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Wonder how I did not and have not yet picked this muscle. Not saying it's right or wrong. My belief is that those of us in the industry know best what excellence looks like and what it costs to attain it, so we should always fight to maintain that standard no matter what.

FWA Men's Footballer of the Year ✅ Premier League Player of the Season ❓ ©️ @B_Fernandes8 needs your help to clinch another award!

From being the 2nd most abused athlete in the world at some point to getting kicked out of his boyhood club by a hipster manager to relentless media attacks, to contributing 28 debut G/A and scoring a league-winning derby goal. I present to you, SIR Marcus Rashford. Congrats.

One of the commentaries that came out from the Moniepoint 500 vacancy brouhaha contained this chart that compared personnel expense as a share of revenue for Nigerian banks. The inference was that Nigerian companies severely underpay their people. At 12% we do better than GTB.

To the people of Tenerife, My name is Tedros, and I serve as the Director-General of the @WHO, the @UN agency responsible for global public health. It is not common for me to write directly to the people of a single community, but today I feel it is not only appropriate, it is necessary. I want to speak to you directly, not through press releases or technical briefings, but as one human being to another, because you deserve that. I know you are worried. I know that when you hear the word “outbreak” and watch a ship sail toward your shores, memories surface that none of us have fully put to rest. The pain of 2020 is still real, and I do not dismiss it for a single moment. But I need you to hear me clearly: this is not another COVID-19. the current public health risk from #hantavirus remains low. My colleagues and I have said this unequivocally, and I will say it again to you now. The virus aboard the MV Hondius is the Andes strain of hantavirus. It is serious. Three people have lost their lives, and our hearts go out to their families. The risk to you, living your daily life in Tenerife, is low. This is the WHO’s assessment, and we do not make it lightly. Right now, there are no symptomatic passengers on board. A WHO expert is on that ship. Medical supplies are in place. Spain’s authorities have prepared a careful, step-by-step plan: passengers will be ferried ashore at the industrial port of Granadilla, far from residential areas, in sealed, guarded vehicles, through a completely cordoned-off corridor, and repatriated directly to their home countries. You will not encounter them. Your families will not encounter them. I also want to say something else, something that goes beyond the science. I personally thanked Prime Minister @sanchezcastejon for #Spain’s decision to receive this ship. I called it an act of solidarity and moral duty. Because that is what it is. I want you to know that the WHO’s request to Spain was not made arbitrarily. It was made in full accordance with the International Health Regulations, the legally binding framework that defines the rights and obligations of countries and the WHO when responding to public health events of international concern. Under those rules, the nearest port with sufficient medical capacity must be identified to ensure the safety and dignity of those on board. Tenerife met that standard. Spain honoured it. Nearly 150 people from 23 countries have been at sea for weeks, some of them grieving, all of them frightened, all of them longing for home. Tenerife has been chosen because it has the medical capacity, the infrastructure, and the humanity to help them reach safety. And because I believe that so deeply, I will be there myself. I intend to travel to Tenerife to observe this operation firsthand, to stand alongside the health workers, port staff, and officials who are making it happen, and to personally pay my respects to an island that has responded to a difficult situation with grace, solidarity, and compassion. Your humanity deserves to be witnessed, not just acknowledged from a distance. As I have said many times: viruses do not care about politics, and they do not respect borders. The best immunity any of us has is solidarity. Tenerife is demonstrating that solidarity today. The ship’s captain, Jan Dobrogowski, crew and the company operating the vessel have shown exemplary collaboration at this challenging time. On behalf of the World Health Organization, and on behalf of those passengers and their families around the world, I thank the people of Tenerife and everyone else involved. Please take care of yourselves and of each other. Trust in the preparations that have been made. And know that the WHO stands with you, and with every person on that ship, every step of the way. With respect, care, and gratitude, Tedros

Next Friday on @TheRestHistory: an interview with PAUL McCARTNEY! Among other topics, Paul discusses: - the Second World War - midwifery & the Welfare State - dangerous milk floats - the reliability or otherwise of the Bayeux Tapestry as evidence for the battle of Hastings.

LASERC Inaugural Market Report (market performance extract). See Band A compliance. Omo!. No surprises there, we hear & see the compliants everyday on the TL.

BREAKING: Bruno Fernandes is named the Football Writers' Association Footballer of the Year 🏆

Goalscorer. Assist provider. Award winner. Presenting @TheOfficialFWA Footballer of the Year for 2025/26: @B_Fernandes8! 🏆❤️

A history of Nigerian superapps, by @readnotadeepdve open.substack.com/pub/notadeepdi…

It's officially award season 🏆✨ Vote now for our Sir Matt Busby Player of the Year ⬇️ 🤝 @adidasFootball

I think that this is something anyone who knows Nigerian politicians should have anticipated. Making Nigeria work will be a difficult task and to succeed you must find ways of dealing with all the roadblocks to progress that will be put by those who benefit from the current rotten system. Starting with getting a ticket. So perhaps this is your first real test. If you cannot find a way around the system and create a platform that works, then why should people trust that you will be able to govern Nigeria and make very difficult changes (all of which will be fiercely and violently opposed by the parasites currently sucking the life out of Nigeria). Goodwill alone will not work. Being nice will not work. This is why those of us watching could predict this outcome from the day you decided to partner with the very people you once accused of destroying the country. Did you think the people who you know benefit from Nigeria being the way it is would just let you have a platform with which you will snatch stolen food from their mouths? In the famous words of Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, if you ride the tiger, you will end up in its belly. Nigeria is very difficult and it is bold even just to try. But you cannot assume you will do this by partnering with people whose very existence relies on the broken system. You still have the chance to go back and build the platform that millions of Nigerians gave you, one where you are not dependent on the whims of the very people you have so loudly condemned. You still have support among millions of Nigerians. This is not something you can rush. Because whatever they did to ADC they can do to NDC. In the end, as many of us fear, being a third (popular) candidate and splitting the votes has the potential of guaranteeing an even bigger win for the incumbent who currently has a stable political party, and the resources and will to stifle opposition. Either completely distinguish yourself from the rest and prepare to fight, or fully join them and play their game until you can find a way from within (highly unlikely but not impossible). You cannot have one hand on the table of dysfunction and hope that those who sit on that table with nowhere else to go will play fair and help you dismantle the table.

New scribblings On Spending for Growth, Building Infrastructure and Why Ideas Are the Problem medium.com/p/on-spending-…

Kobbie Mainoo, forever United ✍️❤️

#Noticing (dangotecement.com/rabiu-umar/)

Friday’s Notadeepdive is about ARCON and how it resisted disruption even as its fees border on the absurd. If you read nothing else this Friday, read this: notadeepdive.com/p/fighting-dis…

A lawyer friend mentioned this week that he was trying to perfect a ₦2 million ($1429) bail for a client whose offence was advertising on Instagram without the advertising regulator's approval. I’d seen ad professionals complain about ARCON’s overreach before, but this was

@Tolu__Grey Please when you find them let me know. Need to collect past questions.

@El_khare #eattherich

Prices I’ve bought fuel at since July 2025. Up 42% since then. March was ridiculous. Thanks Trump 👍🏾

Just got invited to a party on June 14, a day featuring no less than 5 World Cup matches, and I immediately had to think of this amazing comedy bit.

A few opinions on journalistic methods, by @readnotadeepdve open.substack.com/pub/notadeepdi…