Correct Bro

If it at first you don't succeed, dust yourself off and try again.
You can dust it off and try again, try again

WHO GIVE UP, NA HIM LOSE
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I will count it a loss if SABAH scores, and they look like they can score anytime soon.

Is 5 eggs per day too much❔️

Chelsea don see their mate

A journalist told the Director-General of NAFDAC, Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye, that Nigerians are calling for her resignation over the excessive circulation of fake drugs and substandard products in Nigeria, and then she burst into an uncontrollable laughter as if it was funny. Honestly, I found this troubling.

This is not a funny subject. We are talking about medicines and other products that can directly affect people's health and lives. When Nigerians are raising serious concerns about counterfeit products, the response from the person heading the agency responsible for regulating these products should be accountability, seriousness and an explanation of what is being done to address the problem.

I am not saying NAFDAC has done nothing. The agency says it has seized or destroyed more than ₦1.5 trillion worth of fake and substandard products since 2023 and secured 64 convictions in the past year. But those achievements do not make the concerns about products still reaching Nigerians disappear.

What really bothers me is the attitude toward accountability. If Nigerians are angry enough to demand your resignation over something as serious as fake drugs and your immediate reaction is laughter, then perhaps we should stop talking about resignation and start talking about dismissal.

Public office is not a permanent entitlement. If the people are losing confidence in your ability to protect them, you should be able to face that criticism seriously and answer the questions.

This is one of the biggest problems with leadership in Nigeria. Officials often behave as if being questioned is an insult rather than part of the responsibility that comes with public office.

Nobody should be laughing when Nigerians are asking who is accountable for the safety of the medicines they put in their bodies.

Beans don dey cook so fast, even faster than rice 🤔. Have you noticed it?

Beans hasn’t just been cooking faster, it has also become sweeter. You can testify that when you eat beans these days, it tastes noticeably sweeter than it used to. Even people who didn’t enjoy beans before have started developing a liking for it.

The truth is, this didn’t just happen by chance. In 2019, Nigeria approved and adopted genetically modified (GM) beans, the Pod Borer Resistant (PBR) cowpea, also known as Bt cowpea, for commercial use, becoming the first African country to do so.

Over the years, this new variety of beans has gradually replaced many of the varieties you knew and used to eat, without you even realizing it.

But here’s the thing: this new variety of beans is softer, cooks faster than the varieties we had before, and also tastes sweeter.

Though, the assertion that it is softer and sweeter was not professionally made. We have just assumed this from the changes that have been noticed by people since the adoption of the Bt cowpea

NOW YOU KNOW.

We love Bruno Fernandes at Manchester United. But we have spent so much time talking about how good he is that we deliberately shy away from talking about one part of his game that actually hurts us.

Bruno is a very good player and one of the most important players in this team, but he should not be undroppable.

Against Everton, I think Carrick got it wrong by taking off Kobbie Mainoo and leaving Bruno on when we were trying to protect the lead.

Mainoo had 10 recoveries, the most of any United player. If you are protecting a narrow lead, that is exactly the kind of player you need on the pitch.

Bruno's problem is that he is always in a hurry. He gets the ball and immediately wants to play forward, even when we should simply keep possession, move the ball around and kill the remaining five or ten minutes. His instinct is always attack, attack. Give him the ball in our defence and he is already looking towards the opposition's goal. That is brilliant when we want to break quickly and score, but it becomes a problem when we are leading and need to frustrate the opponent by keeping the ball.

We have even seen Mainoo telling him against City last season, “Bruno, Bruno, let us keep the ball.” There was a reason he was saying that to Bruno and not Casemiro.

This is where I think it is not a coincidence that during preseason we were controlling games, keeping the ball and playing through midfield. Then Bruno started against AC Milan, and suddenly we struggled to keep possession again. It is because Bruno is not naturally a player who helps us control possession. His instinct is always to attack and play the ball towards the opposition's goal.

This is something Bruno needs to improve, and Carrick needs to be brave enough to recognise it.

If we are protecting a lead late in a game, Bruno Fernandes should sometimes be the one coming off.

Growing up, I always thought Europe was bigger than Africa. I thought America was bigger. I thought Russia was bigger. I thought Canada was enormous compared to Africa. That was the picture I had in my head because that was the picture the world showed me through the maps we grew up seeing in schools, atlases and books.

Today, I know the reality. Africa is the second-largest continent on Earth, behind only Asia. Africa is bigger than Europe, bigger than North America and bigger than Australia. Africa has about 30 million square kilometres of land, while Europe has roughly 10 million. Africa also has 54 countries, more than any other continent, and a population of about 1.5 billion people, more than twice the population of Europe.

Yet look at the maps many of us grew up with. Africa looks small. Europe looks huge. North America looks huge. Russia looks enormous. Even Asia, the largest continent on Earth, is presented in a way that does not give you the same visual impression of its actual size.

And this is where I have a problem. I am not interested in hearing another explanation about why the old maps were designed that way. My question is simple: if we now have maps that can represent countries and continents much closer to their actual relative sizes, why were we not using those maps to teach children in the first place?

If a map can show Africa for what Africa actually is, why make Africa look small? If a map can show Europe in its actual relative size, why make Europe appear dramatically larger than Africa? If we can correct this representation today, then what exactly was the reason for maintaining the old representation for so long?

Because when we were children, we were not thinking about geography projections or technical cartography. We looked at the map and believed it. We saw Africa looking small, Europe looking big and America looking enormous, and that became our understanding of the world. Nobody stood in front of the classroom to tell us that the picture we were looking at was giving us a completely different impression of the actual size of these continents.

That has consequences for how people think. I remember when Africa had only three places at the FIFA World Cup. I did not question it because my mind had already accepted that Africa was small and Europe was big. When Africa got five slots, I saw it as Europe and the rest of the world finally giving Africa more space. I did not understand that I was looking at a continent that is more than three times the size of Europe and has 54 countries.

That is what makes this issue bigger than a map.

When you repeatedly present something as small, people eventually begin to see it as small. When you repeatedly present another place as large, powerful and dominant, people begin to associate that place with importance. You don't necessarily have to tell people that they are inferior. Sometimes you simply have to control the picture they grow up looking at.

And this is why I find the United Nations' recent move toward maps that represent the actual relative sizes of continents so important. Because it raises an uncomfortable question: if we can represent the world more accurately today, why were we comfortable teaching generations of children with a representation that made Africa and Asia look much smaller than they actually are?

But there is another side to this conversation, and African leaders need to take the blame too.

Yes, Europe created and popularised the maps that shaped how much of the world came to see geography. But we have known for years that there are other maps that represent the actual relative sizes of continents more accurately. We have seen them. We know the difference. Yet African governments have continued using the same old representations to teach African children.

Nobody stopped us from changing the maps in our schools. Nobody forced African governments to continue teaching children with the same representation generation after generation. We saw the problem, we knew there were alternatives, and we still carried on with it.

That is what frustrates me.

We are sitting here waiting for Europe and the Western world to correct the image of Africa for us, when we should be the ones taking responsibility for how Africa is presented to African children. If you know that Africa is enormous, if you know that Africa has 54 countries and over 1.5 billion people, if you know that Africa is more than three times the size of Europe, why are our children still being taught from maps that make Africa look like the smaller continent?

African leaders are quick to travel to Europe and America to borrow money and seek assistance from the Western world, but how much effort are they putting into projecting Africa for what it actually is? How much effort goes into building education systems, institutions and platforms that teach Africans to understand the size, strength and potential of their own continent?

We complain that the world does not see Africa correctly, yet sometimes we are the ones failing to show our own children the correct picture.

We cannot keep waiting for Europe to fix Africa's image for us. If the map is wrong, change it in our schools. If the narrative is wrong, change it in our classrooms. If the world is presenting Africa as small, we should be the first people correcting that narrative.

Because at the end of the day, who teaches African children how to see Africa?

African leaders do.

And if they continue doing nothing, we cannot blame Europe for every distorted image of Africa that our own children grow up believing.

Africa is not small. We were taught to see it that way, and unfortunately, we have continued teaching our children the same thing.