Seun Falade

Social Media strategist at @hotnaijaparties | sales manager at @shangstechcom

[Seun Falade @shangs14]

Today July31 would have been your day, Dad. Mr. Matthew Falade (7070/Baba 70) – the man who brought boxing to life in our living room. 🥊🕊️ Reading @Omojuwa piece again, I hear you tell Ali & Frazier like you were in the ring. You taught me life isn't about never getting hit –

[Seun Falade @shangs14]

@Omojuwa "Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. His hands can't hit what his eyes can't see. Rumble, young man, rumble." Muhammad Ali

[Seun Falade @shangs14]

Today July31 would have been your day, Dad. Mr. Matthew Falade (7070/Baba 70) – the man who brought boxing to life in our living room. 🥊🕊️ Reading @Omojuwa piece again, I hear you tell Ali & Frazier like you were in the ring. You taught me life isn't about never getting hit –

[Seun Falade @shangs14]

@Omojuwa Full write up here https://t.co/Il4rWVOdDZ

[Seun Falade @shangs14]

@Omojuwa it's about staying on your feet when it hurts most. Baba 70, I miss your voice. But I carry your lessons every day. Happy Birthday, Dad. Rest well, Champion. 🥂🕊️ "If you don't have the heart for it, na you go taya!" – JJ Omojuwa @Omojuwa

[Seun Falade @shangs14]

@AnibrosOfficial @Varticoo @FabrizioRomano Omo😆

[JJ. Omojuwa @Omojuwa]

Earning my daily 2k with @JaizBankNG out in Lagos! After earning it, I will now put it back into Jaiz shares. Lol.

[JJ. Omojuwa @Omojuwa]

This piece is dedicated to Mr Matthew Falade, a.k.a 7070/Baba 70 father to @shangs14 et al, the greatest Ali fan I ever met and the man who made me interested in boxing history. May his soul continue to rest in peace.

After his third and final fight against Joe Frazier, Muhammad Ali called it the closest thing to dying he knew of. Combat sport is like that. MMA especially, if you ask me.

Frazier won the first fight, thus becoming the first man to ever beat Ali.

Ali won the second.

Then came the third. Thrilla in Manila.

One of the most brutal fights in boxing history. This was the era of fifteen rounds, and they went to war for fourteen of them in Filipino heat that turned the ring into a furnace.

After the 14th, Frazier’s trainer, Eddie Futch, refused to let him come out for the last one. What few mention is that Ali was in no better shape, some say he’d have quit himself if Frazier had answered the bell. We’ll never know. Frazier stayed on his stool, and Ali won by TKO.

There would never be a fourth fight. Ali had no appetite for it, and neither man was ever the same again. Arguably the greatest rivalry boxing has ever produced, and it followed both of them to the end of their lives.

Make you no meet fighter like Joe Frazier for your life. If you don’t have the heart for it, na you go taya!

PS: Frazier only ever lost to two men, Ali and George Foreman. And Foreman found Frazier the easier night’s work. Early stoppages both times. Ali he could never solve at all. Ali himself found Frazier a tough nut to crack. Baba 70 told this story better than I ever could.

[Seun Falade @shangs14]

@cucurella3 Thanks for all you did 💙

[Marc Cucurella @cucurella3]

Thank you 💙

[MrBanks💰 @Mrbankstips]

Still can’t believe this decision from Sorloth

[Seun Falade @shangs14]

@Omojuwa England lucky Brazil don collect since by this time

[MrBanks💰 @Mrbankstips]

Peller is not the problem IMO.

The real issue is a broken system designed to neglect and ignore intellect. A system that has consistently undermined the efforts of promising talents across academia, forcing our brightest minds to “japa” or settle for less.

BBN pays 100M+ to winners, a reality show, fine. But most schools can’t even award their best graduating students ₦100k. The state can’t guarantee them jobs. In my time, our best graduating student, an exceptionally brilliant guy destined for greatness now works as a successful freelancer, digital analyst and YouTuber. He’s doing really well, but that mind was built for more. Top-tier virologist material, serving the nation. We lost that potential and so many others.

Youth unemployment is at a high, quite alarming for nation with immense potential and one of the youngest population average on the planet.

We churn out graduates yearly but fail to harness them. It’s time to fix the system and not bash the symptoms.

[Seun Falade @shangs14]

@1vaider @grok @im_vakil 😆😆

[Seun Falade @shangs14]

@im_vakil @grok Una just like dey stress this machines 😆

[Seun Falade @shangs14]

@Gidi_Traffic One na orobo one no be orobo

[Ade Of Nigeria @Hammdriller]

@Omojuwa Damn, Japhet!

‘Football mad country,’ just like ‘oil rich country'

This quote is going to fly at 30,000 feet, even after my call out 😭

[H i s t o r y V i l l e @HistoryVille]

GENERAL IBRAHIM BABANGIDA'S STANCE ON ANNULMENT OF THE JUNE 12, 1993 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION

"They will kill me; they will kill the President-Elect, Chief MKO Abiola, if I go ahead with the election and announce the winner of the elections, which we all know to be Bashorun, Chief MKO Abiola. I know so; I am not daft. He won; he tried. I feel bad about the whole matter.

"Professor, I do not see how they will spare you because they know you are my principal confidant. You think they do not know you? They know; they know you are with me now. They saw you coming in, and they know you are with me now. I CANNOT KILL MYSELF for the sake of what the country wants. I am sorry," he lamented.

It was astonishing to hear a General state that he could not lay down his life for his country. It was clear that General Babangida was in a fix as of June 21, 1993.

I then proceeded to deal with the questions of who these "they" were and for what reasons they would want to kill the President and the President-Elect if the June 12 election were allowed to go forward. He named them in military and ethnic categories:

"Sani (Abacha) is opposed to a return to civilian rule. Sani could not stand the idea of Chief Abiola, a Yoruba, becoming his Commander-in-Chief; Sani seems to have the ears of the Northern leaders that no Southerner, especially from the South-West, should become the President of the country. Sani seems to rally the Northern elders to confront me on the matter. He is winning; the Sultan and the Northern leaders are of this frame of mind.

"Where do I go from here? They did not trust me. Without Sani, I will not be alive today; without the North, I would not have become an officer in the Nigerian Army, and now the President of Nigeria. I did not want to appear ungrateful to Sani; he may not be bright upstairs, but he knows how to overthrow governments and overpower coup plotters.

"He saw to my coming to office in 1985 and to my protection in the many coups I faced in the past, especially the Orkar coup of 1990, where he saved my family and me, including my infant daughter.

"Sani risked his life to get me into office in 1983 and 1985; if he says he does not want Chief Abiola, I will not force Chief Abiola on him."

He also named Lieutenant-General Joshua Dongoyaro and Brigadier-General David Mark as those who were against Chief Abiola.

In fact, he quoted David Mark (who later became the Senate President) as saying:

"I'd shoot Chief Abiola the day NEC (National Electoral Commission) pronounces him the elected President!" #HistoryVille #OnThisDay

Credits: From the book, "The Tale of June 12: The Betrayal of the Democratic Rights of Nigerians (1993)" by Professor Omorhionwan Omoruyi, Press Alliance Network Limited, 1999.

[Prince Ade @PrinceAde77387]

@ruffydfire Must they hurriedly crucify n condemned this man?.... Surely,d composition of this present Senate is nothing but a trash...We shall see their end...

[Timmy Williams @TimmyWilli37808]

@ruffydfire 200 Trillion..in this country? And people are living like in bondage in their own. Country? This is crazy!

[Footysm ⚽️ @Footysm]

🚨🗣️ “We’re Nigerians, but today we are Mexicans” 🤣🤣

Watch As group of Nigerians gathered in Mexico City to support Mexico against South Africa.

This is peak banter on another level 😭💀