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"Life is a race. Keep running."
This is a common motivational speaking cliche. A cliche far from prevailing realities. Circumstances have excluded many of us from life's competition. "Don't stop," they say, ignoring that we have no legs. What's crippling you?
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Introducing My Football Club, Ibadan United FC.
I’ve always loved the game of football. As you all know, I’m a die-hard fan of Shooting Stars, a club I have supported for over 40 years, right from when I was a kid.
It’s a club I even sponsored for a few years at one point.
However, I’ve always wanted to own my own football club. But I didn’t want to have a club in Ibadan that would play against Shooting Stars.
About five years ago, my friend, @biolakazeem and I came up with the idea of establishing one in Lekki, Lagos, where I have a home and where the head office of my businesses is located.
So, we formed Lekki United and competed in the NLO, the third tier of the Nigerian football league.
After about two years, European scouts started noticing some of our players and began approaching us about collaborations which includes taking them abroad.
That was when it dawned on me.
My people in Egbeda/Ona-Ara Federal Constituency, my people in Ibadan, and indeed Oyo State in general, should be the ones benefiting from this opportunity.
That was when I decided to rebrand the club and move it to Ibadan.
The issue of playing against Shooting Stars should not be a problem. In fact, we can even help Shooting Stars. The club can serve as a pipeline for talent to the Oluyole Warriors and to clubs abroad. More importantly, it is a pathway to help talented footballers in my constituency and across Oyo State realise their dreams.
So, here we are.
Ibadan United Football Club is here. We play in the 3rd Tier of Nigerian Football, the NLO
We will make history together.
Akin Alabi
Hon. Akin Alabi
Egbeda/Ona-Ara Federal Constituency
Ajia Olubadan of Ibadanland
Until the government criminalizes the illegal dumping of refuse, we won’t be free from this madness.
Many of these cart pushers collect money and dump refuse at strategic locations at night..
If Lawma is overwhelmed, I think the government needs to bring in more private companies to venture into this business..
Raining season is here and many of us who live on the island have our canals blocked with refuse thereby causing flooding.
We can’t continue like this!
Barack: You told me all those years ago that you couldn’t promise me the world, but you could promise me an interesting life. Of course, you outdid yourself and managed to give me both.
Eight years in the crucible, and not once did you melt from the heat. Not once did you let it harden you. Instead, you used it to reveal your truest essence: your stubborn optimism and unflinching courage, your dazzling brilliance and unpretentious decency, your ferocious work ethic and absolutely unshakable moral fiber.
No terrorist sympathiser or defender of fake drugs, drinks and beverages manufacturer will ever get an opportunity to govern Nigeria. Not today. Not tomorrow. Not in 2031. Never ever!
Aside from his asinine supporters on here, this has been my issue with him from day one.
I’ve listened to a lot of his interviews, and no, not agenda-driven edits, but full conversations. I’ve sat through him discussing the economy, his plans for it, and even his understanding of the structure of government and how it works. Each time, I’ve come away underwhelmed, and that’s me being charitable.
I completely understand the burning desire to remove the government of the day, as well as the emotional and empathetic appeal he brings. But leading a multifaceted, highly complex emerging economy like Nigeria requires more than good intentions and public sympathy.
Yet every time you point that out, a swarm of witless cretins floods your mentions with insults and abuse, as though that will somehow change your assessment or translate into votes at the ballot box.
In any case, I wish all the candidates the very best come 2027. May the best ideas win, and may Nigeria be great again.
A Black man scoring the first goal of the 2026 World Cup to silence the African continent’s most hostile nation towards Black foreigners is absolutely poetic. Thank you, Mexico! 🇲🇽
📊 HOW DOES KANO COMPARE TO SOUTH WEST STATES (EXCLUDING LAGOS)?
💵 IGR PER CAPITA
Kano — ₦4,422 (22nd)
South West States
Ogun — ₦28,692 (3rd)
Ondo — ₦9,065 (11th)
Osun — ₦8,970 (12th)
Ekiti — ₦8,287 (14th)
Oyo — ₦6,344 (16th)
📉 MULTIDIMENSIONAL POVERTY INDEX (2022)
Kano — 62% (21st)
South West States
Ondo — 27.2% (37th)
Ekiti — 36.0% (32nd)
Osun — 40.7% (31st)
Oyo — 48.7% (26th)
Ogun — 68.1% (20th)
👤 HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INDEX (HDI)
Kano — 0.482 (28th)
South West States
Ekiti — 0.612 (11th)
Ondo — 0.611 (12th)
Osun — 0.607 (14th)
Oyo — 0.603 (15th)
Ogun — 0.569 (21st)
📚 LITERACY RATE
Kano — 54.6% (25th)
South West States
Ogun — 85.7% (8th)
Ekiti — 84.9% (9th)
Osun — 84.5% (10th)
Oyo — 80.7% (13th)
Ondo — 75.6% (16th)
🤝 EASE OF DOING BUSINESS
Kano — 9th (Top tier)
South West States
Oyo — 3rd (Top tier)
Ogun — 5th (Top tier)
Ekiti — 8th (Top tier)
Ondo — Lower tier
Osun — Lower tier
Kano performs better than most South West states only in Ease of Doing Business rankings, while South West states generally lead in income per capita, human development, literacy, and poverty reduction indicators.
#StatiSense
(PEBEC, State of the States Report, NBS, BudgIT)
When a journalist deliberately downplays the efforts of security personnel and attributes their work to someone else, he is doing exactly what he would condemn others for doing.
If the police deserve criticism when they fail, they also deserve recognition when they succeed. Anything less is intellectual dishonesty.
360 lives rescued in one singular operation no commendation from armchair and social media Generals to Nigerian Troops until there's little setback.
🫡🫡KUDOS, MORE SUCCESSFUL OPERATION AHEAD.🫡🫡