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I love playing rather than watching.

So confidential, thank you so much Pata1. I appreciate your elaboration basically on the O'Level. My e-mail is: davi_heroricman@yahoo.com.

@Pata1, I part with you. Thank you for your directs. I want to ask, can an O'Level holder from Nigeria do the same Telecoms Diploma courses in India, and what is the possible processes?

Can't understand u @poster? I just moved to the country last 2 weeks from Abakaliki. Can I be cleared more its my altmost.

fnks 4 de info on new site: www.ecampus, but with dot what na?, edu,com, org or what?

@ Buffead, I am a Nigerian footballer. Please do help me, how can I get a small football club in any of the countries in Europe? Thank you very much for your times and researches on my behalf.

@ Buffead, I am a Nigerian footballer. Please do help me, how can I get a small football club in any of the countries in Europe? Thank you very much for your times and researches on my behalf.

Hello big Brothers @ abroad, I need your helps on my Football Career. I need a link to any small football club in any of the countries abroad. This will help me to show my talent in football to international managers, coaches and or scouts, so that I can play in senior clubs. Please I need a small Division club to get trained very well. Yours faithful @all, Edeh David Ibeabuchi.

Hello big Brothers @ abroad, I need your helps on my Football Career. I need a link to any small football club in any of the countries abroad. This will help me to show my talent in football to international managers, coaches and or scouts, so that I can senior clubs. Please I need a small Division club to get train very well. Yours faithful @all, Edeh David Ibeabuchi.

Me I love Prophet T.B. Joshua too for real. I keep watching the man of God.

It impressed me.

@ Eka whatever, mind your jutings here less you use indirect way to call the people of the nation names. How will it sound to you if I quote under your reply and say 'Eko Ile, your reply here shows you are a FOOL, hu? Just know that there is nothing you can do to hinder GEJ, period. People like you, can bring any plan to hinder the hero GEJ, just as in the days of Acting President issue, but its simple; you know it SHALL always prove the normal ABORTIVE. GEJ is on the rule men. You are under him period. Hahahaaa!!!

@all, please I need ur advices. I am a footballer and I have this qaulity of tackling and I have staying without tackling an oponent with the ball even I hate seeing a suposed teammate not marking the oponent. Please am seeing as I have to be a Defensive Midfielda (4. What do u advice me. Am playing Center Back now (6

@all, please I need ur advices. I am a footballer and I have this qaulity of tackling and I have staying without tackling an oponent with the ball even I hate seeing a suposed teammate not marking the oponent. Please am seeing as I have to be a Defensive Midfielda (4. What do u advice me. Am playing Center Back now (6

medjai:
1 - Goalkeeper
2- Right-back, 3-Left-back: They're generally referred to as fullbacks or wingbacks depending on how they are deployed.
4- Defensive midfielder
5- Centre-back, 6-Centre-back
7- Right winger
8- Support striker
9- Striker
10- Attacking midfielder
11- Left winger.

me too, i appreciate. Thanks 4 the elaborate

Me I will prasie the Lord for His mercies and protections upon my life. Thank You Lord Jesus.

Mistypens:
Please i want to know: does it mean there is no discussion on baseball , basket ball etc except that of football?

try and post any topic on baseball now and u will see dat people will reply buntfully.

You guyz makes me laugh here hahahhahahahahaaaa, thank you sooo much yea i appreciate, yea i really do, Thank u.
Wait a minute, its it true? hahahhhahaaaa.

Thank you big friend am impressed, I will arrange 4 the journey

How can one get registered with My People FC?
Because I searched google but I couldn't see any thing like that and I even search for the MPFC's website but none was shown.
Please how can I register with them?
Thank you @ all.

All Nigerian are now good no more bad record as we now have GOODLUCK, Argentina are too small to New Nigeria now. to be frank Men, Messi and Co. or whatever is afriad of Super Eagles thats all.
I am happy men 4=for 0
World Record, 1st June, 2011. Nigeria Flushed Boosting Argentina as Messi and co. Ran away in fright.
Hahahahahahahaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! . I am sure Messi is

Please @ Yoged & Dis guy, I am sincerely not happy here over this insults you guys are passing on urselves. I am pleading on behalf of Nairaland that you guyz should stop the cursing. I Davmor therefore apologize on behalf of whosoever that have offended any one on this topic. Please I believe we can get future here if we believe in ourselves rather than cursing each other. Please we are one and they shouldn't be any calling of names as far as reformation is concern.
I am getting all the points that u guys are listing, but I am serious over this my making football a career no matter how long it gona take me. I just need a start here and the guide is what am asking of here, which I know can also help whoever that might be in my shoe later or now.
Thank you all and to you Yoged and Dis guy I unite you guys again as good friends in the name of Nairaland and her good people for the progressivism of this NATION 9ija.

Thank you bro, I take ur "to heal with academy" to be that I shouldn't go.

@Dis guy and others, please what do I do considerind the fact that if go into KWARA Academy, definitely no more work for me and am feeding myself now as am working, so I was looking at joining a club that will give me chance to work so as to sustain myself. please what are your advices here?
The truth bieng that I want to make football my career.
thanks to u all.

yoged:
My friend. I'll boldly and soundly advice you to join the club. Kwara academy dont worth a penny. I school rite here in Ilorin. So am familiar with both Kwara Academy,kwara united and bukola babes. There's much competition in Kwara academy. Its survival of the fittest.all this top people's kid rite here.popularity of a thang. Please,join d club and i wish u d very best in lyf. Peace out.

Thanks a millionX. I am happy on your reply and I have the bold courage now to join a club rather than the academy, thank you so much. Your bold advice has relieved me of the worry of which to do, now I have decided to join a club.
please I want to know whether one can join all these clubs by registeration; like Bukola babes, Rangers, Enyimba, Doulphin Kwara United etc or do they locate players and sign them?

As I am now am a kind of confused on whether to register for Kwara football academy or join a well known Football club.
Please I am a footballer and my ambition is making it my career and I thought of where to get the nice training needed and as well exposure too. please friends advice me on which to join: Ordinary happening FC or an Academy because I was told that Ordinary well known FC if found will help me more as there will concentrate on few players than an Academy where there are so many players. Please what is the advice to me please.
Thanks @ all, so lovely to all replies.

Lifeline for a forgotten hero
…As MTN celebrates Nigeria’s first national goalkeeper
•I will forever remain grateful to The Sun, he says
By TOPE ADEBOBOYE
Friday, May 13, 2011


• Sam Ibiam
Photo: Sun News Publishing
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He spent his productive, youthful years serving the country. As Nigeria’s first national goalkeeper, Pa Sam Ibiam dazzled millions with his wizardry on the field of play and brought immense honour to the country. But in his old age, he was abandoned and forsaken by the country, and the man known in his playing days as The Black Magic was left to endure untold agony in a modest bungalow at Unwana, a sleepy community in Afikpo, Ebonyi State.

Pa Ibiam’s original home had been bombed during the civil war and it has since remained dilapidated. He lives in a small house attached to the bombed building.

Well, for the pioneer goaltender of Nigeria’s first national soccer team, The Red Devils, some succour came recently, though from largely unexpected quarters. He was honoured on Who Deserves To Be A Millionaire? a special edition of the popular, MTN-sponsored television show, Who Wants To Be A Millionaire aired on many TV stations around the country.

Assisted on the programme by the duo of Azuh Arinze, editor of National Encomium, and popular actress, Stephanie Okereke, the 87-year-old sporting hero went home with a cheque for one million naira, a 5.5KV generator as well as a heart full of gratitude for MTN and for The Sun, Nigeria’s highest selling newspaper.
“I will never forget MTN,” the elated Octogenarian told the reporter after the programme. “I will never forget the man sent by MTN to me, Mr. Olu Akinlabi. And I will forever remain grateful to The Sun for bringing my plight to the attention of Nigerians. Without their efforts, this might not have happened.”

This reporter had briefly met with the Octogenarian in his home at Unwana in late 2009. On an editorial assignment in Ebonyi State, the reporter had visited the retired soccer star alongside Chief Jasper Okoro, editor-in-chief of National Patriot newspapers based in Abakaliki. The 10-minute encounter later resulted in a story entitled Pathetic: Nigeria’s first goalkeeper lives in penury in Ebonyi village.

The story, published in the Daily Sun of Wednesday, January 27, 2010 partly reads:
Sam Ibiam. Ever heard of the name? He was Nigeria’s first ever national goalkeeper, the man who manned the post for the UK Tourists, Nigeria’s first national football team far back in the late 1940s. You might not have berthed on this planet when Pa Ibiam dazzled millions across the world with his magic hands. Nigeria did not even exist as a free country in those pre-independence days when Pa Ibiam and his fellow stars reigned in the hearts of football-loving folks from Kakawa to Kaduna, from Calabar to Kaura Namoda to the United Kingdom.

But soccer lovers and indeed, followers of the round leather game would have learnt of the incredible exploits performed on the soccer field by members of the then UK Tourists. Those were the days the likes of Teslim ‘Thunder’ Balogun, Dan Anyiam, Skipper Ewa Henshaw and other members of the team mesmerized with the ball before and shortly after the nation’s independence in 1960.

Pa Ibiam was among the 18 Nigerian footballers who embarked on a tour of England in August 1949.?As expected, virtually all of the ‘boys’ of yesteryears have since passed on, and the only one remaining is now in the twilight of his days. Pa Ibiam is the last surviving member of that clan of sporting heroes. At 85, you’d expect this great-grandfather of Nigerian goaltenders to be living a comfortable life, nestled comfortably in a cosy house, reaping the fruits of his hard labour. You would have expected that the government he so faithfully served in his youthful years would come to his aid now that he is too old to work. But if you harbour such thoughts, you would be living in dreamland.

The bitter truth is that Pa Ibiam and many others who did the nation proud in their younger years have been cruelly abandoned to their fate by Nigeria at a time they can scarcely fend for themselves. Some are luckier though. While Thunder Balogun and Dan Anyiam have stadia named after them in their respective states of Lagos and Imo, Sam Ibiam has no structure bearing his name either in his native Ebonyi or anywhere in Nigeria.? Pa Ibiam, known in his playing days as The Cat or The Black Magnet, now lives in a modest bungalow in his hometown, Unwana in Afikpo, Ebonyi State.

After reading the Daily Sun story, Mr. Olu Akinlabi, Head, Corporate Affairs and Senior Project Manager with Ultima, producers of MTN’s Who Wants To Be a Millionaire, contacted the reporter, asking to be linked up with the retired goalkeeper. Akinlabi subsequently travelled to Unwana and personally invited Pa Ibiam for the show.

The octogenarian and a few family members, including Chief Jasper Okoro, were flown to Lagos, fed and accommodated for two nights on the bill of MTN. A special edition of Who Deserves To Be a Millionaire was held for Pa Ibiam and a few other deserving heroes. Apart from the cheque and generating set, the Octogenarian also got a pack of souvenirs from Mr. Kunle Solaja, editor, Soccer Star. Solaja has also published several stories on the Black Magic.

The old man, who’s still very agile physically and mentally, prayed God to reward his benefactors immensely, asserting that MTN has also done a lot for several national heroes. He recalled his playing days, noting that he became the first choice goalkeeper when the 18-man squad called the Red Devils undertook a soccer tour of Europe in the 1940s and 1950s. According to him, the Nigerian side played barefooted against the English footballers all of who wore iron boots.

The 18 players that embarked on a playing tour of the United kingdom in 1949 were Isiaka Shittu, Dan Anyiam, Sokari Dokubo, Gabriel Anosike, A.T.Ottun, Teslim ‘Thunder’ Balogun, Titus Okere, Etim Henshaw (Captain), Isaac Akinye, John Dankaro, Sam Ibiam (goalkeeper), Hope Lawson, Olisa Chukwura, Justin Onwudiwe, Peter ‘Baby’ Anieke, Ebenezer ‘Salamo’ Edet Ben, Messembe Otu and Okoronkwo Kanu.

After one of the matches played in Nigeria in the late 1950s, the then president, Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe who was guest of honour at the stadium, invited the goalkeeper for a handshake. He retired from active football in 1962.

Source: http://sunnewsonline.com/webpages/news/national/2011/may/13/national-13-05-2011-006.html

Please good people of nairaland, I lack knowledge on this 2012 Diversity Lottery of a thing. And I want to know what its all about and how to participate. Please every body give me details and what it stands for.
Thanks @all

pls lets see factories and industries more important here because with these we can employ more of our youth graduates and school leavers. 1love+@all

you said they are two? Him Papilo and Who?

@all, I am claping for this thread and I know we are going ahead on the success way of our Nigerian Football.
But how do we reflect on youths of the age; 19 - 22 years, where do they suppose to go for polish and upbring?