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komekn:
You brought two contexts into play African and European.

You make a demarcation based on exposure and opportunity not sure exactly what you mean. But that for you is component that divides the two contexts Europe and Africa for you.

It's simplistic for me, remember Biblically speaking 🗣️ whatever a man sows he will reap.

The advantage and benefit of Opportunity comes to those who work hard are diligent and prepared.

Micheal Beale was once assistant manager at Sao Paulo in Brazil. He was coaching the U12 development phase in Liverpool FC academy. He is fully qualified and experienced speaking a number of European languages. That is how important that development phase is considered by clubs.

Arsene Wenger once said that once a player is over 13 it's difficult to inculcate natural skill, technical ability ,first touch and flair.

Nigeria football ⚽ development for me is still stuck back in the 80's . Infrastructure almost zero , coaching development not far off, local league development has regressed.

The world football is not at a standstill but Nigerian football ⚽ is in terms of development gone backwards at worst static at best.

Most premier league and even some Championship football academies. Will train 4/5 times a week 2/3 hour sessions each from age 7/8 with top quality level coaches, they will play games and tournament across Europe even America.

I brought one of my friends to a Premier League academy u12 near 3 hour training session. He was astounded at the level of football intelligence, technical ability,skill , game management, physical fitness, etc.

Jude Bellingham was sponsored by Adidas at 13 , who have a data base of top potential players across Europe and the Americans from age 12. It's done with objective measurement and appraisal by top coaches.

There are certain basic skill sets that your average players coming out of an academy will have. Most Nigerian players will excel in some areas particularly athletic ability sometimes dribbling but have poor football intelligence and game management.

Our local coaches who don't have the same competencies as European coaches cannot produce the same thing with little or no infrastructure as well as coaching acumen.

But you want those limited knowledge local coaches to assess players and set up a team and decide who is best . If you have better players and you can't make them work sack the coach. Our coaches also unfortunately have conflicting interests and agendas.

I have noticed that when players from Nigeria get to top academies they don't hit the ground running they take time to learn and unlearn ( nonsense they have been taught in Nigeria) quite often.

Mikel obi was an exception hit the ground running but most struggle to find thier way and some never do unfortunately.

When V.O. first got to Wolfsburg he was completely out of his depth and at THAT TIME would not have got into any top academy.

I ADVISED he reinvent himself drop to a lower league, learn develop and then move up, when the his football education would be complete. That's exactly what he had done.

Iwobi went straight from Arsenal academy to the SE ,why he already had the football education to compete.

It should be the best players in the best clubs and leagues that should be selected. We are essentially ignoring better players for those who have stayed longer in the SE. In must cases without competition, that is enthroning MEDIOCRITY.

Iwobi went from Arsenal's academy to SE because he is Okocha's nephew not because of football education.

Osimhen only made 14 appearances for WolfsBurg, that can't be used to say he was out of his depth.

Franzinni:
you are prime example... Pretty slow and dimwitted... You fail to grasp simple concepts unless spoonfed to you, infact you make my point clearly

You're not making any point with your ignorance and foolishness. you are delusional to think you're not dimwitted and extremely dull and un-intelligently slow to understand anything about black people.

your lack of intelligence ensures you don't grasp easy things and concepts unless the whyte man tells you...

you have mental issues and need psychiatric attention.

DarkJeddi:
His opinion,he is entitled to it..
If Osimhen merits Ballon d'Or..
The whole world will trump it..
You all love you some victim mentality..
Everything is racism and racist to you..

Everything is about support..

it is self-hatred not to support your own..

If Osimhen didn't make the final 3 to be voted winner then the Nigerian journalist should vote for Mbappe not Messi and not Haaland.

Franzinni:
black people are the same ... Everywhere you find them .. even those seperated by 400 years still have the same mentality... You are the one who have decided to remain ignorantly foolish on the matter becasue you have come to the conclusion that becasue they have different tribes that means they are different ... Can you point out significant differences in black people globally ? Anywhere on the world ? They are all the same regardless of origin.

black people are not the same that's your foolish ignorant opinion.

black people speak over 700 different languages, have different facial and physical features.

Kobicove:
I'm sure a significant proportion of those 14,000 are not actually Nigerians

You're right..

this is how they have been increasing the population of Nigeria.

Franzinni:
you are right but you have to understand your future is in your hands and most black people abhor the progress of others and as such using them in context means be who they expect you to be to avoid friction if not they will gatekeep you once your goal is clear. I speak from experience... Serial experience

black people are of different ethnicities and are not a monolith group..

using the term "most black people" is very ignorant and foolish because there are black people who are zulus, akan, haiti, brazilian, black american, yoruba, hausa, igbo and other ethnicities.

grouping black people as one is madness and ignorance.

Qoko:
You be mumu, this is not a Nigeria election, this is merit based election, assuming is African football players, Osimen will win.

DarkJeddi:
Mbappe is French,so you and Cameroonians should stop your by force attachment..
You think the Ballon d'Or is your gwegiri Nigerian politics, where tribalism and religion dictates your vote?

DarkJeddi:
Osimhen was clearly not better than Messi..
So,why should I vote for him?

DarkJeddi:
You have been letting tribalism and religion dictate your choices in this sh1thole..
How far has it brought you?

DarkJeddi:
Insult to who?
Does Osimhen merit the Ballon d'Or, based on his performances?
In fact, show me a country that voted for Osimhen as their first choice?

The quote below answers you

Omoawoke2:
Omoh!! Na Africa dey do Africa

Before you scream competency, please note that Whites will always be sentimental and will choose theirs first over others.
Life’s not fair and no true equality exist, the best you could do is try as much to favor your own.

What a shame. Even Nigeria

gidgiddy:
Well you can always verify with Google or keep lying to your self. But Gowons decree 14 where he abolished the 4 Regions and created 12 States, and Decree 15 where he took away resource control, are on the internet for all to see

Ironsi created "Decree No. 34", which abrogated the country's federal structure in exchange for a unitary one.

This regionalism issue has been tackled many times and you keep repeating the same nonsense and false history to protect your demonic and satanic igbo heroes.

gidgiddy:
For your information, it was Gowon who abolished the Regions, created states, and took away resource control, with Decree 14 and 15

Had nothing to do with the East

You again....

Stop trying to rewrite history.

It was Igbos that abolished regionalism because other southern Nigerians were richer than them not knowing that they will also find oil and gas in their own region.

All the east had to do was fund exploration of oil and gas in their region but they wanted the one that already had been found.

SoNature:
Oga, there is.

Restructure the country; this is something Tinubu fought for for years. Now, he has forgot about it. Everyone should control their resources and pay taxes to the centre.

Presidents don't want to implement that for fear that governors will be richer than them.
If Nigéria isn't a hypocritical country, I don't see why anyone would harbour such fears.

When Nigeria practiced something similar, Eastern Nigeria did not like it so they did a coup to abolish it.

Now, that led to northern Nigeria tasting southern Nigeria revenue ( especially Western Nigeria ) and afterwards that led to northern Nigerian soldiers modifying it to favor northern Nigeria and you think they will agree to restructure the country after over 50 years of tasting southern Nigeria revenue.

You expect them to restructure a system that made dangote, dantata and other northerners billionaires...

Blame Eastern Nigeria for shooting itself and southern Nigeria in it's foot and hand.

SoNature:
Promote fairness, love, equity and justice and watch all separatiats drop their arms.

Angelfrost:
Sadly, that's the last thing average African leaders (Majorly the Negroes) will ever do... Such a concept of leadership is too noble for their corrupt natures to abide.

there is no such thing as fairness, love, equity and justice same way not everyone is the same height, age, weight e.t.c.

promote contentment not fairness, love, equity and justice...

some people are born into rich families while some are born into average families and some are born into poor families.

In Nigeria, some territories have oil, gas, limestone e.t.c. while others have nothing..

so you don't expect those that have nothing to scream fairness, love, equity and justice because that will be foolishness.

When Nigeria practiced regionalism, some regions were richer than other regions and this led to those from poorer regions accusing those from richer regions of corruption which eventually led to those from poorer regions starting a coup and abolishing regionalism which has led to where Nigeria is today..

again promote contentment, research and development, upgrading infrastructures not fairness, love, equity and justice... because that means you are envious and jealous of people richer than you.

CSTRR:
We are not benefiting anything because crooks are in charge.

Tinubu is said to buy a presidential yacht.

That's the kind of man that has been in charge of Lagos resources since forever.

What kind of positive impact do you think such a fellow would have on your life.?

We are not benefiting anything because we are not indigenes of those places..

I don't care what t:inubu does because him and most of the people in his age range and from his generation are semi-slaves to Whyte supremacists so they don't have the intelligence to think outside what their whyte handlers want them to do.

lexy2014:
did you ask google before you said this?


since u know that d answer to my questions are on google, then u shouldnt find it difficult answering the following

what is profit and what is IGR?

where does IGR come from?

where does profit come from?

Ask Goo:gle.

nedu666:
Govt officials just drop all manner of useless statistics. How can 65 million Nigerians spend 15 dollars everyday on betting. By implication each person spends 540,000 every month and 6.5 million every year. Is govt trying to say 65 million people earn more than 6.5 million every year considering other daily expenses have not been factored in. Na wa

That's exactly what they are saying.

This is one of the disadvantages of using statistics especially one with a suspicious population figure.

lexy2014:
what is profit and what is IGR?

where does IGR come from?

where does profit come from?

Ask Goo;gle..

lexy2014:
I didnt ask you for the reason for anything. I asked if you say high IGR doesnt equal improved standard of living of everyone, what then is the essence of the high IGR?

Same as high profits for a private business means improved standard of living of it's employees due salary increase, bonus increase, pension increase e.t.c

High IGR of any level of government means improved standard of living of it's employees..

MadarasBlade:
Your analogy is pure nonsense. Any money generated from tax systems that doesn't benefit the entire populace is of no use.

Debts also have to be paid.
Logistics expenses for governor, deputy governor and other executive government officials have to be paid.

The reason why you are not benefiting a single thing from the IGR is because after all expenses, debts e.t.c has been paid there is no more money to give benefits to the indigenes and most indigenes already work in their respective state governments so they are already getting benefits.

Apart from indigenes benefits, I don't know who else you want to give benefits.

The salary you get why aren't your extended family members benefiting from it, why aren't the poor people around you benefiting from it

lexy2014:
you havent answered the question...

as some one who is literate, if you say high IGR doesnt equal improved standard of living of everyone, what then is the essence of the high IGR?

Debts also have to be paid.
Logistics expenses for governor, deputy governor and other executive government officials have to be paid.

The reason why you are not benefiting a single thing from the IGR is because after all expenses, debts e.t.c has been paid there is no more money to give benefits to the indigenes and most indigenes already work in their respective state governments so they are already getting benefits.

Apart from indigenes benefits, I don't know who else you want to give benefits..

CSTRR:
A high IGR should mean improved standard of living for everyone.

States and countries with high taxes have high standard of living and a strong welfare system.

Unemployed people get welfare from the state.

From the UK, Finland, France, Sweden, Germany, America, to even south Africa here.
High IGR leads to more welfare benefits.

The igr is coming from taxes and taxes are supposed to make life better for the majority.
That's how it's any where in the world.

iGR is not for igr sake.
High IGR means more social welfare and benefits.

The reason why you are not benefiting a single thing from the IGR is because one baba somewhere and his boys has cornered the majority of the funds.

Because a rich man has built house on a street with dirt road, no street lights, no street gardening e.t.c does not mean smooth road, street lights, street gardening will magically appear.

Debts also have to be paid.

The reason why you are not benefiting a single thing from the IGR is because after all expenses, debts e.t.c has been paid there is no more money to give benefits to the indigenes and most indigenes already work in their respective state governments so they are already getting benefits.

Apart from indigenes benefits, I don't know who else you want to give benefits..

MadarasBlade:
Which quality social amenities have the so-called Tax/IGR system provided to the common man, abi only a few are meant to benefit from the Tax system?

megamank:
You did a very nice and correct analysis but Your last comment was too harsh and not absolutely correct… if all the indices and indication you have mentioned above are fully in place using the IGR don’t you think the standard of living in Nigeria will improve? The various government sectors improvement has serious effect on the prices of food stuff in the market…
Have you asked your self why market women sell more at the end of the month more than middle of the month?
Improved and well utilized IGR have effect on the economy directly and indirectly

lexy2014:
as some one who is literate, if you say high IGR doesnt equal improved standard of living of everyone, what then is the essence of the high IGR?

caye:
Younger folks ...you can see the amount of mental gymnastics, deliberate misinformation and ignorance all inside one post by these "online economists".

Ask him to list a country, where high revenue doesn't lead to improved standard of living. He'll have nothing to say, because they are online propagandist being paid by a certain organisation.

Because a rich man has built house on a street with dirt road, no street lights, no street gardening e.t.c does not mean smooth road, street lights, street gardening will magically appear.

Freebills12:
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I expected this from you! Go and read! You could have pointed out the historical propaganda! Nigeria as a country knows the truth.

you have your truth and I have my truth.

your truth is that Ojukwu, Nzeogwu, Azikiwe and Ironsi are your heroes.

my truth is that Ojukwu, Nzeogwu, Azikiwe and Ironsi are mass murderers, Igbo supremacists, greedy and envious killers.

kokoA:
It's a good idea but will the revenue from this tax be used to develop our grassroot sports, build Morden sport facilities, properly fund our national teams in all sports, etc?

EmperorCaesar:
A welcome development

But then, how do people convinve themselves to keep playing this even after fatal serial back to back losses


Logic defies addiction....na who no sabi think dey struggle with a destructive addiction

bad idea.

bet companies are private companies and are already been tax by the federal government and state government..

what they want to tax are people who have won or are winning while they will still tax the betting companies..

JPmore:
High IGR without corresponding development and improved standards of living is fraud and criminality, that is what is happening in the West side of naija


Stealing mandate is easy but managing it is where the main duty is.

IGR is income of the state government which will be used to pay state government employees salaries, bonuses to state government, health insurance for state govt employees, state senators, state infrastructure maintenance expenses. maintain state government computer servers, court cases settlement against the state government , construction of better public facilities e.t.c.

In a private business, the business IGR is their income which is used to pay employees salaries, bonuses, health insurance e.t.c. and only the standard of living of the employees can improve.

unemployed people's standard of living can never improve magically and miraculously.

A state government IGR is similar to a private business profits, only difference is the state government has more employees to pay and more infrastructure to maintain.

you're a illiterate if you think high IGR equals improve standard of living of everyone.

Freebills12:
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You see the danger of not teaching history in secondary schools. I don't blame you I blame those who only teach the jihad of Usman Dan Fodio, Seku Amadu, Futa Jalon, origin of slave trade in Africa etc, without teaching us our civil war. Azikwe wants to control oil Ijaw? Were Azikiwe and Ojukwu part of the Coup? Nzeogwu was he not from Delta State? Delta is not in South south? Does Delta have oil?
You think Ojukwu was part of the coup and he was rewarded by Gowon and northerners with an office of a Governor? Read! Stop basing your argument on hear say! I understand how the northerners felt during the first coup. I also understand how civilians Easterners felt when the military after killing the Eastern soldiers in the counter coup descended on them.
Have you seen any northern Nigerian military head of state or even Obasnjo that blamed Ojukwu? What happened during his funeral? Was he not given his full right as a statesman? Ojukwu did what any selfless leader would have done. Security of the life of people under his charge. He even used his father's money and property to fight the civil war. Did you Ojukwu's father? Research! Read!

You don't know anything...

Its just your igbo history propaganda you know.

You're the one that needs to research.

Freebills12:
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Ojukwu failed in what way? If only you understand the write-up, you won't say that! Ojukwu stood up against the killing his people by Nigerian police, army and Hausa/Fulani, Yuroba and even Middlebelt especially Benue people who killed the Igbos that escaped the onslaught at north.
What really caused? After the counter-coup, with Gowon as a Head of State, Ojukwu told him to stop the killing of the Easterners by Nigerian military, release the corpse of Aguiyi Ironsi Head of State for burial and also pay workers their salaries. Gowon refused! Honour the Aburi Accord sealed in the presence of UN, OAU and EU, Gowon refused.

Nzeogwu and Ojukwu did what Ha:mmas did to I:sra:el to Nigeria.

and Ojukwu expected things to go back to normal for him quickly as if nothing happened and he did not do anything bad in killing the people and leaders of other tribes..

If there was no coup then there won't be need for Aburi Accord..

All Ojukwu, Azikiwe had to do was compromise and give funds to the Ijaws annually to build a refinery for the newly found crude oil and get 40% ownership of the refinery and spread the remaining revenue from the oil to others in the eastern region and even search for oil in other parts of the eastern region.

but they Ojukwu and Azikiwe wanted complete control of the crude oil in Ijaw land and also complete control of other tribes revenue all over Nigeria and expecting the other tribes to sit down and clap for them stupidly for making the other tribes poor and third class citizens..

Ojukwu and Nzeogwu were mass murderers..

Marjoribanks:
You are actually worse than Bashir! Just wow! @Emmy450 see this hypocrite! Your posts below actually confirms my previous assertion, if Boni sub Aboki for Agbero Yorubas like yourself will infact do more than what bashir did.
You are such a disgrace to the entire Yoruba tribe! @lovewins

Aboki and agbero are different words with different meaning.

Somebody is saying nonsense about Yorubas and you expect me to clap for them. You have a mental problem.

I will not do anything like what Bashir did. Boniface is a super talent and can take the S.E to higher levels and if I was the NFF respondent I will tell Bashir that Buhari is no longer the president because I know Bashir has anti-southern Nigeria sentiments and hatred.

Emmy450:
lolss he's not bashir,
Besides bashir is not a strong follower of the eagles

You don't know that....

If he was not a strong follower of the eagles he would not be harassing Umar Sadiq and Boniface..

I don't even follow any Nigerian athlete on the internet.

chrisooblog:
Aboki is a common enough word that people down south already know about it.

Asking them what they think the word means will give you a fair idea why some northerners find it offensive when southerners call them aboki.

northerners hustling in the south can't find it offensive because they know that's how southerners identify them...

wealthy northerners in the north can find it offensive since they are in the comfort and luxury of their homes in the north and have highly paid government jobs unlike their counterparts in the south many of whom are also from Niger rep:ublic and are not northern Nigerians.

AndSunGorilla:
In my opinion the tweet is definitely one that casts Hausa people as silly and stupid. The Aboki in the tweet seemed to stupidly misuse whatever it was because of his "low" IQ. I won't lie it's like one of those old jokes where we used to generalize thar Igbos and Ijebu people are stingy and hausas (Abokis) are dumb. I like Boniface but now his success has placed him on a high platform and it's part of the costs of success. It's Lonely at The Top!!

the tweet does not cast Hausa people as silly or stupid that's just your toxic opinion.. some Hausas in the south buy spoilt fans or old metalic objects or if they see metal on the road they will pick it up and keep it in their big bags.

Those are not old jokes about igbos and Ijebus those are facts, Igbos are stingy that's one of the reasons they leave the South East and look for opportunities outside their region.
Ijebus and Ogun people are also stingy if they weren't stingy Ogun state will be more developed than it currently is.

Hausas allowed non-Hausa people called Fulanis to turn Hausa people against Hausa Kings and use their own Hausa hands to bring down their own Hausa Kingdoms and make themselves 2nd class people in their own territory that's a very dumb and dull thing to do.. Hausas are seen as dull because of their history with the fulanis.

Igbos are seen as dumb because they abolished regionalism that would have made the entire eastern Nigeria a powerhouse in Africa and globally.

Nigeria's GDP is $440b if regionalism was not abolished at least $368b will be from eastern Nigeria.

Yorubas are seen as dumb because they allow non-Yorubas become senators and hold powerful government positions in the SW.

the same way Yorubas would have been more dumb and dull to vote for Chinedu or a non-Yoruba to be Governor of Lagos or any SW state.

chrisooblog:
Go on the streets of Lagos and ask an average Nigerian who's not a northerner what Aboki refers to.

2 days ago I heard someone calling a Hausa guy aboki.

you cannot ask the average Nigerian who's not a northerner what aboki because most southerners don't know Hausa language so they won't know its meaning.

you don't ask people what something in a language they don't know refers to... they will just be guessing.

chrisooblog:
Yes in Hausa Aboki means friend but a lot Nigerians especially southerners use it as a way to insult or tease someone of northern extraction when we believe they are behaving foolishly.

Bashir on the otherhand lacks engagement skills for someone who claims he was a special adviser on communication. Boniface was obviously engaging in light hearted banter and he should have approached him from a point of wanting to let him know why the term Aboki could be misconstrued as an abuse instead of tagging NFF over what two grown adults could have discussed and resolved.

Southerners don't use it as a way to insult or tease northerners that's foolish thinking and a lie.

Some northerners in the south don't know how to speak english so they won't know you're talking to them unless you speak hausa.

Marjoribanks:
If Boniface substitute Aboki for Agbero. I am sure the yorubas will also be crying by now too.
That's how divided we have become!

Agbero and Aboki are 2 different words with different meanings.

Agbero means thug while Aboki means friend.

If Hausas did not adopt arab naming customs and practiced Hausa naming customs there will Hausas bearing Aboki in their names.

Aboki is not an abusive term while Agbero is an abusive term.

the fact that bashir is interested in going after SE footballers means he is also on this thread and the way you respond to people is very similar to the way bashir responds to people so just use your real identity and stop hiding.