Friday, 7 June 2013
Aftermath of Hugo Chavez’s Death: A Lesson to Nigerian Leaders by Muhammed Ibrahim
Aftermath of Hugo Chavez’s Death: A Lesson to Nigerian Leaders by Muhammed Ibrahim: President Hugo Chavez, who was a renowned anti-USA figure, died in the early hours of Tuesday (5th March 2013) ...
Monday, 7 January 2013
Lionel Messi Dominance of World Football
Lionel Messi has won the FIFA Ballon d'Or for a record 4th time
consecutively. The Argentine international has stunned the world of
football with his dazzling and mesmirisng display each time he plays.
Many regarded Maradona and Pele as the greatest players on earth that has taken the world of football with storm. As time goes on, generations of players keep coming and elapsing till we arrive at the era of Lionel Messi kingdom of football.
Messi with his small physique suffered alot of growth problem while growing up as a footballer, has now put that behind and bang the goals persistently.
Late last year, the Argentine wonder kid broke the all time record of 85 goals in a calender year by German legend Gerd Muller and went ahead to set his own by netting more goals that ensured he finished 2012 with 91 goals from January 1st 2011 to December 31st 2012.
Messi is regarded as a complete player by many TV pundits in europe and the entire world. He can shoot, attack, finish, assist, nod the ball and most importantly he can as well use both feets superbly. Messi is an all rounder in the world of football. His stamina has also been a huge problem to other players as tiredness isn't in his dictionary of football.
While his rival, Christiano Ronaldo is always criticised for failing to deliver in big games, Messi has been a big match dicider especially in the El-classico derby reagarded as the greatest derby in the world.
When he takes freekicks, he takes them sensationally and in a very curled nature. His mecurial pace is a nightmare to defenders who always have a torrid game playing against the wonderkid.
Christiano Ronaldo is indeed an excellent player, but completely different to Messi. The Portuguese skipper has been a revelation since joining the Galacticos for a record £80 mill from Manchester United. But over the years, Ronaldo has been overshadowed by Messi's scintillating form aggravated with the magical touches and passes of Xavi and Iniesta.
Lionel Messi was once ragarded as a player not from this world by Arsene Wenger when the squabby attacker demolished the Gunners by scoring all the 4 goals in a crucial champions league quarterfinals match that ended 4-1 at the Emirates. That same season, Messi extended his form to demolished another europian team and the coach had this to say: ''Barcelona are the best team without Messi. And with Lionel Messi, they are from a different planet''. The triky attacker has continuously received many praises from the likes of Sir Alex, Scolari, Del Bosque etc.
Christiano Ronaldo should continue his superb form of scoring more goals than his appearance but it is really going to take him a very long time to eclipse and even break the period of Messi dominance.
Many critics tried to tanish and unsettle the reputation of the Barca ace. He was under intense pressure for not taking his outstanding goal scoring and sublime displays of Barcelona to the Argentine national team. This of course happens when Argentina failed to qualify beyond the knock out stages of the World Cup and also failed to beat Uruaguy to the famous Copa America tournament. Messi kept his head cool and continue his game as though nothing was happening. Last year, he took the International football by storm as he scores crucial goals during World Cup qualifiers and friendly matches. The Argentine captain also backed that all with assists to his name.
His goal scoring haul continue against his arch rivals; Brazil when he scored three sumptuous goals (hat-trick) against the Selecaos as Argentina crusied past Brazil 3-1 in a mouth watering friendly match.
Even before the event of the FIFA Ballon d'Or, many tabloids and French media has already listed him in the list of world best and favourite players.
Messi known for his humbleness and simple nature, was asked how he felt breaking a record that was set even before he was born and also for been the highest earning footballer in the world,to the bewilderment of the world, he proclaimed that all that was mentioned about him and that he'd achieved isn't a major concern to him. He says he wants to be remembered as a good player with good decorum and tranquility when he retires not as a violent person.
It took the world years to witness the regime of a football mastro in Messi, and it will take years to see another talent equivalent to him.
Many regarded Maradona and Pele as the greatest players on earth that has taken the world of football with storm. As time goes on, generations of players keep coming and elapsing till we arrive at the era of Lionel Messi kingdom of football.
Messi with his small physique suffered alot of growth problem while growing up as a footballer, has now put that behind and bang the goals persistently.
Late last year, the Argentine wonder kid broke the all time record of 85 goals in a calender year by German legend Gerd Muller and went ahead to set his own by netting more goals that ensured he finished 2012 with 91 goals from January 1st 2011 to December 31st 2012.
Messi is regarded as a complete player by many TV pundits in europe and the entire world. He can shoot, attack, finish, assist, nod the ball and most importantly he can as well use both feets superbly. Messi is an all rounder in the world of football. His stamina has also been a huge problem to other players as tiredness isn't in his dictionary of football.
While his rival, Christiano Ronaldo is always criticised for failing to deliver in big games, Messi has been a big match dicider especially in the El-classico derby reagarded as the greatest derby in the world.
When he takes freekicks, he takes them sensationally and in a very curled nature. His mecurial pace is a nightmare to defenders who always have a torrid game playing against the wonderkid.
Christiano Ronaldo is indeed an excellent player, but completely different to Messi. The Portuguese skipper has been a revelation since joining the Galacticos for a record £80 mill from Manchester United. But over the years, Ronaldo has been overshadowed by Messi's scintillating form aggravated with the magical touches and passes of Xavi and Iniesta.
Lionel Messi was once ragarded as a player not from this world by Arsene Wenger when the squabby attacker demolished the Gunners by scoring all the 4 goals in a crucial champions league quarterfinals match that ended 4-1 at the Emirates. That same season, Messi extended his form to demolished another europian team and the coach had this to say: ''Barcelona are the best team without Messi. And with Lionel Messi, they are from a different planet''. The triky attacker has continuously received many praises from the likes of Sir Alex, Scolari, Del Bosque etc.
Christiano Ronaldo should continue his superb form of scoring more goals than his appearance but it is really going to take him a very long time to eclipse and even break the period of Messi dominance.
Many critics tried to tanish and unsettle the reputation of the Barca ace. He was under intense pressure for not taking his outstanding goal scoring and sublime displays of Barcelona to the Argentine national team. This of course happens when Argentina failed to qualify beyond the knock out stages of the World Cup and also failed to beat Uruaguy to the famous Copa America tournament. Messi kept his head cool and continue his game as though nothing was happening. Last year, he took the International football by storm as he scores crucial goals during World Cup qualifiers and friendly matches. The Argentine captain also backed that all with assists to his name.
His goal scoring haul continue against his arch rivals; Brazil when he scored three sumptuous goals (hat-trick) against the Selecaos as Argentina crusied past Brazil 3-1 in a mouth watering friendly match.
Even before the event of the FIFA Ballon d'Or, many tabloids and French media has already listed him in the list of world best and favourite players.
Messi known for his humbleness and simple nature, was asked how he felt breaking a record that was set even before he was born and also for been the highest earning footballer in the world,to the bewilderment of the world, he proclaimed that all that was mentioned about him and that he'd achieved isn't a major concern to him. He says he wants to be remembered as a good player with good decorum and tranquility when he retires not as a violent person.
It took the world years to witness the regime of a football mastro in Messi, and it will take years to see another talent equivalent to him.
Friday, 4 January 2013
Nigeria Educational sytem and reform.
The
colonial imperialist have completely left many people deluded by
completely changing our cultural and traditional values. In the past, we
practiced a functional education which is characterised with each
member of the society having one occupation or the other. Children learn
from adults by completely imitataing from them in all they do.
And the education of each community is determined by the type of occupation they do.
Most atimes, children goes to the farms, some practice weaven, some tye and dye, some crafting etc.. And this goes a long way to determining the well being of that particular community. By implication, there are available work and jobs thus everyone is self reliant. This is because when you have various occupations in the society, availbility of jobs is an added advantage as no one will be left depending on government for jobs.
Coming with age, the colonial imperialist succeded in changing such type of education that caters for everyone both the young and old. That jobs were no longer there. They introduced a different curriculum that replaced the previous ones we've been practicing. This of course led to the over dependence on goverment.The usage of head, hand and arithmetic replaced the famous head, hand and heart we've been doing. Therefore the hand, instead of engaging it self in doing vocational and creative things, its now a subject of constant writing and mathematical operations. The same thing goes with the brain, instead of it been busy thinking of creating something reasonable, its now left thinking about abstract things that has no pragmatic values and sense.
The issue of unemployment remains a huge problem in this country. And the FG are so myopic enough not to have realised changing the curriculum will help ease the buden on them. Kudos to them when they introduced a course called enterprenueship in tertiary institutions to help ease the problem on them. But even with that, do we have enough capital and other securities meant at helping our youths with jobs?
What the government fail to realise before is changing the curriculum from the grassroots. But in recent years, they've now transformed the educational curriculum of the lower levels. Coming down to primary school and secondary schools, they've now introduced courses like woodwork, fine art and other vocational courses meant at providing jobs and making people self reliant. The Nigerian philosophy of education is now trying as much as possible to see that other stake holders are encourage to facilitate the educational sector by building and providing infrastractures for easy learning and teaching.
With all the above explanations, the fact remains that. For how long will Nigerian continue to wait for such moments to come? Giving that almost half the population of the youths are unemployed.
And the education of each community is determined by the type of occupation they do.
Most atimes, children goes to the farms, some practice weaven, some tye and dye, some crafting etc.. And this goes a long way to determining the well being of that particular community. By implication, there are available work and jobs thus everyone is self reliant. This is because when you have various occupations in the society, availbility of jobs is an added advantage as no one will be left depending on government for jobs.
Coming with age, the colonial imperialist succeded in changing such type of education that caters for everyone both the young and old. That jobs were no longer there. They introduced a different curriculum that replaced the previous ones we've been practicing. This of course led to the over dependence on goverment.The usage of head, hand and arithmetic replaced the famous head, hand and heart we've been doing. Therefore the hand, instead of engaging it self in doing vocational and creative things, its now a subject of constant writing and mathematical operations. The same thing goes with the brain, instead of it been busy thinking of creating something reasonable, its now left thinking about abstract things that has no pragmatic values and sense.
The issue of unemployment remains a huge problem in this country. And the FG are so myopic enough not to have realised changing the curriculum will help ease the buden on them. Kudos to them when they introduced a course called enterprenueship in tertiary institutions to help ease the problem on them. But even with that, do we have enough capital and other securities meant at helping our youths with jobs?
What the government fail to realise before is changing the curriculum from the grassroots. But in recent years, they've now transformed the educational curriculum of the lower levels. Coming down to primary school and secondary schools, they've now introduced courses like woodwork, fine art and other vocational courses meant at providing jobs and making people self reliant. The Nigerian philosophy of education is now trying as much as possible to see that other stake holders are encourage to facilitate the educational sector by building and providing infrastractures for easy learning and teaching.
With all the above explanations, the fact remains that. For how long will Nigerian continue to wait for such moments to come? Giving that almost half the population of the youths are unemployed.
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