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2052!
Most of you know this story, but none of you have heard it from me.
Back in September 2018, Femi Hamzat wanted to be Governor of Lagos State. He had thirteen years of public service under Asiwaju and BRF, with the record and backing to win. Then party leaders asked him to step aside for me.
It takes a rare man to put down what he wants without nursing a grudge. Femi shook my hand and five weeks later, agreed to run beside me. I have never forgotten that.
Anyone can read a CV but only the person in the room with a man when the cameras leave can tell you who he really is. For 2,711 days, I have been in that room with him.
When COVID-19 hit, when we faced our hardest weeks, when the Blue and Red Lines ran and when the Lekki Deep Sea Port opened, Femi was there. Long before any ribbon was cut, he was asking the tough questions an engineer asks.
In many states, deputies are kept in reserve. On day one, Femi promised to be the best deputy governor in Lagos history. He kept his word. In seven years, there has not been a single day I wondered whose side he was on. We have had one government, one direction, and one voice.
Lagos runs on a relay system. The baton is never passed to a runner standing still. You run at full speed inside the exchange zone, together, before the pass. That is how Lagos has been governed for 27 years, from Asiwaju to BRF, to Ambode, to me.
Femi is a deputy governor like no other. He built the Lekki-Ikoyi Link Bridge under Fashola, digitized government under Asiwaju and holds a doctorate in engineering. His father served Lateef Jakande. This is in his blood.
Critics say Lagos keeps choosing from the same pool. I say Lagos trains its people. With major projects underway and a master plan stretching to 2052, this is not the time to experiment. What Femi presents today is not a campaign promise cooked up on a bus, it is the next leg of a race we have been running since 1999.
Lagos does not hand the baton to a man standing still. Today, you have seen the man who is already running. Let us move forward together with The Lagos PROMISE.
Olise should make Top 5
296 ke?
Anyways Ballon D'or is not just about footballing ability
🚨 OFFICIAL: 2026 Ballon d’Or votes. 🗳️
🥇 Harry KANE: 1.055 points
🥈 Kylian MBAPPÉ: 1.027 points
🥉 Lamine YAMAL: 881 points
4️⃣ RODRI: 726 points
5️⃣ Lionel MESSI: 612 points
6️⃣ Khvicha KVARATSKHELIA: 541 points
7️⃣ Ousmane DEMBÉLÉ: 418 points
8️⃣ Erling HAALAND: 378 points
9️⃣ Michael OLISE: 296 points
🔟 Fabian RUIZ: 201 points
You don't realise how sick Nigeria is
like we literally subscribe to light and you off it
It has to be the most stup!d thing to ever exist.
And perish the idea of cost electricity. we will pay for it. na people wey no go pay no go get light. Foolish people
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Messi got an ovation from a packed theater in Spain on Friday, with the King and Queen in the room, and he gave it about 30 seconds with his eyes on the floor, fiddling with his jacket button.
Then you see who else was on that stage.
One of them was Christina Koch. She flew around the Moon back in April, the first woman ever to do it.
Three more were the scientists who made reading DNA cheap. Two Cambridge chemists, David Klenerman and Shankar Balasubramanian, plus a French biophysicist named Pascal Mayer. Their work took the cost of reading one full human genome from over a billion dollars and about a decade down to roughly a thousand bucks and a single day. The company the two chemists started became Illumina, and most DNA sequencing on the planet still runs on their method.
Studio Ghibli was up there too, the studio behind Spirited Away, along with Patti Smith and the novelist Julian Barnes.
Messi was the most famous person in that building by a mile. Spanish reporters in the room said it looked like he didn't want to pull any of the spotlight off everyone else, so he let the applause go and got out of the way.
The award is the Princess of Asturias, which people in Spain call the Spanish Nobel. The same foundation honored Nelson Mandela back in 1992.
Football has had a weird history with this prize. Brazil's national team won it in 2002, Spain's won in 2010, and Casillas and Xavi shared it in 2012. In 2009 the jury had a Barcelona team that had just won the treble with a 22-year-old Messi, and they voted it out before the final round. A Russian pole vaulter ended up winning.
Seventeen years later, he's the first footballer to ever win it by himself.
Princess Leonor handed it to him and told the room she wasn't sure anything else on earth could make the whole world feel the same thing at the same moment.
He didn't give a speech. A guy with eight Ballon d'Ors was standing next to the people who made the genome cheap to read and a woman who'd just been to the Moon, and he treated his own ovation like he was holding up the line.
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Ọmọ! Laslas, Mama Deola don get Dangote Endorsement. The way Folagade Banks feature many actors in a skit ehn... The cast that some people will use for movie is what he uses for skit. See cast, see set. This guy dey burst my brain, abeg. Máa jẹun lọ, ọmọ Yorùbá àtàtà.
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Folagade Banks has to be one of the richest content creators in Nigeria because imagine going from making hundreds of millions from your Mama Deola movie to bagging a multimillion-naira endorsement deal with Dangote Group. Guy, which soap this guy dey baff? I need am! 😭🔥
