₦airaland Forum

iv4fb: @frankie9ce, I disagree totally with you about Reuben Abati. He was one guy that always hit government hard. If you were old enough and read his piece on Guardian, you'll understand that. We were always looking for his articles-he was objective and direct! He may have become an 'ass licker', he was not always like that.

About , she created a niche, her piece might be geared towards praising those folks, but she educate and teach us history in a positive way, aint u tired of all the negativity that abounds?

@, please remain 'unmovable' by all these talks and keep up your good work, just add a little more objectivity. You sometimes gotta talk about the bad sides too!

pheliciti: Much as I do not like to derail this thread, may I ask that you list the names of Nigeria's previous leaders? Except we are about to start a voyage in revisionism, Zik (one of the greatest Nigerians that ever lived, and who would have been one of the greatest heads of the Nigerian State) was never head of state or president.
Secondly, I plead that when we criticize write-ups, we should keep out the abuse as it hinders and derails intellectual discussion. Interestingly, the Late Tafawa Balewa, never put anybody out as 1st Lady. The usage in 's piece was only referential to state that Hajia Balewa was one of those that did not enjoy the public glare as wife of the Prime Minister; I suspect that same historic reference could be made to Mrs Flora Azikwe, were the late Dr. Azikwe PM or President.

Kind Regards and do enjoy the weekend all.

bloggernaija: Her deeds and achievements are secondary to the fact that she is the wife of another thieving ex general .

bloggernaija: Her deeds and achievements are secondary to the fact that she is the wife of another thieving ex general .

DerideGull: Please, the wife or wives of a Prime Minister is/are not first lady/ladies of a country especially if the country has president and commander in chief. It is intellectually absurd for person with average intellect to inject silly facts into learning streams of undiscerning society.

You have committed the same blunder before now when you posted the pictures of previous Nigerian heads of states. Tafawa Balewa was the prime minister not head of state or commander in chief.

CFCfan: So true. France won the Confed cup in 2001, but failed to score a SINGLE goal in the 2002 World cup. Brazil won the Confed cup in 2009, but were eliminated in the quarter-finals of the 2010 world cup.

Abali2013: How many people really care what happens?
Why the Non-Challant attitude, towards Sickle Cell Disease?
I don't care how long it will take, but I have made up my mind to lend my voice to SickleCellAwareness campaign. I am not soliciting for funds, neither am I advertising. But I have made it my life's duty to educate people about SCD. Not only because am a sufferer, but because I am a Survivor.

Awareness is a form of campaign no doubt but i doubt how much results it produces. If not for the roman catholic church, many carriers still go ahead to marry themselves which i find very absurd.

the churches care about HIV but pay little or no attention to Sickle cell, Dr oni(not real name) has sickle cell kids, how do you explain that? a doctor? what other awareness does he need, well educated folks have sickle pro genies.

forgive me to say but i don't subscribe to your campaign, sickle cell organizations should lobby the National assembly to make it a felony for any parent/parents who has sickle cell progenies. This is man's inhumanity to Man and spouses are not ready to listen.

Having an SS child should carry the same sentence as willfully infecting someone with HIV because i see no difference.

my sickle cell campaign is simple, if you are SS, shoot your father in the Head, and there should be Amnesty for any child who adopts this noble medical Jihad

Aggrippa: is Goal.com a nigerian website? the second question is now that super Eagles is on the verge of been knocked out of the confed cup, after the uruguans put them at thier right place, and the boasting fans eyes shamefully opened, will tahiti defeat uruguay? and lastly what will happen when super eagles meet The world undisputed champion SPAIN??

texaco1: see nairaland technical adviser.smh

cman77: D reason y nig has struggled to score or perhaps put up a draw in d qualifiers is because keshi keeps invitin 'dead strikers' like ideye.d fact dat sm1 is a top scorer in his club doesn't translate smtimes dat u will do well in d natl team.4 example,u will rememba makinwa of palermo in italy who neva had an impressive perfrmance wif d SE.luck smtimes plays a role.ideye has bin tryd several tymns nd he is a bigtime flop.if we r to defeat spain(which is possible)we must do away wif dos ideye,babatunde,akpala.I hope oduamadi recovers soon,cos u don't have 5 goalscorin chances as a striker and miss all.

oluwafemi113: Yes and never should he be call back in to the team

ginas: NIGERIA VS URUGUAY GAME OVERALL ASSESSMENT.

The team is Really improving, atleast they seems to have added something to their game since Keshi took over:
1) perfecting the art of knocking the ball around and stopping the opposition from playing.
2) Learning to choke-up the middle and allow the full backs to overlap.
3) being very comfortable on the ball and overall team play.

LESSONS TO LEARN:

1) Learn to counter attack well.
2) Learn to quickly respond to opposition change of strategy
3) Effective use of set piece
4) Respect their opposition and Keep concentration 100 percent
5) The coach must have a plan B and C if A don't work.
6) This team needs atleast five above exceptional talent to dominate africa for a long time and pose serious competition to the best in the world.

Uruguay was not better but more experienced that is why the won.

The team is inexperience and unexposed to matches of such calibre. I seriously hope they learnt from this.

FINAL NOTE

There is no doubt the team has made tremedeous improvement and I hope this continues for a long time.

truth is; it is the strikers that Initiate counters not the coach,a fast paced striker will initiate a counter by default as soon as the opponent is dispossessed in his half.

what i think keshi is avoiding is a counter attack from the opposition in case our boys are dispossessed and his strategy is fair if i must say.
we can make our runs through the flanks and Ambrose overlap and perhaps Echiejile or so isn't bad. also, you must note that keshi positions players in the midfield who has the ability to make defense splitting passes (Mikel and Moses does it very well for eagles and recently ideye).

what is the point asking for a counter attack and leaving your back vulnerable to fast paced attackers (forlan, suarez and Cavani) when you can split the defense with a killer pass from your controlled midfield? same opportunity for the strikers to score (if you have one).

Spot kick is a natural talent, i doubt if one can be trained to do that, if you are lucky to put together a team where one person has the Ability, then your are good, if not you cant destabilize your team for a spot kick taker.

since the days of Okocha (who happens to be a lucky dube for spot kicks, ) we haven't been that lucky anymore, even the so called big teams just manage with a few of them. our famous 94 squad hadn't a perfect one either, save for a few lucky ones.

Since Beckham and perhaps lucky lampard, England hadn't much, for over a decade, it was a Juninho and ronaldinho for a whole Brazilian team, rem. that it didn't stop scolari from dropping Dinho, when he dropped form.

most teams are like that, a 100capped pirlo does it so well for italy, whoelse? so at the exit of pirlo, no more for Italy, at least for now.
Most good teams in the world dont have spot kick takers except when they are lucky.
the truth is, there are a billion and one opportunities that can be created from skillful players, Spot kick is just a jara. i tell you what, if you have strikers that can bury any defense any day, you may not need good penalty takers.

thoth: You are the only guy here that knows how it works, i sincerely believe with the incursion of china into Nigeria and the emergence of Boko haram the plan is already in motion.

naijaboyof4life: Bros, have you heard of the Vietnam war? America had the advanced weapons, had the numbers, had the money and still lost. Bros never underestimate Russia. America has the number, that is all. The only good and respected branch of the US military is the marines. Other countries do a better job than america in terms of getting the Job done. Even Israel gets the job, or haven't you heard of the 8 day war(Israel v almost all the Arab states).
1. The pirates issue. Some years back, Russian military saw pirate ships. They took down the pirates in minutes.
[/b]2. Russia has more nuclear power than US. America nuclear weapons can destroy the whole earth once. Russia's can destroy the earth 5 times.
3. [b]No one has tries to fight Russia in their backyard and won
-Napoleon did it and fail, Hitler tries but failed, the Japanese tried but failed.
But America has been attacked in their own soil
-9/11, the Japanese attack on Hawaii.
4. America goes to Pakistan and Afghan, they are still there, The french went to Mali and they are already done.
Number means nothing but discipline does it all.

Hezron Lorraine: why is it that people undermine Nigeria's importance.Nigeria doesn't blow her horns.when the real show comes then you'll see the light.the civil war is a lesson.

ocelot2006: Read the post again, douche. It clearly said that the 8 crew men were basically sent to relieve the previous team that manned the ship, hence the decision to drop all charges against the former.

No wonder NECO's failure rate is high.....

solomon111: And you are giving them no credit at all.
Btw,No world power can attack Nigeria without starting WW3 in 30minutes.
Given our huge natural resources there's so much vested interests in Nigeria from most of the world powers.

akorlade: And my nephew is languishing in South Africa jail.

Glad you skipped the part where he r@ped a 98yr old white south African , if you have the least inkling what naija guys do in SA, you wont have the face to identify with one who made it to jail.

Ajibel: Why would the rich evade tax?

Decryptor: So u̶̲̥̅̊ are barking like a dog because of ordinary N250? Poverty don finish u̶̲̥̅̊ no be small.

maasoap: Have I said anything contradictory. He was a player in the sector before he was made power minister and when he saw the opportunity to take more than he deserves from some moronss, he simply took the advantage for himself and his colleagues.

free2ryhme: http://www.channelstv.com/home/2013/06/18/court-awards-n15m-to-man-rendered-blind-by-soldiers/

maasoap: You are too dull for my liking. Why was he asked to step aside? Because he was a player too. Because he has personal interest in the power sector too. Because part of this money that is being fraudlently obtained from the consumers is going directly to his pocket. May be you didnt even read the topic of this thread at all "Nnaji’s Power Generating Firm Begins Operation In Aba". And here you are saying he is not going to benefit from the 500 naira that he smuggled in through the back door. Would he have done the same thing if he wasnt one of the private investors who stand to benefit from this fraud? I dont blame you, you people are wired to praise fraudlent people.

2fine2fast: I use 20kw of power every month which costs me around #250 while I pay #550 fixed charge every month all thanks to your lying ex minister Bad Nnaji