Zabaleya's complaints were all without merits. First of all the match was at night, I am certain that he has played through hotter games in the day in Argentina, Italy, and England respectively. The grass was a bit patchy, but that didn't stop Nigeria from Passing Argentina off the pitch, and third the referee didn't make a major error until the bizarre extra time escapade and awarding the Argies a nonexistent penalty. Argentina simply just didn't show up.

I don't know how many people have seen it but it certainly was an eye opener and I learned something new. It is so rare to see documentaries that goes this deep into African history as this. Many decades later and it still is a rare sight. Is it not shameful that no other documentary on the broad history of Africa has come close to this? Not even with History Channel, Discovery Channel, and even BBC making documentaries left and right.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58l3kqcW-zY Ep 1. 52 mins

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvL98c_E8aA Ep 2, 51 mins

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Nu6OBjgD74 Ep 3, 51 mins

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPKXH7eVICE Ep 5, 51 mins

Left of episode 4 as it is fragmented, incomplete, and only 15 minutes long.

Rejoice my friend. Rejoice. Osama declared his jihad by attacking Africans and Americans on African soil, Kenya! It is appropriate that a son of Kenya and America should be the one to bring him down. Poetic? hell yes.

Found in a mansion? Good riddance to bad rubbish indeed.

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It would be foolish to say that these elections have concluded that Nigeria is indeed 2 or more countries in one because this as always been the case. But if this is how our Northern compatriots respond in face of democratic elections that, while flawed, is a whole lot freer and fairer than that which hoisted the sickly Yar'adua on our narrow shoulders 4 years ago then what is the point of continuing with this illusion of unity?

I am baffled as to why the muslims, well those with apologist sentiments and blinkered Buhari supporters, do not want self determination in the face of what they see as Southern manipulation; a charge which they curiously enough are blind to in their own sphere of the country as their own massive vote rigging, underage voting, and other electoral "anomalies" goes unmentioned by them.

Last I checked since when is a septuagenarian, coup plotter, sharia advocate, former military dictator ever seen as an effective agent of change especially to a population mainly comprised of young voters 30 and under? Just because a wolf is in sheep's clothing doesn't mean it stops being a wolf nor does it mean it becomes a sheep. Nigerian people do want change and out of the choice between Buhari or Johnathan the choice is an easy one to make. Johnathan for better or worse represents an effective break from the recycling of leaders that have dashed the promise of Nigeria repeatedly.

Johnathan is the lesser of 2 evils: Better the devil you know than the one you know too well. And Nigerians, especially Southern Nigerians know Buhari all too well. Johnathan is not the answer to all of Nigeria's problems but four years of his regime is at the least, at the very least, a step in the right direction towards true civilian leadership and accountability. If you can't handle that then tough, in a democracy you express yourself through the ballot, not through violent actions against your neighbors. Isn't it funny or at the least ironic to you Northerners that the Arab world is getting rid of its dictators and you want to foster yet another Military dictator on Nigerians.

Oh and one more thing, I thought that Northern Nigeria was so populous as to be able to vote Buhari in without a single southern state. The south managed it. Could it be that Buhari came to believe that Lie that the North is indeed more populous than the South as to completely ignore it in his campaigns?

Again what I find odd is the apologists on here panicking about the prospects of Nigeria splitting along its pre-amalgamation lines. If you keep slaughtering your fellow citizens like cattle why would you not want to let them go if you've done nothing but marginalize and alienate them?

Split from Nigeria. I mean how come the rest of Nigeria can't see Buhari for what a wonderful, honest, and accomplished man that  he is. I mean it's not like Kuti wasn't feting him and his administration in this 30 minute long song of admiration. It is time for the Northern Federation to take its talents and punish the wayward south for their blindness to the greatness of Buhari. The man is so great that he asked his supporters to defend their votes and they duly comply by preemptively killing corpers, christians, and southerners. Great Man indeed. Sai Buhari ca merde

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSEs2SunXag 1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_oyEDxcw0k 2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIdXf0l7-dc 3

Are you guys idiots? Hasn't he already nationalized every fucking industry in the early 70s?

Ghaddafi is not a pan africanist. He is a rank opportunistic megalomaniac looking for absolute power. He is not interested in the plight of black africans, he just wants to rule over them, two totally different things. Once the Arabs rejected his overtures because they rightly conclude that he is a crazy mad dog did he turn his eyes towards Africa. It baffles me the defenders he has in SS Africa when he views them with utter contempt. Just check out his statements about black Africans to the Italians when he shook them down to tune of 4 billion dollars to stop blacks from invading their piece of shit country. Please, it is a canard that Ghaddafi is a pan africanist.

I am so glad that the AU doesn't bow to this ignorant, walking pubic hair. In trying to extort nearly 6.3 billion dollars from Italy for keeping Black Africans from reaching its shores and that of Europe in general he said :

Tomorrow Europe might no longer be European, and even black, as there are millions who want to come in," said Col Gaddafi, quoted by the AFP news agency. We don't know what will happen, what will be the reaction of the white and Christian Europeans faced with this influx of starving and ignorant Africans,We don't know if Europe will remain an advanced and united continent or if it will be destroyed, as happened with the barbarian invasions.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-11139345

The Arabs don't want him, the Africans don't want him, expect him to declare himself the last Emperor of Rome soon enough.

Prince if you disband the NFF you get banned anyways. This was a preemptive move by the President that cut off Fifa at the knees in order to get rid of the corrupt NFF. Don't you idiots understand? If the NFF is to be disbanded Nigeria would have been banned anyway.

how is that racist? is he not black? is he not a man? has he not bleeped before? That is if you believe the lies of this man.

I am convinced that some people do not know the limits of their own stupidity. I cannot fathom how any football loving Nigerian could be against this rightly justified move against the NFF. First of all, those saying this should have been dealt with by the EFCC, the EFCC is part of the government; Any investigation would have incurred the wrath of Fifa. Second, Nigeria's failing is not solely the fault of players or coaches, but, as we all would readily admit, the NFF with its open and venal corruption to such an extent that it was actually costing Nigeria more in heartache and money for it to stay like this. Again, two years without football international football is not the end of the world. And anyone defending the rights of the NFF board as it currently is, is clearly off their rockers. Let the hammer come down on Lulu and co. To be quite  honest the fact that The board gets to live is way too generous imo. And no, please stop making false equivocations between Nigerian and European side. Lulu has no shame nor would he have retired like Escalettes of the FFF.

This is the greatest joy that Nigerian football has given me since 1998. This is a necessary move that had to be made in order to reorganize our NFF. That the NFF is a corrupt rotting stack of dead fish heads that embarrasses our team and by extension the whole country with their venal self-aggrandizing ways is a moot point. Fifa, fifa is not a paragon of good governance that any country should tremble and worry about their sanctions. I do not care if this moves costs us 4 years in the footballing wilderness, this is a clear message to all would be administrators that you cannot continue to run the name of Nigeria through the mud with the one thing that unites all of Nigeria. Time to rebuild, time to rebuild our local team and local league. It doesn't matter if we miss the next ACON have we really acquitted ourselves well in that competition or any recently? No! Goodluck Jonathan is a man after my own heart.

Thank you Yar'dua. You've done more for Nigeria in death than you could have done in life. Long Live Goodluck Jonathan.

perfectly encapsulated in this ad.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAX1UCpLBoA

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The son of the Great Nkrumah said it best in this article.

Cry the accursed country
The hacking of an old white supremacist hand poignantly brings home the historical predicament tearing at the heart of South Africa as the country prepares to host the World Cup, warns Gamal Nkrumah

Returning ghosts haunt South Africa. Last week, the ruling African National Congress (ANC) Youth League President Julius Malema was banned from singing the anti-apartheid battle cry liberation song Ayesaba Amagwala (The Cowards are Scared) which a regional high court ruled incited violence against whites. The ruling outraged blacks, many of whom see Malema as the "voice of the voiceless" and as articulating the anger of the underdog, the poor, disfranchised and black masses of South Africa.

Almost to prove the judge's point, this week, while Malema was being feted in neighbouring Zimbabwe, South Africa's most vociferous white supremacist Eugene Terre Blanche was killed by his farm hands in his own homestead. Born in 1941, Terre Blanche founded the Afrikaner Resistance Movement or Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (AWB) in 1970, proudly proclaiming the banner of hatred and segregation. His mutilated body was found symbolically with the traditional African farm tools and weapons -- knobkerrie and panga machetes -- next to it. Two black African suspects were detained. They were workers on Terre Blanche's farm who had recently had an argument with the racist leader over unpaid wages.

Sometimes sordid details tell us salubrious things. People are questioning whether the white racist leader's gory ruin was politically motivated. It comes at an inopportune moment for South Africa. The country is preparing to host the football World Cup, the first to be held on African territory. South African President Jacob Zuma urged restraint and calm.

"We are prepared to take up arms and kill for Zuma," the controversial Malema threatened recently, much to the consternation of the country's white minority who constitute 10 per cent of the population. Zuma is widely viewed as being at best too lenient and at worst secretly sympathetic to Malema's sentiments. Many whites are indignant that a firebrand such as Malema could hold such high profile public office.

During his fact-finding mission to Zimbabwe Malema was greeted with thunderous applause and hailed as a "true revolutionary" and "freedom fighter". He professed interest in Zimbabwe's indigenisation programme and the "land grab" policy of confiscation of white-owned agricultural property. Malema expressed the wish that South Africa would emulate Zimbabwe. "We want the mines. They have been exploiting our minerals for a long time. Now it is our turn to also enjoy these minerals," Malema, in reference to the white-owned farms and mines in South Africa, addressed cheering Zimbabwean crowds. Malema's critics at home are systematically dismissed as "counter-revolutionaries", "racists" and "white settler colonialists". There are growing calls in South Africa for the ANC to emulate the "land grab" policy of Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe. More than 3,000 white farmers have been killed in South Africa since the end of apartheid in the country in 1994.

Terre Blanche, the descendant of French Huguenots, had prophetically warned of his own death. "It is clear that the South African police cannot stop the rape, murder and robbery of our people," he said recently. His optimism in championing the white cause was, however, misplaced. "We fought the British Commonwealth, we can survive the ANC," he was quoted as saying.

"Our country is being run by criminals who murder and rob," Terre Blanche lamented. It is perhaps not so ironic that he met his end at the hands of his own black employees, those he derisively derided as "criminals, murderers and robbers".

Alan Paton's classic Cry The Beloved Country was a novel that graphically depicted life in South Africa under apartheid and few could have foreseen how things would have unfolded in the post-apartheid period. The crux of the matter is that even though black Africans gained considerable political clout with the end of apartheid, they have yet to experience economic emancipation. The sad reality is that income differentials between blacks and whites in South Africa have not narrowed significantly in the post-apartheid period. This disparity of incomes between blacks and whites has led to widespread resentment among blacks and might lead to a political backlash similar to the land grab policy adopted in neighbouring Zimbabwe. In short, Terre Blanche's assassination has a forceful topicality. So what made him so emblematic?

Dhubula Ibhunu (Shoot the White Farmer) is the rallying cry of the farm labourers and landless peasants in South Africa and Terre Blanche's killing has brought into sharp focus the increasingly polarised perspectives regarding the country's future. South Africans are bitterly divided as to whether Terre Blanche's death was a farm murder, an act of political assassination or a case of class struggle. The debate has opened a Pandora's Box in the run-up to the World Cup. This is the significant South Africa moment. It is a tortuous trial for the Rainbow nation.

Terre Blanche's life and death, like the protagonist in Too Late The Phalarope, Paton's contemporary Greek tragedy set in South Africa, unravels the predicament of white moral bankruptcy masquerading as moral superiority. Like Pieter van Vlaanderen, the villain of the piece, Terre Blanche failed to reconcile his fundamental character flaws with the charade of his moral uprightness in the hearts and minds of his people. In the end both fictitious hero and the slain Afrikaner martyr brought about their own destruction and that of their people whom the portended to defend.

At this point we inevitably reflect on the current controversy surrounding the demise of Terre Blanche in South Africa. He was a man incapable of deep retrospection. White racists hanged on his every eccentric pronouncement. For those white South Africans who have kept an ever hopeful eye on the revival of white supremacy and racial segregation, his cries for help had an added, poignant resonance.

Where, I wondered on first hearing it, did the years go? Terre Blanche represented the naked wickedness of white South Africa, the cruel and callous survival instinct that thrives on the obliteration of the indigene.

He looked gaunt and decrepit long before his time. He was an anachronistic political animal in every sense of the word. His political trajectory has, in many ways, run diametrically counter to that of the black Africans who now run the country. In spite of his incessant protestations, he has seen "Black Power" spiral out of control into parliament in Pretoria, into the corridors of power in Cape Town.

From the halcyon days of the 1960s and 1970s to the uncertainties of the 1980s and the New South Africa of the 1990s, Terre Blanche was systematically losing ground to those who ultimately destroyed him and who he despised when still alive and kicking.

Then all of a sudden his political career was over. He was rudely awakened, so to speak, from his dream of white supremacy.

There is an allegory lurking here. Terre Blanche's sorry end sounds the death knell for his ilk. Again the resilience, the bluff optimism and dogged determination disguised the true extent of his failure. His life was in shreds. The irony conceals a great deal of heartbreak for him and for his people, or at least for those whom he professed to represent. He had no conception of changing times, no regard for the contemporary. His politics epitomised the turbulence, uncertainty and the increasing pessimism of white supremacists of the times. His pronouncements sounded by turn choleric, defiant and uncompromising.

Terre Blanche tried in vain to synthesise the cataclysmic social trends challenging South Africa into a coherent political platform that exclusively serves the interests of whites. His bloody death re-opens old wounds even though it is, by the same token, a very symptom of the apartheid legacy.

How much could he get away with and still triumph? It was the madness in his method and message, the man revered by millions of racists in southern Africa and around the world, whose very name epitomises the notion of European settler colonialism.

The omens were not good. There is a moral to the grisly story of the life and death of Terre Blanche. The old cliché, who lives by the sword dies by the sword, springs to mind. Southern Africa will continue to spout the Malemas and Mugabes until the injustices of the past are redressed, and the question of social justice is seriously addressed. That is what I call a history lesson.

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2010/993/in2.htm

If it is a massacre that cap wants of white south africans he shall get it if it continues on its current course. Luckily they have nothing to worry about now or in the immediate future, but far more wicked and dastardly brilliant minds will emerge when the likes of the idiots like Julius Malema and Zuma exit the arena. They've seen how ethnic and racial violence helps consolidate power. It is only a matter of time unless the ruling government starts making the concrete steps to prevent it.

I hope you dump him op. I would hate for such a swell guy to be with an idiot such as yourself. He really does deserve better than you.

When the Americans lands on mars a Nigerian will have been living there without papers for 15 years. 

Why the Bleep are you guys fighting each other? I think that we can all agree that Malema is a crude, boorish, and uneducated buffoon. Who wields powers disproportionate to his ability. I think that we can all agree that the AWB and right wing-nut whites blaming him for the death of terreblance are just politicking in a most unseemingly fashion as keeping with their own equally twisted and idiotic brand of thinking. The funny thing is this little meaningless brouhaha has probably help solidified Malema's hold on power, however puppet-like it might have been before now. Calling Malema out as an idiot doesn't mean that one sympathises with the white scumbags of South Africa, and just because whites are scumbags in South Africa doesn't make all white people scumbags in general. We should be weary of the blusters of idiots like Malema that are talking up a big game without actually accomplishing anything. The ANC has failed the blacks of South Africa in a stunning manner and their little rouse to distract blacks from the ANC's massive failures will only work for so long before it can no longer contained whatever righteous anger that blacks feel.

The whites won't give up the most fertile lands in SA? fine let them have it. Turn them into virtual slaves and prisoners of those lands by taxing them till the scream uncle. Let them become the helots and turn your black population into the most educated people in South Africa. Follow Rwanda's blueprint and have a cogent and focused plan to educate and propel SA to the forefront in the new global economy. Farming isn't going to generate as much wealth as a massively divested economy with the strong hand of a competent government manipulating the market to the benefit of the people ala china. Idiots like Malema are incapable of grander strategic thinking than those beyond rousing their ignorant base into attacking fellow Africans.

you gotta give it to them, they are just begging for genocide. They are lucky that such an idiot like Malema is their biggest threat, Imagine someone with brains in that position and they'll be running back to Holland, France, and England soon enough.

I wish the AWB would try to get revenge. I feel that one of the eventualities in life will be the attempted genocide of the boers from South Africa. South African whites are the lowest pieces of sh.it on earth. I kinda feel sorry for them. No one is going to come to their aid should the blacks decide that they've truly had enough.

Kanu should shut the mess up. This guy is past it, can't run for shit to save his live and should retire to let someone younger take his place. mess you Kanu, you have a great history but you are just a benchwarmer at a soon to be dissolved club.

Bleep you Nigeria and any Nigerian that was cheering for the sacking of Amodu. Bleep you all. You sack Amodu only to hire his counterpart in white skin. Bleep you, Bleep you all. This guy is worse that Berti and Amodu combined. fucking idiots.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Bee

Well prepare to defend yourselves against accusations of being rapist cannibals once this gets made into a movie. Believe me the story has already been auctioned.

Yes I too remember the great war that tore the whole country asunder in 2005.

I love republicans, thanks to their backwards policies America is losing influence and prestige. This means a more multi-polar world and coincidentally a raised standard of living for some at the expense of American jobs. I love that most americans that claim to be conservative or republican are blind to this.And now Palin has asked Obama to go to war with Iran in order to raise his poll numbers. I love it, although the downside is that they will lead us all (the world) down the path to total destruction. Palin just asked Obama to invade a country capable of dirty nukes and strategically placed to knockout the world's supply of energy by making the Homuz strait a deathzone.

How tame, you call that a blast? more like facts. What a disgraceful decision. Wait until after to tournament to fire him you idiots.