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I only watched the second half of the match and what I saw those girls play was fantastic even the USA who are rated number 1 in the world were totally outclassed.

This team is virtually the best team at that tournament but lack of proper funding, a coach with the wrong offensive strategy and no moral support.

This is when you begin to notice the bias between men and women in Nigeria.

There was no supporters club.
No proper feeding.
No adequate allowances.
Lack of National Concern.

Imagine if those girls had recieved a call from President Yar'Adua this morning, and he told the girls to just win this match and see what the nation will do for them.

If he had told them to go there and beat the USA, forget about whether they would stay or leave, just beat the best team in the world hands-down and go out with guns blazing.


Those ladies would have done more than beating the USA 2-0.

They would have abandoned that their flawed offensive strategy and improvised.

Imagine the fact that nobody deemed it fit to even send a supporter club to motivate them. Is it because they are women?
So glo is now a men/boys club that will only sponsor the supporters club only when men or overaged boys are representing Nigeria. Well na God go Judge.

Those girls played with more dedication than I've ever seen any Nigerian team play throughout this decade.


They made me proud and I felt like they won the cup. I also clearly saw a clear and obvious example of the result of mismanagement in Nigeria.

I hope somebody can tell me when they will be arriving back in the country so I can make out time to at least make an appearance and show some appreciation.

Those girls performed amazingly well, the goalkeeper was out of this world.

I'm impressed at their class. I'm wearing a smile of satisfaction right now knowing fully well that all things being equal, we would be the ones taking the Gold home. Unfortunately, the Nigerian factor has made all things to be unequal. Well this is the situation we find ourselves.

E go better!

Wuz trying to say "legal limelight".

Wuz trying to say "legal limelight".

Your day of roasting is also real.

Lest I forget, he's also a man that runs away from responsibility for fear of criticism and his personal incompetence.

Let the Federal Government offer Gani Fawehinmi the office of the Attorney General, he will run away and start lying that the Government is trying to bribe him (I don't know what for).
But let him let somebody else do it, he will not.


Now, I'm not saying what that guy with the funny name is doing as Attorney General is satisfactory, but what I'm saying is that Gani should win an outstanding case, something impossible like the O.J Simpson case and put it on his empty CV before he can come and tell us what is right or wrong.

His Lordship Gani Fawehinmin (SAN) is the only top lawyer in the world that does not have a CV. He is the only reputable and internationally recognised legal practitioner who has not won any case worth mentioning.

Even cases that I, as a layman can win, such as the Electoral tussle in Delta state against Ibori. Gani made it seem as if such a case was unwinnable till a lawyer like himself won that same similar case in Anambra State for Peter Obi. Of course Gani's client fired him immediately.

Generally, Gani is just the National Town Crier of Nigeria. He loves to be on TV and Newspapers. Besides that, there's nothing more to him.


Though the AGF has something wrong with his head too, but Gani Fawehinmi's main grouse with him is his attempt to share the "legal limelime" that has been the sole monopoly of Gani Fawenhinmi and his protege, Festus Keyamo.

@pilas

Abeg no blame me jare. Na mobile browser wey I dey always use, na'im dey make me behave like bushman whenever I go full web.

Anyway, I'm back to mobile again so let's focus back on Crude Oil and Resource Curse which think I have nothing else to add.

It's not whether it can match or it cannot match. Yar'Adua is trying to make every state self sufficint so that we can move to a Federal Economy where everybody has full resource control and an independent economy, from there we can finally move towards having a truly Federal Government, not this gimmick we currently have that we are claiming as FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA.

Even the states that don't have Oil, the Ministry of Solid Minerals is working on what they have and bringing in Mining Corporations. So thas is not a competition at all.




make I use opportunity post another p[icture jare, e don tey since I go through my pitures. Na me been fine like this? Suffer bad O!

thanks magneto and osereka. I'm just saying what I know.

@osereka

why do you think Baba is going slow? Any rapid development in any African Country will warrant a visit from Sir Mark Thatcher and his gang of Coupists because the more an African Country developes, the more it uses up its own resources and the less there is for our Masters who only see us as their nation's Common Wealth (Ordinary Property). When I become president, I will not shine too bright lest the USA do to me what they did to Patrice Lumumba. I will move this country at an OBJ-ish pace and I will let most of the credit go to Ministers and other Government officials so that anybody who doesn't like the progress my administration makes can go and kill them instead.




just came online to remove my pictures from Yahoo Photos. There's me with my ex-Boss' beautiful lil' baby Zino

God is not going to do anything for us. Or do you still think it was God who killed Abacha and gave Abiola tea?

If you want to get something done, you have to do it. The first thing is to let every country round the world to know that they will gain nothing by destabilising Nigeria. Nothing! We are already beginning to produce our own weapons ourselves, and we will consciously shut down 2 million barrels of Crude Oil supply to the world and everybody will suffer, no one will gain.

Secondly, when people like Magareth Thatcher's son are caught in Africa red-handed trying to effect a Military Coup and start a Civil War, the AU most prevent countries like South Africa from freeing them for small fines. Countries like Nigeria which spend the most to end Civil Wars all around Africa should seize such people and publicly behead them. So that Europeans will know that you can't just throw an entire African Country into Civil War or Military Rule simply because you want to buy resources cheaply.

Those that cannot be caught redhanded but are suspected of financing Military Coups, selling weapons to War Torn Countries or Cashing in on the Resources of War Torn Countries should be tracked down in their countries and given Abiola tea or Abacha apple and Viagra overdose.

Then the AU should always put together a massive Armed Unit to eradicate any militant group engaged in warfare for the sole purpose of selling their country's resources to foreigners at cheap rates. Eg our MEND.

African countries should stop exporting their resources as raw materials. Anybody who is interested in our resources must export them as Processed goods. Therefore no cheap resource seeker can start a war in Africa because their own factories will be destroyed. If Shell and TotalFinaElf each had 4 major refineries in Nigeria, they never would have wanted Nigeria to be caught up in a Civil War.

That is how we start utilising our resources better. Doing what needs doing.

Not by calling on God.

@chidichris

you're still suspecting Adedibu and Akala? I have already confirmed them. Their N10 million and their crocodile tears have shown us who we are looking for.

Can Adedibu or Akala cry out of joy or sorrow? The only thing that can make such men cry is pretence. The urgent need to produce crocodile tears.

Depending on which area you dey.

I'm afraid I cannot continue any further in this discussion. I have things to think about and people to call. I can't waste valuable call credit in educating the ineducable.


Whe somebody is telling me that the Roads, Schools, Houses and Electricity acquired with Groundnut and Cocoa money is what is sustaining us till today, then I know there is serious mental decay in this forum.


Go to Isale Eko and see the houses and Streets that were constructed pre-Crude Oil, then compare those with the ones on the Marina that were built post-Crude Oil. Or you can even compare them with those in Abuja.


The bloody railway you keep mentioning, it was constructed as a makeshift structure. Have you ever travelled on the railway from Kano to Lagos? For your information, I have. And I suggest the Government should dismantle those rails and ship them back to England.


The only reasonable thing you've mentioned since you stepped onto this thread is TAXATION. It makes people hold their government accountable. But what do you suggest? We abandon our main source of income and start taxing what?

When you want to tax, it is still from Crude Oil that the larger percentage of taxation will come. What the government (which includes us) have to do is to relinquish the ownership of the Crude Oil to the people of the vicinity. But because the structures of resource control and a Federated Economy has not been part of our system and culture for the past 100 years, it is difficult to implement in overnight.


If we divest Resources to the individuals who have it on their land right now, there will be massive chaos.


If the Government had not stepped in to develop Crude Oil in Nigeria, do you think we could have done it ourselves?


There is Gold and Uranium in Nigeria, how come we have not explored them ourselves on a massive scale? The Government has to still take up monopoly of all these other resource and develop them with partner companies before all resource can be handed down to the people for onward taxation of proceeds.


Even then, there will be communal clashes for another 10 years on who really owns what resources. Whose house is on top of a Goldmine and whose is just nearby.



The problem with Nigeria is not any Crude Oil curse. The problem is the system of Government imposed on us by foreigners.


Who started Military Rule in Nigeria? Who was our first Military Ruler/Dictator some of you will say it is this and that. What about Frederick Lugard?


Who enacted the subsidy of everything in Nigeria including water, fuel and Pilgrimage? Subsidies that were not in place during their half decade of colonial rule.

That's why someone is saying Public Education has gotten worse. When you don't know what percentage of Nigerians were educated in 1965 and the University structures and numbers in place back then. And if the Public Education System in not to your level, is it not the same you who will fight against privatising it? Why don't you even school at a Private University and quit whining? Or has the Crude Oil Curse prevented you from attending a Private University too?

Who introduced an Absolute Centralised Government in Nigeria? Before the British Colonization, South Eastern Nigeria had its Oligarchies, where no single man can wake up in the morning and destine the lives of the entire population.


Northern Nigeria (except for Maiduguri) was running a perfectly Federated Government. Each Emirate acted independently and only consulted with the Sultan for advice and remitted a percentage of taxes to the Sultan of Sokoto.


The British came in and introduced Military Rule and an Authoritarian Centralised Government headed by a Dictator. All Resource in Nigeria were declared property of The Crown. Our Federation Account was operated by The Crown who saw it fit to tax Fulani Cattle, Ijaw Fish and Palm Oil. Our Federation Account that the British used to fight their European Tribal Wars I & II.

I have been asking and nobody has told me how many billion Pounds we made for 70 years of being the world top Cocoa, Groundnut and Palm Oil producer. Please somebody riddle me this.


It is that system that has put Nigeria where it is today.


Oil has just made Equatorial Guinea the second richest country per capita. And what do the British do? They send Sir Mark Thatcher, Jeffrey Archer and du Toit to go and initiate a Coup in Equatorial Guinea so that they can go in there and buy 100 barrels of Crude Oil at the cost of 1 AK-47. Then they will tell the Guineans that it is the Crude Oil that is their curse. Even as these British Military Government installers, Coup Plotters and Civil War Financiers are caught red-handed, Africans will still be saying we're under a Resource Curse.


Sierra Leonean civil war was sponsored by diamond dealers in Switzerland (the most peaceful country in the world) an CNN was making documentaries to con the Sierra Leoneans into accepting that their diamonds are a curse.





Again, I would like to ask how many tonnes of Beans, Cassava, Yam, Tomatoes, Pepper, Millet, Sorghum, Plantain, Maize and Melon we were producing during our so-called Agricultural BOOM.


Perhaps most of you think that the British came to Kano to meet Groundnut Pyramids.


The Colonial government used taxation to drive food crop farmers from their farms to farming what the British wanted to export to factories in Britain.

If you farm Cassava, you pay a 40% tax. If you decide to abandon your Cassava to farm Palm Oil which is what the Masters want, you get to pay a 20% tax and a boss is imposed on you in your own farm to supervise and account.

If you decide to quit farming altogether, you pay a 15% community tax or a 10% housing tax for the mud shack you Grandfather built. Therefore you were forced to return to farm Palm Oil under a Master on your own farm.


Same thing if you farm Melon, you will soon be converted into a Cotton farmer.


If you didn't have any solid day job, a levy will still be imposed on you so that you either start building a railway or road that leads from the Farm Depots to the Ports from which they will ship off the Produce to Britain. If there are no openings in rail or road construction, you either become a human donkey for transporting goods from the farms to the depots or from the rails to the Ports.
If no job there, you join the Army and fight the Germans so that you can earn enough to pay your taxes to The Crown.



Because most of the farmers had been driven from their Beans, Cassava, Plantain, Melon, Maize, Onion, Yam, Tomatoes and Pepper farms, these commodities became very scarce and thus expensive.


Immediately the British abandoned Nigeria and went to source for it's Agricultural raw materials elsewhere due to the German blockade of West Africa, the Nigerian Cocoa, Groundnut, Palm and Cotton farmers didn't have any market to export to and therefore returned their farms to the production of Yam, Cassava, Beans, Tomatoes, Pepper, Maize, Rice, and even Poultry.

If you calculate the entire volume of Agricultural goods produced in Nigeria today, and the entire Agricultural goods produced in 1967, today is more. Far more. It's just that we're not producing what another nation wants us to export to them. We're producing what we need. If anybody wants to export what we're producing for ourselves, good. If not, then that's their business. Nigeria recently became the largest producer of Cassava in the world overtaking Brazil from where Cassava was originally introduced to Nigeria. Now we're exporting it to Britain and China yet no one has applauded. Nigeria just broke the cycle of Poultry importation and is now about the highest Poultry exporter to the rest of Africa. Nobody said anything.

Must we completely turn ourselves to a foreign country's Farm before we'll be appreciated.

Do we start massive production of Palm Oil when there is no extra demand for it in the world?
The British consciously and with great premeditation, moved their Plantations out of Nigeria during their war with Germany. They are not coming back. If we tripple our Palm production today, the only thing that will happen is that Palm Oil prices will crash to one third its current prices and farmers worldwide including Nigeria will run down.

If we double our Cocoa production, Brazil and Ivory Coast will have economic decline due to low prices. Cadbury will buy Cocoa for half the price worldwide and still sell Chocolates at the very same prices. Farmers in Ibadan will gather their Cocoa and set them ablaze as they usually do.

Have you people never asked yourselves why that happens? Why Cocoa farmers burn they Cocoa during some years rather than sell. And you want us to produce more. So that this time around, the prices will go so low that the farmers will not only set their Cocoa Ablaze, they will go home and set their entire families ablaze.


We really suffered. Our Grandparents were shipped off to Burma to fight Germans who we previously had never met just because they wanted to pay taxes owed to The Crown. Taxes paid for being a Nigerian under British Protection. Need I tell you that most of these honest pay seeking Nigerian soldiers that went to the war in Burma very few could afford to come back because the Government provided free transportation for them to get to the warfront, but after that, you're on your own.


Well, considering all this I think we were faring quite well.




The Question am still asking is: HOW MANY BILLION POUNDS WAS IN OUR FEDERATION ACCOUNT AND OUR FOREIGN RESERVES AFTER MORE THAN 70 YEARS OF BEING A TOP AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS EXPORTER IN THE WORLD? HOW MANY BILLION POUNDS?

If you cannot place a single billion pounds in the Nigerian Federation Account during the Agricultural BOOM, then please, forever hold your PISS!

Perhaps the Portuguese Police.

@doyin13

well, I remember that they entered our country in the 1800s without visas or even seeking asylum or refugee status and they took our food free of charge and even taxed us again on that for close to 70 years.

I wish they could be as patient as we were.

@naijaking


please emphasise the importance of that kind of 16th century model Port Harcourt-Enugu-Makurdi-Jos-Kano to any economy at all.


I can swear to you that this railway was built with the scrap metal that was dismantled from one of those ancient railway systems in Britain that gave way to the modern subway.


Yet no one has told me how much our foreign reserves or Federation Account was before Crude Oil was struck.

Nobody has mentioned what the average wage was back then.

See me see trouble O! I'm talking about what I observe in my immediate environment. Even tkb417 has describe what obtains in his own environment and I can see that things are alright in those two areas so far.

I can't speak for the people in Victoria Island or those in Isi-Ala Ngwa. It is where I am that I know.

I'm not like some of you that will be somewhere else and be fabricating stories about conditions several time-zones away.

I say the average Nigerian is faring far better.
You say she's not.
Well, keep nightmaring.

This matter is not about the Constitution but the citizens.

@naijaking1

from your electricity analogy, I am beginning to believe you refer to Crude Oil as a curse simply because it hasn't totally solved all our problems.


However, you second statement here is absolutely ridiculous. You mean to tell me that the average Nigerian farm labourer pre-Crude Oil earns more than the average Nigerian Oil workers today?


Or are you trying to tell me that all the Oil workers, Bank workers, Transporters, Aviation and Hotel workers, Telecoms employees, Traders, Importers/Exporters, Restaurateurs and Fashion designers are all unemployed/419/agbero?


Are they all putting in a dishonest day's job for a dishonest day's pay?



For someone who accuses me of not saying much in my posts, you say nothing at all in yours.




@+osisi

why won't you think before posting. Stop trying to miseducate people in here. I think it will save us all some reading time if you can just reason before posting so that you can realise that some of your posts are actually irrelevant.

If the Naira was of higher value than the dollar, the glory goes to this cursed Crude Oil because the Naira was introduced when we were lavishing Crude Oil wealth.


And if you have spare time for the acquisition of knowledge find out the unemployment and illiteracy levels before and after Crude Oil. So that you will know that only a small percentage had the privilege to even be farm hands. Yet the Government taxed all.

Don't worry. I have my calculator with me. OBJ has done well. Even if we cannot love him, we should be able to physically assess and enumerate what he has done. The man has done exceedingly well and I hope Yar'Adua can out-perform him.

May God give you the wisdom to find out how much the average Nigerian was living on before crude oil was discovered and compare that to what the average Nigerian is earning now.

Or do you forget that the average Nigerian worker back then was a manual labourer in a farm or a junior farm hand just like existed in Zimbabwe just recently.

@naijaking1


That was some major jungle talk you dished out regarding the era of Agricultural Export.



You are remembering the efficiency of NEPA when less than 10 million Nigerians were connected to the National Grid and at a time when no single private individual had Split AC or Washing Machine in their home.

How convenient.


Now let me say something about Palm Oil and Palm kernel oil this once for those who are not opportuned to know.


Nigeria produced a unique breed of the Palm plant in NIFOR during the Colonial Era. The British then monopolised the production of palm oil and palm kernel oil for years.

During the European Tribal Wars sparked off by Adolf Hitler, the Germans had almost encircled all the routes for other European countries to siphon agricultural resources from West Africa.

In a last effort, the British came to Nigeria, collected samples of all the hybridized agricultural species we had and took them to countries in East Asia who had a climate and soil similar to ours and there they now establish their new agricultural supply region.

Britain being our ONLY market, having gone to source their supplies from somewhere else, and still holding us a colony, thereby prevented us from selling produce to Germany, Japan, Italy or Russia.

This was how for 15 years, during and after the civil war Nigerian farmers had monumental agricultural produce with no one to export to. Prices went as low as zero (free of charge). People started giving away their cocoa, groundnuts and palm produce just so they won't watch them rot.


In the North, farm animals were fed with groundnuts ad libitum and there was even excess to throw away.


In the South West, cocoa was destroyed by burning because there were no cocoa processing plants or chocolate factories in Nigeria back then.

That was our own great depression. That was when people started leaving farming for other jobs which were virtually inexistent.

Hundreds of thousands signed up as soldiers to fight in the war to earn a living.


It took 2 decades before Nigerian farmers realised that our days of glory as agricultural produce exporters had come to an end.


Our farmers began to clear off export crops from their farms to produce Maize, Yam, Cassava, Plantain and Beans.

That was how they survived on the margin of life till fortunately Crude Oil came along and saved our lives.


TODAY WE SAY OIL IS A CURSE.



We may want to investigate how much was in our Federation Account and our Foreign Reserves when we were exporting Groundnuts, Palm Oil, Cocoa and Cotton? Perhaps $30 million. How would Nigeria have sustained herself on that kind of annual income?


Then why not investigate how much Nigerians were earning as farmers for Britain about 1.50 per month? Which today would amount to about 2.5 (N650). Which you would claim was enough to sustain a man's family.



Nigeria was used as the farmland of Britain for more than 70 years, and some people are celebrating it as the time of our lives.

Let's not forget that we were also paying taxes to the British Crown.


If this Groundnut money Developed Nigeria, built roads all over the place and electrified the entire Nigeria, then where did those Roads, Airports, Bridges and Electricity Transformers disappear to? Abi the curse of Crude Oil made them vanish too?



Please let us study matters properly before shouting everywhere that Crude Oil has been a curse.


Crude Oil is the only thing that survived us up to this point if not we would have long been completely SOMALISED.



How will these oil hungry countries not claim that Crude Oil is a curse?

When Magareth Thatcher's son, Sir Mark Thatcher will be hopping from one African country to the other plotting Military Coups so that the British Merchants who sponsor him will come and plunder resources,
When the CIA is busy sailing across the Gulf of Guinea to supply free M-16 and M-60 Machine Guns to MEND so that they can carry on Bunkering Crude Oil and selling to Halliburton, why won't they use their media to condition our psychology into thinking that our resource are a curse so that they can bundle everything we have at the cheapest possible price. From what I'm seeing some people post in here, CNN and BBC have really done their job well.



I've personally heard that Diamonds are forever and Diamonds are a girl's best friend, but CNN pulled a new one in a documentary they made where they claimed Diamonds are a curse to Sierra Leone.

Diamonds a Curse! If you leave all these Oyibo people, they will say all the resources in Africa are all curses and evil spells.


The year that breathable oxygen will become a scarce commodity, they will say the air in Africa is our curse so that we will let them cart it away.
When they will need mass organ transfers, they will come and tell us that our left kidneys are a curse too.





When will Nigerians and Africans grow up? When will we realise that we taught these people all the tricks they're now pulling on us?

When are we going to start executing people like Mark Thatcher anytime they are caught plotting coups in Africa for their countries. A man knighted for nothing else than the number of African countries he has destabilized in order to enrich the British Empire at a cheap cost of African lives.

When will Nigerians realise that even the Bakassi issue was a ploy to see Nigeria and Cameroon start a war that would last the next 30 years and allow Shell, Halliburton, Mobil and Total come to siphon all the Crude Oil in Nigeria, Cameroon, Bakassi and even Equatorial Guinea at a cost of 1 AK-47 for 100 barrels of Crude Oil.

When will you people wake us and stop thinking like sheep?

I'll believe in God and that he loves me.

You're so polite the way you post. And yes I read peoples minds by their body language and I'm not the only one that does it.

What difference does it make if all the Indians in the UK flocked there in 1761?

Thank God. All those ones no go see National Cake to chop from.

You heard wrong. Better stop listening to such rumours or else you may end up roasting your own son.

Can you imagine the level of backwardness we're talking about. Witches and wizards that are totally helpless to a degree that they are physically tortured and burn.

The Pastors and the children's parents should face charges. This is nothing different from Pastor King only that the Pastor acted by proxy.

Tribune has spoken abi? I bloody hearsay newspaper.

How many human beings still read all those kinds of papers?

So they think that by pushing these fantastic rumours, they can increase their market share. Goodluck to them sha.

@Imam bin Imam

it was for being too honest with the moderator.

@aisha2

I've been doing a lot of reading and besides I was banned for lack of compliance with the status quo.

Anyhow, I'm back for a bit.

Okay, you now live in Maitama where there are adequate amenities so much so that you don't need to carry a loud speaker to enjoy them.


So why were you initially trying to pretend as if there was anything peculiar or isolated about what obtained in Badore?


You're just a bloody pretender and a liar who will never admit independently that something good is happening in this country.


You are enjoying this wind of change yet you want to deceive people to think nothing is happening anywhere. Such an attitude is diabolical.


Someone like you can sit down among beggars and be lamenting after finishing two extra-large servings of fried rice and whole chickens at Golden Gate Restaurant.

Learn to say things as they are. If things are right with you, say they are don't try to pretend. It won't get you anywhere.

A sweet wind of change is blowing and we have just caught somebody redhanded who is enjoying the wind, yet portraying otherwise.