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That is why you don't make it your life's work to defend individuals because you are not their guardian angels. You simply don't know them.

Rather focus on the institutions, the systems they claim or want to handle on your behalf.

If not you will come across as hypocritical and lose every personal integrity.

We have many cases right here on this forum. Some too ashamed to appear these days and some having to change their names to appear.

celeiyke1:
So it took a ridicule from a foreigner to do the right thing. Imagine, hailing a FAAN approved taxi from the airport to ikeja for #30,000. I wonder what the likes of Badagry, Ikorodu, Epe, Apapa and island would've cost.

Six figures obviously.
Ridiculous.

Emeskhalifa:
E go shock you say na one ogar at the top been wan coner that one into his pocket hence the dictatorship dey wanted to introduce. Is it not madness that FAAN will be the one to tell people what car to enter? Then banning other taxi services? They wanted to introduce monopoly

Anyway glad the SM backlash made them to pipe down

It has always been like that.
Asked one of them that charged me 55k to Lekki one late, late past midnight flight why. And the answer was the returns they have to make to FAAN.

The airports have become major revenue collection centres of government. So it is a national, political question whether this should be.

You drive into the airport and you pay at the gates. You park and when you exit and pay again for time on their lots. Double billing to the same agency....why.

Then when there is stuff to be done at the airports government takes foreign loans and guess what. You pay again via inflation, subsidy cuts and whatever.

I think the public should pursue the privatisation of all airports across Nigeria to find the true value of these things,.these services. The public is just being cheated.

How can an agency that depends 100 percent on taxpayers money be charging exorbitantly for services.

Jayhome24:
Wallahi that picnick or whatever is a bitch. He brought so much destruction into the glass house, he is the worst NFF boss ever anytime I see the occuktic bitch I feel like knacking him with akpako.

Because he was always part of the 'system'. Learnt a lot from his Delta FA days.

I just hope reforms will be made to broaden the base of leadership candidacy. Right now it all looks like a cartel.

In Europe you can vie for leadership just like any other political office. You don't have to belong to any group or previous membership of any Association.

You have ideas, you are resourced, you sell them well, you win.

Just broaden the base and open up the space and let quality come in.

Mirasteel:
Only if they aren't corrupt.

I bet you they are and they will be.
They know where all the skeletons are.
Sorry to say so but they are the house rat that knows where the satchel of crayfish is kept.

Clean break is clean break.
The only other way is to get a board of highly, highly upstanding Nigerians to superintend over them. People who value their reputations and fear failure and scandals.

If you want a commercially successful NFF then bring in folks from the business sector. They may not know jack about football administration but that is exactly how to crush cancer.

They said don't swim in alligator infested waters but to lie down and sleep by the shore is also damning.

These interim people are still the old names that have surrounded football for years and cultured it to the present position.

While I somewhat agree about the experience and the rosy credentials. But our football did not suffer because of those. It suffered because of culture, with each successive administration doing almost exactly what it's predecessors did.

If you really want a change you must have the courage to try new things, new people, starting with the interim administration. Either bring people from outside sports and football administration to be specific or advertise internationally.

I bet these ones will direct the football house in exactly the same previous paths and we will end up exactly where we were in no distant time.

Another great season in the offing, exciting from the get go. Love this new format. Drop points early and buy a calculator....or better still, hire an octopus.

nedu666:
You see how heartless and wasteful Nigeria leaders are. Umahi spent billions building crayon airport that no one is using. His successor spent billions upgrading same airport that no one is using. Money that would have been spent building a bridge for this people, school and primary health care centre

What about 'Diego Costa' highway no one asked for and no one campaigned to provide, while the one they know and use is abandoned to 'concessionaire'.

Nigerians will never get it right until their orientation about democracy changes. That people are voted into office to serve and not to be served.

Someone collected all the money we use to keep life going. Fine. Use it to better our lives, no. He shared it to governors and himself and asked us to go meet our governors. Who asked him to give it to them in the first place. Na who send am.

Very funny kind of democracy.

Jakarta:
Yes it should be stopped, the current subsidy structure is making Discos very lazy and incompetent. Let's see how they will collect cost reflective tarriffs, without providing cost reflective services.

And what will you do if they don't..... because they won't. They will simply shift the goalpost. Just wait and see. There is always a reason.

What I keep on saying.
We just do not understand the concept of rescue, emergencies, fire and medicare.

And because we are primarily preoccupied with PROJECTS, buildings, concrete and mortar, we forget that these things are also services and one important service that makes all the difference in medicare is emergency services.

I have said it many, many times and even on this forum. That a country like Nigeria in 2026, the 21st century has no functional emergency services. No one to call, no system to move the sick and injured to a place of care in a timely and professional manner.

Even the nation's capital with all it's gleaming buildings, posh automobiles and trendy shops has no city wide ambulance services....in 2026.

The other day it was a well publicized snake bite victim dying in transit because of the three things an established ambulance services addresses.

One, professional first aid.
Two, speed of conveyance.
Three. Knowledge of WHERE specific and appropriate medicare is available and operational.

I have heard of many, many other cases where patients are taken from one facility to the other all in vain due to lack of the networking emergency ambulance services provide.

When are we going to join the league of development. Medicare is not a product, It is a service.

Whoever they appoint must sign an undertaking to shoot himself in the head if the stringent set targets are not met to save us future drama.

That's all.

This table you folks are shaking.
Please live and let live.

As a Christian I think everyone is entitled to their beliefs. We should refrain from judging.
There is no religion without polar opposite practitioners. That is why it is called a faith.

And provided such beliefs do not injure, offend and cause to sin they are perfectly fine.

In some jurisdictions such practices have come against authorities and the law. Such laws ought to be respected.

meobizy:
Not my concern. Netflix will release the movie and the same hypocritical Nigerians will clandestinely consume it. They will then come here to foam at the mouth that they “mistakenly” watched it.

Just as you can watch adult or child porn, bestiality, satanism or whatever anyone fancies in your private corner, in an environment you control.

But there are laws and these laws are clear and in accordance with what the vast majority of Nigerians at this point in time feel. You cannot sell it to the public.

Kelvinnchucks:
With the way Nigerians are terrified of homosexuals, you’d think the "morals and culture" everyone is always yapping about actually made this country work. But nope. We are still sitting right here as one of the most corrupt, hypocritical nations on earth. But where do we draw the line? Men kissing men. Because according to the same men, two women kissing each other isn't so bad.

Ask the average Nigerian to explain what, exactly, is wrong with homosexuality. You already know the answers: "According to the Bible." "According to the Qur'an." "Why shouldn't a man like a woman?" And that is literally where the logic ends.

Queers are beaten, cursed, and killed in our streets like *they* are the sole reason we are still a fourth-world country. And the moment you stand up and say, "Hey, maybe let people live their lives," they turn around and call you gay too.

Life is too short. People should be allowed to live however they please. I’ve had queer friends, and if you can look past the narrative that "they want to sleep with me" (trust me, you are not even their type), you'd see they are amazing people.

P.S. I’m heterosexual. But yeah be a Nigerian, call me gay.

No sir. I disagree.

Every society has rules, norms and traditions.
And people come together to agree what these are and laws to enforce them.

This idea of 'people allowed to do whatever they want' is a recipe for chaos. No society operates like that.

The west from which these 'wokeness' emerges have strict boundaries. You cannot touch minors, you cannot force your will against another as common examples.

But there are people in such societies that donot see anything wrong with child molestation and rape and also wished 'people be allowed to do whatever they want.

You may be atheist but there was a certain place called Sodom that a lot of people misconstrue as symbolizing homosexuality. But the truth behind the place is a metaphor for what happens to societies of total lawlessness and extreme perversion involving everyone. Men, women and children, inhabitants and strangers. No limits, no reservations. They literally eat themselves alive.

That was a society where people were allowed to do what they wanted indeed and the Holy book showed that even in contemporary times a society is simply not sustainable without rules, laws and boundaries.

Nigeria and much of Africa has collectively decided that homosexuality is not acceptable. And is breaking the law. That is what it is and they should answer for 'breaking the law'.

TechCapon:
This same malaria wey we dey use play football for here

Perhaps you, not me.
I don't tolerate mosquitos anywhere there is a roof over my head and I travel with my bednet anywhere in Nigeria.

Malaria is a terrible disease. It is an organ waster.
The medications themselves are highly toxic and liver damaging over a prolonged period.

Can't wait for a potent vaccine to be widely available.

Can't say.
A deep dive into history is needed.
Most folks can only view what is in front of them.
Footy did not start in the 2000's. or 2010's.

About time.
My folks back home have been complaining a lot.
Before I left Band A had been degraded to Alawada Band.

Hmmm.... 'market forces'.

Oga 'Nairalanda' report here at once!!
To explain to the 'common man' this uncommon conundrum similar to APC's principal achievement.

That is, the government getting richer while the people are getting poorer aka, progressiveness.

How come our own market forces in this part of the world doesn't work the way we think it should.

Said enough about this.

Putting all power our eggs in one big gas bubble was a strategic error by the OBJ administration and one in which all subsequent governments have failed to notice.

If a country cannot manage it's refineries.
If a country cannot successfully run petroleum pipelines.
If a country cannot account for all its crude production.

For heaven's sake is it a more volatile substance like gas that will be handled successfully.

Meanwhile in all the years if the 5rhw Republic in one hydro plants was completed and commissioned, a tiny one for that matter.

The much larger and potentially effect tual one, Mambilla hydro remains gripped by the octopus of corruption, mismanagement, ineptitude and visionlessness despite the floods that ravage the country through that causeway.

Other sources of energy like coal and renewables continue to be the playthings of politicians all over the place seeking to wax lyrics of political deception.

We are not ready yet.
Dark continent for a reason.
Almost looking like a curse.
This government too will come and go and after 8 years we will still be talking about 5,000 megawatts.

That is adding only 1,500 megawatts of usable power in 25 years of democracy.

tnerro1:
If they succeed in deceiving you this time, you will suffer for another 4 years, REMEMBER THIS

Tell them that 'ELECTIONS HAVE CONSEQUENCES' and watch as they send an aircraft carrier to your doorstep.

Mrexcell:
A corrupt and incompetent leader will always see competent and non corrupt people as enemies or rivals.

Hmmm....

Stephen0mozzy:
He has no shortage of Culpable hands though.

Hmmm....a classic case if, 'show me your friends'....
Well they have always said to naysayers and I quote, '...will he appoint his enemies....'
So.

Schooljob1:
I guess football started in 2026?

In 2023 FCB sold Depay to ATM for 3m

2020 was Suarez for 6m

2013 was David Villa for 2m

ATM sold a dead Griezmann to FCB for 120m in 2019 and took him back in 2021 for 22m.

On July 1st 2009 the best player in the whole world was sold by Man U to real Madrid. So what are you talking about - comparing football players to US F22 Raptor?

Look at the figures 2, 3 and 6 million you are quoting in this time and era and tell me if those are for players in their prime.

Glad you quoted a 'dead Griezmann'. Of course you will want to sell a dead player to your prime opponent for over the top fees just as the US doesn't mind Iran flying F-16's.

Figo crossed over for 35million pounds way back in 2000, a world record fee at that time and equivalent to perhaps 200, 250 million pounds today in transfer inflated terms.

And it is not as if Barca wanted to sell but they were outwitted by the wily old fox at the Santiago. Alvarez is at his prime. Both clubs need a 9 of his quality they both do not have. One selling to the other will weaken the seller and strengthen the buyer at this material point in time with just days to go.

Something extraordinary has to happen for the sale to be done and certainly someone on Atletico will pay dearly if it did.

It is about the money.
In Nigeria it is always about the money.
All the grandstanding.
All the defiance.

At the mention of looking for the money.
They all surrendered.

Nigerians should wise up to this.
If you want to see a better country, a prospering country out of a performing leadership.

Hold onto the purse strings of your country and most of these brigands, pirates, buccaneers won't even show up and the few left will take to the hills when you begin to 'look for the money'.

Who said a Nigerian in any position of authority cannot 'voluntarily' resign. They can.
We just have not come to think of the way to do it.

Angelfrost:
It's just common sense tbh...!

Selling him to Barcelona is basically handing them their 3rd straight league title on a gold platter.

Where you have a big league of very competitive teams such as the EPL movement like this doesn't matter because any team can hurt you and no particular player can win you the league.

But in Laliga it is so tight at the top and a lot weaker so weak down the league that one player moving to a rival heavily tips the balance of power.

Like someone said, will Barca allow Yamal to move across to a rival, or Mbappe. Those deals will psychologically break the selling team.

Remember the highly volatile Figo transfer from Barca to Real. That same season Barca collapsed to 4th in the league while Real lifted the trophy. It was very damaging to the club in all sorts of ways and lessons have been learnt by the big three ever since.

If Griezmann was still at his prime his transfer to Barca will have been very damaging to Atletico. They won't have even done it.

This subsidy cage fight is really rattling the government. No one yet has come forth to challenge them this way and they are running scared that the people may actually have a rethought and at the very least seek a renegotiation of the terms of austerity.

Because like everyone is saying
The people are getting the short end of the stick and the scales are fast falling off the eyes of the people.

dechriz:
That's very nice.

If Barca really wants him, they should met Atletico Madrid demand.

There is no demand.
They won't sell to their rivals, period.

Will the US sell the F22 Raptor to anyone, no.
That amounts to surrender.

Just feel sorry for the player but he should realise that in a three horse league such as Laliga, movement across to one of your rivals is taken as a cardinal sin.

Atletico will indeed be weakened and in sporting terms that amounts to shooting ones foot. A sure sign the club lacks ambition which is itself fatal.

Perhaps the greatest entertainer of them all.
Certainly an icon without measure and such a wonderful human being.
RIP Dolly.

Of course you do not listen to social media.
It is the only media that cannot be bought off to sing the tunes you like to hear....but it is your only early warning system.

Una no dey leave anytin for the wild animals.
Na everytin una dey chop....