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It is shameful that the referee was incompetent and demonstrated bias towards Morocco . It is shameful that Morocco used all kinds of tricks known to our North African brothers to win... I am yet to see CAF penalize Morocco for the behavior of the ball boys and people in the field. Morocco should be banned from hosting any CAF competition for a decade or two until they demonstrate they won't cheat... It is shameful that the Senegalese coach led his team out in protest on a big stage like the AFCON final . The BIGGER SHAME is CAF using the back door to award Morocco a championship they did not deserve, and should have lost in the semi-final.... SHAME! SHAME!! SHAME!!! This is a horrible precedent that will dog African football for a long time if it is allowed to stay... They could fine Senegal a hefty amount or ban them from the next AFCON , etc, for walking off the field at a final like that. Awarding the championship to Morocco in a board room is STEALING, and it will create a c...

  Those who have the capacity, I will strongly advise that you consider investing in the Nigerian Stock Market . With a stable naira , the ROI is far better than what you will get investing in foreign shares like those in the US or UK exchanges. This is one of the best times to invest in Nigeria... If the current macroeconomic activities continue, N1000 today could be worth N10,000 in two or three years if you build your portfolio right... There are so many trusted stockbrokers that you can consider - some of them are online platforms with good reputation such as: 1. BAMBOO 2. Stanbic IBTC Stockbrokers 3. TROVE 4. CardinalStone 5. Chaka You can go online or download the APPs of these online brokerage and set up an account, fund the account and start to buy; you can also go to your bank for guidance on how to invest; there are some who use individual stockbrokers. If that is your preference, find one that is reliable. Long term investment is always good – it reduces the impact ...

 This is a war of choice, an unprovoked war -... no one has the right to attack another country, unprovoked. No one has the right to remove the leader of another country - it is no outsiders' f...king’ business - Ayatollah and his council are evil, yes - they have murdered many innocent Iranians over the decades, including 36,000 of them this January - their own people not Americans. Let Iranians be their own savior, not a man in DC who thinks he is the master of the universe... In 47 years, Iran has not attacked Israel or America directly... Their proxies have - you do not hold another man for the sins of his friends... Some conservative Christians are supporting this war because it involves Israel - I call it blindness to the scripture - the dispensation of grace under Christ says you should turn the other chick, not that you should go and pick a fight. How do you kill the leader of another country in the midst of a negotiation? Iran has no nuclear weapons , Israel has hundreds...

They told him he was crazy to want to build a private refinery in Nigeria . He was shunned by some Western Technical partners. It was hard for him to get credit to finance the project. Many Western competitors, and their domestic conspirators who profit from petroleum product importation, worked and lobbied against his success. He succeeded, and the rest is history....   President Tinubu and Nigerians should prostrate and thank Dangote for taking a big risk with all of his assets (the richest man in Africa then and still is) to build the world's largest single-train refinery , with a capacity of 650,000 barrels per day. Dangote's refinery is partly responsible for Nigeria's credibility restorationin the global business arena, the resurgence in our economy that saw a stupendous growth of 4% in 2025 , and is projected to be higher in 2026. His refinery has increased our access to foreign currency through export, and the reduced the demand for foreign currency for importat...

Ogun omode kii s'ere f'ogun odun (20 children cannot play together for 20 years - a Yoruba proverb )... I found out today that one of my friends (my closest friend in the church for years) from my time at my church in Nigeria has unfriended me on FB ... I did not notice because we have not spoken in a long time due to fundamental differences... Truth is that the one who will not leave you is you... Friends come, friends go... In my short life, I see how humans evolve and how our values unravel . You see people become something else when they attain a level of freedom, education, wealth, position, or popularity ... their true character shows... In friendship ... when there is nothing else you have left in common, that friendship has lost meaning and becomes a drain ... It is time and best to let go and move on...

When reforms and growth are widening the gap between the haves and the have-nots, you want to ask critical questions.  I have a family member, a graduate and a veteran teacher for almost two decades, who works for one of Nigeria's State Teaching Services and earns a take-home that is less than N180k (< $138) a month, with a family of four... His wife, who is also a graduate, is an administrative assistant at a higher institution in Nigeria - she earns about the same amount... They can barely survive on their meager salaries without external support. This family member has two side gigs, and the income is still not enough... Things have been getting worse for most middle-class families in Nigeria in the last 10 years. It got worse since President Tinubu 's ascension because of hyper-inflation and stagnation of salaries – this is the consequence of Tinubu's policies ... This person and his family are better off than 80% of Nigerians, yet they can hardly make ends meet.....