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Ibime:
Al-Jazeera started off the war on Iran's side till Qatar got attacked, now they are cheering for US-Israel


https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2026/3/16/the-us-israeli-strategy-against-iran-is-working-here-is-why

This part caught my attention in the article:

The figures drawn from US and Iranian military statements differ in detail but converge on the trajectory. Hundreds of Iranian missile launchers have been rendered inoperable. According to some reports, 80 percent of Iran’s capacity to strike Israel has been eliminated.

Iran’s naval assets, fast-attack craft, midget submarines and mine-laying capabilities are being liquidated. Its air defences have been suppressed to the point at which the US is now flying nonstealth B-1 bombers over Iranian airspace, a decision that signals near-total confidence in air dominance.

And then this part:

The second phase, now under way, targets Iran’s defence industrial base: missile production facilities, dual-use research centres and the underground complexes where remaining stockpiles are stored. This is not aimless bombing. It is a methodical campaign to ensure that what has been destroyed cannot be rebuilt.

Iran now faces a strategic dilemma that tightens every day. If it fires its remaining missiles, it exposes launchers that are promptly destroyed. If it conserves them, it forfeits the ability to impose costs of the war. Missile and drone launch data suggest Iran is rationing its remaining capacity for politically timed salvoes rather than sustaining operational tempo.

The author is literally saying as much as IRGC and NRGC may try so much to prove the war is tilting in favor the Persian regime, the reality is quite different. The US/Israeli forces operate unhindred within Iranian territory degrading their military capability and their future ability to project as a regional military heavyweight.

They want to render Iran a paper tiger by the time the war ends and that the regime will spend years trying to rebuild its military infrastructure such that they won't have luxury of time to bother both friends and foes within the region.

CrystalTiger:
One Brig. Gen, Two Lt. Col, three majors and many soldiers all dead and we're still in March..Now two bombs have gone off in Maidugiri..

Still no words from BAT..But e no take am one hour to tweet back to back about AJ accident..

Tinubu is on his way to the UK for state visit. Borno State governor is in Saudi Arabia for lesser Hadj.

popizaino:
Bruno is a king

Now where's the Odegaard they once compared to him?

Lmao.

Na this season wey Odegaard hardly play due to injury you decide to compare him with Bruno ? Do you even watch EPL games at all or you just go to sites to pick stats , watch replays , read complete sports and then come online to start making absurd submissions on players you didn't watch play ?

Odegaard hardly played this season due to injuries. He has missed a total of 20 matches and counting due to Shoulder injury, knee injury, muscle injury and knock issues this season. If you follow the EPL and other competitions featuring Arsenal you would've known this.

Na wa for you o Popi.

iamoyindamola:
Make e be quadruple or treble or even double
Omo

We go cook tire....Rival fans go purge

iamoyindamola:
That's what I am saying, unless we are deceiving ourselves is why we won't doubt it, but it's not over yet just that I am more hopeful

You are right bro, at some point we all had doubts because things didn't work out well in our favour.

The trauma of coming second best 3 seasons counting is not easy at all.

I hope the trophy finally comes home this season and it will unite all fans across different divisive lines.

Make Arsenal win this league first.....Rival fans go know say Arsenal fans full ground

https://youtube.com/shorts/h5pxUtwh0eE?si=xZBm2XveCwmfGaya

iamoyindamola:
At a point TH14 also doubt our title ambitions become of some results


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJmVAj0oqJg?si=p5q1oSJg1164ZPyb

Even u and Roland17 doubted our title ambitions because you thought Arteta will bottle it as usual

But on a serious note, we need to give big kudos to the team for finding a reason to keep pushing and not let the negativity from the media to affect them. It is not easy at all. I mean at some point they were doing everything to either win or draw and then the media will turn back to criticize how they are able to get results. No appreciation or recognition of the sacrifice they made, just criticism.

As of Today we've played about 46 games in the 2025/2026 season and we've only lost 3 games which is the loss vs Loserpool, Man Utd and Aston Villa. The team has really come a very long way.

Our players and the coaching crew deserve their flowers honestly. Sometimes I feel we've been too hard on them, but then I understand that the pains of the past 20 something years has really gotten to the fans.

Omo! When we win this league, rival fans go see shege for this free internet o because even me , my friends on my whatsapp timeline done dey collect on a steady. Creativity in trolling full Arsenal fans hand, na make we just win this league first make rival fans see us in full beast mode

popizaino:
Receive,give,take,open,receive,give,take,open. To play DM no be rocket science once you have your good first touch and more adventurous with your passes.

Now what makes a good DM? A simple good first touch and a working brain.

Palmer has a good first touch and can be coached on what to do when you have the ball.

😂😂😂

Thank you for confirming what everybody already thinks about your football knowledge .

swiz123:
Those guys are shocking. Imagine saying things like “united didn’t really perfom well in this game”…. Without pointing out what exactly made them play poorly. None of them can give any form of tactical insight into any game.

None of them has ever dissected the way any of the top teams play that gives them an edge over others or makes them weaker against others. Many Nigerians are just dull and accept the barest of minimum.

I don’t really think Nigerians are dull or accept barest minimum, rather I think it’s about making do with what is available to us.

princeabdul:
palmer doesn't have the range function as any of these

Perhaps there’s something Popi sees which we are overlooking . So, maybe if he tells us we will reason along with him .

OkpaNsukkaisBae:
If you know the terms and conditions wey the Americans put on Gulf Arab countries.. U go know say Naija own na small thing.

All of us dey here when IDF bombed Qatar. Qatar have American patriot air defense/THAAD system, none of dem was activated because it the Americans who operate them.

If you think that giving away 30-40% of oil revenue is simply because we don't plan for the future or don't have visionary leadership. That's your opinion. Our people talk say that;

You are conflating two different issues .

Joint Venture agreements are normal commercial agreements.

If tomorrow comes and NNPC wants to start running the show from A to Z after the expiration of the current agreements they have with the different IOCs, nothing stops them from doing so.

swiz123:
Does Nigeria have any football analyst at all? Why are all these TikTok content creators representing Nigeria as analyst? Kombo, Stones, Adika barely know the basics of football and just create content, Omoo.

Useless Stones is using long pass and chance create to prove that Bruno is a better CM than Pedri.

I guess most of our retired Players are too rich to be farming podcast/social media money through tactical analysis of games. That is why you see all those hustlers like Kombo, Adika and co filling the void with their scatter gun analysis of games.

popizaino:
Some of you are better off reading about transfer news,calculating players' wages,net worth,girlfriends,lifestyle,cuisine,dressing room matters etc.

Nothing should concern you about football tactics and on-pitch actions.

I don't know how asking Cole Palmer to play a sitting DM is weird? Do you even know Andrea pirlo started off as an attacking midfielder?

Even Xavi played at the base of the midfield sometimes.

Ok...it is not a weird thing to see James in the midfield but it weird to ask an attacker midfielder to drop to the base of the midfield.

I will not even give you reasons as to why i came up with that,if you think it's a weird take,then so be it.

This is what happens when you cannot challenge yourself on what you know.

With what you've watched in Palmer's game from his time at city and since he moved to Chelsea, what do you see in his game that suggest he can function as Pirlo or Xavi for any team in the future?

Let's agree we all no know ball; please educate us. Let's see through what informed your suggestion.

On August 29, 2025, a sum of N5.578 million was paid into his personal account with the description, “August 2025 Salary Ajaokuta Steel Company.”

AbdulSalam was appointed by President Bola Tinubu in April 2025, according to publicly available records and a statement issued the same month by presidential spokesperson Bayo Onanuga.

Despite its non-functionality, the Nigerian government proposed spending N6.04 billion on personnel costs for workers of the company in the 2026 budget estimates

The total allocation for the company in the budget stands at N6.69 billion for the year. Of this amount, N6.04 billion is earmarked for personnel costs

Nigeria has a serious spending and deliberate wastefulness problem.

Ajaokuta Steel Mill has not worked since God knows when, yet we are told the person heading the Moribund steel mill takes home over N5m as monthly salary.

Now FG has budgeted N6.69 billion for the Steel mill in 2026 budget and about N6.04 billion of it will be used to pay salaries of staff of an organization that produces nothing.

They are literally fettering away funds that should be put to productive use in other sectors of the economy while the assets of the steel mill continue to depreciate in value.

OkpaNsukkaisBae:
I agree. Those radio guest/analyst dey very very correct. But at the bolded where is where I disagree with him, him thinking that after 65years that we don't have the technical capability or funds to buy those equipments and do the exploration/drilling by ourselves.

I dey talk am since but una go think say na because I hate the West. That thing is a colonial agreement imposed on us. It will continue to be like that. Any day any government say we don get plenty petrol-chemical engineers, that will can handle it by ourselves. Dem go remind us that our government does not respect fundamental human rights, that election is not free and fair thus justifying the Maduro treatment on the government. If the government challenge dem, dem go put bounty on dem, tag dem as terrorists.

As bad Buhari was, the economy was far better under him.

This actually has nothing to do with anything being imposed on us by any western government. These are just purely commercial agreeements.

Oil exploration is capital intensive; one of the advantages of JV agreements is that it allows for costs to be shared between NNPC and the JV operator like Shell, Chevron, etc.

Maybe because I used the example of Russia , you think it's our friendliness with the West that made us have the JV agreements "imposed" on us. Not so at all. Countries like Saudi Arabia has Aramco , The Qataris have their own government owned oil companies who do exploration , production, refining and sale of crude by themselves without having JV agreement with any western owned country despite being friendly to the West.

The thing is, Nigeria has been used to not planning for the future and always living in the now. We've not really been blessed with nationalists and visionaries as leaders. If not, we should have built capacity over the years and there's nothing any western or eastern nation would do to us if we decide to take charge of our own oil and gas by ourselves. We would just be selling to any willing buyer and making the most from our oil and gas deals without having anything leak to any foreign private owned company.

This is not about geopolitics or pro/anti-west agenda; it's just a pointer to our failure as a country.

iamoyindamola:
Pk that wasn't given thank God for dowman

"There is no excuses why he can't see that" 🗣️

Were Arsenal unlucky to not have a penalty against Everton after Michael Keane's challenge on Kai Havertz? 🤔 pic.twitter.com/KP74APoPvO

— Sky Sports News (@SkySportsNews) March 16, 2026

Chai! It was a clear penalty and even the yeye VAR didn't catch it.

Na wa o.

OkpaNsukkaisBae:
This is the right time for us to cash out via oil revenue/sale. Russia is making almost 150m dollar per day in oil/gas revenue because of this war. Why is our own different?

I listened to a radio program this morning and their analyst gave some pointers as to why we are not making a kill with oil/gas revenue this period.

All the oil exploration/drilling we do in Nigeria is not done by the Nigerian government; they are all done by Joint Venture. These JV agreement are as a result of Nigeria not having the equipment/expertise/capacity to drill oil by ourselves 65 years after independence. We rely on these JV agreement that lets Multinationals like Exxon Mobil, Shell,Total, Chevron, etc to drill the crude and then get as much as 30% to 40% of proceeds from the drilled crude.

So when an IOC like Shell drills a well, pumps crude out and the crude gets sold, they may get as much as 30% of the revenue depending on the terms of the JV agreement between Shell and NNPC.

When we now factor-in those forward contracts Buhari signed off during his tenure (Yes, the ones he signed off on that allowed him get loans from foreign institutions and pledged proceeds of crude that is yet to be drilled as repayment method), then you know it's almost impossible for us to experience any significant rise in oil revenue. People don't know the level of damage Buhari's administration did to this country within 8 years.

On the other hand, countries like Russia have a government owned oil company that drills Russian oil solely for the full benefit of the country. I think Rosneft is their official government's oil company and Gazprom is the one for gas. These companies are what our own NNPC should be (Not having to defer to IOCs like Shell, Chevron, etc for exploration and production of oil and gas via JV ), but sadly that is not the case.

A lot of things no just dey right for this country. Unfortunately, even people who know just gloss over it and resign to fate.

Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) said the incident happened, but the Police is saying it did not

But why is Nigeria Police force like this ? What sort messed up mentality do they have that always want to make them deny the obvious?

So the the CP is saying no bandit was arrested, but he is confirming they arrested kidnap Logistics Suppliers. Why do they care so much about labels/names instead of crime bursting which should be their main focus?

WhoDeyHause:
It's the club that reported itself to them while investigations were going on so we will have a smaller punishment but gba city is still allowed to sign players even with their 115 charges that we don't know when they will finally collect.

I understand the team reported itself , but that was years after na.

What I'm saying is : As at that period, didn't Chelsea have internal auditors who should warn that such transactions could actually lead to serious regulatory issues in the future?

NinjaMetahuman:
We are stuck with these defenders for another season

The ban is suspended for 2 years I think.

iamoyindamola:
Chelsea ban from transfer again
When will city get their own punishment out of 115 charges, nothing is confirmed.
Abramovic era still haunting up blussss!!!

But come to think of it, shey dem no get internal auditors for Chelsea ni?

Why is it that all of these their infractions don't get flagged internally those periods and have them resolved before Premier league investigate them years after and then sanction them ?

This is an addendum to the post I made last week about how our team has really come a long way particularly our defenders .

We’ve moved from a team with players either getting red carded for reckless foul or giving away penalties arising from clumsy challenge in the box ; to a team that is yet to concede a penalty after 31 league games .

I believe this stat and the fact that we conceded the least goal in the league thus far will do justice to Gabriel’s claim to be the league’s best player come end of season .

popizaino:
Cole Palmer can be a sitting DM. I feel Caicedo is been underutilized.

Emaprince:
Iran wey no get leader?

Let's just agree with Okpa that Iran has won the war; maybe we would finally be able to have other discussions on the thread like before the war.

From the look of things, it's looking like If person continue to indulge Okpa he will spam this place Iran vs Israel so much that people won't be able to have other reasonable and more important discussion.

iamoyindamola:
After carabao is international break

Yeah, that’s why I said we should be able to see out a win against Bournemouth because the players should be fresh off the rigors of EPL football during international break .

I believe most of our top players would have their minutes managed by their national team coaches during international break . I’m not expecting any of our players to play 90 minutes for whatever national team they play for

iamoyindamola:

Collect Chelsea Fc shorts, give them skirts now 😂

Tag a Chelsea fan 🏃‍♀️ 🏃‍♀️

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— Aderonke Adesola ( Ibadan Camavinga) (@OloriSports) March 16, 2026

Blueraydick if them catch this babe lasan

She does it for every team , it’s just that it’s been Chelsea turn for the past few weeks since results no Dey favor them

[quote author=OkpaNsukkaisBae post=138786445]BlueRayDick, Trump is winning. More winning.

Professor John Mearsheimer:

We’re not winning against Iran. We’re not winning.

We’re sending a message that we’re a bunch of fools. That we started a war we can’t win.

We didn’t have the required military forces to achieve any of the objectives that we were floating, and we… pic.twitter.com/41Aej2c5GW

— Clash Report (@clashreport) March 16, 2026

Since this war start , I doubt If you’ve gone 6 hours without posting about Iran’s supposed victory

Okay I completely agree with you ; Iran is winning the war.

Can we all rest now ?

mostob:
Beat Leverkusen to qualify for UCL QF
Beat City to clinch Carabao cup
Beat Bournemouth to go 12 points clear

Dear God, it's not too much... Not much at all

And by the special grace of God, one bottom team manager should win all his matches in March and carry the MOTM.

1. I want us to score Leverkusen like 2 goals early in the match and hold on by recycling possession and giving them pressure till like 65 to 70 minutes.

2. Arteta should start subbing off our key players by 70th minute so they can rest ahead of Sunday match vs City.

3. We should field our full squad Vs City without the exception of anybody. Let me even spell it out: Raya should start in goal ahead of Kepa to avoid any stories that touch. We need to win City on Sunday to make a very bold statement that we are going all-in for every trophy available ; that will even help boost the players' morale in the league.

4. We should be able to see out a win Vs Bournemouth , all things being equal. The moment we do that, the pressure will go right back on city who will then have to face a Chelsea team fighting for top 4 .

If all these sup lasan, we will work into the month of April with zero pressure on us while having the league within our sights.

Bluelines69:
Make Trump find way put Egbhali name for one of him rants abeg, shey na Iranian guy

Make una beg Donjazet to start crusade against Egbhali like he did against Abrahamovic, that's the only way forward out of the mess una dey for Chelsea

The story of Ali ShamKhani who once capped about how “ Nothing threatens Iranian leadership . How they have a strong military and IRGC, and how nobody can threaten anyone”

He was allegedly buried without head after IDF/American joint airstrike sent an appointment between him and his virgins.

Ali Shamkhani last year: “Nothing threatens our leaders. We have a strong military and IRGC, and nobody can threaten anyone here.”

Yesterday Shamkhani was buried. His head is still missing.pic.twitter.com/O1Ppns8ASs

— Dr. Eli David (@DrEliDavid) March 15, 2026

Fkforyou:
That was the same argument I had in mind. If we are to go by their logic, then Igor Thiago of Brentford also deserves it.

The year Company, a defender won it, Van Persie was on fire for us.

Last last na just agenda, especially as we are almost certain of winning the league.

They just want to take something from us.

That is just it! They just want to clutch at any straw whatsoever to discredit our impending crowning as champions.

They want to claim we won the league without having any particular player who was spectacular. They would pretend they didn't see heroics of players like Gabriel, Raya, Rice , etc.

Fkforyou:
Them do start to Dey push Bruno agenda for POTS!

Lol.. everybody go Dey alright last last.

Na Mumu agenda.

At least 10 of the 16 assists they are using to push Bruno Agenda for player of the season came from corner kicks. Yet their fans will come to this thread to be chastising us about taking advantage of Corner kicks to win matches.

I am glad the EPL already set precedent with 2020/21 season when Reuben Dias was awarded EPL best player as a defender who contributed immensely to Man City's triumph.

When Arsenal wins the EPL this season and Gabriel Apatapiti is named EPL's best player, I will relish the salty tears of rival fans who would argue tooth and nail telling us how Bruno or Halland should win the award instead.

Come to think of it, if they don't want to look at the position the teams finished on the log but consider the player's ability and contribution especially how they carried the team; Igor has a better claim to player of the year than Bruno sef.