The story was everywhere before the competition started, 18 players dropped from Nigeria under 17 team because they failed MRI test.
A lot of us hailed the innovation because it will certainly put somethings right. Remember, players like Luis Figo of Portugal and Mutiu Adepoju played in the same competition but Figo played active football for years after Mutiu retired.
The lesson here is that we always end up cheating our- selves thinking we are being smart.
Despite the MRI machine test, report during the weekend showed that the captain of the present golden eaglets was 18 years 7 years ago.
The revelation came from a former Nigeria international Adokie Amesiamaka. He said the captain was a player in his academy {The youth team of sharks football club} and he was 18 years old seven years ago.
Down the years when other players that featured in this tournament continue playing for 15 years, our players would have long retired and we will be wondering why we can't get players for the senior national team.
The attitude of cheating is not only in football or sports in general, it has eaten into our every aspect of life.
Hon Patrick Obahiagbon's (Nigeria’s House of Representatives) :Tribute to Gani fawehinmi.
If you follow political events in Nigeria especially the National assembly{Lower House} Hon patrick Obahiagon's name will not be strange to you. But If you don't, just read this. His tribute to Gani.
Hope you won't end up with headache or bite your tongue after reading this.{ I have Iodine}
"The grand initiation of Chief Gani Fawehinmi has since brought me emotional laceration and thrown me into a state of utter catalepsy. This was a man who inured himself in the aqua of self abnegation and immolation just to give justice to the down-trodden.
Can there be another GANI in Nigeria’s legal firmament? I dare say i have my doubts. Chief Gani Fawehinmi was simply inimitable, puritanically committed, inscrutably remonstrative, ideologically transcendental, quixotically cosmopolitan and a ready conveyor-belt of legal tomahawks which he intrepidly deployed in his cascading fulminations against our philistine military and political class.
His transition is not just the fall of an Iroko but indeed the grand initiation of an iconic legal salamander. We only hope that we didactically learn herefrom that it’s not so much our sybaritic life styles that matters more than the quality of service we render whilst we sojourn on this earth plane.
There is an adage in Yoruba{Western Nigeria}, i will try as much as i can to do a translation. It goes does "Ti o bani ti e po, wari ti eni ti oju ti e lo". Translations If you complain of how bad your situation is, you will see cases worst than yours}.
This can aptly described a news report i saw earlier in the day on my way to Lagos island, the shanties on the lagoon and the living conditions of people got me worried but it all disappeared when i saw a news item.
Read The Story Below And Understand
SARGODA, Pakistan (CNN) -- Mohammed Iqbal said he has been told by his landlord to pay up on debts and is left with a choice facing others in this impoverished corner of Pakistan: Sell your children or a kidney.
For the 50-year-old Iqbal, there is only one option. Despite a law passed in late 2007 banning transplants for money, he has decided to sell his kidney and has already been for pre-operation tests. The sale will net him between $1,100 and $1,600.
"What's incredible here is the law that bans the operation he's going to go through came into place in 2007," said CNN's Nic Robertson. "He's still able to go to a doctor, the doctors given him advice, that's what he has to do under law... He's going to make money out of it 100,000-150,000 rupees, and that is absolutely illegal. Yet, in just a few days, he's expecting to sell his kidney."
Iqbal was not alone in facing this difficult decision. Others in Pakistan's rural heartland have opted to sell their kidneys.
One of them was Rab Nawas, who was deep in debt about a year ago to his landlord after borrowing money to pay for his wedding and to cover medical bills for his wife and six children. He, too, faced the choice: sell his children, his wife or a kidney.
"I am helpless. Should I sell my children? Should I go sell my children? So, it's better I sell my kidney. I had to return the money," said Nawas, who now bears a foot-long scar that wraps around from his back to his belly and is too weak to work the same hours he could before.
People bearing the tell-tale scar of an organ removal in the villages around the farm where Nawas works are not hard to find. At one point, there were about 2,000 transplants a year -- with 1,500 of them going to what the government said were so-called "transplant tourists."
The 2007 law was aimed at ending Pakistan's dubious status as one of the world's leading organ bazaars. Nawas sold his kidney after the law was passed and said the procedure was performed at the Rawalpindi Kidney Center in the northern city of Rawalpindi.
When he went to the Rawalpindi center, after CNN asked him to show where the procedure was done, he said a doctor told him they did not have a record of his operation because they destroy such records when a patient leaves.
The Rawalpindi clinic -- which prior to the law was a leading user of purchased kidneys -- told CNN that it abides by the law and does not get involved in deals between kidney donors and recipients.
"Standing there it's hard for me to fully understand the courage it took for him to make the journey. In this country, he has few rights, and even less security," said CNN's Robertson.
Statistics 10%-20% kidneys originates from Pakistan Kidney is sold for $200,000 Agents gets up to $50,000 Donor gets between $1,000-$2,000 Kidney is in high in U.S, Europe, UAE, Israel
