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MichaelSokoto:
This Ademola Lookman don play for England u20 b4, how came he wear our jersey again?

Age grade soccer is no longer definitive. That is why soccer federations are quick to cap promising young players with great potentials and the debut age keeps on falling every year.

The lad that scored for Spain a couple of
days ago broke Gavi's record.

England is very fond of that. Capping players of mixed heritage at a drop of the hat then never using them again thus wasting their talents and careers.

Eberechi Eze of Crystal Palace is the latest lad about to go down the drain pipe if I'm not mistaken.

Playing with a smile and enjoying themselves today. Good to see.

Tight call. No VAR on CAF qualifiers.

2, zero. Low shot past the basket in the post.

That is the best role for Nacho, not as a 9. I think playing two strikers was perhaps a good idea to cut down unecessary dribbling by all and sundry.

Good bench. With the rising profile of some of these players in the game all we need is a quality coach to start winning trophies again.

Can the NFF manage that simple task?.

prinsam30:
seriously, beta than that one in Abuja

Abuja has never had a good pitch since it was built.

Osimen, good goal.

C'mon just see how smoothly the ball moves on the turf. This is impressive of the management. Quality pitch.

Now it needs quality performance. No excuses.

thatigboman:
Dstv is not showing the match or what

205SS

There is really no need to play anywhere else if other state governments and even the Federal government is not prepared to invest in something similar.

Uyo stadium is well maintained sha. This must be the best turf I have ever seen in a Nigeria stadium.

United needs to engage a counselor to keep their players in domestic line. Giggs, Rooney, Greenwood and the list goes on.

It is costing the club a fortune.

The three pronged star no longer sits pretty atop the pile. Other brands have narrowed the gap considerably in build quality and tech offerings while the key factor of reliability and second hand value has fallen away.

Seems the ghosts of the merger with Chrysler is refusing to go away.

My condolences to His Royal Majesty King Mohammed V and the great people of Morocco on this tragedy.
May the world rally round to lend help to such a lovely country and peaceful people at this time of their trials.

rottennaija:
Imagine this happening in all Ministry of Works across the 36 states of the Federation. This is happening in reality.

I personally know many that happened just within the past year alone in other Ministries in addition.

And this is just one out of several that I know, maybe hundreds all through the administration that just ended and before leading me to surmise that Nigeria is a 'Contractors Paradise'.

Billion naira, heavily inflated contracts just shared all over the place without complimentary economic backing. Just pay the mobilisation and they share and disappear.

That is why they all desperately desired the government continue so that these lurid stories stay hidden.

We seriously need a national discourse, a national reawakening as to the way we desire to exist. We just cannot continue this way. It is not sustainable. It is sompmyself deceit to think we can develop with this model of nationhood.

Nigerians must rise and call for the government to put an end to the system of CONTRACTING the nuts and bolts of development.

There are other efficient, cost effective and corruption free ways to build and maintain roads, to provide furniture in schools and to provide social infrastructure.

jconsulting:
Please Tinubu need to sack this man immediately, whay nonsense talk is this.

How did he appoint him. This is what we say. Wishy washy citizens deserve to be led anyhow.

When you vote anything but competence you live a life that you by your actions have compromised.

There are many appointments to give so called loyalists. There is nothing in the Constitution that says certain key Ministries must be given any particular person.

It takes competent leadership to know what matters and what criteria to set to appoint a square peg to fit a square hole.

Same ol, same ol.
Lazy, ignorant talk from recycled incompetence.

No new strategies, no new ideas, no new plans, nothing. Just rinse and repeat sentiment.

All you need is to appeal to sentiment of religion (pray) and ethnicity (what tribe is doing what) and the doggy citizens will all yapp and bark in agreement and then go to sleep while you go about your business of corruption untroubled.

When the citizens are weak and ignorant they are pliable and their minds can be molded into a receptacle for anything.

Good luck to you folks. Promises going, going....

The details are a bit confusing. The earlier report sort of indicated she passed on aboard the aircraft in flight. But this report by Egypt Air says otherwise. That she took ill but was apparently disembarked and referred to local authorities.

This is an entirely different issue as the airline will not be responsible for announcing her demise. That is the duty of the local coroner's office after receiving a death certificate from whatever hospital or medical centre admitted her. And as expected they will pass such information to the embassy and not Egypt Air.

If their version is true I really cannot see where they went wrong. The last time they saw her she was sick but alive. She didn't make the connection is open for interpretation. They could assume she was still in the hospital if calls to her phones rang unanswered.

What we are debating is the depth of the duty of care airlines give to their passengers when outside their control.
Anyway RIP to the lady and peace to her family and friends.

asanausana91:
Nigerian's judges will tell you that he didn't do it intentional, that he only want to get money to take care of his family.
The same way they said Shetima double nomination was not intentional.
Anybody that is doubting my comment should pls answer this question:
Q: If Ekweremadu case had happened in Nigeria, would he has gone to prison? Will the boy ( victim) be walking free?
Before you go against my submission just answer the two (2) questions above.

No one can do so with a clear conscience.
We all know that Nigeria has a fundamental Law and Order problem that cannot be resolved without restructuring.
Just that we are pretentious and so become victims of the very ill we tolerate.
If not why should any right thinking person be APPEALING to the police and the state attorney to do their jobs in this dastardly case.

blockgeek69:
Talking about the cost of living, I'm assuming since you work for a Singapore firm, the salary should match up with the cost of living. Never knew Singapore has a terribly hot weather though, interesting.

Every country close to the Equator is a furnace at the moment.
Rainfall is the only, temporary salvation.

As you strengthen external ties also try and strengthen internal ties.
If you want to catch a big fish or a big catch of ordinary fishes you must have a BIG, STRONG NET.

The firms you seek overseas will be more interested in a cooperative, coordinated, secure and fertile environment. As a matter of fact the more your country has on its CV the less talk you will have to make. Because every statistic you provide speaks of the entire country, not just regions or so called enclaves of political conquest, but all Nigeria.

How far has the Ministry of Trade and industry gone towards integrating local industries and business concerns. Just one small but thoughtful example.

* Firm A Trading Company imports Farming Tractors and multiple units lie in showrooms. Firm B Agricultural Company seeks to expand or mechanize and requires agricultural machinery. There should be an instant alarm sounding in the Ministry of Trade when applications are made by Firm B to the CBN for foreign exchange. Because it is highly wasteful and economically corrosive for there to be dollarised assets lying fallow. This applies to most productive industry, equipment, raw materials, etc that costs the economy huge amounts lying fallow, 'waiting' in markets for consumers that are busy seeking same abroad.

I was watching a program in the States recently and was amazed as to how deep government there involves itself in the running of the business economy. They know practically everything about companies that operate there. They know what their assets are (it forms part of their taxation architecture).

They are abreast with inventories of materials, production, everything. They know precisely for instance how many vehicles are on the streets, how many are in showrooms, how many vehicles factories are making per time and with that they are able to precisely control the flow of resources in and out of their economy so waste is minimal.

There is no reason why for instance a local factory that requires orange juice concentrate cannot be led to source from local orange juice concentrate producers as a first consideration, or led along the path to orange processing plants or led further down the path to orange growers and even down to presently moribund or unprofitable farmsteads. That is a deep dive to explore the entire local economic potentials BEFORE applying for foreign inputs.

Hard work and critical thinking can generate more internal economic activity than we presently have. We can create more jobs by closely examining all the things we need but presently give out to foreign economies in a cavalier manner. We can save huge amounts of foreign exchange when we are prepared to squeeze every productive ounce out of the economy and only exchange or resort to imports when the inventory of foreign goods AND SERVICES is at an absolute zero.

The Ministry of Trade and Industry must begin to look inwards for resourcefulness as eagerly as it jets out to seek help.

The most annoying thing about all this is that the necessity for so called palliatives is not as a result of natural disasters. It is not as a result of a pandemic, earthquake, floods, or war. It is a DIRECT result of mismanagement of the economy and serial corruption in government.

Entirely man made. Of which the governor who has his picture on the goods was parcel and parcel of. He was in the Council of State, has been a prominent personality in government and has had access to the highest powers of state for long without any evidence he ever opposed the policies of government that brought this nation to where it is today.

Yet he wants to profit from a tragedy he was part of and in doing so figuratively 'dance on the grave of the deceased'.
If this will not generate anger amongst the citizens, amongst the victims then it unfortunately means they have lost their humanity, have been completely stripped of their pride, completely conquered.

When you see people on welfare in other climes or on lines at food banks they are deeply pained and hide their faces. They are not proud to be there because their souls are alive to the fact that they should be in charge of their lives and that they are equal to those who provide those reliefs.

Is it in the midst of that that one politician will put his face on packs of food bought by taxpayers money after messing up their lives with bad governance.

They will eat him alive.

oyoofong:
APC no do am? Which party no do? Name am! It's branding

That is what we say.

Instead of sitting back to think through the kind of damage things like these cause the nation through corroding the humanity, the pride, the self worth of the citizens, tying them in vicious cycles of servitude and poverty, folks like you are distracted by petty bickering and and divisive postulations, the exact thing they want happen.

You cannot get to a man until you have his mind in jail.
Nigeria has had enough of rulers, kings, emperors.
We need leaders, people who will give men of this country their pride back, inspire and empower them to stand on heir own to create a life for themselves, a life worth living.
This is not life.

Nigeria has reduced its citizens to almost nothing.

Felix6:
The stollen billions through that printing contract could have easily added significant number of (rice) bags to the people. Typical Nigeria politicians. I blame the people accepting these insultive items from them across the federation. Reject it and instruct them to provide pipe borne water with it.

Pls don't blame them, pity them because even of you imprison them for being this daft they will break out of jail and return willingly to their conquerors. Slavery does not fall on a people. The people cultivate it by selling their rights for emotional manipulation.

nations that prosper have people fight for their dignity which starts with a quest for independence from control. Nations that thrive are those who fight to have LESS government in their lives not more.

Even in semi-socialist China. When the few entrepreneurs there begin to enjoy huge, global success they either relocate to the West or go into hiding away from the overly controlling government.

Here the people feel they cannot survive without government and when the evil ones amongst them sense this they quickly jump into office to perpetuate slavery and deepen poverty so that the people are hooked for life.

His picture is on the bags of rice because King Charles' picture is on the British currency.
They are both kings ruling over their subjects.
Nigeria is a feudal state, period.
Just pity the slaves and conquered peons running after them.

NAC1666:
Where is her bodyguard?

She doesn't get one. She is an adult.
Families are only fully covered while Oga is in office.
It was her father that even brought back protection for former President's past 10 years.

The black man is feudal in nature.
Left to him democracy means his son becomes the 'heir' to the 'throne'.
The people's choice?.... what the hell is that?

If Nigerians can't choose by themselves who governs them.
Then they remain peons in this monarchy called Nigeria.

The black man is feudal in nature, period.
The proof is everywhere and where it cannot be seen, like the black-hole in the cosmos, one only needs to strip his tightly held 'traditions' away and it pops out.

This is the same fellow folks around him will be PRAYING hard and HOPING for him to SERVE them.
How?... How?.... How?....
Does this look like a SERVANT or a LORD to be served....

The greatest scam in the history of mankind is a 'SERVANT' on horseback while the so called kings run behind in the sweltering sun.
The kind of thing that will make ME stand on a queue in the hot sun to vote for a person who claims to be like me BUT IS NOT LIKE ME does not exist in all of Africa.

A society without order.... FIRST, cannot make LAWS, good laws for itself.
And a nation without LAW and ORDER cannot be ruled, that is ORGANIZED, successfully.

But order comes from knowledge.
It takes a certain, basic levels of knowledge, intelligence to create order.
That is why the white man taught us to buy puzzle games for our kids, buy them Lego to build stuff, to test their cognitive abilities and generate reasoning so that as they grow they know what to do to put things in ORDER.

But the vast majority don't live like that.
They just grow up like animals having rudimentary lifestyles of eat, sleep and procreate, and like animals they lash out at whatever seeks to tinker with this cycle.

How can one equate the failure to keep to terms of service to death or the threat of violence. How can one not be able to evolve mechanisms to bridge the huge gulf between the failure of an agreement and paying the ultimate penalty with ones life.

Honestly, this country and the people in it are a wonder to behold.
Nigerians, together with our mentality and disposition should be added to the terrifying list of mass extinction possibilities to humanity and rank along with super volcanoes, earthquakes and asteroid strikes.

lizko:
He should asphalt on the south east road, concrete pavement don't bring out the real beauty of highway. Saving cost and constructing rubish is not welcome.

Concrete is THE ONLY VIABLE solution to MOST roads in the south where the water table is high, ultra soluble clay soils are prevalent and rainfall erosion is always a danger. Every knowledgeable engineer knows that.

The only alternative will be to spend all the revenue of government maintaining those roads year after year. Umahi did well with this in Ebonyi.
The only shortcoming was the depth of professionalism and supervision of construction works which was not as thorough as observed.

If they say they spent 10 billion per kilometre to place one foot thick asphalt overlying synthetic mat and ask the public to pay N1,000 to pass toll gates you will be screaming at the cost.

Abeg, only concrete makes economic sense. Even that is not cheap.

Good to have someone knowledgeable in charge.
I always say this.
Details do matter.

Is it that previous Ministers did not know the importance of the time lag viz use and exposure of binder courses and finishing courses?.... perhaps not.

But they likely take the overall decision as to the schedule to completion of works which is often an economic/political one.

It is only right for square pegs be fitted in square holes.

The time for, 'it doesn't matter who is Minister, after all it is only an administrative position...' should be over.
Nigeria is in a state of emergency and you will never find an administrator in a hospital operating theatre while a procedure is on.
He waits outside until the operation is over, then he can pull rank.

PS. Many engineering firms that should be viable taxpaying agencies to government today have gone under because administrators failed to understand and appreciate the importance of schedules in engineering works particularly pavements, roads and highways. They went bankrupt and government ends up spending more to fix or repeat incomplete works, a double tragedy.