A Li2 Birdie 🦜

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[A Li2 Birdie 🦜 @no1aproko]

@AbujaPresident Presido of AA association has spoken. 🤡

[A Li2 Birdie 🦜 @no1aproko]

@Wizarab10 To start fire, you go need spark. Na from clap dance dey start. Make him start from Sevilla and Venezia.

[A Li2 Birdie 🦜 @no1aproko]

@_jocelynnxo_ More like fighting against Messi. It's Messi who offended them. Just because he's gifted. Anyways, please enlighten me on how Argentina has been terrible.

[A Li2 Birdie 🦜 @no1aproko]

@Gabbar0099 Messi is the GOAT and he's doing great numbers at 39. 40 - 39, do the math. There can only be one GOAT in this era, and that's Messi.

[A Li2 Birdie 🦜 @no1aproko]

@GuyMr10 Oh realllllllly

[A Li2 Birdie 🦜 @no1aproko]

@Wizarab10 I don't really agree with this your thought, and here is my defense. There can only be one GOAT at a time. Pele was the GOAT in his era. The same goes for Maradona in his era. Greatest means the highest form of something. And that's Messi in this era. That's not even a debate.

[A Li2 Birdie 🦜 @no1aproko]

@SanaJournalist1 He is the God of football

[A Li2 Birdie 🦜 @no1aproko]

@Man__Of_Faith That guy called Messi is ridiculously good

[oseni rufai @ruffydfire]

Abducted Oyo Schoolchildren Rescued From Terrorists’ Den

[A Li2 Birdie 🦜 @no1aproko]

@jamiuxxvi With Jośe in power, Osasuna will be humbled 🙂

[A Li2 Birdie 🦜 @no1aproko]

@indemosi You sha wan make we see say you get big breast. OK, we've seen it. What next?

[A Li2 Birdie 🦜 @no1aproko]

@puarangue Wetin I dey always do for free. I sleep around 12 and wake up before 5. It's been my default setting for a while now. I know it's unhealthy, but na wetin Lagos turn me to be this.

[A Li2 Birdie 🦜 @no1aproko]

@kenkenlewu You sef wetin you dey find up and down 😆

[A Li2 Birdie 🦜 @no1aproko]

@DrDanny2030 What you said sounds really stupid. Although we're in a country where stupid things happen. God will judge everyone behind the downfall of this country.

[Tunde Onakoya @Tunde_OD]

The One Who Wears Big Caps for Little Children.

These are my final thoughts before I hand over my phone to management. The team says I need to sleep.
But before the world goes quiet around me, allow me say a few things…

It’s my second time doing this insane thing of trying to break a world record.
You’d think it would be easier now,after all I’ve done it before. But that’s the thing about impossible things:
The first time, you survive them because you don’t yet understand the cost.
Now that I’m fully aware of the exertion it takes both physically and mentally, I’m equal parts excited and terrified. I embrace both.

Today I’ll tell you why I always wear a cap…

The night before I left Nigeria for this journey, something happened.

It was 9pm on a Tuesday night.
I was at the mall picking up some last-minute items.
Two boys, scruffy and barefoot approached me at the car park.
They were hungry and hadn’t eaten all day.
I asked their names.
“Yusuff,” said one. “Ayomide,” said the other. Both young teenagers.
As I turned to check for cash in the car, the light hit my face and Yusuff immediately recognized me and blurted out “Chess players observe,”
I was stunned.
That was our mantra at Chess in Slums, it was what we taught the kids. I asked how he knew this, he explained that he had seen me months prior at their ghetto.
This made sense as we had spent the entire month of December teaching chess and maths to street children in that ghetto. Yusuff wasn’t part of the training but on the day of the final tournament, he watched from a distance as the other kids chanted “chess players observe”. It stayed with him ever since.

He told me his story.
His mother died during childbirth. His father disappeared.
He lived with his ailing grandmother for sometime but had to leave for the streets to fend for himself. It’s been five years of trying to survive in his own
Five years of growing up too fast…He is 15 years old now.

Then, something surreal happened.

A white Range Rover pulled up beside us.
A woman rolled down the window, “Chess master!” she called out.
She stepped out with her son Jayden.
Impeccably dressed. British accent.
She wanted a photo. Jayden loves chess.
She’s a fan.

So there they stood, Jayden and Yusuff.
Both teenagers.
One in branded sneakers. The other barefoot.
One polished by privilege. The other hardened by survival.

As I asked them to introduce themselves,
Yusuff’s confidence crumbled.
He looked down. His voice faltered.

I took a selfie with Jayden and his Mum, and as they drove off I had my epiphany….

And in that moment, I saw it:
The cruel reality of the world we live in
where a boy like Jayden and a boy like Yusuff would never meet
except by accident or because I happened to stand between them.

But what separated them wasn’t merit or character, It was birth. The arbitrary lottery that decides who gets to dream,
and who must survive.

Jayden will likely go on to attend the best schools, see the world, and live fully. While
Yusuff probably ends up doing the bidding of whoever can promise him his next meal.
An Area boy.

I have met thousands of bright eyed children like Yusuffs in this life, whose pain is invisible, and by no fault of theirs live in a world where their suffering doesn’t matter.
Sometimes, we save them.
Sometimes, we fail.
But I will never stop carrying this burden in my heart.

This is why I wear big caps for little children and wear one my self.
So the world may see them in all their colors, not for the suffering they bear,
but for what I know they can truly become.

I hope have shared this burden with you as honestly as I could.
If you ever believed in me, believe in them.
Cheer for them. Donate. Share. Amplify.
We are trying to build the largest free school in Africa.
A sanctuary for every child like Yusuff
where their dreams won’t die quietly.

I do this so their dreams may find validation in my sacrifice.

I have to go now, big day ahead. Gotta make it count.

[Uche Jombo @uchejombo]

I will never be tired of listening to Peter Drury’s commentary 😍

“The little boy from Rosario Santa Fe has just pitched up in heaven “

“Wreathed in red, restored to this great gallery of the game,a walking work of art “

[A Li2 Birdie 🦜 @no1aproko]

@kofoworola__a We will miss him but not so much

[oseni rufai @ruffydfire]

The children in Borno must not be forgotten

[A Li2 Birdie 🦜 @no1aproko]

@Adaeze_michael I'm a bug Messi fan, but I'm low-key rooting for England to win the world cup. Kane deserves to win it. Reece, and Tuchel too.

[A Li2 Birdie 🦜 @no1aproko]

@mrbayoa1 Keep dreaming. We will be here