Guys, pray for us who are house hunting in Lusaka 😭
Anyway, I’m looking for a 2 or 3 bedroom house to rent around Chudleigh, Ibex, Salama Park, or nearby areas.
Budget: K10,000 max.
If you know of a house available, send the details my way. Also, please help me by sharing 🙏🏾
🙌 Luís Figo has called for Gianni Infantino to resign in a quite brilliant summary of the FIFA situation:
🗣️ Figo: "I have loved football all my life. I was a professional player for 20 years. And believe me, I have met some rogues in my time in the game.
But what I have seen exposed in the last ten days is the lowest, most deceitful and cravenly self-interested behaviour I have ever witnessed.
The man who would do that – the man who would try to force through such major changes just to enrich himself and his friends – is a relic of the game’s past and should have no part in its future.
Infantino has debased the office of Fifa president that he promised to elevate. He has lied, deceived and tried to feather his own nest at the expense of the game he is supposed to serve.
He has lost the support of his senior staff, his closest advisers, the vast majority of people who devote their lives to this sport.
It is too late to save his dignity but it is not too late to save football. He should go. Now."
Remember that famous song?
“I want to cross the road… look right, look left, look right again.”
The lesson isn’t just for children or pedestrians
Motorists always:
Listen — to traffic around you
Look — for blind spots, pedestrians, cyclists
Think — before you move or act
QATAR Airways — my worst travel experience ever
This afternoon I arrived at Heathrow to fly to Dubai, transiting on to Kabul. 2 hour layover, not leaving the airport.
At check-in, they asked for a UAE visa. I was puzzled but explained I didn’t need one when transiting. I showed my onward flight and boarding pass to Kabul, to no avail. After back and forth, checking my d’osier of travel documents, they called a supervisor to ‘use discretion’ to clear me to board.
The supervisor arrived with a power-trip energy. He paced around, spoke in airline jargon and refused to clear me, “it’s government to government policy,” he said.
His word was final.
Eventually, time ran out and the flight about to close. I gave up. Then, on last minute, the supervisor called Dubai immigration for clarification. “Dubai says I need to send them an email with your details.”
Dubai immigration confirmed exactly what I repeatedly explained for over an hour: I did not need a visa to transit (on both my passports). At this point, a new supervisor arrives, makes some calls, and says the flight is “too far into boarding” to check me in.
They put me on the next flight, 5 hours later, and charge me £457 for “no show” and other fees.
The power abuse was breathtaking.
What hurts the most is that the supervisor who had the discretion to do the right thing, to use judgment, but chose not to, was a fellow African. A Nigerian.
Far too often, Black people in foreign institutions are an executioner than lifeline. Never in between.
The irony is that I always use @emirates. But for this trip, I thought of trying something different.
Never again on @qatarairways. NEVER!
I would recommend walking than using Qatar. I feel what it must feel to cheat on a loyal and amazing partner in search of a “new experience” and end up paying the price.
I want you people to divorce the idea that you need to look young to look good. That belief can go to very dark places once taken to some conclusions. Also, many of you look better now than when you were younger because you learnt to take care of yourselves.