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blackchief: Please judge Keshi based on result not on how the team is playing (the same mistake we made with Ahmodu that resulted in us bring a white man that could not win any game and made away with heavy money). some people are comparing him to siasia, a coach that could not qualify us for the nations cup and ever since he left the national team,which national team has he coach.

As long as we keep looking for win over every team we play, we will be getting the present sytle of play.

Very correct.

Amodu qualified Nigeria for two world cups. The first, Nigeria was second on the group behind Ghana and needed to win remaining three matches. Amodu was hired and he won all three matches home and away. Then he was sacked even when he finished 3rd in the nations cup, and Onigbinde took Nigeria to a disappointing world cup. Amodu came again on a second journey and delivered the 2010 world cup ticket, he was sacked again, and a white man from Germany failed at the world cup.

Why are we so harsh on those who give us results even with limited time? Keshi is yet to lose any match as far as I know. Look at people singing Siasia is better. Even though I was not happy that he was sacked, it is in record he could not deliver a common nations cup ticket. Siasia lost some matches at away and even drew in Nigeria, but Keshi hasn't lost away. He has even won an away match. Let's be patient with our coaches, mostly those giving us results. It's not easy to rebuild, Westerhof rebuilt for 5 years.

There was a certain team tutored by Adegboyenga Onigbinde, that team is the worst Eagles ever. I think they played a world cup in 2002.

bbulldog: Chelsea players, Mikel n moses.....best for nigeria

Mikel was poor and played lazily. He slowed the game each time ball gets to him. He also lost possessions many times. That is bad for a midfielder.

There is a certain Joel Obi, he is missed.

Enyeama is better than some EPL goalkeeper like De Gea. If he were a European, he would be keeping for a top team.

Don't get me wrong though, De Gea will be great, but he fumbles so much for now, mostly with aerial balls.

I am not surprised if music and movie stars show off they way they do. Even in America, we have seen such from Mike Tyson, MC hammer, 50 cent etc. It would have been a surprise or ridiculous if I saw Dangote or Elumelu or Fashola or Jim Ovia posing and showing off their exotic cars and private jets. I am sure even their kids won't be moved or carried away in such acts and vanity.

Famine in North Korea



What are some of the major causes of the famine in North Korea?

The famine in DPRK is the result of the cumulative effects of a fractured economic infrastructure and inadequate food production. Over 22 million people must rely on food produced from the barely 20 per cent of arable land available. This has led, with unfortunate consequences, to planting crops on steep hillsides, destroying the forest cover and causing erosion. While the yield from planting on hillslopes is not great, the effects have been detrimental. Partly related, a cycle of floods (and drought) began in 1995 that led to the current famine-like situation in the country. Further, the country has not been able to earn sufficient foreign exchange to allow it to purchase substantial amounts of food abroad.

It is estimated by the DPRK government that over 40 per cent of children under five are malnourished. A high proportion of pregnant women are also malnourished. Deteriorating social services, along with inadequate food distributions through the government public distribution system have led to the current crisis in the DPRK.

Recent news reports warn that North Korea will run out of food in three months unless more international donations arrive immediately. How are you altering your programs in light of this and are governments responding to the urgency of this issue?

The emergency operation remains heavily under-resourced despite a very recent contribution from the US of 100,000 metric tonnes (mt) of food aid. The current shortfall for the calendar year now totals about 150,000 metric tonnes. The main shortfalls are in cereals (140,000 mt) and Corn Soya Blend (CSB), which is an enriched blended food mainly targeted for nursery- school children.

Owing to the food pipeline problems, WFP had to scale back its operations starting in May when we stopped distributing food to 675,000 secondary school children and were unable to begin the planned lean season distributions to 350,000 elderly people and 144,000 caregivers in child institutions and pediatric hospitals/wards. This measure has enabled us to give priority to our core beneficiary groups (i.e. orphans, young children and pregnant and nursing women), allowing distributions to them to extend farther into the third quarter.

With the US 100,000 tonnes, the situation has been alleviated, though not solved. The dilemma faced is that, despite this contribution, it may be difficult to resume distributing food to the beneficiary groups that have been omitted unless we are reasonably certain we will have enough food for the most vulnerable core beneficiaries through to the end of the year.

Who are the countries that are giving the most aid right now? Why are donors providing less aid this year than they have in previous years?

The donor base for food aid has been diverse in the past few years, with the major contributors being the US, Japan, Republic of Korea (in that order). The EU, Italy, Germany, Australia, Canada, Sweden and Finland have also contributed, though lesser amounts. Also the ROK has given a lot bilaterally (i.e., directly to the DPRK government and not through WFP) while China is also known to have made major contributions bilaterally.

http://asiasociety.org/policy/environment/water-and-food-security/famine-north-korea

Are we sure of the source of this news?

Which super sports channel is showing Angola match?

7842I: Sharaap! Nigerians aren't poor!

Where did I state that Nigerians are poor? I said it's a poor mentality, that means low way of thinking.

Where did you go to school? You also lack manners.

It's a poor mentality.

I can bet there has been some surgery to remove some fat.

searay: Fellow Nigerians we have it on good authority that CAF have concluded plans to ensure Nigeria's elimination in the very first round of the ongoing Afcon in SA.
Their major reason been the refusal of
Nigeria to pay the extortionist broadcast rights fee of 4 million euros demanded by CAF agents from BON. Consequently, the SA embassy is denying visa to staffers of DAAR, NTA, and broadcast journalists from other BON affiliates who had not been issued visas before last week's announcement that Nigeria will not pay the exorbitant fee.
Nigerian players and officials are hereby advised not to confront referees during their remaining games as part of the evil ploy is to hand our lengthy bans to "erring" Nigerians.
Some of us have already "taken the bull by its scrotum" by calling up some known CAF officials who have vehemently refuted these allegations .
These officials are however refusing to be drawn into issues relating to the very bias.
Officiating so far recorded against Nigeria at the SA 2013 AFCON.
Let's be vigilant, as a lot could happen during the two silmultaneos last group matches between Nigeria and Ethiopia as well as Zambia and Burkina Faso next week.

Source please.

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Ya, its really funny.

Super Eagles performance toady is an improvement on their first match which is a progress on the entire rebuilding process. Keshi has only been Eagles coach for one year and I believe it has been good so far. Siasia should never have been sacked. The kind of impatient Nigerians exhibited when Siasia failed to qualify is the same they are exhibiting now. Nigeria has sacked a lot of coaches (foreign and local), thereby putting the new ones taking over under undue pressure. Shuabu Amodu qualified for two world cups and nations cups too, yet he was branded as lacking coaching skills. He was not allowed to go to the world cups he laboured for. There was this world cup qualifying campaign when Bonferee Jo was the coach and Nigeria had lost hope as Ghana were at the top of the table, then Bonferee Jo was sacked and Nigeria needed to win the remaining three matches home and away. Shuabu Amodu came and won them all, then he was booted out for finishing third at the nations cup, he was denied the opportunity of going to world cup. May be NFF needs to go and beg Amodu for forgiveness.

A lot of people complaining here should be patient for a new team to be rebuilt. Some of the players we see today will not be good enough in two years time, and some better players will come to strenthen the team. The USA '94 team was built over a period of 5 years by Westerhof. 80% of Nigeria players are playing their first major tournament, it can be difficult. After two years, the players will be more confident and commanding, and also the entire team play will gain cohesion.

See traffic.

Its half time now. Bad pitch.

[quote author=Rhapsody!]I really thank God afresh that I am out of the banking system. My bank then, the former IBPLC, had a way of modifying such directives from CBN to suit them. They will had reinforced visitation and KYC on almost ALL accounts opened while increasing your targets o. In those days, I used to sign off Visitation forms on places I had never been to. And pray nothing goes wrong with that account else it is your head. This is 'cos maybe the official car was unavailable, or there is no fuel as drivers had exhausted their weekly budget, or another. Other times, you foot the bill. It was crazy especially for semi rural areas. Imagine the number of visitations, KYC I would have been doing for my customers.[/quote]You took plenty of risk that could have landed you in a deep shit or even jail. Thank God all the ones you signed off without verification didn't have fraudulent problems. Anyway, you were not alone, many bankers do it even till now, how many of their customers can they visit. This new policy will be a relieve to bankers if implemented. They only have to verify the high value customers.

Let me try and summarize it.

CBN has introduced three levels of bank customers to enable KYC (know your customer) and money laudering monitoring be more effective.

1. Low Vaue Account = This will be opened with minimum KYC. Only I'd cards may be required from the customers to open such accounts. Account can be opened with zero balance or maximum of N20,000. Payment into the account cannot be more than N20,000 at a time. The balance cannot grow above N200,000. This accounts will not be under the scrutiny of regulatory bodies.

2. Medium Value Account. A bit of higher KYC, may be with I'd card and utility bill as PHCN bill. Customers under this category cannot pay into the account more than N50,000 on a single deposit (teller), and the balance shouldn't be above N400, 000.

3. High Value Account: Unlimited banking services with full KYC at point of opening. The KYC will involved taking I'd card from the customer, utility bill, the bank official will visit the customer's house and verify the genuineness of his residence and place of work, take his reference, etc. The accounts will be monitored by regulatory bodies.

That's what I understand about the circular, let's wait for further explanation or addendum.

Let me try and summarize it.

CBN has introduced three levels of bank customers to enable KYC (know your customers) and money laudering monitoring be more effective.

1. Low Vaue Account = This will be opened with minimum KYC. Only I'd cards may be required from the customers to open such accounts. Account can be opened with zero balance or maximum of N20,000. Payment into the account cannot be more than N20,000 at a time. The balance cannot grow above N200,000. This accounts will not be under the scrutiny of regulatory bodies.

2. Medium Value Account. A bit of higher KYC, may be with I'd card and utility bill as PHCN bill. Customers under this category cannot pay into the account more than N50,000 on a single deposit (teller), and the balance shouldn't be above N400, 000.

3. High Value Account: Unlimited banking services with full KYC at point of opening. The KYC will involved taking I'd card from the customer, utility bill, the bank official will visit the customer's house and verify the genuineness of his residence and place of work, take his reference, etc. The accounts will be monitored by regulatory bodies.

That's what I understand about the circular, let's wait for further explanation or addendum.

He is 17 years? No wonder he could act that way. They should place an age limit to exiting ball boy. I am a Man U fan, but I don't support that ball boy, and I cant criticize Hazard because he was like a soldier losing a crucial battle, and a civilian(the ball boy) suddenly interfered.

I don't think it is out of Jealousy. We have to remember Pastor Tunde Bakare has been criticizing the interwoven(ing) of Pastors with the government. And we know Bakare is a Pentecostal pastor too. The other day, the CBN governor, Mallam Sanusi said CAN and its Islamic counterpart are no longer religious bodies but political bodies honouring government officials, hence they should both be banned.

Let's try and look at this issue objectively and listen more to what both parties will be saying next. There might be more issues which are not being made public. I know the Catholic priests are humble, so I doubt any envy stuff in this whole saga. Fingers crossed for now while awaiting more development.

Sending the right message.

funkylarryjones: my dear it's hamstrings o! and they are found in the legs!

I know. I couldn't remember the right spelling at the time.

In my opinion 1-1 is not a fair result. Eagles created the clearer chances, even with a man out. Burkinafaso only dominated possession toward the end of the match which is not unexpected, however, they had few clear cut chances. Eagles deserve to carry the day.

udz: Nigerians always blaming d referee. Our boys were not clinical in their tackles especially d local boys. Again U r leading by a lone, U r one man down, y attacking. A gud coach will instruct d boys 2 pack trailer. Let us b neutral in our analysis.

Over the weekend, United packed trailer and still conceded.

Nigeria had the ball at the opponents corner flag area 15 seconds to final whistle (93.45), the exact place everyone prays for the ball to be at the time. Nigeria had two players there against one to keep the ball for a long time, why take it into the 18 area to try and score again. Inexperience or over confidence.

Well, in 1990 Westerhof lost his first match tp Algeria 5-1 and went on to build the strongest eagles ever. This teams has speed and digressiveness, we have not seen that for over 15 years. I want to believe this is all part of the rebuilding process.

The mistake was that Nigeria players had the ball in the opponents corner flag area with 15 seconds to final whistle (93.45), why did they attempt to go and score? It was two Eagles against one Burkinababe in the corner area, they could have kept possession there for one minute the least. Instead they went to try and go into their 18 yard box, it a bit of inexperience and lots of carelessness.

Having said the above, Nigeria did well considering we are rebuilding. Westerhof lost his first to Algeria 5-1 in 1990, though he went on to play the final of the tournament. I saw a fast attacking Eagles today, the fist time in 15 years or more. We can build on this.

Nigeria 1 Burkina Faso 1

Nigeria playing ten men, had the ball at the corner flag area 93.45, 15 seconds to close the game, then one of our players decided to pass to 18 area instead of keeper the ball at the corner area. What a poor decision. A game Nigeria created clear chances even with 10 men.

Uche should work on his final

[quote author=Only-Rebel]Remember, the report specify the car was in the garage. It could be airtight garage. In my case I can't stay in my car in hot day with all windows up without a/c on for 30min in open air.[/quote]May be the heat and the enclosure of the garage led to the suffocation. The times I slept over were nights, in one of the nights, I could feel cold breeze coming into the car from AC points on the dash board. Well, may they rest in peace. I also feel a four years old should be able to open a car door from inside.