₦airaland Forum

Afam4eva: They should wait for Jonathan to leave Aso Rock first.

Is Jonathan not MEND's unofficial spoke person?

Dede1: The bane of political progress in Africa is sudden madness that afflicts the people the moment a token political patronage is tossed their ways. Since Okorocha deceitfully included her baby brother as recipients of cheap and misguided scholarship, the once rational young lady has gone nuts.

What is a cheap scholarship?
What is a misguided scholarship?
I am not in anyway in dispute of your assertions. I just want to know, as I couldn't make out the two. Thanks.

Dede1: The statements in the above post are borne out of ignorance. I was born and raised in Owerre and native of a village few miles from Owerre town. A young lady from Unuguma is married to my cousin and large part of New Owerre belongs to the people of Umuguma. I knew when we use to drive to her father’s compound through the track roads in 1980.

ADAPALM and ITC were the only money-making parastatals in Imo State. I[b]t is funny Rochas has either sold or leased them to his fronts namely Roche and Ginikana respectively. [/b]One wonders why Rochas Okorocha has not done the same to myriad of such parastatals in Imo State.

Its difficult to ascertain whether your opinion is an objective criticism or just personal dislike of the subject. You presented no facts that the firms you mentioned was a front for Mr Okoroocha. Some lady married to your cousin is not a testimonial fact to be using to be making such a huge claim, liable to libel in a real world.
If its a front, then it means that ADAPALM future is now assured, as no serious money person allow his investment to ran aground.

honeric01: I wish God can just filter this country, erase people that can't think with their God given brains. they hardly think, most Nigerians think with 0.01% of their brains.

You have get use to the idea that everybody will not think in same line of thoughts to yours. We are all different, that is the beauty of us as humans. Its only programmed robots thinks alike. This sort of thing should not in anyway frustrate you.

Its funny how Nigerians call themselves giant of Africa but others Africans, especially the north Africans always think otherwise. Its not add-maths that in two games so far, the officiating of the games cost Nigeria both games with some dubious decisions towards the end of the games.

How can you be the giant when you have no known voice inside CAF, let alone FIFA. I can't remember the last time a Nigerian official officiated any game in AFCON, not to mention the world cup.

From times unknown, football is not only won on the pitch but inside the board rooms of football too. I mentioned this in the last game and I will keep saying it that Nigerian govt and sports administrators should speak out about the kind of officiating their teams get in competition especially in African. You kicked a fuss about how much you are charged to telecast the AFCON games but ignore the politics of football.

That referee will never dream of giving a non free kick and action that happened well outside the box as a penalty against the likes of South African or Cameroon with minutes remaining.

A Biafra missed the penalty and a Nigerian scored the goal A Nigerian just text me to tell me.

sweetcheecks: Goal Nigeria, the 19 year old scored!!!!!!!!!

19 plus ten hidden years, after all OBJ COUNT 10 AS ONE WHEN IT COMES TO AGE.

Mikel has redeemed himself. Well, if you keep the ball on the ground and keep possession, you will score.

[quote author=Βουκέφαλος]This Biafra super eagles dey very shitty [/quote]They are wearing your cursed green and white.

The Zambians has never accepted any of the referee decision irrespective of how blatant the their fouling was, but Nigeria player goes to apologise to the opposing player, even at the slightest foul against them. They never learned from the first game.
Musa going for glory instead of finding Emenike in a better position!!

coogar: leo messi has missed a pen, ronaldo has missed a pen.
who hasn't missed a pen? you people should stop this yeye criticism.

Mikel didn't miss the penalty! He kicked the ball away.

5much: Nigeria must win dis match, come rain,come sunshine. Amen.

Its funny one of the Nigerian players on the bench had his eyes closed with clapped hands and looking up to the heavens, praying furiously and probably loudly to his god as Mikel was about to take the penalty.
And his teammate seems to woke him up to tell him not to bother this god anymore as the penalty had been missed. His face was a picture when he opened his eyes
Nigerians and religion! Its not the same God that created the Zambians I will assume.

Willgates: DSTV is messing up in ma area

Some were supporting the money saving scheme by BON/NTA, because they think they were insured with their private decoders.

There is nothing that drive me mad in football when a player comes to the foot of his teammate to pick up the ball. It drives me nuts!

I was screaming my head off when I saw mikel standing by the ball. Did they remember him ever scoring a goal?

What is this meaningless and aimless long ball for in 2012? Have they got angels in heaven as their attackers?

No link between the midfield and defence to link up with the attack. The defence just pump the ball upfront without any sort of target at every given opportunity because they are bereft of any idea. I call it kicking the ball away in panic.

I can't believe the state of the pitches in this competition. Very dry, patches and the ball bouncing up and down on it. Disgraceful!

Though he won't win an Oscar for his dressing but he was very comfortably eloquent in speaking, compared to what we got from the facebook generation leaders of today with their quota PHDs.
Funny he was being given flowers in Tennessee, probably nearby somewhere there in the south, the ku klux klan is busy hanging a fellow black fellow on a tree.

talktimi: you have just confirmed your olodo status so no need to explain any meaningful thing to you again. Since the €4.5 million is a "meagre" sum, please pay for us so we can enjoy the nations cup. Anumanu onye ara

If 4.5 million is not meagre for a nation that draws millions of barrel of oil free of charge from the nature, tell me what is it? That is the sort of money your leaders spend at a go in Harrods for few suits and ties without even thinking about it.
They will spent hours showing PDP national convention without thinking about the cost, but 90 minutes of football? they will become prudence all of a sudden. A Nigeria public body saying something is expensive? I feel sorry for you. Calling me name is not where your redemption lies.

[quote author=black_beau]I'm an akwa Ibomite and I can boldly say that the cross riverean culture doesn't include unclothedness.this years nudity in the carnival was just a show by our nigerian girls to copy their brazillian counterparts[/quote]In African culture/words, there are no such word as Ibomite, where did you copy it from?

Demdem: are u aware that they walk on our streets? Are there dedicated streets for peeps like me who detest such in public also. by the way, the argument is if NBC can ban some music videos because they depicts elements of sexuality, why not this also from the same airwaves since it depicts such also.

Are they forced you not only to go to Calabar on the day but also forced you down the street where its happening? If you don't like carnival turn to another channel or turn off the TV and do some work in the house or even sleep.
We can't ban internet, just because there are websites that doesn't conform to me/yours moral standards, we just simply avoid them. period!

I lived in London for more than 30 years before moving to Surrey but I had never been to Nothing Hill carnival even for once, just because its doesn't interest me, even though its a stone throw away from my home Hammersmith.

abdulkayus: Stil amazed as hw some ppl doesnt c anytin wrong in d shameless show of unclothedness called carnival. To me, its barbaric, degradin women to sex objects.
All dos claimin dat notin wrong in dis madness and also abusing Afam4ever, will u allow ur mother, sister, wife or daughter to put on dos nonsense call customes and display their unclothedness to any dick and harry? SMH.
Waitin for all ur answers. Hypocrites

You sounded like the King of Swaziland, who recently banned mini skirt but every year girls even from the age of 16 are line up nude in public ceremony for him to chose his newest wife. He said that is his culture and mini skirt is a foreign culture.
If you are not a hypocrite yourself, why do you watch this carnival at all? And if you don't watch it, how come you knew what they were wearing?
Adults that claim not to eat rat meat but its okay to use their teeth to share it among the children.

k00lxpert: this is not a Nigerian cultural carnivals we re xpecting, its a continuation & convergence of 'All naked street strippers volunteers association(s) of Calabar & environs, gathered together to entertain fools & jobless wakapass pple...To me, they re shameless bastard Nigerians. dont quote me, its just my opinion

What exactly is Nigeria culture? Please name them!
If anything culture associated with Nigeria nowhere in the world today is fraud and stealing public money by public officials. In my opinion, the so called carnival is doing you lot, loads of unpaid positive PR for the first time.

Demdem: exactly, i think its high time NBC start sanctioning this carnival airing on our airwaves afterall, some music videos who dont even have as much has unclothedness being experienced in the carnival have been banned from the airwaves by NBC.

There are hundreds of channels this days available for your viewing pleasure, Who pu that gun on your head that you must watch the so-called carnival?

Afam4eva: It has never been about promoting our culture but about promoting the cultures of the carribean islands. Now, they're now promoting the culture of sodom and gomorra. The calabar carnival, the port-hacourt carnival and the Lagos carnival are a shame.

So in your carnal/banal opinion, Caribbean Islands are Sodom/Gomorrah? Those Island tend to be proud of those carnivals because they felt it gives them a sense of their traditional ancestor's homeland of West Africa.
Before the coming of the white man, most of our cultural festival has always been nudity associated with it but then it was natural because, our mind and mental states then were not as corrupt and crooked as it is now.
Then a young female/male may be nude but the last thing on their mind is jumping on top of each other, they were innocent. But today people like you who claimed to be religious than God, will say one thing but completely do another. They will steal, sleep with their best friends wife or husband and on sunday they will troop to their carnival (church) and praise to a God who is not ever listening to them. Hypocrites!!

Maxymilliano: Bro, profit maximization is the primary aim of any business venture, are you saying BON should jettison such ethic to make Nigerians happy? Don't forget that it is not a Federal Government thing.

The tournament is already branded, how can you throw away such humongous amount on what may not be profitable on the long run? I'm talking of economic sense here.

NTA is a public service organisation paid for by the public, they are not in the business of making profit by right, despite the fact that they are even allowed by the law to sale their programmes to paying sponsors unlike the BBC.

seunajia: My brother, What we keep forgetting is that the member stations of BON are the ones that'll repay whatever BON as an organization pays for the rights.

In the case when the member stations tell BON they don't have the financial capability to foot such an amount as proposed by LC2, what do you want them to do? This is business man! They said they won't be able to get enough from adverts to cover for their investments.

Unless you're asking the Nigerian Government to pay and be the father christmas for private stations. And thereby allowing LC2 and CAF to continue treating us as money-miss-roads willing to dole out any amount of money, regardless of whether the venture is profitable or not.

What is BON? Under what statu does it exist and for who, if you are discounting the govt that owns NTA. What is 4.5 million euro for 21 games, that you can't get sponsors to cover such a meagre sum for NTA alone with more than 30 stations nationwide, excluding the private broadcasters?

danniekute: shut up..who told u dat we are complaining abt nt watchn d matches live.who made u a judge over d matter? Mtcheeeeeww.

This is a debate not for mindless thugs, who reason only when they call names as their only way they know. You can make your point without insulting someone you will never meet in your life. Where are you watching your own AFCON, Jupiter TV?

igbeke: i tink d question u shud ask if Ghana was also made 2 pay wat was demanded of Nigeria.
much as i feel sad 4 not bn able 2 enjoy d matches in d comfort of my home, i still giv credit 2 BON 4 such a brave decision.
i see it as a loss 2 CAF dan it meant 2 Nigeria.
u r welcome.

What you pay to your cable providers in Nigeria, is it the same for subscribers in United Kingdom that pays to Sky or Virgin? I pay Sky about 12,000 naira a month for a limited channel service. How much do you pay in NIgeria?
When you start comparing yourself to Ghana without considering that a thousand equivalent to Ghana may be a ten to Nigeria when comparing wealth of both nation commercial viability strengths.

seunajia: My brother, What we keep forgetting is that the member stations of BON are the ones that'll repay whatever BON as an organization pays for the rights.

In the case when the member stations tell BON they don't have the financial capability to foot such an amount as proposed by LC2, what do you want them to do? This is business man! They said they won't be able to get enough from adverts to cover for their investments.

Unless you're asking the Nigerian Government to pay and be the father christmas for private stations. And thereby allowing LC2 and CAF to continue treating us as money-miss-roads willing to dole out any amount of money, regardless of whether the venture is profitable or not.

BON is a quango organisation which its existence serves no purpose. Just a job for the boys by the corrupt elite. We are in free market. All the networks should be able to go out there and bought themselves services that will make their viewers happy and that are saleable.

BskyB paid just few millions years ago to have the commercial right of the EPL, but the last deal that will expire this season, they paid well over a billion pound sterling and their is a prediction that the next round of deal may pass 2 billon because networks like Al Jazzera, ESPN are all interested. How can a television station in Nigeria cannot afford a meagre 4.5 million euro for 21 games, when they are commercially oriented?

It doesn't make any sense. Its just the wickedness of that society, one thing that is not exclusive to the rogue elite, they used the excuse of cost to take it away from the poor masses. This is a sum many of them spent on hospital bills in one-go many times in a year in europe etc.