UnklCheks

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[UnklCheks @unklCheks]

Did he say Integrity?? 😂

[City Xtra @City_Xtra]

Ferran Soriano: “Enzo [Maresca] was the stand-out candidate in our considerations. We know his personality and his vision for the way football should be played. He's a man with integrity, charisma and passion.

“In addition to his successes at Chelsea and Leicester, his City track record speaks for itself. He managed our EDS team with distinction and was a key contributor to the historic Treble season.

“We will ensure he receives everything he needs to be successful and we're all very much looking forward to seeing his positive impact on the next phase of the Club’s progress..." [via @ManCity]

[Oseloka H. Obaze (OHO) @OselokaHObaze]

I thought I was the only one who had noticed and who was concerned. One of the many things wrong with us as a people; all we are asked to do is to follow/adopt/adapt to global best pratices. Consistently, we fail -OHO
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"ABUJA IS CUTTING DOWN ITS FUTURE—AND NO ONE SEEMS TO CARE

There are many reasons I fell in love with Abuja. One of them was its trees.

After years in Lagos, where the air often felt as though it clasped its fingers around one’s windpipe, Abuja offered something altogether different. Its broad boulevards and generous sidewalks invited long morning walks. Later, when my wife and I took up cycling, those tree-lined avenues became part of our daily ritual. The freshness of the air was almost intoxicating.

The trees were more than landscaping. They gave the city identity. They softened its scale. They reminded you that Abuja had been imagined, not merely built—that someone had once tried to create a capital equal to Nigeria’s ambitions. I missed Lagos’s restaurants and bars, but Abuja’s serenity more than compensated.

Those trees are now disappearing.

Not because they have reached the end of their lives. Not because of disease. Municipal crews have been cutting them down in a methodical sweep, trunk by trunk, removing canopies that took decades to mature. I cannot say with certainty why this is happening. There is no public explanation. From what I can see, many are being sacrificed to make room for solar-powered street lights.

The loss feels larger than the trees themselves.

Abuja was conceived as a corrective to Lagos—a capital that would embody order instead of improvisation, foresight instead of congestion, aspiration instead of accumulation. Its boulevards were part of that vision. To remove mature trees without apparent hesitation suggests that somewhere along the way we have forgotten that a city’s greatest assets are not always the ones we have just built.

I do not blame the men operating the chainsaws, nor even those who signed the work orders. I doubt they act out of malice. If anything, the careful way the felled trunks are gathered suggests an appreciation of their commercial value.

The problem is deeper than bad intentions. It is a failure of imagination.

Development is not simply the accumulation of infrastructure. It is the stewardship of inheritance. Every generation receives assets it did not create and holds them in trust for those yet unborn. A mature tree is one of those assets. It cannot be replaced by a sapling any more than a century can be replaced by a promise.

Perhaps that is what saddens me most.

Within a generation, we have travelled from a society capable of imagining Abuja—a city designed to embody the future we believed Nigeria deserved—to one that no longer instinctively understands why mature trees matter. That distance cannot be measured in kilometres or years. It is measured in felled trunks.

A city is not improved every time something new is added. Sometimes progress lies in knowing what must not be removed.

This post, by itself, changes nothing. A tweet is not activism, and lament is not policy. But perhaps someone in or near my network can place this note before Minister Nyesom Wike.

I hope he receives it in the spirit in which it is is written. Many residents appreciate the investment his administration has made in Abuja’s roads, interchanges, and street lighting. Those improvements matter.

But so do the trees.

The choice was never meant to be between light and shade. A truly modern capital should know how to preserve both.

Because a hundred years from now, no one will remember who installed today’s street lights. But they will know whether we had the wisdom to leave them a city worth walking through.

Patrick O. Okigbo III
Abuja
June 28, 2026"

[UnklCheks @unklCheks]

@Nsukka_okpa Lol. If he wants he will get it before Wasiu even. But that's not the case, Ronaldo can bag 1000 goals. And if somehow Messi hits that number too it means no player, past, present and future will ever touch his 1000 goals and 400+ assist record. GOAT

[UnklCheks @unklCheks]

@_Ayenihannah When you copy people posts try dey credit them. After una go say na Olodo full Facebook.

[UnklCheks @unklCheks]

@onyeka_chii APGA is the biggest setback Anambra has. That Party is filled with the most classless, uneducated, backward thinking and mediocrity of humans.

[UnklCheks @unklCheks]

They swore he was carried by Xavi and Iniesta, but watching their highlights, he was the one who actually made them better players.

Look at all the Villa, Iniesta, Suarez, and Neymar goals. He constantly assisted them all.

[👑S.A.L.A.K.O🕊 @UnkleAyo]

The absolute honor of my life to call you THE GOAT 🐐

Stanning you is easy. You make it easy.

[UnklCheks @unklCheks]

@Richie_Ehdu Let the old enjoy his fooling in peace

[UnklCheks @unklCheks]

@UnkleAyo I tap from this grace

[UnklCheks @unklCheks]

Portugal attack led by Ronaldo are their biggest problem, not their Midfied and obvious not their defence.

Trying to put the blame on their midfield shows you are just biased.

How is it the Midfield fault that Ronaldo is finished and that Neto, Leao, and Felix are useless.

[UnklCheks @unklCheks]

Against DR Congo they pushed the blame to Bruno and made Joao Neves a scapegoat when he said his mind. Now they are blaming Vitinha for what Portugal's attack has failed to do.

The same pattern Vitinha is playing for PSG is what he is playing for Portugal. Stop the blame game

[UnklCheks @unklCheks]

@LaNRaY_SHeeRan This is one truth his fans will never accept. Put that Old Man on the bench ans watch this Portugal team do wonders.

[UnklCheks @unklCheks]

@Elkrosmediahub But y'all said Messi had it easy in Copa America

[UnklCheks @unklCheks]

@PoojaMedia You guys are so biased. The ball didnt even get Bruno, the defender intercepted it but it managed to land for Bruno who took a brilliant shot. Y'all should go get some chill.

[UnklCheks @unklCheks]

This Colombia team can beat Argentina.

Them too good.

[UnklCheks @unklCheks]

@xxfw1da Those guys denied me my money.

[UnklCheks @unklCheks]

@EmirSirdam I am still trying to understand that decision. But but MESSI is the FIFA boy.

[UnklCheks @unklCheks]

The fact that Pedro Neto played the entire 90mins should tell you something Roberto Martinez as a manager. Very clueless..

What happened to Conceicao? He was brilliant in his appearance in the game against DR Congo.

[UnklCheks @unklCheks]

Couldn't even tell the difference between him and Rodriguez.

That was the most Like for Like Sub i have ever seen..

[SIR AHMED @midopido21]

Goal or not, what a fucking left foot Juan Fernando Quintero has

[UnklCheks @unklCheks]

Those guys didn't just create chances they created the best chances i have ever seen, but how they ended up not convert any is a mystery.

[Oluwadamilare Ffs 🌺🇦🇷🇪🇸 @xxfw1da]

The amount of chances Columbia has wasted in this match, how do you play so well but can’t convert your chances in front of goal? 😭

[UnklCheks @unklCheks]

I will pick a Barcola over Raphael Leao. That guy is not serious at all.