Jamila

Ex-Broadcast Journalist with @VOANews | Counterterrorism | Comms/Media | Children’s Rights | RTs ≠ endorsement. ❤️ = bookmark. 🇳🇬🇺🇸

[Jamila @JKFagge]

Despite all my years at a Historical Black College and University, I never learned about this extraordinary man. #BlackHistoryMonth

[Jamila @JKFagge]

Dear @yaqeeninstitute, please consider ways to get your online resources available in physical prints to our Muslim brothers and sisters in the prisons! There’s a dire need of your available resources and curriculums but they’re electronic! Can we make it happen?

[Diego Cobo @DiiegoCobo]

🥇 Nico Williams entregándole la medalla de campeón del mundo a su madre, María Arthuer.

[Piers Morgan @piersmorgan]

Disgusting behaviour by the Argentinians at the end, especially Paredes.
Just a bunch of nasty violent thugs, and a disgrace to football. Never been so happy to see a team lose.

[WolfRMFC @WolfRMFC]

This video is hilarious, one side you have Yamal praying and on the other they are UFC fighting 😭😭

[Trevor Noah @Trevornoah]

Everyone wants to know why I'm backing France... 🇫🇷
Here's the answer.

#WorldCup #France #Morocco

[MatchReport @MatchReportH]

🚨🇦🇷🇪🇬 Rio Ferdinand: “Football Needs Fairness, Not Different Rules For Different Teams”

🗣️ “I’ve sat here and watched football for many years, both as a player and as a pundit, and what frustrates supporters the most is inconsistency.

When Argentina go down under a challenge, the whistle seems to come immediately. The officials are quick to spot the foul, quick to stop play and quick to protect them. But when Egypt are on the receiving end of similar incidents, suddenly the game is allowed to continue and everyone is told to move on.

That’s the issue people have tonight. Not the result itself, but the lack of consistency in the decision-making.

Then you look at the build-up to Enzo Fernández’s winning goal. Egypt were screaming for a foul, their players were surrounding the referee, and millions watching expected VAR to at least take a proper look at it. Instead, it felt like everyone in the VAR room had gone to sleep.

What exactly is VAR there for if not to review the biggest moments in the biggest matches?

If that incident happened against Argentina at the other end of the pitch, do you honestly believe it wouldn’t have been checked? I find that very difficult to believe. We’ve seen much softer incidents reviewed throughout this tournament.

That’s where the frustration comes from. Fans just want the same standard applied to every team.

And let’s talk about the disciplinary side of the game. Argentina seem to get away with an awful lot. There are challenges that would normally bring yellow cards, yet the referee appears reluctant to reach for his pocket. It’s almost as if officials are afraid of making decisions that might upset Argentina.

When you look at some of Argentina’s matches in this tournament, there have been several moments where opponents felt hard done by. One incident can be debated, two incidents can be debated, but eventually people start noticing a pattern.

Football cannot afford that perception. The integrity of the game depends on supporters believing that every nation is treated equally.

Whether you’re Argentina, Egypt, Brazil, France or anyone else, the laws of the game should not change depending on the badge on your shirt.

The officials tonight had a responsibility to be fair, balanced and brave. Instead, they have left millions of people questioning why some decisions are given so easily for one side while similar incidents involving the other side are ignored.

Football deserves better than that. The players deserve better than that. And the fans certainly deserve better than that.”

#ARGEGY

[Appie Culé @appiecule]

This is probably the biggest scandal in World Cup history.

USA striker Folarin Balogun committed this outrageous foul against Bosnia and was shown a straight red card… but here’s where it gets crazy.

The White House publicly contacted FIFA and the tournament organizers, asking them to lift his suspension. And they actually did. Balogun is now eligible to play against Belgium.

The organizers cited something called a “probation period,” meaning the red card still stands, but instead of serving the mandatory suspension, he’ll only be punished if he commits a similar offense again.

A blatant manipulation of the rules for everyone to see, especially considering red-card suspensions are not supposed to be appealable.

When you’re expelled from school, but your dad is the Principal. 😭

[Jamila @JKFagge]

Dear @flyethiopian, despite numerous attempts to reach your office regarding my SIX undelivered luggages, my bags are still stuck in ADD according to tracker. No E-mail. No communication. Apparently, this is normal for the airlines coming into Abuja. Please do better!

[Jamila @JKFagge]

I’ll never get used to this hydration break!!! Let’s call it what it is—commercial break!

[Jamila @JKFagge]

The Japanese culture is exactly what Islamic culture is supposed to be—adab and akhlaq. But…🥺

[FIFA @FIFAcom]

The reason Japan fans clean the stadium after each game. Respect. 🤝🇯🇵

[Gimba Kakanda @gimbakakanda]

Major-General Rabe Abubakar: The Wounds We Share

I have just read the statement by the Katsina State Government confirming the passing of Major-General Rabe Abubakar, rtd, a former military spokesman, while in captivity. Even though the statement says that “the deceased… died a natural death from complications of diabetes and hypertension,” this does not erase the horror of the circumstances in which he spent his final days. What haunts us is not only the manner of his passing, but the tragedy of a life of service ending in the hands of criminals who have exploited the dysfunctions of our society.

What happened to the General is a tragedy of immeasurable dimension. To return from a career that required putting one’s life on the line for one’s country, only to become a captive of ragtag criminals, is a fate no patriot deserves. It is a cruel reminder that this weather of insecurity is one we all breathe and feel. It bears our names, our faces, our families, and the histories of service behind its victims.

There is no dignified way to avoid the truth that, as a nation and as a government, we have let down the General and many others who have met similar fates. This does not take away from the efforts I know were ongoing to secure his release or rescue, nor from the renewed operations and proactive steps being taken to confront these criminal networks. But grief must never be managed with denial. Something more radical, more coordinated, and more sustained must be done to break this chain of tragic events. Contrary to the assumptions of some, nobody is immune.

What happened to the General is a cautionary tale for all of us in government today. The General, who once served in one of the most protected institutions in the country, could never have imagined such an ending. That is why it remains baffling when anyone assumes that those in public office are insulated from the failures and fractures of the nation. The same roads, the same communities, the same future, and the same consequences await us all.

As a northerner, I am doubly troubled by the direction in which our region has been dragged. No honest person can claim ignorance of how we got here. If we are even more honest, we must admit that the untrained, abandoned, and hopeless children on our streets are being turned into cannon fodder for present and future dysfunctions. Even if banditry and terrorism are defeated, a vulnerable demographic left without education, discipline, opportunity, or hope will remain available for other invidious agendas against the Nigerian state.

This is the part that should frighten us most. We once spoke of building human capital. Today, too many of our people are trapped in the desperate arithmetic of survival.

The government has the primary and non-negotiable responsibility to protect lives and property. But no government policy, however well designed, can fully overcome a society that refuses to confront parental irresponsibility, the abandonment of children, hostility to education in some communities, and the casual normalisation of neglect. Security is not sustained by bullets alone. It is sustained by schools, families, values, livelihoods, justice, and a population civilised enough to reject the temptations of nihilism.

And yet, we cannot afford to lose hope. Despair is exactly what these criminals want to manufacture. They want citizens to stop believing in the possibility of order, to stop trusting the state, and to stop imagining a country that can still be rescued. We must refuse them that victory. We must mourn the dead, demand better from the living, and insist that the Nigerian state still has the duty and capacity to reclaim every inch of its authority.

May Allah forgive him, grant him Aljannatul Firdaus, and comfort his family. My condolences also go to all families who have lost loved ones to this madness. May their grief not be in vain, and may our country find the courage to end this tragedy.

[BBC Sport @BBCSport]

The award for the most stylish World Cup arrival goes to DR Congo 😎🇨🇩

[Red Bull New York @NewYorkRedBulls]

IT’S OFFICIAL!

📍Thierry Henry Way

[Santi @PeakSxnti]

A legend in France
A King in London
An Igwe in Nigeria
A street owner in New York.

No striker in football history has more Aura and Respect.

[Jamila @JKFagge]

@KMbappe best player in the world

[Arsenal @Arsenal]

In all its glory 🏆

[afcstuff @afcstuff]

Arsène Wenger on Arsenal reaching the #UCL final: “We had to wait for 20 years, but we came back. This time, we have to bring this trophy home. It belongs at the Emirates! We have to finish the job!” 🏆🇭🇺

🎥 @beINSPORTS_EN

[CF Montréal @cfmontreal]

C’est parti à Atlanta 💪

Game on against @ATLUTD 👊

#CFMTL @ChevroletCanada

[OurFaveOnlineDoc 🇬🇧 🇳🇬 @OurFavOnlineDoc]

If you have a child under the age of 5years old, pls give them no phones, no tabs, no iPads, no laptops.
Basically no screens.

Scientists have found a relationship between screen exposure and brain damage in kids under 5years old.

Pls share this video🙏🏿