Argentina 🇦🇷 vs Paraguay 🇵🇾 in qualifiers, a foul was committed on a Paraguay player and and Argentina proceeded to score after series of long passes.
VAR cancelled Lionel Messi goal because they was a foul far back in the build up to that goal, since possession wasn’t lost.
Let me tell you how it happened. Nigeria’s ginger export hit zero from N26 billion within 3 years.
The official story blames fungal blight.
But here is what actually happened. When Nigerian farmers lost their indigenous seed supply, grant-aided interventions arrived with replacement seeds.
An associate professor at Lagos Business School flagged publicly that some of those interventions involved GMO organisms that weakened indigenous crops and compromised soil health.
That is not a conspiracy theory because it is a documented academic concern.
Now that Nigeria spoke got destroyed by the GMO seedlings….what is not the result?
Nigeria was forced to import ginger from China to fill domestic demand. Chinese ginger has none of the pungency, oleoresin content, or quality that made Nigerian ginger a global premium product. And the ginger now sitting in Nigerian markets tastes like wood because it essentially is wood.
The two indigenous varieties that built Nigeria’s global ginger reputation, the Tafin Giwa and Yatsun Biri, had decades of soil relationship and quality built into them.
Once the soil was degraded and those seed varieties were displaced, the product that returned was a pale imitation. Nigeria did not just lose a market. It lost a seed. And without a National Ginger Seed Bank, which nobody has built, it may never fully get it back.
Nigerian politicians are painful to watch. Not entertaining. Not dramatic. Painful. A country as large, populous, and strategically important as Nigeria is busy playing small, stupid games while the rest of the world hardens its borders, stockpiles power, and quietly prepares for conflict. This is a dangerous historical moment, and Nigeria is wasting it.
Outside Lagos, this is the richest state in the country, and it has almost nothing to show for it. No shared prosperity. No durable institutions. No civic confidence. Just a handful of stupendously rich politicians, men with so much money and so little restraint that they can destabilise an entire state for sport.
What makes it worse is the audience. Too many citizens watch these manoeuvres the way one watches a Netflix series. With commentary. With jokes. With team colours. As if this were fiction. As if it were not their lives being slowly hollowed out. As if poverty, insecurity, and institutional collapse were abstract concepts rather than daily facts.
This is not a moment for choosing between rival factions of the same rotten political class. There is no moral clarity to be found there. There is no hero waiting in the wings. There is only the insistence that this chaos is normal, that this is how politics works here, that there is no alternative.
But none of this is normal. It is not normal for public office to function as a private war chest. It is not normal for a state to be rich and its people perpetually poor. It is not normal for a country of this size and importance to drift while the world rearranges itself.
At some point Nigerians have to refuse the performance. To stop treating dysfunction as spectacle. To reject the lie that this is the best we can do. This is not politics as usual. It is a slow, collective failure, and pretending otherwise is part of the problem.
Lagosians always engage economic conversations from the perspective of their aspirational status, not their current one. 2.7m a month apartment is cheap, but he never chop this night.
Last Dec someone tweeted that they had budgeted a certain amount for Detty Dec (a fair amount of money btw, & it was even in USD). Then another person quoted it with, ‘You better sit down at home.’ Just two tweets later, they were lamenting about the price of MTN data.