provided they do well for the nation. GEJ has done badly and this so called poll is a desperate attempt at them to feel popular.

The title of this article is alarmist in nature. Although to be fair I can seem to be able to think of a better title.

Back on subject.

The health minister told some lies initially ( or maybe his PAs did ) but kudos to him, the Lagos state Government and the Federal government for the way they have handled this ebola issue. Just wish same can be done on boko haram so we can finally live in peace again.

God bless Nigeria.

Why does this sound like publicity stunt to me? When is he releasing his next album? He said Songs not song were banned which means he has been doing it long ago. A deliberate sin and he will do it again and then release another album after begging for "forgiveness".

Thank GOD for King Sunny Ade and Chief Commander Ebenzer. When those are available why will I listen to these illicit singers.

Girls, Nigeria girls, should also learn how not to play this yeye needless hard to get game. If you like try to form hard to get, if the guy sees you cheap, your hard to get changes nothing.

The government of the day rather play politics than tackle it. They now take over towns. Shambles. As shambolic as Wenger handling Arsenal's transfer businesses.

Life always go on. I had to deal with something like this but as a lion heart, I just move on. See, parents are a mini god but we Africans slightly ( I hope not to be misunderstood here) overrate them.

Doesn't matter who transports you to the world, what matters is what you do in the world.

I will reserve my comment for few months to see if GEJ will grow the balls to investigate this and jail whoever are those behind this murderous act.

It is GEJ, I am not holding my breath.

GEJ should grow some balls. Any school that opens should be closed. I wonder whats wrong with these so called private school owners. They think they are above everyone? Yes, there is no law currently that stops them from operating but there is a law of commonsense and closing the schools is for the good everyone.

Where is their Patriotism?

I am not cruel but if you say I am, your business. I think the woman when found should be injected and killed.

Exactly what I would have done if it was my family. Kill her for her selfishness. The world can do without people like her.

Even if she was an illiterate, she would have heard enough news to know the implication of her action.

Whoever runs from being quarantine should be killed. We won't miss them.

Omo boy and me dey here. Una get pictures of some of this available ladies?

kel4soft: OP, What will you gain by opening this thread here?

This thread just like many others are news reportage. What's wrong with this particular one?

Because a pastor is involved and you think he is untouchable? Are you one off those who worship pastors instead of GOD?

drsteroid: So if God hasn't given us oil,dis country wouldn't av been able 2 sustain its economy?Its high time we started diverting and looking elsewere rather than concentrating on only crude oil which is now more of a curse 2 us than blessing.Countries like saudi,russia,UAE etc re enjoying the blessings given 2 dem as oil.since we can't make gud use of ours,its beta we start looking elsewere,rather than making the poor poorer and the rich richer through our oil.

This article said we already doing that or what exactly is the point you are trying to make? You can't find a big 'disliker" ( if that word exists ) of the GEJ administration ( not his person but the administration ) than me but sincerely speaking, this is a good achievement.

And Children will watch this and end up emulating this guy. What a shame.

I did. The water from it can be very cold.

What I don't get about this whole thing is the fact that they impose on us a fee for atm withdrawals and still promote to us a cashless society.


I know of a big store who I normally buy things from in my area, I went there 3 days ago to buy bread and other stuffs with the hope of using my card but I was told they no longer use POS because the charges are too much and I don't blame them.

Anyone get this girl number? Hopefully she got gree for me without Nigeria girls yeye hard to get shiit. Me sef fine oooo our children go fine die

United has got for themselves a very good player. However, I do not think Di Maria is worth 65m and neither do they really need him more than they need couple of defenders and a solid defensive midfielder.

Seems United fans have to cope with been the Liverpool of England for a while. They now have to either target young player who no one know or throw money at the problem.

Opiosko: Yeye marketing. With this type of mentality, your vagabond life story no go end soon. Yimu!!

WHATS THIS ONE SAYING?

Not that I like this man but whats is annoying about this whole thing is that a group of people committed an offense but one particular person is been punished for it. Nigeria football will NEVER go beyond what it is ( can SURELY retrogress ) if the government does not hands off our football finally.

People will argue the NFF cannot do without the government, thats not true. The country's football can attract cooperate bodies and the fact that we are not doing so is because of the laziness of those in charge. We get enough grant from FIFA and CAF, if it needs to be augmented, cooperate bodies should be approached.

Bring in football persons into the NFF, give them a 4 years mandate to be on their own. Forget about willing trophies for a while, focusing on bringing down the foundation and rebuilding it for once. Belgium with just about 10 million people did it, we sure can. Government should not be sponsoring sports. Just not right and not done in countries of the same resources with Nigeria.

This is a blogger who has some brains. Unlike some idiiots who would rather sell information on stuffs they know f*ck all about. Keep it up bro. Quality information sells.

One thing about us Christian is that some off us know how to use the bibble to suit their agenda. Some parents will quote Ephesians 6 vs 2 forgetting the vs 3 of same chapter has something for parents as well.

The curse of parents can work against the child but it is not all that. I know of a couple whose hobby is hurling curses at their own first son.

The child's offense :

He was a yahoo boy, got into a relationship with an igbo girl ( guy is Nigerian/Beninose) who they believe will take away their loyal son simply because the girl made the "mistake" of taking their son to the bank to open a bank account and they got to know through the boy's sister who is friends with the girl. This is a boy who started paying his family's bill at age 18.

They ruin their relationship with lies and counter lies and when same boy left Yahoo, they advised him not to stop telling families who are illiterate all manners of lies and if boy dares confront his so called parents, the "curse" him for lacking manners.

Same boy gave his mom 700k to open a boutique. The father went telling the extended family the boy only knows his mother and the boy got "cursed". The shop got ran aground within 6 months and when boy refused them more money, he got "cursed" and told his igbo girlfriend puts him against them.

Same parents woke up on the wrong side of the bed one day, sent their own son packing from the house when the boy has nothing again and was facing critical health conditions. His offense - he has no money to give the family as he chose not to do yahoo any more. That was a house he rented with his own money and was paying the rent of 250k every year.

When they sent the boy out of the house. He had nothing, his leg was to be operated at luth but he felt he won't be able to work as luth made it clear he will be grounded for 6 weeks and he jettisoned the idea for his own family's sake deciding to do the surgery later as though the pain in his leg caused by an injection was bearable if he does not expose himself to cold. He had nowhere to go, he went to his friend's mother ( his god mother), they accepted him but the boy's father got to know where he was, he went to the church and caused problem and the pastor of the church instructed the mother of the boy's friend to send the boy packing and they did. Yes, that happened, they knew he had no where to go and they ensured the only place he had he is not welcome there. The boy was miserable for 6 months. After 6 months one of the pastors in the church who was not aware of what had happened saw the boy and brokered "peace". Boy returned home. But this time, he has nothing to give in the way of feeding money. Before he left he was giving 1k in the morning and 1k in the night for feeding not to talk of other bills such as paying the fees of his sister in Uni, his half brother in Ilorin, his 2 other sisters in secondary school and the last boy of the family who was in primary school then.

He had to cope with all manner of discomfort but was not going back to Yahoo, he was hell bent on making money from the internet legally and was learning. 3 months after his return to the house he found out his family has not paid rent for that year and were close to been sent out. He did all he could but failed the last option was to contact his girlfriend's bother who is a footballer in India, the guy sent him some clothes to market, the cloths were given to the boy's sister to market. She misused the money, the family got evicted only for the extended family to attack the boy saying he had money but did not help his family.

The igbo girl left the boy for another girl, he got into a relationship with his childhood friend the boy's mother told him he can't marry the girl while pretending to the girl she is accepted ( she was a family friend ).

Same boy went renting a place for himself but when he discovered his family who were by now scathered about after been evicted from the previous house where not comfortable was begged by his aunty to bring the family to his own house as he had rented a 3 bed room for himself and his workers ( he is at this time doing well in internet marketing ). He did. He brought them to his new house, but the parents kept making unnecessary demands and rejecting all girls he brings while compeling him to get married ( nice combo isn't it ?)/

Fast forward 1 year later, the boy gathered money to rent a place for his family so he can be on his own. They refused, his sisters called area boys and would probably have lost his life January 8 2014 if a church in front of his house did not manage to hide him away. The boy's offense - he does not want his parents to live with him.

So you think a curse coming from a parent like this will work?

Did I make this up? No. It is a first hand account of my experience. Yes. I am the boy.