The players are scared of getting wounded so they take the game with levity, this shows that there is no patriotism in the action at all and this is not it, home based players would perform with more zeal so Baba should please influence an improvement in the standardization of our local leagues
If Oshimen's conversion rate was half as high as this guy's own, the media hype would be a boost to his career, but baba Is so careful avoiding injuries that scoring a goal has become a secondary objective, meanwhile the coach is a fantastic tactician and his input is the only reason the eagles qualified at all.
Ladech: You all these English premier leagues with pedestrian analysis . The coaching crew changed tactics and it worked for them. But it's no big deal because it's no rocket science abi?
I was only citing specific inadequacies....... The tact worked overall according to what I said, but the performance of individual players especially the attack is unimpressive.... Read again and understand that I gave credit to the defence and tactical crew.... I even implied how effective their substitutions were and how a critical chance was blown.....
There was definitely no way he did that without the SGF being aware. It's a case of plausible deniability here and the said SGF should be investigated.
I [b][/b]NORMALLY eat cooked food only twice a week for about two months now since the construction firm I am with finished their project and we were thrown off. I survive mostly on free fruits (Papaya or PawPaw) and Garri and I have never asked for handouts from anyone, so what you experienced was just a tiny tip of an iceberg..... ...
There was really no rocket science tact there Oga. The defence was magnificent, attack was below average but the midfield is nothing to write home about. More so, there is no team work with Bright Osayi deciding to waste the chance instead of giving the goal to Kenneth Omeruo. The coach is doing well when it comes to making tactical decisions like choosing when to win, and when to play a drawl and not revealing his tactics to opponents he is likely to play in a competition. I also respected him for removing Oshimen to prevent a last minute injury in preparation for subsequent matches. He is a coach who understands you that you don't have to win all matches to win a cup like it is in leagues , winning the cup is the overall goal.
"BI-POLARITY IS REALLY A GAME OF CHESS WITH A LOT OF CHECKMATES" Hans J. Morgentau, Politics Among Nations.
Russia has lost a lot of money fighting the Ukraine war against NATO but Hamas was the checkmate.
My projection is that Russia would also checkmate US in both Taiwan and North Korea, which is likely to escalate.
The US will give Visas to people with security experience who wants to join their forces and NATO will deploy troops to South Korea making it a base of operations in Asia. NATO checkmate however, is not Taiwan but rather Hong Kong and Singapore....
Please Nairalanders in Ivory Coast, instead of the classic "All we are saying, give us more goals" chant, let our supporters chant " BRAVE SUPER EAGLES, GIVE US SOME GOALS! " This should boost their morale because our support is the most valuable thing they could earn as they are being underpaid compared to their club sides..
Mynd44, nlfpmod please let people see this before the match, who knows a good consistent chant can work miracles!
Paystack: I can condescend on Yoruba anytime I want.
I only care about and defend the Igbo Tribe!
Your obsession with Yoruba people is obvious...
Though the Yorubas have their weaknesses, I am of the opinion that Igbos really look up to them in a lot of ways...
The Yorubas speak heavily accented version of Engish while some of them cannot even speak at all but the amazing thing is even a street thug in Yoruba areas read better.
The Yorubas are big on family values and traditions which may have been a deterent to main stream crime, but none the less, they engage in rituals and human sacrifices while the Igbos seemed to have lost family values, they are success oriented and have learned a lot from Yoruba people in terms of lingustic and cultural preservation.
I am not saying Igbos are bad, only they still look up to Yorubas in a lot of ways.
P.S. Yorubas would rather not fight violent wars if they can avoid it but can be cunning and dangerous if pushed too far.
But I suspect a blogger lie meant to attract low quality traffic here. Why?
1. The chances of an Anambrarian answering 'Jamil' is less than 1/1,000,000,000
2. There's no law against consensual romance between two adults in the US. The blogger sensed that people would discover this, so he added the part about Jamil's immigration fraud. Yet, he sounds as if a furoe against Jamil's 'sex scandal' led to opening his immigration file.
3. No video evidence 4. The photos are familiar ones on the Web.
Beware of desperate bloggers. Our bad government make all sorts of evil like this to keep festering.
Please, if you don't want the current rulers of Nigeria, don't lose hope. There's still hope to unseat them using a digital version of the Arab Spring that unseated many unpopular leaders in North Africa many years ago. But, all hands must be on deck for this to happen. That's what I learned in this YouTube Video. Thanks.
If truly most Nigerians don't want the Tinubu/Shettima combo, they still have the power to force them out. As Mandela said, “ it always looks impossible until it's done".
No need to try and unseat a military backed government in sub-Sahara Africa, it's a waste if lives and time..
To unseat the "real cabals", create a coalition of literate unemployed youths, trade and vocational unions, Community Development Associations, Petty traders and MSME associated as well as individual local farm produce traders (don't leave the " hoodlums" out). Mobilize all members to go for voter's registration and get their cards(don't forget to constantly remind them why they are getting the cards) Allow people choose their leaders before elections without any noise Encourage people to take opposition money and vote them out (Justify this with current hardships in relation to government spending lawmaker's salaries and allowances and their luxurious lifestyle) Deploy drones to capture election proceedings and upload to social media live channels created for all polling units(100,000 - 200,000 drones should be okay and China has cheap ones)
post=127295232: Again, From all of us @MANNA : SAY NO TO SUBSTANCE ABUSE.
This sad incident reminds us of the deadly, very deadly leaf called 'Gegemu' leaf' 9ice sang about in his track "Gbamu-Gbamu Jigi-Jigi" ?
Gegemu dey here? Mafiku sere! (Is that Gegemu? Don't toy with death!!) All the stories we have heard, saw, read about this particular leaf, None ever end well!
Guys, BEWARE OF GEGEMU, It kills you before your time.
This reminds us..... Let's give you a true life story about this gegemu before starting our Barbecue business for the day.....
LONG READ, IF YOU ARE ONE OF THE LAZY YOUTHS we have here, Scroll down to the next post with speeeed! If you love interesting and educative, very educative post, read on friends........
The 'GEGEMU PARTY : A Real Life Story
Birthdays during my undergraduate days in the university were always lit. From early morning beating rituals to late night parties filled with food and booze. Did I say early morning beating? Yea, celebrants always take some beatings for the culture. The break of dawn usually sees friends (and foes, perhaps) gathered to take their pound of flesh from the celebrants. Some go as far as pouring powdery flower and water on the birthday victim. Missiles of sachet waters fly around like its Syrian war while assailants render a line from a popular song:
We are getting old and getting high! Afternoons are filled with little or no activities since everyone would be engaged in one or more academic activities. It is a university after all. Nights are the most interesting and are usually filled with booze, girls, music and a whole lot of fun. I am sure some of my Nigerian readers can relate and would give anything to have those days back.
Back then, alcohol seemed like the heart of any party. Without it, party rockers don’t come to play. Alcohol level tolerance differs among individuals. While some are already talking gibberish and confessing their sins with just two bottles of beer (usually of about 14O proof or 7% alcohol each), some are just getting started at one crate (a crate of beer is twelve bottles). Science has it that alcohol tolerance is hinged on varieties of factors such as body weight, age, sex, mood, ethnicity (?), rate of consumption as well as the food and drinks taken before the commencement of alcohol consumption. However, I am sure there were guys that defied all the hypotheses of science about alcohol consumption back then.
It was during one of those night birthday parties a friend (birthday celebrant) of mine got introduced to a stuff that could help him save money on alcohol supply for his party. After taking the beating of his life early in the morning, plans went underway to make the night the talk of the town. The bulk of the plan focused on alcohol supply which seemed set to suffer due to a shortage of funds. Unfortunately, a couple of the invitees would pass as those that would readily defy scientific explanation on alcohol consumption. Something drastic had to be done and indeed, something really drastic was done
Suggestions started flying-in left, right, front, back and center. The idea of beer for the night was totally ruled out simply because of those that could turn beer into water; no amount of beer can inebriate them. We jokingly call them antichrist because their actions seem to be an antithesis of Christ’s miracle in the bible. He turned water intto wine, they turn beer into water. Infusion of weed (Cannabis sativa) into home-made punch drink was also suggested but quickly thrown out because of the illegality of weed. Guys did not want the school authority clamping down on them because of a birthday party. Finally, one popular guy volunteered to provide something that could be mixed with home-made punch, legal, safe and guaranteed to knock even the biggest alcohol-tolerant person off his/her feet. The idea seemed perfect and everything seemed set. The night came and dissolved quickly.
The following morning was quite melodramatic. As at 10:00 am, music could still be heard loudly in the party room without any sound of life coming-in or going out of it. This aroused the curiousity of the neighbouring students and a visit was made to the party scene. A couple of participants were found sleeping in the room, some were found sleeping in the toilet and the celebrant himself was nowhere to be found. It took quite an effort to bring them back to life and when they did, no sense could be made of what they were saying. Whatever they have taken the previous night is yet to disintegrate half of its half-life in their systems. Where could the celebrant be? Perhaps he has early morning classes and has left for academic area?
Majority of those around concluded the celebrant must have gone for classes. It took almost four hours for those that were woken from slumbering to start regaining their senses, albeit none of them could vividly recall what transpired the previous night. Whatever has been introduced into their drink must be extremely powerful. Six o’clock Post Meridiem: still, no sign of the celebrant.
After what seemed like an eternity, a call came through to one of the participants, a mutual friend of mine and the celebrant. The call was from Chief Medical Director of the University’s health center. The celebrant has been hospitalized and the attention of those close to him was needed. Ten minutes after, about ten of us were at the male ward of the university’s health center where our friend (the celebrant) was lying awake and looking at us like a total stranger. Something about him looked different and sinister. The doctor in charge of his case has a lot of explanation to do. What happened to him
Your friend was brought-in about thirty minutes ago all the way from Benin. He was found sleeping by the road side along Ore-Benin highway and was brought here as a result of the university’s identity card found on him. We had to charge the phone found on him before we were able to contact you. He seemed to have lost his memories and reeks of alcohol…
The doctor continued talking while all of us present kept looking at each other with a telepathic exchange of questions taking place. A lot of what the doctor is saying do not add up. If a driver moves at an average speed of one hundred kilometre per hour (which is almost impossible on Nigerian roads), it will take nothing less than six hours to get to Benin from the location of the University. It simply means our friend left for Benin long before the break of dawn, perhaps while his birthday party was at its peak. How did he get to Benin? What was his mission there and was he doing lying on the road? There are over a thousand questions with no single answer. Perhaps we should rather ask; what was present in the drink that they took at the party?
The question from the doctor must have jolted us all back to reality. An explanation was made to the doctor about went down and how no one has an idea of when, why and how he got to where the patient was found. The doctor explained further that our friend needs urgent medical attention but what was mixed with the drink he took at the party needs to be identified first. Unfortunately, the supplier of the substance was not at the scene. A call was made through to him and he mumbled faintly on the phone : GEGEMU!!
WTF is Gegemu? Those that are close to me know that I am a teetotaller; an attribute that is virtually incompatible with a typical birthday party in the student’s hostels within the university. Therefore, even though I participated in the early morning beating rituals for my friend’s birthday, I was deep asleep while the night party was going on. Hence, I knew virtually nothing about what they ate or drank during the event. However, the mention of the word ‘Gegemu’ reminded me of one of the songs that were reigning then:
It was later on after the whole incidence that I took my scientific self to research about the substance that was responsible for such an evil and dangerous reactions. The after-party experience observed was as a result of an infusion of a particular plant into their drink of the participants. Datura as the plant is botanically called is a genus of a flowering plant in Solanaceae family; the same family with the egg-plant. The genus is believed to be native to North America (Mexico to be particular) and exotically found in other parts of the world. It is made up of about nine species; D. stramonium, D. innoxia, D. wrightii, D. metel, D. discolour, D. leichhardtii, D. ferox and a host of others
Out of the nine species, three are found growing in different areas in Nigeria including D. innoxia, D. stramonium and D. metel with the latter being the most popular among the populace, especially the youths (the reason is quite obvious). D. metel is popularly known as ‘gegemu’ or ‘apikan’ among the Yoruba tribe found in the Southwestern part of the country, ‘zakami’ among the Hausas found in the North and ‘Myaramuo’ among the Igbos which are predominant in the South. The plant grows as an annual shrub or perennial herb with erect stems and a characteristic smell. Depending on the cultivar, the colour of the plant’s flower ranges from white, cream, yellow, red to violet. It produces a green, knoby fruit.
The plant has a wide variety of application that has been investigated both scientifically and ethnobotanically. It has been shown in several types research to have antifungal, antibacterial, cytotoxic as well as hallucinogenic properties. Proximate, nutritional and phytochemical analysis of the seeds of the plant revealed a highly nutritious but phytotoxic potential. Tropane alkaloids and scopolamine have been reported to be present in the plant and both have wide application in the world of medicine.
The capacity of the plant and its component to cause memory loss as well as slurred speech has been investigated in rats under laboratory condition and results showed a modification to the brain frontal cortex, the portion of the brain associated with memory, verbal communication and reasoning etc. Several medical cases associated with deliberate or mistaken ingestion of the plant have been reported prior to this particular incidence. In fact, a majority of the population of a whole town have been reported to have run mad because they mistakenly utilized the leaves of the plant in cooking their food
Report of abuse of the plant also abounds both locally and internationally. It has been recognized as one of the most popular and readily available as well as legal alternative to illegal/scarce/expensive psychoactive active substances in the country. According to several sources, fresh or dried parts of the plant are wrapped and smoked by youths and hoodlums as an alternative to marijuana.
Report of abuse of the plant also abounds both locally and internationally. It has been recognized as one of the most popular and readily available as well as legal alternative to illegal/scarce/expensive psychoactive active substances in the country. According to several sources, fresh or dried parts of the plant are wrapped and smoked by youths and hoodlums as an alternative to marijuana. Back to the health center scene
Those that participated in the bash that has regained some level of normalcy explained that a decoction of D. metel was mixed with punch drink that already contained a significant level of alcohol to make the birthday party go wild. The individual effects of alcohol and the active substances present in the plant is quite enough to provoke series of undesirable reactions, let alone a combined/synergistic reaction. They really invited it on themselves.
The mention of ‘gegemu’ helped the doctor in diagnosing what could be wrong with the now indisposed celebrant. He was placed under intensive care for close to 5 days before returning to a semblance of himself. However, up till today, none of those that participated nor the celebrant himself could recall what transpired during the party. How the celebrant got to Benin overnight remains an absolute mystery
Say no substance abuse!
Hope y'all learnt something from this?
[/b] Thanks sir. You are permitted to use this to open a thread sir. Barbecue duty calls.
Btw We no be bro o. We are simply [b]WE.
God bless you sir. We always do our best to inspire and lift others ready to be lifted. Keep being the great man that you are. God bless your parents for giving us a King like you. Stay blessed brotherly.
You are right Mr John. And you are always welcome sir.
As much as I admire you for your firm stances as regards what you believe in and your pride in what you do, please understand that different people take rejection differently. If someone refers to you as "bro", it would be more therapeutic for the person if you silently ignore the person as " bro" is not an offensive word like the likes of "nigga", " bobo", "Gee", or " Alaye".
SweetBuns: They say that "beauty is in the eyes of the beholder", but honestly speaking there are certain calibres of men I will never go near no matter how hard they try.
To get straight to the point,
1. Short men Oh my God.... I don't just know what to say about these sort of men. If I'm taller than you as a girl, then sorry but I can never see you as my second piece. You'll always be like a younger brother to me. No hard feelings. Short men also have this irritating attitude whenever they see girls around, as if they're trying to compensate for their low height. And some even go to the gym and gets muscles.... But it just makes them look shorter like a 5 litre jerry can and irritating Also, why in the world would I pick a short guy over a tall guy? I literally feel so protected and safe when I'm with a guy that is wayyyy taller than me (I'm 5'2 so my height is kinda average)... So ofc I'd want a tall man and not a mini man. Imagine hugging a man and he's hugging your waist cause he's short ugh. I wanna stand on my toes whenever I kiss him and strain my neck just to look at his face. No more no less. Tall men also stand out more, they're far more attractive and I also want taller sons and daughters. Who should the short guys date then? I dunno... But not me. The bar starts at 6'0, but If you're like 6'2 or 6'3... I want your babiesss
2. Bald men The only age where I think baldness is acceptable as a man for me is if he's like in his 50s or 60s. But if you're in your 20s-30s and you're already going bald.... It just irritates me low-key in a inexplicable way... Like why will a young guy have a hairline that receeds all the way to the middle or back of your head? Where did all your hair go? Gross I also read somewhere that early balding is genetically inherited so that means my children too will suffer the same fate? God forbid. My man ought to have a head full of hair well into his 60s, then we start talking about hair loss.
3. "Oju yo Bo" people I didn't know the English term for this so I had to Google it. It's a Yoruba term for people whose eyes pop out of their sockets like that of a wall gecko. This is also something I don't like in my man.... I want his eyes to be like that of Henry Cahill... Neatly tucked inside and having small slit like opening.
Addition: so I just googled it and it's called prey eyes. I prefer the hunter one since it gives my man a piercing gaze and I just wanna hug him immediately.
4. Eyebrows A man MUST have thick eyebrows. If you don't, I can't take you seriously
5. Men with bad posture
6. Men who supports man U
That last one was a joke but I'm dead serious about the rest. And I'm sure other girls will agree to some up there too.
I think there are misunderstandings here...
Ever wondered why our mothers married fathers who met none of your requirements? What matters most is not how he looks but what he does to you....
When you encounter any man observe these...
(1) What he says to you immediately after a good sex because it's real... (2) How often he uses these words.. "Please, Thanks and Sorry"... (3) Watch out for pronouns he uses mostly with you. If it's " We", you're cool, if it's "I" and "You", you're not cool
Over time you will realize that you really want to be with someone who is greatful to have you in their lives, so you may not experience (1) Domestic violence (2) Excessive cheating (3) Less sense of responsibility..
Please do not take this as an avenue to insult me, thanks.
stanliwise: Yes As soon as you're done with secondary school, according to how the curriculum was designed, you are fit and educated already to explore any part of literacy. That is called general education and in other sense literacy. Going to university or college means trying to go further and specialize. Now that is all theory.
In the practical world, most notable in a country with shattered system of education like our country Nigeria, many people find it very difficult to believe one is a complete literate if he/she even have a university education. Simple reason is because most secondary school have very poor infrastructure to actually make a secondary school graduate a literate, with bad and underpaid teachers, bad curriculum planning, lack of laboratory and practical exercise for student to make meaning of what they were thought. This at the end of the day make people to want to believe a university graduate as educated(a literate) rather than a secondary school graduate.
But using university as a judgment for literacy is faulty, literacy and it real purpose means a person is able to read, write and do basic numerical and logical computation of every living with relative ease.
In conclusion, literacy is more a practical concept rather than anything tied to certifications and theories
I couldn't find an emoji for clap, I would have used it.....
Let me add the fact that the only certificate university dropouts who are now self thought Graphic designers, Ux/UI designers, Programmers amongst others is actually a WASSC
Schooling is not learning truly...
"Education is not reading different books or memorizing quotes formulas and poetry, it is training the mind to think in diverse ways" Albert Einstein...
Streetdoctor: Lolsssss, from what u hv mentioned so far, how many people will see calabar and igbo kitchen and will go for that hydraulic soup with that APC BROOM soup
Even if you cook Diamonds in that your Calabar kitchen, I will opt for white Ekuuru and that black stew with a lot of ponmo and crayfish any day, anytime...
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