In the sweltering heat of a Lagos afternoon.
Mama Ngozi stood at the Oyingbo market like a general surveying a battlefield that was slowly bleeding her dry. “How much is a good pot of soup these days?” she muttered to no one, her wrapper soaked with sweat. The answer came like a slap: ₦85,000.
Eighty-five thousand naira.
For one pot.
She remembered when that same pot of egusi — thick with stockfish, ugu leaves, and proper crayfish — cost ₦12,000. That was before the naira began its long, painful dance with the dollar. Now even the okra looked ashamed of itself.
📢| Mourinho Fires Back on Perez’s €150M Bid-This is the Kind of Signing That Wins Titles:
🗣️Reporter: Jose, there are strong rumours that Florentino Perez is ready to launch a massive €150 million bid for a top attacker this summer. Can you shed any light on who that player might be?
🗣️Mourinho: (smiles) Look, I’m not going to lie to you. There are two names on the table. Two top, top players. But I cannot disclose everything now. One I can tell you… the other I cannot. Not yet.
🗣️Reporter: So you can name one?
🗣️Mourinho: Yes. Michael Olise. He is exactly my kind of player. I love black attackers-the explosiveness, the technique, the hunger, the way they take the game to the opponent. Olise has all of that. He’s the type I love to work with, the type that excites me on the training pitch and on matchdays. So yes, Olise is one.
🗣️Reporter: And the second one?
🗣️Mourinho: (laughs) The second one… when Perez wins the election, we will review and I will tell you. But I can already say this: he will also be a black player. I don’t care what people are saying about other names. Haaland is a great player, but he is not my kind of player. Not the profile I want to build around. I know what I like, and I know what works for me.
🗣️Reporter: So we should expect more black attackers at the club?
🗣️Mourinho: One hundred percent. That’s my style. That’s the football I want to play. We’ll see what happens after the election. But Olise? He’s the one I can talk about today. The other one… soon.
Honestly, it’s wild to think Batman Begins came out 21 years ago. Like, where did the time even go? This movie completely changed how we look at superhero films, and looking at the cast then versus now is pretty crazy.
You’ve got Christian Bale, Cillian Murphy, Morgan Freeman, Liam Neeson... I mean, these guys are absolute legends. Some of them literally don’t seem to age, while others just look like distinguished bosses now.
Who do you think has aged the best out of everyone here?
At my husband’s funeral, my children received estates, apartments, cars, and a fortune. They only handed me a folded envelope containing a plane ticket to Costa Rica… and they all smirked as if they had just cast me out of the family. My son said it was perfect for a woman my age. My daughter-in-law let out a soft chuckle. I thought Robert had humiliated me even from beyond the grave. But when I landed in San José, a stranger pronounced my name as if he had been waiting years for me.
The day I learned the REAL reason why some girls keep their hair curly changed the way I look at that hairstyle. Even some movies intentionally cast actresses with it for certain roles