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Nominations for name of the Best Midfielder award:
Thompson Oliha:1
Samuel Okwaraji: 3
Muda Lawal: 1.

ChrisKels and TheSuperNerd we await your nominations.

forgiveness:
That is it.

Ok. No controversy. We move on.

forgiveness:
I do not know what Samuel Okparaji and Thompson Oliha did/won that they should be considered ahead Muda Lawal who contributed to winning the first AFCON with two goals and assists, huh?

Please confirm you are nominating Muda Lawal.

BTW I hope u know Oliha won the AFCON and played at the 1994 WC.

Okwaraji died playing for Nigeria in a crutial WCQ plus he featured prominently at the 1988 AFCON and scored in the semi against Algeria.

Besides, when we were considering late players to honor why didn't u come up with Muda Lawal.

If you are nominating him now. No wahala. It is your choice.

Icon4s:
Guys do we tag the Best Midfielder award as Samuel Okwaraji award or Thompson Oliha award? Please indicate your preference.

Cc: TheSuperNerd, ChrisKels, Tbaba1234, Komekn, Forgiveness, Joebie.

ChrisKels, Forgiveness, TheSuperNerd we are waiting on your preference on this.

Icon4s:
Guys do we tag the Best Midfielder award as Samuel Okwaraji award or Thompson Oliha award? Please indicate your preference.

Cc: TheSuperNerd, ChrisKels, Tbaba1234, Komekn, Forgiveness, Joebie.

Samuel Okwaraji

Joebie:

Why you dey shine teeth.

Leave my guy abeg. E no easy. Lol!

Icon4s:
Gentle men, what do we do about TheSuperNerd. Do we co-opt someone else to replace him or we just move on without his position. Meanwhile, I suggest we extend nominations for another 24hrs to allow Komekn tidy up his nominations and to allow for any late replacement for TheSuperNerd.

Cc: Tbaba1234, Joebie, ChrisKels, Forgiveness, Komekn.

Gents I need your feedback on this. If by 6pm and we don't come to a landing then we move on.

komekn:
My "FINAL" nominations are as follows ;

1. Nigerian Player of the Year:
Odion lghalo, Wilfred Ndidi, Alex Iwobi

2. SE Home based player of the year:
Ebube Duru, Ikuowem Utin, Junior Lokosa.

3. Most impactful New Inclusion (2018):
Ebuehi, Mohammed Usan , Ola Aina

4. Best Goalkeeper (Best Ogedengbe Award):
Akpeyi, Uzoho, Ezenwa

5. Best Defender (Stephen Keshi Award):
Balogun, Troost-Ekong, Ebuehi

6. Best Midfielder (Oliha/Okwaraji Award):
Mikel Obi, Alex Iwobi, Etebo

7. Best Attacker (Rashidi Yekini Award):
Victor Moses, Odion Ighalo, Ahmed Musa,

8. Most improved player (2018)
Ahmed Musa, Odion Ighalo, Etebo

9. Young Player of the Year
Wilfred Ndidi, Kelechi Nwakali, Uzoho

10. Super Falcons player of the year:
T. Oluehi, Onome Ebi & Fransisca Ordega.

11. Super Eagles Goal of the Year.
Odion Ighalo ( Libya 2nd leg)
Ahmed Musa (1st goal Iceland)
S. Kalu ( Libya Uyo)

Chairman na you dey do us like this?

Still on your new inclusions Tyrone Ebuehi made his debute against Togo in a friendly in 2017. So he is not elligible. And Mohammed Usman featured under Stephen Keshi in 2014. He also is not qualified either. Ola Aina featured in the WCQ. So he too is not eligible.

Let me help u with the list of 2018 New Inclusions so you can chose your best 3:
Simeon Nwankwo, Jamilu Collins, Kelechi Nwakali, Samuel Kalu, Semi Ajayi, Samuel Chukwueze. These are the ones that were invited and got to feature. So u pick any 3 from amogst them.

1. Computers
2. Personal Protective Equipments
3. Some times with a microscope

Na Nollywood Drama?
Or what is Franscis Duru doing in that first pix?

nnachukz:
Creating more rooms for their paddy to be absorbed into the chop chop scheme. If you know, you know.

Did you read the post at all?

komekn:
Agreed without reservation

You are expressing in different words my view that you can't jump to any conclusions about TOP QUALITY with youth players.

Certainly not after a few games.

Chief your attention is urgently needed at the committee. The deadline is today please.

tbaba1234:
Solanke was scoring goals for fun at youth level and has done zilch at senior level. What about Akpom? Arturo Lupoli? Scoring at youth level does not mean you will be given a chance at senior level.

For every wayne Rooney, there are maybe 10 other talented youngsters that were wasted at youth level and are now play non-league football.

It is like a pyramid bro. The higher you go the thinner the number of players that will leave up to expectations. And this trend starts right from the U20. But that is a general principle Sha. Only very few people in life become exceptional as u go up the ladder.

komekn:
2. SE Home based player of the year: Junior Lokosa


3. Most impactful New Inclusion (2018): Brian Idowu, Semi Ajayi, Jamilu Collins

Brian Idowu debuted in 2017 against Argentina. He is not elligible

And please make the modifications on the original post with which u nominated sake of easy collations.

komekn:
I am not sure what you mean.

Origi came to Wolfsburg and immediately benched Osimhen that's just plain fact no sentiment. So dont think its an issue of Rubbishing Osimhen because he was clearly better.

So if Origi is below average what does that make Osimhen

Bros, your attention is needed at the committee.

BascoVanVeli:
‘We remain hosts of 2021 Nations Cup’ - Ivory Coast

By Oluwashina Okeleji

Football Writer, France

5 hours ago
From the section African
So
The Ivorian Football Federation (FIF) insists neither they nor the Ivorian government have been informed by the Confederation of African Football (Caf) of a possible shift in their hosting of the Africa Cup of Nations in 2021.

The Ivorian Federation reacted to an interview Caf president Ahmad gave to Afrique Media TV on Monday when Ahmad said that Cameroon - stripped of the 2019 hosting rights - would replace Ivory Coast as hosts in 2021 and the latter would instead stage the 2023 tournament.

"We made this decision to shift, because we saw that Ivory Coast also is not ready for 2021. To do things in a more humane way, in 2021, the Cameroonians will be ready.

"And in 2023, we will organise the tournament in Ivory Coast. This is the decision taken by the Caf Executive Committee on November 30, 2018 in Accra," Ahmad said.

A letter from Ahmad to the Cameroon President Paul Biya dated 30 November 2018, seen by BBC Sport, has also surfaced in Cameroon where Ahmad has invited Cameroon to host the 2021 Nations Cup.

However, FIF revealed in a statement on Tuesday, that it has written to Caf to remind the body of the decision it took in 2014, and said the "Federation deplores this way of proceeding."

"It is reported that the Ivorian state authorities and the leaders of the Ivorian Football Federation have been approached by the Confederation of African Football (Caf) and that they would have been consulted on the recent decision taken by the Executive Committee of the said Confederation regarding the organisation of CAN 2021 which has been designated to the Ivory Coast, by the unanimous members of the Caf Executive Committee meeting in Addis Ababa in September 2014, following a successful bid," the Ivorian Federation stated. 

"The Ivorian Football Federation wishes to formally deny this allegation. No Ivorian state authority, nor any leader of the Federation, at any level whatsoever, has been contacted or approached by the African Football Confederation before taking this decision.

"In addition, President Augustin Sidy Diallo was in Accra to attend the final of the CAN Women and at no time was he informed by any leader of the African Football Confederation with regards to anything relating to this subject."

Caf, which is still looking for a new host for the 2019 Nations Cup, has not made any official statement on the reported swap and some top officials told the BBC that only president Ahmad or the general-secretary Amr Fahmy can confirm this latest development.

Guinea, who were given hosting rights for 2023, would also be affected by this shift. Guinea, which has never hosted the competition, promised to use Conakry, Kankan, Labe and Nzerekore as venues.

Back in October, Ivory Coast Prime Minister Amadou Gon Coulibaly had laid the foundation stone of a brand new football stadium in Yamoussoukro as work commenced in preparation for the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations.

Hundreds of people were present at the site for the 20,000-capacity stadium in the political capital, which is expected to be one of six venues for the tournament.

Coulibaly promised a budget of 300 million euros ($345 million) investment in infrastructure in preparation of the country's first hosting of the event since 1984.

Work on a separate 60,000-capacity stadium in Abidjan began in 2016, while other new grounds are scheduled at San Pedro and Korhogo, and the renovation of a major stadium at Bouake (40,000) is also on the agenda.

This Ahmad guy is a Big Joke.

mostob:
The flying eagles are partaking in WAFU this month and this thread is dry like this. ..

The tournament is starting tomorrow. Maybe then we may start having some traffic here.

Attention now seems to be more on the Super Eagles thread.

Gentle men, what do we do about TheSuperNerd. Do we co-opt someone else to replace him or we just move on without his position. Meanwhile, I suggest we extend nominations for another 24hrs to allow Komekn tidy up his nominations and to allow for any late replacement for TheSuperNerd.

Cc: Tbaba1234, Joebie, ChrisKels, Forgiveness, Komekn.

Icon4s:
Forgiveness, we are still expecting your 3rd nominee for the Best SE Home Based player award.

Completed nominations seen. Thanks.

Icon4s:
Thanks for the response.
But:
1) You only nominated 2 home based players. It should be 3.
2) All the players u included in "most Impactful new inclusions (2018)" are not elligible because they were included in 2017. We are nominating 2018 inclusions. I am sure you know those players. Thanks once again. Expecting a quick response.

Komekn, we are extending these nominations for another 24 hours for you to correct the above. It will be assumed that u have not done nominations for those two categories and we will move ahead after 6pm (Nairaland time) tomorrow and collate only completed nominations.

Forgiveness, we are still expecting your 3rd nominee for the Best SE Home Based player award.

Guys do we tag the Best Midfielder award as Samuel Okwaraji award or Thompson Oliha award? Please indicate your preference.

Cc: TheSuperNerd, ChrisKels, Tbaba1234, Komekn, Forgiveness, Joebie.

komekn:
My nominations are as follows with amendments ;

1. Nigerian Player of the Year:
Odion lghalo, Wilfred Ndidi, Alex Iwobi

2. SE Home based player of the year:
Ebube Duru, Ikuowem Utin,

3. Most impactful New Inclusion (2018):
Ebuehi, Brian Idowu, Aina

4. Best Goalkeeper (Best Ogedengbe Award):
Akpeyi, Uzoho, Ezenwa

5. Best Defender (Stephen Keshi Award):
Balogun, Troost-Ekong, Ebuehi

6. Best Midfielder (Oliha/Okwaraji Award):
Mikel Obi, Alex Iwobi, Etebo

7. Best Attacker (Rashidi Yekini Award):
Victor Moses, Odion Ighalo, Ahmed Musa,

8. Most improved player (2018)
Ahmed Musa, Odion Ighalo, Etebo

9. Young Player of the Year
Wilfred Ndidi, Kelechi Nwakali, Uzoho

10. Super Falcons player of the year:
T. Oluehi, Onome Ebi & Fransisca Ordega.

11. Super Eagles Goal of the Year.
Odion Ighalo ( Libya 2nd leg)
Ahmed Musa (1st goal Iceland)
S. Kalu ( Libya Uyo)

Thanks for the response.
But:
1) You only nominated 2 home based players. It should be 3.
2) All the players u included in "most Impactful new inclusions (2018)" are not elligible because they were included in 2017. We are nominating 2018 inclusions. I am sure you know those players. Thanks once again. Expecting a quick response.

I don't know how this Chukwueze vs Mbappe comparison came about.

There is no room for comparison please.

komekn:
Actually Mbappe is barely five months older than Chukwueze.

When Chukwueze was playing youth football Mbappe was already playing first team football for Monaco . Indeed he has had three seasons of first team in France with top teams.

Although only 19 he is a young experienced first team player who is in fourth season of professional football. In addition he has had 28 caps for France. With due respect, do we have any player that can get into the French national team ❓ ❓

Essentially there is no comparison between Chukwueze and Mbappe.

And if Mbappe was in Villareal he would be one of the top scorers in La Liga even with a Villarreal in the relegation zone.

Komekn, you have not done your nominations. Our time is running out.

Joebie:
Tammy declares for Nigeria. Pinnick forgives his son.

Well, but no automatic place for him. He has to prove that he will add to the value chain.

Thanks to those that have completed their nominations thus far.

After this nominations stage we still need to collate and vote where there are ties in number of nominations some players will get. Ties may or may not occur but we have to factor it into the time frame. We also need to firm up the name for the Best Midfielder award. We have Sam Okwaraji and Thompson Oliha.

Every project must be time bound. And so I suggest 6pm(Nairaland time) on Wednesday 5th December as deadline for submission of nominations. After which two members will be saddled with the responsibility of collating the nominations. And then we move ahead with the General voting by the house.

Only TheSuperNerd and Komekn are yet to submit nominations. The house is waiting on you both please. While Forgiveness is to complete his number of nominations for the SE home Based player award.

cc: Tbaba1234, Joebie, Forgiveness, ChrisKels, Komekn, TheSuperNerd.

forgiveness:
1. Nigerian Player of the Year: Ahmed Musa, Victor Moses & Wilfred Ndidi
2. SE Home based player of the year: Eze, Dayo Ojo(MVP - Chan).
3. Most impactful New Inclusion (2018): Bryan Idowu (WC ), Uzoho(WC), Samuel Kalu
4. Best Goalkeeper (Best Ogedengbe Award): Uzoho, Ajiboye(Chan), Akpeyi
5. Best Defender (Stephen Keshi Award): Balogun, Troost-Ekong, Omeruo (WC performance mainly)
6. Best Midfielder (Oliha/Okwaraji Award): Wilfred Ndidi, Mikel Obi, Alex Iwobi
7. Best Attacker (Rashidi Yekini Award): Victor Moses, Ahmed Musa, Ighalo
8. Most improved player (2018) Ahmed Musa, Troost, Alex Iwobi
9. Young Player of the Year Wilfred Ndidi, Samuel Kalu, Onyekuru
10. Super Falcons player of the year: Oluechi, Oshoala, Ordega
11. Super Eagles Goal of the Year. Ahmed Musa (1st Goal Iceland) Ahmed Musa (2nd Goal Iceland) Ahmed Musa (1st goal Seychelles)

Your nominations for SE Home based player of the year is not complete.

Rockyrascal:
I was wondering why the hype on Samuel chukwueze here until I watched him play against Barça today.

This guy is a hot asset for the super eagles team, he is never scared to face his opponent when with the ball and I like the way he fast track back to help his RB team mate to maintain the defence line.

That boy Is an asset. Yes, our wings are congested for now but I trust Chukwueze to gradually push his way into the first 11.

I also hope Villarreal can release him for the 2019 WYC if we qualify.

ChrisKels:
Cameroonian side chick kwa? Since when?

You wey want Cameroon to win AWCON.
We are waiting for ur Super Falcons nominees. Abeg go do the needful.