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CoolAmbience:
My brother, I no dey understand Nigerians o.
We just like people who encloth themselves with pretence.

We are too gullible, na real wa

junnyjake:
Normally, we've seen players in the Italian league play for Inter, Ac, Juve, Roma, Fiorentina and had no issues, I wonder when this madness of not transferring a player to a team in same league started.

It’s terrible o even years ago Nigerian players could move within the Italian league now it has become a taboo hoping Ademola will break the jinx finally but if not then surely it’s an agenda

omo Lookman stubborn o! 😂

This is from Brila Sports!

Serie A side Atalanta have tried to find buyers for Super Eagles forward, Ademola Lookman in the Premier League but the player has rejected the opportunity.

The African Footballer Year only wants to join Inter Milan and is training secretly away from his teammates, having asked for a transfer.

Atalanta, in their attempt to find buyers, offered the forward to clubs in England. But Lookman has maintained an extremist position and he hasn’t budged an inch from his intentions regarding a move to Inter.

Is Ademola Lookman not putting all his eggs in one basket?

- Brila sports

BankyGee:
Calvin Bassey receives his Fulham Player of the Season award for 2024/25 🎖️

Great, well done to Bassey!

This one they have left behind!

Crystal Palace no serious o 😂 dem Dey forbid to win trophy?

At last it’s theirs!

Eze wan ruin chances for Crystal Palace o how do you miss that

lbrichman2:
😂😂😂
Na here all of us go dey
Maybe na Al-hilal he go finally end up

But seriously what’s all this when a player is aspiring to do greater things in his career he suddenly becomes an ungrateful person of bad character, which kind winch things be this na! Who the hell is Newcastle sef, (dem Dey see Liverpool as rival Abi) people keep saying it’s not but looks like it’s becoming a thing of colour or race, especially when I remember Ivan toney who ended up in Al-hilal despite all what he was playing! Terrible

Freedom of speech is different from freedom after speech 😂

lbrichman2:

E go reach everybody 😂😂

Which person papa e don abuse? Abi im pick village people international call? Which one

adexpa:
Yes, humans are self plus Nigerias are emotionally driven. They closed their eyes to any good deed that’s not coming from their loved ones.

The best way to drive Nigerians is not to care about their cries and keep doing what they need and not want. The hallmark of a great leader is to focus on the need and not want of people.
Singaporeans were not jubilating or happy when Lee kua yuan took the deep transformation that brought Singapore to where they are today, but he took the step anyways in spite of hardship and tough moments( he would have chose to beg Malaya or start begging other countries for alliance, but he focus on reviving their inner potential which doesn’t come easy but they are better for it now). If a ladder does not have what he really wants to do before office, he will keep listening to people and he will never do what is right. Buhari said he wanted to remove subsidies but every time he seek for advice around it the response is always ….don’t do it.

Nigeria needs tough and patriotic leaders

I agree, but most Nigerians don't think this way, and it's hard. You see, that emotionally driven thing you mention is a huge problem. God help us! It's now that I understand why most state Governors don't do much; they know their people don't want what they need.

jedisco:
I could have alot of issues with our Unis but many standard secondary schools do thrive to put the best into kids with the little they have. I went to a military school where corporal punishment was then the norm. Though I don't subscribe to corporal punishment, I have no regrets going there and my life pathway might have been very different if I didn't. There are folks who still send their kids back to school in 9ja

Regarding that stint, it was an interesting period of time. The lady appeared to be doing well for herself, holding a good role in an oil and gas firm. However, despite being the one to reach out she also appeared unduly paranoid from the start. I kept wondering- if you're so scared of Nigerians, why seek to date one? Ultimately communicated to her that the kind of man she seeks would not tolerate her baggage.

Nigerian men are hot cake now globally 😂 perhaps all the attacks from Aunty could be attributed to being served breakfast from one of us back then! You can never know o! cos even a whole trade deal could not help our matter!

Cyberknight:
I'm no fan of Badenoch, but I've no issues with her saying she doesn't identify as Nigerian. I've a few family members and friends who left Nigeria years and years ago and who never go back or have any connection thereto apart from family and who would probably express the same sentiment as she did if not necessarily in those words. It's not uncommon and I can fully understand why they and she might feel that way.

Badenoch's comments about what she experienced at FGC Shagamu are likely factual (I went to a federal boarding school in the 80s as well, leaving mine around the time Badenoch would have been entering one (1991?)), and I have some fond and not-so-fond memories of the time (life as a Form 1 student was hell, as a Form 2 student a little less so, it became bearable from Form 3 onwards and admittedly enjoyable (with the limited horizons of the time) when one started wearing trousers and had junior students to order around and beat up just like one had been ordered around and beaten up by senior students previously), so I recognise her descriptions.

It would have been helpful (but not expected) had she contextualised this by accepting that Nigerian boarding schools were based on the British concept and a large number of attendees of British boarding schools also found their experience hellish and rudimentary according to the country's stage of development at the time they attended. The (since rubbished) aim of the British boarding school experience was to "build character through adversity" and it was believed that sending children away from home to live independently and endure deprivation was the way to make them tough. There are any number of people in this country (and in other former British-ruled places) who call themselves boarding school survivors and the media is full of talk about how the experience scarred them and so forth.

She'd have been better served if she'd left it at that. Her latest comments about what she allegedly did in school by fingering cheats and ostensibly demonstrating her pureness of heart as another reason why she couldn't fit into Nigeria are childish in the extreme and diminish her. Weirdly, while I've no interest in her party and its struggles, I actually want her to do a better job of being an opposition leader so that black people in the UK in general - and we who bear the label of Nigerians in particular - do not have to deal with yet another situation being used to support the trope of messing things up when they are in such positions.

In summary both Nigeria and the Uk has no sin then with its boarding system, it was just in tandem with the times and supposed best practice. Thanks for the clarity sir.

And as for Aunty doing a better job as opposition leader, you’ll wait forever o 😂 and expect more labels o yes we ain’t done baby (pardon my American language)

jedisco:
Hehe. You took that personal. The issue with you is that at every turn you exude inferiority - that together with similar proclitive narratives lead no where. You wouldn't get anyone with a working brain following you down that path

Let me ask, how do you intend to build Nigeria?

I came to the UK in 2019. I remember asking on this page then if I could use some credit available to me then (and could easily repay) to get some business venture I had in 9ja going. Oddly, I got alot of shout down. When I was supported with £20k for my training, I invested most of that money in Nigeria at the expense of arguably better reasoning to buy a house in the UK (pre-covid boom). In my first 18m of being in the UK, I had invested over 40m in Nigeria. I get about 500k pcm from that today. A colleague of mine who modernised his diagnostic centre nets 1-2m in profits pcm which he continues to plough back into the Nigerian economy.

I have, still am and should continue to invest back home in 9ja as I have in the UK. The bottomline is that thinking home and building in the UK (or ones place of abode) are not mutually exclusive and if you think seeing yourself as inferior is going to get anyone worth their salt to follow you, then you have to think again.

He said (from one of his posts earlier) he will stay in the uk till he’s 60 years old and return to Nigeria 😂 that’s how long Nigeria should wait for him to build the country!

adexpa:
Infrastructure is the heart of a nation, Nigeria is years backward in the are of infrastructural development. past administrations were not able to do much because they keep the subsidies regime that’s solely benefitted by few elites. The purpose of ending subsidies is to channel all the waste to infrastructural development that will later bring a turnaround to national development. The gains from subsidies are not to directly feed you, but to build a system that will later feed you

Best comment here but unfortunately most Nigerians don’t understand how infrastructure actually connect to their personal livelihoods. They always think they must be given handouts directly to their mouths or pockets.

And I think it’s like that all over the world humans are naturally selfish always thinking things must be given to them directly rather that collective good for all. Maybe it’s time govt in Nigeria try the European approach of socialism give the citizens all they want in terms of welfare but tax them heavily to collect back whatever you gave them perhaps Nigerians may prefer that 😂

lovewins:
Curious as to what the "typical Nigerian mindset" being referenced is. One thing that keeps me puzzled when this conversation rears his head is the "career dream" and "football legacy" narratives you guys push at the players expense. I hope you realise you can dream on Osimhen's behalf, neither can you determine what legacy is to him. It's okay to have imaginations as a fan but a player at the end of the day is in charge of his own destiny. Assuming your own desire as a fan equates as a player's dream is losing the plot in my opinion.

Paradoxically, the "typical Nigerian mindset" is what you're subtly displaying here. You know when parents force career choices on their children, and discourage pursuing paths they are unfamiliar with? That's similar to what's happening here.

He's just a kid. I'm sure he won't even understand all that you have said here! just spamming the thread with childish talk of having lots of money bla bla bla.

Amedino99:
yes. Playing in the premier league is far better than the turkish league. I can accept his move to turkey, it’s his decision i cant decide for him. What we should'nt do is behave as if clamouring for his move to epl is out of place. Its unfortunate the move couldn’t work due to to the unwillingness of these clubs to meet his demands but a 26 years old player who won APOTY 2 years ago has no business in the turkish league at this stage in his career.

It’s time to move on from this osihmen matter and let fate has its way!

Samueltemi337:
He should have waited for Everton too

😂

Apology accepted can we move on please!

BankyGee:
Hope you know how to read properly?

Compare his salary at Sporting CP and his current salary at Arsenal now. No dey talk before you make proper research.

Any fan or admirer wey I get Dey wish make my previous income big pass wetin I Dey collect now Holy Ghost……….. 🔥

kendrick9:
There's something wrong with Nigerian players and big clubs.
Since the days of Mikel Obi how many Super Eagles have played and be productive for any big clubs. I'm talking big clubs like Man U, Arsenal, Liverpool, Chelsea, Madrid , Barca... Even clubs below like Spurs, ATM, Aston Villa..
Look at African players like Hakiimi, Salah, Mbuemo, etc... Not forgetting past greats like Mane, Yaya, Drogba, etc..
Why are Super Eagles players not desirable?
I bet you if Osimhen was Cameroonian or Ivorian he would have been in a major club currently

You folks should stop mentioning mikel on this thread with the way you guys bashed him for remaining an house boy in Chelsea! It’s now we remember he played for a big club ba?

Sorry dear, we need to focus on the younger ones now. Thanks for your service to the nation. We’ll never forget but we’ll make amends with the younger generation!

This is good precedence and a warning to those who are not friends of the govt to behave o cos no amount of gas lighting will be enough if the hammer should fall on anyone in the opposition. Wasiu is a friend of the president and it’s easier to shout that he should be punished. Let’s be guided o!

casualobserver:
another reason is also because the more we get exposed to western education, the more we migrate and lose touch with the villages. All of us are congregated in Abuja, Lagos etc but senators, reps, governors come from the villages and our ancestral towns and who is there to make sure the best get elected?

again we will gather on Arise and start speaking more english than the englishman.

Yeah, very true and even some governors who are so educated can’t even perform as they have lost touch with reality of the locals, Fayemi had this problem even the late Akeredolu.

We need to begin to have more honest conversations instead of all these grandstanding and claims of who’s better. Let our educated folks get more grounded with grassroots politics so when they speak they can make more sense and proffer reasonable and workable solutions.

casualobserver:
Once Nigerians acquire western education, they will start speaking english more than the English man, saying politics is a dirty game. The dirty people will enter the politics since its a game for dirty people. English speakers will then from their airconditioned offices start to speak english complaining that politics has been taken over by dirty people.

Don't mind them, the reason politicians from counsellor level to the federal level were given proper and befitting remunerations and salary from 1999, when we returned to democracy, was actually to encourage our educated folks into politics so we could have even professors from our universities vying for positions like counsellor and above, but guess what? They all stayed away, some of them thinking the military was not serious about democracy, and that's what led to a lot of folks from less educated backgrounds venturing into politics since 1999, by time the eyes of our educated folks were opened to reality, the so-called less educated ones they are complaining about today has taken over the reins of poltics in our country. So I agree with you, our so-called English-speaking people like Falana are just chasing the wind. The same Falana tried to be Ekiti governor at one time, but of course, the dirty people he's complaining about today has made entry more difficult, many of them were too late to the party, and the mistake they keep making is the people they are berating should just leave for them easily to have their way, funny people! if e easy make dem go run am.

If everybody is bad, who is good now? Nigerians sha where everyone points fingers at others

Little things like this can spell doom for the Nigerian aviation industry that Keyamo is trying to revive to international standards, especially for investors, as this is a bad sign of our safety practices

elyte89:
So u think rohr is better than chelle?

At least all your players will run to Man U instead of Turkey Abi no be so? 😂

komekn:
I like to be concise and not deviate.

The topic of discussion is VO why do should I talk about Ademola ❓

I did not say that's the reason VO wasn't signed by any Premier League club. I have said because Napoli over priced and over valued VO doesn't require all clubs to follow Napoli.

Now you’re saying another thing: These are your own words and I quote;

Standards of probity, integrity and etiquette will differ from league to League, nation to nation.

For instance you can openly condemn people of the "GABRIEL" persuasion and call 🤙🏿 for their heads 🗣️ to be cut off very easily in Saudi Arabia, and most of Africa.

Try and stay one place instead of jumping here and there from valuation to probity bla bla bla. You’re also avoiding talking about Ademola for obvious reasons known to all!

Comedy unlimited 😂

komekn:
Standards of probity, integrity and etiquette will differ from league to League, nation to nation.

For instance you can openly condemn people of the "GABRIEL" persuasion and call 🤙🏿 for their heads 🗣️ to be cut off very easily in Saudi Arabia, and most of Africa.

Try that in Europe you will find yourself in unnecessary public contention.

Any issue that cause public outrage, consider Mason Greenwood,what did he do before he was crucified, ostracized and kicked out of Manchester United.

You have been left behind in outdated bubble of ignorance.

Trash, so every player currently in the epl has never fallen out with any coach or anybody. If English clubs don’t want or rate him it’s fine but to say it’s character it’s dubious

Keep telling lies to justify hatred! Why is no epl club bidding for Lookman or did he abuse anybody father too, you’ve been quiet on this but focusing on VO!

BankyGee:
I no remember the person wey in order to mock Osimhen, he post Napoli fans with banner wey dey slander Osimhen and he dey laugh dey post am.


This is the same situation with Ademola Lookman currently. This banner translates: “Enough now. Shameful agents and ungrateful players. Respect the supporters who gave you value.”

Nigerian players, and great ones at that are being bullied by the club they gave their all and helped break trophyless curses, and some of you chose to be on the side of the the clubs. Lol.

What did Lookman do the Atalanta fans to warrant this? Absolutely nothing. Lol, Nigerians no dey learn 😂 Yesmen go hide, he banned himself from the thread. I've always told him his football IQ is too low. Yesmen yesmen yesmen. See what Atalanta is doing to nomen.

Even when the coach bullied Ademola, silly Nigerians supported the coach A bunch of jokers with an inferiority complex who want players to cut their fingers and still play for free, all in the name of joining big clubs.