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DissTroy:
Asa. It was Asa.

I can name alté artistes at the time in the 2000s who were more household names than Black Magic:

- Rooftop MCs.
- GT da Guitarman (of Storm Records).

- Bez Idakula came next. "Zuci daya" was a radio hit for lovelórn night listeners. His "Super Sun" album cemented that in 2011.

Memories. Asa WAS a great one.

Her first album "Asa" is the best debut album ever and the most unskippable album released by a Nigerian artiste i.m.o

That album was a masterpiece and once you slot the CD, you're hooked by her soothing vocals and will listen from track one to the last.

Songs like Eye adaba, bibanke, fire on the mountain, 360 degrees, awe, Iba, subway, no one knows etc were on that album, and I dare say the least song from that album was better than the best song from all her other albums.

Another noteworthy unskippable debut album is 2face Idibia's Face 2 Face. Nfana ibaga, African queen, Ole. You no holy pass, keep on rocking were on that CD. That album also has my favourite 2face song of all time, Thank you Lord.

Still, I rate Asa's debut album slightly better cos of the songwriting and also for its alte sound.

izzou:
Yes oh

Damn. May his soul rest in peace.

izzou:
Goodnight, Chuck Norris

Hin don kpai abi wetin?

Make I cause small chaos.

If rap finesse is being defined as ease/effortlessness, suavity, swag, smoothness of flow, then the Nigerian rapoer with the most finesse is not even a rapper but an R & B artiste. Yeah. you heard me right.

That Person is Bankole Wellington aka Bank W.

It was his feature in DJ Jimmy Jatt's E to beh that also had Phyno.

Take a listen. especially, his second verse from the 3.00 minute mark.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcwOar3nuWI&pp=ygUfRGogTmVwdHVuZSBmdCBQaHlubyBhbmQgQmFua3kgV9IHCQnFCgGHKiGM7w%3D%3D

Banky's verses were very braggadocios But no Nigerian rapper has ever been able to surpass the finesse - smooth flow, suavity, poshness that Banky exhibited in that song.

Throwback Thursday.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23MsneAXhAc&pp=ygUSYmxhY2sgbWFnaWMgcmVwZXRl0gcJCcUKAYcqIYzv

Black Magic - Repete

An Afrobeats masterpiece.

A timeless classic. Mad jam back in the days and even today, song is still a vibe.

The trumpet sound that runs through the song is orgasmic, and the way his silky smooth vocals was layered over the beat was heavenly.

SoundCity, Nigezie and Trace Naija no let the song rest that circa 2013, and played it like every hour.

Its sacrilegious that the song didn't make the Billboard 50 best afrobeats songs of all time list.

https://www.billboard.com/lists/best-afrobeats-songs/50-weird-mc-ijoya/

It'd easily displace some of the songs on that list imo.

BM dropped one good album and fell off.

The way artistes fall off after one or two hit songs will make you appreciate and respect peeps Olamide, Wizkid, Burna, Davido, Flavour, Phyno, Kizz Daniel and others who have been doing it consistently and remained relevant for over a decade cos many fell off and couldn't sustain their success.

DissTroy, you have a weird taste in music. Do you consider Black Magic's repete a good song?

OkpaNsukkaisBae:
If no be low IQ, tell me why Nigerian Christians go dey see Iran as their enemy just because religion.
The English king literally told us that there's no Christian genocide or persecution in Nigeria. Tufia. Na the same Britain/European carry Christianity come Nigeria. I wish the king can go to Plateu, Benue or Kaduna & tell them in person.


https://www.gbnews.com/royal/king-charles-muslim-ramadan-sacrifice-state-banquet-speech

Genuine question. No agenda. I just wan know.

Why UK dey fete PBAT?

mekabuachi:
Nff petition rejected because it wasn't filed properly...

Based on technicality (failure to file within the stipulated time period), not on the merit or lack of merit of the petition.

FIFA dey do like Nigerian judiciary. So disappointing.

So what was FIFA investigating all this while when the petition could have been dismissed the same week it was filed?

Never thought it'd go our way but the more I think about it, the more it seems like a political ruling motivated by a desire not to upset the apple cart.

NFF should just move on.

DissTroy:
Why? The cost of PMS hasn't increased in Iran, Oman, Saudi Arabia or Qatar which are being hit and are oil-producing countries like us.

Nigeria is thousands of miles away, produces its own petroleum and gave some sort of monopoly to one man as the largest refinery in the world, which the current administration likes to brag is due to its favour business policy and celebrated with pomp and fanfare.

Netanyahu, Trump and our very own Okpatollah aren't the reason this country doesn't have other functional refineries or the functional one we have which gets crude from local sources ramped up petroleum products cost arbitrarily.

The Iran War isn't the reason Nigeria's FCCPC and other price regulatory bodies spiked prices.

The missiles flying in the Middle East isn't the reason why if you drive down the road in your area this evening, you'll find 7 different fueling stations selling petrol at different prices and state government price control boards aren't enforcing anything because most of the fueling stations are owned by those in the corridors of power.

Is the Iran War the reason the woman on your street corner selling at the fruit mart pegging mangoes and oranges for double the prices she sold just one month ago?

Baba, you are normally spot on with your analysis but on this one.your brain don waka go sabbatical.

Crude is an internationally priced commodity and the global oil market sets the price. And since the Iran war began, the prize of crude has jumped from $60 per barrel to over $100 per barrel.

Shipping routes have been disrupted. Supply don diminish and crude no surplus like before. Freight and insurance of vessels sef add money. So the price don go up everywhere.

America produces over 20 million barrels of crude oil per day and even refines locally, yet even them don increase their pump price since the Iran war began.

Americans are all over social media complaining about the cost of fuel and the other day we saw Korra Obidi post a video complaining about buying fuel more expensive due to the Iran war.

It's also the reason Donald Trump has being para-ing, daring and threatening Iran not to close the Hormuz Strait. Because 20% of the world supply passes through that route, and if that route is disrupted, iit would exacerbate the situation in America which would affect him politically too.

Another point. The price of refined fuel always mirrors that of crude. If crude goes up, PMS, diesel, aviation fuel and all other derivatives sef go get erection.

Nigeria case get k-leg. Dangote is the only local player and the FG only supplies about 30% of his crude requirement. Even at that, Dangote pays in Naira at the international benchmarked crude price, and this has increased from $60 before the war to over $100 now. So naturally, the price of Dangote fuel go increase.

The other importers and independent marketers sef no get choice but to increase their prices because no be wetin dem dey buy PMS before, dem still dey buy am.

Now, Nigeria is a fuel-dependent country and fuel is the lifeline of our economy. So when fuel goes up, every other thing go follow....transport. commodities, farm produce, groceries and FMCGs, cost of doing business, services, everything.

It was inevitable that the local fuel price will increase with the Iran war. The only way it wouldn't have was if govt paid subsidy.

I rest my fingers.

I do not understand how any Nigerian go dey gloat and post the war with glee when the same war is making life more difficult and draining our pockets. I mean, there is absolutely nothing to gloat about in this Israel/America-Iran war.

Israelis don kpai. Americans don kpai. Iranians don kpai. Many on both sides dey wounded. Even the gulf countries wey no dey directly involved don lose people.

Properties have been bombed and left in ruins. Schools and whole neighbourhoods have been reduced to rubble. Investments have been wiped out overnight. Businesses shut down. Airports closed. Oil facilities hit

Families have lost fathers, mothers, brothers, sisters and children. Some of the people killed no even get anything to do with the fighting.

Even for Nigeria, things don red and we dey feel am. Fuel don enter 1500. Transportation don go up. Bolt and Uber fares don jump. Interstate transport companies don adjust prices. If they haven't already, airlines sef go do upward review of ticket prices.

Cooking gas don enter 1200/kg for my side. Kilo of beef, 8000. Goat meat, 9000. It used to be 6500 and 7500 before. Bukas and small restaurants go adjust their prices and portions too.

Commodities and FMCGs dey add money like garri wey soak for water. Rice, bread, noodles, vegetable oil. Everything dey creep up small small.

This war is in the middle east but the shockwaves dey reverberate all the way in Nigeria. and it's draining pockets.

I do not care for Trump, Netanyahu or Ayatollah. My own be say make the war end so things fit return to normal.

DissTroy, food is ready

🔸Fuel - N1450, formerly N900
🔸Cooking gas - N1200, formerly N1050
🔸Commuting to and from work - N4000, formerly N3000
🔸Bag of Pure water - N450, formerly N400
🔸Carton of Golden Penny Spaghetti - N23000, formerly N21000
🔸Carton of Happy Hour - N3500, formerly N3300
🔸Carton of Malto biscuit - N3500, formerly N3300

etc

Prices of these commodities changed just between last week and this week when the Israel-USA vs Iran ish broke out.

Semid4lyfe is battling existential issues and very upset at Bibi and Trumpf for starting this war.

Make una no dey call me for trivialities on NL.

T for tanks.

GloriousGbola:
It is not as if mehdi is an unknown quantity or as if mehdi is not a known hostile interviewer.

This speaks to the mental laziness of people appointed to government roles. Bwala is simply unprepared to be a media aide. It is as simple as that. It is a role where you should be mentally quick on your feet, able to parry and deflect and counter interviewers

The guy is just an unfit person in a role dashed to him as jobs for the boys. Even renowanker would likely have done a better job.

I wonder what will happen next.

izzou:
Na people like you dey make these people mediocre day by day

Even Tuggar that was grilled was not bad.

Daniel didn't have any rebuttal for most of what he was asked by Mehdi. At some point, he said Amnesty doesn't say anything good. Just beer parlor defense tactics

This is a Media and Publicity figure for a country. I can tolerate Seyi being roasted, but someone who cannot even do his job well is something else.

Sotey, audience begin laugh.

Credit ko, Debit ni

Reno would have been worse.

Tuggar was cooked terribly by Piers Morgan and that Canadian lady on Piers Morgan Uncensored so tey he became belligerent and started shouting .

Bayo Onanuga, Ajuri Ngelale would have been a mismatch. They speak in hesitant, halting manner using lots of fillers. Ditto for Lai Mohammed and Garba Shehu of PMB govt. Also, these peeps wouldn't have been able to cope with the fast-paced rapid question style of Mehdi.

Like G.Gbola said, Mehdi is a known hostile interviewer and the whole idea of the show is to put guests under pressure with uncomfortable questions.

Make una no dey underestimate how difficult this kinda interview setting is. You sit across someone whose job is to grill you, interrupt, twist your words, and keep pushing until you slip. The audience of the show already leans skeptical, so you are in unfriendly territory in the first place.

Most Nigerian government spokesmen are used to local press briefings where journalists allow long answers and soft landings. That setting differs from a rapid-fire studio interview like Head to Head where Mehdi controls the pace and keeps cutting you off.

So judging DB's outing as if the goal was to win the interviewer no be am. The goal is simple. Hold your ground, avoid major blunders, and launder and pass across your government's talking points to an international audience.

The only place Daniel Bwala struggled was his past statements on Bola Ahmed Tinubu, and Mehdi kept going back to those old utterances. That angle boxed him in because he had to spend time explaining the turnaround instead of focusing fully on defending government policy.

Apart from that, he stayed in the seat, kept a friendly genial disposition, answered most of the questions, deflected and parried a few, disputed some figures and data, fired a few salvos at Mehdi and did not melt down under pressure. On a program like Head to Head, that already counts for something.

I rest my fingers.

Segedinho:
Baba na another interview you watch o

Or maybe brext dey ur mouth as u dey watch

Daniel Bwala wasn't flustered or agitated at any point in the interview.
He was calm, composed, genial and conceded a few points.

He even launched some offensive salvos using Keir Starmer and Donald Trump to draw comparison and push back at Mehdi Hassan.

He emphasized that context matters for a lot of the things he said in the past.

He disputed some data and figures that Mehdi Hassan was reeling out.

I could go on and on.

Again, considering how difficult it is to defend PBAT , I think Daniel Bwala did okay.

PDPGuy:
He’s one of the best that Emilokan has to offer 🙆🏽‍♂️

Mehdi Hassan is a brutal interviewer. There's no guest he hasn't cooked on this Head to Head programme.

He's also a great debater. Intelligent, fast thinker and quick-witted.

Just finished watching the entire interview, and considering his extremely difficult task of defending this PBAT administration, his past criticism of PBAT and juxtaposing it with the performance of other guests on the show, I'll say Daniel Bwala did okay.

Papi85:
Oma wey dem talk say em dey scam young players for 9ja say em go get dem clubs abroad

Oma did not scout the player, and YES Oma scams players with promises of taking them to Europe and getting them signed. Evidence abound from C mobike.

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BascoVanVeli:
Cameroon 1-3 Nigeria ft
Good performance by the ladies.

BascoVanVeli:
Match highlights

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_vVP9i9qZ8?si=7wLwwZd3E_IhD6Vp

Nice commentary.

E get wetin you talk.....something about pinpoint or on point, cant recall exactly but it was nice and I chuckled when I heard it.

AndSunGorilla:
That pitch no good and what state of the art stadium? I support you on Madugu but that stadium one, baba, dat one no enter. It's better than the secondary school field they used in Cameroon.

Baba, na the same thing we dey talk but you missed my sarcasm

BascoVanVeli:
Cameroon 1-3 Nigeria ft
Good performance by the ladies.

Yeah, good one. Well done to the team.

The evil agendists will ignore this one because it doesnt suit their anti-Madugu agenda.

Cameroon can host AFCON but Nigeria cannot host it una.

See state of the art stadium and that pristine pitch.

Talk about scoring a goal, and the commentator says "that is a brilliant goal by Iwobi, worthy of his uncle, the great JayJay Okocha"

Alex Iwobi fit use Okocha name cash cheque for bank.

mostob:
Honestly, that agenda stinks. It stinks so bad.

Going by that logic, we can conclude both Ajibade and Esther didn't provide enough input to the success of the team.

Swap Madugu with Randy and that guy would have been all over this thread writing epistles upon epistles on how Randy was cheated.

No be say I even rate Madugu like that but what I will not and never accept is their EVIL AGENDA to discredit him and ascribe the Mission X accomplishment to only the players.

A person leads a team to a tournament plays six matches, defeating Zambia, South Africa and Morocco, besting Nora Hauptie, Desiree Ellis and Jorge Vilda respectively but NL armchair analysts say he had no coaching input and attribute the success to the will and desire of the players. How?

Schemerkhiz:
So what we are looking at is the workings that have brought steady progress, cohesion and all to the team, I will boldly say it that the last WAFCON was 75% the Ladies effort because there wasn’t a good enough Coaching input..

Simply put, Madugu will be abysmal at the World Cup. If a team is well Coached it will show in their style of play even if they lose.

You are so entrenched in your bias and prejudice against Madugu that you're turning common sense and logic on their heads.

So South Africa, Morocco, Zambia lost out in the last WAFCON because their gals did not put in effort right?

How did you arrive at the 75 percent player effort and 25% coaching input to make that deduction? What metric did you use?

In football, the managers input can never be divorced from the team's performance moreso in a championship winning team. In fact, coaching input and player performance are pari passu with each other but e reach Madugu turn una suspend common sense to push agenda.

Your hypocrisy stinks worse than a soakaway pit.

AkinDS:
With all due respect, a contrary argument can also be made to buttress the fact that the Madugu guy is sub-optimal for the Falcons.
It would have been atrocious IF he had failed in progressing to the semi's of the WAFCON with a squad pretty much build by Randy, especially with him (Madugu) being a part of the coaching staff. Even you or I could have done that - so no great feat on his part!

Do you have a coaching badge?

Do you have coaching experience at any level?

Have you ever played football at any level?

Have you ever led a training session?

Have you ever practiced and drilled a team tactically to play specific opposition?

Do you know how to write a match report?

Have you ever developed a match strategy?

Do you know how to design training plans? etc

If you can't answer YES to all these questions, then give Madugu his flowers and drop the cocky arrogance cos you know nothing about coaching and team management.

Na so Sunday Oliseh, Garry Neville, Thierry Henry dey run their mouths as pundits until they were appointed as Managers and they all fumbled.

It speaks volumes that in the history of the CAF awards, never has a coach of a Women's national team not won the CAF coach of the year award, yet he failed to win in, especially when you consider the importance of the accomplishment and the circumstances and manner under which the team won the final. Yet, the award was given to someone who didn't even win any trophy on the continent. Could it be because the technical committee who rates these coaches figured out that he provided little or no inputs to the success of the team? Go figure!

Lol. Revisionism. Agenda must agend.

Madugu deserved that award.

Madugu not winning the coach of the year award was not due to technical/tactical deficiency or a lack of input in the teams success but because of CAF politics, and compensation for Morocco not winning the WAFCON.

That's the only reason it was given to that Moroccan lady coach of TP Mazembe ladies that didn't win any trophies and no one had heard of until she won the award.

The same CAF politics was the reason Rasheedat Ajibade, who won best player at the WAFCON and had a stellar season with Athletico Madrid did not win the Women Player of the Year.

Even if una wan agend, make una dey agend with sense.

I have seen that maintenance sex video of Apostle Emmanuel Iren.

He spoke from a neutral standpoint, and the message wasn't directed at any specific gender.

He talked about mutual sex responsibility of husband and wife in marriage and emphasized that ALL intercourse wouldn't be mind-blowing, and a partner may not be in the mood when the other is, hence the concept of maintenance sex.

He did not say that wives owe their husbands maintenance sex.

His point was to ensure that the marital bed shakes frequently and is not neglected, which benefits both parties.

It is about deliberately choosing to be intimate with your partner even when you do not desire it..

It is about prioritizing connection and protecting the bond from unnecessary droughts. And this applies both ways.

The interpretation of the OP is tainted by her ideological bias, desire to pander to her base and to take an unnecessary swipe at men .

The OP's post is also riddled with false equivalence, inconsistency, contradictions and hypocrisy.

I leave couples with a word of admonition.

No too follow online chatter. Use your sense in your marriage.

I rest my fingers.

BascoVanVeli
Starboytwo
Chriskels
GMBOFASIA
BankyGee
TheSuperNerd

My passion got the better of me. Correction has been taken and apologies for my outburst.

Osimhen, Onuachu, Lookman and others, dem be our own and it's to the Super Eagles benefit that they perform well in their respective clubs.

May all our players continue to soar in Jesus name. Amen.

BascoVanVeli:
U guys are reaching, I don't see anything wrong with the comment. Victor has been our little brother for the past decade. Anyone who thinks he pays for media hype is just slow in the head. If anything, we should be paying him for the extra views and likes we get when we say his name.

You don't see anything wrong with Onuachu subbing Osimhen?

AkinDS:
Believe, when there are tell tale signs you are about to face a headwind?

Look at the performance trajectory of this team since WAFCON...

The warped desire of the coach to move backwards (bringing in players that offer little or no value to the team - Okobi, Ogbonna, Onyenezide) instead of focusing on the future, is a HUGE problem with this coach.

He could have utilized the momentum of WAFCON to reinforce this team with the singular objective of becoming a world class team, instead of pandering to the old guard who offer nothing of value to the future SF.

I agree wholeheartedly with this. Hopefully, he'd realize this and integrate younger players into the squad.

I think Osinachi Ohale, Ngozi Okobi, Asisat Oshaola, Francesca Ordega are past it.

Ohale and Asisat should be squad players but not starters while Okobi and Ordega shouldn't be in the team at all.

OyeneZidane , Ogbonna and those orobo keepers shouldn't be anywhere near the squad. They're not hood enough, and we have better options.

Schemerkhiz:
But do you even know that Cameroon beat Nigeria with a team of over 95% Home Based players..

I know baba. It's a friendly and I am not reading too much into it.

AkinDS:
Believe, when there are tell tale signs you are about to face a headwind?

Look at the performance trajectory of this team since WAFCON...

Some of us argued that the 'Mission X' win was pretty much due to the ladies sheer 'will and desire' to win the trophy and not because of any significant input of the coach. Well, looking at the performance of their games post-WAFCON is an indication of what to expect.

The warped desire of the coach to move backwards (bringing in players that offer little or no value to the team - Okobi, Ogbonna, Onyenezide) instead of focusing on the future, is a HUGE problem with this coach.
He could have utilized the momentum of WAFCON to reinforce this team with the singular objective of becoming a world class team, instead of pandering to the old guard who offer nothing of value to the future SF.

With all due resoect, the emboldened is nonsense....utter nonsense and I can never agree with it, lai lai.

Lots of peeps here do it all the time and its gotten really annoying.

When the team loses, una go blame and discredit the coach. When they win, you say the team won due to sheer will and desire of the players.

So Madugu was in Morocco on excursion abi?

Pray tell,

Who selected the tournament squad?

Who coordinated the training sessions?

Who picked the starting 11 for games?

Who decided the tactical set-up and formations to play in games?

Who decided on in-game adjustments?

Who did tactical analysis of the opposing teams?

Who made the decision on substitutions?

Who decided on the player positions?

Who decided on the defensive structure?

Who decided whether to do man marking or zonal marking in set piece situations against us?

etc etc

All the above are coaching inputs, and iit was Justine Madugu who made them.

By your logic, only our gals had will and desire and the players of Morocco, SA, Ghana, Zambia etc lacked this will and desire abi?

Okay, this will and desire sef, who instilled it in the players. Answer - Justin Madugu.

Abeg. make una stop this will and desire talk. It's too juvenile.

I don't particularly like the coach but I will always give him his due credit and flowers for delivering the Mission X.

Any one who thinks otherwise is dishonest and a hypocrite.

AkinDS:
I suspected it was her but was unsure.
Liked her confidence and the way she played (touches, off the ball movements and speed). She is one to keep on the squad for me.

We need better midfielders to compliment the crew we have. Certainly, no need for mediocre players like of Okobi (over the hill), Onyenezide (poor overall performance). There are quite a few much better players who will help take the SF to that next level we need to be.

Thank you for this assessment. It's a double friendly right?

Hopefully, the coach will bench the poor players, and give others a chance in the second game.

Madugu has this self-destruct thing in him. That's how he benched Echegini in the last WAFCON final for Abiodun and it almost cost us.

Football is a youth sports, and ageing impacts negatively on the ability of ladies more than men. We've seen it with Rita Chikelu, Onome Ebi and we're currently seeing it with Asisat Oshaola, Ngozi Okobi, Osinachi Ohale and Francesca Ordega who are past their best. Absolutely no reason for Okobi to have been invited back in the first place.

Looking forward to the second game.