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What NYSC needs to do is to cancel the contract with Sidmach and start managing its own portal by itself. If that is done, you’ve eliminated the practice of paying for deployment or posting by 85%.

Kobbie Mainoo is averaging 18.7 line-breaking passes p90 in the Premier League this season. The only midfielders averaging more are Elliot Anderson and Declan Rice. £116M. £105M. £0.

Some decent lil squad players came thru asw, but no we replace them with the likes of Ugarte

Mainoo ain’t nowhere near greenwood’s level😂

1961: Nigeria was the first African nation to break diplomatic relations with France, and the day was 5 January 1961. That was not a quiet diplomatic quarrel. That was Nigeria standing up in front of the whole world and saying, enough is enough. France had gone into the Sahara Desert and exploded an atomic bomb, the third one, on 27 December 1960. They called it Gerboise Rouge. Nigeria had warned them before the test. African leaders had warned them. The people had warned them. The fear was simple and real. The harmattan wind could carry radioactive fallout south, into Nigeria and into other African countries, and poison the air, the water, the soil, and the bodies of innocent people who had never asked for any bomb. France tested anyway. Prime Minister Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa did not hide behind a statement. On the evening of Dec. 28th 1960, The French Ambassador, Raymond Offroy, was summoned to the Foreign Ministry and told of the Nigerian Government's “concern” over France's explosion of an atomic bomb in the Sahara, then January 5th, 1961, Prime Minister Tafawa Balewa summoned the French ambassador in Lagos, Raymond Offroy, and told him face to face that Nigeria was cutting diplomatic relations with France. He personally handed him the letter. In that letter, Balewa spoke of the greatest resentment at the unalloyed intransigence of the French Government and the utter disregard with which that Government had treated the feelings of Nigerians on the question of atomic tests in the Sahara Desert. Then came the part the French would never forget. The ambassador and his embassy staff were given only forty eight hours to leave Nigeria. Forty eight hours. And to make the message even sharper, Nigeria barred French planes and vessels from using Nigerian airports and ports, cancelled French transit rights through Nigeria, banned French ships from its coastal waters, and froze French assets in the country. Think about that. This was 1961. Nigeria had only become independent on 1 October 1960. Barely three months into independence, a young African country looked one of the most powerful nations on earth in the eye and said, if you will not respect African lives, you will not enjoy African friendship. That is why this story still matters. It was not only about a bomb in the desert. It was about dignity. It was about a new nation refusing to be treated as if its people did not matter. It was Nigeria saying that African lives are not expendable, and that no friendship is worth the silence that allows your neighbour to be poisoned. Nigeria paid a price for that courage. Relations with France stayed broken until 1965. But history remembers who spoke first, and who acted first. On 5 January 1961, Nigeria spoke, and Nigeria acted. Let us never forget that this country once had the courage to stand alone for Africa. If this history moved you, drop a comment and share it, so the next generation will know what Nigeria once stood for. Now You Know

🚨🗣️ Michael Carrick: “How close is Shea Lacey to STARTING matches? Yeah, I was really pleased with Shea again, coming in. “It's probably the FIRST time he's come into a game [this season] that was in the balance like that. We've got a lot of trust in him. “He's a fantastic young player and there's still an element of being PATIENT and looking after him, gradually developing and helping him as he goes. But he's in a really good place at the moment.” #MUFC [Mu]

You can clock the game and still choose not to participate. ‘Losing’ to some random man’s ego has no real consequence. It’s really just okay, bye. Na you wey dey buga really use $300 buy aura.

Damn. More men need to know what power games are and how to play it.

Spotify just announced a feature that could either save the music industry or destroy it. Starting as early as Q1 2027, Spotify Premium subscribers will be able to use AI to transform any participating artist’s song into a completely different version. Turn a folk ballad into a dance track. Make a hip-hop song sound acoustic. Generate a cover where one artist’s voice performs another artist’s song. Remix a pop hit into lo-fi study music. Create the version of your favorite song that only existed in your head until now. The remixes will be uploaded directly to Spotify. They’ll appear in playlists. They’ll count toward the original song’s chart position. And most importantly the original artist will earn royalties every time someone listens to a fan-created remix of their work. Spotify has already signed a landmark licensing deal with Universal Music Group the world’s largest record label. Negotiations with Sony Music and Warner Music are ongoing. The feature will cost an additional $4–$5/month on top of Spotify Premium. And analysts project 7–8% of American subscribers will adopt it by 2028. This is not Suno or Udio generating music from text prompts. This is fans remixing real songs by real artists with the artists’ permission, on the world’s largest streaming platform, with royalties flowing back to the creators. A music industry analyst who’s covered streaming economics for 15 years told her team something after reading the licensing agreement that reframed how she understood the future of recorded music. “Spotify just turned 640 million listeners into 640 million potential remixers. The question isn’t whether people will use it they will. The question is whether paying artists for fan remixes solves the economics of streaming or creates a world where the original recording is worth less than the infinite remixes generated from it.” Here’s what Spotify’s AI remix feature actually is, who wins, who loses, and why this might be the most consequential decision in the music industry since the launch of streaming itself 🧵