��💣 EXCLUSIVE: Real Madrid reach verbal agreement to sign Marc Cucurella from Chelsea, HERE WE GO!
Verbal agreement in place between all parties, player too — he’s the left back wanted by Mourinho. Details to follow.
Cucurella leaves #CFC and joins Madrid after World Cup. ⚪️🇪🇸
🚨 Pep Guardiola: “What is Barça missing to win the Champions League? The Champions League is a competition that DESTROYS projects, and I hope that’s not the case at Barça”.
“We must not think that just because you don’t win it, everything that has been built is no good. The league is the competition that gives you consistency and continuity. In the Champions League, you need to reach the decisive stages in good condition, without injuries, and refereeing also has a huge impact”.
“What matters is that the daily work is excellent, that the team keeps growing and improving, and that they don’t believe the season is a failure just because they don’t reach the Champions League final or win it. The league is what sets the foundation for judging whether a season has been good or not”.
Every time I watch PSG and then open Twitter, I realise we’re all watching a different sport.
I’m left staring at my screen in disbelief. Every game, João Neves does the dirty work others don’t want to do.
He is the sacrificial lamb we slaughter so that aestheticism can maintain its place in football.
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A slightly long read, but I implore your patience 🙏🏽
On this day, 3years ago, the lives of millions of Nigerians changed from bad to worse.
We lost counts of the death toll.
Many lost their source of livelihood from international companies leaving, to personal businesses folding due to alarming cost of operations and meager patronage.
Some families have been left forever traumatized from losing loved ones to kidnappers, and terrorists, even after selling everything they owned to pay ransom.
Education is at its lowest, as tuition tripled with deceit of the NELFUND loan shark of a government.
Electricity became an opportunity for classism, with fraudulent different bands. It became both unavailable and unaffordable.
‘Epileptic’ suddenly became less a word to describe our national grid.
Without proper prior preparations and notice, cost per litre of petrol spiked from N198/L to N500/L, and N1350/L today.
I know this stoic government are banking on our usual amnesia on Election Day in January, 2027, but please while considering your stomach, think of your children and grandchildren.
What will be left of Nigeria if we continue like this???
Toddlers holed up in a forest for over a week now, probably shivering & drinking river-water beside their violently murdered teacher and he has hope of reelection.
🚨🎙️Thierry Henry on Southampton expelled for spying drama against Middlesbrough:
“I have to be honest, this is a difficult one. Spying on another team’s training is wrong. Full stop. It crosses a line, it undermines the trust that should exist between clubs, and I understand why Middlesbrough are furious and why the EFL felt they had to act strongly. Integrity matters in this game.
At the same time, I find myself questioning whether expulsion from the play-offs is the right punishment. It feels… heavy. Almost like using a sledgehammer when a precise scalpel was needed.
Let’s be clear: this wasn’t match-fixing or doping. It was analysts pushing boundaries for tactical information, something that, sadly, has happened in different forms across the game for years.
Marcelo Bielsa did it openly at Derby and Leeds, admitted it, and people called him a genius, not a criminal. Drones, analysts in trees, whatever, in the modern game with data and marginal gains everywhere, clubs push boundaries.
Southampton admitted it, yes, and they deserve punishment. A heavy fine, points deduction, maybe even a ban for the staff involved. But kicking the entire club out after they earned their place on the pitch? That punishes players, coaches, and fans who had nothing to do with one or two analysts doing something stupid.
What troubles me most is the collateral damage. The players who battled through a tough Championship season after relegation, who went to extra time and scored that late goal to beat Middlesbrough on the pitch, they earned their place in the final through merit.
Now that achievement is being erased because of actions taken by a small number of staff members. That feels disproportionate to me. A significant fine, a points deduction for next season, and sanctions against the individuals responsible, those would be strong, meaningful punishments that address the breach without nullifying an entire season’s competitive work.
Sport has to balance two things: protecting fairness and recognising that human error and ambition sometimes lead people astray. If every rules breach in high-stakes moments leads to rewriting results, we risk turning the disciplinary process into something more powerful than the football itself. I’ve sat in dressing rooms where we prepared meticulously for opponents. Everyone does. The difference is getting caught.
I hope Southampton appeal and that the final decision finds a better equilibrium. Middlesbrough deserve respect, they were wronged but the players of Southampton also deserve not to have their legitimate efforts wiped away. Football is emotional, passionate, and imperfect.
The response to this should reflect wisdom as much as outrage. We need clearer rules going forward so incidents like this become rare, but we must be careful not to let one mistake destroy what was built legitimately on the grass.
Keeping it a buck, Peter Obi has done his part; over 3 years he’s sustained his ‘opposition momentum’, has zero scandals & has kept his promise of appearing on the ballot.
The onus is now on us. We must not only vote en masse but protect those votes with blood, sweat & tears.
I’ve spent the past couple of weeks building Looters: a public archive of Nigerian political corruption since the 1990s.
Governors, ministers, shell companies, Swiss accounts, the Jersey trusts, — one searchable graph.
You too can connect the dots: https://t.co/faIfzWfAIp
This man has been a retribution to everyone who thinks political strategy and coalitions is more important than the very act of governing.
That a thief and drug baron is better than a man who made wealth with enterprise.
Tribalism and religion have been so weaponised, how many deaths of your country men will it take for you to acknowledge this government is an unprecedented failure of monumental scale?
They want VVD to win 10 titles and 3 B’Dors before entertaining him being better than Rio and Vidic (obviously is) but Bruno can be better than KDB after a career peak of finding Casemiro’s head.
H.E Atiku Abubakar has just submitted his ADC Presidential Nomination Form, and the 2027 election is effectively over before it begins. The numbers are brutal, the math is final, and Tinubu, Obi, and Kwankwaso are walking into a defeat they cannot escape.
Let’s start with Bola Tinubu. The North that carried him in 2023 has turned on him completely. Hunger, hardship, and broken promises have done what no opposition campaign could ever do, they have stripped him of the very base that put him in Aso Rock. The North-West and North-East are not just leaning toward Atiku; they are locked in. Bloc votes. Millions of them. Tinubu cannot campaign his way out of this. He cannot subsidy-reverse his way out of this. The damage is done, and the North does not forget. He will go down as the president who lost the North in a single term.
Now to Peter Obi. In 2023, Obi was the disruptor who split the vote and handed Tinubu the presidency. In 2027, he becomes the stubborn disruptor who finishes him off. Every vote Obi pulls in Lagos, Ogun, Anambra, Enugu, Rivers, and the South-South is a vote ripped directly from Tinubu’s basket. Obi cannot win this election, but he can absolutely guarantee Tinubu loses it. That is his role now, whether he accepts it or not. He is no longer a contender. He is a spoiler. And he has always been a spoiler, except that this time, Bola Tinubu is his victim.
And Kwankwaso? Let’s be honest. Picking him as VP by Obi was an act of desperation, not strategy. In 2023, Kwankwaso delivered Kano because he was the presidential candidate. Today, he is asking northerners to abandon their own sitting Vice President, Kashim Shettima, and rally behind a southern candidate so that Kwankwaso himself can become a deputy. The North will not insult itself. Kano will not deliver for a demoted candidate on a southern ticket. Kwankwaso has miscalculated the one constituency he was supposed to understand, and he will pay for it politically for the rest of his career.
So here is the picture. HE Atiku enters this race with a furious, united North behind him, real support across the South, and an opposition field so fractured it is doing his work for him. Tinubu is finished in the North and bleeding in the South. Obi is a spoiler who cannot win but will ensure Tinubu loses. Kwankwaso is a fading force pretending he still has a kingdom.
This is not a contest anymore. It is a countdown, and the only question left is what Atiku’s margin of victory will be.
X% of Y is also Y% of X.
So if you want to find out what 7% of 50 is, you could instead find out what 50% of 7 is, which is 3.5.
This means that 7% of 50 is also equal to 3.5.
Happy Sunday.
"Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others change their principles for the sake of their party." Winston Churchill
Today, May 9th, I attended the 1st convention of my latest party, the Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC) in Abuja, Nigeria. The convention was successful and continued to show the resilience of Nigerians to change
I express my sincere appreciation and gratitude to the NDC family, led by the distinguished Senator Henry Seriake Dickson, for inviting us and for the generosity of spirit with which they have accommodated us at this critical moment in our national journey.
I also wish to express profound gratitude to the African Democratic Congress(ADC), particularly Distinguished Senator David Mark, for providing a democratic platform and showing uncommon understanding when the ongoing litigation forced us out of the Labour Party and the New Nigeria People's Party, NNPP respectively. That spirit of solidarity must remain the foundation upon which a better Nigeria will be built.
Today, the most painful aspect of our political existence is that many who once benefited from democratic governance have now become willing accessories to the destruction of democracy itself. Those who once fought for justice now openly celebrate electoral injustice. Those who once spoke against impunity now defend coercion, manipulation, intimidation, and outright political gangsterism, especially against opposition voices. What we are witnessing is not politics; it is a systematic assault on democracy and the will of the people.
Nigeria today stands at a dangerous crossroads. Our democracy is under severe threat. Our nation is drifting without direction, and our people are passing through immense suffering. Across the world, Nigeria is increasingly described as a failing and disgraced nation. This is not the destiny God ordained for our great country. It was not always so, and it must never be allowed to remain so.
Across virtually every recognised indicator of good governance - accountability, political stability, rule of law, control of corruption, government effectiveness, regulatory quality, and the separation of powers - Nigeria continues to record alarming failures. The institutions that should protect the people are weakening daily, while the burden on ordinary citizens grows heavier with each passing moment.
Today, over 140 million Nigerians live in multidimensional poverty. Tens of millions of young people remain unemployed or underemployed. Inflation continues to crush families. Businesses are shutting down. Farmers can no longer safely access their farms. Communities live in fear. In this month alone, hundreds of innocent Nigerians have lost their lives to insecurity, while many others have been kidnapped, displaced, or thrown deeper into poverty.
The most heartbreaking question confronting us is this: Who consoles the grieving mother whose child was abducted on the way to school? Who speaks for the father who can no longer feed his family despite working every day? Who defends the young Nigerian whose dreams have been destroyed by a nation that rewards connections over competence and corruption over character?
Our present tragedy is not accidental. It is the direct consequence of years of deliberate sabotage by a political class that prospers by dividing the people and weakening the nation. Nigeria is not a poor country; rather, we are being looted into poverty. We have abundant human and natural resources, yet we remain trapped in deprivation because leadership has failed to place the common good above personal interest.
Our choice as a people is therefore clear: whether to surrender to despair and national decline, or to summon the courage to rescue our country and rebuild it on the foundations of unity, equity, justice, competence, and productivity.