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EAGLES FOR NATION CUP

GOAL KEEPERS
1. Vincent Enyeama
2. Bamidele Aiyenugba
3. Austin Ejide
4. Greg Etafia
DEFENDERS
5. Taiye Taiwo
6. Elderson Echiejile
7. Onyekachi Apam
8. Obinna Nwaneri
9. Danny Shittu
10. Joseph Yobo
11.    Dele Adeleye
12.    Chidi Odiah
13.    Yussuf Mohammed
14.    Olubayo Adefemi
15.    Chibuzor Okonkwo
MIDFIELDERS
16.    Sanni Kaita
17.    Dickson Etuhu
18.    Seyi Olofinjana
19.    John Obi Mikel
20.    Kanu Nwankwo
21.    Yussuf Ayila
22.    Kalu Uche
23.    Femi Ajilore
ATTACKERS
24.    Osaze Odemwingie
25.    Obafemi Martins
26.    Chinedu Obasi
27.    Yakubu Aiyegbeni
28.    Joseph Akpala
29.    Micheal Eneramo
30.    Obinna Nsofor

SOURCE: NFF OFFICIAL

@ left foot

Ferguson Hotel is your best bet . its about 4,000 its in g.r.a a.c. and back up gen as you said.

they don deport the guy. we will have to wait till he reaches his village before he will give us the rest of his story

if the guys passport says he is under 17 wots the problem na only we dey do am . even the south amercians do it .

wen nigerians are aboard they talk about the level of corruption in the country then continue to encourage it. shame on you thamesmead

an english friend of mine(white) with Nigerian citizenship and nigerian passport,at CDG Paris airport was stopped by a french immigration and queried why he has an African passport since he is not black .the immifration officer was a black man .

i work with expats in nigeria and we were discussing these were his words

"So Baba Go Slow says no imported beverages at meetings and the police have to wear made in Nigeria textiles.
Has it escaped the attention of the great man that there is no industry left in this country. (Except the Chinese who appear to be above the law when it comes to doing anything.)The last of the textile mills closed last year, firstly because the spinners had all closed and secondly due to the non existant power supply it was impossible to produce.
As usual in this country they open their mouths without thinking, when was there last a tea plantation. Any idiot knows that it is cheaper to import than to manufacture in Nigeria, the only thing that keeps manufacturers alive here is the large population and Nigerians willingness to pay the highest prices in Africa. To export anything from Nigeria for sale even in West Africa is pointless.
More and more you just want to smack your head on a wall when thinking about Nigeria,49 years after Independence the only thing they have managed is to increase the population by 100 million. So prepare to see a naked policeman in your area soon."

there is more,

Crisis continues ahead of U-17 kickoff
Posted: 2009-10-23 15:51

With about 24 hours to kick off of the Fifa Under-17 World Cup, organisational lapses continue to be the major talking points.

Accreditation bottlenecks, untrained volunteers, incomplete facilities and a whole host of problems continue to bog the LOC and all seeking to be part of the tournament.

Teams at the Lagos centre are training at the Main Bowl of the Teslim Balogun Stadium because the training pitch is still not ready.

Work was still ongoing at the facility, located within the National Stadium, Surulere with two days to the competition.

Volunteers are nowhere to be seen. That is because they were still being trained with just over a day to kickoff.

Some of the volunteers had never previously seen the inside of the venues where they would work and were being taken round by LOC officials.

Accreditation has been an absolute nightmare, as shown in the picture above.

Crowds of media, security, volunteers and other personnel were still struggling to be accredited across all centres, with delays stretching into hours.

Officials explained away the delay with the excuse that the 'systems are down'.

The result is that hundreds of journalists, both local and international, remain unaccredited.

An example is Vanguard Sports Editor Onochie Anibeze, who left in frustration to go buy a VIP ticket.

Major problems have also dogged the opening ceremony, with reports that the artists scheduled to perform had not been paid, and the kids selected for the calisthenics display abandoned without food in Abuja.

Major LOC officials have either turned their cell phones off, or simply ignore calls and sms messages.


source :kick off

yes i do . look at the alternatives buhari, atiku , orji kalu and the rest they are all theives

fifa is set to announce mexico to replace nigeria to host the u 17 world cup later this month this is because they believe nigeria is not ready. many facilities have not been put in place .hence their decision



source:cairo times

Siasia's Boys Qualify For Next Round Of Egypt 2009

nigeria are thru to knockout stage thanks to england and uzbekistan draw

Siasia's Boys Qualify For Next Round Of Egypt 2009

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THE N60,000 U-TURN IN PORT HARCOURT
A Personal Experience with Rivers State Ministry of Transport

I had the most frightful and shameful experience in Port Harcourt the River State capital on Thursday 11th June 2009.

Living in Port Harcourt, one gets quite used to heavy-handedness. To put it directly, heavy-handedness is simply a way of life and often takes many different forms. I have had officials from the city’s sanitation authority visit my office with armed mobile police escorts to compel me to buy a 15 litre litter bucket worth no more than NGN 500 for NGN 3,500. I have had the city’s health authorities visit my premises and demand money to do water analysis on my borehole water. A borehole I had to sink at my expense in order to deal with the unfortunate consequence of living in a failed city. The issue of urban renewal or mass demolition without respect for due process (as I prefer to call it) is one that will resonate strongly with most people in Port Harcourt. My “Urban Renewal” experience and the indifference of the Ministry of Urban Development is a story best left for another day.

In recent times, the baton for government heavy-handedness has been passed from the Ministry of Urban Development to the Ministry of Transport. Here goes my recent experience.

I was headed for the University of Port Harcourt on Thursday 11th June 2009 at about 10:30 am. In the company of my office colleague, I was driving along Ikwerre Road toward Rumuokoro on the stretch between Rumuigbo Junction and the Federal Government College, Port Harcourt roundabout. I got to the partition just before the MCC premises and decided to make a U-turn in order to make my way to Obi Wali Road. No sooner than I had made the U-turn did I see a bus pull dangerously into the road to prevent me from going forward. I pulled over to the side of the road and immediately noticed the glee on the faces of the MOT officials. They seemed like excited hunters who had won prize game. I have observed similar situations in Port Harcourt of recent so I immediately knew what this was about. I asked them what I had done wrong and they told me that I had made an illegal U-turn. I protested that there was not a “No U-turn” sign in place and they promised me that there was. Upon closer examination, I noticed what looked like a piece of white paper with a hand-drawn inscription on it. I grabbed the tape measure from my car and proceeded to take an exact measurement of the sign. It measured 13 X 9 inches. For my records, I also decided to take a photograph of this sign with my mobile phone. I debated with them for a short while about the legality of the sign but realised that this was quite futile. After refusing to let any of them displace my colleague from the front seat, 2 of them jumped into the back seat of my car and we begun the journey to their ‘office’ One of them was a young man with a fluorescent armband but no uniform, while the other was a mobile police man whose name and number I took for my records.

Immediately after we got unto Obi Wali Road I was asked to make a left turn into an unmotorable road leading into a village. Not wanting to damage my car and being somewhat suspicious of the individuals who had apprehended me, I refused. Both passengers in my back seat begun to get upset and impatient. The young man with the arm band made a phone call to his ‘chairman’ and complained about my unwillingness to cooperate. He handed the phone to me and the ‘chairman’ assured me that if I didn’t want to make things difficult for myself, I must bring my car to his premises at once. I told him that it was out of the question and that I was willing to park my car in front of the Every Day Supermarket and attend to whatever I was legally required to do. He was furious at my response.

After parking my car in front of the supermarket, we all got out and proceeded toward the “chairman’s” premises. After meandering through the puddles of water on all sides for about 200 metres, we go to a compound with several cars parked and nervous car owners who I suspect might have fallen on the wrong side of the officials. It did not take long to notice who the ‘chairman’ was. Whichever direction he turned, about 10 penitent, nervous people followed behind him. Each pleading for mercy and trying to explain their case. It baffles me how the average person with some authority in Nigeria seems to derive almost orgasmic pleasure from making sure that people remain subservient to them.

Once the ‘chairman’ realised who I was he said he would only listen to me if my car was brought into the yard. When I assured him that this was not going to happen, he burst into a tirade of threats. “I will order them to deflate your tyres”. “Who do you think you are? I will get them to tow your car away”. I told him that he could do whatever he wished to do but that I had committed no offence in the first place and secondly I was not going to risk damaging my car by driving it through an unmotorable road. I pointed out that I was not in any way showing disregard for his office and that I was willing to drive to the MOT premises on Moscow Road if he wished to accompany me there.

After about 5 minutes of verbal exchanges, I was on my way to the Moscow Road office in the company of my colleague and the ‘arresting’ party. We arrived Moscow Road at about 12 noon and I was handed over to the authorities there and the booking process begun. I was shocked to find out that I had been booked for ‘dangerous and reckless driving’ with a fine of NGN 50,000. I would also be required to have a psychological evaluation done at the cost of NGN 7,500 to ascertain my sanity or otherwise. I found this quite hilarious. Despite observing a notice stating that no fines were to be paid in cash, I quickly got a ‘kind’ offer from an official telling me that the only way I could get my car out that day was if the money was paid in cash to him. He also promised that he could waive the psychological evaluation to save me cost and speed up the process. I expressed my thanks but declined.

I got to the Psychiatric hospital at Rumuigbo at about 3pm that afternoon and realised that it was just one person who was responsible for carrying out the evaluation. He had left the office for the day and in the typical Nigerian civil service manner, he had carried the office along with him. All the people waiting to do the evaluation had to leave to return the following morning.

The following morning I met the official in question, paid my cash and suffered the indignity of answering several ridiculous questions. This notwithstanding I kept my cool giving him the respect I felt he deserved as a professional. Upon completing the evaluation I was shocked to hear that the report was not going to be ready until Monday morning. The gentleman pointed out to me that the delay was also part of testing for the patience required for driving. I was delighted to tell him that the people who require psychiatric evaluation are the government officials who drive around town with police escorts intimidating road users like me.

After the payment of the NGN 50,000 fine at Zenith bank and the presentation of the psychiatric report at the MOT office, my car was finally released on Monday 15th June 2009. The total cost to me was NGN 60,000. Apart from the cost of the psychiatric test, I was charged an extra NGN 2,000 in demurrage for 4 days and NGN500 to inflate the 4 tyres of my car.

I commend the intention of Governor Amaechi in trying to restore much needed sanity to the streets of Port Harcourt. Much as this intention is honourable, the implementation leaves much to be desired. I doubt that the governor is aware that what passes for a ‘legitimate’ traffic sign in his state capital is a 13 X 9 inch piece of white paper or plastic.

Section 16 (2) of the Rivers State Traffic Law states as follows “Traffic signs shall when necessary conform to any international requirement relating thereto and in default of such requirement shall be of such size, colour and type as may be prescribed.” I am not a lawyer but what stands out here to me is “Conform to an International requirement”.

On 6th June 1978 the Vienna Convention on Road Signs and Signals came into effect. This convention was agreed upon by the United Nations Economic and Social Council (UNESC). Being ratified by the United Nations would make this convention the most ‘International’ there can possibly be. A No U-turn sign falls under the classification of a Standard Prohibitory Sign. According to this convention, the specifications for such a sign are as follows:

Shape must be circular with a radius of at least 0.4 metres (small) or 0.6 metres (large).
Ground/background must be either white or yellow.
Border must be red.
The No U-turn sign which I am alleged to have contravened is an illegal sign. It was a rectangular sign with a measurement of 13 inches by 9 inches and having no border. My intention here is not to attempt to excuse the wrong I am deemed to have done on the grounds of technicalities. The simple point is that such a sign is not visible enough to a motorist. Also, the glee with which I was apprehended suggests that the size and nature of the sign were intended for the very purpose of ensuring that innocent motorists fall prey.

The other issue I find difficult to get my head around is the steepness of traffic fines in Port Harcourt. To illustrate the disproportionate nature of these fines, consider that the average fine for a traffic violation in the UK with GDP per capital of USD 44,000 is less than USD 100. It is difficult then to understand how in Nigeria with a GDP per capital of USD 1,450 a fine of NGN 50,000 or USD 377 can be justified. Is the intention to impoverish people? It looks like the focus of the MOT traffic enforcement units has conveniently shifted from road safety to revenue generation for the state. This in my opinion is disgraceful.

I would like to appeal to the Rivers State Government in the interest of fairness and justice to do the following:

Take away the illegal sign in question and replace it with a sign conforming to the Vienna Convention on Road Signs and Signals.
Carry out an immediate evaluation of all road signs in the state and ensure that where necessary, they are upgraded to meet the Vienna Convention on Road Signs and Signals.
Consider reducing the current steep traffic fines. The steepness of these fines gives the impression that the focus is on revenue generation as opposed to road safety.
Evaluate customer service at the Psychiatric Hospital, Rumuigbo with a view to ensuring better service delivery and less dependence on single individuals.
Look into making full refunds to all motorists who have been fined illegally for alleged traffic offenses.
Make an immediate refund to me of the sum of NGN 60,000.
I have chosen to take my experience directly to the press for 2 reasons. Firstly I would like to encourage people who have suffered similar experiences to speak out. Secondly, experience has taught me that writing letters to Rivers State Government officials is a waste of time. They do not get answered. I sincerely hope that this article will come to the attention of Governor Amaechi whom I respect immensely and for whom I have the highest regard.

iso bassey

if he does not decamp he will not ve it easy going for 2nd term that why they all decamp

Abacha hardly left aso rock so it was reported that he once called al mustapha
and asked

mustafa ,mustafa are we still in fpower

a player for the future

419,

The Imo State Governor is said to dump ppa for pdp next month this coming from a very reliable source.

Ojota area of Lagos state.

American Hawks Gala In Lagos



An American, Mr. Sean Alsilski, was seen hawking gala sausage rolls yesterday, at the Ojota area of Lagos state.
He easily drew a large crowd as Lagosians laughed and wondered what could have made him to hawk gala in Lagos, and on a sunny day too.
But Alsilski, unperturbed by the people watching and giggling at him, continued to sell his stuff to motorists and passersby who were eager to buy from him, some just for the fun of it.

He rebuffed people trying to ask him why he was out in the streets selling gala, saying he was too busy to talk to anyone. After much prompting by this reporter, he opened up on why he was out selling gala on Lagos streets. Alsilski said he came to Lagos to carry out a six-month research project on hawking and street trading in Lagos, and the best way to get the answers that he wants was to get involved in the real business rather than be an observer.

He said he had already spent five months in Lagos, hawking gala at different parts of the state. “I am here to do a research on hawking and street trading. I was billed to be in Nigeria for six months as part of the Fullbright exchange programme. “I have been here for five months now, hawking. I have one month to go. I am going to give a presentation to the United States Embassy about my research,” said Alsilski. Born in the city of New York, the United States, Alsilski lamented that from what he has observed, government was harsh on hawkers and street traders.

“Hawkers here are under stress right now from the government and I am studying what the government is doing right now. We can make some recommendations. “Government is harsh on them. Some of them have had their goods taken away. I am not sure that is the best way to go about it. “In some cities, hawkers and traders are given licenses and allowed to go to certain areas to hawk. But hawkers should not be allowed to hawk in places like Oshodi,” he stated. Alsilski’s hawking business has taken him to Yaba, Ojuelegba, Mushin, Ojota, Mile 2, Apapa, Lagos Island and Agege.




source pm news

[b]The Senior Pastor of Mountain of Grace Apostolic Church, Odamini Street, Elelenwo, Port Harcourt (names withheld) has allegedly impregnated a beautiful female member of the church (names withheld) after Marathon Sexual drill in the church shortly after deliverance service. A source within the church informed our correspondent that the man of God (names withheld) impregnated one of the beautiful female choir members of the church, and when the elders of the church heard about the ugly incident and confronted him over the matter, he humbly begged for forgiveness and said it was the devil that deceived him into the shameful act.

However, he became angry with his pregnant girlfriend for making their secret deal public and therefore invited the policemen on May 24, 2009 who got her arrested for disgracing the "Prophet of God." The source continued, that it was the father of the young girl that introduced the randy pastor to his family of five girls and a boy, sometime last year, and since then the family members have been attending the church services on regular basis as members. Our correspondent learnt that the head of the family (the father of the girl) knew the pastor when his wife had an okada accident sometime last year and was disfigured which made the man to suspect that the okada accident must have been spiritually manipulated by his enemies and hence decided to sought for spiritual solution to it. That, infact, brought him into contact with the pastor; and since then his children and wife have been attending the church.

The pastor, though, has been eyeing the girl lustfully, but no golden opportunity to have his way. An unexpected opportunity however, came when the girl informed the pastor that she enrolled for the 2009/2010 JAMB Examination into the university which was fixed in April 2009 and that she needed prayers and spiritual backup to pass the examination in flying colours. Subsequent upon which, the man of God told her that she has "spiritual husband" who may not allow her to go to the university unless he is chase away after powerful mid-night prayer in the church, the girl was also asked by the pastor to come with the sum of N15,000.00 for the deliverance which would be use to purchase some spiritual materials for the job, which she agreed.

A date, was however fixed by the pastor for the deliverance work at the Riverside by 12am and both parties agreed and sealed in secret. On the appointed day, the father of the girl advised his wife to accompany her to the church because he never trusted the pastor when it comes to "women matters." Our correspondent gathered that when the pastor saw the girl with her mother, he quickly asked the girl's mother to go back home otherwise, she would disappear into the river and will never surface again, the old woman out of fear, went home.

Narrating her ordeal, the lady said the pastor asked her to remove her dress (clothes) and bathed naked in the river with the pastor by the side watching, after which they went to the church office for the last stage of the spiritual healing, there, the lady continued, the pastor, asked her to pull-off her dress again which she innocently yielded. "The pastor told me that the spiritual husband is eager to have powerful sexual intercourse with me through him (the pastor) and that God permits it for final healing." When I objected, he sprayed some powerful substances around me and I quickly succumbed" the girl said. After which, he (the pastor) had a powerful marathon sexual drill with me which lasted for over three hours in different styles. According to her, when she regained her consciousness the pastor allegedly threatened to kill her; if she ever expose their secret deal to anybody. But on reaching home, the innocent girl could not tell her parents, what actually happened the previous night at the church for fear that the pastor would kill her until when she could not see her monthly menstrual circle.

When she went for medical test in a nearby clinic at Elelenwo, it was confirmed that she was pregnant. The girl thereafter informed her parent of the outcome of her sexual deal with the pastor on the day of her deliverance night. The parent of the girl then went to see the pastor probably to confirm their daughter's story. After hearing their story, the pastor became furious and angry and decided to invite some policemen from Elelenwo Divisional Police Station to arrest the girl and her father for the alleged accusation. The girl's father, then went and reported the matter to the Paramount Ruler of the Community, Chief Omena I of Elelenwo, who later intervened in the matter and refused the policemen from effecting any arrest. On interrogation, by the Chief of the community, the pastor confessed to the alleged sexual assault and pleaded for pardon, saying, "it was the handiwork of devil" the Chief then asked him to pay certain customary fine to appease the gods of the land in the sum of N40,000 for desecrating the land, 8 tubers of yam, a goat, a bottle of hot drink, he was also asked to pay to the girl, the sum of N30,000.00 for the assault. Our source informed our Correspondent that the randy pastor has fulfilled the customary fine conditionalities and promised to turn a new leaf, but asked the girl's family not to make the issue public.[/b]

is the match live on Ait?

why was taiwo,mikel and yobo absent for the friendly against france .Several of France top players were part of the team. Thierry Henry was there and Nicholas Anelka, who played the English FA Cup final on Saturday, just like Mikel and Yobo, played in the match.

who did etuhu come on for?

utaka very diappointing

there are some players missing in the game aluko and akpala been very quiet

Manchester United fan killed four people in Nigeria when he drove into Barcelona supporters after his team lost the Champions League final, police have said. Skip related content
Related photos / videos 'Killer Man Utd Fan' Rams Barca Crowd Enlarge photo A minibus rammed into a crowd, in the town of Ogbo, that was celebrating Barca's victory after the Wednesday night match.

A further 10 people were injured and the driver was arrested, a police spokeswoman said.

"The driver had passed the crowd then made a U-turn and ran into them," she added.

Barcelona beat Manchester United 2-0 in what was hailed as a "dream final" between two of Europe's best clubs.

Both teams have large fan bases in Nigeria, Africa's most populous nation


source : sky news

Manchester United fan killed four people in Nigeria when he drove into Barcelona supporters after his team lost the Champions League final, police have said. Skip related content
Related photos / videos 'Killer Man Utd Fan' Rams Barca Crowd Enlarge photo A minibus rammed into a crowd, in the town of Ogbo, that was celebrating Barca's victory after the Wednesday night match.

A further 10 people were injured and the driver was arrested, a police spokeswoman said.

"The driver had passed the crowd then made a U-turn and ran into them," she added.

Barcelona beat Manchester United 2-0 in what was hailed as a "dream final" between two of Europe's best clubs.

Both teams have large fan bases in Nigeria, Africa's most populous nation


source: yahoo

@ddonobi

u shd be a fool to say that imo state is a testimony. i think u ve bin clean and greened . as for ppa and pdp . it was the pdp who put him there so why wld they impeach him

does exist cost about 4 to 5 k one day to process if u need contact get back to me

15k one week to process