Okechuku Jr Izeogu

Happy birthday, my big brother. Seeing you go thru the decades makes our experience thru the same much easier. I, especially am as grateful to God for your life as I am proud of all you have achieved. Temisan just missed this but his spirit will be felt. #ChicoAt60 #RIPTemisan

Ah, Temisan, my guy, my friend, my brother 😪😪

Temisan Okomi... That was quick. You showed you had it in check. What went wrong? We played snooker on Easter Monday night at ours... as usual, our conversations & my refereeing role between you & Buki went on till 1AM. Next thing - ICU? Gone? 💔God comfort Veronica & the family.

Dear Arsenal, Surely, this pen must pause—have you not endured enough already? To the faithful in red and white: There is, I confess, a strange theatre in your anguish— a slow-burning tragedy that returns each season, where hope rises like a chorus at dawn only to falter, trembling, before the final act. You watch it unfold again and again— that delicate moment when belief turns brittle, when expectation becomes a burden too heavy for mortal legs, and silver dreams dissolve into familiar dust with weeks still left on the clock. Perhaps—just perhaps— reverence for those who have conquered before you might summon a different spirit. For greatness is not inherited by noise, but invited by humility. The ghosts of empires past— United in their ferocity, City in their precision, Liverpool in their fire, Chelsea in their steel— they do not answer arrogance. They answer respect. To Mikel Arteta: Somewhere along the way, the script shifted. When the geometry of football gave way to spectacle— when the elegance of craft bowed to the theatre of force— you began to drift from the essence of the game. The beautiful game does not reward the grotesque. It does not crown chaos as king. You stood at the shoulder of a master, studied the rhythm of dominance, yet the final ingredient—the ruthless heartbeat of winners— remained just beyond your grasp. And so, the cycle continues. May you remain, for continuity, after all, is a kind of legacy. To the custodians of the club: The gates are full, the coffers overflow— a cathedral of commerce, perfectly sustained. And in that, you have triumphed. A business well run. A spectacle well sold. Just… not quite a dynasty. Yours in observation, A witness to the pattern.

Prof. Joash Amupitan has been confirmed to be an APC (twitter) supporter. It is therefore inappropriate for him to remain INEC chairman. Next step: Resign honourably. He has the right to support any party or individual of his choice but not as INEC chair. The breeze blew...

We scrutinize foreigners who show up to help suffering Nigerians, but hesitate to demand accountability from those charged with protecting lives and property. #jos

Great interview on @ARISEtv ... David Bird, CEO, Dangote Refinery.

@SegunShowunmi @mehdirhasan Otunba Sowunmi, once a voice for accountability & consequence for bad leadership. After your visit to the Lagos-Calabar Coastal Road, you changed. Your interviews on TV were seldom friendly; in fact you constantly bullied interviewers so your criticism of Mehdi is hypocritical.

Hostility Is Not Journalism. Mehdi Hassan Take Note. There is a clear difference between tough journalism and outright hostility. One serves the public interest. The other serves the ego of the interviewer. Unfortunately, the recent exchange between @mehdirhasan and presidential spokesperson @BwalaDaniel fell squarely into the latter category. What viewers witnessed was not a serious interview. It was an attempted public ambush. From the outset, the tone was aggressively confrontational. Questions were framed less as inquiries into governance and more as prosecutorial traps. Responses were repeatedly interrupted before they could develop. Clarifications were brushed aside. The atmosphere was unmistakable: this was not a conversation designed to inform viewers but a spectacle designed to embarrass the guest. Serious journalism does not operate this way. The craft of interviewing demands discipline. It requires the ability to ask difficult questions while still allowing the guest to articulate answers. It requires intellectual confidence strong enough to permit disagreement without descending into open hostility. Above all, it requires a commitment to substance over theatrics. That commitment was glaringly absent. Nigeria is currently grappling with a range of serious national challenges economic restructuring, security threats, governance reforms, and the complex work of stabilizing a large and dynamic democracy. A responsible interviewer would have used the opportunity to interrogate the administration’s policies on these matters: What strategies are being deployed? What reforms are underway? What outcomes should citizens expect? Instead, viewers were treated to an exercise in selective outrage and repetitive interruption. Even more troubling was the insinuation that political realignment is somehow illegitimate. Democratic politics is built on shifting alliances. Individuals and movements evolve. Former opponents become partners when national circumstances demand cooperation. This is neither shocking nor dishonorable; it is one of the defining characteristics of democratic political life. History provides countless examples. Leaders across the world have entered alliances with former adversaries when the demands of governance required it. To pretend otherwise is either intellectual dishonesty or a deliberate attempt to create sensationalism where none exists. But the deeper problem in the interview was tone. A journalist who openly ridicules or repeatedly attempts to humiliate a guest crosses an important professional boundary. The role of the interviewer is to hold power accountable not to behave like a courtroom prosecutor seeking a viral “gotcha” moment. When the pursuit of humiliation replaces the pursuit of insight, journalism loses its credibility. Audiences deserve better than that. They deserve interviews that illuminate policy, probe governance, and help citizens understand how leaders intend to confront the pressing challenges of the day. What they do not need is a theatrical performance in which hostility is mistaken for intellectual rigor. Respectful engagement does not weaken journalism; it strengthens it. Firm questioning does not require contempt. Professionalism does not require aggression. If global media wishes to retain its claim to moral authority as a watchdog of democracy, it must remember a basic principle: the goal of journalism is to inform the public, not to stage spectacles at the expense of civility and substance. The interview in question did neither. It was not a demonstration of fearless journalism. It was a demonstration of how easily the craft can slide into something far less admirable when provocation becomes the objective and professionalism is abandoned. Otunba Segun Showunmi The Alternative

Carrick loses his 1st match having started better than all but 1 manager no MUFC follwer remembers, all of a sudden, he's not good enough. Almost like they were waiting for his 1st loss to start calling for his head. Very sad, funny lot some MUFC fans are.

I do everything possible to stay away from poor people who have money.

So, do the "APC, ole" chants by some members of the House of Representatives mean they no longer stand on the mandate?

I had the misfortune of watching & listening to what is supposed to be a human respond to questions as Attorney General. Bleating would have been more articulate.

Slowly but surely, politicians are destroying Nigeria.

I think John Mikel Obi smokes something monthly... Ronaldo not in the top 20 footballers of all time? Silly boy.

Real time electronic transmission of election results will be trivialised by supporters of the ruling party. Supportes of opposition parties will have no faith in the process. It's a shame.

It really doesn't matter how much you want it to touch his hand. It did not. It also matters not how many times you state it did. It did not. Those refs were going to give Arsenal every call they could justify (like Merino impeding Lammens) but MUFC cleared all doubts.

BULLSHIT NONESENSE ARRANGEMENT CHARACTER. (BSNAC) This is a noncontageous Moroccan disease.

Not ONE single Senegalese player celebrated the penalty miss. Seems extremely SUS to me. 😬

"Haaland will pick Lisandro Martinez up, and run with him". - Nicky Butt MUFC 2 - 0 MCFC Haaland had no impact on the match until he was subbed off.

So, apart from Samuel Chukwueze's silliness, the Super Eagles have shown a total lack of big match attitude and know-how. This is a constant as our record shows. No other team has been in the last 4 more, yet we have won but 3 titles losing 5 finals & winning 8 bronze medals.