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ikamefa:
my baff day is coming

make una buy puff puff for me!

Yipeeeee,Ikamefa
What a sight for sore eyes.So good to see you on this thread again.No worry na designer puff puff me I go buy.This one get NAFDAC and NDLEA number no shaking

I know your birthday is September 29,so I wish you sound health even as our month is around the corner.
Don't forget to reach out to your fellow 29th babies such as Sannies,Bigproject,Sept 29,Pclay,Testy,chiegemba,freeranger,Joyblinks,Ofala,Laskunle and Sonickay

Hey gurl,thanks for showing your face again,visit more often

After Senderos,who next Eboue  
I think we've sold enough of our players already,isn't it time we did some quality buying.
Before Debosky will start rationalising that we can't buy for lack of funds,pray tell,if we didn't sell any players this summer,would we have crumbled under the weight of our debt? the answer is NO, and with the sales we've made so far,can we totally liquidate our debts ?? the answer again is NO.
It follows therefore that it wouldn't hurt to use part of the proceeds from the sales of Ade,Toure and Senderos to strenghten the midfield and defence at least.

Yara Dull is so sick and so so childish
He's continuously mis-adviced and lacks the sagacity to be diplomatic

blacksta « #1 on: August 01, 2009, 07:17 AM »:
Definately a failed state

You mean Definitely

Interesting responses to the Toure story
Much as I respect every individual Gunners view,I still don't think Toure should be criticised for criticising
Like I said,his contributions to the successes of the club especially during the 49 match unbeaten run era,cannot be wished away

I saw part of the Bayelsa united/Stade Malien game and concluded those Bayelsa guys were a huge joke

HEARTLAND AND PILLARS GET GOOD RESULTS IN THE CAF CHAMPIONS LEAGUE OVER THE WEEKEND


Heartland put their 2-0 loss to TP Mazembe, a fortnight ago, behind them and defeated Monomotapa of Zimbabwe 3-1 on Sunday at the Dan Anyiam Stadium, Owerri in the second Grou B match of the CAF Champions League.

Ike ThankGod opened scoring for the Arugo outfit on the 3rd minute and on the 27th minute, Uche Agba scored the second goal while Ike Ibenegbu fired the winner for Heartland on the 46th minute. Dan Kamunnenga scored Monomotapa’s consolatory goal on the 47th minute.

Heartland coach, Kelechi Emeteole, explained shortly after the match that his wards bounced back to winning ways because they were motivated by the state government to give their best. "The players were on strike for two weeks due to non-payment of salaries and match bonuses but eventually they got it. That contributed immensely to why they played well and won," Emeteole said.
Elsewhere in Kano, Kano Pillars continued their impressive run in the CAF Champions League as they beat Sudanese side, El-Merriekh 3-1 at the Sani Abacha Stadium in the group A encounter on Saturday.

Nigeria’s only representative in the Confederation Cup, Bayelsa United, surprisingly lost at the Oghara Township Stadium 1-2 to visiting Stade Malien in their group game.
El Merriekh remain confident they can make it to the semi-finals of this year's CAF Champions League even after they lost 3-1 to Kano Pillars on Saturday in continuation of the continent's richest club competition.

The Sudanese club are bottom of the standings in Group A with a point from two matches, while Pillars are top with four points. Fellow Sudanese side Al Hilal are second on four points while Zesco are third.
"We are looking forward to our next match against Zesco United of Zambia, which will be at home," said El Merriekh coach, Mohamed Abdala.

"It was good for us that Al Hilal defeated Zesco in Khartoum and that will narrowed Zesco's chances in the competition. Had Zesco won, they would have made things difficult for us in Sudan.
"We will therefore do our best to beat Zesco and that will get us back into strong contention.
"Our group is open and difficult, but we have the ambition to qualify for the semi-finals particularly as we have done well internationally in the last two years.

"It is still early to pick the teams who will qualify. After the next round of matches, the picture will be a lot clearer."
Abdala told Goal.com that an early goal by El Merriekh would have given them victory over their Nigerian foes.

"It was a good performance by my team. We created many scoring chances but we failed to get an early goal. We know we are more experienced than this team and if we had scored early, it would have been a different story," he said.
"We conceded two goals from mistakes in the defence, but in the second half, we made changes and began to dominate. We then scored and would have even drawn level had our full back (Mosa El-Tayeb) not made a sill mistake to be sent off.

THE KOLO TOURE INTERVIEW


Toure, who joined City for a reported £16m, said Arsenal's reliance on youth has meant they have lacked leadership.

"When you look at Arsenal you see all the great players have left and are now in the past," said the 28-year-old.

"Thierry Henry, Patrick Vieira and Ray Parlour have gone. We lost too many leaders at Arsenal."

Arsenal went through two captains last season, with Cesc Fabregas replacing William Gallas at the helm after the French defender made disparaging comments about his team-mates.

Toure was the last member of Arsenal's 'Invincibles' (the squad which went unbeaten through the entire 2003/04 league season) to leave the Emirates.


You can't be successful in football without money


"Players like Henry, Vieira and Parlour that brought success to Arsenal and I believed it was right at this stage of my career to also move on," he added.

"When we were winning the league the spirit was fantastic, we were like a band of brothers."

The likes of Robert Pires, Ashley Cole, Gilberto Silva and Sol Campbell - who have all since left the club - were also key members of Arsenal's unbeaten squad.

Wenger has recruited promising players like Theo Walcott, Samir Nasri and Aaron Ramsey, while he has also been keen to promote youngsters from the club's ranks into the first team.

But he has suggested he could bring the 33-year-old Vieira - Arsenal's captain in the 2003/04 season - back to the club.

And Toure suggested that Gunners boss Arsene Wenger's reluctance to match the spending of the other top clubs has led to Arsenal dropping down the pecking order at the elite end of the English game.

"The best teams are at the top only because they have the best players and to get those players you have to spend a lot of money," he said.

Wenger keeps on talking about the team's potential from last season and it seems he is not really interested in replacing the departed players


"You can't be successful in football without money. This is the football business."

Toure is unlikely to have any such troubles at Eastlands, with City blowing their Premier League rivals out of the water in terms of the transfer fees they have paid so far this summer.

With Gareth Barry, Carlos Tevez, Roque Santa Cruz and Emmanuel Adebayor all arriving for big money, City have signalled their intent to challenge the established top four of Manchester United, Liverpool, Chelsea and Arsenal.

"City have a project to build a big team and so it is natural it is going to cost money," said Toure.

Arsenal finished fourth in the Premier League last season, as well as and have not lifted a trophy since the 2005 FA Cup.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/teams/a/arsenal/8180200.stm



Kolo,you are absolutely correct and I agree with you 100%,even if truth hurts,you said it like it is.
Your contributions as a Gunner are well appreciated

All the pre-season games are good for the team,but I ain't impressed one bit about our activity/inactivity in the transfer market.Hope this is not yyet another recipe for disaster

Manchester City defender Kolo Toure(a bit strange and distasteful) says he decided to leave Arsenal because the club failed to strengthen their squad in recent seasons. Toure, who joined City for a reported £16m, said Arsenal's reliance on youth has meant they have lacked leadership.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/teams/a/arsenal/8180200.stm

Syvalam:
25th here

Hey alam,is it the same alams we know
Don't mind me oooo
Your mates are Akanni,ihuoma85 and samsworld
Welcome

davidif:
This is called capitalism, the survival of the fittest. If you make bad business decision then you face the consequences.

Ermmm,Davidif,who made the bad business decision and who's suffering the consequencies,I'm talking in relation to the staff that are allegedly owed upwards of 4 months salaries,they are suffering,but what bad business decisions did they make

texazzpete:
You expect me to come down from my vehicle and take so photos

Leave them,dem think say you be like them wey dey use legedes benz  

tensor777:
Show us your pictures.

Are you Tensor or Thomasv ,I mean doubting Thomas
Werrin you wan carry picture dogo Gbagada,Ajah etc buy a goat and ask them to help you slaughter and clean it,then you go see enough tyre burning

When the blind lead the blind,,,,, ,,,,,,,,

Like Fela said;
''Diferrent differrent fev-errrrrrrr,na him deyyy''

Can someone please remind me how long this lookman of a fellow has been in and out of the petroleum circle in Nigeria?does it mean if he drops dead today,there'll be nobody to replace him in a country of over 150 million people

~Borat~:
Is that cristalz being squeezed like dat!

Cristalz,why her

Olaolufred:
rasputinn,

It seems you don't want to welcome me.

Let alone connecting me with my 22nd Mates.

Not offended, but expected your prompt response.

Yanki and hayoakins are your birthday mates for September 22 and you're most welcome on this thread

It's when you go to the market and realise your wallet ain't as heavy as you thought it was

aasog:
Im sure they wrote that for him. Did he even know what he was saying? Can he even understand? I am sure he crams it, the only thing these idiots can read is a Jihad statement written in their Hausa language.
This puppet of a president has been doing incoherent things since he was rigged in. Starting from denying several things he was alleged to have said. I am sure when the fool is back in africa, he would deny ever saying such thing. We have a sick president who has infected the entire country with his a strange and debilitating disease. This guy makes Abacha and Obj look prestigious!

LWKMD ROTLMAO
Aasog take your time o,abi you wan crack my ribs,shuo see as tears just dey comot from my eyes as your post dey crack me up

IFELEKE:
@Poster,
Considering the afore-quoted, do you think we even need to wait for him to finish up this first term?

But some people are saying he's using the first term to study the problems so that he can tackle them effectively in his canvassed second term

Mr. President, Nigeria Is Going Down
Simon Kolawole Live!, Email: simonkolawole@thisdayonline.com, 07.19.2009

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Mr. President, I don’t know how you would take this, but there is no nicer way of putting it – Nigeria is going down. I have watched, helplessly, in the last few months as things appear to be spinning out of control on all fronts. What are you up to? At times, I wonder if you’re deliberately quiet or you are just too overwhelmed with the circumstances in which you have found yourself. The simplest of things appear to be too difficult for your administration to handle. Or maybe you just do not see any problems yet, right?
I would start with electricity. I know quite well that you have promised 6,000 megawatts by December 2009, which is very impressive, even if belated. At least, we have something to hold you to. At 6,000mw, we should enjoy some power supply. That alone should reduce diesel and petrol consumption, lower the cost of production, improve economic productivity and bring some businesses back to life. However, I am already hearing well-made excuses on why we may no longer meet the target because of gas shortage as a result of militant activities – which I will come back to later.
Where I live, we’ve not had electricity for three weeks – and nothing is wrong with our “transformer” as you would expect. I’m tempted to ask PHCN to come and remove their cables in front of my house, if not I will start hanging my laundry on those hopeless cables. I thought my situation was worse until I shared my story with some of my colleagues who said I was lucky! They actually envied me. One of them said he has not had power supply in six weeks. I quietly thanked my stars. At least my situation is better. At the back of my mind, I do not really care about the megawatts of darkness around me. I assume I am living in a village without electricity; so I expect to call my generator to duty every night. That is a fair deal.
What I cannot understand, Mr. President, is that we’re experiencing severe power shortage in a rainy season. Conventional wisdom is that power supply improves during the rainy season because our dams are working at full strength; the hydro plants thus generate more electricity. Since we’re always complaining about gas shortage (the complaint didn’t start with militant activities), the rainy season brings – or used to bring – relief. In fact, I used to joke that it is when we don’t desperately need power supply that we get it most: when the rains fall, the weather is friendly and everyone is entitled to natural AC. The conventional wisdom has now been turned on its head. Or are we going to say militants have bombed the water too – in addition to the gas pipelines? Something is terribly wrong.
We did not suddenly find ourselves in this tight corner, Mr. President. Think again. When you came in 2007, the plan on ground was that we would generate 6000mw by December of that year. Contracts had been awarded by the previous government towards meeting the target. I suspect that because your government was new, some people persuaded you that you needed to deal with “new” contractors. For nearly two years, various interest groups in and outside your government fought to take over these projects. You stopped paying the contractors. You and the House of Representatives embarked on a probe. Grammar, grammar, grammar. Nothing came out of the probes – apart from the fact that we keep living in darkness.
At the end of the day, we wasted two years blowing hot air. The economy has been going down, but I have seen nothing to suggest that you are deeply worried or in a hurry to address issues. Now, without exaggerating, I have never witnessed this prolonged spell of power cuts in Nigeria since 1998-99. It has never been this bad, I make bold to say. But this has not happened by accident – it is just a reflection of your attitude, Mr. President, to the condition of this country. With due respect, Alhaji, you’re not in touch with reality. Once in a while, you say the right things about the condition of this country, but your speed tells it all: there is no sense of urgency. The power emergency you promised to declare “within 100 days of assuming office” in 2007 is one of the sweetest sound bites from you – but where is the beef? Everyday, since 2007, we hear billion billons being approved for one power project or the other, but ask me what the end product is.
Dear President, are you aware our crude oil export has gone down dramatically? I guess you’re aware. From the height of nearly three million barrels per day three years ago, we’re now hovering just about a million barrels as militants blow up one oil facility after the other. Did you say it’s not your fault? Yes, it’s not your fault. You didn’t create the problems of the Niger Delta. You didn’t create the gangs. You didn’t found the militant groups. Only a fool will disagree with that. However, what did you do, on assumption of office, to address this problem? What was your strategy? How well has it worked?
You had a chance, dear President, you had a chance to do something. When you came to power, the militants declared a ceasefire, claiming that they wanted to give you a chance. But, you see, the hawks around you would not let go. They kept telling you not to negotiate with the militants. They urged you on to deal with them. They’re criminals! Stupid idiots, all! Go for them! Crush them! That was the first mistake you made – you listened to these war mongers who created the impression that they could crush the militants. Two years on, have they succeeded? Are the militants no longer causing fatal damage to the economy? Are you smiling now?
The mistake you made, Alhaji, was that you did not learn from ex-US President George Bush. After 9/11, he went to war in Afghanistan and Iraq, promising to smoke out terrorists with all his military might. He went to Afghanistan in 2001 – the year of the attack – and dethroned the Taliban. Has terrorism come to an end? He jumped to Iraq and dethroned Saddam Hussein. Has terrorism come to an end? He believed bombs and more bombs would curb terrorism. Ask him again how far this has gone.
In 2007, when the militants halted their attacks in the Niger Delta, it was a big opportunity for you to play the statesman and bring peace to the region. But the hawks would have none of it. Pronto, they went and arrested Henry Okah, one of the leading figures in the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), and detained him and put him on trial. The end result was that militant activities were resumed, oil installations were getting destroyed day by day, innocent people were getting killed and the economy started bleeding. After almost two years, Mr. President, you discontinued the trial of Okah and got him released. When you knew, Alhaji, that the possibility of negotiation was there, why did you wait until the economy had been so badly hurt before choosing that option? Who advised you to arrest Okah in the first place?
To be sure, Mr. President, I do not support militant activities. In truth, I harbour serious suspicion about their intentions. Many of them are saying the right things, but the intention is suspect. I support justice and fairness in the Niger Delta, but I am suspicious of some of the agitators. I also do not like a situation where Nigerian soldiers are killed, not by enemy troops, but by their own compatriots. I also have questions to ask about the role being played by some politicians and government officials who benefit from these destructive activities. But, just like terrorists, militants are real human beings. They constitute real threat. They inflict real damages. And, to cap it all, our security forces do not have the capacity to incapacitate them – as the militants have clearly shown in recent times. You cannot wish them away. They are like the bull in the china shop.
So what took you so long, Mr. President? When did you realise there are non-combat ways of resolving the crisis? Why did you allow the hawks to claw you into a corner before embarking on this tactical retreat? You can see the results. The refineries are down, starved of crude oil supply as pipelines go up in flames and get twisted every now and then; our oil exports contracts now depend largely on “force majeur”; our thermal plants are crying for gas as power generation hits its worst in recent years; today, we hear one project or the other that cannot be done because of militant activities in the Niger Delta. Cleverly, those who promised us 6,000mw by December are now qualifying their optimism with “but for militant activities…” – showing clearly that the government underrated the militants when it was making those promises.
Mr. President, take a look round and you see a country lying almost prostrate. Take a roll call of different unions on strike or threatening to go on strike – health workers, midwives, university teachers, electricity workers, postal workers, radio and TV workers, and so on and so forth. There is something I notice: they seem to have lost faith in your government. They seem to be saying that your government does not just care about their plight. They may be right, they may be wrong – but that is a feeling that many Nigerians have. They have observed you over the last two years and concluded that there is no use expecting anything from you. What a sad story.
Your attitude to Lagos, Your Excellency, is also baffling. The least I expected from you is that you would discontinue your predecessor’s anti-Lagos policy. Lagos, whether we like it or not, is the productive base of the Nigerian economy. There is nothing anyone can do about that, not in the foreseeable future. Why federal roads in the state would remain untouched in the two years of your administration is beyond what I can believe. It doesn’t make sense. Everyday, Abuja roads are undergoing repair and construction – while Lagos roads are neglected. You behave, sir, as if you’re the President of Abuja and not the President of the 36-state federation of Nigeria. If Lagos is the economic base of Nigeria, it makes sense that it should not be neglected.
All I have done, Mr. President, is to tell you what I suspect you know – that Nigeria, under your watch, can be better than this. But I refuse to give up on you. We have no other country but Nigeria. We deserve something better. It is not too late for you to wake up to your responsibilities and treat the Nigerian condition as urgent and critical. Make haste, Your Excellency.

Unbelievable;the President actually travelled out to Brazil when the greater part of the north is embroilled in sectarian insurgency.Armed self-styled Nigerian taliban terrorists openly carried out attacks on police stations,army barracks and there were rumours of more impending attacks on educational and military facilities,yet the President,like Emperor Nero,decided that now was the best time to jet out to Brazil.

Let's go back a short memory lane,Yara Dull had earlier promised to declare a state of emergency on power within 100 days of assumption of office,has he done that?
I am still waiting for somebody to tell me one or two policies that this man has formulated ever since he became president,the only things he did were policy reversals of most of OBJs policies
There has never been a time in this country that university lecturers,health workers,postal workers and wait for it NEPA(yes NEPA,forget about PHCN) all are on strike and the president is busy gallivanting up and down

It boils down to an acute case of cluelessness.
In the light of the foregoing therefore,it has become increasingly evident that this man,Yar Adua aka Yara dull,Yara slow,Yara reverse is not prepared for that office whether psychologically,mentally,physically or otherwise,a cursory look at this man evokes emotions of pity,pity for this man and the country he governs

Hence some school of thought think he is the worst President Nigeria has had so far and should quit after 2010,while another school of thought think he is the best president Nigeria has had and should be given a second shot at the presidency come 2011.So fellow nairalanders let's have your opinions

Whether any of his detractors like it or not,RIBADU WAS THE BEST THING THAT EVER HAPPENED TO THIS COUNTRY,as far as checking corruption and the looting of public treasury by the likes of Ibori,Igbinedion,Saraki etc is concerned,little wonder he is now a consultant to the Obama administration on anti corruption in Africa,and it's rumoured that it was largely his report that made Obama avoid coming to visit Yar Adua in Nigeria the other time.His obvious and imagined weaknesses aside,his involvement with the Obama administration is an open endorsement of his credentials.

This is in stark contrast to the credentials of madam Waziri which stink to high heavens even why she's still in office.
Infact the OP did her a great disservice by starting this thread.

Whether the likes of Ibori and their cohorts like it or not,they will still have their days in court.I heard that thief called Ibori has been telling his hangers-on and partners in crime that EFCC has failed to prove any case against him,he should just wait.Anytime he dares to step his thieving feet in the UK,he knows what will happen

Is it true that Arsene claimed that he had "too many" defenders?,who and where are they?As I recall,the minute Clichy was injured we had to cope with the costly inexperience of Gibbs,was Wenger referring to Gibbs and his likes

Brashy,we no vex
Dem dey see like that at times

I never knew this Ohakim fellow was this dumb
The fool seems to be acting out PDP's script,OBJ and Yara Dull must have told him to do all he can to unsettle Kalu perhaps with the fear that a free Kalu would not bode well for their 2011 gubernatorial chances in owerri

yousouph:
Why is Brashy giving stale update?

Abi ooo