🚨 Pundits and retired players were asked to predict today’s World Cup semifinal between Spain and France:
• Roy Keane: “🇫🇷 2-0 🇪🇸. Football isn’t won by passing triangles. It’s won by killers.��
• Gary Neville: “🇪🇸 2-1 🇫🇷. Lamine Yamal decides it. He’s built for nights like this.”
• Thierry Henry: “🇫🇷 3-2 🇪🇸. Mbappé only needs one moment. Spain will give him two.”
• Rio Ferdinand: “🇫🇷 4-1 🇪🇸. Everyone is falling in love with Spain. France will bring them back to reality.”
• José Mourinho: “🇫🇷 1-0 🇪🇸. Possession doesn’t win semi-finals. Efficiency does.”
• Paul Scholes: “🇪🇸 2-0 🇫🇷. France won’t touch the ball enough to hurt them.”
• Zlatan: “🇪🇸 2-1 🇫🇷. Spain don’t just keep the ball, they suffocate you with it.
• Patrice Evra: “🇫🇷 3-1 🇪🇸. Too much pace, too much power, too much Mbappé.”
• Arsène Wenger: “🇪🇸 2-1 🇫🇷. Technique will overcome athleticism tonight.”
Wife of General Rabe Reveals Harrowing Ordeal After Husband’s Death
The wife of late retired Major General Rabe Abubakar, Hajiya Amina, has recounted the terrifying moments she endured shortly after the death of her husband while in the custody of armed bandits, revealing how she was shot, abandoned in the forest, and left bleeding profusely before being rescued by soldiers.
According to sources familiar with her account, Hajiya Amina said the bandits were thrown into panic and confusion immediately after her husband's death.
The armed men reportedly rushed to organize their escape, bringing motorcycles and making frantic preparations to flee their hideout. She was placed on one of the motorcycles and taken away in a convoy as the kidnappers hurried through the forest to evade advancing troops.
In what appeared to be a deliberate move, the bandits focused their attention on her and made no attempt to evacuate several other captives who were being held at the location.
Hajiya Amina disclosed that while they were speeding through the forest, distant gunfire began to echo across the area. The sound reportedly triggered panic among the kidnappers, causing them to scatter in different directions rather than continue their journey together.
As confusion intensified, the gunman transporting her on a motorcycle reportedly became frustrated and exhausted. He stopped along the way, ordered her to get off the motorcycle, and, in a shocking act of brutality, shot her in the thigh before fleeing into the forest.
The bullet wound left her bleeding heavily and unable to stand or walk.
Sources said she remained stranded in severe pain until a man from a nearby village stumbled upon her. After hearing her story, the man reportedly asked if she was the wife of General Rabe Abubakar. When she confirmed her identity, he attempted to assist her.
However, as they spoke, gunfire was again heard from a nearby location, believed to be from soldiers combing the area in search of her. Fearing for his own safety, the villager fled, leaving her alone once more.
Moments later, troops arrived at the scene and discovered her lying in a pool of blood.
According to the source, excitement and relief swept through the soldiers when they realized they had found the wife of the late General Rabe alive.
The villager who had initially found her later returned after the soldiers arrived. Lacking medical evacuation equipment, the troops reportedly sought his assistance. A wooden plank was improvised as a stretcher and used to carry Hajiya Amina to a military vehicle.
She was first taken to a nearby hospital for emergency treatment before being transferred to the Federal Medical Centre (FMC), Katsina, for further medical care.
Medical assessments later revealed that the gunshot wound was not life-threatening. The bullet passed through the flesh of her upper thigh between the hip and knee without shattering any bone.
Nevertheless, medical sources noted that the severe blood loss could have proved fatal had she not been rescued and treated in time.
Her account provides a chilling insight into the chaos that followed the death of her husband and highlights the dramatic rescue operation that ultimately saved her life from the brink of death.
ANN Politics
🚨🇨🇳 CCTV (China Central Television) President Shen Haixiong on FIFA’s outrageous $300 million demand for broadcasting rights in China:
“FIFA have become corrupt under Infantino. All they care about now is money — the fans are no longer their concern. Just look at the ticket prices for World Cup matches. How can an average working-class person afford them?”
“Football used to belong to everyone, but they have slowly taken that away from the middle class.”
“They could lose a combined audience of 3 billion people from India and China alone if they do not reduce their greed.” 😳
A lady’s car broke down at Bolade Bus Stop, opposite Arena Market, around 10pm. She was surrounded by touts and street urchins.
I was driving out of GRA when I noticed the situation. I parked and asked what was wrong. She had already paid one group about ₦10,000, but another set came, threatening to deflate her tyres and seize her phone. I spoke to them in street language, trying to calm things down, but they insisted on ₦100,000.
I called a friend in the Army at Maryland Barracks. Though he wasn’t around, he sent someone who arrived in less than five minutes, with a mechanic. The car was fixed quickly, and she didn’t pay a dime.
She’s married, but her husband lives in Germany, and she only visits occasionally due to work. Since that night, we’ve stayed in touch. Over time, we became close, she shares work issues, relationship matters, and often seeks my advice.
Years later, there was an opening in her company’s finance department. I referred a friend of mine, a newly married man with a child who lost his job after COVID-19. Out of over 100 applicants, he got the job.
He later relocated to the UK with his family in 2021. Before returning to Nigeria, he asked me to help find a house. I found one in Abule Egba that needed minor renovation for ₦70M. He sent the money, and I added ₦5M to pay for my inconveniences.
While he was still in the UK, he shipped his car Lexus RX350 2023 and a Toyota Corrolla 2012 to my place, where it stayed for over 8 months before his arrival. While I went to pick him up at the Airport, he asked if I was already driving the Corrolla, I told him No since I have my own car, he said, that was for you.
His words to me were: “Seun, I have a family, but I feel safer and more comfortable with you than even my own blood relatives so there is nothing I have done and would do for you that is denser to the impact you've made in my life and family.
My good deeds are no longer preserve in heaven, I’m now reaping them on earth. Kindness, integrity, and showing up for people in difficult moments open doors money cannot buy. The value you give consistently will always return, through unexpected opportunities and lifelong trust.
Moment Rufai almost broke down in tears while speaking about Brigadier General Musa Uba, who was kp@id some months ago by t£rr0r!sts after an att@ck on his convoy while returning with his team from a routine mission🥹🧎🏻♂️➡️
The day the Affordable Care Act passed was one of my proudest moments as president, because it meant that millions of Americans would have access to health care, some for the first time.
The ACA also prevented insurance companies from denying people with pre-existing conditions coverage, allowed young people under the age of 26 to remain on their parents’ plan, expanded Medicaid, and so much more.
But the ACA was always meant to be a first step. We still have to do more to expand access and make health care more affordable for everyone.
Tony Pulis spent almost a year filming a documentary series for Sky Sports called "Chasing the Dream," investigating the academy system in English football. What he found should concern every coach and parent involved in youth football.
91% of young players in academies never play a professional game, but it's what happens to them after they're released that he thinks needs urgent attention.
I've broken down his key points in the comments 👇
I watched my Elder brother run mad before my eyes. I remember, darkness was in my family and when you get to the age of twenty-one, it’ll fall on you. Our eldest brother got to the age of 21, he became Schizophrenic.
The second one got to the age of 21, she stepped on something at the university of Jos, and her right leg became two times as fat as her left leg.
The third-born became 21 and he had an infirmity that doctors could not diagnose.
I watched my immediate elder brother run mad before my eyes and it was at 21. And I knew that I would be visited by the devil at the age of twenty one. So I learnt how to pray; not just in the morning, but also at night.
Let me tell you something: Witches keep time. Necromancers keep time. Warlocks keep time. And when a true warlock tells you “You Will See”, they mean it. They will come after you, it might be after nine years later, but they’ll definitely come. They’ll look for you when you’re weak and vulnerable.
I was to celebrate my 21st birthday, and it was on campus. I was running to the Prayer room because we had this prayer time from 12 Midnight to 1:00 AM. That’s why it’s not good to be late for prayers, I was late, and on my way, I had an encounter. That day I was alone, and this bird, an OWL appeared, wanting to stand on my head. I used my hand to hit it, but it just went backward, it didn’t fly away, it just moved backward.
Then it occurred to me that it was the bird that plagued my brothers. I tried to fight in the flesh and the bird wanted to change to something else. Then the Holy Ghost whispered to me “Fear is a luxury tonight”. It means ‘You will die if you fear this night’
So, to avoid not getting afraid, I closed my eyes and spoke in tongues in capital letters. When I opened my eyes, one of the wings was broken, so it couldn’t fly again. I dealt with that bird and left it there and went for prayers.
Three days later, the last among our ancestors that had refused to die, came out of his house and stood by the doorpost, fell and faced the wall, and died.
Peace came to my house and the death stopped. My younger sisters, at 21, nothing happened to them.
The Scripture says that the Ernest Expectation of Creature waiteth for the MANIFESTATION OF THE SONS OF GOD.
The bondage of corruption, the plans of the wicked and the activities of darkness will continue to survive in a life, family and territory until a son of God arises because darkness prevails in an environment where there's no priesthood.
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Sermon by Apostle Arome Osayi and transcribed by Kingdom Channel ✍🏼
“They shot him more than 20 times.”
Shahbaz Bhatti was the only Christian cabinet minister in Pakistan.
He openly defended persecuted Christians and opposed the country’s blasphemy laws, knowing it placed a target on his life.
Before his death he recorded a message:
“I know people want to kill me.
But I want to live for Christ and die for Him.”
In 2011, gunmen ambushed his car in Islamabad.
They shot him more than 20 times and left pamphlets claiming responsibility for killing a Christian who defended the faith.
🗣️ Paul Merson on Arsenal F.C.:
“In the Champions League, Arsenal played badly but still managed to get a point. Meanwhile, Chelsea F.C. played well and ended up losing 5–2.
At the end of the season, if Arsenal win a trophy, the medals won’t say ‘played well’ — they will say ‘winners’. And that’s all that matters.”
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