daveP:
We'll need something close to national budget to successfully plan, prepare and end if we win bid. Billions of dollars. If they have sense, that event, theoretically, can singlehandedly revive the dead tourism sector. But na big dream wey dey run pass Flash. Who wan chase am?

Hosting Olympics to revive tourism in Nigeria kinda sounds like treating a headache with surgery.

LBH, hosting Olympics in Nigeria is not practical within the next 40~50 years.

Marjoribanks:
Same way Scotland competes against England/Wale/Northern Ireland at the Word Cup!

That is not true.

There’s nothing like Scotland at the Olympics. They all team up together as Great Britain.

Olympics and it’s strange ways.

Why is Puerto Rico competing against America?

robosky02:



Abuja can bid for 2040 Olympics

We have the
passion
The facilities
And time to add more

Cities like Lagos and Uyo can host the football event ect

2040 Olympics isn't far oh. They already have strong biddings. Also the financial readiness is important and it does not look good for Naija. Atm, Nigeria cannot even afford up to 1 billion USD of capital expenditure in a single fiscal year. Which means that even with our current borrowing levels, it will take 10+ years to fund the infrastructure to accommodate the Olympics. Worse still, our infrastructure is way below the standard of cities like Paris, Tokyo before they started to spend money on upgrades.

Hosting Olympics will take Nigeria into colossal debt. That's even if we win it.

forgiveness:


What is disorganized that can't be organized?

A lot. Lagos is overcrowded, lacks standard municipal services and most of it is unplanned. Bringing its infrastructure to global standard is simply cost prohibitive.

Abuja on the other hand is a young city that isn't only better planned, it still has enough room for renovations and upgrades.

Richie6:


Why will it get crazy up north?

These things are not difficult to predict if you understand Nigeria's ethno-religious dynamic very well.

Ppogbae:


Well, Egypt has been borrowing from the IMF and the World Bank like there's no tommorow so you never know

I didn't consider Egypt although they put in a bid for a distant olympics sometime around 2040. You know they're building a new captial.

forgiveness:


Lagos can host it if Casablanca can.

Lagos is too dirty, disorganized and out of shape to host such an event. Same goes for the rest of Nigerian 'cities' with the exception of Abuja.

Casablanca is a big stretch but I put it there due to the commitment of the moroccoan government to capital investment in order to grow tourism in its cities.

Tbh only Cape Town and maybe Jbourg look like olympic candidates.

God help Africa. We're way behind.

Ppogbae:


The only countries with capability to do so are Morrocco and South Africa. Maybe Egypt. Kenya (only Nairobi) if we're pushing it.

Yes, Casablanca and Cape Town for example, technically might be able to host it but think about the cash perspective. Can these cities/countries or their government raise 10 billion for example?

MichaelSokoto:

Flop for southern States bah?

Wait till tomorrow to find out!

Okay

The headline is abit misleading. From the post it sounds like Tinubu made the call, and not the other way round.

Last last this so called protest will be a big flop in Southern states. But things might get crazy up north.

After reading some of the negative comments by athletes on the level of organization by Paris, all I can say is,

It’ll be extremely difficult for an African country to host Olympics. The costs are just insane.

Cities spend upwards of 10 billion to host Olympics and these are cities that are very developed already. Now imagine African cities with poor infrastructure to begin with.

It’s even cheaper to host the World Cup than Olympics.

PDPGuy:
The Super Falcons have now lost a staggering EIGHT Olympics matches in a row 😲😲

This is a curse abeg!

To be fair, this group was much tougher than the WC. That said, there were obvious lapses in attack.

lovewins:


That was my initial assumption but She's in the game now.

She's literally the only one moving the ball forward.

I guess it played a part in her not starting. She's our only promising forward

lovewins:


First, Randy coached a bad game today. Starting Toni Payne and Okeke were big errors. Not playing Okoronkwo is puzzling. I however still think he should remain as coach at least till the next WAFCON.

That said the NFF should do whatever they think is best. I'll be here to remind those calling for his sack without knowing what's at the other side of the door.

They are definitely not employing a foreign coach should Randy go. They'll probably give the job to the stand-in coach when Randy's contract expired it they'll just promote Danjuma.

She was injured

Unlimited22:

Abeg when athletics dey start

Track and field starts tomorrow I think. It usually starts after a week.

At the very least we need to pull one back in this half, this Japan team is not too formidable but the girls need to show that they can score goals first.

Oh lol. looks like they've scored already.

While Nigerians are bothered about tribe. They have missed what is eating up Nigeria.

The rapidly progressing systemic decay of all sectors.

MystiiqueB:
Hmmmmm...where OBO dey kwanu?

Outside SW nobody know dat guy oh.

raskymonojendor:
Lol.

The girl bleeped up yesterday. She even lost more support in the last 24 hours as a result of a video trending on South African social media.

In the video, She went to visit what sort of looks like an Ibo union association and those ones where chest beating on video in Ibo and English about how chidinma was going to win the contest

So she should start avoiding her family because she wants to win one crappy competition in Zulu land?

Nonsense.

mostob:
Randy left Rinsola at home. Infact when the lady was available, he still didn't play her. Somebody said Randy doesn't fancy her.

Maybe.

mostob:
Good... now the issue is those he brought in at not good for counter attack because they're not fast. Except Kanu whom he brought in just to saddle her with defensive duties.

I would prefer Rinsola ahead of Kanu

Zambia's coach must be very inexperienced. I'm sure he waited till Australia started to score before he tried to defend his lead. As a coach you should be able to make decisions ahead of time.

Zambia had no business playing upfront in the second half.

ThePresenceWtf:



No!! bad Positioning and Bad Judgment from her. Did you see her starting position and where she was running to claim the ball? she was attempting to rush all the way out of the 6 yard box to claim the ball. You don't veer way off from your goal line, because any "Ok" in-Player will definitely beat you.

She made a good judgement. 9 out of 10 times a freekick from that angle is a cross. As a goalkeeper you cannot wait till the ball is near you to position yourself. If she stays on the line and its a cross, there will be space for the two spain shirts in front to score.

ThePresenceWtf:
Every Sub by Randy today has been abysmal to say the least.

What was wrong with it? We were going to defend much more in the late minutes. He has to bring new attackers that use new energy in a counter attack and resting other strikers at the same time. We have another game in three days.

ThePresenceWtf:



Absolutely not! that was all on Nnadozie. What was she doing stepping out of her line, mis-judged the ball and started back peddling!

She did the correct thing. You don't stay on the line for a free kick from that angle. Putellas was likely trying to make a cross and ended up scoring.

Dimehin is fully responsible for that goal. That foul was completely unnecessary and needless. There was no threat to the goal.

RickyJesus:

You have never being on a plane before so just rest.

You’re the one who hasn’t flown at all baby. If not the you won’t be making such error. The news is talking about people flying into local airports from outside Nigerian airspace and thus avoiding any passport/visa and customs checks.

You can fly from Lagos to Enugu even with an unofficial ID card. That’s how porous local flights are.

Way too much recklessness in Nigeria.

People flying into the country without customs checks.

RickyJesus:

You guys no nothing about aviation industry but you feel you just have give your opinion.

Is it the airport or airline that's in question? The airline have all the passengers manifest, this law is rubbish.

Wrong person boldly correcting the right person

Una too funny 4 dis site.

tensazangetsu20:


https://x.com/ImadeIyamu/status/1756997693686108548?t=Mkz1FTAvmV8h_84t32jCUA&s=19

This is just one example. Bsc in law and was doing an MBA from Colombia but got her green card months before graduation. She also didn't work anywhere spectacular. Most of her work experience were from law firms in Nigeria. This one is someone popular on twitter. I know people who aren't even popular or anything and have gotten it. Like I said dey play.


People are breaking barriers and you are playing on nairaland

Check the LinkedIn profile of the person who you quoted and stop talking nonsense. Law school is not bachelors and she’s not practicing law in America.