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But strike rate of our strikers is not impressive

Yekini was our best, 37 goals. The next was distant 22 goals, Odegbami.

Guess what? Asamoah Gyan has 45 goals for Ghana already. Eto'o and Drogba scored not less than 55 goals for their national teams each.

OkikiOluwa1:
I wonder why you picked Kanu. Is it cos of his rescue goals?
Last Bullet
To rate Nigeria's greatest striker, one has to look at their number of goals, teamwork & how vital they were to the team.
It's not just about scoring goals, its also about team contribution.
The greatest among them still remains
1. Rasheed Yekini.
2. Julius Aghaowa
3. Obafemi Martins
4. Segun Odegbami
5. Victor Ikpeba
6. Ikechukwu Uche
7. Kanu Nwankwo
8. Yakubu Aiyegbeni
9. Osaze Odemwingie
10. Daniel Amokachi
More to follow.

Good list, but Segun Odegbami was not a 9, he was a winger (7)

Amokachi was not a 9, he was a supporting striker (

Kanu was not a 9, he was mainly a supporting striker (.

A 9 is a top striker.

When you talk of 9 in Nigeria's NT in the last 2 decades, you talk of:

Rashidi
Martins
Aghahowa
Agali
Yakubu
Ikpeba

(Not in any order)


IK Uche also plays 9, but operates from the wing more.

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The interviewee is spot on. I agree with him. I also always tell people this.

I hold ICAN certificate myself and that is what I use to work.

DIVFAVOR:
please remove chemical engineering, its never a competing course in Nigeria/world, its the least in all engineering course. experience will tell. I will never advice my enemy to study to chemical engineering.

Well, most of my friends that studied Chemical Engineering (and made good grade) have very good jobs.

dellyjoe1000:
Do u knw dt. So many ppl working in Nigeria today are not working in their field. what is a person that studied YORUBA doing as a Bank Manager, or someone that read HUMAN KINETIC that is a banch head of a telecommunication comany, wch is usually d case

Guess what? IMF president studied Medicine for First Degree.

What's a medical graduate doing in a financial institution, right?

First degree is just to broaden your horizon. It is hardly the skills you learnt in school that you need to do the job - except for very few specialist courses like Medicine, Architecture, etc.

4 weeks in training school is enough for a Yoruba graduate to learn rudiments of banking. He will learn the remaining on the job.

And was he given Bank Manager straight from entry level? He must have done banking job for at least 5 years and outperformed the colleague that studied Banking before he could become a Manager.

In any case, if a Yoruba grad passed bank test, and a Banking grad did not, his banking degree will not help him.

I don't have any problem with any course graduate working in bank, I will only have problem with a non-Medical graduate working as a doctor.

This thread coming too late.

Had issues with transferring, with obviously correct token generated code being rejected as invalid. Tried 3 times, and my token was blocked. That was like 10pm yesternight.

I think I peeped NL homepage to see whether a thread had been opened to know whther it's a general issue, didn't see any.

I reached them via twitter sha and they told me to call their customer center.

damzy88:
Your final cgpa pls?

It should be easy to guess from the earlier analysis.

DollyParton1:
And I thought I was the only one that has problem with psychology ish courses

Psychology is one hell of a course: abstract terms you can't relate with and you're left with cramming which is very demanding.

Joy83:
You mean, you did not get E or F all through your university days??

I always targeted A in all my courses and always felt like crying anytime I didn't make one.

I did 48 courses throughout my university days, had A in 34; B in 10; C in 2; and D in 2.

Had A in 71% of the courses I did.

Was thinking about this yesterday.

I don't know the definition of worst here, but here are some ideas.

Toughest in terms of reading: Psychology 202 or so. Very abstract terms, confusing theories and terms from Sigmund Freud and others. Half the number of hours I spent reading for that semester was on that course alone and other courses shared the other half. I developed headache from reading that course. I managed to make a B - 65% or so.

In terms of grade: That should be ECN 402 (Macroeconomics) where I had D - 47%

Zenith Bank Head Office, Ajose Adeogun should make the list.

WoodcrestMayor:
Oga Suraj

Dat he was given a look in is a confirmation of his dexterity on d ball.He didn't just "play to his pocket"...pple noticed him.That is my point.


Hw work dey go?

All join. I dey. How your side.

M4gunners:
How dear you say a thing like that to me? This is the highest insult i have received from Nairalanders. Diouf was a flop you said? Go and sit down bro.Now i know you are the one that don't know anything about EPL.He won Africa Ftballer hw many times? Was he playing in Chad or Taiwan league then?

smh. Now I know the level of your ignorance.

Let me do charity by educating you.

Diouf won African POTY in 2001...he was a Lens player in France then, but the award was majorly because of his performance in World Cup Qualifiers in 2001

He won same award again in 2002. From January - August 2002, he was still a Lens player, but he won the award principally because of his performance at Nations Cup 2002 (runners up) and World Cup 2002 (Q/Final) performance. He moved to Liverpool only after the World Cup and the season started in August when nomination for African POTY was almost settled.

Guess what? He scored 3, yes 3, goals in his 2 seasons at Liverpool spanning 55 games, 2002- 2004! 3 goals in 55 EPL games.

You're forgiven though. I know you're one of the DSTV explosion generation.

WoodcrestMayor:
Man utd players







Wey dat guy wey talk say Okocha be mediocre player

And 93rd position is great?

M4gunners:
WTF is Ryan Giggs name doing there @ first position when Thierry Henry supposed to be? And why is Ruud Van too down?Where is Alhaji douf,Ben McCarty,Okocha name suppose to be top 50.

You don't know anything in EPL.

ElHadji Diouf was a complete flop in EPL with Liverpool. He was decent in Lens but his best performance was with Senegalese NT.

McCarthy had a couple of decent seasons in Blackburn, but definitely not to the extent of making Top 100 EPL players. If anything, Yakubu was more prolific than him and did not make the list.

I have a couple of issues with the list though (like Beckham being in 21..he should be higher IMO; Drogba should also rate higher; Essien almost singlehandedly carried Chelsea for 2 seasons - 2005-2007 and should be there), but it is agreeable to a large extent. I agree with the Top 3 order.

MORNDEW:
which best tactician, what has he won. What is his pedigree. Abeg dis is not politics o

Smh. Go and check his records. He is the most successful Nigerian coach, arguably more than Keshi despite the latter winning ANC.

Qualified Nigeria for 2 World Cups
Won at least 3 Nations cup medals for Nigeria
Won laurels for a number of Nigerian leagues clubs.

Suarezilla:
See this one sef wan to dey claim coach..if dem dey call coach him sef go dey open mouth down ...mmtttewww!

Smh for this new generation Nigerian football watchers who don't know Amodu Shuaibu.

And some Nigerians here will boast of their school as being the best because "it doesn't give First Class". I wonder is John Hopkins is a substandard school or their school is better than JH because it "doles out first class"

toludadon:
there are so much hues and cries about the volatility of all muslim ticket in Nigeria, as a yoruba xtian, i am bold to say that majority of my fellow yoruba xtians don't even know Fashola is a muslim. they see him as performance personified hence his being an achiever and intellectual is more pronounced than his religious inclination. the result of my findings and interactions is that SW is a wrong place to play politics of religion bcuz almost all families are evenly distributed along religious lines , hence they see you first as a yoruba man before your religion.
hence a Buhari/Fashola in the SW is seeing as North/Yoruba ticket and it will surely fly.

It won't fly. The moment the ticket is approved, is when you will be reminded he's a Muslim.

For me, JJ was good, very good, but not in the class of those players many Nigerians compare him with.

Very skilful, yes; probably the most skilful African player ever, but his skills were hardly purposeful- you dribble a player and still lose ball to the next player.

Kanu was a better footballer in my books.

Saying he was underrated because he was an African is BS. Eto'o is an African, came 3rd in WPOTY award; Weah was an African, won WPOTY award.

Appealing to Pele's authority is defective. Same Pele predicted an African team to win World by 2010. None has even gotten to semi-final yet.

buskie13:
u don't really get my point....... during Jay Jay's time....it was either Eto'o or Drogba he has to contend with.....

You said it was as a result of CAF leadership.

Did CAF leadership change between 1993-1999 when Anglophone Africans won it and during JJ's time (2003-2006)?

Let Nigerian schools also reject applications from US citizens. Shikena.

African footballers have not being so outstanding this year. Even our finest, Yaya Toure, is undergoing dip in form.

No player comes to mind to clinch the AFOTY award, but I heard Pierre-Augemeyang is doing above average in Dortmund.

Ihemacho should win Promising Talent of the Year and Oshoala may win Woman Footballer of the Year.

Frankly, I'm not a fan of that cliché. From the time I was a single, young guy to now.

I don't say it. I can count on my fingertips the number of times I have ever said it to anyone.

My wife used to complain at the early stage, but she later got to know i'm not a fan of all those talks, I hardly believe in saying "I love you" by mouth, it is by action. I told her I don't believe in it even if everyone other person in the world says it.

I also never believed nor engaged in all those "romantic" texts people send during courtship. "You're this, you're that...I had a dream about you...you're the mountain, you're the moon, the sun etc in my life". all those things don't make sense to me.

NUC, when are you apprving our university nah - University of Offa?

Even universities with less than half of the facilities we already put in place at UniOffa have gotten approval.

I'm not a Celeb, but the modest followership base I have started from years of contributions to Nairaland.

Good thread. There was a similar on thread on NL 2008/2009 that addressed same subject: Sights and sounds of the North (or something like that).

In my Ife years, I wasn't a library person. I preferred Awo Reading room, Faj Reading Room, and on weekends and in the nights, BOOC, Agric, SSLT etc.

The requirements, library card, queue etc contributed to it. I don't like procedures.

I may be able to count on my fingertips the number of times I used school library. Anyway, I forgot my bag (a whole bag) at the entrance shelf one day there one time and never saw it again.

Company 4 (A foreign medium-size oil servicing, 2013): I don't know where they got my CV, just got a call from them. It was a Friday and they told me to come to their office on Monday to discuss with their management as they want me to replace their Finance Manager that left without adequate notice. I told them I will get back to them in 1 hour, and dropped the call. I quickly googled their name. Just a medium oil servicing firm. I know oil servicing don't pay much but I was still trying to give it a go, especially since it's a manager role. I wanted to travel on the Monday they fixed so I called them to tell them I was ready for the interview that day. I told them I came to work in casual wears (T-shirt on jeans) and they said they didn't mind. I didn't drive to work that day (and you don't go for an interview where you want to ask for N20m on bike!) so I quickly collected the key to one of my Colleagues' Camry and I drove off. I branched in one boutique to buy chinos and short sleeve shirt (the jeans I wore to work was faded and too casual - didn't want to overstretch my luck). Quickly dressed a little better in that boutique and zoomed off. Both offices within VI so in 30 minutes I was there.

The receptionist was downstairs already to welcome me (see reason I didn't want to go on bike). Parked the Camry within the compound and was ushered in, with the MD and Commercial Director waiting for me. We talked extensively, and they told me they saw my CV on one global oil and gas jobs website (I remember I put it there 2 years ago, targeting Middle East Oil Jobs - didn't know companies also go there from Nigeria to recruit) and felt I should be fit for the role, that they wanted to fill the role urgently blabla. We discussed at length.

It got to pay matter and I told them what I was earning at the time and the pay level I was willing to take to leave my current company for them. They were not ready to pay that. They were talking of what was even lower than what I was earning. I said that's not possible. I came down a little (added 4m to what I was earning) and told them that was the least I could take. That was where the discussion broke down. We exchanged cards and I told them I can recommend some guys for them. I sent them a CV of a friend when I returned to office but they didn't call him. Not unexpected, they were annoyed already.

MY PERSONAL EXPERIENCES

Company 1 (A Downstream Oil Company, 2008): Just 2 weeks after my NYSC. I knew I was entry level although I had few months experience pre-NYSC. I answered with "you have a structure" line. I got the job and I was given entry level pay of that company.

Company 2 (Downstream arm of a Multinational oil company, 2012): I went to the interview with 4 years experience. I was asked same question. I had researched their pay for someone with 4 years experience from insiders in that company but the pay was just the same amount with what I was earning in my then current company. I just added 1m to my then current pay and told them that's the minimum I can accept. We didn't agree pay. They were not willing to pay me beyond their pay for that level, which was same figure with what I was earning in my then current company. We didn't arrive at deal.

Company 3 (An upstream company, 2012): I saw the advert in Guardian. The recruitment was handled by one of the Big 4 professional services firms. They didn't mention the company name. They just said "a leading independent E&P company with assets in X state". I threw my research skills into work, couldn't get the name of the company. But I was sure it's not an IOC. I had 4 years experience. The pay question was asked in a form I filled before entering the interview room (first interview handled by the recruiting firm). I just added 2m to my then current pay and wrote that on the form. We had the interview. The company was still not disclosed. That interview wasn't my best performance but I was positive I would scale that stage. I got a call - and follow up email - like 6 months later inviting me for the next stage, now with the E&P company itself (disclosed). From my knowledge of that company I had undervalued myself! I did very well in that 2nd interview but pay was not mentioned. I got a call 3 days later to discuss pay. I added another 1m to what I had written down for them in the form 6 months ago. My reason was 6 months was a long time ago and my then current company had even increased my pay by 500k (annual increase, which was true). They said they can't offer more than what I initially told them on the form. I asked them questions like "Do you do annual inflation adjustment?, Do you have performance bonus?" etc to which they answered in the affirmative. I then told them to add 500k to it because my current company had also increased my pay by that amount. They agreed and asked me to pick the letter for my medicals the next day.

Surprisingly, when I got my offer letter 2 weeks later, what they put there was more than what we agreed - they put the amount I asked for i.e added 1m to my initial request.

Still, when I got to that company, I realized I was still underpaid. I was still the lowest paid of all of us in that band. But who knows, I may have gotten the job because of the reasonable pay I asked for! Maybe if I was too outrageous I may not have gotten the job.

Thankfully, just 1 year later, the company carried out a company-wide uniform grading system that shot me up the ladder - with 50% payrise!

Am I the only one that senses Oparanozie being selfish or not playing with Oshoala and other forwards? I feel someone doesn't want to be outshone