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[quote author=Kay-Dee link=topic=682102.msg8789748#msg8789748 date=1311656426]Jay Simpson was a BIG loss from the group. Cant understand why Wenger sold him. I wld pick him ahead of Bendtner anytime anyday.[/quote]Jay Simpson ko, Homer Simpson ni! He should try and score 15 goals in the Championship first.


Looks like JET may be moving to Ipswich. What would Dr Kit do?

ritchboy:
See why Ibime and I wanted Debosky to administer? Eldee has lost the plot

He just comes out of the blue and declares "there will be two H2H leagues this season", WTF!?

Either we vote or we keep last season's format

I have no problem with 2 leagues, as long as Im in the Premier Division.


My problem with Eldee is his "notice me" method of administration. The nukka fought to get his FPL noticed on the front page, now he's having to deal with the fallout of such a ludicrous decision by creating 2 leagues to accomodate everyone. Soon we will have 100 team leagues.  

Now he democratized the process sotay even Pharoh Monche is giving his opinion on how the league should be run. This is a far-cry from the Buhari-tactics of the greatest FPL administrator of all time - Ibime Tamuno, where Ibime used to ban all the bannables and keep the league open to only a select few of Sports-section plutocrats.

This is why we need a level-headed administrator. Sack Eldee!!!  

coogar:
sorry to disappoint you. . . .i don't pen bars. . . .

slimshay:
Sharon stop lying .

Sharon dont pen bars. . . he bites em

Its best to know/ They call me 'Okrika' when Im sexing ho's/
cos I make em 'bend down'. . . like they 'selecting clothes'!/
I blast you fakes/ pulling guns out of a plastic case/
write rhymes in small letters. . . cos I de-CAPITATE!!/
Ya @ss get scorched/ when I 'retire' from this rapping sport/
Y'all niggas gassed. . . so Ill be glad to 'pass the torch'/
I spray eight slugs/ Shotgun wedding. . . I show AK's love/
I cop weed from 'Ogun state'. . . it's a 'Gateway' drug!/
In football analogy/ my Mack 11 be/ popping enemies/
My sub-[/i]machine. . . turn injury time. . . to sudden death penalty!!/
The raps I present/ put yo @ss on the bench/
Y'all can't 'handle-bars'. . . unless it's [i]gymnastic events!/
I leave Poets impressed/ cos they know I'm the best/
My fans get tested periodically. . . for psycho-social effects!/
They can't handle the speech/ I cut ya legs off, put a sandal on each/
. . then sow em to ya spine . . . now you 'back on ya feet'!/
I'm a cannibal beast/ brandishing mandible teeth/
I roll with more dogs. . .than a Lazarus feast/

Canibus used to trash him on battle songs. There's a big difference. Killah Priest is a story teller, not a battler. His albums are like film releases. Canibus albums don't compare. Its like comparing Masta Ace to Papoose. Masta Ace albums are classic pieces of work, but Papoose would outshine him on a battle track.

Lol. No wah, Ill chase it up on itunes. . .had to post View from Masada lyrics. . .HipHop fans are deprived these days. . .


Month August, year '70, endin of my mom's pregnancy
Beginnin of Masada's legacy, Christ blew the breath in me
To rule is my destiny, mind is my weapontry
Bless it be, Priest, fly 'mitri's, Dashikis
Suck from the fine titties of Nefertitti, slept in teepees
Kings, Pharoahs kiss the ring when they see me
Is how they greet me, take trips weekly
Dwelt by the havens, fed by a raven
Ate from the beak of eagles, sat with Hebrews
Broke bread with the holy people
Bit from the tree of good and evil
Ate this dry fruit whole, swallowed the seeds too
Lived in the land of the strong and feeble
Some had egos, some were peaceful
Smile when they greet you
I appear, peered through the windows
With weirdos, saw widows who played with dildos
Nymphos, wrapped they legs around satin pillows
Silver robe, holdin the rose
Mexicanos, latin and negros
Lived the life of thug passion heros
We live in Projects with ghetto belly dancers
That enchant us, when you see us bring yo cameras


Chorus:
Yo, its the view from Masada
The saga, Priest the author
The Godfather, the scholar
I write drama, decomposer, best Noah
They watch us, build for hours
Behold the, behold the
[Killah Priest]


Yo, we sip wine around golden candles
Wearin mantels, tellin ghost stories
I propose a toast, as a whole splash of lightning
the sky's is stormy, then it dawned on me
it was a dope fiend and two Hell scorchened shorties
That lured me, to my first orgy
Apartment 4D, met a fine Harlet named Audrey
She adored me, she seduced me with her beauty
Neck full of jewelry, she wore a see-through gown
with her eye she forced me to lay down
Then she asked me, was I new in town
And with a smile she said she has peace offerings
This day she paid her vow
Let us make love and afterwards we worship an owl
This war lady, when she tried to play me
Get me in the bed to spray me
Kisses of her lips taste like taffy
Plus she wore the scent of Tasprey
Ask me if that attracts me
Whispers in my ear are pure blasphemy
She said I decked my bed with mur, aloes and roses, cinnamon
It's a place for gentlemen, with a youthful look I entered in
The sins of men, the devil's lust, the luck of women
With cat eyes, her man's a Rabbi
Walks with a raincoat, top hat, bow tie
And walkin with a cane, puffin his pipe
Saw me through the blinds fuckin his wife
I busted her twice, grabbed me by my windpipe
Pulled out a knife, 'nough said, bloodshed at the end of the night


Chorus {2X}
[Killah Priest]

What's up with this Vitimini guy? Stop giving others information to help them with FPL? We succeed in this game based on information arbitrage. If every Tom, Dick and Harry starts giving tips on here, there would be no differential between the Borokiri Boyz and Mumufaces of this game.

Can someone make the Offering and Priesthood available to me? My KP experience stopped at Black August, after which I found it difficult to get non-major-label releases.

When people talk of Cannabis, they need to differentiate between regular weed (hi-grade) and skunk (purple haze). One is as harmless as alchohol whilst the other is as deadly as LSD.

As for those with nothing better to do than argue for eons about others expressing their regret at the passing of Amy Winehouse, get a life you lonely neurotic sados.

So Torres sef is still looking dead against Thailand mumus?

AVB would be working on a coupla signings over the next couple of weeks, but I hope not Pastore or Modric cos of their ridiculous pricing.

Can anyone update me on Yury Zhirkov's performances in pre-season? Has he recovered his PACE or is he still looking like someone with no energy in his legs after going two rounds with ashawo?

Also can someone update me on Banayouns position in pre-season. Is it in central midfield or on the wings?

Hahahaha. First time anyone on NL mentioned Killah Priest. One of ma favourites from the 90s, turn of the century, from BIBLE to View from Masada to Black August. Priest was more than a poet, he was a painter. Funny enough his first album was hailed as an all-time classic, whilst his second one was considered a "flop" for its effort at "selling out", however not many have heard his third album Black August which was independently released and which I consider to be the best of the three.

Whatever happened to the Horsemen group? (Killah Priest, Kurupt, Canibus, Ras Kass and Pharoahe Monch)?

I thought Fela family should have exemption from marijuana laws in this country by now. I never heard of Rita, Stephen, Rohan or Damian Marley being arrested for marijuana before whether in their home countries of US and Ghana or any other country they have toured. Abi NDLEA no know say some families are above the Cannabis laws?

Goodbye Amy. Lovely music, brilliant lyrics well thought out and delivered with soul.

Am sure the drug use started "like play, like play". Reminds me of the body of the 23 year old girl found recently who'd been addicted to heroine from the age of 15. Unfortunately in life, some young people do things out of youthful naivety that they never recover from into adulthood.

A revenue allocation formula which is based on population is useless. The only revenue allocation formula of interest to me is one based on contribution.

jason123:
With all due respect (You are one of the few I respect on NL), I think your "storyline" is flawed. Why is it that it is only the Ijaws that give land How can riverine people (not even sea people like the Ilajes) give land that they NEVER owned??
How can an ethnic group just sit somewhere and cook up stories about how they gave Itsekiris and other southern groups land?? Do you mean, apart from Ijaws, no group saw the Altantic ocean?? I know about the Igbos but what about the Aworis, Egun and Benins

Secondly, how come I have not heard about this Ijaw fairy tale in Benin rep, Cameroon or Togo?? Why Nigeria?? Did the Ijaws know the EXACT boundaries of Nigeria before the formation of Nigeria??

All this propaganda will not end well. I need not say that it is not only the Ijaws that are willing to die. This constant harassment has to stop.  

Nobody "gave" land. I am explaining Ijaw mentality - Ijaw man can live somewhere for years and not cultivate the forest around preferring to fish instead. If another tribe comes to cultivate the forest, Ijaw man will feel he "allowed" that tribe to take that land and can take it back anytime. 

Secondly, Itsekiri took land by force from around the 15th century when their Kingdom started expanding. Dont act like they owned the whole of Warri. Thirdly, there are many Itsekiri who are "absorbed" Ijaws, having chosen to assimilate themselves into the more powerful Itsekiri Kingdom of that time, Richard Mofe Damijo for example.

Thirdly, there is no such thing as Ijaw. There is a little Ijaw in every tribe of the Delta. Ijaw is simply a name for Oru people, the aborigines of the Delta. The name Ijaw was used for those West of Brass whilst the name Oru was used for those East of Brass. Bringing everyone into a tribe called "Ijaw" is a recent phenomenom after the amalgamation of Nigeira. Oru is simply the original language and culture of the riverine people of the Delta. Even Abohs (Igbo) and many other riverine Igbos are asimilated Orus whilst the bloodline of modern day cultures like Urhobo, Isoko and such are interfused with Orus. Ijaw does not really exist except to describe people who can still trace themselves back to the aborigines of the delta (Orus). An Okrika man cannot understand a Gbaramatu man, yet they both call themselves Ijaw.

alj harem:
Ibime haba how can you say that, did itsekiris, bini, awori ,ikwerri, urhobo, esan etc fall from the sky

Ijaw land starts from east of delta state to west of rivers state. all this ilaje, awori etc are ijaws or occupy ijaw land would cause serious fight for this your southern nigeria union

serious fight o

Itsekiri is a modern Kingdom of about 600 years. Isoko are said to be a modern confluence. Infact, they are half descended from Ijaws.

Most of these tribes in Delta State are peoples who Benin allowed to take land and expand there. Willinks report said that Ijaws are the "aborigines" of Mid-West Region.

EzeUche:
If the Kalabari believe that they originated from Warri, then Ijaw are strangers to the East.

The Igbos are just reclaiming our land that your ancestors took from our riverine Igbo brethren.

^^Do your investigations well. There are some people in Abonnema said to be of Ekpoma-type origins who were pushed to the back of the village when Kalabris migrated there from Calabar axis. I'm a bit hazy on the details. Maybe a Kalabari man can educate you more on the issue. My pops told me the story. I would ask him for clear details when he returns from his holidays.

However, there are no riverine Igbo brethren apart from this story and perhaps rumours of one or two peeps in Bayelsa. . . except for remnants of the slave trade. Before Ndigbo woulda occupied present Ijaw lands in Rivers State, they woulda had to take the most productive agricultural land of all - Ogoni land!

NL tribal Warriors! Any small neighbourhood skirmish, they'll turn it into a ten page discussion.

Ijaws do not play with land dispute. They react like niggaz with their backs against the water. They must swim or fight. Most Ijaw leaders of yesteryear were crowned for their ability to find good land for their people. Any good Pere is one that can lead his people to good Kule (land).

Incidentally, Ijaws are said to be the most aboriginal people in Nigeria. The Ijaw man still believes that he owns all of Southern Nigeria and allowed other tribes to settle on land because he had no use for it and preferred to be on water. My elders used to tell me years ago how Bonny people "allowed" Ogoni people to settle on their current land and directed them to go and cultivate there when the Ogoni showed up on the shoreline. This is a prevalent mentality amongst Ijaw, whether rightly or wrongly.

Warri issue though is a historical one going back more than half a millenium. It is no news that Warri was an old Ijaw settlement from which Ijaws were pushed out of by Benin Kingdom and others 500 years ago. This is what prompted many Ijaw tribes to move South, and many Ijaw peoples in Rivers State today such as Kalabari claim to have started their journey from Warri over 500 years ago. Till today "Wari" means House ie Compound (Family House) in Ijaw language and that's where the name Warri comes from.

Of course, Ijaws have no right to Warri anymore than Jews have right to Palestine which they left 2000 years ago. Whatever happened in the past is gone, likewise Opobo land is no longer Ikot Abasi land, neither is Abonnema an Ekpoma land. The point is that struggle for land, constant migration and wars have been the Ijaw story for the past 1000 years. Ijaws have lived as far north as Benin hundreds of years ago and have been forced to flee and fight for the last millenium so they do not play when it comes to land issues.

@ Eldee,

With all these noobs sending code request, just dont forget the Intercontinental champs of FPL - Ipukulu Marines!

Why una dey trip over pre-season matches. Una done forget say we were poor in pre-season last year but started the first 2 months of the season on fire.

Oriol Romeu? I haven't seen him, but I trust AVB. He used to play Football Manager so his scouting knowledge must be good. I also like the comments coming from AVB about buying judiciously where its needed and not just rushing into the market and regretting it later.

Vidal joins Juventus. . . but looks like Oriol Romeu is our next target. . .

Its a good think Borokiri Boyz managed by Ibime Tamuno have had their licence withdrawn.

That frees up a South-South franchise allocation to be taken up by Ipukulu Marines managed by Hans Westerhoff

All these winger/wing-forward arguments are senseless. We all understand each other, so lets stop redundant arguments. People are just arguing over the grey areas between 4-4-2 and 4-3-3. Abeg make una no bring analogue arguments into digital age.

Plug me in. . . .


Ipukulu Marines are the team to beat this season. . .

The game has kicked off.

We need a new administrator. Eldees performance last season was highly questionable so I am moving a motion to have him replaced.

Although, I must commend his invite-only approach to FPL so the new administrator must have PM priviledges.

I nominate Debosky. What say ye Debo?

Jonathan being an Olumba should not be an issue in any modern day society. One has freedom of association and religion.

The eediots in this scenario are the pastors who think their personal biases are in any way relevant to the National discourse. If only they didn't have millions of bovine-brained followers in their congregation. Nigerian journalists should do their part for National integration and stop giving the microphone to these religious bigots.

Onlytruth:
Posted by: Ibime
Actually you are right because I found out that because of that arrogance, we think we can save ourselves, talk less of minorities from the Nigerian dungeon politics. We should be working with Yorubas and Hausas to learn from them how not to be arrogant.
We are learning now though, abeg no vex.
Problem is that the resources are not waiting for anyone's "learning curve". It will soon deplete. 

Fools consolation.

You have proven to us before that Ndigbo has the most on-shore oil blocks in Nigeria. Who owns your oil blocks?  


The fact is this. It is not the prerogative of the majority to claim that minorities get fair treatment under them as NL revisionists would have us believe. The majority has no say in the matter. It is the minority who would tell you if they are being dominated or not.

In the UK, the English have no say in whether the Scottish believe they are fairly represented. The Scots have their own parliaments and can raise referendum on the issue whenever they like. It is entirely their call.

Even Saro-Wiwa said Ogoni was oppressed by Ijaw. He is correct cos that is the nature of African societies.

Meanwhile some bovine-brained NL warriors are trying to force down our throats the lie that they are equitable partners in Eastern Nigeria, whilst still talking down to us as overlords. Some are even making mockery of their education by posting names of Divisonal Governors as proof of "Federalism".  

As for my nuclear family, we are proponents of Biafra, but I cannot blame any minority in the Eastern Region for fighting against Biafra, being that that was the only and immediate Government they had had all their lives, and which they believe was inequitable. One may say they jumped from the Deep Blue Sea into the hands of the Devil, but when someone's life is only affected by his immediate Govt, he is inculpable for fighting the devil he knows.

vicenzo:
What made the eastern minorities to think that the the north and the west would be of any help to them, still beats me,what these people fail to understand is that ndiigbo is their big brother,nobody takes them serious without their big brother,all the yoruba and the north needed to do,in order to exploit them,was to remove the influence of this big brother,then they became vulnerable to the vultures,saro wiwa realized this late,hence his plea for igbo's help, but he failed to realize that he and his kind,had since rendered ndiigbo incapable of protecting the eastern minorities.

Pure nonsense.

The minorities of the Mid-western region had leaned on the Igbo for help to break away from Yoruba domination. . . and all that minorities in the former Eastern Region wanted was to break away from Igbo domination since 1930.

No peoples in Nigeria are de-tribalised so every minority would always be oppressed by the majority.

When my great uncle built the Rivers State College of Arts and Craft, he put an Igbo man called Mr Mbonu as a non-executive director on his board. He built his school on virgin land in D-line and sent papers to Enugu for the naming of the road. Guess what they called the road? Mbonu street. . . . after the non-executive director! This is just an example of the individual indignities minorities suffered which coalesced into a collective revulsion or "fear of Igbo domination."

Our elders who grew up in the 1930s are not silly. They knew the reality on the ground, not this "inclusive Igbo" revisionism you guys are giving us now. No tribe in Nigeria, nay Africa, is not nepotistic.

Please ask Ojukwu what deals he struck with the minorities before the war. The white man made "Eastern Region" and you suddenly think Eastern Region is your birthright to take as you see fit? Ijaws and co have been fighting against these white man contraptions called "Eastern Region" and "Nigeria" since the 1940s. If Ojukwu can ride roughshod over his fellow Igbo officers in the army, almost all of whom complain about his authoritarian style, what makes you think his "undiplomatic" approach would entice the minorities. . . when he tells them that things under Eastern region will be the same as in Nigeria (meanwhile Nigeria are offering Rivers State to the minorities)?

As for the person who highlighted the names of divisional Governors in the old Eastern Region as "proof" of Federalism, such person's education was a waste. Is the Governor of Jos not a Jos man today? Is the local councillor of Wakirike Local Government Area not an Okrika man today? What does that have to do with Federalism?

The arrogance of Ndigbo in political matters is their undoing. Ndigbo have never ruled anybody before the white man came, hence they lack experience in Governance and compromise. I dont blame them, its a steep learning curve.

Whether you call it winger or wing-forward, we could do with one or two more

Depends on your physique. Simple. Someone of my size finds playing CB or Centre forward easiest. In ma younger days - played left wing and centre-mid but I was skinnier then. The hardest position I've played is left-back, cos you need to be sure when to go forward or stay back. In terms of fitness, Centre-mid and winger are the most demanding. I find playing centre-back very easy and less physically demanding. Players like Ledley King do not train at all, but slot easily into centre-back. He could not do that in centre-mid.

I hope the Vidal rumour is true as well. I like central midfielders with boundless energy and who are not bad on the ball either, plus Vidal has an eye for goal.