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9ja pple no dey shame! Let these same teams meet in 3-5 yrs time spain will trounce these agbalagbas 4 nil. Una dey cheat to win and ur happi, tmrw una go say naija spoil. Rubbishical nonsensical crap. I hate to break the news but NO SERIOUS FOOTBALL NATION BOTHERS ABOUT AGE GRADE CHAMPIONSHIPS!Its just meant to give young boys exposure.

we are all going crazy over a useless cadet competition while our world cup hopes hang in the balance. Check out how many major sports websites and news channels headline with the u-17 wc? ZERO!its a joke! a distraction! a jamboree! A bloody paper weight!

Una neva see anything!
I heard one of the "kids" has two children! And i  just heard this evening that one of the "boys" graduated from sec sch in 1998! Let me see,  where is my calculator, emmm 17 minus 11 equals,,  6! OMG we have a genius in our hands! he left secondary school at 6! My o My what a brainy kid,  hissss! This age thing has convinced me that 9ja is finished! We grumble about corruption and bad governance but we condone age cheats.We r just a bunch of hypocrites! worse than the pharisees!

As to "regurgitating crap half baked motivational peddlers preach" (harsh words) The problem is that most people do not understand the purpose of motivational seminars and the like. You can get motivated all you want but you need a little thing called SKILLS for motivation to do you any good. Take and idiot and motivate him, what you now have is a motivated idiot! totally useless.

A man heading down the wrong path doesn't need motivation to continue down the wrong road, he needs EDUCATION to make him change direction! So the problem with motivation is people need the right skills first THEN motivation works. Motivation in and of itself does not good, people must be motivated to take the right action (learn new skills etc) then motivate to APPLY learned skills consistently. Thats my thinking.

Much respect and admiration.

I have watched with interest the great debate on whether everyone can be thier own boss. Quite interesting indeed, my comment is as follows:

We cant all be employees, someoone has to do the employing so on that score we surely need people to be thier own boss and hence create jobs. Without creation of new businesses we would have a finite number of vacancies, Nigeria is in trouble economically because we are LOSING jobs rather than creating!

Can all of us be our own boss-YES INDEED but WILL all of us do so sadly the answer is NO. Why not? I think the reason reflects in the arguments of those who say no, they believe it takes a special 'gift' to be your own boss, they think its destiny so the meekly accept their position! But that is FAR FROM THE TRUTH! The truth is ANYBODY can LEARN to be their own boss we can CHANGE  the mindset and LEARN NEW SKILLS, we learnt skills to become employees so why cant we learn skills to become business owners? Truth is few simple changes can start one on that road but one can only make that change if one KNOWS the change is possible. You can change your future change your income change your options, ONLY IF YOU KNOW ITS POSSIBLE AND YOU WISH TO CHANGE.

Moving from employee to business owner is more of a mental change than action, lots of us dont make the mental transition so we can never take the necessary actions. Like George D said, its all about control, the big question is- who is in control, surely if the ibtc staff were in control they would be going to work on monday but guess what? they are not in control and someone else decided their fate!

Like i always say on this forum, its not HOW MUCH MONEY YOU MAKE, ITS HOW YOU MAKE MONEY, if you dont enjoy LEVERAGE, EXPONENTIAL GROWTH AND RESIDUAL INCOME YOU WILL STRUGGLE FINANCIALLY, Employees actually have these three things mostly working AGAINST  them rather than FOR them.

So can we all be our own bosses? Yes, will we all do so? No. Some of us have to be employees. As the saying goes: its an awful job but someone has to do it. My addition to that statement is: DOES IT HAVE TO BE YOU?

There is this story of a journalist who asked an eccentric billionaire:"Sir why do you own 99 Rolls Royce cars?" The billionaire looked shocked and responded:"My dear fellow you ask the wrong question, the question is why don't YOU own 99 Rolls Royce cars?" Lets ask the right question, its not "can we all be our own boss?" its rather :" WHY CANT I BE MY OWN BOSS?" Sorry for the long post.

Much respect and admiration

My take is that we are wasting the boy playing him wide. He belongs in the creative midfield role or just behind the two strikers. My reasons are as follows:

Remember our final qualifying match for Tunisia 2004 Nations Cup against angola? Osaz ran the show from the midfield, scored one goal and created a second to seal our qualification.

Remember Nigeria vs Rwanda in Kigali 2006 WCQ the Nigerian Team collapsed and all seemed lost, trailing 1-0 until Osaze moved to central midfield and turned the game around with superb ball distribution capped with a sweet long range through pass for obafemi Martins to score the equalizer. Yeah he looks erratic simply because he is played in the wrong position by a silly coach without ideas. He is our brightest and most consistent player throughout the qualifiers so far. Part of the reason is because he is a regular in his club!

It will get even better fro next year Main One cable will also land so there might be excess capacity which will be good for consumers, as long as they dont form a cartel

pak:
@MERGE

r u Ghanian ?

I still believe Nigeria can qualify

Are you gluttons for punishment or what?!? Face the cold facts, ITS ALL OVER!!! we not going anywhere. Kai you incurable optimists are setting yourselves up for worse heartache. Just face the reality and move on. Enough already

Until we start fielding footballers instead of names we are going NO WHERE! With the season just getting started we refused to play friendlies while our opponent was bruising it out with CIV, the clown Amodumb said it was to "allow the players settle and fight for shirts in their clubs"- how generous!

A coach with a midfield problem who made no attempt to find suitable players, rather prefers flying to london every month to "monitor" players (who mostly sit on the bench by the way)
To cap it all he leaves out the one in form striker you have (2 goals in two games in a tough league) The only outcome is what we got. The team had no strategy for the game. Amodunce shd resign immediately if he has any honor left.

We sent SIASIA on the wrong rescue mission! It was the S/E  he shd have rescued not F/E Amodu was not up to it but he got it cos of federal character! First really serious game and he messes it up!NOW AT LEAST NO ONE WILL ARGUE WITH THE NEED FOR SIASIA TO TAKE OVER MIGHT BE THE BLESSING IN DISGUISE THAT WE NEED.

this team lacks a game plan, simple ball like that beat our defense! SIASIA PLSSS

I still say give the team to siasia

this team lacks focus! Give SIASIA!! SIASIA FOR EAGLES!!! DOWN WITH AMODUNCE!

Gentlemen its official- I CANT BEAR THE TENSHUN! Last time we failed to qualify a young man was crying on public radio! The eagles should win cos of personal safety! Heard they say its do or die. Please I dont want any of them to DIE, I prefer they DO! Images of Godwin Odiye keep flashing through my mind!Heavens forbid!

I recently ran into Frank Onwuachi, he is now into business, runs a microfinance bank in asaba. He was in one of our worldcup qualifying matches against Tunisia in the 80s

There was a guy with a Ghanaian sounding name that played for eagles from Leventis United- Leotis Boateng wasnt a bad player.

Main one seems to be more "honest" than glo 1 but lets wait and see, lets hope glo wont keep the bandwith to itself (I wont be surprised. NCC shd not sit idly by and allow that to happen.

I dont mind paying what I do now if the service will improve. Shd not cost more cos there is an increase in supply but then this is Nigeria. ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN. Just hope competition btw the 3 (sat-3, main one and Glo 1) will force down prices. Are there any others in the horizon? The more the merrier.

kayalcomp:
Super Eagle is going to win NARROWLY:     1 - 0

O boy narrowly, harrowly, barrowly, willowly, halfgoally, ANYHOWLY let them just WIN! kpom kwem!

If we dont win WE ARE OUT OF THE RACE period! Hope players realise this. Amodu is right, if we dont win he is out of a Job-which he shdnt have gotten in the first place.

Abeg these speeds for izap you guys are quoting- 400kbps is it the starcomms in Nigeria abi another country? Am getting confused Is the Kbps Kilobytes or kilobits? God abeg o! my Izap only zaps my money!

Saw same news in the Guardian. Dare we hope? I hear main 1 cable will be landing next year Q1. Glo has been making these promises. Like last poster said, if by next weekend we dont hear any razzle dazzle and hoopla then na job.

asha 80:
No bros .I started following football when i was 7 years old.You know most latter day football fanatics in nigeria especially guys in their late 20s and early 30s which is my age range started having interest in football from USA 94.


Big flop-Emmanual Ebiede,Gabriel Okolosi

Trouble makers-Ekenna nnado(was probably more skillful than kanu)

AAh thanks for reminding me of emmanuel ebiede I tried recalling his name but failed. Used to be called platini i belgium then before he started a career in "rapery" I started following football quite early also, about 8 used to watch bundesliga and big league soccer.

Andre Uweh:
Yes Stanloski, thanks for reminding me of Raymond King. His real name was actually Ramoni Oba.
Do you still remember Chibuzo Ehilegbu, Paul Okuku, Chris Ogbodudu, Chris Anigala, David Ngodigha, Etta Egbe, Ikechukwu Ofoje, Jude Agada, Wahab Haruna and Mojeed Aziz?. Thanks.

I remember Chibuzor very well, he scored one of the goals when we defeated Ghana 2-1 in 1984 Nations Cup. Was a big victory then cos Ghana were the defending Champs and Nigeria had a relatively inexperienced team with Onigbinde as coach. We were beaten 3-1 in the by a vastly experienced Cameroun with worldcup veterans like Roger Milla, Eugene Ekeke, Theophil 'Arantes' Abega, Thomas Nkono, Emmanuel Kunde among others. we score first by the way i think it was Muda Lawal that scored.

aah I also remember John Benson, Moses and Terfa Kpakor, John Zaki, Alli Jeje, Baba Otu Mohammed and Sam Garba Okoye. Sanni Adamu, Fatai Atere, Victor Igbinoba, Gideon Imagbudu and "useless" Olumide Harris the one season wonder.Speaking of nine day wonders, what of Kenneth Zeigbo? does anybody remember him? Andrew Uwe do you remember the guy? came into Eagles made some waves and promptly vanished. We call pple like that potential potential. There is also Precious Monye, Chris Ohenhen, Ladi Babalola, Adeolu Adekola, Gabriel Okolosi, Chukwu Ndukwe, Augustine Igbinabaro (remember the comeback against cameroun during u20 qualifiers from 3-0 loss f eagles won 5-1 in the return leg)

Big flops- Aondofa Akosu (scotland 89) Jide Oguntuase(same) Femi Opabunmi, Gbenga Okunnowo (actually played for barcelona) Ugo Enyinaya, Tony Emedofu, Sam Elijah (miracle of damman) Peter Ogaba, Dimeji Lawal (papa), Duke Udi, Lucky Agbonsebave, Lemmy Isah. Sylvester Okosun, Ishiaku Isa, James Obiora, Bathlomew Ogbeche (one bicycle kick), Furo Iyenemi (Methuselah)

Trouble Makers- Tarila Okorowanta, Etim Esin, Ndubuisi Okosieme, Duke Udi, Chidi Nwanu,

What of James Etokebe, wasiu ipaye (later played for shell fc of Gabon) In fact it was the infamous ban on stephen keshi henry nwosu and two others for reporting late to camp that kicked off the mass exodus of players abroad.

They were banned for 1 year by Idiagbon regime and keshi moved to Cote D Ivoire to play for Stella FC before joining Lokeren in belgium then moved to Anderlecht for a princely sum of $400,000 (about 2million naira in those days) Boys went ballistic and all man faced europe. Henry Nwosu moved to Cameroon. Then we only invite like 2 to 3 pros for matches. PPle like John Chidozie, Richard Owobukiri (goal machine) they were called "prefessionals" then. Leventis also had Edward Ansah fantastic goalie. Leventis was the 1st club to go an entire season unbeaten with John mastoruodes as the club head. Good old days.

Thanks my brother!
I was shocked the other day when two guys i was conversing with did not know who Etim Esin was!They only know him as a tv pundit! Then there is no way they will know Peter Niketien, John Okon, Monday Odiaka, Bunmi Adigun, Uwem Ekarika, Raymond King, Sam Pam Junior, Humphrey Edobor, Muda Lawal, Thompson Usiyen, Clement Temile, Okey Isima etc. We have lost our history, both in sports and other areas of national life, thats why our people only live for the present! We dont remember our heroes!

Sorry for digressing jare.

Ojokojo Torounarigha (hope i spelt that right) The Doctor
Mohammed Camara Titi
James Debbah Salinsa
Kenneth Malitoli Bubble
Theophilus Khumalo Doctor
George Weah Mr. George
Ole Gunnar Solskjear Baby Faced Assassin
Stuart Pearce Psycho
Gerd Muller Der Bomber
Franz Beckenbauer Der Kaiser
Leonidas Da Silva The Black Diamond
Pele The Black Pearl (nickname get nickname, really great)
Garrincha The Little Bird
Eusebio The black panther
Ariel Ortega El Burrito (the little donkey)

Andre Uweh:
Yisa Sofoluwe--Defence minister
Aloy Atuegbu--Blockbuster (rip)
Kelechi Emetole--'Katapila'
Iyke Madukairo (RIP)--Man mountain
Law Ukaegbu--Danjuma (earned the name at Ikenanzizi Sec school).
Sylvester Oparanozie--Alaowere
Emmanuel Isah--Yaro yaro
Emeka Anwana--Nkita ara
Kalu Uche--Senegal
Samson Ozogula-Zion Train
Mobi Oparaku--Mobile Mobi
Phillip Osondu--Zanza
Solomon Okoronkwo-Shell
Nick Ukadike--Thunder
Benjy Nzeakor--Touchline wizard
Felix Owolabi--Owoblow
kingsley Onye--Mature
Ben Ugwu--Surugede
Kingsley Obiekwu-Shagari
Uwakwe Eke--Aba brought up
Nkem Onyekwere--Jango

Na now the thread start!
Collins Ebitimi        Barbwire
Osaro Obobaifo     Unnecessary Shots
Abbas Jimoh          Ghost Dribbler
Teslim Balogun      Thunder
Paul Hamilton        Wonder Boy
Friday Ekpo            Zico
Thompson Oliha     Driver
Bawa Abdullahi      Bouncing
Etim Esin                Black Maradona
Sebastian Brodericks Sabara

I just saw the ad and man said:", if everybody believed what they read on the internet I would be a Nigerian Millionaire by now, " Thats really below the belt! But just shows how "well" our rep in the scam biz has been established. Yeah protest from the govt but sue? hmmm wld just be a publicity stunt. Besides what if FG sues and wins a large cash settlement, a scandal will blow up from there! d moni go grow wings! Ah na wa for naija o! I tire, I just tire.

SOUTH AFRICAN CRIME STATS: Top Stats All Stats
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Assaults 548,847 [2nd of 49]
Burglaries 393,959 [4th of 38]
Car thefts 93,133 [6th of 46]
Death penalty > Abolition date 1,997 [15th of 64]
Death penalty > Last executed 1,991 [5th of 55]
Drug offences 53,810 per 100,000 people [4th of 46]
Gun violence > Homicides > % homicides with firearms 59.2028 [2nd of 32]
Gun violence > Homicides > Overall homicide rate > per 100,000 pop. 125.965 [1st of 32]
Illicit drugs
transshipment center for heroin, hashish, and cocaine, as well as a major cultivator of marijuana in its own right; cocaine and heroin consumption on the rise; world's largest market for illicit methaqualone, usually imported illegally from India through various east African countries, but increasingly producing its own synthetic drugs for domestic consumption; attractive venue for money launderers given the increasing level of organized criminal and narcotics activity in the region and the size of the South African economy
Kidnappings 3,071 kidnappings [2nd of 39]
Murders 21,553 [1st of 49]
Murders with firearms 31,918 [1st of 36]
Police 101,582 [8th of 47]
Prisoners 181,944 prisoners [2nd of 168]
Prisoners > Per capita 402 per 100,000 people [10th of 164]
Rapes 52,425 [2nd of 50]
Robberies 228,442 [3rd of 47]
Software piracy rate 34% [89th of 107]
Total crimes 2,683,849 [5th of 50]
Transnational Issues > Trafficking in persons > Tier rating
Tier 2 Watch List - South Africa is on the Tier 2 Watch List for a fourth consecutive year for its failure to show increasing efforts to address trafficking; the government provided inadequate data in 2007 on trafficking crimes investigated or prosecuted, or on resulting convictions or sentences; it also did not provide information on its efforts to protect victims of trafficking; the country continues to deport and/or prosecute suspected foreign victims without providing appropriate protective services

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SOURCES: The Eighth United Nations Survey on Crime Trends and the Operations of Criminal Justice Systems (2002) (United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, Centre for International Crime Prevention); Last updated: 01/04/03; Wikipedia: Gun violence ; All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008; The Eighth United Nations Survey on Crime Trends and the Operations of Criminal Justice Systems (2002) (United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, Centre for International Crime Prevention); International Centre for Prison Studies - World Prison Brief; Fifth Annual BSA and IDC Global Software Piracy Study
ALTERNATIVE NAMES: South Africa, Republic of South Africa, rep. of s. africa, SAFRICA
INTERESTING FACTS ON SOUTH AFRICAN CRIME
Per capita, South Africa has the most assaults, rapes, and murders with firearms.

nuff said

vezycash:
@the man above.

stop leaving your email address on public forums
try separating the email parts like this: you @ mail DOT com
How would you like to recieve 1000 mails by tomorrow because one
automated mail bomb program stumbled upon your email address?

Thanks bro I NEVER tot of that! Its only in my zeal to help!

The first thing we all MUST realise is this simple philosophy- PROFITS ARE BETTER THAN WAGES! the reason is simple: WAGES MAKE YOU A LIVING BUT PROFITS MAKE YOU A FORTUNE! The good news is your degree has nothing to do with making profits. Stop thinking about receiving wages and start thinking about how to make profits. Its NOT how much money you make, its how you make money! If you want to know the difference and how to key in please contact me on akpoefe@yahoo.com

Much respect and admiration