Uncle Sam

Self appointed Ososo (Edo) garri ambassador | #AFC | Views are entirely mine

[FESTUS OGUN @mrfestusogun]

First thing tomorrow morning, we will file a lawsuit at the federal high court in Lagos to challenge this constitutional breach. Except we all agree the law no longer rules in Nigeria.

[Champagne DT @ChampagneDT]

A segment of Nigeria's atheist community appears to believe that disparaging religion confers upon them an aura of intellectual superiority.

[Nuesdaily @NuesDaily]

Yall always think you'll get Lee Kwan yew but given our history, it's far more likely you'll Buhari. He thought he was building the nation too, imagine if he has 12 more years to do it?

Democracy is great cos it has a system for fixing errors, dictatorships don't.

[CHI$OM (Hates APC)🐆✨ @_chiceeeyyy]

You’ll be on this app promoting Sharia law land Islamic extremism but when it’s time to relocate you’ll go to a secular/christian country
Why are you not in Afghanistan where sharia law is being practiced?
Fool

[Chekwube @Chekwube_02]

3yrs of Bola Tinubu presidency was just about Peter Obi discussions.

insane!

[Amal Mudallali @AmbMudallali]

One of UNGA’s best quotes this year.

[Santi @PeakSxnti]

If they return the two league titles to Manchester United, Bruno Fernandes will still have zero league titles.

['Fisayo Soyombo @fisayosoyombo]

I spent 47 days as one of several thousand African migrants seeking to enter Europe through the Sahara Desert and the Mediterranean Sea.

Story on @fijnigeria tomorrow, Thursday and on Friday.

['Fisayo Soyombo @fisayosoyombo]

Five days into my next undercover investigation, set to be released by @fijnigeria later this week, I sent the picture in Frame 1 to my three-man backroom team. They all laughed at me, one of them remarking I looked “like a fisherman”.

The pictures in frames 2 and 3 are from my 44th day on the field. Nobody was in ebullient mood this time. They all screamed instead. None of them could say it, but I knew I could pass for a mad man on the streets.

Meanwhile, Frame 4 is who I was before I embarked on the project.

It is the first time ever that I’ve given the public a glimpse into the making of an undercover investigation. I do it this time to contextualise public understanding of the physical, material and mental cost of investigative reporting. Behind every daring work of investigation you have read is several weeks, sometimes months, of self-sacrifice by the journalist.

Of higher importance, I do it to remind younger journalists that investigative journalism isn’t the white-collar stardom propeller many seem to think it is; more often than not, it is about getting your hands dirty while still believing this is hands down the best job in the world!

It feels good to be fully back on social media after nearly five months out…

[Rishi Sunak @RishiSunak]

I was a very fortunate kid. My dad's GP surgery sat between the Dell and Hampshire's County Ground, so at weekends I could go to a game and get a lift home afterwards. It left me with a passion for both sports and a belief that sport opens a window onto who we are.

When I was growing up, the Tebbit test was a matter of intense debate. Which side did you cheer for at the cricket? For all the criticism it received, it was a test anyone could pass. If you supported England because you saw it as home, you were part of the team regardless of the colour of your skin. Born in Southampton, 10 year old me passed it without even knowing about it.

Giving the @MCCOfficial's Cowdrey Lecture on Thursday made me think about cricket's place in our national life and the current arguments about identity.

In Britain we've built the world's most successful multi-faith, multi-ethnic democracy. I was a beneficiary of it. Whatever issues people had with me as PM (and there was no shortage) my race and religion weren't among them. I could read a lesson at the King's coronation or light Diwali diyas on Downing Street with my daughters without controversy. Foreign leaders assumed these must be huge symbolic moments. For most Brits, they just weren't that big a deal.

But Britain's democratic achievement is now under strain. Some of the challenges are ones I've written about before, like Islamism, and the failure of governments, including the one I led, to adequately control immigration. But something else is going on - a risk that we start equating skin colour with nationality.

After I left office, a debate kicked off here on @X about whether I was English at all, because I was a "brown Hindu". During the election campaign I'd been shocked when footage was broadcast of someone calling me a "Paki." It was shocking precisely because it was so unusual. That kind of abuse had simply not been a feature of my political life. But the Englishness argument was stranger still. Call it the reverse Tebbit test. If you're not white, it no longer matters who you support at the cricket, because you can never be English. It's a test no non-white person can ever pass.

I have no truck with people who offend our sense of fairness and come here illegally; I spent half my premiership trying to deport them to Rwanda. I think the bar for legal migration should be high. It is entirely possible to want a radical reduction in immigration and a far more robust approach to integration, and still totally reject the attempt to turn Britishness into a DNA test.

If you're born and brought up in England and view it as home, what are you other than English? Denying people their Englishness or their Britishness because of the colour of their skin is a recipe for alienation and a two-tier society. How are children who hear this meant to feel?

Sport can play a small but significant role here. Cricket is played by nearly every major ethnic group in this country. Ask what my largely white rural constituents in the Dales and the British-Asian kids in Bradford have in common, and the answer is cricket. If cricket can produce England teams in which every kid can see themselves, the impact reaches far beyond the boundary.

As I write in @thetimes today, we must all be on the same side, cheering for the same team.

We cannot allow race to be reintroduced into our politics. We cannot allow Briton to be set against Briton.

[Director Bae_u @isbae_u]

Drops 6pm today!

[Uncle Sam @samDoptimist]

@zaddyofbenin

[DataMB @DataMB_]

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[OptaJoe @OptaJoe]

16 - The three youngest players to score in the League Cup for a Premier League side all did so for Arsenal:

16y 212d - Cesc Fàbregas (vs Wolves, 2003)
16y 258d - Max Dowman (vs Ipswich, 2026)
16y 266d - Jack Wilshere (vs Sheffield United, 2008)

Production.

[Wilfred E. Orhue🫧 @Fredolution_Now]

My cartoon today: NELFRAUD 🤦🏾🤔

[Sai Ishaya @Sai_Ishaya_]

You can't be trying to convince grown adults on Twitter who have lived through the trials and tribulations of Firelord Asiwaju to vote for PO.

Do something better with your time. Go and watch paint dry in your neighbour's house.

Seyi is a better candidate than.... I agree.

Darth Vader and PO are almost.. I agree

Aki and Paw Paw are better than P... Agree.

If we give Seyi Tinubu's son some years to graduate, he can contest... I agree.

Agree with everything.

This is not 2023; anyone still asleep is pretending to be asleep.

[Dr. Baby @TheUnagi_]

Does he have a middle name that starts with C? For the love of God, please tell me he does. 😭

[Formula 1 @F1]

🏆 UGO UGOCHUKWU 🏆

Our newest @Formula3 champion! Congratulations, Ugo 👏🇺🇸

#RoadToF1 #SpanishGP

[Eben @EbenezarWikina]

NELFUND IS NOT AN ACHIEVEMENT YOU IDIOTS

[zola @zola_254]

Dear Arsenal Fans,

Ashley Williams and Thomas Frank believe that wasn't a penalty, but you want to listen to clueless X tacticos with zero ball knowledge?

Be selective on what and whobyou listen to.

John Brooks was trying to rob us 3 points

📹 credit @BBCSport