₦airaland Forum

AndSunGorilla:
There's a certain Anjorin on Chelsea''s bench, any details on him, even though he's another one for the future.

Wishing Ejaria, Ajayi, Balo all the best in the FA.

Subzero047:
Onuachu

Subzero047:
The past and the future

safarigirl:
That's a lot of clubs

tbaba1234:
Morocco has one of the best leagues in Africa but they are employing scouts to monitor young dual Moroccan players in Germany, France, Holland, Belgium and Spain.

This way, they can discover players early and possibly get them to play for Morocco.

nelszx:
They should really work on that turf
It's like playing on sand

AIG07:
you can say that again!

They are actually setting the pace for others to follow. I only hope and wish they sustain the tempo.

tbaba1234:
Chidiebere Nwakali has been SACKED from Kalmar (sweden) for breach of contract. He did not show up for preseason training

Player never showed up - now KFF has broken the agreement: "Such a gross breach of contract"

Nigerian midfielder Chidiebere Nwakali, 23, signed last year on a four-year contract with Kalmar FF, but never made a match in the Allsvenskan during the season. The player fell ill in Malaria and was instead in the summer for a move to Norway, but eventually stayed in the Småland club. But when this year's preseason started in early January, the player - for no reason - was not in place and has not appeared since.

KFF sports manager Jörgen Petersson then confirmed to the Barometer that the association would take action against the player and explained just over a week after the premiere training the situation around the 23-year-old for the Football Channel:

- We follow the usual order of working days when you do not follow the work. We are doing what we should and it is clear that it is not good. We find that he is not here and he should be. He should have been here since Wednesday, he said.

Now Petersson announces that the parties have taken different paths. The deal is broken.

"He has broken his agreement by not coming here," he tells the Football Channel.

Have you had any contact with him?
- We don't have to go into it anymore, but there is an order in everything. Through his behavior, he has violated parts of his agreement, which is not okay. He didn't come to the startup. We keep it that way.

Will he get any salary in the future?
- I'm not commenting on that at all. I stick to what I said before.

Wasn't it relevant to sell him to another club?
- There are two different things and he did not come up and train. Then you have not much to choose. It was such a gross breach of contract and there were no places to sell him. He was on his way last summer and there was a lot of talk about Norway, but more than that I don't know.

Is it nice to have this chapter completed now?
- I always find it unsettling when things are not as you originally thought. It has not been very successful for either party, but it sometimes becomes like things happen in a squad of players. The feelings cannot be lost. He wasn't here, he says.

solonnachi:
I just read online that
1. Gernot Rohr and NFF have decided to work together. Each have compromised their conditions.

2. Jordan Touringha has pledged his international allegiance to Nigeria.

Please somebody help me confirm.

gargoylern:
As our first data science info, I'll share a little investigation I did a while ago.
So, I have always been curious about when the mods/supermods post on the front page. Intuition tells me it's usually in the morning, but obviously a data scientist can't rely on intuition alone in making conclusions on suspicions.
I figured I would scrape the data on the front page and do an aggregation on when posts appear.

I use beautiful soup to scrape Nairaland frontpage topics including the times posts appeared. Then I made a histogram of the hours posts where made. This is what I got. The horizontal axis shows the hours in 24-hour time posts were made, while the vertical shows the post count for each hour. Turns out most posts appear between the hours of 7 and 8 early in the morning and between 3 and 4 in the evening. Generally in the early morning hours between midnight and 4, posts rarely appear on the front page, since the mods are clearly sleeping. By 5 in the morning, the number of frontpage posts starts to go up steadily.

So, if you wanna be first to comment on a frontpage post, wake up as early as 5 and watch out as the posts show up. Or watch towards the evening hours between 3 and 4.

NB: Only posts from Jan 1 of this year were scraped.

import pandas as pd
import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import datetime

# Read csv file
news = pd.read_csv('nairaland.csv', sep=",", header = None)
news.head(10)

m2 = news[1].apply(lambda x: datetime.datetime.strptime(x, '%I:%M%p').hour)
m2.head()
n_bins = 20
fig, ax = plt.subplots(figsize=(10,7))
ax.hist(m3, bins=n_bins)
ax.set_xlabel("Hours Frontpage Posts appeared" )
ax.set_ylabel("Counts" )
ax.set_xticks(np.arange(0,24,1))
plt.grid(True);

Odunayaw:
As if these three would have made us lift back to back World cups!

That said, we can't chase every everybody (especially for SE purpose) Hian!

Alfryd:
NIGERIA NEED TO act fast on this lad


Brentford and AC Milan are interested in signing
Arsenal's 18-year-old English striker Folarin
Balogun this month. (Mail)

gustav25:
Where are they ? Children of Ahab always saying baloney that the English championship is tough because teams eliminate EPL teams in cup games ? Watch them act all blind not knowing a 3 tier team I can't pronounce knocked out the other Side of Madrid with a R. It's safe to say using your drunk pundits prowess here that the 3 tier team will effortlessly obliterate the teams in EPL and championship. Drunks without Honour

DarkJeddi:
Maybe it's borrowed..

And am not talking specifically of Osayi,but generally..

The fact am trying to establish is that some Igbo groups have Osa(God) as a prefix to their names..

Examples of such names are Osaemeka, Osadebee, Osakwe,Osaeloka, Akaosa,Osaebuluwa and Osadinma..

All these are names with specific meanings pertaining to God..

Onitsha, Ogbaru and some parts of Delta Igbo bears names that may be indistinguishable from those of Edo..