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komekn:
Spurs were woeful yesterday.

Don't think he bullied anybody they didn't even mark him , when he was inside their 18.

Nonetheless he scored two it should have been more if he had not gone offside and been more clinical.

If he even score 5 you go still complain, phew

SmartPolician:
That's because you are not an exporter. WTO is concerned with trades. NOI worked to see that Nigerian agricultural exports to the west improved.

Before now, they were rejecting many farm produce and other things that Nigerian exporters ship to America and Europe. The rejection rate was high. This is a source of foreign exchange/currency to Nigeria.

When she came in, she started enlightening the exporters to meet the necessary standard and influence the foreign agencies that reject Nigeria's exports to give our exporters a soft landing to ship their products into their countries.

She made it clear that WTO does not have money to share, so we don't expect her to start throwing money about like a politician.

@Saao, this is the answer to your question

Thank you jare. We need more of your likes on nairaland to educate our educated illiterates

Na only garri things our people sabi. Read they won’t read

Cyberknight:
Found this hilarious.
Trump has absolutely no interest in Nigeria. The days when Bush and Clinton stopped by to say hello are long gone.

One major reason Obama was hated by many Nigerians. Dude also went to Ghana that year and was throwing stones to naija with his speech. Finally messed up with the weapons sales block to deal with boko haram.

Unless Nigeria is ready to flock her market with made in US goods and farm products maybe Oga Trump fit look naija side small.

missjekyll:
I am genuinely fishing for thoughts on how Trumps win will affect Nigeria.

Putin is now in the ascendance, is this good for Nigeria? I know we signed up to that BRICS thing. Will it save the Nigerian economy? And at what cost?

How should Nigeria play this?
*musing*

Okonjo Iweala that’s looking for second term as WTO chair may be blocked by Trump, remember he blocked her the other time to emerge but fortune smiled on her as Trump was already on his way out in 2020. It will be interesting to see if madam will be able to scale through this time around unless she nicks it before Trump is sworn in.

Okoko Iweala looking for second term as WTO president may be blocked by Trump like he did the last time before he lost the 2020 election which paved the way for Iweala to emerge. Good luck to her o.

Zahra29:
Trump is also looking likely to win the popular vote- the first Republican since Bush in 2004; including control of the Senate and possibly the House as well.

Wow - that is an emphatic victory and a historic win. The polls were so out.

Congratulations to Trump. I hope he governs right, especially on the world stage.

Well done to Kamala, she fought a good race.

Starmer and others are already congratulating Trump. I'm grateful we have a Labour govt to protect our NHS (hopefully!) - last Trump presidency he was really eyeing it up when things were still up in the air post Brexit.

Don’t worry we will tell uncle Farage to remind Trump about the NHS, it’s about time. 😜. This goodness must go round o, we must enjoy what they are enjoying in the US. We can’t be left out.

missjekyll:
Not all of it. Most of it. Charlie also owns all of the sea.
He was just caught charging the NHS 67% more than anyone for an ambulance park.
Yet he pays not a lick of tax and demands millions in yearly allowance .

😂 In bini language parlance; oba no dey go transfer

Zahra29:
There's a cap on domestic tuition fees but not on international fees so universities are free to increase international fees as much as they like

The domestic fee cap will rise in line with inflation which makes sense - it should be a limited increase and spread over the next few years, unlike the massive increase in 2012. Hopefully they'll bring back grants for low income families.

Statement on Higher Education due this afternoon.

Yea, expectedly. Inflationary impact. As for grants? hmm 🤔

Zahra29:
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/education/labour-government-tuition-fees-rise-inflation-keir-starmer-education-b1184730.html

This Labour govt is certainly proving that they are not Blair's New Labour lol

They raise international students fees annually so what’s the problem here?

jedisco:
She was always the favourite. Alot of recent events including Rishi's premiership helped pave the way. Takes nothing from her brilliance, eloquence and carriage but she sure did pander to her core demography. Now, she has arrived, I hope her premiership is not characterised by talking down on Nigerians cos her own party wouldn't waste time to devour her if the opportunity presents.

As said earlier, the dilema with trailblazers like her is that she could very well be a mouth piece for the most vile cohort of the thier party. She could say things that even Farage would struggle with voicing and people would find it hard to criticise her as she's 'black and immigrant'. I saw her dress down an MP from NI speaking against the narrative around migrants and theblady was in shock. She was not expecting it.

The NI lady shouldn’t be shocked if she understands politicking na. The result is where kemi is today.

Samueltemi337:
United na big club na
You can't take that from them

since when, bros make we no argue, make the guy kuku remain where e dey

Samueltemi337:
You dey talk about big clubs and you dey mention Tottenham 😒
Any club that's not City, Arsenal, Chelsea, United, Liverpool, Barca, Madrid, PSG and Bayern Munich then Lookman should remain in Atalanta

And What’s United doing in your list sef

Wetin concern South Africa with miss universe competition, is the girl representing South Africa there?

TheSuperNerd:
Conte and Napoli be forming gangster in Serie A until they met World Class African POTY-in-waiting Lookman.

Right about now, No Man City winger is better than Lookman. No Arsenal winger is better than Lookman not even Saka. No Man Utd Winger is better than Lookman.

Lookman is just..... I don't know... Special is an understatement.

They say he doesn’t deserve top 5 or top 10 in ballon dor, awon werey people

mekabuachi:
Make lookman just bring this form come afcon qualifier 😌

He’s been delivering but they keep cancelling his goals

charlesemeka85:
he should head to Milan or Roma

I agree he’s paid his dues to join bigger teams

Samueltemi337:
Aina scores

Beautiful goal no wonder bigger clubs are considering signing him.

justwise:
I never thought that she will get to the final stage let a lone wining it

She was hitting all the right spots to her target audience and saying all they needed to hear. From her acceptance speech reaching out to the reform party or working with them may be her next step and she has enough sweet stories they will also like to hear. Interesting times ahead.

justwise:
This country keep surprising me each and everyday as i did not see this coming

Surprised? This was surely coming

isan:
Lookman is UK groom

He can never hide his bigotry

komekn:
There is absolutely nothing wrong with that proposition, better players tend up in better club's it's that simple.

Poor quality player's end up in lower level clubs.

Football ⚽ is not just statistics alone and in this regard Doku is better than Moses Simon IMO.

I was also expecting you to say Doku is better than Lookman too.

solonnachi:
Happy New Month sports loving folks. Today also happens to be my birthday. Join me thank God for His unfailing mercies and grace.

Happy Birthday bruv, wishing you more greater years ahead

lavida001:
I just want benefit. saw someone earning 33k on benefit

benefit kwa, that one go long o, those days are gradually coming to an end

RodgersAkpafu:
@Goke7

I kid you nor
This kind of discussion will not even be a discussion among Indian/Pakistanis people

A lot of black people just have internalised issues they are yet to resolve
So lemme narrate a story for you


Chris Kaba was a delinquent (we accept) and a police man wrongfully shot and killed him in an incident (ill say you research more on the case )
recently the police man who shot him was cleared of any wrong doing, and the Mets are asking for more immunity

Black folks were busy rationalising why this should be the case forgetting that to these guys, it does not matter your status, you will be manhandled if the govt gives the met more powers

my paki friend told me point blank that if it was a Pakistani killed in such a circumstance, that this country will catch fire, and I have seen it play out a few times during my stay in the UK

White people and even the police know better than to mistreat, harass or do anyhow with these south Asians
because they know that they don't accept or take nonsense, and they will burn down this country if dem try them

as those mumu blacks were yapping, quote far right goats were liking and agreeing with them ooo

Now Tommy Robinson days later was convicted of a crime he pled guilty of (after grifting off his supporters) and was sentenced to jail
The same White folks that were saying goof for Kaba, were crying all over saying its not fair
Rationalising why Tommy Robinson should not be punished

there is a White health worker that killed babies here
people are advocating for a soft landing for her despite the heinous thing that she did
Will such be extended to a black person ?

Again, black people I keep saying do not understand the world that they live in
Coonery has eaten deep into the bone and its almost at the point of no return

Again, thanks to (many) Pakistani revolts, minorities can be and live in peace
Assuming it's blacks that were the "majority minority " here, with the exception of the Windrush generation, na so them do dey reason say e good for them and will not fight back

afterall our country is a shytehole and thus we should be treated second classy, according to folks like IbeOkehie

that's the problem, the deep suffering the black race has been subjected to is the reason they easily submit themselves to more oppression and it starts back home with how they have been mishandled by despots who called themselves leaders or politicians so when they found themselves in the West with the privileges they now enjoy, they think they don't merit it that much despite working all manner of shifts and hours. That's why you see them keep supporting Trump who has called them all sorts of names cos to them Trump is just re-echoing what they are used to being called back in Africa. They also think that having more money or wealth is the way out when in reality being rich doesn't insultate you from contempt or oppression. It's a pity and it's a mental health problem that needs a cure. Those who are cured see things differently.

BankyGee:
Frame 1 - Lookman 👔
Frame 2 - Look-Men 🤵🏻‍♂️🤵🏾‍♂️🤵🏻‍♂️

e don do o na this kind thing Dey make coach Dey sub am too early o, make Una pipe things down abeg. Unless una no wan make better club buy am o 😝

opes:
Alex Iwobi talking about Tosin Adarabioyo playing for Nigeria

Alex Iwobi never tell Tosin say e own regular spot sef don dey do shaky shaky daddy 😜

kennysville:
Alex Iwobi should tell him that there are no guarantees. Starting shirt has to be earned. Otherwise, he should wait for 3 lions call up...

Him buga sef dey too much

Simple, he should even ask Aina how long he took him to command a regular shirt

comodo:
Gbam!!. The way we downplay our SE players is alarming. Doku don become world class too. Nothing Ikweche no go see for bolt rider hand.

Once another player is in a bigger club than a Nigerian many folks on this thread automatically believe that player must be better.

Whether it’s self hate or inferiority complex I don’t even understand. Doku am sure to them is even better than Lookman. Weird

Goodenoch:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/oct/25/spain-immigration-prime-minister-pedro-sanchez

This is a very interesting article. Excerpt below:

'The Spanish prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, recently read in parliament a newspaper article from Venezuela about a battered boat that had just arrived on the coast of the South American country with 106 migrants onboard. “The undocumented migrants arrested, among them 10 women and a four-year-old girl, were in terrible condition. The 19-metre boat’s hold emitted an insufferable odour,” he quoted the article as saying.

“This news story could have been published last week, and the migrants could have been Nigerian, Senegalese or Moroccan,” said Sánchez. “In reality, it appeared in a Venezuelan daily on 25 May 1949, and its protagonists were Spaniards, 106 of the 120,000 who crossed [the Atlantic] between 1945 and 1978 to escape misery and Franco’s dictatorship.'

Should be food for thought for those who seem to think that migration (legal and 'illegal') started with Africans seeking a better life, or that it is somehow shameful to be an economic migrant (it always amuses me when people use this as a diss).

Even the ones in America that are shouting that we know they where they are from originally abeg which documentation did they use to call America home? When you bring that topic up they get offended cos as afar they are concerned only them are entitled to make the rules. The world has really been a jungle.

Interesting article there!

lavida001:
As india don take their position na to go india oo

Let’s just hope that ranking won’t slide further cos boys are not smiling on the streets.

You want higher wages, You don’t want to pay higher taxes, You don’t want increase in net migration. You got to make a choice baby! 😜

Gerrard59:
I am Igbo and I have stated here that Igbos should be mindful of how they interact with the natives in Lagos and elsewhere. To be honest though, I don't really see racism as I am Igbo and I live in a wealthy country. An instance is how Deborah Yakubu Samuel was roasted to death. However, her killers were released for a baseless reason. The Italian man who murdered a Nigerian because the latter wooed his woman has been sentenced to 20 years imprisonment. Apparently, black lives matter more in non-black countries than in their dominant environment.

Additionally, I am a die-hard realist who prefers to understand humans for who and what they are rather than what I wish them to be. The reality is: humans are tribal regardless of who they are and where they come from. That is a fact I acknowledge and live with. I cannot change it, neither can any. So, why pontificate? Most importantly, I maintain my stance that wealth reduces racism. Any black person who wants to campaign against racism should first work on making sure Africa becomes wealthy. Crying from today to tomorrow to yesterday would not change anything until wealth has been established.

Africa is wealthy but the problem is that it's not evenly distributed due to cultural norms which one of us has earlier mentioned that if we can do away with some of those cultural norms and religiosity then we can truly generate more wealth, however, this is not a justification for the unnecessary profiling and discrimination we see in the West today, see but for the rule of law that works better in the West, that Italian you mentioned that was sentenced will never happen. And if we start enforcing our laws in Africa, we will see more equity, justice, and fairness which is what can effectively deal with all the issues of tribalism in Africa. Did the UK not toy with the idea of removing themselves from the European Convention of Human Rights (ECHR) to have more leeway in dealing with asylum seekers? that echr is what is making the UK a saner society, remove echr and the UK will become another African jungle. Some things are keeping these folks in check as human behaviour is the same everywhere. Is it not the same US where the cops also kill innocent people, will there ever be a black Lives Matter movement if indeed black lives matter more than in their dominated environment according to you? If wealth truly reduces racism, how come super-wealthy black folks still suffer from racism in the West or do you think they don't?

N:B; You're one person I so much like your write-ups on this forum and I learn so much from you. Just having a health conversation.

Bannedlargejr:
Stop it. Napoli didn’t do him dirty. The situation shouldn’t had escalated to that extent and that’s what happened. This is not Nigeria that, you gets to insult your national team coach, fans without any formal apologies and you try such rubbish at a credible organization “o ti lo”. Star boy allowed a bunch of nonsensical nonentity yes men to deceive him and his now languishing at a backwater league. Fortunately for him, if he excels there, a big club can still sign him. A player of such caliber in his prime doesn’t belong in a backwater league

This is gibberish, his spat in the national team has nothing to do with Napoli. Stop this false narrative. All that transpired btw Napoli and psg happened before his issue with Finidi.

Atalanta has done same thing with Lookman, did he too offend anyone in the national team?