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Aonkuuse:
I think you are wrong, they are tagged dangerous because when they eventually gets angry it is brutal. And most people so much get on their toes because they don't get angry easily, so pushing them so hard. They are mostly very soft and people take that as a weakness

Samakus:
World’s football governing body, Fifa, yesterday announced Lionel Messi as the new Best player in the world for 2019. The award has continued to generate mixed reactions from football fans all over the world. While Messi performed admirably in the calendar football year winning the Spanish LaLiga and emerging the highest goal scorer in the Uefa Champions League too, Most fans believe that Dutch defender, Virgil Van Dijk deserved to be named the best having captained Netherlands to the Uefa Nations League Finals losing to Ronaldo’s Portugal while also winning the 2019 Uefa Champions’ League with Liverpool, receiving the Uefa best player award as a result.

Was this the first time that a Dutch high flyer will be ignored for the awards? Definitely not! Is it a case of history repeating itself? Very likely!

Virgil Van Dijk (a Dutch) captained Netherlands to the Uefa Nations League Finals losing to Ronaldo’s Portugal. He also took Liverpool to Uefa Champions League glory in May 2019, winning the European footballer of the year as a result. Guess what? He was not crowned the best player in the world.

In 2010, Wesley Sneijder (also a Dutch) was awarded the best midfielder in the Uefa Champion’s League and won the treble (Coppa Italia, Seria A and the Uefa Champions League) under Jose Mourinho. Guess what? He didn’t even make the final 3-man shortlist (Andreas Iniesta, Lionel Messi and Xavi were the shortlisted top 3) for Ballon D’Or of 2010.

The beneficiary of both cases of controversial awards? Lionel Messi!

Is there a FIFA-supported conspiracy against elite Dutch players especially when they perform very well and become popularly touted to receive the best individual awards? Your guess is as good as mine.

http://samakus.edublogs.org/2019/09/24/fifa-best-player-awards-is-there-a-conspiracy-against-dutch-players/

hulk616:
ronaldo still has balon dor to win

hulk616:
shut up
Messi cant win Copa America for Argentina.
Messi is a fraud

presleYzzi:
You're sentimentally bigoted, and I don't engage in insults disguised as arguments!

presleYzzi:




I love this guy, he's a typical example of "hardwork beats talent".


Messi may be naturally gifted, but this guy is a Trojan horse.

If Ronaldo wasn't in the picture, Messi wouldn't have stayed in the lime light this long, as south Americans don't last too long in the scene before being overthrown!

To all those castigating him, if you work half as hard as this guy works, you won't have the time to throw shades at other people going about their businesses!


They said "everybody lives 15mins in a different time zone", but this guy has been on a different time zone for 15yrs.

Some of you all throwing shades at him don't even have a working wall clock.



Before you come throwing shades at me, I'm a strong fan of Z. Zidan seconded by Ronaldinho, and not these two.


PEACE

Virus99:
Messi
5 ballon Dor
2 UEFA Poty
1 FIFA best

Ronaldo
5 ballon Dor
3 UEFA Poty
2 FIFA best

Messi still has catching up to w...

Anyways congrats to our noisy neighbors.
From a fanatic Madrid fan

CollinsWeGlobe:
Lionel Messi has written his name into football's history books after being named FIFA The Best Men's Player of Year, going one ahead of his longstanding rival Cristiano Ronaldo, who snubbed the awards gala once again.

The Argentine won the award following a great individual campaign that saw him score 51 goals and assist another 22 in just 50 appearances.

In addition, he also lifted the LaLiga and Supercopa de Espana titles. Messi won the award for the first time since 2015 and lifted it for a sixth time overall, going one ahead of his longstanding rival Ronaldo.

Source: https://mandynews.com/lionel-messi-named-2019-fifa-the-best-mens-player/

CollinsWeGlobe:
Lionel Messi has written his name into football's history books after being named FIFA The Best Men's Player of Year, going one ahead of his longstanding rival Cristiano Ronaldo, who snubbed the awards gala once again.

The Argentine won the award following a great individual campaign that saw him score 51 goals and assist another 22 in just 50 appearances.

In addition, he also lifted the LaLiga and Supercopa de Espana titles. Messi won the award for the first time since 2015 and lifted it for a sixth time overall, going one ahead of his longstanding rival Ronaldo.

Source: https://mandynews.com/lionel-messi-named-2019-fifa-the-best-mens-player/

iturujames:
Tension in Kano as sheep gives birth to a human being.see what happened

http://nairahit.com/2019/09/22/sheep-gives-birth-to-a-human-being/

luminouz:
Lol,you don't know the human psyche bro...lemme tell you some things:

1. An average human can make use of 15-20% of his brain power, most people through faulty DNA,disease and poverty use less than 10%. What manner of maturity do you expect from them bro? Since a human has no access to full range of his brain power,he/she makes decisions based on his limited intellect and shiit goes awry. The day I saw a cock attacking its own reflection in a mirror and a dirt poor Hausa guy sniffing the toxic fumes emanating from a 'soakaway' was when the point struck home.


2. Do you know that 75% of the human DNA is classified as JUNK DNA? This means they have no use(either inert,latent or inactivated),so in essence they are kinda useless or blocked. So most humans can't even access the hidden potential of their bodies. Everyone uses 25% or less to live on planet Earth. Why on earth won't we have issues bordering on psychosis? Check most comments on NL(Front-page and romance) and you wonder WTF is wrong with the commenters,like do they have sense at all?

3. Humans are flawed creatures. We are a mix of different genes,produced and cultivated by higher beings for their own purposes. Even in terms of evolution,we can't just seem to evolve because we are still controlled. Let me give an example, we have like what, 12 original DNA strands,but we have been sequenced down to just 2 DNA strands now. And those strands are what guide you and me on base decisions about life,love, career, peace, war and death. How can just 2 strands be enough? And even most of the DNA is inert again. How do you function as a complete YOU? Just look around you bro, if people are not fighting about religion,it is tribe or race, status or some other BullShiit, and I just look around and wonder to myself, can't these cats see what I'm seeing,how pointless and dead all these shiit they fight on, are? And to crown it all,every second is a fuqin race against time,before you know it,you grow old and die,using like averagely 70years for men and maybe 90 for women. What exactly is the gain?


Conclusion:
We are a flawed species,just occupying space till we die. Know that and these dreary news won't surprise you anymore.
We think we are born,but actually we are made to serve as food,entertainment or chess pieces in a greater game our brains are too incapacitated to even understand.

EVILFOREST:
PROSTITUTES are now the Favoured Species in Marriage....
Peace Be Unto Them

NwaAmaikpe:





Maimunat was married to Abdulwahab.
He beat her at every opportunity he got till she decided she had had enough and ran back to her parent's house.

Two months later, Abdulwahab was in her parents' home with the neighborhood's Imam; his family and some neighbors to plead for forgiveness and ask her back.

He said the separation had made him realize his life was worthless without Maimunat in it.
He even cried and offered to be beaten up as atonement for all his wrongs.

Her family were moved by his repentance and sincerity so they convinced Maimunat who was already in an affair with me to go back to him.
She did; just to save face for her family.

Two weeks later.
We heard Maimunat was dead from a broken neck.
All thanks to Abdulwahab who claimed he was trying to massage her neck after she complained of an ache in it.

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I hope this story means something to any Nigerian hoping to stay back in South Africa after reading and witnessing this charade of an apology.

People don't change.
They are whom they've let us know they are.

Xenophobia is the one thing wrong about South Africa which must change if Nigerians must prosper there.
But wouldn't you rather be in South Africa than back home in Nigeria where everything is wrong?

Awol1:
Am I the only one seeing the wrong English?

meavox:
WHY NIGERIA CANNOT AFFORD A STAND-OFF WITH SOUTH AFRICA - by Gimba Kakanda
Al-Jazeera, Opinion
9 Sept 2019


Today Abuja addresses Pretoria from a position of weakness.

Since the images and videos of the maiming and killing of black foreigners in South Africa began to emerge on various social media platforms last week, Nigeria has been an emotionally frayed place. Tens of thousands of Nigerians live in South African cities and in recent years, they have become frequent targets of xenophobic attacks.

This time, anger in Nigeria boiled over and young Nigerians took to the streets protesting South African aggression and unleashing some of their own on South African-owned businesses.

The Nigerian government felt pressured to act and subsequently recalled its ambassador from Pretoria and announced it was pulling out of the World Economic Forum meeting on Africa which was held in Cape Town. While some Nigerians welcomed the move, others thought it was not enough and called on their government to intervene and rescue its citizens.

Examples abound of powerful countries going to great lengths to protect and repatriate their citizens who have faced danger abroad.

But Nigeria is not one of them. Indeed, in the past, the country has stood its ground on a number of occasions when defending its national interests. In the 1960s, for example, Nigeria had a face-off with France over the latter's continuous tests of nuclear weapons in the Sahara desert. The government of Abubakar Tafawa Balewa acted decisively, breaking diplomatic relations with Paris, expelling the French ambassador and imposing a full embargo on French goods.

Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, Nigeria led the international effort to isolate and pressure the apartheid regime in South Africa. It threatened economic action against Western powers for refusing to sanction the regime and supported the national liberation movements in Southern Africa, including the African Nation Congress (ANC), with millions of dollars annually.

In the 1990s, the country, under the leadership of military ruler Sani Abacha, defied international sanctions and welcomed a visit by Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi. It also directly intervened in the Liberian civil war, dispatching Nigerian troops to fight.

Most of the reactions to the violent attacks on Nigerians and other Africans in South Africa reflect a yearning for Abacha-style diplomacy. But as recent developments in its relations with the United States demonstrated, Nigeria can no longer wield such diplomatic power. Last month, the Nigerian government was spectacularly quick to react to the US's reciprocal rise in visa fees by reducing the charge for Americans applying for a visa to enter the country. And last year President Muhammadu Buhari decided to "keep quiet" on President Donald Trump's alleged "s***hole" remark about African nations.

At present, it is clear Nigeria does not have the military, the intelligence capability or the diplomatic clout to pursue a serious escalation against even a regional power, such as South Africa.

This diplomatic "standoff" with Pretoria has exposed the weakness Abuja has masked in parading itself as a self-styled "Giant of Africa". South Africa used to be a bully that Nigeria could restrain through its support for proxies inside the country and its neighbourhood. But since the end apartheid, this relationship has evolved into a regional competition, which Pretoria is winning.

After the sanctions and international isolation were lifted, South Africa quickly became the continent's more favoured ally of developed economies and foreign investors. Pretoria emerged as the recipient of the largest share of foreign direct investment in sub-Saharan Africa and in 2011 joined the BRIC countries in an economic pact formed to challenge the domination of Western economic policy.

It is also an important trading partner that Nigeria cannot afford to lose. South African businesses have major investments in the country, including the DSTV cable service, MTN telecom, the Shoprite supermarket chain and others. Nigeria exports $3.83bn worth of goods, mostly oil and oil products, to South Africa. By contrast, it imports just $514.3m of South African products, which accounts for less than one percent of total South African exports.

The more contrasting feature of the two economies, and which again highlights Nigeria's weakness is that while Abuja levers around a commodity-dependent economy, Pretoria has built a highly-diversified economy with a superior industrial structure. In other words, Nigeria needs South Africa economically, much more than South Africa needs Nigeria.

Nigeria's geopolitical power has also waned in recent years, while South Africa has remained a major regional power. Abuja has been battling with a rebellion in the north for years and has struggled to put a stop to flares of tribal violence regularly killing dozens of people. In its neighbourhood, Nigeria continues to feel largely insecure, surrounded by Francophone countries whose allegiances to France threaten the commitment of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to stability and non-aggression in the region.

The Nigerian government has also been unable to muster enough influence in the West to become a trusted partner. In 2014, the Obama administration, for example, blocked the sale of arms to the Nigerian military. The Trump administration decided to proceed with it but under heavy conditions which Nigerian officials have deemed "unacceptable". Western reluctance to sell weapons to Abuja has pressed it to seek arms on the black market. South Africa has embarrassed it twice in recent years by intercepting large arms shipment bound for Nigeria.

In this sense, the Nigerian government cannot do anything about the violence against its citizens in South Africa beyond making a few symbolic diplomatic moves and bringing up once again the Nigerian role in liberating South Africans from its white oppressors. It is clear that in doing so it is addressing Pretoria from the position of weakness.

Indeed, using persistent references to sub-Saharan African commonality and solidarity as a result of shared history, race and geography is not an effective foreign policy tool.

The idea of One Africa is a farce taken too far, and successive Nigerian elites have pandered to this fantasy to the detriment of national interests. The legacy of this pan-African misadventure is a geopolitically weak Nigeria which cannot stand up to for itself and for its citizens

This very much has to do with mismanagement of the economy. The redemption Nigeria needs is one that moves the country away from dependence on oil exports, foreign imports and interventions and towards diversification and industrialisation. We cannot afford to glorify the idea of producing pencils in the age of artificial intelligence any more.

Only if the country becomes materially secure and industrially productive will it be able to regain its soft power and international clout and stand up to the old bullies in its neighbourhood.


Source:
https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/nigeria-nigerians-xenophobic-attacks-south-africa-190908200649204.html

capitalzero:
I know.

police corruption should be stopped first then others. police is most important security agency in democracy. If army arrest criminals, they must hand over to police. If an army officer commits civil offence, he would be prosecuted by police officers.

capitalzero:
As long as police is grossly corrupt, civil disobedience will be order of day. Sanitize police and see how people start appreciating law and order

drlaykay:
I condemned them because the report said one of them touched the soldier first

drlaykay:

We civilians service the ego of these nitwits. When they decend on people unduly we are quick to eulogise and sing how unmatchable they are instead of condemning them. This single act makes them feel superior as we have established that they are feared.

The funniest thing is that a single soldier will not harass a single civilian. They do so in numbers. If we outnumber them in our condemnation and counter attacks these acts will stop.

Because e fit be u tomorrow!

Ps: I condemn the initial act from the traffic warden

NGpatriot:
1. The VP of the company said the project is expected to create 50,000 jobs, not will create 50,00o jobs.

Your first reading and comprehension error.


2. Expected or could is basically assuming and hoping to create that number of jobs. They are free to hope and expect to create even a million jobs based on the scope of their operations and growth projections.


3. You as a layman can not sit here and opine that this endeavor can not create more or less than 50,000 jobs because you don't know anything about the project, you don't have any data regarding the number of participating farmers, number of suppliers and vendors involved, the number of the people the farmers are going to hire to raise the cattle, the number of milkers, the number cattle and milk transporters, meat processors, the number of end product distributors and sellers in shops and supermarkets and so on. You don't know anything

Apart from the fact that you can not read and comprehend, you are not common with basic common sense.

NGpatriot:
Since you obviously can not read and comprehend simple English words, kindly move on, my post wasn't for your kind.