Some years back, my landlord increased my rent after I had just stayed in his house for a year. The upward review was shocking, and so was the amount. He doubled my rent. I initially thought that he wanted to evict me, but that wasn't the plan. After pleas and all, he settled for 50% increment. His kids used to come around, and they were quite chatty. About 3 or 4 months into my new tenancy, they came one day, and we got talking. Randomly, one of them said something like: "Daddy saw you on TV long time ago. The time you people went to court for one big man. He said 'ha David is a big lawyer o.' It was on Channels". I immediately figured what the girl was talking about. It was one case of public interest involving a huge sum of money. With colleagues, I was standing behind my boss, who was being interviewed. I also connected the dots and realised that it was that interview that my landlord saw when he decided that his lawyer tenant had stumbled upon stupendous wealth and fortune, necessitating a call for his part by tinkering with my rent. He knacked me rent review. He didn't know that standing behind a big lawyer during an interview isn't the same as being a big lawyer. Since then, anytime I see young lawyers behind their bosses during interviews, especially in "big" cases, I always laugh at them and myself. And among other things, that event informed my deep reservation for interviews and stuff like: "Happy to have represented XYZ in a 50 Billion Naira whatever". I was lucky it was a landlord who had that notion of what happened. Imagine if... Never mind.

Somewhere, a Nigerian has started calling people frantically to set up a football academy hoping to make a truckload of cash by the next transfer window. He’s just read the Yohanna story and the money looks good. Hello, your eyes will peel. Oju yin a bo. As financially-driven and financially rewarding football may be, majority still end up regretting ever getting into it. It rewards passion, but also can be a brutal place to be. There are many academies still hoping to see their first breakthrough. In Nigeria today, there are more academies than good footballers. The ones who are good may not have the right attitude or the right mentality. If you want to invest because you’re eyeing big bucks in one year, again, oju yin a bo. Your eyes will peel.

If they follow the FIFA rule, the Naija academy get a little over £1m out of this deal. If they went a step further and added say a 10% clause, that’s over £2m. Either way, big difference for a local academy. For all its faults, FIFA have some rules that have helped to keep football alive in smaller and poorer countries.

I find it deeply offensive when people compare Arsenal to terrorists. Terrorists actually attack.

I swear, I didnt imagine I’d ever see this in my lifetime 😂😂😭