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[quote author=aloy@emeka link=topic=801539.msg9535501#msg9535501 date=1321062448]As in, how happily do you think Nigerian men spend on their women?. Or are they always  thrifty and sometimes stingy when it comes to giving their women money no matter how much they make?. How many Nigerian chics here can comfortably boast that their Nigerian man spoils then sillly with cash and expensive gifts?.I don't mean sugar daddies o.[/quote]nigerian men are not cheap.
they can only give out of what they make. so a girl dating a student and expecting that student to buy apple i-pad for her is a lunatic.

freecocoa:
Na wa you o,me na celeb na,can't publicize that,meet baddy,she go know how to get am across to you.

celeb?
jennifer aniston?

freecocoa:
Guy if I show meself here,that means you want all the guys to start drooling at me,I can't put ma pix here abeg.

what's your yahoo-id?
we can take it up from there. . . .

freecocoa:
I don't care about money alone,your looks matter too,you must not be fat o,trust me I dey hot,baddy can attest to that,so show yourself first.

i don't like to brag. . . . .but if you see me, you wont talk to any male again on this forum.
that said, ladies first.

show yourself!

freecocoa:
Baddest run package,I don show,coogar,I'm hot o,if you wan to see pix be ready to spend o.

lemme see you.
forget the spending. you will spend so much efcc will arrest you for money laundering.

denzel2009:
coogar,   . . . slimyem or opus?

opus of course!
nairaland's number one queen.

Idowuogbo:
ciao lepayemi

cougar i dey perboil d cocoa , u sure u ready to yam now

bring cocoa, let me pound her like yam.

slimyem:
drop yours.will be ready when you are ready.

goodnight!

Idowuogbo:
Cougar u are very nauurie

Hmmmm yemi they said you fronting , u better talk if u need d koko b4 i put asunder

I dont no y dis gal like doing yanga sef , omo send your digits give bros joor

badosky, send fresh-cocoa in!

quest55:
Your boss knows your spouse's favorite foods, drinks, relaxn spots, films, and colors. After the last company excursion your boss knows the favorite underwears and now your boss claim to know on what day they are worn!
Will you ignore?![color=#990000][/color]

there's a camera in your spouse's bedroom.
have the room scanned

AjanleKoko:
Oh, I know. Just finished discussing with your doctors

and they would tell you they have been bothered about a nigerian possessing the same brain cells that made albert einstein great!
i have your history too - should i reveal?

AjanleKoko:


That one touch you abi.

child's play.
check ma history!

AjanleKoko:
Basket mouth don start to leak again oooo

we all know you are dumb by default so i can understand your lack of self-confidence when the issue of intelligence is being discussed.

BlueDiva:
*yawns*

This line is over flogged.

Lucky in Inter and now in Madrid?
A good manager is a good manager.

Lord knows how long it took Mancini to win anything with all the billions spent.
I've lost count of how many managers Madrid sacked after bringing in all the galacticos with nothing to show for it.

you really don't know your football, do you?

Cougar,
If AVB was the manager of City right now, are you certain he will win the league?

with dzeko, balotelli, aguero
silva, toure, barry, milner, etc?

he would have notched 33 points out of 11 games.

Idowuogbo:
hehehe naurrie boi , is dat wot i meant come on behave

lepayemi is longg , she will only send it wen your privates start growing grey hair

slimyem is just fronting. you don't expect her to just drop am like that na.
i am not a naughty boy. that's my own interpretation of what you typed.

AjanleKoko:
Leave story abeg.
Nigerians are not smart at all. Just loudmouths, period.

nigerians are extremely smart!
they tend to be braggarts too but blimey. . . . .an average nigerian is a brain-box.

someone said but they should be smart in a positive way. if everything is working right, definitely the smartness would have been channelled positively but as it is now, it's all about survival!

have you seen those hausa beggars that beg in pristine english language?
they have never been to a formal school all their lives. they had to learn to speak that way to curb their hunger.

abeg, nigerians are ultra-smart!
underestimate a nigerian at your own peril!

slimyem:
sheesh!

slimyem, drop your addy.
last chance saloon

Idowuogbo:
yes i do but she go kill me if i post am here , tell d bouncers to open d vip door so u can come through d back  

i think ana[i]l[/i] s[i]e[/i]x is perverse!
let me come through the front.

Orikinla:
Hello My Dear

My name is Miss barika mohammed,a tall good looking young girl,so lovely and caring with good understanding, fair in complexion, care with good sharing,honesty.I saw your profile here www.nairaland.com which interested me much and i decided to contact you.I really want to have a good friendship with you even if you have married we can be friends,i have a reason of selecting you as my friend,please if you wish to know more.Please contact me through this my e-mail address (barikamohammed52@yahoo.com)   We need to talk and know your self more and equally share pictures to each other.hope to hear from you.

Please reply me with my e-mail address here (barikamohammed52@yahoo.com)
Yours New Friend

Miss barika,
Thanksyou.

mr cork must have sent this one
the nonsense peckham boy!

Idowuogbo:
cougar abeg face new market na , its all about freecocoa forget long tingssssss

freecocoa is faceless too.
or do you have her picture?

BlueDiva:
I love this statement.
Personally, i think AVB should aim for only the FA cup this season.

Forget what he did at Porto, AVB is still a rookie manager.
This ain't Porto, this is England where old horses like Fergie rule.

AVB should study the turf and know exactly what managing an English club entails.
Only geniuses like JM can come in the first season and take Fergie to the cleaners.

BTW, i think AVB will become one of the greats with time.
I hope RA will have some patience this time around.

jose mourinho was lucky.
he was given the time and cash to build his own squad at a time roman abramovic was happy to spend loads of money.
besides, the quality of the rivals then was mehhhhhhh! united had djemba-djemba, richardson, caroll, silvestre and other quacks in their midfield.

these days, villas-boas is dealing with man city(with possibly the strongest squad in europe), man utd(won 4/5 last league titles) and other teams have stepped up - tottenham, arsenal, liverpool, etc.
if jose comes back to manage chelsea, there's no guarantee he would win the league for the next 5 yrs.

BlueDiva:
I love this statement.
Personally, i think AVB should aim for only the FA cup this season.

Forget what he did at Porto, AVB is still a rookie manager.
This ain't Porto, this is England where old horses like Fergie rule.

AVB should study the turf and know exactly what managing an English club entails.
Only geniuses like JM can come in the first season and take Fergie to the cleaners.

BTW, i think AVB will become one of the greats with time.
I hope RA will have some patience this time around.

this was how i saw his signing way back in june!

coogar:
i am willing to bet he won't survive a season in the premier league. villas-boas is an excellent manager but asking him to swim with the sharks in the premier league at this stage is premature. he won't succeed like mourinho because of one single fact - mourinho was given the resources to revamp the squad in the way he wanted. what is villa-boas going to do to the cache of old armoury already in chelsea? sell them and get new ones or he'll just continue to walk with the old dogs?

then there's the issue of the media pressure attached to managing a club like chelsea. . . .the role was bread and butter for jose mourinho. it was something he craved even before coming to england. is villas-boas that kind of man? will he act normal when skysports journalists stick their mics in his face after a bad loss? will he cope or sink under pressure like scolari did? these are the issues. chelsea will ruin this charismatic excellent manager cos if he fails to succeed, his stock will sink and it will be damn too unfortunate.

ritchboy:
Romario, Raul etc are obviously a million times better than Hernandez technically AS WELL AS being capable of poaching.

Hernandez' all round game is so poor it can make a grown man weep.

Technique - 0
Passing - 0
Dribbling - 0
First Touch - 0
Football Brain - 0
etc etc etc

i agree but he's better than all arsenal strikers cloned together.

[quote author=Okija_juju link=topic=798888.msg9529558#msg9529558 date=1321007888]And Yes sir!! I still do not understand how you would value a house built with wood over a house built with bricks?! Abi arent most of the houses abroad built with wood?! From you council houses in the U.K to the Condos in Canada. Or how someone would say property value in Nigeria depreciates with time and all that other stuff Coogar said. That was how I decided to attack that point so how does that make me naive. If them leave una, you would paint Nigeria to look like the set of the movie "the gods must be crazy".[/quote]rent
a one bedroom flat built with wood in greater london, £800 per month(£9600 per annum + £1200 council tax) = £10,800 = 2.8 million naira equiv.
a 5-bedroom house in lekki, chevron round-about(2.5 million naira per annum).

and you still think wooden houses in the uk don't cost more than marbled/brick houses in nigeria?
let me have what you're smoking, okija juju.

debosky:
AVB has failed two tests already - his third one is coming soon. . . . Instead of focusing his energies on correcting his team's flaws, he was screaming about the ref and conspiracy, next thing na akpako from Arsenal followed by radio silence.

villash-boash hasn't failed any test in my opinion. his only flaw is he's trying to do too much too fast.

his vision as a manager is very different from jose mourinho and he is much more attack oriented. the players he inherited for the most part don't suit the tactical model he's trying to build, so struggles at least in the beginning are inevitable.

you can't play high defensive line if your centre backs lack pace and in order to emulate in any shape or form barcelona type football which is apparently what he strives for you need to have technically gifted players in the midfield that are capable of keeping possession and moving the ball fast.

the fact that old guard that used to carry the team in the past are clearly past their peak doesn't help matters, either. what we are currently witnessing is a blip - most likely caused by the teething pains adapting to villash-boash style of play

debosky:
Same with players like Villa - yet they score a ridiculous number of goals because of their intelligent runs.

But when you have numpties like Ando in midfield, Little Pea is bound to be wasted most of the time.

you are a troglodyte - numpties like carrick and fletcher.
anderson is the only fast-thinking midfielder we have got. he releases the ball very early(instinctively)

carrick measures the distance, measures the angle before his brain would tell him what to do.
those precious seconds would have made hernandez drift offside. fletcher never plays it forward with accuracy, he hoofs it.

montelik:
Saw this interesting comment recently regarding Hernandez after d Sunderland game.
What do you guys think?

take this article to the blog you found that interesting comment.

El Chicharito - The Return Of The Goal Poacher

Javier Hernandez took the football world by storm during his debut season in Europe last year. Finding the net 20 times in all competitions he seamlessly fitted into the Manchester United side successfully displacing Dimitar Berbatov to become Wayne Rooney’s established strike partner.  A lot of plaudits have quite rightly come his way and most if not all are richly deserved though we have to wait the best part of 9 years for Jamie Redknapp’s “Deal of the Decade” statement to come to fruition! While most positive talk of Chicharito is invariably accompanied by his price tag  (£6m plus add on’s is an absolute bargain) I want to focus on the impact the young Mexican could end up making on the centre forward position itself rather than his stunning start at what I hope is a very long career at the Theatre of Dreams.

“Quick of mind and of feet the goal poacher is like a ninja quietly deadly having done the damage before others are even aware of the impending threat.”

Why? Because this type of goal poacher has all but disappeared from the modern game. Looking back at a golden age of the goal poacher – the 1980’s, Rush, Aldridge, Cottee, Clive Allen and Lineker reigned supreme over our domestic game (and in Lineker’s case La Liga as well) while one of the finest ever exponents of the art – Romario took the well trodden road from South America to Europe as part of a wonderful career laden with goals scored at the very peak of the game.

The 1990’s gave us some textbook poachers with Romario then at Barcelona combining to devastating effect with Hristo Stoichkov. At home we saw Andrew Cole, Ian Wright, Robbie Fowler, Michael Owen and Alan Shearer and my personal favourite Ole Gunnar Solskjaer plus the emergence of Raul and Filipo Inzaghi in Europe.  The goal poacher lives to score goals above all else, they may do nothing for almost the entire game (Romario often languorously strolled around the pitch looking disinterested in proceedings) but in an instant they come alive and settle or salvage the contest. The goal poacher does not rely on the possession of the team, how well they are personally playing, they do not engage in a war of attrition with their markers, they do not track back or drop deep and they don’t leave defenders “knowing they’ve been in a game”.

The goal poacher is quite the opposite; they operate in paroxysms of lacerating impact. They rely on stealth and instead of letting defenders “know they are there” they channel their energies on leaving defenders worried about where they are. A justifiable fear as it turns out since the poacher is typically lurking with intent off the shoulder ready to punish a single mistake or snaffle a half chance. Quick of mind and of feet the goal poacher is like a ninja quietly deadly having done the damage before others are even aware of the impending threat.

The poacher has an ineffable quality (The French would probably call it ‘I don’t know what’) that navigates them to the right place at the right time, finding space where none seemed available and they are blessed with an abundance of composure to unerringly find the onion bag with a minimum of fuss – with any available body part! Defenders may seem like they have the measure of one but in an instant the striker will have them bamboozled leaving even the best defenders wondering what went wrong.  Remember Robbie Fowler’s six minute hat-trick? Remember Paul Parker manfully containing Romario at Old Trafford for the entire 90 minutes minus just 25 seconds when the great man escaped to insouciantly finish past Schmeichel with a casual brilliance as if it was the easiest thing in the world? Remember Lineker in Mexico ’86? What about Clive Allen’s 49 goal season?  Now ask yourself where these players have gone?

Since the turn of the century the once cherished goal poacher has been slowly dying out of the game with teams preferring superior all round footballers in their place. This is in line with the paradigm shift away from the old 4-4-2 or 4-4-1-1 formations which typically included the classic combination of a goal poacher and a supplier, think Sheringham-Shearer, Beardsley-Cole, Bebeto-Romario to name but a few.  With top sides now adopting a 4-3-3 or 4-2-3-1 it means that teams prefer play makers to make up the 3 attacking positions in a 4-2-3-1 leaving space only for a mobile, strong, lone front man to bring the formation together.

Similarly the 4-3-3 has seen wide players making up 2 of the front 3 and the need for the striker to again be strong, mobile and able to interchange positions.  A parallel development is that we see less and less of traditional wingers hugging the touchline these days as players fit into the interchangeable wide positions in the flexible 4-3-3 formation.  So now we have the new kings of the forward positions in Drogba, Torres (yes naysayers he will come good!), Van Persie, Rooney and Aguero – different yes but unified by being expansive footballers equally capable of unleashing a vicious shot from 20 yards as converting a regulation tap in from 2 or 3.

This change left little room for the goal poacher and these type of players were in danger of becoming extinct like our old friend the sweeper (where have all the Libero’s gone by the way?). I remain convinced that although injuries blighted their careers both Fowler and Owen were affected by this shift.  What about Ruud van Nistelrooy? Well RvN has had a tremendous career but I argue that he is the exception rather than the norm and what about his equivalents? Crespo?  Undoubtedly a top player but shipped out at Chelsea as Drogba won the day. Raul? He had to adapt his game making way to Ronaldo in the one available centre forward position in Real’s 4-2-3-1 and slotted in alongside Figo and Zidane just behind the great Brazilian.

But thank the lord for now we have Javier Hernandez, a recrudescence for the genuine bona fide goal poacher.  The young man is proving his worth at his club and boasting an International scoring record that even Lionel Messi would be proud of. Hernandez lives to score goals, keeps it simple outside the box and for every moment he is on the field he is waiting for an opportunity to benefit from friend or foe. Like all the great goal scorers he can be anonymous for large parts of the game but cannot be left unattended for a single second of it. And like all the great goal scorers he is a real fans favourite – speak to any United fan about Hernandez and they find it impossible to mention him without smiling. Let’s face it we all love a goal poacher!

Chicharito combines searing pace, intelligent movement and that rare and precious ability to find the net from all angles and positions. He also displays the hallmark of the true goal poacher by nipping in front of defenders at the near post rather than wait at the back post like most contemporary strikers favour. His ability to extemporise in the box was showcased with that remarkable header against Stoke last season. His equaliser at Anfield and winner at Goodison were typical of a man always in the right place at the right time but it is his double at Bolton earlier this season that was most demonstrative of what his game is all about.

His first where he sent the highly rated Cahill facing in one direction and then another before arriving at the near post for a typically clinical finish demonstrated his ability to manoeuvre defenders and find space in the area. His second was a perfect example of how goal poachers seem to be a magnet to a loose ball in the box. A misplaced cross shot from Carrick was moving in the general vicinity of 3 United players but it was Hernandez who latched on to it quicker than Vanessa Feltz on a Cadbury’s Creme Egg before dispatching it into the net.

Is Hernandez a one off?  Or is he leading the charge to herald in a new era of prominence for the goal poacher?

chamotex:
Players like Hernandez will always be caught offside most times because they play on the shoulders of the last defender.
Hernandez = 'Fox in the box'
Supply him the chance and let him finish . . . it isn't rocket science.

Same way Michael Owen was when he was in his prime.
Most teams need a player like that especially top teams that will usually create chances.
It's a no-brainer

if we don't have slow-thinking midfielders, he shouldn't be getting caught offside.
his initial position is mostly onside and he anticipates the pass getting to him early so he makes his run. if the passer then delays the ball, hernandez would have drifted offside by the time the passer plays the ball.

slimyem:
which loss?sheesh!
Good things never elude me.i miss you,i get something better.that's how it has alwayz been baeby and that's how it'll ever be.cheers!

duly noted!

r231:
^^^^^

Obvious HOWWWWW

is because you come here everyday and talk trash about NIGERIAN pple??

or cus of your topman dressing?

or thank God you made it to UK?

or WHAT EXACTLY

i am actually surprised you are having a discussion with 190.
he is a village boy. woe unto the consular officer that issued 190 a visa.

you would know his greatest achievement is coming to the uk by the way he brags about every little thing he does.
river island and top man? goddamit, i feel nauseous already.

BlueDiva:
This place don turn Dk and coogars playground abi? 

and you had to wake up at 5.43am to write this?
bluediva, do you sleep at night?

Ifedisky:
The tag 8 and 10 are used differently according to location. A 10 in south America/Africa is an attacking midfielder -442. While 8 is a co or support striker. Itz different in some European countries where 10 is regarded as the support (or co) striker and 8 as a midfielder. Yu guys should search bbc website, this was discussed a while ago. Not arsed to search for links now

i have a coaching badge. in a traditional 4-4-2 system, the 10 is a supporting striker anywhere be it south america/africa or even hell fire.

nateevs:
Admit I was wrong about what exactly?
It also amazes that you cannot spot the simple difference "we won't" and "we can't".

don't mind debosky, nateevs.

villas-boas tactics worked but like all tactics, if the players don't take their chances, it will come back to bite them.
tactics don't win games, taking chances do! arsenal didn't win that match, chelsea lost it.
the last 3 goals arsenal scored would be conceded by any manager if his players were as shoddy as chelsea players.

walcott tripped himself, fell down and got up around 3 defenders and scored. john terry diving after receiving a dirty back pass from malouda.
bosingwa acting like a pri[i]c[/i]k not knowing where to show van persie - these things are not tactical faux pas, they are just idiotic decisions by experienced players.

slimyem:
[b]i aint dropping nuffing on here.[/b]gave u my reasons already.u are just trying try to play the man game and it aint working here and please don't use that naija babe line on me again.i'm ME!

your loss!
naija babes can be attitudinal sha! if only you knew what u have missed.

Kobojunkie:
Correction : The article on 
http://layofftracker..com/2011/10/layoffs-imminent-at-nigerian-national.html is actually culled from
http://www.businessdayonline.com/NG/index.php/news/76-hot-topic/28788-senior-layoffs-imminent-at-nnpc-over-audit-report
You need to read to scroll down a bit on that page.

still the same garbage. media sensationalism.

heads may roll at nnpc because of an imminent auditing. nnpc themselves have not come out to say heads are rolling.
this is mere speculation. i expect you by now to know the wheat of a gist and the chaff.
besides, the heads have not rolled yet.

Again, the article DOES NOT support the claim you made. It posits that is an excuse being used to layoff people without following due process.  Look closer

it supports it to the t.
with new solutions coming out in heaps and bounds, skills reign supreme over experience.
expatriates could be any nationality including nigerians based abroad. the jobs didn't simply disappear, only the personnel changed.

I am sorry but now I have even more serious doubts that you even read the article. The blogger literally posted no comments on that as the whole post came from a businessweek article, where recommendations are made and Okonjo Iweala is quoted on there.
huh? 

okonjo iweala is not a spokesman for nnpc.
i am not even sure the 2 events are linked. she's given an audit report and the article simply speculated that heads may roll if the report exposes the mismanagement of trillions of naira. it's mere speculation. nnpc themselves have not come out to say they are investigating any fraud. and even if there's fraud and people get sacked, the roles won't disappear. new employees would take the roles left by the rogues.

there's a difference between companies shutting down with the jobs disappearing and people getting sacked(where the seat is only empty for someone else to fill). a cursory glance at guardian newspaper on tuesday would prove to you there are thousands of vacancies in nigeria everyday.
of course, it's the employer's market considering the fact that the unemployment level is staggering.

dayokanu:
Nigeria vs Denmark France 1998 with Ikpeba as striker

4-5-1.

Nations Cup 2000 with Victor Ikpeba as top striker,

under bonfrere jo? no pattern!

Nations cup 2002 with Julius Aghahowa as top striker,

no pattern! definitely not 4-4-2

Nations cup 2004 with Osaze as top striker,

osaze that came as a sub is the top striker?

Nations cup 2006 with Martins as striker,

no pattern!

Kobojunkie:
. . . . Word of mouth ke? In Nigeria? Abi my eyes dey sleep so? In this day and age, we dey still accept word of mouth from Nigerians? No offence, but we request RELIABLE SOURCES/ not Palmwine joint gossip. lol

except that one of the url link you posted was also word of mouth. remove the log in your eye before you dare attempt to take out the speck in mine.

Just so you know, what you have above is addressed here
http://www.businessdayonline.com/NG/index.php/oil/26142-ncdmb-warns-iocs-against-incessant-layoff-of-nigerians-

this is exactly my stance in my previous comment. people are being laid off for more qualified employees. don't just read the headlines next time, read the article. the article stated that nigerians are being kicked out in the oil/gas industry to be replaed by expatriates(many of which would be nigerians in the diaspora). the employer seeks for skills not because the company got shut down! the exact number of people that got sacked were replaced!

But here reports coming in from Nigeria in the last couple of weeks/days
http://layofftracker..com/2011/10/layoffs-imminent-at-nigerian-national.html

this is a pub gist. peruse the article.
no quote was made by nnpc that they would lay people off. the blogger said "heads may roll. . . ."
it's not a factual statement. just a figment of his imagination. he maybe the right in the end just like my banker friend is right.

http://allafrica.com/stories/201111010552.html
[size=13pt]2m Jobs Loss: MAN Blames Power, Policy Inconsistency[/size]

this is the only relevant link you got that actually fits the bill.
that being said, it does not disprove my stance(i must add again). i never said the people abroad should move back home - i only said there's a high employment turnover in nigeria as employers crave for employees with more skills.

http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/2m-jobs-loss-man-blames-power-policy-inconsistency/101766/
Is this the picture of the economy that is better than the economy in the west? Really?

see above!

alj harem:
I was on Nairaland 2005 and 2006 but did not form any login. The political discussion then was not far different from what we have now.

The so called bloggers back then like Nchara a well known blogger on political issues is still here and in fact HE started what we have here today "Igbo bs Yoruba fight"

Nchara the blogger formed usernames such as Akin egba, adamawaturf, mekuuxxx, south east, chino11, etc Just to cause ethnic discord.

My guess is as much as  yours, Why would an educated well known blogger do such ? Yes !

There are still things you can gain from the political section IF you chose to. You just have to learn to avoid some certain threads.

mekuxxxx was a serial w@nker personified.
in all fairness, some of his igbo kinsmen criticized him too for some of the outlandish comments he used to post.
mekuxxxxxx couldn't have been human. he's a spambot!