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Why not Oba of Ilorin? I guess certain folks have been relegated to second fiddlers. What a shame.

robosky02:
Edwin Okon, coach of the Super Falcons has come under fierce criticism after his unprofessional attitude following his team’s 1-0 loss to the United States at the ongoing Womens World Cup in Canada.

An Abby Wambach volley seconds before half-time earned USA a 1-0 victory over Nigeria in Vancouver, sending the Americans through as Group D winners and Nigerians home.

After the game, Okon refused to shake hands with US coach Jill Ellis and immediately got a backlash from football fans across the globe especially Nigerians who were grossly disappointed by his action.

Reacting on Twitter, Omono wrote: “Edwin Okon did a very unprofessional and immature act of ignoring Jill Ellis’ handshake. That’s why Nigeria will never grow.”

Lolade Adewuyi, Goal.com Nigeria editor was more critical of Okon’s action. “This coach Edwin Okon really fooled himself in front of the whole world. @thenff must learn not to employ misfits,” he wrote, adding that, “Edwin Okon, in typical #NGA fashion, blames the loss to #USA on the referee. Piss poor attitude.”

Why is this uncivilised Edwin Okon disgracing Nigeria this much? Refused to shake hands with U.S Coach. "No handshake", he told her.

http://www.pmnewsnigeria.com/2015/06/17/nigerians-blast-edwin-okon-for-refusing-to-shake-us-coach/

These dumbass Nigerians should have been talked or written more on the discriminatory officiating of matches involving Nigerians teams by the European and American referees than Okon's handshake or lack thereof.

nduchucks:
Make no mistake about it, die hard biafrans and closet secessionists like Duru1 consider the entire SS area as being part of Igboland.

Duru1 is neither a die hard Biafran nor closet secessionist and never considered entire so-called south-south as part of Igbo land. It is a failed attempt at being funny to remotely insinuate that an astute intellectual such as Duru1 would include Edo, Urhobo, Ijo or Itsekiri as Igbo land. Ndiigbo have no intention to lord over anybody as the moronic detractors would suggest. However Ndiigbo would like to compete in order to make their environment worth a stay. I am strongly for Republic of Igbo land but would not mind a well thought-out Biafra which will include all Igbo lands in Delta, Edo, Kogi, Benue States and the defunct eastern region of Nigeria.

emekachimek:
They are not. I've never even seen them as one. Being Igbo is genetic, and not regional or language orientation. Your ability to speak Igbo language doesn't make you Igbo. Pls stop calling them Igbo. Themselves don't even want to be regarded as Igbo. So, to your tents o' Israel

The realization of Republic of Igbo land will certainly eradicate moronic dingbats among Ndiigbo. Nigeria is a fraud that created fraudulent citizens.

HopeAtHand:
The Obi of Asaba should speak on behalf of his constituency.He cannot speak for Rivers State.

If the people of Oyigbo are tired of being called Rivers people, they can swim across the Imo River into Abia state.

Obi of Asaba should speak for himself..he should stop talkong like a fool.

Obigbo was never called Oyigbo until after the end of Nigeria/Biafra civil war when most goons started the denial of being Igbo. It got so bad that traditional ruler of Obigbo had to elope to Owaza.

HopeAtHand:
When Ogbakor Ikwerre decided to push for the inclusion of Ikwerre as a separate tribe from Igbo, they did so after a careful observation of the history of Ikwerres.

One fool in Asaba can decide for himself in his domain, he can never speak for a people unrelated to him in anyway.


Go on Igbos and Unite, the Ikwerres wish you guys all the best.

Origin ascertained through distorted historical facts is like building a foundation on sandy soil. The jackasses did not know that Ikwerre as written to today is heavily Anglicized. They moronically calmed to have descended from Akalaka (Akaraka), the birth lines on someone's palm, but such terminology has no place in Benin vernacular. None of the goons knew the meaning of Isiokpo, the acclaimed ancestral home of Akalaka (Akaraka), yet they make fool of themselves at any given opportunity. I had wished the people of Bakassi had the opportunity to rewrite history too.

musabuhari:
The commander of the indigenous people of biafra(IPOB) Mazi Nnamdi Kanu adviced Biafrans living in the northern and southwestern part of nigeria to start heading east.

there is an emergency radio biafra broadcast going on now due to the bombing going on in calaba. he has directed that the host pastor(deeper life) in aba to be approached and warn seriously.for more detail tune in to 102.1fm.

let the navy do their work nah

Fools are Nigerians indeed.

Macelliot:
But according to the benin encyclopedia, the name "Akalaka" does not exist in her entire history...

Akalaka is destiny as shown on your palm. Those who claim descendants of Akalaka (Akaraka) and deny Igbo are expendable ninnies. Time will tell.

Mr. Spoiler at it again!!! It will not take long before the secret meetings turn to public embarrassments.

This action goes to prove that Nigeria is a glorified jungle. No reasonable country will bomb its citizens in a time of peace. I cannot believe that Nigerian air force is embarking on sorties against Nigerians who done nothing but asked for equity.

AlfaSeltzer:
Buhari has not visited southern nigeria since inauguration but has travelled the world and visited many northern states severally

Only dumbass fools believed that Buhari has any form of regard for southern Nigeria. I hope you realized how his ADC was selected. The change demanded by ninnies in the southern Nigeria has come.

What arrant nonsense. The people of south-eastern Nigeria do not carry people in that format as posited in the picture. Secondly, the background in the picture does not represent the red soil found in Igbo land or the vegetation found in south-eastern region of Nigeria. The picture aptly represented scene commonly found in northern region of Nigeria. In the 50s, Ojukwu had already slapped the crap out of a D.O in the eastern region and they, the British, relocated to northern region and western region. The link posted with the picture sold it for kobo. It was a picture from northern region or western region.

abagoro:
I hope you read what happened before comparing Benin Obaship which a Governor can as well sack. If Sultan of Sokoto who controls more rugged Muslims in more than 5 countries can be sacked then anything can happen. All a Governor needs is the backing of the people and most importantlyy FG and armed forces.

What happened in Imo State is part of Jonathan's clueless leadership. He thought he could use Ilomuanya to win over traditional rulers in Imo State by offering money but they rejected it because Ilomuanya is a reknowned criminal who has no respect in his hometown where he ruled people with intimidation and Government backing. There are over 600 traditional rulers in Imo State and 550 are in support of Ohiri while less than 50 followed Ilomuanya. Backed by Jonathan they went to Ohiri's Obiri Eze Imo and desecrated it. Unfortunately for them Jonathan and Ihedioha lost and they have lost FG's backing. They need to be dealt with very well.

Ohiri is a joker when intrigues of Igbo traditional rites are discussed.

Mallam Rochas Okorocha is a certified efulefu. What a scumbag.

The problem of soccer development in Nigeria hangs on one word, thus, Nigeria. There are no organization, preparation and welfare. I watched the girls play very tentatively because they are trying very hard to avoid injuries especially players with foreign clubs. I do not blame them because Nigeria is a hopeless country that will abandon the players if injuries had to prevent them from earning livelihood within their respective clubs.

There is no sign of organizational acumen in Nigeria. It is mind-boggling that Nigerian Football Federation has done nothing about poor and discriminatory officiating by European, North American and Australian referees against Nigerian teams. I guessed by now Nigeria had seriously knocked on the door of the disciplinary committee of FIFA and complain about the abuse of Nigerian teams by the idiotic and biased referees from the countries of aforementioned regions.

The truth must be told though that Nigeria did not prepare for this tournament. Most countries in the on-going FIFA games started preparation immediately after group’s drawing in Canada. Nigeria did not assemble the players until last month. Yet the jokers expected to go beyond the group stage of the tournament. It is needless to dabble into the area of continuity because a country such as Nigeria that lacked any form of organizational skills and discipline cannot be mentioned in the sentence with continuity.

It serves every Igbo person best if this goofy Igbo Conscience cum think tank remains emerging forever if the members think that the spate of hatred between Igbo and Yoruba started during the general election of yesterday. If the jokers in the so-called emerging Igbo Conscience have respect for past events, they should have realized that Igbo and Yoruba hatred is rooted in the Nigeria/Biafra civil war. What the hell is silly general election when there was a genocide committed against Ndiigbo during the civil war in which Yoruba were distinguished participants?

The peeps in Bayelsa State should embark on serious and determined petition drive to recall the deluded Murray-Bruce.

The best blessing an Igbo person shall receive is disintegration of Nigeria whereby Ndiigbo should stay in a different country from Yoruba, Fulani, Kanuri and Hausa. I hate the fact that there is a share compatriotism with certain people in the cesspit called Nigeria. Ndiigbo shall stop at nothing to see that the jungle called Nigeria is departmentalized into five or more countries.

gaussy:
The Federal Government through the Nigeria Atomic Energy Commission (NAEC) has selected Geregu in Kogi State and Itu in Akwa Ibom State as the sites for building two nuclear power plants in Nigeria that could generate up to 2,400 megawatts (mw) at both sites.

In a presentation yesterday at the plenary of the Phase 2 Integrated Nuclear Infrastructure Review (INIR) mission in Abuja, NAEC Chairman, Mr. Erepamo Osaisai, said part of its progress is the concluded preliminary site selection activities and “detailed evaluation and characterization to be conducted on preferred sites on the approval of government in Geregu, Ajaokuta Local Government Area of kogi State and Itu in Itu LGA of Akwa Ibom State.”

Daily Trust had reported in April that NAEC was holding talks with Russia’s Rosatom Corporation to build four nuclear power plants costing about $20 billion (about N3.9 trillion) which would generate 4,800 megawatts (mw).

Erepamo said the plants will be co-financed by Rosatom, which will then build, own, operate and transfer (BOOT) them to the government. He noted that the preliminary licensing of the approved sites is expected by the end of 2016 from the Nigerian Nuclear Regulatory Authority (NNRA) which is currently developing the licences’ procedures.

The commission said training and capacity building for building and operating the plants are ongoing while it has developed a framework to establish a ‘National Nuclear Insurance Policy and Scheme’ to “adequately address the civil liability of component for the Nuclear Power industry in conformity with the 1963 Vienna Convention on Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage.”

The Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Power, Dr. Godknows Igali, said government’s intervention in the power sector includes the diversification of the electricity sources from the present 80 percent gas and 20 percent hydro to integrate nuclear power to meet its target of generating 20,000 megawatts (mw) by year 2020.

“With NAEC’s plan to inject 1,200mw from first nuclear power plant in 2025 and increase to 4,800mw in 2035, the energy mix is expected to have increased to about 20 percent power generation from clean sources,” Igali said.

Meanwhile, the Deputy Director General, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Dr Mikhail Chudakov, who led the agency’s delegation on a two-week trip to Nigeria, said Nigeria should be prepared to take adequate responsibility for the safety culture and for safe operation of a nuclear power in the country.

http://dailytrust.com.ng/daily/index.php/business/57411-fg-picks-geregu-itu-as-2-400mw-nuclear-power-sites

The above proposal, if slightly true, must be opposed by any reasonable Nigerian. Nigeria is a country that cannot handle the development of primary schools yet negotiating to build nuclear plants in the country. Nigeria does not need any nuclear-related device talk less of nuclear power plant. If Nigeria does not need an accelerated disintegration of the jungle called country, I beg the shakers and movers in Nigeria to put a stop to the madness. Why would so-called Nigerian leaders surround Igbo land with nuclear plant? This lunatic proposal can never be allowed to see daylight. At this stage of Nigeria’s development or lack thereof, it needs hydropower station and supplemented with solar.

BascoVanVeli:
The ref killed us, FIFA killed us. It seems people don't want these girls to shine. Every yellow card but the last was undeserved, i feel robbed as a Nigerian and we all should. Where was the NFF? So u mean Pinnick can fly to England for nothing but he can't go to Canada to make sure things go right, even after Njoku's suspension nobody said nothing on her behalf, not even to let her accept and apologize. Back to the game from when Okobi committed her first foul the ref threatened her with a card people don't understand that has an effect on a player and then any foul we committed she gave yellow cards how can one team have 5 yellow cards and the other have none are we Italy?
It seemed like a game of good vs evil cuz we very much were the villains. Its a simple fact against Sweden we had an Asian ref then in our last 2 we had European refs and they very much beat us. Against Australia the ref took so much time setting up set pieces on the slick killing the clock and as if that was not enough for her she went and ended the game 3 minutes early did FIFA address any of that? nope they just suspended our player for something people have gotten away with even in this same tournament. I love my country but what i see internationally shows me why we were so easily colonized we are a bunch of yes men no one fighting any cause we just no want wahala no matter all the ojoro they do on us. Anyways when is this AAG at least i know we are local champions lol.

African in general and Nigeria in particular have failed to raise hell about soccer ill-minded tactics employed by referees from Europe, USA, Canada and Australia when officiating soccer matches involving teams from Africa. In most cases, teams from Africa have been subjected to moral and physical abuse by the referees from listed places and along with opposing teams. You are very much on the right when you touched on the colonial mentality exhibited by Africans. Most jackasses from Africa will kill their people if a European demands such from them.

TheSuperNerd:
OMG! Cameroun the best? Hahaha... Pls Sir I beg of u...
Cameroun faced Ecuador(d worst team at dis tournament), Japan(defending champions who aren't at their best in dis WWC), and Switzerland(who in da heavens is Switzerland in women's soccer?). Hey! Taking nuffin 4m d camerounians ok. They are a decent side but cant stand d Super Falcons... We took dis same camerounian team to da cleaners at d Awc final late last year and will still do so again.

The Super Falcons are in a group up against 3 Of THE TOP 10 SIDES IN WOMEN'S SOCCER WORLDWIDE. Give me a break!
U.S.A(Reigning Olympic, Concacaf and Algarve cup Champions and World no.1).
Sweden(European Powerhouse, bronze medallists at 2011 fifa wwc and World no.5).
Australia(AFC Runners-up and World no.10).

Put Nigeria wit Ecuador, Japan and Switzerland and u'll see D falcons bag at least 7points.

Put Cameroun wit d Aussies, d Swedes and d USWNT... Cameroun wont pick up a point #ThatIsAFact

Above post is one of the reasons Nigeria will remain under the curve of developmental progression. Anything can happen in any given game. Cameroon did not put themselves in the group but they performed. However the so-called chumps of Africa could not prove its classification as they performed below respectable pedigree. Idiocy could be found in the wallowing of faded glory. The Cameroonians ladies are getting better as the tournament progresses and tend to embrace unselfish style of play. From your post, I make it that Nigerian falcons are local champions.

AprokoTV:
Nigeria don disgrace us

No, Nigeria is a distinguish disgrace.

CFCfan:
Lol.
I think Okon has opted for a 4-2-3-1 formation with Okobi and Nwabuoku playing in central midfield, and the trio of Oshoala, Esther Sunday and Ordega supporting Courtney Dike up front.

This is just to avoid embarrassment in front of falcons fans. I see Nigeria through the display of managerial and organizational laziness prominent among Nigerian soccer teams.

CFCfan:
Super Falcons line up:
Dede; Chukwunonye, Ebi, Sarah Nnodim, Ngozi Ebere; Nwabuoku, Okobi, Esther Sunday, Courtney Dike, Oshoala, Ordega.

Sarah Nnodim is a very solid player but lacked size against rangy USWNT players. I had wished the dumbass Okon included Ibrahim, Igbinovia, Ihezuo, Uchechi and Abasi in this falcon's team.

CFCfan:
Super Falcons line up:
Dede; Chukwunonye, Ebi, Sarah Nnodim, Ngozi Ebere; Nwabuoku, Okobi, Esther Sunday, Courtney Dike, Oshoala, Ordega.

I think the water is already under the bridge!!!

Ubigomo:
At times in football, the unthinkable due happen. If not U S A will not only defeat Nigeria but disgrace
us as well

There is nothing unthinkable about this match. USWNT could flat-out disgrace the noisy Nigerian falcons.

BascoVanVeli:
Yes she cost us the cup but she is a good player, in the group stage she was our best player i believe the Oshoala hype got to her head.

Loveth Ayila is worse than Halimatu Ayinde. Arguably, the best players at their positions on this Nigerian Falcons are Ngozi Okobi and Ngozi Ebere. Ebere is a very good left back for the team.