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benben1000:
Typical Nigerians don't judge Mikel without hearing his side of the story.

Nigerians think those big money they hear Mikel makes is his actual income. ..LOL. If you hear he makes 30000 pounds a week for example, divide it by 3, so 10000 pounds his all that he takes home after paying about 30-40 percent in taxes, 10% agent fee, mortgage, car, family and home expenses at least 10000 pounds a month. At the end of the month, I assure you Mike might have not more that 40000 pounds in the bank assuming no emergencies and family dramas. Out of the 40000 pounds, he takes another 20 - 30% to invest into his investments pretty sure he has some that requires operation costs. Now that he plays in China is the only time he gets to save money in taxes.

Have you wondered why most athletes go broke when they retire or stop working? Because they don't have much money as we think.

Agents don't get 10% from every weekly wages.Agents get a cut from transfers and that's why they are always unsettling their players to move

kokoA:
Guys are naturally closer to their mum than dad. I hardly pick up the phone to call my dad myself, I'd rather call my mum and ask after my dad, though he calls me from time to time and our conversations always goes thus:

Dad: How are you?
Me: Fine Sir
Dad: How is business?
Me: Fine Sir
Dad: When are you coming to see us?
Me : I don't know yet but I will try very soon.
Dad: Okay, bye.
Me: Thank you sir.

African fathers always tend to make themselves look like "Adolf Hitler" to their kids, these children grow op with the fear of their dads in mind. You can love your dad so much and provide his needs, but you can never have that close relationship with him like your mom.

False generalisation. How many "African Dads" out of all the 100s of millions of them have you interviewed.

Moneyspeakingz:
"it is more bless to give than to receive" Who is this guy deceiving with this comment? Abegi,Person wey pass you pass you. he just want to act humble so that he won't be disgraced. Who go get player like Cr7 kan dey drag number with ham? if I slap you ehn

It's his choice to give his number away and he's actually intelligent, he doesn't want to cause any friction and want to keep the team spirit up.

As a true professional, loyalty is to employer.The last time I checked, Nationalism pride does not pay the rent.

Admin401:
Lol bunch of bullshiit. The founding fathers of UK, America or Europe were MEN and not kids or younglins or whatever you're on about. They built solid foundations and laws that they abided by till death. The countries you mentioned are already very prosperous and can afford to allow "the young ones" govern. You can't take a garbage like Nigeria and ask Kids to run it.

Have you not seen the youth of today? They are more money hungry than anything you've ever known. Both old and young generation have been ruined. No one can fix this country. Give up. Hahahahahahahaha

A 58-year old sovereign nation is already founded. I’m not exclusively saying young age is the criteria to govern, No! But, one of the hallmarks of a progressive society is to allow aspiring young people to take leadership roles. Do you think Nigeria will not be a better place if someone such as Fela Durotoye is the President compare to BUBU? I am not saying let a bunch of 25 years old rule but why not if the alleged young people have great aspiration and have also demonstrated leadership at their collegiate level. We need an amalgamation of young, mid-age and old to make this country work. Women, for example, has long been excluded from the leadership of this country, we only had our first female governor in 2006 and she was not even voted in. A major hallmark of a decaying country is when the Government is extractive and patriarchal and dominating. I’m sorry that’s what I've seen in Nigeria since I was born. Ethnic loyalty is another problem rather than National loyalty to name a few.

On a closing note, I remember when Hausas & Yorubas fought in Lagos back in the days, there was a certain Hausa gateman who happened to be cherished by his beloved oga. You know the first person he took as his scapegoat to slaughter? His Yoruba oga upstairs. My man, gateman chose ethnic loyalty over the person who provided his economical stipend.

selemempe:
African leaders should come together and ask themselves serious questions.

The Asians have developed to the level of Europe. That should tell any person that white people are not exclusively smart. Most of what made europe developed is now public knowledge.

There is nothing wrong with the black man. Many blacks have achieved great feets in life. The only problem we have in Africa is THE LACK OF A PROGRESSIVE IDEOLOGY

Ideology is what powers the developed world. Ideology, education and a can-do attidude will place Africa in the right path

China brought out 500 million from extreme poverty between 1971 and now. This is a country that did not export 1% of the world goods in the 1960's and now largest exporter with the second largest economy in the world

Asian Tigers - South Korea, Hong Kong, Singapore & Taiwan went from nothing to becoming a high income nation due to industrialization & high growth rate. All these success started from development policies starting from the base.

selemempe:
African leaders should come together and ask themselves serious questions.

The Asians have developed to the level of Europe. That should tell any person that white people are not exclusively smart. Most of what made europe developed is now public knowledge.

There is nothing wrong with the black man. Many blacks have achieved great feets in life. The only problem we have in Africa is THE LACK OF A PROGRESSIVE IDEOLOGY

Ideology is what powers the developed world. Ideology, education and a can-do attidude will place Africa in the right path

Absolutely, you cant say it any better.

A lot of Nigerians still think white people are semi-gods but they actually have a progressive system. Example is allowing young people to lead. We all see the UK born Nigerians in their 20's that became Councillors in the UK not too long. Accountability, Free Media, Rule of Law, Education, Developing Human capital, literacy, Economic Empowerment are things take makes a nation develop. All these loans will not cut it.

veron007:
Guys look at the demographic of the featured people. Did you see any black man or drug dealing Mexican? Trump just doesn't want folks from shit hole countries. He want folks from progressive countries not killing field , shit hole , God forsaken , corrupt, uncultured, genocidal cesspit countries like Nigeria. He just doesn't want you guys.

Trump has been generalizing. There are loads of children of Mexicans that became great. Go to California and see 1st gen Mexican-American doing great things, but to generalize and call all of them criminals is distasteful. The current Attorney General of California, Xavier Becerra is a child of poor Mexican immigrants and there are thousands of Xavier in the US.

Absolutely, there is no doubt that 1st, generation Americans along with US citizens born outside of the USA have made an indelible & great achievement in Tech, Academia, Finance, Big Pharma and Government but we cannot forget the fact that they were able to accomplish their respective feats is due to the American exceptional platform that offered quality education, quality knowledge bank, exposure to intellectual activities, venture capitalist funds and most important American innovative & entrepreneur culture. We can both bet that had Steve Jobs Dad stayed in Syria, the iPhone would have a different name and might not be as powerful as the one we have. Sergey Brin’s Dad was poor in the Soviet Union and came to America to be a Mathematics Professor. The greatness of America is not due to a particular race or culture but the concept of the individual freedom and pursuit of success and that’s why other nations fail. Had African Americans been afforded economic, social and civil right since the Reconstruction Era, America would have even been greater.

ChiefAzubuike:
This is not how to train a child. In fact they have wasted money on that girl.
An ancient Chinese proverb from the Han and Qin dynasty says "Give a man a fish and he will eat today. Teach him how to catch fish and he will eat forever"

Lies,people teach their children in their own way.

The reward for my 5 year old could be a trip to Disney land and reward for another child is a £5 toy.That's does not mean I am not training my child well.

What kind of people are these

I hope all you "Money is everything" people dey see.These guys have wealth,fame, social connection" no be hin de eat with Emir or Sultan so, but depressed inside.

victorvezx:
The OP is an idiot. The black man has being hated since in the beginning because of his skin colour, not because of what is happening in Africa. That is why in the old days almost every race disrespected and used us as slaves without even knowing us. They did this because of skin colour. This OP foolishly portrayed the white man like he is some angel without a fault.

Yes you are correct.

The black man stands out wherever he goes mostly outside Africa & Carribeans. He use to be stereotyped that he is a monkey and believed to be so strong that the only thing he's fit for is to be worked to death during slavery and this culture still exist today where you are expected to be work twice as hard than the whites. Diaspora Africans can testify.

The names and boundaries of his less-efficient and less-advanced countries were given to him by the white man who ignored every ethnical and cultural system he had going on. The black man has to always put a smile on and present himself not to be dangerous when around white people.

We need to make our nations strong and self-reliant just like China did. Chinese citizens had no respect in the 1950s, they starved to death in the 60's and now they are the largest exporting countiry with the highest GDP in the world (When PPP is used). Now everyone thinks a Chinese man is naturally smart. No one is smart or dumb from birth because they are Chinese or Black or European but rather we are a product of the education, knowedge, skills and how advanced our environment is, hence the term human development index or GNI index is vital to measure how resourceful a human being can be. There will be a time when the HDI and GNI of African people will be on par or higher than every other race on the world, such time can only be the doing of our own hands.

Op concluded that black man is hated because he's a liar and white man don't lie and cheat. I can't stop laughing.

deedeedee1:
Nobody hate black people. They are just viewed as inferior. Black people are believed to be closer to Apes. I wonder why I rarely see Asians complain about racism. The whites believe Asians are more intelligent than they are. Japan, China, South Korea, and even North Korea are technologically advanced. Their countries are extremely rich. The Asians have immense love for their culture and language. There is no respect for the black man at all. You want to know why? Because Africa, the origin of the black man is ensnared in famine, poverty, and underdevelopment. Another reason for this is because they created the countries we live in and we rever their language at the expense of ours. We must accept the fact that for black people to regarded and respected by other races, we must build Africa. But how can we build Africa when we have country like Nigeria that is filled with tribalism, hate, religion intolerance and killings? We should split Nigeria so that tribes that are compatible can live and grow together. The only way police brutality against African-Americans will stop is when we begin to have our Japan, China and Singapore in Africa. That is when the 'superior' whites will give Africans and her descendants respect.
This is my take

I love you for this.

This is exactly what I was telling a friend last Saturday on our way to the England vs Nigeria game.

Until we develop the African homeland, every black man will be ridiculed and disrespected.

The countries we call ours is created by them. They ignore cultural and ethnical barriers and amalgamated different kingdoms and empires. Yourba, Hausa, Igbo etc should actually be the language spoken in offices, schools and as a means of business etc and maybe Nigeria is an amalgam of nations that won't just co-ecist and therefore Yorubaland, Igboland etc should have been sovereign nations in their own right. That's past now and we have to make Nigeria work.

I went to Holland and visited a bookshop, of course all the books are in Dutch and Dutch people are only 17 million.Yoruba people are at least 40 million and yet the Yoruba language has no major anchor of hope and our children don't even know how to speak it properly.

I still haven't seen any black person in this UK no matter his knowledge, experience, position that doesn't get the "I can't believe he/she is smart stereotype" and that's if he's smart,God help you and make mistake/s.

We have a lot of work to do as a people.

Ubijus1:
history!
Europe really exploited Africa!

And also underdeveloped it

adaksbullet:
These JJ okorocha guy his an overrate players


U are call him greet players and his score only 17 goal on 609 aperanance



His these ur legend?



PS...all off u that his coat me, am sayed whot am sayed cos am entitlement too mine opinions

How many personal record his he haved too his name? How many trophy his he haved? How many man off the march awards his he haved?


U are telled me his haved skill, maradona and Pele are winned word cup too thr country with their skill what his okorocha do whit his skill?

If only it's about goals scored, then makellele, Sebastian Veron, Emmanuel Petit, Didier Deschamps and Edgar Davids are mediocre as they did not score a lot of goals in their storied careers.

hollywater:
This Jersey is overhipp

I've been looking for this kind of comment since 2 weeks ago. Very overhyped to me.

They should not worry. China factories will make it available in excess very soon.

Follygunners:
I'll pass! You no even worth am.

English teacher, I typed it on my phone and did not read it through before clicking submit. That still doesn't change the point I made.

Ejimagift:
African man with black brain. Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Besos are rich enough to buy Roll Royce company. Yet they own none of the luxury cars. They are busy impacting humanity through their works in their respected fields. Black man produces nothing but buys every thing thrown at him. Shame

So non Africans don't buy a lot of luxury cars.Another wrong/zero-fact/unfair comparison.
Jay Leno, Simon Cowell, The Queen of England are all white and they have cars that will make this man look like a poor man.

Follygunners:
Typical African monster! What marvels me is the way we gush over other nations/people inventions. What can we do for ourselves for God's sakes?

In Nigeria, we can't boast of any achievements other than 'corruption' and, how much we spend acquiring other nations innovations/products.

What does this animal do for work? How has he try to improve or contribute to the poor living standards in Nigeria other than wishing the poor could worship him.

Thunder from Jupiter fire all the RICH (wayo-wayo & mago-mago ones) pple, show-off celebs, Politicians and corrupt vices in Nigeria! Special shout out to Tinubu... e no go better for you and ur generations! More sorrow to come to you and ur generations!

So all rich non-Nigerian's cares about the source of their luxury product. Human beings like cool things and they will purchase it regardless of where it is made.

He made his money and he doesn't need to be political to buy what he needs/want.

This over-sabi and being too proverbial is too much these days.

Earthbound:
Experiences like this shapes footballers into better players

What experience and what about the millions of fans, little boys that he disappointed with his incompetence.Let's even forgive the first mistake, what about the second one where he flew away from the ball.

I can see all the comments made regarding NGOZI Okonjo-Iweala that she caused our economic woes.

I think it's time for us to learn that when we place high ranking personnel from the financial services institutions of Western nations to run our treasury, we could be giving away our common wealth away to foreign corporations or bilateral financial institutions.

She's a globalist and I have no doubt that she might have been asked to initiate fiscal policies that will enhance rthe business interest of foreign corptations whilst jeopardising the interest of Nigeria.

Sarang:
She could just text her on her phone and tell her what wrong she did Social media is ruining us really..

Ruining a person's business because of one mistake is inconsiderate..
Btw Happy married life to you from your aspiring poet

I like your point but at the same time businesses grow by customer recommendation and unfortunately we live in a real time social media world.If you are not competent, don't open a business. A lot of Nigerian enterprise do this, tailors, decoration procurers, planers etc

I have several experiences of incompetence of service providers and because I'm not that popular my social media rant will do the least damage.

The act of jungle justice is barbaric and does not negate or justify his crime. I know people do not have confidence in our law enforcement but the appropriate prosecution channel should still be sought nevertheless rather than having a burning man on a street that has children living nearby.

harryfeese:
'Assembled' in Nigeria is not quite same as 'made' in Nigeria is it?

I reckon the parts are shipped from china. Its not made in Nigeria.

I also hope you always emphasize that the Iphone and many modern technology products are also assembled in China. The semi-conductors in Iphones are from South Korea, the screen from Germany.

Yet people believe they are made in China, when it comes to "Made in Nigeria" you will be hearing its assembled.

I really like their friendship.

Religious Nigerians thinks it is the will of God for Israel to be murdering these people.

This is zionism at its peak.The true Jewish people practicing true Judaism are against this and the Jewish religious Talmud clearly asserts that force should not be used to create an Israeli nation and that every Jews should live peacefully with their neighbours.

The Palestines are ready for a two state solution and the Zionist wont even allow that ti happen.

Even if we were to go by the Biblical claim on the land, the Jews disobeyed God many times and could not CLAIM ALL of "the promise" land for themselves, because the promise land is actually up to modern day Iraq (that's how big it is). If you ask someone to do something for you and they didn't do it for 500 years, do you wait for them till when they are ready?

Let me ask one question, what happens to the born again Christians in Palestine, they are still condemned right, oh no... That means the Old Covenant overrides the New Covenant when it comes to Israel and Palestine and in all other cases the New Covenant prevails.

This is a political move and anyone who knows the about the Balfour Declaration and how Britain facilitated the ceeding of the land to Israel will understand.

The modern day Israel nation is on an occupied land!

heskeyw:
we still have a long way to go. maybe in the next 50 years.
do you know how tech giants (am not even referring to all those SMEs in the valley) are in the valley? if u have watched the series ( silicon valley) , you will understand that lagos still have a long way to go. we cant wven compare ourselves with bangledash and singapore.

Tech revolution is an exponential one Bro.

Trust me, when Nigeria youths catch the fire, even the north of Nigeria that people talk down will be producing coders.

Israel has one of the slickest tech industries in the world and also one of the most valuable tech exporting countries in the world and they are young in the game too when compared to the US.

Good job girl!!