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dipo2much:
^^
I remember it was Ben Arfa we were 'close to signing' before we signed Nasri from Marseile. Maybe if we had signed Arfa, we would have had someone with more believe in the club than †нє one we eventually signed.
Just a thought

Let's kill ppl today. RvP to commit the crime

yes i remember. I would preferred him too, and i'm not saying that in light of recent events. Mean while,

Aug 13, 2011 9:50:00 AM Arsene Wenger
reveals to close
friends that he is
preparing for his
final season as
Arsenal manager The Gunners boss has
privately conceded that
his reign at the Emirates
is coming to an end,

By Wayne Veysey Arsene Wenger has told friends that he is preparing for
his final season as manager of Arsenal, Goal.com can reveal. The Frenchman has three
years remaining on the new
contract that he signed last
summer but has privately
conceded that his tenure at
the club is coming to an end. The longest-serving manager
in Arsenal’s history has
already begun considering
other options in football
because he fears his
powerbase will eventually be diminished by new owner
Stan Kroenke and has been
shocked by the growing
criticism he has received from
supporters over the last 12
months. Goal.com understands that
Wenger met a Manchester City
delegation led by chief
executive Garry Cook and
football administrator Brian
Marwood at a hotel in Kensington, west London, in
May although there is no
confirmation that the
Frenchman either sought to or
was asked to replace Roberto
Mancini at Etihad Stadium. Nevertheless, the Arsenal
manager held informal talks
with the new owners of
Qatari-owned Paris Saint-
Germain this summer to
discuss the prospect of him taking over as manager at the
French club. PSG - who have spent heavily
on new players, including €43
million on Javier Pastore, over
the last two months -
targeted Wenger as their No.1
choice to use the club’s financial muscle to restore
their place at the summit of
French football and establish
them among the Champions
League elite. The club has not
won Ligue 1 since 1994. Wenger, who owns an
apartment close to PSG’s Parc
des Princes stadium, rejected
the opportunity although he
admitted in an interview with
a Strasbourg TV station in June that he has long-standing
friendships with senior
officials at the club. It is
believed that the Arsenal
manager has had a loose
arrangement for many years to advise PSG on transfers and
recruitment strategy. One source said that Wenger
has established a “great
relationship” with the French
club’s Qatari investors, who
could make another move for
him if PSG underachieve this season under new sporting
director Leonardo and coach
Antoine Kombouare. His relationship with Arsenal
supporters has become
increasingly tense over the
last year, particularly after the
club extended their trophy
drought to six years following a disastrous finish
to last season. Wenger promised that he
would be “very active” in the
transfer market in the
summer as he pledged to
rebuild a team that has faded
badly in recent campaigns and, while he has spent relatively
large sums on two attacking
midfielders, Gervinho and
Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain,
with the new Premier League
season about to kick off, he has yet to address the club’s
chronic defensive frailties.

the story is from goal.com

. . . .All we discussed was how
Nigeria was being ruined and
the state of the nation. In fact,
if it were now, if Gideon were
alive, I would have been the
one to call him to stage a coup. To stage a coup? Even in a
democracy? There is no democracy in
Nigeria. We have a form of
civil rule but there is no
democracy. If you are not
keeping to rules of democratic
rule, you are not democratic. And that is the state in Nigeria
today. Democracy has its
description. It’s a government
of the people, for the people
and by the people. And this
government is not by the people, it’s not for the people
and it’s not of the people.
There is too much of rigging,
too much of falsehood, too
much of stealing. The fact that
Jega sat on television, in public view, announcing the election
results didn’t make it free and
fair, credible and transparent. What is your grouse with that
election? The same massive rigging that
took place in 2007. Jega made
us believe he was bringing a
system which would make
that kind of thing irrelevant,
but he didn’t. It was the same thing of snatching electoral
boxes and that sort of things.
Back in Benue, some people
were caught with ballot
papers, some people were
caught snatching electoral materials, snatching ballot
boxes. I tell you, they did not
even stay overnight in
detention. They were released
and they went back to
perpetrate what they had done in the first election.
There is no truth in Nigeria, all
that you have is shambles. These people are not credible
and they cannot run a credible
government. Just imagine
Dimeji Bankole (immediate
past Speaker of the House of
Representatives), he was arrested and they were
talking about N32 billion or is
it N40 billion he took as a loan
to share between himself and
his colleagues in the House and
you find somebody as high in the hierarchy as David Mark
(President of Senate), and
others, calling on Goodluck
Jonathan to bring a political
solution. Political solution to
criminality? People say David Mark will
naturally be supportive of
Bankole because what the last
Senate did under Mark was
worse than what was
perpetrated in the House under Bankole. Listen, when David Mark and
others came in four years ago,
they were investigating the
power sector. If you recall,
they were bringing
revelations upon revelations. Messy things. But what
happened after all those
sordid revelations? They just
swept everything under the
carpet! I was told that
Obasanjo said that was how they got the money to rig
election. That was what made
them to get in to the National
Assembly and stopped the
probe. How can we allow a
thing like that to happen in a country, boasting of an
aspiration to be among the
world’s 20 emerging
economies by year 2020? How
can we? It’s very bad. It’s
horrible, treating criminality as family affair! In more
serious nations like China, not
only would those thieves
have been rigorously tried,
they would have been
executed long ago! But here, it seems, the bigger you are able
to steal, the more popular you
become. No wonder,
everything is grounded. Rather than calling for a coup,
wouldn’t you rather call for a
reinforcement of democracy
and our national institutions
along best standards? We have called for that
several times, and we are still
doing so. But those who have
been stealing our money and
are in authority will never
listen. They will never allow any meaningful reforms or
reinforcement of our
democracy and national
institutions, like you said. That
is why changing a country
like Nigeria usually comes through a revolution because
the powers that be will never
allow you to get them out.
Many of those people here
were afraid of Buhari because
they believed if he came in, he would send them to jail. So,
they did all they could to rig
the (last general) elections. It’s like you don’t subscribe to
this belief that the worst
form of democracy is better
than the most benevolent
dictatorship? You see, we are talking of
military, not tyranny or
dictatorship. During the
military era, people felt that
they were not free; that they
were not electing people as it’s done in real democracy,
blah, blah, blah. Even now,
there is no difference. There
were certain things that the
military did which we were
happy about. Take the creation of states that they
did as an example. They did it
primarily to bring
government and
development closer to the
people. Now, when they talk about creation of state, people
spend money. What about reviewing the
constitution. Efforts were
made, I know, when Jerry
Gana was either the Minister
of Information or so. There
were volumes of reports that we, even at our local level,
had inputs. But when the time
came, again, it was as if
nothing had been done before.
They went to the extent of
wanting to present their amendment at the National
Assembly; then, they said
Obasanjo had inserted the
third term clause, and there
was confusion everywhere.
All that they should have done was to remove that
third term thing and bring out
what was being presented to
the National Assembly in its
original form. But they did
nothing like that. They did like nothing had ever been
done, and spent a lot of
money again. So, this is
Nigeria. If there is a good person, who
comes in with good intention,
he will do something. See
what Jerry Rawlings did in
Ghana and Ghana is better for
it. Once upon a time, Ghanaians were here, in Nigeria, picking
food from dustbins. But once
Rawlings struck and restored
sanity, they disappeared
without notice. They went
back because their country was now okay. The country is
now very okay in terms of
democracy and responsible
governance. Are you saying we need a
Jerry Rawlings solution? Yes. When we (NPN) were
overthrown in the 1983 coup,
when I was going to prison
detention, I told my family I
had done nothing wrong. I
told my family that if they investigate well, they would
discover that I didn’t do
anything wrong. But if they
want to kill those of us who
participated in government in
order to correct Nigeria, fine. I am ready to go. So, even
now, if they come and they
want to sweep some of us
who may be free, if they
want to sweep us along in
order that our casualties will help Nigeria, let it be. I am
telling you Nigeria is worse
than Ghana, and it’s sad. What tribute do you pay to
your younger brother on the
occasion of his son’s wedding
today? My younger brother was a
saint; he was a prophet. A saint? Yes. He lived like a saint and
we are happy that after he
had left, his children have
been able to continue with
their education and have been
able to attain the level of educational qualifications they
have proudly acquired, even
to the stage of one of them
getting married, today. The
one that got married today
(July 9, 2011) is the second son. The first son lives in
America and hasn’t married
yet. We hope that he, too, will
marry. . . .

odili.net/news/source/2011/aug/12/517.html

Is Ben Arfa back from injury yet ? I'd really like to know what Newcastle'll be serving this evening. Let me do some snooping

i honestly don't understand what you people mean by this ? Do gorillas or hyenas in the Zoo celebrate birthdays ? Hah ? Then why should the case of this degenerate be any different ? From heart break to more heart break is all you experience that's why you exude so much murkiness and doom.
Anyways i hope your cell mates give you a "happy birthday", prison style.

it's nice to be back home guys, how unu dey ? Don't have much to say but that i expect RVP to feel a swell season. I can smell it in the Air, the Atmosphere's just right. Go on R, and conquer the world

Bayern's Chances in Europe this season are as realistic as the balloons on this one

Danni2:
Somebody just announced that his goods were stolen, and the next thing is "it happens everywhere", "people are looting in uk as we speak", etc. When will Nigerians stop comparing apples with oranges? Europe and America are not the same as Nigeria!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! There was riot in uk cos someone was killed. Who was killed to created the "riot" that cause those thieves to break into someones goods and steal? But even if there is riot in Nigeria, when has it ever become justifiable for people to steal? I need an answer from those two guys who said "it happens everywhere" and "people are looting in Uk as we speak". I will respond to you immediately, i'm waiting.

[size=18pt]YES I SAID IT ! It happens every fricking where. People get born every day and people get murdered also. People give alms to the needy every day and hardened criminals kill and maim too. Drug barons kill dozens every day and humanitarians sacrifice their lives for the helpless.

Nigeria is not the worst place on earth and Nigerians are not the worst people either. More than half the countries on this planet are worse places to live in and the people there even more terrible. Don't come here and call Nigerians evil people because you lost MATERIAL POSSESSIONS. People will lose loved ones to criminals tonight for absolutely nothing. It's painful to be a victim to thieves but it's not the worst thing in the world. Nigerians are just people everywhere else [/size]

Come to think of it; when your GDP is about $32 Billion, how difficult is it to improve that by 20 %? Again, this is not to belittle Ghana's achievement in any way.  It takes a lot of hard word, dedication to achieve this. I just hate it when people try to put Nigeria and Ghana on the same pedestal in terms of growth and achievements.

the thing tire me o. Compare Ghana to lagos or rivers state not Nigeria.

Niseamaka:
My wife shipped a Mitsubushi L300 van filled to the brim with ladies shoes and clothings
to lagos from Dublin and travelled to Nigeria with our six months old baby girl to
market the items. The vehicle was cleared and brought out today and to our utter
shock and dismay, the vehicle was broken into through the boot inspite
of the fact that the boot and the two sliding doors were well welded, and over 90%
of the contents was stolen.Even the two boxes of nappy for our baby`s use during their
sojourn in Nigeria was also stolen.Why are we Nigerians so heartless?.

sorry about your loss dude but why must we always zero everything down to Nigerians being wicked and evil ? Aren't peoples' shops being looted and razed in the same UK as we speak ?

[size=18pt]president John F. kennedy who still remains one of US most loved leaders, appointed his younger brother, Robert F Kennedy as Attorney General if i'm not mistaken. He was also his most trusted adviser.[/size]

But as for Jang own, me i no gree atall. This is a bad precedent and i know this is the opening of a Pandora's box we won't see the end of. I commend him for having very few Special Advisers sha.

@krayola, i don't blame you sha. You have the audacity to come here and flap those your lips like half-done kpomo pla pla pla pla . . .
So what if we haven't won anything in half a decade ? Where were Barca between 1999 and 2004 ? Running around Europe like headless chickens inspite of outspending Irureta and Rafa. Why didn't your policy help you then.
Just because oversight for the Italian big three and Madrid allow una sign Dinho and Eto, you want to come here and yarn like you have one magic formula like that. Go sleep jare

coogar:
the same germany that have won nothing in 15 yrs at senior level.
the same germany that got bytchslapped by spain twice within 12 months. . .

you wanna rule europe with ozil, goetze, etc when spain have cesc, busquets, thiago, pedro?
germany will have to relocate to africa to win on the continent. it's not going to happen in this generation.

Very cruel and painful words, but absolutely necessary. Sometimes you have to use shock therapy to revive a comatose brain.

but this isn't the first time this is happening here. The yaradua case was far more disturbing. Half the threads on the political section claimed he was dead, though he was still alive at that time.

dipo2much:
ARSENAL REMAINS. Come rain come shine

^^ thirded, and hope we don't all forget that

At the end of the day, pointless International friendly without any relevance. Division 4 fixture is of far more significance than the match.
Saturday is just two days away, show yourself then.

Those butterflies that i usually feel this time of the year, just before the season kicks off, seem to be on holiday this time around. I hope it's a good sign

lol, the helicopter pilot probably used one of becomerich's maps to find hill top.

and it's now back, guess you're right OP

i don't know bout that, but the power just went off right now.

Sam Loco, just seeing him on screen would make one start laughing. True comedian, RIP sir.

Myself2:
Correction bros:

Those in support say eye,,,,
Those against say knee

The eyes have it  

More goals to Mancity

Sir Yes Sir


mean while, [size=16pt]SUPER MARIO[/size] where art thou o Brescian ?

[quote author=chi-baby link=topic=728714.msg8873692#msg8873692 date=1312727200]Yeahhhh ! !  They shud give Man u sum more trashin   [/quote]Those in support say I, . .
The Is(eyes) have it, more goals to Mancity

Thank the heavens Adebayoooor has left/is leaving City, we for am for him celebration this season.

Richtalk:
Check out her CV

http://234next.com/csp/cms/sites/Next/Home/5722945-146/curriculum_vitae.csp

She was working for Howard University between 1990 and 1992. Can Howard University Fault that?

My understanding is that in most foreign Universities, you can complete your studies and even obtain your certificate at a certain year but graduate at a different year.

I don't know how they run their programs there, that's why i said:

edoyad:
I don't work for NNPC if that's what you're implying. What i know is that i've seen many of such cases before and it's only a matter of time before the truth is all out. Afterall, even Obama "tricked the US into believing he was born there", didn't he ?

seems there's more to some of our relationships with these media outlets.

saharareporters.com/letter/criminal-activities-234nextcom
Criminal Activities At
234NEXT.com Posted: March 21, 2011 - 13:57 By Tosin Badmus Timbuktu Media Ltd,
publishers of NEXT
Newspapers, has been
involved in some sharp
practices as regards employee
welfare that the government, and society need to know of: Pensions - The company has fragrantly flouted the pension
laws. The
stipulated deductions are
made from staff salaries and
not remitted into
their pension accounts. Most of the approximately 200
workers of the company
have just the payments of
about 4months pensions
remitted into their pension
accounts in close to 30 months of work. Tax - The statutory deductions are also made from
staff salaries (some
workers are in fact over
taxed), however, regular
payments are not made to
the Lagos State Internal Revenue Service. Staff of the
company have not been
issued any tax cards in close to
3 years of operations. Salaries/Allowances - Staff are also owed salaries and
allowances
arbitrarily. The company has,
from day one, flouted the
contractual agreements it
reached with workers. More worrisome, staff who
were victims of a downsizing
undertaken by the company
last year, are yet to be paid
their salaries and allowances
owed them.

@oyb, what we have up there is what a fellow 'web' publication had to say about next. Should we take that as gospel truth too ?

Myself2:
The loss to Benfica made it more interesting,I wonder what it will take for the board to finally do the needed drastic things before the close of the transfer window,maybe losing to Udinese in the UCL play-offs

God please let Udinese progress @ the expense of Arsenal Arsene Wenger

funny how i find 'myself' fantasizing about that too.

oyb:
so if its only a matter of time since the truth is out, why are you making excuses and defending it?  


obama did what? the desperate shenanigans of some comedian republicans is the high point o your argument?

Real funny you know, what would you call their Nigerian counter parts then ?
And what exactly is the high point of your own argument ? A news story from a faceless, web based news outfit  with it's own dubious past  ?

oyb:
maybe you should read the article instead of defending perjury



people like you keep whining about nigeria - but look at what you're defending - everybody falsifies their personal records, its no big deal - then wonder why nigerians are vilified the world over as 419ers. abeg who knows where edoyad works? seems its a beehive of false certificates. if anyone starts a probe the next thing we will hear is wickedness

our honorable minister is getting smacked by the truism - 1 lie requires 10 to back it up. who knows just how many more lies next will turn up. lets hope that chevening scholarship is for real.

I don't work for NNPC if that's what you're implying. What i know is that i've seen many of such cases before and it's only a matter of time before the truth is all out.
Afterall, even Obama "tricked the US into believing he was born there", didn't he ?

oyb:
and in the west, what happens when a hyped cv is outed?

does everyone accuse oil companies or newspapers of an agenda, or do they resign?

i guess since everybody loots the nigerian treasury, that is alright too. such is the logic of the spin and spellers

the same people defending this will be the same people whining about mediocre abokis in positions of authority. so whats the difference? the fact that the abokis chose not 'hype' themselves?

please don't get the facts twisted here. Did Howard university say she never earned a degree there ?
What is in dispute here is the year in which she graduated. Big difference, in fact not even remotely similar.
Not the case of someone presenting a certificate from the University of Darfur. Besides we're still waiting to hear her own side of the story.