@osasuo

🇬🇧 🇳🇬 ex-@BBC. ⚽️ junkie. Lawyer. @blzzrd, https://nitter.cf/t.co/wJcOOPmRF2 & @guardian writer. Ex- FIFA Anti-Racism Task Force. Associate Fellow, @official_NIIA.

Joined April 2009
You put up an AI post and gave the impression this is real, by not clearly stating this is AI generated, @FinMinNigeria? 😳🤦🏾‍♂️ @taiwoyedele call your officials to order, immediately!
𝐍𝐍𝐏𝐂 𝐑𝐞𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐥 𝐃𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭: 𝐖𝐡𝐨 𝐏𝐚𝐲𝐬? 𝐖𝐡𝐨 𝐁𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐟𝐢𝐭𝐬? Get the answers in this quick Q&A. 🇳🇬 #NNPC #FuelPrices #FinanceExplained
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How many of you have used Waymo? I’m no technophobe but I’d be wary of being in a driverless car when AI hacks and mishaps are not paranoia but very real…
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The Lagos-Calabar coastal road has been exposed for what it is - a scam. A very expensive scam.
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“#Africa must continue to resist this horrendous assault on the AFCON, and its right to determine its football affairs, until things are put back to how we, Africans, want it - an AFCON every two years, as has been the case since 1957.” Am excerpt from my August 2026 piece. 🙂
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A member of the @CAF_Online Exco, a few minutes ago, told me they will adopt a proposal to keep the #AFCON as a two-yearly event at their next meeting, later on today (Friday).
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When I told him in Rabat, just before the 2025 AFCON final, that a four-yearly AFCON was a bad idea, do you all remember the exchange I had with Motsepe? 🚶🏽‍➡️🚶🏽‍➡️🚶🏽‍➡️🚶🏽‍➡️
🚨BREAKING🚨 “We are looking into bringing AFCON back to every two years. That’s under review” ~ @CAF_Online President Patrice Motsepe. #SABCSport411 | @AFC_2025 | #CAFStrategyConference | @CAF_Online
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How many budgets, how many spending plans, is @NigeriaGov running at once? How is this normal?
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After playing on the horrible pitch in Bloemfontein in September last year, you would think that advance parties would be sent by @thenff, ahead of #FIFAWorldCup and #AFCON QFs, to assess the fitness of pitches and 🏟️. But no. The horrors of Bloemfontein were repeated a year later in Bissau. Does #Nigeria ever learn?
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The membership of the forthcoming @thenff Normalisation Committee will be a clear indication of whether real positive change is possible - or not possible - for football in #Nigeria.
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The responses of some Gen-Z and millennial people to my earlier Sani Abacha post - many of them glorifying him and his five-year reign of terror - is a cautionary tale against ignoring history in #Nigeria. Villains can be repackaged as heroes to the ignorant when the truth is not passed from one generation to the next.
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Sani Abacha is being recreated as a hero, a patriot, by a thirty-something year old person with no first-hand knowledge of the depth of his tyranny, murderous ways and theft of #Nigeria’s resources? What a time to be alive…
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A long-time friend just lost his job. He was called to the presidency in his country and given his marching orders. I’m sad, as a friend. But I can’t say I’m shocked by the news. He made a rod for his own back. Power is always transient. Hmmm!
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After successive losses in the @GhanaBlackstars first two #AFCON 2027 qualifiers, it’s no shock that public outcry in #Ghana has led to the sacking of Carlos Queiroz. What next?
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Breaking: The Court of Arbitration for Sport will sit to hear the legal case to determine the winner of the #AFCON 2025 final on Thursday, 8th October in Lausanne. Lawyers from the @Fsfofficielle, @FRMFOFFICIEL and @CAF_Online will be present, for the legal arguments. “The hearing is scheduled to begin at 9:30am and expected to end in the afternoon. After the hearing, the Panel will start its deliberations. CAS cannot state when a final decision will be rendered but it will not be on the day of the hearing,” CAS say. The arbitrators constituting the CAS Panel are as follows: Professor Gérald Simon as President (France) Professor Luigi Fumagalli (Italy) Professor Dr. Ulrich Haas (Germany) The media will not be admitted to the hearing.
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This is the current state of the Kasarani Stadium in Nairobi, #Kenya, which is slated to host #AFCON 2027 matches. I won’t say anything beyond this, for now.
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#Nigeria, what do you have to say about the comments of @NGSuperEagles head coach Eric Chelle, after they were given a 3-0 thrashing by Guinea-Bissau?
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