Not long after they were placed at the 61st position, the team dropped nine places and are now behind countries such as Uganda and Benin Republic at the 70th position.
In spite of this, African countries such as Algeria, Cote D’Ivoire and Ghana were among the top 40 teams in the world, holding the 32nd, 35th and 36th positions respectively.
Considering how great the Super Eagles were in the past, this ranking shows how poor the team’s performance has been recently.
Something should be done about this because most of these players perform brilliantly in their international teams.
We hope the sports ministry looks into this so the Super Eagles, who once achieved FIFA’s highest ranking and won several trophies, return to their past glory.
That’s what Brooklyn-based Nigerian artist, Olalekan Jeyifous, aimed to achieve with his creative photo series, Shanty Megastructures.
Using a series of 3D visuals, he created a realistic architectural view of Lagos in 2050, with massive tin towers spread across all the popular parts of the city.
According to him, the slums of Lagos are usually left out of developmental projects and are mostly targeted for demolition. By doing this, whatever development that happens in the state mostly favours the rich.
In Shanty Megastructures, he creates an idea where even the famous Makoko canal isn’t left out of the Sci-Fi age.
Although his idea isn’t perfect…
He however partnered with NLE Architects and Zoohaus/Inteligencias Colectivas to create a pollution-free and well-planned Lagos, in a previous project he called Uneven Growth.
More pictures from Olalekan’s project can be viewed here.
1. The Nigerian provisions starter pack:
If you don’t have all these, you’ve not started.
2. The official padlock for stingy students:
The worst people.
3. When you’re with your Nasco and you see someone chowing Kelloggs.
Please be going.
4. You, the first time they jacked your locker and stole your provisions:
Just leave me to die here.
5. When you beg your guys for provisions and they say they haven’t launched it yet.
Is this one mad?
6. When you’re the only one in your dorm that got provisions on visiting day.
As a bad guy.
7. When seniors see you entering the hostel with provisions.
It’s all over.
8. When a senior gives you bowl to go and fill with milk.
God, why me?
9. When you get back from class and catch someone trying to jack your locker.
You don enter am today.
10. When you open your provisions and people with spoons start appearing like:
Who are these ones?
11. When you’re the only one in your room left with provisions.
Oya beg me.
12. When they steal provisions from the stingiest person in your room.
God is good.
13. How you look at people that take their unopened provisions back home:
Being the radical that he was, Fela threw heavy shade at the Nigerian military in his 1977 song, Zombie, where he compared the soldiers to mindless Zombies.
In the light of the recent protests against police brutality in the US, American rapper, Jay-Z, compiled a list of songs that addressed social injustices in a selection he titled, Songs For Survival.
And because Fela’s legendary status and his Zombie song will be forever relevant, Jay-Z added this great song to the collection which is available for download on Tidal.
You can listen to Fela’s Zombie here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qj5x6pbJMyU
You can also listen to Songs Of survival via Tidal here.
1. When you haven’t even started enjoying your holiday and your parents bring up summer lesson.
Kuku kill me.
2. This annoying struggle:
Hay God!
3. You, waking up for school while everyone else is sleeping in for the holiday:
Why me, Lord?
4. When you turn up on the first day in your Christmas clothes.
SLAY!
5. When you enter school for summer lesson and the whole place is empty.
Hian! Am I the only olodo?
6. How you walk into class with your phone so everyone can see it:
Gats show off.
7. When people you don’t normally talk to in school try to form familiarity.
Did you miss road?
8. This satisfyingly petty realization:
See your life outside.
9. Shy girls letting loose during summer lesson like:
Oh? Is it like that?
10. You, watching your friends have actual holiday fun:
Is it fair?
11. When the summer lesson teacher still gives you homework.
Is coming not enough?
12. How you look at the students from other schools that attend:
Who are these ones?
13. When you successfully stab a day of summer lesson:
Winning!
14. You, dumping your summer lesson bae on the last day like:
BYE! Lose my number.
15. When summer lesson finally ends and you just blink and school resumes.
Kai! Already?
Co-written by Zikoko Contributor, Obeyaa Atta.
Finally, the Nigerian Senate gets something right and we’re so pleased with them.
On July 13, members of the Nigerian senate finally approved the ‘Discrimination Against Persons With Disabilities (Prohibition) Bill’ after its third and final reading.
This is a huge milestone considering the fact that people with disabilities have been fighting for the passing of this bill since 2007.
Announcing via his Twitter page, Senate President, Bukola Saraki, explained how the bill will finally put an end to all forms of abuse against people with disabilities.
#PromiseKept@NGRSenate's Discrimination Against Persons With Disabilities Bill will curb the abuse of Nigerians with disabilities
— Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki (@bukolasaraki) July 13, 2016
It’s good to know Nigerian Senators aren’t totally blind to the need for equal treatment of a group of people. We hope they revisit and finally pass the Gender Equality bill soon.
1. You, waiting for your mother to bring you breakfast in bed.
If you want breakfast in bed, sleep in the kitchen.
2. When you try and eat breakfast without doing your chores first.
When it’s not that you’re mad.
3. Your face, when you manage to eat breakfast before 1pm:
Ah! See miracle.
4. When you ask for breakfast and your mother starts warming rice.
Is it every time, rice?
5. When you hear a hawker chanting “AGEGE BREAD” outside.
Can’t carry last.
6. When your mother uses one teabag to make tea for everyone in the house.
Hay God!
7. The Nigerian breakfast sandwich starter pack:
The absolute best.
8. What every Nigerian grew up calling “tea”:
It’s sha still tea to me. Go and teach English to someone else.
9. When your mother makes you eat the dinner you didn’t finish from last night.
Mummy, yesterday has gone na.
10. You and your siblings, dodging that first and last slice of bread like:
Can they just stop putting it in the pack at all?
11. The unofficial Saturday breakfast:
Akara is forever bae.
12. The unofficial Sunday breakfast:
You know it’s true.
13. Every Nigerian’s favourite breakfast:
Only happens when your mum is in a great mood.
These are the people your Nigerian parents used to compare you to in class, the ones that had two heads:
Remember the Ades and Nkechis in your class that always came 1st while you came 21st? Here are 10 of them.
1. Samuel Achilefu
While some of you were fighting on Twitter, he invented infrared goggles which enable surgeons to see cancer cells.
2. Joan Obasi
And while Nigerian men and women were arguing over pounded yam, she became the youngest female pilot in Nigeria.
3. Laolu Senbanjo
During your amebo moment, Laolu created body paint for Beyonce and her dancers in her Lemonade album.
4. Abdul-Azeez Adeniji
While you were pressing your phone, this SS3 boy started his ICAN exams and graduated with a 1st class degree at 20.
5. Zuriel Oduwole
And while you were clapping back up and down, she was interviewing Heads of State and was the first 10-year-old to feature in Forbes Magazine.
6. Chimamanda Ngozi-Adichie
While some of you were bashing feminists, she did a verse on Mummy Beyonce’s song, Flawless, and slayed the whole world when she bagged an honorary degree from John Hopkins University.
7. Mayowa Nicholas
While you were chooking your mouth in another person’s business, Mayowa Nicholas killed the runway and was the first Nigerian to ever feature in a D&G campaign.
8. Ifesinachi Nelson Ezeh
When Nigerians were fighting over who belongs in the kitchen, Kelechi worked his ass off during his M.Sc in Agronomy and became the first African to graduate with a 5.0 GPA in Russia.
9. Augusta Uwamanzu-Nna
While people were hating on private universities, Augusta came top of her class and got admitted into 8 Ivy League universities in America.
10. Ola Orekunrin
While some people were insulting people’s parents over Island VS Mainland, Ola made the Forbes List after becoming UK’s youngest doctor in 2007 and creating West Africa’s first air ambulance.
