🚨Andrea Pirlo on Lionel Messi being nominated for the 2026 Ballon d’Or while Cristiano Ronaldo isn’t:
“At this stage of their careers, you simply cannot compare Messi and Ronaldo. They became different types of players.
Messi has always been a playmaker as much as a goalscorer. He can operate anywhere across the attacking line, drop deeper, create chances, control the tempo and still decide games with goals and assists.
Ronaldo was an explosive winger when he was young. He could create, dribble and score. But later in his career, he became a pure striker, and naturally his involvement in the build-up became less.
Today, Messi can still dictate a game from deeper positions. Ronaldo’s main responsibility is finishing. Defenders know this, so they focus on denying him space inside the box.
That is why, at this age, football naturally favours Messi’s style more. And honestly, Messi could play until he is 50 and still find a way to influence games. His understanding of football is simply different.”
🚨🚨🗣️ Zinedine Zidane on Lionel Messi and his 17th Ballon d’Or nomination: “I would vote for him 100 times.”
“I wouldn’t be surprised if Messi won the award. If anyone still has doubts about the GOAT debate, honestly, that person does not belong in football society.” 🇦🇷🐐
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🚨🚨🎙️| Zinedine Zidane on Lionel Messi and his 17th Ballon d’Or nomination.
“I would vote for Messi 100 times.
“I think people really don’t understand how incredible it is to still be among the best players in the world at 39 years old.” 🇦🇷🐐
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🚨 French coach Zinedine Zidane names his Ballon d’Or winner for 2026.
🗣️ Zidane: “You want the honest answer? Messi.
I know what people will say. He is older. He is not in Europe every week. There are younger players lighting up the Champions League. I see them. I respect them. Some of them will win this award one day.
But this season I still watched a player who changes the temperature of a match with one touch. That has not changed.
If the Ballon d’Or is about who made football look different, it is still Messi. The rest is noise.”
Nobody Believes Peter Obi When He Says He Will Do Only One Term. You Can't Fix Nigeria In Four Years-Nasir El-Rufai
(Yet He Wants Tinubu To Fix Nigeria in Two Years)
@NigeriaStories This is just the beginning of greediness and monopoly.
I hate and detest multi choice.
I did my Max subscription for good 8yrs without interruption, I wasn't even giving one bonus for day.
All they do is increments in subscription.
I don press am leave Una.
No going back!!!
@1BongoIdeas Stop saying what you don't know anything about. So you want to tell me also that the American have been robbed ever since the inception of the Papacy?
@ManagingBarca You have tried and sacrifice to the team.
We appreciate your support to the team. But, I'll advise you to quietly leave for another club next season. Thanks!
There's a list circulating in which a clever and mischievous individual tries to portray the President Tinubu-led Federal Government as a Lukumi Yoruba-dominated government. The list ingeniously lists only positions occupied by Southwesterners (and not even accurately) to arrive at a prearranged conclusion.
But is the TInubu-led Federal Government Yoruba dominated? Anyone who follows me knows of my deep-seated love for Arewa. I will never support an administration that shortchanges the North.
So, let us fact-check that claim by comparing the top Federal Government appointive positions under Presidents Buhari and Tinubu, and you can draw your own objective conclusions.
Under Buhari Under Tinubu
Defence North North
AGF North South
AMCON North South
Airforce South North
Army North South
CDS South North
DIA North South
DMI North North
DSS North South
EFCC North South
FFS North North
FRSC North North
ICPC North North
Navy North South
NCC North North
NCS North South
NDLEA North North
NFIU North North
NHIS North North
NIS North North
NNPC North North
NPA North North
NPS North North
NSA North North
NSCDC North North
NTA North North
NUC North North
NYSC North North
PTDF North North
Police North South
UBEC North South
From the above, objective Nigerians who are not blinded by region, religion and division can clearly see that we have one of the most ethnically and religiously balanced governments since Independence under the incumbent President.
Reno Omokri
Gospel let. Deep Thinker. #TableShaker. Ruffler of the Feathers of Obidents. #1 Bestselling author of Facts Versus Fiction: The True Story of the Jonathan Years. Hodophile. Hollywood Magazine Humanitarian of the Year, 2019. Business Insider Influencer of the Year 2022. 21st Most Talked About Person in Africa, 2024.
Please Leave Me Out of The Natasha Akpoti Affair
I have been inundated with calls from almost all major media outlets in Nigeria to interview me about the issues involving the Senate President, Senator Godswill Akpabio, and Senator Natasha Akpoti. These media organisations wanted my take, seeing that I was once accused by Senator Natasha Akpoti of the exact grave allegations that she is now accusing the Senate President of.
Against my will, I have been trending on various social media platforms, and for the sake of my family, it would be best to put this matter to rest.
Rather than speak with multiple media outlets, perhaps I can ease the pressure on me by putting out this statement.
I do not know if what Senator Natasha Akpoti accused the Senate President of is true, as I was not physically present when the alleged events took place.
However, I can testify that Senator Natasha Akpoti once had an altercation with me on social media over a post where a woman made advances at me and I rejected her and stated that my wife is a beauty queen and is more than enough for me.
Apparently the woman is or was a friend of Senator Akpoti. And after I had scorned her friend's advances, Senator Akpoti accused me of sexually harassing her at Aso Rock Presidential Villa, during a reception held for the visiting Kenyan President, Uhuru Kenyatta, when he visited Nigeria between May 4 and May 7 2014.
Unfortunately for Senator Akpoti, during those dates, I was sent to the United States of America as President Jonathan's special envoy. I met and was photographed with multiple U.S. officials, including State Department officials, in Washington, D.C.
I then published a First Class British Airways ticket and my passport (which was a different class of passport from the regular Nigerian passport and requires a special kind of stamp), proving that I was not in Nigeria on the dates Senator Akpoti alleged I sexually harassed her.
After I published that evidence, Miss Natasha Akpoti, as she then was, deleted every trace of her allegations against me and the video she had made insulting me, my wife and my newborn daughter.
As I was pondering the next steps to take, a very influential and respectable man from my ethnic nationality, reached out to a prominent Christian clergyman, who mediated between him and I. The gentleman greeted me in my mother tongue, Itsekiri, and was most gentlemanly and expressed regrets over the incident, and I was prevailed on by the clergyman to reach an out-of-court settlement.
Thereafter, I dropped the matter since my name had been cleared, and the out-of-court settlement was adequate.
That is the extent of my encounter with Senator Natasha Akpoti. I hope the media can now leave me alone, as I am reluctant to grant any interviews or get entangled in this matter, seeing as I have the highest respect for the man who reached out to me to settle the matter.
As for the Senate, I have the highest respect and confidence in that institution and its leadership and believe that the right thing to do would be to institute a Senate investigation by the appropriate committee to determine the veracity of the present allegations.
Reno Omokri
March 1, 2025.
“I am going to be apologizing for saying, If you don’t pay tithe, you might not make it to heaven. I’m sorry, that’s wrong, that’s not in the Bible. What the Bible says is…” — Pastor Adeboye
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