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12large1:
You must be very MAD! do you think this is 1980? You're playing an away game in an artificial turf with almost half of your first 11 unavailable and saying that a draw will be a bad result?? Personally, I believe that we should aspire and aim to win, but a draw is still acceptable considering the circumstances

Boy, I really miss the days when this forum was made up of bright minds that could hold an intellectual discuss without direct confrontation ( safarigirl, supernerd, Komekn,thegoodjoe, Hannibal, mostob etc....era come to mind). Since this kid joined this forum in May of this year, I have watched with appall as he continues to directly insult people that don't agree with his inane ideas. Dude, there are classy ways to express your obtuse ideas without direct confrontation. Maturity demands that you attack the idea not the individual. I guess that is why I continue to call you a kid.

I look forward to your response and for you to prove my point....

This is rediculous. A man competing in a female weight lifting category, all because he woke up one day and decided he is female, literally. If we are all the same, why are there no transgender males ( females who think they are male) in MMA, boxing, karate or Judo. No, like a Chinese buffet they get to pick and choose those that suits them.

12large1:
The difference between coaches like Rodgers and pep is that one will possibly disrupt his team chances of winning in order not to offend or be loyal to a player vs Playing inform players and not minding dropping an out of form player just to WIN. The sad part of it is that Rohr has Rodgers tendencies written on him. Loyalty to out of form players. I just hope that it doesn't cost us. Imagine dropping one of the best Dribbles Nigeria have "Ejuke" for out of Form players like Ahmed musa,iwobi

For the sake of anything holy, who is this kid. I know we are supposed to respect everybody's opinion, but this is just way too childish. In your judgement you would play a selfish, misguided, aimless dribbler for a tried and tested Iwobi. A mid fielder who has connected our attack with our defense in multiple prior games and is very efficient in tight spaces. This is the problem with the Super Eagles currently. Players use the opportunity to selfishly promote themselves at the expense of the team. Things the players would never think of in thier individual clubs are done in the Super Eagles.

I give up.

Icon4s:


Well, it is good he has invited those ones to camp. At least he would have a closer look. But men... Rohr's mind is already made up on the NPFL players
Those ones na just make e be say he listens to critics' advice.

Right from the word "go" I have known the kind of coach he is.

Let's put this in perspective. Let's say you were a Nigerian foreign Super Eagles manager, vaguely acclimatized to the local nigerian league and its conspicuous poor management and political intricacies. In addition, let's just say this was not a dud game and your performance as a manager in this game determines your Job retaintion and future career prospect, would you in good judgement put your hopes in local league players when you have better proven alternatives with the foreign prospects.

angelfallz:
You're wrong. The CIA does not operate everywhere and anywhere.
Also, do you think it is okay that a foreign spy agency should be operating in your own country?

My friend that is why it is called SPY agency. Different countries have spys in other countries for their own gain.

ChrisKels:
Onauchu is fantastic, thing is that our clueless coach set him up to fail. Talk of giving a dog a bad name, so as to hang it. You cant have Paul leading your lines while playing inverted wingers, thus denying your point man some decent crosses.

Gbam!!!!!!

TheSuperNerd:
So for the first time in history, a Nigerian player wins the Transfer window as the most most expensive/costliest transfer of the window

Nigeria's first choice #9, Victor Osimhen.... 2020's Costliest player of the long drawn summer window.

#TeamNaijaStrong #SoarSuperEagles.

Boy, I envy your access to these supereagles information. Shows a lot of passion!!!!

TheSuperNerd:
The Anatomy is the "basically" the same everywhere be you Caucasian, Eskimo or African. So stop this nonsense. You are not in the medical field. If I show you the skeleton of an African and European side by side, you won't see much differences at all. Only very minute difference(s) can be picked out by forensic experts and by people like me who is in the field. So Biko, stick to football and leave Anatomy.

Maybe only difference in skeletal conformity is in the bone density ie Caucasian vs black.

tbaba1234:
All tuhese fake stories

1realbobby has either a very fantastic creative mind or a delusional mischevious one, tainted by absurd conspiracies and flat out lies.

Tolulopefinest:
Everyone has a good highlights. Even me sef, as I no Sabi play ball reach, I go still get better highlights

Lol!!!!

This may sound preposterous to most. However, I was watching the highlights of this 38 year old Adebayo Akinfenwa, to be honest he is not that bad. It would be interesting if he were invited to the Super Eagles, just for kicks....

baby124:
Lol. Ok. Wait, they will soon snap pics of Hushpuppi in court. You will come back and tell me whether Hushpuppi issue was crime or freedom fighting. In fact in most countries when you commit a serious crime like this against another country, they will first revoke all documents issued to you. You think they will keep you so that you can come and scam their companies and government huh? You want to compare Hushpuppi to Julian Assange

I hope you don't hold your breath while waiting for the picture you reffered to.

baby124:
Arab countries do not give citizenship to non Arabs. They are not foolish like Nigeria. In fact to do business in their country the principal partner must be Arab or from that country with almost 90% of their citizens working there. Forget citizenship if your great grand father is not from that country.

Many legit business owners who have lived there for years only have residence permit and it’s easily revocable. It does not exempt you from extradition because all it says is that you are allowed to only live and work there.

For your information, extradition laws applies to all residents of a country, irrespective of residence status (that is why you see criminals commit a crime in the United States and the run to countries without extradition treaties with the us)

baby124:
Do extradition treaties cover non citizens? Is that why you fraudsters pack yourself in Dubai? You think Dubai government give a damn about you? They will hand you over in 1 minute. You are a visitor in their country and using their country to steal. That is if they don’t cut your hands first before handing you over. You are funny. You are safer in Nigeria than Dubai or any Arab country.

How do you know he has not naturalized or at least became a permanent resident alien in his host country.

For your information, extradition laws applies to all residents of a country, irrespective of residence status (that is why you see criminals commit a crime in the United States and the run to countries without extradition treaties with the us).

THREE things don't add up here.

1. US Secret service are only involved in counterfeit us dollars and protecting the president.

2. COVID 19 stimulus is only for United States residents ( not the whole world) to galvanize they economy while preventing recession.

3. FBI ( most likely institution involved here) does not have extradition treaties with most Arab countries. Even if they do with the country they currently reside in, the extradition courts take months before they are granted in most jurisdiction.

TheSuperNerd:
You're not digressing as long as it concerns the Super Eagles. That's primarily what the thread is meant for, not so?

Now to address your musing, my brother, like Safarigirl have answered, that replacement is CYRIEL KOLAWOLE DESSERS.

Umar Sadiq is doing well for himself but needs to step up from Serbia to a higher league. I understand Besiktas came in for him but he kinda rejected Turkey. As things stands, he is still considering his options.

Also, I understand he is among the uncapped options on Rohr's radar but it will take some doing for him to bag an invite coz we got this Super Eagles Striker hierarchy at the moment:

- Osimhen
- Iheanacho
- Dessers
- Maja

There is a fifth name and Sadiq can make it his. Perhaps an injury can open up a chance of an invite for the lad soon. Time will tell.

Hope your musing have been served now. Now follow Tolu's advice and dream well. Dream that we lift the Qatar 2022 WC title.

Thank you. It was only 8pm at the time this was posted.

safarigirl:
Who do you think Dessers is replacing? Or, you have not heard?

Sure, I have heard. More like on standby. Just in case Dressers does not workout for us, to give everyone a fair chance. You never know...

This may be a digression. What do you guys think about inviting Umar Sadiq to the Super Eagles. Maybe as replacement for Onuachu, to add more competition to the attack. Just musing....

safarigirl:
You're, not your.

You're welcome.

Proves my point. Even for a typo...


Oh, I forgot. I meant to say typographical error, not typo!!!

safarigirl:
I agree wholeheartedly.

I am conceited and immature, I am also a work in progress. We will get there.

Your welcome!!!

komekn:
First the term lawyer is quite fluid, and covers a lot of descriptions.

However, the term Barrister and or Solicitor is more structured. In that you have to have completed pupillage and attended law school.

Safarigirl has mentioned that she studied law and graduated quite recently. By providing that unsolicited information. You present an attribute that comes with expectations and standards of deduction, she made that decision not anyone else.

You have deviated from the core substance and moved to personality, which was, " All encompassing negative presumptive deduction made about Nigerians in the Diaspora"

My comments emanate from the expectations that a person who has studied law. Would therefore underpin thier approaches with structure method and knowledge not emotive sentiment. That l think is a reasonable expectation that there will be some degree of intellectual capacity in thier approach.

Several times l have asked her to substantiate an opinion. For instance that " l denigrate with negative bias Nigerian home based players"

An opinion, in order to have weight and meaning, must be informed. Certainly, everyone has an opinion, but if that opinion is based on nothing then what is the point of having it in the first place? Noise making.

I asked for just one post to underpin her opinion not two. I have asked one or two or more here the same but they all go MIA and evasive.

This is a faceless forum and l would not be able to say the things I do if it wasn't. Particularly where some things are first hand insider information.

With regards to the bold. this is light hearted entertainment to me. Nobody overly impresses me or do l have any intention to impress anyone here. I dont require your intellectual rubber-stamp to give me a sense of credibility. I already have that in reality to a good degree.

Finally, l don't measure intelligence by academic endeavour it's much more than that to me.

Finally, finally don't you think it's hypocrisy for you to make the request when you have not done the same yourself.

Although I generally tend not to involve myself with these arguments, based on my observation of Safari girl's concerning pattern, I would agree with Komekn. Arguments are supposed to be fact based, devoid of sentiments and personal attacks. You would think that this should have been inherently drummed into a LAWYER during training. I appreciate that this is a medium to air ones OPINIONS, and this should be respected. However, personal attacks, especially when the person has no clue or concerete support on the subject matter, other than sentiments, smirks of a conceited and an immature mind.

Makanakico:
Abacha never intended to use the stashed monies personally, he was advised to stash enormous cash in different central banks of the world to alleviate the effect of looming US sanctions; the US wanted to sanction Nigeria because Abacha wanted to form an alliance to form an African unified currency.
So Abacha should rather be praised because he meant well for Nigeria.
But baby-factory-land people will be here to spill non sense.

Argue with your phone.

I think your arguement defiles all logic. How would you hide money in a United States bank to defeat a United States embargo. You would think that would make their job a lot easier, to confiscate the money. Most people/countries that hide money, do it in banks of countries that have no treaties/ affiliations with the United States (Caribbean, Swiss ( of old, but different now, as they now also can be reached by the long arm of the United States) and Arabian banks come to mind).

somehow:
anybody can claim they ask them for bribe just because we know its a common thing here but when you keep hiding the culprits names, then you have actually said nothing!


If you won't mention the names, why bother us?

What should we do with your coming out if you end up hiding the koko of the matter?

if you are afraid of the names involve, then shut up because its as good as saying nothing!

I think sometimes you have to put things in perspective before you talk. How about if he had said the Culprit was Stephen Keshi? I believe the same people clamoring for him to reveal names who accuse him of defiling the name of the dead!

Why are we "counting our chickens before they hatch," (hell, i am not even sure we even have eggs in this context, not to talk of chickens!).Can someone at least show us a link to this switch in allegiance by Phillip Billings.

Meliforme:
I think the bolded summarises the entirety of what TheGoodJoe is trying to explain to you.

Even from your own points, you are yet to grasp it.

Chief, I suggest you read the article before giving your opinion. Ossification of bone occurs in both bone density formation and in epiphseal joint fusions. The article only mentioned ossification due to bone density ( not due to epiphseal joint fusion). I made the statement you highlighted to enlighten the initial writer on what I perceived was his misconstrued understanding of the article. Please read his bolded again and compare it to my explanation.

"Primary ossification centers only show minimal bone calcification density (BMD)."

TheGoodJoe:
It is a hypothesis I posted and I did that due to information from sources. There is no sign that Ndidi did not have a healthy growth. Same with Maduabuchi Obinwa. The thing about these guys was that they developed faster than regular kids.

That is why the percentage of error is noted in the test. Because, some kids can develop faster than normal.

Because you have not seen a study on the relationship between early fusion of plates and intense exercise can not rule out the possibility.

What matters is that fusion of plates is affected by intense exercise. To find out the degree is up for research. Not that it is not true.

Signing out.

Finito.

Then it may not be a good idea to use unverified hypotheses to reach concrete assertions!!!!

TheGoodJoe:
The point raised on inactivity is due noted but does not in any way dispel that it could also lead to over activity. The point is, intense physical activity affects it.

How it affects it can be up for a research. From my study and from the few I have shown, there is a clear relationship between the fusion of bones and physical activity.

Oga, there is NO study that has proven a relationship between intense exercise to early fusion of growth plates. On the contrary, exercise is encouraged in kids for healthy growth of the kid. Every other assumption you are making now is theoretical and not based on FACTS.

TheGoodJoe:
Whether a child or adult, physical activity affects the skeleton. I did not post the study as a direct response to the answer but to point terms for understanding the bolded.

The BMC and BMD are used in determining this. It is impossible for physical activity not to affect the fusion of bones in the wrists which is what the scan is about.

An excerpt from an article.

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A child's skeletal system shows pronounced adaptive changes to intensive sports training. The growing skeleton is said to be more responsive than the mature skeleton to the osteotrophic effect of exercise.

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A potential problem with physical activity and exercise on the epiphyseal plates is over-activity.

Reference:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3194019/

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My point posting the excerpts from articles is to show that physical activities affect bone development. Ndidi was under intense physical activity for a long time. There seems to be a relation between physical activities and fusion of bones.

Can you show me where the article explicitly said intense exercise leads to early fusion of the epiphseal growth plates? Actually, go back and read the same article you just showed me again, it can be inferred that intense exercise actually hinder the fusion of the epiphseal growth plates. This can hence be adduced to mean prolonging the time of fusion of the growth plates.

TheGoodJoe:
Whether you are young or old, exercise affects bone development. Whether fusion of the shaft or wrists or any other joint. It is clear that exercise affect bone development. Simple.

Finito.

I think you keep confusing bone and joint definitions. Natural fusion of joints occur ONLY in kids ( that is why you cannot grow taller than you are now). Older people only get THICKER bones by exercise , which is what was study infers.

TheGoodJoe:
What are you saying? I am showing that physical activities affects skeletal formation and the article states it in black and white. I wonder how you can decipher some thing else.

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This osteoid matrix calcifies by precipitating apatite crystals. Primary ossification centers only show minimal bone calcification density (BMD). The apatite crystal deposits are mostly irregular and structured like nets that are contained in the medullary and cortical regions. Mineralization occurs very quickly (several tens of thousands of millimeters per day) and can occur simultaneously in large areas.

Reference:
https://www.intechopen.com/books/osteogenesis-and-bone-regeneration/bone-development-and-growth

The fusion of bones has to do with ossification and there is a direct relationship with calcification which is BMD determines the degree.

The MRI is directly related to ossification. So if physical activities affects BMD and Bone fusion is about calcification, how does the article not support my point?

My man, don't argue on what you have no clue about. To use very basic layman's term, bone mass (the actual bone) is different from a joint (where two bones meet).

Joint ossification and fusion occurs between 15-18 years of age for boys ( although there are outliners, but in about 99% of boys complete joint fusion occurs after age 17). Ossification (laying of bone mineral content to a cartilage, to convert it to bone) is one of the process involved in fusion of joints. I read the article. All participants of the study were over the age of at least 20. It cannot be correlated to early ossification and bone fusion.

On the other hand, bone density refers to how thick a bone is. The article only says THE MORE YOU EXERCISE THE THICKER YOUR BONES ARE. In the context of OSTEOPOROSIS, we all loose bone mass the older we get (osteoporosis in layman's term is brittle porous bones; think old women with hunch back that break a bone after a fall). Men at baseline have THICKER bones than women, that is why osteoporosis is more common in women (women start their bone loss at a lesser bone density compared to men). This article can hence be inferred clinically to mean that with all the thick bone density acculated during your days of exercise, you are less prone to osteoporosis when you are older, as you start to loose bone mass.

TheGoodJoe:
I am going through your words and I see you adding nothing to the point. This is something I have looked into and tried to get a deep understanding.

I did not and never frowned at the MRI. I am a very big supporter of it. Your assertion up there makes it look as if I or many Nigerians frown at the MRI. I have said it is something we have accepted. I have repeatedly said do not tag those that fail the test over aged. Why? Because of the accuracy is not 100%. It is good at screening out old players but young players get caught in the crossfire.

Ndidi, growing up was smaller than his peers. I am pointing this out because you made a wild suggestion of Ndidi being 28, forgetting he grew up under the watch of a coach. The screenshot below shows it.

Finally, I am okay with MRI screenings but I tried to understand why some young African players fail the test. If Maduabuchi Obinwa was not captured at birth, he would have been tagged an overage cheat. This changed my notion of failed MRI are age cheats.

Ndidi's case sparked my curiosity because we lost a supposedly special talent in the U17 team because of the test. Today, Ndidi is one of the most hardworking players in World football, if not the most hardworking. He attributed this to the highly intense training he was put under a long period by Nduka Ugbade. That was where I drew my hypothesis and did some research.

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Physical activity on competitive level and the skeleton

Today, there is compelling evidence indicating that physical activity affects the skeleton and the Bone Mineral Content (BMC) and Bone Mineral Density (BMD) in an anabolic way.

The first study that addressed this hypothesis showed that athletes subjected to high load activities had 10–20% higher BMD compared to the controls.

Further cross-sectional studies (note this is the MRI scan) supported this view when comparing the dominant and non-dominant arm in racket players, a study design that controlled for the genetic regulation of the BMC. The BMC was 25–35% higher among professional tennis players in the dominant arm compared to the non-dominant arm.

Reference:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2596740/

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To give you a few enlightenment, the MRI scan is directly related to the development of the skeleton of the human body.

Ndidi being smaller than his peers and then growing huge, defeats your wild idea of 28 years.

Oga, the article you brought up to support your point bears no correlation to your assertion. Bone density has no relationship to joint fussion that occurs in kids. In layman's term the article says THE MORE YOU EXERCISE THE MORE YOU REDUCE YOUR CHANCE OF OSTEOPOROSIS.

Also, there is currently NO test available that has a 100 percent specificity or sensitivity. All tests have false positives and/or negatives. You can only assume the validity of a test based on these numbers.

[quote author=Dottore post=88851329]RiP to the man that gave palpitations to many nations.

His country is sitting on the rarest and most valuable mineral resources in the word worth trillions of dollars.

That's the reason why America is so much interested in penetrating the country to cause chaos and reap the minerals. China is their only ally and because of the many sanctions imposed on North Korea they cannot fully enjoy the potentials of their vast mineral reserves so they resort to selling to China at giveaways and US has been having sleepless nights about this on how only China is having a field day on this treasure.

This is is the reason why Trump is using a soft approach on the guy because he knows many other powers have interest in the minerals. Violence will further broaden the gap so he chose peace and dialogue. They had already met twice without a good deal yet Trump keeps calling Kim his friend.

Forget the nukes theory. It's a smokescreen to the main issue between US and North Korea. [/quote

Boy!!!! Some people just have a very creative mind. Just sit down in your home with no concrete background information whatsoever and make up stuff. Please can you enlighten us on this "rear mineral" you are referring to.