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[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

Incredible Egyptian goal is disallowed because of a foul far away, then same situation a few minutes later and goal for Argentina not disallowed! No VAR, nothing? FIFA again looks like a corrupt joke, playing favorites for stars.

[David Ornside @David_Ornside]

🚨🗣 Egypt's Coach Hossam Hassan couldn't control himself after full-time:

"I will say what's on my mind regardless of the consequence, this was clearly a rigged match and the whole world saw it"

"And I want to say one more thing, if they want them [Argentina] to win so bad, why call everyone to come and participate?"

[Maxvayshia™ @maxvayshia]

If you all noticed yesterday, i was not really online. I blacked out during a surgery yesterday. I was lucky that the assistant surgeon was a very capable hand to continue and complete the surgery. I recovered early hours of this morning.

I hadn't had sleep for 6 weeks. In Nigeria, one Doctor does the work of 50 Doctors and this is not an exaggeration. The government knows about this but simply DOESN'T CARE. Life means nothing to them. Only money and power retention is important.

Our colleagues are also a very big part of the problem. Shame on our Medical elders generally. Shame on the government.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

In Germany, a talented 14-year-old earns his club money. In America, his parents pay the club $15,000 a year.

That single inversion explains why "we will not" is the most accurate line ever written about US soccer.

FIFA built a global system for this. Training compensation and solidarity payments send a cut of every transfer fee back to the clubs that developed the player, from age 12 onward. Develop one future pro and your academy gets paid for a decade. Barcelona's La Masia, Ajax, every Bundesliga academy runs on this logic. The kid is the asset.

US Soccer refuses to enforce those rules. When Seattle's Crossfire Premier claimed its $60,000 share of DeAndre Yedlin's transfer to Tottenham, it got nothing. Claims on the Dempsey and Bradley transfers died partly because the federation couldn't even produce the youth training records.

So American clubs earn zero dollars when a kid turns pro. They earn when a kid enrolls. Which makes the parent the customer, and the product is whatever keeps the parent writing checks: travel tournaments, hotel weekends, $500 showcase events, private training at $100 an hour. Elite pathways run $8,000 to $20,000 a year. A comparable academy spot in Italy costs about 120 euros.

Follow the incentive one level deeper and it gets darker. A club dependent on fees can't cut its weakest paying players, so rosters optimize for retention over development. The scouting pool shrinks to families who can afford the cliff, which appears around age 11, exactly when development matters most. The country runs a talent filter sorted by household income instead of ability.

Every four years someone proposes fixing this. The proposal always requires the people profiting from the $15,000 model to vote themselves out of business.

They will not.

[Alex Onyia @winexviv]

There is a false tribal narrative being circulated claiming that we dropped a Yoruba child to replace him with an Igbo child for the International STEM Olympiad in Rome.

That claim is completely false.

This is the full live stream of the 2026 South East Maths Olympiad Grand Finale, where the winners emerged. Our selection process was conducted publicly because we believe transparency is the best way to protect integrity.

We deliberately stream our competitions live so everyone can see how winners are determined. Our goal is simple: ensure that the right children win based on merit, not ethnicity, religion, connections or influence.

We are building a generation that believes hard work is rewarded. Merit is not negotiable.

Watch the full Afia TV live broadcast and judge the process for yourself: https://t.co/hByUPQkdQv

Nigeria's children deserve better than tribal propaganda. They deserve fairness.

[goma @soigomaa]

She was 26 years old. An investigative journalist reporting on Colombia's armed conflict - the stories nobody else would touch. Paramilitaries intercepted her at the prison gate. What followed lasted hours. When it was over they left her on a road outside Bogotá.
She reported it. The case was stalled for over a decade. She kept reporting. Was kidnapped again in 2003. Held for five days. Released. Kept reporting. In 2011 she took Colombia to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. On October 18 2021 the court ruled. The Colombian state was responsible. The first time in history a government had been found responsible for using violence to silence a woman journalist.
She launched #NoEsHoraDeCallar - It's Not Time to Stay Silent. Hundreds of thousands of women across Latin America told their stories because she told hers first. The ruling became a legal weapon for women journalists across the continent. The UN named her global ambassador against s3xual violence in conflict. Her name is Jineth Bedoya Lima.

[Pat Utomi @UtomiPat]

Many I spoke to in the last 3 days are stunned by the impunity of fiscal rascality of those running Nigeria revealed by the IMF. I am scandalized that they are shocked. The trouble of Nigeria is not that bandits hijacked the state but that we watched it happen. Complicit elite

[German Talents Scout @GermanTalents]

Nick Woltemade ist ein fast schon perfektes Beispiel für die seit über einem Jahrzehnt andauernde Mittelstürmer-Misere des deutschen Fußballs

Die letzten beiden richtig hochklassigen Stürmer, die Deutschland hervorgebracht hat, waren Miroslav Klose und Mario Gomez – die 2000 bzw. 2004 den Durchbruch in der Bundesliga schafften. Nach Kloses Rücktritt 2014 und Gomez’ Abgang ein paar Jahre später wurde die Lage richtig schlimm

Woltemade verkörpert das Problem wie kaum ein anderer. Er ist in einer Zeit groß geworden, in der Ballbesitz, Rondos und technisch sauberes Spiel alles waren. Heraus kam ein Spieler, der mit seinen fast zwei Metern Größe, guter Ballbehandlung, Kreativität und Dribbelstärke fast wie ein Unikat wirkt. Selbst unter Hannes Wolf und dem neuen DFB-Fokus auf 1-gegen-1-Situationen passt er noch ins bevorzugte Profil. Auf dem Papier hakt er eigentlich alle Kästchen ab

Aber groß sein ist nicht dasselbe wie physisch stark zu sein. Und Technik allein macht noch keinen modernen Top-Mittelstürmer

Die bittere Wahrheit: Woltemade fehlt schlicht die nötige Physis und Athletik für die Position auf höchstem Niveau. Er ist für seine Größe erstaunlich schmal, verliert regelmäßig Zweikämpfe gegen gegnerische Innenverteidiger, hat kaum eine echte Kopfballpräsenz und vergibt selbst einfache Kopfballchancen. Deshalb zieht er sich oft aus dem Strafraum zurück, um die harten Duelle zu vermeiden, in denen er unterlegen ist. Und genau das soll ein Mittelstürmer sein?

Das wirft unangenehme Fragen auf. Eddie Howe sieht ihn tendenziell eher als Mittelfeldspieler, Julian Nagelsmann setzt ihn bisher nur als dritte Option ein.

Der Grund liegt auf der Hand: Woltemade wurde in den entscheidenden Entwicklungsjahren (etwa zwischen acht und 15) mit den falschen Schwerpunkten trainiert. Viele essenziellen Eigenschaften eines echten Stürmers wurden vernachlässigt zugunsten von Technik und Ballbesitz @werderbremen @werderbremen_en @DFB_Training

Ich höre immer wieder den Satz: „Nur weil er groß ist, muss er ja nicht gut im Kopfball sein.“ Das geht komplett am Thema vorbei. Luftduelle und physische Dominanz im Strafraum sind Grundvoraussetzungen für einen Mittelstürmer – und eigentlich für jeden Spitzenangreifer. Wer mit einem solchen Größenvorteil diese Waffe nicht entwickelt, verschenkt enormes Potenzial, besonders bei Standards, die im modernen Fußball immer wichtiger werden

Zehn bis fünfzehn Jahre lang glaubte man in Deutschland, der klassische Mittelstürmer sei out. Jetzt, wo physische, direkte und luftige Elemente auf Top-Niveau wieder entscheidend sind, steht man mit leeren Händen da

Moderne Neuner müssen sich mit dem Rücken zum Tor behaupten können, 1,90 m große und 90 Kilo schwere Innenverteidiger wegdrücken, Zweikämpfe gewinnen – am Boden und in der Luft – und den Strafraum beherrschen. Aggressiv spielen und physische Duelle annehmen ist kein Nice-to-have, sondern Pflicht.

Rondos, kleine Spiele und Funino sind toll für die Technik. Aber sie reichen nicht, um komplette Mittelstürmer auszubilden. Die NLZ und DFB-Stützpunkte müssen endlich deutlich mehr positions-spezifisches Training anbieten: gezieltes Krafttraining, Zweikampfschulung, Kopfballarbeit und Abschlüsse unter körperlicher Belastung. Nur so kann man später auch diese Kämpfermentalität, Aggressivität und Tenazität entwickeln. Wer jeden Zweikampf verliert, bei dem bringt Reden über „Kämpfertyp“ nichts.

Der DFB sollte dringend die positions-spezifischen Ausbildungspläne überprüfen und regelmäßig aktualisieren – und das eng mit den Vereinen abstimmen. Sonst bleibt die Mittelstürmer-Krise ein Dauerzustand.

(Ein Wort zu Kai Havertz:
Ich halte sehr viel von Havertz. Er ist kein klassischer Neuner und hatte immer wieder Abschlussschwächen, aber in der aktuellen Ära ist er ein richtig guter Mittelstürmer. Gute Verbindungsarbeit, starke Luftpräsenz, intelligente Bewegungen und zunehmende Physis im Strafraum. Er wird nicht das Niveau von Haaland oder dem Prime Kane erreichen, aber als Hybrid-Spieler ist er absolut erstklassig. In einer eher schwachen Zeit für klassische Stürmer gehört er wahrscheinlich zu den besten zehn Mittelstürmern der Welt

Deutschland muss seine technischen Stärken nicht aufgeben. Aber es muss aufhören, Physis, Aggressivität und Luftdominanz als Nebensache zu behandeln. Nur mit einer ausgewogeneren Herangehensweise – die Kämpfer und komplette Profile genauso fördert wie Techniker – kann die Nationalmannschaft wieder ganz oben mitspielen.

[Moe @Mochievous]

Many years ago at one of my earliest jobs, my colleague and I went to drop off a letter at the head office of a big corporation at the time. The secretary asked us to fill a form with our names and where we were coming from etc. After I filled mine, she looked at my name then (cont’d)

[TIANZI (天子) @qwuesting]

@TomolaGroup Hello. I have done everything. My account was debited. I am yet to have any old dividends credited. What did I do wrong or what do I do next?

[Polyglot adedeji Odulesi @polyglotodulesi]

I just came from Campus where I went to visit my daughter. I owe her admission to God and the effort of one man, Alex Onyia. He challenged JAMB for failing students from Lagos and Southeastern States.

Fortunately, JAMB admitted their error and exams were rewritten. My daughter who had previously scored 179, later scored 299 which gave her straight admission for her chosen course of study.

Alex Onyia organized the successful South East Maths Olympiad where three students Egejurum Onyedikachi, Onwubiko Chimdiebube and Don-Anele Munachimso emerged as champions. They won cash prizes in millions together with their teachers. Many corporate organizations were partners.

The students are currently competing on a global stage at the International STEM Olympiad Grand Finale happening in Rome from July 2nd - 8th.

This is not the effort of the Federal Government of Nigeria or a State Government or Local Government. It is the effort of just one man with support from the citizenry - Alex Onyia!

[CGTN Español @cgtnenespanol]

El Tribunal de Justicia de la UE ha autorizado el enjuiciamiento penal en los países de la UE de las personas que publiquen vídeos de Russia Today en canales y sitios web abiertos.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

A Moroccan sultan recognized American independence on December 20, 1777, about six weeks before France did, and a day after Washington's starving army limped into Valley Forge.

His name was Mohammed III, and he had never set foot in America. He picked up news of the war mostly from European newspapers and the local French diplomat. He was trying to build Morocco's economy on sea trade, so he sent word to the traders and officials in his ports that ships flying the new American flag were welcome on the same terms as everyone else. That order made Morocco the first country on the planet to treat the United States as an independent country. France did not form its alliance with the Americans until February 1778.

America then sat on it for years. The news did not even reach Benjamin Franklin in Paris until the spring of 1778. The sultan offered to sign a full treaty, and Franklin let the letters sit. Mohammed III eventually asked why the Americans had never even thanked him for being the first ruler across the ocean to recognize them. Congress was broke and busy with the war, and it kept stalling.

In October 1784 the sultan decided to force the matter. Moroccan ships seized an American trading ship called the Betsey near Tangier and held its eleven-man crew. He did not touch the cargo and did not harm the sailors. He just said the ship and crew would stay in Tangier until the United States sent someone to sign a treaty.

It worked. Thomas Jefferson drafted the terms, Thomas Barclay sailed to Morocco to negotiate them, and the sultan approved the Treaty of Peace and Friendship in 1786. Morocco asked for no tribute, the yearly payment most rulers on that coast demanded to leave ships alone. John Adams and Jefferson signed it, and Congress ratified it in 1787, two months before the Constitution was signed.

That treaty is still in force today, the oldest agreement the United States has kept unbroken with any country. In 1821 a later sultan gave the United States a building in Tangier for its diplomats, and it is still the only American National Historic Landmark on foreign soil. George Washington eventually wrote to the sultan to apologize for how long the whole thing had taken.

The oldest friendship the United States has ever had began with a king it kept ignoring, and a ship he had to seize to get an answer.

[Alex Onyia @winexviv]

In Ghana, any child who qualifies to represent the country in the International Maths Olympiad gets an automatic scholarship to MIT.

Interestingly, the head of their local Olympiad unit is a Nigerian. He left Nigeria the moment the Nigerian government stopped sponsoring our students for the program.

MIT students regularly travel to Ghana to prepare their students for the Olympiad.

It is also a huge talent pipeline for a company called Jane Street. They are the major sponsor for Ghana Maths Olympiad. Their starting salary is between $300k - $600k annually.

[Abiodun @bin_gbada]

Buhari borrowed $1 billion loan to fund the rehabilitation of Port Harcourt Refinery.

That loan was backed by a pledge of 67,000 barrels of crude oil per day & repayment started in 2024, with maturity in June 2029.

What this means is that we are using crude oil to repay loan for a non-functional refinery till 2029.

- Where’s Buhari today?
- Where’s Port Harcourt refinery?

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

Take any population on earth.

For several generations, remove their most physically capable members by force and sell them abroad.

Destroy their existing political institutions and replace them with administrative structures designed to extract rather than develop.

Draw their borders to maximize ethnic conflict and minimize political coherence.

Extract their mineral and agricultural wealth for a century at prices you set unilaterally.

When you leave, install governments that serve your economic interests rather than their populations.

Fund civil wars when those governments are threatened by leaders who want to redirect resource revenues toward domestic development.

Then, three generations later, administer a cognitive test.

Compare the scores to those of the populations who spent the same period accumulating capital, building universities, developing public health infrastructure, and compounding the advantages of political stability.

Put the results on a map.

Call the map a "nature documentary."

Tell yourself the scores show something biological.

Tell yourself the history had nothing to do with it.

Tell yourself you arrived at this conclusion by following the evidence.

You did not follow the evidence.

You followed the map to the place you had already decided to go.

And the evidence, the entire, documented, sourced, cross-disciplinary evidence, is the invoice you refused to open.

[-valar morghulis- @eldivine]

We are currently training our second cohort of @risevest Academy. Monthly stipends, 12 months intense curriculum, taught by my team's lead engineers. There is no golden handcuff, no mandate to work for us.

What there are are options to walk away after training, work for @risevest or stay on and work on additional training projects for pay.

You have to be willing to plant trees you won't directly get the shade from.

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

There is an American think tank for every mystery that isn't a mystery.

Why does Iran have a nuclear program? Twelve scholars, four reports, two conferences, one documentary on PBS.

Answer available without a think tank:

The United States overthrew their government in 1953, backed the Shah's secret police for more than two decades, supported Saddam Hussein when he used chemical weapons against Iranians in the 1980s, has maintained crushing economic sanctions for nearly half a century.

And two sovereign states that abandoned or dismantled their nuclear programs, Iraq and Libya, were subsequently invaded or bombed into chaos.

That's not analysis. That's a sequence of events that any Iranian government, of any ideology, would respond to in roughly the same way.

But the think tank exists because the answer cannot be we gave them every rational reason to want a deterrent.

That answer has consequences.

That answer implies accountability.

That answer walks five feet into common sense and common sense leads somewhere nobody in that building wants to go.

So instead:

Scholars. Reports. Conferences. Documentaries.

The mystery is maintained.

The machinery keeps running.

The budget gets renewed.

[Tuchel @Officially_Kriz]

Stella Okoli, the founder of Emzor Pharmaceuticals, how Obasanjo always engaged all the manufacturers in Nigeria.

During Obasanjo 's regime, all manufacturers in Nigeria used to have a meeting with the president in Aso Rock every Saturday.

The meeting was to discuss about manufacturers' challenges and how to drive the economy forward.

It was during that time he assisted Otedola,Tony Elumelu and Dangote.

That meeting quietly fizzled out and none is being held today.

[Jude Bela @realJudebela]

Goodluck Jonathan faced one of the most hostile opposition in Nigeria's history. He was the accidental President Nigerians loved to hate.

#PowerandPlunder14