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Johndoe100: This is sad. These guys were performing a social service. Maybe I will bail them.

hahahaha.social service to the maximum.

dominique: Thats what they discussed for a whoping eight and half hours!!! Presido una get time o. Hope to see the positive changes soon esp in the local league.

funny U.he is trying.

My encounter with Goodluck
by Sunday Oliseh 30/10/2012, 14:24
The 22nd of October 2012 will go downin history as the first time that a Nigerian sitting head of state held a retreat to seek solutions to the nation’s ailing sport fortunes.
The federal government of Nigeria, invited me to lead a group of 38, made up of personalities in Nigerian football and day-to-day life, to solve our soccer problems.
At 10 am President Goodluck Jonathanwalked into the hall and, to my amazement and pleasant surprise, he only took his leave ate 6:30pm (eight-and-a-half hours later). How about that for commitment?
Why the urgency?
Nigeria returned from the recently concluded London 2012 Olympics with no medals and never came close to winning one. For a nation of 162 million people that is a disaster, especially when one takes into consideration the fact that sparsely populated Grenadawon Gold.
Our senior soccer team failed to qualify for the 2012 Africa Cup of Nations and had difficulties this time around too.
The national soccer league is at its lowest point and there is a complete drought of new talent discovery. Currently players are owed as much asa year’s wages at times.
Our World Cup appearance in the 2010 South African World Cup was a disaster. The route to the next one doesn’t look promising.
Here are the recommendations I proposed to the president.
Our national football objective
A nation as mighty as Nigeria cannot aim for anything less then returning to the rightful place in African soccer, No 1.
Creation of a coaching institute/academy
Our erroneous belief in Nigeria today isthat we need to discover new players like the Okocha, Oliseh, Yekini and Amokachi to take our nation out of thisdilemma. However, world soccer has progressed now to the point that talented players are limited without modern day coaching to instil modern team-based football ethics. Look at Spain and Germany; individual play is reduced in favour of team-oriented play and schemes. Now they rule world soccer
This can only be filtered into the football education of the nation if coaches are well groomed nationally to go back to their states and start passing this knowledge on to the youth of their states.
Clearly, without the direct interventionof the president and the state governors, we will have no chance of success.
Privatisation of club ownership
Corruption and mismanagement of government funds are not new in Nigeria.
That is made possible because of the source and the directed aim of the government funding. A privatisation of the clubs, government funding continued but only at the social level and building of desired sporting infrastructures and centres will curb these excesses. A situation where the clubs are owned by private businessmen will be the catalyst to the development of players since profit is the aim for the owners and that will spur youth talent discovery and development.
My opinion of the president
This president is one of the most educated government officials I have ever met. He is engaging, with a strikingly strong sense of humor, a good listener and up-to-date on Nigerian sports and daily life. From my 11hour stay in his company, I must confess that he is genuinely concernedabout what sports means to Nigerians.
The fact that he stayed the whole day to listen to several opinions personally,when some governors and ministers present stayed only half day, and gavea closing speech where he highlighted every major point that struck his interest during the day, showed how attentive he was. He took notes while others spoke. I was impressed.
His appointment of minister Bolaji Abdullahi is, in my opinion, very judicious. The minister has intervened in sporting matters lately in Nigeria in ways that have been fruitful.
Nigeria has a people so passionate about soccer it is almost like a religion and hence any well planned and executed solution will produce positiveresults for Nigeria.
Source: supersport

floriana: The evil man finally does a good deed! Impressive! But what are the strings attached? cos I trust Jim to milk bigger payoff from the system for this. He can never be totally altruistic.

can sumbody every impressed u?human beings are terrible.

D guy is a nice comic actor

FreeGlobe: ^
thats why akon is irrelevant today lol.

what is ur definition of irrelevant?

kinggenesis: wahala dey ooo....... I can't just picture my self kneel down just because of one silly fellow.

u wont kneel down cos u never serve b4 or u bribed ur way out.

Abj,lagos,kalabar,uyo

Ur list is a myopic state of ur mind.it lacks vision and direction.

Ezechinwa: Well said!!!!! Finally have found someone who looks at cases frm an unbiased position!!! Am not skeptical abt ur judgment, right judgment!!!

tanx bro.

@poser;what does Jesus got to do with this?is it only Jesus that u know?u made a point with ur statement,but why involve Jesus in this?

When will ur boko haram stop d killing of christians?
When will ATIKU,BUHARI,IBB,CIROMA,agrees that d are d sponsors of Boko haram?
When will d activities of christians sieze to be ur problem?why nt criticize ur OIC?Until u answer d aforementioned questions,u will keep jealousing the xtians success

HQ: Well, all that's left is to wish them a Safe Journey back home.

Welcome Back folks.

While you were away, a lot has happened.

Our Leaders now use Twitter, Boko Haram are proving stubborn,

Beauty Pageants are everywhere, Did you hear about Farouk's case?

Obasanjo hopes to quit politics (surprising, right?), Jonathan claims Boko Haram will be extinguished *soon*.

A Couple Notable peeps died, A few more pastors bought private jets.

You missed out a chance to drive a "Dangote Truck".

Oh and the other day, a Lawmaker drinking stout got punched in the mouth - lost two teeth.

U are supposed to be working for linda ikeji or laila ikeji on reportage.

marshpearl: the police were busy drinking garri when dstv were defrauding us..

and i dreamt i was first to comment. . .phew!!

u make me feel like drinking ...

Hon. Patrick Obahiagbon On
His New Appointment "I cannot thank you all individually but thank you all nevertheless for well wishes... if the Governments' profligacy of neologisms and shibboleths ever set off apoplectic paroxysms in you, if it all seems a bit recondite, this here’s a reason to be sanguine.... " That Is From The New Chief Of Staff To Edo State Governor, Hon. Patrick Obahiagbon.
Nigeria's greatest grammarian has said it again.who can dispute that he is not africa's greatest grammarian?
Source:inforepublic..com

The police in Lagos have
arrested two traders, John Andy
and Valentine Ezenwaka, for
allegedly engaging in piracy of
DSTV signals.
The Police Special Fraud Unit, SFU, stated this on Friday.
The duo, traders at the Alaba
International market, are
accused of importing, selling, and
distributing “illicit” devices
capable of illegally accessing DSTV’s broadcast signals to
“unsuspecting” members of the
public. In a statement signed by Ngozi
Isintume-Agu, the SFU Public
Relations Officer, the police said
it acted upon a petition by
Multichoice Nigeria Limited, the
provider of encrypted multi- channel satellite television
service known as DSTV. Tunde Ogunshakin, Commissioner
of Police at SFU, said, according
to the statement, that the
suspects set up contrived
equipment that act as gateways
which facilitated illegal access to the multinational company’s
broadcast signals. “Some items suspected to have
been used in pirating the
intellectual property were
recovered as exhibits,” Mr.
Ogunshakin said. According to police records, Mr.
Johnson, 28, an apprentice from
Abia State was arrested in Shop
No. “F” 1377 and the items
recovered from him included a
strong decoder, 16 open boxes and one UPS. Mr. Ezenwaka, 42, who hails from
Anambra State, on the other
hand, claimed to be a technician
who repairs TVs, LCDs, and DVDs. He is the owner of Shop No. “73″
and the items recovered from
him included Avatars and Spider
which according to him are
Receivers for free to air
transmission. Also, a Laptop and Desktop Computers were
recovered, the police said. Mr. Ogunshakin said that the
suspects would be charged to
court “soonest.” Multichoice, through DSTV, has a
monopoly over major
programmes and events in
Nigeria including the English
Premier League, and the full UEFA
Champions League. The seemingly high cost of
subscription for the DSTV
channels makes some Nigerians
look for ways to by-pass
official and legal routes to
access these programs and channels. Officials of Multichoice have in
the past explained that moneys
paid to get the rights of some of
these exclusive programs and
channels, coupled with huge
operation costs, lead to the high subscription fees.
Premiumtimes
my question is all this while that dstv have been defrauding Nigerians,where were the police?

afolayangs: Fried rice, chicken and ice cream

u be thief.lol.
Wetin u chop yesterday?

Drogba simple is d best among d two of them.alex ferguson said and i quote "no other striker can score d goal drogba scored at dat particular match and against bayern Munich at that time".now look at it 4rm this perspective, Eto'o won his last la liga top scorer award with 24 goals,Drogba's last top scorer award was 29goals.Eto'o left barca,yet barca scored more goals than d did when he was around but when Drogba left chelsea,goal became a problem to chelsea's attack force.Drogba was beta

shymexx: Bwahahahaha

At least, I'm not claiming to be a billionaire, you piece of shyte...

At the end of the day, this is the WWW, and I'm free to post anywhere I feel like posting... I bet the yanks on this forum as well aren't doing anything legit in your deluded mind, dolt...Why are you pricks so sensitive? Freaking fake Nigerian big man...

I'm getting paid right now as I'm typing to you while you stay hyping your e-billions...Go suck ya mum, wasteman!

i hope u wont be deported sooner than we all assume.

musKeeto: Something that was built on the foundation that a robber killed by the romans was born by a virgin and believing in his sacrifice will wash away all d bad bad things wey person don do... Bla bla bla...

Built on 419... Will continue to thrive by 419...

what was ur mohd built on?violence

abrajproperties: Inalilahi wahina ilehi rajihun....to God we all belong! ##### thank God for him because he was a muslim.. Die not except you're a believer....

ignorance kills

He is saying the truth na

Y wont i suport him cuming bk?

I hope he wont be another Tonto Dike.i love this guy.

Point of correction.it wasnt d US that said that Nigeria will disintegrate,rather,it was an organisation that made that statement.but come to think of it,is d report about nigeria wrong?if yes,can u name examples?for a country that discovered oil b4 even dubai did to be crawling without hope,doesnt that call for concern?wake up my brother.we all love Nigeria.but can nigeria function as a single entity?

Seun and co will always bring dis kind of post to d front page to attract irrelevant comment which d wil neva ban.if i may ask;are u guys anti christian or anti church?God is watching.

Why do al of u wana go to d US?cant u stay back in ur country?

Thank u Dangote,tank u the richest african man,thank u 4d innovative ideas.am nt from Edo,but this man vision suprises me on a daily basic.now with this plant being built there,other biz like banks,radio n tv stations,telecom companies,etc,wil find their way to cluster around that environment,thereby creating more jobs.am hapi 4 him.i wish Adenuga cud venture in Digital satelite to distort Dstv monopoly cos he is d only person that can do that.if doubtng,ask mtn and econet.

killuminati: O gal/boy see hypocritism! We muslim no send all these worldly stuff wey xtians dey die for! It's just as simple as dat, we don't preach about worldy tins like dem pastors do, that's una dey fall maga dey pay dem tithe while dey steady soak GARRI all day for house. We go soon send all those pastors go prison

una money na 4 terrorism sponsorship.

DailyNews: Send me an email via: dailyy.newss@gmail.com, plz worry not about money cos I dnt ask people for money, by His grace I am ok. Just love mentoring ambitious people

update us,we wana knw

Who told u that Ekpe masquerde is IGBO?It is proper Efik/ibibio ting

How Seun Osewa made Nairaland.com a success story.

Seun Osewa launched the popular Nairaland.com on the 25 th of March, 2005. Today, the online forum ranks among the most visited websites in Nigeria . How’d he do it?
He was motivated by failure
Behind every great success there are failures. And Seun’s story is not an exemption.
Prior to the time Seun launched Nairaland, he had attempted to start a web hosting business which failed for lack of viable income model. After that failure, he spent several months researching business ideas and presenting them to friends and family, for the possibility of funding them, butto no avail.
Finally, he got the idea of starting Nairaland, after he had made up his mind to go the entrepreneurial path (No matter what), after tasting creative freedom in his first startup.
He created a product that comes out of a need
Seun built Nairaland to solve a real and complicated problem for Nigerians. He realized the need for “a more general-purpose Nigerian forum with a strong bias towards issues of interest to Nigerians at home”.
A great way to start a business is to try and provide solution to somethingyou need, or want, to be solved.
He created a viable Income model
Due to the failure in his first startup for lack of consistent cash-flow, the fist question Seun asked himself was “Where’s the money?”
Nairaland had a viable income model from day one. He knew if he could attract enough traffic to the site, he could make money from Google adverts. So, his primary target was to attract enough traffic to the site through great content, better organization and great guest-friendliness.
Business is tough and certainly not forthe weak- hearted. Remember, when you know better, you do better. We can all take a queue from what brought Nairaland to this point.
You remember the Nairaland, don’t you?anything is easily achievable with dedication,prayer and vision.