₦airaland Forum

freesinzu:
Where is sunday mba?

codemaniacs:
so Komekn you've resorted to using alternate accounts to gather support

A lot of companies feed their employees so even you go to work with an empty stomach you can't leave work with an empty stomach...

70% of Nigerians are not poor...

Nigeria's poverty is majorly in northern Nigeria and that's mainly for financial poverty not food poverty..

A lot of Nigerians are financially poor not 70%..

most Nigerians are not food poor or Agriculturally poor...

codemaniacs:
so Komekn you've resorted to using alternate accounts to gather support

A lot of companies feed their employees so even you go to work with an empty stomach you can't leave work with an empty stomach...

70% of Nigerians are not poor...

Nigeria's poverty is majorly in northern Nigeria and that's mainly for financial poverty not food poverty..

A lot of Nigerians are financially poor not 70%..

most Nigerians are not food poor or Agriculturally poor...

joelsteron:
We saw how he destroyed the Tunisians. He scattered everywhere. Even the coach and finally scored a goal

Stormtrooper11:
Lol. Nah, I ain't Komekn.

Lol. That's not true tho. I once worked in a factory as a mid-teenager. The factories and companies are "using" the employees. Nigeria still doesn't have a developed workers union and environment.

Alotta international organizations define poverty as living below 1 dollar per day. 40% of Nigerians live below a dollar, 60% live below 2 dollars and 70% live 5 dollars per day. In the United Kingdom, 1% of the population live below 5 dollars per day . In the United States, 10 % live below 5 dollars per day. I hope you understand now. We can't compare our deplorable status to the British.

Northern Nigeria is still part of Nigeria. I bet you haven't stayed in the slums of Kano. I've seen em all. Some places there look like South Sudanese IDP camps.

Alotta Nigerians will wake up today with no meals and eat only a 60 naira Egg roll or Buns with 20 naira "pure water" throughout the day. Many Nigerians are hungry.

Sorry for the derailment volks!!

komekn:


NFF General Secretary, Dr Mohammed Sanusi, in response said: “We sent in the application on Wednesday night after putting all the necessary documentation together. We are happy to receive the approval today.

I said this earlier, a player commits to a new National team, he sends his written letter of change of allegiance/ nationality CONFIRMATION. It is then the duty of the national football association to submit the application after completing all due diligence to FIFA.

Once again Ovie and Ademola made that commitment over three years ago. But the NFF did NOTHING I wonder why ❓ But have been giving false narratives that the English FA is delaying approval. Utter balderdash.

We then have some highly ignorant and misguided individuals promoting that narrative right here.

FYI Ovie and Ademola went on trials for Nigeria U17 but were rejected by the NFF after high recommendations by the coordinator in the UK .

Eberechi Eze made commitment to Nigeria but they left him in the dark for three year's. He then decided to play U21 for England.

The reality is there is no integrity in the NFF add to all that Godfatherism, Nepotism, Corruption, Favouritism and crass Incompetence.

And all this is not surprising to me AT ALL

change of allegiance takes less than 48hours but gathering of paperwork, documents can take 5 months or more; cos the country the player want to switch will try to slow the whole system.

yinkeys:
You’re disrespectful & spewing trash.
Recency bias I see
Is he going to bench Simon or Chukwueze?
You must be joking if you think Eguavon & Amunike will drop Musa & Iwobi for the new transplant.
He’d get his chance after the World Cup when Musa retires
There’s really no space for most of these new international switches.
Quote me when we play Ghana

codemaniacs:
for your information, Food worth $1 in Nigeria will cost over $15 - $30 in the U.S...

In Nigeria, I cut my hair for ₦500 - ₦1000 that's less than $2... does that mean I'm poor...

it is foolis:hness to compare countries based on their currencies...

codemaniacs:
you're komekn...

no Nigerian uses the term "alotta" "em" "aint..

No Nigerian will also use south sudan as an example...

only someone whose into poverty porn will use such words and use south sudan as an example...

from your write up, you know nothing about Nigeria, you only know what anti-African International organizations publish about countries in Africa..

for your information, Food worth $1 in Nigeria will cost over $15 - $30 in the U.S...

In Nigeria, I cut my hair for ₦500 - ₦1000 that's less than $2... does that mean I'm poor...

while in the U:S, hair cut is at least $40 ( that's around ₦15,000 - ₦20,000 ) ..

it is foolis:hness to compare countries based on their currencies...

Joezinho:
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VillageBus:
this part applies only to processed foods, for uncooked foods the prices are close or sometimes cheaper over there.

codemaniacs:
you're komekn...

no Nigerian uses the term "alotta" "em" "aint..

No Nigerian will also use south sudan as an example...

only someone whose into poverty porn will use such words and use south sudan as an example...

from your write up, you know nothing about Nigeria, you only know what anti-African International organizations publish about countries in Africa..

for your information, Food worth $1 in Nigeria will cost over $15 - $30 in the U.S...

In Nigeria, I cut my hair for ₦500 - ₦1000 that's less than $2... does that mean I'm poor...

while in the U:S, hair cut is at least $40 ( that's around ₦15,000 - ₦20,000 ) ..

it is foolis:hness to compare countries based on their currencies...

komekn:
You are highly RETROGRESSIVE you are the reason why Nigeria is in the doldrums

Stick with Buhari because he has been there the longest.

Longevity is not competence, I think you need to be re-educated. Musa is over has nothing to offer, he old fire wood.

VillageBus:
this part applies only to fast-food, for uncooked foods the prices are close or sometimes cheaper over there.

Dear FIFA: There Is No Scientific Test to Prevent Age Fraud

Soccer federation’s tests to combat “age doping” and bar suspected older players from youth events should be red carded

By Dina Fine Maron on August 11, 2016

You could be forgiven for missing that the qualifying matches for a big youth soccer event—the Africa Cup of Nations—are underway right now, what with the Olympics taking center stage all week. But then you might miss the latest “doping” scandal playing out in soccer headlines: Almost half of Nigeria’s U-17 (under age 17) team has been sidelined based on lab scans.

Yet the dismissal is not over a traditional malfeasance such as performance-enhancing chemicals or hormonal supplements. It is about age fraud. Clinical testing suggested that these players were actually older than 17.

As a result, 24 young male athletes from Nigeria were deemed ineligible to participate, the Confederation of African Football (CAF) told Scientific American. (Originally, 26 players were excluded but two players were reinstated after appeal.) The decision to bar these Nigerian players from the tournament was based on a procedure that FIFA, soccer’s international governing body, put in place in 2009. It urged youth players to submit to magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans of their wrists in an attempt to determine their age eligibility. (CAF, which is under the auspices of FIFA, requires all players to submit to the scans as part of the regulations for the U-17 Africa Cup of Nations.)

Admirably, the protocol is designed to prevent older, stronger players from entering youth tournaments in settings where birth certificates or other ways of verifying age may be absent. According to FIFA, wrist MRIs and the bone growth they show can indicate if a player is older than 17. Yet a deeper dive into the study behind this decision reveals that its foundation is shaky at best.

FIFA rolled out this protocol based on a study conducted by its Medical Assessment and Research Center and published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine. For that work, researchers performed wrist MRIs (deemed more ethical than exposing the subjects to x-ray radiation) on about 500 young men between the ages of 14 and 19. The teens all hailed from Switzerland, Malaysia, Algeria or Argentina. The researchers then categorized each participant’s wrist bone development into one of six stages based on the fusion of his distal radius, a bone area near the wrist joint. Stage 6 represented complete fusion and stage 1 represented no fusion. Citing this work, FIFA says that if the MRI shows complete fusion of a player’s wrist, it is 99 percent certain that the player is over 17 (spoiler alert: that’s not really true).

Wrist bone development certainly does change during adolescence. Before puberty the human body cranks out cells that help produce new cartilage along the ends of bones. These areas of the bone, known as growth plates, are eventually converted into bone material, which helps the bones lengthen. Yet as teenagers, both males and females start producing more estrogen, which slows that cellular production process—and their growth plate cartilage subsequently gets thinner and thinner until some of the bones in that area fuse together, and the growth plates close and are replaced by solid bone. (That’s why wrist scans are sometimes used alongside those of the fingers, in tandem with other biological information, to estimate a growing child’s eventual height.) The exact timing of this fusion, however, varies a lot between individuals. For example, FIFA’s own researchers said in an analysis published earlier this year that using this same age cutoff for female athletes is extremely problematic because many girls already had complete fusion before age 17.

In FIFA’s citing of the foundational MRI study for boys, however, its major mistake lies in applying these population-level statistics to individual athletes. A closer examination of the full data shows that the actual wrist bone growth stages can occur at a wide range of ages. Among 16-year-olds, for example, roughly the same number of kids were at stages 1, 3, 4 and 5, representing a spectrum of growth at that age. “There is so much overlap that you may have a person who is 18 who could have only minimal fusion to complete fusion, and there are people who are already fused going from ages 20 to 16,” says Vicente Gilsanz, a professor of radiology and pediatrics at the University of Southern California. Although only one player in the 16-year age group was graded as completely fused (stage 6), the standard deviation in that grouping is also pretty telling.

The reason standard deviation is so illuminating comes down to basic statistics. The average age for complete fusion, according to the analysis, is 18.3 years. Yet there might be some variation in that fusion timing, and that possibility is represented by standard deviation calculated in the analysis—0.9 years. Anyone setting such important guidelines should typically include two standard deviations in either direction from the average age to capture most of that variation, says Frank Rauch, a professor of pediatrics who specializes in bone health at McGill University. (In a perfect bell curve one standard deviation will only capture about 68 percent of the values whereas two will include about 95 percent, and so on.) [b]Here, two standard deviations from that average age of complete fusion would include ages 16 to 20. “Maybe people are not concerned about unfairly excluding kids from competition,” Rauch says, “but that’s the inevitable problem.” [/b]FIFA had not responded to a request for comment by publication time.

Meanwhile, subsequent work also throws more cold water on the science of these wrist scans: One study on 86 young male Ghanaian players concluded, “There was no significant correlation between the chronological age and the degree of fusion.” Another analysis that similarly employed wrist scans among young players found that three supposed 14-year-old male soccer players had stage 5 or stage 6 fusion. In that analysis, too, the authors similarly noted, “no correlation was observed between age category and grade of fusion.” But in both studies the authors dismissed the results—suggesting perhaps players were simply not aware of their real ages.

There are also genetic and environmental factors to consider before applying this study’s findings to the real world. The analysis underpinning FIFA’s age regulation does include some individuals from Algeria(which is in north Africa), yet it does not include anyone from sub-Saharan Africa, where this ruling has been applied before—and is again now. Very little puberty research is focused on the sub-Saharan region, so it is difficult to pinpoint information about the onset and tempo of puberty in Nigeria. But scientists have uncovered variation elsewhere. Multiple studies have shown that kids embark on puberty at different times based on factors including nutrition, environment and ethnic background. Puberty in African-American girls who grow up in the U.S. begins roughly a year earlier, on average, than among white girls, for example.

Ultimately, there is no known foolproof, scientific test that will allow doctors—or sports regulators—to determine an individual’s age. The science suggests that applying a lone wrist MRI test to make such determinations is inappropriate at best and potentially harmful at worst. Political leaders and regulators searching for age tests in other settings—such as classifying immigrants seeking asylum (because different rules apply for minors and adults)—could potentially look to this type of age cutoff test, too, with troubling results. Right now “people aren’t trying to use magnetic resonance imaging [to classify the age of refugees] but they are using x-ray imaging to look at bone age and make a determination as to whether they are children or not,” says Babette Zemel, a pediatrics professor focused on child growth and development at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. “Looking at the bones can give you a good idea if one child is skeletally more mature, but it is insufficient for determining whether or not a child should be permitted to be on a sports team or claim asylum status because it doesn’t tell you about their chronological age.”

1. Latest doping scandal in u17 : 26 members (almost half )of the Nigerian team deemed to be over 17 based on the MRI test
2. 2 players reinstated after appeal
3. FIFA’s premise is that wrist MRIs can indicate if a player is older than 17, but this foundation is shaky at best
4. The premise is based on a study conducted by FIFA’s medical assessment and research centre that shows that it is 99% certain that a player is over 17 if the MRI shows complete fusion of a player’s wrist
5. However the exact timing of this fusion varies a lot between individuals. For instance, using this timing is problematic for female athletes as many have complete fusion before age 17
6. FIFA’s citing of the foundational MRI study for boys is a mistake because there is a wide variation in the bone growth stages for each age category.
7. A test carried out on a normal population will yield an average age of complete fusion between 16 and 20 years old, 95% of the time (mean age 18.6, standard deviation 0.9).
8. According to a professor of paediatrics, this requirement is too stringent… “Maybe people are not concerned about unfairly excluding kids from competition”
9. Subsequent studies also show that 14 year old players may also have a high degree of bone fusion (thereby making them fail the test)
10. There is no known foolproof, scientific test to determine age and applying a lone wrist MRI test is inappropriate at best and potentially harmful at worst

Odunayaw:
Some of you here have this penchant for running with something until you run to the ground.

We want Simon to cross better but what do you mean by he should stop dribbling altogether?

andrewbaba44:
After the afcon glory he only played 4 years of football for very poor teams

kingphilip:
https://dailypost.ng/2022/02/10/nigeria-vs-ghana-nff-reacts-as-fifa-clears-ademola-lookman/

In all of this it is what the NFF General Secretary said that caught my attention.

Does it mean it takes less than 48hours to get players cleared? Or is there something I am not understanding yet?

Mujtahida:
Simply say Simon should improve his crosses but baba must knack kusa for Simon head

komekn:


NFF General Secretary, Dr Mohammed Sanusi, in response said: “We sent in the application on Wednesday night after putting all the necessary documentation together. We are happy to receive the approval today.

I said this earlier, a player commits to a new National team, he sends his written letter of change of allegiance/ nationality CONFIRMATION. It is then the duty of the national football association to submit the application after completing all due diligence to FIFA.

Once again Ovie and Ademola made that commitment over three years ago. But the NFF did NOTHING I wonder why ❓ But have been giving false narratives that the English FA is delaying approval. Utter balderdash.

We then have some highly ignorant and misguided individuals promoting that narrative right here.

FYI Ovie and Ademola went on trials for Nigeria U17 but were rejected by the NFF after high recommendations by the coordinator in the UK .

Eberechi Eze made commitment to Nigeria but they left him in the dark for three year's. He then decided to play U21 for England.

The reality is there is no integrity in the NFF add to all that Godfatherism, Nepotism, Corruption, Favouritism and crass Incompetence.

And all this is not surprising to me AT ALL

Stormtrooper11:
In as much I perceive him as sentimental sometimes, he's saying the stark truth. Alotta guys go to work with empty tummies in our country. Lotta families can barely afford a single meal in a day. Komekn is just like an American Republican or British Labour party person. He's a critic but sometimes we see his kind of person as a bias person because he is a "radical critic".
70% of Nigerians are poor. He's correct on this.

do4luv14:
who destroy Tunisia, who scattered everywhere, come score goal join

Astrid4:
change of allegiance takes less than 48hours but gathering of paperwork, documents can take 5 months or more; cos the country the player want to switch will try to slow the whole system.

jihday:
stop saying nonsense and see this report from the bbc

Having represented England at Under-19, Under-20 and Under-21 level, Lookman will be looking to play for the West African nation in major tournaments like the Africa Cup of Nations and the Fifa World Cup.

But the process to get him to switch international allegiance began in 2020 when the team secretary Dayo Enebi prepared all the required documents on the NFF's part.

However, the application suffered a long delay due to the player's inability to sort out his Nigerian passport aa well as his failure to provide a written request for a change of association in line with Fifa regulations.

Lookman only completed the paperwork this week which enabled the NFF to file a fast track application for his clearance.

tglobal:
For those who dont have the time to read the above article, the author’s concerns seem to be more about the tendency of the test to wrongly conclude that a player is overage rather than overaged players passing the test.

It disputes the claim that "FIFA is 99 percent certain that a player is over 17, if the MRI shows complete fusion of a player’s wrist".

Below is my tldr summary:



Now the punchline from #7 above:
- A test conducted on 20 year olds will yield an incorrect result 2% of the time (meaning they will pass the test)
- A test conducted on teenagers who are 17 or below will yield incorrect results 10% of the time (fail the test)

jihday:
Having represented England at Under-19, Under-20 and Under-21 level, Lookman will be looking to play for the West African nation in major tournaments like the Africa Cup of Nations and the Fifa World Cup.

But the process to get him to switch international allegiance began in 2020 when the team secretary Dayo Enebi prepared all the required documents on the NFF's part.

However, the application suffered a long delay due to the player's inability to sort out his Nigerian passport aa well as his failure to provide a written request for a change of association in line with Fifa regulations.

Lookman only completed the paperwork this week which enabled the NFF to file a fast track application for his clearance.

tglobal:
lol. you never sabi komekn.

"For the person who hates, you can stand up and see a person and that person can be beautiful, and you will call them ugly. For the person who hates, the beautiful becomes ugly and the ugly becomes beautiful" - MLK

This is my own version of that quote for him:
"For the person with strong bias and a pretentious sense of intelligence and superior values, you can stand up and see a situation and that situation can be black, and you will call it white. For the person with strong bias and a pretentious sense of intelligence and superior values, white becomes black and the black becomes white"

joelsteron:
Sarcasm

charlesemeka85:
Bristol city’s striker Antoine Serlom Semenyo accepts to switch allegiance to Ghana for World Cup qualifiers against Nigeria. He has scored 10 goals in 16 games in the English championship this season