🚨 BREAKING: The fee for Ederson is €40.5 million fixed + €4.5 million in potential bonuses. Personal terms are done on a 4+1 year deal. [@David_Ornstein] #mufc
🚨💣 BREAKING: Éderson to Manchester United, here we go!
Deal done with Atalanta for €45m package with add-ons included, agreement now in place.
Medical and formal steps to follow but deal in place.
Éderson will sign a four year deal plus option, as @TheAthleticFC reports.
The Oyo Kidnapping Should Scare Every Nigerian Parent 🇳🇬
If you still think elections don’t matter, then you’re not paying attention.
The recent abduction of children and teachers in Oyo State is not just another news headline. It is a reminder that insecurity is no longer a regional problem. It is now a national emergency.
For years, many Nigerians watched reports of kidnappings, bandit attacks and mass abductions happening in distant communities and convinced themselves it was “their problem.” Today, there is no “their problem.” There is only our problem.
The question every Nigerian should be asking is simple:
How much worse does it have to get before we decide enough is enough?
We are living in a country where parents are increasingly worried about whether their children will return home safely from school. A country where ordinary citizens fear travelling on major roads. A country where poverty continues to rise, insecurity continues to spread, and many people feel abandoned by those elected to protect them.
As a husband, these stories disturb me.
As a father, they terrify me.
My daughter is still a baby, but when I read stories about children being abducted, harmed, or forced to live through unimaginable trauma, I cannot help but think: What if that was my child?
That is the question every leader should ask themselves whenever another kidnapping makes the news.
Not how to spin the headlines.
Not how to blame the opposition.
Not how to win the next election.
But what if it was my child?
Accountability is not hatred.
Demanding better governance is not tribalism.
Holding leaders responsible for the safety of citizens is not opposition politics.
It is citizenship.
Too many Nigerians have lowered their expectations. We have become so accustomed to bad news that each tragedy lasts only a few days before the next one arrives.
That should never be normal.
The purpose of government is first and foremost the protection of lives and property. Everything else comes after that.
Roads, bridges, speeches, political rallies and campaign promises mean little to a parent whose child has been kidnapped.
As citizens, we cannot afford political apathy anymore.
Voting is not just a civic responsibility. It is one of the few tools ordinary people have to shape the future they want to live in.
The decisions we make at the ballot box affect our security, our economy, our children’s future and ultimately our chances of living in a safer country.
The Oyo tragedy should not only make us angry.
It should make us active.
Because if we do not demand better leadership, better security and better accountability, then we risk accepting a future where stories like these become normal.
And that is a future no Nigerian parent should ever accept.
Close all schools now until every abducted child and teacher is rescued and returned home.
Education can wait a few days. A child’s life cannot. 🇳🇬