₦airaland Forum

Akwa United and MFM start the second round
of the season in the top-five and their coaches
have made it clear that they intend to
challenge for the title, or end up in the top-
three at the end of this campaign.
MFM coach Fidelis Ilechukwu and his Akwa
United counterpart, Abdu Maikaba are known
for setting up their teams to play expansive
style of football – pressing play, short passes
and use of wide men.
The two teams have scored a joint 47 goals
after 19 rounds of matches – 13 per cent of
the total goals recorded so far this and that
should shape the game as a contest that will
involve goals as their last three NPFL meetings
have produced nine goals.
In Stephen Odey, MFM can boast of one of the
free-scoring talent in the country at the
moment. Odey has scored 14 times and
provided two assists in 16 appearances. There
is also Sikiru Olatunbosun whose mazy runs
and intricate style has seen his goal against
Rangers earn Worldwide acclaim and voted
CNN Goal of the Week.
On the other hand, Maikaba’s Promise Keepers
are not in the city of Lagos for just sight-
seeing. This time they have quite a squad with
the like of Alhassan Ibrahim, Christian
Pyagbara, Moses Ebiye, Amaechi Orji as well as
former MFM boys, Ifeanyi Ifeanyi and Musa
Newman, who can all change a game on its
head.
Last season, Akwa United found no joy at the
Agege Stadium in this same fixture. Their off-
colour performance meant they were outplayed
and dismissed three-nil by a very mobile MFM
team on the last day of April last year.
Interestingly, Odey and Olatunbosun scored the
goals with the latter helping himself to a brace.
Under Maikaba this time, Akwa United have
become one of the teams to watch despite an
early season blip that saw them winless in their
opening five matches. In the reverse game at
the Nest of Champions, Akwa United hit MFM
2-0 with Alhassan and Ubong Friday
accounting for the goals.
Alhassan just like his team will be hoping to
catch up with Odey in the race for the top
scorer. However by the time referee Abdullahi
Shuaibu ends proceedings it is hoped that this
tantalizing fixture will live up to its billing –
having produced two plus goals in each of its
last three matches.
In Port Harcourt, two of the league’s best
defending sides square up at the Yakubu
Gowon Stadium. Rivers United, also with the
headache of goalscoring – 12 goals in 19
matches – play hosts to Nasarawa United who
have the safest hands in the country in Suraj
Ayeleso. The Nasarawa United goalkeeper has
kept eight clean sheets in 19 appearances so
far and will go up against a blunt Rivers United
frontline as it seems.
More than 200 kilometres away from Port
Harcourt, the NPFL champions Rangers will
hope to put their relegation worries to bed
when they host Gombe United having played
out a 3-3 draw just over a week ago.
League leaders Plateau United hit the road to
face Katsina United. This game is a banana
peel for Kennedy Boboye and his table-toppers
who are seeking to land a first league title.
Six other matches will take place in Akure,
Bauchi, Ibadan, Ilorin, Kano and Sagamu.
Matchday 20 Fixtures
Saturday, 20 May, 2017
Rivers United v Nasarawa United
Sunday, 21 May, 2017
Remo Stars v Enyimba
Katsina United v Plateau United
Rangers v Gombe United
Wikki Tourists v Abia Warriors
ABS v El-Kanemi Warriors
MFM v Akwa United
Kano Pillars v Niger Tornadoes
Shooting Stars v FC Ifeanyiubah
Sunshine Stars v Lobi Stars http://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/05/npfl-returns-mouthwatering-fixtures/

Enuguboy4nsk:
what's your state of origin?
we will still compare it with its pars created in same year with them

my is even worst so no need for E - war.

there are all below average.

h

leave him, let him die in that seat.

this are powerful women most especially number one and two.

Yyeske:
Abeg if you know anyone living around there, please tell him to stay safe and if he fit tell us who dey shoot, better. Old road nkpor is almost deserted.

Remember there was shootings yesterday and a policeman was killed

I'm only joking, i don't have any close relative or friends close by there GOD will protect us all.

Yyeske:
I heard gunshots and saw people running and you say make i go investigate, you hate me like this? Just asking those living around where it occurred

no worry you no go die just go check, nairalanders dey your back in fact i dey your back.

privacy matters a lot, i will like to be a private rich man.

nawtyme:
Hahahahaha, guy you are wicked ooo. Wetin BMC ode do you this morning? Chai Sarrki sorry ooo. Kai this one pain me well well.

me no call sarrki ode i only dey wonder if he na normal human being.

Donbiggi:
am in gassol too, tella yaya zamu hadu!!!!!

if you are in tella that means we are close by, i don't understand Hausa

Bigcake:
Signal acknowledged, hope you are safe? Is the State still part of Nigeria?
If yes, do you have a Governor?

What is the economic main stay of the State?

my brother the state is part of Nigeria, the problem here is tribalism, which has eaten deep into every average tarabian.


the impact of the state government is not felt at all apart from the state capital jalingo which is the administrative center of the state noting note worth is happening.

sarrki:
Mention just 3 other places along that part

If truly you are there.

I'm sorry i feel embarrassed charting with you, i just don't like your philosophy please do not quote me again.

sarrki:
Gassol I remember vividly

Mutum biyu turakeke, namnai

when i saw the mention i though it was a normal human being until i saw the name.

op we are here, am reporting live from gassol local govt taraba state. our close neighbour in Bali local govt were under siege by Fulani herdsmen more than ten tiv people lost their life

deji15:
Yes, there is dignity in labour, including wheel barrow pushing. If I do not have an education in demand, a trade skill like carpentry, auto mechanic, brick laying, tailoring, farming etc, I will be pushing wheel barrow. The fact that someone is pushing wheel barrow today, does not mean he will not be a billionaire tomorrow. Wheel barrow pushing is a survival job and it is not the end of the world.

a beg carry your foolishness go i don tire for you.

deji15:
Hope you can take your own advise and get help ASAP. There is dignity in labour. I know your type will rather ferry cocaine to Asia country than work hard doing a legitimate business to make ends meet. I do well for myself, so I dont need a wheel barrow from anybody.Me doing well has nothing to do with receiving anything from any politician. Hope your coconut head can comprehend that

thank GOD you know there is dignity in labour but where does dignity come from in pushing wheelbarrow, what ever i can't do i don't encourage people to do it


so you engage in legitimate business to make ends meet. is wheelbarrow pushing not a legitimate business take the lead so that others will follow you.

deji15:
If that insult is how you get your daily high, you are free to haul it upon yourself.
What part of the explanation is difficult for you to understand that there is a difference between the Governor personal purse, what he can afford to give 3 or 20 of his children and what he can afford to share among the citizens after paying monthly salary to civil servants, build roads, hospitals etc?
There are some group of Nigerians that wheel barrows will make a difference to their lives, afterall the Governor is not forcing anybody to take it.

you are not normal you need help, have you in anywhere read or heard of any project engage in by Ortom. the governor doesn't construct road hardly pay salaries and the monthly allocation of Benue state is running into billions every month. all the foolish governor can do is to empower the teeming youth with wheelbarrow who does that.


just imagine your last paragraph, i believe you and your family will fare well with wheelbarrow. i don't believe any Nigeria youth that have pass through the scorching sun to vote for any politician will receive a wheelbarrow as a way of been empowered.

deji15:
There is dignity in labour. There is a difference between what the governor can afford to give 3 or even 20 of his own children (from his own earnings) and what the state can afford to give as gifts to millions of citizens within the state.
This same Government will still have to pay thousands if not millions of state workers, build roads and hospitals etc.
Bro, do the maths.

your post is annoying, am trying very hard to contain my self and to avoid ban if not i would have rain insult on you. so if your governor give you a wheelbarrow you will dance to high heaven for the nonsense gift. i don't blame you hiss

coolcatty:
How...where did I belittle anybody....you guys just use words you don't know the meaning......bayelsa and delta states are a big disgrace...quote me anywhere.

we know okowa is an ingrate, but you were are you from?

good one from the senate.

APC and lies are like dog and bone.

lol at flamboyantly fried

kuchikau:
discipline ur self. Check d story of fallen great men.

you don't need to remind me, i have learnt my lesson in the hard way.