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OasisX:


........Dapo Abiodun's second-term performance has been astonishing. He is working tirelessly to ensure Ogun State enjoys 24/7 power supply while attracting investors from across the globe.

Brazilian firms are set to invest in agriculture and power in the state. Moroccan firms will also invest in power, helping the state meet its 7,000-megawatt target. Dangote seems ready to build a seaport at the Olokola Free Trade Zone (FTZ) too.

The Agro-Cargo International Airport is almost ready for business, and what stands out the most about the airport is the inclusion of warehouses to facilitate the easy storage and export of agro-products.

Well done, Eleyi of Ogun State!

Baba, respectfully, I urge you to tone it down cos there's nothing to gloat about, and you appear insensitive

Nothing sweet for igboro, every where na grumbling and frustration.

Kisskids diaper (jumbo pack) wey I buy 8k when my baby drop last year January don reach 12k as I dey talk. The eco pack na N5800 now from N3000 within the same period.

Big bundle of ugwu vegetables wey I dey buy for N100 before "subsidy is gone" don reach N800.

I bin dey buy cow meat 3k per kilo for abattoir but now e don reach 8k.

Car tyre wey vulcanizer dey guage for 100 per one don reach 5H.

I renewed my rent last month. Landlord sent me the receipt attached with a notice of rent increment (x2) from 2026 when my next rent will be due. His reason - inflation.

Etc etc etc

Inflation still dey wreak havoc on lives, livelihoods and families and nothing dey stew for the country so reduce the volume of your voice.

Shegzdave:
I mean Raye situation might have contributed to it also

Naah, go back in recent history. Corp members have always benefited from minimum wage increment, and this PBAT administration had always maintained that it will be implemented for corpers.

Even FG employees were not paid the NMW and its consequential adjustment as at when due. FG implemented it much later and paid the arrears.

Raye no contribute nada to the payment of the 77k to una.

Shegzdave:
Sheikh calm down
You and I know if it wasn’t for Raye, they wouldn’t pay that 77k they promised corpers

Raye bawo

Even before opening this thread, I knew it was created by naptutwo, our resident archivist and historian.

Danielnino00:
Onyeka was pivotal to the success of that 3-4-3 at the AFCON, no caps.... I mean, Conte, who popularised that formation (I might be wrong, but he used it to devating effects at Inter and Chelsea) had energetic midfielders to keep the middle tight... Onyeka was that guy..

I'm sure if Ndidi was fit at the AFCON and Peseiro decides to use him as partner to Iwobi, he won't have gone far...
I respect Ndidi for what he has achieved career wise, but he is clearly past his best and he is definitely not the right choice in a 2 man midfield

This is a gem of a post

Ndidi last good game for Nigeria was the AFCON 2019 Q/Final against South Africa.
Since then, his performance in our jersey has declined.

His absence due to injury at the last AFCON was a blessing in disguise because Alhassan Yusuf and later Frank Onyeka interpreted the DM role better and made us realize that they're an upgrade on him.

Truly, if Ndidi had been at the last AFCON, and was the starting DM, we may not have gotten to the finals

Kog45:
Hmm,if we removed Iwobi who should we put?this is the reason why eagles will continue to fail.....Kai Iwobi I watched against Zimbabwe,walahi I will replace him ASAP with even NPFL player

Elder, with all due respect visit an optician for new glasses.

Iwobi played well and delivered a masterclass of a performance yesterday. He did his job and that of Ndidi. He was always dropping deep to collect the ball from the defenders, a job which ordinarily Ndidi ought to have been doing.

Ndidi was the weak link in that midfield due to his poor positional awareness, lack of anticipation, poor passing, ball-carrying & advancing ability.

Removing Iwobi was a wrong call by the coach. Rather, Ndidi ought to have been removed for Alhassan Yusuf or Onyedika.

Pls dead this talk of home-based players. This foreign-based despite their disappointing results, I still believe are better than the home-based players.

No worry, CHAN no too far so we'll come back to ths issue of home-based players again.

I am devastated.

Eric Chelle has his faults

but

I'm putting this loss (yes, its a loss) 100% on the players.

Professional players should be able to defend their lead and see off a game of this magnitude.

Close shop. Change formation to 10 - 0 - 0 Park the bus, even if you're a forward fall back & defend.

There was too much space for the Zimbabweans to exploit for that their equalizer.

Ndidi had his usual lacklustre game. He was strolling and did not pick up that player who ran from deep.

Bright Osayi was also found wanting and culpable for that goal.

Ekong, what kind of atrocious defending was that? You dey fear to cause penalty but you for put leg for that ball na. Na 50-50 e go be.

Una just waste Osimhen hard work. goals and effort for nothing.

Mehn, I am sad.
.

God abeg o.

No be wetin we plan be this.

Super eagles, biko put the ball in the opponent's net

aicon4s:
https://www.thesouthafrican.com/sport/soccer/bafana-bafana/did-bafana-bafana-field-an-ineligible-player-latest-update/


From a South African media outfit

Hogwash!

Football Federations of countries are held liable for infractions like this as it is their responsibility to enforce the rules.

Algeria did not file a complaint within 24 hours and FIFA still punished us retroactively.

I do not see SA escaping the 3 points deductions

TheSuperNerd:
I can verify that indeed we have a sound case. South Africa should be deducted 3 pts and the pts awarded to Lesotho same way we lost 3 for fielding Shehu vs Algeria for the 2018 WCQs.

South Africa is in trouble unless FIFA wanna turn a blind eye.

While we cook on the field, we must cook off it as well. SA MUST BE PUNISHED!!! LET THE NFF GET TO WORK.

Thank you my brother.

I have gone through FIFA official match reports and he has two yellow cards from those games.

Furthermore, I have confirmed from the match reports that he has played in all South Africa's WCQ games.
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South Africans are already wailing online so I anticipate he'll be benched for today's game against Benin Republic but then it's a little too late for SA.
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Bafana Badana will be deducted 3 points and 3 goals while Lesotho will be gifted 3 points and 3 goals victory for this administrative mishap.

We wait on FIFA to do the needful.

South Africa should get deducted 3 points and 3 goals while Lesotho should be awarded the 3 points with 3 goals.

opes:
FIFA would have made an announcement if he had breached the rule. No one reported Nigeria to FIFA when 3 points were deducted; It was FIFA itself that discovered the violation after previously notifying the NFF not to field Shehu in the match against Algeria but NFF ignored

FIFA is not infallible, na humans dey run the organization.

Also. the error could have been on the part of SAFA for all we know, as it happened with Abdullahi Shehu then.

This is what Amaju Pinnick, NFF president said about the issue then.

“To be fair to them, through out the qualifying series, official match documents didn’t even show that Shehu Abdullahi was on a yellow card. For instance, when we played Cameroon, Mikel, Moses and Balogun were put on notice that they had yellow cards.

“Team meetings were even held about how to handle their cards so they wouldn’t miss crucial games. Shehu Abdullahi was never in the mix. Shehu then received a yellow against Zambia in our penultimate game, two years after the Swaziland match.

“Another grave mistake then occurred. FIFA sent an email to the technical officer in charge, that Shehu Abdullahi was suspended for the Algeria match. In a twist of fate, that officer was in hospital, with a severe heart condition, battling for his life.

“The biggest knock to our system is the fact that his official correspondences should have been forwarded to more than one person. It wasn’t. We went into our last match not knowing about Fifa’s notice. Not acceptable, I agree, but these are the facts of the matter.

The incontrovertible truth is that Teboho Mokoena had two yellow cards from the World cup qualifiers against Benin Republic and Zimbabwe and should not have been fielded against Lesotho to serve the necessary one match suspension. Every other point is irrelevant.

It is primarily the responsibility of the individual football federations to take stock of cards accumulated and act accordingly.

Yellow cards confirmed from FIFA official match reports of the matches

South Africa vs Benin
https://www.fifa.com/fifaplus/en/match-centre/match/520/288282/288289/400017588

South Africa vs Zimbabwe
https://www.fifa.com/en/match-centre/match/520/288282/288289/400018179

Seems this case has merit .....

Car321:
Did South Africa field an ineligible player vs Lesotho?

Teboho Mokoena (Yellow Card 54 mins ) vs Benin- Match Day 1

Teboho Mokoena ( Yellow Card 52nd minute ) vs Zimbabwe -Match day 4

He should have been suspended for their game vs Lesotho, but he played. If confirmed, South Africa will be deducted 3 points.

Please let NFF, CAF, and FIFA know.

I've confirmed the yellow cards from FIFA official match reports of those matches.

However should he have been suspended? That's murky and unclear to me

Car321:
Did South Africa field an ineligible player vs Lesotho?

Teboho Mokoena (Yellow Card 54 mins ) vs Benin- Match Day 1

Teboho Mokoena ( Yellow Card 52nd minute ) vs Zimbabwe -Match day 4

He should have been suspended for their game vs Lesotho, but he played. If confirmed, South Africa will be deducted 3 points.

Please let NFF, CAF, and FIFA know.

Cc: TheSuperNerd, can you independently verify this?

BankyGee:
Just went to watch all our AFCON highlights again 😂

Who say Iwobinho no good? Mad passes everywhere, there was the through pass to Osimhen 🆚 Equatorial Guinea which Osimhen missed 1-v-1, there was the counter pass to Moses Simon too 🆚 Côte d'Ivoire to set him 1-v-1 too, we no score, the quick passes between him and Ademola Lookman and Bassey to cook that second goal 🆚 Cameroon, the pass to !Zaidu Sanusi, which Zaidu sent to Simon to setup Lookman for the goal 🆚 Angola... Omo 😮‍💨

Alhassan Yusuf 🆚 Equatorial Guinea seff was another passing beast! Na injury do am strong thing, very intelligent player, launched as sweet pass across the box that created an empty net which Zaidu Sanusi missed!

We didn't really play bad in that AFCON, goosebumps full my body watching all the games, Peseiro had a game plan and stuck to it all through and our players played to the best of that game plan!

Let's see what Chelle cooks again, December too far! 😤😤😤

Iwobi has surreal passing ability, we all know so no surprises there

But

Alhassan Yusuf? People have been sleeping on that guy. He's damn intelligent, sublime and a total baller, no cap.

He does not have the brawn and physicality of Onyeka but he more than makes up for that with anticipation, on & off-ball intelligence, good positioning and passing.

He only lost his starting place in AFCON due to the injury he copped in our first game against Equatorial Guinea.

Unfortunately, the prejudice and bias against players of Northern origin due to the quota system practice has blinded many people to his quality and makes them believe he's undeserving of being in the squad.

For me, anybody wey talk say Alhassan Yusuf no sabi ball or no suppose dey squad, I dey immediately adjudge that person as a football novice.

Alhassan merits his place in the squad.

Seems APC is really working overdrive and leaving no stone unturned to have Senator Natasha recalled.

Shey una don see this thread and listen to the audio?

https://www.nairaland.com/8377966/how-natasha-snatched-uduaghan-wife


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJF3gC_h_w8?si=F18QHLqUMFTMHSPI

BlueRayDick:
Honestly, ur ignorance is a bliss.

This was the same thing I told a former colleague back then who saw a ticket posted by one of his ex-university mates on twitter and was surprised that people win tens of millions from sports betting. He said he wished he knows how to play sports betting that he will just be cashing out considering he's a soft guy who is actually loaded (aside from his salary, he's from upper upper middle-class family)

I just told him to not even dream about it because he will regret the day he ever learnt how to bet. I said I can teach him the terms, how to forecast and how to bet but he will later cuss me in life when the thing starts eating into his finances when he becomes an addict. He go dey inside church service he go dey check games wey don come or ticket wey he fit quickly cash out before everything cast.

Bruh, no be say you talk am but I have been tempted many times to get into it.

Last year, I even registered Bet9ja account after my guy use 1500 to hammer 450k.

I was sent activation mail in my email but I never activated it.

It was that time betting was being hotly discussed here but when I read the overwhelming negative comments from guys, I jejely deleted the activation email.
I mean, I get 99 problems but betting addiction ain't one of them, and I thank God.

minfelix:
in all this, how Chelle manage use Mali to beat SA 2-0 at the afcon needs to be studied..
after tomorrow’s game with Zimbabwe if it comes out as a convincing win for us, guys forget Eric Chelle will be tagged a silent beast coach

SA lost to Mali in their first match at the AFCON right? I think then they were still finding their feet and hadn't settled into their stride.

In their next match, they dispatched Namibia 4 - 0 and thereafter played goalless with Tunisia.

In the round of 16, they defeated tournament favourites Morocco 2 nil. I watched that game. and they were really impressive.

Q/F, they dispatched Cape Verde by penalties in a game they should have lost,

S/F, they played their best game against Nigeria cos Hugo Bross changed their formation to mirror ours by playing a 5-3-2 which was the first time we encountered a team playing that formation so it proved difficult for us.

3rd place match, They reverted to their normal formation. SA played terribly and Congo DR should have won if not for profligacy in front of goal really. SA eventually won via penalty.

After the Nations cup, they've only lost once, which was to Rwanda away in match day 2 of the WCQs.

This SA team is a problem. Make Rohr and Benin Republic just do the Lord's work for us by defeating them or playing a draw.

Who are the teams, we're most likely to meet in the play-offs?

Shegzdave:
Means when the selected team is leading by two goals in the game( like 2:0, 3:1,4:2), then the bet is won

E be like say na only me no sabi nada about organized betting.

The last time I ever staked money on betting was when I rolled dice in Sec Schl. Simple and easy stuff.

All the buzz words, terms and phrases be like swahili to me.

Anyways, from the negative perception and comments on betting I've gathered here, it seems this my ignorance of betting is bliss so I'll continue in it.

minfelix:
South Africa’s record playing away
Algeria 3-3 SA(friendly)
South Sudan 2-3 SA(Afcon qualifiers)
Congo 1-1 SA(Afcon qualifiers)
Uganda 0-2 SA(Afcon qualifiers)
Nigeria 1-1 SA(Worldcup qualifiers)
Egypt 1-3 SA (CHAN qualifiers)
Ben - SA(looking like a draw)

South Africa seems to be in scintillating form.

They've become our albatross and beating them has become difficult in recent times.

I still recall how they frustrated us at the AFCON and the WCQ in Uyo.

They controlled the game and played us out of the park during the first half of the WCQ, largely due to Finidi's incompetence and ineptitude.

They're a really good team and I do mot see them losing away. In fact, I think the worst result they'll get away from home is a draw and I even forsee them picking at least one win away from home in their remaining matches.

The only team that can beat them in the group is Nigeria. amd Chelle must have perfected his tactics and settled on the best personnel to interpret and execute his game plan before we play them.

Finidi George and Peseiro no try for us at all with this predicament wey dem put us.

Sugarboyy:
We will qualify this time, history is meant to be broken. Prior to playing Rwanda in their home we had not beating them but we did this time.
Even if we fail to qualify directly, we should try and win our remaining games and that might make us qualify for the play off as one of the top 4

Even making the top 4 runner up positions for the play offs seems a daunting task.

There are teams on 12,11 and 10 points in those positions already.

Like Jon Anik, UFC commentator will say, one more sleep and it's match day.

I don't care how it's done but 3 points must be secured tomorrow to keep our world cup qualification hopes alive until the next round of games in September.

A bonus of South Africa losing or drawing against Benin would be nice too

If Super Eagles fall short tomorrow, that will be the end of the road.

May Tuesday 25th March favour us in Jesus name, amen.

comodo:
I have watched this sequence over and over again. I keep asking, how does Lookman think that he can score from such position with his left. A quick turn and a back pass to Simon would have set Osihmen up for a blast. Even Chukwueze was there. Iwobi was running in. Surprised Osihmen was just strolling , 😀😃

He scored a goal in a similar position this season for Atalanta in which he was crowded by four players.

Once upon a time, one delulu opined that Tammy Abraham was better than Victor Osimhen.

How e be now.

Mujtahida:
https://chaosdigestbysolace.substack.com/p/mi-chelle-in-stars?manualredirect

Chrisooblog, TheSuperNerd, charlesemeka85, ChrisKels, BankyGee, elyte89, Joebie, Truidstarr, and all forumites

If I'm playing that 4-4-2 formation with a diamond in midfield, I'll do so with slightly different personnel

Nwabali in goal

In defence, Ola Aina and Bruno Onyemaechi start at right-back and left-back respectively. Centre backs will be Ekong and Bassey.

The midfield diamond will comprise: Onyeka at the base in place of Ndidi. Onyeka has bigger lungs, more legs, stamina, marks better, covers more ground and is better with possession and passing.

Iwobi will play in front of Onyeka at the tip of the diamond and behind the front two. It's no brainer cos Iwobi is by far the best passer of the ball in the team. We need him playing as close to the strikers as possible.

Ademola Lookman takes the left and Simon Moses the right tips of the diamond quadrant.

Upfront would be Victor Osimhen and support striker would be Uche Chrisantus. Chrisantus will play as a hybrid support striker and Attacking midfielder with dual roles depending on phases of the games

These players will interpret the roles and formation better.

Odunayaw:
Which end time formation is this

Na Thanos formation

Omo mehn, coaches dey this world.

Kog45:
I wasn't impressed with his performance against Ipswich

If you're doing well in a top 10 club in Bundesliga, La Liga, Serie A, Ligue 1 etc and earning decent wages, remain there.

Do not be distracted by the allure of the EPL.

Awoniyi would certainly not have faced this decline if he was still at Union Berlin.

yinkeys:
What do you think of Gift Orban

To me i think we need a high presser & another striker with skills like Isak/Gabriel Jesus that can drop deep to get the ball.

Having 3 different types of strikers would be fantastic
We don’t want one that only waits for tap ins
Obviously Osimhen’s heading ability & pressing is second to none

My three strikers would be

Osimhen
Akor Adams
Taiwo Awoniyi/Elijah Adebayo

Dem don set ring light on top innit boys, Eberechi Eze and Michael Olise matter

"What is your plan for the National team life? What are you doing in England?" - Nigerian man asks Eberechi Oluchi Eze
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— YabaLeftOnline (@yabaleftonline) March 23, 2025

I don't get it.

Because Rwanda is a smaller country than Nigeria it is not supposed to have a stadium better than ours?

No be na wa, na real wa