PDPGuy:


The IOC should increase the squad size oh! Insisting on only squad sizes of 18 players is unrealistic these days

FIFA not IOC

Mrexcell:



So this means the contractor that built the plant never completed their job?

It's a complicated story. But the summary of it is that the contractors could not complete it because of issues relating to supply. It was completed to as close as 96%.

The kind of blast furnace they built would not work well and possibly get damaged if there's no constant supply of plenty ore. Eventually when the Russian contractors saw that the ore was not going to be ready, they had to suspend the project pending completion of the railways and the ore was ready. Not just that, there would have to be no break within the system for the furnace to safely turn on.

Probably the contract ran out and they stopped maintaining the existing system, packed up and left. The cost of maintaining the facility will be high and for a facility not producing anything yet, it was left without proper maintenance.

Eventually the plant started to fall apart and the Russian company had already folded up. Ore was not yet enough and the railway was incomplete. In fact, till today, a railway bridge over the River Niger is still lying there, abandoned.

Personally I feel the Government of then were too ambitious with the project and could have built a much smaller project where the ore could easily be sent by road and production level would already match what is needed. The scale of the project was just too big to be successful in an epileptic country like Nigeria.

CodeTemplar:
How true is this? Well it is a promise. It says ... to supply...

The steel rolling part of the plant has always been functional.

What is abandoned is the Blast Furnace complex that converts ore to iron. The blast furnace was never turned on even for one minute.

They import the steel they roll.

LordIsaac:
It’ll be manslaughter in the end; the goal was not to kill him. Next time, she will be careful with children!

Have you heard of third degree murder before?

deeway200:

How is she a stupid girl? Sometimes, sharing NL with myopic creatures like you is nauseating. Seun, stop all this toddlers from destroying NL

she's not stupid but she's really ignorant. I worked within the Niger Delta O&G sector for a while.

The problem with these Western liberals is always their one-sided sympathetic understanding of things.

While Shell isn't entirely innocent, she sounds completely oblivious to the problem of vandalism, sabotage and artisanal mining which is the main cause of pollution in the Niger Delta. That's why shell wants to leave Nigeria. How many times have you heard of spillages in Angola? Total and Chevron have been there for years.

Secondly what she's calling shadow companies are actually consortiums set up by Nigerian businessmen to buy up Shell's onshore assets. Such as Renaissance and co.

The best is for FG to ban onshore activities because the kind of spillages that will happen when Nigerian corporations take over will be magnitudes worse. Nigerian corporations don't give a f.uck about human rights.

uuzba:
I don't really think it's a good idea to setup tall buildings in Nigeria.
I get the idea that
1. it saves ground area.
2. It's some sort of prestige bullshit.
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But this building needs to transport both people and water to the top floors
And so far, the way to do this is with electricity.
Electric motors running the lift.
Electric motors running the water pumps.
In this country, Nigeria, infamous for No electricity, you've just setup yourself to be screwed big time.
The buildings will be so expensive to run.
Our office is in a tall building, many other offices have vacated the building. We too would soon be leaving.
Expenses for nothing.

Tall buildings are more efficent than an equivalent sqm space of buildings spread out over an area.

Saves fuel, saves utility expenses, helps thousands of businesses stay together in a general area.

If you did economics in school you will understand how important agglomeration is in a large scale economy. There's a reason major towns and cities naturally develop an overcrowded business area.

God1000:
Why Rwanda? Rwandan government shouldn't have accepted such thing from UK

I sincerely don't know how this will benefit Rwanda

You guys don't understand the agreement. According to the agreement. They won't live in Rwanda. Instead of the UK having to process their asylum claims. It will be processed in Rwanda. If successful, they will return to UK. If not Rwandan government will then decide whether to keep them or deport them.

In summary, they're outsourcing asylum considerations to Rwanda who will be paid for it.

nairalanda1:


No, better that states raise.the money via taxes and investment and more taxes.

Plus reducing federal government 45 percent is going to leave a lot of ministries unable to function.. millions of Nigerians rely on such ministries working

The money has to come from the states.

Good points. But I'll argue that the Federal must thin down at all levels. There is a lot of redundancy in Abuja. The legislators need to grow some balls and clamp down that bloody deep state and give more to the state governments.

Nigerians tend to be more patriotic to their states than to the country. If we do the right thing, this will translate to better efficiency at state levels, and we won't need many of those high maintenance federal agencies anymore.

daveP:
Coincidence?

Almost everyone here no dey play for Falcons right now. Combined minutes....phew.

Picture of bad luck. has Yewande retired?

nairalanda1:
We are not ripe for state police.

Ultimately, the problem is funding for me. All my other objections, I have dismissed them, even the tribalism and religion one. If state police is going to be tribalistic, they will end up losing investors. Bad news. SO, state police is going to work.

But funding is a big problem. A BIG PROBLEM. States that most cannot pay the current mininum wage, talkless new wage...are now going to fund state police. Okay. Either state starts charging everyone tax...which I know Nigerians don't like, or they take loan, and more loan. (Forget federal funding. ).

We too dey like copy other countries. Yes, USA Has state police, and also USA has a diversifed economy with everyone..almost everyone...paying taxes. Not like Nigeria where most of us do not pay tax. Even the one we pay, can only cover 20% of our income. We are not funding our National police force well enough...we spend less than one tenth what New York CITY (Not the state ) spends to police 200 million people. It's a miracle we have not crashed into anarchy by now. Yet we expect the NPF to perform like NYPD. Na magic thinking be that.

If I suggest we should do things like pay tax, remove subsides to find more money, and so forth, people will abuse me. Yet people are here calling for state police that their state cannot fund. Some will even call for regions to come back so that we can have regional police...it's like people do not know why we have states, and no, it is not because of Gowon. State issues started in the first republic...that is why we ended up with Midwestern region...and we would have even gotten middle belt region if not for the 66 coup.

LIke now, Zamfara state is poor, broke and has a massive kidnapping problem and bandit issue. It needs a state police that is well armed, and has things like drones, aeroplanes, tactical gear, good arms, and specialist commando style police. How is it going to be funded? From the state's brokeass funds. Same for kaduna. Lagos needs a proper urban force...HECK, Lagos needs a police force like the NYPD , with funding of 10 billion dollars or more per annum...otherwise it would be ineffective. Borno, we know. Even Anambra and Enugu need a well funded force...with esn. I haven't mentioned fulani herdsmen issues...you need something like a well armed police force AND a well armed specialist SPESTNAZ (google it) type force. Otherwise, wahala go start.

I tell you, unless we are ready to make some tough sacrfices, instead of expecting oil money to cover everything....we can't have state police. God knows, I wish it was otherwise. We never even adequately fund our own police force self...with wretched housing on top.

Are we all ready to pay half our income, including people in villages, and poor city dwellers...in tax, to ensure that we get a well functioning state police. And please, that thing called security vote....e no fit fund am.

Funding is not a problem. Simply reduce the 45% allocation going to FG and give more money to states. Case closed.

allen113:
In all honesty this house is not befitting for a vp residence. They should have built something more beautiful than this.

Eleporobi:
Despite all the billions of naira look at the structure

This same structure don gulp over 20 billion naira and yet its not even as fine as all those house in ikate

It is actually beautiful just not fancy. For those who love originality and timelessness, it is a masterpiece. It conveys 'Government' accurately. Its called brutish style

mostob:
Show that post to your elders at home. Let them use simple English to explain it to you. And you should mind how you go about insulting people on the internet. The world is smaller than you think.

mostob:
This UK wey you dey, one day..you will need to drop proof.
Trust me, shame dey catch me as I dey read the trash you wrote here. Na swear or what?

You made a blunder at first. In an attempt to rectify it, you ended up ridiculing and sacrificing yourself. To what end abeg?

After telling someone else the same thing.

mostob:
Clowns? Randy is the clown here please. Udoh is right. Randy is one of the most protected SF coach.
Let's be factual here please, is there anything tangible that Randy has added to this team? Remove the individual brilliance of Nnadozie and the little luck here and there and imagine where we would be by now.

Let's free these journalists please. Nothing exceptional about RW abeg. Moreso, as a player or coach, it is expected to receive criticism. You need to develop tough skin. Why the blocking spree?

Normally dem suppose slap you for mouth and eye for this kind of foolish comment.

Wasn't Nnadozie the keeper when we were conceding goals in France 2019? And mind you she was already extremely good then.

You have to give it to Randy for resisting the temptation to take the game out. SA initally sat back but he didn't take the bait. You should not be desperate to score when you don't need to.

I hope Thembi can now see that it isn't about the pitch

Playing Nigeria is a nightmare to SA at this point.

What kind of crap did that SA anchor explain like that?

That SA will qualify with a 2 all draw. How?

daveP:
That commentator is biased and such a hater dropping subtle hate speech. Chai.

At least he's more professional than the arse-whole I listened to in Cameroun.

This is SA national TV. You cannot expect a full two-sided commentary

Match is mid. At some point i was just listening to the history lesson by the commentator.

TheSuperNerd:
Yes. We have limited the SAs to playing within their own half. They almost always make no ball progress when they enter our own half.

Beyond that, I think SA girls on their own have been underwhelming right from the 1st leg. Almost like they're ceding it to us without a fight.

I was expecting something else with the media hype.

Its sad that our rivalry with South Africa ends in football. The gap between the two countries is clear as daylight.

Deltamani:


Is Randy trying to deceive the Ellis? Because I believe she would be expecting to see either Oshoala or Okoronkwo start at the End, Ihezuo.

I just hope Ihezuo gives a better performance than what she has done in the First Leg..

He's trying to stall the game. Our main objective should be to make sure SA does not get an early goal. We're iced if that happens. At best they don't score, but if they do, the ideal situation is that it happens close to the end, so that we can bring in fresh strikers that will take the game back to them.

carbonado:
...Nice,thanks for enlightening me on this, hope it those not get to that though.

They're all professionals, no one would be thinking of such. This is not inter high school match

carbonado:
...if it has gotten to that, then the Falcons should watch out for food poisoning...they should watch what they eat...

That will be a breach of CAF/FIFA safety requirements for host member associations. If such a thing happens, whether deliberate or not, SA will likely be forfeiting the match and staring at a very long FIFA ban.

yinkeys:
I heard it there was VAR South Africa would have gotten a penalty
Is this true

Most likely,

I don't know if it's the same situation they're talking of, but Nnadozie did something that would have gotten her a yellow or even sent off.

In one incident she missed the ball and hit Seoponsenwe, sending her crashing down. The referee did not see it.

naptu2:
It would have been so much better if we went back to the old arrangement. So much better.

Allow the NTA to broadcast the match live. Allow them to sell advert slots and the NTA and NFF can share the profit. They would have used their OB van. We did that decades ago! Why are we regressing?

I think they're being unrealistic with their expectations that's why they're still at the level they are.

For instance, a media company comes to negotiate for rights, but cannot guarantee what NFF is demanding.

Odogwujayy:
Africa still dey do away goal rule right?

Yep.

CAF competitions def still keep the rule.

lovewins:


They don't want Randy full stop. They are trying to wait it out and see how events unfold. They may even have a local coach take us to th AFCON qualifiers next month against Sao Tome and Principe. We'll definitely win, so that'll further strengthen their sentiments for a new coach.

They are also hoping Randy gets another job soon so they won't have to make that decision.

Sorry but what were you expecting him to answer?

Even if he wants Randy it would be unprofessional for him to make a statement that NFF did not agree on.

Throwback:


While it is true that it is the statutory N2m vacation allowance that was received and not some bogus tales of sharing billions of Naira, SP Akpabio need to stop courting a negative perception for both the Senate and the Federal Government.

There are way too many anti-government anarchist already in the country. He should not put them on overdrive to create chaos.

Where is the statute?

ThePresenceWtf:



Yes!

Don't be so sure.

CornOak:


Yes, so far. They haven't really inspired any confidence, based on their hype and the Euro Champions' tag.

Where are the Asian, North American, and African champions today?

Their goals against Colombia do not tell the full story. A win is all that matters, anyways.

But you would agree with me that we had the better chance of winning that R16 game.

You think it's easy to win a World Cup knockout game? Once you enter the knocking stages, things get very tough.

They've lived up to their hype, going into the semis as things stand, unless you're looking for unrealistic statistics that only happen in group stage games. This is world cup bruh. France men most likely wouldn't beat Nigeria more than a goal or two in a World Cup game. Knockout matches are generally very tough even if you're the better team.

mostob:
I've been noticing that too. If na our sister Dem ask those questions eh....

She usually has impressive interviews. Assisat too. They're more exposed than some others.

CornOak:


A superb strike.

I am still pained and heartbroken that we didn't beat this poor English side.

England levels from a very poor Colombian defensive error.
1 - 1

Sometimes the way you guys talk here is funny. Euro champions are poor

Were any of our games better than any of theirs?