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hotseat:
Amnesty International is beginning to appear as an agent of destabilization, particularly in Nigeria.

Their primary and usual focus remains Nigeria!

In the USA, DT is running riot on non-Republican States by sending in Federal Troops against the wishes of the affected states.

He (DT) calls Americans who dare criticize his unconstitutional madness as "enemies from within".

DT has been extrajudicially bombing boats in faraway Venezuela in the guise of targeting/fighting drug trafficking.

Amazingly, you won't hear even a whimper coming from Amnesty International.

But as soon as a pin drops in Nigeria, they become more Nigerians than Nigerians themselves.

They (Amnesty International) should be reminded that no country would sacrifice its sovereignty for some "Convenant" or "Charter" just to satisfy the sinister motives of some mischief-makers.

It's high time that they are called to order by the Nigerian authorities.




@hotseat

It’s indeed a crazy world of double standards.

HydraFeeds:
But they didn't condemn IPOB activities.

Don’t mind the hypocrites

These ones don't have mental illness and are not bitter. Just clear minded!

jihday:
The NFF and sport ministry mean business

Outstanding bonuses to the players nko

Morocco has struck gold in football and they are doing it at the global level. If I say I don’t envy or admire them I will be lying. Africa is not even their goal anymore. wow!

TheGoodJoe:
Oliseh has always talked like this. Despite me thinking he is a brilliant tactician, I think this plays a part in his draw back as a coach.

A team should always be built towards achieving greatness. If not, we are not ready for the World Cup.

That kind of thinking is short term.

Oga Joe you have come again 😂

No comments cos I no get strength abeg but good to see your comments again after a while!

Odunayaw:
Tough time never last...

eleyi last gan, make we no lie

[quote author=Odunayaw post=137178910][/quote]😂 abeg no shoot person o!

How much can you even protest under the military? , Sowore knows that with the military he will no longer be listened to. All na format

yemmit90:
No, the situation is different now, the contemporary world is now all about alignment. The only reason military coup was popular then is because of foreign interest or influence.

Once there is no real interest/influence from a powerful blocs, the other sections of the country that have competitive advantages will be listen to by international community.

This is what many don't understand: not all parts of the country will support a coup

jedisco:
Worth watching the whole debate - it was masterful. Mehdi is good.

It's quite easy to scratch off the underlying meaning of commom catch phrases

This was what Mehdi said at the No Kings Protests in the US;

'The great irony is of course that Donald Trump is the son of an immigrant. The grandson of an immigrant and married to an immigrant. In fact two of his three wives were immigrants, proving yet again that immigrants will do the jobs that even Americans are not willing to do'

If Trump catch Mehdi, na OYO e dey o

You're in an advanced country; there is no basis for comparison. All these Gen Zs should grow up and increase their emotional intelligence. Congrats on your achievement, dear, but enjoy your life and success in peace in a conservative society.

Procashtips:
And has it not been a norm that coaches all over the world use some qualifying games for experiments?

Change players and tactics etc?

Not when you're looking for results, what sort of experimenting is that one? If you're done qualifying, then experiment.

QueenJazz:
Lol. Majority of African Twitter is rooting for Gabon against Nigeria in the upcoming playoffs because of the Burkina Faso situation. This is hilarious, but it also shows you how easy it is for people to be dishonest and argue out of ignorance with all confidence.

I can understand getting upset that the rules didn't favor you, but trying to make it come across like it was Nigeria's fault is where these bumbling clowns lose me.

That's the current world that we live in: a David vs Goliath mentality and entitlement. We are just being scapegoated because of our huge profile in football. It's now left to our players to do the talking on the pitch and shame these haters. I also think the Burkina Faso military ruler will evoke some sympathy, which is why I will always say we Nigerians should be careful how we overrate these other African countries out there.

Procashtips:
You ignored the context.

This is a one leg (knockout) playoff, you can’t compare with qualifiers with up to 10 games home and away.

So qualifiers too are for experimenting ba? Anyway that’s why we are where we are now

HustlaOfLagos:
Whew, maybe they just dont know what they are doing

Everyone shouts about "stopping the boats" and "smashing the gangs" with no concrete plan to do this. Person wey dey use mouth drive car no dey jam

Stopping the boats or smashing the gangs are just buzz words for the electorate. To the politicians it means nothing actually. How do you stop what’s needed for your primary industries 😂

HustlaOfLagos:
Decided to look at some of this campaign promises and the approach to immigration is just funny

Farage said he would entirely abolish indefinite leave to remain (ILR), which is open to people who have worked and lived in the UK legally for five continuous years, and their dependants. After a minimum of a year on that status, people can apply for British citizenship, though each stage comes with considerable fees.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/sep/22/farage-vows-to-scrap-settled-status-placing-thousands-at-risk-of-deportation


Do they bother to think before spewing stuff like this? No immigrant who would have alternatives will stick around for crap like this or do they think immigrants just pick money on the floor in London?.

This will ultimately leave them with immigrants with no alternatives who probably be "lowly skilled" which means the solution solves nothing

They just have to say something to grab votes most time they will end up not doing anything too differently from previous governments. Just look at America now after promising to make America first the people are now hearing that over 40 billion dollars is going to Argentina while health subsidies for Americans will be scrapped 😂 even Qatar will now have an airforce facility in the US.

Remember Brexit they promised heaven and earth only to open the flood gates for all sorts of immigrants like Ukrainians, hongkongers, Afghans etc which are actually the figures that shot net migration up than students and work visas.

At the end Keir starmer and the Labour govt may actually be the ones to actually reduce net migration compared to the noisy Torries or Reform

Amedino99:
That is how aina never played for ange because of injury.

Injury from the potato farm called pitch in South Africa

Ragingthunder:
South Africa’s Minister of Sport, Arts and Culture, Gayton McKenzie on Nigeria going to the playoffs

“I heard you earlier saying that we (South Africa) will also root for Nigeria,” McKenzie said in an interview shared on X by South African journalist Robert Marawa.

“I want to make it very clear: I wish for them not to qualify. I just want to make that one clear. They tried… I knew what they did behind the scenes. I want them to lose.

“Nigeria must not go to the World Cup. Another African country must go.”

See country that played 7 matches on home soil 😂 talking

Mujtahida:
His mistake was that he wanted to try something different and it backfired.

He listened to the so called proponents of tiki taka whereas even right now a whole Oliseh is advocating for just scoring one or two goals during the playoffs and lock shop! Hope you can see how humans are? Dem go push you enter inside well if you no borrow sense

Spainever:
The appointment of Finidi George was a big error 😠 and shows high level of corruption in the glass house . What parameters were used to choose him ?

Finidi was assistant to JP, there was nothing wrong in making him coach, even keshi was once an assistant too. Much was expected from Finidi in terms of continuity and building upon what JP left. He’s a certified coach so what else in terms of parameters, did Finidi not see it all in Afcon where we got to the final?

Spainever:
My problem with Tunisia is that when they qualify ,they struggle to win a single match at the world cup.

Tunisia hardly have a stand out player cos at the World Cup that’s where you need your star player to win you games.

forgiveness:
Then we can say Bassey was right to scold Nwabali. They need to communicate on the pitch and point out to any player playing no.nsens3.

I also agree with him on benching Ekong for the next game.

He made many points but that one qey him say he believes Nigerians should be coaching the team...mbanu. I no gree Dat one. Except if the Nigerian coach is doing well in a foreign club.

Don’t mind him as if na Nigerians coach them as players to reach the level they got to. Very selfish and unserious people.

minfelix:
in the last 5-6-7-8yrs any african team we beat suddenly become our enemy on social media and they start to heavily beef us and wish for the our downfall
SA
Ghana
Cameroon
Zambia
CIV(started during afcon group stage)
Morocco(wafcon effect)
Bfaso(playoff saga)
Lesotho
Zimbabwe
Angola(during afcon)
even tiny Benin don dey dey wish us bad…

But i observe if these teams face each other and beat themselves they dont hold that grudge/beef for long…like this now eehn all of them just gang up now dey hate anything Nigeria all over social media….wetin dey sup na….
Anyways i will blame super eagles generation from 2015 till date that has given most of these teams a head lifter that we are beatable hence whenever we beat them it pains them like we are not suppose to beat them…

We Nigerians are the problem castigating our nation so badly on social media and singing more praises of other countries who can’t lace our boots so the world out there thinks we are a finished country with scammers and bad governance in terms of leadership in short they think we are like Somalia or any war torn nation so when they see us do well in sports they are kind of shocked and wonder where the magic is from. See that Benin guy cursing osihmen as he can’t believe that after we struggled to beat Lesotho we came out to hammer his country 4-0.

We too need to stop overrating these countries over Nigeria and give the impression they are better when indeed they are not. Even Ghana in recent times has not done better than Nigeria a country who last won Afcon in 1980 or so. I even see some people here hyping South Africa and tomorrow if we hammer them then the hating will start again. Even CIV despite winning us in Afcon are not head and shoulders over us. Only Senegal and Egypt(which we can still beat) I can say are ahead. A country producing two APOTYs in a row is still a powerhouse even if the team flounders at times.

semid4lyfe:
Nerdy, I go lie for you?

I think Nigeria has this pull and it's become attractive to identify with Nigeria these days so I'm not really surprised.

Of course, playing for Nigeria na another thing entirely.

If we Nigerians can reduce the way we disgrace ourselves out there, especially on social media, more will come out to identify with us. Our sportsmen and entertainers are giving us a great boost to our image and reputation out there. Gone are the days when Nigerians in the diaspora claim to be Caribbean to avoid identifying as Nigerians. It's a new day for us on the global stage!

lexyman:
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they forget so quickly .... the Chukwuze everyone is talking about about now used to be one of the rejected because of his style .... all these plastic fans . i tire

It's terrible, bruv, what kind of humans are we?

9JAMac10:
Oga club soccer is different from international duty. Since that hat trick what has he done that’s exemplary. Lookman is not indispensable but Osimhen is.

Don't just go there. Lookman has been the star of his club, even after his Europa heroics, right up until he started having issues with his coach and the transfer saga, which has led to the psychological downturn currently affecting his form. The same happened to Osihmen until he found joy again in Turkey. We also know all sorts that were said about Osihmen right on this thread when he was going through all his travails.

If Osihmen's goals dry up again, so we will go back to what we are trying to do with Ademola now, abi. Nigerians na wa for una. Fair weather people!

9JAMac10:
Chief even at the Afcon where lookman shone for Nigeria without Osimhen selfless effort he would never had scored 3 goals . Be honest .

Did Lookman not score 3 at a europa final? Abi na another player

QueenJazz:
This CAF playoff is going to be brutal.

Right now, and based on form, either Gabon or DR Congo are our biggest threats in this CAF playoff. Especially DR Congo. Those guys are ferocious and physical. Their star player Yaone Wissa is also very clinical in the final third. However, one good thing about our recent squad is that even on our worst days, other teams still struggle to beat us.

It also helps that for the past couple of games, we have scored at least 1 goal per game. I can't remember the last time we didn't score in a game.

If we lose to any of these two teams (Gabon/DRC), it would probably be through penalties or a single goal difference after a hard fought battle.

We need to lock in and go to war in these next few games.

Cameroon have poor form and structure presently, but when it comes to individual talents in their squad, I think they are the only team that can match us to a certain extent. Thankfully, they suffer from the same casual and lethargic performance our players put up occasionally as well. I'd argue they're even worse than us in that regard. If they come into the playoffs with the same energy they used to play in their group against Cape Verde, Mauritania et al, we'll beat them handsomely for the third time in a row. But if they come with a change of heart: prepared, focused and bloodlusted, they are the most likely to defeat us in this playoffs, or at least, give us a good run for our money.

I'm calling it now, if we can secure the CAF ticket, we're going to the World Cup. 100%.

When Cameroon faces us just like Ghana they become more charged. It’s gonna be a rivalry clash, forget all those lethargic stuff, they gonna die on that pitch once they see the GWG

Elock1:
For me bring in LOOKMAN as a sub

And no matter what some of you say we need MOSES in that team, you all may not like him but what he brings to the team can only be seen by those who understand football. Ask yourself why he keeps starting games all these while even under different Nigerian coaches

I think NDIDI should start as well to give the defense a boost

If AJAYI can somehow sneak into starting line up, I won't have an issue with that, due is paying his dues gradually.

And OSIMHEN need a supporting striker so he does not over work himself upfront, remember there are 2 games to be played in Morocco. Make the Bobo sef reserve small fuel. He don too try

Ajayi on a second yellow is suspended for our next match I hope our administrators are aware o

justwise:
Trump and Farage supporters have one thing in common...unashamedly brainless

That's why they have such supporters. It's been said that Trump actually moved from the democrat party to the republican Party because of such brainless folks he can lie to and take advantage of.

minfelix:
we really underrated and came unprepared against teams like Lesotho,Zimbabwe and Benin at the start of the qualifiers…now we dare not underrate Drc,Gabon and Cameroon…
Nigeria and Cameroon were the sleeping giant of the group stage, Allowing teams Like SA and Capeverde top the group to qualify….DRC and Gabon is understandable, cos they had Senegal and CIV to contend with respectively….so it wasnt gonna b easy for them….i see both giant Nigeria and Cameroon waking up form to dispatch those teams to reach the final…
Nigeria vs Cameroon will be cr@zy….they will be very stubborn this time around

am just scared of injuries for our players, omo e no go funny, we may win them but dem go brake our players leg tire and most times refs no dey too protect us like that