One guy already won the Balon D’or after going trophyless. Balon D’or voting was also extended that year for the first time ever.
If it was Messi we wouldn’t hear the last of it.
Saudi Arabia Aramco makes post-tax revenue of $350bn. In comparison, NNPC makes $4billion. Saudi pumps 10.3million barrels per day, NNPC does 1.5 million barrels per day.
By this calculation, NNPC should be doing about $40bn in post-tax revenue. Where is the hole?
I hate how everybody's talking about those bullshit conspiracy theories, refs this that..... instead of acknowledging how 39 year old Messi outperformed everyone in this world cup. His legacy actually shot up to the moon for those who understand football.
Yamal is expected to put up the creative performances and numbers AND outscore everyone.
Mbappe, Kane, Haaland, etc are only expected to outscore everyone.
Olise, Dembele,Diaz are only expected for creativity
That alone tells you why Lamine Yamal is the best player in Europe.
Messi is even a better goalscorer than Ronaldo. Goals per game. Messi has played lesser games. This is a fact not an opinion. Messi had more goals than him in Europe. Had more golden boots. Messi beats him in everything except Instagram followers. Even on Instagram, Messi holds the record of the most liked picture. Ronaldo‘s most liked picture has Messi in it. 😀😀😀😀
This is what annoys me the most about so-called “African tech.” It is largely performative software projects that serve the purpose of data extraction by mostly Western funders and survival by African founders. China is where we should all be learning from.
Same 2011, D’banj also brought out Kanye west in his show in UK, the same year that Kanye west released watch the throne album, featuring Jay Z in n!ggas in Paris and some other solos like All of the lights.. that was the year D’banj brought him out in his Koko concert in London on August 29, 2011.. insane motion from D’banj and Don jazzy.. crazy!
Only thing I will say, and I say this respectfully because you're my guy, is that sometimes you brush off the real material reality in favor of what should be.
Should Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger build institutions as formidable as the IRGC or CPC so that the African revolution does not die with them?
Absolutely. They should.
And if you look a little closer, you'll see they already are.
They're building more roads in Burkina Faso than the French laid in 50 years.
They're building local processing capacity in tomato and cotton.
Traore is putting his foot down to ensure that Sharia theology never comes before the interests of the Burkinabe people.
They're all punching way above their weight.
Especially when you remember that these guys are doing all this great stuff while fighting terrorists financed by white men with more money than God.
Can they do better?
Of course. There's always room for improvement and they are not infallible.
But to insinuate that unless Traore, Goita and Tchani fly the hammer and sickle they aren't building institutions is to do them an inhumane disservice.
Which is why my man @barrahart was crashing out lol.
Lenin and Mao waged a war against the rent seeking capitalists.
The AES are waging a war against the imperialists and their entire apparatus.
Amusingly, the struggle is identical unless you're being dogmatic about ideological purity.
And finally, we are Africans.
Our history, our struggle, our pain and our dreams are unique to us and us alone.
There is no way in seven hells that you can apply the theories of communism to Africa without profound modification to fit our CURRENT material realities and our identities.
We will take the bits of socialism that is useful, take the bits of capitalism that are useful and do the same for every ism.
... As long as they serve our interests as Africans.
I want African children to believe that they matter in the world. I want our people to be fierce about our sovereignty and our prosperity. I want us to get full value for our natural resources.
This becomes first before any other ideology.
Hopefully you understand my position.
Btw it’s mostly black Africans on the continent as a whole who are obsessed with perfect English.. the rest of the world just rounds up English to their nearest mother tongue and calls it a day
If you think you're eloquent enough to try an convince a poor Nigerian living on less than $5 a day to ignore his pastor or imam's preaching to join your communist crusade then good luck. You will need it.
What I know is that your ideas will lead to nowhere.
I wont ever waste my time trying to convince Nigerians to do better.
Our people ousted an administration that would have seen us a 1T economy by now in favor of an ex-soldier with the economic literacy of a caterpillar.
We have 200+ ethnic groups, and at least 50 are flinging insults and/or bullets at each other.
The Ijaw are doing their own thing in the South South. Everyone there is fighting each other for land and oil.
The Yorubas and Igbos are fighting an asinine, artificial tribal online war.
The Hausa are beginning to resent Fulani domination.
The Berom and Fulani will stick knives in each other before sharing a conversation.
Edo people hold latent resentment toward the Bini
Half of the tribes in Benue are climbing over each other to be atop the shitpile
The South West is plagued by godfatherism courtesy of Bobo Chicago.
A good chunk of the South East is still horny for Biafra
Muslims think Christians are the soul of immorality while Christians believe Muslims are all terrorists
Imams and pastors have more credibility than the police.
I haven't even factored in the crazy levels of foreign interference that pokes at every societal wound and funds terrorists to inflict physical ones.
And in all of this, Mr. Chuks, you think you can convince people to rise up against the likes of Otedola, Dangote, Cubana Chief Priest, Sheikh Gumi, the Northern Sultans etc...?
People that the poor masses with tiny imaginations aspire to be like?
Oya na. If you can, then I am sorry and I underestimated you.
As for me, if I had the means, I would make everyone work together by sheer, impartial coercion.
My campaign against Corruption, Insecurity and poverty would target the same rent-seeking capitalists we both despise, forge a new national identity WITHOUT wasting energy trying to compete with people's long-standing ethnic, religious and political resentments.