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Sorry folks, I have not had the time to predict or write about the super bowl, the winner or the looser. However, I will make it brief.
YANKEE VS THE HICKS New England is blessed with both the defensive and slightly offensive logistics compared to Caroliner Panthers whose defense is one of the best in the league.And odd makers favored the Patriots to win. Panthers, the most successful franchise team in the 90's when it was first created disappeared for years after 3 successful seasons. But later emerged in 2003 as the most improved team in NFL. They may look like the cinderella team in this Sup. But I gotta tell you though, nothing is guaranteed in Super Bowl, anything can happend. This game is to be played in Texas, not in snow feild or extreme cold weather. It is every place but Foxborough.
Remember John Elway and Doug Williams. The Broncos were favored to win by a wide margin only to to be tattooed with record breaking in NFL history books by Doug Williams, then Black quarterback.
If you go by the Patriots winning season, your likely to pick them as opposed to the Panthers who are in a lions den with odd makers. The Panthers have never made a trip to the bowl game and Patriots not only have been there but Sup champs two years ego. There is one thing I will assure you. This is going to be a very exciting and posibly one of the best in the Super history because both teams are matched up evenly with very infinite edge to the Patriots. I would like to pick the New England Patriots although their quarterback has been remarkable in the season and one of the best in the leaque. However; this is a different bowl game and the season is over.
I look to see the Panthers defense put pressure on Patriots quarterback with shock and awe. And look for the Patriots defense to do equally the same. They have defensive talent including their cornerback who has made critical games [Int] for the team. But the Panthers are determined to bring the Vince Lambardi Trophy from the Yankees by defensive means.
Again, the Panthers key to Sup victory is the defense. They gotta put pressure on Patriots quarterback and make him run/breathless. Keep him running all the time. They got to cover all the receivers not allow them open. The Patriots have talented receivers and my gurllie, they are quick. If the Panthers could put pressure on the quarterback, they got it made.This might shock you but I am going for an upset. Panthers over New England. It is do or die and once in life time performance.
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Christian Chukwu is the man. First, he brought home the Cup of Champions to Enyimba City. Now this. No foreign coach has done better for BiafraNigeria. This is certainly much better than what that Onyigbinde joker did.
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quote:I think has prepared the team right, they have the right players and more importantly the attitude has improved. Should they play like they did against South Africa I can't see them losing to Cameroon.
___________________ Awo's political idea was based on the assumption that any town beyond Owo was Igbo or Hausa. Awo was not socialised; he was not a good mixer because he did not have the opportunity, which the secondary school offered. ~TOS Benson, Baba Oba of Lagos Posts: 2644 | From: United Kingdom | Registered: Apr 2001
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quote:The best of the Super Bowl game. The Janet Jackson picture you want to see.
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Please, speak for yourself. If it was up to me, that picture will not be displayed in this thread. There are parts of this board where this type of display may be tolerable, not in the Great Forum.
But, then again, I was the guy that proposed a restricted discussion forum for sensitive discussions. When the forum was created, I was not allowed into it. Go figure!
quote:It is truly shameful that this worthless Emir from the north was leading a protest against the best coach the country ever had. I guess he is too hausa to understand that Chukwu is capable of applying a life-time of sports education to lead that wretched country to the kind of victory the Eagles had over South Africa. We must hurry and leave these animals in their own country...Ogechi Odili
That Obis and ezes are a dime-a-dozen in Igboland a la eze igbo gburugburu does not make it a foregone conclusion that the respected custodians of other cultures are worthless. Do i need to remind you that when a tested and technical non-Igbo was at the helm of affairs of the same Eagles, this site was awash with the caricature of that gentleman, all because the powers-that-be at the time had the effrontry to entrust the team to an Ngbati. Need i also remind you that we are talking about Nigerian Super Eagles, an outfit which all Nigerians regardless of their persuasion has a right to criticize and admonish?. Please remind our readers of Chukwu's soccer pedigree that suddenly catapulted him to the fully-esconced "best coach the country ever had". This man is a complete technical dimwit. His antecedents say much. It is out there for serious commentators to take a perusal. The Nigerian Super Eagles is no personal property like Rangers of Enugu. Copy?. I guess the country may never see real progress until you guys pack your garbage(?) and leave for your God-knows-where!. Then it will DEFINITELY be good riddance to ... rubbish.
quote:That Emir of football needs to be kicked out. Sadly there is no man in Afonja's lineage to do the biz... Ohafia Udemezue
Don't weep for the children of Afonja. It will do you good to channel your energy toward kicking out the modern day terror of IgboLand, His Highness eze Chris Uba and sons.
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quote: “Don't weep for the children of Afonja….. Chris Uba and sons.” ~by AD-dy
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I do not weep for Ngige, Chris Ubah, Obasanjo, Fani Kayode. Just like I didn’t weep for Awo, Abiola and Ige. I certainly have no tears for Afonja. The coward like his present day offsprings brought it upon himself for temporary political gain. Here is his-tory:
quote:To strengthen Ilorin's position, Afonja called on the support of Muslim elements in the kingdom. He was not a Muslim himself, and it appears to have been a piece of political opportunism, to harness forces which were proving to be invincible in the states to the north. He enlisted the help of an itinerant Fulani scholar, Alim al-Salih, better known as Mallam Alimi, who declared a jihad at Ilorin. Other support came from Yoruba Muslims led by a man called Solagberu, from pastoral Fulani, and from Muslim slaves who deserted their owners and fled to Ilorin from the adjacent towns. From these, mainly northern, elements, a military force was created which started to lay waste large areas of the Oyo kingdom. Alimi's influence among these troops grew stronger, and Afonja belatedly realised that he was no longer in control. His attempts to disband them led to a civil war, and he was killed in the fighting, probably about 1823 (Johnson, 1921: 193-200; cf. Law, 1977: 255-60). Solagberu was also eliminated. On Alimi's death (the date is uncertain), control of Ilorin passed to his son Abudusalami. He declared his allegiance to the Sokoto empire and was recognised as Emir. The Fulani dynasty in Ilorin has survived to the present.
As for Onigbendi the yoroba coach, I was one of those that attacked him for while other teams where working on their survival strategies he was mouthing off in the typical yoroba fashion:
quote:"I sincerely believe it was the will of the gods that we haven't qualified for the second round. ...Maybe the gods wanted us to have some more lessons in football."
quote:Onigbinde was in charge of the team that failed to go past the first round of the 2002 World Cup in Korea and Japan. The FA said Onigbinde, who has indicated his desire to continue as the Super Eagles coach, is likely to sign a two-year deal.
___________________ Awo's political idea was based on the assumption that any town beyond Owo was Igbo or Hausa. Awo was not socialised; he was not a good mixer because he did not have the opportunity, which the secondary school offered. ~TOS Benson, Baba Oba of Lagos Posts: 2644 | From: United Kingdom | Registered: Apr 2001
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quote:Do i need to remind you that when a tested and technical non-Igbo was at the helm of affairs of the same Eagles, this site was awash with the caricature of that gentleman, all because the powers-that-be at the time had the effrontry to entrust the team to an Ngbati.
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Please remind our readers of Chukwu's soccer pedigree that suddenly catapulted him to the fully-esconced "best coach the country ever had".
Only a Yoruba masochist would want to be reminded of Onigbinde’s record as the worst loser in BiafraNigerian soccer history. Even after that incompetent Yoruba man had the Eagles humiliated by the Argies, he continued to have oral discharges, including this one where he displayed the typical Yoruba lack of sense of urgency
quote: "I was very much impressed with the performance of my boys," Onigbinde said. "We were able to check the antics of the Argentine team."
Chukwu was not just the captain of the Green Eagles that won the Cup of Nations. Chukwu was the MVP of the League. Today, as coach, Chukwu is winning, and he has won enough games for BiafraNigeria that it will not matter if he now loses a few games here and there. How is that for pedigree? The stupid Emir is calling for the resignation of a man who won most of the games his team played and who qualified his team for the Cup of Nations.
Onigbinde made a career of losing. That is the difference.
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Let's not forget the important lessons coming out of these games. Now, everyone knows that when winning is important to Nigerians, they know they have to select an Igbo coach and Igbo captain, e.g., Chukwu, Okocha. But, when greed, corruption, or fraud is the goal, Nigeria goes to Yoruba and Hausa lands to select Obasanjo, Babangida, Abacha, etc. One wishes to just enjoy the game, but, it will be less than sincere to fail to note this lesson.
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One would expect the likes of Messrs. Ohafia Udemeze, Ozoemenna, Amadi and Ogechi Odili to concern themselves more with this albatross on the neck of their beloved land than fret about the history of Afonja. But no, they must expose their own glaring inadequacies in the vain struggle to outdo one another in racial demagoguery.
Community Development And The O-s-u Caste Discrimination
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This paper revisits the O-s-u Caste discrimination with a view to
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