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Success Isaac is our best player on the pitch. Our defence is porous, Zaradeen Bello isn't closing down well, failed to watch the ball for Brazil's second goal.

joachinx:
It's Ify ifeanyi..

He should calm down and watch well. He is a bit slow on the ball too.

EagleScribes:
Does anyone notice the huge gap between our defence and attack?

Exactly. Someone is not stringing passes well too in the midfield.

The brazilians are using our left side of the defence to penetrate. Our goalie is showing some signs of fear, needs to calm down, our defence is also so slow in closing down the brazillians.

Ney York is the city that never sleeps in America
Lagos is the city that never sleeps in Nigeria.


Ney York is regarded as the most populous city in America.
Lagos is regarded as the most populous city in Nigeria.

I observed that for no just reason, these PDP apologists are trying to carve a name for Buhari so that it can be synonymous with his name just like clueless is to GEJ and that's why they are always saying...Buhari is Daura President , buhari is an illiterate etc for no reason. I have never come across more senseless people than these lots.

tbaba1234:
From NFF and samm audu

You are mouthed.Kudos!

benedictuyi:
Professor : You are a Christian, aren’t you, son ?

Student : Yes, sir.

Professor: So, you believe in GOD ?

Student : Absolutely, sir.

Professor : Is GOD good ?

Student : Sure.

Professor: Is GOD all powerful ?

Student : Yes.

Professor: My brother died of cancer even though he prayed to GOD to heal him. Most of us would attempt to help others who are ill. But GOD didn’t. How is this GOD good then? Hmm?

(Student was silent.)

Professor: You can’t answer, can you ? Let’s start again, young fella. Is GOD good?

Student : Yes.

Professor: Is satan good ?

Student : No.

Professor: Where does satan come from ?

Student : From … GOD …

Professor: That’s right. Tell me son, is there evil in this world?

Student : Yes.

Professor: Evil is everywhere, isn’t it ? And GOD did make everything. Correct?

Student :Yes

Professor: So who created evil ?

(Student did not answer.)

Professor: Is there sickness? Immorality? Hatred? Ugliness? All these terrible things exist in the world, don’t they?

Student : Yes, sir.

Professor: So, who created them ?

(Student had no answer.)

Professor: Science says you have 5 Senses you use to identify and observe the world around you. Tell me, son, have you ever seen GOD?

Student : No, sir.

Professor: Tell us if you have ever heard your GOD?

Student : No , sir.

Professor: Have you ever felt your GOD, tasted your GOD, smell your GOD? Have you ever had any sensory perception of GOD for that matter?

Student : No, sir. I’m afraid I haven’t.

Professor: Yet you still believe in Him?

Student : Yes.

Professor : According to Empirical, Testable, Demonstrable Protocol, Science says your GOD doesn’t exist. What do you say to that, son?

Student : Nothing. I only have my faith.

Professor: Yes, faith. And that is the problem Science has.

Student : Professor, is there such a thing as heat?

Professor: Yes.

Student : And is there such a thing as cold?

Professor: Yes.

Student : No, sir. There isn’t.

(The lecture theatre became very quiet with this turn of events.)

Student : Sir, you can have lots of heat, even more heat, superheat, mega heat, white heat, a little heat or no heat. But we don’t have anything called cold. We can hit 458 degrees below zero which is no heat, but we can’t go any further after that. There is no such thing as cold. Cold is only a word we use to describe the absence of heat. We cannot measure cold. Heat is energy. Cold is not the opposite of heat, sir, just the absence of it.

(There was pin-drop silence in the lecture theater.)

Student : What about darkness, Professor? Is there such a thing as darkness?

Professor: Yes. What is night if there isn’t darkness?

Student : You’re wrong again, sir. Darkness is the absence of something. You can have low light, normal light, bright light, flashing light. But if you have no light constantly, you have nothing and its called darkness, isn’t it? In reality, darkness isn’t. If it is, were you would be able to make darkness darker, wouldn’t you?

Professor: So what is the point you are making, young man ?

Student : Sir, my point is your philosophical premise is flawed.

Professor: Flawed ? Can you explain how?

Student : Sir, you are working on the premise of duality. You argue there is life and then there is death, a good GOD and a bad GOD. You are viewing the concept of GOD as something finite, something we can measure. Sir, Science can’t even explain a thought. It uses electricity and magnetism, but has never seen, much less fully understood either one. To view death as the opposite of life is to be ignorant of the fact that death cannot exist as a substantive thing.

Death is not the opposite of life: just the absence of it. Now tell me, Professor, do you teach your students that they evolved from a monkey?

Professor: If you are referring to the natural evolutionary process, yes, of course, I do.

Student : Have you ever observed evolution with your own eyes, sir?

(The Professor shook his head with a smile, beginning to realize where the argument was going.)

Student : Since no one has ever observed the process of evolution at work and cannot even prove that this process is an on-going endeavor. Are you not teaching your opinion, sir? Are you not a scientist but a preacher?

(The class was in uproar.)

Student : Is there anyone in the class who has ever seen the Professor’s brain?

(The class broke out into laughter. )

Student : Is there anyone here who has ever heard the Professor’s brain, felt it, touched or smelt it? No one appears to have done so. So, according to the established Rules of Empirical, Stable, Demonstrable Protocol, Science says that you have no brain, sir. With all due respect, sir, how do we then trust your lectures, sir?

(The room was silent. The Professor stared at the student, his face unfathomable.)

Professor: I guess you’ll have to take them on faith, son.

Student : That is it sir … Exactly ! The link between man & GOD is FAITH. That is all that keeps things alive and moving.

P.S.

I believe you have enjoyed the conversation. And if so, you’ll probably want your friends /colleagues to enjoy the same, won’t you?

Forward this to increase their knowledge … or FAITH.

By the way, that student was EINSTEIN

Why do most christian behave like a brainwashed fellow? Why are you spreading lies to prove ypur points? The student was Einstein and what was the professor's name?Smh.

OdenigboAroli:
And even if it's true that he is overwhelmed by the privilege why do you have to call him "local". A lot of these footballers are from very poor background and an opportunity of this magnitude can overwhelm someone who hasn't been exposed to the outside world

...Yeah, that was why I said there is always a first time for everything, he will get polished soon hopefully.

OdenigboAroli:
Secondly,if he wasn't good Manu wouldn't have selected him , so scrap that issue of getting carried away. Let him enjoy himself and all we can do is wish the young man success. And I don't think the hotel look crappy. Where have you been ? Because I have been to three different continents and stayed in numerous hotels. Oga,let the young man be,biko.

Relax sir, being good and not concentrating are not mutually exclusive. You could be good and be prone to losing concentration when needed.He looks like someone whose legs will shake when he wanna take a penalty kick simply because the fans are whistling at him. I still maintain my stance on the hotel from the beddings to the dinning room is just average for an international competition, it doesn't matter if you have toured the whole world.

TheSuperNerd:
Oh I'm sorry... It's just that when I logged in... after, lyk say, 24 hrs... I found out a lot had happened and nobody was elaborately saying things the way I tot They should be said... And as for being unbiased, pls refer to my previous posts(if u hv the time). Safarigirl may be nothing near 'perfect' (she'll get there) but she's special. I was quite mild with my corrections coz u dont just plunge in and correct coz u got wat to say. U've gotta approach matters based on 'knowledge' (no mata how small) of one's personality and behavioral traits... Fan of psychology?
So pls bear with me... And once again, I'm sorry ok... Thank u.
GO GO GO 'SUPER' FLYING EAGLES! ! ! ! ! ! !

Well, thanks for your response,you see how mature it is? (If you know what I mean). We are all here to familarize, have fun and learn a lot of things which I must confess I have, it isn't good when we make simple matters look complex.I like your pyschology example but if your knowledge about something isn't so much, it is better you check the antecedents so you won't make some huruhuru conclusions. Away from that, despite the fact that I have quarelled with her so much in the past, when she does something commendable, I acknowledge it and like her comment and if she errs , I point it out to her too irrespective of the outcome...that's what good friends do.

TheSuperNerd:
Leave SafariGirl ALONE! ! ! ! ! ! ! Haba!!!
Look guys, I've gone thru all the comments and TRUTH BE TOLD, Mrs Awoniyi did or said nothing wrong to mijestic...(Mijestic's response was super hostile). She even said 'please'... Kai!!! Maybe, just maybe, the anti-safarigirl-guys' testosterone levels hv gotten so high that it affect their limbic system and other vital brain areas linked to personality... Why cant u guys(billante, mijestic, and co) drop the stupid chauvinistic attitude and act gentlemanly? You shouldn't treat a lady right just coz she's a lady... NO! You do so coz You're gentlemen... Which none of u are (yeah, it's harsh but it's true). A lot of u misjudge, misinterpret, and twist her comments... AND DAT DUDE WHO MENTIONED SUMTIN LYK WOMEN AND THE KITCHEN OR WOMEN SHUD RESPECT MEN STUFF Shud get this... You dont demand respect frm women... You earn it... Speaking generally. IT IS ONLY IN MARRIAGE THAT WIVES ARE 'OBLIGED' AND HAVE A DUTY TO SUBMIT TO AND RESPECT THEIR HUSBANDS. You see... If a woman who is not ur wife respects u then u must be doing sumtin rite but dont expect such respect 4m all women coz they aren't ur wives. And I'm nt saying ladies shud treat men lyk trash but THE TRUTH IS, IT RESTS WITH THE MAN TO LIVE THE LIFE THAT EARNS A LADY's respect. Remember, if ur boss is a woman, u owe her ur respect nt d oda way round. But she will respect u nonetheless if u're a REAL men. WHO'S A REAL MAN? A Man who will never feel good about running down a lady. A MAN WHO'S BUSY BUILDING HIMSELF FOR THE BEST THAT LADIES CANT HELP BUT ADMIRE HE'S THE REAL DEAL. He GOT vision... And ladies respect a man wit vision. A man who understands that women are made for global impact also. I HAVE A SISTER WHO'S LIKE ME IN ALMOST EVERY WAY. I tell her she can be no.1 in her field coz Dominance in a field has no respect 4 gender(ask florence seriki of omatek, Susan hockfield of MIT, Nancy pelosi of U.s. Congress etc etc). GUYS SHUD NOT AND NEVA LOOK DOWN ON LADIES. Th ytp
Piis matter is a subtle one... You may neva know how chauvisnistic you are... Pls watch it.
AND AS FOR THE GHANAIANS, I SAY 'AKWAABA' but na we get this cup sha *big smiles*

LET's move on in peace, love, tolerance and....


GO GO GO 'SUPER' FLYING EAGLES! ! ! ! ! ! ! !...
Hahaha... Gotcha! *winks*

Why are you revisiting a dead matter? I thought everyone has moved on after the fiasco. She wasn't wrong this time around but why didn't you correct her when she was?The guys here aren't in competition with her or being chauvinistic, infact, most of them are happy she is here and contributing her bits. She only needs to learn how to talk less and be less belligerent, that's all.I like females who play video games and do football analysis but you sir, needs to learn how to be fair and unbiased at all times.

I think that picture boy is just carried away by the euphoria of making the team,the national treatment, getting kits and all. He behaves a bit local though, I guess there is always a first time for everything. He better concentrate. Moreover, that hotel looks a bit crappy particularly the dinning room, a bit sub standard for a competition of this magnitude.Average 3 star hotels here in Nigeria seems better.#just my observations#

I want to beg U,whatever you do, don't ever make the mistake of subscribing on mtn. The internet services is crap.

engineerboat:
Star sport focus (Nova), Star Sport 1 & 2, Star Sport premium will show all the marches. Since some of the matches will be played simultaneously star-times have schedule all this station to carry all the matches live and ALSO REPLAYED BY 5 -7 Pm daily

Okay, thanks so much. How much is startimes? I hope it doesn't come with a dish or does it?

TheGoodJoe:
[b]I will like to apologize for a big mistake I made on this thread.

I let my preference of some players get in the way of my Love for the Super Flying Eagles. I recognize I was wrong and I want to own up and apologize. I am not ready to drown in guilt.

This is a team we love because every player on the squad is a true Superstar. My eagerness for Chidera Ezeh and Godwin Saviour to come to the World Cup, made me celebrate the dropping of some players like OKon, Alfa and Pygbara. However, they are all part of the team. I was suppose to feel sad they lost their places and hope those selected make them proud in the competition.

There is no Superstar in the team, only a Superstar Team, including the technical and coaching crew. Every goal that happens is because of the team and not a player. When a goal is scored, we should not celebrate the player but celebrate the team.

Let us not watch out for a player to shine but the Super Flying Eagles to shine.

Fly Eagles Fly.[/b]

Lol. Apology accepted. I felt so bad Alfa didn't make that team. He was so excellent in that midfield.

engineerboat:
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Decoder is N990 but u have to subscribe for 2 months on any of the boquets

Please, I need to know if they will show all the matches or just those of Nigeria. Dstv is a flop, I wonder how many decoders one is gonna buy.

TheGoodJoe:
II am not being critical of Coach Siasia as a person or a tactical mind. I am saying, this Super Flying Eagles team under Coach Siasia will lose their identity because he will fix in players who are not better than them. Vanzekin is an atrocious keeper. He was never going to turn into a top flight Goal Keeper. Obiora Nwankwo was never better than Alfa Yakubu in controlling midfield.

Catch Siasia has a second chance. If he tries tampering with this team, he will lose my respect.

I wanted to mention that Nwakwo guy the other time. Thanks for reminding me. That guy never got his spot on merit, he has god fathers, despite the way they pushed him into the teams, he doesn't still seem to be making it. If I open can of worms on this thread, a lot of heads will roll. Naija I hail!

dejt4u:
yes.. My learned colleague

Okay, good. We should have a get together one of these days.

dejt4u:
that's aiit boss.. It is only Stenon I do hear from..

I think I meant to say Stennon. She is the one studying physics edu right?

dejt4u:
Lol.. It was fun though.. Nice meeting my ogas here

Beeen a while, long time. How are you? That day, I was trying to help a guy with his change of subject question when I saw you already did. Wanted to upload the entire solution for him but I thought your method of trying to make him figure out things for himself was better, so, I dropped it. Do you still hear from your friend, Amazing Angel?

AIG07:
it was someone's else piece. I copied t, If u followed t from d beginning. Just to share wit others.

Okay.Thanks for sharing.I guess you weren't born or was too young to share the personal experience then. I was a small boy then.

safarigirl:
second time ke? I've only posted news twice here and the first was Bout Kelechi getting first team next season. That was when Joseph was banned and i'm certain he hadn't posted it before me.


So, when else was there? Toh, sorry

Yeah, that very first one you posted had been posted before you did, maybe you were busy in school when it was. ( Still appreciate the fact that you were trying to get the thread going). Your "toh" reminds me of when I served in the north. I never knew how it became my vocab. I think that's the most addictive northern word.

Drniyi4u:
hello math gurus, it's been up to a year now that the second edition of Nairaland Mathematics Quiz Competition was organized.
When is third edition coming up?

cc
Dejt4u
Benbuks
jackpot
Arithmetic
Naturalwaves
Richies
Amazing angel
Agentofchange1

Hahahaha. That maths competition that will make everyone in the house ask "what are you doing?" Particularly when solving against time. Although, it wasn't devoid of some hitches, it was fun and I hope the next one would be better.

AIG07:
The Flying Eagles eventually got to the finals of the under-20 World cup, after dispatching of the USA in the semi-finals, 2-1, off two goals scored by Mutiu Adepoju. The gallant Flying Eagles eventually lost to Portugal, in the finals, 2-0. But was adjuged by Nigerians, as having put up a very courageous effort at the World cup and thus surpassed the collective expectations of their country men and women!
The much plagued and taunted Coach Disu, at the reception, organised in Nigeria, to welcome back the gallant team, asked the Nigerian press the ironical question:" Where are those of you that said I wasn't tactically sound enough to tinker the Flying Eagles?" He got no reply! !
The essence of this narrative, is to motivate the nations' under-20 team, as they get ready to confront the world, at the under-20 World cup, in New Zealand. Nigerians expect this highly talented team to do well; and hopefully, with hard work, determination, the usual Nigerian never-say -die spirit and with lots of luck, a la" Miracle of Damaan," one has no doubt in his mind that this highly talented team would do well and hopefully go one step further than their 1989 and 2005 counterparts, by winning the much coveted trophy, for the first time, for Nigeria! This we hope and pray for.
UP FLYING EAGLES, UP NIGERIA !!!!!!

Thanks for the beautiful narration sir. Very interesting piece!

safarigirl:
didn't see it previously.

And I quoted that guy because he did it up to 5 times. And kindly refrain from using that term 'ITK' on me. It may sound funny to you, but I do not in the least bit find your cockiness amusing.

Danke

The guy that initially reposted an article didn't see it initially too cos if he had, he wouldn't have done that. Make sure you check all pages well too and make sure what you wanna post hasn't been posted.Infact, that was the second time you would be doing that. I saw the first one and just ignored and then this one again. So, you see, no one is above mistake and be soft on people when you wanna correct them.

TheGoodJoe:
Was it Laddan who left Ajiboye on the bench for that nonsense Emeka Okafor?

Was it Laddan who dropped Ibrahim Rabiu on the bench at the World Cup. Ganiyu Useni was one of the best players of the team. Siasia did not invite him.

Yeah, sometimes, those coaches behave like sadists and that was why Keshi didn't allow Nacho play at the world cup( bad belle things). If you watch all these players well, you will observe that they understand the basics of football...their ball control and other skills are impeccable while same can't be said of our national team. A couple of my friends play football and usually get invited for national camps and I can authoritatively tell you that the worst coach so far was Henry Nwosu( no money, no camp).

sevantex:
I'd love to meet the beautiful nd intelligent women in Mareolae.,Jomile.,Eroticangelina.,Twaci.,Sandrahnuab.,Aunty debbie the delectable Engineer. I would also love to meet Naturalwaves d maths guru (we finished frm same Funaab btw)., Origin101, Agarawu, Blackett nd some other of d rilli funny guys on NL here. It would be total fun to hang out wit dis guys, hopefuly I won't have to smoke weed sha . NL has a lot of great personalities to meet for sure.

Hi sir. It is a pleasure to know that someone wants to meet me.I wouldn't mind meeting you too. Greatest Funaabite!

AIG07:
the last time i watched him play in a competitive match was against Senegal@d AYC FINAL. He was played as lone striker. As I watched him play that night. I had that strong feeling that if he can keep his head cool it won't take much time before he reach stardom. He is good in holding d ball, a good positional player. His height is a plus. But I've not see him using his head.

Taiwo Awoniyi is quite good in the air. During the last Fifa U-17 world cup when our main striker was injured, Manu brought him in and the first goal he scored was a fantastic nodder which he placed well and that was the 3-3 equalising goal against Sweden.

I felt so bad when I saw that Abdullahi Alfa didn't make the team, that boy turns like a rubber, his left foot is so magnetic on the ball and he is an expert at sending do -loops. If a player of such calibre couldn't make the team, I can only imagine the top notch qualities of those that did.All the best to Alfa, all the best to the team..

Mtn is a very useless network I must say. Last month, I subscribed for data plan ( night plan) + 1.5g daytime . Till it expired, I couldn't do anything meaningful with it even plain sites like nairaland and google takes ages to load and you can never use it to download, sometimes, the upload rate is always reading betwen 0 to 20kbps. Can you imagine? Their customer service is so useless and and those agents don't know anything and can never profer any solution to a problem, the only thing they know how to say is....we are sorry for the inconvenience okay? Even the engineers at the service centres don't know jack. Till the data plan expired, I was able to load google 6 times and nairaland 4 times and that was all. This same useless Mtn made me lose out in the last online competition as I couldn't load my answers till the time elapsed. When I laid my hands on an Etisalat modem, I couldn't believe my eyes....it was reading up to 1Mbps and even more and the speed was just too much. Etisalat is far better.

toobby:
Tanx bro

You are welcome. Sorry for those typos,my battery was about to go off and I was at a wedding ceremony when I saw your questions.

toobby:
If d length of a square s increased by 20% while its width s decreased by 20% to form a rectangle,what s the ratio of the area of d rectangle to d area of the square

The side of the original square be X.
Original area of the square is (X)^2.
A part of it is incresed by 20% to make the lenght. Therefore, the new lenght is (20/100*X ) + X= x/5 +x = 6x/5
Likewise, the new breadth is X - ( 20/100*x) since ot was decreased.
Therefore , the new breadth is x/1 - x/ 5= 4x /5.

Now , area if the rectangle = lenght * breadth = 6x/5 * 4x/5 = (24x^2)/ 25.
Ratio of area of rectangle to square = (24x^2/25 )/ (x^2/1)= 24x^2/25 * 1/x^2=24/25. Therefore, the ratio is 24:25.