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[quote author=denex=topic=71578.msg1378584#msg1378584 date=1186765671]The men should appeal to a court outside Sharia. Gay bastards! Am sure when Sharia started getting full blown, they were part of the people that supported it. They thought Sharia would be used to oppress minorities and women. So who is being oppressed now?

I hate gay people all over the world. I hate men that practise anal sex on women, not to talk of man to man. TUFIAKWA!

I really wish these men would die but for the love of human rights, I hope they can get the sense to appeal to a court outside of the Sharia Judicial system. Because I think normally, they should serve 5 years.

So they should weigh their options. 5 years imprisonment or death by stoning? Bloody children of Sodom![/quote]Pls dont get consumed by hate denex.

Do you also hate men who allow women practise MouthAction on them or do you indulge in it yourself?

Sex between any 2 or more consenting adults done in the privacy of thier abode is actually nobody else's business.

What has Oil Got To Do With It?

From the above List : OPEC Members

33     Kuwait
46     Qatar
49     United Arab Emirates
64     Libya
72     Venezuela
76     Saudi Arabia
96     Iran
102   Algeria
108   Indonesia
159   Nigeria
161   Angola

*Iraq is not listed

Oil alone cannot make a big difference to our overall ranking due to our population. We need to diversify our economy.

The bad attitude of "badmouthing" Nigeria amongst the diasporans is alarming to say the least. Some talk as if they have another country apart from Nigeria (true, for those with dual citizenship) and always see things with a cynical eye.

Amongst Nigerians at home we also have the cynical set who see everything good abroad and nothing good @ home.

Jakumo:
As they take in all these "American Wonders", they inevitably come to reflect on the fact that Nigeria's crude oil earnings are in excess of a 100 million green-back dollars PER DAY, and then they start to wonder how many lifetimes it will take before there will exist any evidence of that staggering daily income on the ground in Nigeria, where squalor, primal danger and endemic official corruption continue to rule as if it were the most impoverished nation on the planet.

Over 100 Million green-back dollars PER DAY in a country of over 140 Million people is very small and that is the reason of our relative poverty. Until we diversify the economy and make Oil & Gas income to become less than 50% of our foreign earnings, we will continue to have problems with the economy.

Create Agege State from the current Lagos and Ogun State.

Wikipedia - History Of Lagos State


Lagos State was created on May 27, 1967 by virtue of State (Creation and Transitional Provisions) Decree No. 14 of 1967, which restructured Nigeria’s Federation into 12 states.

Prior to this, Lagos Municipality had been administered by the Federal Government through the Federal Ministry of Lagos Affairs as the regional authority, while the Lagos City Council (LCC) governed the City of Lagos. Equally, the metropolitan areas (Colony Province) of Ikeja, Agege, Mushin, Ikorodu, Epe and Badagry were administered by the Western Region.

The State took off as an administrative entity on April 11, 1968 with Lagos Island serving the dual role of being the State and Federal Capital. However, with the creation of the Federal Capital Territory of Abuja in 1976, Lagos ceased to be the capital of the State which was moved to Ikeja. Equally, with the formal relocation of the seat of the Federal Government to Abuja on 12 December 1991, Lagos ceased to be Nigeria’s political capital. Nevertheless, Lagos remains the center of commerce for the country.

Create a new state out of Lagos.

Lagos State is the only state that has not been divided since some parts of the old Western Region was merged with Lagos Federal Capital territory.

Agege State or Ikeja State can be created and will therefore lead to more L.G's that the Tinubu Govt tried to create and led to withholding of L.G money apart from other infrastructural developments that state creation brings in Nigeria. Also more share of the National cake for the 10 Million or less citizens that will be in the new 2 states.

1 Rand = 20 Naira

North Africa is part of Africa and cannot be excluded from Africa.

Your so-called "Black Africa" consists of South Africa which has the largest concentration of White Africans in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Your claim that crime in South Africa is "way above Naija proportions" is disputable just because you don't have access to crime records in Nigeria.

I don't think 1 country "success" can overshadow relative failure in majority of countries.

topeorekoy:
the penalty was a penalty but, the sending off? doubt that but above all the chileans deserved have won but 4-0 was too cruel and not a reflection of the match

A tackle on a Goal-bound striker is a straight Red Card.

The same Red Card was given to Arsenal Goalkeeper Lehman in 2006 UEFA Champions League Final after a foul on a goal-bound striker.

http://www.mayhem.net/Crime/cannibals1.html


Clifford Orji & Tahiru - Two suspected Nigerian cannibals were arrested under a bridge in Lagos after residents heard the cries of a woman one of them he was about to kill. Remains of roasted human parts were recovered in their shack under under a bridge in Lagos. "Some of the limbs and feet on the man's grill are believed to be those of a young woman, going by the size of the feet and the long black permed hair," the Guardian newspaper reported, "The rest of the body ,  was said to have been eaten up before the arrest." The bizarre incident sent shockwaves through Lagos, causing a massive traffic jam as thousands of spectators massed around the area to catch a glimpse of the cannibal hut.

The suspects were identified as Clifford Orji and Tahiru. The cannibal duo, who appear to be mildly retarded, allegedly dug holes on the ground for unwary passers-by to fall into, before killing them and roasting their bodies. They allegedly preferred attacking women, especially "young, fine girls with long hairs,  We wanted to stop women from wearing wigs."

Orji, who is the more vocal of the duo, claimed to have come "from America." He confessed that they enjoyed raping their victims before munching on their flesh. Orji said he usually went out to hunt for their victims, while Tahiru acted as the butcher.

The demented killer added: " I just look unto the forehead of any woman, blow the air from my mouth as directed by the spirit, then, the woman will follow me. When I get to the underbridge, I will have sexual affair with her to a state of unconsciousness before we slaughter her and roast. I am not alone, I have between four to 10 people. They take their own parts and go while I wait again for another meat." It is unclear how many victims the serial cannibal-couple killed and ate. Neighbors said the two killers lived under the brigde of the Airport Road for years and were suspected of murdering people to sell their body parts for rituals.



http://www.frontpagemag.com/GoPostal/commentdetail.asp?ID=17393&commentID=525591


Clifford Orji & Tahiru - Two suspected Nigerian cannibals were arrested under a bridge in Lagos after residents heard the cries of a woman one of them he was about to kill. Remains of roasted human parts were recovered in their shack under under a bridge in Lagos. "Some of the limbs and feet on the man's grill are believed to be those of a young woman, going by the size of the feet and the long black permed hair," the Guardian newspaper reported, "The rest of the body ,  was said to have been eaten up before the arrest." The bizarre incident sent shockwaves through Lagos, causing a massive traffic jam as thousands of spectators massed around the area to catch a glimpse of the cannibal hut.
The suspects were identified as Clifford Orji and Tahiru. The cannibal duo, who appear to be mildly retarded, allegedly dug holes on the ground for unwary passers-by to fall into, before killing them and roasting their bodies. They allegedly preferred attacking women, especially "young, fine girls with long hairs,  We wanted to stop women from wearing wigs."
Orji, who is the more vocal of the duo, claimed to have come "from America." He confessed that they enjoyed raping their victims before munching on their flesh. Orji said he usually went out to hunt for their victims, while Tahiru acted as the butcher.
The demented killer added: " I just look unto the forehead of any woman, blow the air from my mouth as directed by the spirit, then, the woman will follow me. When I get to the underbridge, I will have sexual affair with her to a state of unconsciousness before we slaughter her and roast. I am not alone, I have between four to 10 people. They take their own parts and go while I wait again for another meat." It is unclear how many victims the serial cannibal-couple killed and ate. Neighbors said the two killers lived under the brigde of the Airport Road for years and were suspected of murdering people to sell their body parts for rituals.


http://www.int.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=68&art_id=qw976280101798B252


Lagos - A Lagos court ordered that a man accused of murdering several women and then eating them must undergo new psychiatric tests, newspaper reports said on Friday.

The Ikeja High Court on Thursday ordered new tests to be carried out on Clifford Orji, detained since February 1999 after being found living under a Lagos fly-over surrounded by decomposing, and partly chewed through, body parts.

Orji, known to the Lagos press as Clifford the cannibal, was charged with the murder of Awawu Lawal and "misconduct with regard to her corpse".

Other offences were to be taken into consideration.

A first series of psychiatric tests undertaken at the time of his arrest found that Orji was mentally unbalanced but prosecutors have disputed the findings.

At his one appearance in court, Orji admitted killing Lawal and others and then cannibalising them, telling the judge "I eat human flesh like I eat potatoes."

angel101:
How then do u explain his killing people and selling of their body parts? I think the madness thing was just an act.

Please, try to read the series of reports written by the Guardian during the time he was arrested with Tahiru Aliyu around February 1999.

They were later arraigned on charge number D/61/99 for the alleged murder of one Madam Awawu Lawal on February 3.

The police charge read: "That you Clifford Orji and Tahiru Aliyu on the third night of February, 1999 at about 1.30 a.m. by the Toyota Bus-stop, fly-over, along Oshodi-Airport Road, Ikeja, Lagos, in the Lagos magisterial district did kill one Awawu Lawal and thereby committed an offence contrary to section 316 and punishable under section 319 of the criminal code cap. 31 volume II, Laws of Lagos State of Nigeria, 1973."

The police prosecutor also applied for the court's permission to transfer the suspected cannibals to a psychiatric hospital to ascertain whether they are sane.

The killing may or may not be true but there are lots of dead bodies killed by road users during accidents at the Toyota Bus Stop and the fact that he once had sex with a dead body around the area in broad daylight confirms his deranged obsession and he may probably bring the corpses to his tent for feeding only because when he was taken to Makinde Police station immediately after the arrest, he was caught eating some of the decomposing human parts brought in as evidence and the selling of body parts is probably merely a myth that is popular in our deeply superstitious country afterall some otherwise sane people started "mining" the area for the Money and Motorcycles that was claimed to have been hidden there.

The Madness of the Orji's is real and you can do further research on the topic.

Clifford Orji is still in Prison.

What do you call a situation when a mad man is refered to as a sane man?

I think the above has resonance with the fact that mad people as well as disabled and other afflicted people are a common sight in our communities. The sight of naked Mad Men/Women is common in our cities.

The Guardian published stories about The Orji's including the fact that his brother Charles was also mad. Clifford was brought back to find a cure for his mental condition by fellow villagers living in Mafoluku only for him to "escape" back to Lagos after a few years eating Lizards off the wall and bringing home dead fowls found on the streets for dinner.

Clifford Orji once has sex with a dead woman killed by a hit-and-run driver in broad daylight at Toyota Bus stop very close to The Guardian premises.

Weekend Concord also had an interview with him around 1992 while he was prowling the Beesam-Concord-International Axis at the height of his madness naked with an erect phallus and he also proposed to the lady journalist saying "I sabi am well well".

[Quote]THe Officials are not fair. that 1st goal was off. I have stopped watching.
The match was unfair. why didnt they get a black ref. to Reference the match?[/Quote]

1st Goal is not offside because one of Nigeria Defenders (Latifu) was playing the Chileans onside as at the time the pass was made.

2nd Goal is a penalty from a foul from behind on a typical South American player who was only hoping for a mere hand  touch before falling not to talk about leg tackle between the legs.

Sydney 2000 Olympics          QFinal    Chile  4  Nigeria  1

Canada 2007 U20 World Cup  QFinal     Chile  4  Nigeria  0

The Flying Eagles team tried their best but the lack of a true hitman was their undoing, If Chile had not started with a Misfiring No 9 Medina, probably the match may heve ended in 1st half even.

We have a poor record against South American teams generally even @ Super Eagles level.

France 1998 World Cup  Paraguay 3  Nigeria 1

We need more players to play pro in Brazil & Argentina.

@ dejia
Referees referees football matches 

Quarter Final

Nigeria vs Chile   Sunday July 15 2007 6:15 p.m Nigerian Time

Winner to play Argentina/Mexico

Shall we see a repeat of Sydney 2000 Olympics massacre?

Afam:
Did someone put Utomi's name here? Maybe if the election was conducted on Youtube and Patito's Gang.

Yar Adua won the elections and will win if there are re-runs 20 times over featuring the same candidates.

Hi! Afam.

I don't think Utomi can win an election in his Local Government either in Delta State (State of Origin) or Lagos State (State of Residence) for now but he may become a bigger force in the future if he can do better networking among the opposition.

babasin:
Yaradua , ,  He would be hunted for rest of his life by accepting the fraudulent presidency!

Who should have won the Elections?

Seun:
Making Nigeria a great nation is not the ultimate goal in life. Personal happiness/fulfillment is more important.

1 happy/fulfilled man living amongst 1,000 hungry/angry/unfulfilled/despondent men will eventually become unhappy.

Personal interest must not be at the detriment of communal interest.

http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_5374.cfm


How Bush Stole the 2004 Election: GOP's Cyber Election Hit Squad Exposed
GOP's Cyber Election Hit Squad Exposed
By Steven Rosenfeld and Bob Fitrakis
TomPaine.com, April 24, 2007
Straight to the Source


Did the most powerful Republicans in America have the computer capacity, software skills and electronic infrastructure in place on election night 2004 to tamper with the Ohio results to ensure George W. Bush's re-election?

The answer appears to be yes. There is more than ample documentation to show that on Election Night 2004 , Ohio's "official" Secretary of State website - which gave the world the presidential election results - was redirected from an Ohio government server to a group of servers that contain scores of Republican web sites, including the secret White House e-mail accounts that have emerged in the scandal surrounding Attorney General Alberto Gonzales's firing of eight federal prosecutors.

Recent revelations have documented that the Republican National Committee (RNC) ran a secret White House e- mail system for Karl Rove and dozens of White House staffers. This high-tech system used to count and report the 2004 presidential vote - from server-hosting contracts, to software-writing services, to remote- access capability, to the actual server usage logs themselves - must be added to the growing congressional investigations.

Numerous tech-savvy bloggers, starting with the online investigative consortium epluribusmedia.org and their November 2006 article cross-posted by contributor luaptifer to Dailykos , and Joseph Cannon's blog at Cannonfire..com, outed the RNC tech network. That web-hosting firm is SMARTech Corp. of Chattanooga, TN, operating out of the basement in the old Pioneer Bank building. The firm hosts scores of Republican websites, including georgewbush.com, gop.com and rnc.org.

The software created for the Ohio secretary of state's Election Night 2004 website was created by GovTech Solutions, a firm co-founded by longtime GOP computing guru Mike Connell. He also redesigned the Bush campaign's website in 2000 and told Inside Business magazine in 1999, "I wouldn't be where I am today without the Bush campaign and the Bush family because the Bushes truly are about family and I'm loyal to my network."

Ohio's Cedarville University, a Christian school with 3,100 students, issued a press release on January 13, 2005 describing how faculty member Dr. Alan Dillman's computing company Government Consulting Resources, Ltd, worked with these Republican-connected companies to tally the vote on Election Night 2004.

"Dillman personally led the effort from the GCR side, teaming with key members of Blackwell's staff," the release said. "GCR teamed with several other firms - including key players such as GovTech Solutions, which performed the software development - to deliver the end result. SMARTech provided the backup and additional system capacity, and Mercury Interactive performed the stress testing."

On Election Night 2004, the Republican Party not only controlled the vote-counting process in Ohio, the final presidential swing state, through a secretary of state who was a co-chair of the Bush campaign, but it also controlled the technology that allowed the tally of the vote in Ohio's 88 counties to be reported to the media and voters.

Privatizing elections and allowing known partisans to run a key presidential vote count is troubling enough. But the reason Congress must investigate these high- tech ties is there is abundant evidence that Republicans could have used this computing network to delay announcing the winner of Ohio's 2004 election while tinkering with the results.

Did Ohio Republican Secretary of State J. Kenneth Blackwell or other GOP operatives inflate the president's vote totals to secure George W. Bush's margin of victory? On Election Night 2004, many of the totals reported by the secretary of state were based on local precinct results that were impossible. In Clyde, Ohio, a Republican haven, Bush won big after 131 percent voter turnout. In Republican Perry County, two precincts came in at 124 percent and 120 percent respectively. In Gahanna Ward 1, precinct B, Bush received 4,258 votes despite the fact that only 638 people voted for president. In Concord Southwest in Miami County, the certified election results proudly proclaimed at 679 out of 689 registered voters cast ballots, a 98.55 percent turnout. FreePress.org later found that only 547 voters had signed in.

These strange election results were routed by county election officials through Ohio's Secretary of State's office, through partisan IT providers and software, and the final results were hosted out of a computer based in Tennessee announcing the winner. The Cedarville University releases boasted the system "was running like a champ." It said, "The system kept running through the early morning hours as users from around the world looked to Ohio for their election results."

All the facts are not in, but enough is known to warrant a serious congressional inquiry. Beginning with a timeline on election night after a national media consortium exit poll predicted Democrat John Kerry would win Ohio, the first Ohio returns were from the state's Democratic urban strongholds, showing Kerry in the lead.

This was the case until shortly after midnight on Wednesday, Nov. 5, when for roughly 90 minutes, the Ohio election results reported on the secretary of state's website were frozen. Shortly before 2 a.m. EST election returns came in from a handful of the state's rural Republican enclaves, bumping Bush's numbers over the top.

It was known Bush would carry rural Ohio. But the vote totals from these last-to-report counties, where Karl Rove said there was an unprecedented late-hour evangelical vote giving the White House a moral mandate, were highly improbable, and suggested vote count fraud to pad Bush's numbers. Just how flimsy the reported GOP totals were was not known on election night and has not been examined by the national media. But an investigation by the House Judiciary Committee Democratic staff begun after Election Day 2004 and completed before the Electoral College met on Jan. 6, 2005, was first to publicly point to vote count fraud in rural Ohio.

That report, "Preserving Democracy: What Went Wrong in Ohio," cited near-impossible vote totals, including 19,000 votes that were mysteriously added at the close of tallying the vote in Miami County. The report cited more than 3,000 apparently fraudulent voter registrations - all dating back to the same day in 1977 in Perry County. The report noted a homeland security emergency was declared in Warren County, prompting its ballots to be taken to a police-guarded unauthorized warehouse and counted away from public scrutiny, despite local media protests.

In our book, What Happened in Ohio: A Documentary Record of Theft and Fraud in the 2004 Election (The New Press, 2006), we go beyond the House Judiciary Democratic report to analyze precinct-by-precinct returns and we print copies of the documents upon which we base our findings. We found many vote-count irregularities based on examining the certified results, precinct-level records and the actual ballots.

The most eyebrow-raising example to emerge from parsing precinct results was finding 10,500 people in three Ohio "Bible Belt" counties who voted to re-elect Bush and voted in favor of gay marriage, if the official results are true. That was in Warren, Butler and Clermont Counties. The most plausible explanation for this anomaly, which defies logic and was not seen anywhere else in the country, was Kerry votes were flipped to Bush while the rest of the ballot was left alone. While we have some theories about how that might have been done by hand in a police-guarded warehouse, could full Republican control of the vote-counting software and servers also have played a role?

The early returns on the secretary of state's website suggest Blackwell's vote-tallying and reporting system could manipulate large blocks of votes. Screenshots taken during the early returns in Hamilton County, where Cincinnati is located, gave Green Party presidential candidate David Cobb 39,541 votes, which was clearly incorrect. Similarly, early return screenshots in Lucas County, where Toledo is located, gave Cobb 4,685 votes, another clear error. (The screenshots are in our book). Were these innocent computer glitches or was a GOP vote-counting and reporting system moving and dumping Kerry votes?

There's more evidence the late returns from Ohio's Republican-majority countryside were not accurate. During the spring and summer of 2006, several teams of investigators associated with Freepress.org, notably one team led by Ron Baiman, a Ph.D. statistician and researcher at Chicago's Loyola University, examined the actual election records from precincts in Miami and Clermont Counties. These records - from poll books where voters sign in, to examining the actual ballots themselves - were not publicly accessible until last year, under orders from Ohio's former Republican secretary of state. Baiman compared the number of voters who signed in with the total number of votes attributed to precincts. He found hundreds of "phantom" votes, where the number of voter signatures was less than the reported vote total. That discrepancy also suggests vote count fraud.

There was other evidence in the observable paper trail of padding the vote, including instances in Delaware County where in one precinct, 359 of the final punch- card ballots cast on election day contained no Kerry votes, which means the day's last voters all were Bush supporters, which also is improbable. In another Delaware County precinct, Bush allegedly received the last 210 votes of the day. Were partisan local election workers trying to mask what was happening electronically to tilt the vote count?

Ohio's 2004 ballots were to be destroyed last September. However that fate was blocked by a federal judge, who ruled in the early phase of trying a Voting Rights Act lawsuit that accused Ohio officials of suppressing the minority vote in Ohio's cities. The state's new secretary of state and attorney general, both Democrats, are now holding settlement talks for that suit, suggesting its claims have merit. However, unlike Florida after the 2000 election, there still has yet to be a full accounting of Ohio's presidential vote.

What's clear, however, is the highest ranks of the Republican Party's political wing, including White House counselor Karl Rove, a handful of the party's most tech-savvy computer gurus and the former Republican Ohio secretary of state, created, owned and operated the vote-counting system that reported George W. Bush's re-election to the presidency. Moreover, it appears the votes that gave Bush his 118,775-vote margin of victory - the boost from Ohio's countryside - have yet to be confirmed as accurate. Instead, the reporting to date suggests that what happened on the ground and across Ohio's rural precincts is at odds with the vote tally released on election night.

As numerous congressional committees attempt to retrieve and examine the secret White House e-mails surrounding Attorney General Alberto Gonzales' firing of eight federal prosecutors, those panels must also probe the privatization and partisan manipulation of the 2004 presidential vote count in Ohio. The lessons from 2004 have yet to be fully understood or learned.

Similarly, the House Administration Committee, which is expected to soon mark up H.R. 811, a bill by Rep. Rush Holt, D-NJ, to regulate electronic voting technology, also must take heed. The vote count and outcome of American elections cannot be left in the hands of known partisans, who can control and manipulate how the votes are counted and what is reported to the media and American people.

Public vote counts on private, partisan servers and secret proprietary software have no place in a democracy.

There was electoral Fraud in the elections in Ohio for George Bush 2nd term too.

http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/KEE411A.html

Ika:
Na only footballers' age you dey talk, how about people who dey be 25 years every year for them CV because them want get bank job. NA every year them dey comot one year. Its a shame for us as a nation. Na when people die, you go dey see them real ages. We fit lie and cover things sha for naija.

Spot on, Ika.

Some lie to get appointment for Bank/Oil Company Job. Others lie so as not to be retired.

We are a society of liars full stop.

A 25 year old is called into Eaglet camp, but alas the family is quiet, same for all his friends, neighbours, Primary & Secondary School teachers and the Press because it is in the national interest.

@ All Rumour mongers!

Aghahowa was never a police sergeant, he only played for Police Machnine FC of Benin. He may probably be older than he claims just like most Nigeria footballers with a standard deviation of +/-  5 years.

Interview with Aghahowa: African Soccer magazine  No.54 April 2000 pp 28-31


African Soccer:  You were said to have joined the Nigerian police force, is this true?


Julius Aghahowa: No, that's not true. What actually happened was that, before joining Insurance FC, I played briefly for the Police Machine team. When I moved to Insurance, the fans, not knowing my name, started to call me a policeman. that was all it was. I was never a cop.

That was a Man-made Mer-maid.

Very Ugly!

dblock:
Nigeria didn't need to win the game.

Uganda can only qualify if Niger beats Nigeria. For some reason I just can't picture that happening https://i101.photobucket.com/albums/m69/topstar_01/j07.gifhttps://i101.photobucket.com/albums/m69/topstar_01/j07.gifhttps://i101.photobucket.com/albums/m69/topstar_01/j07.gifhttps://i101.photobucket.com/albums/m69/topstar_01/j07.gif

Or if Nigeria draws with Niger and Uganda beats Lesotho by with a huge score line and go through on Goal difference. Nigeria won every game, before the Uganda game, so Nigeria isn't in a bad position.

I just pray that Vogts can get the team together and the whole NFA Scandal is sorted out.

You win some and lose some is the spirit of the game.

Nigeria will qualify for Nations Cup either as Group winners or 1 of 3 Second best placed teams. Don't forget that in case of a tie between Nigeria & Uganda on points, Nigeria will be tops because of Head-Head rule i.e 2-2 but we have away goal and better overall goal difference as at today.

Uganda has never been easy for Nigeria to play against just like Angola. Uganda beat Nigeria 2-1 in 1978 Nations Cup Semi-final and we could only manage 0-0 draw the last time we played in Kampala in 1993 with Peter Rufai saving a last minute penalty to send us through to play in the 1994 Nations cup which we later won.

Administration is the bane of Nigeria football (and the Nation) and not coaching. Amodu, Chukwu, Eguavon could not have done worse than Vogts, but we need to give Vogts all the support needed for him to excell with the Super Eagles. The hotel the team stayed in was so bad that some of the players only got rooms to stay in after checking 3 rooms with some having dirty bedsheets and faulty AC.

tng:
He has a right to express himself however he likes. My problem with him is his criticism of everybody and am sure if in their shoes, he wouldnt do better.

Talk is Cheap.

It is easier to criticise than to do anything.

Prof Soyinka has never called on foreigners to help develop any aspect of our economy but he is quick to call on them to villify and condemn anything Nigeria is not doing well by his own standard.

The Foreigners can never love Nigeria more than the Nigerians.

IMO Traditional rulers have no role to play in Modern Nigeria.

The Local Government Chairman should be able to take up the  responsibility of a traditional ruler.

After Independence there was a House of Chiefs (House of Traditional Chiefs/Lords/Kings) but since the military intervention, it was stoped.

Nigeria became a Republic in 1963.

A republic is a form of government maintained by a state or country whose sovereignty is based on popular consent and whose governance is based on popular representation and control.

The Monarchies ruling in a Republic is an irony.

Wole Soyinka belongs to the unregistered oppostion party African Renaissance Party (ARP) and entered into alliance with Democratic Front for a People’s Federation (DFPF) which has INEC registration but has failed to win any electoral seat from Local Council Ward upwards.

He also gave support to African Democratic Congress (ADC) Prof. Pat Utomi during the Presidential elections .

He does not possess much political collateral but can form a pressure group nonetheless.

There were irregularities in 2003 elections but he kept quiet but now feels he can become more prominent by being in opposition to a Northern President if you recall that he is also against the candidature of Muhammad Buhari.