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Hmmm...i used to think that its only the SW people that are fetish and that are into rituals

Nigerians and titles are like bread and butter;that is why you will always see people answering Hon Chief Dr XYZ, Efrebor 1 of ABC land and so on. This bring s to mind the issue of Babatunde Fowler who got an honorary doctorate from a non-accredited university but still stubbornly hanged on to it because he want to answer the title 'Dr'. I hope this does not haunt him at the senate screening because that alone raises questions about his values as an individual.
Our reps and senators should concern themselves more with laws to make the country better instead of all these trivialities.

What if he kon finish from Harvard or Cambridge

kinstunfad:
Hello, good people of Nairaland! I am presently in a dilemma, I currently work in a construction company with good pay but I got an offer with a Federal Govt teaching hospital, 1st, I don't know what their salary structure is like! Kind of confuse, advice needed!

What is the salary range in your construction coy?
What level are they giving u in the teaching hospital?(I can guess the salary from there)
Mostly importantly,what are your career goals?

Lolaabokoku:
ok tnx,,, have u seen me on fb?

Yeah! Hv added u

Lolaabokoku:
ok pls erase my my fb id for me, still showing in ur mentions

Done....Check your box

Have seen it. U can erase

Lolaabokoku:
email not responding sir

Kidding or serious. fbk id nko?

Lolaabokoku:
Then DoTheNeedful now

let me have your email then

Lolaabokoku:
not yet, u wan marry me

Yes...if it works out I need a wife .

https://fbcdn-video-m-a.akamaihd.net/hvideo-ak-xta1/v/t42.1790-2/10816426_10153103739059767_357968899_n.mp4?efg=eyJybHIiOjcwMCwicmxhIjoyNzY3fQ%3D%3D&rl=700&vabr=389&oh=18a9ae5a325efdcabaa10227f7c152f2&oe=55CF8365&__gda__=1439661836_7e1187f4a635e0e696b83688ad1dcf03

The guy no wan gree at all

Lolaabokoku:
of course

Alright...You are a proud teacher then. Your moniker though. Are u married?

Lolaabokoku:
yes! U know the place

Yeah. Did u school there?

Lolaabokoku:
50k? Pls tell me more

You took the picture on your profile in FCE Akoka abi?

I no trust these two people. The first time I will see Iara smile na for Okorocha arms . Hope say their body and mind no dey communicate sha. I no fit separate fight between two grandpas because of woman ooo

Coaches dey get Special Assistant too
Wake me up when he appoints his chief of staff

braine:
You really had to post photos of the dead?! What's wrong with you people?

You really have to open the thread to know how the dead look like Talking about hypocrisy

OZAOEKPE:
I know that the truth hurts most times, but I have to say it. To me soyinka is just a lucky man, for him to have won a nobel price with works like,"d lion and the jewel", he should be thankful.
He cannot and can never reach the height and peak chinua achebe reached.
Before you quote me, please google when he won that "lucky" nobel price.

If the Nobel prize happen to be a Nigerian prize some of you will have screamed tribalism and marginalization. What has WS done to some of you. You just hate him for no reason. When we question why,some of you cant reply. The best some of you will say is that he introduced cultism. Many of his haters are from a particular part of the country. If you will hate Awolowo for conniving with Gowon against Biafra, WS stood by you. I hope you read that in your books. Why the hate

Donclaracuzo:
I disagree with you on this. You can know more about Gbenga Daniel on this his personal web link https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gbenga_Daniel to know about him. You can't say who is he cos, he is wealthier, famous, connected and more prominent than you!

You want to tell me you know OGD better than I do because of one wikipedia thrash? Try and research on wikipedia itself then you will know anybody can put anything there. You must be his family member to know him better than i do.
I just hope you are not making this comment based on APC/PDP rubbish here on NL

bingala:
TOPIC FOR TODAY'S GOSPEL (11 / 08 /2015)
FROM RADIO # BIAFRA LIVE BROADCAST BY
(PRINCE NNAMDI KANU).
TAKE ALL THE OIL AND GAS IN #BIAFRA LAND
FOR FOUR YEARS, AND LEAVE US # BIAFRAN 'S
ALONE,
IF WE DON'T SURPASS YOU IN SIX MONTHS
CALL ME A BASTARD ..
AN UNDILUTED GOSPEL AND A CHALLENGE
FROM (NNAMDI KANU) TO HAUSA/FULANI
YORUBA OLIGARCHY, POWER MONGERS.
I DO AGREE WITH HIM 101%....
DO YOU AGREE WITH HIM?
BY........... Bingala

Each time i read anything from Nnamdi Kanu, i just dont fail to remember Animal Farm by George Orwell

Who is Gbenga Daniel Is he not a mere educated tout who was lucky to become Ogun governor through OBJ's influence? Is he not just ritualist and a blood-thirsty opportunist? He should sit down. He is not useful to the society apart from maybe his family

tonychristopher:
This piece was prompted by what I saw as benign ignorance amongst some of our Ibo folks and because such ignorance is music to the ears of some other people and Yoruba in particular. In more than one occasion my friends and other Ibo have advanced the argument that if Ibo was that smart,[b] how come Yorubas dominated the commerce industry in Nigeria? [/b]What they meant were the domination of Yoruba in the banking, insurance industries, Coco Cola and some other surviving industries. In one particular occasion a friend revealed to me that he recently discovered that the reason why some Yoruba are so wealthy is because they were smart enough to invest their money in corporate stocks and bonds (not realizing that Yoruba actually stolen those corporations) while Ibo is busy engaging in buying and selling. The Yoruba will like people to continue to believe that story, that it was because they were smart that they were able to do all these great investments in the commerce industry. One relevant question that I always managed to ask my interlocutors is whether they were aware of the indigenization decree of 1972, master minded by Awolowo and the Yoruba and the ramifications of that policy, as will be expected, the answer ranged from, I have heard of it but does not understand what it actually meant to I have not heard of the policy. Listening to this ignorance induced perspective from my friends made my heart to skip a beat, realizing that the task of bridging this information gap is not going to be a child’s play. What is disconcerting is that some in their benign induced ignorance believe that the effect of indigenization is inconsequential at this time because it happened about forty years ago. This piece is therefore for those that are educable and for those that have the capacity to appreciate the magnitude and most importantly for those that can relate that gigantic economic event that reshaped the economic foundation on which Nigerian economy settled on after the British/Biafran war and as well as relate our present economic malaise to that economic foundation engendered by indigenization.

There is no doubt that most people, particularly those that do not have either basic or international economics background are overwhelmed by the subject of INDIGENIZATION OF FOREIGN COMPANIES IN NIGERIA because of their inability to understand the economics of it and the efficacies to make the necessary connections and relate it to the present economic doldrums, some simply brush it aside or worse, simple minimize its far reaching implications particularly on the Ibo. In so doing, majority of us dabble into analysis of how terrible Ibo has managed their affairs since after the civil war, while leaving out a huge chunk of the elements that need to be factored into their analysis. The unspeakable effect of the policy of indigenization on the Ibo was wicked and dastardly. The economic damage on the Ibo is impossible to calculate. The psychological toll on the Ibo is still reverberating amongst the Ibo today and creating identity crisis. Some folks will argue that we should drop the subject because it happened forty years ago, which is equivalent to saying that because slavery, Jim crow and the holocaust happened years ago, and for that reason, they have no relevance in today’s analysis. How can any credible analysis of American history not include slavery and its implications, or how can any Jewish history not include the holocaust and its implications and effects, but that is what some folks want us to do, to avoid or forget one of the most devastating economic policies that changed the economic landmark of Nigeria, second to the genocide of more than a million Ibo committed by the same man, Awo, and still arrive at any meaningful analysis. I believe that the incredulity that any ethnic group is capable of visiting such devastation on another is still an obstacle that the subject is struggling against and must overcome. It is not that most people do not know what happen, it is simply that they do not what to believe that it happened because it is mind bending. I also believe that if we do not tell the story over and over, the Yorubas will not tell and neither will the Hausa tell it, as a matter of fact they always wish that it will go away. So whether they like it or not, we must continue to broadcast what happened until people start to understand the effect of the policy not only on the Ibo but on the nation as a whole. Suffice to say that after Awo and the Yoruba succeeded in executing the indigenization decree and became overnight millionaires, many Ibo packed their bags and left Lagos to the east –ala Ibo, where they shortly died out of heart break because some of them also suffered the deprivation of their properties due to abandon property policy in Lagos and Port harcourt.

WHAT ENGENDERED THE INDIGENIZATION POLICY?

It is no more news worthy to point out that before the civil war that Ibo out of their capacity for honesty, to work hard, to produce, to innovate, to manage, create and persevere were able to penetrate all facets of Nigerian endeavor, when the British used merit as a yard stick. It is an irrefragable fact that even Yoruba would not dare challenge that fact, if not, what started the Yoruba hate, envy and jealousy against the Ibo in the first place, Yoruba and Hausa claimed that Ibo was dominating everything in the country but what they will not acknowledge publicly was the fact that the British were making the decisions about who to hire by their own standard and not by Ibo standard and that Ibo was good at what they did and better than them. The Yoruba and Hausa wanted not only equal opportunity they also wanted equal outcome regardless of effort and everyone knows that that is impossible.

There is one very important fact in my analysis that I want everyone to get, and that is that before the civil war, Nigeria as a nation did not have an economic of its own. Let me say it again, that Nigeria as a nation before the British/Biafran civil war did not have an economy of its own. I emphasized that point in other to say that whatever seemed like Nigerian economy were British owned. Put differently, if you excluded few of the regional cooperatives and some joint ventures businesses which were mostly British engineered to make buying raw materials easy for the British, ever y other aspect of the economy were owned majorly by the British, even the military, given the fact that almost every military supply came from Britain. It is then save to say that British investment in Nigeria amounted to a great totality of Nigerian economy or that Nigerian economy was at that time synonymous to the total investment of the British.

Below, courtesy of Africa today are the list of some of the companies that constituted Nigerian economy before the war that the Yoruba stole in one swoop, spanning the insurance companies like Lloyd’s of London and all the banks in Nigeria owned one way or the other by the British. This is but a partial list of what constituted the British investment in Nigerian economy.

“Pharmaceutical Nigeria Plc ,May and Baker Nigeria Plc,Vitafoam Nigeria Plc,Wahum Nigeria Limited ,CAP Nigeria Plc , International Paints of West Africa [IPWA], Berger Paints Nigeria Plc, Berec Nigeria Limited, Kabelmetal, Nigeria Bottling Company Plc, Leventis Nigeria Plc ,West African Portland Cement Company,[Lafarge ],Wema Bank Nigeria Plc, Scoa Nigeria Plc ,CFAO Nigeria Plc, Cadbury Nigeria Plc, Wemaboard Estates, Odua Group, Livestock Feeds Nigeria Plc , Nigerian Breweries Plc, new nigerian Bank, Batta, Kingsway Stores, Crittal Hope (Nigeria) Limited, Mushin, Lagos State. Dunlop (Nig.) Industries Plc, Ikeja, Lagos State. Galvanising Industries Limited, Ikeja, Lagos State. Nigeria Construction & Water Resources Development Company Limited, Ibadan, Oyo State Nigerian Wire & Cable Plc, Ibadan, Oyo State Nigerite PLC, Ikeja, Lagos State Nipol Limited, Ibadan, Oyo State Odu'a Textile Industries Limited, Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti State Soleh Boneh Overseas (Nigeria) Limited, Ibadan, Oyo State Vono Products Plc, Mushin, Lagos State Wema Bank Plc, Marina, Lagos West African Portland Cement Plc, Ikeja, Lagos State Great Nigeria Insurance PLC, Ikoyi, Lagos State Glanvill Enthoven & Company Limited ◦Guinness (Nig.) Plc, Ikeja, Lagos State. ◦International Breweries Plc, Ilesa, Osun State. ◦Macmillian Publishers (Nig) Limited, Ilupeju, Lagos ◦Nestle Food (Nig) Plc, Ikeja, Lagos State ◦Nidogas Company Limited, Lagos State ◦Niger Mills Company Limited, Calabar, Cross River State ◦Nigerian Aluminium Extrusions Limited, Lagos ◦SKG-Pharma (Nig.) Limited, Lagos ◦Tower Aluminium (Nig.) Plc, Lagos ◦U. A. C. of Nigeria Plc., Lagos etc.

The necessity of inserting this partial list of the companies/assets that existed before the war was to give the reader a sense of the extent of what the issue is all about and who owned what and when. The Yoruba hardly owned much of anything or any of these assets listed above except in some regional joint cooperative ventures with the British.

The story went like this, before the war the Ibo dominated the economic work force followed by the Yoruba, when British/Biafran war started, Ibo, for their safety left their jobs in different parts of the country to return to the east, the Ibo land. After the end of the war, the Ibo went back to seek for their jobs that they left for security reasons, the Yoruba who took advantage and occupied the positions that Ibo left decided that they will not relinquish those position because according to the Yoruba, Ibo abandoned their positions and do not deserve their position back, reminiscent of the abandon property thievery in Port Harcourt River State and Lagos. However, a dynamic developed as Ibo every morning dressed up and went and occupied the lobbies of their different offices that they used to work in. Tell me, if this is not manifest bravery of the highest order ever exhibited by any group in Nigeria and we are talking about days and weeks immediately after the war was declared over. But the final say as to whether or not the positions that Ibo left for dire life was going to be declared abandoned rested on the British that owned these companies. As the back and forth went on, the British started angling to make an economic decision because they understood the difference between the Ibo worker and the Yoruba worker and the three years of the civil war made that difference even more crystal clear to the British, if not, why would the British bother to accommodate the Ibo after such a long time? What became clear to the Yoruba was that the British were willing to make extra provision to re-absorb the Ibo any way possible. Yoruba was not ready to tolerate any of that because they knew that it was a matter of time before the wheat will be separated from the shaft that Ibo will assume their prominent positions. In order to prevent the British from re-absorbing the Ibo into these British owned companies, the corporate Yoruba decided to solicit the help of Awolowo who was then the finance minister and chairman of the federal military council.

This is where a plan was hashed to wrest the control of these companies, consisting of banks, insurance companies, corporations of different kinds and types from the British. The best way Awo and his cabal found fit was to convince Gowon and the military leadership who in all probability have never had the word indigenization in their lives to promulgate the INDIGENIZATION DECREE in 1972 that stipulated that every foreign owned venture must transfer majority ownership to Nigerian indigenes within a year of the promulgation of the decree or they will forfeit the assets of the company to the Nigerian government. (Emphasis within a year) As expected, the British were caught off guide, not understanding the motive behind the policy, the British thought it was a dream or a joke that will go away, particularly given the fact that they just won the war against the Ibo for the Yoruba and Hausa. After exhausting six months out of the one year in their bid to reverse the decree, the British became frantic and concluded that they could not reverse the decree and went about trying to salvage whatever they could. What was worst was that the British did not even have enough time to evaluate the worth of their ventures because of the limited time the decree allowed, courtesy of Awo and cabal. The situation gave chaos a new name because the British were in chaos. So the first problem the British ran into was limited time that they couldn’t figure what the value of majority of their ventures were, they could not tell how much to sell them for. Mind you that this was happening within a year after the end of the civil war. At this time the Yoruba was running every conceivable federal ministries, departments and agencies plus all the corporations listed above and more that the British owned. It is important to point out that the north had little or no presence in the commerce economy of the country before the war and after the war except in the military leadership and infantry. The economy of the country was dominated by Ibo first and Yoruba second before the war. In order to solidify the economic dominance that the Yoruba attained during and after the war and to make their position even more potent in acquiring the British spoils, Awo as the finance minister and chairman of the federal military council and his Yoruba cabal decided to economically emasculate the Ibo understanding

a) That Yoruba was fully running every conceivable federal parastatals

b) That Yoruba was running every conceivable corporation that the British owned or had majority ownership as listed above.

c) That Yoruba was managing all the Nigerian banks, insurance corporations, National shipping line, Nigerian airways, Nigerian’s Ports authority, Nigerian Railways and all the ministries, Departments and Agencies conceivable.

Decided to destroy whatever was left of the Ibo and putting a finishing touch to it by

a) Stealing through confiscating all the millions of pounds that Ibo had in all the Nigerian banks

b) Offering every Ibo person £20 pounds regardless of how many millions they had in the Nigerian banks before the war.

c) Militarizing every part of Ibo land.

d) Rendering every Ibo without exception a pauper.

e) Banning every importation of stock fish and used clothes to deprive the Ibo of any economic ability to compete with the Yoruba in buying into the British assets.

When that day of infamy arrived for the British to start selling their assets, Igbo having been disenfranchised and emasculated in any and every way stood on the sideline watching the Yoruba in their glee as they scrambled to obtain loans from their Yoruba dominated banks to make the most minimal of offers to the British as there were no competitions. The British had no choice but to accept any offer as the alternative was losing everything to the federal government. The British lost pretty much all their investment to the Yoruba whose stock in trade is robbing and stealing any and everything they can get their hands on. Thousands of Yoruba became millionaires overnight and there was jubilation and owanbe all over Yoruba land. Yoruba had parties day and night and weekends. They closed streets to display their new found wealth as they partied. That day marked the economic death of Nigeria, that day marked the death of Nigerian’s aspiration to join the civilized world. The implication was enormous and it sent a shock wave throughout the Ibo land, It was a dark history day, it was a day of manifest wickedness and viciousness, Ibo was dumbfounded, the days that followed were days of economic , social and psychological morose and confusion that are still lingering today within the Ibo. It might be hard to accept but Awo got the Ibo good and the country as well, he brought the Ibo to his knees economically at least temporarily and Ibo has never recovered from that one blow seven akpus in any appreciable way but Nigeria as whole is worse off for it. I believe that what was more devastating was that Ibo had no place or body to turn to. To be blunt, Awo decapitated the Ibo leadership and through Ibo into great confusion.

It is important to note that by this singular act of INDIGENIZATION DECREE engineered by the Yoruba, the Yoruba de facto constituted the new economic foundation, the sole owner and manager of Nigerian economy without any rivals. So, for those that have wondered why Ibo became traders, this is the why. The Yoruba will not let any Ibo near the management of any of these stolen corporations, will not let Ibo buy any shares of these corporations for decades following the heist. Now, some people without the capacity to comprehend the full seismic implication of this economic shift and restructuring will want us to believe that this does not matter and I will beg to disagree because it is like everything else, the foundation of everything matters and determines the success or failure, be it a house or business. As time has revealed, Yoruba stealing and forming the economic foundation for Nigeria was a bad idea and a monumental disaster. For the ignorants, all things being equal (in a fair fight) the Yoruba knew it, the British knew it, the Ibo knew it and the world knew it that the Yoruba did not possess the capacity, creativity, drive, perseverance, hard work and the competence to do what some are crediting to it if they did not conspire to steal not only from the British and Ibo but from everybody else that had any assets in Nigeria. The apparent dominant control the Yoruba has on the economy since after the war was not out of great honest smartness or creativity or innovation or hard work or competence but out of share robbery of the British and Ibo sweat and hard work. I believe that the question that the benign ignorant should be asking going forward is what did Yoruba do with all these assets and corporations that they stole? How did the country fair under the Yoruba management of the Nigerian economy? How did the Yoruba managed economy relate to today’s economic malaise. Hope they can make the connections.

My next piece will try to capture the mind blowing implications of that great heist as it relates to Nigerians and Ibo in particular and the flight of international investment from Nigerian for decades.

Fredrick.


http://www.igbofocus.co.uk/The-Biafran-War/The-Greatest-Heist-in-Modern-H/the-greatest-heist-in-modern-history-by-awolowo-and-the-yorubas-.html

My Igbo brothers. Hmmmm........some of you just like twisting facts upside down just to make yourself saints and others devil. By the way,i never knew that the Yorubas had ever at anytime controlled the economy until now. Going by what 99% of my Igbo friends on nairaland say,Igbos control the economy of Nigeria and West Africa. They also own 70% of Lagos

It is obvious that many Igbos see Yorubas in their dreams. Wake up to reality, Yorubas dont hate you. I know that for sure. Most times when i come hear to see some hateful comments here i feel like crying because most are unguided and uninformed.

Txonyi:
Biafra is what we need!!!!!!!!! Census or no census! Nigeria get ready, u will end come 2016! The north fought to get into power for this one reason, they want to keep their false population advantage and continue to eat oyel money coming from SS biafraland but we already know their plans. Like it or not, a war is coming if not this year, then next year! Buhari will break this country with his lies propaganda and wickedness just watch and wait till december 2016

no be 2015 again

20 world leaders who explain the English Premier League
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By Ishaan Tharoor August 7 Follow @ishaantharoor
The English Premier League, arguably the world's most popular sporting league, kicks off its new season on Saturday. Last year, WorldViews framed the soccer competition in world-historic context. This time, we're getting a bit more personal. Here are each of the EPL's 20 top managers -- and the world leaders who best represent them.

Jose Mourinho (Chelsea) is... Russian President Vladimir Putin


FROM LEFT TO RIGHT: Chelsea coach Jose Mourinho (Nicholas Kamm/AFP/Getty Images); Russian President Vladimir Putin (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)
He is the consummate schemer, known for his ruthlessness, steeliness and cynicism. The press almost eat out of his hands at times, both out of fear and adoration. His rise and continued power is inseparable from the clout and fortunes of Russian oligarchs.

Manuel Pellegrini (Manchester City) is... German Chancellor Angela Merkel


FROM LEFT TO RIGHT: Manchester City head coach Manuel Pellegrini (EPA/JOE CASTRO); German Chancellor Angela Merkel (REUTERS/Axel Schmidt)
They are sometimes vilified for the financial muscle they wield, and are not given enough credit for the real, solid successes of their tenure.

Arsene Wenger (Arsenal) is... U.S. President Barack Obama


FROM LEFT TO RIGHT: Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger (EPA/ANDY RAIN);
President Barack Obama (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
His early moments were all hope and joy. Change, his supporters cried, was on the way. In later years, though, disappointment set in and the howls of his detractors grew. He has persevered and is hoping to end his term on a high note.

Louis van Gaal (Manchester United) is... Xi Jinping


FROM LEFT TO RIGHT: Manager Louis van Gaal of Manchester United (Photo by Otto Greule Jr/Bongarts/Getty Images); Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping (REUTERS)
He doesn't seem that interested in talking to journalists and has more than a bit of an authoritarian streak. Not long after taking the reins, he embarked on a systematic purge of the ranks. His domain sees itself as the historic "Middle Kingdom," the preeminent player, but the facts on the ground prove otherwise.

Mauricio Pochettino (Tottenham Hotspur) is... Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi


FROM LEFT TO RIGHT: Head coach Mauricio Pochettino of Tottenham Hotspur (Photo by Doug Pensinger/Getty Images); Italy's Prime minister Matteo Renzi (ALBERTO PIZZOLI/AFP/Getty Images)
He's a fresh-faced, charismatic fellow, but the systemic problems and willful delusions that surround his daily task may prove too great a challenge.

Brendan Rogers (Liverpool) is... Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu


From left to right: Brendan Rodgers; Benjamin Netanyahu. (Getty Images)
While not lacking in self-belief, he is sometimes prone to hyperbole and overstatement. His fans want him to take them to the Promised Land. But the patience of some of his American backers may be wearing thin.

Ronald Koeman (Southampton) is... Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe


From left to right: Ronald Koeman and Shinzo Abe. (Getty Images)
Observers weren't expecting much from his tenure, but the boldness of his vision has proven an interesting surprise. He has an awkward relationship with Xi Jinping.

Garry Monk (Swansea) is... Indonesian President Joko Widodo


From left to right: Garry Monk and Joko Widodo. (Getty Images)
From a more modest background than those who could have taken his post, he started his tenure with a lot of outside goodwill. But his honeymoon period may be over if results don't live up to increasing expectations.

Mark Hughes (Stoke City) is... Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan


From left to right: Mark Hughes and Recep Tayyip Erdogan. (Getty Images)
He's a fearsome figure, known to be a bit gruff and sparky, and some say he has a chip on his shoulder. Despite repeated predictions of his demise, he always seems to stick around.

Alan Pardew (Crystal Palace) is...Argentina's President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner


From left to right: Alan Pardew and Cristina Kirchner. (Getty Images)
Their supporters adore them for their strength and determination, but their opponents think they're unhinged egomaniacs.

Roberto Martinez (Everton) is... Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras


Roberto Martinez and Alexis Tsipras. (Getty Images, Bloomberg)
There are many who want to see him succeed, particularly given the limited resources at his disposal. But his principles and good intentions risk backfiring.

Slaven Bilic (West Ham United) is... Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban


Slaven Bilic and Viktor Orban. (Getty Images)
He can't shake the hint of Eastern European neo-fascism associated with his politics. He presides over a place steeped in history, but with a slightly more uncertain future.

Tony Pulis (West Bromwich Albion) is... Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott


Tony Pulis and Tony Abbott. (Getty Images)
He has a reputation for being a disciplinarian and slightly boorish. He once publicly challenged a colleague to a fight, much to the rest of the world's amusement.

Claudio Ranieri (Leicester City) is... Georgian politician and Ukrainian governor Mikhail Saakashvili


This is just Ranieri. (VALERY HACHE/AFP/Getty Images)
He is always "tinkering," perhaps to an extent where his meddling sometimes blows up in his face. He's a world traveler who has a knack for re-invention, no matter his prior failures.

Steve McClaren (Newcastle United) is... France's President Francois Hollande


Steve McClaren and Francois Hollande
There was a time, rather long ago, when people were actually excited about him. But now he's mostly the object of ridicule and skepticism.

Dick Advocaat (Sunderland) is... Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari


Excited about this year's midfield depth. (MUJAHID SAFODIEN/AFP/Getty Images)
He's been around the block, but his relatively new job has him playing the figure of a change agent. He presides over what is widely thought to be a sleeping giant, waiting to be awakened.

Tim Sherwood (Aston Villa) is... New Zealand Prime Minister John Key

A glad-handing populist who critics say is out of his depth.

Eddie Howe (Bournemouth) is... Icelandic Prime Minister Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson


AFC Bournemouth manager Eddie Howe speaks during a news conference, August 6, 2015. (REUTERS/Eddie Keogh)
Red-headed and doughy-faced, he's the youthful leader of a plucky seaside realm that's now punching well above its weight.

Quique Flores (Watford) is... Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani


All the best for the season ahead. (Brendan Smialowski/Pool Photo via AP)
He engages in a world of jet-setters and knows foreign journeymen will be vital to any future success.

Alex Neil (Norwich City) is...Scottish politician Nicola Sturgeon


Ready for the challenge after a promotion. (AP Photo/Scott Heppell)
They've come south from Scotland on a mission to change the game in Britain.

A big HT to @tancopsey, @kanishktharoor, and @imrangar


lalasticlala, seun

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2015/08/07/20-world-leaders-who-explain-the-english-premier-league/

londongal03:
Buhari is working

So why didnt GEJ fix this in his 5 years. At least they voted for him en masse . You and your likes have been giving the glory of the refineries and power to GEJ. Why not this

GrammarNazi:
Lol

You may have noticed that I said "I ALMOST wish I made a 2:1 or 2:2"...almost, being the operative word

In other news, I'm no 'Sonof...anything'

I perfectly understand your pains. I finished with an upper in one of the good sounding courses but after nysc I had problems securing a good place. I could blast any aptitude test without much preparation;i scaled many interview stages but yet no job. The pressure was real. Too many sleepless nights yet you hear stories of former class mates with 2.2 and even third doing well and getting good places.
Like some guys have said,people who finished with good grades tend to rely on it. I realized that too during my job search. Are u thinking of going for masters? It works magic for some. Worst case scenario,you develop a career along lecturing.
Good luck

There are too many holes in the girls statement. So she waited for a purported rapist to wear his condom Lets be logical. I personally feel that the lady got disappointed after doing the man only to discover that the man could not help her secure the admission. I think she may have felt used afterwards

Franzeez:
Hi Nairaland, my name is Francis, I am a Lawyer who graduated from University of Ilorin with a First Class in law, I proceeded to law school in Lagos and upon finishing I moved to the Harvard Law School in the US. I am presently in Australia where I work as an International political diplomat and international human right Lawyer.

My mind has been baffled for years with the emergence of Negative Journalism which has spearheaded the Nigerian Media championed by Sahara Reporters, I have Keenly observed the manner and approach of their broadcast and publications on YouTube and all their platforms and i think that is not Journalism, that is a campaign to Violence and war. The content and interpretation of the messages of this media house can set a nation on fire. I am fully aware of the international laws that guides Journalism and I think Sahara Reporters has gone past their limit. For me what the Instigate is hate and rancor, it is a destructive media.

My dear friends I have decided to pursue a lawsuit against them and I am willing to fight it to the highest court in the world. Ibhave posted this on my Facebook, and got thousands of reaction, I am preparing to get it on YouTube and other media platforms. I think this kind of Journalism is bad for Nigeria and am preparing my evidence and facts to challenge this case in court. I will pray that the court brings down Sahara reporters from the web and block their passage to dissemination of this violence culpable reporting.

Barr.(Dr) Francis Oloruntoba
Sydney, Australia.

First class degree in Law and a Harvard Law degree? If you are right then degrees are truly overrated. Even as someone that did sciences, I am not impressed by your written English.
@topic, you are just an attention seeker.If truly you want to prosecute SR,you don't need to tell us,you should have just gone ahead. Do you even need to tell us you have a doctorate in Law to achieve that

wecan:
The NNPC boss is an Igbo man but not from south east. Any Igbo man from south south is 100% Igbo man by tribe. Yorubas should understand this. I don't know what is wrong with you guys.

You are just a tribal bigot. Go and tell what you have up there to your ibo brothers. They are the ones going up and down saying the new GMD is delta ibo and not core ibo. Even my colleague at work who is from Enugu is saying the same thing

firstolalekan:
AMEEN

Amin....I prefer rotting in hell to being a follower of mohammed