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As of today. A total of 470 players have won the World Cup.
20 players won it twice. One player, 3 times.
Only one player has scored in six straight editions.
But It takes a Special kind of human to score 974 Goals.
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I do not blame you at all; I completely blame the highly toxic colonial education in Nigeria that successfully brainwashed you into believing that Abacha assigned vast oil wells to himself via proxies strictly to enrich his own pockets.
Of course, the core operational doctrine of this Western-designed curriculum is to systematically lobotomize, intellectually disarm, and psychologically pacify the average Nigerian to the pathetic point where they religiously, passionately, and aggressively defend their actual slave masters, even at the expense of their own economic survival, national development, and material wellbeing.
They loudly told you that Abacha owned massive oil blocks via proxies, but they conveniently did not tell you that under Abacha's strict resource nationalist framework, it was legally, physically, and constitutionally impossible for any private individual, foreign corporation, or Western conglomerate to own an entire oil block outright. Under Abacha's government, everything concerning petroleum, gas, and mineral exploration was strictly owned by the federal government, and private entities could only legally own minor shares, passive investments, or minority interests in those blocks. But simply because Abacha's son, his defense minister, and a few high-profile local allies owned minority shares in two or three oil blocks (shares that other wealthy Nigerians and local corporate entities were equally entitled to own and actively owned), all of a sudden, Abacha is branded a ruthless dictator and a historic looter, purely because his son held a minor stake in a national oil asset.
This massive, obsessive energy you people waste on constantly attacking Abacha, this incredible physical stamina, righteous indignation, and loud anger that you people magically develop whenever his name is mentioned, and this desperate urge to always rush to condemn the late army general: how I deeply wish you people could channel even a fraction of this energy into fighting against Chevron, ExxonMobil, Shell, ENI, and other Western oil majors that are currently owing Nigeria a staggering $62 billion in unpaid taxes, unremitted royalties, and shared profits, and have flatly, contemptuously refused to pay. This is an astronomical amount of capital that should be more than enough to fully fund fuel subsidies, build world-class public infrastructure, fund modern healthcare, and secure quality primary education for the next 10 to 15 years.
But you absolutely will not do that because your colonial education has completely stripped you of the flexibility, the intellectual agency, and the balls to actually fight for your own national sovereignty, reclaim your stolen resources, or directly criticize your Western slave masters. That is exactly why American politicians in Washington can comfortably buy millions of dollars in shares in Nvidia, Microsoft, Apple, and OpenAI, and then shamelessly use their congressional votes to secure hundreds of billions of dollars in federal grants, tax breaks, and research subsidies for these exact same tech empires, immediately making millions of dollars in personal corporate profits, capital gains, and fat dividends.
That is why the American military-industrial complex relentlessly lobbies for endless foreign wars, proxy conflicts, and global regime changes, securing a staggering $1.5 trillion in military funding this year alone, which has effectively guaranteed their CEOs, board members, and shareholders generational wealth both in this physical world and even in the afterlife.
All of these massive, globally devastating financial atrocities are actively happening in broad daylight, but you will never criticize, question, or expose them, simply because doing so is not part of your deeply embedded, white-washed neocolonial brainwashing.
Funny part about hating Atiku for his ethnicity is that it is lowkey the same reason some support him - you can’t reform Nigeria without major pushback from the North.
And Atiku is clearly the most federalist and pan-Nigerian politician from the North ever in Nigeria’s history.
Trump, April 1: "We are now completely independent of the Middle East. We don't need their oil."
Trump, June 17: "If I hadn't agreed to the memorandum of understanding, our reserves would have run out in about four weeks."
Trump, April 1: "We are now completely independent of the Middle East. We don't need their oil."
Trump, June 17: "If I hadn't agreed to the memorandum of understanding, our reserves would have run out in about four weeks."
The most shameful video emerging from the xenophobic waves in South Africa. A documented Nigerian business owner is told to shutdown and leave, while illegal white settlers continue to run South Africa’s economy. This is further PROOF that it’s never about illegal migration.
The new MAGA grift is criticizing Israel because they do not have enough time to push more Judeo-Christian propaganda before the midterms. You think Trump woke up and just suddenly realized massacring entire suburbs is wrong?
They have no choice. This is good.
Vice President JD Vance Just WENT OFF on the Israeli Cabinet Attacking Trump:
"One, Donald Trump is the ONLY head of state in the entire world who is sympathetic to the nation of Israel at this moment in time. And he happens to be the head of state of the world’s superpower.
If I were in the cabinet of the Israeli government, I might not be attacking the only powerful ally I have left anywhere in the world.”
“Second, some of those cabinet members who have been attacking the United States, over the last three months, two-thirds of the defensive weapons that have protected your homeland have been built by American hands and paid for by American tax dollars."
"The problem for Israel is not Donald J. Trump, and anyone in Israel who thinks their biggest problem is the President of the United States needs to wake up.”
The Obidients are claiming that Peter was the best governor in Anambra state. That he broke many records. That everyone should go and verify. So far, the verification has returned unsatisfactory. There is no evidence for many grandiose claims. There is no single Commissioner, Special Advisor, senior civil servant or contractors who have come forward to stake their reputations for his presidential bid. The man is blowing his own trumpet alone while his supporters are dancing in the market square. Even his deputy governor is not in the Obidient camp. The whole thing is an orchestrated online narrative that has no foundations from Anambra state!
Some of the things Trump said in the last 48 hours:
- Hamas is behaving very well these days.
- Iran should have missiles. Why not?
- We're going to unfreeze Iran's money. It's their money. Why should we steal their money?
- If the war kept going there would have been an economic catastrophe. So we had to end it.
- Some of the guys in the Islamic regime are really nice.
- If Iran didn't open the Strait of Hormuz our oil reserves would have run out in 4 weeks. We had to make a deal.
- Netanyahu is crazy. They keep killing innocent civilians. He needs to be more responsible.
- Without me and America, Israel wouldn't exist.
🗣️ Samuel Eto'o: "Barcelona'da oynarken Pep Guardiola bana santrafor oynamayı ve nasıl hareket etmem gerektiğini öğretmeye çalışıyordu. Bir gün idmanı durdurdu ve tahtanın başına geçip bana taktik vermeye kalktı.
Ona döndüm ve 'Pep, sen hayatında bir kez bile forvet oynamadın. Ben bu pozisyonda dünyanın en iyisiyim, bana nasıl gol atacağımı öğretemezsin' diye bağırdım. Yüzüme baktı, tek kelime edemedi. Maç günü geldiğinde beni kanada çekti, Henry'yi merkeze koydu.
O gün anladım ki onun sisteminde egonuz ne kadar büyükse, sizi cezalandırma şekli de o kadar çiğ oluyor. Sezon sonu beni Inter'e takas ettirdi ama ertesi yıl Inter formasıyla onu Şampiyonlar Ligi'nden elediğimde yüzündeki o ifade her şeye değdi."
A Nigerian Challenges The IMF’s Counterintuitive Economic Recommendations For Nigeria
Nana Fatima Bello, a Nigerian writer and social-political commentator, has a few words to say about the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) latest recommendations for Nigeria.
Upon reporting that 63 per cent of the Giant of Africa’s 242 million people continue to live in poverty and that 27 million Nigerians are food insecure, the IMF offered a strange solution: More taxes!
Already, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s unprecedented obedience to the IMF and the World Bank since 2023 has led to runaway inflation, leaving families struggling to afford food and fuel.
If you are Nigerian, what do you make of this latest IMF report? Let us know in the comments.
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