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Icon4s:
There are people that just do not see anything good about Nigeria. To them any other country in Africa is better.

I shake my head for instance when I see people comparing a country like Ghana to Nigeria. Accra in my opinion is not more developed than Port Harcourt. What I heard before I visited there was way different from what I met. The only things they have that we don't have are steady power supply and security.

I watched a documentary of top ten most developed Cities in Africa, Lagos and Abuja were in top 6. Both in one country. Some of our state capitals are likened to the Capital of some countries in sub-Saharan Africa.

If you have never left this country and hear what people say about other countries you will think we are the worst in the world.

With the highest GDP in Africa, Nigeria is an economic giant of Africa.

Everything thing u wrote might be true but that GDP wey no feed his population, that gdp na joke. Nigeria as a country has no sustainable gdp for his very large population let alone Africa, so how is it a giant?

BascoVanVeli:
This Nigeria bashing has become a norm these days smh. I stayed in the states almost half my life. I am not some village hack who has been brainwashed or something because I like the NPFL. So I know what a great country is like but if you cant back your self nobody will do it for you. You tend to overblow anything involving Nigeria which is unfair, Nigeria has issues but where doesn't?
You missed the point with Togo and Benin. Without us where will they sell those goods?

The bolded is the only reasonable thing so far from the bunch defending Nigeria here, now let me use the right word, we "complement" each other. If the closed their boarders, we might go naked bkus of lack of okrika wears, carless because of lack of "Belgium motors"

TheGoodJoe:
Please.

It shows the young man is working hard and determined to succeed. Wish and pray for the young man to succeed than trying to play down his effort.

Ur baby says hi

ChrisKels:
Isaac Success the best Watford player so far in this preseason. Yes u heard me right... The real Isaac Success is back to his beast mode!!!

safarigirl:
All these pre-season games flatter to deceive. Make we enter the real season, we go see who be who.

I am sha sure that Man City isn't taking that trophy this season

ChrisKels:
And u forgot it is the best time for players(mainly those with a point to prove) to make impressions on their coaches to be given a chance in the main event? U forgot a bad pre season could place u on the bad book of the coach and have u sent away on loan?

It was a good preseason that gave Achor his Man City break under Pelegrini

safarigirl:
That perennial Chelsea loanee that was promising two years ago, we never see the promise, he is still a loanee. Who pre-season epp?

ChrisKels:
Iwobi, Achor, Assensio, Vieto, el sharawy , wilshere, walcot, Alex Arnord, maitland niles, Mbappe, Moussa Dembele et al too numerous to mention

So u c? it wasnt my words

BascoVanVeli:
This is what is crippling us as a people. So because somebody did something wrong to u, u must do it to another? I knew this was exactly where u were going when u said preseason flatters to deceive.

Oh yes I did it to remind people that preseason aint no flattery. It's the basis of the real deals

krattoss:
OK let me put it through.

Poverty rate, Nigeria 33.1, benin, 40.1

Economy per gdp. Nigeria 405.1 billion dollars, benin, 8.53 billion dollars.

Now tell me how on earth will u even think comparing Africans largest populous country with tiny village of a benin.
Only Lagos gdp will take on that country hands down.

I havent even bring on military might and infrastructures.
, dude stop embarrassing this country to sound intelligent.
There is no room for comparison between Nigeria and benin.

That thing up there is Benin 2015 stat, but, that said, equate the GDPs to the respective populations of the two countries, then, u tell me, on average, who has the better standard of living. A family of five would make do with a loaf of bread but two loaves wouldnt be enough for a family of 12.

Last time I had this debate, I was on ur own side but after I was provided with this link, I had a rethink ;

https://www.indexmundi.com/factbook/compare/benin.nigeria

When Nigeria sneezes, only its citizens catch cold

TheGoodJoe:
Please.

It shows the young man is working hard and determined to succeed. Wish and pray for the young man to succeed than trying to play down his effort.

So if person tell u those are my words u go blv am abi? If u kno, u knw. Some times, u go blind, so times u become an Eagle. Were u here last time I talked about Success and someone came up with that mindset?

krattoss:
what makes u think am a boy?

because most times u reason like one. I know thats blunt, but I like being truthful unapologetically

krattoss:
dude re u real?
U comparing benin republic to Nigeria?
On what basis?

See self delusion. Compare their standard of living, poverty rate, economy to urs with respect to population, then, come back to argue.

edi287:
The guy should be voted out for saying that

No, he is a humble smart dude. He knows how to exploit the egoistic vags. Go check our economy and theirs, check our poverty rate and theirs. Check between us who depends on who for imports and exports.

I doubt that Krattoss boy has left the shores of this country to any of these African countries before

krattoss:
go and tell that to benin republic president who said it.

U are funny, ur over population is what is boosting Benin economy. Ur over dependent on fairly used products imported via the Benin ports are the reason for such comments. That was a very smart move from the Benin Presido to bloat ur ego. That is called fooling the wise by making urself look like a fool. He humbled himself to bring u down to ur knees.

Dude I thought u a student ooo

BascoVanVeli:
I once heard an African president make that exact comment, let's not underrate Nigeria here.

Dude be careful when someone praises u to bloat ur ego... Know when u are being over rated just to make u feel good and get sapped

Since ur yeye country plunged into recession, how many of ur neighbouring countries have felt the heat, let alone the whole of Africa?

Listen, if Lil Benin and Togo cough, Nigeria will get hospitalised. We know where most of the goods consumed here are gotten from.

[quote author=EmmGee post=69901650]Iheanacho with a beautiful goal against valencia

watch it here

Great work from @Madders10 and a clinical finish from @67Kelechi gives City the lead 👏#LeiVal pic.twitter.com/KLuwJErnUX

— Leicester City (@LCFC) August 1, 2018

flatter to deceive, so disregard these goals Achor is banging in because when the main season starts...

Icon4s:
See, for me, our major problem is not the CB it is our attack. Nigeria would have made second round if we had a better attacking force.

We do not have a recognized striker at present that should be our major concern.

You are not wrong bro but we should be doing more because we dont really have quality CBs.

About that striking position, the world cup is over, I have got my eyes primarily of Isaac Success, Sadiq Umar and then, Taiwo Awoniyi. I no follow una for Simeon Nwankwo. Kayode to me is just a faster Ighalo, dude can miss targets for Africa just like Odion.

Who else is concerned with our lack of Centre backs in quality leagues/teams in Europe?

Bar Awaziem and Balogun, we dont really have Centre backs in top teams and leagues in Europe compared to other major African teams.

Ivory coast for instance, has Jean Gbamin, joris Gnagnon, Eric Baily etc

Icon4s:
Oga, 1999 or 2009 standard is not 2019 standard.

That Ahmadu Bello stadium is not fit to host an AFCON game in this present age and time, no matter how you try to renovate it. Worst still the AFCON is just 10 months away

And did you say the national stadium Lagos? Better that the federal government builds a completely new stadium than attempting to renovate that coliseum of a stadium.

That New Stephen Keshi stadium is not AFCON standard in anyway. Rather than to present that as an AFCON venue and embarrassing ourselves in the face of Africa and the world at large we should not even border presenting it.

You can see that only 3 stadium can be ready with little touches before June next year.

Lets allow Morocco host so we can enjoy AFCON in nice venues abeg.

Nigerian aint fit to host any major tourney. They should take it to Morocco, they did well with the CHAN, otherwise, take it to Eastern Africa for either of Ethioppia or Kenya. But if it must go South, give it to Rwanda or Angola

Seems Cameroun has been striped off the AFCON 2019 hosting rights

elyte89:
Peeps...let's hold sir chriskels and tbaba1234 for false alarm if no Nigerian international fails to make any move dere

Lol no be me raise alarm ooo, na tbaba1234, all I did was to remind him that he promised us a big news concerning the move. Dude doesnt wanna disclose the ID of the said player, hence, keeping us all in suspense

tbaba1234:
Confirmed, The deal is still on. It will be wrapped up by weekend.

And we would have a Nigerian international in the PSG first team? Sounds sweet.

tbaba1234:
I will enquire.

Chai yawa dun gas

How far nah tbaba1234, the PSG deal still dey on abi e dun fall through? We av been waiting for the big news oo

tbaba1234:
Terrible news, Ebuehi is injured. Torn ACL

This news just ruined my night automatically

elyte89:
Baba just dey throw soft jibes today

Man, some peeps in here are damne funny. Dey wanna have a go at Chris for reasons best known to them but I just let them open up themselves and show to us how poor they are up there.

isan:
U said people prefer him to simmy prior to the world cup but simmy was the right option and also he is not better than Tammy in anyway

I was right all along. U have comprehension problems. I said people preferred Simmy to him while I chose him instead. I made my proposition in a subjunctive mode. I am sorry it was too complex for u to understand.

ChrisKels:
Whenever u c me clamoring for a player, just know that I have genuine reasons. I always asked that this boy be given a chance prior to the world cup but ppl kept harping on his Olympics performance. Some even said he was a donkey that falls at every slightest touch. They said they would rather Simmy Nwankwo than the most feared attacker then in the Eredivisie.

I know this is early days, but this is first of many to come.

Tbaba1234 stood by me then sha

In case of next time, the bolded is a subjunctive statement and it means; people preferred Simmy to Sadiq. Not that yeye thing u wrote up there. U came for Chris but ended up making urself a f**l. Better luck next time.

isan:
Simmy nwankwo was far ahead of sadiq last season stop hyping a player because of a meaningless pre season goal and i still don't think he will get a call up this year ..kayode ,nwankwo,onyekuru,success,iheanacho,ighalo are all ahead of him mtcheeew

The post u quoted is raving the boy because of his last season exploits which made me ask for him to be given a chance prior the mundial . Same post clearly said his preseason goal is first of many to come this season. I wonder where u got that line that my fascination with him is borne outta a mere preseason goal. I wanna believe u dont have problems with comprehension,

charlesemeka85:
u18 star at the age 21?

His last match for the U18s was in 2015. I didnt know Dude is already 21 oo, I advice we pull an Iwobi on him before England gives him a competitive chance at any level, since he doesn't require any switch.

Rohr please cap him for us

tbaba1234:
Forgiveness was not talking about pre season games, he was saying that Luke Amos has not played any competitive games for England. Meaning, he is eligible for 9ja without a switch.

safarigirl:
I was thanking him with the thought that he is against the hurried preseason shout. Didn't know he was hyping the same garbage

I withdraw my thanks then, pre-season flatters to deceive..... Same as your words, they have proven to be as weightless as pre-season games

Bhuuuhahaha

forgiveness:
In just two friendlies. They are inconsequential.

Oh I didnt know those two matches for England U18s were friendlies. Then, I urge Aigbogun to draft him in ASAP. He has showed enough to have a look in. Dude is good.

safarigirl:
thank you!

To someone who is making a case for a player who is using preseason to push for an opportunity? Hahaha u forgot preseason flatters to deceive Lol

gamaliel9:
Superb hold up play and pass for counter by Sadiq...

I will reiterate, and I dont care whatever reason anybody gonna give, Umar Sadiq is heads and shoulders better than Tammy Abraham that we would have mistakenly taken to the world cup just because he is FB.

Dude is immensely talented

gamaliel9:
Wonderful back-heel fro Sadiq...the boy is good...

Tbaba1234 where art thou? Seems we are getting vindicated a tad too early hahahaha

gamaliel9:
Umar score with a header

Whenever u c me clamoring for a player, just know that I have genuine reasons. I always asked that this boy be given a chance prior to the world cup but ppl kept harping on his Olympics performance. Some even said he was a donkey that falls at every slightest touch. They said they would rather Simmy Nwankwo than the most feared attacker then in the Eredivisie.

I know this is early days, but this is first of many to come.

Tbaba1234 stood by me then sha