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Kog45:
I think Poland friendly should be a real test.

Let us even see that video where he conceded 2 goals and start knowing his weakness.

The Poland game is a friendly. It may not be as competitive as we have anticipated.

BascoVanVeli:
Manu didn't throw them away, at least not because they were NPFL players. Remember Sokari played a big role in the world cup and at the AYC we had Nwobodo, Ojo and Pyagbara who were all NPFL players at the time.

What do you mean by Manu did not throw Etebor and Ajayi away? Were they part of Manu's team after the screening?

Kog45:
Haha stop it or council of elders would summons you,our President believe we are not going for fashion show but football.

You dey mind TheSuperNerd, na him go Fes begin dey fantasize about the Jersey

Kog45:
icon4s and issue of Nigeria WC keeper na 5 & 6.

Sebi we have seen a lot for Akpeyi, Ezenwa and of late Ajiboye. Let us also see Uzoho naa. Abi that one bad again? Hahaha

Kog45:
Oga icon4s i think some people see it as a sin to be in NPFL for so long even if the player is damn good.

Pls check out Sunday Rotimi,do we say Akpeyi,Ezenwa and Ajiboye are better than him?NO but if Rohr call him,the first question that would be on people's lips is age forgetting that he is a solid keeper with experience of NPFL and European football.

I think we need more update on truly young players in NPFL league so that even if they spent 4 years in the league nobody would cry foul when they are call to national team.

And the only means of un-earthing these young NPFL players is the U20.

I personally do not rate NPFL players who are 25 and above. But I rate highly NPFL players who are U20.

Was it not Manu that threw away Karo Etebor and Junior Ajayi from his U20 selection probably because they were NPFL players.Thank God Siasia considered them for the U23. With the exception of Simon, Etebor even got a Super Eagles call before any other of those Manu 20 boys. Can you look at Etebor tand Ajayi today and not say they are good products of the NPFL? Same goes for Kingsley Sokari.

Was the young Shehu Abdulahi in 2014 not in the NPFL?

We should not select NPFL players for the U20 so we should go pack armatures from the academies to play the U20?
Mtcheew.

TheSuperNerd:
Uzoho Denied 11th Clean Sheet As Valladolid Beat Real Deportivo Fabril
By Johnny Edward

https://www.completesportsnigeria.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Enrico-Uzoho1-600x400.jpg

Nigeria goalkeeper Francis Uzoho conceded twice while in action for Real Deportivo Fabril who lost 2-1 to Real Valladolid II in Sunday’s Segunda Division B league game, Completesportsnigeria.com reports.
Goals from Mario Robles and Luis Javier Suárez denied the Nigerian international his 11 th clean sheet of the season in the Spanish third tier.
The 19-year-old who will be named in Nigeria’s squad for next month’s friendlies against Poland and Serbia has now conceded nine goals this season in 15 league games for Real Deportivo Fabril.
Despite losing their 13 th game this season, Real Deportivo Fabril are still third in the table with 47 points from 27 games.
Real Deportivo Fabril will face 14th-placed Coruxo F.C in their next game.


Source: https://www.completesportsnigeria.com/uzoho-denied-11th-clean-sheet-valladolid-beat-real-deportivo-fabril/


Russia 2018 WC Countdown: 107 days 23 hours 53 mins to go

Does anybody have the video highlights of the game?

Mujtahida:
If you notice you'd discover that I don't discuss player's ages. Yesterday was kinda my first time. One cannot discuss the issue because it's murky and our information is all hearsay. None of us can actually prove that a particular player is overaged, so its better to do siddon look.

You just nailed it.

I hate it when people accuse players of overage when they don't have any concrete evidence.

Bring up a valid evidence and not hearsay and let's drop the player simple.

Humility017:
what if I know more than 90%....?

You don't!

Humility017:
that's not a reason to shed the recent released under 20 list by the grade team coaches...

how possible is it for a player who has featured over 2 years in the league to still be 18 years of age?

sometimes we should always tell ourselves the truth....

Are you saying you don't know there are a lot of 15 -17 years olds currently playing in the NPFL?

Two notable clubs: MFM and Kano Pillars.

I am also sure you know the 15 years old Nur of Elkanemi.

2 years from now, will those boys still not qualify for to play the U20?

tbaba1234:
Nigerians are so used to dishonesty that it is difficult to see anyone as not cheating.

Even in politics, the average Nigerian views politics as a way to get rich so a politician not stealing is viewed as an anomaly.

Yes, generalisation is always the easy way out.

tbaba1234:
Uzoho was picked by Aspire academy from a secondary school competition. He is just a big boy and his beards is making him look older.

Just watch as people mostly outside here will criticize his age when he starts featuring in the friendlies.

I know how hard it took me to on convince some people outside about Iheanacho's age. They still don't believe me. And I have given up on that already.

komekn:
Is that Uzoho on the left wow he looks really matured for an 18 /19 year old he looks like man of 25 looks like he can easily compete with men at the senior level.

Very good.

If he had not gone through the compulsory MRI now, Age-cheating allegations would have been flying here there.

Mujtahida:
I do wish them well.
We should shift our focus from winning at u17 and u20 levels to unearthing talents. Look at the Manu u17 set. See how a good number of them are in the SE. Not that we should not win ooo but let that be secondary. We can concentrate on winning for the u23 and SE. U20 and u17 should be used to freshen the dream team and SE.

That has always been the focus-to unearth talent.

But a team need to do creditably well first before you will notice any talents among them. Look at the last Manu's U17 that crashed to the same Niger we are facing in the U20 qualifiers. How many talented players did we discover from there?Why? because they crashed out too early.

No youth player should be denied the privilege of playing for the U20 team because of perceived age-cheating allegations. If any player is found guilty of age falsification, with valid evidences, that player should be dropped.

Mujtahida:
Aight. Thanks for the info. Let's just keep our fingers crossed.

UWC.
We can only wish the team well.

Mujtahida:
Dem no dey do. Agreed. Why? Is there a reason whether scientific or legal as in FIFA policy?I really don't know and would like to be enlightened.

I don't know if the MRI scans are accurate or not but I do know that they have significantly helped us from taking Chrisantuses to the u17

I am only talking about what is possible given the kind of society we live in but from your first response to this second one you have interpreted what I posit as possibilities to be fact.

It's okay. I don't discuss players ages. I only strayed today. I cannot debate where for instance somebody says Nigeria is corrupt. It's not perception. I might not have evidence but many, the overwhelming majority of our players are age cheats.

Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is a radiological technique to project images of the bones(anatomy). There are certain fusion of bones not expected for boys that are 17 years old or less. Which is why it is used for U17. At ages above 17 such bone fusions would have taken plays in most boys. This is why the MRI cannot be applied at the U20 level.

Please this age cheating allegations without even knowing the boys is a distraction. Let the NFF and the coaches sort out the players' documentations and start preparations and playing series of friendlies.

Niger will not be a push over as they took part in the last U17 WC.

Any player that is found to have controversies with his age should be dropped. And we move on please.

Mujtahida:
Sorry but you didn't get my point. I am saying that even if FIFA doesn't do MRI for u20 we should do it for ourselves knowing how deep seated our problem is. That's why I asked whether there's any law prohibiting us from adopting MRI scan for both the U17 and u20 age grade competitions. I am only making suggestions on how to curb age cheating.

Haaaa, where did I say that they presented affidavits?
at the bolded. Please read me correctly cos this is a thorough misrepresentation of what I said. It's just like I say: for instance Mike stole...... Then Mike says I said he stole. How na?

I only used the affidavit point to illustrate the point that your assertion that anybody who has evidence or proof should step forward or forever keep shut. I am saying it's not so easy as you make it seem because for example a 30 year old man can become 20 by mere declaration.And I know it's quite rife in Nigeria not to talk of among footballers with their eyes set on juicy prospects. What evidence can I bring to counter that? Talking about age discrepancies: how many will be caught by that trap knowing how dubious we are.

If we want to solve the problem we cannot say: unless you have evidence or proof then forever keep shut. With that approach Sire, may I present to you the present u20 team.

I don't get into discourse on players ages cos it's murky waters for me talking about what my eyes can see but I cannot proof. It's just like knowing somebody committed a crime but you cannot proof it. One would always be defeated. So the best I do is to avoid the discussion cos it's futile.

Oga, again, I say dem no dey do MRI for players at the U20 age category. At that age MRI results are mostly not accurate.

Is it not Nur(15 years old), Nazifi(Former U17 even passed MRI), and the former U17 captain(also passed MRI) that I saw on that list? I don't know most of the other last U17 players by name, some may also be on that list.

All these your allegations of overage are just based on your perception. You don't know 90% of those players.

If you don't want us to pick from the NPFL where do you want us to pick from?

This is just the early phase of camping, foreign based players would be added as the preparations and qualifiers proceed.

Mujtahida:
This issue of evidence or proof as far as players ages are concerned is a blackhole. You know as e de be. All it takes is for a player born 30 years ago to swear to an affidavit that he is 20 years old. Legally speaking even if you challenge the age of a person with 'proofs or evidence' (and what can that be other than to say I know so and so player was born so and so year therefore he cannot be 20) once his Father or mother says he is so and so age all your evidence and proofs will be discarded because the law presumes that nobody can know the age of a person more than his father or mother. And pray tell me, with football being a money spinner today which Papa or Mama go spoil him pikin own by telling the truth? Unless your evidence is the birth certificate of the player, just forget it. That's why I no dey put mouth on issues related to players ages.

NFF can curb this if they desire. 20 years ago was 1998 not 1958, 1968, or 1978. NFF should either insist on getting the birth certificates of these players or get their primary school records or conduct MRI tests on them even if FIFA does it only for the u - 17. Abi can't we adopt it as our own in-house policy? Is there any FIFA laws that prohibits it? Cos to my mind killing this age cheating bug is so easy if we want to kill it. This is a specie of corruption that exists within a very narrow field that we can easily combat.

Dem dey organize MRI for U20 again?

Were you part of the players' documentation? what makes you feel they presented sworn affidavit rather than birth certificates?

Any one found with age falsification should be dropped. Simple

Humility017:
oga icon....so you support these under 20 coach over age list...?
look through the npfl and tell...me how many true under 20 age players can you find?...and here a coach made a list where you've players that have been playing in the npfl for the past 3 years and you see honesty in that...
ndidi left all the way from academics and today the rest is history, likewise nancho and co.

most young and hungry talented players can better be found in academics...I am telling you the truth....I still remember how manu garba under 20 team took the bunch of npfl best to the cleaners during the super 6 tourney...

let him not restrict his invitation to the npfl...but also to the nationwide league and academics......

the essence of this tourney is not just to win the under 20 world cup but.also to groom players for the future to take over from the ones we currently have....if this reason is jeopardized I fear...that years to come we will never stop seeking and longing for foreign groomed players to come play for us.....

I can bet you don't even know 90% of those players on that list.

So just say what you know.

Everybody forming celebrity. Who be this one again?

GetUmad:


Nigerians are NATURALLY full of hate. Don't mind those people who'd never have good things to say about you so far they don't have any ties with you. That's what Nigerians have turned into.

You should ask them if she's the only with "gifted oil blocks" (according to them). Why aren't they criticising others? Is it because she's the only one who, obviously has Midas touch and happened to be much more successful in such investment compared to others? Is it her fault that she had the "gift" and she was able to make it a success story?


Finally, all of you hating and spitting rubbish about her, if you were giving same opportunity/offer, would you turn it down? That's what I thought! Bunch of Hypocrites.

You lots go about begging for jobs{ based on MAN-KNOW-MAN} and positions you don't deserve or merit, while some of y'all are currently working in a place where you were only able to get that offer cos you knew someone that knew someone who helped you and not because you deserved it while people who merited the job are still waiting for their follow up emails since last interview. Most of y'all shared testimonies in your religious places how your "God" gave you the job, while the non-religious ones celebrated it with bottles of beer with friends. Some ladies here slept with lecturers or pretended to be in love with male lecturers to scale through some hurdles in school. Same thing with some guyz that sorted or famz with lecturers to have a good grade, yet they'd still attribute it to God's doing.

Did she commit any known crime having such? Then take her to court. She can attribute her success to any thing she deems fit. It's her life. If you don't like it help yourself.

Y'all should stop this holier-than-thou bull.shit. Live and let's live.

Don't mind them, the person they are calling illiterate house maid was talking about an Oil Block they are talking about an Oil well. Who is now the illiterate.

waveman2:
But Nigerian government allocate oil block to individuals with company names. Just listen to yourself.

Is it not an individual that will head a company or consortium?

The government awards the blocks to companies or a consortium which must obviously be headed by an Individual. It is not the individual the government awards it to. It is the company, consortium or group.

Arondizuogu:
She was a seamstress, how did she get to know investors? Was it not through Miriam Babangida and IBB? She wouldn't even afford that block even if it were auctioned off by the Govt. Zuckerberg and Co can give account of how they started, but can our Nigeria Billionaires do that? Almost all of them got Govt contracts.. They guy you quoted was right.. Making it big in this country without knowing anyone at the corridor of power is slim.. Yes she took it by "faith" and got oil but the process of her getting it is what I want to know.
To me I think all these are dummy companies, that famfa hasn't even put out an advertising for employment, you would be surprised that they don't even pay taxes and if a seamstress can get an oil block, guess how many those big former generals have? Jesus Nigeria might not get better till the world ends if we continue like this

So because Famfa has not recruited for Fresh graduates recently , they are a dummy company?

What if I tell you that two of my close associates in the profession work their. They got recruited by Famfa Oil.

COMPAQ:
In all likelihood she probably didn't pay any money for it from her own pocket. Knowing Nigeria and IBB, I am 100% sure it was simply ALLOCATED to her.

With respect to the Capex that you talk about, Chevron took all the risk to invest. The structure is Chevron invests and if they strike oil, chevron uses oil to repay themselves of the equity she ought to have provided upfront. Only when it is fully paid back in oil will she now begin to reap rewards. So the initial risk is 100% to chevron and 0% to her. It is a risk chevron would have been willing to take because of their huge size.

There is another block I know off owned by another shadow Nigerian company. They have aJV with a multinational oil company who has not yet decided whether to develop that block. Do you know that the IOC pays that company millions of dollars every year just to remain as partner even though no work is going on?

Another Nigerian billionaire oil and gas person adding no value.

To your first paragraph, the government does not Allocate Oil blocks to an individual.

The Block which has the Agbami Field today was awarded to Texaco and Famfa Oil (OPL 216). Today the partners in that block are StarDeep petroleum (a subsidiary of Chevron), Famfa Oil, Petrobras, Statoil and NNPC. Star Deep which are the deep water arm of Chevron were granted operatorship.

The JV terms which is a Production Sharing contract (PSC) has Chevron with the lion share of the development phase with the other working interests coming from statoil and Petrobras. Famfa were "carried" (Financially) in the arrangement.

The Venture was a huge success. Famfa was part of it so why should they not share in the success story?

How many indigenous Nigerian E and P companies are even operators? The NPDC(a subsidiary of NNPC) is Nigeria's(indigenous) largest E and P. But what is their production like?

The entrepreneurs that will take inspiration from her story will take it.

Give credit to whom credit is due please.

Hungarriman:
See,i understand where you are coming from.But the point here, is not about whether she received an oil block or oil well. The point here, is that there is nothing challenging about her story to upcoming entrepreneurs. I don't think one needs faith to receive a gift of which you have nothing to lose. I don't even think she had much of a choice about the condition of the gift she received. If she had told her story without trying to be vague, thereby leaving loopholes in it, i doubt we would be having all this hullabaloo about her story. I think she should chose a better storyline next time.

I am glad you have an idea of where I am coming from.

But let me clear this, no government gave anybody any Oil Block as a gift!

Do you know why they are regarded as a gift? Because of the cost of acquiring those blocks as compared to the huge revenues later recovered from them. This thing you guy think are gifts were worth hundreds of millions in Dollars.

Prio to the discovery of huge fields like Agbami, Bonga and Erha, the deep offshore were no go areas. No business man would want to invest his money where they knew there were several limitations ranging from lack of available detailed Geological data to Lack of technical expertise and experience among others.

The government had to give out those offshore blocks to potential investors at a cheaper price compared to those onshore as an incentive to attract them towards it and then which in turn will boost our Oil reserves. Which is a win-win scenario.

Let's even say (as you guys think) she was given the block for free. Do you know the amount of Capital investment (CAPEX) that will go into such a block before you will get to the stage of Drilling the first well? What if after spending so much and then drill wells and the wells are dry? And you say she has nothing to lose? Do you know how much it costs to even drill wells offshore?

Please if we don't know about certain issues let's ask questions before making comments

Folorunsho Alakija's story cannot be beneficial to every entrepreneur. It is for only those that understand the nitty gritty of the Oil business.

I would like to sit with her and share from her success story on that Oil Block.

FarahAideed:
A certified herpes carrying loser like Ogundamisi that has always survived of other has nothing to tell Alakija who Know what it is to be a believer and persist on till a dream comes to fruition , something losers like Ogundamisi can never know about ... you think it's easy to accept an oil block in deep deep offshore where no company was will to go or even had the expertise to go as at then.

Tell them abeg.

I would personally like to meet with Folorunsho Alakija to share from her success story on that Deep water Block.

Toks2008:
Exactly what I believe she was expressing here but Nigerians have no chill...they twisted it as people usually twist my write ups on nairaland. ..lol!

And even more appalling is a woman they are calling an illiterate house maid is talking about an Oil Block and they(including Kayode) are talking about an Oil Well.

Who is now the illiterate?

Desyner:
I don't blame her because some oil blocks are not so economically viable to attract any skilled or experienced owners. If everyone was avoiding a oil block, then is says something important about that oil block perceived profitability.

This is about the only reasonable comment on this thread.

Our youths that are even aspiring to break into the Oil industry know nothing about the business.

To start with they don't even know the difference between a Well and an Oil Block.

Too bad.

tbaba1234:
Icon4s, see Ezenwa reckless rushing out against Cameroon that led to a penalty...The Striker was going nowhere and Ekong had it covered..

See the distance between Ezenwa and the ball in the second frame, a good keeper would have checked his run when he figured that the defender had it covered.

The man was not going to score from that angle

This what you have been hanging on to all along. I have seen this video severally. This is not enough to axe the goalie from the team.

We have goalkeepers trainers in the crew. They have to do their job.

IFearGod:
What does this woman wants the youths to learn from this BS?....'that we can make it with an oil block'? She turned a billionaire overnight at the expense of the masses and has contributed nothing to better the lives of the unemployed youths. To even call this a hard work is a slap on the face.
Maybe youths should be given oil blocks too and see how we turn things around. The so called company hasn't even organized a free and fair recruitment since inception. In a sane environment this woman supposed to be behind the bar for this BS and all processes for allocating the oil block be reviewed.

You obviously do not know the details of turning a Block into a money spinning venture.

Toks2008:
I don't know why people are quoting her out of context.

From what I understand,she accepted a non functional well that has zero potential of profitability but having the faith that she will turn it around and that came to pass.

I don't know but this is my own idea of what she wrote.

She didn't say she accepted any Well. She accepted a block!

Wells are drilled after several Exploration activities, and several field development plans have been carried out.

It is a very tedious process that involves expertise, time and very importantly money.

Even that Kayode is just talking like an illiterate. Cos from his statement he doesn't know the difference between a Well and a block.

I believe the Woman's story. It takes Faith to accept a Green block when you are not sure whether you'll strike oil or not.

But what she didn't tell us the source of funding the project.

Kog45:
....even Sunday Olishe 'oh sorry icon4s 'Oliseh' was a flopped at Juventus and Dortmund and loaned to Bochum.

Oliseh had just 8 appearance for Juventus and 54 appearance(2000-2004)for Dortmund meaning he spent 4 years with average of 13 appearance per year in 3 seasons and 15 in a season,not good enough.

We rate this old players like super regulars whereas most of them were just too average in their various clubs.

This is what we are saying during the discussion of comparing 94 set with present team but those of us who watched 94 set knew this present team is not bad as some always saying they are average.

Kanu like Kluivert were not regular at Ajax cos they are just coming up and need to watch Litmanen doing the job but Finidi George was a super regular.

One thing about the 94class, they were not so Super at Club level but they were Super in the green and white jerseys. Remember it was during that generation that the name was changed from Green Eagles to Super Eagles.

Players like, Eguavoen, Nwannu, Iroha and Okechukwu, go look at their club statistic. Below average or average at best. But when we saw these "MEN" in the Eagles jerseys it was as if they were "Voltrons-the defenders of the Universe.

It took the trickery of Diego Maradona and Claudio Caniggia and also the sleekness of Roberto Baggio to break that defense in that WC. These 3 players are like the equivalents of Messi, Aguero and Harry Kane of today.

A DM like Oliseh, the only major wrong footing he put in his Eagles career was to attempt to disposes Baggio, rather than Clearing out the ball. Ndidi his current equivalent has yet to give us what Oliseh gave us those days. Oliseh aside his defensive abilities was an excellent creator. 40-50% of Yekini's goals or attempt at goal from 93-94 came from Oliseh's assists. Ndidi is more of a blocker/stopper which also was Oliseh.

The WC is a difficult mountain to climb o. Every game is like a final. Rohr and his boys need to really up their game to beat Croatia first. That game I know will likely seal our fate. It is just an equivalent of our Bulgaria opening game in 1994. Argentina was also in that group and let's equate Greece with Iceland, though this Iceland team is better than that 94 Greek team.

Kog45:
My man mentioning name of a player by Rohr in an interview doesn't mean the player is on his way to Russia.

It's left for Echiejele to prove himself like wise Aina,Idowu,Ebuhei and Shehu,so let's wait for the friendlies.

Na so.