Not that this will accomplish anything, since you people hit the "off" switch inside your brains once your religion is mentioned, but for the benefit of the roughly 9 teachable people left in Nigerja, here is what is REALLY happening around you:
1. China is winning the economic war with the US, and the US is aware that it can no longer compete industrially with China, which is already a larger economy than the US in PPP terms. The only reason the US economy is still nominally larger is that the US dollar remains wildly overvalued due to its use as the global reserve currency.
2. The rise of BRICS means that the end of the US dollar as global reserve currency is coming. Once that happens, the US economy will implode, because it is built on exporting USD and importing the world's productivity. Without the overvalued USD as an imperial tool for controlling and extracting from the rest of the planet, the US will basically become Brazil with nuclear warheads.
3. The Trump administration knows this, which is why it has gone into full imperial mode, renaming the DoD to "Department of War," and preparing to deploy the US military across Latin America as part of its 'Monroe Doctrine.' The idea is to secure land, resources, and spheres of influence to compete with China and Russia, since it is no longer the unilateral superpower.
4. In this new multipolar world whose birth you are witnessing, there will be 3 or 4 great powers instead of just one, and all of them will compete and jostle for influence and access to resources. That is what you are witnessing playing out in Nepal, Bangladesh, the Sahel, the Middle East, Venezuela, and many other places. Yes, there are local factors, but everything exists in this wider context of a world being reshaped in front of our eyes.
5. During this reshaping of the world, Africa - the only continent with a majority of its states professing 'nonalignment' with any great power - is the biggest prize that is up for grabs. All of tomorrow's technology, which guarantees economic and military supremacy is built on resources found in DR Congo, Northern Nigeria, Mali, Niger, Burkina Faso, Chad, Sudan and Somalia. (What unique security situation do all these places have in common?)
6.During this reshaping, "international institutions" are debased and made irrelevant. Bibi Netanyahu has an ICC arrest warrant that nobody will honour, and the US government sanctioned the ICC for issuing the warrant, even locking the ICC Chief Prosecutor out of his email and bank accounts. The UN has officially declared Gaza to be a genocide - and nothing happened. And nothing will happen because these "institutions" no longer have of the teeth they once pretended to have.
7. This means that the days of one state cooking up a reason to invade or annex another state - something expressly forbidden since 1945 - are now back. And since Africa has what everybody wants, any great power is now free to deploy a geopolitical meme ("Christian Genocide in Nigeria") and use it to justify invasion to take what it wants. In other words, colonialism is coming back - not IMF/World Bank, suit-wearing, conference-attending, Business-English-speaking, polite neo-colonialism, but open, obvious colonial theft and thuggery. This is not decades away - it is a few years away at the most.
8. Russia considers Europe to be its rightful sphere of influence and trade dominance. Hence it views European access to cheap African resources as a threat. Thus Russia is stepping in to provide military and infrastructure support for African states so that they can start to use their own resources for themselves and leave Europe dependent on Russia. Europe and the US see this as an existential threat, hence their proxy war in Ukraine and their new geopolitical meme ("Christian Genocide in Nigeria") to justify direct military occupation of West Africa.
9. No great power gives a single fuck about "Nigerian Christian genocide." All you are is a means to an end!
Every Nigerian toddler, preteen, teenager must be taught repeatedly that the US government is their number one enemy in the world.
Nigerian children must grow up framed to protect their society from this Yankee demon.
If this doesn't happen, there will not be a Nigeria or Nigerians to speak of in another 20 years.
Just an empty patch of West African rare earth with a whole lot of mining and extraction going on.
While we were growing up, my father was a man of structure.
If he said he would give us pocket money for two weeks, he would call each of us one by one, place the exact amount in our hands, and remind us to spend wisely. There was order. There was discipline. There was love in the routine.
Then one day, something changed.
Without announcement.
Without explanation.
He started giving us more than the usual amount. We didn’t question it. We were children we were just happy. For over a month, the increase continued quietly. No speech. No warning. Just silent generosity.
Then one evening, he gathered us and told us he would be traveling.
Before he left, instead of giving us money like he normally would, he said something unusual:
“This time, calculate what you need for two weeks. Feed yourselves. Write everything down. When I return, I will pay you.”
It felt strange. But we agreed.
For two weeks, we became accountants of our own survival.
Every snack.
Every transport fare.
Every small expense.
We wrote them down carefully, almost proudly. It felt like adulthood in small doses.
When he returned, we were excited. We arranged our lists neatly, ready to be paid. There was joy in our eyes the joy of children expecting reward.
He collected the papers. Looked at them quietly.
Then he said something I will never forget.
“You survived for two weeks.”
We smiled, waiting for the money.
He continued.
“I didn’t ask you to do this because I didn’t want to provide for you. I asked you to do it to see if, from what I have been giving you, you have learned how to survive without me.”
The room became quiet.
“This is life,” he said. “Anything can happen. If unforeseen circumstances take me away from you, will you be able to stand? Have you been wise enough to save? Have you been wise enough to think?”
Then he went deeper.
“Not only financially. Everything you are learning from me discipline, responsibility, character you must be able to live it without me. A day will come when I will not be here. And when that day comes, I want to be at peace knowing you can survive.”
That day, he didn’t pay us.
At least not immediately.
But a week later, he called us again.
And he paid each of us more than what we had written.
More than what we expected.
Because the lesson was never about the money.
It was about independence.
It was about preparation.
It was about love expressed through responsibility.
Since that day, I have never forgotten.
Because sometimes the greatest love a father can give his children is not comfort…
It is capacity.
Yesterday, I was trying to book a train ticket. The moment the site opened around 4:30pm, Coach 1 was already fully booked. I panicked and quickly checked Coach 2, which was almost full as well.
So I immediately moved to Coach 5, where there were only a few seats left. I booked one right away. Within 20 minutes, every single seat was gone.
But let me tell you what really happened when I got to the train station this morning.
People were there buying tickets directly from staff. That means a large number of seats were likely held back and later sold at outrageous prices. That is not business. It feels criminal.
Situations like this are why progress feels so difficult. When systems are manipulated and ordinary people are forced to pay more just to survive, it damages trust and fairness.
Nigeria cannot move forward if integrity is constantly sacrificed for quick profit.
Electric vehicles to be made in Nigeria: FG, South Korea Sign Agreement
In a move to accelerate Nigeria’s transition to clean energy and boost local industrial capacity, the Federal Government has signed an agreement with South Korea to establish an electric vehicle manufacturing plant in Nigeria.
The Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed by the Minister of State for Industry, John Enoh, and representatives of the Asia Economic Development Committee (AEDC) of South Korea.
The initiative will accelerate technology transfer, investment promotion, human capital development, and research, design, and innovation.
The project is said to be implemented in phases, beginning with EV assembly and expanding into full in-house production, with an estimated capacity of 300,000 vehicles and the creation of approximately 10,000 jobs.
Tech support to the rescue...
A young woman who submitted a tech support message presumably did it as a joke. Then she got a reply that was way too good to keep to herself.
The query:
Dear Tech Support,
Last year, I upgraded from Boyfriend 5.0 to Husband 1.0 and noticed a distinct slowdown in overall system performance, particularly in the flower and jewellery applications and intimacy, which operated flawlessly under Boyfriend 5.0.
In addition, Husband 1.0 uninstalled many other valuable programs, such as Romance 9.5 and Personal Attention 6.5, and then installed undesirable programs such as: NBA 5.0, NFL 3.0 and Golf 4.1
Conversation 8.0 no longer runs, and House Cleaning 2.6 simply crashes the system.
Please note that I have tried running Nagging 5.3 to fix these problems, but to no avail.
What can I do?
Signed, Desperate
The response:
Dear Desperate,
First, keep in mind, Boyfriend 5.0 is an Entertainment Package, while Husband 1.0 is an operating system.
Please enter command: I thought you loved me.
html and try to download Tears 6.2. Do not forget to install the Guilt 3.0 update.
If that application works as designed, Husband 1.0 should then automatically run the applications Jewellery 2.0 and Flowers 3.5.
However, remember, overuse of the above application can cause Husband 1.0 to default to Grumpy Silence 2.5, Happy Hour 7.0, or Beer 6.1.
Please note that Beer 6.1 is a very bad program that will download the Farting and Snoring Loudly Beta version.
Whatever you do, DO NOT, under any circumstances, install Mother-In-Law 1.0 as it runs a virus in the background that will eventually seize control of all your system resources.
In addition, please do not attempt to reinstall the Boyfriend 5.0 program.
These are unsupported applications and will crash Husband 1.0.
In summary, Husband 1.0 is a great program, but it does have limited memory and cannot learn new applications quickly.
You might consider buying additional software to improve memory and performance.
We recommend Cooking 3.0.
Good Luck!
Tech Support
Afcon was already popular globally, and with the explosion of social media and streaming services, it was bound to become even more so and would take a proper incompetent, bumbling idiot for it not to.
Especially with more global stars like Salah, Osimhen, Mane, Hakimi, Mbeumo, etc taking part.
Secondly, in case you did not know, Hayatou secured a rights sponsorship that guaranteed a MINIMUM of $1bn to CAF just before he left office. That contract was cancelled by his successor under the direction of a certain someone and they failed to get a replacement.
Motsepe is only just beginning to pick up the pieces of that system. Hayatou met $1m in cash reserves when he came in. He left over $150m reserves with a guaranteed minimum $1bn revenue, with more to come.
He negotiated partnerships with Europe (like the Meridian Cup) and Asia (Afro-Asia Cup) on an equal footing where CAF was respected, not all this kowtowing to AFC, UEFA and FIFA that Motsepe is doing now. He was just as respected as a CAF president, and FIFA VP. In all the corruption investigations that took everyone at FIFA down at the time, he was the only one that emerged unscathed.
Hayatou may not have been the best, heck, I had my issues with him, but please keep this Motsepe saviour complex that you people have, in your backyard