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press9jatv:
BREAKING: Arsenal have become the FIRST side in Premier League HISTORY to neither concede a penalty or receive a red card in a single campaign. 🤯✔️

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Really, that is some serious discipline if true.
Worth another six points or two games on the playing pitch in reality.

Nine in ten Nigerians feel this way. That the President will definitely return warts and all. I think it is only core opposition party men that think otherwise and it has informed their decision to fracture into increasingly smaller blocks contrary to popular thoughts that only a united opposition stands a chance. It is like they simply cannot read from their own histories or that of the APC when in opposition a decade and a few ago.

HenryThegreat1:
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They have cut it already

How can you wager on a team with nothing to play for. The players likely have their minds on the world cup whole the non runners are probably dreaming of a beach in Ibiza.

Tunni:
Man city fans, how far?

Losing at the moment.
Not a good swansong for ol Pep.
Might anger him to unretire from the Etihad

Pootle:
how about you talk about promotion from nigeria national league to the premier league. enough of this foreign football we cant grow like this

I can subscribe for 'buy Nigeria' in everything except intellectual property and performing arts. To me there should be no restrictions or affirmative action concerning those.

So my music, my movies, my food and beverages, my books and periodicals and of course my footie has to be the best the world has to offer, no prejudices whatsoever.

Wish the local league the best of luck, but it doesn't just cut it for me.

dominique:
Congrats to them. This would have been Southampton if they didn't get themselves expelled from the finals. So the list is now complete; Coventry city, Ipswich Town and Hull city. At least one of them will return to the championship

Likely all of them.
Doubt if Frank Lampard can cut it at the highest level in the dugout. The jury is still out on his coaching career.

Tower of Babel.
The African cannot organise himself.
He cannot build institutions.
He cannot play fair according to the rules and dispense justice.

Wow, this man. He looks super cool in a business suit. Don't know why our leaders choose not to look business like in public office. They always appear dressed for an occasion in their flowing robes. Looking more like kings than servants.

These are people WE DON'T KNOW. They probably are not establishment people, certainly not in government but certainly con from AMONGST US.

And presented with a great opportunity since the government in power is is underperforming and highly unpopular....YET they cannot get their acts together.

You can then imagine what these ones will do if given a glimmer of power.

My friends, it is not the system, the horse called democracy that cannot be tamed. It is the way we ride it that is making it impossible to move forward.

See what I continue to say about the black man.
He just cannot muster the mental capacity to form viable and sustainable societies. His failings at coalescence is historical, biblical....as a matter of fact.

Call him the heir of those that tried to build the Tower of Babel....endless rancour that borders on supernatural infliction.

These folks have barely touched down on the runway to their first democratic journey and are already declaring an emergency. What manner of hooliganism is this.

franchasng:
I love reading from informed people like you.


But Nigeria is far from getting there.


You forgot the number one thing that is now demarketing Nigeria and will stop foreign investors from ever considering Nigeria for investment purposes; that is insecurity.


Nobody goes to an insecure place, it is one of the number one things every successful human fears.


Power generation even have a solution; building private power plants. Like Winners Chapel have been operating their own private power plant and reason light doesn't go off there from year to year.


The first thing Nigerian current or future President should focus on is security, next is how to expand our railway connectivity to cover and connect major cities and towns in Nigeria.

Absolutely.
As for security. We really need to sit down as a country, all of us and decide amongst ourselves what we really want.

You see this China that everyone is praising. Have we stopped to ask ourselves what the attitude of the Chinese government to security is. In everything from corruption to religious extremism.

This is a country that has fired a whole slew of generals recently, sentencing many to death for CORRUPTION. Whereas in Nigeria our generals are building choice estates in the Federal capital right under the nose of antigraft institutions and driving round in fancy cars worth thousand times more than their salaries.

The China that they mistakenly think is sympathetic to some middle eastern countries on religious grounds is the number one religion suppressor in the world and cannot stomach freedom of worship. It operates dozens of detention camps for recalcitrants and has banned all forms of unorganized religious groups.

So you can imagine what it will do to a group trying to overthrow it or seize Chinese territory on religious grounds. But are we not negotiating with active fundamentalist elements at war with us, daily slaughtering both civilians and security forces....

Perhaps what we need is Chinese imperial rule to straighten us out for a season.

Revolva:
The US despite having the largest train network in the world ..dont need much of high speed train because they have the best and busiest airports and choose flying around the country ,and have the best roads and highways......if it was to be train that the american population need they would have built ssome of the largest train station far better nationwide even larger than the whole of europe

Gavin Newsom of California is building a high speed train network as well but watchout when its start functioning...many americans wont patronise it they like their cars and flying around

Because the US has transitioned from industrialization to technology. They are exiting or have exited the manufacture and trade in the items that required the mass movement of raw materials and finished products like steel, coal, aluminium, etc. They have all been lost to China.

China too in another two, three hundred years will cede manufacturing of mass items to the next industrial powerhouse which maybe Africa, or a Nigeria that has prepared and is poised to develop.

In the meantime Americans do not need to travel by rail as basic cost savers. They are prosperous enough and have an aerospace industry that makes for efficient air travel. We dare not compare ourselves. If we want to fly, we must learn to crawl first.

The case of California is with their craze for green tech, so whether it works or electric cars wins the race remains to be seen.

But for Nigeria, you want to build a trillion dollar economy on the back of trucks and semi criss crossing the country....it will never happen.

Do you know that there is more energy in the diesel used to ferry a trailer load of coal from mines in Enugu to a cement plant in Sokoto than the semi-truck can carry.

But how can you reduce the cost of cement, a basic industrial product when you cannot reduce the cost of supplying feedstock to plants round about the country.

Are these not the discussions a Minister of Industry should be having with the likes of Dangote, Lafarge, etc. with the aim of driving costs down and with it making infrastructure more affordable.

ElevationD:
Absolutely agreed with you. Now looking at the humongous amounts budgeted for that coastal road project, why did the federal government in this contemporary period fail to add rail to the project? If the leaders in the past failed to develop rail, how are the present leaders overlooking it. Rail in very critical in every great country, whether surface or underground.

Our leaders travel all over the world and use surface and underground rail systems. How is it that even the capital of Nigeria cannot boast of rail network traversing the length and breathe of such a city with a massive landmass? The minister boasts every day of how he has transformed the city to a world class city. Do world class cities not have very good rail systems?

We need to get great leaders into positions in this country please.

There are only three ways to prosper in the world of today.
Industrialization, Services and Technology.
Industrialization is dominated by China and the East.
Services are largely dominated by Europeans.
Technology is the bread and butter of the United States.

The peak cap of tech is Ai today. But AI has one big challenge, energy. It is a massive, massive consumer of energy. Energy this government has not even considered as CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE. Look at all those data centres targeted by Iran in the mid east. It is not because Arabs are more tech savvy than Nigerians that Alphabet and the rest set up there. It is because of cheap energy. We have the same oil and gas. Why can't we attract high tech by producing cheap energy.

Services. Africans are low on the food chain and Nigerians do not have a good reputation for person to person business relationships so we are not going to succeed anytime soon in finances, hospitality and tourism, consultancies, etc.

What is left is industrialization and we are primed for that. We have an enormous army of subjugated youth, a low earning but physically hardworking population of varying degrees of education that can be tapped for the manufacture of everything from the kinds of basic goods that China started with decades ago, graduating overtime into more detailed and sophisticated products.

But the basics, the CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE has to be provided. Power and transportation are the keys. Affordable, cheap energy, affordable, competitive transportation is the only way industrialization can effectively take off.

I don't know if we have think tanks in this country, unbiased people of great vision who look long term at development models and are competent and respected enough to advise successive governments on the way to put brick on brick to build this country into an industrial powerhouse.

Because what we have today are just short term thinkers who see leadership as mercantilism and are not patriotic enough to put the interests of the nation ahead of theirs and those of their cronies.

What you see in China today, the biggest this, the largest that, the tallest building, the longest bridge are just the crowning achievements of a country once accused of building hundreds of dirty coal plants, destroying the environment with massive hydro plants and spiderwebs of rail tracks that were indeed an eyesore but it all made for their prosperity at the end.

Mitsurugi:
Because Nigerian coaches don't play to his strength. Simple.

How about at Southampton...

Has done remarkably well for himself in Turkiye this season. Just wished he could replicate it with the Super Eagles. Chelle and his team or preferably the NFF Tech Department should be studying this phenomenon and perhaps looking for ways to build a team around his peculiar game.

Belgium/Turkiye....fantastic.
England/Nigeria....very less so.

Lifestone:
We Nigerians are quick to appreciate good projects but yet kills such initiative in our country!
1. Buhari in 1984 shut down the Metroline that the government of Lateef Jakande proposed for Lagos.
2. Some Nigerians are today criticizing the Coaster Road and the Lagos, Sokoto Road.
We need to support transformative project irrespective if whether we like the government in power or not. It's our resources, it out life time

I am one of those criticising the coastal road because it is not key infrastructure. It is a contractor led elitist initiative based on some nice looking front garden utopian plan.

Key infrastructure means it is badly needed for socio economic development. Will enhance business and trade and reduce the existing costs to citizens and enterprises. In a regime of escalating uncontrollable costs of fuel, new highways will hardly reduce costs and will certainly not return on investment.

What you see in the picture/video is exactly what we should be doing. An effective integrated rail system to link all state capitals and major industrial hubs to draw down the present cost of cross country transport and haulage.

Invest in rail systems and you will surely return on investment because it is fully integrated. Every penny paid by a passenger or kilogram for goods can be accounted for unlike road where the best you get is tolls fares which hardly scratch the surface of the costs of such infrastructure.

There is no country in the size bracket of Nigeria or with the same economic poise that does not have at its core a functional national rail system. India, Brazil, Mexico, South Africa, Egypt, all of them rely heavily on railways for freight in particular and that is why we simply cannot compete with them in manufacturing and exports when it costs upwards of 3 to 5 million naira to move a semi-truck load of goods from south to north when a single rail car can do that for 500,000.

Have you seen what the massive, unregulated, overloaded semi-trucks are already doing to portions of Abuja - Lokoja concrete highway.... We are just wasting our time and money on strategic transportation errors. China did not develop this way. The fancy things you see today are out of an established economy. The basic, fundamental things that created the established economy are the things we should learn from them.

I really don't know how sustainable this sorry state of affairs is. But it cannot be that long before something gives. The people should be at the cliff edge by now and the fight back should start anytime soon. What a mess.

Just sad what Nigerians are doing to themselves.
Do they think the winner will go ahead to govern well when he ascended crookedly. Once he is sworn in and given immunity the state is gone.

The black man truly cannot govern himself. He simply does not have the mental and moral capacity to form viable, successful or sustainable societies.

What is the point of elections then.

Sccarrr:
Lol show us your pictures in Nigeria when you were dressed for events and we can compare properly...ode

Maybe he could not afford to attend events back in this country. On the flip side if he was dressed so miserably and manning a gas station on a typical European street, passersby will probably call the cops...

With rising receipts from higher oil prices ?.?.?.?..what is going on.

Hmmm.....power failure. The ex-Minister was probably operating on Band B.

The whole thing is becoming comedic. And what is it about all these caps they are made to wear. What sort of democracy is this looking like some centuries old freemasons initiation..,

MadPolitician:
Ebola is a lab fabricated disease designed to eliminate Africans in droves.
The same with HIV and others.
Untill Africans chase out all those western bio-laboratories stationed in different African cities, there will always be one ebola outbreak or the other every now and then.

Okay. They are after Africans abi.
What is Africa doing to solve it.
To contain it, and to stop the 'western laboratories' from wiping us all out.

Solution. Throw stones, start a fire and the problem will just burn away....

Where else in the world can this kind of stupidity take place. You are destroying property that is built to care for the sick, to save lives BECAUSE OF ONE PERSON, who is dead and his body kept because the corpse is still a danger to society.

I have not seen a race that cannot think before they act like this race I belong to, honestly.

No one should encourage anything about coups and bloodshed. The course of this country will be determined by the majority of citizens by legal and Constitutional means and not by a few.

The constant determination by a few has not done this nation any good. The bane of this country remains the inability of the many to agree on a set of values by which society is built. A nationalistic identity no coup can establish. It has to be done by restructuring and this begins with every Nigerian deciding off himself to let go of sentiment and selfishness.

If you are going to shoot the President you might as well shoot every single Nigerian because leadership is an absolute reflection of society. They come from within us and reflect our natural inclinations.

Embarrassing feature of futile feudalism forming fealty. This is no democracy. This walks like a syndicate and quacks like a cult.

Even former generals in Obasanjo and Buhari, known autocrats in their time never made compatriots sing to their glory when they turned in the lapels for civilian toga.

But see what a former democratic freedom fighter is making grown men do....kai....so embarrassing. The Negro eh...

okomile:
We go jump am pass

Wear mask
Wash hands regularly

Cannot emphasize this more.
The mask thing should be mandatory for anyone doing cleaning in buildings and apartments, particularly when such have been left unattended for a while or where there is considerable insect or rodent activity. Same goes for folks doing renovations and the lot. Seen a few HGTV episodes and it amazes me that folks will go into a rundown building and begin to demolish it internally without PPE. Really dangerous stuff.

ghettochild:
But his brother can survive if it’s determined
I know someone that has just been in Canada for two years plus let’s say seven months and he has bought a 35 million naira house in Festac

These are the kind of stories that muddy the general thought process and cause many to make uninformed decisions.

Is it possible. Yes.
Is it common, no.
What are the chances of it happening for an average person. These are the real scenarios that have ked many to throw caution to the wind and some paying the ultimate price in dangerous misadventures.

The best way to start is fir her to know the person she is dealing with. Start the brother on a program of enterprise here and see how he manages himself and the resources given.

In a short while she will know whether the big step up is viable. So she can let him go and not worry about sending a rescue mission to bring him back from 'space'

You do not start a business with money, you start a business then money fuels the movement. Money is the potential energy not the object.

So get started with him first. The process will enable you make an informed decision because you will learn a lot about him, about yourself and about you both working together. The answer lies there.

Oh, by the way, it means you start here. Anything that grows starts from the roots. Everything else is just a punt.

temmyyem:
Our is the benefit of politics to our people? We are being killed on daily basis, unfortunately, this nonsense called govt/election is what some people find news worthy.

Is the upcoming election for the ghost? Our people are being destroyed by what is called govt and this is what we discussed?

It's a shame. It will not be well with all those who keep their silence while our people are massacre.

That is the Nigeria way.
Elections for elections sake.
Winning for nothing.
Governance, which is the real essence, zero.

geoworldedu:
Congrats Ronaldo. Funny enough, Al Hilal had a whole season unbeaten but could not lift the trophy. It's about the most shocking stuff I've seen in football.

Same as Jose Mourinho's Benfica. It goes squarely against the laws of football. But it happens.

XTruth:
Do you know if not for China the financial sanction the USA impose on countries would have been 75% effective.

So why not trade with China and forget the US.
Why are you upset the US did want to protect it's own economy from exploitation. The US is this, the US is that but they cannot stay away.

tpain121:
why are you speaking with both sides of the mouth?

I thought tifnubu was doing wonders, that’s why you are always here running your mouth.

You better stay one place so thunder go fit locate you, because, it must.

They are typical Nigerians. They don't think far. Just believing anything they hear transmitted through their propaganda network.

Whether it costs 10,000 per litre this government is not concerned. It is the citizens that pay government officials to junket all over the place. It is the citizens that fuel the Presidential jet.

They cannot think that as inflation rises they are getting poorer by the minute. This rise in airfares will affect everyone whether you fly or not. And the knock on effect is that goods and services will become even more expensive.

We said so about the domino effect of not fighting inflation early and aggressively before it takes total hold of the economy. The cancer is not at stage 2 abi 3.