₦airaland Forum

aswani:
I actually agree with this. Onyeka had a super tournament all the way through and even in the final when all around him had a bad day at the office, he still kept his high standard.

Unlike Ndidi who is prone to bouts of foolishness, Onyeka seemed to be very composed, a future Super Eagles captain.

Players in DM are ment to play dirty, Gatuso, Sunday Olisa, Onazi, kante, Makelele etc just to mention but a few.

A good defense midfielder must be a fighter, running round against attackers.

agabusta:
Asides from even tactical showing, he never showed any ginger to mark or retrieve lost balls. He was damn to slow and lazy on the pitch. His lethargy in this AFCON is legendary. I wonder why the coach keeps using him.

Coach did because Iwobi is good in distrusting but very weak in retrieving and defending.

OmoFiditi:
The guy had a terrible tournament. He really made Onyeka the DM suffer.

Before the finals, I advised Iwobi to train alone and learn proper offensive passes. He was the weakest link in the midfield, hardly gives accurate offensive passes and easily lost the ball to the opposition, it happened against South Africa. It was just a matter of time before he got a thorough lashout from Nigerians if he did not improve before the finals.

Alas, he was too lazy to take the advise. Coaches should tell players who do not do well the truth. Tell them they played shiit, and should go for extra training, even when the team wins.

God bless Onyeka, though some people didn't see him but he fought tirelessly against Ivory Coast rampaging players.

Did you also noticed that Ndidi's absence was not felt because Onyeka filled that role perfectly.

Bar1941:
If you watched thesame Onyeka against Cameroon or Angola, you will agree with me he wasn't at his best also. Though he still did more than many in the team.

Onyeka's role is to mark opponents, tackle and fought for ball, these he did absolutely well considering his tackles and prompt challenge against the Ivory Coast players. Ndidi's absence was not felt because Onyeka did well, had Iwobi and Chukwueze played their part well, Ivory Coast wouldn't have dominated the match the way the did.

Nbote:
He was the only player in the midfield even though he was poor yesterday. I didn't understand how every single player in the team starts running back towards their 18 yard box everytime the opposition is running at them with the ball. Like what pattern of football was that

Onyeka was poor yesterday He fought a brave fight against rampaging Ivory Coast players. Super Eagles were outplayed yesterday but Onyeka was outstanding.

Bar1941:
Nwobi is a lazy midfielder, though all our players were lazy yesterday except Ekong and the keeper.

The coach got the tactics totally wrong yesterday. Anyway, Ivory Coast qualification as last of best loosers was divine. Since they beat Senegal, I knew they were wounder lions.

Frank Onyeka was lazy yesterday? I know that you watch the final but not seeing Frank Onyeka fought everywhere against Ivory Coast rampaging players was sheer ignorance of what happened last night.

chiagozien:
Before the match when I Said Nigeria to lose by 2:1,and will be first to score.



They rushed and wanted to kee me

Hahahaaaa!!! Thank God you are not dead and you won't die before your time. It was obvious, the better team won. Frank Onyeka fought so much last night, ppl didn't notice him but his work rate last night was excellent contending our opponents.

Amotolongbo:
He deserves it.

Worst player should go to Iwobi

Good morning, please leave Iwobi alone, is there anyone better than him in that position? He actually didn't live up to expectations but he tried in distribution though very weak in defense unlike Oshimen.

Nigeria did their best but we are not the best, no doubt about it, the beter team won.

This our goal keeper ehh! This blunder is costly oh!

JoshTim:
2006 uefa champions league final between liverpool and milan, 2022 world cup final between argentina and france

Istanbul war was the worst for me because i supported AC Milan.

No match attracted tension like 2005 Champions league finals between AC Milan and Liverpool.

proeast:
“200 dollars for a building project”? Lol, he must be building a mud house.

Good morning, 200 Dollars on weekly basis, read my comment you quoted again before tagging his house a mud house.

kruiser:
9,000 naira. Many people don stop to dey build house sef.
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Meanwhile at a cheap price dm me for your logo and flyer design

People are still building ok, a friend send 200 Dollars last week for his building project and he will continue ok, ppl are still building houses.

christejames:
They should resign if they don't want to join our Tinubu in teaching Peter Obi and his supporters a bitter lesson

Hahahaaa! Are you dam serious here? Of a truth, I'm not against removal of subsidy but floating Naira at the same time is wickedness, evil, devilish and uncalled for.

Beremx:
my dear, I dey vex jare. Price of foodstuffs keep getting high. Me that used to buy at least half bag of rice, I can no longer afford it. No money anywhere. Business is bad. I'm not happy

Good morning, everyone except politicians are experiencing the same thing. Other parts of Nigeria are definitely not seeing it the way FCT is, it's extremely hard here but we have learn to adjust, adjust and adjust oh but the heat is still there.

Beremx:
Still yet you won't hear of anyone benefitting from it. It's only a short term plan. What happens next after that?
Oga open Seme border for importation of basic food and watch how food prices will crash. No matter how we try to pretend, Nigerian farmers cannot feed the whole nation on certain basic food stuff.

Nonsense and food reserves

Nne, you no get joy oh!

Okeoghenerobert:
Nobody send Joe Ajaero.He is on his own.NLC under Joe has not fought a good fight for the workers.

Ajaero is not fighting for the masses, he calls for strike and calls it off less than 24 hours to the day proper.

Minimum wage should be higher than what we have now because purchasing power is something else and some workers have not received Jan salaries oh!

Believe Ajaero at your own peril.

Ibaaboy:
Abeg make una strike the hardship is too much

Take NLC/TUC serious at your own peril.

shadrach77:
And he is just 26! The Lord is great

26 indeed!!!

yarimo:
pim pim pim pim shey you don hear now

Hahahahahaaa!!! You are funny oh!

Nwaokunkpara:
Untill it gets to ABA then you will know

Don't wait until it gets to Aba, Aba will not protest least it will be tagged something else.

yarimo:
Peter obi has carried his badluck to them he must be arrested if Angola win the match

Nigerian won the match, if you hate PO, don't transfer your hate for PO to Nigeria/Super Eagles.

Nigeria first before politics, thank you.

gaby:
Igwe SARS.

Rugged man that year for abattoir-Guzape.

Choi...

You are familiar with FCT SARS oh!

BreconHills:
Thank you.
It seems you believe that if the government sincerely wants to improve the lot of the Nigerian - they could. This focuses a lot on the savings and management side.

So one level this is true. Government would have to take difficult decisions. But you have not addressed the income side. Where does the money come from? Oil production would not improve immediately. In fact for NG to produce 2m
bpd the estimates are that it would need $50bn in
investment. This would take at least 5 years to
manifest.

Ok but what about the foreign remittances from diaspora? Those are supposed to have exceeded oil revenue right? OK the thing is hardly any of that money comes in through the cbn because of the wide disparity between official and street rates. So the only way is to allow official rates to rise above street rates which is what we are seeing now. As of today cbn rates are higher than black market on 30/01/24. If that continues ( not sure) the cbn will be able to attract more usd.

The second thing is what do with the estimated $30bn
sitting in dorm accounts - if the government offered a localised "eurobond" type interest paying instrument, it might flush some of that money out into productive use.

You can see that even these ideas contain big IFs. So we can expect things to be even more difficult over the next 60 days. My belief though is that speculation will be broken - I am honest to say I don't know how exactly but I do know that the government has gotten a good understanding into how so called " market forces" ( speculation) are operating. I expect speculation to crash. Book mark this.

There is no way out. Nigeria must punish speculative dealings that reward laziness and reduce the desire for real work. If it can do this we have a chance.

Expect the new refineries + dangote to create USD savings ( not cheap petrol o) which will translate into stronger reserves now that all revenues go to cbn not nnpc.

Forget the Edu's of this world. Their impact is dramatic but minimal. Let's deal with the guys pushing 5bn naira plus to buy fx

God will help PBAT to succeed, as i said earlier, I'm not a political party person, i only desire and work for a better society.

I will be specific on this; government need to do something about governance (cutting down costs of governance).

i witnessed the "bright atmosphere" (i called it bright atmosphere because it was supposed to usher in an upheaval change in action and not just words but it turned out to be a mere jamboree) called "Change begins with me" launched by PMB.

I have been privileged to be in the midst of some top government officials during PMB's days; they lived in affluence at the detriment of the masses.

You talked about productivity, if you go to Nicon, Sharaton and other top hotels in FCT, you will eat foreign rice; at Villa, almost everything i saw there were imported. Government should encourage producers here, set up a "working" supervising agencies on our goods produced here in a bid to meet international standard.

Standard Organization of Nigeria (SON) should be encouraged, empowered and equipped in a bid to enhance our products acceptance at the global market. This will increase export and our foreign reserve will improve.

BreconHills:
Yes. Please follow at @OpeBee

There are systematic problems with the Nigerian economy and for too long they have only had palliative short term measures. We've always had an economy that rewarded the lazy and punished the hardworking. First it was the indigenization Decree that enabled people become millionaires ( in those days) by fronting for foreigners. Then it was essential import licences from 1980- 1995, then it was massive never to be completed contracts from 1995 onwards.

Now it has been democratised to hoarding foreign exchange by everybody.

Productivity has been on a steady decline in all those years and now we are reaping the bitter fruits.

I am not sure it pays to blame anyone. The question is how an unproductive country that requires USD ( and has almost nothing) will fund its non productive and non productive tastes. Its not the government that has accounted for the slash in naira value. That is a combination of market forces catalysed by.

1. Under invested oil sector ( rig count has fallen from 35 in 2019 to 16 today) Rig count = crude bpd = USD

2. High US interest rates

3. Poor fiscal and monetary policies

4. Disincentives to work. E.g The new lithium company in the north will make more from hoarding USD than actually mining and selling lithium

So what is the way out? Let's start there.

The way out :
Policies from the government and prompt implementation of those police, areas such as finance, security, welfare/training of our security agents etc.

Let me give an example with subsidy, most of the companies government paid subside on fuel importation did not actually deserve such payments. Exaggeration of figures as a result of government officials interest in those companies ensured that the will to implement and monitor existing policies were defeated.

The issue of Beta Edu comes to mind, is it only appropriate to sack her while investigation can go on for months/years till everything would be swept under the carpet? What happened to appropriate sanctions,Incarceration, even death penalty (to the esteem)?etc.

BreconHills:
If you want a better country then do more incisive criticism than repeating street verses.

Why is the naira falling?
What in your opinion can be done?
Is there any advantage in the merging of street and official rates?

Follow some of the informed people like Opeoluwa on Twitter. It will be helpful.

Good day, go through all my comments, i have not criticize PBAT even for once and i hardly criticize but the reality on ground must not be swept under carpet.

I have responsibilities and i know that you have also as a man. The masses are not finding it easy and now. PBAT can't blame GEJ because Buhari was there for 8 years before he came onboard.

I tell you the truth, Dollar/Naira disparity is enough to make the president sit-up. In 2014, APC asked Nigerians if #216 to 1$ is ok? They told the masses to vote them in but now, 1$ is #1500.

BreconHills:
The next election campaign has started and PDP and LP are falling into the trap of a classic rope a dope. People like Bwala have see it and decided to switch sides. The more Tinubu is criticised now, the better his chances in the next election .

Those who know know.

Good morning, if criticism will make PBAT perform as he promised then criticism is needed ok!

I'm not a politician and i don't believe in party politics but a better country which we don't have currently. 1 Dollar is currently sold @ 1500.

valentineuwakwe:
Make them allow this man work and function as governor of Rivers state for crying out loud!

The governor is finished, i watch a local government chairman called him names and the state house have taken away his power on appointments as it regards to traditional rulers and LG chairmen.

No one tried this with Wike, the governor should resign or he would soon be disgrace out of office.

Think9ja:
Whether him call am or not, everybody know who him go support for 2027. No matter wetin your lord and personal saviour pandora do, I no go vote am 2027 and him no go smell that seat.

So ogbeni, rest!

Handle kor handler ni

Good evening, he is not and have never been Obi's supporter, go through his profile before typing the next time.

On the thread proper: ppl died and many top politicians including AA commiserated with the ppl of Oyo state, Makinde should not have politicized it because Obi visited hence there are other top politicians that didn't visit and he didn't call them out.

Makinde is only trying to rejuvenate disaffection towards AA having done that during last year presidential election despite being a PDP governor. It is imperative to do away with politics of any kind over the explosion at Oyo state, thank you.

Ahmed0336:
There's nothing wrong with it but I WILL NEVER TRY THAT OR ALLOW MY CHILDREN TRY THAT NONSENSE WITH ME.

It depends ok! When my elder brother got married, Papa asked him the essence of paying for an apartment when we have a two-story building, he was giving a flat in the house, no interference, no disturbance of any kind. So i said again, it depends ok!

Sangoamadioha1:
Peter Obi did not influence anything. On a norm, that escalator, that leads to the boarding gate, breaks down frequently and you will always see that sign after some few hours. So na normal thing for Abuja Airport (domestic wing).

Good morning, which one is "...normal thing?" I used that airport four times last year going to Maiduguri and kano so it's not "a normal thing" as you asserted.

Nigeria will be better when we start thinking the way we should. Cape town airport is far more better compare to Abj airport (our capital).

spiSeyi:
What is the IGR of Onitsha compared to Zaria, Ikeja, or even Ibadan What a joke "The Ministry of Commerce should be moved to where they sit at home on Monday (business day) " !gbos like to attach too much emotion to everything . The Ministry should be moved to Ikeja or Zaria, the bitter truth is that SE as a region contributes a very minute percentage to the Nigeria's GDP.

Good morning, this remains opinion of the chairman board of trustees, Arewa. He only used Onitsha to hide his sentiment and parochial view about FAAN going back to Lagos.

Choosing to close your eyes to the obvious and pour your hate on Igbos because a Northerner mention Igbo city in his assertion is absurd and shows high level of hatred/tribalism and bitterness.

Address the issue he raised and him as a person and not Igbos, thank you.