🤯 Exactly 20 years apart, but the same Lionel Messi.
🗓️ 16 June 2006: Lionel Messi scores on his FIFA World Cup debut.
🗓️ 16 June 2026: Lionel Messi scores a hat-trick at the FIFA World Cup.
#FIFAWorldCup
Please don’t go over to people’s houses for extended periods and just become useless. Yes, some people may genuinely not want you to do anything, but at least offer. Offer to help with chores, contribute food, run errands, something.
With today’s 3-0 win over Algeria, Messi extended records for:
- Most goals scored at the WC as captain
- Most WC matches played in
- Most minutes played at the WC
And is now the joint top scorer in World Cup history with 16 goals 🐐
Every day for the rest of June, we’re revisiting the issues Nigerians debated in newspapers and magazines this month around 60 years ago.
Today, we travel back to June 1970, just months after the end of the Nigerian civil war.
Note: The asterisked word reflects the spelling convention of that era.
From @TheAthleticFC: Cape Verde’s Vozinha says U.S. visa issues stopped his mother from witnessing his World Cup heroics in person. The 40-year-old goalkeeper was visibly emotional on the pitch after the game. https://t.co/754zUIylGZ
Her mother, Dr Dora Akunyili, in 2003"
"Dr Akunyili's series of achievements have not gone unnoticed worldwide. Her latest and the most prestigious world famous Award from Transparency International is the ultimate achievement for her." — TELL, 2003
This is the story of how President Olusegun Obasanjo decided to appoint Dr Dora Akunyili as the director-general of NAFDAC.
"One day, a friend of mine came and told me the story of a woman who was working with PTF and that she travelled to London for a medical check-up. After the check-up, she told her doctors to return the balance of her bill to her organisation.
"The doctors asked her if she was mad. They told her that other Nigerians who were there for medical check-up always asked them to inflate bills and then return the excess to their accounts. But the woman insisted that the balance must be returned.
"I asked that friend of mine, is the woman still alive? Let me see her CV. After going through her CV and I saw that she was qualified for the kind of job I wanted to give her, I then invited her."
Source: P.M. News, 2003
One thing about women is no matter how terrible a man is, be it a woman beater, rapist, adulterer, pedophile, murderer etc. There is always a woman willing to partner with him, willing to save him, willing to redeem him. She has convinced herself that she is different and all she needs is to love him, and all will be well. Some women are the anchors of patriarchy. They will lay down their lives to defend their men, sons and brothers. The irony is these men will watch them perish. They don't give a damn about them. Yet, these women have convinced themselves to be saviors.
This Nigeria mahn.
So there’s no crime you can commit that can get you to face social ostracization.
Not rape, murder, fraud, paedophilia or even terrorism.
No degenerate is too degenerate for a woman. Child molester? Serial killer? Human trafficker? Armed robber? If women had access to hell they would procreate with satan himself.
The smarter women are, the more hostility they face.
In the U.S. & China, the higher women’s IQs, the less they're liked—and the more they’re undermined by coworkers. Men pay no price for being bright.
It's long past time to recognize female intellect as an asset, not a threat.