₦airaland Forum

Mrexcell:
Not true the Congolese govt is promising and motivating their players with $1m each if they qualify that's surely going to be one hell of a match.

Hehehehe... little wonder they were running like horses on steroids against Cameroun. Wow.... we have our work cut out.

Engrduke:
NFF, please be double sure o.

We don't want South Africa's treatment please.

Same thing I felt this morning at the news. That it was a trap. I just feel that he should not be played, simple. He is not critical to that team as Chelle earlier said. There are replacements. Onyeka or Onyedika are decent, not spectacular, but so is the entire midfield anyway. The were on AWOL for most of the match against EG.

humberjade:
I beg to differ. A walk over against a semi-finalist at the last AFCON? And they were only pipped by the host country and eventual winners, Ivory Coast.

They will be a hard nut to crack.

Totally agree.
This is a country with a rock solid football tradition.
Their local league and club sides are streaks ahead of Cameroun's and Nigeria's and if you watched them against Cameroun they played without an iota of fear and without respect to the names in the Lions squad. Plenty of pace and good ball control. They will be a tough nut to crack.

Then they have the psychological edge of being the underdogs. The fans will be on their side because of that and they have the x-factor of a french foreign coach. These coaches just love to craft tactical battles against us.

We need to play the best soccer we have not seen the Eagles play for a long, long time to go through. Congo's only weakness I see is finishing. But that is our principal weakness.... goalkeeping.

Don't know why Raphael Onyedika is not a starter.
Watched him play several times for Club Brugge in seasons past on ESPN (before the Belgian Pro league was scrubbed in favour of the Saudi Pro league).

By no means a flashy player but he is dead comported, steady on the ball and has tons of experience at the highest levels featuring in the UCL and Europa every season.

If we don't start grooming such players what happens when Ndidi's legs eventually expire.

GanagiBitrus:
Japan has already qualified for WC2026.
Here are all the possible countries for the Playoffs:
DR Congo, Nigeria, UAE, Iraq, Costa Rica, Curaçao, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Panama, Suriname, New Caledonia, Bolivia

The highest ranked team is Costa Rica if this stands.
I was mistaken earlier. Now this is a.problem. Because we may meet Jamaica who I don't think we have ever beaten.

DiarisGodoo:
You have a point. Nigeria always overdo things.
Someone has retired from military and you still give them an army of soldiers. Compare US and Nigeria (of 70K minimum wage fame) below

All the things listed and in comparison with the US government is what I alluded to in my post about this matter in the first place.

Now, how did we get to this point and how did the US for example get to theirs. Why the great disparity in compensations to public servants despite the gaping disparity in economic fortunes.

Well the answer is simple. The people. The nature of the people. The mindset of the people. How they perceive these things.

If the people are feudal in nature, that is they see those that step up to or ascend to leadership positions as superior beings and simultaneously look down on themselves as inferior beings then authority cannot be questioned.

This nature is prevalent in Africa, masking as tradition where age, status, education or other personal positions are perceived to convey respect and compensations. That is the essence of the clash between the Minister and the soldier in all the wordings and deeds.

But if you live in the west where mindsets are predominantly republican, independent and free everything is questioned and respect and compensations are bestowed purely according to performance.

So in the west you find politicians and public servants earn middle class wages and entitlements that only mirror their responsibilities, no more. For example. The President of the US is given an armoured limousine and a flying fortress of a presidential jet not because the country and the people want him pimped or lavishly comfortable, but because they want him safe from harm to do the work. Anything more he pays from his own pocket.

So when you see a retired military commander in these parts 'command' so much resources to himself after retirement and his output is ended, when you hear of a state governor who has spent just a four year term get mind boggling compensations for life, rather ask, where are the people, the citizens who pay for these things and why are they not bothered that their resources are practically being wasted while they remain in the grip of poverty. How do they allow these things slide.

Winterhaven:
I'm sure he didn't do insurance, typical Nigerian. Probably one of them "God will not allow such evil to befall me" crew...

Chicken and egg argument.

Insurance is one of the legs of the financial stool anywhere in the world. If it worked well in Nigeria, a country with a healthy dose of risks, it will be a booming industry. But like most things it doesn't so people buy self help or help from above if they can.

Whenever government is ready to run a decent society they will force compliance on both sides of the divide. But for now the perception of most Nigerians is that insurance is just one way banking, a piggy bank made of high carbon steel. Nothing comes out.

That is why men should be very close to their children, particularly at their formative years. Don't entirely delegate the responsibility of weaning the child to the woman alone. Your security going forward in all aspects of life lies in their eyes, their minds and their hearts.

Without new discoveries Nigeria will not have the feedstock to service this refinery except we are prepared to wind down export contracts and exit OPEC which should be the long term strategic plan just like Indonesia did many years ago.

Or except this refinery is targeting to produce fuels of other specifications by buying other types of crude from other producing countries.

Need to collaborate more with international contemporaries to learn the latest tricks of the trade.

orikoku:
Where's master Jesus to safe the prophetess? I wondering.

Hahahaha....He sent a 'prophet' in the name of Donald Trump....but the people said.... 'naaa...we are sovereign'

How do you think God Almighty saves people.
By sending fire or brimstone from above or by sending people to intervene in the issues of people.

Open your holy book again and start reading from Genesis. Israel doesn't recognize the Christian God but they do recognize that Yahweh has a history of sending help from anywhere including from the so called Gentiles since the times of the Kings.

When we say government has no business IN business this is the result.

Maintenance is a widely acknowledged issue in Nigeria and the government in service are the worst at it.

Government should limit it's participation to INVESTMENT. Build, establish but don't attempt to run. Get established and experienced private sector hands to run them. Either retain shares or sell them off completely to recover your investment.

From refineries, to rail lines to airports, to stadia, government just doesn't have the structure and temperament to sustainably handle commerical ventures where money changes hands for mass market services.

TallNigerian:
By all means, Nwabali should

....see a shrink.
His attention search has reached girly teenage levels.

Just hope fatigue won't be a factor.
Extra time and plenty, plenty added time.
One of the longest matches I've ever witnessed.
They better call off any training proposed and just do tactical planning.

Emeskhalifa:
Now stuff like this, is why Nigerians do not want to pay tax. I mean you go abroad and you see what they do with tax payers money, you fill motivated to even pay more

Absolutely.
Cannot agree more.
Here they establish taxes without debate.
Collect it the way they want.
And spend it the way they like.

They hide behind budgets they alone write for things they alone propose.

Sorry to bring this up for anyone who will be offended.... heck, who cares....

Where in campaign was the coastal road promised or proposed. Where is it on record that the most expensive civil engineering project in the history of this country was so demanded for by the people so badly it has be one a top priority.

Such a top priority in fact that it was not debated, was not properly appropriated, is shrouded in financial secrecy and had not passed the procurement laws of the country.

Folks, that is how your country is run, that is how your money is spent. And that is why suffering abounds. You don't participate.

JASONjnr:
I'm sure this is what Wike fought the other time when he demolished a building constructed directly under high tension cables.......

We joke way too much with buildings around these cables.

But when government builds under high tension cables who will arrest the arrestor. If you send Wike there, the prison will call HR and ask if anyone named Yerima works there....

Excuse me.

So prisons can be built under high voltage lines and in proximity to transformers but the dozer comes for everyone else.

Just say they are looking for cost effective ways of conducting capital punishment.

Whoever is responsible for this outrage should be arrested and detained there.....and the transformer upgraded to a higher voltage.

EPIJOE:
We knew wike get its own for body, but he is acting according to his duty as a representative of the FCT and the federal government. Nobody is above the law. The authorities in charge of the FCT development has the right to monitor and ensure all lands and properties in the FCT is documented, in as much as we were told that they were shared among the head military chiefs , proper documentation should be made. And this is what the soldier supposed to present as proof for his retired naval boss.

It shows that the military still holds Nigeria into ransom. People should read into the message passed across to wike a serving minister. And not make sentiments.

No sir.
The fact is that the country, the nation, this democracy still sees the military as it's survival insurance policy. Somewhere, somehow in our collective psyche we all view the military as the safety switch, the lifeline when we feel democracy shakes and quakes. We still see them as apolitical, as religiously and ethnically neutral referees in the civil space when we perceive institutions and powerful individuals operate outside the bounds of law and justice.

And you know what, not only the people feel that way, even politicians themselves and the ruling class who feel they cannot get law enforcement services or who feel the judiciary is compromised lean on the military.

Can you explain the DSS and military tussle over the former CBN governor and the printing of new currency.....where else in the world does this happen.

But we are apt to complain about what we all do and enjoy doing when it is in our favour but complain when we are forced to turn around and drink from the same cup we pissed in.

One of the major reasons Nigeria does not work well is that the people, the ultimate shapers of nations are not cerebral enough to document history and apply the lessons of the past to better the future.

This incident will be forgotten in a few weeks, ABSOLUTELY NOTHING will change, no one will be held accountable, no reforms will be made to strengthen or repair the institutions involved. Nothing will be done until the next incident occurs and we will jump on it as if it was the first. Heck, from the reactions all over the place, no two citizens of this country even AGREE what is right or decent.

How do you build a country like that.

BondRiv:
That is where you will see this one. What has been your performance in that role since appointment? Wike has outperformed all of you stagnating Nigeria. Once there is one little controversy, that is when you see them opening their mouths. Go and defeat terrorism. Incompetent lot. I will support Wike's action on that day, any place, any time because the law is on his side. It is not about feelings. Military officers are now errand boys, you see them carrying bags. They will soon start sending them to buy onions in the market.

It is the political class that has failed the military and the people. Remember, we are in a democracy. And it is they who are in charge including a certain Mr.Wike who also has a track record of 'misusing' the military as recently as his confrontations with the governor of his home state.

How quickly we so easily forget that everyone in authority is a brick in institutional building and at every point that brick is misplaced it threatens the whole structure.

Can our political class put the military in it's proper place as a war machine geared towards internal and external threats and not as a security service used to protect VIP's, not as guards men at pipelines, construction sites and communication towers. Rumoured protests they are there, rumoured coups they shut down cities. Who invites them, who instructs them to do these things. That is where the problem lies.

When we excise them from the civil space and give them traditionally military functions then we are unlikely to encounter them.

If wars are not fought on our typical streets why do we always see the military around us in combat readiness. For example why do you have to pass through a military checkpoint to get into any typical Nigerian city in 2025. Why does a civilian administration need the military to protect it from the general populace in the 21st century.

Okay, okay, okay....enough of back slapping....

What are we going to do about a certain man called Nwabali. Is there a quick therapy for narcissism.... at least before Sunday.

I give it to the gaffer Chelle.
Not spectacular but a bit steady.
Not likely to leave this team worse than he met it.
The acid test will be at the Nations Cup over winter.

Was he carded for indecent exposure....hope it won't be costly in this series.

At last he got his goal....

Thank you Ejuke.
Now can we hold our bottle.

Well we have returned the favour. 1-1
Osai Samuel with an assist.

Osimen is poor today....his decision making has been below par.

Well I will accept gifts.... 1-0.

Low budget Jeremy Doku is just playing around on the left wing and swinging in useless crosses as usual....

Hopes of qualifying are fading fast.
Can't beat Ganon comfortably, can't see us qualify

femi4:
Osai dey whole shirt wey var dey

I asked an earlier question, what he was doing in this team. Well this is it.

5 minutes and it is all Gabon....well whatever will be will be. I am resigned.

Iwobi will cost us this match. The midfield is near collapsed.