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PDPGuy:
Won’t be bad to see this midfield and attack combo tomorrow:

——————Ayinde—-Ucheibe————-

————————-Echegini——————-

———-Ajibade——-Ihezuo——-Okoronkwo—-

If we use this line up, we would close them down in midfield big time giving Echiejini freedom to join the attack all the time. Although the coach may retain Ijamulusi due to the fact that she covers lots of distance easily on the pitch and moves the ball faster especially on the wings.

Nigerian GDP for 2024 using a more recent base year of 2019 (like Ghana and other countries) was 372 trillion naira (251 Billion USD) using an average FX rate of 1485 naira/$.

$251 Billion not $188 Billion

So Chioma Okafor has successfully completed surgery on her arm. Might be available as a substitute in the next game or in the final.

NBS to release rebased GDP by 5pm today.

daveP:
Same too. She didn't take any hit or looked strained after the 5-0 sha so it might be some special training. No be she dey jump upandan during the "oyinbo" chants from the fans? Im sure she's great.

Lol. Hopefully so because the left back replacement we have was roasted by Portugal though she didn’t do badly against Algeria. Portugal use that girl shine until Plumptre came from the bench to calm things down on that wing.

This is why falcons should play more friendly games so that we have several games to judge new players.

Streetinvestor2:
I am surprised the government is defending the naira still.
I was thanking the stability was result of removal of fuel subsidy and alhaji refinery.
I really don't understand again oh on the defending of naira after this major achievement. What is the government not telling us.

It is the job of central banks all over the world to maintain price stability by injecting FX into the FX market. That doesn’t mean they are defending the naira (quote on quote).
They sell and buy in the FX market to maintain stability rather than determining the price of the official market.

For instance, when Emiefele sold dollars into the market in 2022, he sold at a range of 400/450 which was way different from what the open market was willing to sell due to scarcity. Open market price was 750.

This was a drain on Banks and FG because they were not getting the needed revenue they should have been getting based on the open market rates of 750 which majority of importers were using at the time anyway.

When Cardoso sells currently, he sells at market rates of 1500 to ensure there is liquidity in the market irrespective of the price/rate and then allow the market determine the price based on the liquidity in the market. The CBN also gets the full value of the rates in naira at 1500 which doesn’t shortchange the CBN and the FG (no subsidy).

zhike:
The problem today, our star seoposenwe was not on form.
Nigeria will get more than 4 goals.

Safa promised banyana Banyana players big bonuses to motivate them to beat Nigeria.

Reading this from a South African despite what they played today (which wasn’t pretty), and I am beginning to think we Nigerians are way too hard on our super falcons (the record champions). We put them under lots of pressure.

I see South Africans all over social media celebrating the win over Senegal despite their poor performance. I know what would have happened if Nigeria had to struggle like this against a Senegal and only had to rely on penalties to beat them.

The pressure on the falcons is crazy.

yinkeys:
They struggle with West African teams
Maybe it’s because of physicality

Not against Mali though but I get your point.

semid4lyfe:
Ghana defeats Algeria 4 - 2 via penalty after a goalless 120 minutes.

I wanted Algeria to win to set up a North African Derby but well.....

The Algerians offer very little in their attack. I think Ghana would frustrate Morocco better with their physicality. But the Ghanaian players are rough gosh.

The Ghanaian players rough I nor go lie.

Algerians are slow.

These Ghanaians deserve a few yellow cards

This Algerian team looks very technical in a raw form.

Danielnino00:
Senegal can actually shock South Africa....

Very possible. Their forwards are tall and very athletic. South Africa would however want to play fast 1-2 football and keep the ball on the ground.

Softwareguy21:
only 2 shots on target conceded in 4 matches

And those were more or less long range shots from Botswana which were nothing for Nnadozie

TheSuperNerd:
Well, look like they used the Zambians for practice.

As in ehn 🤣. I have also noticed in this tournament so far: Okoronkwo, Babajide, and Ashley can take set pieces.

I would have preferred Ayinde Ucheibe combo with Ijamilusi on the bench.

AfonjaPriest:
Less talk, more action.
Dangote should do the needful.
Crash the price first and wait for the subsequent consequent response.
When that happens, case dismissed!

He has crashed his price since to 800/900 but retailers refused to bring it down.

semid4lyfe:
Most non-Nigerian pundits are picking Zambia to beat us. Is Zambia that good?

The few I’ve seen picked Nigeria.

Oh my god. 2.22%.

Market is on fire. 🔥 🔥

Go GTCO.

daveP:
We made that Algerian and Bostwana GK shine sha. They're good anyway.

I hope we gbera this KO stage, our route to the final is via Southern opponents.

Morocco have the easier route to the final.


I fear this passing deficiency. Algeria showed us they can bypass us easily with triangular passes and cheeky 1-2 passes to beat whatever press and create large spaces. We need to stop the crappy 2on1 marking we did in the group stage. Dem go too suffer our ladies if we don't fix up this aspect in the middle and defense. The attack still got good passes sha.

It wasn’t that prevalent with Alozie, Ohale and Plumptre though. I don’t think those ones do the 2 on 1 marking like the home based defenders.

Lukuluku69:
2,000 Tonnes compared to 1,000,000 Tonnes from LNLG?

Why would 2,000 Tonnes( Dangote Present output most probably from fumes of Crude Refined, though I stand to be corrected) be a Threat to 1m Tonnes Customers?

2000 tonnes daily which is over 700,000 tonnes per annum.

Lukuluku69:
BUA, Ibeto, and others are still in the Market.

As for the Cooking Gas thing, Dangote is not producing it but rather getting it from LNG, the same source the Marketers are getting it from.

I can only understand and sympathise with them if they are getting it at a price higher than what Dangote get.

Dangote produces LPG. He is the second largest player in Nigeria after NLNG.

Taich:
This headline has many hidden meanings. Like Dangote or hate him, the masses are the ones being played here. Dangote came into the Cementing sector, we all other players were pushed out. We know how the price of cement went. Dangote business model is market disruption at errant, then monopoly and finally the masses pay massively for the only supplier.

I have people thinking my statement lacked facts, Dangote and Ibeto has been in and out of court over cement, Dangote and BUA has issues over sugar. Dangote cement is one of the priciest in the market. These are facts, Dangote business model end game is monopoly.

This talking point dey muze me. Dangote cannot be a monopoly in LNG because there is also NLNG ( the largest player). We should rather support Dangote to fight marketers who are importing what we now have in excess with NLNG and Dangote.

mostob:
We have not conceded any goal so far. Our issue is at the final third. That wouldn't have pose much problem if only the girls were clinical.

The issue is bringing up Randy at every opportunity like he was some sort of Pep.

I wasn’t impressed with Randy and Dennerby either. Dennerby was even slightly better.

mostob:
15 games unbeaten run but he couldn't win sh***

Under him, we had our poorest finish in WAFCON.

Madugu may be a poor coach but Waldrum is not it either. Na recency bias dey make us forget Randy's flaws. Let's stop bringing up Randy's name abeg. We don't get to criticize him much probably due to his colour or the fact that the fan are fascinated by anything and everything foreign.

One thing I can say is that Madugu has slowly brought back the Nigerian style of football to the falcons (lacking since 2016) which is always big on possession and moving the ball forward but requiring some fine tuning here and there and some clinicality.

With Dennerby and Waldrum, we played defensive, tactical football.

Emeskhalifa:
As in eh, no be small greed. Extremely greedy. They almost made me to lose my website but can you blame them? Blame the then federal government that stopped the use of Naira card to make international payment

You are mistaken. Federal Government did not command anything. It was a decision of the Banks (not all Banks though) due to shortage of dollars in 2022.

Skydivine:
It’s a bad idea to put in place fiscal structures that encourage trade deficit. That is what this policy will do. When everyone becomes mini importers , dollar rate will increase and so will everything else. We have been through this path before.
What your demand and supply argument will do is to increase price of dollar based on increasing demand. The reverse will never ever occur ( less demand for dollar). Your guess is as good as mine to what becomes of the price of most goods when this happens.

All of these things you speak of are already happening at the black market. Using your naira cards reduces the rate at which deals take place in the black/parallel market allowing official rates control the rates in all markets just like it is in most countries.

zoboizee:
I still think this is our best 11.
    Nnadozie
      Ohale       Demehin
Oladipo                   Plumptre
     Ayinde Uchiebe      
Echiegini
Ajibade                  Ordega 
              Oshoala

Yeah. Ordega and Oshoala both being the oldest attackers in the team who have played together since their U20 days (2012) as attackers would also definitely understand each other better as well.

Offpoint1:
They should remove the useless limits... They shouldn't detect how I spend my money.

As for Fintech, their greed will kpai them

They put limit according to the amount of FX they have. Nigeria doesn’t print dollars.

GlobalWay:
Awesome! My joy knew no bounds when I got the Email from GTBank some days ago that my GTBank Naira Card can now again pay for Dollar transactions, etc. What a great relief!
The Ex-P without any iota of pity for Nigerians plunged millions of small and even large scale Businesses into excruciating Pain when he Commanded all Banks to deactivate the ability from ATM Cards just to greedily enrich his People that were massively into Bureau de Change.
I remember how me and my friend had to rush to open Dollar Account and then went to buy Dollars from them on Street at unbearable rate just to fund the Dollar Account with which we manage to keep our Business afloat. That was before OPay and others later came up as way to lessen the stress.

The ex-p didn’t command banks to do anything. Banks had to stop due to shortage of dollars at the official window of 450 naira/$. Inflows coming into the official window then were slowing down because everyone wanted to trade at the black market of 750 to get more value for their FX. With lesser inflow to the Banks, they had little dollars to give you. This is why Tinubu floated the naira immediately because it was a crisis already.

They should practice shooting and crossing more.