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jlinkd78:
This man is not refined any bit, take away political title he is not different from d average terrorist. In saner climes d 5M hate speech fine should be activated immediately but trust d supporter of APC govt a blind eye will be turned at this loquacious speech which is not only defamatory to d soul of d dead but capable of inciting Jonathan's people against him. Hell Rufai has used every opportunity at his disposal to pursue his bigger than God mantra and this congenital traits transferred onto his children who lack decorum and whose offensive outbursts more acidic than that of their father. A Northern Governor being Commander of Boko Haram comes to mind but what do I know

Without politics though, he is a very, very brilliant chap.
Politics has a way of getting at the best of us. Religion s at times don't help too.

The guy is a technocrat. Without politics he would have done very fine. With politics though, it seems he goes low everytime.

Beverlyjean:
Madrid dint care about la liga titles...they wanted the CL badly... the last time they saw quarter final of the CL was 03/04 season ... Chelsea won the league title but became disastrous the following season...madrid was a dead team when ronaldo joined...a team flogged 4.0 by Liverpool to knock them out and 3.0 by roma the periods season...

Ok. if a team that won the Laliga 2x and had the two world best is a dead team then, You win.

charlesm91:
Ronaldo came to Madrid as the second best team in Spain in an era where Barca was the dominant team, he left Manutd in its glory. He worked to level Madrid and left Madrid on a high note. Messi can’t and shouldn’t leave Barca now else it’ll leave a sour taste in the memory of his reign in Spain- he abandoned the team in their time of need. He should try win the league or something and bow out

How was Barca dominant when Real madrid won Laliga back to back 2006-2008. Or you are not aware?

If winning Laliga twice in 3 years means madrid was dominated then I rest my case.

Beverlyjean:
He is always looking for an escape route... when ronaldo joined real madrid , he left a club that he led to 2 consecutive CL final winning one and after winning EPL 3 in a role ... joined a real madrid that was trophiless the previous season and was destroyed by Liverpool in the round of 16 in the CL ...a real madrid that had not smelt semi final since 02/03... left a real madrid that had won 3 consecutive CL titles for a juve that had not won CL since 96.... messi just wanna run to a club that is doing well... this guy is no different from a woman that will leave her man once he becomes broke

Ronaldo is a fantastic player but please tone down the narrative.

Technically madrid won the Supercopa de espana and so where not trophiless in 2008/2009.

Also the same madrid won the Laliga twice in the last 3 years and was going to welcome Kaka (the world's best 2 years earlier) in the same window.

You make it look like he came to a dying team.
From 2009 it took 4 years to land the first UCL title.

Football is a team game. You are painting heavily biased pictures with this narrative of "he came to save a dead madrid".

For instance, Isn't it funny that Robinho was at madrid for basically 3 seasons but then won the same number of Laliga titles as Ronaldo's 9 year stint there?

You conveniently ignored that madrid won the league (Laliga) 2 x consecutively before he came. And in 2009 2 of the previous year's balond'or winners would play in Madrid.

By the way Messi/Barca performed poorly this season so you don't think I think anything else.

Commentor:
There are laid down laws.

If you break them, you gnash your teeth.

I am all for the rule of law but Nigeria is just a shock joke at times.

It is the same Nigeria where property taxes for the rich was conceived in Lagos but gradually died out after the elite worked against it ?

God help us.

oscarmarley:
calm down naa

To be honest he shouldn't.

Everyone in this world is pushing an agenda (subconsciously or not). What's yours?

In this struggle called life one may be deceived to thinking highly of oneself alas it's all a puff.

Reminders like his point to what's really important.

Goke7:
will messi fans agree when they believe he can't put any foot wrong

Football is a team sport. No one pushed aside the impact of those 2 but Messi is very, very good.

In this season he was poor. Very poor.

But here's the point, give me any player who was the top scorer (granted in a top 5 league) & top assists in a season and deems that season as poor.

Give me one example.

In Messi's poor season (this season), he had as many assists than those 2 (individual best season).

ojaysam25:
Its a pity he is the scape goat even tho he is the only bright spot in barca failed UCL campaign....

"Only" ?
Good player in his day but he has scored ~10 goals In UCL since ~2017.

He isn't the only scape goat by the way.

frankmoney:
.. When Barca wins a match every body hails Messi but when they lose , they start blaming Griezmann , pique and Suarez ....

Kick Messi out of that team and watch them grow

You may be right. However, in the history of football, no team has ever pushed out a player who was the top goal scorer/assistant in the league. Especially when no scandal was involved.

Is your advice really devoid of sentiments.?

nairaman66:
Very weak internal government modus operandi. Same thing is going on here in Nigeria. Ours is a potential dangerous land mine waiting to explode anytime..

What exactly is going to happen in Nigeria? A coup? When likely? So that we can call you out IF your prediction fails and also extol your prescience if you're right.

Mercykayy:
The first guy is just 25 years old. I stand to be corrected thou

How does a 25 year old become a colonel though? Care to share?

truthsayer009:
She sings for her husband in the morning shouldn't be taken literally, It's just unrealistic.
Who has time to be singing for husband after many years

Hahahahah!

I don't know about her. I know little about marriages too BUT you do know that people do things you see as hard, right?

People do those things we think are very hard. And they do them consistently.
My point? Don't dismiss something as impossible just because you and many other consider it tough.
Dismiss things IF you know they are lies.

lexy2014:
I didn't ask WHAT he was adjuged. I asked HOW did he "lead" d successful spells in d club?

Goals/assists and brilliant playmaking.

Especially between 2009-2015 but also other years.

Hahaha! It's funny you ask this.

lexy2014:
How did he "lead" d successful spells in d club?

He was overwhelmingly adjudged the most effective player of the club for the decade or so.

YorubaLord:
He's being sarcastic and of course a real jab at the Club's management the way they pamper Messi like he's bigger than the club.

Ever before Messi, there was, there is and there'll always be a Barcelona!

Yes. But he led the most successful spells in the club's history.

[quote author=ojuu4u post=92917280][/quote]You are right. I am not a Bitcoin expert, but from what I hear, the tech. Provides simplicity/speed for transactions. Simplicity/speed in finance reduces security from elwhat I know.

Nickymichy:
I keep saying this...banks officials are responsible for all these fraudulent activities... someone sent money to my account to give to his friend after 30minutes there about... only for me to receive call from a guy that my account is having problem that I should sent my bvn for rectification.... imagine....how him take know say money enter my account?....

True. But certainly NOT ALL.
Banks have controls. And humans always seek new means to subvert controls. Fraud elimination is a never ending fight. Even the likes of Goldman Sachs, Well Fargo and HSBCs of the world are not immune from this.

ojuu4u:
If Efcc can be arresting bankers in connection with yahoo boys, am 100% sure yahoo stuffs will be substantially degraded .

Those working in banks know & aid majority of the fraudsters to swindle people hard earned money.

It would be clumsy. That's the responsibility of the Nigerian Financial intelligence unit. Banks can't police themselves. Some Nigerian banks aren't event saintly themselves(the few I have dealt with).

Even with the NFIU guidelines a lot still pulls through due to international payments systems. Western Union, Transfer wise etc, PayPal etc.

No pattern for tracking illicit transactions is failsafe. and truthfully more guidelines means more encumbrance for us legal transactions because every security measure adds a cost/inconvenience.

Let's try though. God help us.

ednut1:
A lot of rich men have secrets accounts no one except bank managers and account officers know about. Last last they steal the money after a while.

True but aren't most accounts secret?

With the exception of joint/trust/Business accounts, virtually all personal accounts should be somewhat secret. At least that's what the banks tell us to do.

mastermaestro:
Honour left the judiciary long ago. An unethical, worthless arm of government.

Hahahahah!

Shhhhh! You must never say this. This amount to Contempt!

Their ruling is sacred.

Hahahaha!

skywalker240:
Nice one,

you should be doing more reviews of other brands.

and not those stupid scam of the 21st century called Tecno and Infinix from Transsision.

Hahaha!

Nokia is more or less a Chinese brand these days.

Dayodragon:
Maradona made it clear at the world cup. Messi is not a team leader..

I'm glad it's obvious today.. things has not been fine since Iniesta and Xavi left..

He's been a leader since he was 21/22.

Messi /Barca have been poor. True.

But leadership is galvanized influence to a goal. Style/Nature doesn't suit you fine, say it. Don't throw away anything you don't agree with. The board at Barca has made massive errors. You can't redeem those errors always on the pitch.

They even listed Company as a better leader.
Leadership isn't only "brutal bully" approach.

In Nigeria here too many believe effective leaders are those that shout/bark. Hahaha!

Every approach that brings results is effective NOT only those you agree with.

Funny how extroverts think they alone own the world.

Cheers.

zeusdgrt:
Is not coach we have seen cr7 instruct players on pitch for club and country not Everytime the coach have a clear perspective.Stop giving excuses for the truth

We've also seen CR7 getting annoyed that another teammate scored and not him. We've heard him say that if other teammates played like him the team would have won the game too. Or talking about his transfer move on a UCL night where he had a relatively quite performance thereby taking away the headlines from Bale.
That's clearly NOT perfect leadership.

*This doesn't take away from CR7 being one of the best players in the world/in history too. But he certainly isn't a perfect leader.


I'm ok that you guys like the Extroverted "bully" leadership style BUT that not the only style their is. Otherwise Messi wouldn't have more Trophies than 95% of the "leaders" on that list. Messi has been a leader before he became a Captain. I personally don't like the captain thing even.

JOHNSONSOLAFUNMI:
Been skillful is not enough to be a captain, Messi lacks that leadership quality, he only wants to hit the round leather game and enjoy his football


Ramos
Maldini
Puyol
Cristiano
Terry
Roy Keane
Kompany
Cassillas

My all time team captain favorite, the players I listed here would have shout at semedo, scream at Vidal for being stupid, motivate lenglet for allowing these 2 cheap goals, their body languages won’t event allow Suarez to act instead of playing, but Messi couldn’t do anything, too bad, the keeper ought to be given the captain hand band

Hahahaha!

Barca /Messi were very poor yesterday.

But where do you guys stand? Sometimes you claim Messi selects players for games, determine who Barca buys and chooses the coaches they hire. Now you guys say he takes no action.

*I have categorized you with those who make those statements.

Leadership doesn't have a single pattern. Stop pushing an agenda. Barca has failed from the board in many areas since Neymar's departure/other signings.

How many players in your "leadership" list has more individual/team trophies than Messi.

Leadership isn't a one way street of shouting at other players in public. Matter of fact Messi has shouted at players before (Rakitic specifically) and the press took it as "Messi controlling everyone".

The extroverted "bully" type IS NOT necessarily the only effective leadership style.

Cheers.

Hahahaha!

gaskiyamagana:
Do your con3 well well. B4 it is too late, they just want to stop you from termitizing their economy with one magomago or the other that is very very clear to them.

Most developing/underdeveloped countries beyond 100m population would never have enough to cater for ALL its citizenry without emigration. It's the price for Overpopulation.

I do believe that No one belong anywhere though. I.e. emigration isn't a bad thing. But we are really Overpopulated in my Opinion.

Dedetwo:
The above regulations are antihuman and specifically anti-immigrants. The regulations are simply draconian. These freaking Ghanaians cannot survive a day if other Africans state stood up such laws against Ghana as a country. Where are the doctrines of ECOWA? These retrogressive policy and Ghanaian government should be hold accountable for this inhumanity against fellow Africans. What a shame.

True. However Ghana is for Ghanians First.

They also don't owe us an explanation. Again didn't Nigeria expel Ghanians en masse more than 30 years ago?

Trust me, if push comes to shove, Nigeria would institute similar laws too and what would you say then ?

I have thought a lot about this, But was it not the same Nigeria that a Governor in the Southeast sacked indigenes of another state in that Geopolitical zone to employ its own people?

When the chips are down [even] in the family, a man has to decide which of his children would eat the available meal and which would have to die of starvation— a rather extreme analogy but you probably get the gist.

Wow!

And here I am thinking Africans are one.

Perhaps they aren't. In difficult times humans have always reaorted to discrimination. Sad one though.

Kriss216:
Barcelona is overrated!

I don't think so though. But they are terrible now.

However funnily, they usually lose 1 game in every UCL campaign since 2017!

The losses are the very bad type though.

This Bayern loss was their first loss in this campaign too.

Topmaike007:
that is what barca does

You are aware that managers decide who plays in games right?

logon599:
Wow an 11 year old club? Imagine if they now went on to win it.
Infact I'm now backing them for this season's UCL trophy. My money is on Leipzig.
I think some clubs need to go take a lesson from them on how to run a football club with minimal resources and still get results

RB Leipzig doesn't particularly have minimal resources though.

For a club that enjoys the backing of Red bull Gmbh— The most valuable Energy drink brand in the world — a private firm owned by Dietrich Mateschitz (himself, one of the world's top richest people), I wouldn't say they are minimally resourced.

Nice job though.

SmartProf:
Africans are very hypocritical, babaric & evil to themselves. If this was to be done by security forces of an Asian/European country or America, they will call it Racism and form hashtags everywhere. The Buhari government and our foreign affairs ministry must be firm on international relations. Unfortunately, they themselves are a joke.

I've always known this.

Racism(though terrible) is a scapegoat. All other forms of discrimination/prejudice go on amongst men which are not taken seriously even though they are as bad as racism.

I'm ALL for being law abiding though. But the law was made for man NOT man for the law.

youthsinitiativ:
Illiteracy was behind his initial not very well thought through outburst. Perhaps he failed to understand the news report hence, his recanting and apologies.

Is it a crime to emulate or better Maradona's feat at Napoli?

It's not illiteracy. It's a flawed emotional intelligence.

Everyday in Nigeria we see "seemingly" educated people make poor judgements.

Funnily I just read this article about this phenomenon.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cnbc.com/amp/2020/01/09/billionaire-warren-buffett-shares-indispensable-life-advice-he-learned-more-than-40-years-ago.html

It says more about his character that he has apologized.