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hatakekakashi:
She's error prone and lacks that bravery that Abiodun has, almost like she's afraid. She should improve with experience sha

Hopefully she improves her confidence and bravery.

JohnBullMySon:
Go and rest. Nobody is against you.

That referee is obviously against us.

hatakekakashi:
That girl has shown time and time again that she's a calamity waiting to happen, is it that there's no better CB on the bench or what?

She has pace and can recover well. It's just a ball control and mastery that's a problem.

It's because of players like Demehin that both Super Eagles and Super Falcons need to start training and playing possession football.

Deltamani:
Here’s the Super Falcons’ Starting XI to face England in today’s World Cup Round of 16 encounter.

What do you think of the team ?
What’s your final score prediction? 🤔🦅🇳🇬

As long as Oshoala does not start then it's good tactics..

I would have preferred Kanu as main striker then Gift Monday on the wings.

Deltamani:
The referee and VAR couldn’t check this out..

She's a whyte player so they won't use VAR..

ycat:
I've been telling people here for years that we are not spending oil money but people chose to ignore it. The money Nigeria runs on has 60% of it coming from 2 Yoruba states(Lagos & Ogun)alone this was confirmed by the former finance minister Kemi Adeosun. The oil angle in the economy has been a scam.

When did Kemi Adeosun say this?

Where is the link to a website where she said this

twentyk:
I don't know, may things just didn't go well with the bayern deal.

First he got injured

Then issue of where he would play, through the middle or wing?

Then the bust-up with Leroy Sane in training when he punched him and got fined.

All in all, Sadio Mane was well underappreciated in Bayern. Goodluck playing with the goat.

you're wrong... it wasn't a bust-up in training.. it was after the match against Manchester City when they to the dressing room..

Mane had issues with the former coach and Leroy Sane.

With his manager coming out to say this shows the kind of bad advisers Mane has around him. both Mane and his manager has just ruined a lot chances other African players may have to play for Bayern Munich.

Mane has bad behavior if his having issues with his coach.. I can understand the Leroy Sane issue due to Mane been older than him so Mane felt and feels Sane shouldn't talk to him anyhow...

he wasn't underappreciated.. his behavior is the reason they didn't keep him..

his manager should never have said such in the media...

The only game Super Falcons won was the one Oshoala came off the bench...

obinna58:
It sounds like joke right, it’s shamefully true

It's not true.

worksmart:
Ebola has infected Nigeria!

ggood:
Wetin Ebola sabi

Adaisback:
Anyone is better than Ebola not just Buhari. How Niger republic managed to coin that name 'ebola ' for Tinibu must be the 9th wonder of the world

Ecos:
Useless Ebola Tulumbu

phorget:
Ebola !

When the world govt uses their search engine to search for words on the internet and they see "e:bola" you guys are writing they will think there's ebola in Nigeria and block Nigerian travelers from traveling so if you think its Tinubu you're doing then you're deceiving yourselves.

franchasofficia:
The nature of the manufacturing we wanted to do, the machines consume lots of energy and only 3 phase can carry them, and we involved an alternative energy firm to give us cost, the cost alone was more than 400million, if you add that to cost of machines, raw materials, factory house and staff quarters, it was going to 1billion plus, and our financial power never reach that level na, so we quit

That's what you would have said in the comment I quoted...

franchasofficia:
I love your side of argument. Nigeria needs to move from just being a consuming nation to a productive nation, that is from consumption to production.


But no matter which, the supply chain end of business remains one of the biggest and most lucrative all over the world, and Igbos have mastered and taken over this sector, so whether Nigeria bans importation and capitalizes on manufacturing or not, the supply end will continue, that is why one of the most important departments in every company is "the marketing and sales" department because if you produce and unable to sell, you will shutdown with time.



Buying and selling will never die till the world ends and what Igbos have mastered is the art of buying and selling.


You think Igbos sell only imported goods? Then you are completely wrong. They are at the biggest end of marketing and selling agricultural products from even far away North cos they have this traveling spirit to explore anywhere on earth without fear, which was why it seemed like the Igbos dominated importation business (it is because they travel to where others are scared to travel to, and they are always the first to discover opportunities in those places they migrate to). Its because as they love traveling to just anywhere, they discover opportunities, they discover cheaper goods and products that can sell cheaper back home, so they import them in, if its within Nigeria, they buy them from the remote areas and bring to the cities to sell in their supermarkets, shops, etc as ordinary traders but the koko is their source.



People accuse Peter Obi of being just an importer but they don't know that Peter Obi is one of the biggest sellers of Naija made agro products from far North using his Next Supermarket stores scattered all over Nigeria.



Due to Igbo peoples traveling and touring nature, they dominate transport and logistics industry in Nigeria, so its beyond importation like most of you think.



The only thing that makes Igbos stand out is their entrepreneurial spirit; a typical Igbo person if given a good paying white collar job and a good business opportunity would take business opportunity, this was how their dominance in business started; while the Yorubas were busy going to school to obtain formal educational certificate to secure a job in the organized sector, the Igbos were busy focusing on servicing people by providing goods and services they needed through opening shops to sell things, etc, and many looked down on them as ordinary traders.

It was of recent with advent of internet and social media that other Nigerians began to embrace business and entrepreneurship, buying and selling like the Igbos, before it was seen as petty business for uneducated people and their income was highly underrated.



So its beyond importation, its an entrepreneurship cultural thing in Igbos, and due to failures of successive Nigerian governments of many years that failed to industrialize Nigeria, it made Igbos to capitalize on importation like its their major trade.



Even most Igbos that started as importers today are into local production and manufacturing, including Aliko Dangote.


Belloxy Industries and many more are example of Igbo business owners that started as importers but today are fully into local manufacturing. Me with some group of Igbo childhood friends wanted to start local manufacturing of a certain product in Nigeria, we were almost set and was in the process of bringing in the machines and production equipment when the professionals we hired to do a thorough business research gave us a shocking report that without a constant electricity supply of at least 18hrs a day, that we won't break even in the business.


That if we operate on generator as planned, that we will shutdown business in at most 5 years time. And the location we wanted to site the plant due to availability of the raw material lacked constant electricity. We had to quit and refocused in other businesses.



This is one of the major reasons many Igbos including myself haven't ventured into full scale local manufacturing and production, so its not as if we enjoy the importation more than local production.


In fact, as a result of the lack of functional seaport in the Southeast, most Igbos would prefer local manufacturing and production to importation if given the opportunity to choose.



In summary, what I am trying to let you know is that Igbos are not just importers, nope, Igbos are seasoned entrepreneurs. Forget the few bad news of some unscrupulous Igbo guys trafficking drugs in different countries and tarnishing the image of the great Igbos, they are just a few unscrupulous individuals.


To tell you that Igbos are not just known for importation, if you have traveled around different countries of the world or know anybody that have, ask them, there is no country you would go to and not find an Igbo person doing excellently well in one local business there and flying the image of the blacks or foreigners high there. Go to South Korea, China, Chile, Indonesia, Japan, etc, I am intentionally naming none western or African nations, go and find out. If they are not running the biggest foreign restaurant, they own the biggest local logistics businesses or agro processing business. In Korea they own the biggest African-owned textile repackaging and rebranding businesses, same in China, Vietnam, Bangladesh, etc.



So its beyond Nigerian importation, they only capitalize on importation into Nigeria because they are the most traveled tribe in Nigeria and as they travel around the world looking for opportunities, once they see something cheap that they feel will be needed by Nigerians in Nigeria, they find ways to create opportunity to start sending those stuff to Nigeria to sell for profit, and that is how they start the importation and I don't see anything bad there because most of those things they bring in from other countries, Nigeria will never be able to produce them even in 1million years even if we turn Nigeria to an industrialized nation.



USA being one of the biggest industrialized nations in the world, still remains the biggest importer of goods and services in the world, so lets not paint importation as a very bad business cos no matter how much we move into local production and manufacturing as a country, we must continue to import, if not finished goods, we will import raw materials and machineries needed for the local industries and we must also export our excess finished products to other countries and Igbos still dominate the export business just as they dominate the import sector too, so its a cultural thing for Igbos when it comes to business, and one of the biggest leverage they have over other Nigerian tribes when it comes to importation and exportation is their travel-nature which makes them have a strong business presence in virtually all countries of the world.



So as people de mock Igbos that they don't like staying in their region in Nigeria, it also comes with great advantages when it comes to international business contact and spread; Igbos are everywhere, which makes Igbos the backbone of Nigeria's import and export sector.

If you wanted to open a factory in Nigeria you can use solar panels to generate your electricity...

USA imports from their own companies outside the U:S or companies they own a percentage of its the same way En:gland imports fuel from its Eng:land owned Shell oil company in Nigeria.

franchasofficia:
Igbo people's breakthrough is not hinged on seaport please, stop making such disastrous assertion.


With or without seaport, people ought to prosper, a region should prosper too.


Not all USA states have seaport, yet they are prosperous in their own pace. And we must also learn to stop measuring prick with Lagos, Lagos is far ahead of every other Nigerian state, and it is not the making of any Yoruba man or woman dead or alive, it is as a result of many factors, firstly, Lagos geographical location/natural blessings, secondly the privilege of being Nigeria's longest capital city.



Most US States move their things to Texas to export outside US, same applies to their import and they don't complain that their state is not progressing because they don't have seaport, its not a good thing to say please.



And you guys must understand that Lagos success owes tribute to Lagos geographical location and natural blessings that is beyond human factor.



Every nation on earth have their financial or commercial center that is mostly not their capital city.


Lagos is Nigeria's commercial center and nothing anybody can do about it until Nigeria seizes to exist.


India is Mumbai.

UAE is Dubai

China is Shanghai and Guangzhou

Japan is Tokyo

US is New York City

Australia is Sydney

Canada is Toronto


South Africa is Johannesburg

etc, etc.



But the only place I have issue with most Yorubas is that they always abandon their state of origin to claim Lagosian, thereby making other Yoruba states to be abandoned and underdeveloped despite how close they are to Lagos the commerical center of Nigeria.



Aside Lagos, and some parts of Ogun that are interwoven into Lagos, and Ibadan, the rest of Yoruba states are nothing to write home about and cant be compared to Southeast states like Imo, Anambra, and Enugu. I expected Southwest states to tap into Lagos enormous blessings to turn their states into mini Lagos, but due to Yoruba peoples culture and lifestyle of abandoning their ancestral hometowns for big cities, they always shy away from going back to their indigenous states to develop them using Lagos as a template, if Yorubas learn to do this, the whole Southwest will be a massive city unlike what it is now; Yorubas need to remove pride and learn this great aspect of Igbos who always go back to develop their indigenous hometowns, if Yorubas learn this, Southwest as a whole will become a paradise.

Lagos is not the commercial center of Nigeria, It is the commercial center of Yoruba people.

before Lagos was the capital of Nigeria and before the invasion by the br:itish thieves it was the commercial center of the Yoruba Empire all the way to the borders between Togo and Ghana was Yoruba territory...

When you call Lagos the collective growth of Nigerians then you are undermining the Yorubas and all the work they did and their ancestors did and achieved in Lagos..

Stop rewriting history with fake news and fake history.

Lagos was a farm and commercial point of the Oyo Empire and was occupied by Yoruba warriors and it extended into benin republic and Togo.

Yorubaland and Yoruba people does not end in Nigeria or Lagos, it ends in Togo and some parts of Ghana.

When the Portuguese came they traded with Yorubas in the places now called Lagos, Cotonou and Porto Novo.

Lagos, cotonou and Porto Novo used to be one whole Yoruba farm and commercial point.

Lagos was called Oko.

Yorubas don't want the entire SW to be a massive city because there is need for farming and feeding themselves with what they grow..

Oyo state is 28,454 km²

while

Imo State is 5,530 km²
Enugu state is 7,161 km²
Abia state is 4,902 km²
Ebonyi state is 6,400 km²
Anambra state is 4,844 km²

5530 +7161 + 4902 + 6400 + 4844 = 28,837km²

Only Oyo state is the size of 5 South eastern states...

Don't ever compare SW to the SE..

the amount of cities in the SW will swallow up the entire SE and there won't be space to farm...

Igboslayer:
You have functional ports in Warri, PH, Bonny and Calabar. They work till this day, shut up and import through these port and stop making foolish excuses with the loudest noise.

Let me tell you the truth, your people do not have the economic power to buy those things… na the same Yorubas you hate dey consume your products.

Because you make sales in Lagos, na ghost dey buy your goods? Those your poor village dwellers no get shishsi.

like bigadler has said in the quote below.. Igbos themselves don't know anything about their own region..

they just like to attack and derogate the SW.

bigadler:
Those are not South Eastern states... And who told you they don't have ports in Rivers and Akwa Ibom? A lot of commercial ships berth in those 2 states.

Most of you don't even know your region, you just come here to argue... what Igbos need to ask for is a functional rail system so that goods leaving Lagos and other ports can enter the south east seamlessly. Not all these "give us ports" noise, pls.

pachigo001:
rivers state is there and akwa ibom

The meaning of PH is "Port Harcourt"...

How can a city have the name Port in it and in your brain there's no port there.

the capital of Rivers state is PORT harcourt.

Goodman2023:
... hahaha...what is lekki deep sea port ? What revenue or business activities has it brought to lagos?

Apapa port is still the reason why more than 50% of igbo business men go to lagos...same way government created Apapa in lagos, that same government can create one in Port Harcourt or akwa ibom

The meaning of PH is "Port Harcourt"...

How can a city have the name Port in it and in your brain there's no port there.


There are also:
Calabar port
Onne port
Warri port..

The SW has only 2 ports which are both in Lagos..

While Eastern Nigeria has 4 ports


read below

bigadler:
Those are not South Eastern states... And who told you they don't have ports in Rivers and Akwa Ibom? A lot of commercial ships berth in those 2 states.

Most of you don't even know your region, you just come here to argue... what Igbos need to ask for is a functional rail system so that goods leaving Lagos and other ports can enter the south east seamlessly. Not all these "give us ports" noise, pls.

Deltamani:
God forbid why this Woman again?

Na she referee our game against France for 2019 oooooo, Very Wicked Woman. I have been Praying against this Woman not to referee any of our game. Why didn’t they give us Asian ref 😢

God will surely see us through..!🙏

Penalty and red card loading...

Abifarin16:
He was try to save cost for the British govt, because the north was so vast and they couldn't administer direct rule like in the south so they sort to rule indirectly through the northern leaders who they also could not conquer, and placed us in their hands when they were leaving.
In him mind he was doing the best at the moment, but with time most before ideas are the moment show weaknesses later on.

Stop saying what you don't know...

They joined northern Nigeria to southern Nigeria because northern Nigeria was not making profit and they kept using funds from the profits of southern Nigeria to keep their operations in northern Nigeria running.

When they left Nigeria they handed it over to the Igbos not northern Nigeria..

It was the Igbos that handed Nigeria to the northerners because they wanted to control all the regions in Nigeria and planned a coup that killed the leaders of other major ethnic nations and abolished regionalism and eventually led to a civil war.

Deltamani:
The truth is if Asisat Oshoala is 💯 fit, She will start as she’s the team star Player, her Presence alone on the field is a treat to the English team…

Just that I don’t like Onumonu coming from the bench…

Why don't you like Onumonu coming from the bench?

I will prefer she and Oshoala come from the bench..

Onumonu can press and hold up the ball and that's one of the things that's needed in the 2nd half.
Also, Anytime Oshoala starts or even comes on from the bench the Super Falcons don't pass the ball around they just blast the ball forward for Oshoala to run and score and they leave Oshoala isolated most times..

Gift Monday has also shown that she can hold on to the ball and run at defenders thereby keeping possession in the opponents half..

If Oshoala is starting then a front 3 of Ajibade, Oshoala and Monday will be the best... both Ajibade and Monday can hold on to the ball and run at defenders and can score, assist or cause corner kicks..

S.F needs to work on scoring corner kicks.

mowah:
Mourinho was right, Defense is the key to being a successful team. I don’t think our attack is better than that of 2019, just organizing our defense has made us improve so much. Hope fully we improve it more alongside our pass accuracy before Monday’s game.

Not just a good defense... but a very good Goalkeeper...

Its Nnadozie that has been the savior of this team not the defense..

stop dis-respecting Nnadozie...

Deltamani:
She holds the ball way too long too, If she jam body with Ucheibe or Ayinde on several occasions body go tell her.. We just need to be way quicker on the Flanks too as Lucy Bronze tends to overlap a lot. Millie Bright gets erratic too especially when under a lot of pressure.. Maybe a 3-4-3 can work well against them

Nnadozie

Ohale —— Demehin —— Plumptre

Alozie —- Ucheibe —- Ayinde —- Payne

Ajibade —- Onumonu —— Kanu/Ordega

I will love to see Oshoala and Kanu or Monday for Onumonu and Kanu/Ordega at 60 Minutes depending on who and who starts...

Onyi Echegini is also an excellent player from the Flank, especially the Left side which she played for FSU through out last season.. Randy need to see to that.

Daninya33:
Lauren James is a technically gifted player but .........
She has a weakness that we can exploit.

The Super Falcons can win the game

for Super Falcons to win they have to keep the opposition players away from the box because if the opposition player like Lauren James or any other player falls down in the box then its a penalty.

Also England can score from outside the box through long range shots so the S.F have to close them down without tackling them Ayinde is very good at closing down a player without causing fouls only problem is she can lose possession or be fouled and the referee won't see it as a foul on Ayinde.

Front 3 of Ajibade Kanu and Monday/Onumonu
or
Front 3 of Ajibade Oshoala and Monday/Onumonu.

Onumonu does not have the pace to get through pass and out run defenders so she is better on the wings.

JohnBullMySon:
Make una end this narrative. It's becoming too petty. The time was even added before SA scored.

Whenever there's an injury or delay. The referee stops her watch. That's how FIFA decided things as recommended by the FIFA chief of referees Pierluigi Collina who wanted the entire 90 minutes of a game to be expended in active play. The new rule started during the World Cup in December.

Now you know why these things happen. Accusing FIFA of racism here is just silly. Please stop it.

Its not a narrative.. its the truth.

Oshoala was tackled and no card was given..
Ohale was stomped on and no card was given.
Ohale was kicked violently and directly at her chest and no card was given.
Penalty against South Africa was outside the box but they gave it as penalty without VAR review..
the referees are more harsh towards African and black players than towards European, Asia and whyte American players..

It is pure racism and there's nothing silly about it...

Please stop been a coon, a traitor and self hater...

elyte89:
Aw I wish d falcons too can move d ball very fast ,d way S A ladies does…deir transition make sense pass our own but I hate deir defense with passion

It requires repeated training..

Super Falcon players stand too far from each other to be able to move the ball fast.

It also requires repeated training in one - two passes, rondos. e.t.c.

I have only seen videos of Super Falcons jogging and exercising..

I have never ever seen videos of them passing among themselves or even doing rondos..

That S.A foul looked like it was outside the box but V.A.R didn't bother checking.

PDPGuy:
Hmmm

I won’t doubt that there is match-fixing at major tournaments because let’s think about this:

I’m a female footballer who, on average, earns $14k/year or a median of $20k/yr. Then someone offers me $80k (or more) to throw a match; to be honest, I would be tempted to take up that offer

you're correct...

the only thing giving me hope is the players seem to be playing well and Waldrum seems to have the passion to want to do well in the world cup.... Maybe he is using the Super Falcons as advertisement and stepping stone..

semid4lyfe:
Succinct.

Our ball possession and attacking transition isn't the best but we're strong & physical, defensively disciplined, hardworking, full of running and possess gas tank for days.

England has never met an ultra-defensive team like us before and will leave lots of holes for us to exploit.

please Super Falcons are not "strong" and "physical"... those are terms whyte people use to tag Africans as rough and aggressive especially commentators...

so when you a supposed African and Nigerian uses such terms you're admitting that Super Falcons are rough and aggressive which is one of the reasons Super Falcons will get a red card and also cause a penalty..

never ever use such terms again... you use skillful and intelligent which are words I have never ever heard commentators use to describe African players.

lovewins:
We'll all be alive and well by God's grace.

Waiting for the falcons to be humiliated the way many have since suggested. You'll all noticed I have consistently said we may lose, but to make it seem we'll be run over? Monday Is almost here

LordTheus:
The disrespect 💀😭😭.

This people no believe us at all. As far as they are concerned, this match is a foregone conclusion. They're probably discussing who England will face in the Quarter Finals and the likelihood of them lifting the trophy this year.

Can you imagine the meltdown in the Women Footballing universe if Nigeria won though? 😂

If Nigeria wins that match then I will know F:I:F:A is not corrupt..

England vs Senegal in the mens world cup saw Senegal keeping a high defensive line with their slow defenders means Senegal intentionally lost that match. If Super Falcons keep a high defensive line and allow lots of spaces then I will know Super Falcons have sold the match..

Even the Final Argentina vs France, France was keeping a high defensive line and it was very very obvious "the oga at the top" wanted Argentina to win then during half time break something must have been said to France that they were making it too obvious then France wanted to kill Argentina in the 2nd half and almost won the match if not for that one on one miss..

now imagine if France had played with the same energy in the 1st half... that's not ignoring the fact that Argentina got a penalty in every match.

England will get one or more penalties against the Super Falcons.. and Super Falcons will also have a player sent off with red card..

Angelfrost:
The actual and unspeakable shame is that a top oil-producing nation doesn't refine its own fuel...! That's a DISGRACE!

Yet the same nation has had Billions of Dollars worth of crude oil and resources diverted and misappropriated! We are talking money that can build a minimum of 2 world-class refineries... This nation should be making serious revenue from exporting fuel to the entire African continent and beyond.

The fuel is not for Nigeria..
the fact you don't know that there are 2 or more nations within Nigeria is another.
the known 2 distinctions are northern Nigerian and southern Nigeria.

Building a refinery was supposed to be the main job of Eastern Nigeria but they messed up and allowed b:ritain convinced them into starting a coup then starting a war while b:ritain made its own Petroleum company stronger by pressing the mumu buttons of eastern leaders by telling them their fellow Nigerians were their major obstacles and enemies.

If Eastern Nigeria didn't convince people in Edo and Delta to create "midwest region" maybe the Western Region would have built a refinery in either Delta or Edo.

Nigeria is not a nation. A nation means a group of people with the same culture, same language, same ethnicity...

lovewins:
Not sure Gift will start, but really hope Kanu doesn't. We need someone who can play with Alozie on the right and Gift did better, even though I felt she also had her own issue. There was one run Alozie made and she beat her man, and Kanu just stayed back looking. Not sure if anyone saw that but I was so furious. If Randy can drill gift to play improve significantly defensively and also to not hold in to the ball to much, I won't mind him starting her.

Curtisaxel10:
Gift jelled better with Alozie. I wouldn't mind her starting over Kanu. The other alternative is Ordega who at this point is worse than Kanu and Gift.

PDPGuy:
Yeah, I agree Gift doesn’t work as much defensively as Kanu. Aside from her goal and attempt vs Ireland that produced the save of the tournament, Kanu has been underwhelming at this WC.

If Oparanozie is fully fit, I wouldn’t mind if she starts on Monday, most especially if Waldrum goes with a 3-5-2. With that formation, Oparanozie would, among other things, be tasked with holding up the ball to bring in Ajibade/Alozie

Play a front 3 of Ajibade, Kanu , Monday..

Let Kanu play as the main striker, let Asisat come on as a super sub...

charlesemeka85:
yes but added to compete Abi u no sabi the meaning of compete?

Hoijlund is already a united player which makes him first

Orban coming in as second striker doesn’t imply he will play second fiddle to the Dane but to compete with him for a starter’s shirt

Later una go Dey form say na una sabi English pass

you don't understand English...

Anyways its not your first language.

Samueltemi337 is correct..

You said "second striker" and not he can be "one of the strikers". the fact that you said "second" automatically makes and means Gift Orban will be second fiddle to the dane...

don't group people using first, second e.t.c. next time... use words like "another striker" , "he will be an ideal striker" there's no need to add "second" because that means you're putting him below Rasmus Hoijlund.

you made the mistake not Samueltemi337..

Deltamani:
For making it through to the round of 16, each SuperFalcons player will now get $60 000 ($1.38m total)
The Federation @thenffofficial will receive $1.87m

The total of $3.25m will be paid to the NFF who will pay the players their share..!

I thought F:I:F:A is the one handling the payments