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In the 1930s, a few women in Plateau state started what is now a clan of millions of women in churches across northern Nigeria. Meet zumunta mata, sisters banding together in times of scarcity and surplus:

‘This goes beyond the church’: the Nigerian women in a sisterhood of millions

While conflict has divided communities, a fellowship of married women offers everything from loans to spiritual guidance

www.theguardian.com

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Eromo Egbejule

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5 years

From the look of things, Cardi B's Instagram has done more promotion for the Nigerian tourism industry in one weekend than Lai Mohammed and Sanwo-Olu have done all year.

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3 years

Still surreal that Twitter has been banned in Nigeria, Africa’s largest democracy - where the vice président, information minister, justice minister, deputy senate president and speaker of lower house of parliament are all senior lawyers. In 2021.

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9mobile and MTN have cut off twitter

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4 years

So this was Rema’s father?

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5 years

As seen on Reddit: "Tradition is just peer pressure from dead people". Discuss.

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2 years

The DJ is the only competent person at the APC primaries tonight.

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4 years

This is sad because except there are two people called Husseini Haruna Coomassie in the Inmigration Service, this same man sued the Nigerian Police for N100m for shooting his hand in Abuja, back in 2010. Is this Stockholm Syndrome?

Dele Farotimi. A victim of Nigeria

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4 years

Animal talk..🙄

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5 years

Even on his wedding day, Wilfred Ndidi is standing so stiff, so he can't be drawn out of position. I stan a midfielder with consistent positional awareness.

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5 years

🎩👰 Congrats Mr and Mrs @Ndidi25 . 💍

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Eromo Egbejule

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4 years

Hushpuppi really used godisgoodallthetime007 @gmail .com as an email address to do fraud. 😅 Baba no dey fear God. Such an infidel.

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Eromo Egbejule

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5 years

In Lagos, some interns spend their first month buying office lunch - "tell Iya Risi to add plenty fisi & select soft ponmo, you hear?" But this NASA intern was given data work right away & he discovered a planet bigger than the Earth by his third day.

'There's something here': teen discovers new planet while interning at Nasa

Wolf Cukier, 17, discovered a planet 6.9 times larger than Earth and only the 13th of its kind

www.theguardian.com

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5 years

COZA has given all its workers a directive to start posting short videos on social media, of them extolling the virtues of Biodun Fatoyinbo. Prepare for a deluge from tomorrow.

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2 years

Nollywood 2.0's unhealthy obsession with being a billboard to project Nigerian flamboyance to the world, is the reason why many of its films on Netflix are so painfully average.

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In Ghana, Nana Akufo-Addo has a 123-man cabinet, deputy ministers included. At least half are either related to him by blood or marriage. Finance & housing ministers are his second cousins. Chief justice and justice minister are his distant cousins too. Family Affair.

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6 years

S/O to Lagos bus conductors screaming their voices off from 5am to 10pm daily, to be able to put food on the table for their families. Not an easy task.

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5 years

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Eromo Egbejule

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5 years

Never thought I'd put out a film before a book but some stories are too gripping to wait in line for their turn. The most horrific pipeline explosion in Nigerian history - 21 years ago today. A small town tragedy that aptly atomizes the #NigerDelta 's fix. This is that story.

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Eromo Egbejule

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7 years

The Nigerian woman in the 'racist Dove ad' says "the snapshots circulating the web have been misinterpreted"

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Eromo Egbejule

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6 years

This morning in Kano, my cab driver was telling me that Buhari is so incorruptible & honest even as president which is why his son Yusuf had an okada accident, not car accident. Because the children can’t afford their own cars. I almost hooted skoo-ski-skoo.

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4 years

Too stunned to even know what to say. This was a carefully planned decimation.

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2 years

70-year-old Bola Tinubu will slug it out against the PDP's 75-year-old Atiku Abubakar to succeed 79-year-old President Muhammadu Buhari. No country for young men.

Nigeria: Ruling party picks Tinubu for 2023 presidential ticket

The 70-year-old will slug it out against the opposition’s 75-year-old candidate to succeed 79-year-old President Buhari.

www.aljazeera.com

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Eromo Egbejule

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5 years

Stumbled on this World Bank report from 1965. Nigeria had asked for a loan to fix the road to the Apapa port and decongest traffic in Lagos. 1965!

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Eromo Egbejule

@EromoEgbejule

7 years

While men slept, my story in @guardian x @ObsMagazine on the Daddy Yo of our time @wizkidayo came out. Here it is:

How Nigeria’s Wizkid fashioned a new sound that won global appeal

He has a staggering seven nominations at the Billboard Music Awards and will come to the UK to headline festivals this summer

www.theguardian.com

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Eromo Egbejule

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6 years

RIP Sani Abacha. 20 years today. The evil you did in this world was too much.

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Eromo Egbejule

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4 years

Remember that time in 2003 when there was a coup in Sao Tome & Principe and Obasanjo used his jet to take the deposed president back & reinstate him? Nigeria's foreign clout has shrunk so much since OBJ's exit. I wrote about it.

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Eromo Egbejule

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6 years

This Ambode drama simply proves that we Lagosians with all our braggadocio and faux superiority complex are simply pencils in the hands of Jagaban our creator.

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5 years

"Nigerian media doesn't do investigative journalism" Premium Times and Kiki Mordi who did this BBC ting are British, innit?

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Eromo Egbejule

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4 years

It will be harder to remove kings like Oba of Benin because of the deep reverence of his people and his godlike status. But las las, governor can do and undo if he has federal backing. After all, na government kill Jesus. Pontius Pilate.

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Ooni of ife o, Alafin of Oyo o, King of your home town o, if any King does anyhow, they will see anyhow

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Eromo Egbejule

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6 years

You’re a soldier fighting Boko Haram in the NE. Your wife calls. Your only child, 8 has just died of convulsion at an army healthcare facility because no diazepam. But every month, capitations are taken from your meagre salary for health insurance. Tragic, real life story.

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6 years

Earlier this week, the former SEMA chairperson in Benue threatened me with the DSS for looking into the diversion of relief materials meant for people displaced by flooding. Here’s my report on the search, which I began last September.

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Eromo Egbejule

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6 years

Donald Duke officially declared to run for presidency an hour ago in Enugu.

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Eromo Egbejule

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5 years

PSA: In 2013, I was investigating this #COZA case but my principal source changed her mind halfway. If you're an ex-member of the church or victim of this pastor or another cleric, I'd love to hear your #MeToo story & tell it (with full anonymity, if you want). My DMs are open.

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Eromo Egbejule

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6 years

Anyone shocked by the presidency’s hounding of Bukola Saraki & Ike Ekweremadu clearly never heard of (or has forgotten)the Umaru Dikko Affair exactly 34 years ago this month. Buhari ordered the kidnap of a citizen on foreign soil, so what is ordering arrest in his own backyard?

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2 years

#PSA : Some personal news, as the mandem like to say. This month, I joined the brilliant team @AJEnglish as Africa Editor. Please send pitches, scoops, criticism et al to egbejulee @aljazeera .net. DMs are open too. On y va!

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3 years

A foreign school in Lagos thought this book too old to keep in its library and gave it out. And I received it with thanks.

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6 years

Random: In pre-colonial times, Parklane Hospital, Enugu was seen as a "white man's hospital". So in August 1952 when the first black baby was born there, it made the papers. That baby is Akere Muna, one of those challenging Paul Biya in the Oct 7 Cameroonian presidential polls.

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Eromo Egbejule

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6 years

Lowkey #MTVShugaNaija is killing so many birds with one stone - addressing girl child education, family planning, rape, sexual harassment, abortion etc. There’s also the inclusion of northern Nigeria in the conversation without stereotyping Hadiza as a dull child.

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Eromo Egbejule

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2 years

A former VP of Nigeria for 8 years and a man who has wanted to be president since 1993 doesn’t know that no geopolitical zone in Nigeria is 100 percent ethnically homogenous? That there are other ethnicities beside Yoruba in SW and Igbo in SE? Minorities don’t matter?

@𝗼𝗻𝗲𝗷𝗼𝗯𝗹𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗯𝗼𝘆

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"...that's why they identify themselves as Igbo Nation , Yoruba Nation, whatever nation they call themselves" - Alh. Atiku Abubakar

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Eromo Egbejule

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6 years

Most important thing in this interview is that Shekau was an ‘almajiri boy’ who walked around Maiduguri looking for food. Over a million almajiris are roaming the streets. No education, no employment. Gullible to radical ideologies. Tick tock,tick tock...

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Eromo Egbejule

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4 years

"Black market fuel made from stolen oil in rudimentary “bush” refineries hidden deep in the creeks of the Niger Delta is less polluting than the highly toxic diesel/petrol Europe exports to Nigeria, new lab analysis has found." This is quite a revelation.

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Eromo Egbejule

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8 years

In 6months+6days from today,it'll be 50yrs since the start of the Nigerian Civil War. Watch out for my documentary.

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Eromo Egbejule

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1 year

I'm looking for freelancers from Kenya, South Africa and all of Lusophone Africa. If you report/write on culture, conflict, social justice, please email me: egbejulee @aljazeera .net. My DMs are also open.

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Eromo Egbejule

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5 years

No coming back now for #Atiku . Muhammadu Buhari is officially the second person to win a second term since the return of democracy to #Nigeria in 1999. He's also the third person EVER to be re-elected president, after Shehu Shagari and Olusegun Obasanjo. #NigeriaDecides2019

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#Buhari leads #Atiku by 14m votes to 10.5m. 55% vs 41%. We have just three states left: Kebbi, Rivers and Zamfara.

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Eromo Egbejule

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6 years

You’ll find fewer music videos with a better culture mash-up this year than @ShattaWaleGH ’s Gringo. A patois-spitting black cowboy taking down a corrupt sheriff in the American Frontier? Neat direction by Nigeria’s @Sesan_Director .

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6 years

Sarkodie is quite a complete rapper. And so consistent.

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Nobody is touching @sarkodie in this rap thing. Ever.

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7 years

My money on this man to make history today. Go Cassper.

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Can’t believe the day is finally here. 🙏🏿

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5 years

Christmas was only two days ago in Ethiopia, Larry. We have such big hearts as Nigerians that we're extending camaraderie to our brothers in the Horn of Africa.

Larry Madowo

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5 years

Dear Lagos, it’s almost Easter and your Christmas decorations are still up. People are starting to talk

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Eromo Egbejule

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1 year

@TheYomiKazeem That scene just proves that Kazeems are tricksters :)

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7 years

This album art is iconic. Here's a thread on why. In 1966, the Sudan Christian Mission sent two missionaries to present day Taraba state.

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Eromo Egbejule

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3 years

A quarter of a billion naira raised in less than 72 hours, and to the best of my knowledge, better than any active state-run welfare scheme in Nigeria this year.

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We rise by lifting others ❤️

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Nigeria turns you into a walking shock absorber. A new drama, disaster or danger happens every day and soon you become numb to it all...

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Eromo Egbejule

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4 years

Even beyond #SARS , Nigérian security forces always employ brutality at the slightest excuse. July 2005: Okada man hits naval officer's car in Ikeja. He comes down and shoots the okada man (who has knelt down to beg) in the mouth at close range. Okada man dies instantly.

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Eromo Egbejule

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7 years

“My all time favorite Uber in Africa anecdote is one I’ve told here before of the Nairobi Uber driver who welcomed me to his city and asked from where I’d just arrived. “From the US,” I replied. He nodded. Then said: “Ah, so do they have Uber in the US too?” 😂😆.

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Eromo Egbejule

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4 years

"However radical you are, there will be that one thing you cannot talk about, the one that butters your bread. Because we are petty as fuck and we [the elite] demand blind loyalty." - @elnathan_john . I have nothing else to add.

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Today, my time as Deputy Editor of Brittle Paper, a platform I'd've given my heart for, came to an end. I was made to leave because of my report on Hadiza El Rufai's comments on her son's gang-rape threat, a report that was taken down. My statement.

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Eromo Egbejule

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7 years

It was the Nigerian police that killed the Apo Six in 2005. Five Igbo traders & the girlfriend of one of them were murdered because the lady turned down the advances of a cop. They were branded armed robbers, just like #SARS does. One of those policemen is still on the run.

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7 years

"You know you rich when everybody say you cousins" - @CassperNyovest #TitoMboweni

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6 years

In the event that Ambode overcomes all the odds and becomes the APC flagbearer for 2019...

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6 years

“In Nigeria, Okoye would have been warned from childhood to soften her features so she can find a man to marry her...And as for Nakia, everyone would ask: what kind of girl chooses a high-flying career over the chance to become queen?” - @drwill20

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5 years

My Taxify driver today has a remarkable story! Mother of 3 (first two are girls at top of their class in uni, she says) in her 40s, separated & was a cleaner in Dubai before. After being denied a US visa twice, she moved from Ibadan to Abuja to start driving a cab. Born hustler.

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Eromo Egbejule

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6 years

Timaya performing in Barbados, Davido performing in Suriname, Mr Eazi performing in Martinique, Patoranking performing in Guadeloupe. Nigerian music is really doing the rounds in the Caribbean.

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Eromo Egbejule

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5 years

Exactly 34 years ago today, Ibrahim Babangida and company toppled the Muhammadu Buhari administration in the palace coup of August 27, 1985. Below is an excerpt of the speech broadcast by Brig. Joshua Nimyel Dongoyaro at Radio Nigeria in Ikoyi.

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Eromo Egbejule

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4 years

A century ago, the Spanish flu paralysed global affairs, like #COVID19 today. One area of note was how it fractured Christianity across Africa. Here’s my story on how it birthed schisms in Nigeria in particular, including the now popular Aladura churches.

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Eromo Egbejule

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5 years

Beats me that a sitting minister of justice was murdered and his killers have never been found, 18 years on. Rest in Peace, Cicero of Esa-Oke.

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On this day in 2001, Chief James Ajibola Idowu Ige was murdered in his Bodija, Ibadan home. He was a lawyer, politician, teacher, political activist & former governor of Oyo State. At the time of his murder, he was Nigeria's Minister of Justice. His killers have never been found.

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Eromo Egbejule

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6 years

Official daily reminder that it's been a year since Nnamdi Kanu disappeared.

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Eromo Egbejule

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6 years

You've always read about Fela and the Kutis, but now Mr. Rotinwa traverses the #Lagos metropolis to interview two of Abami Eda's 27 wives. A proper behind-the-scenes essay.

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Eromo Egbejule

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6 years

Delta pidgin is the greatest, followed by Edo pidgin. Don't @ me, @ your bros for area wey dey collect deve.

Daniel Emeka

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6 years

This pidgin should be studied in Universities globally

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4 years

Oil is now $25.96 per barrel. Shakara don end oh.

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5 years

"The transfers began on 16 Nov 2017, with $38m wired to a bank account in Dubai. A little later, $15m exited followed by $4m. At the start of the day, the bank account of Sonangol, Angola’s state oil co, had contained $57m. By sunset, it had just $309."

How Angola's state oil firm was left with just $309 in its account

Inquiry into Isabel dos Santos’s management of Sonangol turns on a series of events before her sacking

www.theguardian.com

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Eromo Egbejule

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7 years

Wrote about Nnewi and it's many naira billionaires for @ForbesAfrica this month

The Small Town Of The Super Rich

Shortly before Nigeria’s independence in 1960, Louis Odumegwu Ojukwu, reportedly Nigeria’s first black billionaire, and founding president of the Nigerian Stock Exchange, was knighted by Queen...

www.forbesafrica.com

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Eromo Egbejule

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6 years

Your MCM commissions a single road, rolls out the red carpet and invites a popstar for a mini-concert. Meanwhile Djibouti with as many citizens as Alapere, launched three ports without fanfare last year. Priorities.

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Happening now: Humble Smith entertaining the crowd at the Dualised Road commissioning in Alapere

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5 years

This is the perhaps most comprehensive profile of the Black Axe you'll find. Brilliant work by @swilliamsjourno on its origins, worldwide criminal network facilitating trafficking, fraud, killings etc.

The Black Axe, by Sean Williams

How a pan-African freedom movement lost its way

harpers.org

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4 years

"How often do you see an American artist get signed & s/he already has 5M followers on their own? Even 1M? &you don’t want to give them the same push as Bieber? If [African artists] had 25% of that push, @davido & @mreazi w'd be billionaires" - @TiwaSavage

‘This Isn’t a Fad’: Three of Africa’s Biggest Stars on Making the Industry Come to Them

Three of Africa’s biggest stars — Tiwa Savage, Davido and Mr Eazi — are opening doors (and labels’ checkbooks). Here’s what they’re up against.

www.billboard.com

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Eromo Egbejule

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Your fav bank which started with a reputation for innovation (that has faded away like the stars of the morning), went to report to CBN for an ad instead of simply thinking up banter in response. Provide good banter, no. If it’s to charge card maintenance fee kia kia ...

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2 years

Also safe to say that this election is effectively the class of ‘93 replacing the class of ‘66. Two veterans who made their name in the abortive Third Republic of 1993 trying to replace the last man standing from the 1966 military era.

Eromo Egbejule

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2 years

70-year-old Bola Tinubu will slug it out against the PDP's 75-year-old Atiku Abubakar to succeed 79-year-old President Muhammadu Buhari. No country for young men.

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@EromoEgbejule

6 years

Barely two months after EFCC closed it's case in a N3.9bn money laundering case involving him, Badeh is assassinated. So who killed Badeh? Who is hiding what?

Daily Trust

@daily_trust

6 years

#BREAKING : Former Chief of Defence Staff, Alex Badeh assassinated via @daily_trust

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Eromo Egbejule

@EromoEgbejule

4 years

Here it is in Daily Trust of April 2010.

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Eromo Egbejule

@EromoEgbejule

5 years

The rest of the @premierleague Top Six clubs when Real Madrid finally announces the signing of Eden Hazard. Arsenal being Dino in the middle.

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Eromo Egbejule

@EromoEgbejule

6 years

Over 13 million out-of-school children in Nigeria. This stat dey buss my brain. That's almost double the population of Togo. Thirteen times the population of Djibouti. A brewing disaster.

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Eromo Egbejule

@EromoEgbejule

5 years

Exactly 90 years ago today, the Ogu Umunwaanyi aka the Aba Women's Riots of 1929 began in today's SS & SE Nigeria. It was primarily rooted in three things. One, the slump in prices of palm oil (affecting men) & palm kernels (affecting women) due to the Great Depression of 1929.

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Eromo Egbejule

@EromoEgbejule

6 years

According to various reports, it was about this time (2pm WAT) on today in 1897, that the Benin Empire fell to invading British troops who set the city ablaze three days later. That would make today (till the 21st Feb) the 121st anniversary of the looting of the Benin Bronzes.

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@EromoEgbejule

4 months

Communicado official: Pleased to return from desk duties to fieldwork this April as West Africa correspondent @guardian , an outlet I’ve loved even before I first wrote for it 10 years ago.

Guardian Comms

@GuardianComms

4 months

The Guardian appoints new correspondents in the Caribbean, South America, Africa and the UK, boosting its coverage of underreported communities

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Eromo Egbejule

@EromoEgbejule

5 years

Rochas Okorocha and Dino Melaye together in the Senate chambers. Dear Lord, announce your return soon.

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Eromo Egbejule

@EromoEgbejule

4 years

Muhammadu Buhari really started socially distancing himself from 150m+ Nigerians, long before Corona virus became a thing. Gotta stan the man's foresight. And acknowledge that the chances of a presidential address are low.

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Eromo Egbejule

@EromoEgbejule

4 years

In 1965, a woman flew from Tiko (SW Cameroon) to go have her first baby at UCH Ibadan where she had trained as a nurse. That baby @KahWalla is now a top Cameroonian politician working to oust Paul Biya who has been in power since 1982. Here's her story.

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Eromo Egbejule

@EromoEgbejule

4 years

The prayer is that we don't betray our ideals because of food that we seek, that we have eaten or that which is in front of us.

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Eromo Egbejule

@EromoEgbejule

6 years

In late 2014, #BokoHaram was blowing up banks in Adamawa, Yobe & Gombe using dynamite. Four years on, some banks are yet to return but citizens have found an alternative. My story on how the POS became a financial institution in parts of Adamawa.

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@EromoEgbejule

4 years

Note the difference. Shizzi has to introduce his songs with a whole PowerPoint slide. Sarz just presses Play.

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Eromo Egbejule

@EromoEgbejule

4 years

"When a 6-foot-tall African slave landed in Japan...a powerful Japanese warlord ordered him to remove his clothes while a flock of servants tried to scrub the “black ink” off his skin." Black people have suffered sha.

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Eromo Egbejule

@EromoEgbejule

4 years

Reminder that #BokoHaram ’s killing spree began after its founder Mohammed Yusuf was murdered by the police within hours of him being handed over by soldiers. That was July 2009. BH is still going strong today. #EndSARS #EndPoliceBrutality

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Eromo Egbejule

@EromoEgbejule

6 years

Remember The Passport of Mallam Ilia? My good man @ferdyadimefe is making it into an animation film, scheduled for release sometime in 2019. Can’t wait to see that book brought to life.

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Eromo Egbejule

@EromoEgbejule

5 years

Omoyele Sowore, founder of @SaharaReporters was taken by secret police from a hotel room in Lagos in August... Despite being granted bail earlier this month, he remains in detention and is currently on hunger strike. New story for @guardian .

‘Climate of fear’: Nigeria intensifies crackdown on journalists

Activists warn muzzling of press under President Buhari could herald return to dark days of military rule

www.theguardian.com

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Eromo Egbejule

@EromoEgbejule

5 years

Jesse #TheFuneralThatNeverEnded premieres @AFRIFF this November, thanks to @thearitokpo helping me bring it to life. Spread the word & please go see it. 🙏🏾

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Eromo Egbejule

@EromoEgbejule

4 years

"They should be prepared for denial of their rights". 21 years of democracy and a president still finds time to threaten citizens right on Independence Day. Well, as that proverb goes, rain may wet a leopard's skin but it will never wash out its spots.

Muhammadu Buhari

@MBuhari

4 years

Democracy, the world over and as I am pursuing in Nigeria, recognizes the power of the people. However, if some constituencies choose to bargain off their power, they should be prepared for denial of their rights.

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Eromo Egbejule

@EromoEgbejule

5 years

In Nigeria, The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born or are making The Great Escape to Canada. When I started writing about Canada's appeal to Nigeria's middle class for @TheAtlantic a few months ago, ~10 of my friends had moved. Here's why more are leaving.

The Migration Driven by Developed Countries

Migration can be driven both by a richer country’s doing, as well as a poorer one’s undoing.

www.theatlantic.com

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Eromo Egbejule

@EromoEgbejule

4 years

Federal prison break in Benin on Monday. DSS-supported violence in Abuja on Tuesday afternoon. Army massacre in Lagos on Tuesday evening. Something is cooking.

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Eromo Egbejule

@EromoEgbejule

6 years

Before PDP’s presidential primaries in 2006, Yar’adua told Donald Duke: “If you win the primaries, let me be your running mate. If I win, I want you to be mine.” I interviewed Duke on 2019, N/Delta, Biafra, NOI, Tinapa, Buhari, security in Nigeria etc

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Eromo Egbejule

@EromoEgbejule

6 years

I’m really tired of applying for visas. Please I need to marry an EU citizen or British or American citizen ASAP. Even St Kitts & Nevies or Armenia, I will take. I’m stressed. Please RT, my wife is on your TL.

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Eromo Egbejule

@EromoEgbejule

7 years

Someone here in Nigeria tried tried to scam my friend abroad. LMAOOO. "Cancel the curse abeg"

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Eromo Egbejule

@EromoEgbejule

3 years

Yesterday, Nembe indigenes protested in Yenagoa to call attention to what activists are calling a month of uninterrupted oil [& gas] spill - the largest such spill in Nigerian history. "We are on the verge of extinction," a youth leader told me.

Niger Delta residents protest against month-long oil spill

Residents take to the streets to demand action after the latest spill affecting fishing communities in southern Nigeria.

www.aljazeera.com

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Eromo Egbejule

@EromoEgbejule

3 years

Ex-service chiefs becoming ambassadors will soon be the 2.0 of governors going on to become ministers. Because public service is till eternity and it is better to recycle than retire.

Bashir Ahmad

@BashirAhmaad

3 years

President @MBuhari has forwarded the names of Gen Abayomi Olonisakin (Rtd ), Lt Gen Tukur Buratai (Rtd), Vice Admiral Ibok-Ete Ibas (Rtd), Air Marshal Sadique Abubakar (Rtd) & Air Vice Marshal Mohammed S Usman (Rtd), to the Senate for approval as non-career Ambassadors-Designate.

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Eromo Egbejule

@EromoEgbejule

5 years

His daughter is on the Creative Arts Council board. Ghana's ambassador to the UAE is the father of the VP's wife. His own son is number 2 man at a federal parastatal. The speaker of parliament is the father of the ambassador to India. A fine cocktail of nepotistic excellence.

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Eromo Egbejule

@EromoEgbejule

5 years

Biodun Fatoyinbo raped me when I was 17, back in 2000 - Busola Dakolo. Interview with @Chude

How I Met Pastor Biodun Fatoyinbo and The First Rape - Busola Dakolo...

Photographer and wife of Famous singer Timi Dakolo sits with Chude Jideonwo for a very revealing conversation about her polygamous childhood, her conservativ...

www.youtube.com

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