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Wow. How things change. The girl was quite tall in 1997 and today she's kinda biggish. Who would've known?


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You gotta be fecking kidding me! Please don't tell me that this man is planning to use foreign based pros to prosecute the U-17 qualifiers? Somebody really need to call these so called coaches to order: No foreign based pros for the cadet teams until you qualify for the real tournament!

At the U-17 levels (even up to the U-20s) most of our best players are still home-based; these coaches just need to discover them. Unfortunately, laziness wouldn't allow them to do their jobs, they would rather find the already made talents somewhere in the Euro soccer academies.

#Shameless


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tbaba1234:
Manu Garba on foreign based for his under 17:

” We are ready to receive players born abroad who are eligible to play for Nigeria and want to play. You can’t deny them their fundamental right. As a coach I have had some of them in the past. Like Ovie Ejaria at Liverpool but I will like to state here that they won’t be giving any preferential treatment ‎, and they have to be better than the players we have in the team. Merit will be out watchword not where you’re coming from”.

OGN

Cosigning. To me, the only time FIFA ranking merits any discussion is from about two years before the next World Cup. Other than that short widow, the FIFA ranking is totally irrelevant.


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Naijaphobia:
I pray it should henceforth be declared a taboo to discuss any FIFA ranking on this forum. Wetin sef! If we even win the worldcup sef we still drop for FIFA ranking.

Honestly, I am ambivalent about this. First, I believe that we've hosted the U-20 World Cup before. So why don't we go for the real thing: bid to host the main FIFA World Cup? It's either go big or go home, right? If South Africa can do it, I don't see why Nigeria can't.

Second .... (*in the voice of Arnold S* I will be back)

Wow. I am the first person to reply. I need an award for this one, folks


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Much ado about NOTHING. I have not seen the outrage when Cristiano Ronaldo does the same thing. And he does that all the time ... so gimme a freaking break, OK?

When it comes to being petulant, Cristiano Ronaldo takes the cake. Here's someone who grabbed the microphone from the hands of a journalist and threw it into the water! If another player does the same thing, that person would be banned for two months but Cristiano didn't even receive a slap on the wrist; rather they awarded him an undeserved MVP

Tells you all you need to know: the illuminati is running the world ... including the world of football.


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So sad because he actually does have a high football IQ.


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Humility017:
he has a character problem......
emotionally he is very weak

Yea, I do hear about Osu every now and then but I never understood how someone can become an Osu until I read your post.


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Amarabae:
Ya, many people don't know that.
The reason why it is complicated is the attachment to deity.
90% of communities that practice that have abolished it with sacrifice and incantations.

Yup. It's must be federal character. That's what's pulling Nigeria behind. I have actually questioned Pinnick on the criteria for selecting Salisu as the best coach to understudy Rohr. And I recommended to him that Samson Siasia is the right person for the SE's assistant coach. Siasia is the future; hence, the sooner he's seconded to gain more experience by understudying Rohr the better.

But, hey, that's the NFF for you: square pegs in round holes. Tell me how this dude got the U-20 job ahead of Emmanuel Amuneke?

Nigeria, we hail thee.


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Humility017:
couple wit the fact that how that coach got the job still a mystery...

hope the nff is not trying to bring up federal character principle into appointment of national team coaches....?
because left to me....I don't care where the coach hail from..provided he does his job fine....

For the pen, it gotta VicMo for me. Let's hope that Mikel doesn't decide to pull the captain's card tho


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AIG07:
Good names you've reeled out there.

I'm in support of your choice of Mikel. His ability will come handful for 35-40yards and above distances.

But that Onazi is a no no for me. I won't even like to see him stand near our dead balls either far away in our own half or near our opponent's goal,

*who is/are your pick for the pens?*

That's a very good point you raised there, AIG. Any good counter attack team must be deadly at set pieces. Right now, I will pick:

VicMo
KC Iheanacho
John Obi Mikel
Eddy Onazi, and
W. Ndidi

In that particular order....

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AIG07:
Throughout the World Cup qualifiers, the Super Eagles scored 12goals across 6matches averaging 2goals per match which is an impressive stat putting in mind the strength of the opponents they faced and going on to concede 4goals in total.

Of the 12goals scored, only 1 was scored via setpiece(corner kick) while the rest came from open play. The team conceded 4goals: 2 from open play and 2 from spotkick(resulting from avoidable goalkeeping errors). This has gone to show how strong our line of defence was against the top, strong and physical african sides.

With Rohr, looking forward to strengthen his defence and finding a reliable and permanent solution to the ever unconvincing goalkeeping department, I see the team putting off any forms of attack from the open play.

In the light of this, Eagles opponents might have to exploit other means to break the Eagles' wall and get the desired points/results. One of these means will definitely be SET-PIECES.

Eagles' group stage opponents Croatia, Iceland and Argentina all boast of world class and deadly dead ball specialists. These opponents, might decide to draw fouls out of our boys in dangerous areas to capitalise on our team's weakness-SET PIECE DEFENDING.

There is therefore need for us to settle and fix our inabilities to convert and defend setpieces before
we kick the first ball at the mundial.

A very good left and right setpiece takers who have the ability of weeping deadly balls into the 18yard boxes from left and right sides of the pitch. These players should be our notable takers in the upcoming friendlies so as to enable them to master the act before World cup proper.

*my suggestions*
Victor Moses
Simon Moses
Kelechi Iheanacho.

Cc: Icon79, tbaba1234, mickael2, theGoodJoe, Icon4s, Kog45, safarigirl, DrLikita, mank1234, joseph1013... Etc. *Your views*
your views on this.

So we have to load up even the cadet squad with these many foreign based players? For what??
What then are we paying you for? To gather some already made players??

Naija coaches are a special kinda lazy sha. Unbelievable!


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TheSuperNerd:
Boss Joseph1013, Sir Terzurum5, Sir Orkpekyandega, Chief Icon4s.... all other monikers and protocols duly recognised.

I think with the appointment of our youth and cadet team coaches, we need to create new threads for them to follow up on news about them separately from the Super Eagles. This has always been the trend... what do you suggest? Normally it is Joseph1013 who handles and creates all threads on our under age sides.... so what do you guys think? I am dropping this here because none ahead of the 2019 Tournaments have been created just yet.

List Of Players Who Should Be Part Of Coach Paul Aigbogun Next Flying Eagles Squad

https://i1.wp.com/owngoalnigeria.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/19ABF504-F5DC-40CF-AEDC-C822DBC1B2C0-10214-00000459D7F1CF06.jpeg


Following the confirmation of coach Paul Aigbogun as the head coach of the Nigeria national Under-20 team popularly referred to as Flying Eagles, Owngoalnigeria.com suggest players who could be useful to the team.
Aigbogun was officially announced as the U-20 coach by the Nigeria Football Federation ( NFF) alongside his assistants in Abdullahi Maikaba, Abubakar Bala, Hassan Abdallah and Suleiman Shuaibu who will act as goalkeeper trainer.

The coach of Nigeria Professional Football League side Enyimba FC of Aba has his work cut out as he will be required to help reclaim Nigeria’s lost glory following the failure of the Emmanuel Amuneke lead Eaglet to progress to the tournament last time out.


[b[The List:[/b]

Goalkeepers:

Maduka Okoye – Fortuna Dusseldorf ( Germany)

Adeleye Adebayo – ( 2016 U-17 Goalkeeper)

Akpan Udoh – Bnei Sakhnin ( Israel)



Defenders:

Lukman Zakari ( Unattached)

Ibrahim Usman ( Seattle Sounders)

Muhammed Saleh ( Toronto FC)

Igho Ogbu ( Rosenborg)

Akeem Balogun ( Rivers United)

Ikouwem Udoh ( Enyimba)



Midfielders:

Abduljabbar Sani ( 2016 U-17 Captain )

Kingsley Michael ( Bologna, Italy)

Charles Okafor ( Torino, Italy)

Umeh Chigozie ( Sparta Prague, Czech Republic)

Alhassan Ibrahim ( Kano Pillars)

Charles Ezeh ( Lillestroem , Norway)

Chidera Ejike ( Lillestroem, Norway)



Attackers:

Samuel Chukwueze ( Villarreal)

Ibrahim Suleiman ( Sparta Prague, Czech Republic)

Emmanuel Kuku ( FC Porto, Portugal)

Isah Musa ( FC Porto, Portugal)

Steven Alfred ( Kwara United)


**Daniel Martins

Source: http://owngoalnigeria.com/2018/02/13/list-of-players-who-should-be-part-of-coach-paul-aigbogun-next-flying-eagles-squad/





Russia 2018 WC Countdown: 120 days 7mins to go

Wow. Oliseh is already accusing the football of a crime? Hmmm.

Let's hope that he hasn't gotten himself blacklisted from coaching anywhere in Europe or even getting sued sef.


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tbaba1234:
Oliseh's statement:

Wow. I like the way your broke it down. I can totally get it now. Good job!


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Amarabae:
The parents are backward in thinking.
Osu is a practice in SOME part of Igboland that has faded away,
Only Ignorant people make a big thing out of it.
There is nothing like osu, the Ancient Arochukwu people invented that stuff to deceive people and have an easy access to people to sell off as slaves back then.
They were civilized then and many Igbo communities hire them as judges, those who the law is against were casted away and they become osu,
In the night, the aros through their Abam warrior mercenaries will come and kidnap those people and sell them to the white man.

The guy should try another girl pls.
What a handsome young man.

Yup! Das da kinda gurl, me I like


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Ellabae:
Hmmmmmn really cool

And by the way, to answer your question, the reason why the likes of Maduka and Uzoho are getting a look in is because both Akpeyi and Ezenwa has disappointed badly. Rohr is now desperate for a decent goalkeeper ... anybody at all. And, as you know, desperate men do desperate things Remember, when Carl Ikeme was healthy, you didn't see Rohr picking goalkeepers from the garbage bins of the Euro leagues.

And I apologize again for jumping to the wrong conclusions about you. I like to read your posts as well. You're one of the major assets we have in this house. Cheers!


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Kog45:
O pari o master,pls you need to read the genesis of our discussion before you can understand what led to Emma Daniel,Alampasu and Maduka stuff.

Pls i do not understand what you mean by you can bet it probably have not watched Emma or Alampasu in my life,pls try to be courtesy in some of your words cos i respect you a lot and i believe you should understand basics things about football analysis and not always being carried away with emotions.

I was with U 17 live at UAE and have good relationships with most of these players till today,saying have never watched Alampasu is an insult and mind you even after U 17 have watched him in number of occasions but if i may ask you is Alampasu not a member of Rohr team.I remember he was always in camp and kept against Corsica in a friendly.

On Emma Daniel,what brought his name into discussion was all about our future and i need to refer to him,Uzoho, Alampasu and Maduka,that the future is bright or are your saying a young keeper that benched Akpeyi at Rio 2016 is no longer a future of Nigeria team.

On Maduka my case is clear cos i know what is football and i will not be deceived by what people posted on him and thank God tbaba1234 came out and said the guy had 2 clean sheets in 15 games in regional league and this statement was the bedrock of our discussion.

Look before i make any comments here i have my facts not just hearsay and sometimes did my research,so saying some folks are talking thrash here is out of it cos that's what your comment implied which is uncalled for and am highly disappointed such notion can come out from you,oh my God i hold you in a very high esteem.

I started watching this game since 1980 and is a fact not just talks and i can tell you a lot about Nigeria football till today without going into archive.I follow the game passionately especially anything relating to Nigeria football and sports in general.

On Maduka i still repeat it how on earth a keeper keeping in junior regional league equivalent of division 4 in Europe is good for super eagles if not sentiment.

I made a post on super eagles goalkeeper crisis and those who really understand the game agreed that things must be done cos most of our keepers are not doing well in their various clubs except shaking Akpeyi which is not convincing.

Uzoho is now a fourth keeper in his club but keeping in division three which is not good enough.If not for keepers crisis,super eagles is not a place for division three player.

Alampasu a third keeper in his club meaning is match rusty and not good enough for Eagles criteria if not for Eagles keepers crisis.

Maduka a keeper in fourth division not a good criteria for Eagles,on what ground for God sake.

I'm not saying these guys are not good cos Uzoho already showed us that they can come good but for the coming WC can we trust them between the sticks especially seeing them keeping in lower leagues.

One thing is glaring the future is bright with Grancis Uzoho,Alampasu, Daniel and Maduka but coming to upcoming WC Rohr need wisdom in his selection and as thegoodjoe always saying no sentiment the best should be picked.

Bia my big oga, when did you become the neo TheSuperNerd? Na wao, all these epistle na for me?

OK, I gotta apologize if I took your post out of context. I gotta admit that sometimes I only go with the latest postings without trying to get the full picture. But you guys gotta forgive me because I am usually under the gun to post and jump back to work or sometimes I tend to multi-task during posting


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Kog45:
O pari o master,pls you need to read the genesis of our discussion before you can understand what led to Emma Daniel,Alampasu and Maduka stuff.

Pls i do not understand what you mean by you can bet it probably have not watched Emma or Alampasu in my life,pls try to be courtesy in some of your words cos i respect you a lot and i believe you should understand basics things about football analysis and not always being carried away with emotions.

I was with U 17 live at UAE and have good relationships with most of these players till today,saying have never watched Alampasu is an insult and mind you even after U 17 have watched him in number of occasions but if i may ask you is Alampasu not a member of Rohr team.I remember he was always in camp and kept against Corsica in a friendly.

On Emma Daniel,what brought his name into discussion was all about our future and i need to refer to him,Uzoho, Alampasu and Maduka,that the future is bright or are your saying a young keeper that benched Akpeyi at Rio 2016 is no longer a future of Nigeria team.

On Maduka my case is clear cos i know what is football and i will not be deceived by what people posted on him and thank God tbaba1234 came out and said the guy had 2 clean sheets in 15 games in regional league and this statement was the bedrock of our discussion.

Look before i make any comments here i have my facts not just hearsay and sometimes did my research,so saying some folks are talking thrash here is out of it cos that's what your comment implied which is uncalled for and am highly disappointed such notion can come out from you,oh my God i hold you in a very high esteem.

I started watching this game since 1980 and is a fact not just talks and i can tell you a lot about Nigeria football till today without going into archive.I follow the game passionately especially anything relating to Nigeria football and sports in general.

On Maduka i still repeat it how on earth a keeper keeping in junior regional league equivalent of division 4 in Europe is good for super eagles if not sentiment.

I made a post on super eagles goalkeeper crisis and those who really understand the game agreed that things must be done cos most of our keepers are not doing well in their various clubs except shaking Akpeyi which is not convincing.

Uzoho is now a fourth keeper in his club but keeping in division three which is not good enough.If not for keepers crisis,super eagles is not a place for division three player.

Alampasu a third keeper in his club meaning is match rusty and not good enough for Eagles criteria if not for Eagles keepers crisis.

Maduka a keeper in fourth division not a good criteria for Eagles,on what ground for God sake.

I'm not saying these guys are not good cos Uzoho already showed us that they can come good but for the coming WC can we trust them between the sticks especially seeing them keeping in lower leagues.

One thing is glaring the future is bright with Grancis Uzoho,Alampasu, Daniel and Maduka but coming to upcoming WC Rohr need wisdom in his selection and as thegoodjoe always saying no sentiment the best should be picked.

Komekn, not that I could possibly convince you but his statement was mostly accurate. I know for a fact that Alex Iwobi (and most other black African players) receive a lot of craps from British pundits because they are Africans. Any mistakes that African players make, especially Nigerian players, are extrapolated. An Euro or English player can make the same mistakes without getting any negative reactions. Those of us who understand the game already know that you gotta take some of the commentaries you hear on TV or read in the British press with a big dose of salt, OK. Anytime Arsenal loses, it's always Iwobi this, Iwobi that while totally ignoring the craps they play there in defense Mustafa for instance can get away with murder ... same with Nacho Monreal, even Koscileny (sp). I am yet to see any game where Jack Wilshere performs better than Iwobi but he never gets called out for poor performance.

And let me say this again, for sub-Saharan African, you gotta be twice as good as the Euro players to play.


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komekn:
Lol I thought today is the 1st of April.

Your statement is delusional.

Good observation. In fact, they have started discussing the subject here in the US.


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Mujtahida:
Guys I foresee a time when heading will be banned in football. I just read that Ryan Mason who suffered a fractured skull from a head collusion with Gary Cahill in January 2017 has been advised by his doctors to retire from the game after 13 months of trying to return to the game.

Remember the Will Smith's movie 'Concussion'?

This Croatia team is loaded with quality sha. But let's hope that they are still as disorganized as they were during the Euro qualifiers.

The good news is, we can beat any team if we play the same way we played in the second half against Argentina. #Fact


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Mujtahida:
They are not likely to under rate us cos we are no longer the unknown quantity we were in 94. But sure it's attainable. Me I always believe ooo. Even if Nigeria is playing against the best I still secretly believe we will win. It's that believe that makes me watch the match na

Post bookmarked!

And I will buy you your fave drink if we can beat Croatia 3-0. And by the way, this is actually a very attainable score line because Croatia was useless in the Euro qualifiers. Big names don't play football. I just hope and pray that they would underrate us as Bulgaria did in 1994


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Mujtahida:
This your dream sweet I no go lie. Me I just keep reinforcing the believe in my heart that we will beat Croatia 3-0 just as we beat Bulgaria in our first match at USA 94. I guess one comes to believe that which one strongly believes.

Bia, are you talking about Komekn or somebody else?


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kennysville:
This question is for those who love England and anything England more than Nigeria.

In the national teams of top 10 footballing nations in the world, how many from each national team's starting 11 ply their trade in EPL? Lets start with brazil, Germany, Poland, Argentina even. Just for my enlightenment and maybe your amusement

#ItDoesntEndWithEPL

Tbaba, can you see why sometimes I revert to obscenities in addressing some folks on this forum?

I can bet you my last penny that that big man has probably NEVER watched either Emma Daniel, Maduka Okoye, or Dele Alampasu (prolly watched him last at the U-17 levels) play; but he would come here to make some bold declarations! I honestly don't know why many Nigerians are like that. And they do the same freaking thing in real lives as well.


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tbaba1234:
When last did Emmanuel Daniel and Alampasu play football?

If Uzoho proves to be good enough to play as number 1 then having Maduka as a number 3 is not a bad idea. It is great for the experience. Number 3 is not going to play anyway.

Maduka Okoye's club appears to rate him highly so the ability is there. It is left to Maduka to prove himself in camp.

KPOM!

The man turned the Super Eagles camp into a business center. But the NFF should get some of the blame as well because they couldn't pay the man his salaries, so the man decided to improvise


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komekn:
I would ask you to look at the Agent Tony Harris and then see his links and relationships then you will understand what was going on.

NUFF Said

One of those quack English you can only hear from a Nigerian:

Cellphone = GSM
PC = IBM
Underwear = pants
Plastic bag = polythene bag
Cellphone = Handset (and btw, do y'all have a "leg-set" as well?)
... and I can go on and on


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KPOM!

You don tok am finis. Pata pata!!


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mhizenugu:
No biggie here, if he doesn't feed her. Who will?

KPOM!

In fact, anything that would keep Akpeyi far away from our first 11 is fine by me


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tbaba1234:
Personally, i only want to see Ezenwa and Uzoho in the friendlies. The others can help with training.

Well, I can make a case about Sweden and England but fair enough; however, I still believe that we had a good chance of beating that French team. A technically astute coach with a good bench would've won that game easily. However, Keshi (whom I have much respect for) decided to his offer his bench up to the highest bidder! It was just like Japan-Korea 2002 all over again ($10,000 per junk player). For that Keshi's team, it was like after the first eleven, the other slots were up for grabs and they all went to the highest bidders: Reuben Gabriel, Michael Uchebo, Shola Ameobi, Uche Nwofor, Kunle Odunlami, Chigozie Agbim etc.


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Mickael2:
I am sure that French team was in no way inferior to the Swedish and English team that bundled us out of the 2002 WC, neither were they inferior to the Denmark team that disgraced us in 98. Oh, not to forget that it was South Korea and Greece that eliminated us from the 2010 edition

My broad, help me ask them o


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Humility017:
which decent game has uchebo? you mean the goal against Scotland...?
apart from that goal...he played trash that day....

[b]how he made the team over imoh Ezekiel[/b]who despite being a second striker for his team in Belgium scored 12 goals and uchebo manage to get 5 for club de brugg

I grant you that the Argies are defensively weak and aging, but they would always find a way. You'll always find a way to win when you have Messi on your side


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safarigirl:
lol...hater

So Portugal will go home early because of CR7, but your Messi and his weak Argentina will progress?

We shouldn't speak ill of the dead but Keshi lost a big opportunity to qualify us for the WC quarter finals in 2014. The draw was massively on our side. We've never had such an easy draw at the world cup, but he totally bungled and mismanaged the situation completely. And that's all I gotta say for now.


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Humility017:
keshi team had the opportunity to move beyond the round of 16....but the team lack the quality and motivation....

keshi never helped in his players selection...players imoh Ezekiel,Kenneth otigba, hope akpan etc were ignored

FIXED:

A: Uruguay Egypt
B: Spain Morocco (Portugal and CR7 are going home early)
C: France Peru
D: Argentina, Nigeria
E. Brazil, Switzerland
F: Germany, Mexico
G: Belgium, England
H: Senegal Columbia

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tbaba1234:
My predictions for the WC groups (My African bias is evident)

A: Uruguay Egypt
B: Portugal Morocco (Spain knocked out, first shock)
C: France Peru
D: Nigeria, Croatia
E. Brazil, Switzerland
F: Germany, Mexico
G: Belgium, England
H: Senegal Columbia

Well, you can keep exposing your ignorance while calling people names. You're suffering from what I will call the Nigerian problem of poor education (aka half education). And like my grandfather would say "half education is dangerous". When I was growing up, my elementary school principal have this saying "A mistake in London is a style in Africa".

A typical Nigerian, you heard about ethanol, decide to jump in and swallow the whole thing line, hook, and sinker ... years after the pioneers are already moving on to bigger and better things. Meanwhile, let me offer you some free education. Most advanced countries including the United States and Brazil are already transitioning out of the 1st generation ethanol - that is, the so called corned based and sugarcane based ethanol that Nigeria is gradually planning to introduce simply because they realized that using corn or sugarcane for fuel isn't the solution. Even Al Gore has admitted that the First Generation Ethanol was a mistake:

Total ethanol subsidies reached $7.7 billion last year according to the International Energy Agency. In fact, biofuels worldwide received more subsidies than any other form of renewable energy. Gore argued that "It is not a good policy to have these massive subsidies for [U.S.] first-generation ethanol".
Gore went on to say that “first-generation ethanol I think was a mistake. The energy conversion ratios are at best very small.” Gore now supports so-called second-generation technologies that do not compete with food — using farm waste or non-food sources such as switchgrass to make ethanol.

Read more here and educate yourself: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-ethanol-gore/u-s-corn-ethanol-was-not-a-good-policy-gore-idUSTRE6AL3CN20101122


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sweetgala:
You are the deluded one here, Biofuel has been big in many oil producing nations for decades now and Nigeria is the nation that has not caught on. Brazil are a major oil producing nations yet most people there use E85 in their vehicles some even run 100 % ethanol.

We can use it to fire our generators, many large factories ins Brazil use the sugarcane chaff that remains from ethanol production formed into bricks as solid fuel to run their furnaces or boilers.

In Nigeria we have this stupid disillusion about petrol

E85 is available in certain fuel stations in UK, US and Japan you simply roll up to the fuel station and fill up on what you want.

Race drivers use E85 because the ethanol component cools down the combustion chamber