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Mujtahida:
Bro, there are many considerations before one takes a job oo. Sometimes job satisfaction trumps money. Even today at the presser Chelle said it that he's been following our team since 98. I recall that when he was first appointed he said that coaching Nigeria has been his dream.

Tunisia cannot take him from us. Not even Saudi Arabia can.

but the NFF has not made the environment condusive for him, I heard he is being or was owed salary, then him getting double the pay, these are incentives that would make any coach reconsider. I pray he stays the NFF has to do better owing players and coach is absurd, sports administration is bigger than just paying salary, paying salary is even the basics but yet the NFF still struggles with the very basics

9jatriot:
That’s exactly why I struggle to engage with people like you. Did I ever say it wasn’t tuition-free? No.
I made a logical point—go back and read it again. I said that even though tuition is free, the additional costs—like administrative fees ranging from 100 to 400 euros, mandatory health insurance, and faculty-specific fees—still make it more expensive than universities here.
Did I say tuition-free education was a bad thing? Not at all.
What really annoys me about you is how quickly you resort to insults. I see that as a serious character flaw.

We are saying the same thing they pay administrative fees, faculty fees, schools in Nigeria still pay these same fees, now when you combine the total fees you"ll still see it is just a portion of their minimum wage, that of Nigeria universities I doubt if minimum wage can cover it, how then did you come up with your logic that they pay more compared to Nigerian universities? Unless you are converting the amount of euros to naira, which is and ignorant way of measuring the cost of education among countries.

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9jatriot:
When some of us say many of you guys do not really have something upstairs, some other assume we are being too hard on you guys

Of all the other fees that apply, you went to only pick one of them. Tuition fee may be free but the education itself is not, Germany and the Scandinavian countries are just cheaper than the others does not make them totally free.
They are an example of what they call, "Terms and Conditions may apply".

So, go back to the first quote you did not understand but quoted and started insulting about and compare it with the info below and explain in a sensible language what you find to be a lie/


[b]Even with free tuition at German public universities, expect major semester expenses for Semester Fees (€100-€400) covering admin and often a transport pass, mandatory Health Insurance (€110+/month), and significant Living Costs (rent, food, personal), totaling around €900-€1,200+ per month, plus initial visa/blocked account funds, while the state of Baden-Württemberg charges non-EU students an extra €1,500 per semester.
Mandatory Semester Fees (Per Semester)
Semester Contribution (Semesterbeitrag): €100 - €400 (covers admin, student union, often a public transport pass).
Baden-Württemberg Exception: Non-EU students pay an additional €1,500 per semester in this state.
Monthly Living Expenses (Estimate: €900 - €1,200+)
Accommodation: €350 - €700+ (highly variable by city/type).
Health Insurance: €110 - €120+ (mandatory public insurance).
Food: €200 - €300+.
Study Materials: €30 - €50+ (books, supplies).
Phone/Internet: €30 - €60+.
Personal/Recreation: €70 - €100+ (leisure, clothing, etc.).
Initial & Other Costs
Blocked Account: Required for visa, showing €992/month (€11,904 for a year) as proof of funds.
Visa Fees: Costs associated with applying for a student visa.
One-Time Costs: Flights, initial setup, etc..
Key Takeaway: While tuition is largely free, the primary costs are living expenses and the mandatory semester fee, with health insurance and accommodation being the biggest budget items. [/b]

you can't just be picking things from the Internet and posting without understanding, there is no country in the world where you don't pay transport cost or feeding, how does that equate to the schools not being tuition free, students in Nigerian federal institutions don't they feed and cloth themselves, is it the govt that feed them, so how does that equate to German universities not being tuition free, you talked about how they pay more, what percentage of their minimum wage do they spend on all this, compare to the percentage of minimum wage nigerianns spend on the same.

9jatriot:
With very little things upstairs, you guys resort to insults.

How does this your response counter my own statement that you quoted?

you still can't see the foolishness and ignorance in your statement smh, if someone earns 2,220 euros per month as minimum wage in Germany and spends 20 euros on books per semester thats means a German spends less than 1percent of his monthly minimum wage on books, a Nigerian spends nothing less than 20thousand on books that is about 30 percent of his minimum wage on books, for you to know say a guy who spends less than 1 percent of his monthly salary on books pay more than someone who spends about a 30 percent on books is just insensitive , what is even more stupid is you now converting his currency that has value to naira that is practically worthless.

9jatriot:
I can almost swear that this guy is lying. Most of the things written there are either outright lies or not for everybody in the country.

After they finish selling these types of lies, Nigerians will now do all sorts of evil (even kidnapping), sell all their properties and then japa. Only to get there and find out the harsh realities that what was promised is different from what you get.

The first question any sensible person should ask is, if government does all of these things for people over there whay then are there still homeless people?

What Germans call tuition free University is still higher that what we pay in our public and maybe even private universities. Even though tuition free, by the time you pay all the other so-called small fees, it will add up and be more than what we call school fees here, but technically it is still called tuition-free.

you are so ignorant, comparing the value of Euros to naira, German universities are tuition free what you call small fee maybe fees for books and others don’t Nigeria student buy books too. You comparing the value of their books which is sold in euros to naira is just stupidity. How does your brain work?

richiemcgold:
Only Carlo Ancellotti can make Madrid perform. They should beg him to make another comeback. Any other coach they hire will still struggle.

don Carlo struggled too last season, Madrid went trophyless and the team was really poor towards the end of his stay at Madrid.

jiz:
Why Garba lawal is missing?
Why Peter rufai missing ?
This Gen z will not seems amaze me forming things on their head

This Is not about Gen z was Peter rufai better than enyeama?

Hala madrid.... madrid all the way

helinues:
I doubt if you comprehend what you are responding to

I thought you were discussing the NFF petition against Congo World Cup playoff spot. And according to fifa rule of eligibility once your parents or grandparents are from a country you can represent that nation without even obtaining a passport or any citizenship documents

helinues:
Well we are yet to hear from FIFA officially but you see the law of Congo, it doesn't allow dual citizenship. Have the players affected destroyed their foreign passport or officially came out to renounce their foreign citizenship?

I doubt Nigeria can win these case, there is something called sporting nationality if you can prove ties either your parent or grandparent is from that country then you are eligible to represent that country, Dr congo players don't even need to be legal citizens of congo to be eligible to represent Dr congo. I doubt FIFA would favour Nigeria, FIFA don't even care much about local law.

Kalulu44:
I ask again, na Finidi make dem draw Zimbabwe for Uyo, draw SA for away or na Finidi make Congo DR play una like small pikin for that play off

The team was poor, during the qualifiers, eric chelle took over a terrible team and the same team is doing very well now, you cant blame eric chelle for the world cup loss he just came in, he needed time to get to know the team, the players can take some blame too but finidi and i think it was eguaveon or poseiro who began the qualifiers should take majority of the blame. Finidi has been in the system for years as an assistant he should have known better.

Ezeama400:
Stone ages.

You certainly don’t know how far America has gone .. America can be a pariah state for 200 years and still stand.. wake up !!



America will never fall in Jesus name.. Amen !!

America is powerful no doubt but one of America's greatest strength lies in its alliance with sister nations, now that trump is isolating everyone if a war breaks out and Russia and China decide to form an alliance the US will fall same day.

RaySimran:
This year would be my first year on earth without harmattan

it even rained a day to new year's eve in benin city

deavicky:
My problem is, NFF is too early with this petition they should have allow Congo get the ticket then we collect it from them because I’m not sure the eagles can win the next play off.

If the NFF should wait till after congo gets the ticket, then the team they beat in the next playoff would have a bigger claim to the ticket

Naija messed up real bad, saw the draw today, felt a little bit sad 😭😭.

Ebubu6:
I lost around 1.2million naira this year to forex. It made me miserable because this year would have been a highly successful one for me without that loss.

Anything concerning stock, crypto, forex , bond, betting, can never be me again.


Especially if e pass 10 $ worth.

Only thing I can use more than 10$ invest in now is physical business like agriculture, or buying land.

Any online investment I'm out of it.

same here I lost a little over 2million on forex too, I went straight into depression.

semid4lyfe:
I did not absolve the NFF of blame but your arguement still leans too heavily on the NFF as if they tied the players legs on the pitch.

Also, you're rewriting history. Jose Peseiro was employed on a 70k USD/month contract but after some mixed results and difficulty paying his salary, the NFF offered him a reduced 50k USD salary to stay on and take the team to the AFCON which he accepted.

He refused to renew the 50K USD/month contract when it expired at the end of AFCON, and demanded an increased salary to stay on as coach stating he had offers from other places.

After failing to reach an agreement with the NFF, JP announced his departure and the NFF moved on to appoint his deputy Finidi George as the substantive coach which I hailed and supported at that time because Finidi had the highest coaching badge, and some experience working in Europe, deputizing JP and coaching in the NPFL.

Your assertion that lots of Nigerians wanted JP gone after the AFCON is not entirely true. Reactions to JP continuing as coach was mixed. I wanted him to continue because he showed his tactical acumen and flexibility after the qualifiers and first AFCON game by deployed a 3-5-1-1 formation that fixed our goals leaking issue, and got us to the FINAL. I mean, from 4-3-3, JP switched to a 3-5-1-1 that made us defensively disciplined, solid and dispatched teams playing some prime catenaccio ball akin to Italy of 2006 world cup.

I also think you overestimate the Super Eagles brand with your quality of coaches statement, and we have to be realistic with the kinda coaches we can appoint.. There's no way we can attract first class coaches like Ancelotti, Guardiola. Mourinho and the likes. They're way above our league. Even the first class Africans/African experienced coaches like Pitso Motsimane, Hugo Broos, Herve Rennard are above our league. I think the right profile of coaches for the Super Eagles are young African, European, South American coaches who are within the age bracket of 40-55. and are eager to make a name for themselves. They also are moderate with their salary expectations. Think coaches like Pedro Goncalves, Djamel Belmadi, Aliou Cisse etc So by my assessment, Eric Chelle is a perfect fit for the job.

As for Finidi, with the benefit of hindsight, I agree he wasn’t ready. But even if Pep Guardiola was coach, the same players that struggled to beat Lesotho would still be the same players. National team coaches don’t perform magic. They work with what is available.

This NFF is the biggest culprit angle ignores the biggest elephant in the room, the players, who did not perform at the level required. You mentioned those early qualifiers. Exactly!. That is where we lost the plot. Even with all the NFF wahala, you don’t drop points at home to Lesotho. You don’t lose against Benin on a neutral ground. That one is not bonus issue or NFF delay. That’s players lacking hunger and performing poorly.

NFF didn't ask Ndidi to play the ball wide one-on-one with the Zimbabwe goalie in Uyo. NFF didn't instruct Troost Ekong not to tackle the Zimbabwean player that scored the 89th minute equalizer against us in Uyo. NFF didn't ask Troost Ekong to score an own goal from a non-threatening square ball in SA. NFF didn't ask Ndidi to get in the way of Chukwueze to possibly score our second goal against DR Congo. NFF didn't ask Ndidi not to clear the ball that led to DR Congo's equalizer. NFF didn't ask Bassey, Simon and Ajayi to play poor penalties. I could go on and on.

NFF has blame. Nobody is arguing that. Their administrative ineptitude is embarrassing. But to pin everything on them while giving the players and coaches a lighter share of the blame is inaccurate

NFF failed in organization (10%). Coaches failed in tactics (20%) Players failed in mentality and execution (70%).

Again, all the laurels we have won in football have been in spite of the NFF. If the players had the spine. mentality, and fortitude, the Super Eagles would have qualified in spite of the NFF.

I rest my fingers.

I kinda agree with you also I just feel there should be punishment for all parties involved, but my anger is that the NFF would probably go scot free in all this like they always do, if underperforming players are to be dropped, if coaches are to be fired, it would be nice to see something still happen to those guys at the glass house too.

semid4lyfe:
If we boot out the current NFF board and replace them with a different set of people, it'd still be the same thing.

I've been following Nigerian football since '94, and I dare say the early to the late 90's was the only time we had a semblance of a proactive and functional NFF. I think Emeka Omeruah, and Abdulmuminu Aminu were the Chairmen then. That period also coincided with our world cup qualification, U-17 world cup, AFCON and Olympic football triumphs.

Since then, it's been a steady decline. and subsequent NFFs have been worse. Despite the shoddy NFF, we've had some football triumphs. AFCON in 2013, Back to Back U-17 world cups in 2013 and 2015, multiple WAFCONs etc.

My point is, all our football laurels have been in spite of the NFF. I applauded the NFF when Finidi was appointed, and also when he was sacked. The only thing I'll fault the NFF for in our failure is the bonuses issue that led to the boycott of training because FG released funds to the NFF to clear the bonus backlogs and also subsequent payments but the NFF used the money to settle other internal matters.

Every other thing, I'll put on the players 70% and 30% on the coach. I mean, look PK wey Bassey, Simon and Ajayi play. That onr na NFF too?

On Super Falcons, Madugu is. not a bad coach tactically. My issue with him is the shutting out of certain players and the home-based quota thing he seems to be implementing. He's also failed to realize that some players are past their best before dates and he's still giving them call ups. If he selects his squad without sentiments and bias, picks the best 11 to start the matches, we'd do well.

I disagree with you, most especially the part you said the bonus row is the only thing you would fault about the NFF, if we are being honest the NFF is the biggest culprit in all of this, after the last Afcon especially the final against Ivory Coast a lot of Nigerians weren’t convinced with Jose Poseiro, they wanted a change yet the NFF remained undecided about weather to keep him or fire him, eventually we read in the news that they wanted him to sign a new contract with reduced salary, for a responsible organization, the quality of the coach should be top priority yet what the NFF was most concerned about was how to take advantage of spending less on a coach so they can embezzle the rest, eventually Jose poseiro left the job, a responsible organization would eventually quickly undergo the technical process of hiring a new coach identifying a quality coach that fits the style of play , for months the NFF never made a move, the NFF was lackadaisical in its approach, after a long while they brought In finidi George to come and try his luck, now by technical ability and profile neither finidi George nor Jose peseiro match the profile in terms of knowledge and achievements for these set of coaches to be chosen yet the NFF went for them, the NFF never gave an explanation on why these men where chosen to lead the national team, I figure maybe because they were the cheapest option for them, teams across Africa are hiring decent coaches. Even after finidi George was fired, it still took the NFF a long while to get Eric Chelle, now you talked about the bonus row, that alone is a a major flaw that proves the inefficiency of The NFF, every coach is being owed, from Rohr, to poseiro even the players how then can you demand 100 percent from them as a football organization when you aren’t giving even 10 percent of performance as football administrators, if you notice Nigerian football is almost completely dead this decay isn’t just about the super eagles, league football, youth football e.t.c. Ibrahim Gusau and his board needs to go, if we don’t demand this they will continue to act irresponsibly, I am not taking the blame off the players too, we all know how those early qualifying games under poseiro, finidi and Eguavon cost us.

MetalJigsaw:
Why bench Akor when he compliments Osimhen and make work easier for him. At least one of Akor or Simon should have started.

Simon should have started not Lookman. We hardly scored goals when Lookman play. Simon creates chances, draws defenders to himself and is very effective while helping defense bunch Chelle is carried away by APOTY award. Chelle doesn't learn from his mistakes.

And when it comes to Midfield onyedika is better But he still gets benched. How can a professional midfielder be losing the ball carelessly. Iwobi and Lookman are so guilty of this.

nah dat onyedika own Dey vex me pass, like the boy is good I wonder why Eric chelle does not rate him enough to play him even as a substitute

Spainever:
What is the essence of inviting Onyedika? If na me I would not honour invitation again . Someone who bossed Barcelona in champion league

I swear I am a high fan of onyedika, but I can’t just figure out why Chelsea doesn’t rate him, and he is very talented.

impact4now:
Why wasn't ekong even brought in for the penalty shoot out, this Chelle guy is just average

just what I was saying ekong should have been substituted in the dying minute for the penalty kick

Omo this is terrible, we may feel bad now, the good news is that we won’t be going through this kinda feeling during the World Cup, I hate to feel this way.

DonBenny77:
Can't forget the 90s, Freshdew on Saturday mornings in PH, before Voltron Robocop and Johnny bravo....
Rest in power Madam

Her program always aired about same time in Benin city during the early 2000,s what a loss.

PureFace1:
If Nigeria had beaten South Africa when they came to Nigeria we wouldn't be having this headache.

In my opinion that wasn't even the game that cost us, it was the draw against Zimbabwe in uyo, that last minute goal.

RandDigital:
It's proof they intentionally don't wanna admit black SA excellence in everything that's right in SA. Sore losers!😂

We qualified despite being docked points, led the race from day 1 without a single white player in the team and almost exclusively home based 😂🇿🇦🏆 More tears in Second-geria tonight 😂😂😂

Just keep quiet and celebrate your win, bafana bafana did well throughout the qualifying tournament though.

Reference:
Listening to the SuperSports presenters commenting on the role of the PSL in the first south African team to qualify for the world cup, they did acknowledge what I have been saying.

They praised the ORGANISERS and MANAGEMENT of the PSL. That is the key. It is not just about using local players or not. What is the quality of the league, the management of onshore football in Nigeria.

Remember that before the national team became continental contenders their clubsides have been featuring at the business end of CAF championships for a while.

So it is a logical step.
1. Develop your clubs.
2. Have enough quality clubs to develop the league.
3. And the quality league will deliver quality national team materials to qualify for international tourneys with ease.

We need a total overhaul of the football administration in this country and to me it starts from the leadership recruitment process. It is too narrow, too exclusive and must be taken apart.

This is just it, when footballing nations are being ranked the quality of each nations league still remains the biggest criteria, the NFF and the leadership of the nation is too corrupt to ever fix these issues. Beautiful analysis.

Nazgul:
We don't qualify for playoffs cos we'll finish on 17 points at best. The lowest team there is on 18 points.

But I heard something about Eritrea withdrawal and how bottom teams in each group will be deleted to determine the playoffs

AAA593:
Eritrea case is there

What case is it?

Victorious1000:
Is there chance for a play off? How can't you even make that super chickens? My god

There is no chance for playoffs, only four teams can qualify for playoffs the last time I checked about four second places teams are already on 19 point, Nigeria can only get to 17 points that's if they win both games.

YourGFsnatcher:
so how does people painting Nigweria blackj helped to make Nigeria better? mention just one scenario when someone said Nigerias is bad and thinhs started working. I will tell you more about how Nigerians who miss opporeunities simply becuase trhey are Nigerians. Have youy travelled out before"?

Nigerians also do not miss opportunities because of what Nigerians say about nigeria, Nigerians miss opportunities because of the reality of Nigeria, if Somalians, Palestinians and syrians come on social media and say good things about their countries does that mean that their countries are no longer at war or does that make their countries the best in the world, or would you go and live and invest in these countries because of what it's citizens are saying on social media, American say worst about their countries, you have seen the black lives matter movement, we know about the gun violence issues, American protest every now and then, they complain alot and they criticize their govt regularly, does that stop it from being the choice destination of immigrants, now you tell me how many opportunities have Americans missed because they spoke negatively about their countries.