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6 years

I recently just realized that the concluding part of Ayinde Barrister’s Agbara Iku medley is a song about the 1851 British bombardment of Lagos. An unforgettable event that shaped colonial engagement in Nigeria.

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Fortunato

@MainTheory

5 years

No monkey chants for those dark skinned doctors arriving in Italy?

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@NaijaFlyingDr

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Cuban doctors as always Cuban doctors arriving into Italy to support the fight against Covid-19. Throughout most pandemics of the 21st century Cuban doctors have been at the forefront of the medical response, no matter what the country.

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@MissMeganMilan You did what? I wrestled shawty to the ground. She called me lil boy, so I said “lil booties matter” then I wrestled her ass.

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@MainTheory

4 years

Selling $200m companies with our dreadlocks and tattoos. 🇳🇬 Super, super proud of everyone @paystack !

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@MainTheory

2 years

I know we’re mourning right now, but if you have fine photos of the Queen like this one, please mail them to me in an envelope. I’m collecting them for personal projects. I love collecting her photos🙏🏾

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@MainTheory

5 years

I once spent 2hrs chatting with Alhaji Aliko Dangote. Nine years later I’m still broke. If you don’t take the 10m and geddifok. Don’t be stupid.

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@MainTheory

13 years

I met aliko dangote today..one of the warmest engagement of my life.learnt a lot in 2hrs

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@MainTheory

2 years

The insult I dislike the most is “who is this clown?”, because it signifies two things: (a) I’m a clown (b) I’m not one of the successful well known clowns.

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@MainTheory

9 months

You want to hear the story of how Nigeria rescued your grandfather and grandmother from their wicked landlord?

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@kay_mahapa

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Losing to Nigeria feels like your tenant’s child outperforming your child in life

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@MainTheory

2 years

Michel Platini from France sold his one vote on the FIFA council to Qatar 2022 in a deal for Qatar to buy $7bn French fighter jets. Issa Hayyattou sold his vote for $1.5m that went directly to his pocket - nothing to benefit his country Cameroon or his people. Makes me so sad.

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@MainTheory

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Olowo ra motor, olosi n mu number. 🤦🏾‍♂️

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@MainTheory

4 years

South West Nigeria can relate. This is our reality. It's the rest of you.

ITA🀄

@_itarex

4 years

Nigeria cannot relate 😿😿😿

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@MainTheory

2 years

A de n gbadura lori omo yi o.

ESPN FC

@ESPNFC

2 years

Just Bukayo Saka casually FaceTiming @KimKardashian 😅🔥

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@MainTheory

6 years

Many don't know that there was a female Alaafin of Oyo. Yes, a woman once ruled the Oyo Empire. Alaafin Ajiun Orompotoniyun 1554 - 1562(the custodian of the vagina that kills evil plots) was the first and only female Alaafin of Oyo. And, she was different.

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@MainTheory

5 years

They told us prejudice against black people is part of the culture over there and nothing can be done about it. I’m surprised AF to see this. What changed?

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@MainTheory

3 years

Whose father or mother collected $2.5m from Puma for Team Nigeria's kits at the Olympics? Your unfortunate daddy collected money and the athletes are not wearing Puma o. Puma will sue the Athletics Federation of Nigeria and not him to get their money back.

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@MainTheory

2 years

The CIA records on Chief MKO Abiola and General Abacha will be coming up for automatic declassification review next year. I hope the Nigerian media will put in a strong FOI request to see parts of what’s in it.

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@MainTheory

4 years

Oluwa, wetin dey happen?

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@MainTheory

1 year

African Americans stood together and successfully flushed podcasts out of their community but, I can see the CIA packed up those mics and dumped them in Lagos, Nigeria.

Oyindamola🙄

@dammiedammie35

1 year

“ People h @te DJ Cuppy online cos of her hair. If I see a normal girl on the street with a rough tight synthetic hair, I’ll say that’s tacky, talkess of a billionaire’s daughter that’s also a public figure.” - Lydia.

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@MainTheory

3 years

She won in 2001 in Sun City, South Africa. The 2002 edition was to be held in Abuja but it never happened because Islamists in the North instigated a riot that led to the death of 200+ people over a beauty pageant.

Punch Newspapers

@MobilePunch

3 years

Agbani Darego marks 20th anniversary of winning Miss World

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@MainTheory

2 years

This is how Hayyattou, Amos Adamu (Nigeria), and Anouma (Ivory Coast) should be remembered in Africa - sold their rights for porridge.

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@MainTheory

4 years

We’re doing this without the NLC, NURTW, NUPENG, ASUU, or any of the tired out unions that act like you can’t do mass protests in Nigeria without them. This is our moment!

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@MainTheory

5 years

Supermarkets in Italy are closed. They can't find bananas to throw at them.

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@MainTheory

6 months

@dieworkwear Spreading civilization one 🧵 at a time.

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@MainTheory

2 years

French construction companies also built stadiums for Qatar. Thailand exchanged their vote for a gas deal and Brazil for Qatar investment in a Brazilian bank. What did the people of Africa get? Africans were taken to Qatar to work as slaves to build the stadiums for the World Cup

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@MainTheory

1 year

This is one of the most consequential cases coming up before the Supreme Court in the next year. You can see that the VAT came in higher, and you know that money will be shared with the Kano State Govt, even though they spent the weekend terrorizing restaurants in their domain…

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@seyedele

1 year

Can we please discuss this Consumption Tax? What does Lagos state do with it? Is it even legal?

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@MainTheory

3 years

UK govt donated 10 million vaccines to countries in Africa and South America then turned around to say if you get vaccinated in those places, you’re considered “unvaccinated”. Make it make sense. Were compromised vaccines sent to those countries???

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@MainTheory

6 months

Yahya Bello tried to use that school to bypass US anti-money laundering rules: 1. Send $800k school’s US bank account. 2. Takes a loan from his own US bank 3. Request refund from the school (based on signed agreement) 4. School wires refund to Yahya Bello at Bank of America 5.

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@MainTheory

2 years

Who is the leader that delivered this polling unit for us?

Otunba Wallace

@bewehtnoiyibulo

2 years

The work rate of Nigerian guys’ PR manager >>>>> 🤣🤣🤣

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@MainTheory

2 years

The North with their transistor radios and “quota system” organized a conference to interview all presidential candidates. In the South, Afenifere endorsed a candidate without seeing a manifesto or policy statement.

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@MainTheory

1 year

He’s been cosplaying as president for almost 40 years now.

FRANCIS

@FrancisAdeboye

1 year

See levelsssssss biko. Atiku too dey Presidential abeg.

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@MainTheory

2 years

Alex Ekwueme left Lagos for the East during the Nigerian Civil war and abandoned his property. Subomi Balogun (who lived on the same street) renovated the house, collected, and remitted 100% of the rent to Ekwueme after the war. They were not even friends before the war.

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@MainTheory

6 years

One sunny morning in January 1938, bricklayers doing house building works at a place called Wumonije Compoud in Ile-Ife made a discovery that rubbished the existing understanding of African civilisation.

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@MainTheory

4 years

They’re gaslighting you! LPR are specialty CCTV cameras designed to precisely capture moving images and for night vision. It’s the iPhone of surveillance cameras.

EiE Nigeria

@EiENigeria

4 years

This was an error. These cameras are not CCTV cameras but license plate verification cameras. They were removed to prevent vandalization after @jidesanwoolu announced the curfew. He has said the CCTV footage is intact. We apologise for the error. #EndSARS #OfficeOfTheCitizen

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@MainTheory

3 years

The ‘success’ story of Nigerian basketball is what happens when you let the private sector lead. The president of the bball federation works at Total and he doesn’t depend on his association bank account to fund his lifestyle.

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@MainTheory

6 years

The River Niger flows in an unusual direction. While most rivers take a fairly direct route to the sea, the Niger instead runs directly away from the Atlantic Ocean (which is nearby its source), to make a run towards d Sahara Desert. The mystery of the River Niger 'made' Nigeria.

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@MainTheory

5 years

When Italian authorities got fed up with our complaints about racism, they launched an 'anti-racism' campaign with THIS artwork.

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@MainTheory

5 years

Folks in the comments saying it's just the football (soccer) hooligans. Yeah? How the f*ck does a country manage to breed so MANY racist hooligans?! "I can't believe what you say, because I see what you do". I see it on my TV.

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@MainTheory

6 years

The colonialists left a long time ago and I don't understand why we're still teaching history of Mesopotamia and Mungo Park.

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@MainTheory

8 months

Better ask your daddy to make full deposit for your UK master’s before they remove him as Permanent Secretary at the ministry.

The Nation Nigeria

@TheNationNews

8 months

BREAKING: FEC adopts Orosanye Report for implementation

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@MainTheory

3 years

US Embassy being slick. Is this how they plan to get Abba Kyari?

Peoples Gazette

@GazetteNGR

3 years

Twenty Nigerian tailors picked for U.S. exchange programme

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@MainTheory

3 years

🇳🇬 I’ve been working on an OCR project to extract data from NIN slip in json. If you’re a startup/bank, your customers get onboarded in one minute by taking a photo of their NIN slip - no filling any biodata form (ready to deploy in a flask app):

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@MainTheory

5 years

Siri, play ‘inside life’.

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5 years

Half-time announcement from @FinallyMario .

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@MainTheory

6 years

Ooni Luwoo Gbagida was a woman who ruled as the Ooni of Ife. She was crowned spiritual leader, and chief custodian of the source of the Yoruba race around 1100CE. As reported, she was a woman of immense physical beauty - a proper "slay queen" who took pride in her attractiveness.

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@MainTheory

5 years

@Msmenalicious You can’t run “Dangote ideas” with Monopoly money. Or are we talking about going to his place to beg for money?

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@MainTheory

4 years

If you’ve been brutalized by the police, ensure you take photos/videos of physical and material damages. Also, try to get photos of your patient record notes from any hospital you’ve been to. Lawyers should prepare a framework for us to sue the FG at the FHC+Supreme Court.

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@MainTheory

4 years

FB and Google are opening engineering offices in Lagos in 2021. If you’re still in school (Uni or Poly), you can now realistically target internships at these companies. Start learning Python/JavaScript. You should start learning how to write well.

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@MainTheory

6 years

Just arrived in the US for my graduate studies in economics and data analytics. It's a new chapter for me. Wish me luck.

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@MainTheory

3 years

Onlyfans struggling to raise capital from outside investors when yearly revenue is $390m. Why not crowdfund with the users? If I'm stupid enough to pay $100 to beat my meat, surely I can find another $100 to be an "investor".

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@MainTheory

2 years

@theerkj You saw them at the table and what? I was gonna walk past and ignore but I saw them lay out the unseasoned food. I don’t want no diarrhea around here.

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@MainTheory

4 years

Amin Adesina’s problem started last September when he publicly announced at the U.N. climate talks in New York that he was working on a plan to scrap coal power stations across the continent.

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@MainTheory

1 year

“Anyone supporting APC is after my life…they’re a danger to my mental health.” LP leadership just connived with and supported APC in the National Assembly. What is the state of your mental health today?

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@MainTheory

3 years

A loosely organized network of Yahoo boys/scam artists somehow got > 5 candidates elected into the House of Reps in 2019 but the tech industry is still being reactionary.

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@MainTheory

5 years

“You can’t meet Dangote for just one hour and be broke” “One hour with Dangote is better than N10m” Meanwhile,

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@MainTheory

4 years

The Buhari-Osinbajo Massacres of October 2020. Peaceful protesters gunned down across different locations. Who do we report to when the police commits murder for the President and Vice-President?

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@MainTheory

5 years

I hope the crisis facing the human race today will serve as a teachable moment for all of us.

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@MainTheory

3 years

He would probably spend part of that money to sponsor you for UK or Dubai master's degree but the dreams of the athletes under him will get dashed if Puma takes the nuclear option of dragging Nigeria before CAS. It's not proper o.

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@MainTheory

4 years

Ongoing discussion on @Wikipedia to retitle the story on #LekkiMassacre . They want to call it the Lekki Incident instead. If you're a prominent wiki contributor, please lend your voice to the discussion

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The total population of Estonia is just 1.7m, but are you aware that Estonian "yahoo boys" are routinely extradited to the US for trial? They're also more sophisiticated in terms of tech; in fact, one of them stole $100m from Google and Facebook

How this scammer used phishing emails to steal over $100 million from Google and Facebook

A 50-year-old Lithuanian man faces up to 30 years in prison after pleading guilty to an email scheme that bilked tech giants Facebook and Google out of more than $100 million.

www.cnbc.com

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@MainTheory

2 years

I woke up this morning and I started crying when I saw this photo. I want to keep her memory alive, send the photos you have.

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@MainTheory

6 years

Alaafin Ajiun was a skillful commander and brave ruler. She died in the battle of Ilayi in 1562 fighting for her people. She's the only one of the 40 Alaafin (39 men) who died in battle. True warrior.

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@MainTheory

2 years

The best president Nigeria never had. If only we had given this man at least one chance to be president.

ARISE NEWS

@ARISEtv

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Nigeria Too Large for Only Federal Police to Safeguard, Says Obasanjo He said the current security situation in the country called for the licensing of private guards to provide security for citizens.

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@MainTheory

4 years

The Press Secretary to Governor Sanwoolu attempted to frame protesters for murder. One of the demands to the LASG should be that they fire that man. Such a despicable human being!

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4 years

Just read the CBN’s press release. SMH! It would be funny if it weren’t so sad. Bitcoin at least goes up and down, the Naira only does down.😂

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@MainTheory

5 years

If you’re going to learn the history of Nigeria (or West Africa), please note there are 3 perspectives on the subject: 1. Perspective of the British colonial officers 2. The Ibadan School - based on the writings of d early graduates of UI and Ife, and the generations after them

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5 years

K1 Wasiu after reading Dondekojo's thread

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3 years

Photo of the Year.

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3 years

How do you kill time on a long flight?

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2 years

You’re voting third party. How is it your business if APC fields Sango-Guru Maraji or Muslim-Muslim ticket?

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@MainTheory

7 months

Baba OBJ and the other ex-presidents (and their ex-VPs) collected N14bn as pension in 2023. Fourteen billion. Is there a public record of him returning his share? Some of you have allowed yourselves to be fooled by his public rhetorics.

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Obasanjo Hails Otti On Pension Law Repeal, Wants Other Govs To Emulate Him

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4 years

Old NASA capsule vs Space X Dragon capsule.

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3 years

Expect the German and US governments to slap arrest warrants on your father like a b*tch that he is. The people at Puma at busy with the Olympics and they don't have time to fully drag him for now.

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@MainTheory

2 years

That's the common story of what happened to Igbo properties in Western Nigeria during the civil war. Otunba Subomi Balogun is alive in Ijebu Ode and Alex Ekwueme's kids are alive too. The government of Western Nigeria and the Yoruba did not expropriate Igbo properties.

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@MainTheory

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She devised an ingenious way of moving her warriors to attack enemies - foot soldiers in front and the calvarymen behind. Broad leaves were tied on the horses' tails so that when they went a fighting, the leaves swept d ground after them to cover trails of d horses &men on foot.

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@Tonyeallison4u Na him start family history.

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@MainTheory

1 year

Asinwin, Abacha does not allow elections. You don’t get a chance to vote.

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Give me Abacha and I will vote for him. At least I know I'm voting for a devil who can reduce inflation and grow the economy

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I met aliko dangote today..one of the warmest engagement of my life.learnt a lot in 2hrs

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@MainTheory

3 years

They collected $2.76m, signed a contract, and a non-disclosure agreement

Puma $2.67m scandal: New twist as Okowa-led AFN engages Gusau on kits - Punch Newspapers

punchng.com

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@MainTheory

5 years

Lived in South Africa for two decades but to him black people were "barely human". When SA jailed him in 1908, he scoffed at the fact that Indians were classed with black, not white, prisoners.

hater

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Sco pa tu manaa

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Someone said a Fulani with transistor radio is more politically sophisticated than a southerner with a PhD. Whether that’s true or not, what did we learn from Nigerian politics this week?

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@MainTheory

3 years

A four-year contract for $2.6m is a rip-off! It’s armed robbery. Same old story, a few individuals using their position to sell our country for peanuts.

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@MainTheory

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His elder brother is one of the most important securities and finance lawyers on Wall Street. Their whole family is ambitious and smart af.

-valar morghulis-

@eldivyn

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There's a Nigerian that sits on the board of NVIDIA, John Oluseun Dabiri, and the guy's profile reads like a sci-fi. Aeronautics, hydrodynamics of jellyfish propulsion, fluid energy conversion. MacArthur Fellow, Young Investigator award from Naval Research, Presidential Award.

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The date on which Efunsetan Adekemi Abeke Aniwura became the Iyalode of Ibadan is not certain, but it has been situated around the 1860s. What is certain, however, is that she was the second person to hold that position and at the time she was the richest person in the city

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I know I said that she was the first&only female Alaafin, but truth is, she wasn't - d mother of Alaafin Kori ruled as regent bfre he came to power c.1340. Though she wasn't d substantive king, she did rule on behalf of d toddler Kori. But, d Ogboni purged her reign frm history.

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@Daniel_Izuagie Okay, I agree that’s some progress. Thanks for making me feel good.

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The last of my ex-girlfriends got married on last week. Graduation rate:100%. All praises be to God.🙏🏽

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In 1557, she imported horses from as far as Timbuktu in Mali and had over 1000 horsemen. Archers on horseback to neutralize enemies with poisoned arrows.

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@walegates I’m more surprised they were willing to put it on paper. Def not their first runs.

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We love you @alexiwobi 🇳🇬

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The jokers apparently were able to get the DSS to "clear" them of any wrongdoing. DSS is now investigating financial contracts, unimportant issues like Boko Haram can wait. Will the DSS pay back $2.76m to Puma?

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Many of the male Alaafins were administrators who appointed generalissimo to lead the army on their behalf, just a few of them fought in battles. A number died through traditional suicide. She was different.

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Just got a call from a woman who said she’s an officer at something called a bank; she’s a little pissed because apparently I promised to show them some photos of the Queen. If you have more photos that I can show to her to cheer her up, please send them expeditiously.

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I wonder why (and how) Puma got them to sign a non-disclosure agreement. Why should anything about a contract to outfit athletes be secret, when it’s not cult regalia that you’re supplying? 😂

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5 years

Happy 30th birthday to me. What a precious privilege it is to be alive.

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As reported, she fell under many arrows, she opened her mouth, exposing her teeth as though she was grinning. The opponent party, thinking she was confidently laughing at them, fled the field, even though they already had d day. Orompoto never grinned in truth, bt was stone dead.

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@dieworkwear Now the Duke of Huéscar might let them on the yatch for one day.

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5 years

@biolakazeem They must chant o. There's no better time than now.

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2 years

@babsacademy She meant a lot to me during her life. Please send me the unlaminated photos in your wallet.

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1 year

It’s the best. KPIs are low-level, you can even damage the economy for fun; and then call the people lazy. You get a life pension and when you die, the state will pay for your funeral.

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Being a Nigerian president or governor has to be up there with some of the best financially rewarding positions anyone in the world can have.

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5 years

@aeskay_ You think I would be on Twitter opening teeth with you people if I had real money?

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