₦airaland Forum

Whats up boys.  

debosky:
DK has been released from The Urbana-Champagne Mental Institute Welcome back bro!

DK having finally succeeded in his coup to oust Sharon from the comity of Nairalanders. . . . an outstanding feat considering the putsch was executed from the solitude of his prison cell. . . . reminds me of OBJ coming back to take the throne from KiriKiri Max.

@ Mail


No long ting. . .




I keep it cool like a calabash/ while you spouting trash/
Im bathed in gold. .  and you shower ash. . like the twin tower crash!/

Im counting cash/ on forex indices where my coins chart/
brand you with a swastika. . . but still you got no Deutsche Marks!/

My dogs bite ankles/ like buckles on tight sandals/
You can’t win fair and square. . . so you better try angles!/

I give back rubs/ to bitches that lack love/
so take a photograph. . . as I drown you. . . in flash floods!/

You could bet-ya-computer/ that Ill lecture-this-loser/
and Ill make you owe PC. . . like June 12 election-disputers!/

I climb fences/ and steal one of your five senses/
so you couldn’t scope a chick. . . not even with fine lenses/

My speech so sick/ but I keep it on a d-lo tip/
Pride comes before a fall. . . and Ill make ya ego trip!/

Analogue television/ couldn’t describe his position/
cos when this fool smokes weed. . . he’s the high definition!/

You get visited/ by losses in the company of lyricists/
cos you a public liability. . . and ya vocab is limited!/

Lets say 10 pm. . . 18 lines. . . deal.

biina:
Why do you think the debt grew without them taking on new loans? The unpaid interests were added to the capital.

My friend, will you stop boring everyone with your half-baked finance ideas. . . . Utds debt grew only because their repayments track slightly above the LIBOR rate which was growing in 2008. . . . and its been dropping since the credit crunch eased so interest payments shouldnt be so severe next year. . . . this is a usual arrangement for an LBO of this size. . . now enough of predicting impending doom for EPL clubs. . .  too much nyafu nyafu talk for here. . . . I want hear football jare.

FBS:
Watching the game against Inter Milan one can say with confidence that Mikel sprayed some creative defense splitting passes. Abi na only me see am?
If CA does "convert" back to a creative MF/playmaker, then wow, that will be the best thing to have happened to Chelsea since, to quote N2A, slice bread.
My beef with JM remains the fact that he converted the lad into a DM.
But then does that means that Deco will be warming the bench regularly?

Too many changes from Ancelotti. . . . I hope Chelseas "stubborn" players will not rebel against him like they did to Scolari. . . .cos all those players wanna do is play 4-3-3 and Ancelotti is adopting very similar tactics to Big Phil. . .

[center][size=14pt]John Obi Mikel Will Be The Playmaker For Chelsea - Carlo Ancelotti[/size][/center]

The Blues boss has expressed belief in the Nigerian's ability,

Chelsea manager Carlo Ancelotti feels that this season could be the campaign where midfielder Jon Obi Mikel steps forward and shows his qualities as a creative midfielder.

“I have a lot of trust in Mikel,” he told The Daily Mail. “I think he can be the playmaker of this team. He is a young player, but has great quality, both technical and tactical.

"For the present and for the future he is a very important player for us. We are very happy he has signed a new contract and I hope that he stays at Chelsea for a lot of years.

“I would like that he puts in his great quality for the team.”

Mikel was clearly pleased by his manager's praise, saying “It is a great honour that he sees something in me. He says I am a player with great qualities, but thinks I can be even better.”

“It is going to take a bit of time, but I am going to work very close with him to make it happen.”

"He likes the fact I am strong and can play with the ball, but says that I still need to add more things to my game — if I do that then he thinks I’m going to be fantastic.”

The Nigerian believes Ancelotti will finally bring a Champions League to Stamford Bridge, saying, “We have come close so many times and I think that is why the club have brought him here, to take us to that final step.”

"The way he has come in and the ideas he has as to how to set the team up, I think we can win everything."


Owen Watson, Goal.com

FBS:
@ALL, anyone for the match tonight?

Yeah boi. . . . 12.30 am is no biggie. . . . Ill be there like Michael Jackson.

A great keynesian stimulus for the unemployed louts of the Niger-Delta.

I had hoped this page would make front page by now. . . . a lot of salient points made by Soyinka regarding the future of our democracy.

Tonight.

20-24 lines

Alams, shut ya mouth you illiterate Arrow.

Can an evil man condemn another evil man?

I remember how this idiot was using his military status to bully people out of contracts way back in the mid-1990's.

mailmalc:
@Ibime, sup fam . . . u'v indeed proved beyond reasonable doubts u'r lyrically gifted. Hw abt a lil battle. Ibime Vs. my humble self 2nite I should be able to come up wiv sumfin within 2 or 3hrs. I don't do long scripts maybe we should settle for the usual 8-bars (16 lines) or sumfin. Wat ya think? Holla back if u'r interested so i could set up the thread. Maybe u shud battle me b4 movin ahead to battlin Malthuss! so . . . . wat u say?

Im off to bed mate . . . you can set something up for tomorrow night if you wish. . .

Malthuss:
24 lines it is . . Monday. . ama drop at exactly 1.30 pm

peace

No prob. . . . Ill drop couple of minutes after you. . . .

biina:
example http://www.goal.com/en-india/news/2175/la-liga/2009/06/28/1352112/ramon-calderon-paid-4m-commission-in-lassana-diarra-deal

Unfortunately madrid wont wash their linens in public.

Nah mate. . . . dont make rubbish statements and try and wriggle out of it. . . . If Calderon had committed financial fraud and it can be proved, he would be in jail by now.

biina:
The club debt as at the end of last season was €125m from €200m the last year with a pre tax profit of €58m. Enough room to accommodate the debt in question.

Thanks to Calderon. . . . . unfortunately, Perez has gone and increased the debt by another $200m in a foolish gamble. . .

biina:
So madrid is now worth less than they were before perez took over the first time? or is Valdebas poorer than the old facilities?
Perez left madrid in good financial health, but calderon and mijatovic squandered and embezzeled the money, doctoring the books to cover it up. Or you never wondered why we had so many dutch players on our roster, each bought at overpriced figures and (outside of Robnho) sold our players cheaply. The idiots even let beckham go for free.

Your whole post reeks of sciolism. . . . quantify your statement that "Perez left Madrid in good financial health and Calderon embezzled the money". . . . so now you are accusing Calderon of stealing Madrids money. . . . OK. . . . I know when to pull out of arguments with a confuzzled being. . . .

biina:
The triumph of fanaticism over common sense  
So the above is your explanation of why Madrid has the highest revenue at $576 million, which is almost twice what your arsenal could manage at $349 million. The success of a business model is less about where you source the funds from but more about how much you can earn from it. Madrid is a far more profitable club than your debt ridden arsenal

Your retort does not surprise me for I have always known Madrid fans to lack comprehension. I couldnt give two hoots about Madrids turnover or profits. An invertebrate like yourself claimed that Perez's model was financially successful. If you wanna look at turnover or profit solely as an indicator of financial success, then I will have to send you back to tkb417 for lessons. Last year, Ibime made more profit than Roman Abramovic (who made a loss) but Abramovic will always remain infinitely better off than Ibime.

Perez depleted the book value of Madrid in a trade-off for turnover, and you are here yarning me about Perez's turnover. Fernando Sanz left Perez with enough convertible assets. What did Perez leave Calderon? Perez left him nothing but rapidly depreciating assets (players), so that the next time Perez wanted to embark on his hare-brained scheme, he had to go running cap-in-hand to Banco Santander.

biina:
Its funny when people criticize perez's approach to managing madrid when he has pulled it off before, transforming madrid to the richest club in the world ahead of ManU.

I have always known Madrid fans to suffer from sporadic bouts of dementia, but I did not know that their senility was permanent.

Every one knows that Perez's last sepending spree was largely funded by the sale of Madrids training ground to quasi-stakeholders at the City council in a shady backroom deal that valued the training ground at £350m, wayyyyyy more than it was worth. Some of this money was used to clear the debt while the rest was frittered away on galacticos.

Whilst Madrids assets provided a friendly source of income for Perez last experiment, I doubt that Banco Santander would be so kind this time. Perez should be locked up for selling Madrids most prized assets to fund a short-lasting success last time, and should face the death penalty this time for mortgaging Madrids future to Banco Santander all for the sake of Ronaldo and Kaka.

Abagworo:
igr my foot.so money generated from sale of crude oil in a state is externally generated.lmfao!

Do you not know that crude oil is a national good, and unlike other resources, it is exempted from the IGR?

debosky:
Two issues - why is this coming to light just now?

1. Is the NDIC carrying out 'revenge' on the Police for trying to investigate it's MD or is it vice versa?

Again, I am not optimistic this accusation will be investigated, the police is already 'defending' it's boss. With Yardie's 'hands off' (aka let corruption flourish) approach, don't expect a push on this from him either.

I have learnt never to celebrate "justice" in Nigeria. . . . for there is no sincerity of purpose behind it, just a tit-for-tat application of the law in a game of cat and mouse where both parties are equally damnable.

According to the gospel of Biina, every club in England is going broke.

Whilst sensible clubs like Arsenal and Man Utd leverage their future earnings against new stadiums and buyouts, the idiots at Real Madrid leverage their future for near-term acquisition of players. Florentino Perez's financial wizardry will soon be exposed as a con, and Real Madrid will soon have to be bailed out again by their quasi-stakeholders at Madrid City council.

ofokasibe:
my ego is that big punk

Can your skill match your ego?

Well done to both states. I hope other states will follow suit.

mikeansy:
not exactly sure why the responsibility to fight for June 12 should fall on the Yoruba alone.

The last time I checked Abiola did not win an election to govern Odua people's congress, he won an election to become President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

Did you join the fight with them?. . . . so why complain?

ofokasibe:
ibime u dey feel me ?

Nah, I no dey feel you mehn. . . . stop constituting a nuisance on the rap board. . . . one would think that all rappers were a bunch of juvenile delinquents going by your actions. . . . how can you arrange a battle against 6 different people, opening up useless threads here and there. . . .lalaboi should clean up all the threads you have been opening recently. . .

[size=14pt][center]Amnesty, Sincerity and the Niger Delta[/center][/size]

© Ogaga Ifowodo

With every care about the public relations profits to be reaped from the measure, President Yar’Adua announced, on 25 June 2009, his offer of amnesty to former and active militants of the Niger Delta. By the one word, militants, the Federal Government meant “all persons who have directly or indirectly participated in the commission of offences associated with militant activities in the Niger Delta.” In the result, kidnappers-for-ransom as well as genuine armed and unarmed activists for fiscal federalism and restitution for fifty years of savage dispossession were forced into one camp. Were MOSOP’s Ken Saro-Wiwa and the Ogoni 8 alive today, they would doubtlessly be within the purview of this definition and be expected to embrace this amnesty. As the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta and a few commentators have since pointed out, however, Yar’Adua and his policy henchmen seem to believe that “criminal” and “freedom fighter” are interchangeable terms.

And indeed power invariably sees them as such. Hence, to Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan, Nelson Mandela was a terrorist. While it is true that one person’s freedom fighter may be another’s criminal, it is also true that we can distinguish the one from the other easily enough. But doing so requires integrity. And for the person in power, whose view matters most in this context, integrity means sincerity of purpose, the willingness to shun the lazy resort to calling a dog a bad name in order to hang it. Once Mandela was branded a terrorist and the ANC a terrorist organisation — which the Zulu warlord, Mangosuthu Buthelezi, and his Inkatha Freedom Party were definitely not — Thatcher, Reagan and the entire government machineries they controlled could go on profiting from the apartheid regime’s favourable economic policies while perpetuating the notion of white racial superiority. As if the alleged terrorism of Mandela and the ANC had somehow redeemed their choice of empowering evil.

Sincerity emerges, then, as the real test of any government policy on the Niger Delta. It is not surprising, therefore, that MEND, the main armed group engaged in guerrilla acts of sabotage against the federal government, has said as much. Nor that it did so in a pointed reaction to Vice President Jonathan Goodluck’s claim that criminal barons were to blame for the reluctance of “militants” to queue in eager embrace of his boss’s offer of amnesty. On the contrary, MEND saw government’s insincerity as “the major cause” of the troubles of the Niger Delta, citing the preparedness of the Interior Affairs minister to travel from Abuja to Port Harcourt “to talk to fake representatives of militant commanders” and his unwillingness “to travel the shorter distance” to confer with Henry Okah in a nearby prison.

Now that Okah, has accepted Yar’Adua’s amnesty, and the prospects of a ceasefire brighten the horizon, Abuja’s corridors of power must be reverberating to noisy chest thumping. The quick fix, it seems, is here. Some form of agreement will be reached, the essence of which will be that MEND surrender or at least lay down arms. Okah will be expected, like a garrison commander, to disarm and disband his troops. Peace will return to the creeks and the waters of the coast will be calmed for uninterrupted flow and exportation of oil and gas. Petro dollars will once again flow unhindered into the national booty fund misnamed the treasury for the continued orgy of looting. In the interim, a few bones will be thrown from the crowded banquet tables in Abuja to the hapless souls of the delta: a hastily paved one-season road here and there, a bridge to link two or three previously marooned creek towns to the nation that claims their loyalty, a school that in effect boasts nothing more than crooked walls and a blackboard, a few clinics and dispensaries that wouldn’t pass a Red Cross first aid test, etc. And, of course, contracts, contracts, and more contracts, all paid for by the same oil and gas that is the very bone of contention.

And after that? Indeed, in the course of these acts of deception falsely called development of the Niger Delta? Any act of self assertion, any vigorous prosecution of the cause of the exploited, expropriated, maligned and mocked people of the Delta will be seen as evidence of ingratitude. Of an unbecoming greed that will be satisfied only with a one hundred percent derivation principle. In short, as an imminent threat to the corporate integrity of the nation. And, so, as proof beyond any doubt of insufferable unpatriotism. Woe betide every denizen of the Niger Delta then, militant and non-militant! Odi under General Obasanjo would be a mere battle drill in comparison. This well-laid trap is what the Attorney-General, Michael Aondoakaa, revealed in court in answer to the reservations expressed by Femi Falana, Okah’s counsel, regarding the non-constitutionality of Yar’Adua’s preferred amnesty in opposition to the prerogative of mercy or other options open to him. “Let us leave the matter like that,” Aondoakaa insisted. “I have given you (a) guarantee that unless he breaches the agreement, Okah cannot come back to the court.”

So we have it on good authority. Unless Okah — or any militant so-called — breaches the agreement, he will not be tried again by those who expropriate and drive him to arms. But what agreement is this that Okah must not breach? How will it be reached and with whom? Will this agreement have anything to say about a derivation formula that will do justice to the Niger Delta and every productive region of the country? Will it acknowledge the decades of dispossession and commit a fair and unencumbered sum over a reasonable period to undoing the colossal damage to the Delta’s land, flora and fauna? Will it bind the government to a geo-political restructuring of the unitary state that falsely bears the name of a federation? You can bet your last kobo on it that it won’t. For Aondoakaa is right: all that Yar’Adua, the Federal Government, and let’s face it, the majority of a nation that depends bread and breath on the oil and gas of the Niger Delta, want is to “leave the matter like that.” In other words, to perpetuate the status quo of mindless dispossession of the Delta through vicious laws and a cruel derivation formula carefully reformulated from its fair and just manifestation in the days of regional governments and independence constitutions.

But all of this is nothing new. Power will not respect anything that cannot compel it to the path of reason and to act in the general good. Always, it is a question of the balance of forces. So it seems, quite regrettably, that the only way Yar’Adua’s government or successive caretakers of the oppressive Nigerian state will be moved to attempt a sincere solution to the Niger Delta crisis is if militant opposition makes continued dispossession impossible. This is very clear to MEND, hence its recently announced “two-pronged” strategy of combining dialogue and intensified attacks. Let’s call it the yam, or fish-and-stick approach. Attacks may be halted temporarily to respect any agreed upon ceasefire, but harbour no illusions that Yar-Adua is ready to loosen the government’s stranglehold on the Delta. But now the test of his sincerity is about to begin and I dread the result. For try as I may, the words of Leo Tolstoy, the great Russian novelist and moral philosopher, keep buzzing in my ears: “I sit on a man's back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by all possible means — except by getting off his back.”

Anyone still probing the reasons for Arsenal's inertia in the transfer market needs to be lobotomised. The same imbeciles will still be here to argue that:

(a.) Arsenal are a big club with bountiful reserves

and

(b.) Arsene Knows


If the reason behind Arsenals transfer inactivity is not the anti-thesis of (a.) then that surely contradicts (b.) and vice-versa. This shows that gaynners arguments are conflicting and that the oddities in their positions are gargantuan.

Hazarding a guess, I would posit that Arsene's inactivity in the transfer market is mostly down to his own intransigence, as evidenced by his rejection of Real Madrid's advances, because he liked the challenge of working within stringent limits. There is no doubt that Arsene has the clout to force Gazidis to loosen the purse-strings, but everyone knows that he is an inside-man.

Where is Sauron when you need him to exterminate pests on the rap board?

debosky:
Your idiocy means you stick to a line of argument even when facts change, I do not do so. I remember when your folly on the RVP issue was exposed, your pathetic attempts to justify the unjustifiable were duly recognised by all involved as the rantings of a deranged mind. Anyone who believes Ancelotti carries 'secrets of youth' in a briefcase doesn't deserve to be taken seriously.  

It is not surprising that this spineless troll would seek to use non-issues to paint my honourable self in a bad light. My posting of an article lauding AC Milans medical procedure has now been used as a rod for my back, despite the fact that I made no comments in support of, or against the contents of the article. One would expect an inquisitive mind to explore the details of Aly Cissokho's failed medical at AC Milan on dental grounds; in light of the article. Of course, surface research would reveal that the structure of the teeth do affect posture and subsequently the muscular facilities of an athlete. In light of this, one cannot help but laud the rigorous attention to detail of AC Milans medical staff, and this should inform any reasonable individual not to discount that there may be some truths in the article.  

With reference to the RVP debate, common sense indicates that Andrey Arshavins preference for a central role precipitates the need for a 4-5-1 formation in order to accommodate Fabregas and a DM. Any intelligent being would have questioned RVP's future role in the team, in light of the evidence from Feyenoord where he had serious issues when positioned on the wing for any considerable sequence of games. Of course, Adeballz had sought to restrict my statement to its categorical meaning, and use that as a tool to make me look incompetent, but I refused to play his game of entrapment, and as such, I have resolved to using clear and adroit language when discussing with gaynners to avoid any repeat.

debosky:
Have you ever given any useful commentary?   Verbose is a mild description - try meaningless verbiage masquerading as footie analysis that has been destroyed several times over.

Keep to your 'commentary', one less muppet to exterminate around here.  

It is exactly inane comments like these that have informed my new approach to dealing with gaynners.

One would have hoped that a blathering Arrow like the respondent would keep his opinions to himself, after the now infamous episode of posting satellite images to highlight Denilsons prowess as a defensive midfielder. Even the late Michael Jackson never did a u-turn as quickly as this spineless troll did when it became apparent that Denilson was no match for the ubiquitous Alex Song.

It is laughable that an irredeemable failure such as the respondent would describe my positions as being "destroyed over and over", when I have been consistently vindicated by the passing of time, dating back to my assertion exactly a year ago that gaynners would find the loss of Flamini detrimental to their chances, at which the aforementioned idiot took umbrage at my words, lauding the 'potential' of Denilson as a capable replacement. We are not fooled as to who gets "destroyed over and over" when all arguments put forward by Adeballz in defence of Arsenals policies continuously yield sub-par performances on the field of play and seasonal tussles for qualification into the last Champions League place.

[quote author=kay_pumpin link=topic=270819.msg4232562#msg4232562 date=1248283337]Quit that ND over-distilled water you indulge in these days.[/quote]This is my new modus operandi on Gaynners thread. . . . I refuse to discuss anything sensible with a bunch of nitwits so I have taken to providing verbose commentary on the laughable events at the Emirates.