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Chinua Achebe, being interviewed, in 1964, by Professor Wole Soyinka and South African Lewis Nkosi. We need to treasure our records…

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🌍 Top 10 contributors to global real GDP growth (2026) 1．🇨🇳 China — 26.6% 2．🇮🇳 India — 17.0% 3．🇺🇸 United States — 9.9% 4．🇮🇩 Indonesia — 3.8% 5．🇹🇷 Türkiye — 2.2% 6．🇳🇬 Nigeria — 1.5% 7．🇧🇷 Brazil — 1.5% 8．🇻🇳 Vietnam — 1.6% 9．🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia — 1.7% 10．🇩🇪 Germany — 0.9% 📌 China + India alone = 43.6% of global growth 📌 Asia-Pacific accounts for ~50% of total growth Source: IMF

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I see Samuel Eto, Ronaldinho and Lionel Messi. Guess the fourth player.

All these 'gule gule' over a chieftancy title will end if one governor decides to dethrone one of the 'guleans'. At the end of the day, the supremacy of Your Highness ends at the table of His Excellency, so why the pride?

‘You can’t erase fire’: Charly Boy slams Lagos over renamed bus stop guardian.ng/life/you-cant-…

I’d shoot Chief Abiola the day NEC pronounces him the elected President - Brigadier David Mark Extract from: The TALE of JUNE 12 - The Betrayal of the Democratic Rights of Nigerians (1993) Author: Prof. Omo Omoruyi PLEASE READ THIS EXTRACT AND FORWARD TO ALL SOUTHERN POLITICIANS SCENE TWO: PRESIDENT UNBURDENED HIS HEART TO ME The venue was the Presidential Villa (Residence and Office) and the subject was to explore options in the face of annulment of the election that was in the offing; the main actors were General Babangida, General Dogonyaro and myself. This was not the first time General Babangida and I met like this. We met in Minna in early August 1985 to review how he was to proceed with a transition programme should the coup contemplated in August succeed; we met in Lagos in August/September 1985 after he had succeeded and had become the President over the steps he should take to evolve a transition programme; we met in Lagos over the Political Bureau Report and worked out what to do with the Report; we met in Lagos over the steps he should take to get a transition programme put together from the Report of the Political Bureau and the Report from the White Paper Committee. General Babangida and I met at other times over the following issues: the evolution of the two-party system and the creation of the Centre for Democratic Studies; the setting up of the Constitution Review Committee; the composition of and charge to the Constituent Assembly; the production of the White paper on the Report of the Constituent Assembly; the drafting of the arguments for the Creation of States; the Banning or Disqualification of Persons; the Inauguration of the National Assembly; the Setting up of the National Defense and Security Council and the Transitional Council among other major policy issues in 1993 concerning the Presidential Election. In all these issues, our meetings and the papers produced formed the basis of the policies of his government. It was not therefore unusual for the President to invite me to think with him in how to get out of the dilemma in which he found himself after the suspension of the election process and the injunctions on the NEC by various courts in the Southwest and Abuja and the decision of NEC to appeal to the Federal Court of Appeal. I also thought that he wanted to discuss the diplomatic impasse he might have created by not seeing the British High Commissioner to accept the letter from Mr. John Major, the British Prime Minister. I could not think of the US reacting to the impasse because the US seemed to have faded away after the incident of June 11. My mind also went to the possibility nevertheless of a fresh, threatening message from the US. I could not rule out the US. My mind went to the memorandum of June 20 (See Chapter Four) in which I raised many issues bordering on the President’s inability to assume moral leadership in the face of the apparent derailment of the transition programme and the sliding of the country into chaos. This turned out to be the subject of the meeting. It was clear when I entered his office that he had lost command/control of the situation. He, in fact, confessed this to me, the first time he was making such a confession since I knew him. He pleaded that he needed help to find a solution to a complex problem which he did not quite understand. It was also clear to me but, unfortunately, not to my fellow Nigerians that the country was without a President that had authority either over the military (nor) over the civilians. One wondered, what would have happened if the political class had been united and pressed for the conclusion of the transition programme. But the political class was part of the problem. It was also not clear to the international community that Nigeria had no effective government at this time. Why did the international community not issue statements supporting the June 12 elections even though they had the results? ....(1)

A screening examination for all applicants is scheduled to take place from August 18th to August 21st, 2025, at the NACON Complex. Students are advised to adhere strictly to the date and time specified for their screening examination. guardian.ng/news/how-to-ap…

The United States carried out attacks on three nuclear sites in Iran on Sunday, joining Israel’s bombing campaign after days of speculation over US involvement in the conflict. guardian.ng/news/reactions…

The screening test will begin on Wednesday, 28th to Thursday, 29th May, 2025, and will be conducted through Computer-Based Test (CBT) across the five designated centers in the state. guardian.ng/news/nigeria/m…

Once again, @PoliceNG proved beyond a reasonable doubt that they are not your friend. May God rest the dead x.com/oldmanedris/st…

"When a society loses its moral compass, it collapses from within." – G.K. Chesterton A Thread Exposing the Decline of the West 1. The Celebration of Obesity

@Mr_JAGs 2008. First job. Net salary was ₦83+. Did àjọ ₦50k monthly. 10 of us. I was number 10. Ajo scatter at No8. Lost the job some months later. Broke. 2nd Job was worse. Net pay ₦45k. Àjọ ₦50k. Again we be 10. Àjọ scatter at No 10. I was number 10.

Dey Play … the first one I did, I did with people with bigger financial standing, in fact I was the least out of them, I didn’t have a full time job yet and I fulfilled my side

For reasons better known to them, @IkejaElectric has decided to punish areas from Alagbole bridge to Alagbole roundabout and it's environs with less than three hours of light per day. At a time @IkejaElectric was bring the light and taking it within a minute of restoring it...

HERE WE GO, @FabrizioRomano 🚨 With the transfer window closing, it's time for a massive giveaway 👇 🎮 x1 PS5 or cash 👕 x1 Signed shirt of your choice To enter: ✅ Follow @EvoFtbl 🔁 Like and Repost this post

World’s darkest model, Gatwech, builds $9m fortune by embracing her skin colour   guardian.ng/life/whatsnew-…

Manmohan Singh was India’s quiet reformer who taught a generation to dream, writes @andymukherjee70. His death deprives the nation of sage counsel trib.al/K1T1b5A via @opinion

An illiterate wife who will give you peace at home is better than a PhD holder who makes you afraid of going home. #RenosNuggets