My Dirty Boxers

Probably my favorite picture of the year; genuine smiles, pure happiness and hope for a bigger and more rewarding 2026. (Photo credit: Seyi Lantern) It’s been a minute since I showed up here. A long one. And what a year it’s been; dramatic, chaotic, occasionally graceful, and stubbornly human. The kind of year that hands you joy with one hand and says “manage this nonsense” with the other. Plenty of good, fair portions of bad, and yes, the occasional ugly cameo, because life doesn’t do edited versions. Last night, while recording a podcast with IBK and AY of Ontario, a question surfaced — what were our most iconic sporting moments of the year? Innocent question. Dangerous consequences. Because it immediately shape-shifted into something deeper: what were my own iconic moments of 2025? And just like that, my mind took off without filing a flight plan. Quick disclaimer for first-timers: read me for vibes, not structure. If you’re trying to connect dots, you’ll need a compass, a trans...

  My prayer is with France and that's because we don't want the GOAT conversation to ruin the week. (Photo credit: BBC) God knows I had genuine plans of dragging Halima Momodu (she has a new surname now tho after getting married to a Yoruba man sometime in 2019 after a series of Ibadan activation) but I’ll keep the sabbath day holy. Today is the World Cup final between Argentina and France and as much as I can say to the satisfaction of my conscience that Lionel Messi deserves the World Cup title, I hope France wins it for peace to reign in the world. I can’t stand an unnecessary debate in my football groups and on Twitter. Yesterday was Tunde Fancy’s birthday and of course, I was supposed to write about him but mumsy came to town to take care of me and that overruled it; to be honest, it’s hard to write about Fancy because the dude is just who he is but I’ll try to share a thing or two about him. Fancy and I have a few things in common but I am not a politician like him....

  Happy birthday Bode my guy. Stay kingling. (Photo credit: Naija Pundit) I woke up with this funny sensation in my left eye and I’m a little worried. It’s painful and it gets worse if I get sharp exposure to rays of light but what am I Supposed to do when I’ll be staring at the laptop all day? Lemme digress. Today is Bode’s birthday. He is a friend and a brother from the famous Naija Pundits group. Bode is cool by all standards; he is our resident tech guy and he’s always there to answer all our tech needs. Since Maxi moved to the UK, he also doubles as my DSTV renewal guy. Speaking of DSTV renewals, Bode tries to remind me a day before the due date which is typically the 11 th of every month and he’s always quick to bring product information to us – he works with a tech firm that supplies support to Multichoice, which explains why he’s able to help. Bode once tried to link me up with a lady lol, that was long ago by the way; 2016 to be precise but it ended in tears, all bl...

  Steven and his beautiful bride, happy married life folks. You left Bellerin and Fancy in this cold world of singlehood. (Photo credit: Naija Pundits) Yesterday had everything, from canceling on Steven and his bride, to getting a call from Slimee and the other two musketeers on a potential flight ticket – that eventually worked out, to a road trip that was quite entertaining and then some reality checks from Opeyemi and Omolara, it had everything. Thanks to everyone that reached out after reading my article of yesterday, I didn’t mean to get anyone worried but sometimes, even the sun has its sinking spell. I feel a lot better and would be back to full fitness in the coming days, until then… We stay jiggy. I remember a conversation with Opeyemi sometime in April where she used a particular line on me – “soul searching”, it didn’t make any sense until a short conversation yesterday where she did what she does best, sting unprovoked LOL but in all of the subliminal messages she p...

  Best birthday wishes Ibee, in your lifetime and next season to be precise, Mikel Arteta will lead Arsenal to the premier league title. Stay jiggy bro. (Photo credit: Phada) Welcome to April, it is the 91 st day of my 365 days journey and at the time I started, I didn’t think I’d be faithful with this project to date. Three months and counting, I’m proud of myself and I can only take this in my stride and let it propel me to continue. Today I’m taking stocks, I’ll touch base with my friend Ibee, yesterday was his birthday and I’d planned to celebrate him on this blog but I had to share a piece of precious information and the two couldn’t coexist, hence the shift to today… Belated birthday wishes to you Ibee of the bloody-ass Leftist kingdom. It’s been a rollercoaster year for lots of reasons and I can’t even complain. Normal is boring, right? There’s beauty in occasional chaos sometimes but when the rain turns into a hurricane, it might be time to press the panic button, I li...

  My friend, my brother... Happy birthday Bellerin. Ignore the gentleman looks, o ya weyreh ju Putin lo. (Photo credit: Naija Pundits) Friends are the real essence of life; as much as many of us like to keep our distance from people, partly due to experiences and fear of the unknown, having folks to laugh with and cry with remains an integral part of why we exist. Today, I choose to celebrate Bellerin… A friend indeed. Love him or hate him; he’s a great guy. Annoying 80% of the time, but in him, you have a friend you can trust, one you can call on in dire times and be sure of his genuine efforts to help, Seyi Okusanwo’s birthday is today, and it’s his turn to grace my blog. He has many names, Bellerin, Fletcher, Nesta, Olu-Gabriel, Aaby to, mention a few. If anything jumps at you from these names, you’d know he loves football even though his punditry leaves too much to be desired; left to him, you’d probably still have Mourinho in charge at Manchester United. I’ll come back t...

  He posted this picture recently on his return from Dubai with HIS WIFE, read that again, he's not single. (Photo credit: Naija Pundits) Let me remind you again that if you’re my friend, this moving train will hit you someday. You don’t have to agree with my write-up on you, I challenge you to pick your pen and write about me too if you’re slighted or you feel a need to equalize, today it’s the turn of Mr. ASK! Abdulsadiq Kosoko is one of the friends I made from Naija Pundits, one of the lively baggers in there with lots of energy to go around, a man of many colors, great on most days and a full blown nuisance on other days, I like him a lot and I’ll tell you why. Slimee, as he’s fondly called is into real estate and he’s not hesitant to help my forays into that industry, looks like all of them in that field are rich, I want to be rich too so I have started selling properties, edakun I’m begging you, come and buy what I’m selling. Shey I said we call him Slimee, he’s no long...

  Here's Honorable Dipo Ogun, M.A VI. Great guy by all standards and the guy that motivated this journey I'm on. (Photo credit: Instagram)   I guess I need to remind you that it could be your turn tomorrow, you honestly don’t have to be my closest friend for me to write about you, and like I promised, it’s entirely exactly the way I see and feel about you or the situations around you, today is the turn of one of my favorite “Frenemies”. Michael Adedipupo Ogun (M.A the 6th) was actually my motivation for this journey, if you have been following from the start, I must have mentioned his name in at least ten of the last 49 episodes. He wrote everyday for 365 days last year, I thought I could too and if I say so myself, I don’t think I’m doing badly so far. I met Dipo Ogun through the famous, maybe infamous Naija Pundits group in 2015 I guess and like most people I’d later like, I didn’t like him at first. His responses to my posts on the group were always awkward to me, it to...