I like when people don’t panic in chaos… not because they don’t have the spirit of urgency, but because they’re thinking g of a way out already.
E don sup, E don sup… let’s get out of it.
I am People
Beyond Football: The Match for a Better Nigeria
This weekend, Europe comes alive again with football. Millions of Nigerian youths will be glued to television screens, streaming matches, debating tactics, celebrating victories, and admiring the organisation, discipline, and excellence that make European football the envy of the world. But here is a question worth asking: Why can’t Nigerian football be just as good?
The answer is not a lack of talent. Nigeria has produced world-class footballers who have excelled in Europe because they found systems that reward merit, invest in infrastructure, ensure security, and are governed with competence and accountability. Great football does not exist in isolation. It grows where there is good governance.
The stadiums, academies, transport systems, healthcare, security, electricity, and institutions that support football are products of leaders who make the right choices and citizens who insist on accountability. Nigeria has the talent. What we have lacked is leadership that creates an enabling environment for that talent to flourish.
As I have decided, in the next 150 days, to engage Nigerian youths wherever they gather—in town halls, campuses, online spaces, and even football communities—my message is simple: The future you admire in Europe can be built in Nigeria. But it starts with your vote.
Imagine a Nigeria where our local league is competitive, our stadiums are full every weekend, our clubs attract sponsorship, our coaches receive proper training, and young footballers no longer see emigration as their only path to success.
Nigeria will not emerge through wishful thinking. It will emerge when young Nigerians decide that elections matter as much as football matches. Every goal scored in Europe is a reminder that excellence is possible. Every well-managed league is proof that systems work when honest leadership is in place.
The 2027 presidential election is therefore more than a political contest. It is an opportunity for Nigerian youths to choose the kind of country they want—a nation that exports talent because it is respected, not because its citizens are escaping failed governance.
Cheer for Manchester United, Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool, Manchester City, Barcelona, Real Madrid, Bayern Munich, PSG, Inter, AC Milan, or any club you support. Enjoy every match. But when the final whistle blows, remember that the greatest match awaiting Nigerian youths is not in Europe. It is in Nigeria.
It is the match for good governance. It is the match for jobs, security, education, sports development, and national renewal. And unlike football, where only twenty-two players are on the pitch, every Nigerian youth has a place in this match.
Stand up. Mobilise. Vote. Defend your vote.
If Nigerian youths can passionately follow European football every weekend, they can also passionately build a Nigeria where our own football—and our nation—becomes a source of pride.
The journey towards better Nigerian football begins with the path to good governance. And the path to good governance begins with the decision of Nigerian youths to stand up and be counted in 2027.
Every weekend, starting today, I will come to you with a reminder of January 16, 2027, and our future. We can create world-class standards right here at home.
It’s in your hands, and that new Nigeria is POssible. -PO
Last comment on this Tony issue:
That girl is a graduate trainee. She's just starting her career. She has made a "mistake" according to you people, but the correction on the spot there is sufficient. Oga attributed it to "geography." Oyibo thing. Some added GenZ. Generational gap. She has learned.
Whatever anyone in UBA or anywhere do to her to punish her because of that moment is pure wickedness including some of your comments here. She should not be victimized. In fact, whoever is her direct manager has the responsibility of reassuring her and the Exec needs to help her regain her confidence.
We know how to destroy things here. How to exaggerate and try to make a mountain out of a molehill, and destroy people beyond recovery. It should not be her story.
We don't know what she'll become tomorrow. She may not be a banker sef but when she succeed properly, and she tells the story of this moment, let it be that humanity won.
As you throw comments here and there, remember that this event is like something happening between a primary school student and a professor. Be kind.
Good night.
I’m surprised nobody has brought a gender perspective to this (so I will). I’m very certain if the gender were reversed we would have seen think pieces on how men undermine women’s authority in workplaces and how it is deeply rooted in patriarchy. How dare he call a billionaire CEO by her name, Anthonia??!!!
7 years practicing stoicism now and this is one of the anchors constantly reinforced.
This message is now my gift to you today.
Silence is your only true friend. She's the only one capable of telling you the truth.
Spend time with her.
9am: “Marriage is slavery for women”
10am: “I have told my boyfriend if you don’t marry me this year, you are a time waster”
11am: “You don’t need to have money to marry a woman. As long as you are working, any amount a man makes is ok”
12noon: “If you don’t make enough money to take good care of a woman, why exactly do you want to marry?”
1pm: “I am willing to support a man as a woman but it is his job to provide”
2pm: “Money is not everything to women; what matters is seeing that our man is doing something.”
3pm:, “But my money is my money and his money is our money”
4pm: “We have a heart of gold and we don’t care about money at all”.
5pm: “However I will not do 50/50 or 70/30 with any man. I can only support with whatever I have. I cannot promise any percentage to a man from my salary”
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I dislike people like this. If you want to talk about Fabrizio, go straight to the point.
David Ornstein’s posts are mostly about the UK and Europe’s biggest clubs, while Fabrizio reports on transfers from all around the world.
If you don’t like how Fabrizio recycles his updates to keep people engaged, then unfollow him and focus only on David.
Here, we appreciate how David posts only when there’s top information, and we also enjoy how Fabrizio keeps us on our toes whenever our favourite club is trying to sign a top player.
Stop the nonsense about who’s better. We don’t care we just want to enjoy the transfer window.
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Madame Celeste Amarilla,
Vous êtes une femme méprisable et indigne de sa fonction.
Vous ne représentez pas le Paraguay, ce pays qui a transpiré la passion et l’honneur tout au long de la compétition. Par votre inconscience et votre racisme décomplexé, le monde entier a déjà oublié le parcours et l’effort historique que vos joueurs ont réalisés durant cette coupe du monde pour laisser place à une dame incompétente donnant la pire image possible de son pays.
Je ne laisserai jamais aux gens comme elle, la liberté de laisser propager leur haine et leur racisme à travers le monde.