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Ifeanyi Uddin
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Bolshevik | Fond of the price mechanism | Critical of the living | I also speak ill of the dead | Leader Writer/Columnist @PremiumTimesng.
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Ifeanyi Uddin @ifeanyiuddin.bsky.social · 27d
Bí omodé ó bá te, àgbà kìí ní iyì.
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Ifeanyi Uddin @ifeanyiuddin.bsky.social · 5h
One reason Nigerians kibbitz interminably under the baneful spell of an active microphone is an inability (reluctance?) to first organised our thoughts.
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Ifeanyi Uddin @ifeanyiuddin.bsky.social · 6h
I'm hearing grassroots journalists worry about their target markets' literacy in English.

I'm worried about the presumption of literacy in any of our local languages.

#CMEDIA #LocalJournalism
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Ifeanyi Uddin @ifeanyiuddin.bsky.social · 9h
From The Economist's Espresso.
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Ifeanyi Uddin @ifeanyiuddin.bsky.social · 22h
Birds of Lagos (Speckled Pigeon - Columba guinea).
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Ifeanyi Uddin @ifeanyiuddin.bsky.social · 1d
Nigeria incorporated, too big to jail, By Uddin Ifeanyi
In my almost thirty years of work as a foot soldier in Nigeria Incorporated I learnt lessons galore. A few of the instructions have been handy. Contrast the plainness of the fact that work ought to be...
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Ifeanyi Uddin @ifeanyiuddin.bsky.social · 1d
"Liberty Advances, the party led by Argentina’s president, Javier Milei, won the country’s midterm elections. With 95% of votes counted, the party secured 41% against the opposition alliance’s 32%." | The Economist
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Ifeanyi Uddin @ifeanyiuddin.bsky.social · 1d
From The Economist's Espresso.
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Ifeanyi Uddin @ifeanyiuddin.bsky.social · 2d
Pity that Eberechi Oluchi "Ebere" Eze couldn't fully celebrate his first goal in The Gunners' kit.
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Ifeanyi Uddin @ifeanyiuddin.bsky.social · 2d
The Eagles' counter-attacking play has them points up against The Gunners in the first third of this match.
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Ifeanyi Uddin @ifeanyiuddin.bsky.social · 2d
Football, as a game where electrifying attackers dribble the ball past defenders to create goal-scoring chances, long since gave way to football as a game where footballers with outstanding ball control (the first touch is everything) hypnotically pass the ball past defenders.
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Ifeanyi Uddin @ifeanyiuddin.bsky.social · 2d
"Compact" defending. No "high press".

The Eagles will struggle to create meaningful attacking opportunities over the next 90 minutes.
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Ifeanyi Uddin @ifeanyiuddin.bsky.social · 2d
"A well-known result in economics is that the damage a tax does rises quadratically with the tax rate." | The Economist
The case against holding bonds
Governments are going bust. Inflation risk looms over long-term debt
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Ifeanyi Uddin @ifeanyiuddin.bsky.social · 2d
"Piling up debt through irresponsible budgeting can seem like part of human nature." | The Economist
How do some countries avoid debt?
Reforms to limit debt accumulation seemed to have worked—in the countries lucky enough to have enacted them
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Ifeanyi Uddin @ifeanyiuddin.bsky.social · 2d
A friend described a mutual acquaintance this way:

"He's educated in a way in which 'Lagbaja' is not - even though both went to quality universities.

"He's intelligent in a way in which most Nigerians long since stopped trying to be".
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Ifeanyi Uddin @ifeanyiuddin.bsky.social · 2d
When government raises its tax take to fix the holes in the exchequer, it constrains consumer spending and business investment.

When it cuts its spending for the same reason, it reduces a primary driver of domestic inflation.
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Ifeanyi Uddin @ifeanyiuddin.bsky.social · 2d
Naturally overwrought, Nigerians very quickly and just as easily conflate honest descriptions with pejoratives.
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Ifeanyi Uddin @ifeanyiuddin.bsky.social · 2d
The infantilisation of America is gathering steam.

In which universe does an advert in which Ronald Reagan is heard extolling free trade a "hostile act"?

Did the advert misrepresent The Gipper?
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Ifeanyi Uddin @ifeanyiuddin.bsky.social · 2d
Birds of Lagos (Woodland Kingfisher - Halcyon senegalensis).
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Ifeanyi Uddin @ifeanyiuddin.bsky.social · 2d
Birds of Lagos (Spur-winged Lapwing - Vanellus spinosus).
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Ifeanyi Uddin @ifeanyiuddin.bsky.social · 2d
Once upon a time, a Mo' Salah curler in the 18-yard box was every opposing goalkeeper's nightmare.
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Ifeanyi Uddin @ifeanyiuddin.bsky.social · 2d
The Reds' movement with the ball is leaden; off it, nonexistent.
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Ifeanyi Uddin @ifeanyiuddin.bsky.social · 2d
The Bees 3, The Reds 1.

Surely, this impending defeat will sting more than the loss to The Red Devils.
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Ifeanyi Uddin @ifeanyiuddin.bsky.social · 2d
There's no way back for The Reds if this penalty goes in.
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Ifeanyi Uddin @ifeanyiuddin.bsky.social · 2d
It must be an eternity since Mohamed "Mo" Salah Hamed Mahrous Ghaly's last appointment with Tinker Bell.

No pixie dust in his boots this season.
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Ifeanyi Uddin @ifeanyiuddin.bsky.social · 2d
Brentford FC are floating like butterflies and stinging like bees.

The Reds?

Well, they're seeing red.