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Using Timbre at Left back is a very wise and tactical decision by Arteta.

I'm sure Lewis-Skelly would've been cooked if he played that left back today.

iamoyindamola:
Zubi zubi do makes it 3

Very sweet goal 🤗

Na Fufuna Zubimendi "drimble" there o.

Later one egbon will be tagging me up and down asking about Fufuna performance 😏

Zubimendiiiiiiiii! 🤩

Saliba senior man! I see what U did there, Respek! 🫡

Arteta should take out Trossard for Martinelli abeg. Let him come and run up and down that wing

Odegaard not always doing enough to win the ball in any challenge. That sucks!

Sanchez the SPILLanthropist thank you for the gift for Gyokeres 🤩

Gyokeres thank you sir! 🫡

iamoyindamola:
I dont even understand the tactics we are playing

We are trying to press Chelsea to force them to overturn the ball while tbey are still practising this their new tactics of passing passing.... But we are failing to utilize the ball when we finally have it

Thank You Saliba for at least attempting that shot. Others just dey gba busy doing rubbish passing all over the pitch

It just looks as if Trossard just come catch fun for pitch and not to play a competitive match.

Arteta needs to talk to these guys, we need to kill this game off now

iamoyindamola:
We are playing rubbish

Honestly, and it's very annoying. Until Chelsea wake for second half begin pressing for equalizer

We are seeing chances and not utilizing it. We really need to hurt them now that we have chance to do that

As dem no see weakness for Gabriel body, dem dey push am to allow them score.

Trossard wan kill dem 😂😂😂

Ben White is nit marking well at all; he's just allowing Pedro get past him with little effort 🤦‍♂️

Come on Guys!

1-0

Goal ball jor! 🙅‍♂️

Altern8tor:
Y did ur company not use Chopper from Airport to company base to avoid unfortunate circumstances on d way

It's not economical flying chopper everytime expats and guests fly into town. Chopper can carry few people also.

The coaster on the other hand can carry as much as 20 different people who fly in around the same time. And the security guys are retained by the company on allowances which is cheap compared to buying a chopper, retaining pilots and servicing the chopper regularly.

This report is incomplete. The woman said the one of the terrorists asked her : "Do you know why we are doing this ?".

I expect the writer/author who wrote this news piece will proceed to tell us what the terrorist gave as reason to the victim. We ought to know what reason was given; is it religiously motivated or financially motivated terrorism.

I suspect they deliberately cut that part off in the report for reasons best known to them.

@Gloriousgbola read the excerpt of this frontpage thread:

According to documents obtained by SaharaReporters, OSW, working in collaboration with the Nigerian Financial Intelligence Unit (NFIU), arrested several high-profile suspects in March 2021 based on detailed financial intelligence tracing money flows linked to terrorism financing.

Ali-Keffi stated that some of the suspects were linked to former Chiefs of Army Staff, including Lt. Gen. Tukur Buratai (rtd) and Lt. Gen. Faruk Yahaya (rtd), former Central Bank of Nigeria Governor Godwin Emefiele, and former Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami (SAN).

He clarified that he was not directly accusing any of the named individuals of financing terrorism but said investigations connected them to some of the arrested suspects.

Specifically, Ali-Keffi disclosed that two suspects arrested by OSW were linked to Buratai, two others were linked to Malami, one was linked to Emefiele, while one suspect was linked to Yahaya.

He further alleged that Malami interfered with the investigation by orchestrating the removal of a key prosecutor and influencing the handling and eventual release of certain suspects

https://www.nairaland.com/8598947/army-detains-brig-gen-gabriel-archibong

All of that happened in a country that claimed to be fighting Terrorism.

Are u telling me if the FG decided to revisit this case, bring the suspects in, prosecute them and trace the various financiers with full workings shown, it won't be more productive than wasting $9 million of tax payers money on hiring lobbyists to convince trump they are fighting terrorism?

Let them put serious efforts into fighting terrorism and leave propaganda & lobbying for now.

GloriousGbola:
in front of us trump deployed a strike force to arrest maduro. for months he said it was about narco terrorism. now it is all of a sudden about oil. and he then had a big meeting with ceos of oil companies.

read it up. those who understand trump have been lobbying him. ceos paying big money for his inaugural ceremony. you think fifa dont know why they gave him a peace prize? who did he inform after the venezuela mission was complete? congress? no. oil companies.

to this day we don't have actual clear information about terrorists that were decimated in the xmas day attack. somehow we have no videos, no pictures nothing. from the us that has satellite imagery, etc it may as well be a nigerian army report. what we do have is ordnance in offa - a story for another day.

You are conflating issues here. Everyone have always known what US interest in Venezuela was.

Comparing the Nigerian situation with Venezuela's is a bit of a stretch; it is very very far fetched .

https://www.icirnigeria.org/report-says-us-spent-over-30million-missiles-on-sokoto-terrorists-bombing/

The report in the above link says US spent over $30 million on missiles that were deployed in the bombing of terrorists in Sokoto. Are u saying because od $9million lobbying contract the US decided to expend 16 Tomahawk missiles that cost $2million each on terrorists in Nigeria ?

If you had said Trump spearheaded the US intervention in fighting terrorism in Nigeria just in a bid to flex American muscle and military might, I may agree with you. But this "shakedown theory" no just add up at all

GloriousGbola:
My post was deleted

we do a lot of construction projects. during those projects different regulatory agencies will come to harass is. THEY DO NOT CARE ABOUT SAFETY OR STANDARDS OR ANYTHING ELSE. it is simply a shakedown. show them all your papers - if you don not drop for them , your job is going nowhere.

that is what this is. we are america and if you want to continue to operate, drop money. there is nothing trump is doing that should be strange to you as a nigerian. do you not get harassed by regulators all the time? dpr taht we used to call d[b]PR[/b]

that is all this is really about. drop PR.

is it trump that you think suddenly cares about nigerian christains? same trump that killed usaid? same trump blocking visas?

I completely disagree with this "shakedown theory" sha. So u are saying Trump decided to bomb terrorists in Nigeria because of $9 million or whatever amount that ends up being paid to American lobbying firm?

iamoyindamola:
Yes prime and Netflix are easy to subscribe to
Maybe apple if you have ios device

I use an iphone but I don't know how to go about subscribing AppleTV to watch on SmartTV. And it seems AppleTV always have some really cool series

GloriousGbola:
My guy you are a Nigerian. When Atiku lobbied to have his case closed and warrant sorted, he paid a lobbying firm 300k if I recall.

Trump is the most genial, most corrupt president America has ever had. That is why Qataris are dashing him plane, why he is doing real estate deals in Saudi Arabia. That money is going to team trump.

What your mafians call protection money. Maybe they will Throw in a Chieftaincy title or medal as well.

Naija ultimate peace prize as the guy has so a love of that sort of thing

Don't u think Nigerian government showing efforts at fighting terrorism, naming & shaming terrorism financiers and prosecuting terrorists arrested would be more beneficial to Nigerians instead of spending as much as $9m of tax payers money to hire an American lobbying firm? Let's not forget that the Nigerian firm that hired the American lobbying firm on behalf of NSA will also be paid hundreds of millions for their "serices"

So what is now the difference between this current government and the past one? They are currently hounding Malami for hiring international lawyers for ridiculous amount of dollars in processing refund of Abacha's loot. Then we have this government doing what they are doing with this American lobbying firm. Na wa o

GloriousGbola:
IMHO he understands trumps game. Likely the lobbying firm is attached to Trump family one way or another. That is the trump way.

So they have to waste $9million of tax payers' funds just to inform America they have plans to fight Jihadists?

Na wa o.

They refused to name Terrorism sponsors , we have not seen much prosecution efforts from FG to terrorists and we have state governments busy negotiating with terrorists.

They should take action instead of wasting tax payers money on lobbying

iamoyindamola:
Blueraydick
If you didn't watch tehran s3 last year, it is out now
The english subtitle should be fine too

I've lost interest in the series jare.

I'm currently watching The 100 on Prime. I watched it way back but I stopped at season 3, I'm now on season 6 (It has 7 seasons)

Of late I've been enjoying Prime. I just wish other platforms like HBO, peacock, AppleTV etc were available for easy sub in Naija and at reasonable cost; one would not need to be doing unnecessary download up and down.

afrodoc2:
I had one Chilean woman who survived the horrors of Pinochet consoling me today for coming from Nigeria based on all the negative news she has been hearing with banditry, terrorism, and corruption.

She must be wondering how u survived all of that and still managed to keep ur sanity to become what u are today.

In 2024 I was in PH, on the way from the airport we were in a convoy with one German and one American national who are expat consultants to our company. The coaster bus we were in was bulletproof o and we had one hilux full of armed soldiers as lead escort while another hilux filled with armed Mobile police officers was following closely behind us.

Despite the level of security, the moment our driver observed the bus was giving him funny signs and he parked, come and see the way those expats were jittery. Seems they've been told how kidnapping is rampant in Nigeria particularly in the Niger Delta. You could clearly see the horror on their face right from the moment the driver stopped to check the vehicle till we continued our journey. We the Nigerians in the bus were not even bothered because we know nobody is coming to face that much security detail in a gun duel but the white guys were not calm at all.

Some of those negative news always keep foreign nationals on their toes while in Nigeria.

afrodoc2:
Naija matter na like trying to use hand to stop a basket from leaking. I no sure say any project gets done anywhere in this country without inflation of figures and kickbacks.

Obligatory!

It seems almost everyone expects u to inflate project costs and pay kickbacks the moment you get a contract from any government ministry/department/agency. It seems everyone has accepted it to be the way to go

PDPGuy:
I can’t believe Morocco spent only US$75 million to construct the Prince Moulay stadium in Rabat (69k capacity), venue for today’s game 🤯

In Western Europe or the U.S., that stadium would cost no less than $450 million or even $700 million. Or is it the cost of labor that is the difference?

Meanwhile, Godswill Akpabio stadium that was built in Akwa Ibom between 2012 and 2014 cost $96 million despite our own stadium being completed 12 years earlier and our own stadium having 30k capacity while the Moroccan stadium has 69k capacity 🤦‍♂️.

Some people must have made mad-ass money from that Akwa Ibom stadium that can't even stand toe to toe with the Moroccan stadium.

GloriousGbola:
the police attached to VIPs are supernumerary [also called SPY] police - not required for actual police work

This is not true at all.

The regular policemen, MOPOL and SPU are majorly the ones attached to VIPS.

It's mostly banks, some companies and few private individuals that use SPY police as drivers/orderlies. The real VIPS use regular policemen, that's why u see them lamenting since the order came out.