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Nigeria: After Afcon, What Next (2)

todayFebruary 16, 2024 2

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President of Nigeria Football Federation, NFF, Ibrahim Gusau, practically counted Nigeria’s eggs before they were hatched when he told the News Agency of Nigeria in Abidjan that “the Super Eagles will win the AFCON trophy for Tinubu”. Gusau claimed that the Super Eagles’ 1-0 quarter-final victory over Angola was as a result of President Bola Tinubu’s Renewed Hope Agenda.

Responding to Gusau and NFF’s boasts that the Super Eagles will win the AFCON trophy for Tinubu, a prominent educationist wrote on his social media handle: “Unfortunately they couldn’t because their parents and family members at home are hungry, coupled with unprecedented insecurity in the land… The Ivorians noticed that and went on the offensive. The Eagles had no option than to prostrate.”

What next, after AFCON? The answer is we are back home to face the reality of our intractable problems. Over that weekend, founder of Afe Babalola University, Ado Ekiti, Aare Afe Babalola, pointed out some of those problems to us. He said that the harsh economy is propelling Nigerians to crime: “What is behind all these is the fact that we have no money. Our money has no value, our currency is as worthless as toilet paper.

“Something has to be done about naira and productivity. Farmers have left their farms now because of kidnappers. Something has to be done about kidnapping and farmers have to be encouraged to go back to their farms.”

Aare Babalola also warned that the debt burden hanging on Nigeria’s neck will cripple the country: “Nigeria is one of the heaviest debtors in the world…let us investigate how we came to several trillions of dollars debt; what did we spend it on? I can assure you; this money is pocketed by those who said they collected it.”