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El Fizzy retweeted
Michigan, I cannot wait to serve you with the same big heartedness, open mindedness, grit, and earnestness that you've shown me.
You welcomed me into your homes, your churches, your synagogues, your VFW and union halls. You shared moments of frustration and sadness and vulnerability with me. You gave me grace and strength at my lowest moments and the hope and inspiration that powered my best.
I will bring it all with me to Washington in your service.
El Fizzy retweeted
Nigeria claim the #U17WWC title. 🇳🇬🏆
El Fizzy retweeted
How profound is the du'ā:
Rabbana hab lana min azwājina wa dhuriyyātina qurrata a'yoon waj'alna lilmuttaqeena imāma.
El Fizzy retweeted
Can you hear that sweet Naija accent!!😀. From one Naija brother to Another... In A Hollywood Film!🇳🇬🇳🇬.
El Fizzy retweeted
Senator-elect @AbdulElSayed responds to the Islamophobic attacks against him: “You can talk about my name and my faith all day if you want to. But they’re not the reason you can’t afford gas or you can’t afford your groceries, not the reason you can’t see a doctor.”
El Fizzy retweeted
I've been in politics for a quarter century. It's hard to express how staggering it is to see a conversation like this on corporate US media. The Morning Joe panel gobsmacked by the directness of @AbdulElSayed's points.
(clip via @DropSiteNews)
El Fizzy retweeted
Hi Everyone, please I need your help.
I’ve battled Keloid since I was 2 as a result of the first ear piercing which was done at birth and was done wrongly.
My parents have gone through several options given to them and it keeps reoccurring.
I’ve done several surgical removal that I can’t even keep count both in general hospitals and private hospitals and they always finish up with kenalog as usual, I did cryotherapy for 2years with a popular Bumps clinic and the pain from the procedure almost paralyzed the left part of my body as it became weaker and I couldn’t use it, still it resurfaced.
Since 2015 I’ve been in and out of the hospital over this keloid, one general hospital suggested removing the whole ear which might cause another issue as it could still grow again.
I’ve been going through excruciating pains, every single day of my life I’m in pains, I’ve been popping painkillers like who’s taking candy, I barely sleep at night
Most days I’m awake till morning, once it’s night I get scared cos the pains becomes unbearable.
Sometimes I take sleeping pills just to get through the night.
I can’t go out, I can’t even show up for my business, my parents and siblings have had to give up their finances every single year because of me. Last year November, my sister single-handedly took care of the bills for the procedure I did.
At some point the Keloid started to accumulate abscess, it becomes so much that I’ve had to go through drainage process, I did one last year as well.
And all of these have made the keloid very aggressive and it grows faster by the day, the last removal procedure I did was in April of last year, the growth you’re seeing in frame 1 is just 1year and 7months growth which is unusually fast.
Since I finished my service year I’ve been at home because I couldn’t work with this condition, I even had to let go of a few job opportunities I was recommended for with the hope of getting this done before I fully commit.
A doctor I met recommended LASUTH earlier this year and since May I’ve been trying to get booked for surgery, initially I was booked for surgery but I wasn’t told everything it entailed, my first surgery date was September 11th and it was moved later on due to the strike.
I was opportuned to secure a consultation again with the Burns and Plastic unit (BPSU) yesterday in LASUTH and the consultant put me through everything I needed for the keloid to not reoccur.
He said I needed at least 2 Radiotherapy sessions of which one has to be done exactly 24hrs after the surgical removal and then another few weeks after.
After which I have to undergo chemotherapy and then post op care which includes injections, drugs,silicone creams, and any other recommended care.
The Radiotherapy is to be done in LUTH (I was given a reference letter for it) after making enquiries in LUTH, the estimate of one radiotherapy session was given at 2.5m, and I’ll be needing 2sessions which sums up to 5m. Then the surgery for the removal of the Keloid costs 1.2m and I’ve been able to come up with that. Then after the surgery I’m to undergo chemotherapy and post op care but I have not been told how much that would cost, so I am unsure of the entire cost of that but the estimation according to what I’ve researched is about 2m.
LASUTH have given me November 19th for my next and last consultation before the removal and this simply means I have to come up with the money for everything before then.
So in total what will be needed for the successful surgery and post op care is 8.2m of which I’ve already raised 1.2m and I’m left to source for 7m before the 19th of November.
This was really really hard for me to do as I have never done this before but this is my last resort as I have exhausted all my options and I have spent more than 6months alone trying to get booked with LASUTH.
Please help me get my life back together 🙏
Any amount will go a long way🙏
0427940035
Nancy Chidinma
Wema Bank
El Fizzy retweeted
“80 million Egyptians and you went and married an Indian woman?” jokes Muslim-American Senator-elect Abdul El-Sayed about his family’s initial reaction to his Indian wife
El Fizzy retweeted
It is the official policy of the United States government that there are only two genders: male & female.
El Fizzy retweeted
My dad got me taken by Canadian border patrol when I was 5 because they thought he was smuggling chocolate into the country.
My parents, my siblings and I, were passing through Canada to reach Alaska. At the border, the patrol were asking dad typical questions for someone entering. Any firearms? No. Fireworks? No. Chocolate? My dad just yells out CHOCOLATE?! REALLY?! Well… maybe we got some chocolate cake left in the fridge but CHOCOLATE?!.
Patrol surrounded our camper and had dogs sniff around the car. They found the cake, several bars of chocolate, and unmarked beef.
We all got out of the camper and patrol picked me up and walked off with me.
They started questioning me separate from my family in a room. I remember the ceiling was white and the bottom half of the walls was brown.
They asked me who the people in the car were. I told them it was my family. That my dad was the one driving.
Patrol asked if they had kidnapped me and to not be afraid they would take me back to my real family.
I told them again that he was my dad and that was my family.
During this they are questioning my family in a different room asking for ID for my older siblings. My sister had a school id and my brother pulled out a picture of goofy.
Patrol got annoyed and realized they weren’t getting far with us. We were all just a dumb family wasting their time.
They took all our chocolate and meat in the camper then let us go. They insisted that my dad wasn’t my dad.
About 23 years later, I do a dna test and find out patrol was in fact, correct.
El Fizzy retweeted
Go to any football pitch in the world this evening. A dusty field in Lagos. A beach in Rio. A cage pitch in London. A narrow street in Cairo, Jakarta or Lima, with two stones and/or a stack of blocks for goalposts
Wait for a free kick.
You will probably see a boy step back, plant his feet wide apart, puff out his chest, take a deep breath and stare at the ball like it owes him money.
You know exactly who he is copying.
Cristiano Ronaldo retired from international football today. 23 years with Portugal. 146 goals in 234 games, more than any man in history. And I promise you, that boy on the street doesn't know half of those numbers. He doesn't need to. He knows the stance. He knows the "Siuuu." He knows the man. That's enough.
That is what I want to talk about today. Not what Ronaldo did for Portugal. What he did for the boy watching from thousands of kilometres away.
Think about it. Some of the people reading this were children when Ronaldo made his Portugal debut in 2003. Some weren't even born. For an entire generation, he has always been there. Every summer tournament, every big night, every argument about who is the greatest. Football without Ronaldo is something millions of fans have simply never known.
Every young player knows the story by now. The skinny boy from Madeira, laughed at for his accent in Lisbon. The boy who stayed behind after training. The one who did sit-ups in his room at night. The ice baths, the diet, the gym when everyone else had gone home. Whether every detail of that story is true or not, the lesson landed in every corner of the world: talent alone is not enough. You have to outwork everybody.
And he kept proving it. He was still scoring for his country at 40, still winning a Nations League final at 40. Players are supposed to fade by 33. He made "old" look like a choice.
It went beyond the pitch too. A generation learned from him that a footballer can be a brand. That your body is your business. That how you speak, how you dress and how you carry yourself matters as much as your first touch. He became the first person in the world to reach one billion followers across social media. One billion. That is not a fanbase. That is a planet.
Now, let me be honest with you. Not every boy copying the free kick stance will become a professional. Most won't. But many of them will take something from him that lasts longer than football. Discipline. Self-belief. Showing up every day, even when nobody is watching.
That is a legacy you can't count in goals.
So to every boy standing with his legs apart before a free kick this evening, in Lagos, in Rio, in London or anywhere else, keep doing it. Just remember the part of the story that happened when the cameras were off.
Obrigado, Cristiano.
My name is Ajoje. I am a FIFA Licensed Agent and International Sports Lawyer. I write on the Law and Business of Football, a lot. Repost and Follow if you want to read more posts like this.
El Fizzy retweeted
Cristiano Ronaldo has officially retired from international football 🇵🇹
He retires with the most caps in international football (234) and most goals in international football (146) 🐐
