Tag Archives: Nigeria

Nigeria 1:0 Bosnia-Herzegovina: how bad was the officiating?

Posted on 2014.06.22 by winterSmith One comment

Edin Dzeko’s disallowed goal was clearly onsides, but a close review of the replay suggests that it was a simple missed call.

Yesterday’s pivotal Nigeria/Bosnia-Herzegovina match featured a blown offsides call that deprived BIH of the only goal it scored. Moments later Nigeria scored courtesy of a controversial no-call on the play that produced the goal by (of all people) Peter Odemwingie. The Bosnians were aggrieved, to put it mildly. Read more

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Are the kidnapped Nigerian school girls really America’s problem?

Posted on 2014.05.09 by winterSmith 16 comments

Boko Haram is evil and we all want to see the victims rescued. But how is it our responsibility?

Many of us have watched in horror as the story of the kidnapped Nigerian school girls has unfolded. The idea of a terror group like Boko Haram selling these victims into “marriage” violates every atom of our shared morality.