2. Participants: 13 teams participated in the tournament, including seven from South America and six from Europe( Argentina, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, France, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru, Romania, United States, Uruguay and Yugoslavia).
3. Duration: The tournament spanned from July 13 to July 30, 1930.
4. Winner: Uruguay emerged as the champions by defeating Argentina 4-2 in the final match.
5. Goals: A total of 70 goals were scored in the tournament, with Lucien Laurent from France scoring the first-ever World Cup goal.
6. No Qualification: Unlike modern World Cups, there were no qualification matches. Teams were invited to participate, and several European teams declined the invitation.
7. Small Crowds: The matches had relatively small crowds compared to modern World Cups, partly due to the long travel distances to Uruguay.
8. Trophy: The Jules Rimet Trophy, named after FIFA’s third president, was awarded to the winners. It later became the iconic FIFA World Cup Trophy.
9. Unique Format: The tournament had a round-robin group stage, followed by a knockout stage. It was different from the single-elimination format used in later World Cups.
10. Legacy: The success of the 1930 World Cup laid the foundation for future tournaments, helping to establish the popularity of international football and the FIFA World Cup as a premier sporting event.
These facts highlight the historical significance of the first FIFA World Cup and its role in shaping the world of international football.
There are several reasons why decorating your house for Christmas can be a joyful and worthwhile endeavor:
1. Celebrating the holiday spirit: Decorating your house for Christmas helps create a festive atmosphere that amplifies the holiday spirit. It allows you to fully immerse yourself in the joy and warmth of this special time of year.
2. Creating memories: Decorating your house together as a family or with loved ones can become a cherished tradition and create lasting memories. It brings people together, encourages bonding, and allows for shared experiences that can be cherished for years to come.
3. Spreading joy and cheer: A beautifully decorated house can bring joy not only to you and your family but also to neighbors, friends, and visitors. It can uplift spirits, brighten days, and create a sense of happiness in the community.
4. Creating a cozy and welcoming space: Christmas decorations can make your home feel warm, inviting, and cozy. The twinkling lights, scents of pine or cinnamon, and festive ornaments can create a comforting ambiance that makes you and your guests feel welcomed and relaxed.
5. Keeping traditions alive: Decorating your house for Christmas helps keep traditions alive and connects you to the cultural and historical significance of the holiday. Whether it’s putting up a Christmas tree, hanging stockings, or displaying a Nativity scene, these decorations represent the customs and beliefs associated with Christmas.
6. Adding beauty and aesthetic appeal: Christmas decorations can enhance the visual appeal of your home. From colorful lights to elegant ornaments, they can transform your space into a magical winter wonderland, bringing a sense of beauty and enchantment.
Overall, decorating your house for Christmas allows you to immerse yourself in the festive spirit, create lasting memories, spread joy, and make your home a warm and inviting space for the holiday season.
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Check Out Six Churches That Don’t Celebrate Christmas And Reasons
As we all know that some Christians celebrate Christmas today, others on the other hand have shunned the celebration.
It is imperative to note that Christmas celebration has become rampant among the Christians.
These Christians that celebrate Christmas claim that they are doing it to celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ.
However, it pertinent to note Jesus wasn’t born on 25th December. The origin of Christmas has been traced to be a pagan worship.
In this report, 9news Nigeria examines six Churches that do not celebrate or participate in the celebrations and their reasons.
1- JEHOVAH’S WITNESSES This religious organization is one of the biggest groups of Christmas-Shunners. Once upon a time, Jehovah’s Witness used to observe Christmas. This was until 1928, after further study bynone official. The official found that this is based on “false religious beliefs or activities”. Deseret news reports that this is explained in a 1993 book, “Jehovah’s Witness-Proclaimers of God’s Kingdom”.
2- SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH Just like Jehovah’s Witness, this is Church is also against Christmas celebration.
A publication from them reads: “We do not celebrate Christmas as the Birth of Christ per say since Christ was not born in December”.
He did not want us to celebrate his birth or He (Christ) would have told us when he was born. It has become a money-making celebration with Christ mixed in. It is a paga ritual.
3- DEEPER LIFE A few years ago, Pastor W.F. Kumuyi, the head of the Church announced to the world that his Church does not celebrate the popular Holiday. Explaining at the 2013 retreat. He said: “We don’t celebrate Christmas nor sing Christmas carol; because Christmas is of idolatrous background “
4- GOD’S KINGDOM SOCIETY (GKS) GKS believes that there us no single evidence that Jesus was born on the 25th of December. Rather, they believe he was born on October and that Christmas originated from a “noisy pagan festival in honour of the god of the sun”.
The church was started by St. Gideon MeriodereUrhobo in 1934 after leaven Jehovah’s Witnesses with the headquarters found in Warrior.
5- RELIGIOUS SOCIETY OF FRIENDS AKA QUAKERS. This church believes that ” every day is a holy day”, so there is no need to single out just one day to celebrate.
6- MOUNTAIN OF FIRE MINISTRIES (MFM According to the founder of the church, Pastor D.K. Olukoya, ” We don’t celebrate Christmas because the root is demonic “.
When writing a Christmas card, there are many things you can include to spread joy and goodwill. Here’s a short and to-the-point message you can write:
Wishing you a Merry Christmas filled with love, laughter, and happiness. May this festive season bring you peace and joy. Warmest wishes for the holidays and the coming year.
May the magic of Christmas warm your heart and home, and bring joy to you and your loved ones. Merry Christmas!
I hope this Christmas fills you with faith,hope and good health that will last you a lifetime. Have a blessed Christmas!
I wish Santa brings you The gift of never ending Happiness this Christmas! May you and your family Be blessed abundantly. Happy Christmas!
Unhealthy eating habits persist in Nigerian culture due to a blend of traditional practices, modern influences, and socio-economic factors. While Nigerian cuisine is rich in diverse flavors and ingredients, certain dietary patterns contribute to health concerns.
1. High Consumption of Processed Foods: Urbanization and globalization have introduced a surge in processed and fast foods, leading to increased intake of sugar, unhealthy fats, and additives. This shift from traditional, homemade meals to convenient, processed options contributes to health issues like obesity and chronic diseases.
2. Preference for Starchy Foods: Nigerian diets often revolve around starchy staples like rice, yam, and cassava, which, when consumed excessively without adequate portions of vegetables and proteins, may lead to imbalanced nutrition and weight gain.
3. Overreliance on Oil and Fried Foods: Deep-frying and excessive use of palm oil in cooking, though adding flavor, may lead to high caloric intake and adverse effects on cardiovascular health if not moderated.
4. Limited Fruit and Vegetable Intake: Despite the abundance of fresh produce, inadequate consumption of fruits and vegetables is prevalent. This deficiency in essential nutrients and fiber contributes to health issues such as vitamin deficiencies and digestive problems.
Addressing these habits involves promoting education on balanced diets, advocating for increased consumption of fruits and vegetables, and encouraging moderation in consuming processed and oily foods. A cultural shift towards embracing healthier cooking methods and traditional dishes enriched with diverse nutrients can play a pivotal role in fostering healthier eating habits within Nigerian culture.
Ensuring security during the Christmas celebration is crucial to make the festivities safe and enjoyable. Here are some security tips to consider:
1. Home Security:
Be cautious with displaying expensive gifts. Dispose of packaging discreetly, so as not to advertise valuable items inside your home. Make sure all doors and windows are locked when you leave your home, even if it’s just for a short time. Consider installing a home security system or using smart home devices, like security cameras and doorbell cameras.
2. Travel Safety:
If you’re traveling, secure your home before leaving. Lock all doors and windows, and set alarms if you have them. Avoid posting travel plans on social media. Share your vacation photos and experiences after returning home. Be cautious of your surroundings, especially in crowded places, and be aware of your belongings.
3. Online Shopping Safety:
Shop from reputable websites to avoid scams. Use secure payment methods, and avoid saving credit card information on websites if possible. Keep your devices and antivirus software updated to protect against cyber threats.
4. Secure Financial Information:
Be cautious when using ATMs, and cover the keypad while entering your PIN. Monitor your bank accounts regularly for any suspicious activity. Keep wallets, purses, and other valuables secure in crowded places.
5. Fire Safety:
Be cautious with candles and open flames. Keep them away from flammable materials and never leave them unattended. Check and replace the batteries in smoke detectors regularly. If you have a Christmas tree, make sure it is well-watered to reduce the risk of it becoming a fire hazard.
6. Driving Safety:
If you’re driving during the holidays, be mindful of increased traffic and potentially adverse weather conditions. Avoid driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs, and encourage others to do the same. Check your vehicle’s condition before traveling, including tires, brakes, and fluid levels.
7. Emergency Preparedness:
Familiarize yourself with emergency exits and evacuation plans if you’re attending events in public places. Keep emergency contact numbers handy. Have a basic first aid kit available, and know how to use it.
8. Child Safety:
Keep an eye on children during holiday gatherings, especially in crowded or unfamiliar places. Childproof your home if you’re hosting children, removing potential hazards. Be Mindful of Strangers:
DISCLAIMER: There is a notion that once you present an anti-japa argument, you’re automatically an agent working for the govt. I want to state here that I have never supported this Apc govt since their coming to power in 2015. My contrary opinion on japa stems from my detest of youths mass-migration for economic reasons. I see it as an act of cowardice and stupidity.
This is not just for Nigerians japaing alone. I’m also disgusted whenever I see pictures of thousands of able bodied Latino youths who are at the US-Mexico border begging to be allowed entry into the US. These youths coming to together to mass-migrate can also link-up to take back their country via any possible means. Because if their home countries were better, they won’t be moving out enmass. One of the reasons why the citizens of the country you’re japaing to often discriminate against you is because you have proven to be a weakling seeking an easy excape or an inferior who are incapable of fixing their problems. The only mass-migration i support is if it’s due to serious natural disaster or large scale political persecution like that of Israel-Palestinian conflict. Below are the 11 reasons why you shouldn’t Japa from Nigeria.
1.) It’s More Easier To Be A Dollar Millionaire/Billionaire In Nigeria:
There are millions of Nigerians in the diaspora who are supposedly living in the first world economy and are working in various fields of human endeavor. But it may interest you to know that non have ever made it into Forbes billionaires list. But those at home keep making the list back to back. This is important to point out because wealth building is a crucial topic to every real man and majority of Nigerian men moving are doing so mainly due to financial reasons. Truth is, Nigeria is the largest market in Africa and a developing economy. There are plenty of wealth to be created in a “developing economy” than in a “develop economy”, that’s why as you are trooping out, Chinese, Lebanese and Indians are trooping in. Nigerians are raising $20k-30k in this economy to Japa while average Americans can’t boast of $10k in their bank accounts, they live check to check.
2.) African Communal Living:
Nigeria offers the African social support system that you won’t find in the Western countries. You fit run into financial emergency, your family will gather to raise funds for you, if you child misbehaves outside elders go assist you to discipline the child before you return home, if your house is on fire the whole neighborhood will join hands in puting out the fire, if you’re cooking late night and ran out of maggi, if you knock on your neighbor door, him go deliver you, if your co-tenant never see you for 2 to 3 days, he go knock for your door to check up on you. All these don’t happen in your Japa destination. In the West, you fit dey sick and later kpai inside your room and stay there for over a month nobody go know until your body begins to the smell.
3.) There Is More Insecurity Abroad:
You are 7times more likely to be shot in any city in America than in Lagos. Almost every Western country has violent “Far-Right Groups” who are frustrated and bitter with their Govts for allowing influx of migrants to erode their society and culture. These groups are like a time bomb waiting to go off because they can easily turn violent by attacking migrants especially black people. The big truth is, insecurity especially in southern Nigeria is over-reported and amplified on social media. There are violent crimes in every country. The crime news you read on social media especially in South of the country is commiserate with our population. No one can pull out any data anywhere to show that crime rate in the South has reached an epidemic proportions as believed on social media. In fact if you ban social media for 1year in Nigeria and conduct an opinion poll on insecurity. You will be surprised that Nigerians will tell you that insecurity has reduced. Just recently, a govt minister was robbed on the highway in South Africa. If that were to happens in Nigeria, Japa will be trending in Nigeria for more than a week. Most Nigerians haven’t seen a bokoharam militant before but bokoharam will attack a village in Borno State close to the border with Chad, someone living in Lekki will read the news online and tweet that he wants to Japa due to insecurity.
4.) Easy Access To Natural Foods:
Nigeria has abundant healthy cheap natural foods and it’s even taken for granted here. The people in the abroad you wants to go are jealous of your menu. Unhealthy and disease-causing canned and processed foods are what you will end up to when you finally japa because you will pay through your nose to place your hands on any organic food there.
5.) Favourable Weather Condition Throughout The Year:
Nigeria has one of the best climate conditions you can find. We have no extreme weather here. No severe temperature, Tornado or Harricane. Weather conditions in your Japa destination can cause sudden emergency situations. It can sometimes cause a whole city to be evacuated.
6.) No Racism:
Truth remains that after you Japa, you and your family will at one point experience both subtle and harsh discrimination based on your skin color or accent and you will never integrate into the Western society not even in a million years. Black Americans that japaed 400yrs ahead of you are yet to be fully integrated and accepted, I don’t know who is motivating you that you will be accepted fully or that your own case will be different.
7.) Nigeria Better On Raising Cultured Kids:
If as a Nigerian, you are cautious of how your kids will be raised, you better stay back home, because in the West, your kids doesn’t belong to you. They belongs to the government and authorities there are free to teach and instill any idealogy they deem necessary. So don’t be shocked if your 7yrs old son are taught how to switch gender or pronoun at school and given free lgtv literature with erotic images.
8.) Nigeria Better On Entertainment And Fun Activities:
You can fall into depression abroad due to loneliness and stress from doing multiple jobs but not in Nigeria. With little money in Nigeria, you can go partying and balling till dawn day in day out. You fit die onto enjoyment.
9.) No Weird Or Crazy New Culture:
Abroad will humble a deeply religious person who is against homosexuality to work as a caregiver for gay couples. You will be forced to embrace trans and gay people, feminism and made to reject polygamy. I doubt if men have rights in the West. You risk losing everything to a woman, this don’t only apply to your wife. Even your long-term girlfriend who you are cohabiting with, can be given a share of assets after a breakup by the court. If a random woman accuses you of rape, the system will already treat you as a convict. I recently observed that premier league captain band is now decorated with pride colors (lgtv flag) to support the community. And you know what awaits any player that openly criticizes it or refuses to wear the band. He risk getting cancelled and he should kiss his footballing career a goodbye. They will use his punishment as deterrent to others. All these new crazy woke policies and behaviors are not practiced in Nigeria.
10.) Cost Of Living Is Cheaper:
Thousands of Americans and EU citizens are retiring like kings in South East Asia and South America ie Thailand, Indonesia, Mexico, Chile etc. You can look it up. Not that they don’t love their home countries but because they are excaping the high cost of living in the West. Accommodation, transportation, education, local foods etc are still cheaper in Nigeria. The amount you will paid on a match-box apartment in London or New York can fetch you a year rent of 2bedrooms flat in a good location in any major Nigerian city.
11.) No Rat Race Or Extreme Taxation In Nigeria:
You will labour abroad for a month and the rigged system will use “high taxation, high cost of living and the scam credit system” to return everything back to the system in order for you to repeat the circle again. In a bid not to go homeless on the cold streets, and also to put food on your table, you have no other option than to keep repeating the circle until the time you will finish your term of slavery due to old age, then your children will start where you stopped and the circle continues. Truth is, the entire world is controlled by the globalists in the West, the further away you’re from the West and it’s entanglements the freer you will become. If the 1% elite in the West removes the rigging in the system you will be able to secure enough bags and retire early. But they stands to lose if people starts excaping the system early, they need your manpower for longer period of time to maintain their industries and establishments. This explains why the more income you earn there, the more rediculous taxes you pays because the system is continously gauging you and the tax system (one of it’s tools of control) is strictly and heavily guided, defaulters risks jail term. The system was programmed in a way that you will never get enough in order not for you to start thinking of excaping the slave camp early until you finish your term of slavery. This is one of reasons why rich and exposed Nigerians don’t fancy living abroad. Even most African ex-footballers returns home immediately after the end of their career in Europe. An average Nigerian coming from lack, hunger and extreme poverty and who is daydreaming of Japa won’t be able to see this anomaly. Living in Nigeria will provide you the opportunity to excape Matrix.
In Nigeria, fruits and vegetables like oranges, carrots, mangoes, tangerines, etc., are commonplace. Many people, including Nigerians, don’t know that besides these staples, the country grows other uncommon fruits and vegetables that are often thought to be imported. Now that you know we have certain uncommon fruits and vegetables in Nigeria, here are some of them….
1. Broccoli. One can actually argue that Broccoli is grown exclusively in Plateau state and not in any other Nigerian state. The fruit market in Jos is all the more richer and diverse because of this and other exotic vegetables and fruits.
2. Cauliflower Cauliflower is rich in vitamins and minerals, also very essential in detoxification, proper digestion, and helps fight cancer, inflammation and other heart conditions.
3. Beetroots Beetroot was first cultivated by the Romans. Today, the leading commercial producers include the USA, Russia, France, Poland and Germany. It can be roasted, blended into a soup, boiled, or consumed raw in salads. Studies claim that beetroot juice improves athletic performance, reduce blood pressure, and increase blood flow.
4. Strawberries Strawberry is grown in large quantities in Jos and other areas of Plateau state. For anyone who has ever travelled from Abuja to Jos, the women hawking strawberry and other uncommon fruits and vegetables around Riyom local government area are not hard to miss.
5. Pomegranates
Pomegranates are a great source of vitamin C, fibre, and vitamin B6.
6. Raspberries Raspberries are highly rich in antioxidants, potassium, fiber, and other nutrients that are essential to the body system.
7. Apples
8. Blueberries Blueberries are low in calories but high in nutrients. Also used in fruit juices.
9. Tomatoes Of course, tomatoes are grown in many states across Nigeria. But the tomatoes in some states stand out for their excellent quality and flavour. That’s why the praise name “Tomato Jos” for example, is a thing.
10. Celery This contains important antioxidants; it reduces inflammation, supports digestion, and is rich in vitamins and minerals.
11. Eggplants Eggplants are a source of vitamins and minerals. It helps in digestion, reduces the amount of cholesterol that the body absorbs and thus improves heart conditions. It also helps bones become stronger and increase bone density.
12. Radish Radishes can be red, white, or purple. It has been said to aid digestion, fight fungus, prevent diabetes and improve skin condition.
Here’s a picture of the British commissioner to Nigeria, Catriona Laing, shopping for fruits at the farmers market in Plateau.
Hey goal getters, as the year comes to an end, here are 5 things I’d advise you to do before the year runs out.
1. Reflect on Achievements: Before the year ends, take some time for introspection. Reflect on your achievements, challenges, and areas for improvement throughout the year.
2. Start Setting Goals Now: I know this may sound cliche, but the earlier you set the goals, the clearer they are. Use the facts from your evaluation to set clear goals for the coming year.
3. Strengthen Your Network: Networking is a powerful tool for career growth. Reconnect with colleagues, mentors, and industry peers. Attend networking events, join professional associations.
4. Work-Life Balance Assessment: Take a close look at your work-life balance. Assess whether your current work schedule and responsibilities align with your personal and professional priorities.
5. Financial Planning: I know we’re getting to that time of the year where we spend a lot on festivities. It is advisable to review your financial situation, spend wisely and set financial goals for the coming year.
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