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Sccarrr:
so you think Saka will be playing backward in this type of game?...and you're even just exaggerating, Saka rarely plays back, either he cuts in the midfield or go down the flank , also we've seen Madueke in serious games this season where he either look lost or have awful end product, not saying he is not doing good but he is really far behind Saka....don't disrespect Saka abeg 🥱

What is respect or disrespect in football.
You are either delivering or not.
No serious title aspiring team will continue to play sentiment at the expense of performance.

A lot of commentary on the United match from pundits all over Europe, and particularly from former Arsenal greats and there was a lot of convergence of opinions as to who pulled their weight and those who were just hangers on.

Well it is up to Arteta. The buck stops at his table. But if he cannot wield the stick and chooses to be sentimental about his selections then he will not win any titles. It is that simple.

Saka is not playing anywhere near his potentials at the moment and he should be served notice.

I am back to Arsenal match and notice that Odegaard is in.
Surprise, surprise. The game has slowed down.
Arteta refuses to learn.
He is desperately trying to make a mountain out of a midget.

Oga Arteta, Odegaard cannot win you anything.
His game is too juvenile for a title seeking team.

If you are there illegally you will be ICED, crated and sent home.

You cannot be complaining about Jihadists from the Futa Jallon galloping across your home country's borders and laying waste to your ancestral homes and be a pain in the neck in another man's land.

Sccarrr:
dey play....because he dey shine against Kairat? 😹😹 , be like u no dey watch the big games and how Arsenal dey always miss Saka if Madueke start

Whatever.
I have not seen Madueke play one back pass so far.
This was the major complaint against United.
Saka's play has become lethargic and predictable with diminishing end product.
You can see how more direct play is letting in the strikers at goal.

But when you do the slow build up, short two metre passes in the so called arc of death around the box 18, you just train up the opposing defence to resist penetration.

Well, it is up to Arteta whether he wants the old pointless tiki taka Arsenal of yesteryears or a new type of direct play the new signings this season have brought.

Madueke is going to glue Saka's arse to the bench and he can share it with his brother in lethargy, Odegaard.

dominique:
2-0

Galatasaray's hopeless defense will be their biggest undoing

Any defence that has Davidson 'Grasscutter' Sanchez as lynchpin will chop goals aplenty. The guy is wack.

Oga I hope you are correct because the work I saw CGC doing late last year was quite poor and the three months I traversed that area the pace of work was very slow.

MOW should ensure that these contractors are properly mobilised to site with enough equipment to do quality and timely work if not we will end up with cyclical deterioration like we have witnessed over the last two decades with Abuja-Lokoja where the work was so slow parts of the highway would get damaged before they were completed.

I am sorry but 5 or 6 pictures do not confer the true picture of the Lokoja to Benin nightmare.

Remove Abuja from that list please.

This is bad, really bad.
When are we going to get out of the grip of nation crushing materialism.

People should sense the times and apply wisdom to how they conduct themselves.

Honestly we blacks totally lack any sort of horizontal, society building relationships, even amongst the clergy it is 'us' and 'them', never 'we'.

Failed government.
People have offered all manner of advice over and over again for months on end on how to contain this monster yet the thick headed failures in office continue to rinse and repeat their ineffectual policies....

Wike and Kwank sitting on a beach sipping from a chilled glass....

The red cap man shakes his head in sad resignation...'Et tu, Brute'...

Wike looks over at him in surprise and grunts....'That is why they say I take something stronger....brut is for kids, try mine instead...

I understand that Morocco has been striped of hosting the final match of the 2030 world cup in favour of Spain due to 'organisational deficiencies'.....their loss.

Nigeria. A contractor's paradise.
They are owed trillions.
But when you ask for what goods, works or services you will not see anything of value.
Just a means to acquire wealth, steal resources to undermine democracy.

LabStores:
Terrible news
Criminal immigrant

Also known as 'Crimigrant'.

AlphaTaikun:
Lagos State has been very slow in launching the Central Epe Agro Food Hub which the FIRST EVER female Lagos State Commissioner of Agriculture and Food Systems said would be ready by May 2025 with the launch of Phase 1 of that project with the aim of crashing the price of food in Lagos State to 50% of the current prices by cutting off the greedy middle men who like to hoard food items to create artificial scarcity. Already, Lagos State has launched 150 CNG-fueled 40 ft haulage trucks for that project as of late 2025.

The key to winning re-election for APC at all levels is to crash the cost of living for these folks on the street level. They have to have a sense of urgency and that's how they can easily win elections WITHOUT any rigging or accusations from any opposition parties. Period.

There is NO sustainable alternative to a well run economy. And economy that aggressively lowers testosterone inflation and expands monetary supply via productivity.

All.these schemes are just political tools to capturing hearts and minds. They cannot last because th economics underpinning them are just not sound.

Citizens should INSIST that the government lowers inflation with a target of single digits within the tenure if the administration and this can only happen if government redirects and optimizes it's spending towards factors that inflate the economy.

McDoe:
Thank God that Akpabio has seen the misery Nigerians are faced with.
A nation where the ordinary citizens are left to suffer is a nation of wicked leaders

May have travelled home for the Yuletide and was invaded by hordes of hungry peons. Long way away from his cocoon of opulence in Abuja.

This will be the hallmark throughout this dry, hit season for reason we all know. Low hydro contribution and high energy consumption by cooling agents.

Just as winter is to energy consumption in Europe and the northern world so is the dry season to the tropics. The ground is hot, the air is hot and a lot of energy is required to chill the air and the water.

The solution is simple.
Solar. This is the best time for solar everywhere in Nigeria. No clouds and plenty of sunshine.

But trust us. This little knowledge is lost on folks who are regimented in their thinking and policies. Rather spending more and more money chasing oil and gas that will never satisfy them.

gaskiyamagana:
Spying or not. America can never defeat China. Ordinary Afghanistan, US abandoned. Disgrace of the Year is loading and lurking in US misadventure with Iran.

They abandoned Afghanistan not because of war but because of the peace. I don't know why you folks keep on misrepresenting the facts.

They went in there after Al-Qaida and they succeeded in flushing them out of Afghanistan capturing and neutralizing almost every ruling and commanding member of that organisation save two or three that were finally caught and killed by the Obama administration.

The problem that led to a prolonged stay there was the vain attempt of trying to establish a proper government so that terrorists did not return to occupy the vacumn. This is where they fell flat.

Afghanistan has always been a loosely federated state controlled by tribal warlords backed by competing foreign interests from Pakistan, Iran , etc and the attempts at unifying it under a central, western style democratic government would not work.

So the US essentially left because it could not achieve it's political aims, not military objectives. And the country still remains fractured and unstable till today.

The problem the US has in most of these 21 century trans national wars is what to do after the military objectives have been achieved.

A lot of lessons have been learnt from the Bush era Iraqi conflict, that you cannot impose western style democracy unilaterally and without the cooperation of the citizenry. And that is why they are not in a haste to impose democracy on Venezuela.

As for Iran. It will not take the US more that 72 hours to militarily defeat it. But then what happens. A whole lot problems will arise. Just like Libya, the country will descend into the kind of chaos, neither the US or the Gulf states will be able to handle or contain.

Skoonheid:
This didn't happen. It's a psyop. Zhang was becoming too powerful for Xi’s liking, and the absolute monarch decides to do away with him. Giving a dog a bad name just so can hang him. China isn't safe even for finishers. Reminds one of IBB and vatsa

Of course this is one of the characteristics of Communist nations or those that embrace socialism deeply.

Power is retained by sacrifice and blood is the tonic to allay all fears of losing it.

Stalin had almost all his comrades murdered in the great purge of the 30's. And throughout the 60's, 70's and 80's Communist rule many were sent to Siberia at the slightest suspicion of disloyalty. Today Putin has resumed the summary putsches of anyone and everyone remotely eyeing power.

The infamous Pol Phut, communist leader of Cambodia went about slaughtering members of his CPK, as said, out of paranoia before turning his killing machine on his citizens and liquidating an estimated 2 million people, a quarter of his country:s population within 5 years until the world was fed up.

Let us not speak about North Korea where the lives of party leaders and members are as worthless as sand in the Sahara, were long standing Generals can be shredded and scattered with anti-aircraft like confetti at a sports event.

Then there is Latin America and the litany of Communist fiefdoms and wannabe socialist regimes. The Fidel Castro slaughter of the Bautistas to consolidate power comes to mind and the endless purges up until his death.

It is a characteristic of deeply socialist driven nations. There is always suspicion of internal sabotage and since leadership in those autocratic climes are basically lifelong ventures, they are always looking over their shoulders and fearing the day when the old lion as it were loses it teeth, can no longer hunt and is therefore doomed to death.

They said as Stalin lay dying, choking on his own vomit no one dared touch him because they all feared if he recovered he will have them all killed for witnessing the indignity.....

These days they all wear western style military uniforms and military insignia.

The British no doubt has impacted the modern world more than any other country on earth and it's reach of language and culture will remain preeminent perhaps for all time even after the little island has disappeared in the annals of history.

You just wished we had a similar outfit here in Nigeria ridding this country of all the Sahelian brigands rampaging through the land.

fabolouz1:
no need to panic because no law permits such.

Who is the law.

They have the courts under lock and key.
They have the Legislature, the ultimate custodians of all Federal and State laws as their lap dogs.

What or who in heaven or earth is stopping them from doing what they want.

Keep your money in your house and they can still collect it all.

'Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty...' Thomas Jefferson.

If a citizenry cannot suspend their government in a power flux they are bound to be enslaved.

Lagos is a deliberate testbed because it is the state with the longest history of autocracy. It is so deeply entrenched in that locality that government can do virtually anything there and get away with it.

Participatory democracy is the only way to obtain satisfaction from government.

How many are consulted before laws and edicts are established in this country.

This is exactly what I have been saying, the perils of autocracy.

The APC, and this government and this President are not turning the country into a one party state and commandeering all arms and institutions of government because of 2027 alone. That is the small picture.

But the aim is to rule this country without borders and govern without accountability, doing the kinds of lawless things unimaginable in any decent society.

This is just the beginning.
If care is not taken, military rule will be a child's play in comparison.

No checks and balances, no brakes and seatbelts.
Let us see which citizen will survive this journey.

Nigerians better wake up and start the push back promptly and reject these chains.

But this is merely civil disobedience.
What is wrong with this in a democracy.
Why is the governor trying to escalate things.

Why do we find governance so difficult in this part of the world.
What is wrong with dialogue to resolve.
Engage them, incentify ro draw allegiance.

But this cannot be true, haba.
Low blow from the opposition.
But once again, the APC started all this in 2013/4.

Oga, you have tried to reconcile.
This is Christ like to forgive and restitute.
But you are also told that if you are not accepted, leave.

You cannot force a relationship and the more you broadcast it the worse the chances of achieving it will get.

Move on sir in joy and dignity.

poiZon:
Should we blame dangote or Fed. Govt under APC that has spent more than 30billion dollars to either revamp, turn around maintenance or facility overhaul yet no results.

Till date no person or people have been invited for questioning over the failed port Harcourt n warri refineries revamping.

My brother, what do you want me to say.
Your President went to Brazil, (a country that was a major importer of our crude oil a long while ago. But today has a vastly bigger oil sector than Nigeria's) and said that corruption has ended...

And some were hailing and fighting their fellow citizens that doubted.

How can a country this divided in opinion about how it is governed make any progress on this matter.

Is it me that will collect the billions of dollars back, wasted on those things or what....

Harmony22:
It is now obvious that those hullabaloo dangote was spitting about farouk importing fuel was just to get the man out of the way so he can be fixing petroleum price arbitrarily as he wish. I will support continue importation if fuel if the imported fuel are cheaper or of what importance is dangote refinery if locally produced fuel will be more expensive than imported ones, All his price reduction gimmicks was just to get the importer out of the way he never meant well or protecting the Nigerian interest. Very selfish capitalist.



https://dailytrust.com/mrs-to-sell-at-n839-per-litre-as-dangote-refinery-increases-petrol-price/?noamp=available

I don't support the continuous importation of fuel as a long term policy. Imported fuel should be taxed to make it unattractive. BUT only if the proceeds are used to fastrack industrialization of the downstream sector.

That is we are prepared to bear the pain of higher fuel prices BUT WITH PURPOSE, targets, timelines and deliverables.

sweerychick:
I only pity likes of legendhero, Madridguy,biodun556 etc believing that this government cares about them. The sooner you embrace the truth the better for you guys

Nigerians should stop fighting themselves over critical issues of national survival and wellbeing. They should cut down on their vertical relationships and develop horizontal relationships between themselves and their fellow citizens. Looking out for each other with reason and compassion.

This crab in the basket mentality will remain the fuel the elites use in exploiting the citizens and their God given resources.

ajalawole:
price won't go down oga. What dangote is doing is for government to stop importation of fuel, once government stop importation of fuel, trust me dangote can hike price to 1500 per litre. He know what he is doing. We just pray BUA refinery should start working soon

Yes I like this.
But the truth is that Dangote and BUA are two sides of the same coin.

In advanced countries anti-trust laws look closely even at the personal relationships between principals to determine if there is fair competition. And in Nigeria's case the cement caper is damning.

blowjohn:
But when the price dropped it wasn't because of any festive period. I remember them saying that hopefully the price will still come down. Now this?

We created this scenario for ourselves.
This is monopoly in action, in practice.
This is a business that is bigger than the government, than the country.

The only way out is to force government to either pay him subsidies or sell crude to him at a discount. The country is that weak. He has all the cards.

That is why I said, one refinery was good but one factory does not make an industry and I supported taxation of fuel ONLY if the monies were to be strategically spent or expanding competition. That is tax to grants to other serious players to fastrack their rollout.

Just last year Nigerians were fighting themselves over this man and his refinery and scorching everyone and anything that stood against him. The Unions, the Regulators.

Now that we have removed our brakes, slashed our seat belts and punctured our airbags let us see how we will make this journey in one piece.

Why should he unilaterally void CONTRACTS and walk away like that without responsibility. An institution indeed. Enjoy the ride.