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ifetoyosi:
Huh....... Did u type Dat, ...... NBA ll dominate bball in d past present ND future..... Africa kur, Nigeria ni. Buh we ve few individual talents

u dont get me before reply.nobody disputes with NBA.
what am saying is that NBA itself is looking for opportunity elsewhere to make the game more popular that is why there is an ongoing plans to have a regular season match outside the US,and Africa is the first point of call when it comes to attracting pull of talent and the reason is simple...BASKET BALL IS A BLACK MAN OR IF YOU LIKE,BLACK AMERICAN GAME.NBA already has a talent developement office in south africa as we speak.in other continent wat they look for is marketing and branding but in Africa its talents

Heromaniaa:
I have read one of his books.

Which one in particularly? "3rd world war" is my favourite

ifetoyosi:
Other countries re also improving....... Nt doubting dere ability tho

But it has to be said that future of BASKetball is AFRICA, an AFRICA NIGEria

The Day of the Jackal author Frederick Forsyth has revealed he was working for MI6 for more than 20 years.
The disclosure comes with the publication of the author's autobiography The Outsider: My Life.
Fans have long suspected that Forsyth, 77, acclaimed for his highly realistic spy novels, may have been involved with British intelligence.
He told the BBC it started when he was asked to send information from the Biafran War in Nigeria.
He said he was approached by an intelligence officer who asked him to "tell us what's going on" during the civil war, which lasted from 1967 to 1970.
"For the last year of the Biafran War I was sending... both journalistic reports to the media and other reports to my new friend," he said.
He said MI6 wanted to know if it was true that many children were dying.
"The Foreign Office was denying that there were any dying children and they were passionate in supporting the dictatorship in Lagos, and it was, oddly enough, MI6 that had a different viewpoint," he said.
Forsyth said he saw "no harm" in confirming the truth that "children were dying like flies" in Biafra.
"It was controversial... but not about the security of our country," he told BBC News.
He added that, like many others, he was never paid for the work undertaken.
"There was a lot of volunteer assistance that was not charged for.
"The zeitgeist was different... the Cold War was very much on.
"If someone asked, 'Can you see your way clear to do us a favour?', it was very hard to say no."
Forsyth remains best known for novels such as The Day of the Jackal, The Odessa File and The Dogs of War.
'OK, Freddie!'
A former BBC and Reuters journalist, many of his fictional plots drew on his real-life experiences covering stories around the world.
Despite becoming an established author with the success of 1971's The Day of the Jackal - which earned Forsyth a three-book publishing deal and led to a hit film - he undertook missions to Rhodesia, South Africa and, at the height of the Cold War, East Germany.
As a kind of pay-off for his services, he said MI6 did approve passages from some of his later novels.
Forsyth said he was given a number to ring. He was told: "Send us the pages and we will vet them, and if they are too sensitive, we will ask you not to continue."
"But usually the response was: 'OK, Freddie!'"
Forsyth has sold some 70 million books, many of which have been adapted into films. His most recent novel was 2013's The Kill List.
He was awarded a CBE in 1997

BBC

vivalavida:
is this the 4th quarter?

Men today got to be one of my happiest,proud to be Naija again! My Tigers Les go!

wow ...love the public speaking part,never consider putting that on my CV, ready to update

pkjag:
Actually Kenya has already won the Championships.

Can you imagine..thats an African nation and we can only win,personal best and call it historic

GudluckIBB:
Whenever I hear Wike speak, I'm always angry with jonathan for making him Education Minister.Wike lacks good command of English.

Sentiments and politics aside , Wike does not have the carriage, charisma,class and demeeanour of a governor.

the guy always looking like a drunkard,so dazed and confused

what does this man want is government house again, like patience jonathan wud ask...what did he forget ?
am sure APC can present a better candidate than him

INTROVERT:
salutation ain't love.

a million likes...my Grandmother always tell me that,and over the years i have seen the relevance of it.
true,ochi abu uto indeed

D, Tigers have really made my week a sweet one.,an it will be sweeter with a win over Tunisia and Enyimba's win over Sharks tomorrow

Menace2Society:
Kid calm down u sabi yap rubbish

Wanted to cut you for size but went to your previous posts and I cudnt see a single sensible post ,except repeated senseless insults..so if you are so bereft of idea ,why bother myself replying your frivolous witch-hunt?..I beg look for your "breeding mate"

Menace2Society:
Bla bla bla from empty barrel

Who is this one,them swear for you..abi you jump gutter reach here?

AngryNigerian:
...no wonder most of our lives are dependent on what odas say or dont say,& do or didnt do.


...be grateful for the little efforts that odas make! wer u bn de wen dem de select athletes for the competition?

I don't have your time. .you for declare "Owa mbe" for them naa.
How many African countries have won medals at the championship?them get two heads? And what do we show for the millions they waste every two years?
Your eye dey pain you?
If you fail in your place of work wud your employer be still paying your salaries? Sports is not my work,but is there work so you can't ask me wt I was doing wen they were choosing them. .that is silly and irrelevant, are they doing it for free Better think before you talk

olillywales:
Nigeria’s 4 x 400m relay team made history on Saturday morning in the first semi-final of the day at the IAAF World Championships in Beijing.

The team, led by 400m open finalist Patience Okon-George, ran 3:23.27 seconds, the fastest time run in the history of the championship by a Nigerian team since the quartet of Fatimah Yusuf, Mary Onyali, Airat Bakare and Charity Opara with a 49.97 anchor ran 3:24.45 to place fifth in the final at the Tokyo 1991 third edition of the championship.

The 2015 history-making team was led off by 2013 400m open semi-finalist Regina George who handed over with a marginal advantage to Foluke Oladoye who improved the advantage marginally before Ekiti-born, Tosin Adeloye increased the advantage significantly before finally handing over to Okon-George, the only one in the team who has broken 51 seconds this year, to race home first and qualify for Sunday’s final.

what is historic about this...that they broke Nigerian own record
when others are breaking world re?cord ??

The team has been drawn in lane 7 for Sunday’s final and will hope to win Nigeria’s women’s first relay medal at the championship.

They will however have to battle it out with hot favourites, the USA, who won the other semi-final; Jamaica who are second on the 2015 top list behind USA and just ahead of Nigeria, as well as Great Britain who may likely bring in 400m open finalist and former world champion, Nigeria-born Christine Ohuruogu.

http://www.metronaija.com/2015/08/nigerias-female-4-x-400m-relay-team-set.html

what is historic about this...that they broke Nigerian own record,when others breaking world record
silver or gold we have not,what we have we give to you....our historic record
mediocrity of the highest order
the tragedy of life is not that our dream is too big and we failed,but it is too small and we achieved it

odinese:
.oh my God, I didn't read the full story thou..


All this idïots shouting Buhari is tribalistic bla bla bla all thieves. They just looking for their own pocket and not for helping their pple...

I just pity some goats on nairaland wailing abt not putting Igbo, Yoruba bla bla bla...once again, since when pdp have been choosing some random thieves, what have achieved

Oh God when will pple ever learn?? This thieves u shuffering and shmiling pple are fighting for will never help u!!!! They just fighting for their own national cake like what the man up there said...


PDP supporters are becoming very very annoying, most of them aren't even doing good jobs, either they doing a very hard work or they still searching for jobs, and u still see them coming here to post all hail to gej or up PDP...


Look am from anambra, when I visited my state last year I wasn't really impressed. U see a lot of pple riding bikes or doing some petty business but these modaf**** will still say all hail to gej lol..sorry for your life's thou..u guys are doomed!!

You got no morale standing to call anyone "idiots"

carzola:
Is he not a F00L
Now buhari has betrayed them...

Is he bleaching? abi nah the kunu wey bubu
der give am drink?

What is betrayal,did BUHARI promise him a post based on the appointment he has made so far? Have the appointments been exhausted?
Is his appointment a do-or-die?

BiafranNigerian:
As far as it is in the North ? Approved.

Second Niger Bridge ? Suspend.

When the the ghost palm ripes, the ghost will pluck it. A word is enough for the wise.

I sincerely believe we are lacking Leadership in the Southeast,this second NIGER BRIDGE has gotten to a level where the south-east region can come together and pull resources to Build the second bridge. Even with "public-private partnership",because they are making us look like outcasts.

For us as a region,the water has come to our neck and its either we swim or get drowned
There so many independent African countries that have built such projects, whose population is not upto the south-east region,so while remaining in Nigerian for the time been, we must think and act like an independent country
SAM MBAKWE spearheaded the south-east AIRport in owerri, why can't we do similar project?

hian. .all this stress and wahala because of one Girl?
Guy leave woman chase money after that its the women that will start chasing you. .no time I beg.

handie:
I just shake my head and weep for my country. Bloody chinkos will come and boss us around in our country. Lebanese will leave their war ravaged country and come boss over us in our own country.... Even south Africans will come, boss over us, impose incredible prices(MTN and DSTV) on us, flout court orders, exploit our hospitality and take all their naija gotten wealth back to SA for investment. Even Indians who shouldn't stand near Nigeria in development(doubt that? How about u watch slumdog millionaire) will still come and boss over us. Why Nigeria? What sin did we commit? How have we gotten to this?

Do you blame them really? In all of this they make use of fellow Nigerians to achieve there diabolical acts. I mean the HR department are Nigerian manned

Saw someone mention 500k. .for wt naa,were will you get such money from?
You can as well sue them on credit
But seriously I belief you can get a human-right lawyer that will charge little or nothing,you try national human right commission or go to some popular law chambers like Gani Fawehinmi Femi Falana or Olise AGBAKOBA chambers. Or even Joe Odumakin
These ones are more interest in lives than the money. Olisa Agbakoba chamber is in Apapa,national human right is around TOWN Planning ,the rest you can google

BMedia:
The North is over 70% of Nigeria's land mass, over 60% of the population, and has the highest number of states. What's the complaint.

landmass yess , population .. cant remember the last time we had accurate population census and
talking population...as in life as in geography, migration is from north to south,from desert to wetland,only in Nigeria we have it otherwise.

talking about states....,how many of those states can sustain themselves without federal allocation and shud we now Bulkanise Nigeria by creating more states in the south based on political interest ,without any economic viability just to counter Norther dominance

BeeBeeOoh:
Even if another life, APC won't win Akwa Ibom- Nasir El-rufai

can you just leave parties aside and talk about real issues
this is about decay and loss of value that has eaten deep into the fabrics of our lives as a nation
and it cuts across all parties

MosquitoREBIRTH:
Bro, northern Nigeria alone has 19 states ooo... both christian and Muslims mixed...

Bros you still cudnt answer any of my question
When last did you see someone outside the North been appointed the Chief justice of federation or controller of Immigration?

Talk of 19states..shud we now bulkanise the country by creating unnecessary states regardless of their viability? How many of those states have been able to sustain themselves amidst recent economic downturn? Like it or not majority of the state were created for political appeasement,
had a Recent argument with someone on the forum that we don't need additional state in south-east except for political reasons, because more than any other region,you have
One pple
One language
One religion
One destiny ,so why wud someone want to divide us?
But on the basics of u reminding me that we have 19states in the north, am left with the opinion of thinking we can as well create more states in the south,not for its viability but to just counter the power and politics of the North. You see the problem with Nigeria?

TRUTHTOPOWER:
If you look at ethnicity of those appointed you will see permissible pattern of federal character. The appointees are from minorities of north and south, groups that Nigerian majority Ethnic groups have been ignoring since 1914. Be assured, every state will be represented!

Why neglect the obvious? Minority emanates from zones, is there any zone taht doesn't have a minority? So according to you ,minority can only be found in the north? When was the last you saw someone outside the North been made the Chief justice of the federation or controller General of immigration and custom? Are they exclusively preserved for the North ?

CyberWolf:
What's the logical difference between a king and a leader? You lots always claim ITK but has nothing to show for it

You may as well ask ,what is the difference btw night and day
To enlighten you ,a leader is entitled to his followers while a king (monarch) is entitled his "subjects" which as someone pointed is very derogatory and demeaning

MosquitoREBIRTH:
I don't know the region u are from,but I want to believe that majority of the peeps u know are from the place u live. That's the same way life is. PMB knows many Northerners because he lives with them and I expect him to make most of his sensitive appointments to that direction. Don't forget that most of the appointments made so far, are for positions that u will need trusted people. Trust me, if it were u, u will do the same. We all need people we'll be comfortable with...

Aah ,Bros u wrote this with clear eyes?
Majority of pple u know are from were you live?
Haba? You just said that about the president of the Federal republic that should embrace all regardless of were they come from ?former gov. ISSA YIGUDA of BAUCHI had a YORUBA man as SPECIAL ADVISER on media, Why do we have institution like NATIONAL UNITY SCHOOLS and NYSC? A custom and Immigration comptroller generals also must come from one region?

Why shud a country of six gio-political zones and 170million pple always have its chief Justice of federation,CONTROLLER of Customs and IMMIGration virtually always come from the North

elections all over the world usually leads to divisions(for those shouting 5%) an the least a president shud do is creating more division

Jesusloveyou:
if he had appointed ameachi and fashola which i pray for, but Nigerians would have go gaga, so after castigating both of them, don't u think people like u would have insult PMB? So don't blame PMB, he just satisfy everybody

Why u dey leave road enter bush? Who is talking about Ameachi and Fashola? Is that parameter for EQUITY and fairness?
pple like me? ..who are they ? How do u know how I will feel? Did u assimilate my points before seeking counter argument?

hassan85:
In every tread u comment u show u don't like Nigeria and dt u want it to fail. that's not Opposition. For you and other easterners sharing same view u will fail just like u guys have been failing since 1966. yes u will fail. tell me who among d appointees are not credible or dt are corrupt? bigot

Till tomorrow ,there is such a thing as federal character principle and its not against credibility or competence but for equity and fairness
That means that no matter the argument as to wether those he appointed are credible,the question is, is it only northerners that can be found competent and credible?virtually every state or zone can produce such persons,so why çonsentrate in one region ? Am an ardent supporter of PMB but he has got it wrong this time

morereb10:
You have a point there and also beg to differ. Multi-national companies in Aba? can you name just one for me that is in Aba without the idea of not targeting Aba market alone? I spent 20 years in Aba and I know what am talkin about. Unless for the few 4 to 6 years that i have not been constant in Aba dat things have changed. But dats not the case cus my parents are there and they keep complaining just the same.

Secondly, it is true you have to do things to affect your people positively but my broda, investment is not about ethnicity. Is business and any business man you ask to do feasibility study on were to located that investment, you sure know what the answer would be.

For companies like IEA, Breweries, Pfizer, and lots and lots of them to fold out in Abia State, my dear, it is a danger zone for business owners unless your targeted market is only Aba,

Guinness has it biggest plant in Aba outside of Lagos.
But that is aside. I went to umuahia. .to my greatest suprise the biggest industry there are Pure-water and Bread bakery. We don't even have a government House.

We can't give up HOPE ,ABIA will rise again and we must find a way out regardless of the inept government. Peace!

morereb10:
My dear, think a little bit before u ask question.

This kind of project cannot be located in Umuahia considering the fact that Abia state government is a sham and a failure.

Do you expect some to put his/her multi billion naira project in a state that is more backwards than any other state in Nigeria? And do you even know that Abia state doesn't have an airport?


Abeg think before u say anything. which road they for abia state. and that umuahia u r talking about?

Her project is trategically located ok. And this kind of project can only be located in Abuja, Kano, Lagos, Calabar et

BEG TO DISAGREE. i understand your pain about the shambolic performance of Abia government ,i have expressed my displeasure repeatedly here,even at the expense of been insulted but the reality is you cant wait for everything to b e in place before thinking home,its called aku rue ulo .even some war-turned countries with or without good leadership can still boost of standard hospitals
we must take the bull by the horn
we dont need an airport to attract investment,it sure can come later
Abia is not as bad as we paint,governance has to be more responsible for sure,but the private sector can chart a cause for itself
for example there are dozens of multi-naltionals running their businesses in Aba without the help of a clueless government
you dont always have to wait for your SHIP TO ARRIVE,some times you have to SWIM TO MEET YOUR SHIP before it gets to the shores

its better he shoots himself instead of a fellow unarmed Nigerian which they end up calling straight bullet or accidental discharge