Kelechi

NCSU Alum || GT Alum

[Carolina Panthers @Panthers]

The Lion’s King

[Premier League @premierleague]

Bruno Fernandes' journey to equalling the single season Premier League assist record 🪄

🔴 @ManUtd

[Casemiro @Casemiro]

Knowing when stages come to an end.

Knowing when to say goodbye when you feel that you will be remembered and respected forever.

Four months to give my all for this badge and for our goal.

Eternal respect and affection for Manchester United and its wonderful fans.

Forever Red Devil.

[Klara @klara_sjo]

Where do bad rainbows go?

To prism.

It's a light sentence, but it gives them time to reflect.

[Kyrie🤞🏾 @KyrieIrving]

Oh Bill, you would never say this to Dlo in person and we both know it.

[Paul Tassi @PaulTassi]

Actors aging between Netflix seasons

[Netflix @netflix]

Kevin Durant tearing up about playing on the Olympic stage is a moment to witness.

Court of Gold premieres in 12 hours.

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

Second time’s the charm. Congrats to the @Eagles, Jalen Hurts, Saquon Barkley, Nick Sirianni and an outstanding defense for winning one for Philly. You earned it!

[💀💢 @gugukcoklat]

made me remembered again about this

(original post by @/mathewsmarz)

[Peter Obi @PeterObi]

I have noticed some deliberate and well-orchestrated efforts by some persons to blackmail me into conforming to some of their nefarious agendas. Their dubious moves have led to the false circulation of a video from my recent keynote speech at the installation of

[Ruud van Nistelrooij @RvN1776]

Back home, new chapter. ❤️🤍🖤@ManUtd

[Legion Hoops @LegionHoops]

BREAKING: Bronny James Jr. has been drafted by the Los Angeles Lakers

[Austine @theereal_one]

When you grow up listening to singers like this, you realize how annoying it is that we’ve got such a low caliber of “singers” that we have today. 

[Tunde Onakoya @Tunde_OD]

A few things to know about the chess prodigy Deborah Quickpen:

1. Coming from a humble background in Bayelsa, her parents struggled to pay her school tuition, and she almost dropped out due to financial difficulties.

2. She started playing chess at the age of 3 after being discovered by my good friend and Nigeria’s current national champion, @BKigigha, who has coached her ever since.

3. In 2018, she represented Bayelsa state at the National Sports Festival, becoming the youngest athlete to ever participate in the festival's history.

4. She won three gold medals at the National Youth Games, making history as the youngest person to win 18 out of 18 games.

5. Deborah won the Under-10 African Youth Chess Championship in Accra, Ghana, becoming the youngest Nigerian female player to be conferred the Woman Candidate Master title.

6. At the age of 10, she was appointed Youth Ambassador for Sports by Bayelsa State Governor Sen Douye Didi.

7. In 2023, at the age of 11, she became Nigeria’s female national champion, a record that might take decades to break.

8. She is the highest-ranked under-12 female chess player in Africa and the third in the world.

9. Currently in JSS3, she maintains a stellar academic performance, earning double promotions in primary school.

10. Next month, she will represent Nigeria at the FIDE World Cup in Georgia.

With the right financial support and visibility, Deborah could very well become West Africa’s first chess grandmaster. She’s young,driven and hardworking.

I’m immensely proud of Deborah and honored to play her in a match on June 11th in preparation for her first World Cup appearance in Georgia.

Let’s support our very own Queen’s Gambit!

If you’d like to sponsor her career, please send an email: [email protected] or call 07064959329.

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

The Nigerian idea of an elite school is one where you pay a boatload of money for your kids to be "educated" in the syllabus of a country 6,000 miles away, by people who do not look or sound like you, and who come from a completely different historical and civilisational context to your West African reality.

There, they take your kids through the British Key Stage 1-4 assessments where your kids are taught the history of 20th Century Europe, focusing on the Dreadnought, Trench Foot, Mustard Gas, and how Brave, Plucky Britain saved the world from the German threat twice. Despite receiving this education in Africa's largest city, their own West African history is not even a footnote - it simply doesn't exist as far as this syllabus is concerned.

In their Physics class, they are assigned questions like, "Which of the following temperature readings is a fairly warm day? a) -3⁰C b) 5⁰C c) 19⁰C d) 9⁰C"

Despite the evidence of the West African air outside the window telling them that 19⁰C is actually one of the coldest settings on the classroom AC, and cannot possibly be a "fairly warm day" in Lagos - which regularly hits 34⁰C - they learn to pick C as the answer.

Your kids come out at 17, tremendously educated, enlightened, and certified in knowledge and career pathways that have nothing to do with the reality of the society and economy that they live in. From there, they proceed straight to the UK/US/Canada/Australia/Switzerland/France to continue their education and graduate, after which most of them will remain there and contribute to those societies, occasionally uploading a "🇳🇬" flag on October 1 and taking a photo with Jollof rice at @FoodPitanga, because that's all that Nigeria means to them.

After 2 children and a divorce at 42, they will then take a 6 month break from work and travel to Nigeria to find themselves, which usually means getting into a torrid affair with a shekpeteri boy/girl that inevitably leads to severe character development. They then pack up the newly learned lessons and move back to Houston, after which they write a self-published book with a pretentious indigenous name about a girl who travels to the land of her ancestors to find meaning, and becomes friends with a river goddess.

The book sells 15 copies on Amazon and has two 5-star ratings from friends and family.

If you're lucky and they return to Nigeria immediately after studying, they inevitably end up working in Wealth Management at Chapel Hill Denham, where they pointlessly and relentlessly shift money from one rich man's pocket to another without expanding the economy by a single naira; or they launch an app that achieves 2,500 downloads and spends all its funding runway on Marketing and the founder's lifestyle expenditure; or they end up selling "luxury" real estate on behalf of developers who are daddy's friends.

Or they fall off the surface of the earth altogether, and end up in rehab at a quiet private facility in Tema, after developing an expensive cocaine habit in Lagos.

eLiTe eDucAtIon, ladies and gentlemen.

[Manchester United @ManUtd]

🌟 Andrew Cole is a @PremierLeague Hall of Famer 🌟

#MUFC || #PLHallOfFame

[Taylor Rooks @TaylorRooks]

Respectfully, colleague - The disappointing thing about this take is you actually can’t have an informed opinion on this if you are choosing to be gender neutral and racially indifferent. Because that is impossible. Her existence as a black woman shapes both how she is seen by others and how she sees the world. And in this case how she is seen by you.
Your response here is actually full of opinions that indirectly (and directly) involve both race and gender. It’s just coded to unsuccessfully soften the blow. You have to ask why Angel became the villain. You have to ask why her role as ‘villain’ has not allowed her to also be human. You have to wonder why her being asked a question and simply answering has led to this level of discourse. You have to ask what you mean when you say Angel wants to talk grown or pose grown?? What is ‘grown’ a substitute for? You have to ask why trash talking - a practice many athletes engage in - is seen so much harsher when it comes from someone that looks like her. You have to ask how some of the ideas you expressed fuel the fire of the aforementioned marginalization. You have to ask why you heard her discuss unacceptable treatment and your reaction was to discuss how she can’t address it. And I have to ask if you spoke to any black women athletes about their experiences in order to give a more enlightened take before you came and said this.
Angel has absolutely made herself a public figure and she should be open to the criticism pertaining her game and persona. She should also be allowed to express when those criticisms are out of bounds. Why did you cling to her reaction as opposed to the vitriol that caused it? She certainly does not deserve sympathy for losing a game. She deserves sympathy for being attacked and targeted for things outside of said game.
As much as you believe this to be a take without bias, your reasoning proves the point you are fighting against. Opinions are opinions, and everyone is entitled, but our opinions are shaped by the paradigms we know. I hope no one says they are taking out gender and race, because in a black woman’s world, we do not have that choice. I hope you realize your luxury and privilege by being able to say what you said. I hope you look around and notice the people that have delighted and applauded seeing a black man get on television and give THIS opinion on a young black woman. Because it’s not for the reasons you think.
That’s my take.

[House of the Dragon @HouseofDragon]

Tomorrow.
The first look at #HOTDS2 is coming with fire and blood. #HOTDnaCCXP

[Kelechi @kc_kwaz]

@ANTi7kZ Always said he could do a job. I wanted McSauce gone

[philip lewis @Phil_Lewis_]

Deion Sanders got Kawhi out in Colorado. Kawhi don’t even be at his own games.