CAF may have opened a Pandora’s box. Apparently, in the 1976 Afcon finals Morocco left the pitch for 15 minutes because of a decision they did not like, only to return and win and become champions. Guinea may feel shortchanged.
Good news: South East Maths Olympiad winners Egejurum Onyedikachi, Onwubiko Chimdiebube and Don-Anele Munachimso have now been invited to participate in International STEM Olympiad Grand Finale happening in Rome from July 2nd - 8th.
They will be competing with students from 153 countries.
I'm confident that they will bring back the Gold medals from each category. We will shine in he world stage.
Their teachers will be going alongside them too.
The cost of this trip for all of them including registrations, flights, tours, hotels etc will be £32,200.
What should we do?
“The fact that he goes in & out of the United States is not any proof that he is not a known drug lord. Bola Tinubu is a known drug lord!”
— Reno Omokri, Tinubu’s Ambassador.
"Dirty Christmas", CAN and Ini Edo.
A friend forwarded the video of Ini edo in tears apologizing, pleading and beseeching CAN not to pull her movie down over what it considered a demeaning title. My friend wanted to hear my opinion on it. Here is what I think.
I like the fact that CAN is challenging what it sees as derogatory to Christianity. At least let people know that they can't mess with our faith and it's appertunances and go scot free.
Specifically to this Ini Edo's movie title, she has vouched that there is nothing in it that demeans or disparages Christianity, rather the movie is telling stories of the things that happen in our clime. She challenged anyone to point out any aspect of the movie that ridicules or disrespects Christianity and she will pull the movie down.
Based on this, I think CAN should watch the movie, if it's content doesn't mock Christianity, she should be left alone and given time as she requested to do something about the title. A movie for which she invested her resources and other investments should not be destroyed or it's viewing success sabotaged because of mere title. CAN should please let the movie be if title is just the issue.
By the way, there is supposed to be a censorship board or agency in Nigeria that is responsible for movies, CAN or any other religious group has no right to decide which movie stays up or pulled down. Ini Edo should be worried about the action of such agency than CAN, if her movie hasn't violated ethical rules set by the country no one can pull her movie down. CAN is not a movie censorship agency.
Then to CAN, thank you for speaking up for Christianity. I just wish to observe that you have been silent on more serious issues that affect Christianity negatively in Nigeria. Some Christian ministers have been proven with evidence to fake miracles and prophecies, I haven't heard you call them out. We have ministers who do crusades and lift crutches and wheel chairs up as evidences of miracles that happened at such events, when people ask for verifications like identities of the recipients of such glamorous miracles, no one comes up.
Some of the people hired for the arrangements of these fake miracles have confessed in camera and we are yet to hear you at least caution the fake ministers or the ministers faking the miracles.
We have churches which identify as Christian but do not accept certain Christian concepts like TRINITY, EASTER and even this CHRISTMAS you want to prosecute Ini Edo for. You haven't made any statements about that or even organized a round table discussions where church leaders can have controlled and intelligent discussions on issues like that as brethren.
Nothing makes Christmas and Christianity dirtier than prophets and Apostles who rely on security men for protection while selling oils and some other pious objects to the people for protection and using scriptures to scam people of their hard earned money.
Please, focus more on these institutionalized 'dirtiness' of Christianity. These are the things the bible would describe as weightier matters than a movie title.
Let me not say more than these because there's definitely so much to say. Remember I haven't asked you to censor doctrines of churches, I am calling your attention to dirtier things that need your voice of rebuke and sanctions where neccessary. Thanks.
Kanu’s Conviction: At a Time Like This.
The news of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu’s conviction should compel every well-meaning Nigerian to pause and reflect. This is coming at a time when our beloved nation is facing severe economic hardship, insecurity, and the consequences of poor governance.
Rather than reducing tension, this unfortunate development may well only aggravate it.
I have always maintained that Mazi Kanu should never have been arrested. His arrest, detention, and now conviction represent a failure of leadership and a misunderstanding of the issues at stake.
For years, I have consistently argued that dialogue, constructive engagement, and inclusive governance offer the path to lasting peace. Coercion becomes necessary only when reason has been exhausted. In this case, I submit that the reason was not only not exhausted, but was probably not explored at all, or not fully explored.
The concerns Kanu raised were not unheard of. The issues for which he demanded solutions were not insoluble. It only required wisdom, empathy, and a willingness to listen. In any functional society, such grievances are met with dialogue and reforms aimed at strengthening unity.
The government’s approach has only deepened mistrust and created an avoidable distraction at a time when citizens are overwhelmed by harsh economic realities and insecurity. While some may insist that “the law has taken its course,” leadership often demands more than a strict, mechanical application of the law. Nations around the world resort to political solutions, negotiated settlements, and even amnesty when legal processes alone cannot serve the broader interest of peace and stability. Nigeria is not an exception.
The handling of Kanu’s case mirrors the government as a man trapped in a hole but who, instead of looking for a way out, keeps digging deeper. It worsens not only the government’s predicament but also the nation's collective condition.
If we truly desire a new Nigeria - a united, peaceful, and progressive one, our leaders must choose healing over hostility, reconciliation over retaliation, and dialogue over division. Only by addressing grievances with justice, fairness, and compassion can we move towards a future where every Nigerian feels heard, valued, and safe.
My ultimate call at this time, without prejudice to how anyone feels about the decision of the court, is for us to be optimistic for peace and reconciliation which will come in the end. I am also saying, thereby, that the Presidency, the Council of State and credible statesmen who love this country and who are interested in cohesion and inclusivity, should rise to the occasion, for a lasting solution. -PO
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!