Ifeanyi Uddin

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Bolshevik. Fond of the price mechanism. Critical of the living. I also speak ill of the dead. Columnist @PremiumTimes, Nigeria.

CAF's award of its prime cup competition to Morocco has led to calls for "Black African" nations to withdraw from the competition in favour of North Africans.

Growing up, such was Issa Hayatou's perceived balefulness that the call was for a boycott against Cameroon.

Did Donald Trump (with an eye on the wild gyrations in the global energy markets) issue a near-apology for Israel's "rogue" attack on Iran's South Pars gas field?
From The Economist's Espresso.
Birds of Lagos (Common Bulbul - Pycnonotus barbatus).
Birds of Lagos (Red-eyed Dove - Streptopelia semitorquata).

"Messrs Trump and Netanyahu will claim victory however the war ends, but their voters may take some convincing." | @theeconomist

https://www.economist.com/middle-east-and-africa/2026/03/10/americas-war-aims-may-be-diverging-from-israels

America’s war aims may be diverging from Israel’s

For Binyamin Netanyahu they are, as ever, a question of politics

The Economist
Birds of Lagos (Shikra -Tachyspiza badia).
Increasingly, Iran looks like an Israeli client state, no more or less than Ḥarakat al-Muqāwamah al-ʾIslāmiyyah (Hamas) is an Israeli construct.

Ensconced in relative comfort in the West, Reza Pahlavi is calling for Iranians to protest around Chaharshanbe Suri on March 17—knowing that a regime with its back to the wall will hit back hard.

How is he different from the bloodthirsty cast in the goings-on in and around Iran?

Rivalrous ideologies and the gratuitous violence that is their inevitable consequence are not in humanity's interest.

Ali Ardashir Larijani's mind is one that the world would have been better off with.