₦airaland Forum

TheGoodJoe:
Come on my brother. We have given good accounts of ourselves this season. Winning the Carabao and FA Cups in a rebuild season is fantastic.

Let Gunners enjoy their celebration. It has been a long wait.

I hope we rebuild well and keep competing.

Congratulations Gunners.

una garri no soak well this season! But great play though

DrYa:
Congratulations to Arsenal

To all Arsenal fans na man una be! Hope you win the champions league too!

Baba just come make cool cash for this second term

TheSuperNerd:
Mourinho delivers an "Invincibles" season at Benfica but finished 3rd. 23 wins, 11 draws, No Losses. 8pts behind Champions, Zaidu's Porto who lost 2 games but won 28 games with only 4 draws.

Mou bids goodbye to Benfica via finishing unbeaten in the league. Real Madrid return is next.

Mou is just one coach that’s so special indeed! He is the Special one.

When you think he’s finished and becoming irrelevant he suddenly just turn the corner!

justwise:
Count me out… they have nothing in common with an average Nigerian, Tommy is looking for another meal ticket from organisations who benefit from religious and ethnic wars, saying things for clicks. Nigerians are dying, not just Christians or Muslims … the insecurity is affecting all Nigerians. People like Tommy are opportunistic with no solution to the problem.

I hear a lot NGOs and funding are always involved in this religious genocide agenda narrative so Baba perhaps just wan collect e own share.

How sad like you said people just take advantage for their own belly rather than genuine concern for what the issue is all about cos I have always been curious how a far right activist like Tommy whose major agenda is white supremacy suddenly is interested in what is going on in a black nation like Nigeria. They just follow the money o! while they lie they are not racists 😂

jedisco:
With a state police, states that want to invest in security have no excuse. My only worry is that governors may misuse the system. In that case, it may be better administered on a regional level with FG being involved in determining leaders and funding coming directly from the states central account.

The almajiri system is the fuel that drives all this. It's hightime states dismantle it. The FG can push them towards this as affected states wouldn't want to cos of votes.

Regional policing has always been my preference as many states in Nigeria are not even economically viable. The insecurity itself is actually caused by ungoverned spaces in many states that has no govt presence at all but regional approach can enable leverage on better equipped states with capacity by the less developed states.

jedisco:
At this point, the nation needs to fix security 'irrespective' of what it takes.

We've been able to fix perennial fuel scarcity, stabilised our exchange rate and now bringing down inflation.
Whether its state police, armed local vigilante groups, mandating education for all school kids, corroborating with nations e.t.c, we need to fix insecurity before it ruins Nigeria.

State police is on the cards actually but I doubt it will make all states secure as some states will lack the necessary human resources and capacity. At the end only serious states can secure themselves. It’s actually down to these sub nationals(states) like you said to sit up and eradicate the menace of out of school children to fix this mess.

jedisco:
Hehe...When you bring firewood home expect lizards.

😂 If the Firewood still fit cook better firewood jollof rice nko? At least our patriots try!

Nothing musa no go see for gate on top patriots matter o!

justwise:
What an insult to Nigeria and Nigerians? This grifter wants to start another religious war using Nigeria. What an utter nonsense!!

😂 they are calling you brothers and sisters in Christ you still dey vex?

Papi85:
Congrats senior man kels

If we were going to the World Cup, Iheanacho would have sneaked into the team o, oh wow

TheSuperNerd:
First game vs Ecuador on June 15.

CIV's attack vs Ecuador's strong defence. It would be a game to watch and enjoy.

Na Curacao go feel the wrath of CIV's attack. Lol

That Amad Dey give me joy, gonna keep tabs on him and the team!

Damioduso1:
Most of ours in this platforms are rooting for Cote D'Ivoire to go far in the FIFA world cup tournament in June



Ghana can surprise ours also but I give them little chance to make it out of the group stage

Me too Ivory Coast all the way! Make dem no fall my hand sha. For the other African teams they can go to hell I don’t care!

TheSuperNerd:
CIV's Final WC Squad. Bonny, Amad, Yan, Bazoumana, Adingra is back, Pepe, Wahi, Guessand... CIV took their best forwards. Midfield is basically same as we saw in the Afcon.



Belgium's Final WC Squad.... No Arthur Vermeeren, No Openda, No Mika Godts of Ajax. Solid Belgian roster. One of the Solid Outsiders/Darkhorses.

Expecting Ivory Coast to do well at the World Cup! Best of luck to them

Papi85:
e be like say u be tran Abi amophrodite?

Grown men don’t gossip unless u aren’t one

No be you be the number one polished gossiper here? Take your flowers

Lexusgs430:
Our Unku don buy family house o..... No more landlords wahala...... 🤣😂

In this Reform regime? 😂 na only humans dem Dey deport money no join

BankyGee:
The King of Strikers 🦁👑🇳🇬

The €200M striker every club should have! Even in warm-ups, his aura is impeccable! 🥶🇳🇬

Kırk beş numara! Victor Osimhen!
The King of Aslan 🦁💛❤️👑 pic.twitter.com/D0H7WwbS79

— Banky G 🎤⚽ (@BankyGee_) May 14, 2026

In many years to come some go tell us he’s not a polished striker 😂

Papi85:
see as una dey talk like say I no watch Rashidi play?

Rashidi was a freak of nature in terms of pace, physical strength and shot power but he wasn’t technical and polished

You can’t compare yekini to the likes of yeboah, weah wen it comes to technicality

😂 this is comedy no two players are the same just say you prefer yeboah!

In years to come it’s like saying osihmen has pace and strength while mbappe is technical whereas both players were a menace to defenders.

jedisco:
Starmer is dodging bullets.

Funny thing is that he appears to be a decent chap that tried to make some measured decisions but then, the people want radical change and change it would be.
To me, Starmer had only one major job which he struggled at- which was to guide our recent entrants to ILR.

BTW, what's the update with Mahmoods 10-30yr ILR bill? Seems suicide bombers in labour have halted her. Most of those MPs know they're going down- they might as well cause wahala.

Seems Aunty K is still missing from the dance floor. With the poor performance by Labour, one would have expected her popularity to increase but she's still not part of the equation.

The PM is not a politician that’s the problem so he doesn’t understand the maintenance of a political base he’s just pandering to everyone and everything 😂 including the ilr stuff today it will look as if they are going ahead tomorrow he will say hold on. No one knows where he stands in anything and in any matter today he will talk about Europe tomorrow another day he will complain about farage just all manner of confusion. Same for Aunty k, all of them including farage has no road map that leads anywhere. Just to be murmuring and complaining about the same system they are expected to fix themselves but no plan.

Napoleon55:
The result of this particular game was not Okocha's fault.

People are grossly unfair to Okocha and his talent especially on this game,

If the team(especially Rashidi) had converted 40% of the chances Okocha created on this game(Nigeria vs Italy),it would have ranked him among the greatest individual world cup performances of all time.

I had to go back and re-watch this highlights, and I counted at least 8 chances that he created that would have resulted into goals if our strikers were lethal that night.
And this is not even the full match.
Okocha would have went home with at least 4 assist if those chances were utilized by our forwards.

Yes,there were some misplaced passes,but the good ones far outweighs the bad ones.
If we had won,people would have much appreciated what he did that day.

fair points, I just think Okocha did better for us in Afcon than in the World Cup

Papi85:
Rashidi no he polished striker na. Na Gidigbo baller em be ( I mean no disrespect)

This is fallacy! A striker that’s still our highest scoring player is not polished? The ones wey polished how many goals dem score?

Napoleon55:
Okocha use vex for benching him against Argentina take play this game,
He really turned the Italians inside out.

Whatever happens to Rashidi on that day,as if they jazz am,his every effort came to naught,but he tried his best to no avail

And what was the end result of all what okocha did on the night!

We complain too much as Nigerians, the same Nigerians, who will later complain about younger ones not being allowed to grow, especially when tomorrow another person comes out to say we can't find enough skilled health care professionals to employ.

Let's always be balanced in our analysis of issues in the country. If you say the interns should work more under strict supervision, then it makes more sense than saying they should not be allowed at all.

jedisco:
Hehe...

Seriously, without seeing this, I'd have struggled to conceptualise how well entrenched such a system is. We all know those Islands as tax havens but we never really see the British part of them. It's an eye-opener.

As per Reform, our British Trump seems locked in. The funny thing is that most reform voters hate Trump but like it when Trumpian policies are applied locally.
Some things do seem inevitable at this stage- certain lessons could always to be learned twice.

The thing shock me gan. It’s a deliberate fabricated system to actually keep the London economy going 😂 and we say it’s the third world countries or whatever they call it that are corrupt? Issorite

As for Reform am just waiting for the PM himself to finally tell us who he is instead of all this drama, he needs to come outside finally 😂

TheSuperNerd:
Eswatini will never be on the level of even Zambia no matter how many foreign-born talents they bring in.

DRC is recruiting good but we still saw how Algeria stopped them at the Afcon. Same Algeria we outplayed for 90mins. DRC has always been a force since the 70s... their resurgence is good for African football but they are still not complete. Their game vs Jamaica showed some of the depth of their deficiencies.

Senegal, CIV, Morocco all recruiting in droves and it is no news coz it is what they have been doing. Now how many are really quality? How many will they play? Dont get me wrong, Senegal, CIV and Morocco are legitly strong sides in African football but none of their foreign born-talents have won the APOTY except Madrid-born Achraf Hakimi of Morocco.

Look at Nigeria, we may not have the Volume of Foreign-born talents recruitment compared to the countries mentioned above (especially as most of our dual nationals prefer England or france or Germany or Denmark or any other euro state) but when we do succeed in recruiting, we are lucky enough to land truly talented lads.

Victor Moses was a fantastic recruitment who eventually won an Afcon.

Ademola Lookman came in 2022 and won the APOTY for 2024. That is a gap of just 2yrs+.

Calvin Bassey came in and arguably is Africa's best and strongest CB today. The last Afcon showed this.

Ola Aina has established himself as one of Africa's best RBs behind Hakimi.

Bright Osayi Samuel showed up huge at the last Afcon at RB in Aina's absence.

Emmanuel Fernandez of Rangers got recruited and just recently debuted and boy! What a talent he is at the back... a lad who will inevitably go on to greater things in the GWG and in his club career.


These are just some of the strong examples showing the quality of our dual-nationals/foreign-born talents recruitments despite the multitudes of NO or disinterest we have encountered from the likes of Olise, Eze, Saka, Musiala, Tammy, Tomori and co. And guess what? We are still pushing recruitment efforts and structurally this time through a diaspora monitoring committe

And I know you will mention World Cup but mind you....
....the major reason we are not at the World Cup was due to administrative indecisions/flop decisions moving us from Jpes to Finidi to Eguavoen before we found Chelle.

The NFF General Secretary admitted it already that "...if Chelle had began the WCQs, we would easily be in USCAMEX 2026..." So lesson learnt.

I thought I was the only one who noticed. Our players just gifted the DRC this so-called resurgence they had, yes, they were awesome in the 2024 Afcon, but they have dipped in performance in recent times as shown in the 2025 Afcon and in the just concluded pay-offs

Zahra29:
I predict that Cabinet will ask KS tomorrow to set out a timeline for his resignation. Unfortunately I think it might be curtains for Starmer.

The "herd is on the move" and the drip-drip of resignations has started just like when Boris was eventually forced out.

Agree with the bolded. Disloyal bunch, many of whom sabotaged several of KS proposals and then turned around to blame him for inaction and the local elections failure.

That's just the British way, innit!

justwise:
This is not going to end well for Labour party, they never learned from what happed to Tory...This is a gift to Reform

7 prime ministers in 6 years una try o!

Lexusgs430:
Watch the mother of all protests, if KS attempts this BREXIT u-turn....... 😁😂

😂 Protest no fit cure hunger o!

Make una think am well o! No politician had any post Brexit plan dem just Dey whine people against enemies wey no Dey

Lexusgs430:
Countdown to the END of Keir Starmer..... The BEST of British politics...... 🤣😂

😂 stop that break dance and hold this

Hope resides in our young people. But Brexit has held them back.

They should be able to live, work and study in Europe, which is exactly what our Youth Experience Scheme will deliver.

This is part of rebuilding a stronger relationship with Europe. That's the Labour choice. pic.twitter.com/DwrRkytqzM

— Keir Starmer (@Keir_Starmer) May 11, 2026

Kog45:
According to rumour Gala asking price is 150M,now left for Gala to do business if he is leaving but question,why did they bought Osimhen,it cannot be for winning league or FA Cup,possibly European cups or for business,now left for Gala fulfilment and Osimhen satisfaction,likely Gala will accept below 100 but i do not know maybe Napoli is getting cut from Osimhen transfer from Gala.

Napoli is surely getting a cut on any osihmen transfer as a clause was inserted when they sold the player to Gala so you can see how complicated the matter is.

jedisco:
Interesting video with a surprising twist.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtCd4z1ed-c&pp=iggCQAE%3D

A good section of the UK certainly runs on tax avoidance.
I remember reading something similar on how the now defunct non-dom status was set up by the UK to fleece India and other colonies of taxing certain british folks. Imagine if it was another country had this vast set-up of tax avoidance.... it'd be constant stories of xyz

😂 It’s just better to avoid listening to things like this cos abeg I no wan get headache!

The same rich folks are the ones saying the country has been invaded by foreigners to continue to distract from criminal activities like this! They are also the major sponsors of the reform party, na average Brits I just pity especially the ones that rely majorly on welfare from the govt

DeloitteNG:
No be me set the price
Na Gala set am
And they have every right to do so
The player was available for just 75m last season
Did they go for him?

All we were hearing last season is that the player doesn’t have good behaviour and no coach wouldn’t want such a player, in fact Gary lineker said osihmen vanishes at will even though later he apologised, it’s like folks here have short memories.

Kog45:
Big question,who remeber any Turkish football league record in the world of football,Osimhen in another season in Turkish league,God forbid....Osimhen future is in his hand,so he will decides soon....players put many things into consideration,everything is not about money.

Elder if you have money drop it and osihmen will leave Turkey for good!

We can’t continue to blame players for things they can’t control