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See where Osimen has to drop to.
This team is not helping him. Chukwueze's not pulling his weight. This man will be exhausted in no time.

At least they are creating stuff. It is the finishing that is below par at the moment.

The midfield should wake up. The forwards should not be found that deep.

Where did Bright come from to make this team. See what Chukwueze's cockroach football has caused. An early card to a vital player.

Osimen should conserve his energy. It will be a long evening.

aiye1988:
Will DStv show the match?

207 SS Africa HD

There is no need to flog this dead horse. Enough of the open air dirty laundry wash. We have all.accepted that the shortcomings of institutional governance are potentially explosive. Both sides lay claim to be acting in official capacities yet cannot find synergy. A real pity.

The real tragedy is that no lessons will be learnt, no reforms will be made and the next episode will be a sure thing.

What is it about this players strike and refusal to train. What is it about our inability to organize ourselves.
Why is this country so hard to govern well.
Why is every little thing rocket science and a trip to colonize Mars.

Ikaeniyan0:
The military officer is so ignorant, did you see the way he was talking to a police officer sef? When I was in Israel, policemen are more powerful than military men on the street, if a military personnel mess up, he will be arrested by a police officer, no matter the military officer rank.

In the USA, military personnel can't arrest a civilian for any offence committed outside a US military base, even if you commit an offence close to thier base, they will call the police to com and arrest the person.

Military rule don really mess up Nigeria

The next question you should ask is simple.
Why are those ideals not present in Nigeria. Military rule is no excuse.

Every country in the world started off under military rule. George Washington was military, All of Europe was once ruled by either warrior kings or warrior emperors. Almost all of South America and Asia was under military rule some as recent as the 80's and 90's.

The question is, how have these countries managed to transition to proper civilian rule. And I say this because today's Nigeria military is still seen in a lot of minds as quarterbacking this democracy.

There is always that air around that institution that they remain the last resort, the bastion of national unity and survival because politics and politicians are relatively less trusted.

So the onus is clear. Political leadership is not doing enough to organize society properly. They are not delineating the powers and authority of the military, making laws and prescribing edicts that define relationships, boundaries and influences. And they are not doing enough to portray themselves as more patriotic to Nigeria over and above their constituencies.

And until they do Nigeria cannot be compared to other nations.

Lezzlie:
I fail to see the correlation between Wike using army as security when traveling and an army personnel taking laws into his own hands and obstructing a legitimate government work.

You're sounding political. This is just common sense a d the army is undisciplined and unruly.

That is the point.
People chose what to see, a perspective that suits them at the point of expediency. But you cannot build a country of laws that way.

If you want the military out of your lives then like other societies draw boundaries. Do you see the military on the streets of other societies doing PPS, doing police work, doing vigilante...

What are the laws concerning the military owning property. What are the laws about senior military men and post service privileges. These are the questions to be answered.

Because authority is conferred on the basis of the law, not grandstanding. And these laws should be clear to everyone, even the man on the street. The average American knows where the average military man's authority begins and ends. Do you know concerning yours.

Is it not worrying to you the deaths and destruction caused by inter security clashes on a regular basis for decades now. Why hasn't these issues been resolved by the law. No one cares till another happens.

And here you are insinuating politics because of what is happening today, once again because of the individuals involved.

PS. I am very, very grateful and respectful of the composure of all the armed personnel involved in the incident yesterday. Their restraint saved the day and prevented what could easily have become something else, operating a system that is uncertain at best and for leaders on both sides that are absolutely irresponsible. It was reckless to put those serving under them in unnecessary harms way when they could have so easily sorted out this matter in accordance with the law.

Lezzlie:
Now I am certain there's something on the training of the military in Nigeria that undermines login and discipline.

Firstly , Wike is the minister of of FCT and all ministers are an extension of the president of Nigeria.

Secondly, Wike is carrying out his constitutional mandate while the military was impeding his work.

3 Military cannot resort to self help, yes not even the chief of army staff can build his property without following laid down procedure as laid down by government

4. The laziest and most undisciplined army of thrvetod has too much ego and no respect for civilian authority.

5 the military should apologise to Wike immediately. And go back to their barracks.

But tomorrow when he is going to Rivers state by what authority does he have to commandeer a platoon of soldiers as his personal protection detail.

The problem is that we are often quick to clutch at straws. The last incident is the only one we remember. We ignore the other failings that have contributed to it.

Where are the laws, where are the boundaries, what are the red lines. It is the failure of organization in government. It is the adhoc way, the lawlessness in society to which they ALL subscribe that turns around to bite them.

In any other society there will be no conflict between security men working for the same government. See what Trump is facing while attempting to put troops on ground in major US cities against crime and illegal immigration. All the conflicting IS ABOUT THE LAW. What he can do and what he cannot do.

There you don't see standoffs or shootouts between security or military at any level despite the fact that they have hundreds of different law enforcement agencies.

Structure, structure, structure, law,.law, law.

Not commented on this drama.
Quite frankly, don't really care. Nigerians are screen writers and directors in it. We facilitate, support and encourage what we all turn around to criticize. Once more showing that the black man cannot evolve a decent society, period. By the way I share in both sides of the Mexican standoff. They both are....were my constituency.

If you say the military (man) is wrong to stop a leader in authority from doing his job you maybe right but you will have to think about all the privileges we have collectively decided to bestow on serving and retired military personnel.

Have we so soon forgotten what the retirement package to the armed forces service quartet entailed just a few days ago. How are we sure this particular property was not signed off by the previous
government. Are we not aware that top retired military personnel still enjoy military protection. Have we questioned that....
If these things do irk us, why don't we walk as civilized people to conduct institutional reforms.

I have said it numerous times. We still do not have the military under absolute civilian control. And this is because there is no framework, there are no laws, there are no edicts to draw the lines (red, blue, green lines) and linkages. And it affects how security is run in this country.

In other climes military properties are strictly off limits to civilian administration. If the military wants to protect its personnel (both serving and retired) and their properties from the day to day interference of civilian administration it can push for that legislation but until then they have to obey the law of the land, of the FCT.

On the other hand it is surprising that the administration of the Federal Capital where it is obvious ranking individuals in government, the military and other works of life live does not have a liaison department for this very reason with perhaps a desk dedicated to the military and other security services, where these kinds of issues can be sorted out.

Knowing the hundreds of high ranking military men and women, retired and active who work and reside in the FCT what does it take to have an open channel to the MOD/DHQ. I'm aware all the armed services have estate/property departments. They have a lot of property, a lot of estates. What does it take to work along these channels.

You see. Structure, structure, structure. It is everything. The building of institutions that work for the progress of society is a task too hard for the African. We just cannot see beyond individuals we are quick to crown and idolize leaving the workings of society in tatters.

autoez:
What kind of military officers are we producing in this country? You can’t even protect yourselves from bandits, how can you protect the entire nation? Yet, a baby soldier has the audacity to confront a minister who’s simply doing his job.

They are not military personnel. The Ministry of Defence is a government parastatal run by a combination of career civil servants and military men. It is the interface between the government and the Armed forces, something like the Pentagon (though not exactly).

So there are hundreds of civilians that do not have military training, orientation or privileges working there and these folks have leadership.like every other Ministry. It is these folks who are in harm's way.

The Libyan saga about to be played out all over again.

Angelfrost:
Mbappe does too much... While Haaland simply does the basics. He doesn't bother with finesse.


Young man is extremely lethal for club and country.

This is a reaction to the barren first ten games of his career at the Santiago. He came with the PSG system mindset where the powerful midfield, the likes of Vitinha will do all the dirty work and he will run the last ten yards onto goal.

The fact is that I have not seen Real Madrid players near the top of the 'assists' table. They don't play that way. Each forward is responsible for creating and scoring. You don't see any traditional 9 hanging around the box. Those that played that way didn't last at Madrid.

Angelfrost:
Nah... Haaland is a special breed!

Kid will excel any and everywhere. Facts!

Yes in a club like Barcelona, not Madrid.
In Madrid as a forward you need to have a self contained game. Even when the likes of Modric and Kroos were there, they were not kings of assists so all the forwards you see at Madrid are all 9's and 10's in one. They break up play, win balls, drive to goals and shoot on goal. Haaland is not that type.

He will wait an eternity for Guler, Jude or Vinny to serve him a run up to goal.

The title is long gone.
The struggle for Pool now is top four which will be titanic considering the depth of teams in the Prem this season.

It is clear the limitations of this gaffer. Doesn't look tactically sound and able to change the course of a game from the touchline or the half time dressing room.

Angelfrost:
Mbappe does too much... While Haaland simply does the basics. He doesn't bother with finesse.


Young man is extremely lethal for club and country.

Two entirely different teams. Two different patterns of play. The Capital football pattern of Madrid v Basque pattern of football of Pep/City.

In Madrid the forwards create their own goals. No fancy tiki taka midfield to do that for you. Haaland will struggle there if he cannot fall into midfield and drive the ball towards goal particularly as his close control is average.

Even Mo Salah's shadow will be wondering if it is the same person it has been following all these years....
The guy is a shadow of a shadow. Never seen such a total collapse of form from one season to another.

Oh, oh... Count Doku has struck the third after tormenting the Galactic Republic all day....

Akalia:
Ned should learn a big lesson from this unfolding drama by his estranged wife and family. Going forward he should tread carefully when seeking relationship with women for the sake of his class preservation and prestige.

When seeking what relationship again.
At his age shouldn't he be thinking about what is left of his self respect. Except he takes pleasure in notoriety.

Johncarlo07:
He already serve out his match ban in our last match against Benin republic na.

And I think the team played better without him.
The dude is highly competent but his club issues are affecting his mentality.

So in essence people don't go to the polling stations to vote. They go to sell their franchise, their consciences and their lives.

The future of this country is just too easy to predict.

aribisala0:
How did he make his money? you are telling me stories

Use your brain

Out of nowhere he just came out as the Cristiano Ronaldo of consultants and made nearly $100 in one deal?

So what value did he provide e.g are you telling us he recovered $1 billion or how much exactly and that without him the money would not have been recovered ?

I am not that credulous to believe everything I am told

It such money was deducted for consultancy it seems like another looting scam involving the Attorney General

Alpha beta kind of stuff.

There was a period, probably still is, where government was run by consultancies coming off military rule in the late 90's and so called expertise was needed to recover revenues, create tax enforcement structures, etc.

This occured simply because the civil service was (and probably still is) lacked capacity. So the modus operandi is to identify an area where government can make money, plug leaks or recover losses, then you make a proposal and with the right connections you are tasked.

In most cases you set up using your own capital so government 'loses' nothing and because of this scenario you can literally name your price. So these so called consultants can earn huge, grotesque commissions.

It is like in professional soccer. You can earn astronomical wages if you run out your contract and the buying club doesn't have to pay a transfer fee. Risky but rewarding.

So like the Alpha Beta case - the poster child of this sort of thing. It is not illegal but some will say, highly immoral. Government is full of it.

I simply CANNOT believe what I am reading.
I searched to find out if the match actually ran it's course and finished and indeed it did after this horrendous incident.

The kind of things coming out of this country only shows we are sub human and when I say Nigeria has serious structural problems people wonder.

Where else in this world can this happen. A player is attacked on the field by supporters and almost killed. If that is not bad enough the game actually resumed and was completed. How can this happen.

If this was on the streets of sane societies the police will be called, the area cordoned and the perpetuators arrested.

Just wonder what CAF and FIFA will think and say when this gets to them. The NPFL is a disgrace, the organisation football in Nigeria is a disgrace and we live disgraceful lives, shameful lives in this country.

Everyday we raise our shoulders trying to compare ourselves, trying to bestow some false sense of superiority over other nations but can this nonsense happen in the Ghanian league, the South African league we watch on tv. I won't even talk about Europe, Asia or the Americas.

Nigeria is a mess, honestly.....'the game was temporarily halted....' kai

They want to cripple Raya today.
The great Arsenal defence is severely tested today.

A honeymoon is supposed to be a 'get away'.
A time of privacy and relaxation after the exertions of the wedding. A time to create the first bond under authority.

I suppose this is why a rest house is seen as the most reasonable location.

Quite commendable.
But please Mr. Governor spend more time with what is really, really possible. Many have dreamt but few have done. Size doesn't matter. Industrialization is not an athletic competition.

As you dream big, dream possible, dream for all, which means seek to attract and invest in cottage/small scale industries, medium size industries in addition to the big ones. Just like concrete cannot be made with a single aggregate size so an economy indeed an ecosystem needs the smaller fish to feed the bigger ones and the bigger ones to feed the whales.

With the skills sets your people have, the resources at your disposal and the capacity of your governance to secure and promote certain enterprises, use those tools to create immediate value in jobs, incomes and productivity.

Someone on another thread scoffed at the Borno government establishing a plastics factory. Well that plant maybe getting it's feedstock from Dangote Petrochem as a cost efficiency strategy instead of imports. So it is only wise that as you think big, think small to care for all.

We are about to enter a regime of self help, the assailants continuing their agenda while the defenders emboldened by the recent external interest in their plight.

When we say restructuring is the only credible, sustainable route to the development of this country people think it is all about resource allocation (permit me to return to what I call the failed statements of the preceding Vice President). Whereas it encapsulates everything and everyone existing everyday in this geographical entity.

When the traditional pastoralist insists he cannot cage his herd and the native land owner and farmer insists on making a living off his land then we have a situation where both sides, all sides need to sit around a table and talk sense into one another until mutual understanding is reached.

But Nigeria is a country where fundamental problems just cannot be solved. We are a race of people without the capacity to build viable, progressive societies. The attempt by Jonathan and others before him to convey a national discourse has been largely forgotten to the convenience of those who want the status quo maintained and those at the receiving end too docile to change it.

So confrontation, violence and all th elements of retrogression will prevail with the attendant results of depravity, poverty and destruction going forward.

In this case specifically one of the results of restructuring will surely have been the creation of police services at all levels of governance. Federal police to enforce Federal laws, State police to enforce state laws and local government police to enforce county laws.

And if the law in the county that man farms banned the very activity he was subject to then it is not his law but the county law that will have been breached and the herder will have been arrested, made to face the law and most likely made to pay compensation to the farmer for the losses. Simple, no bloodshed, no racial or religious wrangling, peace and progress, period.

But Nigerians and the state of Nigeria cannot do this simple and obvious task.... a disgraceful country indeed.

Better. This is the response of a responsible government. Not the grandstanding of some two bit hacks and cheap ass lackeys.

Dennisochampa:
not like I'm supporting what's happening in Africa but isn't this the kinda thing that we always fight agsinst "

This one don spend 39 years for power......

Americans didn't bring down the roof....

What I think we should be fighting for is effective leadership...

If u want to stay in power for 100 years... let it be worth it....

39 years.... wow!!!

Effective leadership and value for money for that matter.

If they earn middle class wages and entitlements they can stay as long as career civil servants, even longer.

But look at the earnings and budgets of our legislators or should I call them political CEO's. Far beyond what a third world economy can support at this time. So we just shouldn't have that appetite for elongated tenures for what their output is.

dederocs:
President Tinubu, mobilise like war time, because it's war, these religious extremists jihadists who hate non Muslims and moderates invaded Nigeria, declared war on Nigeria...we need to release the big guns, mobilise state resources to our war machine.

Constituency allowances payment to house of representatives and senators should be stopped for now, there should be spending cuts across ministries and strict accountability and transparency on usage of public funds, channel funds to our military, and ensure the military uses the money judiciously as well, engage America, be humble, we need help, let Trump come with the big guns, to help us chase out the terrorists... America have precision missiles, satellite and mapping technology, they can track and see the bandits and territorists movement in real time, and use high tech drones or guided missiles to take them out, use this opportunity, save the peace of Nigeria, by eliminating terrorists.take brutal decisive action or Nigeria risks civil war.

Accountability and fiscal transperancy is still a big problem in Nigeria, military contracts and purchases should be scrutinized to ensure accountability.

What more can one say.
This is precisely what every citizen should be demanding of their governors, councillors, senators, representatives of all kinds in any form of government and above all to the President and Commander in Chief right now.

That enough is enough..That we have reached a watershed and want this country returned to a place similar at the very least to the first day of democracy in May 1999.

We want peace. We are tired of massacres, kidnappings, terrorism and genocide. Surely there must be a solution.