🚨 A Gentle Reminder Mikel Obi who scored his first EPL goal and First UCL goal from a Corner kick is now criticizing Arsenal.
‼️ Lastly, Arsenal don’t need your recognition.
❌ "I wouldn't recognise Arsenal as winners!"
😡 "For me, they've cheated their way to winning the Premier League!"
John Obi Mikel really, really doesn't like the way #AFC are using set pieces to win the Premier League... 👀
I honestly don’t know whether to cry or just keep my composure.
First of all, whatever you’re doing in life, even if you’re excellent at it, never think you’re better than others or that they don’t know how to do it well enough. Life has a way of humbling everyone.
This video reminds me of an interview by TG Omori where he was asked about his strategies and creative process. His response was simple: sometimes there’s really no special strategy. You could even be doing what looks like nonsense, and when it’s your time, God will make the world see greatness in it.
That’s honestly how life works. There are people who aren’t particularly talented at singing or rapping, yet the world celebrates them. Then you see someone like this man… A struggling housekeeper with so much natural talent in singing and rhythm.
I truly hope this moment becomes his big break, and I also hope the universe shows kindness to the little things many of us are quietly doing as humans. ✨
The master behind the construction technological timber, earth and bamboo building. "Why Not Academy" Mathare Nairobi, Kenya. Gaetano Berni Architects, Milano.
This is a great article and Nigeria is a good case study for it.
Nigeria's development failure is inseparable from its oil boom. The discovery and expansion of oil revenues in the 1970s shifted the economy away from production toward rent extraction.
Easy foreign exchange weakened incentives to build manufacturing, hollowed out agriculture(The Western region alone in Nigeria used to be the world's leading exporter of cocoa), and made imports cheaper than making things locally. An Oil boom that should've financed industrialization instead ended up crowding it out.
Our public institutions became oriented around distribution rather than discipline neglecting active productivity.Manufacturing never had the stable policy environment needed to learn, scale, and compete(An issue we are still battling with today).
We have created an economy that consumes without producing and imports what it could have learned to make(& sometimes, forgot it used to make).
The idea that developing countries can skip industrialization — and instead develop based on services — is fundamentally misguided.
Except for very small countries, *every* country that has transformed its economy from low- to high-income has done so via manufacturing.
@haugejostein It also depends on the population scale, Singapore & Seychelles may thrive on services. But Kenya, Nigeria, SA will need a functional thriving state to achieve a prosperous industrialised country.