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Amedino99:
congratulations on your anniversary bro. Wish you and your family many more years in joy, good health and prosperity.

Thank you boss, and amen.

Ibime:
E no easy

My senior oga in the institution. Imieka 🙏

bolu96:
Congratulations! Our lecturer. I can only imagine the bed shaking this night.

Ese pupo 🙏

Roland17:
👏🏽 Congrats!

Thank you Boss 🙏

Amedino99:
congratulations on your anniversary bro. Wish you and your family many more years in joy, good health and prosperity.

Thank you sir, and amen.

GloriousGbola:
Semi dropping the d 4 lyfe

Happy married life sah.

Break the bed for us tonight 🍆🍑

I just caught the wordplay. Very nice

On this day in 2017, I tied the knot in the ancient city of Ibadan.

Eight years later, after plenty quarrels and three kids, the match never scatter, and bed still dey shake

Abeg make una clap for me cos e no easy..

izzou:
Congratulations Semid4lyfe

More years and more furnitures to your room

Thank you sir, and Amen.

Shegzdave:
You're welcome chief

Don't mind me, I remembered Chinua Achebe

Great writer he was.

But does the saying that "so long as the bed shakes regularly, the home is at peace" still apply in today's marriages?

airmark:
Kudos boss Abedoshaker.

Thank so much Ore mi.

raumdeuter:
Congratulations Egbon

More and more twins and triplets

Thank you OG Dayo 🙏

GloriousGbola:
Semi dropping the d 4 lyfe

Happy married life sah.

Break the bed for us tonight 🍆🍑

Thank you so much senior egbon.

Kaczynski:
Abeg try have another kid and thank me later

Wetin I dey find again after one XX and two XY? Na how I go do vasectomy I dey reason now but thanks sha.

OasisX:
....happy Anniversary big bro.

Thanks so much NL Daniel Bwala. You're far too kind.

Ellexy:
And may the shaking never cease. Happy anniversary Egbon

Thanks so much, and Amen.

ouzo1:
Happy anniversary 🎉.

Grazie Much appreciated.

TrebleChamp:
Hapi Anniversary prof, many more years of bed shaking and lovely memories...

Gracias. Much appreciated.

Shegzdave:
Congratulations Chief
Many more years to bed shaking

Werey see your teeth like bed shaking

Thank you. Mo appreciate gan.

On this day in 2017, I tied the knot in the ancient city of Ibadan.

Eight years later, after plenty quarrels and three kids, the match never scatter, and bed still dey shake

Abeg make una clap for me cos e no easy....

I still cannot get over Ekong's errors against Zimbabwe and SA. He is directly responsible for two goals we conceded and two matches we failed to win. Perhaps if Ekong had retired after the AFCON like QJ posted and someone else played in his stead, the story would have ended differently.

As for Ndidi, I cannot forget his misplaced shot one-on-one against the Zimbabwean goalie, how he got in Chukwueze's way and fluffed the chance for our second goal against DRC and his failed interception of the ball that led to DRC's goal. Also, its unfathomable to me that the team will play 7 PKs and Ndidi will not step up to take any. That's extreme cowardice and failure of leadership.

I wish Ndidi will follow Ekong and announce his immediate retirement but unlike Ekong, Ndidi is Nigerian born and raised, and has our typical agidi mentality and siddon tight attitude so the chances of that happening is 0. Anyhow sha, make hin retire after AFCON. 71 caps with no goals in a 10 year period playing for the Super Eagles is a piss-poor record.

I am still gutted by our failure to qualify for the World Cup. Last week I clicked "not interested" on videos about the World cup draws in my IG feed and TikTok FYP to mute and rearrange the content algorithm.

I've got no enthusiasm for the world cup. No enthusiasm for performance of our players abroad. The world cup miss really waned my enthusiasm for the National team. Perhaps that will change when the AFCON starts.

The only team I am looking forward to watching is the Super Falcons, and Coach Madugu better not mess that up with his biased invitation/selection, exclusion of certain in-form players and the home-based quota thing he's doing.

donjazzet:
So it's ad hominem now instead of facing the point? That's quite immature.

But what should I expect from a biased moderator who teamed up with dayo and started deleting and suspending me for highlighting his terrible tribal attacks? You showed the typical characteristics of a corrupt Nigerian politician, the type you support.

Small power you were given, you abused it to help your friend and apply bias in your action. That's why you support the rot in the system. A very big shame.

Ore, you have no point here. Ask a sensible question and I’ll answer.

The emboldened is false, defamatory, and a clear violation of Rule 20. I hope you’re ready to prove it. For clarity and for the record, let me state the facts.

◾I do not moderate the European Football / EPL section.

◾I am a moderator in the General Sports section only. That is the only place you’ll see my monicker listed at the bottom of the page as a moderator. You can also verify this on my profile where it clearly shows I moderate the Sports section.

◾My moderator privileges in that section do not extend to this EPL board.

◾I am not a s.u.p.e.r m.o.d.e.r.a.t.o.r and I don’t have forum-wide powers.

◾Drawing from the above facts, there:s no possible way I could have deleted your posts or suspended you here.

◾Your ban came from the EPL section mod(s), the s.u p.er m.o.d.s, or the forum admin.

◾Moderators follow a code of conduct and do not suspend people at random. If you got banned, you most likely broke the rules.

I’ll let your false accusation slide because I’ve noticed you struggle with accountability and prefer to blame others for your own missteps.

Enjoy your day.

You crashed out after the results of 2023 elections was declared.

More than 2 years after, you're still crashing out and projecting your hurt to blame BRD for DYK's post in a public forum.

At this point, its safe to conclude you'd never get over it. Continue to wallow in the pain.

donjazzet:
Semid4lyfe, your post is a cheap attempt to cheapen the drastic importance of politics and ideology in our collective lives.

If my father or mother supports and votes for candidates that are very clearly and obviously dangerous to society, then cutting them off is the least you can do that is of course after numerous attempts to change their perception with love.

Politics is NEVER A GAME. it is the single most powerful bedrock of every society. It shapes the society you live in. And you may be blind to that but you must strive to see it as an issue of life and death. Because you cannot escape politics.

donjazzet:
Let me ask you a simple question.

If your mother supports a candidate that subscribes to a jihadist ideology. One that seeks to impose Islamic religion upon society by violence. How would you relate with your mother?

Of course this already supposes that you've tried everything to changed her mindset. How would you relate to a pro jihadist mother and brother who aligns with a violent movement to impose a theological political system in the entire country?

I refuse to be morally blackmailed and drawn into your extreme hypothetical mind game. Your overly sanctimonious posturing has made you miss the fact that you're the one trying to cheapen the importance of political choices by reducing it to supporting jihad and violent extremism.

That you'd even go down the manipulative route of "what if your mother supports a candidate who subscribes to a jihadist ideology" in an attempt to use a fringe hypothetical to justify emotional overreaction to ordinary political choices, is shameful and defeats your arguement.

Most political differences in Nigeria by the voters on the candidates they support stem from ethnicity, party affiliation, insecurity, the economy, corruption perception, unemployment & job creation, power supply etc and things that will improve quality of life, not Jihad or extremist ideology.

None of those considerations warrant cutting off people who raised you, fed you and helped you during hard times. If you think otherwise, then it proves my point that politics has become your religion and a do-and-die affair. Na you holy pass. Na only you sabi road and anyone who disagrees with you is morally corrupt. Such intolerance and toxicity shouldn't be encouraged or emulated in our political sphere.

Normal people disagree during elections on a multitude of issues, without being labelled terrorist sympathizers. Mature and sensible adults know how to argue and have political differences without destroying their homes.

Melvyn11:
This means you cannot survive American political sphere were family members are cutting off each other due to candidates they voted for. They actually take election seriously and see your votes as an extension of who you are and your values. Maybe if we actually take election just a bit seriously like them people won't be selling their votes for coke and bread.

This is some sanctimonious and morally superior BS that assumes the candidate you support is the right one and everyone who disagrees is wrong. Democracy doesn't work that way. Everyone gets their one vote, and exercises it based on their own priorities, experiences and fears. Reducing people's choices to values you approve or disapprove of is childish. Politics no be religion. Nobody owes you loyalty to your preferred messiah. Know this and know peace.

American family members cutting off each other due to political differences is not a sign of political maturity. Rather it shows the oppposite. It's dumb, emotional immaturity, toxicity, a sign of dysfunctionality, and lack of proper parental upbringing in those homes.

Wetin you dey even yarn sef? You mean I should cut off my paale who laboured all his life & made sacrifices to make me what I am today just because of his choice in the ballot? You mean I should cut off my elder brother who paid me 3/4 of my salary every month for the 7 & 1/2 months Buhari withheld my salary in 2022 because he supported PBAT? You mean I should divorce my wife who risked her life thrice to bear my kids because she supported PBAT? That kind of intolerance and toxicity no dey my DNA and is not something to copy or emulate.

People selling their votes in Nigeria is due to poverty and a defective electoral structure, and not because we do not take elections seriously. Hunger no dey hear sermons, and lectures no fit get weight when survival dey on the line. So abeg, drop the moral superiority. Naija get hin own problems but we no need to add American-style madness on top.

TemporaryHansel:
Why can't you name the person you're referring to? Just a simple observation o.

Baba. no need. The person sabi himself, and I just use am as example.

Shebi you see as X dey blame Y for the posts of Z on this thread? That's an extreme level of immaturity and intolerance in my books.

Some of you are taking this political differences thing too far.

I recall someone called for a particular monicker to be banned sometime ago just cos the person dey support PBAT.

Make una grow up o.

TemporaryHansel:
Disstroy, NG Twitter is done. I’ve muted half the timeline already, I'm tired. If they’re not recycling the same tired gender wars, they’re busy platforming extremist content up and down the timeline.

Imagine doing gender war in 2025, something we retired from over seven years ago. When will people realize there are bad eggs in every gender, no gender is 100% good.
The toxicity on that app is on a different level entirely.

TikTok is the new frontier for gender wars and na there the feminism and manosphere community advocates dey ply their trade now.

afrodoc2:
Ever since I saw that video I knew that one was a joker. He would be a worse tyrant than the people he is criticising.

I think it was you who posted sometime ago that every Nigerian is a potential tyrant and oppressor. Na the situation be that.

TemporaryHansel:
Wait oh, dem dey force anybody to buy the ticket? If you don't have money, going to concerts should be the least of your priorities na.

Elder my man, abeg I dey h. Shey that ya soup still remain make I make eba?

nihilistjnr:
It's important to note that these guys are international artistes now. Yes they sell Nigerian product but not to the Nigerian market.

I've been to a few Burna Boy shows in the UK and in Europe, and he's packing 10s of thousands every time paying a minimum of £50 which is circa 100k, and has the advantage of the tickets being reasonably priced by European standards, huge arenas and multiple dates to really rack up the funds. Concert goers abroad also don't have the typical Nigerian mentality of 'I be oga' so I need to be separate from the crowd.

The Nigerian concert goer that is willing to stand with crowd in front of the stage doesn't have the kind of money form a similar chargeable crowd base, so Burna and Co cannot expect playing to a large crowd to be anywhere near profitable - so it's better for them to target their typical Diasporan customers coming for dirty December instead.

It's basically a Diasporan concert set in Lagos, that typically the promoters won't even break even on.
These artistes only need the a Detty December show to keep their brand and Naija credentials alive, not because it's a profitable market.

I'm guessing these artistes would only consider reducing how much they charge the promoters so those ones too can see something to eat and in turn be motivated to bring crowd, but other than branding and promo, I don't see any incentive for Burna and Co to do a Lagos show. The money is just not there.

£50 - £60 for a UK concert makes sense because the UK minimum wage is around £12 per hour. A person can work five hours and buy Burna's concert ticket without shaking because the ticket is proportional to his earning power

Now compare that to Naija where the minimum wage is 70k, and only about 2.4% of Nigerians earn above N200k per month, and you'd realize the N250k pricing is disproportionate and in misalignment with the Nigerian economy and reality of most Nigerians.

If one follows the UK proportionality logic and applies it to Naija, tickets no suppose pass 10k but nobody realistically expects the promoters to drop the tickets to that level because pricing in itself is a form of crowd control and a way to filter the audience but 30k or thereabout for standing tickets would still have made economic sense.

The show is for diasporan returnees and detty december crowd angle too no make sense because those guys cannot fill even the 6000 capacity Eko Convention Centre on their own. Their numbers no reach. For the venues to be filled to capacity, you'll need the home-based Nigerians.

And when the shows are priced like luxury goods, the home audience automatically gets locked out. Then promoters go turn around and say Lagos no dey profitable. How will it be profitable when the core market wey fit fill the venue no even fit dream of affording entry?

It's okay for artistes to go global. But if dem wan do their December homecoming concerts, the pricing should reflect the economic reality of the home base

OR

Make dem no kuku do december shows for Naija at all. Nobody go vex, and life will continue.

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BlueRayDick:
I will pay this much for a performance that involves DJ playing pre-recorded music which the artiste mimes to?

Omo! I would rather go to all those night performance at Ojez inside national stadium surulere where a live band will play and u will order fish peppersoup and drink of Ur choice without paying any gate fee. Those shows are more authentic and entertaining than all these artistes' show.

Someone said the best shows by Naija artistes are the ones held abroad and not in Nigeria, and I agree.

Abroad get well-developed Infrastructure, equipments and facilities to host those shows which bring out the best in them, and make the artistes performances thoroughly enjoyable.

Burna's One Night in Space show held in MSG is his best till date and dwarfs any performance he's had in Naija.

Asake's 02 arena and Red Bull Symphonic Orchestra shows will beat anything he'll ever do here.

Even their ordinary live performances in late night american and UK TV shows better pass wetin dem dey do here but dem go still charge local fans wetin pass dem abroad rates.

Anyways, na mature cool live music concerts like Johnny Drille Live Room me dey like attend and no be all these afrobeats gbogobo ero shows wey the artistes go come mime for stage with DJ support.