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Chubhie:
Very Apt analysis. I agree with you 101%. Looking forward to the next chelsea and pray to catch you online so we discuss the tactical aspects realtime. Do have a great day Capone.

The feeling is mutual bro! I can't wait to see what we do before the window shuts.


Have yourself a great day too!

My baby!

Looking gorgeous as usual! Happy Birthday

Chubhie:
Just read john stones story now. Seems pogba deal is looking brighter too.

Falcao and Remy will get more playing time probably during league cup. Falcao needs to build his confidence in front of goal with small teams.

You noticed during the last game when Hazard made one unexpected cross into the box with Falcao nowhere to be found? Did you notice Hazard's reactions? I wasn't happy with Hazard's reaction---- it punctures the very confidence needed to encourage Falcao.

If we succeed in landing Stones and Pogba, I believe we have a balanced team to fight on all fronts to glory.

Winners welcome criticism, they draw strength from it, just ask Drogba. It took him about 2 seasons to start firing on all cylinders but never complained about this "confidence" thing. Remy wasn't starting games and wasn't playing much but you can see/notice the fight in him.

Falcao is an established striker, he has played all over the world, torn defences apart including ours, so confidence shouldn't be him issue. I don't buy into that school of thought. He has to rise to the occasion, period.


As much I'd like to have Pogba, he's too expensive. 70m for him is outrageous. We could get Imbula/ Veratti/Koke all for less (please watch Imbula on youtube). Better yet, we can give Ruben Loftus-Cheek more game time. I won't keep my hopes high for Pogba's signature.

We need John Stones, I understand he's a huge talent for Everton but why is Martinez being a big baby about it? He signed Lukaku and Eto'o from us and he's still looking to take Moses too. Plus he signs players from other teams as well. I'm glad Stones has tendered his transfer request. We should wrap that deal up soon!


Modified: Here's Imbula's link. https://m.youtube.com/results?q=imbula%20highlights&sm=1

Chubhie:
I still have this nostalgic feelings remembering those days we had a complete team in all departments of the field.

From terry-calvalho with makelele sitting in their front. duff robben joe cole kezman on counter!!!

Pogba|verrati|koke paired with matic looks tight. My main concern is our 5 and 6----terry zouma and cahill. Terry has lost his pace due to wear and tear with age and is always exposed when we play a high line. Agureo and the last red he saw attests to that. JT still has my respects for still holding it at this level with his age. He's a true Chelsea legend.

Cahill is never just it for me. Haven't seen nothing convincing about his gameplay. I also played central defence during my time so I'm yet to be convinced on his capabilities. Zouma is fast but would be made a mess of when he meets technically gifted and treacherous players. He still has enough room for his game to mature.

Looking at mancity current setup, they seem perfect and a fearful force this season. The league is their's to lose to Chelsea.

You just brought tears to my eyes lol! Terry, Calvaho combo with Makelele sitting in front of them (wicked). Those were times we could hold out a 1-0 lead from first half. Calvaho's boots were just too big to be filled. I miss him. Cahill is a decent defender esp cos he's playing alongside the best defender in the league. I thought his game would have improved by now even though he gives his all for the team. I won't blame Terry for anything now, the dude has given us everything, played every single game last season and he's almost 35 still he marshalled the defence impeccably over the last decade.
Zouma still has room for improvement and I'm sure he will with more game time. His performance against United and Spurs last season shows he can hold his own against those big names. He bullied Fellaini and Harry Kane throughout the match.


BTW John Stones just handed in his transfer request at Everton. The transfer window is suddenly looking good for us!

We need anothe Striker if we won't give Remy more game time. Falcao don't just cut it for me. Remy has goals in him. Scored more than the whole of Liverpool's strike force last season from the bench. Lacazette's rumors have died down. Hoe we get him in too

Chubhie:
I totally agree with you. I wish to see Baba Rahman play 3 while he goes back to his natural 2 position. Iva needs a rest. I will play matic and William as defensive midfielders while unleashing fabregas as 10.

That's how I play against big teams on FM.

Fabregas as our 10 should be amazing but he has not really performed well in that position for us. I think he enjoys sitting with Matic where he can have a bigger picture/vision. Mata would have been a perfect 10 if his work ethic (marking) was atleast u to 8/10. That makes Oscar the best 10 in the team now but he's not consistent and still needs to mature. He's the future tho.

Willian is a nice player but he holds on to the ball a lot and scores less. He's a hardworker that why he still makes the team.

I would love to have Pogba/Veratti/koke sit with Matic in the middle with Fab/Oscar as 10.


You're absolutely sot on with Ivanovic, he needs to rest and he needs competition too. Baba should start against Crystal Palace, let's see what he'll bring to the team.

Right now, no one has been outstanding but if I must choose, i'd say Ceasar Azpilicueta.
The right footed leftback has been in fine form since the begining of this season.

Even though CFC's defence has been dodgy do far this season, he has managed to hold his own, unlike the rest of the back 3.
Adding his cheeky clincher against WestBrom on sunday, i'd give it to him.

Played out of position, gives his all, scores a vital goal in a must win game....he doesn't always get the accolade he deserves. He's the best performer in the team so far....




Oh and by the way, FTC baby....yeah!

Lol...Policeman on IG...ok o


This is what's it's like to be on front page...i feel no diFferent.

















Who am I kidding? This is cool....lol

Shymm3x:
Blame Terry, Cahill, and Ivanovic. Terry is washed up, and Cahill is just Cahill - mediocre defender. And Ivanovic has always been vulnerable as a wing back.

Ivanovic is a better central defender than both Terry and Cahill.

And I'd pair him with Zouma, move Azil to right back, and Rahman to left back. But hey, I'm not big Mou!

WTF man?! Just because JT is having a bad run of form makes him all washed up? Cut the man some slack bruh! He's almost 35 and he played every single game last season and is still the best center back in the EPL. Ivanovic too. This is a defence that was the best last season. It's saddening when ppl write players off so quick. These things happen and that's football for you. For crying out loud, it's just 3 games! The team needs fresh faces to inject the much needed freshness into the team, rest a couple of players and also remind some that they have to earn their place in the team...

I still don't understand how people find this nose ring thing cool...


Makes you look like someone from Apocalypto damm!

Miss which class?

Na me go dey come first for morning, na me go still go last when school don dismiss...

Criticisms without facts.

First NOI now Adesina, who was made the AFDB president due to his stellar performance during his time as minister.

Apparently, The Edo State governors recent criticisms have placed him in the line of fire of the AFDB president, Akinwunmi Adesina


Immediate past Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Dr. Akinwumi Adesina, has slammed Edo State Governor, Adams Oshiomhole, for describing the Agricultural Programme of former president Goodluck Jonathan as a scam.

Adesina, who is to assume office as the President of the African Development Bank next month, said it was unbecoming of Oshiomhole to tag Jonathan’s Agricultural Transformation Agenda, ATA, as a dismal failure.

In a statement signed by his Special Assistant on Media, Dr. Olukayode Oyeleye, the former minister said it was most uncharitable for the governor who was in a better position to know the success of the ATA to attempt to discredit it for reasons best known to him.

Disagreeing with Oshiomhole, Adesina insisted that the ATA was a real success story and not a sham as claimed by the governor

“Foremost, it is a bad public relations stunt, not expected from the governor. Secondly, his comments detract from the ATA – a reform that was vigorously pursued and implemented by Dr Akin Adesina, now president elect of African Development Bank,” the former minister said.

” For reasons of safeguarding the economy and strengthening the confidence of the international community in Nigeria, genuine efforts towards ensuring food security and diversifying the economy away from oil should not be subjected to cheap politics as the negative impact that follows such public comments could be to the nation’s detriment.

Governor Oshiomole ought to know better that, under ATA, efficient distribution of subsidised farm inputs – also known as the Growth Enhancement Support Scheme (GESS), reached 14.3million farmers with 1.3million MT of fertiliser, 102,703 metric tons of improved rice seeds, 67,991 metric tons of improved maize seeds, 6,171 metric tons of improved cotton seeds, 130 million stems of cassava, 45.5million seedlings of cocoa, nine million seedlings of oil palm amongst many other crops between 2012 and 2014.

“Those inputs helped produce an additional 21million MT of food that has acted as a buffer against inflation with the devaluation of the Naira.

“At a time that the nation desperately needs to build upon the achievements of the immediate past minister of agriculture, Governor Oshiomole can only do the Edo people some good by recognising the fact that lending by commercial banks to agriculture increased from 0.07 per cent in 2011 to five per cent in 2014 while banks lent a total of N27.5 billion to fertiliser and seed companies.

“As the chief executive of a state so blessed with natural resources so highly favourable to productive agriculture, Governor Oshiomhole ought to think rather on how to make Edo more enterprising. In doing so, an area he is expected to be more interested in, should be agriculture.

“For that reason, Governor Oshiomhole ought rather to be keen on how the intervention that brought agriculture from policy oblivion to a sector that is now widely embraced could be replicated in Edo State within the remaining number of months he has to spend as a governor.

“He ought to have been asking, for instance, the erudite, resourceful and hardworking former minister, how he was able to achieve so much within so short a time.

“If Governor Oshiomhole knows how to play the politics well, he should be thinking of how to leverage on the former minister’s growing relevance at the continental level as the new head of the biggest development financial institution in Africa.

”He is supposed to be expressing interest in the increased investment in the fertilizer sector totaling $5billion from major companies such as Indorama, Dangote, and Notore.

”He should have been asking his special assistants to study how usage also rose from 13kg per hectare in 2011 to 80kg in 2014, or how seed companies in Nigeria grew from 11, producing 14,000 metric tons of improved seeds, to 134 companies doing 174,000 metric tons of seeds.

“The governor should be asking how Nigeria become the world leader in the use of ICT to reach farmers directly with farm inputs and how the World Bank is trying to scale out this efficient system of ensuring high productivity of small holder farmers across Africa.

“It is grossly unfair for Governor Oshiomhole not to recognise that ATA of 2011 to 2014 was Nigeria’s equivalent of the ‘green revolution’ that took place in Asia in the 1960s and 1970s, where new highly productive varieties of rice and wheat, and the chemical fertilisers that helped them achieve their potential, led to a doubling and tripling of yield and self-sufficiency.

“Particularly troubling is the fact that a political leader of a State as enlightened as Edo State could feign ignorance at the fact that the number of integrated rice mills, needed to produce parboiled rice, preferred by Nigerians, has grown from just one in 2010 to 24 in 2014.

“Equally worrisome is he fact that he is unaware that our parboiled rice milling capacity increased from 70,000 metric tons to 800,000 metric tons. His former colleague in Lagos, at some point, had bought as many as 56 trailer loads of paddy rice from Kebbi (a major massive producer of rice under ATA) for processing into ‘ Eko Rice ‘ brand in Lagos. It means Governor Oshiomhole’s criticism is fraught with irregularities.

“Realising that the demand for import quality-grade parboiled rice was estimated at 2.5million Metric tons (MT) in Nigeria, the gap in milling capacity prompted the Federal Executive Council to approve a N9billion fund to support private sector companies to acquire nine new 36,000 metic tons per annum factories to further raise the capacity to 1.2million MT, leaving a national supply gap of 1.3million MT that was to be met by controlled imports under the new rice policy.

“The new Rice Policy, aimed at reducing the amounts of rice imports and instead encourage new domestic rice investments in the nation, has led to new investments in rice production and milling of over N500billion, including N200billion by Aliko Dangote, of which a 200,000MT per annum mill and 10,000 hectares will be located in Edo State. Is Governor Oshiomhole aware of this?

The former minister also lambasted Oshimhole for claiming that the past government frittered away over N800 billion on waivers for rice millers and others, killing local rice production and making agriculture unattractive.

He made it clear that contrary to the governor’s claim, the total amount owed the government by rice importers, who imported beyond their approved limit, is estimated at N30billion, an information that is conspicuously displayed on the website of the Nigerian customs.

“It has to be emphasised here again that it was the immediate Dr Adesina that the took up the fight against the erring importers, asking them to pay what they owed the government.

“The truth is that under ATA, Nigeria has made giant strides towards achieving self-sufficiency in rice. Between 2011 and 2014, a total of six million rice farmers were reached with improved rice seeds and fertiliser and an additional two million hectares cultivated.

“National paddy rice production rose by an additional 7 million MT and the nation reached 85 per cent sufficiency in rice production.

”Furthermore, for the first time in Nigeria, rice cultivation is twice a year, in the wet and dry seasons. We have also seen the rise of thousands of small mills fitted with destoners and polishers producing parboiled rice of similar quality as imported rice. With the new investment in large scale rice mills, imported rice will soon become a thing of the past.

“The governor may wish to ask the leader of the cocoa value chain, an illustrious son of Edo State, who served under the immediate past minister of agriculture in revolutionizing cocoa production, Edo was one of the biggest beneficiaries of the efforts to increase cocoa production base through the free distribution of cocoa pods for raising seedlings in many farms in the cocoa-producing states.

”In the Oil Palm value chain, a total of 9 million sprouted oil palm sprouted nuts were distributed to 45,353 small and large oil palm estate owners between 2013 and 2015. Additional Crude Palm Oil (CPO) production due to these interventions is projected to be 400,000 MT of crude oil palm which would close the gap of 350,000MT of crude oil palm that is currently being imported. There has been well over N100billion new investment in crude oil palm production in the country.

“Nigeria’s agriculture sector has undergone major reforms and transformation in the past three and a half years under the leadership of the immediate past Honorable Minister of Agriculture and President-elect of the African Development Bank, Dr Akinwumi Adesina.

“Governor Oshiomhole would benefit from data originating from the National Bureau of Statistics, showing that the agricultural sector grew by 9.19 per cent (year-on-year) in the third quarter of 2014, up by 2.7 per cent from Q3 of 2013. The agricultural sector grew by 38.53 per cent between 3rd and 4th quarters of 2014, with crop production being the main driver, with a growth of 43.5 per cent. The Agricultural Transformation Agenda has proven to be a well-thought-out policy with great gains for Nigeria.

“It was Philip Asiodu, the former super permsec who recently opined that ‘What has killed this country is the refusal of any new government to build upon what their predecessors had done.”

”If ATA is allowed to continue as conceived and implemented under Adesina, Nigeria could reach an additional 32 million farmers by 2019, up from 14.5 million farmers reached with inputs between 2012 to 2014, reaching at least 8 million of unemployed youths.

”Under ATA, a production of 7.1 million MT per annum of rice paddy was achieved With the new investments in milling, milling capacity could rise to 5 million MT and Nigeria will be self-sufficient in rice production by 2017. It is indeed shameful for a country like Nigeria to import rice.

Should ATA continue, cassava processing capacity, currently just below 100,000MT/annum and a bane of the cassava industry, will be raised to 675,000MT per annum by 2019. Same thing with maize production, from the achievement of over 12 million MT/annum in 2014 (compared to 9million MT/year in 2011), we will increase this to 18 million MT/annum by 2019 to accommodate the rise in demand for food, poultry feed, and maize for the milling industry.

“For Sorghum, we will go from 9.76million MT in 2014 to 13 million MT by 2019 to cater for the increase in demand from the malted sorghum and high energy food markets. We can produce 1.2million MT of soybean by 2019, up from 700,000MT achieved in 2014 (compared to 500,000MT in 2011).

“Same for cotton, from 240,000MT/annum in 2014 ( was 125,000MT in 2011) to 500,000MT/annum by 2019, Cocoa production from 350,000MT exported/annum in 2014 to 700,000MT exported/annum by 2019; crude oil palm, production from 800,000MT/annum in 2014 to 1.6million MT/annum in 2019 and Nigeria will become self-sufficient in CPO.

“It is uncharitable and against the interest of Nigerian public to politicise issues of agriculture and food security as Governor Oshiomhole did in his criticisms of that sector.

http://www.thebreakingtimes.com/you-are-a-publicity-LovePeddler-afdb-president-elect-adesina-slams-oshiomhole/

kossyablaze:
Yes o,We nid am in Anambra badly

I'm on an official assignment in anambra state and I can tell u that 3 shoprite malls are currently under construction. One in Nnewi, one in Awka and one in GRA onitsha.

This is a no brainer. You guys stay in the same compound plus she's married, so it's a no no. Don't give in to her antics and make it as clear as possible. Do it once and u can never stop it....

There's no steel in that midfield/ anchorman to make plays from the deep lying position.

Micheal Babatunde's electric pace and firece shot will be missed. Echejile is our most experienced left back. Forgotten the name of that short guy that almost signed for a south african club...dunno if he did but we need his trickery in the final third.
Good to see Emenike back in the team but he needs to feed of someone's link up play.
Where is Sunday Mba? His marauding runs from the midfield is also key.


It's still too early...so we'll just watch and hope for the best. hoe Oliseh delivers

Aisha95:
LMAO @ bolded.
Even me won't hesitate before sending that girl out into the street where she belong.

Lmao...the girl is just petty . That's the only reason she went back to the guy. Imagine her going back to the op and finding him worse than she left him. Do u think she'll shed even a teardrop not to talk of begging him......

Nobody wan die but them wan go heaven.

Aisha95:
So you're implying that a mistake as this isn't worth forgiving?
You never know.
Some guys might give it a thought. An individual is likely to yield to soothing words from a remorsful heart.
To err is human, to forgive is divine.

It's very obvious why she went back to the guy. She's not remorseful, she's just shedding Croc tears to warm her way into his wallet.

Jacide:
The availability of multiple applications like BBM, Skype, WhatsApp is eating up the revenues of major Nigerian Telecommunication companies. With the budding apps, calling and short message services have taken the back seat and as a result, the telecommunication companies are facing a massive loss of revenue.

A recent report has revealed that majority of the telcos have fallen some 30% decline in their expected revenue generation. Apart from this revenue drop statistics, the report also suggested that the companies could see an additional decrease of 20% in the total revenue. In order to reclaim the loss, some of the telcos have raised data price through the means of shaving, which is eventually hurting the broadband penetration in Nigeria.
How the shaving is done

The current data plans, irrespective of the network hardly last the expected duration it is meant to last, due to increased use of internet in Nigeria. For example, I’ve been a victim of Airtel on several occasions. Buying their so called 2GB BIS plan for 1,500 naira is suicide. The last time I used the service, I hardly got 200 megabytes of data usage before I was slammed with the reality of my “data is exhausted!” What a sham?


http://somtoo.com/nigerian-networks-introduce-shaving-to-balance-cheaper-data-costs/

Well I don't believe this 2 gig 200 MB gist, unless it's a "one of" situation. I've been using airtel since forever and I can tell u that I always get my complete data when I subscribe. Even the 1,500 for 2gig now give u 3gig. They even give u 9gig for 3,500.


Like I said earlier, unless it's a one of. As for me, I'm still flexing my airtel!

Arisha:
Wow still viewing lol arent u ppl tired

Seriously, I don't get it...

jony247:
You can get down with a yoruba and Ibo girl with just one indomie and egg 90 naira which is cheaper?

Lmao! Why evuls?

JERRY1925:
Reading all this coments, just gets me scared..cos am actually falling for an Esan girl, she's actually alittle tof from wat I see, but I tot it's because we not dating or somtin...she even Syd she dnt cry wen people die....shes beautiful...but Steve.

LMAO! This guy abeg na

Shey na Steve Bruce she be! Lol

bosco9:
I totally disagree with you on that, I was born and brought up in edo state. If you want to straff any edo gal a bottle of malt will do the magic for you. So cheap

Daamiit mehn!

Make this man just borrow me 200k first!

The kind stretch marks wey go dey there go be like sango shrine

Don't play with my head when I'm driving o. Bae, please nor try am

The one on the right everyday

Oh mehn!!! That's a horrible way to die!

Suicide is never an option. But more shame to the people that drove her to think it was the way to go.


The woman should have lived for their baby's sake at least.

aresa:
1. The former governor did not award any contract, a state agency did and that's who you need to send your bogus and ignorant concern to..

2. The vendor claimed they charged 12 million and were paid 10 million, but according to you the former governor took the rest of the money, then the ball is now in the agency's court to tell us who they sent the rest of the money to.

3. The burden is still on the agency to show us payment documentation reflecting 10 or 78 million payment.

They have to show us who they wrote the check/s to, for what amount and who cashed the checks.

Money trail is not an invisible trail or rocket science.

This is basic common sense, not that you and you and your village biafra type have any common sense sha..

Bro, I understand your tribal sentiments on the topic. Arguing with you is already a lost cause hence I won't waste more time on u.
Oh and before I forget, I'm a Nigerian not a Biafran.


Have yourself an amazing day.

aresa:
That's not proof in any court of law, proof is the Lagos state government producing official proof of payment in form of written and cashed checks the vendor was paid with.


Beats me why you biafra villagers reason like elementary school kids with zero cognitive skills and sense of reasoning.

Atleast the state govt produced something to back up their claim. Fash on the other hand only uttered some words and you bought it hook, line and sinker.
I raised issues but your busy calling names and throwing tribal tantrums, instead of you to argue wisely. Isn't that enough to show how biased your analysis are?

It's such a pity that someone like you who claims to be educated will prefer to stoop so low just to make a point.

Shows the level of your reasoning.

aresa:
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Stop ranting like Bingo.

The company involved just stated how much they bidded for the job and how much they were eventually paid so the burden is on the state to show us the payment checks or bank information to show proof of N78 payment. How's that for common sense?


Silly unintelligent village dullards...

This whole exposé came to light because the LASG said Fash inflated the price of the project to the tune of 78m and posted proof. The governor came out to say that a project initiated in his name firstly, wasn't his. Secondly he claimed he used below 10m for the website without proof.

The company told you how much they got not how much Fash embezzled from the govt.
That's why I said there was no common sense in your earlier post.

If truly fash used 10m, why didn't he show proof? Or did u not also see the document LASG posted? So you expect me to believe the utterances of a Nigerian political without proof and u claim your an intelligent individual?


I'm sorry for you. Honestly I am.

aresa:
We are talking about designing, loading up and managing thousands of pictures, speeches and videos on multiple platforms on multiple websites with lifetime maintenance commitment built into the contract.

Obviously, the people of Lagos got a great bargain. Most of the folks crying here are the same internet trolls and tribal bigots..

Wtf are u going on about? A serving state governor spent 78m of state fund on a personal website and you're calling people trolls and bigots? What happened to common sense? Is it that you're having a hard time with comprehension?