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TheSuperNerd:
Well Sir, The work permit rule has many facets now and already we know he won't get in thru the international games requirements route. So his transfer fee route, league involvement with former club route and more will come into play. This is his second full season in Europe and he was involved in more than 50% of Eupen's games and finished as one of the top 2 scorers in a decent league like Belgium.... so all these will contribute to the points system the English FA and permit home office will use to access the Onyekuru deal.

It is kinda not straightforward really as Onyekuru is not an EEA-player or is he? But his chances of a work permit are kinda bright... But I hope this Arsenal talk is not just talks....

Lordabas:
Getting interesting

podosci:
FOUNDATION

EXCAVATION
The excavation of the site is billed per meter along the perimeter of the site. The perimeter of the fence is estimated to be 87m ( the length of the gate was subtracted from the perimeter of the whole site to arrive at this figure)
The labourers charge between 500-600 naira per meter depending on location. For Awka they charge 600naira
The Total cost of the excavation = 500 x 87
= 52,200 naira
CONCREATE WORK
Concrete is a building material made form the mixture cement, fine aggregate (sand), course aggregate ( gravel) in a mixing medium (water). The various constituent are mixed in a specified ratio. 1 (cement );2 ( sand) ;4 (Gravel) is the mix ratio for this job
The volume of the concrete is estimated by multiplying the length of our RC beam(Perimeter of the fence) X the Depth of the beam X the breath of the beam
Volume of concrete = 87 x 0.225 x 0.5
=9.79m3
The value obtained has to be increased by 25% to cater for concrete shrinkage and wastage during casting
Actual volume of concrete = 1.25 x 9.79
=12.24m3
Cement
The volume of cement required to mix 12.24m3 of concrete is obtained from the specified ratio 1;2;4
Volume of cement = 12.24 (volume of concrete) x 1 ( ratio of cement in the mixture) / 7 ( total ratio of the constituent concrete materials)
= 12.24 x 1/7
= 1.74 m3
The volume of cement we just obtained has to be converted into a unit you can use to purchase cement from your local supplier( They supplier in 50kg bags of cement)
There is a mathematical relationship between density, volume and mass
where Density = mass/ volume
And the density of cement has been obtained through laboratory experiment to be 1506kg/m3
therefore Mass = Density x Volume
= 1506 x 1.74
= 2620kg
A bag of cement is 50kg
Total number of bags required = 2620/50
=53 bags of cement

TheSuperNerd:
Sir Odenigbo.... Biko... backwater is the wrong name for Belgian Jupiler League. Biko na-akpọ Belgium otu backwater na-akpọ Courtois, Kompany, na ọbụna Ndidi backwaters .... haba naa ...

Make una fear God naa.....

TheSuperNerd:
Wilfred Ndidi: Life on the Fox lane
By Colin Udoh


Back in December, just before Wilfred Ndidi joined Leicester from Genk, an assertion on Twitter that he was better than N'Golo Kante was met with not a little derision on that social network .

Naturally, the reaction was no surprise, considering how much of an unknown quantity he was at the time.

Five months on, and half a season later, numbers - according to stat tracking service Squawka - are bearing out that bold statement.

Since making his Premier League debut, he has won the most aerial duels (33), won the most tackles (21) and made the second most interceptions (15) in the league.


Against Liverpool, he made a season-tying 9 tackles, level with Kante for the most in a single game.

Those are eye-catching numbers for a premier league rookie, and even more remarkable for one without the benefit of pre-season with his new club.

Ndidi, punching his phone as he shares a picture of a night out with his Belgian host family, looks up with some surprise as he contemplates the numbers

"No, I did not know about that," he said in response.

He may not have known, but those numbers, and his overall contribution to Leicester this season, won him the club's Young Player of the Year award. Again, it must be stressed, after barely half a season

When it comes to players however, two opponents stand out for him, Manchester United striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Chelsea's Eden Hazard

"Zlatan is very strong and has so much experience. Hazard is very quick with amazing technique."

Ndidi did manage to come out of games against those two smelling of roses despite the difficulty they posed, and that experience will no doubt serve him well as he prepares for a sophomore season in England.

For now, it is enough to see that at 20, and 6 years younger than Kante, he is already challenging the man he replaced at Leicester.

If he stays on his current trajectory, he could well be the best in the world by the time he is 26. Now how about that for a bold statement.


Source: http://kwese.espn.com/football/nigeria/story/3130323/wilfred-ndidi-life-on-the-fox-lane

tbaba1234:
He plays a lot like an inside forward and does not cross the ball much. He has an eye for a pass but can also be selfish with the ball.

His major strengths are his movement, speed and quick feet.

Joebie:
Na your bias.. lol.. how you dey my bro? Hailings!

Joebie:
I never heard such before.. Read and enlighten yourself with different perspectives.

Enjoy this read: https://www.quora.com/Why-do-some-white-people-like-to-tan-so-much

let me add the black man as more masculine stems more on physical ability not color. Hence, slavery.
Generally species of animals, insects etc from Africa always showed more strength compared to their counterparts from other continents.

TheSuperNerd:
You remind me of the captain who engaged his emerging bright recruit in this manner....


Captain: Listen up Youngster... what will you do if the storms come and our boats start to lose some balance?

Young sailor: Sir, I will throw an anchor over into the water to stabilise the ship...

Captain: What If another storm comes? what then?

young sailor: I will throw over another anchor....

Captain: (becoming a little pissed) Okay, what if a final storm shows up, what then??!

Young Sailor: Sir, I will get another anchor and throw it in...

Captain: (angry) Hey! young man! where are you getting all those anchors from sef?

Young sailor: Sir, Same place you are getting all your storms from naa ....


What am I saying? Being negative to the extreme just because you wanna make a point does not diminish the fact that this can work.....

Fantastic anecdote. Reminds me of John Lennon's words:

“When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life."

When people say foreign solutions don't work, all I ask them is to show me a local solution that has really worked.

The best solution is a marriage of the two. The countries making headway today, that's what they've done. From China to Singapore to beautiful Rwanda.

Deny a child education and you've taken one of the most important things in life away from him. The world is a global village and education is such a great leveller. A child that is not literate because we believe 100% that he will succeed in the gamble called football is being set up for a life of regrets in this time and age.

Asking the question, should we take football away from a child that fails, is like asking should we take food away from a sick child that will not take his drug. That a child will vehemently refuse to take his drug is the fault of the adult. That a child will not learn to be literate is the fault of the teacher.

TheGoodJoe:
Nacho is having difficulty getting playing time. That can not be used as a not improving reason for Nacho.

There are factors against Nacho but there are two most important reasons why Nacho is not playing regularly.

1. Competition of players ahead of Nacho. Aguero who is a Super player and the Brazilian No. 9 player, Gabriel Jesus.

2. Guardiola insisting on a one striker system. Pellegrini played a two strikers system. That was why Iheanacho got chances. That does not mean not improving.

EmmGee:
He once said the reason nacho isn't playing is voz he uses one striker.....

tbaba1234:
Too much emotions when it comes to Iheanacho here. Kelechi has a bad game but somehow people find how he terrorized the opposition defence. I don't understand..

Icon4s:
So because it took Mascherano over a year to master it, it will also take Iheanacho 1 or 2 too to master it. Your assumption here is highly flawed and baseless. No two players are the same and more so that do not play the same position and not have to compete with the same kind of players.

safarigirl:

Sir Joseph1013 (2016)

spacyzuma:
I was raised as a Roman Catholic. I started reading the Bible when I was 6/7 years old after my parents bought me the Good News Bible (that green and white colored version). At that early stage, I was already reading everything I could come across. I read most of that bible before I entered JS1. Even though I didn't understand much of the later books after the historical ones (Genesis to Job), I was already confident enough to show of my knowledge in public places. My mother likes to say that there was a time I was preaching in a hospital at 7/8 years old, although I barely remember it.

In secondary school, I joined Legion of Mary, and was quite active in it. I grew more in the Catholic faith, learning all sorts of new prayers and doctrines. Around JS3/SS1 I started questioning some things that didn't make sense to me.

1) Why do Catholics pray to Saints? Aren't they dead? Once dead, don't all humans stay dead until Judgement Day?
2) Why pray to Saints when the only way to God is through Jesus?
3) Why did God only revela Himself to people in that small area of Israel? What about the other regions in the world? It would take thousands of years for the 'good news' to spread to all regions, so what would happen to the millions of people who lived and died without ever knowing about Jesus?
4) Why did God allow so many Christian sects to form? Why did he allow many versions of the Bible to be published and confuse many people?
5) When Adam and Eve bleeped up, why did God decide to punish billions of humans over the next 5000-7000 with original sin? Did we eat the fruit with Adam & Eve? Why didn't he just cancel the entire human/life project and make better, improved upgrades of Earth, Eden, Adam, Eve, etc?
...and many other questions.

I couldn't get satisfactory answers from elder students in our Catholic Community. At this time, I also became aware of 'extra' books in the Catholic Bible (Tobit, Maccabbees, etc). I wondered why there were different versions of Bibles. Surely if God wanted all Christians to get to heaven, he'd ensure that we had one solid, unifying, unquestionable Bible?

I also learned more about other Christian sects: Protestants, Baptists, Jehovah's Witnesses, etc...and their differing beliefs.

By my SS3, I had decided that the Catholic church, though the oldest Christian sect, was not the true one. I didn't like any of the other christian denominations, but I still believed in God.

Before I entered university, I started collecting and reading a lot of Awake & Watchtower magazines. They impressed me, and soon I started to believe that they were the true Christian sect. Until I realised that they had some ridiculous beliefs too. For one, they are profoundly against blood transfusions. Also, they have been silly enough several times trying to predict when Jesus would return to earth and each time they have been proven wrong! . Didn't the Bible say that no one, not even JEsus, knows when He would return? rme.

By my 300 level, I had confronted my parents that I no longerbelieved in Catholicism. It caused a huge scene, with my dad being a Catholic Knight. He was furious. My mom just wanted the family to be at peace. I continued to go to Mass with them when at home, but I had no desire or faith to. When in school, I almost never went to mass. By then, even my interest in Jehovah's Witnesses had started to erode.

I had always been interested in science too. I loved scifi novels and enjoyed reading any scientific magazines or books (non-academic) that I could fine, and this was before I knew about the internet. I also two amazing books: "The Human Zoo" by Desmond Morris... "The NExt 10,000 Years" by Adrian Berry. They deeply changed my way of reasoning. I started using scientific knowledge to cancel a lot of inaccuracies, inconsistencies and falsehoods in the Bible.

By the time I graduated, I was a non-theist, but I had not yet admitted it to others. But my closest friends knew that I was no longer into any religion and was now a "free-thinker" .

Knowing how Nigeria is, and how Nigerians react towards people who dont believe in God/Allah, and realising that I was still living under my father's house and protection, I didn't show I was atheist. I would follow the family to church when they insisted, but I never offered to pray, or I always resisted contributing during prayers.

It was only after I came to UK and was fully independent that I became open and Vocal about my atheism.

Now, this is what I believe:
1) I know that I exist.
2) All the deities that humans know and worship are man-made and imaginary. None of them exists.
3) There might be a Creator, who caused the Big Bang, or (at least) who initiated life on this planet.
4) If that Creator exists, it doesn't care about us. It's not emotional. It didn't give us any moral rules to guide humans.
5) Morals and laws are formed by humans for the society that suits them.
6) The only thing special about humans is that homo sapiens happens to be the most intelligent species on this planet in this era, and also has the unique ability to believe very strongly in abstract and imaginary things.
7) The closest word to describe me is"Agnostic". While I'm sure that there is no religious/emotional Creator/deity, I do hope that life on this planet was caused some extraterrestrial entity.

This comment was written impromptu. Like Cloudgoddess said, so many things happened on my path. I can't remember everything now. It will take a long time to gather all my thoughts and experiences and cohesively write them down. Cheers.

tbaba1234:
Million Koma, a product of Channels national kids cup is leading the goals chart.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C-SfIOJXYAA30zS.jpg

tbaba1234:
Spurs plotting swoop for Blackpool teen sensation Bright Osayi-Samuel

https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/football/3391047/tottenham-transfer-news-blackpool-bright-osayi-samuel/