Nigeria feels like a simulation to see how far kleptocrats can push the citizens of a country before they break. So far I'm sure the simulators are themselves shocked beyond measure at the capacity of Nigerians to tolerate suffering.
Not that terribly long ago Martyn Ziegler broke the story about the European Super League too.
Kids get giddy about the likes of Ornstein and Romano but that is tabloid nonsense compared to real journalism.
Ziegler is THE most important sports journalist in the world.
You see the clown show happening in Spain right now, where the most typical CIA/MOSSAD operation of all time is happening, and you think you can beat these bloodthirsty colonizers without being authoritarian.
These guys are trying to remove Pedro Sanchez for his pro Palestinian views and are willing to light a European country on fire to do so.
A nation that by and large should and STILL is Western in inclination.
And yet, they're doing this to teach one man and anyone who thinks like him a lesson.
Yet some Nigerians without 2 brain cells to rub together think you can squash such obvious subversion attempts as a democracy.
The ONLY way your people you can save your people from turning to roadkill or prevent your God-given resources from being plundered is by having a strong, autocratic government that serves the interests of the people.
No bullshit legislature 99% of whom have stolen wealth stashed in western banks. Children in Western schools. And cabinets of dirt and blackmail in Western intelligence agencies.
Electoral democracy as a developing nation is lunacy. It a disease. It will lead us nowhere.
What we need is a Nigerian version of the CPC with equal, fair representation of our ethnic and religious composition.
We don't need bullshit democracy where all progress is in 4year start and stop cycles.
And where the stupid electoral democracy is nothing but a thumb printing exercise where the winner has long since been decided in Washington, Tel Aviv and London.
Infantino could've gotten away with all the shit he did in this WC. From turning two halves game to four quarters, pricing BS, sucking up to Trump to point of screwing over Belgium but he is such a greedy massive snake he couldn't stop there and finally pushed it too far.
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The issue we face is generational.
I witnessed Nigeria's potential in my youth, and I see the nation today; I know what is possible.
During my five years at university, my total tuition was less than N600, and my accommodation was also less than N600, all directly subsidized by the Federal Government of Nigeria (FGN).
At that time, while the FGN subsidized my education, there was no VAT or revenue from telecommunications, banking, remittances, or NLNG, yet they were able to fund it. My point is this: revenues have increased, but public services have deteriorated.
Back then, the President drove a locally assembled Peugeot 504, supplied from Kaduna, just like the ministers; there were no SUVs or presidential air fleets.
Many young people today have never seen Nigeria with:
1. Water flowing from public taps 24/7
2. A consistent power supply
3. Free education
The youth have been conditioned to expect little from public services, so when they do experience even a small improvement, they are genuinely amazed and appreciative. But even that is just 1%; where is the remaining 99%?
I appreciate their comments; they cannot envision functionality in todayβs challenging environment. It is those from my generation who have exploited that ignorance to sell misleading narratives to the youth of today.
Had this Palestinian man put up any defense β he would have likely been beaten to death on the spot.
Or, if he survived the beating, he would have likely been arrested and brought to a torture & rape dungeon.
Or, if he survived the beating, but needed medical attention, Israeli occupation forces would have likely prevented the ambulance from reaching him and he would have bled out.
Had that happened then they would have kidnapped his body.
Then they would destroy his home because he is a terrorist for defending himself.
Then they would arrest his family members at his funeral for committing the crime of burying their loved one.
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They say books wonβt change the world. Tell that to every colonizer who burned them. To every enslaved person who was punished for reading. Literacy is resistance. Literacy is liberation. The library is a battlefield.
Trumpβs Latest Slip-Up Exposes Western Political Hypocrisy
The myth of Western political superiority lies in tatters. While the narrative often insists that political theatre - the rented crowds, the manufactured enthusiasm- is an exclusively African dysfunction, the reality is far more damning. When Donald Trump lets slip that his "Front Row Joes" are a paid performance, he exposes a system built on the very hypocrisy it projects onto our continent.
It is time to stop mirroring these failing Western models. Africa must look inward, cultivate its own political and moral integrity, and forge a path rooted in its own reality.
Black Stalin famous song on Caribbean unity articulated the very simple reality that any meaningful attempt at regional unity starts with recognizing the shared history of the people of the region. This is why, as Black Stalin pointed out, Rastas have been a more unifying force in the Caribbean than Caribbean politicians generally have been.