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sebod:
It really seems the magic has left him. He's no longer feared by both defenders and keepers anymore, while I still believe in him as a great player, I think he can also do better by converting the few chances he has this days. I am really pissed off seeing him wasting free kicks when there are some other players who can do it better. At least Neymar and Suarez can, so why the monopoly?

I agree...

black247:
I am Nigerian. I am Igbo in fact. I agree with everything that you said. But you forgot one important thing:

What should we say about the African men and women that flee to white countries - not because of political unrest..not because of political upheaval (read: Rwanda massacres) but simply because they are merely disappointed with their country leaders - and instead of fighting to rebuild Africa - they shamefully burden other countries infrastructure (like America). What about the Nigerian men and women who are so proud to run to England and America, while the natives of those countries are wondering why you - who come from a country that receives aid, millions in fact, are found cowering in their institutions begging for citizenship.

You will not get respect from the average white American - because firstly: they dont want you there...but also because they still see you as the incapable African, and you prove that with your post, you feel too incapable to fight, fight for transformation but you do like most of us do: simply TALK.

What do the English and American see when they look at you? - you are their black monkey - a black monkey that had to come to their land to get properly civilized. For why do you think the whites view the most successful blacks in America as incompetent - talking not of the poor ghetto ones (we all have those) I am talking about the black lawyers and doctors..why are they viewed as so lowly?

Answer: The ruling class still associate even the former slaves (500 years removed) to their ancestors "PRIMITIVE AFRICA".

I agree we have lots to do, but your full respect as a man will never be realized for you until you come back and join empowering movements - even if you start one yourself.

This ravaged continent that we call mighty Africa is a place that ALL blacks will forever be married to. No one can escape this marriage. If the Haitian, the Afro-Cuban, the black American are still associated with Africa..what do you think your association will be? And whats even worse, they didnt have a choice - you did, and you left running..with no plans to fight. And the irony of it all is that you are RUNNING to the very people that takes pleasure in destabilizing US.

America has had the dirtiest of beginnings. But even still - the men who created your mighty new nation that you are foolishly proud to show your face in - actually built their country, brick by brick - saturated in African blood. And they will NEVER respect any of us that have the good sense to provide a sound analysis but not provide solutions - and yet run to them..those who murdered your cousins, they think we are the foolish of them all. I mentioned to Fula (a cool moderator) the other day, Africans - we dont understand racism, and he (thankfully) knew exactly what I was talking about in my posts.

In everything you said, which I agree with it all - even the part that us Nigerians cant take criticism - you forgot the men and women who leave and burden other infrastructures instead of fighting for our own. I don't wish you harm, nor do I wish you to stay in Nigeria if you are being abused...but I do judge people like you that talk about how poorly we are doing when you havent lifted ONE SINGLE finger to help our mighty nation, our mighty continent ...or even think to even avenge the deaths on our screaming soil.

Nigerians are cultural chauvinists.
We are tribal.
We are petty.
Sometimes we brag too much for our own gain.
We are much too flashy.
We have no good sense to respect the hosts that we burden - xenophobia isnt all their fault at times.
We foolishly talk about the West while being in their countries - with our hands and mouth opened up like birds waiting on bread.

And EVERY thing you mentioned...but we are also cowardly, and I hope that you gain the courage to return home...to build an Africa that you dream we should be. Otherwise, you should hold up a mirror.

I can't remember the last time I read a full script like yours but you are a "PERSPICACIOUS MAN"...


I wish we all can stand up & do the needful to make Nigeria & Africa a better place if not the best place in the World...

Yet People like Senator Ahmed Yerima will be the first to pay for many of those innocent girls... --- These are underage kids not adults!


I thought this guy is dead, Nigerian media & the army with their incompetence...

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP) — With a malevolent laugh, the leader of Nigeria's Islamic extremists tells the world that more than 200 kidnapped schoolgirls have all been converted to Islam and married off, dashing hopes for their freedom.

"If you knew the state your daughters are in today, it might lead some of you ... to die from grief," Abubakar Shekau sneers, addressing the parents of the girls and young women kidnapped from a remote boarding school more than six months ago.

In a new video released late Friday night, the Boko Haram leader also denies there is a cease-fire with the Nigerian government and threatens to kill an unidentified German hostage.

"Don't you know we are still holding your German hostage (who is) always crying," he taunts. "If we want, we will hack him or slaughter him or shoot him."

A German development worker was kidnapped at gunpoint in Gombi, a town in Nigeria's northeast Gombi in July. Police reported he was ambushed as he drove to work.

Germany's Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier last week told reporters in Abuja, Nigeria's capital, that he had no new information about a German abductee.

In the new video, Shekau wears a camouflage tunic and pants and the black and white flag of al-Qaida is by his side. He is flanked by masked and armed fighters standing in front of four military pickup trucks mounted with anti-aircraft guns. Boko Haram has looted many weapons and vehicles including armored cars from Nigeria's military.

The military has several times claimed to have killed Shekau, and says any new videos are made by a look-alike. But the United States has not removed a $7 million ransom on the head of the extremist leader.

On Oct. 17, Nigeria's military chief, Air Chief Marshal Alex Badeh, announced that Boko Haram had agreed to an immediate cease-fire to end a 5-year insurgency in which thousands have died and hundreds of thousands have been driven from homes in northeast Nigeria. And government officials said they expected the Chibok girls to be released any day.

But Shekau denies in the video that he has agreed to any truce and says he is dedicated to fighting and dying a martyr's death to guarantee him a place in paradise.

"You people should understand that we only obey Allah, we tread the path of the Prophet. We hope to die on this path ... Our goal is the garden of eternal bliss," he says.

He said Boko Haram is interested only in "battle, hitting, striking and killing with the gun, which we look forward to like a tasty meal," he said.

The fighting and abductions have continued, with Boko Haram seizing the commercial center of Mubi this week and fighting raging Friday around nearby Vimtin, the village where Badeh was born.

And the only news of the girls has come from Shekau, who appeared to dash hopes that they would be released in an exchange for detained Boko Haram fighters.

"The issue of the girls is long forgotten because I have long ago married them off," Shekau says with a chortle. The extremist fighters have ordered girls to stay out of Western-style schools and get married. Boko Haram is a nickname meaning "Western education is sinful" in the Hausa language.

An earlier video in May showed some of the kidnapped girls, including two explaining why they had converted to Islam. Unconfirmed reports have indicated the girls have been divided into groups and that some have been carried across borders, into Cameroon and Chad. There also have been reports that they were forced to marry fighters who paid a nominal bride price equivalent to $12.

Some 276 girls and young women were kidnapped in the early hours of April 15 from a boarding school in the remote town of Chibok. Dozens escaped on their own in the first couple of days but 219 remain missing.

The plight of the girls attracted international outrage, with demands that Boko Haram free them. The Nigerian government and military's failure to secure their release has brought criticism that President Goodluck Jonathan is uncaring of their fate.

Shekau in August announced that Boko Haram wanted to establish an Islamic caliphate, along the lines of the IS group in Syria and Iraq. Fleeing residents have reported that hundreds of people are being detained for infractions of the extremists' version of strict Shariah law in several towns and villages under their control.

Shekau's video announcement further discredits the government of President Goodluck Jonathan, a Christian southerner who on Thursday formally announced his candidacy for elections on Feb. 14, 2015, in Africa's most populous nation. Nigeria's 160 million people are divided almost equally between Muslims who dominate the north and Christians in the south. The West African nation is the biggest oil producer on the continent and has its biggest economy.

http://news.yahoo.com/boko-haram-denies-truce-kidnapped-girls-married-081839690.html?soc_src=copy

Danhumprey:
What was cheap there? Didn't you see how Neven Subotic handled Ribery to the point that Ribery tripped and fall when he was bearing down on goal?


Although,I'm suspecting Ribery of a 'little' play-acting.

Now you are talking!

Coach Stephen Keshi has announced a strong 24-man team that will face the Black Stars of Ghana in November 7 international friendly to commission the Akwa Ibom International in Uyo.
The list has the two leading marksmen in the Nigeria Premier League Mfon Udoh and Emem Eduok.
Coach Stephen Keshi has also called up Gbolahan Salami, Rabiu Ali, Christian Pyagbara, Bright Esieme, Umar Zango, Solomon Kwambe and Azubuike Egwuekwe.
However, there are new call ups  which include  Nasarawa United’s Tony Edjomariegwe, Charles Henlong(Giwa FC), Idris Aloma (El Kanemi Warriors), Nelson Ogbonnaya(Heartland), Joseph Nathaniel(Sharks), Stanley Dimgba(Warri Wolves) and Kingsley Sokari(Enyimba).
 The players are to report at the Le Meridien Hotel, Uyo on Monday, November 3, 2014.

FULL LIST

Goalkeepers: Chigozie Agbim (Gombe United); Daniel Akpeyi (Warri Wolves); Theophilus Afelokhai (Kano Pillars)

Defenders: Solomon Kwambe (Sunshine Stars); Idris Aloma (El-Kanemi Warriors); Chima Akas (Sharks FC); Nelson Ogbonnaya (Heartland FC); Azubuike Egwuekwe (Warri Wolves); Erhun Obanor (Bendel Insurance); Bright Esieme (Enyimba FC); Umar Zango (Kano Pillars)

Midfielders: Christian Pyagbara (Sharks FC); Charles Henlong (Giwa FC); Joseph Nathaniel (Sharks FC); Stanley Dimgba (Warri Wolves); Rabiu Ali (Kano Pillars); Chinedu Udeaga (Enugu Rangers); Kingley Sokari (Enyimba FC); Tony Edjomariegwe (Nasarawa FC)

Forwards: Mfon Udoh (Enyimba FC); Christian Obiozor (Enugu Rangers); Gbolahan Salami (Warri Wolves); Osaguona Ighodaro (Enugu Rangers); Emem Eduok (Dolphins FC)
 
http://m.goal.com/s/en-ng/news/5682431

I don't see barca winning La liga unless a miracle happens...

Too much of high service wey everyone dey do for Messi especially Suarez killed last night's game & many in the past...

Messi should be benched abeggi...

sebod:
Form 7 point lead to 2 points lag. With some players still having a starting shirt, I want to hand over the league to Madrid right away. I have given up on the team this season.

Sadly, I agree with you...

mcfarlin:
Why must he?

Na AGBAYE NA!

Messi for 2014 world best

Walahi e no go better for blatter if messi makes that top three.

You no go finish person with laugh with your sarcasm...


Thanks for making me laugh after dem fire blank tonight...

Signs off!


Goodnight...

Celta Vigo Goalkeeper --- Man of the match (8 saves)...

coded01:
Is it a taboo that messi mustn't defend or retrieve a ball back?

Again!!!

raumdeuter:
You don prepare the playlist?


Abeg add Iya Aladuke to it for our Ilorin people

Referee fumbled una match!


Robben scored a cheap penalty...

Is it a taboo that messi mustn't defend or retrieve a ball back?

Haterz are peeping...

It is well...

usbcable:
@Coded and ddip,

teams are either built around a Star player (Straight forward solution) or everybody works for everybody (complex solution)

Barca like RM are built around their Star players Stop the two and you stop the team

The dificulty is that it is quite very dificult to stop either players. But if your Backline can do this seemingly simple but dificult task the rest becomes easier. The downside is that in doing this loop holes occur for the other outstanding players of the team to cause havoc.

For the other model, it usually applies to team with below par, average or just above avergae player with no X factor player in the team
and playing the model is even harder to execute thus loop holes are an ever present occurence

LEO is an X factor that must be nutured for the team to flourish better.

Really! Read my comments & stop mixing me up with another...

usbcable:
Oya ma binu
Ozugo
no vex

Na blood rush to my brains cause hyper active fingers

Smh...

usbcable:
but its the truth.

I for a very long time was trying to talk not like a RM fan but the two of you seem to think I was dissing Messi.

if I wanted to diss Messi na La midget I go call am not Messi

Honestly, i still don't understand where your assumptions came from but I only jokingly stated your fear of Reus playing for Barca, so the above statement is bogus!


Like I initially said, you don't need to say this; other than your senses reading my comments inside out upside down...

philfearon:
It is 70% logically accurate to say the team plays for Messi...Reason is: The team is built around Messi...
Did u watch the Classico? Can u ever imagine that a player like Rakitic had two clear shots he could have taken himself but yet passed the ball to Messi who was literally out of position to score? A whole Rakitic!! Am still pissed at him for that till this day, until he makes up for it with a goal+assist or either of both!!

Sorry my padi

usbcable:
did i say any thing different all along.
other than your senses reading my comments inside out upside down

Oh oh oh!

I expect better from you not this!

usbcable:
FEAR? not really.

Barca will be better with him in the lineup. but RM has its own Arsenals

Now you talking...

mukina2:
homage say wetin?

shey we give you The King and cesc na

You give us wetin?


Abi no bi help we help una wey we send am to Arsenal to give una some spice 4 midfield, if not, una 4 relegate!

homesteady:
See how Sanchez was turning heads today!

Them Mukina2 and co should be paying us homage on this thread everyday!

You dey mind am...

ddippset:
seriously, where do you guys get these illusions from? the fact that the whole of real madrid are slaves to ronaldo doesnt automatically mean that the same applies to messi. it's not possible that messi gives the highest amount of assists to his team mates and you still say they play for messi. it defies logic and common sense really. 80 mins out of 90 messi leaves his positions and drops to midfield just to help the team, especially when the game gets tough. bro you need to sing a new song.

Smh...

ddippset:
@ bolded; wrong language. it's messi to be shifted to accommodate suarez, not 'suarez being shifted to accommodate messi'. by the way, i guess you mean; reus on the right, messi tru the middle, iniesta on the left, suarez up front. then where does neymar play? where does rakitic fit in? and then busquets nko? we need two and not only one defensive minded midfielders! i think reus is a left sided midfielder, hope iam correct. a very good alternative to don andreas.

I agree!

usbcable:
Reus coming to Barcelona will end up like every other player "PLAY FOR THE STAR PLAYER AKA MESSI" and will still have chance at silverware.
Reus going to Liverpool will turn in into the star player for the Reds. this has its perks too but chances of silverware is not so high.

See fear factor!


Oga, if d guy comes to Barca! What do you want to do about it?

Debroslink:
I hate Pedro's gameplay. They should have sold him instead of Sanchez, but the board sha...

I agree...

philfearon:
Barca Needs to Sign Marco Reus to move out from the Messi dependencia problem that will forever continue to bug us.....As soon as Pedro is sold!!

Agree!

What is funny about them?


These are courses many out there learnt and are today millionaires...

BENI Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) - A crowd stoned to death a young man in northeast Congo on Friday before burning and eating his corpse, witnesses said, in apparent revenge for a series of attacks by Ugandan rebels.

The incident in the town of Beni followed a number of overnight raids in the area blamed on the Islamist group ADF-NAUL, who are thought to have massacred more than 100 people this month, using hatchets and machetes to kill their victims.

Witnesses said the man, who has not been identified, aroused suspicion on a bus when passengers discovered he could not speak the local Swahili language and that he was carrying a machete.

Speaking from the town of Beni, Congo's President Joseph Kabila said the ADF-NALU militants would face the same fate as the rebel movement M23, which was defeated by a U.N.-backed government offensive last year.

"There is no question of negotiation with the terrorists," Kabila said in a speech at a local hotel. "They will be defeated as was the case with the M23. And it will be very soon."

ADF-NALU is an alliance of groups opposed to the Ugandan government that has operated from bases in neighboring Congo since the mid-2000s, undermining Kinshasa's grip on the area.

The movement was blamed for the deaths of 14 people, killed early on Thursday in the village of Kampi ya Chui, bringing the total death toll this month to at least 107, said Teddy Kataliko, president of the Civil Society of Beni.

Tensions ran high in the town on Friday morning with around 100 demonstrators blocking the road from the airport into town, throwing stones and waving machetes to demand greater government protection against the rebels.

Local government officials could not immediately be reached for comment. Earlier in the week, the government sought to downplay the threat posed by the group, which it had previously said was defeated in an operation earlier this year.

Estimates of its strength vary greatly, but the website of the U.N.'s peacekeeping mission in Congo estimates it has around 500 fighters.

The Ugandan government has said ADF-NALU is allied with Somalia's al Qaeda-linked al Shabaab movement, but analysts say the nature of these ties is not clear, despite the ADF-NALU's clear Islamist ideology.

In his speech on Friday, Kabila appealed for public support for a ramping up of its offensive against the group, but did not specify what that would entail.

"I call on the population to support the army because the victory against the M23 was because the population was behind the army," he said. "I call on young people to join the army in great numbers."

Kabila also defended the U.N. peacekeeping mission known as MONUSCO following criticism from locals that it had failed to defend them and had even collaborated with ADF-NALU.

Crowds of mainly young men attacked several peacekeeping facilities with stones and bows and arrows last week, forcing the evacuation of some staff.

The U.N. mission says it has stepped up patrols in the area in the wake of the massacres.

http://news.yahoo.com/congo-crowd-kills-man-eats-him-militant-massacres-160235263.html?soc_src=copy

Now its tenant that has the power! --- "3 years on top person house"


So if a tenant breaks his or her contract, "na to dey sit down look", Abi!


Nigeria sha with its irregularities...