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greenhulk:
Bros do not be deceived. That picture posted up there was made to make it look like it was an offside, look closely u will see the line is not even straight. Look I'm a Nigerian I'm happy we qualified, but that goal was not offside,. Check the picture below.

Do I blame the ref? NO. Linesman raised his flag. Do I blame the linesman? NO. Because it was a very close call. This is why pitches used for premier league etc have horizontal lines so linesmen can easily spot when a player is offside. Our own field does not have lines so more difficult for officials to spot. Do I think the match should be replayed? DEFINITELY NO. We have seen far worse referee decisions and this won't be the last.

I watched the match, and also watched the the particular goal on replay. He is offside, the rule says any part of your player's body that he can use to score a goal....
In this case his knee
Its a close call, but the assistant ref got it right

greenhulk:
It was not an offside, it was a clear goal, don't let sentiments ruin ur sense of judgement. But the it was a tight one, no way they are ever gonna get a replay of that match. It was a close one that could have gone either way. Only video assisted ref can solve this and since FIFA didn't make it compulsory then the game stands. We have seen worst decisions in European games and no replay was made.

Even with the picture above, u argue its not offside?

I just read this on Yahoonews, lot of Americans don't even know they have military presence in Niger. RIP to the gallant soldiers.

IgboticGirl:
The main thing is that he don fucck u finish ..u are just like leftover

But he is no leftover right? The way we reason ehn!

Useless comparison! Must you compare?
Davido has even performed with live band before, and the performance was great.

BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Spanish riot police smashed their way into polling stations in Catalonia and fired rubber bullets Sunday at protesters outside one Barcelona polling station to try to halt a disputed independence referendum. Nearly 350 people, including some police, were injured in the melee, officials said.
The officers fired the rubber bullets while trying to clear protesters who were trying to prevent National Police cars from leaving after police had confiscated ballot boxes from the voting center. The Spanish government has ordered police to stop the voting process in Catalonia, saying it's illegal.

The chaotic confrontations led to a war of words as each side blamed the other for the deteriorating situation.
"Police brutality will shame forever the Spanish state," Catalan President Carles Puigdemont said as crowds cheered.
Top Spanish officials defended the police actions.
PHOTOS: Violence erupts as Catalans vote on referendum on a split from Spain >>>
Police acted with "firmness and proportionality," declared Spanish deputy prime minister Soraya Saenz de Santamaria, adding that authorities weren't going after voters but referendum material.
She accused the Catalan government of gross irresponsibility in staging the vote.
"There hasn't been a referendum or the semblance of one," she said.
Tensions have been on the rise since the vote was called in early September, crystalizing years of defiance by separatists in the affluent region, which contributes mightily to Spain's economy. As one of Spain's 17 autonomous regions, Catalonia enjoys ample rights but key areas such as infrastructure and taxes are in the hands of Madrid. Separatist Catalans have long complained the region is contributing too much to the state while not getting enough in return.
Catalonia's government spokesman said 337 people have been injured, some seriously, during the police crackdown Sunday and Spain's Interior Ministry said 11 police officers were injured.
The regional government's spokesman, Jordi Turull, blamed the violence directly on Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy. He said actions by Spanish National Police and Civil Guard forces on Sunday were politically motivated and showed "a clear motivation to harm citizens."
Catalan international affairs director, Raul Romeva, said regional authorities would appeal to European authorities to examine the violations of human rights by Rajoy's government.
Manuel Condeminas, a 48-year-old IT manager who tried to block police from driving away with the ballot boxes, said agents had kicked them before using their batons and firing the projectiles, which were ball-shaped.
Elsewhere, Civil Guard officers, wearing helmets and carrying shields, used a hammer to break the front door glass and a lock cutter to break into the Sant Julia de Ramis sports center near the city of Girona. At least one woman was injured outside the building and wheeled away on a stretcher by paramedics.
Clashes broke out less than an hour after polls opened, and not long before Catalonia regional President Carles Puigdemont was expected to turn up to vote at the sports center. Polling station workers inside the building reacted peacefully, breaking into songs and chants challenging the officers' presence.
Puigdemont was forced to vote in Cornella de Terri, near the northern city of Girona, his spokesman told The Associated Press.
The Spanish government and its security forces are trying to prevent voting in the independence referendum, which is backed by Catalan regional authorities. Spanish officials had earlier said that force wouldn't be used, but that voting wouldn't be allowed.
Spain's Constitutional Court has suspended the vote. Regional separatist leaders pledged to hold it anyway, promising to declare independence if the "yes" side wins, and have called on the region's 5.3 million eligible voters to cast ballots.
Police had sealed off hundreds of voting centers in the hours before the vote to prevent their use. Others were filled with activists determined to hold their ground.
At one school in Barcelona, Spanish riot police forcefully removed a few hundred would-be voters from a polling station. Daniel Riano was inside the building when the police pushed aside a large group gathered outside and busted in the Estela school's front door.
"We were waiting inside to vote when the National Police used force to enter, they used a mace to break in the glass door and they took everything," the 54-year-old Riano said. "One policeman put me in a headlock to drag me out, while I was holding my wife's hand! It was incredible. They didn't give any warning."
National Police and Civil Guard officers also showed up in other polling centers where Catalan officials were expected.
Catalans braved rain to vote and defied police orders to abandon designated voting stations.
Joaquim Bosch, a 73-year-old retiree at Princep de Viana high school, where a crowd was growing Sunday morning, said he was uneasy about a possible police response.
"I have come to vote to defend the rights of my country, which is Catalonia," Bosch said. "I vote because of the mistreatment of Catalonia by Spain for many years."
AP reporters saw ballot boxes wrapped in plastic bags being carried into some of the polling stations in Barcelona that were occupied overnight by parents and activists. The plastic ballot boxes, bearing the seal of the Catalan regional government, were placed on tables, prompting cheers from hopeful voters who had gathered in the schools before dawn.
In an effort to overcome the determined Spanish police efforts, Catalan officials announced that voters would be allowed to cast ballots in any location and could use ballots printed at home.
Regional government spokesman Jordi Turull also said a group of "academics and professionals" had been invited to serve as election observers. The official electoral board appointed by the regional parliament was disbanded last week to avoid hefty fines by Spain's Constitutional Court.
"We are under conditions to be able to celebrate a self-determination referendum with guarantees," Turull said in a press conference. "Our goal is that all Catalans can vote."
Courts and police have been cracking down for days to halt the vote, confiscating 10 million paper ballots and arresting key officials involved in the preparations. On Saturday, Civil Guard agents dismantled the technology to connect voting stations, count the votes and vote online, leading the Spanish government to declare that holding the referendum would be "impossible."
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Associated Press writer Alex Oller contributed to this report from Barcelona, and Gregory Katz and Frank Griffiths contributed from London.

Source: https://www.yahoo.com/news/catalans-assemble-polling-stations-defying-041729703.html

US is not supporting IPOB or any secession in Nigeria. US didn't even support the Kurds, nor Catalonia. The US also have such problem to contend with (California).
What I see is advice against use of force when dialogue is still an option. I don't know why the lawyers a running up and down like headless chickens.

anungangampu:
The difference was that both are the same but the coward tribe that was the third party refuse to own up to the agreement and after 50yrs they believe it will work.
That's exactly the problem with Nigeria.... When I suggest what is good just because am the one that suggested it... You will reject it and later try a way to introduce same thing yourself..

Which tribe is the coward tribe that you are referring to? What's the agreement the tribe refuse to own up?
An Igbo man (Zik) kicked out secession clause championed by the southwest then, so how come you people now think you can secede from Nigeria without war? And when you are about to go to the senseless and unplanned war, did the SW have any agreement to partake in it?

kaleam:
Yes, one of the definitions of North is what you said, but it isn't limited to one, is it?
united flies will surely transform to fearsome bees, wouldn't u think so?

Kindly give me another definition of "North" that gives you another man's territory as yours.
Dangerous hive of bees will meet fire.

kaleam:
Kwara and Kogi are totally part of the North, all though no one is hoping for that time you are wishing for, but if it arrives, it's the people there that'll have to vacate the land if they don't wanna be part of the North, because your military capability will never match ours, and we won't make the same mistake as that of India and Pakistan on Kashmir. we will protect our land, internally using all possible measure - both diplomatic and military options will put to order.

The North has now learn countless lessons from both experience and other countries, and we shall no longer be treated in dismay.

Shut up! You are praying for that time not to come, good for your sorry ass.
Can't you just think that "North" is one of the four compass points or cardinal directions.?
Brazil and Argentina are in north America, that doesn't mean there is no difference between the two nations.
When Nigeria seize to exist, there will be nothing like northern Nigeria. Yorubas know there boundary. I pray u will be part of that army that will come and die like flies.

"...anything I touch, turn to gold..." In Don Jazzy's voice.
But this Korede & co are turning stone.

He bought the views, you pay the bills. I have watched that video more than five times on YouTube, when will I get my cheque from u?
I am not surprised cox u said "I use to really like him"

Lakeside79:
I do appreciate good things , funny enough I used to really like him..

Trust me he bought those views , there's no way those are organic .

Most people don't even know about the song , so no way he bought those views

Na wa o!
How is this eulogising El Chapo now? So nothing to use against him this time around.
The song is simply saying he run his own world like a boss (El Chapo).

I can't just resist replying you.
Please, what do you mean by he has done great things with average artist? You simply telling us D'banj or Wande is/are better than any artist under him now.
This same D'banj u are trying to bring down. The difference between Mo'Hit and Mavin is D'banj/wande, Don Jazzy is still the producer and the new group is inferior to Mo'Hit.
You even talking like you the be negotiating a comeback between them.
This hate ehn!

Awoo88:
Don jazzy have done great things with the average artists on his stable right now. He had (still making) made tones of cash off those guys. Dbang has being struggling since he left jazzy. Wande the same. Plz you can go back to 2006 to about 2012. Check out the jams those guys were putting out that period. To be fair , jazzy have been the one staling the move to work with dbang. He is demanding for out right payment which dbang can not afford. The truth is, dbang need Jazzy more than jazzy needs him

You are not unfortunate, you didn't find yourself there, its your ancestral home, its Yoruba land, either its in the North or not.

kennygee:
I am not a northerner. I am a Yoruba woman who was unfortunate to find herself in the north.

Her chill, her shisha, her whala. He no conzern me.

And its on front page?

Bruce maka Y?

VO,
Good morning,
I have admission offer to study a year course at a Bible Institute and College in New York. This came with institutional financial aid award, which have been secured. part of the tuition fee has been paid.
I am about to return my sponsor form, and its my father and his church (he is a clergyman here in Nigeria, also an alumni of the school) that are stated as sponsor.
what are the documents I will be expected to present at the embassy? (especially concerning my sponsor).
I am 32, single, employed, and can foot the school bill on my own.
will any of this my status negatively affect my chance of getting the Visa?
your response and recommendations will be appreciated, as I don't want miss this one through avoidable mistakes.
thanks.

hero2000:
"....removed people as the head of institution they single handedly built."

So because they started the bank they should use depositors' funds and bank assets as their father's property abi!? Take funds to build private properties and compel their banks to rent it at exorbitant rates for branches.
You don't understand what was going on with banks then.

And you understand what is going on at the Kano Emirate?
Sanusi used his office to remove those who are against him becoming CBN governor. The same thing is about to happen to him.
if he us guilty of those allegations, he should face the music.

Lagido Sanusi Lagido then as CBN governor removed people as the head of institution they single handedly built. the same allegations, Financial misappropriation, conducts against cooperate ethics e.t.c.
According to him he was cleaning the financial institutions of mess, but he really messed things up.
he is alleged to have...., let him be probed, if found guilty, he should face the penalty.
Karma is a biatch.

shizzy7:
Seriously, Let's put the negative side apart.


Is it that this guy is too smart or those he scammed are too dumb??

It takes a lot of guts, cunniness and smartness to dupe people that much money in 2 days, IT ALSO TAKES SO MUCH STUPIDITY TO FALL FOR SUCH SCAM ....

Read the news again.
He is just a picker...

all I can see here is "Kelechi", " IPOB", "Afonja".....
its like we are under spell in this country.
after reading comments (Americans) on this https://www.yahoo.com/news/nigeria-seizes-43-million-cash-stash-lagos-house-150908696.html I realized the extent of damage yahoo yahoo has done to all of us.
This nation is doing nothing to stop this madness, the number of people venturing into this cyber crime multiple everyday.
I wonder how Nigerians abroad cope with this stigma.
This is painful.

I am the owner of the house!

Zane2point4:
We now indeed see who is the boss and who get mo'hitz back then. ..

Don jazzy Still waxing strong.. .even shooting his artists up.

Up where sir? I don't see any of them reaching WC's status sef.

he has recorded over 50 songs within how many months? He is releasing 7 + 1 (bonus).
I can see.

thanks.
I will go through it.

Priceless200:
Check this thread. [General U.s.a (student) Visa Enquiries-part 11 - Travel - Nigeria] is good,have a look at it! https://www.nairaland.com/3586207/general-u.s.a-student-visa-enquiries-part

Also check previous parts of that thread.

Cc Walspring
Mayflowa
DeeTus
Lagosismyhome

Reeky is the best artist in Mavin presently, that shows how poor that group is.

we should not cast stone cox we r sinners, this one is indirectly telling us apostle chop ponmo.

I am a graduate of food science and technology.
But now, I am into ATM (installation & repair, hardware & software). The only food industry experience I have was during my IT @ Nigeria Flour Mill. Though I wish I work in a food company, I must say that food scientists/technologist/engineers are not taken serious in this country.