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my point is it does not favour them. Does giving people houndouts favor them? Nothing you get easily is empowering.

mank1234:
Check cutoff mark for unity schools, NDA, etc. Check the scores of those who gain admission via ELDS. Check academic records of government employees. Do this state by state basis.

Check the records of countries representing Africa at U17, U20 tournaments. Do this on CAF regional block by CAF regional block which form basis for world cup qualification.

If after checking all this, you still don't understand, then forget it.

You don't give more slots to incapable teams. If cost is the issue as many have argued for the current arrangement, then West Africa should have been given more slot based on previous record or archivement as is done in FIFA tournaments.

NIgeria's problem is not tribalism. Tribalism is only a symptom of a deeper issue. Our problem is that we have not all agreed on what our true problem is. If i say it now, dem go say I dey point fingers at someone else. People need to learn to follow the money (resources) in the grand scheme of things, then it will make a whole lot of sense.

"favours" how do you mean?

mank1234:
In Nigeria, we do same in various forms: federal character, educationally less developed state, ecological fund etc. The funny thing is that all this favours a particular section of the country that doesn't want to move forward.

make i tell u wetin i no talk?

Odunayaw:
You tell us

Dude stayed too long in Leicester.

Amedino99:
His fifteen goals place him as the second highest goalscorer for nigeria behind Osihmen among active super eagles players. Not many players have 15 goals for Nigeria. Not even Moses (12), Osaze (11) scored more than him. His career might have been disappointing based on our expectation but underwhelming is not quite the right word to use when describing his national team career.

na that kind math we dey like, until a low league player outperform a top league player in the Super Eagles.

Kog45:
Yes not easy to score in any league but scoring 100 goals in India league doesn't give a player advantage over 10 goals scorer in Europe.

Okay so why do you think DR Congo players in diaspora love their country, but our's don't?

elyte89:
When it comes to convincing players easily,I will give it to dr Congo and Morocco 🇲🇦 and to some extent Senegal 🇸🇳

I believe this has to do more of the love for their country cos tell what dr Congo have ,dt we don’t have ..infact brand wise, we re bigger (I don’t want to go into infrastructure;cos both countries don’t have infrastructure) so my question is why do we find it hard to convince our own players ,even if we finally succeed ,it takes years before it materialises.

as long as other Afro genres dey

Mujtahida:
Plenty genre. My taste dey eclectic. But it doesn't include afrobeats.

komekn thinz *winks*

mrwilliams9:
The best ability is availability.

Osimhen’s biggest flaws are 1) being injury prone and 2) having bad offside awareness.

In the Prem those two things will get magnified.

I go like know the genre when you come dey connect with

Mujtahida:
I thought I'm the only one who finds it impossible to connect with afrobeats. All them davido, WizKid, burns boys if I see them e go be like I see ordinary person. I don't rate them at all. It never ceases to amaze me that people listen to their music and celebrate them. E dey shock me

Eberechi Eze 2.0 [quote author=Papi85 post=140492924]Tom Iorpenda 🇳🇬will be sighning for Swansea city🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 who play in the Championship ,he will be joining from football league one club Huddersfield Town.

Chelle and his scout team should be all over this kid. Have seen him play before and he is a lovely CAM

Not surprised he finally got a move to a championship club from league one

One to keep an eye on

Tom Iorpenda 😮‍💨🦢 pic.twitter.com/y7rHHcB7VP

— Only Swans (@onlyswanss) August 30, 2026

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we will like it if we are making progress.

Justice505:
Those who are coming for equity should come with clean hand, just because we have a southern president does not mean we will disregard what has already been on board, if same is done to the South I believe most of us will not like it.

no be team performance we dey look?
all these kind arguments sef don tire me. we were doing this over 10 years ago. we cannot continue like. The coach will still pick who he wants. The question is can we go to the WC and perform? Else everything else, club doings etcs na wash

Subzero047:
Who said the bolded? Besides everybody that has defended Ajayi used Nigeria's team performances at the Afcon and not his own individual merits which is interesting

My submission is that ability trumps experience everytime and we have young and capable defenders who are ready to take the mantle and that does not mean Ajayi should be discarded

This should actually be a standalone post:

tribalism/racism is everywhere. what we need is a government of unity. And that cannot happen until we have one language that unifies us amongst other policies that makes Nigerians have a sense of national pride. As long as the imperialists keep running the country (whether you want to see if for what it REALLY is or not), we will continue in our downward trajectory. The common people must come together and weed out those slave masters that keep using our tribal differences to deceive us. it is a long established playbook by their master -- divide and conquer.

Else, remain conquered

tribalism/racism is everywhere. what we need is a government of unity. And that cannot happen until we have one language that unifies us amongst other policies that makes Nigerians have a sense of national pride. As long as the imperialists keep running the country (whether you want to see if for what it REALLY is or not), we will continue in our downward trajectory. The common people must come together and weed out those slave masters that keep using our tribal differences to deceive us. it is a long established playbook by their master -- divide and conquer.

Else, remain conquered

Amedino99:
Would have agreed with you but we have had considerable success with Nigerian coaches in our teams. The only tournament we have not won with a nigerian coach is the olympics. Every other tournament a nigerian coach has delivered for us.

how markets

Naija cant carry last

TheSuperNerd:
CAF Club's Ranking 2026/27

Here's how Africa's clubs rank ahead of the 2026/27 #TotalEnergiesCAFCL & #TotalEnergiesCAFCC Preliminary Round Draw. ⭐

Only 2 Nigerian Clubs make this list.

Courtesy: @CAFCLCC

lol.. all our players wan naturalize sef to Turkey. Turkey the place to be

EElopa:
omo nothing do me. I dey fine. Body dey chill and i am peace buddy. If you understand football development you will understand that the turkish league is aiming to be a stage 5 cancer to the Nigerian national team. It is not a developmental league that grows or nature talent neither is it a top quality league. If you don't understand the threat that this league is to the Nigerian national team omo I don't know what to say to you.

connections ba?

SolaFide:
I want to ask a simple question.

How did Nnadozie become 1st choice for the Super Falcons?.

The circumstance that played out before becoming our first choice?.

Trump go still congratulate Tinubu next year

Meliforme:
That is why Trump is hated.
People with good intentions are usually hated or despised.

Sorry to derail this thread a little, but all the people that I know that despise Trump are staunch Tinubu supporters.
All of them. This is my own experience, I do not know about others.

Elephant sef don borrow u skin

Spainever:
Even if the super falcons wins the tournament, the coach remains an incompetent man. From wrong selection 😕 to tactically poor. If they qualify 😀 good if they fail to ,their problem 😔. I have developed thick skin over Nigerian football. Since back to back missing men world cup

na man na

Papi85:
This Malawian number 10 no be man be that?😳

what if she actually drank a keg or more?

SymphonyRad:
All the 3 goals we conceded were so comical that you would have thought Nnadozie drank a keg of palm wine before stepping to the pitch, none of the goals even came from Malawi playing some fantastic football to tear us apart...just Nnadozie inexplicably coming out of her line and getting caught 3x in no man's land.

in the womens game
and in the mens game, extending the gap.

Damioduso1:
Can this super falcons I ssaw tonight beat Ghana , ivory coast or Morocco like this


Other Nation a catching up with us in terms of female football

We have never lacked talent. This is not an argument of if we have the potentials. We will always shoot ourselves in the foot until we the people do something about it and stop daydreaming.

Philosopher1979:
Are you God who knows the future. Who told you Nigeria cannot be the African country that will win the world cup.
Talents at home and in diaspora are being discovered Everytime. With good coaching all will come together. Relax. I don't want to mention they are many. Femi azewz chrisantus uche, Emmanuel frnandez, ebenizer akinsanmiro etc. we just need a good coach to figure out how to blend things.

hahaha
crabs in the bucket. crab when done reach top of bucket, you drag am down say na here we dey.. low self-esteem Africans

keep trading AFCON blows. when an African country wins the WC and it's not Naija, you come up with another narrative like Afrobeats etc

Napoleon55:
What matters is the titles,
Morocco is yet to win anything at the world cup,we are more or less the same at the world stage.
But on the continent, they are far behind.

Anything when make u sleep well at nigh

chrisooblog:
Played like which title contenders with one shot on target in the whole match that only came in the 86th minute?

I never said I was happy and content we lost to them. Even that loss was down to the lottery of penalties. You're the one claiming the Moroccans are some magnificent team way beyond other African contenders when I can't see any evidence to suggest why.

Whatever makes u win case at night lol

Mujtahida:
Morocco didn't play shingbai. Only one shot on target and that was in the 86' or so.

They were outplayed.

Haha boardroom antics, what has naija achieved in the WC after several appearances. Let's even leave our Golden generation from over 30 years ago out of reapect for those stars

chrisooblog:
The Moroccans sef you're hyping in the cold light of objective analyses what did they actually do? Drew with one of the poorest Brazilians teams in recent years, Beat an above average Netherlands on penalties, and get outclassed by France that Senegal went toe to toe with.

So I should quake in my pants because they defeated world super powers Scotland, Haiti, Canada? Really?

Nigeria should do better but use a more appropriate example for comparison not a country relying on board room antics to win an undeserved title.

Yes England!

In AFCON abi lol

Napoleon55:
Morocco won't touch our achievements across the board in 5 decades to come

so?

Damioduso1:
🇳🇬 Nigeria could field an all-Premier League back four this season:

▪️Calvin Bassey
▪️Semi Ajayi
▪️Benjamin Fredrick
▪️Ola Aina