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Good win by the boys. Who do we have next?

We have no problems with these nyafu nyafu teams but I fear we may struggle in the Cups with our style of football.

Over the last 2 years, we have seen InterMilan and Barca lose to Liverpool in the Champions League, although they passed them to death. Barca also passed Man Utd to death last season but still lost. I recommend that Scolari employ boring tactics for the big games because if you let another big team score (Man Utd or Liverpool, not Arsenal), the game is almost over. We must keep it tight and play grigidi football in these games and worry about the passing later.

Dyabman, Mind the Gap. . , . . you know what I'm talking about.

I dey greet una o! How body?  

Where are all those who came to laugh on Chelsea thread after our game with Liverpool? Cheya, no vex.

^^^^^ And InterMilan played another 0- 0 draw. Thats two goalless draws in a row against Genoa and Fiorentina.

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz. . . . . typical Mourinho.

(1.) Overcome your inner fear of Mathematics

(2.) Shun your calculator. Do everything in your head. This improves your speed, understanding and helps you to build mental shortcuts. It also helps you to grasp concepts easily, believe it or not.

(3.) Grasp the concept of BODMAS fully. Funny enough, 90% of adults cannot apply BODMAS correctly, although they think they can . . .  and that is the main reason they struggle with Maths.


These are the three basic steps that will improve your efficiency in Mathematics. I am a Mathematician and have studied Maths through these 3 simple rules. Most things in Maths involve processes and formulas. Those can be learnt and forgotten again. . . . but if you have these three basic tools in your armoury, you should be OK.

Ronald Reagan was the first to "redistribute the wealth" by providing grants to people under a certain tax bracket. Theres nothing wrong with it. Just a redress to the policies of the last 30 years, nothing to do with redistribution.

This is all propaganda. A crude attempt to turn the rest of Nigeria against us. If this really happened, it would be headline news on every front page. I called my friend in Abonnema and he said nothing happened there. Which militants will go into a town like Abonnema and rape 28 people with JTF around? How many hours does it take to rape 28 women? What nonsense!

hehehehe. . . . . Arsenal fans sef get mouth to talk. . . . they are still behind us and are yet to play any of Chelsea, Liverpool, Man Utd or even Tottenham. Walai talai, old men should never mock the dead.

Who said these militants are part of the struggle?

What is the name of the group?

Scolari must learn to err on the side of caution when playing against other big teams. We must learn to keep it tight for the first 30 mins and take it from there. If you concede early against a team like Liverpool, the match is over. It is not every team you can pass through.

Liverpool DID not deserve the win. They got a lucky goal after which they put 10 men behind the ball, picking us off on the counterattack. In this type of game, there isn't much between winning and losing.

Scolari will beat the small teams teams easily but he will always struggle against the bigger teams if he does not adjust his philosophy for the big games.

Una still dey here dey argue this thing?

It is only agidi on the part of Dayo and Sauron that is prolonging this debate.

Only a casual boxing fan can claim that Tyson is better than Ali. Boxing is a sweet science, in which Ali and both Sugar Rays hold a PHD. Some amateurs only look for the quick KO, but anyone who has trained in, or follows the sport can appreciate the fine art that the aforementioned brought to the show.

Next Level, you have to add Artuto Gatti vs Micky Ward pt 3 in your list of greatest fights. Arturo Gatti fought the whole fight with a broken right hand and still managed to win on points. That was the ultimate display in "strongness of chin" because he was unable to hold up his guard due to his broken hand and still won the fight fighting with only his left hand.

Kobojunkie:
But @TeniBaba, these people who want to secede are not in the majority, they remain a small minority of ibos,

Don't bet on it.

It will come down to head to head against Tunisia

samorijack:
To all my African Obama lovers I have some hard truths to tell:

1. Under an Obama Presidency US Policy towards Africa will not change. Rember the US economy is in a recession (though the white house for obvious political reasons will not want to publicly admit this), this policy can only become more extractive as the US competes with China for resources and influence in Africa. Obama can do nothing about this.

2. In the business of empire building and world domination there are no gentle giants. Empires are not built by goodwill, more so as America does not have the near total hegemony it once had. It now has to deal with a resurgent Russia ( powerd principally by natural resources) and China. Brazil , South Africa and India are also making their claim for more respect. Obama can do nothng about this.

3. The fixation of Africans on American culture and politics is so ridiculous. Take the Director General of the N.S.E actively campaigning and raising funds for Obama and her really stupid defense!!! it get even more bizarre, do you know that in Benin republic their is a public holiday know as the GEORGE Bush day? this is a country with out a Kwame Nkrumah or Steven Bikko day , or even an African liberation day. Do you also know know that Nelson Mandela was only last year taken of the US State Departments list of terrorist?

4. Afica has been left behind and continues to lag behind largely because of the insincerity of it's leaders who have done more injustice to their fellow Africans than any colonial master did. If Africa is to succed an intellectual revolution must take place, that's why ofcourse "they" keep our schools underfunded and closed and open up the motor parks, Obama owes Africa nothing.

Yeah, we know all this already. . . . and your point is?

We accept Obama's Presidency as nothing more than a figurehead to inspire Africans all around the World. Even if he does nothing for Africa, his mere presence has done enough to inspire us.

Plus, we accept Democratic policies over anti-intellectual Religious Right Republicans. Even if Obama was white, Africa and most of the World would still prefer a Democratic President to a Republican one anyday.

India has joined an elite class that even Britain does not belong to. This is definitely a wake-up call to the rest of the world.

According to the CIA, Nigeria may break up by 2015. The sooner the better IMO, as long as it is a peaceful break-up.

Even on Nairaland, we can see that we are not together.

Who remembers a country called The Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes? (Reminds me of the Kingdom of the Yorubas, Igbos and Hausas). That was the former name for Yugoslavia.

That same Kingdom is now called Serbia, Croatia, Macedonia, Slovenia, Montenegro and Kosovo.

Anyway, you Nigerians should deal with your problems. Thank God I am British. 

Una still dey here dey argue this thing?

Anybody who watches ESPN knows that Bernt Sugar is boxing's officionado historian. He is the only man who saw them all, from Jack Dempsey to the Brown Bomber to Sugar Ray to Ali to Holmes and then the Tyson era. Let us accept his wisdom and move on:


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[center]"Boxing's Greatest Fighters" is a List Only Sugar Could Put Together[/center][center]By Aaron Tallent[/center]
Bert Sugar has remained boxing’s foremost authority for decades now. Love him or smirk at him (sometimes both), he has served as the sport’s resident historian, rehashing tales from the turn of the century with his whiskey-soaked flair. Even when the heavyweight champions are unrecognizable, the mystique of Sugar’s fedora shading an unlit cigar remains constant.

There are other boxing journalists with a national platform. Ron Borges, Jerry Izenberg, and Dan Rafael are just a few, but Sugar was to Ken Burns’ Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson what Shelby Foote was to The Civil War. Part of it is due to his caricature, but most of it is because of his colorful ability to tell a story.

Which is why most boxing aficionados lick their chops at the thought of the newly released edition of Sugar’s coffee table book, Boxing’s Greatest Fighters. Sitting around, placing a fighter’s standing in the annals of boxing is a sports fan’s guilty pleasure. However, only a historian along the lines of Sugar could put together a list of the top 100 fighters of all time that dates back to the days of John L. Sullivan.

The criteria for his rankings is not simply based on size, speed, or power. It is also based on the accomplishments and the era in which that particular fighter competed. One more important factor is that the fighters are ranked based on their peak form. As Sugar put it:

“Because so many greats end their careers not with a bang, but with an ‘L,’ as in loss, we would be forced to conclude, erroneously of course, that an Alvin Green was better than an Ezzard Charles, or a Trevor Berbick better than a Muhammad Ali, or a Chester Slider better than a Henry Armstrong, on and on and on, so many greats ending their careers with an ‘L.’”

Hats off to Sugar in that regard. Any yahoo could put together a list of rankings based on won-lost records and spend an entire book justifying his decision. Instead, Sugar explains his rationale on the front end and spends the rest of his 350 page book focusing on the rich histories of his chosen few.

His all-time greatest pound-for-pound fighter is no surprise. Sugar Ray Robinson is a given. The rest of the list can be up for debate.

Reading through the list, it is apparent that he pondered heavily on the placement of each fighter. Also in that ESPN report, Sugar said Larry Holmes was the number ten all-time heavyweight and Evander Holyfield was on the cusp of the elite ten. However, in his book, Sugar ranks Holyfield ahead of Holmes because of his amazing cruiserweight career as well.

While he does praise the fighters for their superiority in the ring, Sugar is by no means boxing’s James Lipton. He shows the boxers for what made them great, but is not afraid to explain what hindered their careers either. For many greats of the first half of the 20th century, the problem was alcohol. There is no telling what Harry Greb, Mickey Walker and Lew Jenkins could have accomplished had they not been heavy drinkers.

Others, like Wilfred Benitez, demeaned their greatness by their refusal to properly train.

Another area where Sugar sets himself apart is the rich historical tidbits that he offers about each fighter. The book tells you which fighter coined the phrase, “Bringing home the bacon,” and which fighter served as bagman for Arnold Rothstein and the 1919 Chicago “Black Sox” scandal.







This is ESPN's list of greatest boxers. Bert Sugar's list is not too dissimilar. Both lists rank Sugar Ray Robinson as no 1. However Bert Sugar puts Joe Louis ahead of Ali whilst ESPN has it the other way around. ESPN ranks Mike Tyson as no 50 whilst Bert Sugar ranks him as no 25:



[size=14pt]ESPN's list[/size]


Sugar Ray Robinson
Muhammad Ali
Henry Armstrong
Joe Louis
Willie Pep
Roberto Duran
Benny Leonard
Jack Johnson
Jack Dempsey
Sam Langford
Joe Gans
Sugar Ray Leonard
Harry Greb
Rocky Marciano
Jimmy Wilde
Gene Tunney
Mickey Walker
Archie Moore
Stanley Ketchel
George Foreman
Tony Canzoneri
Barney Ross
Jimmy McLarnin
Julio Cesar Chavez
Marcel Cerdan
Joe Frazier
Ezzard Charles
Jake LaMotta
Sandy Sadler
Terry McGovern
Billy Conn
Jose Napoles
Ruben Olivares
Emile Griffith
Marvin Hagler
Eder Jofre
Thomas Hearns
Larry Holmes
Oscar De la Hoya
Evander Holyfield
Ted Lewis
Alexis Arguello
Marco Antonio Berrera
Pernel Whitaker
Carlos Monzon
Roy Jones Jr.
Bernard Hopkins
Floyd Mayweather Jr.
Erik Morales
Mike Tyson


Any boxing pundit who puts Mike Tyson as no 1 is committing career suicide. QED.

Mourinho is telling the truth. . . .all of the above are divers. . . .but Steven Gerrard must also be included in the list. . . . but why bring it up though? This is further evidence that he is a juvenile who just loves to throw tantrums. The man needs to grow up and quit acting like a spoilt child.

[center][size=16pt]CBN stops banks' bail-out plan [/size][/center]
A PLAN by six banks to inject N100 billion each to increase liquidation in the money and capital market was shot down by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) yesterday.

The CBN said there was nothing to bail out, as all the fundamentals of the country's banking system were right.

However, conflicting signals came from the House of Representatives Committee on Capital Market (them want chop money, what do Politicians know about banking?), which endorsed a proposal that the Federal Government should emulate the United States (US.) and some European nations by offering bail-out funds to Nigerian banks to cushion the effect of the current global financial meltdown.

In fact, the committee proposed a stabilisation fund of about N500 billion.

The developments came on a day that a Senate committee expressed concern over increasing losses at the Stock Market, although the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) reiterated that there was no cause for alarm.

The apex bank aborted the bail-out on the grounds that Nigerian banks were recording huge profits; possess the highest capital adequacy ratio of 22 per cent in the region as against the Basel 2 minimum requirement of eight per cent and minimal exposure to the capital market recession of less than eight per cent.

The Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) recently said it had appointed United Bank for Africa (UBA), Guaranty Trust Bank (GTB); Union Bank of Nigeria (UBN), Intercontinental Bank and Zenith Bank to inject N600 billion to the market to stabilise it.

Three days later, the capital market regulator (SEC) declared the NSE action null and void. It explained that the NSE had usurped its function since it lacked the mandate to do so and demanded explanation from the body on its action.

In the same light, the CBN yesterday barred the banks from injecting bail-out liquidity. It announced the decision at the end of a special bankers committee's meeting, comprising banks' chief executives.

According to the CBN's Director of Banking Supervision, Mr. Odufu Imala, who briefed reporters at the end of the meeting in Abuja in company of the Managing Directors and Chief Executives of Zenith Bank Plc, Mr. Jim Ovia; Diamond Bank Plc, Mr. Emeka Onwuka and Spring Bank Plc, Mr. Suleiman Ndanusa, the apex bank's investigation indicates that Nigerian banks' exposure to the capital market recession was just eight per cent of their total assets, which was not serious enough to warrant any bail-out plan to them or the capital market.

He insisted that the current share price crash was a corrective mechanism, which is natural and was nothing to panic.

bawomolo:
ha ha overvalued shares have come to bit them in the ass.

http://www.thisdayonline.com/nview.php?id=125809

Bamo, thanks for the link.

I don't know how so-called business men do not know how to value shares in companies and assess risk, not just on a micro-level but on a macro-level. Too many fake business men in Nigeria. Here today, gone tomorrow, depending on who is President and who is Governor.

Anyway, the foreigners should come and take the shares jare. Because of these mugu's, we are forfeiting our financial sovereignty.

And why do they set 1% limits on downturn in stock-trading? Is 1% all it takes for these businessmen to catch heart attack? This is the way for the rich and connected to dump their shares whilst maintaining it's value. Sure enough, the stockbrokers are working to dump shares of their rich clients before the market hits it's daily 1 percent limit. A poor man has no chance to dump his shares in such a limited market. In Russia, every time they suspend trading, you see the market come crashing every time trading reopens. This is what will happen when NSE lift restrictions.

All this downturn is simply because NSE is trying to regularise the trading year for all companies. The crooks have been discovered so they decided to dump their shares. The insider's sold their shares first, leaving these uninformed so-called business men to carry the can. Their last hope is bailout, if not them go riot. 

Move in with your chick first, then we go see whether khaki na leather or not.

You have to set the rules properly before playing spin the bottle,  . . . . every dare must be between a boy and a girl otherwise you may end up in a compromised situation.

Damn, I still remember one Ghanaian girl that looked like Toni Braxton that I bagged from a spin the bottle game in college. Those were the days. . . . before someone handcuffed me. [size=4pt]I need to break free.[/size]

Monkey see, monkey do.

Which kain credit freeze dey Naija? These banks just want free money. The pyramid scheme is over. They better find solid businesses to invest in instead of speculating on phony shares when they know all of them are cooking the books.

If interbank lending is strong, there is no need for bailout. What assets do they want to be bailed out anyway? Assets that they made up in the first place? Phantom assets which they cooked just to make their balance sheet look good?

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How low will these people go?

Iceland is asking IMF for money, Shotsta is here claiming something else.

according to science, left handed people use the right part of their brain,
the right part of the rain controls the left part of the body while the left part of the brain controls the right part of the body. and its also  believed that the right part develops better than the left part so i guess thats where the notion comes from

Hehehe. . . . not to brag, but I am right-handed and left-footed.  . . . so that means I am using both parts of my brain unlike mere mortals who only use one side of the brain. 

Maloudaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!

I'm loving Belleti in all his new positions these days.

Lampaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaard!

We are seeing a philosophy at Chelsea that does not rely on individuals. Injuries or no injuries, we play the same way. This is beautiful football. Scolari said last night that he is happy all these players are injured because it gives him a chance to show he is a good manager.

If it is Mourinho now, all we will hear is complaint after complaint about one injury or another. He will say as he said "What can I do with Geremi and Ferreira? Nothing!"

Malouda should have scored that.

Lamps should have scored that chance

Abeg no ban me o, if thats what you're thinking. Go and worry Jackal instead.