Janine

🚨🗣️ 𝗡𝗘𝗪: Mascherano: "Today we have shown that we can compete against any team in the world."

I'm not sure people are really grasping yet the scale of what is happening in Texas tonight

When Samuel Abdulraheem disappeared at seven years old, his family searched for him until they began to fear they would never see him again. For six years, they had no idea where he was or what had happened to him. His sister, Firdausi Okezie, refused to give up hope, even when the family began to accept that he might be dead. Then, in December 2000, she travelled to a church gathering in Ogun State to sell fabrics made by her mother. While waiting for a carpenter to help her set up her stall, she noticed a boy standing beside a blind beggar. She looked at the boy again. He was her missing brother. Samuel was seven years old when he disappeared from his family home in Kano, northern Nigeria. His father had 17 children with four wives, and Samuel was the youngest child in the family. On the day he went missing, he was reportedly at home with a nanny. The family was told that he had gone outside to ride his bicycle, but he never returned. At first, his disappearance was difficult for the family to understand. They searched for him and contacted the police. His nanny was initially arrested but was later released after investigations. His older sister, Firdausi, was away at university when Samuel disappeared. She was not immediately told what had happened to him. She began to suspect something was wrong when she repeatedly called home and noticed that things were different. After returning home unexpectedly, she learned that her younger brother had been missing for more than a month. The news devastated her. The family searched for Samuel, placed advertisements in newspapers and sent people to look for him. They checked places where they feared he might have been abandoned and pursued different leads, but none brought him home. As the months passed without any information, hope began to fade. His mother, who was living elsewhere after separating from his father, was not told about his disappearance immediately. The family delayed breaking the news to her because they feared how she would react. Eventually, she learned that her son was missing. Years passed, and there was still no sign of Samuel. What his family did not know was that he was alive, hundreds of kilometres away from Kano, being forced to guide blind beggars around the streets. Samuel had very little memory of how he was taken from home. When he later spoke about his experience, he remembered being approached by people who were not his parents and being persuaded to follow them. His clearest memory of the journey was travelling by train. He was taken to Lagos, where he was handed over to a woman who lived in an area where many disabled beggars stayed. According to Samuel's account, the woman sent children out with beggars and collected money from them in return. Samuel was hired out to blind beggars for about ₦500 a day. His job was to guide them through the streets as they begged for money. He could not simply decide to leave. The beggars depended on him to move around, and he was expected to remain with them throughout the day. Different beggars hired him for periods ranging from a week to a month. He moved around Lagos and neighbouring areas, sometimes travelling to other states and even across the border into Benin. He was rarely able to settle anywhere for long. Samuel later described his life during those years as a form of slavery. He had little control over where he went or what he did. Hunger was a constant problem. Sometimes people gave them food while they were begging. At other times, they searched for leftovers around restaurants or scavenged for food. The money collected from begging did not belong to Samuel. The woman who controlled the arrangement received payment for his labour. He spent six years living this way, separated from his family and without knowing when he would see them again. Meanwhile, Firdausi had refused to completely abandon the search for her brother.

I think someone needs to tell Blackface say we no dey 2006 anymore lol. This na big 2026 😂 Better leave music and focus on business. Make you no waste your small money bro 😭😂

A fact-finding committee has been set up by the #Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) to look into the "unwholesome poor run of the country’s National Teams in international competitions, with specific attention to the failure to qualify for the 2027 Women’s World Cup." 😑😐😩🤦‍♂️