LESSONS FROM AFCON 2023!

Ivory Coast lost two out of three group matches but still got to the final. They had a second chance and took it seriously. Don't play with the second chance life gives you. Don't give up on yourself!

Ivory Coast were beaten 4-0 by Equatorial Guinea, yet they bounced back to the final while Equatorial Guinea got eliminated. Don't write anyone off. You won today, but it doesn't mean you are the best. Don't look down on the person you defeated yesterday!

Ivory Coast mobilized support for Morocco to beat Zambia so that they can qualify. Some of those clapping for you now and supporting you may not be your real friends. They may just be using your success for their gain. Morocco went home after helping Ivory Coast to qualify for the final. Don't let anyone use you for any gain that doesn't benefit you.

South African goalkeeper stopped 4 penalties against Cape Verde, and was so confident. South Africa wanted the match against Nigeria to end in penalties so that they would win. But against Nigeria, he couldn't stop any penalty. Instead, the Nigerian keeper stopped 2 and won MOTM. Don't be too confident of yourself.

Nigeria scored a second goal that was disallowed because of an earlier foul at the build-up. The goal was cancelled, and SOUTH AFRICA was awarded a penalty. Such is life. When you think you have lost, God may give you a redemption to turn ashes into beauty.

Senegal didn't lose any match at the group stage. But when they played against Ivory Coast they lost the match and were eliminated.

All the defenders were on Osimhen, they did all they could to stop him, even four of his goals were disallowed... but they didn't take note of Ademola Lookman. Your real enemy may not be who you are thinking.....

Kelechi Iheanacho didn't play the previous 5 matches. He came in late into the 6th game and became the hero. All you need to be a hero could just be one kick and not 100 kicks, but if you have just one opportunity to kick the ball, do it well......

I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.
Ecclesiastes 9:11

Time and chance mean PREPARATION WAITING FOR OPPORTUNITY.......

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University of Ilesha, Nigeria.

THE DEVILISH WORLD
It was one afternoon in the last quarter of 2008. Then, I was a NYSC teacher in one of the secondary schools in the Aniocha-North Local Government Area of Delta State.

I was listening to the world news broadcast on my tiny Motorola handset under one of the trees in the school compound, when it was reported that a passenger plane on an international flight from one of the South American countries got missing in the air.

Mr Obi, a calm and soft spoken man who must be in his 50s; whose look showed that he had gone and still going through the hard times of life was close to where I was. His right leg instep was somehow deformed with a scar from a long time injury, which had made walking a bit difficult for him. His countenance changed to a sad and thoughtful one when I told him about the bad news, he then went down memory lane but a sad one for that.

His words:
"I hope that the plane has not crashed into the Atlantic Ocean."

"Corper, this news reminds me of the time that I was in Lagos working with the Nigerian Airways. I was one of the cabin crew members then and I usually followed planes to different parts of the world."

I got curious and interested to hear more from him, because there was nothing to indicate that he had ever worked or existed in such an environment before, but his soft and barely audible voice was convincing.

He spoke further:
"I was on annual leave then and I decided to visit this village to spend part of the leave."

"When I got here, I started visiting family and friends, giving them gifts and money."

"I never knew when I wrote resignation letter from my job and went back to Lagos to submit same to the Authority of Nigerian Airways."

"When the leave was over, I went back to resume work."
"I was surprised when I was summoned and asked what I was there to do; I replied that my leave was over and that I returned to resume work, it was then that I was told that I had earlier resigned from the job."

"I strongly disagreed and contested this with them because I neither knew nor remembered that I ever at any time did anything like that." But I was confronted with my personally written and signed resignation letter and that was how I lost the job.

"I was without job for a while until I was helped to get job at Cardbury."
"My job there was to ensure the cleaning of the inner of the drums of the machines that were being used for production, after the production had taken place in the drums."
"The machines were self-wash with chemicals, while all we were do was to operate and supervise the machines through the cleaning process."
At the end of the cleaning process, we would press button and the machine would empty the cleaning chemical in it away, it was during one of those cleaning times that I unconsciously went to place this my right leg at where the machine would empty the chemical, and that is the cause of this my damaged instep.

I landed in hospital and lot of money was spent before I could be discharged. That is how I lost the job at Cardbury and I returned to the village to nurse the leg until I could move around with it.

I took a very long time before I was helped to get this messenger job, and that is what I have been doing since then.

Some years later, an elderly woman, who was one of those that I gave money to when I came to the village during my leave confessed before she died that she was the one behind my predicaments.
She said that it was the money that I gave to her that she paid to the priest that caused my misfortune!

Note: True life story but the name has been changed.

Do you know that the population of Nigeria is equivalent to the population of 34 African countries combined together 211 million?

They are Seychelles, Sao Tome🇸🇹, Cape Verde, Comoros, Djibouti, Eswatini, Equatorial Guinea, Mauritius, Guinea-Bissau, Gabon, Gambia, Lesotho, Botswana, Namibia, Liberia, the Republic of Congo, Mauritania, Central Africa, Libya, Togo, Sierra Leone, Eritrea, South Sudan, Burundi, Benin, Rwanda, Guinea, Tunisia, Chad, Zimbabwe, Senegal, Mali, Zambia , and Malawi.

When World War II broke out David Oguntoye hid in a ship and travelled to Britain to volunteer for the Royal Air Force.

He arrived in Britain in June 1942, and was selected to train as a navigator for four years in Canada. By the time he was returning to Britain in 1946, the war had already ended, meaning that he could not be deployed ot the battlefield.

He was instead posted to Bicester, Oxford as a welfare officer for the Caribbean airmen stationed there. In June of same year, Dulcie King, a young beautiful white lady, also serving in the Royal Air Force, was posted to the same station to serve as an education instructor.

The two fell in love and began courting something that shocked the military. Then, interracial marriages were really resented in Britain, and to make it worse this was happening in the military. Her commanding officer summoned and warned her about going out with a Black person.

Most of the officers disliked the fact that Dulcie had chosen a black boyfriend. Furthemore it was Ministry of Defence's policy that interracial relationships should not be allowed to thrive in the military. They transferred her to another station in an attempt to break the relationship, but the love was too strong.

On one occasion a group of airmen tried to attack David, but Dulcie intervened to protect him. The couple who were now both holding the rank of Flight Sergeant, continued to be seen together, and in October 1946 they attended a dance at Royal Air Force Bicester.

To rub salt in the wound, for the first time they decided to hold each other in public as other airmen watched. “He sat on the arm of my chair with his arm ostentatiously around me. This, of course, was something we never normally did in public, but we intended to demonstrate unmistakably our relationship,” Dulcie recalled.

One month later the two decided to leave the Royal Air Force and got married immediately on 16 November 1946 despite the opposition from her parents. They both trained as lawyers in London before leaving for Nigeria in 1954 where they settled permanently. Because he was considered a chief by his tribe Flight Sergeant David went on to marry five other wives , however, this did not in anyway affect their relationship. She was contented with being the first wife.

They went on to start a law firm together and in 1960, she denounced her British citizenship. In 1964, David Oguntoye was selected as a Court President while Dulcie Oguntoye became first a Magistrate and, in 1976, a High Court Judge. She was the first woman on the Lagos State bench and the second female judge in Nigeria after Modupe Omo-Eboh.

When David died in June 1997, she took charge as a ‘benevolent matriarch’ to her late husband’s family until her death in 2018.

The busy Nigeria - Cameroon Bridge , connecting the neighboring West and Central African State .

Nigeria and Cameroon jointly invested $36m on this border bridge project for economic activities and benefits for both countries.

• The bridge construction was completed in July, 2021 , this is dismantling the artificial border of the colonial designers.

With more than 55 countries, thousands of ethnic groups and hundreds of dialect, Africa is a challenging environment. Here are the correct dialling codes to help you communicate quickly with your colleagues in any African country.

Country Dialling code
Algeria +213
Angola +244
Benin +229
Botswana +267
Burundi +257
Burkina Faso +226
Cameroon +237
Cape Verde +238
Central African Republic +236
Chad +235
Comoros +269
Cote d’Ivoire +225
DR Congo +243
Djibouti +253
Egypt +20
Equatorial Guinea +240
Eritrea +291-1
Ethiopia +251
Gabon +241
Gambia +220
Ghana +233
Guinea +224
Guinea-Bissau +245
Kenya +254
Lesotho +266
Liberia +231
Libya +218
Madagascar +261
Malawi +265
Mali +223
Mauritania +222
Mauritius +230
Morocco +212
Mozambique +258
Namibia +264
Niger +227
Nigeria +234
Republic of the Congo +242
Réunion +262
Rwanda +250
São Tomé and Principe +239
Senegal +221
Seychelles +248
Sierra Leone +232
Somalia +252
South Africa +27
South Sudan +211
Sudan +249
Swaziland +268
Tanzania +255
Togo +228
Tunisia +216
Uganda +256
Zambia +260
Zimbabwe +263

African Voice
10 best African countries to invest in 2022

1. Nigeria

2. Egypt

3. South Africa

4. Algeria

5. Morocco

6. Kenya

7. Ethiopia

8. Ghana

9. Angola

10. Ivory Coast 🇨🇮

Source - Business Insider

Olympic great Mo Farah was illegally trafficked to Britain at the age of nine from Djibouti and forced to work as a child servant, he has revealed, saying his real name is Hussein Abdi Kahin.

The distance runner was flown to the UK from the east African country aged eight or nine by a woman he had never met, given the name Mohammed Farah, and then made to look after another family’s children, he tells a BBC TV documentary “The Real Mo Farah” to be aired Wednesday.

Farah, who completed the 5,000m-10,000m double at both the London 2012 and Rio 2016 Olympics, has previously said he came to the UK as a refugee from Somalia with his parents.

But in stunning revelations the 39-year-old now says his parents have never been to the UK — his father was killed in civil unrest in Somalia when Farah was four years old and his mother and two brothers live in the breakaway state of Somaliland, which is not internationally recognised.

“The truth is I’m not who you think I am,” says Farah. “Most people know me as Mo Farah, but it’s not my name or it’s not the reality.”

The woman who flew with him to the UK told him he was being taken to live with relatives and to say his name was Mohamed as she had fake travel documents that showed his photo next to the name “Mohamed Farah”.

Farah, the first British track and field athlete to win four Olympic golds, said his children motivated him to tell the truth about his past.

“That’s the main reason in telling my story because I want to feel normal and don’t feel like you’re holding on to something.”

When he arrived in the UK, Farah says the woman who accompanied him took a piece of paper from him that had his relatives’ contact details and “ripped it up and put it in the bin.

“At that moment, I knew I was in trouble,” he says.

Farah says he was forced to do housework and childcare “if I wanted food in my mouth”, and was told: “If you ever want to see your family again, don’t say anything.”

“Often I would just lock myself in the bathroom and cry,” he says.

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Faces of Lagos, Nigeria.