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NwaAmaikpe:




Wonders will never end.
The way people grow balls these days shock me.

Just yesterday, Mama Medinatu's househelp locked her out for coming home late and now Gani Adams is asking Fulani herders to leave Yorubaland.

This utternace of his should be condemned by all well meaning Yoruba leaders before the Northerners misconstrue it as being their stance on the issue.

Here is a clue.

You must not comment, there are no prizes or milestones to be celebrated

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CHoccolaTE:
The only reason women appear to 'want' marriages is because they have a biological need to bear children and they can't do that outside marriage because they and their children will be stigmatized. Many married women are miserable as hell in their marriages, single women are better off than them when it comes to peace of mind.

And many married women are happy as ever

Same also single unmarried women who are miserable and want company hence would happily rope others in by screaming independent woman

It goes both ways

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Charleys:
Livebyday can you travel me...
50K if you can do it.

I am not going to waste my resources merely for your trivial amusement

Cheers

Every great success for the brilliant United sides of old was someone else’s great humiliation – now those same fans are revelling in a turning of the tide


A little scene that says a lot, not least about the shadow cast by Manchester United’s long history of success. In south west London last Sunday, supporters of a few clubs were gathered to watch the day’s football, when Aaron Cresswell curled in West Ham United’s second against Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s side.

There were initial raucous cheers, but they were gradually engulfed by laughter. It wasn’t that relishing laughter, either, of the type that comes with a rare setback. It was a more mocking laughter, at the predictable hilarity of it all. Season four of this comedy show was really picking up speed.


That in itself is a stark but predictable turn from the utter dread this same club used to inspire. United were often a horror for everyone else.
We’ll tell you what’s true. You can form your own view.

It’s not that long ago that a 2-0 lead against Manchester United – even with little of a game to go – would have been a cause for fear; for trepidation. You knew what was coming.


“It was sometimes as if they gave teams the lead for sport,” Andy Heaton of the Anfield Wrap says. “They conditioned the opposition, any opposition, at any level, to expect what was to come by the final whistle.”

This was the other side of every single United win. Every great success was someone else’s great humiliation, to become a trampled victim of their victory. United lording it for so long had so many underfoot.


Every spring day seemed “another good afternoon for Manchester United in the title race”.

Every other club has their specific resentment; their day when Sir Alex Ferguson’s team made them feel so small over the years was to see a side operating on a different plane to everyone else, much as [Pep] Guardiola’s City side are now,” Jim Kearns of ‘The H List’ blog says. “I’ve seen us lose 6-0 and 7-1 at Old Trafford.”

“I hated them, the late goals, the arrogance, the Status Quo cup final song tripe,” Stephen Goldsmith, of Sunderland’s ‘Wise Men Say’ podcast adds.

It was something that Patrice Evra articulated well on social media on Monday.

“People are laughing at us because we hurt them so much in the past!”

And in so many ways.


There was one way that stood out above all, that fittingly lasted longest in the memory: the last-minute winner.

It was almost the ultimate display of the club’s power, as if they had a command of time itself.

Most bad memories of United revolve around this, as with Heaton and Liverpool in a 1999 FA Cup fourth-round tie. Michael Owen had put Liverpool 1-0 up after four minutes, the scoreline it still was with two minutes left. You know the rest. Dwight Yorke, then Solskjaer.

“The very second we dared to believe, United did what they always do,” Heaton says “Two goals in four minutes, the second as predictable as it was gut-wrenching. They’d done it again, and you couldn’t escape thinking that the manner of it was almost by design. And of course, they repeated the trick later that season, at the Nou Camp, and not one person in Liverpool was surprised.

“That the scorer of the winner in both those games now occupies the manager’s seat at Old Trafford is one of those quirks only football tends to throw up.”

Manchester City perhaps show this, and suffered this, more than anyone. They conceded three different last-minute winners to United in the 2009-10 season alone.

Just as all that felt so karmically reversed by City scoring three late goals to make it 6-1 at Old Trafford in October 2011, all of the current glee is a consequence of all that pain.

There’s no reason to dread United any more. And all that dread has been replaced by a delight, locked up and cranked up for years.

“I remember getting into school the day after a City defeat in about 1997 and a United-supporting friend greeted me with a version of Oasis’s ‘Don’t Look Back In Anger’: ‘And so City can wait, they know it’s too late, cos they’ve lost once again…’” David Mooney, of City’s Blue Moon podcast explains.


“He was symptomatic of what a lot of United fans of my generation are – or were. They believe, or believed at least, that there was something genuinely different about them and that line about it being in their DNA was more than just hyperbole. I used to hate that, so it’s nice to see a lot of those types of United fan – and there are more down-to-earth United fans, but they weren’t teasing me in school – having to watch the club sink into insignificance.”

Kearns goes further.

“Fans of teams like Manchester United only need to look at wider society to understand their unpopularity and the glee over their downfall. You can’t hoover up so much of the resources in the game, fix the finances to your own ends and expect people to like you. They are the living embodiment of privilege.”

This, however, is what is so marked about United’s decline. The privilege of wealth remains. You only have to look at the latest financial figures.

This is why one parallel remains, right down to the glee that went with that, not least from United fans: Liverpool in the 1990s.

“Since Ferguson’s exit – and it’s only now people are confident enough to say it publicly – but our hope was they’d stutter in much the way Liverpool did under Souness,” Heaton explains. “The thinking was that they’re so powerful solutions would be easily afforded and implemented. But if anything, it’s their size and weight of history that is their biggest issue, like a super tanker struggling to turn in testing waters, and having tried pretty much every different approach possible, they’re, at least on the pitch, unrecognisable.”

Off the pitch, everyone now recognises executive vice-chairman Ed Woodward’s face.

“The fact they haven’t made a good decision in five years and are still a leading team is also a problem,” Kearns adds. “As soon as they replace Woodward and Solskjaer with anyone halfway competent they’ll be back on top again, such are their financial advantages. Another reason to explain the current outpouring of joy.”

Barney Chilton, of United’s Red News fanzine, feels all this should just be new motivation for his club.

“I am honestly not bothered about rival fans. When you lord it up for 23 years with incredible success we could only have dreamed of in the 1980s – hoping we would win just one title – you now have to take your medicine. You would like to think it makes those at United acutely aware how bad things now are. More painful is we dropped the ball and messed things up just at the wrong time as our two biggest rivals got their act together. We are outsiders to what was our party.

“We are not as bad as Utd in the 1980s, but I fear this is not the bottom of how bad things could get.

“As each year passes I am more fearful. Football does give pain and pleasure in cycles but because we seem so loathe to implement a sensible long term vision and approach with, say, a proper footballing structure above the manager, letting Ed Woodward and his ego continue to fail, I can’t see how we can get out of this loop of making the same mistakes. A mess much of our own making, you wonder what Fergie feels of how the club have handled it.”

We know how everyone else feels.

“United’s time may come again, but for now it’s over,” Mooney says. “You won’t find much sympathy from City fans who grew up being told that United were just a better club and that no team would ever be as good as them.

“If the best they can do these days is to postpone City winning a title by a week with an unexpected win at the Etihad, then they’ve become exactly what they derided others for in the past.”

And everyone else is now revelling because of that past.

Source: The daily Independent UK

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OSITA2love:

I am about to go and do the introduction into my fiancé's family but just find out that she has been chatting with her ex( who is already married for long) they have been calling each other for some time now and she have exposed our relationship to him.
They started reminding each other those good times they spend together and the guy keep on calling her love baby sweetheart and the guy told her that she would like to be served his favorite food that she is given me

Worse she told him that I'm not good at all when it comes to eat the apple.
Can a wife to be can act in such way?
But in spite of all this, she has not rebuked him but enjoying it and never been straight to him to stop him
I have catched her many times from one guy to another( all are her ex) never rebuke them but just keeping quiet. but I keep on forgiven; hoping that she will change . But this time, my cups is full.
Should I continue with this? My fellow brother

Where is she from?

realestniggah:
Nah not toxic. Perhaps you can say that under mouriho.. But mouriho is no longer in charge now. Now it just overall bad management and board.. Selling player without replacing them just calls for disaster. Ed Woodward need to be leave Manchester. We need a new owner with better foresight. Someone who doesn't pander to money making.

What did I just read ?

superlanny:
davido made the biggest mistake of his life by putting a baby into that ipob princess from that dumb region.

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Inciting comment, off topic and derailing thread

Mynd44 Seun lalasticlala OAM4J

Caseless:
you're wrong. He wrote his own speech which he read at a town hall meeting in Lagos prior to the general election in 2015.

This is incorrect and false

Facts I know

Don't say what you have no knowledge about

The president can't write English

I am not saying it to mock him

Cheers

Man utd won

In a very underwhelming way

Sad indeed

Smh

I wonder how we will survive the epl at this rate

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Karma

iReddington:
Let the young man express his displeasure in peace and stop being contemptuous. You're a very annoying being with an over the top self-importance and disregard for others!
Bloody shoe licker!

Done ?

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taylor89:
Seun please bring back our old nairaland




This one is turning my eyes

Why should he change this back ? Even apps like NUB on the Googleplay with over 25 million downloads have cut of Android devices lower than 5.0 with the last update on Monday last week. If this new style doesn't look good on your phone it's not the forum's fault

Things have to change , one can't remain stagnant

Change is inevitable

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Seun:
Which device are you using to access the forum? Can you upload a screenshot of what Nairaland looks like on that device?

Secondly

You need to add a dislike feature beside the like button but make the dislike icon more prominent

Why?

This will help curb TRIBALISM and other hate posts and help the mods track such posts easily hence from the back end just delete posts with lots of dislikes

Lastly

The report button seems dated, ineffective and obsolete. since it doesn't delete the post for everyone but just for the viewer

You need to think in the direction of your vision and better moderation.

Again I state moderators are an issue , with personal biased and allow hate speech at tribes or religion they may dislike

Cheers

Seun:
Which device are you using to access the forum? Can you upload a screenshot of what Nairaland looks like on that device?

Seun good evening and how are you?

This font looks good , know this you can't please everyone.

This makes nairaland look more modern and stylish

solmusdesigns:



once Omoluabi Mr Fashola Completes the second Niger bridge for wailers, he would ask the contractors to release the blocked river Niger so that onistha river port can become functional,. atleast they wont wail on Tinubu's neck for bringing all the Ports to Lagos, and agbero can beat any rascal up at will if they misbehave after giving them there own river port1

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Inciting comment, off topic and derailing thread

Mynd44 Seun lalasticlala OAM4J

Ishilove:
Oh yes indeedy. You _cock your big guns each time i attempt to cheat

Exactly

Smh

Useless article

Cheers

AFONJAPIG:
something unbelievable happened before my very eyes last night, I dey in front of my house with one of my Neighbour last night having a night gist , that should be around 10:38pm , we noticed a strange movement , we decided to check what's the noise all about, behold a young guy in his mid 30s was making love to a mad woman, we were astonished but we maintained our cool to see it to the end, as we were watching them this guy was busy knacking the mad woman and she was moving her waist in response that the thing dey sweet her as well, a watchman that work in our street saw us standing there for long , he flashed his torchlight to us and asked who are there , we Respond Oga stone Relax we live here, by then he came closer and saw what we were busy watching, he's an Advance man in mid 60s , he wanted to shout but my neighbour told him to relax that the guy should finish first then we will give him charges, that he will settle us, by then the guy have already felt our presence and start dressing up, we walked closer to them, the watchman started vibrating, Oga See, what you did is not good , this is raping case, we will raise alarm bla bla bla bla, the supposed mad woman fired back to us in defense , don't you people fvck, don't you enjoy it , tell me you don't have $ex etc, she defended their actions oooo ,by then the man asked us what do you guys want, we didn't respond, he pressed a button in a key he was holding , Lexus 350 SUV that parked beside beep light and the back Boot opened, he went to the boot and brought 2 bundles of 1000k mint totalled about 200k he shoves the money in my hand and said guys Oya next time nah, he entered his car and drove off with high speed... The watchman refused to take part in the sharing of the money, my neighbor too dey fear he said make I keep the money by tomorrow morning we go decide what to do, I walked up to him this morning he said I should keep it his mind rejected the money, am planing to throw the money away Please advise me ...


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This is a work of fiction

The OP lied to you all

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Triniti:
yeah, but not like are actually trending. Saw a thread about nairalanders, and your name was the most mentioned by all the tweeps that commented

Hey back off

She is spoken for

Ishilove don't Indulge these , you know how I get jealous >:

Ishilove:
Is this possible?

yeah

Jewingle:
[s][/s]n thanks for your input and suggestions but taking her to Lagos won’t be easy because I stay far away in south south. And I have personal things I’m doing too. I know the Lagos movement won’t be just for a day. Lots of expenses will be involved hotel and stuffs. So for now I’m ruling that out. I’m trying to raise money for her MRI. After the scan, the doctor will know what’s wrong because we don’t even know what’s the cause of this. After that I can state it here clearly and post her pictures and other evidence needed to raise funds and proceeds on her treatment. Thanks

Noted

Jewingle:
no she’s not. She’s just 23 and this started when she was 20 after she finished her secondary school

First start enlightening here on genetics and it's relation to degenerative diseases and such

She has to refocus her mind away from .. this is a spiritual attack so she doesn't fall victim of spiritual fraudsters some of whom have already taken advantage of her or criminals masking as traditionalists

Secondly you may need to take her to lagos and register her under NHIS as your spouse to cut the medical expenses by as much as 80%

Next we take it from there