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Amedino99:
I'm just thinking of how we would have played another drab draw if osimhen never showed up. Having a player like him is the best thing in the world but knowing that his absence means no win or a draw is very depressing. The conversation we would have been having now if he started the qualifiers with us could have been how we should win to create gap between us and the second place not and not begging rohr to do us a favor.

Bro, you no lie

When Osimhen slipped in the opening minutes of the match, I thought he sprained his ankle and that was the end of his participation.

My heart beat doubled and I panic no be small.

I was just praying silently, God abeg, God abeg, God abeg.

When he got up and continued the game, I heaved a huge sigh of relief and my heartbeat normalized.

The fact is we have become too dependent on Osimhen.

This is not helped by the fact that the other strikers have not stepped up in his absence.

I pray Osimhen is available for all our remaining matches cos he's the proven goal scorer of the team

Osimhen is a cheat code.

Having him in your team is like playing with 1 goal up.

God bless his father, the womb that carried, nurtured and birthed him, Emmanuel Ammuneke and all the other coaches involved in his football development and journey.

God bless Victor Osimhen and the Super Eagles of Nigeria.

BankyGee:
😂😂😂

Them suppose report this account seff

Mujtahida:
Make una see wetin coach dey talk. Fake fake account

Mujtahida:
That's not Chelle's page. There's no coach in the world who is as pedestrian as that handle. Definitely not Chelle

BankyGee:
Very very very fake account. Our coach is on Instagram only.

Or phone calls, me and him talked yesterday after the match seff 😏

elyte89:
It’s a fake account bro

Na wa o, people dey sha.

You go just wake up begin dey clone, fake or impersonate another person for social media.

I for understand if na fan account.

Anyways, it is well.

This our coach like social media. His twitter is active

Go follow if you aren't already

Tchinaidi:
There is a problem with this crop eagles most of them including the captain are not natural ball players.They are stiff, Lethargic and don't seem to know what to with the ball.Coach chelle has to get us some grassroots players with understanding of the the Nigerian Traditional style of player,real baller from the NPL to blend with a few foreign based players or else we might have supporters loosing interest in our games.Our football play is very boring walahi

Shey una no dey tire?

daveP:
Attitude probably. It's been 10 games and the attitude of Osimhen and Lookman continues to stand out in attack. If we can have just 2 more of such, it would be beast mode.


I'll say the tactics today was out overall. It didn't click.

Two players that fit the bill are Elijah Adebayo of Luton Town and Akor Adams of Sevilla FC.

Dessers, Moffi, Onuachu, Arokodare, Orban & Umar, I no rate them like that.

daveP:
We need a faster leg and big lungs to hack the triangle passes of the Rwandans. So far we are still trailing on how to stop it. They're so good at it and i hope it doesn't give them a chance to ruin clean sheet for Nwabali.


Rwanda, when not using these traingles, are relying on long accurate balls to their wingers. Can Chelle do something to stop that this 2nd half. Ndidi needs to come off.

I imagine what Onyeka would have done by now. Iwobi would just be using top vision knowing Onyeka is behind him. Chuks no sabi run into box to use a touch or two from aerial passes like before.

Bro, you sabi ball. Ndidi is also misplacing passes.

Even now Onyeka absence dey pain me walahi.

Anyhow we wan do am, make we just collect 3 points from this game

That Galatasaray/Osimhen fan wey travel to Rwanda just to watch Osimhen has gotten her money worth already.

End of First half.

Nigeria 2
Rwanda 0

I am seeing a new attribute and playing style that I can only attribute to Eric Chelle.

What is it?

A high press and man-marking style in the opponents half which closed passing lanes and is making it difficult for Rwanda to play out from the back.

This is how Mali played under him.

I like it, I really like it.

Just a game, and the coach has stamped his imprint on the team.

Chelle go cook with this team.

andrewbaba44:
Make I rush 1 bottle before second half start

Kindly stop with the tomfoolery otherwise I may have to restrict you until after the match

Aah, not impressed with that midfield.

Ndidi doesn't have the lungs, legs and workrate anymore.

Iwobi is a CAM who excels passing-wise but is lightweight defensively in terms of marking and closing spaces. Also, doesn't do well playing from deep.

We are effectively ceding the midfield to Rwanda with this starting 11.

Anyway, 90 minutes will tell.

AndSunGorilla:
Surprise is very strategic and tactical warfare tactic.

In order to surprise the Rwandans, I would go with this lineup
Nwabili
Osayi - Ekong - Ogbu- Jordan
Alhassan - Aribo - Papa
Boniface - Sadiq - Tolu

3 pronged sharp attack with Goliath looking attackers but David's courage.

Like Prophet Asake sang, "dem never see us coming".

Up SE!!!!!

You no sabi ball.

BankyGee:
🏁 MATCH DAY!
The Super Eagles 🦅 of Nigeria 🇳🇬 will take on Rwanda 🇷🇼 today in Matchday 5 of the World Cup Qualifiers at the Amahoro Stadium, Kigali.

🌎: World Cup Qualifications
⚽: 🇷🇼 Rwanda 🆚 Nigeria 🇳🇬
🔔: Friday
🏟️: Amahoro Stadium, Kigali
📆: 21 March, 2024
🕖: 05:00PM (WAT)

The Super Eagles have never EVER beaten Rwanda at their home stadium in history since both sides started meeting in 2005. Can they make history today? Don't miss it at all!
Good luck 🤞🏾 Super Eagles 🦅 Soaaaaarrrr!

Can't wait for kick-off time.

Today, we either get our world cup qualification back on track

Or

We don't qualify.

I hope it'd be the former and not the latter.

Go Super Eagles go.

Continue here

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Subzerooo:
I like Bassey but he has not really impressed in the national team

You dey yarn opata.

If to say you talk am before the last AFCON, I fit gree.

But

Na false because Bassey was a rock at the last AFCON in CoteD'voire

seankafor:
he supposed sack wike join

I agree. If he had called Wike to order, things for no reach like this

But

Maybe he refused to do so cos he was working towards this outcome

PBAT did well. Wike and Fubara will rest now.

GloriousGbola:
and you went over an hour late
and there is a video showing why you were late

The way she dey move, last last she go abandon the service

I wish her well.

NYSC summoned you

You went there lawyered up, even carry career activists join body.

It is well.

GloriousGbola:
which makes her extremely daft

as a corper you may as well be a military recruit. that was what they shouted at u throughout camp. dat ya leg, it is now government leg!

if she is a corper the silly girl has brought herself to the attention of those in authority.

she has broken at least two and maybe four of the rules in the handbook

partisan politics
private practise
absenteesim

if they do extend her service, she will find that she prefers the smelly vi to the clean air of the barely developed parts of lagos they would post her to for her extension. there will be serious close marking. how many fancy restaurants are there in ikorodu? OF is location based business.

She's serving in Lagos so I expect that will give her some buffer because most parts of Lagos are somewhat developed.

But imagine she was serving in Ondo state and NYSC gave her extension and posted her to Ayetoro, a riverine community

◾Paddling canoes is the means to move around.
◾Accomodation are bamboo houses standing on wooden stake foundation.
◾No pipe-borne water or borehole water system. People collect rainwater into GP tanks to drink and cook. Bathing is done in the river.
◾Limited phone network and no internet access
◾No standard health facilities & qualified medical personnel. Na auxiliary nurses full there.
◾No modern toilet facilities. You defecate into the water by opening a manhole in the floor of the house or paddle canoes to designated areas within the vicinity to take a dump etc

Just imagine a large scale Makoko which is far from the hinterland, and you'd get the picture.

In addition, NYSC come give her close marking, shine torchlight for her head so she gats live there and no go fit travel?

Yes, she'll survive the extension but omo, she go suffer no be small.

Even that Lagos wey she dey, e get indigent communities wey dem fit post her to treat her eff up.

Away from the online bravado, I just hope people her interceding on her behalf with NYSC so she can get some kind of soft landing.

Even the NYSC officials under whose watch this happened go face consequences.

NYSC DG fit query the State Coordinator or transfer am to another state.

The state coordinator go transfer the Eti-Osa zonal coordinator to an unfavourable LG.

As in repercussions go dey throughout the command chain.

I understand why the NYSC officials panicked and were harrying her to take down the video.

The girl na alakoba and don put dem for trouble.

GloriousGbola:
it is highly unlikely she is a youth corper

once you look at her cv on linkedin you will see it does not add up

you cannot have full time employment as a youth corper

you are running an 'academy' where you have allegedly trained over 'a 1000 people' while you have a place of primary assignment

she is just trying to build buzz for her academy by throwing the right words into the mix

'smelly lagos' will always be a banger and is capable of drawing subscribers out of spite

Naah Egbon, I think she's a corper. Evidence abound.

The NYSC Eti-Osa LGI requesting her contact in their whatsapp group, the recorded call from the LGI asking her to take down the video and threatening her, the DMs and SMS messages from other corpers warning her to be careful etc indicates she is.

Lawyers and Nigerians online fit dey prop her up but I think her statement, "the president is terrible" is an insult because it's a negative assessment of his character and personality.

If she had said, the president's economic policies are terrible, that would be termed a critique.

In a few days, she'll stop trending, the social media noise & uproar will fizzle out but NYSC will be quietly waiting to exert their pound of flesh at her POP by giving her a service extension with close marking & monitoring.

I'm sympathetic to her but I just feel the repercussion of her outburst no worth am.

Make she milk this her fame, NYSC dey lurk for corner.

User09:
Looks like a publicity move especially with some of the key words used - Lagos is smelling, Tinubu bla bla bla, Rising cost ...

Also looks like an attention seeker. Looked for her Upwork profile and no presence there too. Make she sha calm down before they come for her. Some of her stuff no dey add up

Is the clout and publicity worth it though?

Bros J did something similar during his service year in Sokoto when he wrote an article critical of the state governor.

He was accused of being sponsored by the opposition.

Despite his apology, and making pleas and entreaties to the state government, dem still knack am 6 months extension and sent him to a remote PPA to do the extra time.

Make she enjoy her 5 minutes of fame because NYSC will quietly deal with her, and then, she no go fit post am for social media.

She's gonna learn!.

DissTroy:
Maybe ChatGPT did for this lecturer, but don't generalize. I've been writing and speaking in very formal wordy tones (even in the course of regular WhatsApp exchanges) for years before OpenAI got its $1 billion funding in 2015, and certainly before the first iteration of ChatGPT in 2022; Including here on Nairaland. My friends and acquaintances write and speak in similar tones too.

I don't know what demography of Nigerians you've been acquiesced with, but a very sizeable number of Nigerians are reputed for having a very rich vocabulary stock; and even more so those in the academia whom this Nekede lecturer is a part of.

Soyinka, Hon. Patrick Obahiaghon and others famous for using seemingly grandiosely formal words aren't outliers or exemptions as I interact with such people everyday.

This issue dey rage for office platform and some people don post the same thing wey you post so make I chip in

For me, the giveaway that the letter was written by AI is not so much the flowery and wordy tone but

1. The Title of the letter.

He wrote,

Dear Chidera,
LETTER OF APOLOGY TO MR CHIDERA

This is AI being used without proof reading, proper editing and correction.

It should have been

Dear Chidera,
LETTER OF APOLOGY

2. The overly patronizing tone and almost beggarly nature of the letter. The lecturer threw all his pride away. and was grovelling at the feet of the student. This is very uncharacteristic of a Nigerian lecturer.

3. The content of that letter went far and beyond the subject matter.

Look at the lines below:

I understand that my apology cannot erase the past, but I hope it can be a step towards healing and moving forward.

Erase past? healing? moving forward? kilode? on top a singular incident! When no be long term broken relationship?

Please know that I am committed to changing my behavior and ensuring that all my students feel safe, respected, and supported in the classroom. I will do everything in my power to prevent similar incidents from happening in the future.

How did a simple personal apology letter, expand in scope to ensuring all his students are respected, supported and feel safe in class?

If you are willing, I would like to meet with you to discuss how I can make amends and support you in any way possible. Please let me know if this is something you would be open to, and we can arrange a time and place that works for you.

Support? Did the student break some bones and land in hospital as a result of that clearance?

Again, this is overboard and uncharacteristic of a Nigerian lecturer, especially the one in question.

Even if I wan run this kain parole with the student, na to obtain hin digits, control am. give him a nice time and press small change for hin aza. Finish.

The letter is AI being used without human oversight and proof that AI sef dey gba.

Summarily, I can bet my March salary that the apology letter was generated by AI.

BascoVanVeli:
Flamingos vs Bantwana highlights

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kL_339qREOA

Great highlight.

Flamingos dominated but it seems certain players were glory hunting.

Joezinho:
How a man who has played only 3 MLS games gets picked ahead of Frank Onyeka and Uche Chrisantus is not only a crime. It is a crime that deserves the death sentence.

Make una rest The MLS guy is a squad member, a potential starter and amongst the three likely substitutes in a match.

The guys who do not deserve a spot in that squad and displaced Onyeka and Chrisantus are Papa Mustapha Daniel and Joe Aribo.

Theflint1:

“Why does an entire state smell like this?”

🫠 pic.twitter.com/2EVYZcTOY7

— @𝗼𝗻𝗲𝗷𝗼𝗯𝗹𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗯𝗼𝘆 (@OneJoblessBoy) March 15, 2025

🚨BREAKING NEWS

Raye is now being threatened by NYSC representatives for making this video criticizing the government.

Listen to her… https://t.co/8TRPAMGNG8 pic.twitter.com/H85beBsqKD

— @𝗼𝗻𝗲𝗷𝗼𝗯𝗹𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗯𝗼𝘆 (@OneJoblessBoy) March 15, 2025

The level of emotional investment Nigerians put into politicians, especially politicians that see them as no more than cattle is worrying.

And to think this is one of the corp members that Tinubu scammed with the fake minimum wage.

Na this kain thing make NYSC redeploy Brother Suraj to a remote location, and give am extension of service.

She's gonna learn, and learn in a hard way.

raumdeuter:
Fear curses ke?

I no Just wan make e be say when your Tinubu praise singing song wan blow na that time enemies go release where you dey curse

Dayo, gimme gig na.

I have seen the light and now stand on the mandate for 2027

Theflint1:
How different is the advent of AI from other technological leaps in the field of information access?

Was it any different from access to books becoming democratized, or the Internet in the 90's to early 2000s?

I think as with most of these other technological leaps, people would with time adjust society to fit with the new normal, and probably the way students get graded would have to evolve. It's a good thing the kids are tapping into AI and these LLM's early enough...those that know what they're doing (and there'd always be) would grow in leaps and bounds.

I was watching a review of the Mac Studio M3 Ultra with 96GB and 1TB (gets up to 128GB/8GB sef) and it was a little sobering realizing that Nigerian's that have need for that level of personal computing fit no pass 10 for the full country and by the time we start trying to latch on, the rest of the world would have completely dominated that field.

Bro, I understand where you coming from.

I support the democratization of information access but I fear academics is one field that may never fully embrace AI. I highlight some reasons below:

The gatekeepers in academics all did it the old-fashioned and difficult way, without AI so they wouldn't want to lower the bar and make it easier for those coming behind.

With dependence on AI comes laziness, a lack of critical thinking & analysis, poor development of problem solving skills which are core requirements in academia (See that Nekede lecturer for example using AI to write a simple apology letter).

Furthermore, plagiarism is rampant in AI generated academic output which is seen as dishonesty, and lack of integrity in academic circles.

Also, AI dey gba many times with inaccurate and misleading information.

AI output depends on the training data, and reflects the perspective of the country it was developed. For example if I were to ask ChatGPT and DeepSeek about Hong Kong, their responses would be tainted with their biases.

Academics is probably the only field that is resisting and actively pushing back against the use of AI by developing and deploying tools to detect AI generated and humanized content. The capabilities of TurnitIn, Copyleaks and other AI content detectors keep getting updated and better on a daily basis.

AI is making people lazy.

Those of us wey go school in the days of very limited internet access, and had to use physical libraries, do overnight browsing at the cybercafe just to download materials for our projects are better grounded.

These days. the simplest writing tasks are done with AI. Even that one sef, dem no fit apply human sense to make it better.

I recently reviewed some seminar papers and all of them were written with AI but it's understandable cos students like sharp-sharp stress free work.

The first sentence in one of the seminar papers I reviewed went thus;

Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) are the leading cause of deaths globally.

How do you make such a weighty statement without stating the prevalence number and quoting a reference source?

Also that CVDs in bracket was a dead giveaway that it was AI generated.

I fear for our kids o, I really fear.

Hopefully, Turnitin will continue to keep people honest when it comes to serious academic output.

BascoVanVeli:
That's goal of the week material from our girls

Post highlights when the match finish