Who are those patronizing them?

timmy1999: Whether he is good or not
Its a marketing technique..just another way to increase MAN UTD popularity in asia,,,

Exactly! Largest fan base in Asia

Chelsea got Hazard, Man u about to get Kagawa Fergie better get serious this summer. Man U midfield not smiling.

What's new from yahoo

then ground it ASAP

nice move

oga wipe your tears and act fast. This must not happen again. Pls

God save us

Investigations into three plane crashes between 2005 and 2006 in Nigeria by the authorities in the United States of America have revealed that they occurred because the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria(FAAN) failed to enforce safety regulations and oversight.

On October 22, 2005, a Bellview Airlines flight had killed 177 people. Exactly one week after, on October 29, 2005, Aviation Development Co.(ADC) flight from Abuja to Sokoto killed 96 people which included the Sultan of Sokoto.

Also, on December 10, 2005, a Sosoliso Airlines flight full of school children from Abuja to PortHarcourt killed 107 on board

The records obtained by The Associated Press (AP) showed that the captain of a Bellview Airlines flight that crashed had gone back to work as a pilot despite being shot in the head years before. And in another case, a pilots' manual included blank pages instead of key safety information, the investigation further revealed.

Nigeria's government had declined to release formal records surrounding the three fatal crashes in 2005-2006, including the one that killed scores of children.

While none of the airlines involved in the three crashes still fly, the safety concerns come after the country gained a coveted U.S. safety status last year that allows its domestic carriers to fly directly to America.

The AP requested the documents about the crashes through a Freedom of Information Act request from the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration.

It was gathered that the U.S. became involved in those inquiries because the planes were manufactured by U.S. companies and because Nigeria requested the help of American investigators.

Though officials now say air travel is much safer, the documents add to worries about flights in Nigeria, a nation of more than 160 million people where graft and incompetence often dominate government and where the demand for air travel has spiked over the last five years.

A report on the Oct. 22, 2005, crash of a Bellview Airlines flight that killed 177 people, including a U.S. citizen, showed the plane nose-dived into the ground at high speed.

Investigators reportedly found only human remains that were "nothing bigger than toes and fingers," the report read.

The plane's captain, a 49-year-old former pilot, had been hired by Bellview after he had been working at a dairy for about 14 years, the summary read. The pilot also had been "shot in the head during a robbery attempt" during that break from flying, the report said.

"Interestingly, the Nigerian ... medical records do not contain any medical or hospitalization history of this event," the report read. The unnamed author of the report wrote that investigators would follow up on that detail, though no other documents released by the FAA refer to it again.

Harold Demuren, director-general of Nigeria's aviation authority, said officials have worked to ensure safety regulations were followed.

"Nigeria had a really woeful accident record and those were the results," Demuren said. "However, you must add to it that things have improved tremendously since then."

Nigerian officials have offered conflicting reasons for the three major crashes in 2005-2006, never releasing full reports on what happened.At the Bellview crash site, deep in rural Nigeria, villagers looted the few pieces of what remained from the plane, likely including its "black box" recorders, according to an investigation summary.

The Dec. 10, 2005, crash of a Sosoliso Airlines flight full of school children from Abuja to Port Harcourt, which killed 107 people, appears to have involved both pilot error and weather.

The pilot was "reportedly racing a thunderstorm" nearing the airport, an FAA memo reads. The inclement weather also forced the pilot to make an instrument landing - meaning that visibility had been reduced to the point the pilot needed to rely on instruments to make his landing, the report read.

The plane crash landed on the grass alongside the runway, broke apart and caught fire.

The third major crash - an Oct. 29, 2005, Aviation Development Co. flight from Abuja to Sokoto - killed 96 people, including the top spiritual leader for the nation's Muslims.

The plane crashed 76 seconds after going airborne. Just before the crash, alarms began sounding in the cockpit and the pilots' incorrect actions stalled the plane, according to the report.

"Although bad weather may have created the situation, which the pilots reacted to, they reacted inappropriately," the report reads.

Even more disturbing for investigators was the airline's operation manual for pilots and cockpit staff, which "did not contain any information on adverse weather condition as that section was blank".

The manual was duly approved by the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA),despite containing the blank section.

"The deficiency in the operation manual would probably make it difficult for pilots to take appropriate decision on when to go or not to go in (an) adverse weather condition," the report said.

A 2009 study done for the World Bank concluded the aviation authority spends more than 90 percent of its budget on salaries and cannot fund training or equipment needs.

The authority "is still struggling to enforce quality, safety, and security standards on federal agencies operating Nigeria's airport and airspace systems," the study said.

Demuren, the authority's director general, acknowledges that challenges remain for his agency as it has an aging workforce and old equipment, but he insists things have improved greatly.

http://leadership.ng/nga/articles/16692/2012/02/18/why_bellview_adc_sosoliso_planes_crashed_%E2%80%93_us_report.html

Mario Balotelli’s hair-raising antics on and off the pitch have kept fans talking about him all season and the attention will continue this summer when the Manchester City striker travels to Euro 2012.
The 21-year-old is in the Italy squad for their assault at the European Championships in Poland/Ukraine, and to prepare for the tournament, Balotelli appears to be on a mission to create an iconic haircut.

Copying something from the past is something the former Inter Milan star isn’t interested in though. Chris Waddle’s Italia 90 mullet, Carlos Valderrama’s uber-perm from the 94 and 98 World Cups and Ronaldo’s ‘I’ve forgotten to shave the front of my head’ look four years later all get dismissed by the Italian.
Instead Balotelli opts for a neatly crafted Mohawk, but on his way out of the barbers is reminded by Mamadou Sakho that the real work will be done on the pitch in a few weeks time.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2147465/Mario-Balotelli-copies-Ronaldinho-Ronaldo-Valderrama-Waddle-haircuts.html

Choosing from ‘The Neymar’, ‘The Sakho’ and ‘The Ramos’ among others, the best submissions will also get the chance to visit one of six physical Nike Barbershop locations in Buenos Aires, Madrid, Mexico City, Milan and Paris where the latest styles can be fixed for real.
A pop up Nike Barbershop will also be featured in Warsaw during Europe’s major football tournament this summer.

pay up the fines

It will be years --not in my time-- before a woman will become Prime Minister."
--Margaret Thatcher, October 26th, 1969.

“We will never make a 32 bit operating system.” — Bill Gates

“This ‘telephone’ has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us.” — A memo at Western Union, 1878 (or 1876).

check this https://www.nairaland.com/941318/electricity-consumers-get-free-prepaid#10859917

what will the meter read? lol

of course, yes

Flop of the season - Stewart Downing

Reagan Legacy

In June of 1971, just days before his 26-year-old son, Michael, got married, future-U.S. President Ronald Reagan sent him the following letter of advice. It really is quite stunning. All men need to read this!

Michael Reagan
Manhattan Beach, California
June 1971

Dear Mike:
Enclosed is the item I mentioned (with which goes a torn up IOU). I could stop here but I won't.
You've heard all the jokes that have been rousted around by all the "unhappy marrieds" and cynics. Now, in case no one has suggested it, there is another viewpoint. You have entered into the most meaningful relationship there is in all human life. It can be whatever you decide to make it.

Some men feel their masculinity can only be proven if they play out in their own life all the locker-room stories, smugly confident that what a wife doesn't know won't hurt her. The truth is, somehow, way down inside, without her ever finding lipstick on the collar or catching a man in the flimsy excuse of where he was till three A.M., a wife does know, and with that knowing, some of the magic of this relationship disappears. There are more men griping about marriage who kicked the whole thing away themselves than there can ever be wives deserving of blame. There is an old law of physics that you can only get out of a thing as much as you put in it. The man who puts into the marriage only half of what he owns will get that out. Sure, there will be moments when you will see someone or think back to an earlier time and you will be challenged to see if you can still make the grade, but let me tell you how really great is the challenge of proving your masculinity and charm with one woman for the rest of your life. Any man can find a twerp here and there who will go along with cheating, and it doesn't take all that much manhood. It does take quite a man to remain attractive and to be loved by a woman who has heard him snore, seen him unshaven, tended him while he was sick and washed his dirty underwear. Do that and keep her still feeling a warm glow and you will know some very beautiful music. If you truly love a girl, you shouldn't ever want her to feel, when she sees you greet a secretary or a girl you both know, that humiliation of wondering if she was someone who caused you to be late coming home, nor should you want any other woman to be able to meet your wife and know she was smiling behind her eyes as she looked at her, the woman you love, remembering this was the woman you rejected even momentarily for her favors.

Mike, you know better than many what an unhappy home is and what it can do to others. Now you have a chance to make it come out the way it should. There is no greater happiness for a man than approaching a door at the end of a day knowing someone on the other side of that door is waiting for the sound of his footsteps.

Love,
Dad

P.S. You'll never get in trouble if you say "I love you" at least once a day.

(Source: Reagan: A Life In Letters

Designed to mimic the speed and height of walking, the Uni-Cub's lithium batteries power a trick wheel that can move any direction. Using sensors on the seats, riders simply shift their weight in the direction they wish to travel -- there's also a smartphone control app -- and the unit rides high so that the riders have eye contact with people not cool enough to glide around the office up to 3.7 miles on a charge.

Honda says it will begin testing the Uni-Cub next month with a Japanese research museum. But like all great inventions, the true value of the Uni-Cub may lie well beyond the inventor's concept. if Honda really wants to try it out, I'd suggest either a college dorm or a preschool, someplace where riders will test the extremes of the self-balancing system. A drag race with a fire extinguisher-powered office chair would also be welcome.

Top on their list is Roberto Martinez, others are

Rafael Benitez
AVB
Rijkaard
Kenny Rodgers
Paul Lambert.

However, optimists are talking about Guardiola, Hiddinks

Goalkeepers: Joe Hart (Man City), Robert Green (West Ham), John Ruddy (Norwich)

Defenders: Glen Johnson (Liverpool), Phil Jones (Man United), John Terry (Chelsea), Joleon Lescott (Man City), Gary Cahill (Chelsea), Ashley Cole (Chelsea), Leighton Baines (Everton)

Midfielders: Theo Walcott (Arsenal), Stewart Downing (Liverpool), Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain (Arsenal), Steven Gerrard (Liverpool), Gareth Barry (Man City), Frank Lampard (Chelsea), Scott Parker (Tottenham), Ashley Young (Man United), James Milner (Man City)

Strikers: Wayne Rooney (Man United), Danny Welbeck (Man United), Andy Carroll (Liverpool), Jermain Defoe (Tottenham)


Stand-by: Jack Butland (Birmingham), Phil Jagielka (Everton), Jordan Henderson (Liverpool), Adam Johnson (Man City), Daniel Sturridge (Chelsea)

i think you should follow nairaland threads as well. Maybe tell oga seun to put a thread permanently on the front page for you. lol

Fergie is one of the greatest but 12 titles in 20 years? that's 60% league success.
Compare Pep Guardiola's Records
Guardiola became coach of FC Barcelona B. On 8 May 2008, Barcelona President Joan Laporta announced that Guardiola would succeed Frank Rijkaard as the first team manager. He signed his contract on 5 June 2008. In his first season as manager, Barcelona won the treble of La Liga, the Copa del Rey, and the Champions League. In doing so, Guardiola became the youngest UEFA Champions League-winning manager ever. The following season, Guardiola and Barcelona won the Supercopa de España, the UEFA Super Cup, and the FIFA Club World Cup, bringing the manager's tally to the maximum of six trophies in six competitions in one year, thus completing the first ever sextuple.
On 8 September 2011, Guardiola was awarded the Catalan parliament's Gold Medal, the highest honour. On 9 January 2012, Guardiola received the FIFA World Coach of the Year for Men’s Football award, with 42% of the votes, ahead of Manchester United’s Alex Ferguson, who received 16%, and José Mourinho, coach of Real Madrid, who had 12%.
On 27 April 2012, Guardiola announced he would quit as Barcelona manager on 30 June, after achieving 13 titles in four years at charge of the club.

or The Special One (7league trophy in 8 years in 4 clubs)

In eight seasons of club management, including an eight month sabbatical in 2007–08, Mourinho has led his club to win its domestic league seven times, the UEFA Champions League twice and the UEFA Cup once. Since 2002, Mourinho has not gone a full calendar year without winning at least one trophy.
Porto (2002–2004)
Primeira Liga (2): 2002–03, 2003–04
Taça de Portugal (1): 2002–03
Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira (1): 2003
UEFA Champions League (1): 2003–04
UEFA Cup (1): 2002–03
Chelsea (2004–2007)
Premier League (2): 2004–05, 2005–06
FA Cup (1): 2006–07
Football League Cup (2): 2004–05, 2006–07
FA Community Shield (1): 2005
Internazionale (2008–2010)
Serie A (2): 2008–09, 2009–10
Coppa Italia (1): 2009–10
Supercoppa Italiana (1): 2008
UEFA Champions League (1): 2009–10
Real Madrid (2010–present)
La Liga (1): 2011–12
Copa del Rey (1): 2010–11

Unbeaten home league record
Between 23 February 2002 and 2 April 2011, Mourinho went 150 home league matches unbeaten: 38 (W36–D2) with Porto, 60 (W46–D14) with Chelsea, 38 (W29–D9) with Internazionale and 14 (W14–D0) with Real Madrid. The run was broken by Sporting de Gijón on 2 April 2011, when they defeated Real Madrid 1–0 at the Santiago Bernabéu Stadium in La Liga. After the match, Mourinho entered Gijón's dressing room and congratulated them.[84] His only prior home league defeat had come when Porto lost 3–2 to Beira-Mar on 23 February 2002.[85]

But Fergie Still Remains the Greatest

e e e e yawa go dey, x2
if allowee no show, yawa go dey x2

"under the sun or in the rain, with dedication and selflessness"

These two are quite contrasting

should be good

seems your mind is already made up. WHat your are seeking here is just approval

not cool. but fergie said city will not win the league when he's still living

nice design

Next should be Prof. Wenger. He's one of the best around, but arsenal needs a new start

because of the emphasis on university education. Parents don't allows kid to fully explore and develop their natural talents