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Austin Eguavoen's hands were tied from the beginning because his appointment was a favor done by Amaju Pinnick. No way, he would have maintained his stand boldly before the bully boss Amaju Pinnick. Yes, Emmanuel Amunike was brought in to help but contrary to what he was told, he was strictly as ASSISTANT with zero input to team selection.

Now, Eguavoen's failure should bnot be used to condemn our indigenous coaches. Let's face it. Senegal, Cameroon and Ghana had local coaches and qualified while some African countries with foreign coaches didn't qualify.

The question is in his two terms in office, what did Amaju Pinnick do to improve the knowledge of select elite coaches to boost our football?

On Friday, April 1 2022, Davido's FIFA World Cup theme song debuted and he even did a historic performance at World Cup matches Draw event. Naturally, Davido's fanbase erupted in chest-beating and celebration. Good PR for Nigeria!

Unfortunately, most old, contemporary and emerging artistes were too STUNNED by Davido's unprecedented milestone that they shied away from recognizing and congratulating him for the remarkable win. Davido was sadened by this negative attitude by colleagues in the industry. Green envy at display!

On their part, Wikzid fans trashed both the song and the historic performance and told the world to wait till Grammy awards on Sunday April 3, for the real deal. Toxic rivalry at display!

Sunday came, real deal became raw deal and it was the turn of Davido's fans to have a field day. Toxic rivalry payback!

Meanwhile, Wizkid's fan, in reaction, started attacking Angelique Kidjo for 'not allowing' Wizkid to win the Grammy award. There was no word from Wizkid. Bad energy at display!

Three days later, Wizkid finally congratulated Angelique Kidjo for winning. Good move but why the delay!

Though a bad publicity for him but the contract termination is good for Kelechi Nwakali's career. Going to Huesca didn't work out as planned. Yes, he will lose income but it will help him RESET and RESTART his professional career. Kelechi is baller, no doubt.

Amaju Pinnick/Austin Eguavoen did him a favor by inviting him for AFCON because being an international is an added advantage in his search for a new club. I pray that God direct him to that club in which he will flourish to attract the attention bigger clubs.

Femi, you are already a legend. You don't necessarily need Grammy award validation.

everythinggirly:
With your level of wealth? They're scared of you babe.

Nobody is scared of her. Rather, she is too self-focused. Relationship is about simple and comfortable things a male and female do to cherish each other. Love is about willingly making sacrifices to make your partner happy and your partner doing the same to make you happy. It is NOT you and your partner making YOU happy. This is where DJ Cuppy is struggling.

On the scale of common sense and in the court of values, a song that is about protecting the earth will always weighs more and valued more than a song that is about touching woman's body.

Nickypius00:
Veira men continue to hunt arsenal down …and with the 3:0 victory over arsenal proves Patrick Veira has defeated Mikel artetal tactics … what’s next for arsenal and their champions league fight ?

So Brentford FC manager proved that he is the right man to manage Chelsea FC because his team beat Chelsea last Saturday? Come on!

Wahala

This young man, Wisdom Macaulay, is a victim 'Big Sis Comfort Zone Sydrome' . I know someone who made this same mistake.

The syndrome occurs when a sister who married a RICH but BUSY man adopts one her brothers as a favourite who becomes her confidante, keeps her company and runs errands. In return, the brother lives in-residence, gets generous handouts, good clothings, gets free food and drinks, drive free cars and generally enjoy FALSE comfort instead of hustling to maker his own money.

As time goes on, the sister's children grow, her husband slows down, rendering the favorite brother REDUNDANT. Then all of a sudden it will dawn him that he has been living his life for his sister and he has no savings, investment or property like his mates.

The foregoing, in brief, is likely to be what happened to Wisdom Macaulay. Obviously, he has a LAIDBACK mindset. He needs help to avoid him either committing suicide or harming his sister Annie.

Truth be said, there are SMART favourite brothers who would maximally and ruthlessly exploit 'Big Sis Comfort Zone' to build up savings, acquire certifications, acquire property and even start business.

ncheochiagha:
Very funny. You should become a comedian.

I don't give a damn about Canada. Why would I want to live somewhere I'm not from. Also, you're implicitly saying that Igbo/Yoruba culture is not allowed to have technology. Apparently, technology is the white man's property. All Igbo man can do is village square meeting. If Igbo man wants to use or invent technology, he is doing an oyinbo thing. It can never be his own because according to you any and all science and technology is oyinbo culture. Do you see how dangerous your mentality is ? We should just say that all progress is trying to be oyinbo, and we should just stick to palm oil tapping. No one owns technology. If Igbo man invents something tomorrow that is IGBO TECHNOLOGY, that becomes part of IGBO CULTURE. Same goes for any ethnic group on this planet.

Just to address your last point. This is not cultural influence. This is called cultural domination. A Canadian man gets to enjoy living in his own culture, his name, his dressing, his whole society is his. There's no drop of any other culture in his life apart from Chinese restaurant. You and I don't get to enjoy that. We're living under a culture that is not ours because it was imposed by British imperialists. Sure there's still some of our own culture, but that takes the back seat. The Oyinbo way dominates all aspects of your life.

You can't be using a man's technology without being influenced by its content. You acquire a body of knowledge (education) built up by a man without being influenced by his culture. Your children can't watch cartoons produced by others and they won't be influenced by its contents.

Look, we pretend a lot. Nobody has stopped your children from coming at night to enjoy moonshine with children. Nobody has stopped you from organizing wrestling matches at village square instead subscribing to DSTV to watch foreign football leagues. Even to watch our local leagues, na begging.

Look, inter-culturation and acculturation are all parts of life.

By the way, it is not as if out culture has been eroded. The core content of our marriage rites is still intact. The same for burial rites, dances, music, etc.

Religiously, not everyone subscribes to the worship of idol spirits whose origin nobody knows except that our forefathers worshipped them. I am content with my relationship with the purest Spirit: Jesus of whose origin I can trace down to Israel.

There is no such thing as phone. It is just a town crier and gong.

There is no such as airplane. It is just a version witchcraft.

There is no such thing as internet. It is just a another village square meeting.

There is no such as twins. It is just the twins the villagers Chief priest forgot to kill.

Dude claiming cultural independence but will jump on latest tech innovation to use and will die for Canada visa.

We don't have cultural problems. We have external cultural influences on our culture which contribute to culture dynamism. Travels, migration, intermarriage, intertrade, etc are all factors.

Jobless people fighting for rich men who don't know they exist.

Use the same energy fight for yourself and the result.

Kanye is not seeking any help other than what he does annually due to the tragic death of Donda his mother. Outside of that, he just wants to go quiet for sometime to work on new songs. He is a maverick, which is often a characteristic of most restless creatives.

Dragging down Kim Kardashian won't be hard for man who dragged US music industry giants and flushed Gramme awards down the toilet on the social media. Kim knows this and that's why she is being careful.

Above all, Kanye's mother was an intellectual who taught at universities. Kanye himself has deep intellect. And he knows that his daughter North and other children are likely to have intellectual capacities that must be allowed to flourish through wide reading rather than the 'olosho-prone' social media (Tiktok) influencer or celebrity sh*t, which is what Kim brings to the table.

Gernot Rohr leave Nigeria alone. Look for another country to coach.

If referendum is carried out today, majority of South Easterners who still desire Biafra in their hearts will vote against separation from Nigeria with their heads.

The current violence, intimidation, indiscriminate of killing of fellow Igbo and worrisome tyranny of the gun have instilled fear of the present and apprehension about the future in the psyche of average Igbo person. What shall it profit anybody to fight for people's freedom by taking away their freedom.

Hitherto burgeoning IPOB's goodwill has terribly thinned gone.

greatiyk4u:
If you're not from Anambra state please try marry from there to atleast import the DNA

STOP!
This is childish. Nobody sent you on this errand.

What would they influence? But it is ok. Give them small chops, souvenirs and small envelopes.

Listen up Innoson, the taste of the pudding is in the eating. The quality of your products will speak for themselves. Users will use word-of- mouth can either promote or demarket your products based on their experiences.

This is huge for Davido brand, for Afrobeats, for Nigeria and for Africa.

The first blunder was to have engaged Russia out of all countries of the world to build Ajaokuta Steel Complex project. From 1979 to 2023, the company hasn't produced a sheet of metal. Now, the baton has been passed to next government.

And worst of all, the official position of Nigeria on Russia-Ukraine war is that Russia should pull out. It is possible President Putin has used the copy of the agreement he signed with Buhari to smoke weed.

Why rush back? He still looks a bit distressed. He needs more rest to recover well. Human body heals slowly.

The job of football coach or manager is result-driven. It doesn't matter if you are Jose Mourinho, Gerhort Rohr or Austin Eguavoen.

As for Gerhort Rohr, he contributed to this mess because he kept inviting new players for each match. As a result, apart from our backline, we don't have fixed midfielders and attackers who combine effectively and efficiently as FIRST ELEVEN. There was no first team stability. Eguavoen met this blunder and lacked the experience and time to put it in place.

Whoever is taking over whether indigenous or foreign should first work on our style of play and most effective way to combine the talented players we have. We have talented players who can't play as a team. Sad.

Sounds logical.

How Amaju Pinnick cowed and towered above everyone in NFF is legendary. It must be money.

What's the meaning of Falz saying "Do you know what these animals are busy doing?"

Is his father Chief Femi Falana SAN an animal?

If you compare Otto Ado's coaching exposure and experience with Austin Eguavoen's exposure and experience you will see a remarkable difference. Eguavoen's appointment is a favor by high-handed Amaju Pinnick.

However, given that it was indigenous coaches that qualified Ghana, Cameroon Senegal, etc, it is important to say that Eguavoen's failure is not the failure of our indigenous coaches.

Sometimes, I feel that certain things happen for a reason. Uzoho had no reason not catching that Partey's shot. Osihmen worked like mad and missed half chances he normally scores for Napoli.

With hindsight, it may have been WRITTEN that Super Eagles going to Qatar will encourage Amaju Pinnick to continue in his shenanigans. He needed to be humbled and his hubris and selfishness exposed.

So painful that Amaju Pinnick used Nigeria to advance his political interests in CAF and FIFA. As chairman of NFF, he CRIMINALLY neglected development of game of football in Nigeria and focused on Super Eagles because he used the brand as personal PR tool. You can imagine how 'superhuman' he would have been feeling within himself if Super Eagles qualified.

Well, the game is over for him. No World Cup appearance for him show off with. His failures are before him though, unfortunately, we all sharing in them.

The fact is that our lawmakers treat some requests from the executive with suspicion that it is scheme to siphon money. So they demand for a slice of the money or they won't give approval. Sometimes, they don't bother with oversight function to scrutinize the merit of the project involved until the concerned minister LOBBIES them to the job they took oath to do.

It is all pathetic SYMPTOMS of a corrupt system.

I was worried about having a medical doctor oversee Ministry of Agriculture but googling Dr. Forster Ihejiofor, I discovered that though a medical doctor, he is also a passionate practical farmer.

Well, given sometimes, innovative agricultural programmes are more about practical ideas than pushing existing practices, I will give him a benefit of the doubt. Perhaps, he had shared some impressive agricultural development ideas with Gov. Soludo to warrant this appointment. Perhaps!

Farooq Kperog is obviously either Atiku or Tambuwal man. Trust Northerners even when they are the minorities up there to pursue Arewa agenda.

Did anybody notice how he threw up religious sentiment around erudite Prof Osinbajo?

Pray what is the difference between the set of Southern candidates he listed and the Northern set of Atiku Abubakar and Tambuwal? They are all selfish. They looted.

That's how they are desperately trying to recruit Goodluck Jonathan to do 4 years and hand power back and he is even thoughtlessly considering the offer.

Farooq Kperogi is not any less a bigot and a northern supremacist than Pres. Buhari. The handwriting is clear.

Ok