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GLeesMODEL:
Rashida Bello, Ibe Kachikwu, Abba Moro, Fani Kayode, Sunday Dare, Ifeanyi Uba Celebrate As Vivian Lam Launches Book

The most anticipated Launch ceremony of the book titled, Nigeria: Re-awakening the Giant, Authored by Ms. Vivian Lam, was indeed historic and epoch, with the high and mighty in attendance. The occasion which was held at Transcorp Hilton Hotel Abuja, was a grand ceremony that left alot of dignitaries amazed and astonished at the turnout it witnessed.

According to AbujaPress Correspondent, the occasion was worth a while, with the presence of former Interior Minister, Comrade Abba Morro, as Chairman of the occasion, wife of Kogi state Governor, Mrs. Rashida Bello, as Mother of the Day, Executive Commissioner of NCC, Mr. Sunday Dare who reviewed the book and Dr Ibe Kachikwu, the Hon. Minister of State for Petroleum who delivered a good will message as well as Mrs. Julie Okah, Director General of NAPTIP.

However, other reputable faces spotted was Sen. Ifeanyi Uba, and his colleagues, , Mr. femi Fani Kayode and his wife, Sen. Eze Ajoku, Barr. Kemdi Dikeocha, former Imo state Speaker, and representatives from FIRS, CBN, Customs and other notable national agencies.

The Book by Vivian Lam, highlighting the natural and resources of Nigeria, her challenges and recommendations towards regaining her lost glory. The book tends to support the value of the house citizenship and it's unequivocal benefits to nation building.

However, the Author, Ms Vivian Lam has thanked everyone who made out time and efforts to grace the book launch occasion. She has expressed sincere appreciation to everyone, agencies, social groups and association, that indeed participated and was useful in making her national book a success.

Nollywood legend, Francis Duru was the Host of the event. Media partners were AIT, NTA, TVC, NAN, WAZOBIA Max, AbujaPress People's TV and others.
https://www.abujapress.com/2019/04/glamour-rashida-bello-ibe-kachikwu-abba.html?m=1

Isn't that Farouk Lawan on the left in the first picture, fourth picture?

johnie:
What a month!
Bouteflika
Bashir
Now Assange?
And we have not reached mid month.

Then the Peruvian ex-president shoots himself dead!

DisGuy:
Don't know what it was doing in the travel section myself.

Thanks for relocating the thread to Properties.

God bless you.

naptu2:
I heard that the clashes began at Jakande Estate and that there has been violence at Jakande for a week now and that it spread from there to Abraham Adesanya.

Thank you for this important update.

I thought the clashes had to do with the recent death of the Olumegbon and so limited to Ajah.

With this update, it seems the problem is larger than I thought.

Justwise, disguy, seun - this is why this thread needs to be relocated. The discourse could save lives.

Justwise, disguy, seun

I still wonder why this thread is tucked in the travel section.

It started out in the property section before it was moved here to "Siberia"

It will serve a greater number of people in the property section where property owners and tenants (current and prospective) would find the discourse useful.

Lekki is more of a residential area than a tourist location!

Yesterday, I came across a horrific news item about some cult clashes culminating in some beheadings around the fish roundabout/ Abraham Adesanya Estate


I was horrified to read it.

I will not post the news item here but it is shocking that something like that would happen in a very public place.

RRS men used to be stationed there.

The Ajah Police Division is just a few hundred metres away from the location.

So, what happened?

ifyalways:
Another menace; BRT , danfo, keke, LASTMA and agbero operations around Jubilee bridge inwards up to ilaje.

I don't know what the cause of the traffic is but it needs to be addressed quickly.

ifyalways:
Thanks blank

Ikota school and Agungi pedestrian bridges have been finished , kudos to Ambode but do pedestrians use it? Only school kids most of the time!.

Vgc pedestrian bridge remains an abandoned project, from Fash to Ambo and now to Sanwo. Fish r/about retains its status quo and is the cause of traffic at that axis.

Another menace; BRT , danfo, keke, LASTMA and agbero operations around Jubilee bridge inwards up to ilaje.

Glad to see this thread come alive again!

Ikota school and Agungi pedestrian bridges have been finished , kudos to Ambode but do pedestrians use it? Only school kids most of the time!.

I can speak comfortably about the Ikota Bridge because I frequent Ikota Village.

I used that bridge just last Friday evening (for the first time) because of the terrible traffic. I was to attend an event that evening, on the side opposite Mega Chicken but if was to drive through the traffic, which began at the Ikota bridge, it would take me not less than an hour to get to the other side.

I had to park my car at Mega Chicken and cross to the other side via the bridge.

Curiously, I had a mind to take pictures from the top of the bridge but dropped it thinking "what's the use?"

Thinking back now, I should have. it would have been useful to attach to this post.

Each of the two times I traversed the bridge (going and coming), there were few people crossing along with me.

These included two young men who carried some stuff on two wheelbarrows. I can imagine how difficult it would have been for them to cross without the bridge.

I also noticed two fitness buffs using the steps for exercise.

If you have passed around the area when Ikota Primary School children cross (morning and afternoon) in large numbers or you have witnessed accidents around there, you would appreciate the government for completing that bridge.

I believe the Ikota and Agungi bridges were given priority over VGC because of the larger number of and more vulnerable people they serve.

That Ikota bridge area became notorious for very horrendous accidents.

I think the former HOR member for the area, who happens to be a prince of the area, must have also brought his influence to bear in prioritising the Ikota bridge over others.

Unfortunately, he had to vacate his seat for Obanikoro's son following Obanikoro's defection to APC.


@ ifyalways, naptu2, megastu, icon8
, x2x, remii

I hope we can keep the thread alive.

Swanzi:
Wish Cameroon was not seeded so we could
Have something like nigeria Ghana Cameroon
And Senegal so we settle this once a for all..





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Up Black stars.!!!

Group F: Cameroon,Ghana, Benin, Guinea-Bissau

Be careful what you wish for.

Imagine how beautiful this thread would have been if it was devoid of insults and innuendos.

johnie:
Tales of the unexpected!

That's the one I was looking for as alternate to Hammer House of Horror.

They always had very strange endings.

In the particular episode I am remembered recently, a man had been cheating on his wife.

He plotted and got his wife killed.

About that time, his girlfriend had a car accident and required an eye transplant.

When the transplant was done, he discovered to his hottie that it was his wife's eyes that the girlfriend was given.

This meant his late wife would haunt him through those eyes till he died.


Can you remember the action/detective ones?

Thanks

Found it!

I"'ll be seeing you" is the title.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpH9iZ9TQuc

I googled Tale of the unexpected just now and discovered that it was initially solely written and, on the programme introduced, by Roald Dahl!

Apparently, the opening montage actually included Dahl's name but I did not pay attention to it then.

The opening score also gave me goose bumps.

naptu2:
Since you mentioned Hammer House or Horror, I will list shows that were similar to it and were also shown on NTA2 in the 1980s.


1) Tales of the Unexpected

2) Strange Paradise

Tales of the unexpected!

That's the one I was looking for as alternate to Hammer House of Horror.

They always had very strange endings.

In the particular episode I am remembered recently, a man had been cheating on his wife.

He plotted and got his wife killed.

About that time, his girlfriend had a car accident and required an eye transplant.

When the transplant was done, he discovered to his hottie that it was his wife's eyes that the girlfriend was given.

This meant his late wife would haunt him through those eyes till he died.


Can you remember the action/detective ones?

Thanks

ibnlawal:
What about Hosni Mubarak of Egypt, he's also a field marshal

Mubarak was an Air Chief Marshal. The highest rank in the Air Force is marshal of the Air Force (equivalent to Field Marshal)

Tantawi who took over from Mubarak and preceeded Morsi was a Field Marshal. He organised elections after the Arab Spring and handed over to Morsi.

Same with El Sisi

What a month!

Bouteflika

Bashir

Now Assange?

And we have not reached mid month.

Same way all the people on the first row were swept away by the Arab Spring.


The man on the extreme right was chased away not too long after.

https://www.nairaland.com/786694/worlds-infamous-dictators-how-met/2#47211441

Is he next?

Both gone within days of each other.

[quote author=naptu2 post=77411453][/quote]Iroha was ahead of his time.


He was the first defender I knew to overlap so effectively.


That goal against Ivory Coast endeared him to me.


When Roberto Carlos came onto the stage, I kept remembering Iroha.


He being a defender, natural left footer and overlapper.

interestingly, he later played as a midfielder at San Jose Clash, scoring and providing assists:

https://www.sjearthquakes.com/post/2016/03/31/1996-clash-where-are-they-now-midfielders

mapet:
Let me add more perspective to this
1. Ivory Coast had taken out Ghana, one of the tournament favorites and strongest team in Africa
2. Abdolaye Traore (one of my favorite players) was at his peak. His diving header winning goal that took out Ghana was classic
3. Ivory Coast had the strongest midfield in that tournament. Probably one of the reasons we were shocked in the first half.
4. I too never heard of Basole until then
5. When Oliseh talked about players ahead of their time, one classic example was Ben Iroha. I think he started out as a midfielder till CW converted him to the left back. This was a wing-back when football was yet to know anything called wing-back. One of the reasons why the SE attack was powerful was that a couple of midfielders and defenders like Iroha had high-rate running and joined both the attack and defending at will. This I believe was the Dutch philosophy infused into Nigerian/Brazilina flare of the Super Eagles by CW and Bonfere Jo.
6. I believe this was the game that we discovered that JJ Okocha should actually be a regular rather than a bench player. Recal that prior to that, JJ (then yet to be matured) was given to too much dribling and sometimes not too productive, making CW to bench him. In this game, he brought out his creativity. Not only did himself and Oliseh combined to win the battle in the middle, his dribbling and passing this time was creative and troubled the Ivorians a lot.
7. I could have sworn that it was JJ Okocha that gave Iroha that pass that led to our first goal and not Yekini. I think the commentator got it wrong.
8. Oliseh could deliver a long distance pass from any distance. Did you see that pass to Finidi which led to the second goal?
9. This was a team built around the big boss- Stephen Keshi. Keshi was an inspiration to this team and to Nigerians. Keshi nutured and led this boys. Keshi battled the authorities on behalf of this team several times. I heard Keshi once asked Alex Akinyele (the then Sports Minister) to "excuse" (leave) the dressing room during the half-time of a match as the team needed to "concentrate". Keshi it was who will call, visit players in their clubs and countries to make sure they are well prepared for matches. Keshi it was that refused to "listen" to his club, opting to come to play a Super Eagles match against the club's position. Heard he lost his captainship of the club then, and he didn't bulge. Keshi had an injury around 1993, he didn't recover early enough and lost form; coupled with the fact that age had caught up on him. His dip in form showed in this game and he had to be replaced. So during this tournament, he was limited to few games.

My earlier comment on this match:

https://www.nairaland.com/4032139/epic-encounters-between-nigeria-cameroon/1#60124826

johnie:
How could I have left Ivory Coast out?

I remember that match!

Tiehi's shirt tugging celebration after his
goal against us and Ben Iroha's waltz into the net for our own goal.

Iroha, our left fullback came to our rescue.

The penalty shoot-out was epic!

A pregnant colleague of mine at work had to leave the area of the office where we were watching at a point- couldn't bear the tension.

Finidi cooly rolled in his penatly.

That was a match!

wayodude:
All true.

Let me add one more game to that list

Oct 1993 Algeria v Nigeria - final qualifying game for USA94 world cup

That was the highest tension I have ever experienced in any game. The final 10 mins with the game at 1 - 1 and the Algerians attacking us non stop like their lives depended on the game. Those 10 mins felt like 10 hours. If they had scored and beaten us 2-1 we would have been eliminated and there would have been no famous Class of 94 to talk about now.

I remember watching as a 13 yr old kid as Westerhof was frantically screaming at the referee that we had played the full 90mins and to blow the final whistle. The man was jumping and screaming, begging!

In the end we qualified for our first ever world cup, there was not a dry eye on the pitch remember keshi crying tears of joy and emotions in his interview.

History is made of moments like those.

I remember this day clearly.

I had a very close female friend who loved football dearly.

She passed on around this time.

One thought that nagged me throughout that period was "So, she won't see Nigeria play at her first World Cup despite her love for the game."

Her death was quite painful.

Interestingly, Africa's Pillar Sport was also not privileged to watch Nigeria play at her first World Cup live.

Imagine if MKO was a free man when Nigeria appeared at USA'94!

naptu2:
June 3rd, 1993 on the "beautiful" pitch of the National Stadium in Lagos (sarcasm).

The Algerians scored first.

Jay Jay Okocha equalised via a free kick goal.


Yekini put us in the lead via a goal off a corner (his technique was very good).

Yekini extended the lead via a spectacular goal (check out the angle from which he scored that goal!)


Daniel Amokachi scrambled in the fourth goal to make it


Nigeria 4-1 Algeria.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFQ06Wu1y3o

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Three (3) remarkable things for me about this match:

1. Oliseh the master passer
It was the first time I was seeing Sunday Oliseh play. one thing that struck me within a few touches of the ball he had was his tailored passes particularly to Yekini. I knew right away that he would be a gem in the team. Those passes later became characteristic of him for years to follow. His partnership with Yekini was wonderful until some years later when rumours started flying around that Yekini was deliberately being starved of passes because he was taking too much of the glory for the success of the team. I choose yo believe this was no more than rumours.

2. Okocha, the free kick specialist.
This match also gave me the conviction that we had discovered a free kick specialist in JJ. Of course, he became known for that annoying habit of smiling after ballooning the ball to "ojuelegba."


3. Yekini's tight angle goal
This goal was phenomenal. The only other times I recall seeing such were the final hat trick goal Kanu scored against Chelsea in the 1998-99 season when he was with Arsenal, Marco Van Basten's Euro '88 stunner, Roberto Carlos' goals for Madrid against Sporting in '98 and against France in '97, one by Maicon at the 2010 World Cup and another scored by another Brazilian (I think it was Serginho at Espana '82).

I am searching for a number of episodes of some programmes that used to run on TV stations in the 80s/90s.

Unfortunately, I am having some difficulties remembering the names of these programmes.

The only one I can readily remember is

Hammer House of Horror which I think ran on Fridays

These programmes were usually the last programmes on NTA2 Channel 5 before the station shutdown for the day.

Some were detective series.

A particular episode of one of the detective programmes had a title like 'Marioki by midnight.' This one ran on Thirsdays, if my memory serves me right.

Help!

Tags Naptu2, oldpretender, caveatemptor, waleyp, kannymoore, konquest

DrTee1:
Yes. I was indeed mistaken. Thank you.

You are welcome.

Super Eagles ’94 Squad

Manager
Clemens Westerhof

Players

No Player Date Of Birth Caps

GoalKeepers
1 Peter Rufai 24 August 1963 55
16 Alloysius Agu 12 July 1967 –
22 Wilfred Agbonavbare 5 October 1966 –

Defenders
2 Augustine Eguavoen 19 August 1965 35
19 Michael Emenalo 14 July 1965 –
3 Bennedict Iroha 29 November 1969 –
4 Stephen Keshi
(Captain) 23 January 1962 59
6 Chidi N’Wanu 27 September 1967 –
20 Uche Okafor 8 August 1967 –
5 Uche Okechukwu 27 September 1967 26

Midfielders
7 Finidi George 15 April 1971 23
8 Thompson Oliha 04 October 1968 –
10 Jay Jay Okocha 14 August 1973 10
13 Emeka Ezeugo 16 December 1965 –
15 Sunday Oliseh 14 September 1974 –
18 Efan Ekoku 8 June 1967 –
21 Mutiu Adepoju 22 December 1970 18

Forwards
12 Samson Siasia 14 August 1967 32
9 Rashidi Yekini 23 October 1963 46
14 Daniel Amokachi 30 December 1972 26
17 Victor Ikpeba 12 June 1973 –

1994 World Cup team list

1 Peter RUFAI Goalkeeper 24 August 1963
2 Augustine EGUAVOEN Defender 19 August 1965
3 Ben IROHA Defender 29 November 1969
4 Stephen KESHI Defender 23 January 1962
5 Uche OKECHUKWU Defender 27 September 1967
6 Chidi NWANU Defender 1 January 1967
7 Finidi GEORGE Forward 15 April 1971
8 Thompson OLIHA Midfielder 4 October 1968
9 Rasheed YEKINI Forward 23 October 1963
10 Jay Jay OKOCHA Midfielder 14 August 1973
11 Emmanuel AMUNEKE Midfielder 25 December 1970
12 Samson SIASIA Forward 14 August 1967
13 Emeka EZEUGO Defender 16 December 1965
14 Daniel AMOKACHI Forward 30 December 1972
15 Sunday OLISEH Midfielder 14 September 1974
16 Alloy AGU Goalkeeper 12 July 1967
17 Victor IKPEBA Forward 12 June 1973
18 Efan EKOKU Forward 8 June 1967
19 Michael EMENALO Defender 14 July 1965
20 Uche OKAFOR Defender 8 August 1967
21 Mutiu ADEPOJU Midfielder 22 December 1970
22 Wilfred AGBONAVBARE Goalkeeper 5 October 1966
WESTERHOF Clemens (NED) Coach

Wonderful speech by Oliseh.

They couldn't have picked a better person to give it.

That team remains the best Nigeria has ever produced.

I agree that a street should be named after the squad in every street, no matter if the street is fine or not.

Kudos to NFF for this honour.

Sad that Keshi, Uche Okafor, Rashidi Yekini, Thompson Oliha, and Wilfred Agbonavbare are no longer with us.


the team achieved the highest FIFA ranking position ever achieved by an African football team. (fifth) incidentally in April 1994 - exactly 25 years ago.

Clemens Westerhof and the Babangida regime deserve credible mentions for their role in developing the team.

Westerhof was given enough time to work on the team despite the early challenges the team faced.

Westerhof took charge of the team immediately after losing the Italia '90 World Cup ticket to Cameroon, taking the team to the finals of the Algiers '90 Nations Cup and four years later winning the Tunisia '94 Natiins Cup and getting the team into the second round of USA'94 World Cup.

The support for Westerhof and the team by the government, in my opinion, was unprecedented.

I don't recall Babangida being at the stadium to watch any match but Admiral Augustus Aikhomu was always there.

Air Commodore Emeka Omerua (the comedienne Chigurl's father) was sports minister then.

I've always wondered why airforce officers were put in charge of the sports ministry in those days - Omeruah, Bayo Alfa, Anthony Ikhazobor.

Thinking back now, I just realised that all of this was in the midst of the June 12 saga. Hmm...

naptu2:
Tags: Johnie Gbosaa

Thanks for the mention.

DrTee1:
That's Baba Alayande, if I'm not mistaken.
Then to Baba's right, behind is late Oba Festus Ibidapo Adedinsewo (FIA) Adesanoye, the late Osemawe of Ondo Kingdom with his wife, Olori Anike to his right in yellow headgear.

On Chief MKO's left is his late wife Kudirat.

That's Pa. Adekunle Ajasin.

HospitalityDiva:
Because it is people that the trains are meant to transport.

Running the train route through those sparsely populated areas that you mentioned will defeat the purpose of the railway transport..

Unless it is a high speed train linking major cities