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BlueMann:
Just realized that our Mamadou Sarr is marshalling the defense for Senegal

The suspension of Koulibaly in the final is a blessing in disguise for them

North Africans always looking for cheap penalties

How Ivory Coast allowed themselves to be knocked out by Egypt needs to be studied

Mamadou Sarr is playing everything with his left foot though he is billed as being right footed

Na who dem suppose recall to cover Colwill be that

Mane

Thank God Egypt and Senegal are playing semi. We don't deserve to see this in the final

airmark:
Yes but Yobo still has more goals than him.

What achievement did Mr. Versatile fetch Nigeria? In fact I will even put Mutiu Adepoju before i remember him.

I can name 30 players more deserving than Lawal

If you are talking versatile, Adepoju is no 1

Odemwingie, Ahmed Musa, John Utaka, Victor Moses etc are way ahead of Lawal on the wings alone talkless of other positions

Has Amokachi improved massively as a commentator or is he only sounding good because Oliseh has been assaulting my ears all tournament?

chatinent:
Irresponsible oga, imagine this is the nurse that was busy borrowing glucose, NAN 1, pampers, spare overall, and you were nowhere to be found during your wife's delivery only for you to come by morning when she's talking bitterly and compalining and you say "will I kill myself?"


You will feel it!

Why are you absent during your wife's delivery. You want blame nurse

Ellexy:
Nigerian Federal Government hired a lobbying firm, but Trump is to blame. I never know say Hundeyin get brothers for this thread. TDS on steroids.

I blame Reno Omokri for trying to do it on the cheap and recruiting Mike Arnold which caused more harm than good. Now we have to throw $$$ at it.

Whizlight:
‼️Chelsea took the drastic option of inserting the club’s head of medical onto the bench after former manager Enzo Maresca repeatedly refused to substitute players returning from injury, according to Daily Mail Sport.

It is also understood that Chelsea’s hierarchy sent Maresca a formal letter to remind him of his responsibilities as the relationship between the Italian and his bosses reached breaking point at Stamford Bridge.

Chief Medical Officer aka Chief sharer of minutes, disgusting club.

Maresca already made the most changes to his starting line up of any EPL club and they still weren't satisfied until all assets get minutes.

Iran shouldn't cry

They are the ones who sponsor Hamas, Hezbollah, Houthis etc to attack other countries

The millions on the street are organic frustration, abi.USA dey give millions of Iranians alert?

PDPGuy:
That “network is down” gimmick almost always works because once people would pay any amount, all of a sudden, the network comes alive 🤦🏽‍♂️

The Ministry being discussed had a challenge (speed of passport personalisation) and went about it by focusing on another issue that didn't contribute to the problem for the most part. I did some consulting work on this project and had alternative Swiss partners for the Ministry that would have solved at least part of the problem.

The ministry wanted to start local production of blank passport booklets in Nigeria (which they have now implemented) and which I reported to them is only economical (for the CAPEX spend) with annual production of 20m booklets. Nigeria had annual demand of 2m passports per year as of 2022 so why implement a 20m printing capacity which is wasteful and has poor ROI.

Nigeria was better off purchasing 2-3m blank passports per year at $3-$7 dollars per passport depending on spec rather than a large investment in the printing capability and focus on partnering with a vendor that could ensure no biometric bottlenecks (that could still be IRIS from Malaysia who owned the contract if they fix up, or alternative partners). Also ensuring proper logistics so that booklets get to all the centres and ensuring all centres delivered to KPIs that would reduce the effect of corruption and understaffing on personalisation bottlenecks.

But the focus was on the printing of blank passports in Nigeria though it was not economical and it was not the problem. You can draw your own conclusion as to why large capital investments are preferable than focussing on the Koko of the matter. There are also infinite chopping avenues in recurrent expenditure with local production (supply of paper, ink, generator fuel etc). Well hopefully these other bottlenecks that prevent quick personalisation are fixed, not just making noise that we now print our blank passports locally which was never the main problem. There is a reason most countries print their blank passports with few vendors around the world - because they don't have the demand to justify setting up their own printing.

izzou:


I no even know wetin I spell sef

Supernumerary simply means "outside the numbers" ie not on duty

For example in a Factory setting, if it takes 10 people to make 1000 products and you had 15 people that day, they will ask why you are not being efficient. If the extra 5 people were not producing output but were there for mandatory Health and Safety training, then those 5 people are Supernumerary - ie your efficiency stats should be normalised to exclude the 5 supernumerary workers that day

Russia and propaganda

It's Christmas and the soldier has been treated to banana, orange, chocolate and drinks in front of him in the Christmas spirit, and picked up a banana and chocolate

Russia propaganda focus on banana after they were caught sending Africans as suicide bombers.

Joezinho:
Yeah. Injuries dealt with him. Dude was so calm with massive passing, dribbling and running skillset.

Ambrose is genuinely the best , most gifted and most successful Nigerian to ever play in Scottish football but for the SE? Nah. I dey use the same eye when I dey use look Yobo take Dey look am.

Ambrose was a weak link

His only attribute was his ball control and calmness but he couldn't handle the physicality and speed of African wingers. Plus he was very old compared to his official age

He played centreback in Celtic where the level is lower, his job is just to head ball and his calmness in possession was appreciated compared to the rush rush of most Scottish league centrebacks

Lord Epistle MCM behaved like the authoritarian we all knew him to be, now another agenda done enter.

If you now hate your MCM, just say so

LordAdam16:
reading a comment will not kill you

i've already answered your question

trump is doing exactly what i supported him for
exposing the us for what it actually is

and the axis and the global south will be better for it

-Lord

So your support for Trump is based on your hatred for America?

An enemy within something

LordAdam16:
trump is not acting like putin
putin started the smo to avoid the maduro and assad treatment

the us through nato were closing in
add ukraine, finland, sweden, georgia, moldova
with ukraine especially, they get the black sea
add georgia and all of russia's west is nato's frontline

they'll strangulate russia and unilaterally conduct economic warfare like they're doing on china and cuba that have not invaded anyone
nuclear weapons be damned
if they can collapse the soviet union without firing a shot, they'll aggressive target russia's economy to cause another collapse

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trump is us imperialism without niceties
and the world needs to see this version
not the smooth talking obama
or the charismatic bill clinton
the blunt, abrasive pax americana uncle sam with a top hat

that is the ultimate reason why i supported trump

otherwise you'll still have the delulus in places like brazil and india who think if they twerk a little bit harder the hegemony will wink at them

when the reality is that with the hegemony
the overriding principle is
we will take what we want, when we want, how we want, under any pretext we desire
and the minute you give the impression that you're forgetting this order applies to you, we will either brutalize you directly or make an example of someone else in a way that you wouldn't be able to unsee

-Lord

Must you answer everything with epistle?

Is Trump no longer your MCM?

You use the actions of your own MCM to give a dog a bad name.

https://www.nairaland.com/8598480/russian-army-forces-african-recruits

Okpa and co will change mind after reading this

LordAdam16:
i love how after gaslighting us with
freedom, liberty, democracy, tolerance, equality/equty, values, fundamental human rights, and a million other empty, meaningless words

the mask has dropped and what they've been doing clandestinely is now done openly
we've always maintained this is the real america
this is the real west
this is the real hegemony

not whatever hollywood fiction they've been spouting since the end of WW2
this is the ultimate reason why i supported trump

the world cannot fundamentally change or move past this chapter until we confront this folly that has been the defining trait of 2500 years of western dominance
otherwise we'll just remain cave savages with nicer comforts for the strong and their vassals and immoral poverty for the weak and those who refuse to kneel

-Lord

Is it not your MCM Trump behaving like your MCT Putin, abi you done disown am?

afrodoc2:
Brazil no be Nigeria. Socrates is a midfield GOAT contender for Brazil.

We are just campaigning for Odegbami, Muda, Adokiye, Chairman Chukwu to be considered for Nigeria’s all-time team, not represent the world against an alien team. Allow them drink water and drop cup.

I used to go and watch Amiesimaka play some Sundays in 1994/95, I've forgotten the name of the team he played for, one old boys team. He won't have been more than 38 years old then and he wasn't fantastic. At that age you should be hanging with street level footballers even if you were a decent amateur, but he wasn't a top player in those matches I watched.

afrodoc2:
When you are good you are good.

Socrates was juggling medical school with Brazilian league.

Adokiye made the national team only in his final year of university . We have secondary school age boys making national teams regularly now.

Socrates was playing for Corinthians, Adokiye was playing for Unilag, big difference

Joezinho:
Not gonna lie bro, chidi Odiah is levels. He can dribble too. Dude was Reece James before Reece James. An insane technician at RB.
He and Christian Obodo were my favourite players of that set esp for their aesthetic.
Can't forget Odiah masterclass against Enakharire sporting Lisbon in the 2005 UEFA cup final

Odiah and Obodo were very good, hampered by injuries and SE overall performance hence not in consideration

afrodoc2:
82 from 80 is a long time but you dey use 1974 Zaire performance judge them.

You didn’t use 1982 performance of the Algeria dey flogged 3-0.
You didn’t use 1978 performance of the Tunisia that barely scraped past them but flogged Mexico 3-1 and battled Boniek and Lato’s Poland gamely to a 1-0 loss.

I dey feel you, but how was Amiesimaka juggling lectures with playing for Super Eagles?

Skimpledawg:
This scenario still hurts me.

Adingra turned Aina to semo that day and provided the assist that booted us out.

Aina ko

Aina was injured that game and was forced onto the pitch by Peseiro. After that game, Aina did not play again till season end. Nottingham Forest medics looked at him when he returned and sent him straight to the medic, that was his last game of the season

afrodoc2:
Stop that breakdance.

The Algerian team that Odegbami, Muda, Adokiye, and Owo Blow slaughtered 3-0 in Lagos in 1980 went to 82 World Cup and won 2 games including defeating tournament favourites West Germany.

82 from 80 is a long time. Rabah Madjer done ripe by 82

airmark:
At the same National stadium where Raumdeuter's Kanu missed an awoof Pk in the Afcon final, Segun Odegbami scored twice in the Afcon final in 1982.

Odegbami must enter the list.

The only reason I'm sceptical about the level of football in the 1970s and early 80s when Odegbami held sway was how poor Zaire were in the World Cup and they were dominant in Africa.

Adokiye Amiesimaka who was the 3rd star of the team behind Odegbami and Muda Lawal (and very close to their level) was a law student in Unilag and barely had any club career yet was running things in National Team. Imagine going from Law Class to National team and still running things, then back to school same evening

Muda Lawal was a mechanic who offed his mechanic overall and within the same year was already playing for Super Eagles

Level was low in Odegbamis time, can't really compare him to players in 1990s

@ Afrodoc2, do you know why Mike Obiku was shunned by Super Eagles? I mean, this is a stellar record

KingTom:
My own be say why the werey no allow make dem sell am to the cotton plantations in America no be life we dey live so o

So you want make your ancestors suffer so you go enjoy? By now you fit dey set-trip for Compton instead of holding stethoscope

KingTom:
Mine too, infact those who went out of line within the same family/clan were sold, our Progenitor would've been sold too but he foolishly went and appeased the family head with epo and livestock

My great-great grandfather kept slaves and there is a written interview online with one of his slaves from Umahia, na normal thing

airmark:

You be senior man, probably you didn't watch some of his highlights back then like i did.

Odegbami has a great case, I can't argue. It's not easy to be Nigeria's top goalscorer from the wing, but I can't speak on football from Black and White era based on few highlights from one tournament