₦airaland Forum

Bialegend:
I didn't see anything electricity related on your post above. Can you pinpoit it please.

hehehehe. . . . was about to say the same.

Pataki:
I reckon you are a statistician yourself. Why not make predictions based on statistical certainties and let us see whether it would come to pass.

He made those statements last year, and I am still in utter shock, that they are coming into realities and some are already a rude shock to the nation.

Come on mate. . . dont tell me Pataki is so gullible. . .


Lemme also give my own predictions for next year.


Shaibu Amodu will be sacked before year end 

There will be a high turnover of Super Eagles players

A prominent Igbo leader will die 

A prominent Yoruba leader will die. 

A prominent Hausa leader will die. 

End of Amnesty will see a big fallout in the NigerDelta. 

mike oscar:
@IBIME,
You forgot to add Mike Eneramo to your list

No, its better we send him to Olympics to compete for us at weight-lifting. Cant fault his effort, he simply lacks quality.

Obamaa:
I miss govt interfeence in football

Me too.

Unfortunately, having to put up with idiots like Sani Lulu is one of the dreaded dividends of democracy.

Look at this idiot. Instead of apologising to the fans, he is more concerned with apologising to Yar'Adua. When Siaone, Keshi and Oliseh applied for the job, he went and made a rope for his neck by giving the job to an idiot like Amodu who would allow him to continue chopping money at the expense of the team.

He should now take that rope and tie it to the nearest tree. Preferrably a strong tree like Iroko tree or Mango tree, not Calabash tree or PawPaw tree.

[center]NFF apologise to Nigerians[/center]

NFF President Sani Lulu Abdullahi on Monday apologized to the President and Commander-In-Chief of the Armed Forces, Alhaji Umaru Musa Yar’Adua, other leaders and eminent Nigerians and indeed the generality of Nigerians for the Super Eagles’ poor showing in Sunday’s World Cup qualifier against Tunisia in Abuja.

Playing at home in front of a sell –out crowd and with massive support from the whole country, the Eagles failed to fly, losing advantage on two occasions to finish a crucial game 2-2.

Tunisia maintains leadership of Group B of the African series with eight points, with the Eagles in second place with six and Mozambique third with four.

Sani Lulu Abdullahi said: “We sincerely apologize to all Nigerians, right from the His Excellency, the President and Commander-In-Chief who has shown great interest in this 2010 World Cup qualification project, His Excellency, Vice President Goodluck Jonathan and indeed other national leaders, down to the ordinary football fan. We were equally shocked by the outcome of the match.

“I want to put on record that the Nigeria Football Federation has received tremendous support from the Presidency and other arms of the Government, the Presidential Task Force and the National Sports Commission. We did our best to prepare the team, but we recognize that the outcome is a massive disappointment to Mr. President, the Task Force, the Federation, the Head Coach and even the players themselves. These things happen in sport.

“However, we pledge that the team will give its all in the remaining two matches and fight till the last day for the World Cup ticket. We thank Nigerians for their consistent massive support and we will continue to work hard towards realizing the dream,” said Lulu Abdullahi.

The Super Eagles will next play the Mambas of Mozambique in Abuja on October 11, the same day Tunisia will host Kenya’s Harambee Stars. The final round of matches is on November 14, when Nigeria play Kenya in Nairobi and Tunisia visit Maputo for Mozambique.

Yobo is a buffoon. Captain wey no fit organise him defence.

From the 14 players who played yesterday, the only players that we should keep going forward are:

Enyeama
Adeleye
Adefemi
Taiwo (as 2nd choice left back)
Ike Uche
Obasi
Nsofor
Osaze


No one else from that team should smell Super Eagles squad ever again.

Amodu, pls take a shovel and a loaded revolver to the nearest desert island. You know what to do with it. Bastard!

mikeansy:
He was neither campaigning Fedralism nor devolution

I have never heard him campaign for devolution

he was simply endorsing the blatant dis-regard of the provisions of the constitution by Notherners, a situation which has led to the deaths of a lot of Nigerians.

We all have a duty to respect the constitution untill it is changed.

That is how a country works.

We can not continue to allow selective adherence to the constitution because we want to speculate on a supposed devolution that never comes to past.

We are either practicing devolution or we are not.

So long as the constitution has no been changed, then Sharia law is a law of choice only useful in civil cases.
And Sanusi should appologise to Nigerians for endorsing this horrible status quo.

I feel you bro. . . . we are on the same page here. . . . but if you can pull up a quote of Sanusi decrying Federalism, then you have sealed the deal. . . . on the other hand, I would appreciate it if Jarus could avail us of any of Sanusis materials on the subject of federalism if such documents exist.

The above is acceptable within true federalism. If Sanusi is a federalist, then he is entitled to canvass for whatever the phock practices that would apply to his state. I would only have a problem with it if he canvassed against federalism. This is why FEDERALISM is the last hope for ONE NIGERIA. Otherwise, make we go our way jare.

omar22:
Through bribery and cheating we found ourselves at the 2002 world cup

Do you think Angola did not bribe Rwanda to get through to 2006 WC? My best mate is Angolan and his cousin (now incarcerated) was the Chief of Intelligence in Rwanda. He told my mate explicitly that he paid the Rwandans for Angola to make it through to WC 2006.

As for SiaSia, we need to get him in ASAP to use this time to build the squad for Angola 2009.

@ Post,

Yes Sir!

mikeansy:
Please also advise me on what you make of Sanusi suggesting that its ok for the North to reject the secular nature of Nigeria in a country that is roughly 50% christain and 50% muslim because in his view secularity is a christain concept.

Pull up the quote from Sanusi, lets all read it. What is the context in which it was delivered?

@ Poster,

Pls provide the link. This sounds like a fictitious interview.

Anyone who thinks Amodu is not to blame has another think coming.

Who can tell me that the U-23 Dream Team would not qualify easily from this group?

Players play in the mould of their manager.

Take France for example.

Domenech was known as a boring player, always playing sideways passes.

Now he is manager, Jeremy Toulalan is playing exactly the same way Domenech used to play.

This is a far cry from the Toulalan that emerged in the 2005 U-21 Championship, when he was a player full of energy and ideas.

Who made him play this way?

Is that not the same with Amodu, when guys like Taiwo, Mikel, Kalu and Olofinajana are playing at their own leisure?

Who made Joseph Yobo captain? Yobo that cannot open his mouth to organise his defence and midfielders, allowing the DM's to vacate their position and Taye Taiwo to do whatever he feels like on the pitch.

Amodu is physically under stress during matches. You would not see him cajoling the players and telling them to mind their position. He just stands on the touchline looking like the living dead.

Jarus:
This was an article written far back 2001 by Sanusi in defence of Fasehun. He took the north to the cleaners for insinuating that since OPC's Fasehun had been released, the north's Bamaiyi and co were unjustly languishing in jail. Sanusi disagreed with Sokoto, Kebbi,Zamfara and Kano states govts saying their comparison of Fasehun and Bamaiyi was null and void.

It would seem Sanusi is more magnanimous than Fasheun.

I also read Sanusis discourse talking about the fact that Sharia law must progress with the times and not be stuck in the 13th century. That was another nice one.

Jarus:
I have never seen a player more overrated than Mikel.

Overrated by who? Naija fans dont rate him.

Shaibu Amodu is Mikels problem. You cant convert a DM to a box-to-box midfielder. Mikel simply doesnt have the legs to play box-to-box, thats why hes always fumbling for Naija.

namun:
@ibime,
you are an idiot right from birth.

I ony became an idiot recently, so I take offence that you claim I have been an idiot from birth. 


@ all friends of OPC,

Pls forgive my choice of language to describe Fasheun's article. I've had respect for OPC since June 12th, but some disturbing trends have have been manifested in their reaction to national issues recently. We must try to avoid seeing Sanusis actions through tribalistic lenses cos it only ferments hatred.

Cristalz:
I don't regret going to the stadium to see the game.  .  .twaz a whole lotta fun.

Now we know who was throwing pure water onto the pitch!  

Osaze was running his heart out because he is 29 years old and this would have been his last WC.

Taye Taiwo convinced himself that he is really 24 years old and he doesnt need to work hard because as he is only 24, he still has 2 or 3 more WC's to go.

babapupa:
who cares?.

Who cares if you care or not?

Wole Soyinka will soon come out the closet too. 

soloqy:
I dont know which match the person that kept saying "Taye Taiwo has been excellent", was watching.

That man is a fool. A mumu is a mumu even if he is playing football abroad or not.

You just need to look at his face after one of his blunders to see how clueless he is(almost like an slowpoke).

Its not the first time Taye has cost us a match. Against this same Tunisia in Nations cup of 2004, he lost concentration and allowed them pass the ball behind him which resulted to a goal.

He always loses concentration and terrible at marking. I cant see where a footballer can be celebrated only for knowing how to strike the ball and nothing else. When its time to be a little intelligent, our players(taye leading the pack) go on vacation.

These following people must not play for this Nation again.

Taye Taiwo, Olofinjana, Mikel(until he steps up).

Amd the coach, Wait, I have to think up something we need to do to him.

May your days be long. . . . you analysed the situation 100%.

[center][size=14pt]No Apologies! Im part of MEND - Tony Uranta[/size][/center]


He has an indomitable spirit. Despite being afflicted by an ailment that has kept him almost bedridden in the last few months, for Mr Tony Uranta it is never say never. The fight for justice, for equity in the Niger Delta and for an egalitarian society is, indeed, a fight for life.

Perhaps, inspired by his mentor, Prof Wole Soyinka, whose large framed portrait hung conspicuously on the wall of his modestly furnished living room, the Secretary-General of the United Niger Delta Economic Development Security Strategy (UNDEDSS) may not have had the path of activism paved for him. But, somehow, providence played a role.

He says: “I honestly don’t know how I became an activist. All I know was that I was reading Economics. But even then I was writing for the nation’s premiere magazine, Newbreed Magazine (now defunct). I ended up becoming the editor. General Obasanjo detained me along with the publisher when I wrote about the utility value of the National Security Organisation (NSO).

“I also with time became Umaru Dikko’s assistant, even though I was never a card-carrying member of the National Party of Nigeria (NPN). I became the campaign secretary for Cross River and River states. With time, I ended up with NADECO (National Democratic Coalition). But before I did so, I was under the tutelage for a short while of Ken Saro-Wiwa, whose office was just a stone throw from where I was staying. I loved his writing and person and I ended up loving his ideals. So, NADECO was a natural thing. Wole Soyinka mentored me a long time before all these and I ended up admiring MEND’s radical ideas, not radical as violent but radical as different. People dare to be different because it is such people that move society.”


Relationship with Okah and MEND

I am as much part of MEND’s think-tank as Prof Soyinka is part of the MEND think-tank or as Senator Fengle of the United States Senate is part of the MEND think-tank. We believe in fighting for justice and we believe in supporting anything that is right. We don’t believe in any form of injustice. The fact is that everything that happens everywhere affects all of us and we have to become more aware of that in these days when we live in a global village.

I assiduously fought for Okah’s release but not less than I fought for the release of Asari-Dokubo when he was held. I did not fight for Okah’s release less assiduously than I fought for Gani Adams or Dr Fredrick Fasehun or Ralph Uwazuruike when they were being held. I fought for the release of all these people the same way I fought for the release of (Olusegun) Obasanjo when General Sani Abacha wrongly held him.

I will not be party or sit down quietly and see injustice being perpetrated by anybody, including the injustice perpetrated sometimes in the Niger Delta by the Niger Deltans. I was always against the so-called militant struggle that took on a criminal toga and I will always oppose them. In fact, some so-called militants that we have embraced today as part of the struggle, as far as I am concerned were criminals through and through. But then people change and relationships change, and that is why somebody like Jacob Zuma, who was regarded as a terrorist, is today the president of South Africa. Even the most respected man living today, Nelson Mandela, was leader of a militant group, a terrorist group. But today, he is the most highly revered human being living. So, I go by what Rousseau said: “There is no permanent friend or enemy but permanent interest.”


Why I support MEND

I support MEND in so far as its fight is for justice. I will not support MEND or any other group when it begins to fight for injustice just as I have come out at different stages to oppose certain Niger Delta leaders because their leadership style was not in the common interest of the people. That is the same way I am ready to accept everybody across the board. For President Yar’Adua to say there are certain cabals or cartels living on bunkering, I will support the fight he is saying we should fight. But I will always remember that by 1998 when the major list of bunkerers was published by the Alliance for Democracy, Yar’Adua’s family led the primary cartel. So, I then asked, who in the family was involved? And they said Shehu Yar’Adua formed the cartel. Atiku Abubakar was also said to be in the cartel. Yar”Adua’s brothers, and I suppose that will include the major brother, Umaru, were all involved in the cartel. These are the facts of the situation. I am not cooking up anything; I am merely repeating what was said. It is up to you people (journalists) to go and find out how true or untrue the story is. It was published and if you want, I will send it to your e-mail address. It was published by the AD in trying to fight against the Peoples Democratic Party when it (PDP) put up Atiku as vice presidential candidate at that time.

The institution of mediocrity is complete in Naija.

Why should we complain about our players when they see mediocres like Y'araDua in Government, Lulu in NFF, and Shaibu Amodu as head coach?

No wonder mediocres like Olofinjana and Mikel would hold on to their shirt, when those who merit a shirt like Ajilore and Keita are chilling on the bench. When we were clamouring for SiaSia, what did NFF do? They hired a mediocre who would still allow them to collect money from the players. Otherwise, someone tell me whether SiaSia would tolerate quadragenarians like Kanu and Utaka in his team?

If SiaSia was coach, with Ajilore and Keita had played in our midfield, we would have sewn up this group by now.

pak:
FIFA has jettisoned the head to head rule

that means that should the 'MIGHTY MOZAMBIQUE' hold Tunisia in Maputa

Our boys can still qualify on goal difference !

This is real cheery news on a gloomy day.

Abeg when it happens

rem you first heard it right here from PAK

Thank you Pak. I have been pondering the permutations that would see SE through to WC2010.

However, lemme be the first to tell you that this SE will not win away in Nairobi unless Amodu is sacked and Mikel, Olofinjana and Kalu are dropped.

Besides, Tunisia will beat Kenya at home. Our only hope is that Mozambique stop Tunisia in Maputo.

pheesayor:
• A prominent Yoruba leader will die - Gani Is gone
…Juju musician also
• Two Actresses will pass on - Doyin Abiola and Omoladun gone
• Alaafin of Oyo should pray hard
• Terrorists will attack - Boko Haram

To all those condeming the prophet, bad prophesies is just a warning, it's not as if it MUST happen but if you dont heed to the warnings then it will happen. I'll refer you all to prophet Elijah in the Bible.

He also said Amodu will be disgraced out of the eagles before the end of this year and I see this happening after this 2-2 draw

Yes sir. . . . I have long been preaching about the accuracies of Primate Adebayos predictions . . . . Primate Chimpanzee's prophecies never go wrong, not because of any divine revelation, but because his predictions are almost statistical certainties!

Manickal. . . . nice flow and rhyme structure.

[center][size=14pt]Ibime Tamuno to quit MEND FC for Super Eagles?[/size][/center]

At some point in a mans life, he has to heed the call of duty to his fatherland; and undertake to put the honour of his nation before his personal interest.

With this in mind, MEND FC fans should brace themselves for an approach for Ibime1, as the NFF moot the possible replacement of Shaibu Amodu after the Super Eagles failure to beat Tunisia yesterday.

Whether Ibime will acquiesce to the wish of Super Eagles fans remain to be seen. However, upon getting wind of the news, 15,000 fans have congregated outside Yenogoa Township stadium, calling on Ibime Tamuno not to abandon MEND FC for the Super Eagles.


More to follow. . . . .

Over the last 18 months, Ashley Cole is the best left-back on Mother Earth.

mystikal:
why was that Adeleye guy running away from the Tunisian player for the second goal when Yobo already had the post and the other threatening Tunis player covered.

That was nothing to do with Adeleye. Thats supposed to be Taye Taiwos man. It was a ball to the inside right-channel which the left back is supposed to deal with.


PLS NFF,

BRING THE SUPER EAGLES TO PLAY HOME GAMES IN YENOGOA TOWNSHIP STADIUM, BAYELSA.

LETS SEE IF MIKEL AND KALU WILL STILL BE STROLLING ON THE PITCH!

Phock Kanu for losing the ball that led to the goal. Old man, stop falling over.

Phock Mikel for escorting players throughout the match.

Phock Olofinjana for not closing down on the first goal.

Phock Taiwo for vacating his area, which led to the second goal.

Phock Kalu for being a slow dimwitted buffoon.

Phock Mikel and Kalu again for never pressing the ball.

Phock Amodu for picking all these players when better hardworking midfielders like Ajilore and Keita no fit smell bench.

OUR WHOLE PROBLEM IS OUR CENTRAL MIDFIELD!

FBS:
The boys will still come good. not sure if the coach is our "only" problem sha.  

Come good with what?

As long as Tunisia win their next two games, if they like they can come better, no WC for us.

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargggggggghhhhhh!

Shaibu Amodu is a goat.

Even with 3 central midfielders, we are so open to counterattack. Its like we have no midfield.

When will this idiot learn that Mikel, Olofinana and Kalu are too slow for African football?

Just put Ajilore and Keita in that midfield, and they will cover more ground that those 3 idiots, allowing you to put an extra striker like Nsofor.

NFF should resign en masse for giving us Amodu when everyone was clamouring for Sia1.