₦airaland Forum

ehie: “Some people insist that 'mediocre' is better than 'best.'
They delight in clipping wings because they themselves can't fly.
They despise brains because they have none.”
― Robert A. Heinlein

A critic is a man created to praise greater men than himself, but he is never able to find them.”
― Richard Le Gallienne

When we make a mockery of another's efforts, it is often because we lack the courage to make such efforts.”
― Brandon A. Trean

You are right bro. Thumbs up for you.

Some folks in ma family have been making life hell for me just because I want to pursue my dream by being self employed ... my fiance too is not helping matters. But I will follow my dream, no matter what.

today's empire were yesterday's idea and dream

babyosisi: Yes and it is free
It is for a 2 mile radius of coverage
And a facelift for their slums for upcoming Olympics

In Nigeria these things if they ever take off will eventually fall off the skies and kill folks in it and below it because there is no maintenance culture
People will be stuck and suspended in the air

Bad bad idea for Nigeria

What happened to the rail system?
Speed rail

Has that ever happened in Brazil that you quoted initially?

Why not give this a chance too? Or do you think the project manager wouldn't be working on the concerns you raised?

If it can work in Brazil, it will work in Lagos.

Well, it may not work in Nigeria

It is not as if one is not wishing them well or not to win but the point is comparing the games both teams have played so far in this tournament, you can't but predict that the elephants will carry the day.

Noob Saibot: Lol
Funny man. He already knows the outcome of all these brouhaha.
Sleep on Mr. Facrook.

Exactly!

There is this Yoruba adage that says "orun ni waju adajo". Meaning you dare not sleep in front of the judge. but the reverse is the case this days in nigeria. this people already know the outcome, so they don't "give a damn" A la GEJ.

kaeto: YEEPS! HURTS YOUR FEELINGS, YOU HELPLESS, YOU DAFT AND INANE AT RECKONING PROPERLY. MAYBE YOU EVEN LIVE IN ONE ANCIENT SHRINE IN IJEBUODE WHERE YOU DON'T HAVE ACCESS TO SH.IT, YOU SILLY BELL-END. SO SINCE 1960, THE IGR OF LAGOS HAS BEEN N23B? NO CHANGES, STOP USING GOOGLE YOU FOOL, GO GET THE FACTS, YOU SHOULD BE GRATEFUL I'M DE MUCUSING YOUR FAT CLOGGED BRAIN. AND I REPEAT, THAT LAGOS STATE'S IGR IS N48B, AND FG ALLOCATION OF AT LEAST N14B MONTHLY. SO YOU AND EKOILE ARE THE BIGGEST FASHOLA ZOMBIES, WHO GOES ABOUT SNIFFING HIS ANUS AND NOTHING MORE. BLING BATS WHO DOESN'T KNOW THAT LAGOS PORT IS NOT THE ONLY SEA PORT IN NIGERIA, AND IF PERADVENTURE THE COUNTRY SPLITS, THAT PORT WILL BE WEAKENED AS IT WILL SERVICE ONLY THE WEST, I DON'T UNDERSTAND WHAT IS REALLY WRONG WITH YOU DOLTS, I DON'T WANT TO GET INVOLVED IN THIS NL YORUBA STUPIDITY, BLIND FOOLS.

Can you see that you are a bunch of lies? Instead of you to simply respond to just four lines of fact, based on calculation, you resulted to name calling and gutter language. Does that not say it all, I mean the type of person you are and your intentions? You must surely be from somewhwere in Otueke

kaeto: LAGOS STATE IGR IS WELL OVER N40 BILLION MONTHLY, THE FG ALLOCATION TOO QUITE MASSIVE YET LAGOS STATE CANNOT CONSTRUCT EVEN A LOCAL 2 FEET GUTTER WITHOUT BORROWING FROM CHINESE BANKS, TODAY LAGOS STANDS OUT AS THE MOST INDEBTED STATE AND I WONDER WHAT, WHAT AND WHAT HAS BEEN DONE AS COMPLETED PROJECTS UNDER FASHOLA'S WATCH. I MEAN HERE AND I KNOW HIS SUPPORTERS UNDERSTANDS ME VERY WELL, THAT FASHOLA IS NOT ACCOUNTABLE IN ANY WAY. [s]HE COLLECTS FRIVOLOS TASKS FROM POOR CITIZENS[/s], RESTRICTING THEIR MOVEMENT WITH HEAVY DUTIES EVEN WHEN MONIES HAVE BEEN SUCCESSFULLY BORROWED WITHOUT ANY EFFORT MADE TO PAY UP. THE QUESTION IS, THE OVER N60 BILLION HIS STATE GETS MONTHLY WHAT HAPPENS TO IT? HOW ARE THE FUNDS LAVISHED? HIS BUY OVERS WILL SAY LAGOS IS THE MOST POPULATED STATE AND NEEDS MUCH FUNDING, HOW IS THIS LIE TRUE? NO STATE GOVT. BUILDS DIFFERENT ROAD FOR DIFFERENT PEOPLE, HE DOESN'T FEED THE 20 MILLION CITIZENS IN HIS STATE,THEIR SOURCE OF ELECTRICITY IS PHCN THE FG PARASTATAL, THESE NUMEROUS PEOPLE HOUSE THEMSELVES, CLOTH THEMSELVES AND PAY VIRTUALLY FOR EVERY SERVICES THEY GET IN THE STATE. LAGOS STATE SCHOOL FEES ARE THE MOST EXPENSIVE WITH AN INFAMOUS INCREMENT OF 1000% FROM N25K TO N250K. THIS MAN HAS WAGED AN OPRESSIVE WAS AGAINST POOR OKADA RIDERS IN HIS STATE, LAWFULLY STEALING OVER 30 THOUSAND BIKES AND UNLAWFULLY SELLING THEM TO FARMERS IN OGUN AND SOME IN THE NORTHERN STATES. FASHOLA SHOULD FIRST CHRONICLE A WELL DETAILED ACCOUNT OF HIS NUMEROUS DUBIOUS ACTIVITIES, EXTORTIONS, INTERNATIONAL DEBT FRAUDS, VICTIMISATION OF THE POOR AND NON YORUBAS IN HIS STATE, ENSTRANGED GRUESOME LASTMA MURDERS, DECEPTIVE UTTERANCES, THEN HAVE GENUINE REPENTANCE AND MAKE RESTITUTION TO THE POOR HE HAS OPPRESSED AND KEPT PRISONERS ALL THE WHILE HE SERVED AS GOVENOR, THEN HE CAN HAVE PEACE IN RETIREMENT, ELSE GOD'S WRATH WILL OVERTAKE HIS HYPOCRISY AS HE GOES ABOUT RUNNING HIS WIDE TONGUE. STINKING LIAR.

Bros, why are you peddling falsehood in the name of making comments. Why not point to facts about all the things you mentioned above. Do you know that some people will take you serious?

Davluck: Mikel will play,he has been cleared, just 1 yellow card 4 him, only Ogude will miss the match...C d link below

http://www.goal.com/en-ng/news/4687/2013-africa-cup-of-nations/2013/01/31/3716539/mikel-cleared-by-caf-to-play-against-cote-divoire?source=breakingnews&ICID=HP_BN_13

Thank you jare. So, who be all this idiot wey dey carry this fake news? awon ode!

TheWatch: Goal posts falling over I don't know but for me this is a first and I have watched a lot of international matches in my time.

In USA '94, the goal post fell off. May be you were not old enough to know what was going on then in international football like you claimed. I think it was a mathc that involved Bulgaria and one other country.

pek: Anyone who believed that story either doesnt know anything about football or is not living in the modern times. 1. When a referee is sent home from a competition for any reason, the official website for the competition is the first to break the news. When i heard the news, I went to CAF website but nothing of such. Same with BBC. 2. CAF president cannot make the decision to send any referee home. It is not his place. It is the referees' committee that can do that. 3. CAF and FIFA does not have dealings with sports ministers. It is the country's FA. 4. The referee's performance was not bad, he only got a call wrong. It was down to human error and nothing else.

You make sense. You are the John Mastourodes of our time.

uboma: can anyone confirm the op's post. Source of information pls

"It was reported that..." So, don't take it serious. By the way, on a blog post ...? I can't believe that!

executinal: Mehn everybody fasting and praying.
Mikel is even out due to yellow card

No, that's not correct. Mikel is playing.

Braincheck: Why all these Muslim posts on frontpage And today is not even friday (juma'a) or r u planin a Jihad on NL
The mod better do a braincheck.. This should be the 2nd and Last. Wait till tomorrow.

Do you have problem with people sharing their knowledge and opinion on open source? Do you go to bible study class only on sundays?

gratiaeo: CAN is also reckless in their comment here, no wonder catholic decide to pull out of CAN, they would have apply the best tactics hence they know that silent is the best answer 4 a fool

Let's be honest with ourselves here, it takes a very courageous person to make a mistake, realize it and apologize. El rufai, i'm made to understand, has apologize about this matter. As a matter of fact, it was a retweet, and he said he didn't mean it the way people are carrying it about. what else do we want him to do?

AS the University of Lagos (UNILAG) prepares for its Golden Jubilee convocation, the Vice Chancellor of the institution, Professor Rahaman Bello, has said “all certificates will bear the name University of Lagos,” adding that the graduates would receive UNILAG certificate.

“I have it in authority in black and white from the Federal Ministry of Education that until an amendment in the act of establishing a university is done, the name change cannot be effected,” the vice chancellor said.

While addressing a world media conference to kick start the convocation ceremony on Monday, Professor Bello said “as far as we are concerned today, we are UNILAG and we will hopefully remain so.”

The VC added that President Goodluck Jonathan had said he would allow the law to take its course, noting that the National Assembly was in support of the university regarding the name change issue.

Regarding the rumours surrounding the postponement of the convocation date and pre-convocation press conference, Bello said the convocation dates in the newspapers was never announced by UNILAG, adding that the only date ever officially announced by the university was February 6, 7 and 8.

He, however added that the institution did not meet up with the minimum of eight weeks’ notice required to give the visitor, President Jonathan, to the convocation.

The vice chancellor also said the institution would be graduating 91 first class students.

According to him, the three best graduating students and best doctoral candidate were women.

“A total of 6,932 students will be graduating during the upcoming convocation,” Bello said.

Source: http://primenewsnigeria.com/our-graduates-to-receive-unilag-certificate-vc/

boss-man:
What a dumb explanation from the naval authority. We can cook up stories to defend anything. Gosh!

This is exactly what happened to me last Friday. The Guy cooked up the story at the police station, I couldn't believe my ears. Now, I have learnt my lessons: learn to cook stories rather than fighting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BovGitSokvU

we have blown this referee thing out of proportion. wetin, na only us? now, keshi and his boys have been given a ready made excuse of why they go beyond the first round

majour: dude i dont knw abt ur area o, but here in ILORIN, airtel is still the best, infact my 3.5G is standard, e no dy shake

Guy, see as your battery level full

jude33084: They committed their foul inside their own box, ours was outside. I didnt say it wasnt a foul but it was done just outside the box. Why turning a foul into a penalty?

Are you saying ours was a deserved penalty kick (pk)? because i didn't watch it. your argument can only be rife if our own pk was worth it

shymexx: Bwahahahahaha - Nigeria is a joke!!!

You took a rubbish team and a clueless coach to the competition, yet you want to blame the referees, no?? The officiating has been rubbish, no doubt - however, you can't blame no one for your mediocrity...

Just imagine a Nigerian team with the two bulls(Emenike and Anichebe) upfront, Victor Moses and Odemwingie on the wings, Obafemi Martins on the bench, Joel Obi playing alongside Mikel Obi in the midfield, Taye Taiwo at left back, and the young Chelsea lad on loan to a Dutch Eredivisie team at the back.. That's the team!!

However, you took strong-faced and heavy uncles to the tournament, yet you want good results smh...

Your team is rubbish, end of story!!

Everybody is Nigeria is a coach

jude33084: So in your school of thought even the foul was not commited inside the box it, penalty should be given to compensate Zambia? Haba!

No, not my school of thought. It is something I have been observing for long in the game of football. Referees always find a way of compensating for their earlier errors, provided it wasn't intentional. Recall I said our own PK too was not a good call according to the friend who watched it.

Okiki Oluwa: Yes, the penarity against Zambia was not a penalty

DSTV service was epileptic like NEPA during the proceedings of the game. I can say I only watched about 45% of the playing time. Most worrisome is that I have not seen that issue being brought up on this forum. This makes me to conclude that may be it was my decoder that has the problem after-all. So, I didn't see what led to our own penalty kick which mikel lost. However, a friend who watched what led to our own PK confirmed to me that our own PK too does not deserve being given. i could remember telling a friend before the end of the match (even before I heard from my friend) that if our penalty was questionable, the referee is going to compensate Zambia too, and this I think was what happened. The call may not have actually been a PK but we were both given the chances (in error though) and while one took his own, the other lost his.

babyosisi: International airport in Bauchi
For who and who?
The one in Kano has been reduced to Hajj airport
A state that had 4 students clear 5 credits in WAEC thinks an international airport is their immediate concern?

Misplaced priority

crackhaus: OBADIAH777, I beg to differ on this your opinion. During that period(50's and 60's), Nigeria as a geographical entity commanded a ton of respect from international on-lookers and I guess this is the reason why Tafawa Balewa got such a welcome. Nigerians were never considered as less in the eyes of America until it became clear to them that we as a nation could no longer fend for its citizens even while the political elite lived in extravagance. Most, if not all, of Nigerians who travelled to the west in the 50's & 60's were learned men & women who sought to enrish their knowledge unlike today where majority of nigerians only seek greener pastures in the US so they can come back home to show-off the new car/house they acquired washing the white man's dishes.
I mean, check out you tube videos where journalists interview nigerian head of states from Babaginda to Obasanjo to Jonathan and then we can notice the condescending tone with which they interview Nigerian figures.
The question now is, was it always so? Absolutely not. Our leaders are responsible for degrading and belittling our soverignty and it will remain so for as long as things remain as they are in our country. I can't imaginge Isha sesay or Amanpour interviewing Obama or Cameron or even that north Korean guy the way they did Jonathan, its so phucking demoralizing at the least.

At the boldened. Honestly, you are the first person that will be making reference to that part of the video. I was wondering too that can any of these leaders you mentioned above be interviewed in such manner CNN interviewed our own GEJ? You can't imagine that was a president being interviewed. President of the FRN for that matter. I despise that, you know

hiltop!:
One's word is one's mirror, I don't expect fragrance from sewerage. Your abominable ancestors had been ac-curs-ed with prejudices. Can't you people, for once, look at an issue without a jaundiced view?. Let your Dr. GEJ undertake such a trip with the same coverage and see how is going to perform. Oloriburuku omo.

lanreni: it also has voice/cruise control options.it can also fuction like a satellite in space and it is built to keep the president safe at all times,even against satellite tracking. it isn't for sale,custom-made for usa.there's a great danger in using a hi-tech gizmo you can't build,maintain,control or service locally.security can be compromised and assasination bcomes very easy.

i though it is also always being escorted by four fighter jets where ever it goes. i saw fighter jets escorting it when clinton came visiting to nigeria

Coefficient: You don't have to meet him before you realize his senselessness. A sensible fellow wouldn't quote that whole article to give a line of f00lish opinion.

If only the idiot know how long one have to scroll before getting out of his foolish post to the next one

Coefficient: You are as senseless as your post. To think that you quoted the whole essay to write your f00lish opinion is beyond comprehension.

I can't stop laughing. that guy is funny, and imagine what he posted!

Adura_ngba: I know its not true because I have done that before.

Ashewo

Lloyd~Iy:
He gave the pass to Eminike for the goal, we can say he made amends.

...and how many time has xavi or iniesta 'gave pass' to messi, and yet they have never won the world best? stop that crap. though, mikel can not be blamed for the miss

pedestal82: Keshi shld shut the F up, he placed us in this situation by his selection dicisions from the start of this tournament. Why do I say so ? Our defence! Efe Ambrose is a Central defender, he played him as a 2, that was how he got a red card, Yobo was supposed to be on the bench, efe pairing up with oboabuna, and omeruo playing the right back position. This sentimental selection, in the first match spilled into the second match because that's the reason why Onazi had to come and play, the right back position, with Efe serving the match ban. Onazi out of position gives away a penalty, wrong decision or not. Keshi is to be blamed! In the first game, if he must play yobo, then omerue shld have played his natural right back position, and efe ambrose on the bench.

So, what's the NFF (abi na NFA) waiting for, why not hire this guy to be Keshi's assistant? Guy, you be real super eagles fan, with the way you are reeling out their names and positions, it seems you know them very well. Walahi, I no know pass mikel, yobo and enyeanma ... who else?

ogugua88: [size=13pt]He took a terrible penalty but ended up being one of the best players on the field tonight. He set up Emenike for his goal.[/size]

People talk as if setting up someone for a goal is something out of this world. If he plays in the heart of the team, the central mildfield, what else would have been his job if not to set up his strikers for goal. do you know how many times xavi and iniesta have set up messi for goals, why haven't they won the world best? that line you are quoting is becoming irritating.