Ishola Femi

•A potential Scalpel Samurai•

[The Hormuz Letter @HormuzLetter]

BREAKING: Israel has launched a new overnight ground advance into southern Lebanon with Hezbollah forces engaging Israeli troops directly at zero distance, destroying 4 Israeli military vehicles and downing helicopters during evacuation flights. This follows 20+ Israeli airstrikes that leveled residential buildings and killed at least 18 people, including entire families, in the heaviest assault since the ceasefire, per Al Jazeera.

Over this violation of the Iran-US MOU's first clause, Iran has suspended negotiations with the US and the Switzerland trip, with VP Vance also cancelling his trip in response.

Iran now says it will not unilaterally implement any MOU commitments until the U.S. does the same and attacks in Lebanon permanently stop, per Fars.

[Extra Time Indonesia @idextratime]

📸 Timnas Arab Saudi juga membersihkan ruang ganti mereka setelah laga vs. Uruguay pagi tadi. 🇸🇦👏

[Melissa Issa-Boube, MD MS🪡 @IssaSurgeon]

🫶🏿 #surgeons

[Amir @AmirAminiMD]

It’s even more crazy how Iran fired thousands of “cheap” drones and missiles at several countries from thousands of miles away but not once accidentally hit a school, a university or a hospital.

It’s almost like their goal was defense & deterrence -not terror & ethnic cleansing.

[Vanguard Newspapers @vanguardngrnews]

Japa: Only 55,000 doctors left for 220m Nigerians

https://t.co/DdfUtGpBo4

[Bundesliga Insider @BundesInsider]

🇨🇮✍️ A emocionante carta aberta de Yan Diomande à sua irmãzinha, publicada pel The Players’ Tribune:

Querida Roxane,

Lembra quando alguém comprou uma camisa falsa do United para mim, e eu escrevi “Ronaldo 7” nas costas com um canetão preto? A gente não sabia o que era rico ou pobre. A gente só conhecia a felicidade.

Lembra das 25 pessoas dormindo em uma casa só lá em Abidjan? A mãe queria assistir às novelas dela. Todo mundo queria assistir filmes. Lembra como eu sempre fingia que estava dormindo e depois ia para a sala da TV depois da meia-noite? Eu colocava a TV bem baixinha. Tipo, só duas barrinhas de volume. Eu assistia futebol no escuro e sonhava.

Lembra quando os adultos me viram jogando futebol na terra e me deram o apelido de “Roberto Carlos” por causa da força com que eu chutava? E lembra como eu ficava secretamente com tanta raiva disso, porque o CR7 era o meu ídolo?

Lembra quando eu fui jogar tão longe de casa? Eu tinha 9 anos. Inter Foot Sud Comoé, lá perto da fronteira com Gana. Só um garotinho sozinho. Não sei se algum dia te contei essa história, mas eu e as outras crianças costumávamos ir até a vila e roubar batatas porque estávamos com muita fome. A gente fazia um “assalto a banco”. Duas crianças distraíam o dono da loja, e outras 18 saíam correndo com duas batatas. Elas nem eram boas. Mas tinham um gosto incrível. Hahahah. Até hoje é minha coisa favorita para comer. Batatas cozidas com um pouco de óleo. Isso me lembra daqueles tempos.

Lembra quando ganhei minhas primeiras chuteiras de verdade, e eu dormia com elas? Crescendo, eu sempre jogava com aquelas sandálias brancas de plástico. Mesmo quando volto para casa agora, ainda jogo com elas. É a nossa tradição.

Lembra quando eu voltava para casa, e você dizia aos meus amigos do bairro: “Por que vocês pararam de treinar? Yan não vai comprar carros para vocês. Vocês precisam continuar trabalhando.” Você tinha 10 anos, e já era minha agente.

Lembra como a gente sentava e sonhava em se mudar para a França? Como a gente iria fazer compras, ter nosso próprio apartamento, e eu seria um jogador rico, com carros e uma casa grande, e você não precisaria se preocupar com nada. Você era a pessoa que sempre acreditou que eu poderia ser o próximo Cristiano, quando todos os outros riam.

Lembra quando eu me mudei para os Estados Unidos para fazer o ensino médio, aos 15 anos, e senti tanta saudade de casa? Durante meses eu não entendia o que ninguém dizia. Me colocaram sentado ao lado de um garoto francês, e ele tentava traduzir tudo o que a professora falava. Lembra quando eu te liguei dizendo: “Você não vai acreditar, as crianças aqui discutem com os professores.” Lá em casa, você sabe, a gente nem ousaria piscar para os mais velhos.

Lembra quando eu não conseguia acreditar que os meninos fumavam depois da escola? Você costumava dizer que parecia que eu estava em uma série de TV americana.

Lembra quando me levaram para fazer testes no Bournemouth? No Chelsea, Rangers, Olympiacos, Crystal Palace? Eze e Olise chegaram até mim depois de um treino e disseram: “Ei, garoto, você é muito bom.”… mas, mesmo assim, não me contrataram.

Até os times B da MLS não me quiseram. Eu nem sabia o motivo. Eles nunca me deram uma razão. Os adultos cuidavam de tudo. Eles só continuavam me levando pela Europa inteira, e todo mundo continuava dizendo não.

Meu visto acabou. Meu sonho acabou. Eles me mandaram de volta para a África, e nós choramos juntos. Você foi a única que nunca deixou de acreditar. Algumas semanas depois, assinei com o Leganés, e choramos lágrimas diferentes.

Isso foi na época em que eu ainda tinha emoções. Agora, eu não sinto nada. É como se eu nem fosse humano. Desde que você morreu, eu sou só um vazio.

[Najib @Rilwannajib]

Telling people not to talk about insecurity because it makes this government look bad is the same as saying the lives of those killed are irrelevant & the lives yet to be affected aren’t worth protecting.

[Fabrizio Romano @FabrizioRomano]

🕺🏾🇨🇴 Luis Diaz with his FIFA Man of the Match Award on his FIRST World Cup game ever.

Goal, assist, MOTM. ⭐️

[The Kobeissi Letter @KobeissiLetter]

BREAKING: The US has released the full text of its 14-point "Memorandum of Understanding" with Iran.

Key terms include:

1. The US, Iran, and their allies agree to immediately and permanently end military operations on all fronts, including in Lebanon

2. The US and Iran agree to respect each other's sovereignty and territorial integrity and not interfere in each other's internal affairs

3. The US and Iran commit to negotiating and reaching a final deal within 60 days, unless mutually extended

4. The US will begin removing its naval blockade immediately and fully end the blockade within 30 days

5. Iran will use its best efforts to ensure safe passage for commercial vessels through the Strait of Hormuz for 60 days with no charge

6. The US and regional partners will develop a mutually agreed plan of at least $300 billion for Iran's reconstruction and economic development

7. The US will work toward terminating all types of sanctions against Iran, including UN, IAEA, primary, and secondary sanctions

8. Iran reaffirms that it will not procure or develop nuclear weapons and agrees to address its enriched material stockpile under IAEA supervision

9. Until a final deal is reached, Iran will maintain the current status quo of its nuclear program, while the US will impose no new sanctions and deploy no additional forces

10. The US Treasury will issue waivers for Iranian crude oil, petroleum products, derivatives, and associated banking, insurance, and transportation services

11. The US will make frozen or restricted Iranian funds and assets fully available for use

12. The US and Iran will establish an executive mechanism to monitor implementation of the MOU and future compliance with the final deal

13. After signing the MOU and implementing key ceasefire, blockade, shipping, oil waiver, and asset-release provisions, the US and Iran will begin final deal negotiations

14. The final deal will be endorsed by a binding UN Security Council resolution

The memorandum will trigger a 60-day window to negotiate a final deal.

[Jostein Hauge @haugejostein]

The visa rejection rates in the US for African football fans have been off the charts for the World Cup.

This is a scandal of epic proportions for a sports tournament that prides itself on being global and multicultural. This story is not getting nearly enough coverage.

[Peacock @dawisu]

Baku ga laifin Rarara da yace wa Dabeedo dabba ba, sai shi Dabeedo da yace wa Rarara mara ilimi shine kuke tada jijiyar wuya! Dan arewa baya san gaskiya wallahi, gaba daya zancen ya tashi daga Kan yaran da aka sace ya koma na bangaranci! Muna da sauran aiki a kasar nan

[Hon. Mohammed Bello El-Rufai @B_ELRUFAI]

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[Ishola Femi @Ishoms]

This should be written on the wall of every governmental office.

[Olufemi AWOYEMI @OlufemiAwoyemi]

Q: Why is it so easy to criticise and have a plan till you get into government? 🤔

A: Because outside govt, you see the problem in straight lines. Inside government, you meet the maze.

From outside, failure often looks like a lack of will, competence, courage, or integrity. Sometimes it is. But inside government, plans meet weak institutions, inherited liabilities, vested interests, procurement rules, courts, legislators, budget limits, security realities, civil service inertia, and the politics of timing.

Culture happens, stories begin and self-preservation agendas find life.

The easiest sentence in public life is: “They should just fix it.” The harder truth is that the state is not one person with one button. It is a network of laws, interests, fears, incentives, sabotage, capacity gaps, and consequences.

Still, complexity is not an excuse for failure. Government exists to organise complexity into results. The real test of leadership is whether a plan survives contact with reality, adapts without losing its moral centre, and delivers relief citizens can feel.

So, I have learnt to appreciate progress, momentum and incremental gains..... not the eldorado version.

Yet, criticism keeps power honest, but getting results for desired governance requires more than criticism. It requires getting involved, sequencing, coalition-building, courage, competence, communication, and the humility to accept that the problem was deeper than the slogan.

The code is to win by knowing when to lose, win or compromise.

On a scale we can all relate wirh, we should for example know that the wedding, of which we priotise expenses with, is just an event, while the marriage remains the institution of priority. Even within this family arrangement, optimising value reflects similar challenges.😔 You can read this in a way you get the message.

Be ye circumspect.....

[Ishola Femi @Ishoms]

😂
The plot thickens

[Daily Trust @daily_trust]

Rarara: My mother’s plight worsened in kidnappers’ den after Atiku’s post
https://t.co/PqENalOiAG

[Ishola Femi @Ishoms]

Doctors too because why are they being pummeled in hospitals

[ARISE NEWS @ARISEtv]

Tinubu says judges need security, comfort and dignity to dispense justice effectively as he inaugurates new quarters. https://t.co/0QBW2KWxwU

[Abdool Moh. @abdool_moh]

“Tinubu’s government did not listen to our online posts, they did not listen to our videos. The only language they listen to is protest and PVC. Everyday, they are killing our brothers, r@p!ng our mothers, sisters & daughters. 95% of terrorism in Nigeria is happening in the North while only like 5% happens in the South, yet Southerners came out to stage a protest while in Arewa we keep sleeping”
ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!!
TINUBU MUST GO!!!

- Northern Actor Sadiq Sani Sadiq continues to call for protests.

[Ishola Femi @Ishoms]

Always looks like he's wearing prosthesis😂

[Fabrizio Romano @FabrizioRomano]

🇦🇷 Rodrigo de Paul: “Trust me, Messi doesn’t even know most of the records he’s beating!”.

“I swear to you that he isn't chasing individual records, but he ends up achieving them all”.

[Ishola Femi @Ishoms]

Just imagine if it was the player that stepped on Messi like that.

[𝓐𝔡𝔯𝔦𝔦🥀 @addrii19]

El futbolista más protegido de la historia del fútbol.

[Abdool Moh. @abdool_moh]

VDM took his protest straight to the governor and the governor came out to address him. Meanwhile nobody in the whole of Northern Nigeria today can take protest to any government house and get a governor to address him because all the useless northern activists have turned to their Political Almajiri.

[Ishola Femi @Ishoms]

That's not even the point but you sha want to comment, intentionally being obtuse.
If he was educated, he certainly didn't speak like one who was. He's merely protecting the failed government because that is where his meal ticket comes from.
Don't bring our Islam into this.

[Dr. Yakubu Sani Wudil @yakubwudil]

I disagree with Rarara on most of his views. However, it is wrong for Davido to label him as uneducated, and equally wrong for our Northern people to accept that characterization simply because he does not possess a formal certificate.

Rarara has received a substantial Islamic education and therefore cannot fairly be described as uneducated. He can read and write in Arabic script, which is itself a form of literacy and learning. Education is not defined solely by Western-style certificates.

This is an important clarification to make.