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why don't you go and cry yourself a river oh i forgot Ayew already did that for you

bingbagbo:
which is better?

i am proud of Ghana

we are Africa's most consistent team ever

5 semi finals in a roll

9 AFCON finals

4 trophies

world cup quarter finalists

under 20 world cup winners

on 24 million people, i know of some 200 million people who cant even qualify

i am proud to be a Ghanaian

football isnt all about trophies, besides, this same trophy we have won for keeps

;Dwhy don't you go and cry yourself a river oh i forgot Ayew already did that for you

bingbagbo:
which is better?

i am proud of Ghana

we are Africa's most consistent team ever

5 semi finals in a roll

9 AFCON finals

4 trophies

world cup quarter finalists

under 20 world cup winners

on 24 million people, i know of some 200 million people who cant even qualify

i am proud to be a Ghanaian

football isnt all about trophies, besides, this same trophy we have won for keeps

@barcanista i'm impressed by your frankness and honesty on this matter i think his handlers might be worried GMB would be unable to put his point across about some sensitive subject matter without alienating potential voters. plus lets face it buhari is not the greatest orator but is APC saying they don't have people to prep him?

loved the day of the doctor episode where the 10th, 11th and war doctor joined forces to save the day (forgive the pun ) also liked how tom baker was revealed at the end

big dr who fan here tom baker my favourite doctor grew up watching him. try and catch the new series when available on bbc. theme song is awesome

loooooool massive crowd abi council meeting

dayo23:
View for yourself!

As a keen reader of the site i've notice the popularity of threads having to do with historical events and places. This come in pictographic form, essay or both. so i was thinking why don't the powers that be on nairaland set up a history sub-section embedded in the main culture section. Think this will make for easy access and help boost traffic to this section

cc Seun

@safarigirl nice to see you in the politics section after your sports and bba parole lol quick correction bakare was buhari's vp candidate not ribadus. plus passingshot is right pandering to SS and SE with the vp slot wont work. your average SEastern still dont like GMB while with SS they will most likely go for 'son of the soil' option.

sis winning this election is all about numbers. the osinbajo choice covers the yoruba/xtian block, his qualifications and wealth of experience/performance covers the intellectual/educated block. GMB will mop up the muslim/northern vote and again if for any reason buhari can't finish his term osinbajo looks like someone who would fit in seemlessly

i've been also looking at the states buhari needs to win. if he can match or better his previous outing while adding SW and NC states like kogi, kwara, nassarawa and maybe adamawa he is home and dry but he needs to win SW hands down with massive voter turnout.

while to get 25% national voter spread SE will be a problem but i think SS in the form of edo( oshiomole factor), rivers( ameachi influence) and delta( itsekiri urhobo disgruntlement with the ijaws?) could swing it

thanks for the memories monsieur henry legend

@49cents i understand where you are coming from but the truth is that as things stand today nigeria is in dire straits which if not addressed urgently will spell doom for us all *God forbid* GEJ hasnt shown sufficient will, courage, empathy plus competence to get the country back on track. GMB is no saint but his antecedents show that he would do the needful to restore some sanity. i'm i overlooking his lack of oratory, economic plan or ethnic favouritism? no i'm just being pragmatic. he is the lesser of two evils plus whatever you might say about GMB he has the discipline, boldness, integrity needed so much now to lead us.

plus bro why should we continue to wish a party that has failed for 14 years+ to remain in power that is complete madness. we have been trying the 'devil we know' tactic for years what has that gotten this country? lets try this 'angel' for once. the worst that can happen is if the apc fails to perform we the people will vote them out.

my love for nigeria is greater than my dislike for GMB

@op smh your topic says another bomb blast yet you say you heard it was attempted hmm comprehension

just so sad power plants he didnt build, industries he didnt build, renovate schools, train teachers, provide teaching aids so his children would have access to world class education he didnt do, provide quality adult education so some of their illiterate citizens can stop targeting kids in the name of child witches he didnt do, ONE world class hospital he didnt build.

Even this stadium no one can say how it will add profit to the state govt

GOD SAVE US FROM SMALL MINDED RULERS!(not leaders)

@berem, Omenka i dont get you guys beef with seun. on one hand you say he should look at something regarding copyright to which he asked nicely for you to explain to him. yet you guys turn round to say why should you afterall he wont act on it. haba which one do you want? you cant abrogate and reprobate at the same time. seun has provided a forum for everyone to freely express themselves as a gracious host. it is beholding on us to respect the ground rules. if you dont like it go set up your own forum.

P.S i'm apolitical and pro-good governance before both sets of political parties come with gibberish and propaganda

personally i could careless about anyone's religious leaning as long as you are a competent, visionary and incorruptible leader that's all that matters to me.

@op with Azikiwe yes he was president but balewa was the actual ruler as prime minister. that said both 'religions' have been incharge roughly half of the time of nigeria's existence as an independent nation so the issue of religious dominance is moot

@ the pro-Buhari and pro-GEJ groups please instead of trading insults list out the achievements/positive points of your principals. where you want to disprove the others points do so with undeniable facts

Jarus:
I think the defenders are underrated: that Njoku girl was a beast.

my brother the defenders plus goalkeeper were so so. lucky we didnt face top quality opposition

sorry o guess you are still high from the dust in your black 'shards' trophy cabinet sorry o guess you are still high from the dust in your black 'shards' trophy cabinet

@dabossman lol at 'this-spor' 'that-spor'
agree 100% with all you said i think the last u17 set shows hope for the future. if the NFF can continue in this developmental vein and are able to woo our kids abroad to done the green white green i foresee us in the next 5-10 years producing top quality players. plus young promising coaches should be identified and groomed by sending them abroad for coaching courses and team attachments

@goke yes we lack quality talent but are you saying we have worse players than congo, SA and sudan to be unable to defeat them? bro nobody is blaming keshi for our general football woes. what we are saying is that keshi as good a coach as he is has lost the plot. great coaches even if they win trophies before hand get fired once their performance plumments. berti vogts won euro 96 with germany but when germany lost out in france 98 vogts had to go. same for raymond domenech, vangaal (first stint with holland), scolari even though he won the WC and confed for brazil was fired recently and there was no excuse of lack of brazilian quality players.

Keshi is and always will remain a legend but he has to go. who should replace him? can't say for now guess its time for the new NFF board to earn their pay.

guess that's the problem who replaces keshi? honestly i think its too late to change coaches let keshi see us through this AFCON campaign but ideally i would prefer we get a dutch coach. a young, ambitious, tactical one who will be unknown so that we wont have to pay much plus i think the dutch style matches our own.

@goke7 bro dont think siasia was that bad. under him we played expansive attractive football. i think he was just unlucky and inexperienced to handle the big egos in the team. with time he will be back better

Election season is upon us again and various candidates are getting ready to vie for different positions in multitude of political parties. From the House of Assembly seats, to Governorship and not forgetting the big one the Almighty Presidency many aspirants have started declaring interest in these offices drumming up support as they set up their campaign headquarters. in all this the most important component THE VOTER!(you and me) is not left out. unfortunately the accompaning rhetoric has not been about agenda setting or implementation of policies to solve the nation's many ills instead most of the discussion has been reduced to ethnic supremacy talk, religious domination, or ''this is the turn of my region'' demands. sadly nairaland with all its young, educative, intelligent and vibrant members are not excempt.

the aim of this thread is to change the narrative by focusing on the issues and just the ISSUES! the criteria for this is simple. list the problems or matters most important to you that require solving and let the various candidates give clear, logical, pragmatic and unambigious answers on how to solve them. not your usual election sloganeering eg. i will build roads, give you power, end world hunger, buy you boli etc but good realistic answers

now dont get it twisted i'm not naive to the fact that a vast majority of our voter population because of their limited educational backgrounds dont care about such 'niceties' but we us young educated nigeria cannot underestimate our influential power. we should not give up and give in to cynicism lets us be the change we desire. my hope is that at the end of this exercise we would have collated enough questions criss crossing all the importants matters regarding our dear nation so that the political candidates through their proxies on nairaland can address them so as to guide our voting choice.

let me get things started first for the presidential aspirants

1. POWER: how will you ensure that nigerians get constant and affordable electricity supply? will you use the current power structure to achieve your aims? if so how if not what will you do differently?

2. Economy: in what way (both policy and implementation) would you grow the economy while enforcing transperency? how will you diversify the economy to wean us of petroleum dependency?

3. SECURITY: how will you help us win this war on terror? plus how will you reform our security forces to ensure we have qualified personnel with update equipment who carry out their duties professionally?

that's me for now please drop your own questions. when the main candidates emerge a thread will be created for them to answer these and other questions. please keep it strictly issue based no attack on personalities or insults. you can also post questions to governorship and house of assembly candidates

Thank You! God bless Nigeria

hmmm incisive piece but i dont think its as bad as that most women i know are career women and hard workers driven to achieve more single and married. although as a side note i wonder why we dont have more women in jobs related to science fields eg. engineers, architects, astro-physists, IT wizards etc as opposed to lawyers, bankers, teachers and the like

safarigirl: If you're one who has stayed within the female hostel of any Nigerian University, you'll find that most of it's occupants share similar hopes and dreams- and no, it's not to excel in their chosen career paths.

One of the lecturers in my school aptly described women as 'a waste of education'...no, it wasn't an insult, it was just stating the obvious. You find a woman who has hustled through primary, secondary and University education. One who looked set to be a force to reckon with in the world of business or law or medicine, I mean a female with straight A's and you think Nigerian women may be getting things right, only to follow her back to her hostel and hear these heart-breaking words:

"Omo, after school na to find husband marry remain."

In the real sense of the word this is translated to:

"After school, I'll fling my degee inside one iron box in my dad's storeroom, find a perfect mugu that will put a ring on my finger, buy me a car, set up a boutique/beauty saloon for me and all I have to do to get this is spread my legs for him and push out little people with his DNA"

Nigerian women view marriage the same way hustling Nigerian men view the US Green Card- an avenue to escape life's troubles. So in the same way you find 23 year old Nigerian men marrying 56 year old American women, you find young, promising women relegated to some man's priority list.

I don't think most Nigerian women realise that nobody wants to get attached to a leech. If you allow some Nigerian women, they would even want their husbands to carry the babies and birth them as well. And when you ask why they don't want to build wealth with a man, you hear:

"I've already suffered in my father's house. I don't want to continue suffering in my husband's house"

Now unless you're getting married to a no-good leech like yourself, there is no reason why building wealth with a man should be termed 'suffering'

Even on Sun Newspaper's 'Beauty Of The Week' it's the same thing.

Future Ambition: Getting Married And Having Kids

If you think God put you on this earth to make a liability of yourself, you need to think again. There is more to life than being someone's baby mama. There is a purpose for getting an education that lies beyond being able to speak good english whenever you and your man attend social functions

Nigerian women need to sit down and re-evaluate their lives. God sent you to assist a man, not to add to his problems. Men appreciate women who can think for themselves, who want to contribute to the family (and I don't mean churning out kids). There is nothing more endearing than a smart woman who views men as companions rather than money bags.


Don't waste the education your parents worked so hard to provide for you. Break the stereotype, Nigerian women should be more than gold-digging leeches. If the likes of Oby Ezekwesili, Joke Silva, NOI can be successful career women as well as wives and mothers, then we all need to dust up our certificates and CVs and have proper future ambitions.


God Bless You...and don't take this the wrong way