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If we can find a National team mgr with ambitions and mgr skill, the next 10 yrs can S.Eagles rule Africa again like the'94 set did.
These boys are really young, tasted success early and moving up to greater things. May God help us with NFF not to waste the great times we can already see ahead.

aljpimp:
I wonder why Nigerians run away from the truth....just check the activities of our youth these days and ask yourself where they get their money and maintain their luxury...is it that easy in naija

No Nigerian is proud of Yahoo Yahoo biz, but its not only Nig in scam. Many other African, especially Ghanaians, are hiding under the Nigerian scam tag.
Italians scammers are well known to the British Police to specialize in scamming British retirees before yahoo yahoo boys emerge. Scam is glober so don't tie Nigerian name to it.

When our people don finish with this American Olodo eh, the next time him hear Nig...., him go take cover....African-Americans are usually more anti Africa than white Americans

judecares1:
U cud ve asked,who were d PDP pple dat asked him 2 resign?

FFK...iS among the first, don't deny him now. search previous posts on the forum some days back..
FFK Rejects Ali Modu's Appointment As PDP Chairman,he Founded Boko Haram

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judecares1:
D APC led govt are afraid of him dat is y dey call him Boko haram sponsor

You see how ignorant you people are? The opposition has come from among his party right from the day he was selected to lead them, they have been divided since. Even so top members of PDP have even requested their part BOT to reject from the beginning but ignoramus fellows like you just type anything that comes to your minds because you are in pains.

Nothing in these pictures shows that the building is an orphanage, no sign board, no picture of the orphans and their guardians and maids etc.. only the politicians why? another deception

Adopted
It is either I do not understand economics and how exchange rates work or a vast majority of us Nigerians still don’t get how we have wrecked our country with our own curious choices. Just this morning I was listening to the radio and the lady on air went on and on about how she thought CBN governor Godwin Emefiele was incompetent and should be sacked because the naira was now exchanging at 309 or so to the USD. That view pretty much echoes the sentiments expressed by many people I know and it amazes me that there are Nigerians who actually think there is some magic POLICY that can make the Naira strong in the near term. If my economics and my understanding of the way the world works are right, then that is as far from the truth as Jesus Christ is black.
The simple fact of the matter is that apart from oil that accounts for over 90% of our revenues, we really don’t have much of an economy. We hardly produce anything, we import even toothpicks, so exactly what policy is going to be implemented that will turn Nigeria into a top exporting economy in the near term? Where are our Apples, IBMs, Disneys, GMs, General Electrics, Coca Colas, Empire State buildings, Statues of Liberties, Lockheeds, Citibanks, JP Morgans, ExxonMobils, NBAs, Super Bowls etc? Let me bring that closer home.
There was a time long ago when Nigeria had a truly strong economy and the naira was one to the dollar – even exchanged for higher than the USD, but that Nigeria is not this Nigeria. Sadly that Nigeria was laid by the British, and this Nigeria (if you don’t believe in the nonsensical imperialist conspiracies like me) – fueled by the DAMAGING Indigenisation Decree, has been the creation of us Nigerians.Back then we had a booming economy.
We were either the top, or among the top exporters, of timbre, cocoa, groundnuts, rubber, palm oil, etc, in the world. Nigerians not only holidayed at home in their villages, at Yankari Games Reserve, at Obudu Cattle Ranch, at Oguta Lake, at Ikogosi springs, at Gurara Falls, at Mambilla Platueau, etc, we attracted international tourists who brought in loads of foreign exchange. Even Nigerian schools were foreign exchange earners because they attracted foreign students. We had different car assembly plants – Peugeot, Volkswagen, Anamco etc. Nigerian government officials only bought vehicles assembled in Nigeria for official cars. We had a thriving sports industry.
We were not Man United or Chelsea fans, we were Rangers or IICC fans. We had the Nduka Odizors, people made money from sports. We also had companies like Lennards and Bata producing school shoes in their thousands, we had the thriving Nigerian Airways and the Aviation School in the north that produced some of the best pilots in the world. In those days if you were brilliant you were respected much more than the crass money-miss-road contractors of today. Most of the Aje Butters I knew had fathers who were university dons. Back then it meant something to ‘know book’. Our textile industry was alive and well.
Just recently I watched a news report on the textile industry in Nigeria on CCTV News. Though the main focus was on the comatose status of the industry, I was stunned by the gigantic Kaduna Textile Mill built in 1957. I could go on and on.
Today however, no thanks to our parents (and we must call them out the way Wole Soyinka did his generation) and many of us (and we should be remembered for failing our children if we continue like this), we have destroyed everything. Today for instance Nigerian football (which comes easy to me obviously) doesn’t appeal to us, we have to fly across thousands of miles to watch ‘our’ clubs play. Every year we collectively burn billions of Naira being fans of clubs that give us nothing back, but some ‘entertainment value’ – simple pleasures for which we are ready to destroy the future of our children. Well people, payback time is here. Even with our ta-she-re money we all want to wear designer clothes and carry designer bags, Armani, Givenchy, Louis Vuitton etc.
We all want to drive jeeps with American specs, our children must now school overseas and acquire the necessary accents to come back home and bamboozle their ‘bush and crass’ contemporaries that they left behind. Who holidays in Nigeria anymore, is there Disneyland here? No one buys made-in-Nigeria school bags for their children, after all no Superman or Incredible Hulk or Cinderella on them.
We are no longer top exporters of anything and the demise of oil means we have zilch… zero. A country of 170m fashion-conscious people has no textile industry. We take delight in showing how our made-in-Switzerland Aso Ebi is different class to everyone else’s. When we help our musicians grow and pay them millions, they repay us by immediately shipping the monies overseas to produce their “i-don-dey-different-level”music videos. It makes no difference that distinctly Zulu dancers are dancing to a Nigerian highlife song. As stars concerned they also wed and holiday overseas to impress us all. All the musicians who acknowledge their Ajegunle roots now speak in a cocktail of strange accents to symbolise how much they have blown their monies overseas.
Were we a more serious people, the highly popular Kingsway Stores of the past would probably have a thousand outlets pan Nigeria today supporting a massive agriculture industry among others, but today we have the likes of SPAR, Shoprite, dominating the retail industry while Kingsway is dead. And we Nigerians make it a special point to shop from the Oyinbos who have ‘cleaner shops’, ‘better this and better that’. For our personal pleasure we don’t mind them dominating us in our own backyard and shipping proceeds overseas.
I could go on and on, but I don tire. Even as you are reading this, stop for a moment and look around you. What you see will probably explain why we are lucky it is not N1000 to the USD yet. And don’t think for a moment that it cannot get there. Just continue to wear your Armani gear and Swiss-made lace, continue to spend your money on Man United, Arsenal, Chelsea and Barca and encourage your children to do same. (My article tomorrow in my Saturday column in This Day is on the Nigerian champions Enyimba FC – Nigeria’s most successful club – not having a sponsor, yet Nigerian brands pay over N600m to Man United and Arsenal for sponsorship to impress us.) Ehhh, no problem, continue to tell me the NPFL is rubbish or the clubs should clean up their act if they want sponsorship, mo gbo . Don’t curtail your interest in choice wines ( we were the number one champagne consumers in the world in 2015), continue to love your American specs, cheer the education ministry for letting schools sink to pitiable levels, don’t fight them to improve our schools, don’t chide them for letting schools drop Nigerian history and embrace British, America and whatever else curricula.
Carry on with your love of French wines and Chinese silk, don’t bother about Jamiu Alli when there is Roger Federer. Stock up on your Italian, American, British products which you cannot live without, including the ‘baby soft’ toilet rolls produced only in that small unique village in England – the days are long gone since you were a broke student who used wet newspapers to wipe your butt. Don’t even consider holidaying in Nigeria, it’s too dangerous – you have to fulfill your dream of being Nigeria’s Henry Ford. Don’t listen to people like me who have a wardrobe full of only cheap adire that is actually cheaper than just one of your Tom Ford blazers. Please keep dressing in fine silk made in some exotic place so you can be addressed accordingly.
Finally keep letting corrupt leaders who have looted your commonwealth and shipped all the monies overseas get away because to attack them does not fit your political narrative. Let us continue with the fine life, let us all continue to work for Oyinbo. But don’t forget that there is payback time and Emefiele is not your problem. Time for us all to look in the mirror and take responsibility.
By Dr Lekky Okotete

joyandfaith:
when all health workers open clinics and treat patients as well as performing surgical procedures without being licensed to do them.

Another wrong assumptions, go and see who are those performing surgeries in obscure places, they are greedy student MDs, and residents MDs and fresh grad MDs hassling for extra cash. Your colleagues employ untrained SCH leavers and train them to do unlawful practices in order to save them money.
Who employ auxiliary nurses in ptivate hospitals when they are qualified nurses? Nowadays Residents who should be properly supervised are left to work alone while their consultants are running from hospital to the other on govt paid time. One those unsupervised residents will become consultants with huge deficiencies and the cycle continues.

Congratulations, it's always the case with many Nigerian employers because they lie to themselves that there are no jobs out there for you, they intentionally underpay you and pretend that that's all you are worth. Never look back, let them know that there are still jobs out there for those whose skill are worth it.

IVORY2009:
Fayose might be right, this Buhari's govt, do not follow the laws before arresting, they accuse someone of theft, take the accused to court and them before searching for proof, this is just like intimidation. olisa Mentu's case was an example.

When those people you are defending now stole your future and destiny did they consult the law?

Marshallian:

Search for and compare Ogbemudia picture at your age and see if you look better than he was, and pray that you should live to be about 80yrs his present age and see if you would be as fine. though you may not have seen let alone fought in the civil war in which he fought as Lt. in the Nigerian Army.
some are idle and frustrated in life, hence you just type or copy nonsense in the forum.

After Ogbemudia, the most physical development by a govnor in Edo after Bendel state in Oshiomhole. Ambrose Ali did well mostly in Education.

Realhommie:
Ok, noted...

BTW, what's do yu hv to say abt the SE's coach Sunday Oliseh?

I am nervous about his ability to succeed in a short time to restore confidence in us and the players. On a long term, if we can afford the patience to wait he might to succeed. His lack coaching experience is why he is struggling. He has passion and enthusiasm for the team, his in intelligent, European Coaching licence holder but experience is his challenge.
If you look at the crop of young players coming through and playing well in European clubs at the moment, the next 3yrs could see Nigeria doing the 90's S.Eagles success, but again it will depend on quality management of the players and team.

[quote author=kilokeys post=43027800]He used 30 naira bullet to kill that animal he sold for 1000 naira..
Thats a better profit margin

And u didn't consider other condiments she used, the staff she has to pay, cooking fuel, shop rent, taxes and other miscellaneous... Most importantly, nothing is better than beer and peppersoup.. U can't quantify fun in terms of cash my bro..


But we If digress


If postulate on the hunters' work from the story, you forgot to calculate the nos of hours the hunter walked in forest, the risk of walking in the midst of wild animals where he could easily have become the hunted. if he hunted at night, he used night hunting light which cost him some money buy, recharge and maintain. Then profit margin drops.
Of course, this is not the morale of the story just a digression.

Realhommie:
Nice one..
Nduka Ugbade may be technically sound, yes i agree, and also may be very in scouting, i do not dispute that.. But coaching is a whole different ball game all together, does he hv the right temperament to relate with those chaps at that age grade? To be short, i doubt he has all the ingredients to succeed with that team, IMO, he should remain an analyst, a scout and probably work from the background or on the bench at most...

Manu Garba for the super eagles job in the future? Well, anything is possible and only change is constant. But going by what we saw and judging from his performance with the last U-20 side (Flying Eagles), he just doesn't hv it... Not refined enough to be @ the top, lacks the technical know how, typical African mentality of high handedness to instill discipline which in this age is crude... Look bro, with the array of stars and quality of players @ his disposal in that tournament he had no reason whatsoever, no excuse at all to fail, he got it all wrong from the word go... So i beg to differ he could manage the super eagles but like i said, change is constant and anything is possible.. If he upgrades and the opportunity avails then i can only wish him luck..
This is my own 2 cent.

We are in agreement on his abilities in the seniors levels hence, i said he should go and build himself up for that level in the future...

Na only him dey cry say him dey comot, not his staff. EFCC should go and see his books, he messed up what Akunyili built owed staff salaries and entitlements, gave Licenses to undeserving companies for money.
I hope he has settled his staff's allowances that he sat on that made them go on strike last Nov/Dec?
Good riddance to Bad rubbish. Just EFCC went to sleep in the last 6yrs, so NAFDAC did.

Realhommie:
Heard Manu Garbu was offered the golden eaglets job be he declined to take the offer, sources say he's aggrieved...

Manu Garba's Eaglets were more consistent and exciting than Amuneke's both won their tournaments.
For the sake of continuity, Garba was promoted with his boys to U-20 but with all the array of talent he scouted and built he was at a lose at the U-20. He just didn't grow enough run the show at that level even with the boys he groomed over three yrs.
now that Amuneke has repeated Garba's fit at U-17, should be allowed to grow with them and show if he can bring back that elusive U-20. Its a good move by NFF.
If Sia Sia can do well in the Olympics with his U-23 this summer, he would be in line to replace Oliseh should Oliseh fail to improve and deliver the results because a large pool of young players are emerging from the last 2 sets of Successful Eaglets and Flying Eagles and U-23 Eagles. this young hungry youth Champions will be easier to manage than the last rebelling generation that sabotage Sia Sia in 2011. Sia Sia would style of attacking football which Manu Garba's Eaglet played in 2013 and in the African U-20 Nations Cup last can be built on.
I wish to see Nduka Ugbade as the next U-17 coach. He is very technically sound and good in scouting.
Manu Garba may have to wait a little and take time to build himself up for the future S.Eagles job since age is still in his favour.

sarzy:
Datigbogirl is a paradigm of what Nigerian doctors are- extremely proud, insensitive and irresponsible. So she thinks people are eying doctors because in her biased and local mind, everyone applied for Medicine and couldn't make it! The thing is, it is only in Nigeria that people hype Medicine so much. And that is because of the unemployment and poverty everywhere. In countries like Japan and China, where technology is taking the lead, engineers and entrepreneurs are way more honoured! Imagine people developing computer software, creating automobile designs, constructing skyscrapers and so on. The people earn more than doctors and are the backbone of the nation's economy. But due to the unemployment and underdevelopment in Nigeria, Medicine seems to be the safest place to attach yourself to if you ant quick money and employment; hence it gets special attention. It's not her fault, let her try practising in other countries and mistreat a patient if her as won't be sued immediately! All what Nigerian patients overlook in the doctors are never overlooked abroad. Meanwhile, unemployment is gradual affecting Nigerian doctors also. Ask those who just graduated and are seeking internship spaces!

Thank you for your knowledgeable response. They keep basking in self glorification to the detriment of the society they are meant to serve at the expense of all. Gone are the days when people study medicine for the passion of saving lives. Now, its about the money and pride...shame!
i love what i do, i read with passion and i do my job with the same passion because i can put smile of people's faces when i have attended them.

lookandlaff:
what exactly do you think the job of the budget office is? why do we have so many people employed in the budget office? When you employ a driver and you tell him you are traveling from Lagos to Ibadan, half way through the journey petrol finishes or the engine knocks because there was no engine oil in the engine, won't you sack the driver, is it your job to check engine Oil when you have a driver? you will because although you own the car you have employed the driver and part of his responsibilities is to make sure the car is fit for the journey including checking the engine oil and petrol. The driver is a professional so are the people in the budget office, the job of the budget office is to go through and vet all the submissions and prepare the budget for approval, they have been caught in their game. Plus there is a heirachy and they would have signed off on it. Everybody along the chain trusts that people below them have done the jobs they are paid to do, that's the way the system works. If people do their jobs and people are honest, t is not Buhari or any minister's job to go through a budget and say why are you buying 100 computers here, why are you buying 100 a/cs there, the job of a president and minister is to provide policy direction and this is how much we have to spend, it is the role of the civil servants to come up with the expenditure plan (budget) and if they are fraudulent prople like most are, then you get scandals like these. The biggest obstacle to development we have is the civil service crooks, theyve been doing this for decades. So please leave Buhari and Ministers out of it, I'm sure over the course of the next four years they will make their own blunders and you can chastise them for those.

God bless your common sense and use of knowledge of processes for the sincere purpose.
Nigerian youths whose future has been sold over years of visionless rulership, are defending their "heroes of theft" just to hide their pride of political loss with share hatred and denial.
what a new disease afflicting the youth.

datigbogirl:
"A mere cancer screening"

You are a joke.... D more you guyz look for something to hold on to to disparage d Nigerian doctor, the more you make foools of yourselves.

Baby doctor thinking still full of the childish assumptions that everybody else wanted to be a doctor but failed... the more you remain with that parochial assumption that you overcame where others failed the more a peacock you remain. if everybody were a physician who would make their cars, their phones, construct their roads and bridges, who would edit their books and print them, who would fabricate and manufacture their instruments...the most gifted physicians and other professionals in the world are the most humble. its the mediocres and empty one that makes the whole noise hence the sorry state the Nigerian Health care delivery system.

datigbogirl:
What nonsense are you saying? Even developed countries with all dr advanced gadgets still have patients dying and have dr asses getting sued.

You walk around mad and let your anger and jealousy blind you...

Well datz your problem cos Doctors will continue to be the leaders while i walk around playing the violin behind you.

Isn't parochial that lots of MD thinks everybody dreamt of being a medical doctor?
It's the most unintelligent assumption for you guys to put forward. Is everybody science oriented, does every science student apply for medicine in Jamb? It's a complex to put such arguments.
You should be ashamed that billions of Naira are exported abroad yearly to places like India, for medical treatment because of your failures. This is just one such cases, a mere cancer screening resulted in death. How many ordinary people die daily and nobody hears of it. How many are covered up by mgt to avoid embarrassment or when the people are too poor to push for autopsy and fight for justice.
Healthcare professionals ought to be humble, most of you in recent decades have become peacocks bethraying the virtues of the profession.

The generation social media lacking in knowledge of history. Nneka the pretty serpent recks lives, pretty girls know the charm they possess hence they are green snakes in green grass. Deadly as viber looking harmless as a python.
For sympathizers, if she had forged document to empty your uncle's account at a your uncle was to finally fulfill his long overdue promise. You would swaer the deadly juju for her.

Who would be surprised when the Nigerian Medical Association has become a political body oppressing other health care professions rather than press for quality medical education and hospital and health care excellence.
When the best medical experts have been frustrated out by influential(politically connected) mediocres physicians.
Why is hospitals and health care in such a disarray? When All Health commissioners in all states are medical doctors,
When all Health advisory committees to all govt at every level is almost if all medical doctors
All ministers of health are medical doctors.
If a system is failing when only one set of professionals are in charge at all levels, wether administative or o5herwise, we should ask why?
It has become an issue dominance rather than team work that health care systems are meant to be. It's now a matter who gets the money....

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2 female VCs, first time ever....

simplemach:
all these long grammer................
I smell jealousy and envy. the girl mouth don dey pass your own, so you are warning her to slow down on her speed to fame.
May God take her to her destination at the top and guide her there.

A pure case of lack of comprehension and rush say something that is born out of ignorance.

These are the Association of migrant party followers. They came to Oshiomhole with their " share the money" mentality but Oshiomhole did not share the money, hence they are frustrated and decided to return to their root to see how they can unseat his party. Oshiomhole has been raise the internally generated revenue of the state accruing to the govt, which before him, individuals were collecting and sharing with Lucky. That's what the big politicians are eyeing.
If you look closely, its all blackmail they are resorting to in order to get sympathy from people.
An average edo youth is lazy, looking for enjoyment where he has not worked.
All the huge remittances from the hrad-working Edos in diaspora, much of it is spent foolishly by our relatives in Benin. They are always looking for where the next enjoyment is coming from.
Most of are bandwagon followers, no deep analytical thing. They are easily swayed about by sentimental waves. I know my people, I was born and educated in Benin, until I reached Lagos my eye and mind opened and I understood the problem of my people.

She is "talking" to someone who has been too slow to hear her voice

raayah:
She is dressed very badly and should be advised by HR to leave but MEN should have self control too, they are not babies. Afterall, we women see men without shirt and short knickers all the time and we don't harrass them.

Have you not heard that men are wired to be attracted by we see and women are wired to attracted by what they hear. Therefore, they dress to get a man's attention and the man gets to talk to her in the language her dress has "spoken"to him. if you don't know this facts of life, its either you are pretending or still a 12 yr old girl.

Black Caribbean men do 40% of household chores
Black Caribbean men do 40% of household chores CREDIT: ALAMY

Radhika Sanghani
White men can be the worst at sharing household chores with women a new study shows.

While white British men do around six hours of housework per week, black Caribbean and black African men do more than seven.

The study, conducted by the Institute for Social and Economic research, found that on average men from all ethnic groups do around 30 per cent of the housework (around six hours a week) while women do the rest (an average of 14 hours a week.)

But black Caribbean men pick up around 40 per cent of the housework ( around 7.12 hours every week) while their female partners spend 13.5 hours on domestic chores.

In contrast, Pakistan men were the worst at sharing housework with women, undertaking just 4.85 hours a week - only 17 per cent of the housework.

Black Caribbean men have the least traditional gender-role attitudes of all groups
Black Caribbean men have the least traditional gender-role attitudes of all groups CREDIT: ALAMY


Indian men spend almost seven hours a week cleaning and cooking, but as their partners do more than 20 hours a week, this accounts for only around a quarter of the overall load.

The researchers, who analysed almost 30,000 couples in the UK, found that white British men were also less than equal with housework doing just 31 per cent.

“[It] may reflect a strong history and culture of black Caribbean women being in paid employment making combining family life and paid work the norm for this group.”


“An interesting finding is that it is not necessarily white British couples who are always most egalitarian in their division of domestic labour or in their gender-role attitudes,” they concluded.

“In particular black Caribbean men have the least traditional gender-role attitudes of all groups.”

Researchers suggested this could be due to a “legacy of egalitarian family forms combined with the experience of racial inequality leads them to be more critical of gender inequality than other ethnic groups”.

Women are still left doing majority of the housework
Women are still left doing majority of the housework CREDIT: ALAMY


But it could also be due to how normal it is for their female partners to be in paid employment: “[It] may reflect a strong history and culture of black Caribbean women being in paid employment making combining family life and paid work the norm for this group.”

"White British couples are not necessarily the most modern and egalitarian in their outlook on housework.”
Heather Laurie


The researchers found that on average women with degrees and those in paid employment did a significantly lower share of housework.

Pakistani men were found to have the most ‘traditional’ views while black Caribbean men had the most egalitarian attitudes.

Professor Heather Laurie, who co-conducted the study, told the Guardian: “We found both differences and similarities among ethnic groups, but were surprised to see that in multicultural Britain today, white British couples are not necessarily the most modern and egalitarian in their outlook on housework.”




http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/life/black-men-are-better-than-white-guys-at-sharing-household-chores/?ref=yfp

Ghana U17 coach Paa Kwesi Fabian has revealed that the country used players who were above the required age to lift the 1991 and 1995 Fifa U17 World Cups held in Italy and Ecuardo respectively.

The Black Starlets, under German coach Otto Pfister became only the first African country after Nigeria to lift the title thanks to Emmanuel Duah’s 77th minute strike to break the hearts of Spain in the 1991 final.

The West Africans failed to defend the title in the next edition but came back strongly to reclaim the title in 1995.

However, after the introduction of the Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Ghana have failed to make any meaningful impact in the competition, and was banned by Confederation of African Football (Caf) last year, after midfielder Isaac Twum failed several MRI tests.

“Sometimes people make comparisons [of my team to the previous squad] to the ones that won titles. In 1991, we won this title and also in 1995 but those days are quite different from now,” Fabian told Starr FM.

“This is because during those days, anybody can be paraded as an Under-17 player and they went to play and win the title.

“I wouldn't confirm that we cheated but it’s obvious that some of them were over 17 years. Last time, I heard Yaw Preko [who was part of the 1991 squad] on air saying that they were asked to change their ages and things like that. I heard him on air and it's not me who said it,” he added.

Fabien has selected a 40-man squad after his nationwide tour which will be reduced for the upcoming African Youth Championship qualifiers later in the year.




https://uk.sports.yahoo.com/news/ghana-cheated-age-lift-fifa-181700408.html?soc_src=copy