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debosky:
The fact is, clubs sell off players who cause issues in the dressing room. . . .it's a tad reductionist to claim a low transfer fee simply means a player is not quality,

Its a tad rude to claim that Debosky is a tad gay because his vocabulary is a tad quaintish.

Ben Arfa has fought with everyone from Diaby to Benzema to Squillaci. Nobody will kick anyone out of Newcastle for fighting with Joey Barton.

Squillaci is gay.

^^^I said Jaja was [b]sold [/b]to Anna Pepple house. Everyone knows Aro captured Jaja.

hmmm. . . . .

Bust up with Ben Arfa?

Hello, everybody and their grandmother has had bust up with Ben Arfa.

Mainstay of Lyon defence is Cris. Squillaci is an afterthought.

Whats Wale doing on that list? 

If J. Cole can make the list without dropping an album, then I can name 100 mixtape rappers who are better than Wale/Kudi/B.O.B since 2006.

State creation is only a problem in the presence of corruption.

In the absence of corruption, it is desirable. Sociologists beleieve that the smaller the unit, the better the Government.

Its lonely at the top.



Debo, check your opponent next weekend.

Why did Lyon sell Squillaci for only £6m?

You know if a player is worth anything, Lyon will always demand £20m for him.

The fact that Alams is part of GEJ's campaign machine is no longer news. . . I thought everyone knew this already. . .

^^^ Every man who wants to have a compound in Ijaw land must first raise a War Canoe House. The more people you have in your House, the more powerful and successful you are. The War Canoe is mostly used for trade, although in times of war, you must submit the members of your War Canoe House for war purpose. The War Canoe is simply an administrative structure to ensure that each Ijaw City state has a ready-made standing army to call on at any time. Back then, they fight wars with each other on monthly basis. 


Typical War Canoe seats 80 people. A War Canoe House can have fleet of these canoes. Ijaws would often raid Igbo lands to collect slaves to beef up their War Canoe house. Jaja of Opobo for example was sold to Anna Pepple War Canoe House and later became the head of the House.

^^^Of course my people raid small, but Aro and Kalabari are the Kings of raiding.

I recommend you ask EzeUche (Aro) or Ow11 (Kalabari).

idupaul:
I tot GEJ would chose a credible northerner to lead his campaign as the battle lies in winning the hearts of northern elites .

GEJ can never win the heart of the Northern elite.

Without the support of Ohanaeze and the middle-belt, he is lost. If the noises coming out of Ndigbo are correct, then he should just forget about running and concentrate on delivering a free and fair election.

Onlytruth:
No be oyiba man come with war ship canoe? Which he used to raid slaves inland?

Ask EzeUche. . . him and his Aro brothers should know more about raiding slaves inland. . .

How Forest people go dey yab Canoe people?. . . . we prefer to be called War Canoe people or Elerukwo (Waterside people) like the Ikwerre call us. . . . 

asha 80:
Ibime it is not Obinna Nsofor.I have seen the face of the Obinna'Obina' in a match shown on dstv.He went to my secondary school and i am aware of when he travelled to Brazil.The 'Obina' written os his shirt is immaterial

hehehehe. . . I go soon change your name to Linus. . . . so you mean that Manoel de Brito Filho studied with you in Owerri. . . .hmmm

^^^ A good campaigner who cant even make the bench in a dire French defence. Waiting for his debut.

The only two tribes of any significance in PH are Ikwerre and Okrika.

Onlytruth:
This claim of Igbo aversion to water is so laughable!  So there are no Igbos on both sides of the great river Niger and other rivers in the Niger delta. So only Ijaw can swim?

I laugh with heavy Nnewi accent! 

You miss the point entirely. . . .  . . . . of course the Ngwa story is a fable. . . . however this folklore exposes the hydrophobic psyche of the Igbo historians. . . . Ijaw historians can never give water as an excuse for not migrating. . . . Ijaw psyche naturally demands that wherever water flows, one must follow. It is the only conduit of migration for the Ijaw.

Some people are already 100 points behind MEND FC.

Even Sir Elgee is lagging far behind.

It seems obvious that MEND FC is topping all charts this season.

Was Squillaci a nailed-on starter for Sevilla?

Julien Escude was the only consistent centre-back.

When Adriano plays left back, Dragutinovic takes Squillaci's place. Fazio also sometimes takes his place.

I honestly cant justify £6.5m for a dodgy 30 year old who has never been established in his career.


Kompany, Toure, Lescott and Onuoha are preferrable sef.

@ debo

I thought you were training to become a man of the collar. I didn't know that taking chicks on holiday was a prescribed route to holiness.

As for Squillachi do you think such a waste pipe could play for Chelsea Manure or Citeh

I dont think we can underestimate the amount of interaction between Ijaw and Southern Igbo. . . . it is usually when Northern Igbo start getting involved that arguments occur. . . .Ijaw and Southern Igbo know their boundaries, and have always settled amongst each other for centuries. . .


At Ndoki-Azumini, we have Ijaw compounds like Macpepple, Ogolo, Opusunju, Jaja etc.

Amadi-Ama, we have Igbo compounds like Amadi, Olunwa etc

Other parts of Okrika, we have Igbo compounds like Okujagu, Uwakwe, Ndubuisi etc

In Etche, we have Okrika plantation made up of Okrika migrants.

In Ikwerre land, we have Kalabari settlements at Iwofe/Eagle Island at the back of UST. Infact Kalabari always had better relationship with Ikwerre than they do with other Ijaws.

In Ogbunagbali-Ikwerre, we have many people with Ijaw names due to intermarriage and cultural assimilation.

In Ahoada, we have some Kalabari settlement etc etc etc.


Its when someone just land from Orkar and Onitsha and start making claims anyhow that we start to see problems arise. Even groups like Ikwerre resent these Northern Igbo due to their over-competitive nature and lack of land and resources (c) Abagworo.

Abagworo:
the oru of which I am one have riverine background dated several centuries and we are igbo.

The Oru is the paternal group of the Ijaw. Till recently, Ndoni/Ogba Egbema people know their Bayelsan neighbours as Oru. You are Igbo by cultural assimilation. The two most recurring words in Ijaw language are Kiri and Oru eg Pioru masquerade.

Shebi you told me that your people always say "I am Oru, but I am not Ijaw". Why would they need to say that if Oru is not associated with Ijaw?

ow11:
According to Ibime, It is rather ironic that supposed original owners of the islands that are around the boundary of Nigeria have NO CULTURAL AFFINITY/AFFILIATION to the sea.

Igbo pyschological aversion to water is no better highlighted than in the story of the origins of the Ngwa people. One Ngwa brother crossed the stream, but as soon as the stream developed into Imo River, the other brother was not able to cross.

Nice one. . . . Happy Bday bros. . .

There was another Brazilian Kanu before this one sef. . . obviously an after effect of Atlanta 96 when Kanu taught the Brazilians a lesson. . .

asha 80:
that Obinna is actually a nigerian.he went to my secondary school in owerri.

Brazilian Obinna is spelt Obina. . . . you probably mean Victor Obinna Nsofor who was once played in Brazil with Internacional. . .

Dede1:
Anybody who had correct sense of southeastern Nigerian physical geography should understand the migratory pattern stems from the north to south. Any migratory attempt from present day Bayelsa can not pass through Ogoni and Nduki-Azumini to settle at Okirika. If the migration has originated from Akirika or even Ndoki-Azumini, there is a possibility that it passed Umuagbai through Ogoni to settle in present day Okirirka.

Ijaw migration is from West (Warri) to East, not North to South. . . why would someone migrate from Ndoki (East) to Okrika (West)? Ndoki is a recent settlement sef. Does Ndoki have a meaning in Igbo language, cos I can tell you what Ndokiari means in Okrika.

Migration route is obviously from Bayelsa eastward.

From Bayelsa to Kalabari is just a hop across Buguma River. From Kalabari to Okrika is along some small creeks, till you reach Port Harcourt Harbour at the far end of Borokiri. If you follow this downstream you eventually link up with Bonny River, taking you to Bonny. As you travel East along the Bonny Coast, you meet Imo River along which you find Opobo and Ikot Abasi to the East, and Ogoni to the West. . . . then finally Igboland.

Kalabari is bordered to the North by Ikwerre, likewise Okrika. You dont have to pass through any foreign lands to migrate by canoe from Warri - Bayelsa - Kalabari - Okrika - Bonny. . . not necessarily in that order if you go along the Atlantic coast.

Dede1:
We must not forget these people who are trying very hard to rewrite history were “Canoe People” who came to southeastern coast of Nigeria as porters to Europeans.

. . . . no comment!

ow11:
You misunderstand me. That town has always been known as Wakirike. Infact in a dialogue in the local lingo, the village is known as kiri-ke. Okrika is probably the Anglicised version or something else.

The capital of Okrika is Kirike island. . . . so off the bat, any rumour about umu-okirika is wrong.

naijaking1:
Many cultures in Nigeria are paterilinial in inheritance, so if your paternal g-g-great grand father is Igbo, then it's likely you're Igbo no matter whatever type of cultural socialization was brought about by your maternal linage. This rule may be the reverse in situations where matrilinial inheritance is the case(I don't know about Ijaw).

And how would you know that Uwakwe to myself is an unbroken paternal lineage?. . .  .its better not to draw conclusions. . . at the end of the day, Im in constant relations with distant cousins from Asa who my grandmother raised whilst you type gibberish about Igbo-denial.

feasy1:
But the wildcard should be active for only 1 game week, Like Ibime mentioned he played the wildcard before the gameweek 2 deadline, so i would expect the wild card not to be active anymore for gameweek 3 deadline, but guess it is still active

NOTE: The second wild card is supposedly active for Gameweeks 23 and 27 , around the January transfer window.

Guess a bug in the EPL is allowing the wild card for 7 days (1 week) or the we are being misinformed by the EPL rule

Thank you. . . . Im trying to play this awoof wildcard quick quick before they catch me. . . . I hope they wont deduct points later. . .

Is it too early to ask the question?


2 points. . . . MIND THE GAP!!!

Nothing lucky about picking Walcott. Wenger always picks him against teams who leave enough space to attack the leftback. What would be the sense of picking a defensive option like Eboue against Blackpool of all teams? I predicted hattrick for Walcott and he delivered.

BTW, I played wildcard last week and FPL is still allowing me to play wildcard this week. How is that possible?

[quote author=A-40 link=topic=481784.msg6615241#msg6615241 date=1282416424]You are a bad mutha-shut-ya-mouth!! Whaaaat! Who is your dope-dealer??[/quote]99 points with Rooney, Evans and Ireland left to play. . . . cant believe you guys slept on Walcott this week. . .

Make una dey there dey count una points. . . . MEND FC is shooting to the top of the table. . .


Walcott - Check!
Arshavin - Check!
Bale - Check!
Malouda - Check!
Drogba - Check!


Ching, Ching, we getting points over here! 

Ching, Ching, we getting points over here!

udezue:
Ibime, don't get smart with me and answer the damn question with an answer not a question. Akalogheli. Is being American genetic? Are whites the only Americans? When did the name America or nation start to exist?

Is being Igbo genetic? Do you and Dede1 share the same ancestor?

Is Okrika older than America?

Benayouuuuuuuuuuuuuun!!!!