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mekabuachi:
What were his exact words?

One Benin player fouled Wan-Bissaka. So as they were preparing for free kick that's when he said it. I can't say it verbatim but it was something like "he was one of the players Nigeria complained about for having dual citizenship"

lordofstrings:
Please guys who still have that afro sport link to watch marches

Fawanews na the way my brother.

elyte89:
Who heard d commentator now about dr Congo case …e b like say d judgement go favour us o

Maybe na my ear but he sounded a bit amused as he was saying it. Like he thought it was funny.

M7even:
Wait till your favorite play their first game .

I swear. 😂😂😂

typicalgamer:
And you counter them why ?

It’s better for the to revel in past glory than live in the filth we have today.

To each his own i guess

LOL.

This is a cynical statement that assumes it is impossible to improve on our football. It's also a way to avoid taking accountability to make things better in the present.

I'm just laughing. We're slowly becoming minnows. We're not even top 5 in Africa any longer.

When you people are done crying, let's focus on the AFCON. As for this World Cup, it's gone and gone forever.

I hope South Africa do well if they make it through. They deserve it. 100%. In fact, 1000%.

Diavolo:
We can still come back though. The two goals were from our errors at the back. What we need now is to remove ihuzeo and ijamilusi. Bring in wingers. The coach just dey squeeze face dey shout,which is not helping. Give them clear tactical instructions.

I tire. The guy comes off so clueless the way he barks like a dog from the sidelines.

This is the problem our senior national teams keep facing. We find a winning formula during a major tournament and decide to milk it for all its' worth, without any Plan B. Now they've found us out and we're looking extra stupid. We might have as well just let Zambia win and save ourselves this embarrassment. Imagine coming this far just to play this atrocious game in the finals of all freaking places.

This can never be Waldrum.
Las las we enter penalties.

ekehopp2:
Seems Abiodun comes in for Echegini.
Abiodun wey dey collect card, dey break people leg on the steady.
Would have preferred an attack minded player like Payne instead.

Abiodun ke?

Hmmm. Omo. Let's be watching sha.

naptu2:
I actually began to think that it was normal for us to beat South Africa in semi-final and then beat Cameroon in the final of WAFCON.

2016 and 2014.

And there's usually some kind of freekick goal or penalty in the semi-final.

Thank you. I just checked and you were right.
I should be probably research more on WAFCON statistics haha.

Correct me if I'm wrong but has any senior Nigerian team, male or female, ever beaten South Africa in a semi finals and gone ahead to win the finals? I don't think so. 2000 and 2023 AFCON come to mind.

If the answer is no, then hopefully that curse is broken tomorrow.

Cherrybae:
I pray Nigeria lose this match. I stand with south Africa

Good. Now stay over there. 🤣🤣🤣

Nigeria 1-0 South Africa

Not bad, but we seem to have slowed down a bit, which is a bit understandable (fatigue). But I feel like South Africa are just bidding their time, slowing things down and waiting for a slip up. Or better yet, take the game to penalties where their star keeper can shine. We need to capitalize on this lead now!

joxxy01:
Am I the only one who find that chant of "All we are saying, give us one goal! " Irritating

I swear. I heard that shii and facepalmed so hard.

We should be chanting songs that get under our opponents' skin, not put the falcons under immense pressure.

charlesemeka85:
confirmed by Fabrizio


🚨🚫 BREAKING: Victor Osimhen has rejected Al Hilal proposal.

Despite agreement club to club with Napoli for €75m fee, Osimhen says no to the Saudi Pro League club. ❌

Galatasaray will insist to sign him with race now open again. 👀

Thank goodness.

I don't get why people here are crying about the fact that Osimhen's move to Saudi is being judged. I can respect Osimhen's free will as a human being, but it doesn't mean I have to respect his decisions. Objectively speaking, from a legacy standpoint, going to Saudi during his prime years is a terrible move. I don't have to be a fanboy or a hater to figure out this much. But at the end of the day, it's his life.

TheSuperNerd:
Komekn.... "ETeBo IS oNe of My bESt MFs"

I live for Nairaland receipts. 🤌🏽🤣🤣🤣

Honestly, I'm impressed so far.

I just came across this poignant submission on Reddit that I thought to share here because I 100% agree with him. Credit to the poster u/Background_Ad4001 for this fantastic (albeit brief) piece:

Nigeria's problem isn't colonial trauma it's elite comfort

Indonesia was a Dutch colony, had a genocide, military coups, and tsunamis now they make your Honda and Samsung parts.
Rwanda bled for 100 days, lost nearly a million now has universal healthcare and fiber optic cables.
Bangladesh floods every year, literally sinks still exports more textiles than Africa combined.

Nigeria? Got oil, ports, peace, and 70 years of excuses.

No carpet-bombing. No genocide. No cyclones.
Just sixty years of men from every region taking turns to disappoint us.
Lagos elite steal from Kano projects. Abuja politicians ignore Niger Delta spills. Northern governors build mosques while Southern ones build churches both with public funds, both while children drink dirty water.

Roads half-done everywhere. Rail still a rumor in every state. Power that dies faster than campaign promises.
All while elites build estates beside schools with no chalk.

We were handed a country on a silver platter.
Our leaders used the platter to serve themselves.

**And now?**

Fraud is normalized. Insecurity is Tuesday.
Why wouldn't it be? When the real criminals sit in parliament, dress well, and own property on three continents.

Some even "serve" Nigeria from their London flats.

Meanwhile, we all watch and make excuses. Yorubas blame Hausas. Igbos blame everyone. Northerners blame colonialism. Southerners blame cattle. Middle Belt blames both ends.

Everyone has a PhD in explaining why it's not their fault while the ship sinks with all tribes aboard.

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### So tell me how is this not treason?

How did we inherit peace, oil, and 200 million people and still end up with development stats worse than countries that haven't known a peaceful year in decades?

But here's the uncomfortable truth: **reforms won't save us.**

We've had electoral reforms rigging got more sophisticated.
We've had anti-corruption agencies they got corrupted.
We've had restructuring debates for decades politicians just use them for campaigns.

The system isn't broken. It's working perfectly for those who designed it to extract, not build.

In 50 years, when the oil runs dry and climate change floods the coast:
- Youth bulge becomes youth explosion (60% under 25, no jobs)
- Water wars between farmers and herders go fully ethnic
- States collapse when federal allocations stop
- Neighbors start building walls, not bridges

This isn't pessimism. It's mathematics.

What exactly are we waiting for?
- Another speech?
- Another rigged election?
- Another imported messiah?

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**This isn't a failed state.**

It's a perfectly designed extraction machine—abandoned by those who could fix it, stripped by those who run it, excused by those who benefit from the chaos.

We're not heading for reform.
We're heading for collapse.

And the worst part? We'll still be arguing about who to blame when the lights go out permanently.

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Prove me wrong. I'm waiting.

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What Konji cannot do does not exist.

Ibime:
They give it to Marketing graduates to prosecute, not bloody MassComites.

The most successful marketing campaign of recent times is even Temu with some wack AI voices

Temu, Temu, shop like a billionaire

So how do you then explain the fact that top roles in communications and marketing at Fortune 500 companies, major tech firms, global brands and the likes are usually occupied and filled by professionals with degrees in journalism, public relations and so on?

Why not strictly marketing?

Ibime:
All those Peller, content creators and OAPs, how many of them get MassCom?

There are 720 radio stations in Nigeria who employ mostly people who didn't study MassCom, but there are half a million Directors that need PAs. I know you don't need Secretarial degree to do Secretary work but last last there are still more jobs for them. Even at that, you can't be a PA to a high flying Corporate Director without a degree. PAs for corporates these days are expected to have strategic knowledge to step in and communicate on behalf of their boss to the point that even lawyers are serving as PAs in some of the most blue chip companies today.

Nobody was doing MassCom like that 20 years ago, na useless indomie generation start this MassCom trend

How I knew MassCom was a useless course was even 10 years ago. My first cousin born to my uncle wey no hold was adopted by one of my aunty wey get pepper. She trained this girl in one private school in AkwaIbom paying N300k per term which was $2k dollars then. I heard the girl was doing well such that when I visited PH in 2014, I insisted I take a road trip to Uyo to visit her in her boarding house. The next year which was her SS3 year na him matter cast, I heard she's started playing and becoming unserious. My Aunty who is a PHD holder, alumni and board member at Abu Zaria had set it up for her to go study law at Zaria. On top of that, that my aunty is well connected to the point of being friends with Sultan of Sokoto and sitting on the board of ABU Zaria and could have paved way for her professionally with connections and jobs if she just followed the path my aunty set for her. She said no, that she wants to do Masscomm at Uniport. She finally flopped her final exams scoring 180 and my aunty disowned her. That's when she said she wants to use that 180 to go to Polytechnic, I said last last you must sit at home for one year and write JAMB again. She finally passed the JAMB to get to Uniport but to study journalism which is not far from Masscomm. At this point I've almost washed my hands off her but still giving her small benefit of the doubt. Her first year of uni, she called me one day. Before even greeting and talking as adults, she started fake crying "Uncle, I need money". That's when I shouted at her that is that how you talk to adults with childish voice? From then I washed hands off her, she can't squeeze N1k out of my hand today. She is the one that educated me on the unambitious nature and general uselessness of MASSCOMM people.

So at the end of the day, your beef with mass communication is based on your own personal experience. Noted.

Since your overall argument is that masscomm has low value, then what would you say is the main reason why billions are invested by major corporations, top business firms, influential organizations across the world, and even governments across the world in strategic communications, PR services, media relations and media operations??

I'm just curious to know your answer.

Ojagun:
Make I no lie...

I just watched the trailer 2 & I can comfortably say the game is going to be ass especially story wise

Why?

😂😂😂😂😂

Guy you just took me way way back. 😂😂

Technically, I'm Gen-Z but this was the type of content I grew up with cause my parents were avid watchers of NTA. Lol. Good times.

CrystalTiger:
Now now, them dn turn am..

Which one is "yoruba government" and "yoruba bank" again? Lmao.

Tribalism will be the death of this country. 🤦🏽

KingTom:

Make dem wait make I withdraw my funds first. 🤧

hahn:
In this Tinubu economy?

Ah! Even you. 🥹