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Global Warming, Climate Change. When you hear these things, you think scientists and researchers are trying to play with some fancy words?

Herdsmen farmers' clashes have cost several lives in Nigeria this year alone. The casualty, even as big as it seems, is just a tip of the iceberg of other products of the impending climate crises.

Desert is taking over more fertile lands. Antarctica is getting warmer, and ice melting, which only increases the volume of the oceans. This rise in sea level swallows more lands. Resources will get scarce and when the little left isn't managed and shared properly - crises.

I'm not a prophet of doom, but I preach climate change and global warming. Preach as much as you can because we have no other planet, yet.

- Ekene Onuorah

Cristiano Ronaldo says he deserves to win the Ballon d'Or for a sixth time, over rivals including Antoine Griezmann, Luka Modric, Kylian Mbappe and Lionel Messi.

Ronaldo helped fire Real Madrid to a third consecutive Champions League crown before joining Juventus and he is in no doubt he should win the Ballon d'Or for a record-breaking sixth time.

"I said many times, winning a sixth Ballon d'Or is not an obsession," Ronaldo said in a France Football interview . "And I do not ask the question in these terms.

"I already know, in my heart, that I am one of the best players in history. Of course, I want to win, this sixth Ballon d'Or!

"It would be a lie to tell you the opposite. I work for that. As I work to score goals and win games without being an obsession. The Ballon d'Or, yes, I think I deserve it."

Five-time world football of the year Cristiano Ronaldo became the most following person on Instagram on Monday.