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Even with a man advantage, Arsenal is still struggling to put this team away.

greypencils:
Unfortunately or fortunately, this game is ending in a draw. This I have seen.

This will up the excitement for the title chase because City will just be three points behind with a game in hand.

callmetade:
I was about saying arsenal always fails to build on when they're leading,.. it's bad attitude for them actually.

I mean when you score first early and you see that opponent seems vulnerable,..kill him already.

The last ruthless Arsenal was in the days of Thierry Henry. Th Gunners have not had a top, top striker ever since that demands the kind of service to make for multiple goals.

This is the result when you cannot put your chances away, standard soccer psychology.

If Arsenal loses this match City will surely overtake with their game in hand.... so this match may as well be the title decider.

Oga, leave oil alone and develop the greatest resource on earth, human resources. Identify just one item on earth and seek to be a world beater in it be it products or services.

It takes visionary leadership to create wealth from nothing but many nations do not have anything useful buried under the earth but are generators of immense value.

Cherrybae:
Congratulations to the new supreme leader.

Iran is very capable to level America to dust.
What Iran is cooking will shock the world.
Is either Trump surrenders or face whatever he sees from Iran.

A word is enough for the wise

People should stop encouraging the escalation of conflict. People will lose their lives on all sides needlessly. The inability to deescalate and dialogue will only result in pain. It is symptomatic of poor leadership.

And at the end, in years to come whatever they fight for is most likely to become irrelevant.

JAWBONE:
They have an elected President

The Ayatollah is the head of the Islamic Republic.

Iran is a theocracy

A theocracy is not a democracy.
Religious leaders are not elected and in Iran's case the President is a figure head, just a Head of Government, not a Head of State....and C-in-C.
A democracy has as it's top a leader that exercises full Executive powers.

Benbellamor:
. honestly this ribadu and El Rufai are messing up the countries efforts on insecurity...so careless with their statement

He calls it PEACE....over simplifying the situation to one of contest, as if these brigands are merely fighting the people.

Same way they describe 'herdsmenace' as one of farmer-herder conflict, whereas the reality is pure terrorism, heinous crimes against citizens that no serious government should take lightly.

If we had even a shadow of a Legislature they will summon him to come explain this terrible statement and if we had a upstanding Judiciary they can constitute a panel of inquiry into this matter.

Mr. NSA, you are destroying confidence in the security policy of this government. It is better to look and sound incompetent than smell of cahoots.

Damseldammie:
Aaah🙆‍♀️ coming out from National security adviser ❓
Iró ni oo
E wà pé ñpa’nu dé
🤔

Such an annoying, unfortunate state of affairs.
How can the citizens of this country trust their government which appears serially acquiescent to terror.

Always excusing it, always on the defensive, always finding loopholes in the law to walk away from lawful responsibility.

When you do this over and over and over and over, you leave the people no choice but to bare suspicion.

This government in it's operations of institutions continues to undermine public confidence through dodgy agenda setting.

And there are abundant number victims in Nigeria WHO WANT JUSTICE.

So, whose side are you on Mr. National Security Adviser....the law or not, the brigands or the victims.

Just needless bloodletting.
The truth is that these people often fail to contextualize their actions in the wider view of history.

Today, the vast empire that Ghengis Khan formed through brutal suppression has shrunk to a country state, Mongolia, that many cannot even find on a map.

The descendants of Napoleon's great empire,.the French, cannot independently threaten anyone today, same for the British empire, the Germanic empires and the Roman empires. These things come and go, most often into infamy but have led to unimaginable horrors throughout all ages.

So when ideas and philosophies lead men into destruction and you see the stage decades, even centuries later, you wonder just why, why were those terrible things done.

Iran tomorrow, meaning years, perhaps decades, centuries to come may become a liberal nation, even more western than the so called west.

On the other hand it may become even more theological, fundamental and extreme, a darker threat to all around it. Who knows.

All men should carefully think about their actions, driven by extreme passions while 'opportuned' to. Particularly when it affects humanity because absolutely nothing in this world is guaranteed and the things so fought tenaciously for may become dust, totally irrelevant in the future, leaving a meaningless legacy.

Hmmm....Minister of all manner of Works indeed....The one and only Dave Epstein....
Hope we won't see you and Bill Clinton in a hot tub with some 'engineers' constructing 'concrete roads'...

bigpicture001:
Set up a govt farm produce commodity board, which will investigate each farmer and determine the strength of his farm price into the system..

This Baird calculates what the suppose prices for adequate profit should be, but still refrain from market prices interference.

Later the shortfalls are calculated na d the subsidy paid to th farmer to encourage them to continue to produce without fear..

Eve if Europe food is subsidized at the farm level

Good idea.
Works in Europe to sustain millions of farm jobs and guarantees food security. Another thing proponents of liberal trade fail to realise..

So just as a person who doesn't exercise regularly cannot save himself the day he is in trouble and has to run for safety, so q country that has contracted it's food production to other countries, the threat of famine at any time is never far.

However, another way I have kept on harping about is to have agricultural commodity exchanges. Hundreds of years ago European economies established such to stabilize, moderate the price and guarantee constant availability and supply of various products sources from territories round the world.

Today the remnants of such exchanges regulate and moderate the prices of cocoa, soybeans amongst others such that it is a lot easier for the producer to project the price he will get for his goods months in advance and the consumer is protected from wild market shocks

You see this conundrum.
It will spark wild debate because it appears as a paradox. The paradox that has beleaguered this country for decades.

The forces of productivity versus the forces of liberal trade. Not only food is consumed by this quagmire. Fuel, healthcare, education, most industrial products....assembled automobiles.....

At what point do we accept the fact that we cannot compete with imported goods due to the poor state of the local economy and to solve the chicken and egg equation we need to kill inflation and invest in productivity.

Import more and local production will die, kill local production and you will be forced to borrow to hold the value of your currency down the line.

Okay, enough wailing. What is the solution.
Investment, investment, investment. Every naira we spend MUST BE TARGETTED to bring down the cost of production.

We must have a government that thinks day and night about how to make production cheaper, faster, better, easier.

For instance, our governors spend millions building airports and our Federal government is spending trillions building 'coastal road'. Is this the best way to expend transportation resources. No.

Government should be looking to invest in rail and marine transport which are renowned globally to be the cheapest way of moving goods from source to use. Lower cost of transport and you have struck the first wicket at making local production competitive and local producers prosperous sustainably.

Razzness:
The Arabs should be ashamed of themselves

They won't because they want a weakened, non nuclear, non threatening Iran, perhaps not a 'scattered' Iran because cross border refugee infiltration will cause widespread instability in the Gulf but they certainly will not cheer for Iran.

The world remains very sectarian and the Shiites are not liked in that region, the fact that they are essentially Persian and too proud of that heritage makes no meals with the rest.

But like most of the colonised and neo colonised world, the West is very, very fond of taking sides and open eccentricism. Just like in Nigeria, where the north is widely regarded as the darling of the British empire, America at some point had decided for Arabia.

War is never the solution. At the end it returns to where it should have started, the negotiation table. The West should understand the nature of it's adversaries.

These ideologically based regimes (including Israel) are not going to go away or change their fundamantal view particularly concerning their survival.

Iran is a predominantly Shiite structured island nation in a sea of very powerful Sunni structured nations just as Israel a predominantly Jewish nation is surrounded by predominantly Islamic nations. They both have serious security concerns that have led them to become intransigent. Their default psychology is that of survival.

The history has been that Iran has long felt that the West in particular has sided with Sunni nations and Sunni majorities wherever they are found against anything Shiite wherever they can be found, whether in Iraq, Yemen, Syria, etc.

This is where proper solutions should be sought. The West should extend an olive leaf to Iran and try to roll back decades of suspicion if not this conflict will never be solved.

When a people feel threatened they wax strong in religion by default. This is what has sustained the theocracy in Iran. The West should not be antagonistic against it. But manage their security concerns just as it does with the other side, the Gulf Arab states.

The Sunnis and Kurds cannot all be right and only the Shiites wrong. This premise has no zero sum.

You look really hard to see what value democracy has added to the experience of the average Nigerian in terms of quality of life.

That democracy is an important tool for development is without doubt. How we have managed to mess up ours is another thing.

We simply cannot claim success and believe what we have done with democracy over the past 27 years and what we continue to do today and going forward is the right thing in the right way. There is just no tangible evidence.

The average Nigerian continues to consider as every passing year and every past government as better. This is the classic definition of 'continuing in error'. Something is basically wrong.

These people should give peace a chance and stop all these needless loss of lives and destruction.

anonimi:
When Buhari and APC failed to deliver stable electricity in 2019, did we not reinforce their extreme poverty shege and even rewarded Tinubu with his Emilokan turn in 2023, because he packaged Buhari as APC change messiah four years after calling him expired

How much accountability for promises made, have you achieved since 1999 with your own local government councillors and chairmen, state lawmakers and governors, senators and representatives?

Ask me.
Someone has clearly dared every citizen, man, woman and teenage voter, saying that, 'if I do not provide stable power, do not vote me back...'

And the elections are months away..... And the promise is disappearing over the horizon like a mirage....

But the 'promiser', instead of getting more anxious, fearful of impending loss, is waxing stronger....

And someone will say there is hope that this country will get better.....and I ask a big 'how'. Where are the ingredients.

Abass07:
Then people will keep suffering under the incompetent leaders the 7- almost 0% voted. We should be advocating for a way that the majority of the voters would align to vote for a good candidate so that it will become impossible for the riggers. Like the say, Rome or other advanced countries were not built in a day. Americans or Britons don't ever get tired. They come out in mass to make their voices heard. No saint politician in the world.

They are a lot more intelligent out there overseas. They have managed to craft horizontal relationships that consider their fellow citizen's welfare and prosperity as theirs. When they cast aside their monarchies for democracies, they did so in deed. We however remain feudal in nature, much easier to govern and misgovern. We cast aside military rule only to turn back and militarize our democracy, scorching earth everywhere.

Bye-elections in the UK yesterday, a landslide for the Green Party. Reason. Dissatisfaction with the labour party and it's leader. If he doesn't improve governance the Labour party will surely lose the next general elections. But before then the Labour party members will have 'impeached' the Prime Minister.

In the US, the President has had to climb down from his high immigration horse. Why. The signs that his party will be washed away in the mid terms in November.

That is how democracies work. The people aggregate values to control the direction of leadership. It is this ability that drives people to the polls. They stand a chance at changing their fortunes through the ballot.

Over here. A certain APC performed woefully for 8 years. This has been acknowledged today by all citizenry, by APC members and even the President himself, yet they find themselves back in power and commanding an absolute majority at all levels. Is the country better than in 2015.... 2023....

Over here, is there any policy of government considered anti-people that has been successfully reversed by the electoral power of the people, that is the threat of loss of elections and political office....no.

So how is democracy working for the progress of the country and if it is not, why will the crowd fill the market to buy into it.

Someone said earlier that a good number of pollsters just show up to sell their votes, not because they believe in the process. Well, this can only profit the politician because the less people show up the smaller the amount he has to deploy to buy them out.

This country CANNOT get better than the sum average of the quality of citizens in it. Without restructuring, forget it.

deji17:
Local government election is just getting the attention it deserves due to the recent direct payment of statutory allocation. It is a also a mid election unlike the General election Awareness and participation will continue to grow in the years ahead.

Sorry, but it will not.

The 2027 general election will have a lower turnout than the 2023 general election.

As long as there is no competitive possibility, there will be no interest, period.

maasoap:
You are right. Instead of saying winners should of not celebrate, why couldn't he call on the stay at home electorates to vote out the incumbent who are not performing?

Because if a people think they cannot change a government through the ballot, why will they bother to try. The quality of competition matters.

I ask you. If you enter a market and all the shops sold only one kind of item at the same price, will the market bustle with activity or not.

Abass07:
Then people should turn out to elect credible leaders. They shouldn't allow just 7% of the population to determine their fate.

Sorry, but this figure will continue to decline till it hits zero, a full fledged autocracy. Then it will be a contest between powers both internal, external. If democracy cannot be made to work, the vacumn will be filled with something else. Just watch and see.

Lexusgs430:
Imagine the allocation for the Governor's office and amount of back handers....... 🤣😂

Imagine if this funds are geared towards job creation, fixing roads, refuse collection and youth training programs.........

A feudal mindset cannot reason the things you say. The general belief is that when a person is elected or appointed into office it because he is 'better' that the rest of society, so service is the last thing on his mind. He sorts out, rewards himself first.

The first thing they do when they are elected, or the first things they spend on at every new budget cycle is all about themselves.

Funny country.
The people who pay for things, the taxpayer, don't decide what the money is used for.
It is the people who receive it that decide how to fritter it all away.

We remain under a colonial style, feudal mindset. And until we decide to reform how government works, making it people driven, the aggregate of resources will continue to be enjoyed by the few appointed to lead.

A man will rise from amongst the people. A man looking like the rest of the people. And at a certain time presents himself to lead. He is supported by the people. But within days, perhaps weeks of getting into office he no longer wants to look like the people, be like the people. He rather wants everything they have.

How does that happen. Where else does that happen except Negroid Africa.

Anatolia:
I see many people making shallow comments on this issue. We need the experience of these men to govern the nation security. Once a person is appointed as IG, that person becomes the senior automatically. Any senior officer that doesn’t want to respect him should resign on their own accord. Nobody should be forced to retire because someone junior to them has become their senior. It is sheer stupidity to force them to resign. I don’t usually agree with Tinubu but this is the right thing to do.

The police service is a para military organisation with decades (in Nigeria) and centuries of tradition in the English speaking world, which is now threatened by crass personal politicking.

Just hope the damage to institutions this government is formenting is repairable in years to come, long after these lots are gone and forgotten. Just terrible.

And that is why the nation has to demand the Legislature shift these decisions concerning all aspects of law and order from the Executive to themselves and the Judiciary.

That is one urgent, necessary and meaningful reform.

He is delaying their retirement because according to the report, the new IG, 'needs their experience'.

Why, because it is clear to even Mr. President that his overtly political appointment will erode experience within the force, i.e. weaken the police service as an institution.

This is how nation Nigeria has used politics, partisan politics, partisan parochial politics, partisan parochial and self-serving politicking to crumble institutions of all kinds in Nigeria and the products are all there for us to see.

Failed wars against crime, against insurgency, against corruption of all kinds and the attendant needless loss of lives and properties.

Said it a thousand times.
The police service should be under the Judiciary, not the Executive. They should be closer to the loop of law and justice. Nominated by the Judiciary, approved by the Legislature, so that real career professionals are allowed to rise to the very top based on merit.

BaEnki:
EPL currently has 6 teams competing, simply outstanding!

After this round of 16 there might not be more than 2.

GanagiBitrus:
Fair Draws for Arsenal & Liverpool.

But Arsenal with a much easier path to the Final. All the tough teams are lumped in the upper half.

If this is true the top half of the draw is SUBSTANTIALLY tougher than the bottom half.
The only potential titlists or past winner to here is Barcelona while the top half contains giants Real, Bayern, PSG and Pool....

yinchar:
What about Burmo, thats almost 100m as well

Was about asking the same question.
Including the Ivorian winger, both of them critical players at the time AFCON started in December.

LibertyRep:
Chai! See profit.
Shareholders smiling
MTN can still lower the data cost sha.

They were saying a while ago before the last tariff rises that their escalating costs were driving the telecom industry into insolvency.

Less than a year later this...