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Gbriels:
Why am I not disappointed at this post? I think it's because all along I have had my reservations...
Will d information add 1kobo to my account, No
Will d information bring d APL....again NO
Will any information change what has been done.. certainly NOT
So, whether revealed or concealed....APL will come when it will come...
As a matter of fact, the reason we blacks are lagging behind is simply this....

Wetin be ma own sef....make I d do my normal thing jare...
Abeg chaste, I hear say Jiang don turn spiritualist...
Na Tru?

Blacks are lagging behind because someone informally shares privileged info with a friend and doesn't want it to be publicly declared as it could lead to suspicion in his organization?

So if it were a white, he would carry vuvuzela and make public unofficial info?

Abdulaaleem:
Lol.. this got me really cracked up.. Really, I can't contain it.. By the way, you're the only one that is lost, and I'm not sure we can find you sef.. So do well to find yourself..


One last thing, what if uncle Jarus' sauce is Easymoneysniper?
Sense will not kill me.. Lols

He cannot be my sauce. I mentioned "latest September" way before he came here with specific dates.

BenFlash:
Dear Jarus, we appreciate that you are a man that keeps his word and wouldn't want to go back on it, we wouldn't want you to do otherwise.

I believe I speak on behalf of most people here to plead if you can just give us something to ruminate on e.g. between 16-20, or between 23-27. Let me know if I should go to sleep until 23rd.

Local man is tayad of burnt sauces. Thanks on behalf of AOLMAW.

My source dey read this thread abeg

I no wan strain relationships

olusholag1:
Oga Jarus, abeg give us update na. Man don tire o

Unfortunately, I have a binding promise not to reveal what I'm told here again. So I will not be able to give any update.

But I can say there is no bad news.

Andersonjr:
Funny cuz almost every upcoming young football talented stars has being tagged “The next Messi”

Remember Stanley Okoro little Messi of 7 years aho!

By the way, I like this boy and pray he achieves his dream.

Yakade:
Sudanese are terrorists

Learn how to read.

Nigerians are not this crazy about national team football.

They can shout and curse or even threaten but they wont attack anything or anyone.

So it's now 16 years that this woman died. I remember when she died and how many pages of newspapers were filled with condolence greetings to the husband.

wink2015:
He should have long resigned.

He does not have to played to this age.


I think African poverty is responsible for the delayed retirement of football players because they are always think of gathering MORE AND MORE to sustain their retirement years.

Yes, Africans like Zlatan Ibrahimovic

FamousMonk:
His career ended a long time ago..
What other career is he referring to?

Football goes beyond EPL and La Liga that you watch, this guy was the 2nd highest goal scorer in Turkey just 3 seasons ago!

He banged 18 league goals in Turkey just 2 seasons ago. Some strikers could not achieve that at the peak of their career!

In fact, our own Kanu never scored 15 league goals in a season in his entire career. A tired and 36 year old Eto'o had 18 goals at the twilight of his career.

This guy scored in AFCON final in Lagos 19 years ago!

Prectega:
Pinnick is dey try o .. Compared to the others

I think so too.

ijeshaoflondon:
Ofcourse... very easy to get Turkish evisa with ur UK visa... but be extra careful, many scam sites online .... Go to their embassy webpage, apply for evisa , pay between $40 -$50 with ur atm and get ur evisa onetime. but u must have an existing visa on ur passport and you must fly Turkish airline shikena.

Thanks

NIGHTLIFE100:
Qatar only issue family visit to Nigerians meaning you need a relative resident to sponsor you

No tourism visa?

Taliban:
Nigeria. However in terms of club football and better league there is no contest, clearly Ukraine.

Agreed. I checked their world cup record and I saw they have only 1 appearance.

Question: Between Nigeria and Ukraine, which is the bigger football nation?

Has anyone here ever used UK visa to apply for Qatar visa before? How easy is it?

Planning to tour Eastern Europe and Asia for holiday next year by God's grace and Qatar is one of the countries I'm considering.

Jarus:
I have no inclination to it for the simple fact that it is too specific and coming like 3 weeks before that date. Coming like 3 weeks before that date, you hardly find an organization that specific in such matters - when it's not World Cup match days. What you tend to see is "week". "In the next 3 weeks", "By the second week of September", "By mid-September" etc. Exact date becomes decided only very few days to the day, hardly 3 weeks in advance. Another reason I'm sceptical of that date is the fact that if there was such an exact date, it would have been leaked by at least one other source.

Ultimately, I can be wrong. Just an opinion formed from experience and observations, not something cast in stone.

There you go

Has anyone here used UK visa to obtain e-visa for Turkey and/or Qatar before?

How convenient was it?

considering using my 2 year UK visa to holiday in those 2 countries next year by God's grace.

Lecture 2

*** Hello wan tin, hello wan tin, tin tin tin***

***Hey, bros please change this Mic for me, not working ***

***mic changed***

***Hello, hello, hello...okay this one is working, thank you***

I will advise all local men and women to donate N1k from their reimbursed tfare to buy a new Mic.

***oya, lecture begins***

All protocol duly observed.

I feel honoured to be invited to speak on this auspicious occasion marking the eve of easymoney APL celebration by NNPC Local Men & Women Association, even though I don't like the Uncle y'all add to my name here. You make me feel like Methuselah.

As I did not have time to prepare for this lecture, let me just read out an article I wrote before the 2019 elections on Petroleum Industry Outlook Post 2019 Elections

In few days time, Nigerians will go to poll to elect the next president of the country. The main contenders remain the incumbent, Muhammadu Buhari, and Abubakar Atiku, a former vice president.



Despite the talk about diversification, it is highly unlikely that the country’s petroleum sector loses its relevance as the main driver of the country’s economy. In this essay, I attempt an analysis of the key issues affecting this critical industry and how the two leading candidates are likely to respond to them.



As it has been for more than a decade, the Petroleum Industry Bill remains the biggest regulatory issue in Nigeria’s petroleum sector. There was a significant progress in the bill in the last three years, and the progress was championed by the 8th National Assembly (2015-2019). The Bukola Saraki-led legislative arm of government broke the omnibus PIB into four different bills – the Petroleum Industry Governance Bill (PIGB), Petroleum Industry Fiscal Bill (PIFB), Petroleum Industry Administration Bill (PIAB), and the Petroleum Host and Impacted Communities Bill (PHICB). The PIGB, which sets out the institutional and regulatory structure of the industry as well as commercial participation by government, was sent to the President for assent in June 2018, but the President withheld his assent on certain grounds, chief among which was the proposal in the Bill to have the Petroleum Regulatory Commission (PRC), the successor agency to the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) as the principal regulator of the oil and gas industry, retain 10 percent of the revenue generated by the commission for its own operations. While there is a school of thought that believes that there is more to the presidential rejection than meets the eye, it is difficult to fault the reason stated by the President. The other three bills have not been sent to the President for assent, just as there has not been any public information on whether the National Assembly will revise the PIGB in light of the president’s concerns.

***sips water***continues***

If Bukola Saraki, who is currently the Director General of the opposition campaign, returns as Senate President post-May 2019, it is highly likely that the PIBs’ traction continues. This will however depend on which President he is working with. It looks like the National Assembly is willing to incorporate the comments made by the President on PIGB. It is therefore highly likely that despite their political differences, a combination of Bukola Saraki-led Senate and Buhari presidency may still deliver the PIBs by the end of 2020 latest.



If Saraki does not return as Senate President and Buhari returns as President, there may not be significant divergence in the outcome. Saraki is most likely to be succeeded by an APC senator. From history, first-time senators hardly make it to highest seat in the Senate, it is therefore not out of place to expect the next Senate President to be a member of the 8th Senate. This will mean, with or without Saraki as head of the legislative arm, the PIBs may see the light of the day within two years of the 9th Senate. This is because members of the 8th Senate have demonstrated commitment to the Bills. The chance may be higher if the Senate President that replaces Saraki is from APC like Buhari due to expectation of less friction between the President and the Senate leadership.

****another interruption: someone walks up to drop a small paper ****

***Announcement: Abeg who park Mercedez Benz 4matic with registration number LND419AJ outside, it is blocking one keke maruwa that wants to leave ***

***lecture continues***

The PIGB provides for partial privatization of the successor companies to NNPC, Nigeria’s national oil company (NOC). PDP candidate Atiku Abubakar has vowed to privatize NNPC. Whether he meant full or partial privatization is not yet clear. The instrument Atiku wants to use to actualize this is also not yet clear. If Atiku means partial privatization, the PIGB under his presidency could move fast. If he means full privatization, then that contradicts what is in the current version of PIGB and calls for a major revision of the provisions. This may take time. An even extreme possibility is for the president to side-step the PIGB and use other tools for full scale privatization of NNPC, especially within few months into his presidency given the fervor with which he promised this, and his antecedent as a privatization czar.

While Buhari is slow to reforms (confirmed not just by actions so far but also by own statement as reported in the 14 December 2018 edition of Punch, under the caption “We won’t rush petroleum industry reforms, says Buhari”), Atiku appears more reform-minded. The question will then be, on what template will he start? To continue with the various reform processes that are in various stages, even if too slow, or start all over again with own template?



Deregulation of the downstream petroleum sector is another key issue that will be impacted by the differing policy choice tendencies of the two presidential candidates. Before the 2015 elections, Buhari strongly questioned the fuel subsidy arrangement, which was one of the issues that irredeemably dented the image of his predecessor, Goodluck Jonathan.



Despite attempting to coat it as “under recovery”, the current administration has not moved away from subsidy payment. In fact, it budgeted over N300 billion to fund subsidy in 2019. However, the all-comer racketeering part of the arrangement may have subsided. At the moment, only NNPC imports petrol into Nigeria according to government sources.



Full deregulation of petrol pricing has political backlash, at least in the short term, that any government will be wary of. It is unlikely that Atiku, despite having more free markets tendency, will also consider this option, especially as he would be careful not to trigger popular disaffection at the early stage of his government. Personally, I believe the eventual winner going whole hog on deregulation will not be a bad idea. This will also be helped by the fact that Dangote refinery is expected to come on stream next year which will mean less reliance on importation. I think this will be a golden opportunity for deregulation to enter full gear. Let everybody sell at prices that work for them.



Regardless of whoever emerges the president post-February elections, the Nigerian petroleum industry needs serious reform. The current reforms need to be progressed with more pace and participation by critical stakeholders. Cooperation between the legislative and executive arms of government will play a key role in delivering these reforms.

Thank you very much for listening. I wish you all an injury free easymoneyAPL week.

Just 3k

NDLEA where are you?

ozoebuka1:
I expect you to be humbled by this miraculous alert... If oga Jarus could be humbled into writing like a blogger after being hit by the alert, i expect you to experience the same.

As a welcome punishment, sir, we expect you to give us reasons why you think there's no correlation between reimbursement and apl

chigoziri2403:
It's more painful when you realize that he was benched for a certain odion Ighalo

Ighalo better pass am o

This one just won Lille Player of the Month. He hasn't even won Ligue 1 player of the month.

Ighalo won EPL player of the month. He also ended 2nd highest goalscorer in China in a season.


Ighalo has retired, and he is the leading successor to Ighalo in that top 9 position, but forget it, going into that AFCON, he would not have benched Ighalo.

Goals, assists are all I see

What happens to goalkeepers and defenders?

Hope it doesn't have to do with very long fasting?

Joebie:
SE HOPEFULS BEST XI (ROUND 4)

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CENTER-FORWARD
David Okereke returns to our line-up by virtue of his goals tally all season long. However, his return to the league of SE Hopefuls is not connected to his recent performance on the pitch, but due to Tammy Abraham's shutting down interests from Nigeria until future notice. After firing another brace for Chelsea, it seemed Tammy's place in the team this week was guaranteed, but not until his latest utterances which made him sound rather like a Three-Lions Hopeful.

ADVANCED MIDFIELD
Our line up is unchanged, considering there have been no solid threats to Ebere Eze, Sheyi Ojo and Abdul Ajagun all season. Nevertheless, a few other SE hopefuls can make the team subsequently if they put in more work to improve their season stats. One worthy mention is Ibrahim Rabiu whose assist was instrumental to Slovan Bratislava knocking out Esiti's PAOK in Europa League Qualification. Rabiu can make a push for a return to the Super Eagles if he can help his side surmount three mountains in their Europa League group -- Braga, Wolves, and Besiktas.

CENTER/DEFENSIVE MIDFIELD
We have only one change in this department. Ramon Azeez takes over from Kingsley Michael who missed out from Bologna's match-day squad after a loan move to Serie B side, Cremonese. Azeez, came off the bench to complete Granada's 3-0 trouncing of away side Espanyol. Although he has been used as a CM this current season, he was deployed as an AM, RB and DM as well by Almeria last season. The former Golden Eaglets midfielder have only managed to play 54 minutes after 3 rounds of matches this season, but has never fell with Granada as he was not fielded in their only loss to Sevilla. Azeez will have to maintain his fine form to avoid being upstaged by Obiora Nwankwo. The latter has played as a DM for 360 minutes in all competition this season for Boavista, and have been unintentionally ignored in our previous SE Hopefuls Best XIs.

Ovie Ejaria keeps his spot in CM. He is the highest rated player overall (WhoScored 7.70 Rating) in the Championship for the month of August and so far this season. Also, worthy of mention in CM is Midtjyland's Frank Onyeka, who has been in the thick of action for the Danish SuperLigaen table toppers, leading them to 7 wins and 1 draw out of 8 in the current season

FULLBACKS
Felix Agu has been one of Osnabrueck's most outstanding players this season and has been featured mostly as a RWB. But he retains his position on LB a position he has played once this season. Fellow German-based full back, Kingsley Ehibueze keeps his position in RB after he added 45 mins to his tally in FC Colgone's 2-1 win at Freiburg.

CENTER-BACK
Ike Opara keeps his place, and is closely chased by Felix Uduokhai, who made his Augsburg debut during the weekend. Also, Fikayo Tomori holds down the CB spot for the third consecutive week, as the NFF have started to make moves to get the junior English international to dump England. NFF Chairman, Amaju Pinnick watched from the stands as Tomori made his full EPL debut for Chelsea over the weekend in their home draw to visiting Sheffield United.

GK.
Austin Ejide could not prevent Hapoel Hadera from going down as he let the ball past him 3 times in their away loss to Beer Sheva. Taking his place, 20 year old Phillip Ejimadu is rewarded for not only making Los Angeles FC's bench 8 times in the MLS, but also for being one of the top Goal Keepers in the American 3rd-tier in terms of shut-outs posted.
With the introduction of Ejimadu, let the discussion begin. Who among SE's current keepers will make LA FC's bench? Maybe only Uzoho. Consequently, he deserves a look in ASAP as he has declared to play for Nigeria.

Good job. Helpful.

lol

Paying money to watch toy animals

Your Dad is not on Forbes list

mosgoon:
lol I tell you. The fact that Jarus has no inclination to it and even said it's unlikely. If Easymoneysniper is right.. Then his source is the ultimate

I have no inclination to it for the simple fact that it is too specific and coming like 3 weeks before that date. Coming like 3 weeks before that date, you hardly find an organization that specific in such matters - when it's not World Cup match days. What you tend to see is "week". "In the next 3 weeks", "By the second week of September", "By mid-September" etc. Exact date becomes decided only very few days to the day, hardly 3 weeks in advance. Another reason I'm sceptical of that date is the fact that if there was such an exact date, it would have been leaked by at least one other source.

Ultimately, I can be wrong. Just an opinion formed from experience and observations, not something cast in stone.

These people are unremorseful. Dancing over the grave of killed people.

And our own analysts here are speaking English and forming political correctness.