🚨New: Zlatan Ibrahimovic on Brazil being eliminated from the 2026 FIFA World Cup, with Norway qualifying for the FIFA World Cup quarter-finals for the first time:
🗣️ “Brazil have become the biggest museum in football. Everyone admires the history. Nobody fears the present. Every opponent grows up watching Brazil. Nobody walks into the tunnel thinking, ‘We’re finished.’ That’s the difference.
“The biggest problem isn’t tactical, it’s psychological. Brazil are trying to be three different teams at once. One minute they want the magic of 1970, then the artistry of 1982, then the winners of 2002. You can’t live in three eras simultaneously while everyone else is building for tomorrow.
“Modern football doesn’t care about nostalgia. Pressing, structure, intensity, transitions—that’s what wins today. History doesn’t score goals. Five stars on the shirt don’t press the ball, the players do.
Until Brazil stop trying to recreate ghosts and start creating a new version of themselves, they’ll keep being football’s greatest museum. Millions will visit. Everyone will respect it. But nobody will be afraid of it”
Students must understand that there are consequences when they set other human beings on fire.
When I visited Naivasha maximum prison I met the only suspect sentenced to death for the May 24, 1999 arson attack in Nyeri High School that claimed the lives of four prefects.
The student was 33 years old or thereabout when I met him. He was convicted by a juvenile court and later committed to life imprisonment after he turned 18.
The 2001 Kyanguli fire tragedy claimed the lives of 67 students. Two 16-year-olds were arrested and charged with murder. The judge handling the matter resigned in 2006 amid corruption-related allegations. A new judge declared the court matter a mistrial.
I took my time with the file, and it was clear that someone had done everything to make sure the two boys escaped justice. I tracked one down to an office in the CBD. He is somewhere out here.
The July 13, 1991, St Kizito High School massacre remains the most disturbing and heart-wrenching story I have covered.
The boys stormed the girls' dormitory. Reason? They had refused to join them in a strike.
In the ensuing violence, 71 school girls were raped and 19 of them lost their lives, mostly due to suffocation after being tightly packed into a corner during the attack.
Some were arrested and as usual, parents worked the justice system and many escaped the hangman’s noose.
But in a dark twist of events, most of the accused “turned mad”, and others ended up as drunks.
I remember visiting a lady now in her fifties who was still overwhelmed by the events of that night- oh she cried.
I met most of the boys then now men. Drunkards. Wasted.
Let’s see how the tragic Utumishi Fire tragedy plays out but if the prosecution proves those arrested are involved, it will be the end of school and freedom.
I have been to Nyeri, St Kizito, Kyanguli, Endarasha, and Bombolulu Girls' High School.
It's a life-changing experience!
No amount of justice or compensation can bring back the lives lost.
Today we gathered in Kilimani to memorialize a man's legacy on Galana road.
It was a gathering of friends who walked with him through decades of struggle, fellow human rights defenders who stood beside him in courtrooms and in conscience, and his beloved widow Viloo, whose quiet strength and partnership made so much of his work possible.
Pheroze Nowrojee was a Senior Counsel, poet, defender of the Constitution, and a dear friend.
When the Moi government was arresting, detaining, and torturing protestors in the 1980s and 1990s, Pheroze walked into those courtrooms and stood beside political detainees, activists, journalists, and opposition leaders that no one else would touch, among them Koigi wa Wamwere and Raila Odinga, whose detentions without trial were a grim hallmark of that era.
He challenged the constitutionality of sedition laws, he questioned detention without trial, and through his collective efforts with a generation of fearless lawyers, we laid much of the legal groundwork for Kenya's eventual return to multiparty democracy. The democracy we enjoy today has his fingerprints on it.
He spent his life standing for justice when it was costly, defending the rule of law when it was inconvenient, and doing it all with a quiet brilliance and humanity that left everyone who encountered him changed.
Today, his name is beyond the courtrooms and constitutions; it is on a road.
Pheroze was more than a legal giant, he was my mentor, a guide, and a friend. I carry his teachings with me as we continue to strive for the Kenya he believed in and gave his life to build.
Asante, Pheroze. Nairobi will carry your name forward.
In 2019, MIT professor Patrick Winston gave a legendary 1-hour lecture called “How to Speak.”
It has 18M+ views for a reason.
His frameworks:
• Your ideas are like your children
• The 5-minute rule for job talks
• Why jokes fail at the start
15 lessons on communication: