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The fact that federal government allocation to cross river state is mortgaged doesn't mean people will be owed salaries. it is if tinapa fails that you will here the underground beats to this tune. besides Duke takes time to pay salaries i have first hand info on that one. And i didnt lose any profit in cross river for the record.

He has done well with what he has. He has vision, but has that vision in 8 years been translated to more income for people of the state. I am nit giving him a thumbs down, i actually voted that in would support him if he ran.

what i'm driving at is that Duke is not as rosy as he sounds.

Tourism is a major drive, but what tourist attraction does Calabar really have?except obudu cattle ranch.

there should have been some improvement in the cross river economy with all the vision he has. but there really is none. except xmas festival. ( which is very good).

Nigeria needs an economic reformer. Do you think can deliver those reforms.
i voted for him because i would prefer him to babangida and a third term obasanjo any day.

But against Okonjo iweala or soludo. i would not vote for donald duke. He might be a good face and have good vision. But,  can he deliver

spikelord:
Italian team!

Buffon


Cannavaro Nesta Materrazzi Maldini


Pirlo


Camoranesi Gattuso


Totti

Del Piero Gillardino

There is no way Italy will start a match without Luca Toni.

Brazil will play Ze roberto in the starting 11. Robinho will sit on the bench. the problem with having so many great midfielders is that you get tempted to ignore playing a natural defensive midfielder. Gilberto Silva might start also.
                                                         

                                                               DIDA

CAFU                             LUCIO                                 EDMILSON                                 CARLOS



                                    EMERSON




ZE ROBERTO



RONALDINHO KAKA






RONALDO ADRIANO

i'm not doubting that roads are being tarred. i lived in calabar for 24 years so i know the city, the government and its people extremely well. i can tell you were every pothole is in calabar ,i can tell you every joint and the names and phone numbers of their owners. \i have worked with the commissioners there , the first lady and a lot of othe rprivate agencies. so i know the city well. Donald has cleaned up the city no doubt and he has given it a new face, but what about the poor man on the streets.

what i'm saying is that there is no viable source of economic growth for the city. nothing is presently on ground to relieve the poor mans needs. pineapple project didnt take off, import duty free port didnt last. Tourism is a major boost only during his splendid xmas festival. Tinapa check from elemelu was an initial 5 billion. not 25 billion. 25 billion is the whole sum needed. 5 billion is what sam anani and donald duke have been chasing for almost 4 years. And to get that 5 billion he had to mortgage civil servants salaries for a certain period. So what exactly has he done in 8 years to relieve the poor man.
what exactly has he done except parties, tar roads and build the cattle ranch. remenber he has stayed there for 8years. all that he has done with effective planning could have been done in 2 years.

where is the economic growth? Calabar is still a university town. It just booms during xmas. so don't be decieved

what if tinapa doesn't take off as expected. what happens to mortgaged civil servant salaries.i respect his vision but can he deliver the right economic reforms apart from tourism.

i would pick soludo. he has vision and he can deliver.
what Nigeria needs is an economic reformer.

she can cook the empty bag of salt.

celemel,

strabag left calabar because of a debt cross river state couldn't pay. why they eventually left Nigeria is their business, but thats why they left calabar.


Strabag took the Cross River state government to court. economic growth in calabar came as a result of Nigeria 99. Not donald duke. Do you realize that it has taken almost 3 years to dualize ndidem isang iso rd. Thats because there is no competent construction company.

mention one thing that Donald has done that has brought economic growth. except his xmas festival which i mentioned earlier.
the pineapple project did not work, at the port water was to shallow for ships to berths, when he tried to make calabar a free port.

Tell me one booming business in calabar as a result of Donald dukes reforms. Obudu cattle ranch has no major economic impact on calabar, it attracts tourists to the ranch. The northern Local governments in Cross River have been largely ignored thats why they hate him.

Mirage, channelview, le chateau, pinnacle hotels are as aresult of nigeria 99. so don't be bedazzled by good looks, great speech and xmas partying.
ciivil servants are still owed salaries. and to make it worse he has mortgaged federal government allocation to cross river state due to loan he took for tinapa.

if tinapa doesn't work, there will be a huge crisis. Don't get me wrong i believe he has vision, but delivering on the vision is my issue.

Donald duke has vision, but delivering on his vision is the problem. The only thing he has absolutely delivered on is the state's christmas festival.

Economic development in calabar was as aresult of Nigeria 99

Infrastrucrtural development e.g roads was his initiative when coming in 99. But it was also a neccesity for Nigeria 99. The roads evryone says he has built, he is still owing strabag construction company almost N 5 billion. They have taken him to court and have left the state for good.

Thats why he hasn't been able to complete a certain highway for almost three years , because no good construction company wants to work with Cross river. Julius Berger is as result of financing by a consortium of banks. e.g Tony elumelu led standard trust.

I believe Donald Duke will make a great President, but we have to be cautious. He is not as clean as he seems.

He does want the best for Cross River and i rate him higher than any other Governor in terms of vision , but can he truly deliver the economic reforms that Nigeria needs. He has done nothing i the present for the economic state of Cross River. Except for hope in Tinapa in the Long term.

As much as it pains me deeply, but i have to admit that chelsea's success is down to the genius of Mr Jose Mourinho

he did it with the same players ranieri couldn't do it with.

Terry, Lampard , cole, robben, etc.

Although the players he bought havent really been hot. ( minus his porto imports)

del horno, essien, drogba, wright phillips havent lived up to thier biling.

(although we can't totally divorce the fact that the players from ranieris era were all bought with romans millions)
Mourinho is the man with the plan.

Donald duke is a great Governor, unfortunatelt somethings stand against him

He is not of the three tribes and Nigeria hasn't seemed to develop beyond that.

He has problems with his school certificate. It was a long drawn out battle through his tenure. The certificates he finaly presented in court after almost five years of leagal battle are very well believed to be forged.

He has mortgaged Cross River state allocation ( civil servant salaries) for the financing of Tinapa. if Tinapa doesn't work out , hmmmm . Civil servants will suffer.

He has tried to rebuild a certain highway in calabar for almost three years and has not been able to complete it.

His pineapple exportation project never took off.

To be absolutely honest the development of calabar was as a result of Nigeria 99. which fortunately for him was the year he assumed office.

Not to be disputed ,he has vision. But can he deliver. So far in calabar its just a mirage.

i apologise to the sports forum

huc and jack

hmmmmmmmmmmm. i'm simmering down. lets watch our words.

i'm willing to make peace,

when i joined this forum, you can testify i never abused anybody, i just gave my views.

then jackal and hucarson joined and they drove me to that piont. i,m really not intrested in chatting anymore thats why i'm less on nairaland. Cause i feel it isn't worth fighting and abusing them all the time. They'll never learn.

ronaldo

get the real culprits to apologise for abusing me and bagoma, then i will.

Hey guys abeg i need help with pidgin english interpretations of these sports terms.


GOAL

VICTORY

CHEER

FANS/supporters

yeah

you woulda died if arsenal had won that match

lordi

i'm telling you this squad is wicked. ballack and lampard can get 40 goals in between them , they are both goalscoring midfielders. Sheva is a terror any day. He is sure to finish above 24 goals.

carlos will be a threat down the right. Problem is i see no space for essien. He 'll become a spare part. terrible for someone with so much promise

amodu

your team isn't complete , just click modify and add two more players.


cech


Gallas terry


ferraira carlos

makalele


lampard ballack




joe cole robben



shevchenko


This will kill the premiership off. I'm truly hating chelsea now. Lampard and ballack can score. and sheva's surname is goaaaaal!!!!

formation wise its actually 4 - 2 -2 -2

but the wing backs are actually wingers, e.g carlos and cafu.

although they defend but they are extremely attack minded. so what you have during the game is the two centre backs really holding the defence and the two defensive midfielders supporting.

brazil hardly use traditional wingers, they play two creative midfielders who shift to the wings. e.g ronaldinho and let the defensive midfielders push up from behind.

so what you have during game play is 2-2-2-2. chelsea might adopt that formation with the coming of ballack. they'll use arjen robben sparingly, or just drop drogba for him and let sheva be a target man.

The way chelsea are going they wouldnt play traditional wingers because of mourinho's excessive love for goalscoring midfielders.

he could play brazilian style. 2 2 2 2, because the left and right back can be used as wingers. Maybe thats why he wants roberto carlos so much cause thats carlos's forte.

Cech


terry gallas




ferraira del horno

makalele essien



lampard ballack


drogba


shevchenko

4play you seem to forget henry's goal against real madrid, his performance against inter milan. There are countless times henry has performed at the highest level.

The guy stayed because his heart is with the club. Its the same reason maldini and other club greats have stayed at their clubs.

when real wanted roy keane he refused to go, because his heart was at the club.

The guy is a legend whether you acknowledge it or not.

moukee

i'm a die hard gunner

MAN_U has more history.

That helps them just pop arsenal a bit.

But as we know Man-u is on the decline.

Its like Real madrd - barca.


Real is greater cause they have more history.

skintite thanks

its a bit jumbled up though, i hope yu guys undastand that the total ponts are under their names.

i noticed that the team is made up of the top four clubs

and i'm surprised that joe cole edged out lampard

sorry its a bit jumbled up

the player total pionts are under their names. team pionts have multiplied by 3 and bench pionts by 1

GALLAS AND TOURE ARE TIED.  BUT I TOOK THE LIBERTY OF PICKING GALLAS AHEAD BECAUSE HE WON THE LEAGUE AND SCORED VITAL GOALS.

TEAM CAPTAIN - STEVEN GERRAD, BECAUSE HE GOT THE HIGHEST VOTES OUT OF THE TEAM CAPTAINS  HENRY< TERRY < GERRAD


                         

                                                                LEHMAN



EBOUE                     JOHN TERRY                                 GALLAS                                          HEINZE




                                                              MAKALELE



RONALDO                                                                                                             JOE COLE



                                                                 
                                                                      GERRAD C



                         
                                ROONEY                                              HENRY


BENCH

VAN DER SAAR

NEVILLE
TOURE
FERDINAND( EDGED OUT CARRAGHER DUE TO MAN_U COMING 2ND)
SILVESTRE


LAMPARD
ALONSO
FABREGAS
ROBBEN

RVN
DROGBA (EDGED OUT VAN PERSIE BECAUSE HE IS A STARTER)

[ b] TOTALPIONTS[/b]   TEAMPIONTS                                 BENCHPIONTS                                     [

b]GOALKEEPERS[/b]
       LEHMAN-                                           15                                             3                                        18   

       CECH                                                 9                                              5                                         14

       VAN D SAR                                         15                                             1                                         16



   DEFENDERS

     LEFTBACK
         
         EBOUE                                             33                                            2                                           35

         NEVILLE                                           21                                             2                                           21

         FERREIRA                                         3                                                 1                                          4
   

      CENTERBACK

    TERRY                                               48                                                0                                           48
 
        GALLAS                                              24                                               2                                            26

        CARRAGHER                                      18                                                 1                                           19

         TOURE                                              24                                                 2                                           26

         FERDINAND                                       18                                                1                                            19

         
         CARVALHO                                         6                                                 1                                              7

        RIGHT BACK

   SILVESTRE                                              6                                                    1                                             7
 
      COLE                                                    1                                                    0                                             1

     HEINZE                                                12                                                    1                                             13



  MIDFIELDERS

    RONALDO                                            33                                                        1                                           34
     
   GERRAD                                                54                                                        0                                           54

   LAMPARD                                             21                                                          6                                           27

  FABREGAS                                              6                                                          5                                            11

  JOE COLE                                              30                                                         1                                            31

   ALONSO                                                9                                                          4                                            13

  LENNON                                                6                                                             2                                           8

  ROBBEN                                                 9                                                             1                                          10

ESSIEN                                                  3                                                               1                                          4

HLEB                                                      0                                                               1                                          1

MAKALELE                                              33                                                             0                                          33



STRIKERS   


HENRY                                                 52                                                                 1                                        52

ROONEY                                               48                                                                 0                                         48

RVN                                                       18                                                                6                                         24

VAN PERSIE                                           0                                                                   3                                           3

  DROGBA                                               0                                                                   3                                           3

Before you read the results. You all must know that i collated the results without bias. You can re calulate it your selves if you so wish.

somepeople don't know the difference between right back, center back and left back. so they lump all the defenders together without specifying who is for where.

So i had to use my soccer knowledge to try to place some people. Then i decided against it and just collated all the defenders scores together. so i'll present the defenders with the most pionts and we can have more fun arranging them in whatever other you decide will make the best formation out of the team we have.

remember thats it 3 pionts for getting into the team and 1 piont for staying on the bench.

ok by the end of the day, we will have the nairaland team sheet

grizzly, do you know that the hide of a bear is very profitable when sold as a winter coat

one more person and we ar done

laughter is the orgasm of sense and nonsense.

in this case where is the sense. where they peeing through their mouths.

larsson

ronaldino is a much better player but i think okocha was more skillful. hmmmmm i'm not sure sha