Spent most of my career talking down the endless stream of unjustified oil market alarm.
Now I’m acutely alarmed to the point of disbelief, the oil market is still shockingly sanguine, and I feel like this guy.
- most clean sheet in french ligue 1 season (21)
- 101 caps for nigeria, 50 clean sheets
- first african goal keeper to score in a UCL game
y’all underrate enyema so much, he was just so unlucky he didn’t play for a bigger club than lille
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THE FEAR THEY CARRY
The Northern elite is terrified of Peter Obi. Not because they fear him personally, but because they fear what he represents. If Obi can win without money, without machinery, without manipulation, then their entire model collapses. If a leader can rise on integrity rather than inheritance, then their children cannot simply inherit power. If voters choose based on performance rather than ethnicity, then their decades of building ethnic fortresses become worthless.
This is why they attack him with everything they have. This is why they spread rumors about his health, his finances, his intentions. This is why they wrap themselves in Northern solidarity while selling Northern interests. They are not defending the North. They are defending their right to keep looting it.
WHAT THE NORTH ACTUALLY NEEDS
The North does not need another leader who shares our language but steals our future. The North does not need another governor who prays five times daily but preys on public funds five times more. The North does not need another senator who looks like us but acts like our enemy.
What the North needs is someone who will build schools that actually teach. Someone who will create jobs that actually pay. Someone who will secure farms so farmers can farm. Someone who will govern with transparency so that every kobo spent can be accounted for. Someone who will treat Northerners as citizens with rights, not subjects with obligations.
Peter Obi has shown he can do these things. His record proves it. His consistency confirms it. His continued presence in the North, listening and learning, demonstrates it. The question is not whether Obi is capable. The question is whether the North is ready to break free from the chains of ethnic loyalty and embrace the possibility of something better.
THE CHOICE BEFORE US
I know the arguments. They will say he is Igbo. They will say he is Christian. They will say he does not understand our ways. But I ask you: what have our ways brought us? What has voting for our own produced for our children? What has loyalty to our leaders earned for our communities?
The answer is nothing. Less than nothing. Debt. Insecurity. Poverty. Despair.
The elite will tell you that change is dangerous. But what they really fear is that change might actually work. If Obi succeeds, their entire narrative collapses. If competence becomes the standard, their incompetence becomes exposed. If integrity becomes the measure, their corruption becomes undeniable.
The North must choose. We can continue along the path that has led us nowhere. We can keep voting for leaders who look like us and act like enemies. We can keep believing that religion and ethnicity are substitutes for performance.
Or we can choose something different. We can choose a leader who has proven he can govern. We can choose a candidate who has shown he can be trusted. We can choose Peter Obi.
A CALL TO MY PEOPLE
I say this as a Northerner who loves the North. I say this as a Muslim who fears Allah. I say this as a son of Katsina who wants his children to inherit something better than debt and despair.
The Northern elite has had its chance. For decades, they have governed and failed. It is time to try something else. It is time to support a leader who will actually lead. It is time to embrace Peter Obi.
The choice is ours. The future is waiting. Let us not waste it on more of the same.
A New Nigeria is POssible. And the North can be part of it.
K-Y
ICE did it again - released a detainee far from her home without notifying her family.
Three days after having an ankle monitor put on by ICE, 31 year old Daphy Michel was found unresponsive at a bus station. She died later that day.
Daphy was seeking asylum in the US. Her brother lives in the US and has TPS status.
She had a hearing scheduled for April on her immigration case.
Her brother was waiting to hear when she would be released so he could bring her home.
ICE hasn’t answered questions from Pittsburgh’s Action News 4 about when Daphy arrived at the ERO Pittsburgh office, when she received the ankle monitor, how long she was in custody, and where & when she was released.
McGowan: You're saying 46 Americans died, so we should attack this country. Here at home, 68,000 Americans die a year because they don't have health insurance. So, if we're going to spend billions of dollars on something, would it not make more sense to save American lives, to spend it here on health care than bombing another country.
It's telling how risk-averse young Americans have become these days. They're not having sex. They're not dating. They're not driving. They're not even piloting oil tankers through the Strait of Hormuz.
Ossoff: "Last night the White House put a video on social media that depicted this war as a video game. When American service members killed in action are returning to the US in flag-draped coffins, and even more Americans have lost limbs or suffered terrible brain injuries or are fighting for their lives, this White House treats war like a game. It's a disgrace. And it speaks to the moral rot of this administration."
AI agents are now renting humans to do their physical tasks.
> 614,000 people signed up btw.
we just became the hardware for softwares, an api with legs 💀
Okay good, let's say the WH planned for Iran to close the Strait of Hormuz following the attack.
1. The U.S. sold off its helium reserve before waging a war that they knew would disrupt helium exports to allies, which make computer chips we rely on. Weird decision.
2. The U.S. let oil stockpiles fall to a multi-decade low before waging a war they knew would disrupt oil shipping. Why?
3. The U.S. didn't build any kind of coalition to assist tankers coming under attack in the region, and two weeks into the war they're only now asking allies to reinforce the US Navy. But they knew they'd need to do this for ... "years"?
If this is what "a plan" looks like, god forbid we see what unplanned operations look like.