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dayokanu:
Incredible game going on in Italy as Werder Bremen came from 3 goals down to pull 3-2 and possibly a place in the UCL

Sevilla out

if this result stand Italy, germany and Spain produce 3 representative each

Sevilla disappointed me tonight baaaa!

I pray Tottenham loses tomorrow to Young boys so as to make it 3 each from the top 4 leagues

netotse:
guy, why now?. . .are you trying to say nothing good can come out of nigeria?

Nah, that's not what i meant, i want foreign investors to come in instead of the local ones

Can you see the difference the foreign investors brought into our telecommunication sector? that's what i am talking about!

eyoniggar:
Whats all this mending for?

It was Barca that had um flogged, so I see no
reason for the " your team is useless" rants.

It's not the beating they got from Barca last time, we are talking about the one they got this night from Braga, Braga came to their home ground to score 4 goals against Sevilla, so why should i not call them a useless team? now they have reduced our Spanish clubs for this season to just 3 instead of 4

erico2k2:
Sorry to ask oh,are you more than 35 yrs Old?cos Mortgage maybe judged by howmuch you got left to work before retirement,if you are a salary worker and also howmuch your depositm is.

Do i have to be 30 years before i can apply for mortgage? and do i have to be an employed worker before i can apply? what if i am an entrepreneur? I can as well buy from another person if that be the case.

[quote author=Inked_Nerd link=topic=502220.msg6633989#msg6633989 date=1282682032]lmao lmao[/quote]

Sounds nice, but i hope the buyers aren't going to be Nigerians?

The news is true, watched the interviews given by the contestants.

Sad, but it shouldn't take them time to getting a new location for the 2 shows.

I cant wait to hear more about this development, owing your own house in Lagos is a dream come through ([size=2pt]i don't want a house in Lekki, Ajah, VI oo, i heard that place might not last 20yrs before they're overtaken by the ocean [/size])

The Nigeria Football elections have become a massive circus, much more than the circus of 2006.

The intensity of the battle for the soul of the Nigerian game, with so much mudslinging, bickering and in-fighting, makes you wonder what the war is all about. Is it all about becoming board members or is there a genuine attempt at change?

Make no mistake about it, this election is not going to change anything about the way the game is structured, much less how it is run and has been run in the last 50 years. On the contrary, it looks to further entrench backwardness unless something dramatic, or miraculous, happens on Thursday.

The congress of the Nigeria Football Federation, which is the highest decision-making organ, is the major problem. It is dominated by a power block of state football association chairmen and secretaries who have become a massive pawn. You will not win an election without them. They are 74 in number, two each from 36 states and the federal capital territory. As shown four years ago, their interest is best served by sticking together.

This position is not lost on the outsiders, hence the call for amendment of the NFF statutes already cleverly amended two years ago to elongate the tenures of all state chairmen beyond the 2010 elections, effectively handing the crucial votes to the incumbents.

A lot has been said and written by those candidates, who will have us believe they are determined to engender change. Some have gone to court, others have petitioned Fifa and the government, both fresh from recent collision over the latter’s decision to withdraw Nigeria from international competition as a result of the dismal performance of the Super Eagles at South Africa 2010. However, the collision was more the result of the permutations of the 2010 elections.

In the end, president Goodluck Jonathan reversed the decision and former F.A. president Sani Lulu, his vice president Amanze Uchegbulam, technical committee chairman Taiwo Ogunjobi and secretary Boalji Ojo-Oba were tactically sacrificed.

The drama has continued in the press. The parliamentary hearing, which was equally comical, snowballed into the biggest impasse since the June 12, 1993 elections, the nation held its breath, as did the confused sporting world. It would take threats and multiple court cases to necessitate the crucial horse trading of last Thursday, culminating in the emergency board meeting and congress of last Saturday for the election to be postponed to next Thursday. Nothing was resolved, nothing has changed. It’s all systems go.

The elections will be held on the same terms that stoked controversy in the first place and the outcome is as predictable as four years ago, with Fifa insisting on non-interference, justifiably. What they fail to recognise is the peculiarity of Nigeria’s problem. It’s the way the game is structured with only one possible result - failure with a capital F. Failure that is not about Super Eagles results, but failure of Nigerian football to realise its rich potential.

So far, the elections have not been about issues or any clear vision to bring about sustainable development. It’s been all about selfish interest and how to align with the gravy train that the Nigeria Football Federation has become.

It has been a platform to enjoy fringe benefits like travelling with the national teams and sitting allowances. The focus of the candidates is more about how they will get to the board, not what they will do when they get there. I am not expecting anything new.

This scenario played out four years ago when Ibrahim Galadima was hounded out of office by “the stakeholders” - the political party in the Nigeria Football Federation. Believe me, I witnessed it first hand from within during the 2006 elections and what a soap opera that was. It was shockingly endorsed by Urs Linsi, Fifa’s general secretary, and I had fun running as a candidate, never once believing I could win.

I followed the guidelines and entered the race on the last day. In a bizarre day, I got the Lagos FA and my state FA to endorse me, and after clearing the impressive screening process, I witnessed, in three days, the marketplace and horse trading at the NFF hub Chida Hotel. On election day I did get a seat in the house and an informed perspective on the hollow ritual.

It’s four years after and nothing has changed. Nothing will change. I am not surprised, nor am I disappointed, nor will I be contesting. It makes no sense even watching the proceedings. I believe that change can only come when the structure of the game is addressed from the local government level to the national level. The candidates for Elections and the delegates often call themselves stakeholders and I ask, what is their stake?

The state football associations never used to conduct elections and in fact do not exist s associations because they do not have a functional congress. The loose term football association is supposed to represent the very constituent members, which in this case should be the various elements of the game; clubs, players, coaches and district, local government, state, regional and national levels, with officials beginning from the base and working the way up the ladder.

In Nigeria, the 20-team premier league comprises clubs that are all owned by state government, with the hired and fired at the whims and caprices of the governors and sports commissioners. It is the same as the state FAs, with 99 per cent of them depending on government funding.

They do not have real stakes. They are hardly accountable. The biggest problem is the fact that there is no clear attempt at running the game. They each wait for funds from government and apart from a handful, like Delta, Rivers, Kano and Lagos; there is no structured programme for the development of the game and there are no records.

The number of candidates will reduce if government, which they are now saying should not interfere, does not interfere. I was amused when I read that the board has budgeted 6.5 Billion Naira for the next year, with over 5 Billion Naira expected from government. Now that’s why we need “stakeholders”.

Somehow, in spite of all the sembleance of disorder, the outgoing board, on the strength of achievements, will appear to have performed well despite the world cup failure. At least they qualified, which was something the previous board did not achieve.

They won the Under-17 World Cup in South Korea, hosted in 2009; finished runners up, winning silver at the Beijing Olympics; won the beach soccer titles and the Women’s Under-20 Football Team came second recently in Germany. It tells you that with proper structure and the emergence of the right candidates, Nigeria has the potential to be great because of the sheer abundance of two key ingredients, passion and talent.

supersport.com

Useless club, see them dey sell all their big names, they want to be like the best teams in Europe, yet they are selling their best while the best teams are buying more good players to join the already compact team list they have.
Yeye club, Europa cup is not even sure for una

MRbrownJAY:
^^^^Heineken!!!!! the drunk parents of that child should be shot!

The beer man is a senator in Nigeria

His parents must have met at a beer parlor

manny4life:
What I'm saying is that gay rights are not explicitly in the U.S. Constitution, however, it's been argued under the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment on the rational basis that "all men are created equal". In addition, the Constitution protects against unfair treatment of sexual orientation which included gay rights etc. While gay people have "LEGAL" rights to practice their orientation, my point is I do not agree with a gay man getting pregnant because it's not protected, that's over the limit. No one is adding anything into the law besides litigation is currently going on and the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals is yet to decide on when to hear the case. Gay marriage as it stands now isn't a law so please get that staright, I don't know if are referring to Perry vs Schwarzenegger. Besides, like I have always maintained, I don not necessarily have to agree with all parts of a law; that's why people agree in parts, disagree in parts.

I am not talking about just the US, the US is not who decides what to be accepted and what not to be accepted, i am talking in general now, some countries already have the gay marriage right in their law (countries like Canada and co), so this kinda country is likely to also accept these homosexuals getting pregnant.

I am not surprised with whats going on because it's something i knew was going to happen in the first place.

Everything that's going on now is like a script and the script is available for all to see except those who refuse to see/read.

Can anyone beat these names?

Heineken
Independence
Government
Bighead
Junction
Savannah
Stonebag

y me:
nah which kind 10th century be that
he doesnt need to show his real colour if he can take her to paradise as much as she too can then alot of more colours can be shown after the wedding
best for later he had berra shown his best now and his bestest later

Hehehehe, and what if he's the type that believes in "no testing until marriage"?

Some of them are even dead!

Uhm, better late than never, only in Nigeria

khanye:
God is able Eric.

Cool bro.

Elpieda:
Stop yourself first before you stop other people, remove the speck from your own eyes before u remove the log in your brother's eyesif your not genuinely trying to make a change in your life, dont condemn the actions of someone else yet, sort out your life and issues first then u will be able to see clearly to sort out your brother's issues,

Will you stop picking on people's personalities while ignoring the general issue being discussed?

Are the judges making the laws saints? are your house of rep, senates saints? do you tell them to stop themselves first before making laws?

Stop talking like a hypocrite, address the issues on ground and leave people to talk about these issues, if you don't have anything to add, just log off and get something better doing.

So because i have slept with a girl before, i shouldn't talk about homosexuals, incest and bestiality? abeg go get something good to do with your time if you have nothing to say.

Before you log off, answer this

Do you support homosexuals?
Do you support their "right" to marriage?
Do you support their "right" to adopt?
Do you support their "right" to get pregnant?

manny4life:
It's not all facets of laws and rights I support period. Even our constitution does give certain restriction. Just because I have freedom of speech does not mean I would go out on the street and begin to remark on something that I know isn't protected under the law. Even our courts have recognized certain restrictions of our rights under same Constitution. I speak out for Equality and Freedom for all, but not a man getting pregnant because that's restrictive which the law doesn't cover.

Who told you they can't put that in their law? there was no law for gay marriage in most part of USA before, but now they have started adding them, so bro wait until they include the gay marriage right which is very close to happening soo.

I don't see why you would like and support gay, yet you don't want to support them getting pregnant on their own, talk about double standard.

People with mess lol,

sir t:
wetin go remain wen married?

Nobi me talk am oo, na one of the girls on this thread talk am.

Elpieda:
@honeric1, Good for you if you dont fall in any of the category but still take heed lest you fall, All am saying is 90% of the people commenting are probably guilty and are here condemning,

So because we are guilty, then we shouldn't stop others from doing or committing the same offense?

Do you those making the laws that governs America and other countries of the world don't in one way or the other breaking the laws they made?

manny4life:
Good question for people on Capital Hill. Just because I don't support something doesn't mean it's wrong under the law because it has legal basis. Not everyone support all facets about our constitution. For instance just because I don't support abortion, doesn't mean I would not agree with[b] Roe v Wade [/b] and neither would I support measures that encourage maltreatment to women who perform it. It's a right, I'm just acknowledging their right legally doesn't mean I personally adore it. There's one thing to legally acknowledge one's right under the law and fight for the cause of such right let alone when it's protected, and another to personally encourage a behavior that I know its legally non protected.

Then don't you think its best not to support what you indirectly wouldn't accept? you support gay right but not gay men getting pregnant?

manny4life:
Dude I won't even start with you. People have certain rights under the law to exercise how they wish, while gay rights isn't explicitly protected under our constitution, sexual orientation is. I hope that isn't so hard to understand. President Obama supports gay rights but not gay marriage, many senators have same stance, from states to locals all agree on same stance, understand the two. Many people support gay rights for certain cause because it violates the U.S. constitution, a man getting pregnant isn't a right, that is science not under the law, so please get it straight. I strongly believe in human rights particularly those that are "PROTECTED", and a man getting pregnant isn't one of them either.

Stop now while the have the chance, why would someone support gay right and not support gay marriage? does that make sense? if a guy is allowed to date and have sex with same sex, when then is it unacceptable by the same people who support them not to allow them marry if they are allowed to date?

Well i hope he's not.

Gabry:
U naughty man!

manny4life:
I said they have a right to Freedom, Justice and Equality under the law not right for a man getting pregnant. Please understand my stance.

Stop confusing yourself, as long as they get the right to marry, there are surely going to get the right to get pregnant with chemical and scientific help, so you can't run away from it.

I hope the rest kind of people Gudfolk listed have equal rights you are campaigning for the homos too? otherwise you remain a hypocrite.

youngies:
Only in Lagos!

A city where everybody is innocent.

Before my very own eyes, I witnessed a man driving against the traffic on "one way" road, he ended up bashing an on-coming car.

A fight ensued immediately, people gathered and tried to make peace. As they were being questioned, the man that was driving against the traffic, started his defence with this opening statement, "I just dey go my own jeje . . ."

The victim also started his own defence with "I just dey drive my own jeje"

I reckon everyone in Lagos just dey go there own jeje!

manny4life:
hmmmm, ok this is scaring me now.

don't be scared, don't they have the right as you have been preaching?

chiogo:
Dude, reduce what to a minimum? Someone else's human right? Isn't this how they spread the supposed diseases - being in the closet? The way Black people scream racism and discrimination, one would think they'd be against every act that violates human rights. You'd probably say fighting for freedom is not the same as fighting for gay rights. But do you really think it made sense to White people when Blacks were doing civil rights movements?

Live and let live. I don't particularly find 'em and the act appealing either but I have the choice not to look at them. Why can't homophobic people do the same?

@topic, I don't understand why a Vicar is even in a sexual relationship with anyone. Whatever happened to the rules? So-called religious leaders of today are no leaders.

Live and let live advocates:

Homosexuality is okay (if you procreate with surrogates).

Incest is okay (if you practice safe-sex)

Cannibalism is okay (if you only eat people who died naturally).

Beastiality is okay (if you only allow sexually active male dogs to penetrate you).

Murder is okay (if you both consent to a death fight with witnesses to validate this).

Euthanesia is okay (if you can guarantee doctors did not kill you without permission).

Cloning is okay (if your clone is only born after you die via a surrogate).

Why is suicide illegal when the perpetrators are not in anyway hurting anyone? Undecided

GudFolk:
Live and let live advocates:

Homosexuality is okay (if you procreate with surrogates).

Incest is okay (if you practice safe-sex)

Cannibalism is okay (if you only eat people who died naturally).

Beastiality is okay (if you only allow sexually active male dogs to penetrate you).

Murder is okay (if you both consent to a death fight with witnesses to validate this).

Euthanesia is okay (if you can guarantee doctors did not kill you without permission).

Cloning is okay (if your clone is only born after you die via a surrogate).

Why is suicide illegal when the perpetrators are not in anyway hurting anyone?