₦airaland Forum

stepaside2:
This is quite true. In 2012, many folks protested across the political divide. Even Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala as Finance Minister was taken by surprise at the timing of the subsidy removal announcement.

In any case, events since then have shown that GEJ was right and we should have removed this subsidy long ago. Umaru Musa Yaradua of blessed memory that many eulogise today reversed the sale of existing moribund refineries to the Dangote group and stopped a lot of ongoing reforms of the OBJ era. Those actions had long lasting negative impact on our today's economy.

Key thing though is that all the leading presidential candidates today want to remove subsidy so I see no issue debating it one way or another. With Dangote refinery due on stream before end of this year, some modular refineries in operation and others coming on stream plus rehabilitation of existing refineries, the foundation has been laid to resolve this issue once and for all. Let us just wait till all these take off. Nothing else anyone can do for now no matter how intelligent they may sound

1. The problem is actualy the issue of trust. Removal of fuel subsidy may be good but the money saved or made from it will be stolen by our corrupt leaders.
2. As a result, most people do not see the point of removing the subsidy when any gain made from it will be stolen anyway
3. Also, the Government has to showcase the fact that it is serious about repairing the refineries. Are we sure the refineries will be repaired by the end of he year or it is just another lie to make us endure fuel subsidy removal.
4. A government that does not provide jobs, education, health, electricity and even security cannot be trusted with anything. I beleive the fuel subsidy money will be stolen. Since Jonathan and he others removed the subsidy what have they done with the money? The economy has worsened. Our leaders are not sincere with anything.
5. This is why Nigerians dont even trust the Government when it comes to security. Our leaders are not serious with anything and so when they lie that they can protect our lives the average Nigerian wonders if it is no another lie.
6. Bad Governance. Lack of trust and accountabiliy between the government and the masses is the real problem. It makes fuel subsidy removal or any other long term beneficial programme impossible.
WE SIMPLY DON'T TRUST AND BELIEVE IN OUR LEADERS

Agbegbaorogboye:

This makes it obvious that bbnaija needs to be scrapped
It's not a talent hunt show
Neither is it a dramatic piece

It's just an avenue to expose talentless, drab and socially conflicted humans who otherwise should be undergoing some skills apprenticeship to the public to become a nuisance and insult our sensibilities in a bid to make something of the underserved public attention and fame they earned.

Big Brother is solely responsible for this malaise and should be scrapped

BB Naija is just a way of marketing nudism, sexual promiscuity and liberalism to the public.
The organizers are trying to market their ideology to us and they have succeeded.
They want us to tolerate women going about nude, having sex in public, baby mama and sexual irresponsibility of any kind.
It is a western ideology they are marketing and they are succeeding and will succeed

Kog45:
Well said Oga Komekn, even I don't see Haaland scoring 20 goals in that Nottingham team.

Awoniyi is actually playing well. Nottingham forest dies not create too many chances thats all. He was impressive against Chelsea. I don't see anything bad about his display. Abeg even better players will not score much in this kind of team

Happy new year everybody

Windscribe:
The just concluded Qatar world cup was considered has the most interesting in recent editions, filled with buzz, excitement and all, the Cyber space was light, what about the bragging right for being a participant? The super eagles failed to qualify.

However, failure to qualify might not be a big deal as Nigeria was not the only absentee, but I think failure to qualify should bring an end to these hypes our average players enjoy on this thread.

In our first leg game against Ghana, we all saw how your 250m rated striker was strolling round the pitch like and external invigilator, no impact... Nothing.
Ditto with the second leg, man missed lots of big chances.

Are you not jealous of Morocco's display? Tunisia's 4points in a group comprising France, Denmark and Aussie ( even beating France in a stellar display)

Cameroon 4 points even beating almighty Brazil..
The black cats were not exempted, making Ghanaians proud in a little way.

But here, the show of shame continues, the show which I would liken to group of kegites, show of ogogoro freaks.

A member few hours back called an unknown Olisa ndah "one of the best defenders in the world"

Both Vlahovic and Nunez are better than Osimhen.

If it is Mr. Then what I said is that he is one of the best defenders in African club football. He plays in one of the best teams or leagues in Africa and his team does well in cad club competitions. He is one of the best players in the caf club competitions and one of the best in African club football.
I said Africa pertaining to club fooy and not the world

maidaboi:
A. Marcus with a brace for porto b

FC Porto and their selectiveness.
What do they want him to do in order to be in their first team. They are too strict. Even if he scores 49 goals with 25 assists for Porto b they may still not put him in the first team

AndSunGorilla:
Im career no end well. Maybe Luku too had a hand in it, but he didn't leave up to his promise. Yes we fit talk say e lie about his age but he should still have remained relevant at least till the last WC. At some point he was even brought in to replace Mikel for the 2010 WC and immediately after then, Baba disappeared.

It was not Monaco's fault. He simply list form through injury or whatever reason. He did not even do well in the Russian league. His decline was shocking and strange. I still don't understand what happened to that boy but again it was not Monaco's fault. In fact, Monaco gave him playing time.

charlesemeka85:
Italian top tier side Sassuolo in talks with Orlando Pirates defender Olisa Ndah

I'm not too surprised. He is a technical ball playing defender. I saw h play and was amazed.
He is more skillfull and technical than most if not all our defenders and I suspect he can play in midfield.
I rate players by how the play and not league as not everyone has the same opportunity and if you are under 25 then your not being in a top league may be a question of opportunity and time.
He is one of the best defenders in African football right now

typicalgamer:
Go see as them they roast nff presido for twitter

Only some delusional urchins here go think say super Christmas fowl na hot shxt

To say we cannot get to the world cup final is ignorance and denial.
Is it because if the stuff that happened this year. It's just part of football.
3 years ago we drew with Brazil ans so don't get so judgemental.
Our football academies produce players every year and so we don't lack quality players going forward. Ask Supernwrd about this.
The Morocco you are shouting may loose to us or I ory coast in the nation's cup.
This judgemental attitude is out of hand.

TheSuperNerd:
We have a Dream: CAF Presido, Patrice Motsepe talking Nigeria up...

Merry Christmas Eve

Have at it....

We can win the world cup in the next 20 years or less. The golden generation of okocha could have gotten to the semi finals.
Also, with the rate at which our football academies are producing players and our foreign birns and local league we stand a chance.
One coach just has to put 2 and 2 together and fashion a winning team. I mean Victor eletu, Ahmed abdulahi, azeez oseni etc can get to the semi final of the world cup or win it by 2030 to 2034.
The talent production is there.
I know people don't believe it but our grassroots football is underrated, underepoted but very vibrant

jihday:
these countries are just smarter, if an U-18 player born abroad shows great promise they can bring them to the senior team, if such happens here we’ll see people protesting and saying maybe the NFF have been bribed

The issue is we cannot manage things and we are not sincere with developing football.
What Morocco did are two things
1. Develop their league and football academies
2. Leverage on foreign born players
3. Create a team that consists of home grown and foreign born players together.\

The problem with us is that we go on silly extremes.
If we get foreign born players we might ignore our league, youth football and football academies
which is 5 forward and 10 steps backwards.
If we build our local football, we might ignore our foreing born players which is another disadvantage
We should be able to manage this thing i mean
1. Develop our local football
2. Get foreign born players
The two of them are not competing with each other.
THEY ARE COLLABORATING WITH EACH OTHER!!
OUR ENEMIES ARE OUR OPPONENTS ON THE FOOTBALL PITCH NOT EBERECHI EZE FIGHTING WITH NWAKALI AND LOOKING
DOWN ON HIM.
MORROCO WILL DOMINATE FOOTBALL FOR A LONG TIME BECAUSE THEY WILL DEVELOP THEIR LOCAL LEAGUE AND ACADEMIES
AND INVITE MORE FOREIGN BORNS.
OUR ADMINISTRATORS HAVE TO GET THIS MIXTURE RIGHT.
MY RESERVATIONS WITH GETTING FOREIGN BORNS IS THAT THE STUPID NFF WILL START IGNORING OUR LOCAL FOOTBALL
AND ANY SUCCESS THEY ACHIEVE WILL NOT LAST AND EVERYTHING WILL CRUMBLE IN A MESS OF CORUPTION AND MISADMINISTRATION.
GUSAU (THE NEW NFF CHAIRMAN) IS INTERESTED IN OUR YOUTH TEAMS AND THEY SEEM IMPRESSIVE\
AND IT WILL BE GREAT IF WE SUSTAIN IT WITH FOREING BORN PLAYERS.
i hope they get the mixture right as our administrators are immature.
It is similar to when Nigeria discovered oil and abandoned agriculture, mineral resources and local technology.
Getting foreign borns may make our administrators lazy and incompetent and before you know it we are back to square one.
1Get foreing borns
2. Develop our local football
and then everything will be allright.
The funny thing is that some foreing borns dont want to play for us
because they notice how corrupt and negligent our football officials are

charlesemeka85:
and how will investor recoup their money?

How many pple turn out to watch our local league matches?

You see the npfl is an historical brand. It has a long history of excellence which can easily be leveraged on and bring back the fans.
This is a league that produced okocha, taribo west, Ahmed Musa, kanu nwankkwo etc.
It also has tradional teams like shooting stars and so the older generation can even be drawn to it.
It has a lost pedigree that can be leveraged on. Also, we can invite our old players like ogeyi onazzi to play for us.
People will come because those memories are still with them and the older generation can connect with the younger generation with this.
It's all marketing brother. The legacy is there to leverage on and it is something

How the Nigerian league can develop.

Can't nff get investors from quatar, Saudi Arabia, china etc. Also the man city group can buy one of our clubs.
We don't need our money for the league to run. We just need investors.
But nff are stupid and myopic. How will a league attract investors when it is not televised.
Anyway with our global reputation in football, we can easily attract investors. We have global stars like kanu, okocha, Mikel obi etc. They can easily market us to the world

Mujtahida:
I concur with you. When you win, everything you do is right, when you loose everything you do is wrong. Had France won, you'd have seen how Deschamps would have been hailed as a tactical genius and Scaloni utterly condemned for letting a 2 up lead slip out of his hands a second time.

But if we want to be objective without letting our bias color our judgment, we would look at the results Deschamps has achieved with the French team during his stint. That should guide our judgment not the outcome of one just single game no matter how important.

In spite of having top of the range quality players at his disposal, Guardiola's barca were walloped 7- 0 by Bayern. His Bayern side were taken to the cleaners by Real Madrid. Guardiola lost in a Champions league final. Yet nobody in his right mind would argue that Gaudiola is a poor tactician

Yeah, i agree with the bolded. This argentine team can't protect a lead against a good team.
It happened against Holland and now, it happened again against France.
They could not even protect a lead for 10 minutes in extra time.
Scaloni deserves critisicm for that despite winning the trophy.
I think that the Argentine defence is a little suspect and the team lacks a little mental strength.
but people won't talk as he won.
Also, he brought out Di maria at the wrong time and dybala could have played in extra time.
In fact Martinez was not in form and he used and selected him.
Well, all will be forgotten as he won

mostob:
Nigeria will win world cup one day.

May God spare our lives till then.

In the next 15 to 20 years we will win the world cup.
We have everything to do it.
Watch out for our you teams (u20, u17, u23)
Nothing is impossible.
They once said that the invention of the aeroplane was impossible but time proved them wrong.
So this is the way Nigeria will prove everybody wrong

codemaniacs:
Ejuke has the highest assists for his club and is more direct than Simon in the S.E..

when Simon plays for the S.E he plays without intensity and intent...

Moses SIMon is a wide forward and not a right sided midfielder. He is better off in a 433 as a wide forward.
He can't operate in a 442
The issue is that we have many explosive forwards who can explode in the past third of the pitch but we lack midfielders.
The quality of forwards is a serious advantage we don't know how t Ouse.
Get alhassan Yusuf, ovie ejaria, iwobi etc in our midfield and let them liberate our forwards and we are good to go.
This thing is very simple I wonder why it is so hard for our coaches.

TheSuperNerd:
Like the Midfield, like the Defence.



The above scenario also applies to the Defense. Not just the midfield.

If a few good legs outside the top leagues can still help fix our Defensive issues and also raise the passing quality of our buildup plays from the back, then we should not ignore them all because their club names don't sound sweet to the tongue.

From my observation olisah ndah is very good at keeping the ball, distributing it, passing etc. I was shocked when I saw him play at afcon. He is very intelligent and technical and might even be able to play in midfield.
But he plays in South Africa and people will not see past that.
He will prove our passing if given a chance.
I think poseiro has plans for him and he was called up against Portugal but had a slight injury

Danielnino00:
Nigeria and Benin republic have officially submitted a joint bid to host 2025 AFCON..
Algeria and Morocco also submitted a bid

With all the insecurity in the country. Are we sure we can keep separatists, terrorists, criminals etc at bay.

TheSuperNerd:
Undoubtedly.

Age wise, I should belong to this Messi-CR7 generation and when it comes to picking the GOAT, I should be in either camps but I am not like that. I love to study and REALLY KNOW. I love to research deeper than what have been served to know who truly is the GOAT of football.

My research led me to Edson Arantes Dos Nascimento, AKA Pele.

I am glad to have seen Messi and CR7 from the start but mehn... everything I have seen, watched, enjoyed from these two is still dwarfed by the Pure Unadulterated Magic or Miracle that was Pele.

I always wondered why I didn't exist in Pele's time. I really would have loved that. But then Football gave us Messi and CR7 as compensation and before that Maradona to show us whole glimpses of what Pele was.

Pele was too complete. Messi and Ronaldo are like breakaway variations of the player Pele was.

Ronaldo is predominantly all about Athleticism, Speed, Power and Finishing.

Messi is predominantly all about High technical ability, Ball intelligence, Spatial IQ and Creativity.

Maradona was is also a god of the game, a predominantly one-footed god but Pele, the two-footed god transcends in every way.

Pele was the perfect footballer who had all of these and more.

No one like him have come up again. No one. Only players close have come. But none above him and none that matches him in Everything.

Young man, you will be a very brilliant person. Are you working in academia or something.
I beleive you should be a lecturer or a research scientist of some sort.
Your analysis are allways intelligent and on spot
So where are working now.
I hope it is in academia or research

TheSuperNerd:
What Pele could do with a football with both feet, not even Maradona came close. It is not an exaggeration... it is facts.

Pele was and remains the most complete footballer ever to grace the beautiful game. The perfect mix of Athleticism, Unlimited Technique, Limitlessly Supreme Ball intelligence, Power, Speed, Spatial awareness and more.

His ambipedality on the ball in technique, control and even his goals is the most complete I have ever studied in football history.

He was as powerfully assertive, technically majestic and in total ball control across all in-game phases with his right foot as he was with his left foot.


Maradona wasn't like that. He was majorly left footed.

Messi is also majorly left footed.

CR7 doesn't boast the high-end technical might of Maradona and Messi not to mention Pele himself.

Everything that everyone of these top ballers from Maradona to Messi to Zidane to Ronaldo de lima to Ronaldinho to CR7 to Neymar did with a ball, Pele did it first. Do you know how insane that is?

He didn't have any highlights reel to reference. He invented almost all on the spot. These guys came later and replicated it and didn't even replicate all of Pele's Magic.

If there is anything I would have wanted, it is to have lived during the era of Pele to witness first hand all and more of the magic he dished out then. because the truth is even the clips, Videos and different report accounts dont show all of it.



Watch these clips below and understand....

1.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYokNMEgRvw

2.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VbZmkfelfw (Watch this directly in the YT app).


Respect to the GOAT of GOATs abeg. That you didn't watch him then doesn't erase historical facts.

I THINK THE ISSUE IS THAT MOST PEOPLE ARE NOT AWARE
THAT THE SOUTH AMERICAN LEAGUE WAS EITHER AT PAR WITH THE EUROPEAN LEAGUE OR EVEN BETTER
SO THE FACT THAT HE DID NOT PLAY IN EUROPE CONFUSES THEM
PEOPLE FORGET THAT UNTIL THE 90'S SOUTH AMERICAN LEAGUES WERE AT THE SAME LEVEL AS EUROPEAN LEAGUES
EVEN NOW THE DIFFERENCE IS NOT THAT CLEAR
IF ALL THE BRAZILIAN PLAYERS RETURN TO SAO PAULO LETS SEE THE EUROPEAN TEAM THAT WILL BEAT THEM
TO A LARGE EXTENT IT WAS THE SOUTH AMERICANS THAT REALLY BROUGHT OUT THE BEAUTY OF FOOTBALL AND REINVENTED IT
I DARE SAY THESE SOUTH AMERICANS MADE FOOTBALL BEAUTIFUL AND MARKETABLE

ChrisKels:
How do Ivorians do this? Even from the most obscure leagues, the biggest clubs in the world still sort after their talents. This one now is about to join Chelsea from Molde.

Ivorians are the greatest underachievers of African football. So much talent but mediocre achievements. It baffles me. They produce talented players more than most African countries. Maybe it's a coaching problem

TheSuperNerd:
We were rubbish in the middle against Egypt. Our attacks came from the wings only.

Egypt outpassed us in that game. I analysed that in here after our win.

Fake Oracle and Elite Delusionist... Run back to your beer parlour cave and cease your caps.

In here, you are way out of your league in football analyses.

You can settle for Naijafootballers group chat. They talk your kind of analysis there. Delusionists UTD. Loolll

Actually, in that match against Ghana Eguacon got himself confused or listened to some foolish confusionists
He did not use nwakali or alhassan yusuf and started playing iheanacho as a midfielder
That was the mistake he made.
He was actually getting it right at the nations cup
But somone in the coaching crew or the nff staff confused him with nonsense

komekn:
Have an open mind Ovie and Nwakali are not on the same level by a huge margin.

They both play for the second division of a top 5 league in Europe so they are the same level. The Spanish Segundo and the English second division are the same level

elyte89:
Sincerely I don’t know

Like say na modric,ronaldinho kind of players we get for midfield

What a player has to offer is more important than club form.
For example if a secondary vschool has maths teachers but has a shortage of English teaches there is no need looking for maths teachers and we may have to lower the expectations for English teachers.
We lack ball playing midfielders so we need to lower the standards for them on the other hand we have too many forwards and so the standards will be higher for that.
We need midfield personnel that can basically pass, mark and control the midfield. Nwakali, ovie ejaria etc fit into this and so we need to lower our standards as we don't have any better. ABI the important thing is for them to do a god job for us

Another thing is that if we get that midfield right we can score goals against baby team in the world as we have good forwards. Our match against Sao Tome showed this

codemaniacs:
Nathan Tella declared his interest to play for Nigeria... nobody went to meet him, or snap pictures with him..

If the "good" foreign born players want to play for Nigeria all they have to do is say they want to play for Nigeria and the NFF should be quick to cap tie them....


the main problem is favoritism and favoring players they know which makes sure the SE formation does not change and why the SE consistently has a small number of midfielders invited...


payment for selection is not a problem for foreign born players.. foreign born players are richer than their Nigerian counterparts and if there's anything like payment for selection then that means the entire SE should have at least 20 foreign born players..

the other problem is the Nigerian coaches might call up and favor players that are in their Agency or affiliated with their agency..

I think this attitude of not appreciating our need for midfielders has to change. Is it that the midfielders don't come from the agency of the coach.
Look I think we are our greatest enemy. Our officials are too short sighted.
If the world cup was held in 1996 we might have reached the final but within two years the team deteriorated.
Also we held Brazil to a draw in 2019 but within three years the team deteriorated again. I suspect these nff officials constantly okay favouritism and politics.
Again the way we don't like midfielders sounds demonic. Is it that someone does not like alhassan Yusuf, ovie ejaria etc. Maybe they don't belong to their agency.
Our officials are too myopic. Winning the nation's cup and getting to the semi finals of the world cup will generate money for them to steal.
There is a way you can steal money and still engineer development. You just don't steal like a mad man without any vision for development

With Morocco appearance in the semi final I think it is time for an African team to win the world cup.
Ivory coast and Nigeria and some other African countries have more talent than Morocco so there is no excuse again. Our players are exposed to European football so why the fear.
It's an idea whose time has come. Yes Nigerian and African football has evolved bto that stage.
Can't everybody see.
Mikel has outplayed Spain in midfield before.
Musa has gone toe to toe with Messi before.
Kanu has dribbled everybody in Europe before. Drioga, eto, okocha etc can rub shoulders with the best.
The next journey is to win the world cup.
We should bstop being afraid.
Westerhoof was trying bto show us our potentials but we didn't get him.
Morocco is sending us a message. They has broken a psychological barrier

Mujtahida:
Africa should win through the French team. How is that a French team? The fraud of cultural diversity degrading the concept of ethnic nationalities and turning the whole world into one indistinguishable mixture of races.

It is modern globalism engineered through the globalist attitude and policies such as slave trade, colonialism, Arabic imperialism such as the Arab conquest of Africa, modern trade, travel and communication etc in which nationalii and ethnicity is redefined and the lines of identity are blurred.
Welcome to the modern civilized global world

I hope I don't sound like an academic but I know you got me

charlesemeka85:
Hoffenheim interested in Casa Pia’s winger Godwin

For Godwin Saviour slow and steady wins the race. He has developed over the years and now at 26 he is on a rise.
People like komekn will give up on a player like this.
If a player in a lower league is making progress and he is young then he has a chance.
He spent his time in the Belgian second division.
Azeez oseni is also impressing me. He is impressing in the Slovakian leagy and may soon go somewhere better.