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NasirIbnLaAhad:
I believe this supports the argument she's making. The question wasn't whether hosting is currently a priority but whether we can host if we wanted to, which you've essentially confirmed we can't due to insecurity and insufficient infrastructure. States upgrading stadiums is positive, but tournaments like the AFCON require multiple world-class venues, coordinated security, reliable power, and logistical capacity across regions. Individual state efforts don't equal tournament-ready national infrastructure.

So it comes down to what she said earlier: we currently cannot host major tournaments at the moment.

The fact we have hosted before does mean infrastructure is never a problem cos how did we host in the past without having infrastructure. What is Afcon that Nigeria can’t host, na wa for Una o.

Insecurity is the problem not infrastructure. How long will it take get those stadiums ready. Even the country slated to host the World Cup in 2030 do you think their stadiums are ready?

Please in all that we do let’s stop the lies against Nigeria.

NasirIbnLaAhad:
Please name one functioning stadium we have presently besides the one in Uyo.

If you can't, show us the plans we're making to get those things in place before 2030 at least.

Is there any plan to host any tournament now with the insecurity going on in the country right now. Is hosting a priority now?

Meanwhile states governments like kaduna rivers and others are upgrading their stadiums if you’re asking about plans

QueenJazz:
Semid4lyfe, Dominique et al why cant I receive a link to deactivate my account? Abeg oo. Let me leave football for the pundits and scholars and professionals abeg.

Nobody wins a trophy here for any argument if folks see a hole in you trying to state some facts it’s the same right you’re using to expressing that view they are also using to puncture those views and that does not warrant deactivation of account

We’ve all been arguing about that Congo matter for days now and no one on both sides of the argument have suggested deactivating their account. Just calm down, breathe and enjoy the game of football

QueenJazz:
ME: Nigeria can't host the AFCON now

FOOTBALL PUNDIT: What do you mean?! We've hosted tournaments in the 80s and in the 90s

ME: True. But look at our infrastructure and football pitches. Our government isn't even taking any action to developing them right now. We need to improve. Our past is good doesn't mean our present can't be better.

FOOTBALL PUNDIT: It doesn't matter! You don't know what you are saying! You don't know football! You're delusional! You don't have sense!

No problem. I was very foolish to even embark on this conversation. You'll never hear it from me again.

We hosted the u-17 World Cup in 2009

If our insecurity gets sorted Nigeria will start hosting global soccer events again. It has nothing to do with infrastructure dear

Danielnino00:
You're getting ahead of yourself..
You clearly tried to make Cameroon look like some serious country....their inability to host the 2019 edition led to CAF literally begging other countries to take the mantle... countries that had no prior plans to host it.....it was a colossal embarrassment..


And again, you're hardly the first person to be very critical of our football sector and indeed the situation of the country.... But there are times when we have to be truthful...and the truth in this case is that, if Nigeria gets the AFCON hosting rights today, we will host it properly....

Even Afcon 2000 we hosted I think was an afterthought after another country failed to host. After successfully hosting u-20 World Cup in 1999 it was so easy for Nigeria to step in.

Make Una no vex Gen Z’s too full this thread now 😂

QueenJazz:
You've been arguing with yourself this entire time. Nobody (literally nobody!) disputed Nigeria's historical football achievements. The conversation was always about our current inability to host AFCON due to collapsed infrastructure. You keep screaming "but we're historically great!" to a point no one contested.

It's genuinely impressive how you've written paragraphs defending a position that was never under attack while completely missing the actual argument. Then you declare "finito" like you've achieved something. This is peak missing-the-point energy.

Anyway, I think I'll be giving you a taste of your own medicine now. See you in three weeks.

hey dear the only thing that can stop naija from hosting any international tournament is insecurity, we’ve hosted u-17 and u-20 world cups successfully in the past. The World Cup or olympics remains the major tournaments left or may be commonwealth games I don’t personally rate like that

HustlaOfLagos:


I think they stopped the hotel thing and asylum to ILR will now be 20 years. They also seem to be bursting those delivery guys who do cash in hand stuff / illegally so some effort on the part of the gov there

I still think legal immigrants should be supported more and encouraged except they actually do not want legal immigration or someone somewhere is benefiting from the illegal one

You legal ones are their major headache as you are the ones making it more competitive for the locals. That’s what all the noise is all about. The media and politicians masks it to make it look as if it’s about the illegal migration but like I always say the legal ones will always pay the price. An illegal migrant like someone has said don’t mind waiting 50 years to get ilr.

ehizario2012:
Whatever the intention is, what matters is that "Nigerians" are singled out to be adding value and useful to the society. That's a good win for this community, thanks to those working in UK prisons. God bless you.

Well said 💯

Resurgent2016:
In the end, the political gimmick of painting all migrants with the same brush won’t just fail it will actively harm the country. Bad policy dressed up as toughness always sends the wrong signal to the wrong people.

Legal migrants are looking away, illegal migrants are trooping in record numbers.

They start as benefit recipients on day 1 and many continue on benefits even after asylum is granted and mix it with cash-in-hand jobs on which no tax is paid.

HO probably already scouting for more hotels or hmo to house them.
What a shame!

😂 many of these folks even end up in the military where again there is shortage forget the noise they know what they are doing!

ChrisKels:
Eventhough I would have loved the DRC to go through because they have a better team than us, and they totally showed it when we met them, I still have to accept that the rules bend for no one.

Tobias Okikiola Lawal and Kingsley Ehizibue are two players I loved, but we missed out on both due to same rules, Austria and Nederlands respectively, so I have to cherish it now that the rules are gonna work in our own favour too.


Eagles for the world cup, as long as DRC is found guilty!!!!

😂 so you have changed your mind, Issorite

kronos1:
Greek Gift to cause more divisions,

Exactly they know what they are doing

HustlaOfLagos:
Shey benefits ni maami ma je ni

😂 benefits laye ati faaji

Dannyxy:
I will never agree that this Nigeria team is not good enough, this team is as good as a quarter finalists World Cup in terms of talent. But I don’t know why they have been a group of complacent and cowardly group thus far.

If this team will just be courageous and give their all, they will blow all teams, not one team in this Africa, maybe Senegal will try sha, will hold them.

I blame NFF in all of this, who wan break leg for Nigeria when Nigeria has not shown any commitment to inspire this players.

They are not good enough be that 😂 no sugar coating. You just need to watch past Eagles including the ones that never won any trophy and see how bad this bunch are.

We are not known for passing backwards, we are an attacking side footballing wise with wing play that’s who we are but these current generation has redefined that.

HustlaOfLagos:
A lot of stats can be found here - https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/dwp-benefits-statistics-august-2025/benefit-combinations-official-statistics-to-february-2025

I'd like to be non-working oooo for all the listed benefits and I'll vote for any gov that tries to implement this, especially the Asian ladies part

Na people like you dem wan chase comot 😂 the audacity to talk about their beloved benefits

RodgersAkpafu:
Its white supremacy and entitlement in full display

Its the need to feel "in charge"

I'll tell you how

If he waved the British flag, they will say he is NOT british and he should "go home"
.He waved the Nigerian flag, and below is their response.

If Fury does Irish flag, no one will complain

To add pain to their injury, Joshua whopped their racist MAGA boy, thats double pain lol.

Its just a yt (racist) man's problem
The need to be in charge and on top of others

It cascades even to the larger society

Black folks (some) like being around white folks living among them and all, they will be saying they dont want you around them and be sneering and be doing white flight

Okay na, some Pakistanis say f.... it, they live in their own enclaves and having their things in their own way, these same fkers will say they are "not integrating"

You cant win with these guys

😂 it’s like cancer it has no cure!

These people and their deceit, when did healthcare delivery start becoming a religion based thing 😂

They know those they are deceiving sha

isan:
Watching 2013 final on dstv right now and i still got goosebumps

Hope you saw how mobile and forward thinking that midfield was now compared to to these ones always passing backwards 😂

NewT123:
If this isn’t racism, I wonder what else is?

😂 the Nigerian flag is the problem when he should be waving the patriots flag.

jedisco:
Hehe... careful before you are accused of insulting Brits.

Imagine if Britain goes to war with Russia today... be rest assured there'd be a fast track pathway for 'brothers' from the commonwealth to join the British army. No body would claim Army jobs are being stolen

Everybody has been insulting each other since na

As for the Army That pathway has long been in existence they open and close seasonally 😂

AgentXxx:
They better start investing in research on AI and that may be their solution longer time as dem no want immigrant and their country can’t function without one. At least they can make the AI bots white skinned 😂

na AI bots go do care work abi, Issorite 😂

Mujtahida:
Omo Morocco don go. See facilities, see stadium, see infrastructures.

I don’t why many are surprised to see the quality of Morocco infrastructure, they once placed a bid to host the World Cup

HustlaOfLagos:
It's quite weird and funny.

You know you need people
You collect more from those people and bring them in
You call them essentials workers during the pandemic and even laude them
You come back and cry that they are low level bottom feeders
Not even up to a year, you are already sounding alarms

This does not make plans for those who will leave the sector, go on to other countries, redundancies, death etc. Just assumptions that lots will remain for 10 - 15 yrs

That does not seem like a coherent strategy to me

There was never a plan, we often blame naija politicians back home of only thinking about elections and not governance, are we sure is not the same here? cos right from Brexit and through all these immigration ish it’s actually more of clinging to power by all means

LionInZion:
They can't have coherent strategy when most of their policies are reactionary, following media frenzy. This Labour govt will go down as one of the most disorganised leadership in the UK history.

The guy leading them is not a Labour politician he’s a far right disguised as a Labour politician especially when you consider he entered politics very late.( yes he deceived so many) His job is simple make the entry of the reform party so easy cos how do you explain the reform party suddenly becoming the largest party in the uk. Dude is just implementing policies as if reform is the ruling party 😂 abi e no shock you ni

HustlaOfLagos:
Saw the new yesterday on Sky and I just dey laugh

The healthcare one too will be as bad and I have said it time again that they do not have a coherent policy / plan per immigration and for most things.

No expertise, no sense to handling matters, reactionary immigration policies because all they want is to appease their base and blame immigration for everything instead of deploying common-sense tactics and educating the public about the importance of immigration and how immigrants also help the economy.

The fixes they need to implement dey stare them for eye like this and removing the 2 child cap proves my point even further.

Like one of us here said some time ago the exit of care workers from the sector after obtaining ilr is their greatest worry especially now that overseas workers entry has been banned reason for the threat of 15 year ilr qualification to keep folks in that sector for as long as possible.

Bigotry is terrible, makes you look stupid no matter how you spin it. How you do explain to your people you can’t even find prison workers? Farm workers, care workers, delivery riders thank God bus conductors no exist for this country shortage go dey for that one too 😂 even police officers too they are looking for while patriots sip their beer at home!

AgentXxx:
Omo mhen, I thought Britain had home grown people to take the jobs of immigrants 😂… what a joke, Health Care exemption probably loading 😂… This government is a joke

It’s patriots who sits their butt at home ordering uber eats or with beer cans in their hands in stadiums that will become prison officers 😂 Dey play!

Goodenoch:
Badenough, Farage and co always have a long line of Brits lined up ready to take jobs...as long as those jobs are currently held by immigrants.

The patriots have been lamenting on twitter since yesterday dem no believe am 😂 e be like AI for their eye

Raalsalghul:
Bros this fight wey you wan start, hope say you get the energy?

Na me call them riff raffs? 😜

semid4lyfe:
Admittedly, the two years gap was kinda close but playing it every three years would have been better than this four years thing

This seems like a deliberate ploy to slow down the growth and visibility of AFCON because it was overshadowing the Euro.

I agree na that visibility Dey pain uefa. If CAF fall for this trap na dem sabi.

I agree with the 3 year cycle option. Copa America did it for years before making it every four years

orriyomi33:
Breaking news!!!

Your thoughts...

Not sure how this will improve the game but if I were CAF I will continue the 2 year cycle for the next 6 years before making any huge changes. Afcon is improving very fast now making it every four years may slow down the development of the game. Unlike Europe we don’t have many massive organisations in Africa to sponsor the game so with no visibility for four years may have its toll on sponsorship and other financial gains. My thoughts

That’s the true occupation of a striker

Fred2020:
Nigerians are enterprising and remarkably resilient. When faced with obstacles, we rarely wait for permission people organise, adapt, and push forward with collective determination. So it’s hardly surprising that the first sector to receive a waiver is one largely dominated by Nigerians and Ghanaians. Ironically, this same level of coordination and problem-solving is often absent in Nigeria itself (Nairaland included).

At home, it too often dissolves into noise, infighting, and endless debate. Same people, very different outcomes.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp89p1x26kxo

The same riff raffs? 😂

Kog45:
Risking his starting spot for very average Udinese for AFCON na sin abi even Onana risked his starting then to warm bench in AFCON...we too dey hype for this country and as if Okoye never kept for Nigeria before or what assurance that Okoye will gives us good tournament performance like Nwabali did in the last AFCON.....This is the time for Okoye to snatch number one from Nwabali but fizzled out,meaning he hate competition.

You need to even see Oliseh analysis on the matter as usual I was so disappointed.

If we had qualified for the World Cup will okoye come up with this silly excuse. We want the national team to do well but we want the players to think about their club first. We no serious jor 😂