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@ScFidelis To think it was Nigeria’s Number One bank in the 1980s and 1990s. So much so it’s MD, Paul Ogwuma, was moved to become the CBN Gov in the early 1990s. I don’t even think a “shadow” remains. Same for Daily Times, the press behemoth of the past. Exist on paper, but nothing to show

How Union Bank became a shadow of itself is MBA case study material. No longer listed. No longer top-tier. Just name recognition and old history.

@MickyJnr__ Reads like comedy. How do you demand your own referees and failing that you refuse to play? What a joke!!

To be slightly fair, both Al Ahly and Pyramids have a point. Let me try to summarize it. 🚨⤵️ Al Ahly didn’t play the Cairo derby v Zamalek because they asked for foreign referees to handle the game. The authorities failed to provide it. They went ahead to use local referees for the game. Al Ahly made it clear that, if you bring these local referees to handle the game, we won’t play. Zamalek followed all match day procedures and were on the pitch until the local referees blew the whistle to end the game because Al Ahly weren’t there. The rule there says, if you don’t honor a game after your opponents make it to the pitch together with the match officials, then you should lose six-points — three points to the opponent and then another three points will be deducted from the team that fails to honor the game. So in this case, 3-points should go to Zamalek and then 3-points should be deducted from Al Ahly’s total points at the end of the season. But Al Ahly made an appeal and explained that, the league leaders are also at fault for not granting their request to hire foreign refs to handle the game since they did it for other clubs, why not them? The league leaders decided that, there won’t be any 3-points deduction from Al Ahly again but they will just give Zamalek their 3-points only. Zamalek, obviously, objected to this and Pyramids knowing well that they are in the lead to win the title, also objected to this and filed an appeal. It was rejected. Pyramids believe that the rules must be followed and if that’s the case, they won the league hence their celebration last night. Pyramids wrote to CAS that the crowning of the league champions shouldn’t be done yesterday but it was rejected too. The league authorities decided to go ahead with the ceremony and presented the title to Al Ahly while’s Pyramids were also waiting for the title at the Suez Canal Stadium. 👀 So in your opinion, what do you think should have been done? 🧏🏼‍♂️ #AfricanFootball #Pyramids #yallayaahly

@asemota Been using the iPhone 12 Pro Max since 2021. Still does the biz. Never needed to wonder what I was missing

I currently use an iPhone 12 and this is accurate. I only got it last year because of iOS 18. It does the job and it was cheap.

@SirJarus A natural human reaction. Nigerian, American, British; white; black; oriental etc. It’s normal to want to relate with a “similar” person when you are far from home

Am I the only one that always has this urge to interact with someone I share cultural identity with when I meet one abroad? Like seeing an elderly person wearing Yoruba cap and walking to them to say “ekaaro sir” or passing by a young person with Nigerian identity and dropping “baba, how far”

@henrywinter @SpursOfficial Leave Bruno alone!!

To defend is to do. #THFC defended deep, defended with defiance and organisation, defended with physicality, occasional time-wasting, and won. Congratulations @SpursOfficial. Nervy at the end but Vicario made that great save from Shaw.  And the game is about glory, it’s about trophies and Spurs won. Poor game but Spurs won’t care. They’re winners. They’re 17th - and into the Champions League. They have their first trophy since 2008. They have a riposte to the critics, to Arsenal fans, too. Postecoglou has a riposte - his game-plan worked. His promise to win a trophy - as usual - in his second season was no empty promise. Well done, Ange. He’s no clown, he’s got the #UEL crown. Whether it keeps him in the job is another issue. A winner’s medal and a P45 in the same week? Harsh? Spurs’ domestic form is unacceptable. But he can take pride from his players’ effort and now success in Europe. Van de Ven and Romero embodied the resistance movement. So did Vicario. Spurs’ superb support willed them home. #MUFC so flat, didn’t go for Spurs until Garnacho came on. So disappointing. No inspiration from Bruno Fernandes when needed most. Ruben Amorim will keep his job, rightly, he needs a pre-season. And more than £100m to spend on rebuilding team. Needs a centre-forward urgently. Højlund not good enough, lacking confidence. So much work for Amorim to do. And so much celebrating and self-congratulating for Big Ange to do. #TOTMUN

@Osi_Suave Happened to me in UK. My Naija bank card was “swallowed” by ATM machine in Bham and I never got it back. Instruction was to contact my bank. Is it a global rule? I don’t know. But I’d be surprised if it’s not.

I didn't get my card back, this is a stupid rule by CBN. Why should I forfeit my card because it was retracted by another banks ATM. We just love stupid complications in this country So if a tourist is visiting and his card gets stuck he will forfeit his card?

@AyoShonaiya @Arsenal

Dear @Arsenal fans. Who would you rather win the Europa League tonight? Who would make you choke less? 😂 #UELfinal

@henrywinter I’ve read your write-ups for 25 years. This has to be the most disappointing piece from you. Guess you were due one. Cos this makes no sense. I know you’ve never liked him as Utd captain. But writing a hit piece on him on a final day is just gutter stuff. You are better than this

Bruno Fernandes is very good, a beacon of hope in dark times, but he's not a Manchester United great. He'd make the bench of Sir Alex Ferguson's great sides. #MUFC #UEL #TOTMUN open.substack.com/pub/henrywinte…

@Nigeriangod_ The husband was later extradited to SA, tried and acquitted in 2014. It turned out the men who killed the wife lied against him so they could get minimal punishment. The 3 men were convicted of murder and perjury. Pls correct or complete your story to include this important fact

@DrJoeAbah @WBG_Nigeria Those numbers seem in tandem with the “Olimpotic meristemasis budget” of Cross River State under Gov Ayade. At best, overly optimistic. At worse, delusional. While it’s great to aim high, there was no need to be unrealistic. Better to under-promise and over-deliver.

The World Bank @WBG_Nigeria, rightly, challenged the realism of the Federal Government’s 2025 budget. Particularly, the budget assumes oil production of 2.1 million bpd in 2025 when we only produced 1.6 million bpd in 2024, same as recent years. It also assumes an oil price $75 pb and inflation dropping from 24% to 15% overnight. These assumptions are in the realm of what we call ‘miracle budgeting.’ It’s not very different from some charlatan asking you to hold up your phone to receive a “miracle alert.” We had moved away from this practice through robust reforms of our budgeting system. We should not go back to it. Let me tell you why unrealistic budgeting is bad… Actually, Twitter is not the right audience. Let me write an article for a newspaper instead. Those that politicise and find an ethnic angle to everything don’t read newspapers. 😀

@EmmyPromise71 @Omojuwa Amen!

@Omojuwa Wow! This is amazing! 😍😍 May what happened in your home happen to mine oo!

@SirJarus 2 years ago, UK schools were filled with Nigerians. Tinubu’s policies and the UK’s new policy of denying dependants the right to tag along with their student spouses severely cut short the numbers trooping into UK schools.

I narrated, during lunchtime small talk, to a table of fellow MBA alumni and the Business School executive dean also on the table, how the double policy changes of late 2023 in Nigeria (subsidy removal and, especially, floating of the Naira) affected my business. How prices of building materials, from cement to iron, doubled within a short period of time when the worst scenario I planned for was 30% increase. Only to be told by the Dean himself that the Business School itself was affected by that Nigerian policy. That the school’s three biggest markets (for its executive and online education) are Nigeria, China and Greater India (India, Pakistan etc) and a major exchange crisis from same 2023 reduced the number of students from Nigeria as their fees (denominated in £) became prohibitively expensive for many Nigerians, hence a big decline in the enrollment they got from Nigeria. The school has currency risk from Nigeria.

@it_Rutie @FabrizioRomano @isabelapagliari There was a player who played and won the World Cup with Brazil in 1958 and, 4 years later, played for Italy at the 1962 World Cup. He was known as Mazzola in Brazil and Jose Altafini in Italy.

@FabrizioRomano @isabelapagliari A Brazilian player can play for Italy ?

🚨🇮🇹 Raphinha: “I was close to accepting Italian national team call!”. “I was supposed to go to the Euro they won in 2020. I was basically set to go. So luckily, since the passport didn’t come through”, told @isabelapagliari. “At that point, the people from the Italian national team were calling me. Jorginho used to call me all the time. The Italian staff had this amazing project for me, something that really caught my eye”. “But at the same time, deep down, I still had that one percent of hope that I could wear the Brazil shirt. And luckily, my Italian passport didn’t get ready in time!”.

@theairbuser @SirJarus Either he has sold it or he meant a house where he lives. Cos his house (Dangote House, Maitama) was formerly the British High Commission in Abuja.

@SirJarus He once said he doesn’t even own a house in Abuja. It was unbelievable

The one that shocked me most about him was learning he doesn’t have a house in London. Or abroad at all. UK or US house ownership that is a badge among Nigerian (dollar) multi millionaires.

@DrJoeAbah You know too much, Sir😂😂😂

I understand that the Central Bank of Nigeria declared a healthy profit of N38 billion for 2024, following a N1.15 trillion loss in 2023. This is welcome news. I honestly do not understand how a central bank can make a loss. Actually, it’s not true that I can’t understand. I hope that the era where organisations like the CBN and NNPC allegedly simply raise their operating costs every year to swallow up any profits and even go into deficit, to make sure Nigerians get nothing, are truly over.

@Femi_OfMainland Lagos is a victim of its own success. The improvements it makes are generally wiped out by the influx of people from failed/failing States.

I have been to about 30 states in Nigeria, and Lagos was the last state I visited. It was a significant shift from what I saw in other states. If you grew up in Lagos, it is easy to be dismissive of the work of Tinubu, Fashola, Ambode and Sanwo Olu. Please take a road trip to Abuja from Lagos using the Jebba/Minna route, and pounder on the things you see. I have never thought the leadership in Lagos was perfect, but boy, they are heads and shoulders ahead of any state on this regard.

@KUSH23TV_ @UtdBrill It’s crazy! Even blasphemous!!!

@UtdBrill Is it crazy to say Zirkzee reminds me of him? 😅

Name a footballer who you’ll never forget? Bonus points if you can name anyone outside the popular ones.

@SirJarus My Yahoo and Hotmail are at least 25 years old. Late 1999/early 2000. Had Netscape mail from 1999 too but they later folded up during the dot.com burst. Opened Gmail when it became available in 2005 and it’s been my No1 since then.

My yahoomail was opened 22 years ago. I still use it (although my gmail opened 14 years ago is more active). But I still have access to my emails from 2003.

@SirJarus @seunfadahunsi Have you disbanded the team? 😳

@seunfadahunsi Yes. Na the boys boy dey supply me assist

Alhaji, do you think it’s has anything to do with Jarus team being disbanded?!

@Ola_deinde And they all have dual loyalty and “citizenship”.

From Saki to Ilaro-Yewa, much of what drives the “economy” in border communities are trades that are borderline criminal or quasi-legal. Take away “smuggling” and its “value chain” and the entire “economy” in most of those border communities collapses…like, er, Real Madrid. 😊