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The curse of the 2nd round... a Coach's poor decision and Players that don't know how to seize the moment! Mtcheeeeew.

Keshi should be axed if we lose this match. I don't understand the rationale behind the Reuben Gabriel substitution... Now we are playing 1-man short!

ETT!

I don't know if I should laugh, or get angry! But I won't blame the kids. Even we adults still dey shout "Up Nepa!"

It's obvious that Govt. needs to do something real quick about the quality of life in Naija.

Mtcheeeeewwww.

Front-row seat!

Exactly a month ago, I posted an SOS on this forum on the power supply situation in our area. https://www.nairaland.com/1526555/power-outage-lakowe-bogije-ibeju-lekki-5

In my earlier post, I promised to post a rejoinder to appreciate you all, if the situation improves. Well, I'm glad to announce that we had light for the first time in 6 months, last week! We now get to enjoy power supply for an average of 4 hours per day. I know this may not be the best, but considering what we had been through in the past, it's a huge improvement. (At-all, at-all na im bad.)

Seun, this is a great platform, you have here; "Thank You" for creating Nairaland.
A warm "Thank You" to the Mods who helped to put my earlier post on FP.
And a big "Thank You" to all the Nairalanders who lent a voice to the SOS campaign.

Final Word: This platform has great power to influence positive change. Our posts/conduct/actions on Nairaland CAN create the Nigeria of our desire. So let us all use this medium wisely.

KANO – Boko Haram’s leader said in a video obtained by AFP on Thursday that the group was behind a daring raid on military installations in the north Nigerian city of Maiduguri earlier this month.

“Allah the Almighty has given us victory in the attack we launched inside Maiduguri (which was) called Borno in ancient times,” said Abubakar Shekau in a 40-minute clip.

Speaking in Arabic, Hausa and Kanuri widely spoken in northeast Nigeria, Shekau added: “We stormed the city and fought them (and) Allah blessed us with lots of booty.”

The video, which was obtained through an intermediary, shows Shekau dressed in military fatigues with a turban and Kalashnikov assault rifle leaning on his chest.

He speaks for 19 minutes in all while the rest of the tape shows images of burning buildings and aircraft said to be from the December 2 attack in Maiduguri, which is capital of Borno state.

It also shows a display of weapons the banned Islamist group says it seized in the attack, including dozens of Kalashnikovs and rockets.

The authenticity of the tape could not be verified independently.

Gunmen who arrived on pick-up trucks besieged an army and air force base, destroying aircraft, razing buildings and setting shops and petrol stations ablaze, witnesses said.

The early morning raid was seen as significant because the Nigerian military had previously claimed to have pushed the militants out of urban centres and into more remote, rural areas.

Local people reported that the attackers were carrying AK-47 assault rifles and rocket propelled grenades in the assault, which prompted the local authorities to impose a city-wide curfew.

Maiduguri is considered the spiritual home of Boko Haram, whose name roughly translates from Hausa as “Western education is sin”.

The group’s aim is to impose a harsh form of Islamic law or sharia across the country.

Thousands of people have died in deadly violence since 2009, both at the hands of the militants and as a result of the military response to the violence.

In the Maiduguri raid, Nigeria’s military said 24 militants were killed and two service personnel were wounded.

But Shekau said only seven fighters lost their lives — three in suicide bombings, three were shot and one in “friendly fire”.

At least two local residents were also killed, people in the city said.

The US State Department in July offered a reward of up to $7 million for information leading to the arrest of Shekau.

In the video, he said “the whole world” feared him, name-checking US President Barack Obama, French President Francois Hollande, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and even the late British premier Margaret Thatcher.

Shekau singled out in particular the United States, which on November 13 designated Boko Haram and its offshoot Ansaru as international terror groups.

“You are boasting you are going to join forces with Nigeria to crush us. Bloody liars,” he said, in an apparent reference to a pledge by Washington to support Abuja in the fight against the extremists.

“You couldn’t crush us when we were carrying sticks,” he said, adding: “By Allah, we will never stop. Don’t think we will stop in Maiduguri.

“Tomorrow you will see us in America itself. Our operation is not confined to Nigeria. It is for the whole world.”

Shekau’s claims about the international nature of Boko Haram stand at odds with analysts’ general assessments that the group is largely Nigeria-based.

But the United States has said the group and Ansaru have links the wider Islamist jihadi network, in particular Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), which has provided limited training and funding.(AFP)

Source: Vanguard Newspaper

Congratulations Nigeria(ns)!!!

Yipeeeeeeee... Na Bosnia ooooooooooooooooooo

Now we await Russia... abi na Bosnia

Group F
Argentina
Iran
Nigeria

We are waiting for Russia or France...

Things are getting better... We just got IRAN

Group F
Argentina
Iran
Nigeria

Christianos: We seem to somehow always end with Argentina. If it happens again, I won't be surprised.

Argentina-Nigeria... I said it!!!

Group A
Brazil
Cameroon

Group B
Spain
Chile

Group C
Colombia
Cote D'Ivoire

Group D
Uruguay
Italy

Group E
Switzerland
Ecuador

Group F
Argentina
Nigeria

Group G
Germany

Group H
Belgium

Group A
Brazil
Cameroon

Group B
Spain
Chile

Group C
Colombia
Cote D'Ivoire

Group D
Uruguay
Italy

Group E
Switzerland
Ecuador

Group F
Argentina

Group G
Germany

Group H
Belgium

Group A
Brazil
Cameroon

Group B
Spain
Chile

Group C
Colombia

Group D
Uruguay
Italy

Group E
Switzerland
Ecuador

Group F
Argentina

Group G
Germany

Group H
Belgium

Group A
Brazil
Cameroon

Group B
Spain
Chile

Group C
Colombia

Group D
Uruguay
Italy

Group E
Switzerland

Group F
Argentina

Group G
Germany

Group H
Belgium

Group A
Brazil

Group B
Spain
Chile

Group C
Colombia

Group D
Uruguay
Italy

Group E
Switzerland

Group F
Argentina

Group G
Germany

Group H
Belgium

Spain - B1. (edited)

We seem to somehow always end with Argentina. If it happens again, I won't be surprised.

And now, it's Pele's turn to preach in a language we do not understand...

Abeg which kain dance be dis nau? Methinks this event has been boring so far.

Wetin we dey wait for nau? Abeg usher that mascot off the stage jor.

Ronaldo is looking a lot fresher, but he has lost the shape/form of a footballer. I think he's looking finer though.

[quote author=Jona-The-Clown]What kinda question is that? If you don't believe the story, You can either Google it, or you simply create your own topic and if not move on to the next topic.. Sauce kör, àtá ródó ní.[/quote]No response. Your name says it all.

Thanks for the info OP. Will you consider an applicant with OND and about 5 years experience in a well-established firm?

homesteady: He still has about 2 or 3 matches to go!

He has accomplished it already. He only needed to keep a clean sheet in the first 4 mins of today's game against Marseille, but he kept a clean sheet throughout the match, as Lille won 1-0.

http://www.sportsmole.co.uk/football/lille/live-commentary/live-commentary-lille-1-0-marseille_121756.html

Congrats, Enyeama!

jaidor: This really has been buggling my mind for a while cos I stay in the area too (close to Lakowe)
but I think it will be more reasonable for us to complain now since PHCN has just been privatized. Maybe we all should mobilize ourselves and protest, till there is a change.
Cos if we keep quite now at this early stage of privatization, it might still remain the way it is in years to come...lets seek for the attention of the privatized PHCN now!

I am available a peacful protest.

I agree and I also believe that everyone who lives in that axis should start exploiting every legal means of getting attention concerning our plight. If any "Oga at the top" is reading this, kindly offer us an explanation on this matter. Abeeeeg!

benzion72: Why are Nigerian satisfy with anything everybody is comparing their friend power condition and their grandmother village. My advise to the Poster are as follow and to others in the same shoe:
1. As an individual write a letter to all editors of Nigeria daily newspaper detailing your experience email will do
2. Get the name of DISCOS who bought your zone send a mail to them if they have one
3. Send a mail to NERC also
4. Send your complaint to Ruben Abati on twitter too

Thanks, Bro. I'll try at least one of the suggestions you have made. In the interim, if Mr. Reuben Abati visits Nairaland, (and I believe he does), he should kindly help us out of this predicament. Na beg we dey beg o!

Mods, I really appreciate your help in getting this issue to the FP. Thank you!!!

Jazz247: The power supply in ibeju-lekki axis is so pathetic and frustrating in the last six months. We never had electricity for a minute and being caught off from civilization.
Those in authority should please save us from extinction.

Thanks for lending your voice to this SOS campaign. I hope more Nairalanders will support us in getting the required attention.

If this is not the right section to post this article, please forgive me.

We have suffered power outage in my area in the last 5 months; I mean it has not even blinked. During this period, we have continued to receive PHCN bills for "light" not used. Businesses have been crippled and robbers now operate freely under the blanket of darkness caused by the power outage.

Considering the reach and influence of this great forum, I am persuaded that someone in good position will read this article and take action.

Mods, please put this on FP, if it's not too much trouble. If the situation improves anytime soon, I'll surely be back here to thank you all.