Neymar—such a shame that injuries robbed one of the finest footballers the game has ever seen of what would have been a beautiful send-off, one he so richly deserves. I’m glad he got his goal, though, one that further cements his place as Brazil’s all-time leading goalscorer. But even he must eventually tell himself the truth, or risk suffering the same fate as Ronaldo.
Our maths genius, Victor Onwubiko, just came out of the International STEM Olympiad finale.
Listen to his experience.
We are rooting for him to win gold.
Yes, it is possible for you to be shown a red card in football and have your match suspensions suspended.
On July 1, Folarin Balogun scored the opening goal for the USA against Bosnia in the round of 32. Then in the 64th minute, VAR reviewed a challenge on Bosnia's Tarik Muharemovic, the referee went to the monitor, and Balogun was shown a red card for a foul that the referee himself had not originally called.
Pochettino said after the game: "For me, never is it a red card. It was a normal action in football that happened by accident."
The red card came with an automatic one match suspension for Balogun in the USA vs Belgium round of 16 match. Except FIFA's Disciplinary Committee stepped in.
Under Article 27 of the FIFA Disciplinary Code, "the judicial body may decide to fully or partially suspend the implementation of a disciplinary measure." FIFA did exactly that.
The statement read: "In line with Article 27 of the FIFA Disciplinary Code, the implementation of the match suspension is suspended for a probationary period of one year."
Balogun plays against Belgium. And now, the red card stands but the ban does not.
But if he commits a similar offence within the next twelve months, the original ban comes back, plus whatever new sanction is added on top.
This is not FIFA overturning the red card. They cannot do that. What they did is use their discretion to suspend the punishment for a borderline incident.
They did the same for Ronaldo during World Cup qualifying last year, reducing a three match ban to one, with the remaining games deferred. The red card stays on the record. Only the consequence is paused.
Koscielny had same treatment in 2014, where he was red carded for violent conduct during France’s Eorkd cup qualifying playoffs and was suspended for one game instead of three.
It actually goes both ways too. Qatar's Assim Madibo got a red card extended from one game to five after injuring Canada's Ismaël Koné.
I hope you have learned something today.
My name is Ajoje. I am a FIFA Licensed Agent and International Sports Lawyer. I write on the Law and Business of Football, a lot. Repost and Follow if you want to read more posts like this.
It is painful when people who ought to know better are deliberately bent on keeping the masses in poverty and retrogression. You are educated up to Masters degree and live in developed society, you should know and do better. Your education and exposure is supposed to reflect in your thought process.
If you live abroad, it means you've been exposed to better. You know what a working system looks like. You know that quality education should be made compulsory and free to kids. You know that minimum wage should should get you your basic needs - including rent, clothing and feeding. You cannot be thousands of miles across the ocean pushing for policies that drives us deeper in poverty. Are you mad?
I've talked a lot about my life experiences and I'll restate. I went to secondary school with the privileged, and that exposure made me see what a good life was and made me want better for kids that grew up in the environment I grew up in, and for all disprivileged kids in the country. I went to UNIBEN and saw another side to life and realized comparatively that many Nigerian kids have their childhood and youth stolen from them through deliberate systemic poverty. It is not right! Having lived abroad, I lived the experience of a working system and wept for an entire generation of Nigerian youth that has been robbed of dignity of decent living. There is nothing special about the West. If they can do it, we can do it too. The Asians have done it. Other African countries have left us behind. The Nigerian people have to enjoy a decent life and a quality standard of living without having to leave home. We all deserve a better life at home.
As bad as South Africans are, they are evil to foreigners. You Nigerians are evil to your own people. How do you explain that you sit abroad supporting and promoting policies at home that keeps people in abject poverty and sink them further into a hole their generation will not be able to recover from. You are raising your kids to compete globally and take their seat at the tables of this world where countries you reside in are giving free education, preparing their kids for the world of tomorrow in Tech and AI, empowering their kids in STEM, giving millions of dollars in grabt for innovations. You want other people's kids to use your lunch money to start frying akara in 2026. Is that the plan you have for your own kids? The god you serve and the one you don't serve, will strike you mad.
If you are at home supporting this madness, you are not exempted because the whole point of your education is to know how to think. So fvcking think! Dem use poverty swear for you?
You people are too wicked. The life you don't wish for your children is what you wish for other people's kids.
Where does it end? Dont you have conscience?
Good morning.
I just want you to remember this:
Before now, kidnapping used to be something we saw on TV news.
Then it moved to us seeing it frequently on social media.
Then we started seeing people we don’t know directly come on social media to say they were once victims of kidnapping.
Then we started hearing from friends that a friend of theirs got kidnapped.
Yesterday, I watched someone I went to school with on the news after they had just been rescued from the terrorists who kidnapped them.
And oh:
We still have those kidnapped school children.
There’s been no major update or conclusion on that rape incident at the festival in that state.
They'll not compare the education, public infrastructure, or anything else, but heyyyyy it also floods in Osaka so don't complain about the flood in Osapa.
Whether you like it or not, your votes matter. Please don’t give up on the country, we have to vote in the next election.
If you’ve not gotten your PVC, please go and register at https://t.co/lAxelM0DLD.
Collect your PVC, Collect your power.
#GoNigeria
Next week, I will be taking 3 students and 2 teachers to Rome, Italy, all expenses paid by me.
All visas have been issued and all arrangements have been sorted.
The students will represent Nigeria in the Maths and Science categories of the International STEM Olympiad.
They will compete alongside 154 other countries.
The students who won the 2026 South East Maths Olympiad and the teachers who supported them are going. Both the teachers and the students will experience growth together.
I will continue to push our bright minds to global stages.
In 10 years, I pray you will be alive to see the outcome of our investments in our children today.
Today makes it exactly one month since those kids and teachers in Oyo were kidnapped.
Also, on this day one month ago, kids were kidnapped and used as human shields on motorbikes in Borno state.
The Bola Tinubu led administration failed these kids.
Damilare Oderinde -8, Deborah Adebowale -5, Aisha Oguntowo -10, Lege Taiwo -12, Balkis Ayanwale -8, Asa David -10, Shuaibu Aliyu –10, Ahmed Aliyu –7, Muiz Aliyu – 5, Jomiloju Ogunlola –Agune Noah – 8, Elizabeth Abadi –5, Tosin Abadi –9, Pius Stephen – 5, Hannah Ojo – 14, Habidat Ayanwale – 7, Mary Gabriel – 6, Jacob Gabriel
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