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She did PhD for 6 years? I also just checked some of her publications and the journals she published in. I wont want to be a killjoy, so I will say nothing about the publications.
However, Covenant Uni, while ticking the box, is not necessarily doing it right. When you pay to publish an article, then you're sort of buying recognition. I still respect articles published in reputable journals by Nigerian univerisities no matter how scant, to those plenty paid publications.

Every decent house in Nigeria is 'multi million'

Schemerkhiz:
Tottenham, Arsenal, Brighton Battling Swedish Clubs For Nigerian Striker Omidiji
Published: April 15, 2018
Allnigeriasoccer.com understands that Sophia Omidiji is preparing to bid farewell to Dutch Division I Club S.B.V. Excelsior, with as many as six clubs interested in her signature.
The 20-year-old frontwoman has seen her stock rise after earning her maiden call-up to Nigeria Women's National Team for the friendly against France earlier this month.
Shortly after the glamour match in Le Mans, Omidiji traveled to Sweden to train with Damallsvenskan club FC Rosengård and former European champions Umea IK.
She impressed at least one of the aforementioned teams and there's a contract on the table for her to sign.
Having recently trained with English clubs Arsenal, Tottenham Hotspur and Brighton & Hove, there's also a possibility that Omidiji will move to England but the major stumbling block to the deal is that she's not in the possession of a European Union passport.
Born in Las Vegas, she will become eligible for an EU passport in the next one and a half years as she has lived in the Netherlands since 2015.
Omidiji is a candidate to break into the Super Falcons starting line-up ahead of the 2019 World Cup and the former Gent star will fancy a move to Sweden as they play the same kind of football as the United States

I call BS. She is not that good enough yet. She's more an enthusiastic lady than a gifted footballer.

They will have a rougher life in Australia than they will back home.

BascoVanVeli:
Watch that video again, in every open play goal there were only 4 Nigerians in the picture. The defense had zero protection.

Rita Chikwelu= Defensive midfielder. The first goal was particularly damning for Faith Ikidi. Seems the ladies who play in Sweden have not improved much.

Match highlights (basically France goals only)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmWbO4pKEwE

It was a poor showing from an obviously rusty team. However, I think a few things became clear.
1. Rita Chikwelu is not the agile midfielder she used to be. It is not enough to just be a slow midfielder spraying passes around. That can work against Kenya, but a physically good team will isolate her. For me, Rita Chikwelu is past it and should allow a much younger, agile midfield enforcer. We have them aplenty. Osas Igbinovia would slot into that role with no fuss.
2. The defense is poor and we need to overhaul the defensive personnel totally. I dont mean bringing back Onome, but I mean replacing players like Ikidi and finding a good competitor for Ohale.
3. The attack is still very potent, and world class. They need understanding and only frequent friendly matches can help that.

Finally, I propose that the NFF should arrange friendlies for the Falcons against lesser European, Asian and even Carribean teams. However, knowing who Pinnick is, the falcons may not play another friendly till they're preparing for Afcon in Ghana. That time, they may play an U17 boys team in Abuja.

Schemerkhiz:
Hummmm, this is an open game!
I so much believe our Superfalcons will play well,

They will play well, but France is a more active team. The understanding is there, unlike our girls who have only trained together twice. Plenty stray passes and defensive holes expected.

My score prediction> France 4 - 2 Nigeria.

Schemerkhiz:
Assistant Coach Jorgen Petersson giving the Superfalcons some instructions.

I didnt know NFF employed Jorgen as well. Good thing they did. He was once at Malmö as attacking coach.

Will the ladies wear the new jersey? Or will NFF embarass them further?

TheSuperNerd:
Come on, don't call it hype. Call it happiness to see her finally being called up. Of course it is not gonna be a walk in the park for her. Looking at the forwards available for this friendly even in the absence of other forwards led by the Queen Herself, Asisat Oshoala tells us all Sophia is not gonna be a starter in the team just yet. Infact ahead of France 2019 and the AWCON 2018 that serves as qualifier for it... I am even almost certain she may not make the final cut unless something extra dramatic happens.

But all the same, it is just okay to have her in the fold. This is the Super Falcons... Africa's finest ever women's side. Sophia is definitely in a different big league now coz she got much to learn from the true Queens she will meet in camp.

OK sir. I'll let the coaches decide. But I will be surprised if she plays a minute of the friendly. Except she's in top physical shape, the training might be too much for her self. However, she's a good addition to the team.
My candid advice to her will be to join the Nigerian league so as to improve.
I do like her family though. Hardworking people. I watch Lateef's youtube a lot, and it screams of talent and hardwork.

People who keep hyping Sophia Omidiji either overrate her or underrate the girls in camp. Sophia is very hardworking and quite focused. However, I think for now, Super Falcons is too big for her.

The future remains Okobi and Ayinde. Chikwelu is old now and she needs to sit in front of the back 4 and control the game ala Carzola.

Information will be available in books and on internet free of charge but Nigerians will just be bullish about ignorance. What does it take you goons to do a simple google search?
Some even comment things like 'show me' or 'teach me'. NO! It is your responsibility to educate yourself with the truth, especially in today's world of fake news.

SEYIKP:
was there anything like islam when Jesus came to save the World?

Neither was Christianity.

Nazareth, a predominantly MUSLIM city was cornered by Israel. I see a lot of comments bashing the guy who pointed out that the Mayor is Arab.
Well, the truth is before you. Nazareth is predominantly Arab, with Muslim population of over 70%. If Jesus was from Nazareth, his descendants are probably Muslims.

If this was his daughter, he wont be saying such. Hypocrite

oliverjiad:
7okay would update you

Jaid

Waiting for your update

If those are the people that rejected Buhari, then he is doing OK.

oliverjiad:
do u have any loads in the container body

Jaid

Yes. Electronics and household stuffs. Not another clearable car.

Please can anyone give me estimate for clearing a Volvo FL615 H truck. Grimaldi from Hamburg...

France will pay return tickets for our girls and also give NFF 40,000 Euros. Thats about 16 million naira. Hopefully the girls should get at least 500k each for playing in the friendly.

Obinwenite:
The bitter truth!...our only savior now is PDP. The problem i have with his candidacy is that in as much that he won't win,he might end up with some votes down south, thus splitting the votes which normally would gone to PDP since south is predominantly PDP,thereby leaving northern votes intact.

You funny die. Stockholm syndrome or extreme Buhari hatred. APC may be bad, but PDP is worse than the worst of APC.

Providing micro security is costly and largely ineffective. We should work to protect holistically. If the whole country was secure, then no senator or house of rep member will need police escorts. Even Buhari's convoy may not need to be more than 5 vehicles.

ZombieTAMER:
Run away from Buhari abeg

His body odour can depress you

You working for Cambridge Analytica? Or just an IPOB spam bot?

Femita Ayanbeku....I'm a Yoruba boy from Osun, but I am not understanding that name.

Daejoyoung:
Sometimes l wonder what Ruth David and her team does, l mean isn't she the head in Nff when it comes to female football?

If you know NFF under Amaju Pinnick, you will know that it is all propaganda and less substance. The friendly is about 2 weeks from today, no team, logistics probably not done yet. Visas will be fast tracked for home based players? Flights booked?
My opinion is that NFF will use foreign based players and ask them to pay their flights to France. They will then owe the girls this money for another 6 months.

God really did wonders for Nigeria in 2015. If GEJ had been reelected, we would probably have been sold to some American billionaire by now. The Israelis really hated Buhari and I wont be surprised if they were responsible for the alleged poisoning of his air conditioning.

With the amount of forces against Buhari in 2015, it was only God that gave him victory.
Also, this expose makes me proud as a Nigerian. I am proud that targeted misinformation did not have much effect on us, like it did for Americans and British. You cannot just make up some lies about Christians or Muslims and expect people to go mental on it. Although IPOB and similar groups may be willing tools in the hands of those who want Nigeria to burn, the intelligence of an average Nigerian is still enough to triumph.

Now more evidence of my earlier hypothesis. I knew it was a matter of time.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/mar/21/cambridge-analyticas-ruthless-bid-to-sway-the-vote-in-nigeria?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Cambridge Analytica's ruthless bid to sway the vote in Nigeria

If Britain hadn’t voted to leave the EU, and Trump hadn’t won the US election, it’s unlikely anyone outside Nigeria would have given a second thought to what went on during its presidential election campaign three years ago.

But the 20/20 vision of hindsight casts a very different light on the events of early 2015, and a campaign that now seems to eerily prefigure what happened in the US a year later. Many of the same characters, some of the same tactics.

At the heart of it all – data analytics company, SCL – the parent company of Cambridge Analytica. It had been hired by a rich Nigerian who supported the incumbent, President Goodluck Jonathan.

“It was the kind of campaign that was our bread and butter,” says one ex-employee. “We’re employed by a billionaire who’s panicking at the idea of a change of government and who wants to spend big to make sure that doesn’t happen.”

This was a standard variation on what SCL had done around the world for 30 years – this time, with a twist. Weaponising information to harm an opponent was standard methodology.

It was a methodology honed and developed in the company’s defence and military work – the fifth dimension of warfare, defined by the US military as “information operations”.

What was new, or at least new to those employees who have now spoken out, was bringing these techniques to the company’s election work.

Seven individuals with close knowledge of the Nigeria campaign have described how Cambridge Analytica worked with people they believed were Israeli computer hackers.

The sources – who spoke to the Observer over many months – said the company was looking for “kompromat” on Muhammadu Buhari – at the time, leader of the opposition.

They said the hackers offered Cambridge Analytica access to private information about Buhari.

Their testimony paints an extraordinary picture of how far a western company would contemplate going in an effort to undermine the democratic process in a country that already struggles to provide free and fair elections.

Their claims are disputed by the company, which insists it did not take possession of or use any personal information for any purpose and did not use any “hacked or stolen data”.

The company confirmed, however, that it had been hired to provide “advertising and marketing services in support of the Goodluck Jonathan campaign”.

That work seems to have come about through Brittany Kaiser, a senior director at Cambridge Analytica, who would go on to play a public role at the launch of Nigel Farage’s Leave.eu campaign, and a senior strategist on the Trump campaign.

Regarded by colleagues as a prolific networker, in December 2014 she was introduced to a Nigerian oil billionaire who wanted to fund a covert campaign to support Jonathan.

The billionaire wanted total discretion.

An ex-employee said: “[Kaiser] got a phone call. It was just before Christmas and she flew out to meet them in Washington DC. It was all a bit ridiculous. It was only six to eight weeks before the election and they were looking to spend nearly $2m.”

The election was a big deal. At stake, the future of the most populous country in Africa, and potential access to its lucrative oil reserves. The sitting president was favourite to win, though Buhari was doing unexpectedly well.

Not least because his team had hired AKPD, once the firm of former Barack Obama strategist David Axelrod, which was pushing a slick, social media heavy Obama-esque message of hope.

“There were a lot of scared millionaires worried that Buhari would get in. It was all very last-minute. A team flew out to Abuja and put together a communications campaign. It was a straightforward, normal comms campaign in most respects,” the employee said.

Most but not all respects. The Observer has obtained an astonishing and disturbing video that Cambridge Analytica used in the campaign.

“Coming to Nigeria on February 15th, 2015,” the voiceover says in the manner of a trailer for a Hollywood movie.

“Dark. Scary. And very uncertain. Sharia for all.” And then it poses the question: “What would Nigeria look like if sharia were imposed by Buhari?”

Its answer to that question is certainly dark. And scary. It’s also graphically, brutally, violent. One minute and 19 seconds of archive news footage from Nigeria’s troubled past set to a horror movie soundtrack.

There are scenes of people being macheted to death. Their legs hacked off. Their skulls caved in. A former contractor said: “It was voter suppression of the most crude and basic kind. It was targeted at Buhari voters in Buhari regions to basically scare the poo out of them and stop them from voting.”

If Buhari wins, the film warns: women would wear the veil. Sharia law would be introduced. And the inference is, you may be macheted to death.

It wasn’t just videos spreading fear. The Cambridge Analytica campaign team in Nigeria were jumpy too.

“It felt risky, being there. There were various points when we were told we were in danger.” And in the Abuja hotel to which the team was confined in early 2015, rumours abounded.

The tales are Graham Greene-esque. The hotel was where slick western consultants, including a team from the now disgraced Bell Pottinger, partied with their Nigerian counterparts. Mingling among them, western intelligence operatives - state backed, or privately commissioned, nobody was quite sure.

And then there were the meetings: three sources have told the Guardian about one that took place between Cambridge Analytica employees and two people they were told were Israeli intelligence operatives.

“There was a two-hour meeting that took place in the hotel lobby between two senior campaign members and Israeli intelligence. After which they swept our hotel rooms for listening devices and said they would switch out our phones. The story we were told was that there were intelligence agents from a number of different countries, including Israel and France, who were supporting Goodluck Jonathan and helping the campaigns.”

There is no suggestion that Jonathan was aware of or implicated in this support. Another employee said: “Basically the Israelis didn’t want [Buhari] to win.”

Other employees questioned whether they were “real” Israeli intelligence operatives, or Israeli private contractors.

A few weeks later, as the campaign was drawing to a close, there was another meeting at Cambridge Analytica’s London office.

An expert had flown in from Israel with a laptop, sources say.

And Alexander Nix, Cambridge Analytica’s now suspended CEO, and Kaiser, asked employees to take a thumb drive and download the contents on to their own computers.

The content was private emails and the information, they were told, related to Buhari’s financial and medical records.

One employee who was present at the London meeting said he had initially assumed the visiting expert was Mossad or Israeli intelligence passing on what he called “legtimate information”.

But he began to realise this wasn’t the case, he said, when he saw the reaction of his colleagues. One of them had “freaked out”, he said. “He was like, ‘What the Bleep? I don’t want anything to do with this.’”

The witnesses are clear – at least in their own minds. The information they were shown had come from hackers.

Back in Nigeria, the team still on the ground found out what was going on from their colleagues in London. There was more “freaking out”. This time with live, pressing concerns.

“They were bleeping scared,” said a colleague who spoke to them while they were in the country. The campaign fixer, the person with local knowledge who navigated them through the ins and outs of Nigerian politics, made it clear to them: they needed to get out of the country right away.

Cambridge Analytica had put them all in danger, they said. If opposition supporters found out, there was no saying what might happen.

One member of the team missed his flight and instead of asking the office to re-book it, he got the first fight out – to Dubai – and put it on his credit card. “Everyone just wanted to get out as soon as possible.”

A spokesman for the company said its team remained in country throughout the original campaigning period had “left in accordance with the company’s campaign plan”.

“Team members were regularly briefed about security concerns prior to and during deployment and measures were taken to ensure the team’s safety throughout.”

There are multiple wider political questions about what went on in the Nigerian election of 2015 and the role western powers played. Whether western political campaigners taking lucrative foreign contracts are contributing to the democratic framework of developing countries – or helping to destroy them. If they’re experimenting with methods and techniques that they later re-import back to our more developed democracies.

Christopher Wylie, the Cambridge Analytica whistleblower who spoke to the Observer, called it “post-colonial blowback”.

“The west found a way of firehosing disinformation into weak and vulnerable democracies. And now this has been turned back on us. This really is about our chickens coming home to roost.”

Another said: “Everything the company did after the Mercers got involved was about refining a set of techniques that they would go on to use in the US elections. These campaigns in other countries were experiments. They worked out how to harvest data and weaponise it. And they got steadily better at it.”

And what comes across most strongly, the sources say, is how little thought, if any, the senior directors in London had given to their employees and colleagues who became caught up in the activities, many of whom were in their early to mid-20s.

One member of staff who met the Israelis in the office on another occasion described them as “special forces” types. He said: “They were cliche alpha males with a certain intellect. Looked military, very composed. They looked like they could beat the crap out of you.”

Three years on, there is still stress in some of their voices when they recount these stories. Stress and fear and anger – about the danger they put in, and the lack of care shown toward them, the morally compromising position they were put in, the lack of knowledge they had about what sort of the company they would be working for when they took their jobs.

It’s why, despite the personal risks, so many of them agreed to speak.

“When I took that job, I did not sign up to any of this,” said one. Three years on, he is still angry and shocked and fearful. “You don’t know what this company is capable of,” he said.

In a statement, SCL Elections, the parent company of Cambridge Analytica, confirmed it had been hired in December 2014 in support of the Jonathan campaign.

“We can confirm that SCL Elections was hired in December 2014 to provide advertising and marketing services in support of the Goodluck Jonathan campaign.”

Asked specifically about the meetings in which staff described being asked to transfer personal information that they believed had been hacked, the firm said: “During an election campaign, it is normal for SCL Elections to meet with vendors seeking to provide services as a subcontractor.

“SCL Elections did not take possession of or use any personal information from such individuals for any purposes. SCL Elections does not use ‘hacked’ or ‘stolen’ data.”

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My (earlier) hypothesis on this:
1. One of GEJ or PMB campaigns in 2014 contracted this very dirty company called Cambridge Analytica.
2. It was most likely GEJ campaign, as they were losing popularity amongst Nigerians.
3. Cambridge Analytica is probably in control of facebook pages like 'Hope for Nigeria', and some others who were very critical of PMB.
4. The company is still being used, though on a data collection level today.
5. It was not able to change election outcome because most of Nigerian voters are not on social media.
6. I predict a stronger influencer is coming in 2019, with our religious differences, Fulani madness, sheepy churchgoers and Buhari's failures strong tools to create fear and hope.

The candidate who can create the biggest fear will win 2019. Hope may not sell so much.

If arms could easily leave Konduga for the rest of Nigeria, then BHT will not find it difficult to do the same. Our security in NIgeria is in God's hands.

This story looks and feels like a hatchet job by Dailytrust newspaper, orchestrated by Alhaji Faruk Maiturare. Alhaji has paid people in DailyTrust to bring this issue with the hope that the scandal can force her out of the job so he can take over.
The truth I was looking for came in the last 3 sentences of the article. Other lines were just Maiturare's work.

Make ups will make African women less beautiful in years to come. If this trend of bleaching, excessive make up, and fake hair is not checked, we will start to have women who are born naturally ugly. Some will be white from head to waist and black waist to leg.