Lionel Messi's farewell to Argentina in early October, months after losing the 2026 World Cup final, has revived claims that he is football's undisputed greatest. Ronaldo's goal records and the World Cup legacies of Pele and Maradona keep the counter-case alive.
At the Oct 15 FIFA Council meeting, Gianni Infantino apologised for how the withdrawn FIFA Forward Enterprise plan was handled. Senior council members from England and Germany said they still received no documents or satisfactory answers.
Jim Obazee, President Tinubu's Special Investigator, says the Central Bank of Nigeria's published 2025 financial statements are misleading and should be withdrawn and reissued. A House committee is investigating, and the auditors missed its deadline.
The 2026 Global Multidimensional Poverty Index from UNDP and OPHI says 17.9 million more Nigerians became multidimensionally poor between 2021 and 2024, the largest absolute increase of any country measured. Online, the figure is being read as a verdict on current economic policy, which the data window does not fully support.
