₦airaland Forum

The OP's experience is physiologically true. It is normal biology.

There are no emotions about this. It is simply true.

There may be a few outliers and all, but this is generally true of most celibate men - whether priests or monks.

Sentiments do so little in the final analysis.

Many Nigerians are emotional about Austin Okocha's APOTY loss in 1998 - but the votes are available to be checked by anyone.

Same with the Ballon D'Or sentiments that anyone may have.

In 1998, Nigeria was not at the AFCON in Burkina Faso where Hadji set Africa alight, scoring a particularly marvellous goal amongst other things. At the France 98 World Cup, Hadji was also fantastic for Morocco, where the Atlas Lions almost qualified for the second round after defeating Scotland 3-0 in their final game and expecting Brazil to defeat Norway in the simultaneous game to qualify with Brazil.

It was tough to receive the cold news that Norway, of all teams, whom Morocco had previously drawn, has defeated Brazil. Hadji was the most delightsome player in Africa in 1998 - and the Coaches and Captain CAF APOTY voting college saw this and voted in the same vein.

It has nothing to do with the sentiments of Nigerians, many of whom didn't watch the 1998 AFCON as to understand anything besides Austin Okocha's unproductive theatrics at the France 98 World Cup. Dribbling the Danes at the second round while contributing no goals or assists counts for little in the final analysis, really.

I remember my lecturer teaching me in postgraduate school:

If weevils avoid the beans, humans should possibly avoid it too.

He was clearly referencing the kind of preservatives that prevent the weevils being often unsafe for human consumption. There have been instances where Nigerian beans exports are rejected in Europe as containing greater levels of pesticides than the European acceptable benchmark.

If you ask me, Nigeria's problem has never been poverty.

Rather, it is WEAPONISED poverty and poor educational standards.

Fix those two under 20 years and Nigeria - and indeed the rest of Sub Saharan Africa - would rival the rest of the World.

We only need 20 straight years of fastidious hard work. Our population is immeasurable potential already as it is.

Dalung may be playing politics and be saying half of the truth, but half of the truth is also truth - even if there is another half that is false.

Dalung himself knew that Buhari was ineffective while he campaigned with him to win in 2015. He was possibly schemed out of the main government and given the Ministry of Play-play[i][/i] to handle; but he didn't do anything magical there.

He actually destabilised the Ministry of Youth and Sports so badly that the "incapacitated" Buhari to chase him out of his second term.

Dalung then went to join SDP - of all parties - to raise a political greenhorn/lightweight in Adewole to be President. What was his political relevance to the SDP?

A situation, to me, of a thief calling another person thief because he was out-stolen by a better (or worse) criminal.

Why didn't Dalung say this during Buhari's second term when they were campaigning to succeed Buhari with his Adewole? Galadima of NNPP who opened all the shit of Buhari while campaigning to replace APC and Buhari no be human being?

He should go and sit down jare.

SpatialKing:
No matter the hard evidence as long as you are in the opposition....

Farotimi is going through all this because he one of the strongest voice of opposition left in this country..

Farotimi should switch camp and start supporting Tinubu, you will see how all these court case vanishes

I don't think it is that simplistic, with due respect.

kuntash:
And you think the courts would honour such evidences against them ?

Dele is just fighting a system , and his arrest and detention is like sending a message to anyone else who decides to follow in such expository testaments, not particularly oblivious of the manner Dele did his ...


Simply put , it's like a terrorist trying to send out a hard message by committing some heinous killings and posting it in the media ...

Send fears down the spines of whoever reasons such style as Dele .

My opinion!

Thanks for sharing.

My follow-up to this is that if we have more persons willing to challenge the system like Mr Farotimi is daring to do, things might improve in the country.

However, I have seen Mr Farotimi make statements on TV that were wrong in the past. I knew what he said was wrong because I was physically with the source of the information - which Mr Farotimi arrogantly flayed on that television interview.

However, good people do not have to be perfect. Things have to change positively - and we must all carefully thread through the minefield.

The challenge here is that I sincerely do hope that Mr Farotimi has hard evidence for his claims.

If he doesn't have inalienable HARD EVIDENCE which can be presented in COURT, he may be really embarrassed with that way this goes.

I hope he does have evidence.

I have problems with a few wrong remarks that I have heard Mr Farotimi make on TV in the past, but I am often sympathetic to the iconoclastic underdog in social engineering, and I wish Nigeria the very best as we go ahead.

Tough choice, but a constitutionally permitted one that had to be made.

A Father to the Nation is first a father to his biological family.

Once the son's repentance and sobriety is established, I guess he qualifies for pardon.

After all, Dr Peter Odili, whose wife was a Supreme Court Judge, got a perpetual injunction stopping ALL GOVERNMENT AGENCIES from investigating whatever financial crimes that might be attributed to his 8 year tenure as Rivers State governor.

Yet, two governors were jailed for similar offence - although they also got presidential pardons - while a third one, Orji Uzor Kalu, had good conviction overturned on the basis of Judicial technicality.

casualobserver:
This tax bill will remove any doubt that Tinubu is the greatest political strategist we have ever had.

The north is the richest zone in Nigeria. They have minerals, they have fertile agricultural land but they have become lazy and dependent on income from the south.

What Tinubu is doing is restructuring by stealth. This is what those in the North h who are against it fear. They don’t support the bill because it means their governors will now be forced to think and develop their God given potential and many of their governors are leeches. There are very few Bagos or ElRufais in the North.

Now onto Tinubu’s joker. There is a VAT lawsuit instituted by Lagos and Rivers instituted when Wike was governor and pending before the Supreme Court. The recent pronouncement by the Supreme Court on lottery tells us if the suit is heard by The Supreme Court, Lagos and Rivers will win. That means they will lose the vat money they are currently getting from Lagos and Rivers and those states will keep all their vat to themselves.

So the North are boxed into a corner. That is why they are coming up with excuses that are befuddling like it is too soon. Either pass the tax law or lose the VAT from Lagos and Rivers at the Supreme Court. Restructuring is happening. The days of doing nothing as a northern governor are gone!!

This is why I have been saying in other threads to those talking about 2027. The Tinubu I am seeing is not planning for 2027. He is making the changes such that if you like vote for me if you like don’t. I know for a fact that Tinubu knows he was lucky to have won the election and if not for the suicidal actions of the opposition he won’t have won. So I suspect he has said to himself this 1term I will do what needs to be done.

I suspect this is not the end game. The real joker is this: once the North are forced to develop their own industries and potential, they will start to realize they actually are richer than the south and will not want to share their income with the rest of the country. The income from the North can easily surpass all the VAT and oil income from the south within 10yrs if they are serious. Once that happens true political restructuring becomes easier. If we can acheive regional autonomy, they can keep the presidency for ever.

You are in sync with me!

If women want be be entirely equal to men in Africa, that's fine by me.

However, can we do it IN ALL RAMIFICATIONS?

Can men get to receive a GROOM PRICE also?

I may be bad at Music, but what are the specific criteria used to decide what is the best African Music by this American/European organisation?

Why is it described as the greatest Music award when the criteria are American/English/Euro-centric?

I love music, yes, and appreciate the acknowledgement that African Music is beginning to get in the global space, but I am not sure we come to the table as equals, if we aren't speaking English on the music or producing music in a language largely understood by the West, we may not get a look-in for a Grammy.

I stand to be corrected.

Shouldn't there be a World Music Award or something?

More Nigerians need to wear cameras and such spyware. That's one way to sanitise this system.

The MHR was "right" and would have gotten away with his obstreperous physical harassment of the gentleman if the was no video evidence to show.

adenigga:
Source: https://dailytrust.com/N14m-I-earn-monthly-as-senator-not-enough-orji-Kalu

On both counts, I understand and I agree with Mr Kalu.

Kalu might be a crook of some sort, yes. He might have been jailed in the past, yes BUT he is right on this one.

No politician of his status can survive on merely 14 million naira every month. That's about £7000 or so? Those who beg him for cash and the amount he has to spend to keep himself politically relevant each month is certainly more than that.

Secondly, he is right about the 6 year single term. This current style is not working. 4 years isn't enough to make any significant difference in office. The desperation for a second term as well as to install a successor often robs our politicians and political institutions of the necessary input to make our society move at the pace we need it to go.

Kalu is entirely right on the foregoing, in my opinion.

The IWO joke is on the people of Iwo, as well as all the leaders of Yorubaland.

The joke is on us Yorubas.

I do not blame the Oluwo, as well as the Ooni, for anything. It tells of the quality of our traditional institutions and instruments, generally.

People claiming that Westernisation destroyed our culture have a lot to learn. This one was an adjudged criminal in the Western World and summarily deported home, only to be made King - and is causing a lot of problems to thr throne.

I mean, where is "Imperial Majesty" in Yorùbá or Iwo Culture? Would the King of England be concerned as to how his office is described in Yorùbá Language, beside the Yorùbá word for King "Oba", please?

It, to me, is inferiority complex - and the shame is on all of the Yorubas, including me.

Was that branch the one at OAU?

WEMA was the only Commercial Bank on Campus back then, the only other one being OAU Microfinance Bank - before the 25B Naira capitalisations opened up the banking sector...

Like you, WEMA was my first bank account, in my first year as an undergraduate. The difference is that although I do not withdraw from the account anymore, I have a very negligible amount that is automatically deposited into it every month to keep the account alive.

brain54:
Oldest bank in Nigeria is first bank...

Oldest indegenous is wema.

Wema bank was the first commercial bank account I operated(my first ever was a micro finance bank)

It was my school account.

I hated the bank so much because of their archaic ways of transaction.

I later abandoned the account when other new generation banks started coming to the vicinity of my school. I still have some money abandoned in that account sef, although not much. (maybe one day I will walk in and request to close the account. Even though I can't remember the account number again. Maybe the money would have yielded a sizable interest . Very unlikely though)

I don't know if they changed or modernized their banking systems. As I can't remember using that bank ever since. But I just have the impression and bias they haven't.

Ironically, I have hardly had any transaction carried out with the bank since then.

And when I pass through any branch the thought that comes to my mind is "people still use this bank"?

I guess they do!

It is sad, what has happened to MKO's family and legacy.

naptu2:
Making of Champions @MakingOfChamps

Hi Nap! Good morning Brother.

Just this small clarification:

I believe the context matters. Journalists, whose duties it is to inform the public, must update themselves with current trends in the area of their practice.

How can he say Igali is not seeking to be reelected when Igali, even before he contested for his third term, has been STATUS BARRED from recontesting?

This information has been in the public space for almost FOUR years!

IGALI RESPONDS:

When I see sensational write ups of this nature, it makes me understand why people are reticent to speak to the press.

I had a chat with journalists yesterday (Wednesday, 18th September) in Asaba. I explained that one of the reasons sports has not done as well as it ought to in Nigeria, is because federations don’t have budgets for development of the various sports. Nigeria and the federal ministry of sports development funds some competitions, mostly Games and some percentage of continental championships. But what is lacking is the zero allocation to federations for the development of coaches, referees and programs of the federations.

Comparatively, wrestling has been fared better than 80% of sports when it comes to funding for competitions. That’s not what I told the press yesterday.

I felt I should make this clarification.

I have even seen a publication that said I am bowing out as federation president because the ministry has not given me a kobo in 12 years. That’s patently false.

I have maintained a very good relationship with all ministers and perm secs over the past 12 years of my reign as president of the federation. My tenure expires next year and I cannot seek re election for the same reason presidents obasanjo or Gen. buhari could not go for another term.




Daniel Igali.

lebete3000:
What's up fellow great Ife product. Okeniyi of Paediatrics WGH Ilesha

I'm fine Doc. It's good to connect with another Great Ife Dr on this platform.

Dr (now Professor) Okeniyi certainly leaves impressions everywhere. His intentions are clearly good, but this way he has handled it leaves a little more to be desired.

There are certainly better, less crude ways, to address the subject of sexual harassment - which affects both genders - in the 21st century.

Blitzking:
Prof okeniyi words sometimes amazes me I enjoyed seeing him do his echo on patients with congenital heart disease.. sometimes he held meeting with the ct surgeon in his echo room..a very brilliant paediatric cardiologist.

As a clinician, Prof Okeniyi was sui generis.

However, it is apparently a different thing as a Manager of a major public organisation, or the media handling of same.

I have always pointed out that Clinical acumen doesn't necessarily translate to managerial capacity. I believe that while Medical Doctors are the heads of the medical team, super specialist medical doctors should be heads of the clinical aspect of the profession while management should be left for Generalist Medical Doctors who have acquired managerial education and work experience, with their opportunity cost of taking specialist postgraduate education in place of administrative education even as Doctors.

This gentleman was my teacher, and I am particularly embarrassed by this words, coming from a Teaching Hospital CEO.

They are completely unnecessary in a press conference as this. It looks to me that he got carried away by the moment. The United Nations has policies to ensure Protection from Sexual Exploitation, Sexual Abuse and Sexual Harassment.

However, you wouldn't find such proper leaders make statements like this.

Rest on General.

Many Nigerians may not understand the extent of Gen. Khobe's valiant efforts until they relate with Sierra Leone and Liberia, especially Sierra Leone.

Generals Khobe and Sani Abacha have streets named after them in Freetown and the City of Bo in Sierra Leone, if I'm not mistaken.

Our soldiers who fought gallantly in the Airport island of Lungi (where Gen Khobe was said to have been caught unawares), at Makeni, in Kanema, and the bloodiest ones in Freetown, would never be forgotten.

May the Almighty God rest their souls.

We have to be careful as a people.

Already, our health workers are already greatly overworked. The conventional health workers we have left in this country are about the more patriotic ones who have chosen to stay back to help the system.

In a situation where we make claims like this against them because a relative "spent millions" despite being abroad, we may find health workers taking more steps to see fewer patients per time so as to give maximal attention.

You cannot be abroad and claim that health workers in Oghara were on social media when they should be attending to your recently deceased relative. You cannot be blaming them for performing last office rites and moving a corpse to the morgue as soon as certified dead.

This was a patient that spent two months in the hospital, according to you, and had a tracheostomy tube inserted, amongst other care. Clearly, that medical team was not quite negligent. No medical team can do all of that while being negligent.

A patient on a Tracheostomy tube is a Specialist/Consultant's responsibility, working in conjunction with a large team of other doctors who may also be specialists, alongside doctors in various levels of postgraduate training, aside undergraduate medical students. That's aside the Nurses and all other allied health workers that play a lot of roles.

It is not enough to make allusion to those cases that ended up as mortality and not make reference to the many cases that are treated and discharged. Indeed, cases that go to Teaching Hospitals are usually very bad cases that cannot be managed at Secondary level medical facilities, as demonstrated by the referral from the hospital in Sapele to the Teaching Hospital in Oghara.

While there may be indeed cases of negligence, the continued media, physical and verbal harassment of medical practitioners at various levels of practice in Nigeria doesn't bode well for our already friable medical structure.

As it is, many citizens present at the hospital very late, and in very bad conditions, after taking all manners of harmful substances over the years in that name of herbal concoctions as well as unhealthy lifestyles before presenting late in the hospital where the medical staff now have to undo the deed.

We must realise that the best way to treat any disease condition is to prevent it. Where matters are already very bad, regardless of how much is spent, the chances are not assured - not anywhere in the world, but especially worse in third world countries.

We should all be careful.

Rossikk:
You're talking CRAP.

Chelsea were offering him £130,000 a week, a gross insult for a player of his calibre, and less than HALF of his current salary at Napoli.

If that was a white guy they would pay him ANY MONEY he asked, like Haaland.

FCK ALL OF THEM.

OSIMHEN WILL SIT IN NAPOLI AND COLLECT HIS £325,OOO A WEEK JEJELY TILL 2026.

When he's finished he can retire and go into real estate business.

FUCKING WHITE IDIOTS.

ANYTHING 'NIGERIA' THREATENS THEM.

THEY WILL GANG UP TO FRUSTRATE YOU BY REFUSING TO PAY YOUR WORTH.

SAME THING THEY DID WITH OKOCHA. A MAN THAT WAS THREE TIMES MORE SKILFUL THAN RONALDINHO, YET ENDED UP AT BOLTON BECAUSE THESE ANIMALS CALLED ''BIG EUROPEAN CLUBS'' COULDN'T STAND A NIGERIAN BEING THE BEST PLAYER ON THE PLANET.

While I take exception to the extreme language which borders on hate, I think some of the content here may be true.

However, what it should do is not to hate the rich, but to work hard to develop ourselves to make wealth for ourselves.

We should think of developing the Nigerian football leagues, for example, to levels that can attract the best players in the World. Nobody was keen on doing to play in England 30 years ago. There was barely an EPL at the time. The British decided to create football wealth, like the Saudis are trying to do, after the Chinese failure to achieve similar.

Why shouldn't we try to develop and market the Nigerian league to such standards? We steal all our money and stash out in the same Europe and America or use it to import luxury items from Europe and America, creating employment chains for those countries via their export to us, but leaving us poorer by our dependence on importation, including European football television rights, using a lot of our currency to chase a few of theirs.

Have we wondered why very few South African National team players ply their football trade abroad/outside South Africa? How about the Egyptian Pharaohs who won 3 AFCON titles back to back between 2006 & 2010? The Aboutrika set...

I'll not blame Chelsea. They don't care about Osimhen or Nigeria. It is business and personal interest. Nigeria and Osimhen should develop ourselves to levels where the best English players would try to play for Enyimba or Rangers or Remo Stars. If Ivan Toney can go to Saudi today, everything is possible...

greggng:
Are you aware that this post is not I'm front page .Guess what they prefer to be in front page ...ethnic bashing of each other .

I believe that the moderator has explained the reason for that somewhere on this thread.

He/she replied that Nairaland has to wait for an official confirmation of his demise from a relative of his before it can be moved to the Front page/Feature Page of this website - and I think that stands to reason.

I was here in this country when Nnamdi Azikiwe was rumoured to be dead several times before he did. His family had to debunk that news several times until he ultimately passed on in 1996.

Let's respect the dead, as we are doing, and solemnly reflect on our own lives before our individual transitions at different times. All of us would eventually die someday.

GAZZUZZ moniker was in capital letters.

He wrote, traditionally, in red ink.

May his soul rest in peace.

He would never be forgotten, not for very many years to come.

Continue to rest in power brother. To live in the hearts and minds of people is not to have died at all. Gazzuzz left indelible marks here.

Go well, brother.

Still on page 1.

Big Brother failed woefully this year. Really, they were always going to struggle.

I think the World missed Russia badly at the Olympics. The medal table would CLEARLY have been remarkably different if Russia as a global super power that they are, were present at the Paris Olympics.

The situation where USA beat China to top the medals table by only the number of silver and bronze medals won certainly wouldn't have happened as Russia would have "split" a number of "votes" both ways...

naptu2:
Hahahahahaha

You've shown your hand. I simply said go back and look at the first sentence on the thread and look at all you've written! You clearly came here for a fight and I have none to give you.

Goodbye.

No vex. You be senior. We respect you. Me, I respect you. No vex Bros.

Na the same side we dey. Na say people no go read pass the headline before dem bin dey comment as per say na wetin dey NL front-page be dat.

Once again, no vex.

naptu2:
Go back and read the headline on the first post (it is the first sentence on this thread).

Mr 'Go Back',

Shalaye no need. What most visitors on the front page of this popular website would see and respond to IS NOT the word 'qualifiers'.

You should take a look at the comments beneath your original post on this thread.

No be everything be quarrel.
(Not everything should be taken as an attack on your otherwise good self).