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aribisala0:
It is like this
Somebody let me say a Hausa man scores 390 in JAMB the highest in history Then several others score 379.378,377 etc and someone questions the whole exam but Hausa people get up and say is it because he is Hausa. The query is not just with the 390 but the unusual high scores in THE SAME exam. After investigation it is shown there was nothing wrong with the exam or marking.Fine!!

Does it mean those who questioned were wrong to question or that they did so because they hate Hausa?

What I saw was NOT JUST about Amusan

You can't compare academics to sports.

People who do well in academics are very consistent. So nobody will question a Hausa student getting 390 in JAMB because the student will also have high WAEC scores and be one of the top students in his/her school.

Tobi Amusan has been an elite athlete for years so her performance should not be questioned as long as the doping agencies haven't raised alarm and prevented her from competing.

xeju:
But Michael Johnson is black na

When it's the same race it's trib:alism but racism can also be used because Whoo:pi Gol:dberg came under fire for saying what happened to Jews wasn't as a result of racism.

aribisala0:
There is NO EVIDENCE of racism. Michael Johnson is very black
This statement is what smacks of low self esteem.

With racism you MUST have evidence otherwise you end up sounding foolish.

I do not see any hatred or racism at all. She ran a race and not only her but several of her competitors ran PERSONAL BESTS so there is nothing wrong in raising doubt. If anything raising doubt HELPS HER because after the scrutiny if her record is upheld then her position is stronger.

It is subtle racism.

When it's the same race it's trib:alism but racism can also be used because Whoo:pi Gol:dberg came under fire for saying what happened to Jews wasn't as a result of racism.

KosiGee:
There was no racism in the broadcast. I watched the race and I have it on record as well, I’ve watched that race many times since.

I didn’t see any indication of racist commentary, there were all blacks with the exception of Jessica Ennis. It’s silly to even mention racism here but there clearly was bias. They were doubtful of the timing when Amusan ran 12:12. Surprise, shock and disbelief captured their initial reaction. It wasn’t expected, however after the initial bleep about timing, they started to praise her but with some reservations.

Johnson looked at the race again and saw that Harrison, the former world champion with a personal best of 12:20 ran a good race but was given a good gap by Amusan.

I think the shock and doubt were as result of certain inconsistency in Amusan’s time. They expected a smooth transition from her 12:40 during the heat to maybe 12:35, 12:30, 12:28 etc….but Amusan transited from 12:40 to a surprising 12:12 hence the doubts about the time. If Kendra Harrison or Camacho Quin had ran 12:12, I don’t think a few eyebrows would’ve been raised because they have had some consistencies with the times and winnings. No one would expect Amusan to run at such pace…

Even in the finals, Amusan’s odd to win was 21/20. That would’ve made me some money. . I lost money on Camacho Quin. A bet on Amusan with a reasonable sum would’ve made anyone rich….I screen shot this days before the race.

When it's the same race it's trib:alism but racism can also be used because Whoo:pi Gol:dberg came under fire for saying what happened to Je:ws wasn't as a result of racism.

RepoMan007:
Stop playing the race card. Look at the argument of the doubters. How likely that so many runner were setting PBs(Personal Bests) and the winner broke the previous world best? Think and stop the blind race argument.

read the below quote..

Druss:
Some African Americans can't stand Africans. Michael is one of them.

Kibbs:
It is infact archaic and nepotic/favoritic. The best players should be selected for the national team and not in any order of home grown or foreign as you suggested. We clearly don’t have the infrastructure to churn out quality players from our local league, I don’t know if we used to but we clearly don’t right now.

Compare that to those who play in advanced countries and play in more competitive leagues where the standard is higher and quality is better. We are not a France or England who can comfortably pick their first XI from their league, we’re far far behind. Even France (men’s team) won the 2018 World Cup with the majority of players playing abroad.


If only you’d just put aside your sentiment and look at the bigger picture, the national team isn’t an audition stage for local players to know who is good enough or not. Get your thoughts right.

If we don't select home born players who are playing abroad then we will never ever have the infrastructure.

How many foreign born players have academies in Nigeria


I am not saying foreign born should not be chosen, I'm saying they shouldn't be 95% of team.

Home born players who are the best and are playing abroad should be selected while the best home born players who are playing in Nigeria should be tested and and given a chance.

The best foreign born players who want to play for Nigeria should be capped early.

mostob:
Cc codemaniacs

I have some questions for you.
1. How do you think Falcons would have performed without Plumptre, Alozie,The Payne sisters and other FBs in this tourney?

2. Suggest the home grown players that would have been called up in place of these FBs.

For you to ask this shows that our home grown talents are getting worse and if we continue to try to make the team consist of 95% foreign born players then it will get worse.

If SF picks players that are below 25 then I don't think we would have done badly cos it's the old players that are making the team look weak.


I am not saying foreign born should not be chosen, I'm saying they shouldn't be 95% of team.

Home born players who are the best and are playing abroad should be selected while the best home born players who are playing in Nigeria should be tested and and given a chance.

The best foreign born players who want to play for Nigeria should be capped early.

lovewins:
Selection should be the best Fulani/Hausa born and grown player first before picking best Yoruba and Ibo players.

I just repeated back what you said, only shifted the goal post a bit by adding more bigotry. Sometimes we don't know how ridiculous the things we say sound until we hear them said to us (in another way). The only advocacy should be us having the best players irrespective of where they are born, represent Nigeria. We should then make a better case for creating an enabling environment here in Nigeria to ensure the players based here can live up to their fullest potentials so they can compete favourably with anyone in the world. Simple.

If the Fula:ni or ha:usa players are the best in their position and are playing abroad then they should be picked.


I am not saying foreign born should not be chosen, I'm saying they shouldn't be 95% of team.

Home born players who are the best and are playing abroad should be selected while the best home born players who are playing in Nigeria should be tested and and given a chance.

The best foreign born players who want to play for Nigeria should be capped early.

Danielnino00:
LoL.. Imagine if you apply this rule to a sport like basketball..We would be at the bottom feeder in the sport..

In my opinion, what makes these foreign born players kind of superior to their home born counterparts is the fact that they have been exposed to advanced world class level of grooming in the sport.. They have world class facilities, proper coaching and the likes... It is the same with other sector of the country not just sport... Nigeria has the talents, we just don't have the infrastructure to develop the talents..That's why you see a lot of Nigerians doing well in developed countries where the system provide for them the technology they need... Look at people like Hakeem Olajuwon, Giannis Antetukoumpo, David Alaba, and the numerous athletes of Nigerian origin who have won laurels at the Olympics and world championship for other countries..

The truth is, until we get it right in terms of infrastructure development in sports, we will always need foreign born players in our national teams... And there's no point in segregating them .We need the best of them..... Home born or foreign born, merit should be the first criteria for selection...

I am not saying foreign born should not be chosen, I'm saying they shouldn't be 95% of team.

Home born players who are the best and are playing abroad should be selected while the best home born players who are playing in Nigeria should be tested and and given a chance.

The best foreign born players who want to play for Nigeria should be capped early.

lovewins:
So what exactly is your argument?

I don't think anybody will have a contrary opinion with you if you're arguing for merit based selection. That is, only the best players get to wear the green jersey. But to clamour for the inclusion of players primarily because of where they were born/grew up is rather archaic. No one is more Nigerian than the other. As long as they have the passport and have shown willingness to represent the country, then the only thing that should count is if they are good enough.

If you other argument is that players born outside Nigeria are better advantaged, then that's another conversation on its own. A player born out of Nigeria will likely get better visibility than the ones here and that isn't any fault of theirs. There are structures already in place to mitigate this. If we take our age group teams seriously and invest in and develop our league, then we are giving players plying their trade in Nigeria a platform to announce their selves. But for considerations to be about where a player is born is a slippery slope, you can start it but cannot finish it. If we start making decisions like that, then others can argue that the team should be representative of all the tribes in Nigeria. We then go into a ditch we can't come out for.

Selection should simply be merit based. QED

Selection should be the best Nigerian born and grown players first before picking best foreign born players.

The best foreign born players will get capped by their countries. So most times, Nigeria doesn't get the best foreign players, Nigeria gets average foreign born Nigerians.

It is not archaic..

isan:
I guess you're not a Nigerian if you are not born in Nigeria

Nigeria is a mere geographic location named by the bri:Tish.

In reality, there are no Nigerians.

There different African ethnic nations...

isan:
What john is saying is every player should be getting equal chance whether you are born in Nigeria or elsewhere the best player should play

Stop putting words in his mouth

He is talking about insecure, intimidation and inferiority complex. He is not talking about the players.

The best homegrown and home born players should play with few ( 4 - 6) foreign born players.

England Holland Belgium e.t.c. have black people born there but you won't see black women in their national teams like you'll see in the French team because they put their own people first.

It is pure foolishness for somr Nigerians to attack other Nigerians who want to see the best home born Nigerians in the national team.

There is nothing like equal chance anywhere.

JohnBullMySon:
NFF should stop appointing assistant coaches for coaches. Most local Nigerians I've seen are always insecure around foriegners, before you know it, they begin to feel like they're being intimidated. But, most of the time, they're wrong. Something similar has started brewing in the SE with Peseiro and finindi I heard.

Secondly, no one is obsessed with foriegn born players. Only Plumptre, Onumonu and Payne where starters, and they had a decent performance. The remaining eight players were born in Nigeria mostly.

I'm not in favor of pursuing players who aren't intrested in playing for Nigeria, but let's stop the fixation on where somebody was born over twenty years ago or how she speaks or acts. None of these matter in football. As long as they want to play and they've got a passport, that's all. All foreign based players are the same. No matter where they're born. Any other demarcation inside that is def coming from inferiority complex.

All of it matters in everything not just football....

Its about preventing the sidelining or obstruction of home born Nigerians from opportunities within their own country...

In most African countries, the richest people are foreigners or foreigners who have citizenship of that country..

It is attitude you call "insecure" , "feeling intimidated" , "Any other demarcation inside that is def coming from inferiority complex" that has prevented such from happening in Nigeria..

Assistants are there to learn from them and to remind them that its NFF that's in control...

GeneralDae:
We need an attacking midfielder who is better than Okobi.
Okobi wasn't outright bad in this tournament though, she was way above Chikwelu.

It's not about been above another player it's about the result on the scoreboard.

isan:
Sebastian is a winger, she doesn't have the frame to play as the striker

Sebastian is a goal scoring winger and SF needs goal scorers.

SF needs goal scoring forwards.
SF needs goal scoring midfielders.
SF needs goal scoring defenders.

The weird thing is the Men's also needs the same.

lovewins:
I think we have the most problem right now in the middle. We do not have an "attack" problem per se, we just do not have those in the middle who gives us the best advantage moving forward. Onumonu sadly had been the biggest victim as she's had to deal with playing out of position, having to drop too deep to get the balls for the most part and that's why most persons don't fancy her.

If we can sort out the challenge we have in the middle, we'll be a lot better.

The problem is finishing and defense.

Oshoala, Ajibade, Onumonu or Kanu would have finished at least 1 of the chances Gift Monday was missing.

In defense, the person playing RB didn't close down the winger and the other person playing RW ( I think it was Ordega) didn't track back to help the RB the way Ajibade was always tracking back and defending that wing.

Against Morocco it was the LW that didn't help the LB and the LB ( Ebi ) was too slow to defend against that player.

Then the GoalKeeper made errors against Morocco and Zambia so I think another young Keeper needs to be tested.

In summary,
SF need fast FullBacks on both wings who close down wingers without tackling them in order to prevent red cards.

SF needs another young keeper to keep Nnadozie on her toes.

SF needs to practice outside shots.

SF needs only Kanu, Oshoala, Onumonu to play as CF. Gift Monday finishing is poor hopefully she improves her finishing as she grows older.

solonnachi:
We were never ready for this competition. We only got into the game when we lost to South Africa. So without Ajibade, Oshoala, Ayinde no creativity. Randy must go

There was creativity.

There was no finishing..

Gift Monday should be playing as a winger..

Oshoala, Kanu, Onumonu should be the ones playing as Striker when they are in the team

Deltamani:
I won’t bother blaming any of the players, Randy is a Failure

If Randy is a failure then what is pinnick

WatchYourSix:
You posted a claim and then told me to go and look for it...??.okay..thanks

because I watched it on National Geographic...

WatchYourSix:
Lol....one person in an ient egypt....where is the document evidence and test of the sickle cell disease in ancient Egypt..??

go and google "p:haroah w:ith si:ckle c:ell"...

WatchYourSix:
There is a theory that a malaria vaccine was initially created and tested years ago when malaria first became a problem in the world.

....it is belived to have been the cause of mutation that caused the development of the genetic disorder called the sickle cell anaemia.

that theory is a lie...

According to research, one of the Pharoahs of Egypt had Sickle Cell.

GeneralDae:
I'll remove Vivian Ikechuckwu for Okoronkwo.

is Okoronkwo injured

was she part of the team?

JohnBullMySon:
I think Oparanozie and Onumonu should remain our strikers for the World Cup. They both can make good attempts at goal. They just need to be fed with the ball.

I think we another CB too. Ebi has lost so much speed and gets outrun easily. She shouldn't be playing full time going forward.

Onumonu yes, Oparanozie no..

Football especially female football is getting faster, so we need fast players... the strikers/forwards should be "fit and injury free" Oshoala they should not invite any player that hasn't fully recovered from their injury or any player that does not press should stay on the bench.

"fit" Oshoala
Kanu
Ajibade
Ordega
Vivian Ikechukwu
Florish Sebastien
Gift Monday
"fit" Onumonu

both SE and SF need to train on how they mark and tackle players, they should not be getting red cards , at worst they should hold the player's shirt or the player or pull the player back or at worst pull the player the way Chie:llini pulled Saka.

phemmyfour:
Honestly, starting her ahead of Monday gift shows that the coach is incompetent

You guys are forgetting the coach is from the U.S and therefore has preference for the U.S based or born players.

Onumonu herself should have fallen to the ground and signalled to be substituted since it was obvious she was tired.

If you're the coach and your daughter is playing will you sub her off even when she's tired

mostob:
Bro... Pulling out Kanu was a wrong move. Onumomu should have come out for Gift. Anyway, we move...

Pidginwhisper:
I said this before,very wrong move. I bet we could’ve scored with the Combo of Kanu and Monday with Onumonu taken of. But yet we move. But how do we progress if we have Moroccan in charge of VAR?. From the moment tbe first red was given, I knew it’s going to get worse

You guys are forgetting the coach is from the U.S and therefore has preference for the U.S based or born players.

Onumonu herself should have fallen to the ground and signalled to be substituted since it was obvious she was tired.

If you're the coach and your daughter is playing will you sub her off even when she's tired

Babinski:
Why are people comfortable assasinating the character of a man without facts? Even if Tinubu is no saint, lieing aganist him makes you worse.

Osun State internally generated revenue (IGR) witnessed the highest growth of 131% in 2019 after Oyetola took over in 2018. The IGR in first half of 2018 was N4.7 billion while in first half of 2019 it was N10.2 billion. That is clearly contrary to Adeleke's claims that money was being taken to Lagos!!!

Osun State in 2018 generated IGR of N13.8 billion; N17.7 billion in 2019 and N19.6 billion in 2020 despite COVID-19 that affected the economy of the nation. There is clear increment year on year. Please talk with facts and not baseless sentiments.

https://nairametrics.com/2019/10/11/states-igr-hits-n691-11-billion-as-zamfara-others-recorded-biggest-growth/?amp=1

https://dailypost.ng/2021/09/22/osun-igr-increases-to-n19-6-billion/?amp=1

Kagd10:
What did I tell you?

Osun residents made a big miscalculation voting for this illiterate.

I mean you've not even got into office or sworn in to know what's really happening, you're already saying trash about what you don't know about. Why would Lagos be taking money from Osun? I know he was making a guess but he was foolish.

If there's anything, blame Osun government. Lagos has nothing to do with it.

hush15:
For someone who has been scheming the president for awhile now, who says it is not possible. Afterall, since he became an aspirant, this very man has deployed billions and billions upon naira to assert his candidature. Yes, they said he has not been on any government position in awhile but what private business has he also engaged in that will warrant him spending so aggressively? I pray Lagos deliver itself from this thief and greedy being.

plantist:
Ode how much does Osun State generate to think their limited revenue would be shipped to Lagos State? Some of your think with your anus

JAMO84:
Ok, Now he's the governor, let him expose Tinubu by providing the evidence and have him prosecuted.


All these una useless propaganda on one man, because of hatred and bitterness.

He is referring to A:lpha Be:ta.

If O:sun makes ₦250b a year and A:lpha Be:ta percent is lets say 10% of ₦250B then that's ₦25B for that year from Osun only. That's over $58M per year from Osun.

Then add other states in SW or even Nigeria that use them and do the maths.

Lag:os according to the data they make public makes over ₦1.6T yearly.

10% of ₦1.6T is ₦160B which is over $370M yearly..

Note this is from States in SW alone not including other private companies he owns..

This is just my opinion.

AkinDS:
So, its the Bronze match and 1st WC game

Are you sure its only 2 games they will miss and not 3, bronze match and 2 WC games??

AkinDS:
CAFs ban will be honored by FIFA at the WC. So, its the Bronze match and 1st WC game they will miss - unless CAF has a few qualifiers for the next WAFCON, Olympics or any other competition, then they will miss a match in there.
Nothing spoil.

okay..

PDPGuy:
He actually missed two games - the WC qualifiers vs Ghana.

You may be right - Ayinde and Ajibade’s straight reds would rule them out of the bronze medal match and the 1st WC game. Damn!

I think its mainly CAF competitions they will miss, like 3 qualifying matches or next WAFCON 2 group matches..

iwobi will miss at least one more nations cup qualifier.

PDPGuy:
Nah. For the AWCON and most other international competitions, it’s a one-match ban (provided the player wasn’t carrying 2 yellows prior to the straight red)

Iwobi missed 3 matches for his AFCON tackle

PDPGuy:
Just watched the game highlights and I must say I have massive kudos to the SF for a valiant effort, despite all the odds stacked against them…

Thankfully, both Ayinde and Ajibade will be available for the 1st World Cup game because they will serve out their suspensions in the bronze medal game.

A straight red means 3 match ban or have they changed it

solonnachi:
Supersports has been so annoying, biased and sentimental in this championship. They made it clear that they didn't want Nigeria to reach the final especially that South African former captain. They shouldn't worry, Morocco will roast them in the final. Africa has a long way to go!

It's not an African thing.

It's a global thing.

When it comes to sports the Nigerian administrators need to learn to select the best and teach them finish off teams and always be calm.