🚨🏴 𝗡𝗘𝗪: Harry Kane has now OVERTAKEN Cristiano Ronaldo's highest goal scoring season for club and country.
Leo Messi still holds the record in the 21st century.
1. Lionel Messi (11/12) 82 goals
2. Harry Kane (25/26) 70 goals
3. Cristiano Ronaldo (11/12) & Lionel Messi (12/13) 69 goals
“Me that went to school and graduated, as government didn’t give us a job, what did you want us to do? You can’t expect those who have high IQs and at the end of the day end up cleaning toilets.”
— Jarvis, responding to Ycee after he called her husband “Olodo Uprising.”
People underestimate how much preparation goes into games, and the sheer amount of data that coaches have access to, to prepare their players for games
One reason why this kind of commentary is not useful is that this is what every politician says or implies. I don’t need to steal money because I am already rich. Or, I don’t like money, I have been using the same watch since 1905. Or I have no house in Abuja. This means absolutely nothing. What does it mean to a poor Nigerian to tell them you are already rich and this whole political adventure is even hurting you? Are you more hurt financially than any poor Nigerian who cannot buy kerosene or put food on the table?
Nigerian politicians who ruin the country or enable corruption don’t do it because they are poor. Or because they are stupid. They do it because the entire system runs on a massive cycle of pecuniary and parochial incentives.
Buhari as far as we know did not amass stupendous wealth as president but still he made the country significantly poorer. Nigerian politicians who are powerless in the face of elite capture of the state don’t need to be personally corrupt for this to happen.
We need politicians to have a clear workable plan for ending poverty, building infrastructure and institutions, reducing corruption, fighting terrorism and building a nation that isn’t balkanised between competing tribal interests that only serve those in power.
Nigeria doesn’t need another person who will tell them he is doing them a favor by running for office or that in fact he is getting poorer. We don’t need more of “I am a good guy, trust me bro.” What is your plan exactly? How will you deal with strongly entrenched interests who profit from this dysfunction and who would rather see the country break apart than lose their power and influence? Why should Nigerians who have heard these kinds of sweet nothings and who might see you as a regional champion (however wrong they may be) trust that you can actually do things differently and will not just capitulate once in power?
He might be the least problematic of the presidential candidates but his messaging is piss poor, and must improve if he is to get support beyond his current cult following, enough to successfully challenge the very determined incumbent.
This is proof that one can be a pro footballer and still know nothing about football. How you go talk say 5 aside hard pass 11v11?
Do you know the amount of fitness training you do as a pro just to keep fit for 90 mins? Thats asides tactical training and gym work lol
And before anyone comes for me, I’m sure other pro players would have a different opinion from his.
Beyond demonetization, people need to start losing their accounts for fake quotes and stuff like that.
It's sooo bad right now.
I can't tell slop, from fabrication and what real
🚨🎙️ Luis Figo talking about Joao Neves comments on Cristiano Ronaldo
“It’s obvious some of the players don’t want him in the team. He might be holding them back but they need to remember what he has done for this country
Young Cristiano wouldn’t have needed anybody’s help to score a goal. He won matches on his own and carried this country single-handedly for years. He made Portugal popular. Cristiano is Portugal,they need to support him and give him the send off he deserves
Cristiano respected the seniors in the team when he got his first call up to the team. There are many players in that squad that are filled with arrogance. What have they achieved? nothing. They need to remember he is the reason why we believe we can win the World Cup. He is everybody’s inspiration”.👏
Rather than loaning him out to a team with a bigger platform, for his value to explode, INEOS will do an outright sale right now, with the 50% sell on thing that they love so much. You just know
🚨🚨🌕| NEW: Radek Vitek is expected to depart Manchester United to somewhere he’ll get more regular first-team football, either on loan or permanently. Several clubs have expressed an interest in him. [@lauriewhitwell]
🚨 𝗡𝗘𝗪: Rúben Amorim has signed his contract as the new AC Milan head coach until June 2028.
The agreement is valid for two years with one more season as option.
— @FabrizioRomano
If the strategy was to steal money crassly, while not caring about being found out , then yea 'strategic'...
Because he was indeed caught almost immediately, and that it took this long for him to be probed or that he's not already in jail sef, is a fucking disgrace.
In all my life, I have never seen any fraud as strategic as this.
You contacted a foreign airline, got them to paint Nigeria Air on their own plane, got people to disguise as NG Air pilots, organised a team to wear Nigeria Air clothes, organised media to cover Nigeria Air arrival, clear the airport for Nigeria Air.
Got Newspaper to cover Nigeria Air.
Got media houses to cover emergence of Nigeria Air.
Cut Ribbon to celebrate Nigerian Air
Flew the plane back to the original country.
Told the Masses of a breaking project.
Got creme de last creme of the country.
This is crazy and evil.
Like genuinely get involved without the intention of stealing or rewarding friends and families, with units.
People who don't even need these houses.
This is apart from and arguably more important than bringing down the cost of cement and building materials.
Even when they are trying to do the obvious and right thing, the scale of the corruption in it, will damn near defeat the purpose of the entire thing in the first place.
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu just provided further details on his heavily hyped Renewed Hope Agenda, and the sheer mathematics of this project is deeply disturbing, especially since this mega scheme is aggressively marketed as a lifeline to better the lives of ordinary Nigerians.
In the quoted tweet below, President Tinubu claimed that exactly ₦128 billion in mortgages has been generously delivered to 1,859 families at a fixed interest rate of 9.75% spread over 20 long years through the Ministry of Finance Incorporated.
On the surface, this looks like the ultimate utopian dream project, primarily because a 9.75% mortgage rate is ridiculously low, especially when you compare it to the predatory standard market rates which presently sit anywhere between 20%, 25%, 30%, or even higher depending on the bank.
However, even with this seemingly charitable low interest rate, a simple, cold mathematical breakdown instantly exposes that these supposed affordable homes are entirely out of reach for the average, hardworking Nigerian in whose very name this multibillion Naira PR project is being violently advertised.
To see this blatant scam, simply divide ₦128 billion among 1,859 families, and you will rapidly discover that the average mortgage size is a staggering, eye-watering ₦68.8 million per home. Now, under the exact terms quoted by Tinubu, which is 9.75% interest over 20 years with a mandatory 10% equity contribution of roughly ₦6.8 million, a single family would have to reliably cough up roughly ₦600,000 to ₦650,000 every single month just to service this impossible mortgage.
This mathematical reality clearly demonstrates that the policy architects behind this Renewed Hope Agenda have completely, and spectacularly lost their minds, their touch with reality, and their basic common sense.
First of all, the brand new minimum wage recently signed into law in Nigeria is an alleged, highly disputed ₦70,000, which is an insulting amount that many state governors claim they cannot even afford to pay, sustain, or budget for. Even with this symbolic, poverty-level wage, the average Nigerian that these houses are supposedly built for would genuinely need to starve, save every single kobo, and work for one full uninterrupted year just to afford a single one-month mortgage repayment. Currently, absolutely no middle-class citizen in Nigeria with an honest, verifiable, and legitimate source of living can ever afford to burn this massive amount every month for a house, no matter how stupid, lavish, or financially reckless they want to be.
Now this begs the incredibly obvious, screaming question: why on earth is the Tinubu administration deliberately wasting ₦128 billion (a massive $90 million) to provide subsidized affordable housing to a tiny fraction of 1,859 families who are obviously loaded with cash, highly connected, financially immune, and can easily afford luxury apartments, fund their own private estates, secure massive commercial bank loans, or buy premium properties outright?
This ridiculous allocation of scarce public funds makes zero strategic sense because the exact amount quoted for this vanity project is comfortably enough to buy about 4 highly advanced MQ-9 Reaper drones, fully equip them, heavily arm them, and ship them straight to the bleeding frontlines of Northern Nigeria.
These military-grade drones can stay airborne for 30 continuous hours, monitor the entire terror-infested forests in Borno in less than one hour, track moving targets, and violently update the Nigerian military in real time for any mass gatherings of armed bandits, hostage holding areas, illegal gold mining operations, or cross-border insurgent movements.
The colossal amount of money involved in this project is not merely the ₦128 billion senselessly wasted so far. Obviously, before this entire grand, systemic money laundering scheme is fully completed, more than ₦320 billion will have magically vanished, migrated, and evaporated from the Nigerian Treasury directly into the bloated private offshore accounts of ghost contractors, corrupt civil servants, APC campaign financiers, loyal party chieftains, and the ruling party's untouchable inner circle.
This is complete madness. Our brave men in uniform are constantly being taken by surprise, ambushed, and rounded up by ragtag terrorists simply because their vulnerable forward operating bases do not come equipped with basic acoustic sensors, infrared thermal cameras, night vision goggle, or basic aerial reconnaissance drones to serve as early warning mechanisms. Yet the Commander in Chief is cheerfully burning hundreds of billions of Naira under the guise of public welfare, deliberately laundering public treasury funds into the deep back pockets of shady construction companies, and happily providing heavily subsidized affordable housing to his ultra-rich, highly privileged, and politically connected friends.
But one way for government to realistically address the nonsense going on in real estate right now, and the rapid pricing more and more Nigerians out of homes, is for the government to get involved with housing projects, at scale.
All the people making case for and against Chelsea and no one is mentioning Mudryk.
He was such a terrible signing, that everyone has essentially forgotten about him
INEOS have been sucking their own dicks for the last several days now, because we scammed a 3rd place finish, like it's some king of foolproof justification for everything they have been doing lately.
🚨 | #mufc knew they were getting a good player but were surprised at how agile and aggressive Noussair Mazraoui is, how strong too. He is respectful, unassuming and is well-liked by teammates. [@AndyMitten]
Understand Bournemouth value Alex Scott at around £80m and plan to offer the midfielder a new deal.
Yet Liverpool and Manchester United have Scott on their radar. Spurs also hold appreciation.
Bournemouth owner Bill Foley is intent on keeping Scott with hope he'll sign a new contract, likely with a release clause. This was the case when Antoine Semenyo extended last summer.🍒