U.S, AN EXTENSION OF HOLLYWOOD

  I am beginning to believe that nothing in the US is worth believing any more, just like a movie, everything appears to follow a script and a direction. It is perhaps the most hypocritical and fallacious nation on the face of the earth where obviously all that glitters is not gold, a nation, expert in the art of concealing its weakness and admonishing the mistakes of others even to the point of transforming the little mistakes of others into a monumental catastrophe.

 A nation very crafty in the business of selling false hope to the exasperated and the hopeless, where everything is business; from schools, health schemes, social security, religion, friendship and even the prison system to mention but few. A nation where gigantic business conglomerates, especially those that benefitted immensely from the shameful and inhuman slave trade era are still the dominating business conglomerates today, whose successors have reformed the modus operandi but never the end result of their nefarious intentions.

  A nation with a Nazi implanted security operative system where the KKK no longer move around in white cloaks but in Police uniforms to carry out the same KKK agenda with the full backing of the system and every other legal enhancement, which is the only way to interpret the shoot to kill strategy of the American police, what happened to the warning shots, the shot on the leg to weaken a suspect resisting peaceful arrest, why are the American police trained to kill if they truly defend the idea that everyone is innocent until proved guilty by a competent court of law?  

  America is a nation where unfortunately the African American is the only actor that has refused to re-educate himself and use his knowledge to the benefit of his contemporaries, but in the further destruction of self and in the continuous desecration of his race, a nation where the African American still live in a dream world, believing only what his master want him to believe.  

  What were you expecting, the imprisonment of the white officer who killed an armless little black boy in Fergusson? I think that the problem with you is that you believe everything you see and everything you are told, whatever made you feel that your situation has changed from that of your ancestors? True, you might no longer be in physical chains and as such might begin to have the false impression that you are free and live in the freest nation on earth, especially each time you gaze at the statue of liberty, but boy, The U.S is merely an extension of Hollywood, nothing that you see is real, the entire nation is just a DreamWorks studios, the system is your virtual slave master today, replacing your physical slave masters of yore and the police, the replacement of the racist KKK, ensuring that you continue to be the victims.

  Wake your arse up! Or sit back, with a pop corn in your hand and continue to enjoy the American movie.

NIGERIA, THE SITUATION IS GRADUALLY GETTING OUT OF CONTROL

  If anyone had told me while I was a teenager that my dear country Nigeria was going to one day degenerate into what it is today, I would have staked my life. How on earth did a very promising and excessively blessed nation crash into the ignoble level it is today, where local hunters are more efficient than the federal armed forces in the fight against terrorism, where Sudan can come to the Nigerian soil and beat our own super Eagles hands down and where the officially termed honorable members of the house of representatives are seen jumping over the fence like touts in a bid to gain access into the national assembly allegedly barricaded by the national police to prevent the speaker of the house from gaining access into the chamber.  

  What the heck is going on? Are we sure that we are really not faced with foreign sponsored spies and secret service agents camouflaging as politicians and Nigerian policy makers who have been paid by some foreign world powers and organizations to ensure the disintegration of our nation?

  The news continues to get worse by the second, destruction drawing near at every blink of the eye as if someone or some persons are making room for a military takeover of the nation. What indeed is happening to my great country, Nigeria?  

GOOD, NIGERIA DID NOT QUALIFY FOR THE NATIONS´CUP 2015

  I did not even bother myself to watch the match against South Africa in Uyo, Akwa Ibom state even though it was transcendental for the future of my dear nation in its quest to defend the title it won in South Africa in 2013 in the oncoming 2015 edition slated for Equatorial Guinea.

  The super Eagles team headed by Coach Stephen Keshi has in recent times displayed a very deficient technical and tactical understanding of the game; the team had declined notoriously in form and quality since winning the nations ´cup in 2013, coinciding as it were with the loss of control and direction of the team by the coaching crew headed by Coach Stephen Keshi who on winning the nations ´cup changed his functional approach and dismantled a team he was lucky to have discovered and opted rather for the old and dysfunctional system of things that has plunged our nation into the sorry governmental state that it is in today.

  Keshi, like the typical Nigerian man that he is, allowed his success to go into his head and worst still destabilize his mission as a coach. He eventually went to the world cup just one year after conquering Africa with some players who did not participate in that successful conquest of Africa, players who were completely out of form and who had not in any way participated in qualifying Nigeria for the world cup And by so doing, Keshi destroyed the union and the togetherness he was lucky to have found in a team that was beginning to mentally believe in its capacity to win great things after a very long period of impasse and failure.  

  Although, many Nigerians, in our spirit of mediocrity-tolerance celebrated our lackadaisical performance at the world cup even when some of us believed and expected that the same team that conquered Africa just barely a year ago could have given any world rated football nation a close fight. Our technical crew at the world cup exhibited a very deficient technical and tactical knowledge of the game, and as is innate in us, we began to depend on good luck rather than hard work….. And the rest is history.

  Some of us saw the tell tale sign of exhaustion in the technical crew which was also made manifest in the attitude of the team, the passion, the hunger for victory that was hitherto present in the African nations´ cup was conspicuously missing thereafter. And to make matters worse, some of the players who had performed acceptably well at the nations´ cup like Emenike, Victor Moses and even Mikel Obi became a complete disappointment at the world cup and in every subsequent matches they played for Nigeria, but Keshi´s insistence on always feeding a completely worn out Mikel Obi would be the crux that will deal a devastating blow to our ambition of defending the nations´ cup in 2015.

  The continuous and eternal tussle for administrative power by the Nigerian football governing body, the NFF, one of the most corrupt institutions in the world did not help matters at all. I will really never understand why a nation as passionate about football as Nigeria and where football is the only remaining unifying factor has completely sworn never to put someone with enough football understanding at the helm of its football administration. It is like building a hospital and putting a herdsman in charge of it instead of a doctor, why have we never had an ex-footballer as an NFF chairman in Nigeria? Why do we always opt for football laymen to manage football issues in this country? And why is the government constantly intervening in football issues in Nigeria?  

  Haven said all this; I think it is just and proper that Nigeria did not qualify for Equatorial Guinea 2015, because if we had qualified, it would still have appeared as if everything is ok with our football in Nigeria. Some people, especially government agents and agencies would have gone around bombastic of the achievement. So now that we are out of the competition by our own merit, a very serious and a total overhaul of the sector are necessary. It is not just enough to change a person and believe that everything is ok, we need to cleanse the entire football policy making organs in our country, a completely new approach must be adopted, the private and the public entrepreneurs should come together, especially in the area of tapping into the talents that abound in our country from a very young age. Our players need tactical discipline and these things can only be inculcated at a very young age, say from 5 to 6 years.  

  I know for sure that nothing special will be done after this shameful outing of our super eagles, as is customary in us, we will make the noise for two days and afterwards we will return back to normalcy as if nothing is amiss. I just wish that we think less for once about what we can steal from Nigeria and think for once on how we can move her an inch forward.  

NIGERIA, A PEOPLE THAT NEED NEAR NOTHING TO BE HAPPY

  I must have watched a different match today, all the views and the exhilaration expressed today on the social media after Nigeria´s 2 – 0 away win against Congo confirmed that we are indeed a nation that needs very little to doll out the drums and throw decorum to the winds.

  I saw a Nigerian team that played without any purpose whatsoever, a team that still could not make three straight passes in 90 minutes, a team eternally under construction where the players looked like they had never trained together and that the match against Congo was the match they were all playing together for the first time, a team very slow and predictable, with many childish errors in all the departments of the game.

  Yes, we won and it is true that the three points at stake today were very key to our options of continuing in the qualification race for Equatorial Guinea 2015 but to want to say that our boys played a very good game is preposterous as it is incredible. Apart from Enyeama who once again was exceptional, Egwueke who also played with a lot of conviction today as well as Ogenyi Onazi who was very resolute as usual and maybe Ikechukwu Uche who had some intermittent actions in the course of the game, the rest of the players were mediocre.

  The Nigerian national team that I watched today is a world away from that Nigerian team that won the nations cup in South Africa in 2013, we were lucky that the Congolese side was worse than our mediocre team today and that the god of soccer continued to show that it holds Nigeria dear to its heart at least as far as football is concerned.

  We may eventually qualify for the nations´ cup as the second best in the group but we should not misinterpret our desperation and fervent thirst for something, just anything at all to celebrate, after a long time of so many bad news emanating from our nation to begin to exaggerate and embellish a lackluster performance of a selection that cannot be termed a team.

  If indeed the Super Eagles must retain the super accolade, the players and the coaching crew need to do much more than what is being exhibited.

PLAYERS PERFORMANCE AGAINST CONGO:

Vincent Enyeama – 9

Ambrose Efe – 4

Oshaniwa – 4

Oboabona – 4

Azubuike Egwueke – 8

Onazi – 7

Mikel Obi – 5

Hope Akpan – 5

Aluko – 5

Musa – 4

Emenike – 5

Uche Ikechukwu – 7

Aaron Samuel – 6

Gbolahan Salami - 3