Rufai: You hardly offer solutions. For instance, while speaking recently you talked about adding extra megawatts and targeting 10,000 megawatts. Can you give a breakdown of how you are going to achieve that 10,000 megawatts of electricity?
Peter Obi’s response: Somebody said, “If I don’t give you power, don’t vote for me.” Did he tell you how he is going to give you power? So why must my own be in the marketplace?
"The officer took the phone from my son, he didn't even allow my son to say anything.....And then he alleged to say that my son committed internet fr@üd. My son, my son wouldn't have done nothing."
~Mother In Bayelsa Has Shared Ordeal Of How Her Son Never Made It Home Due To A Reported Police Brütålity By The Nigerian Police Force
In November 1996, a photograph appeared in the Liverpool Echo showing an 11-year-old Everton mascot walking out for the Merseyside derby. That child was Wayne Rooney.
It is one of the earliest recorded images of the use of mascots- which has since become one of the most commercially valuable traditions in world football.
Every Premier League matchday, over 440 children walk onto pitches across England holding the hands of professional footballers. Most people assume it has always been this way. It has not. And the story of how it started is more interesting than the tradition itself.
The practice began informally in the mid-1990s with one or two children per team. It became global policy in 2002 when FIFA partnered with UNICEF on a campaign called Say Yes for Children, designed to protect children's rights worldwide.
The most visible element was simple: one child walked out with every player before every World Cup match, wearing FIFA/UNICEF t-shirts as a symbolic reminder that football had a responsibility beyond the result.
From 2002, it became commercialised. McDonalds became the primary sponsor of the Player Escort Programme at the World Cup and European Championships. At the 2006 World Cup they sent 1,408 children from 35 countries to Germany. At the 2010 World Cup, 1,408 children from 47 countries.
At the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, 1,408 children again, this time from across 70 countries. According to available estimates, McDonald's pays FIFA between $10 million and $25 million per year for its overall World Cup sponsorship, of which the Player Escort Programme is the centrepiece.
What started as a UNICEF advocacy moment is now one of the most consistently sponsored pieces of real estate in world football. The handshake before kickoff. The anthem. And eleven small children holding hands with eleven millionaires. All three have a sponsor. And it all started from somewhere.
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I kept someone on my team because she begged. She said she had 6 children and letting her go would finish her.
While I was trying to save her, my business was dying.
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I kept correcting, she kept apologizing, and I kept hoping things would change.
They didn’t.
I ran at a full loss last year.
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So I chose my business.
Since February, I’ve only recovered about 10 percent of my customers and we can’t see the growth.
And the painful part is, I understand why the others left. I don’t blame them.
But now, the food is different. The quality is right. The standard is where it should be.
All I want is a second chance.
I may not get all 80 percent back, but if even 60 percent return, I’ll be grateful.
This is me rebuilding. This is me doing it right.
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Buying match tickets is not that straight forward.
Good to mention that you can have membership and struggle to get tickets.
I had Nottingham Forest membership last season and was not able to get one ticket.
Since season started, I’ve had Newcastle membership, I’ve not got tickets till date, the only day I could have gotten, I was not interested in the game.
Some big teams or teams with crazy fan base like Forest, Newcastle, Liverpool, Arsenal, and the likes, season ticket holders have taken most of all the space, the rest of us are just battling for the remaining spaces.
Now, because there are few spaces left, lots of teams run different systems, many of them use loyalty points. If you don’t have a certain number of points, you won’t qualify to purchase tickets despite having membership.
How can you get that loyalty point?
-buy women’s game tickets
-buy tickets for youth games
-buy charity game tickets like those legend games, etc.
These points build up. It can be number of games and not loyalty points, the club will set their criteria. I remember going to watch Man City v Real Madrid last season a the first criterion was for people who have watched at least one champions league game in the last two seasons or so.
In fact, you can have a certain loyalty points and they still have to run ballot, some just run ballots normally.
I have entered ballot 5 times this season for Newcastle and lost all😂
In summary, buying match tickets is not straightforward like, “I’ll buy membership and I’ll have access to buying match ticket”, Nah.
Another idea I use in watching big teams is to have membership of clubs like Leicester last season, or Everton this season, so when the big teams come to Everton or Leicester or Sheffield United few seasons ago, then I have the opportunity to watch them.
Among the big teams, Man City is the only team you can still get tickets fairly, they also run a balloting system for big games though but it’s easier compared to like Chelsea, Arsenal, Liverpool, Newcastle, and the likes, those one na WAR.
3 options I recommend:
1. Buy membership of smaller teams like Burnley (not like Leeds because you’ll never get tickets🤣), and go there if your team plays against them, albeit, you’ll be sitting with the home fans and I advise you not to celebrate if your team (away) scores
2. If you guys got money, just buy hospitality, hospitality is like VIP tickets, you’ll usually get tickets for that one. If regular ticket is like £60, hospitality can be £400-£1500, some hospitality can be as cheap as £250, you have to check.
3. Another option is to buy season ticket, but I doubt you’ll get at this time of the year but you can try.
4. Check for carabao cup/FA cup tickets, or midweek fixtures at night, number of people fighting for those ones are lesser compared to weekend games.
I hope you understand how match tickets work now?
Happy International Mens Day to the men who show up, stand firm and carry more weight than they ever speak about. Your masculinity is not a problem. It is not toxic. And you do not exist to absorb society’s frustrations. A lot of us women see you, value you and are genuinely grateful for the protection, provision, leadership and love you bring into our lives and communities. Strong men create stable worlds, and the rest of us thrive because of it. You're appreciated 🍷