Samuel Ogundipe @SamuelOgundipe Twitter profile

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Samuel Ogundipe

@SamuelOgundipe

4 years

Grateful. Till eternity.

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Samuel Ogundipe

@SamuelOgundipe

6 years

During my detention, I had no idea of the magnitude of support that came in for me from the public. Upon my release earlier today, @PremiumTimesng management explained that my freedom came because of the pressure you all mounted. I am very grateful. Thank you!

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Samuel Ogundipe

@SamuelOgundipe

5 years

When SSS attempted to break into the National Assembly, Acting President Osinbajo fired its director-general within a few hours. Today, SSS actually broke into a federal courtroom with guns, traumatising judges and citizens. Sowore's case has finally boxed President Buhari in.

Premium Times

@PremiumTimesng

5 years

BREAKING: SSS storms Abuja court to rearrest Sowore

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Samuel Ogundipe

@SamuelOgundipe

5 years

Good day, madam. I am with Premium Times in Abuja and I am following this developing confrontation. Did you see the screenshot in the first tweet? It shows Bello threatening to gang rape someone’s mother. Could you please clarify if that’s what you deemed “fair” in this tweet?

Hadiza Isma El-Rufai

@hadizel

5 years

@FrankZephyr1 Don’t @ me. Sow the wind, reap the whirlwind. All is fair in love and war.

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Samuel Ogundipe

@SamuelOgundipe

6 years

Following APC claims that Okey Ibeanu heads INEC's logistics, the SSS invited him for questioning today. Actually, Ahmed Mua'zu heads logistics, and it is disturbing that a federal intelligence outfit does not know the structural composition of a critical institution like INEC.

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Samuel Ogundipe

@SamuelOgundipe

4 years

I am excited to announce that I will be leading the all-new @GazetteNGR . I am ready for this fresh challenge at a novel digital outlet that holds the promise for groundbreaking, impactful journalism in Nigeria. This follows my recent resignation from Premium Times.

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Samuel Ogundipe

@SamuelOgundipe

1 year

Those relying on CSU’s so-called yearbook may take time to check other ‘students’ also featured in it with Bola Tinubu. Some of them (like David Boffo) were dead but their obituary photos surfaced in the yearbook. Some left in 1974 yet appeared with the '1979' set.

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Samuel Ogundipe

@SamuelOgundipe

6 years

People gathering outside Atiku's home near Yola, the capital of his home Adamawa State. Some of them tell me they're staying here through the night before proceeding straight to the ballot box. #NigeriaDecides2019

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Samuel Ogundipe

@SamuelOgundipe

6 years

At no time during my detention —not when I was first interrogated and told to write a statement before my Editor-in-Chief @Musikilu or at any other time during my three-day ordeal — did Saraki ever come up. I was only pressured to say my source, an unreasonable demand I rejected.

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Samuel Ogundipe

@SamuelOgundipe

4 years

Magu’s removal now likely to set off a succession controversy. Ola Olukoyede, a Redeemed pastor from Ekiti & EFCC secretary, is the next most-senior official that should take over. But he’s “not an operative.” This leaves Mohammed Abba, director of operations, as next in line.

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Samuel Ogundipe

@SamuelOgundipe

5 years

The SSS has been elusive with details of those arrested, despite initially promising to push them to me. Seems operatives are quietly seizing citizens from their homes on allegations of posting state-defined ethnic epithets. Kindly DM me if anyone you know recently disappeared.

Premium Times

@PremiumTimesng

5 years

JUST IN: SSS arrests social media users for posting ‘inciting materials’

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Samuel Ogundipe

@SamuelOgundipe

3 years

Over the past week, The Gazette reporters have been investigating how Abubakar Siddique Mohammed, NECO governing board chair, has been leading a plot to remove Mr Obioma from office. My colleagues have reviewed documents and already made contacts with sources at NECO. Then this.

Peoples Gazette

@GazetteNGR

3 years

BREAKING: NECO Registrar Godswill Obioma assassinated

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Samuel Ogundipe

@SamuelOgundipe

4 years

The SSS is insisting that Magu is not in its custody as currently being reported by virtually all media houses. But something happened today in Wuse 2 where the EFCC chairman was intercepted by at least 10 security officers, per multiple witnesses.

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Samuel Ogundipe

@SamuelOgundipe

4 years

2018. I took on Magu for spending ₦24B on new EFCC HQ. He got angry, I kept throwing follow-ups at him. A NAN reporter that took mic after me started praising Magu, saying the facility was too beautiful for anyone to question its budget. 😂😂 Story here:

Ayobami

@dondekojo

4 years

Wow. @SamuelOgundipe when did this happen

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Samuel Ogundipe

@SamuelOgundipe

6 years

I'll be waiting to see the media outlets that would carry this propaganda from the presidency about Chief Justice Walter Onnoghen. If Buhari truly knows nothing about the top jurist's planned arraignment, he should openly eschew it as a circus and ensure heads roll.

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Samuel Ogundipe

@SamuelOgundipe

6 years

Nigeria's anti-graft czar says in leaked memo to President Buhari he was gathering evidence to nail Chief Justice Onnoghen, yet went on in same memo to conclude Mr Onnoghen is guilty of bribery and racketeering. Mr Onnoghen was unconstitutionally removed from office last month.

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Samuel Ogundipe

@SamuelOgundipe

5 years

Hello Bello. Samuel here from Premium Times. I could see you’re standing by your threat to gang rape someone’s mother. Might you be willing to show me the insult the other man directed at your father, more than calling you “Daddy’s boy”? His TL is silent on disparaging your dad.

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Samuel Ogundipe

@SamuelOgundipe

4 years

So @nicholasibekwe and I got this memo from sources close to Dangote. As we started writing, we reached out to Dangote for comment, then they said it’s fake. We’ve erred on caution. But is this surely a fake memo or people are now taking advantage of ‘fake news’ to deny anythin?

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Samuel Ogundipe

@SamuelOgundipe

6 years

This looks like it was designed by the opposition. Which level are they going to attain in the middle of an ocean? (It's not even like the ocean is turbulent.) Moreover, Buhari is detached from Osinbajo who is then detached from the people who follow like sheep without firmness.

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Samuel Ogundipe

@SamuelOgundipe

2 years

Muhammadu Buhari may cry about what and what shouldn't be his legacy, but this unwarranted onslaught on our journalists today, one of many we have suffered since we launched PG in September 2020, will forever live in infamy for his despotic regime.

Peoples Gazette

@GazetteNGR

2 years

UPDATE: The police have just returned to our offices to arrest four more colleagues, including two reporters and two admin personnel. Five staff members of Peoples Gazette are now in police custody for undisclosed reasons. Follow the developing story:

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Samuel Ogundipe

@SamuelOgundipe

5 years

All the way from the United States where he fled to amidst threats to his safety, it's inspiring to see Ohimai still looking out for those of us left behind in Nigeria.

Ohimai Amaize

@MrFixNigeria

5 years

Dear @jack , #Nigeria is currently led by a Government that is hostile & intolerant to #FreeSpeech . There are ongoing efforts by #Nigeria to gag #SocialMedia . If you meet any of our leaders, please put in a word of concern for millions of Nigerians that Twitter has given a voice.

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Samuel Ogundipe

@SamuelOgundipe

6 years

Deji Adeyanju was a prominent player in the PDP, including being a social media director. But his exploits since he formally disowned PDP in early 2017 qualify him as an activist. You and your comrades in the APC know this, but everything is politics, of course.

Souljah

@jeffphilips1

6 years

Where is @SamuelOgundipe of @PremiumTimesng when you need him? The way you guys insult our sensibilities on this Twitter....here below is your Deji the activist

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Samuel Ogundipe

@SamuelOgundipe

5 years

Not like we care much at Premium Times, but this brazen disregard for journalism ethics by Punch is disturbing. This is a story we’ve been reporting since last weekend, long before a lousy presidency official without access even heard it. Giving credits takes nothing from you.

Punch Newspapers

@MobilePunch

5 years

Buhari suspends Obono-Obla after damning ICPC report

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Samuel Ogundipe

@SamuelOgundipe

5 years

A key tragedy of this Amosun debacle is how top law enforcement chiefs, including those who provided tips of his arms smuggling enterprise, are admitting off record that they wish to arrest him. Yet, they're super timid to actually carry out their duty because he's Buhari's man.

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@PremiumTimesng

5 years

Police arrest Lagosian trading two pistols but ignore Amosun who smuggled 1,000 AK-47s

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Samuel Ogundipe

@SamuelOgundipe

4 years

I am joining @AmnestyNigeria for this programme on press freedom tomorrow evening. It’ll be a no-holds-barred conversation. Kindly join us if convenient.

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Samuel Ogundipe

@SamuelOgundipe

6 years

Buhari did not say he relied on Nigerian Constitution to suspend Chief Justice Onnoghen. He only said he obeyed order of CCT, an agency under his absolute control. Apparently why Nigeria's main opposition figure believes Buhari has effectively suspended the Constitution itself.

Premium Times

@PremiumTimesng

6 years

Atiku condems Onnoghen’s removal, accuses Buhari of dictatorship

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Samuel Ogundipe

@SamuelOgundipe

6 years

Nigeria finally has a new Inspector-General of Police. Hopefully citizens would enjoy this man better since he comes with a deep background in Interpol.

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Samuel Ogundipe

@SamuelOgundipe

7 years

Babangida was flown abroad at least twice in 2016, Germany and Switzerland. Buhari didn't announce those.

Kingsley 🇵🇸

@kingysly_01

7 years

GEJ bought two brand new bulletproof jeeps for GMB(statutory entitlements) without fanfare. Why are people commending Buhari bikonu?

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Samuel Ogundipe

@SamuelOgundipe

6 years

After more than three years in office with seven months to go, Buhari says he'll look into the welfare of soldiers and their families. He also claims transparency in oil deals, even as NNPC continues to resist court orders to comply with FoI requests. A jarring dissonance.

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@PremiumTimesng

6 years

Independence Day: Buhari pays tribute to armed forces, lists achievements

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Samuel Ogundipe

@SamuelOgundipe

6 years

Cybercrime Act is the most repressive statute of the Fourth Republic. That Goodluck Jonathan was the president responsible for it is an ironic legacy Nigerians won't soon forget.

Premium Times

@PremiumTimesng

6 years

Activist Deji Adeyanju arraigned again, remanded in prison

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Samuel Ogundipe

@SamuelOgundipe

6 years

Your preeminent overlord started his week directing drivel at me, but I ignored him. You APC trolls continue to wage a credibility war against journalists and public policy experts. You see this as a major strategy in your re-election game, when it's actually a disservice.

Arewa Daddy

@ishakaa

6 years

In Nigeria such idiots are promoted as editors so that they can expand their capacity to reach more gullible Nigerians with their fake news and misinformation,a case that readily come to mind is @SamuelOgundipe of @PremiumTimesng

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Samuel Ogundipe

@SamuelOgundipe

5 years

The madness that comes with Nigerian politics forces politicians to be under the influence of drugs to cope — and the effect of the drugs includes being rendered numbed to something a rational mind would find scary or counterintuitive.

Gege

@nigeriasbest

5 years

Drugs & politics..... I once asked a government employee why some Nigerian politicians make reckless gambles. The person explained that a lot of top politicians are drug users. So things that are risky to a sober mind don't seem risky to them. Ichabod....

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Samuel Ogundipe

@SamuelOgundipe

4 years

The preservation of press freedom is a collective duty. Succinct public service informercial from @Gatefieldco team. #WorldPressFreedomDay

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Samuel Ogundipe

@SamuelOgundipe

5 years

A riveting thread here by Dr. To expand, I looked into the origin and quiddity of SSS' adoption of a menacing pseudonym for itself in 2016. Turned out it was Abdulsalami's idea on May 23, 1999, six days before he vacated office for Obasanjo: .

Dr Charles Omole

@DrCOmole

5 years

CORE DUTIES The legal name of d outfit is SSS. They decided to nick name themselves as the DSS. DSS is not an entity known to law in Nigeria. That is why is all legal proceedings they are always referred to as the SSS. When focusing on its main duty of Intelligence, gathering,...

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Samuel Ogundipe

@SamuelOgundipe

6 years

Only on November 13, the weekend editor of a major newspaper asked whether I have investigated it because their own outlet hadn't been bold enough to touch the story. "I believe there is something not quite right with the president's look," the editor said.

Nicholas 'The Brave' Ibekwe

@nicholasibekwe

6 years

What is the APC doing about this Jubril body double conspiracy theory spreading like wild fire? I have heard it in the most unlikely places and from the most unlikely people. I hope the party is aware of the political implication of not dealing with it now.

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Samuel Ogundipe

@SamuelOgundipe

4 years

Just over the past four months, I have caught five major foreign outlets lifting facts from PG without attribution. I took time to reach out to four of the reporters responsible, only one updated with credits. The three others begged me not to send an email to their offices.

Ben Figo 🇳🇬

@CallMeBenfigo

4 years

A very interesting thread on attribution - or the lack of it - among major US media outlets and local newspapers. The only contribution from Nigeria was a woman begging for money.

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Samuel Ogundipe

@SamuelOgundipe

4 years

The Nigerian Constitution says in Section 35(4) that authorities must release on bail a person detained or imprisoned for a non-capital offence if authorities do not start their trial within three months. Via @CrepperHQ : .

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Samuel Ogundipe

@SamuelOgundipe

7 years

Out of the blue, AGF Malami made the case for Maina to be reinstated earlier this year. Would Buhari, at least, suspend him like SGF & Oke?

Káyọ̀dé Ògúndámisí 🇳🇬

@ogundamisi

7 years

Pleased @NGRPresident @MBuhari listened to the voices of reason, the return of Maina was unacceptable. Now the grasscutter report is next.

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Samuel Ogundipe

@SamuelOgundipe

6 years

Is this a PR stunt by the president's handlers? Kemi Adeosun diverted funds to projects which Buhari expressly said she should not: . Rather than punish his appointee, he's bullying parliament that actually has full discretion over budgetary allocations.

Muhammadu Buhari

@MBuhari

6 years

I am however concerned about some of the changes @nassnigeria has made to the budget proposals I presented. The logic behind the Constitutional direction that budgets should be proposed by the Executive is that, it is the Executive that knows & defines its policies & projects.

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Samuel Ogundipe

@SamuelOgundipe

5 years

I am well. Thank you, Iyke, and all those who checked up on me throughout the month. Forever grateful.

IKECHUKWU

@iykimo

5 years

Where's @SamuelOgundipe Journalists are not terrorists Cc @AmnestyNigeria

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Samuel Ogundipe

@SamuelOgundipe

7 years

@DOlusegun Here's a copy of Jonathan's gazette proscribing Boko Haram, accompanied with the order of the Federal High Court. Next narrative?

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Samuel Ogundipe

@SamuelOgundipe

8 years

Safe to say at this point that Buhari spent the whole of 2016 without convening a single media chat. Another breakaway from democratic norm.

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Samuel Ogundipe

@SamuelOgundipe

6 years

The axiom that ignorance is not a defence before the law will now be tested in this major case. Nigerians did well by ensuring that the case did not go the way of many others before it. As for us at Premium Times, our work in direction of probity for a better Nigeria continues.

Premium Times

@PremiumTimesng

6 years

BREAKING: Buhari accepts Kemi Adeosun’s resignation

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Samuel Ogundipe

@SamuelOgundipe

6 years

For those saying I didn't give out enough details about my arrest when I appeared on the BBC this evening. Here you go:

Premium Times

@PremiumTimesng

6 years

REPORTER’S DIARY: Detained PREMIUM TIMES journalist, Samuel Ogundipe, narrates ordeal in police custody

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Samuel Ogundipe

@SamuelOgundipe

6 years

We really need to do better in this country. People should learn to be original for Pete's sake. The other day, it was The Nation editorial board that was lifting lines from my story without attribution. Writing is mentally tasking. If you have no original idea, just attribute.

Káyọ̀dé Ògúndámisí 🇳🇬

@ogundamisi

6 years

Plagiarism: @atiku Campaign Spokesman Copied @realDonaldTrump

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Samuel Ogundipe

@SamuelOgundipe

7 years

I'm looking for court cases that the Buhari administration has refused to obey or appeal. Any court order or judgement that any agency of the federal government did not obey or appeal since 2015. Example: Zakzaky and Peace Corps. Please DM or reach me via the channels on my bio.

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Samuel Ogundipe

@SamuelOgundipe

5 years

It’s not enough that I used an unsigned statement from the presidency to balance the story? And why’s is it now that suddenly no one understands ‘resilient future’ but the president’s surrogates?

Esther Agbarakwe

@estherclimate

5 years

@PremiumTimesng Hey @SamuelOgundipe , Why do I read this as a one-sided reporting? Published today 26th SEPTEMBER. No time for enough research? Or there is another reason?

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Samuel Ogundipe

@SamuelOgundipe

4 years

At a time fake news is complicating the perception of genuine journalism worldwide, Daily Post —most-read news site in Nigeria per Alexa— is putting up a disclaimer to indemnify itself against its propensity for propagating fake news. This came after its Bill Gates bribery hoax.

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Samuel Ogundipe

@SamuelOgundipe

6 years

In 2015, @AbdulMahmud01 estimates Candidate Buhari got over 7 million votes from incident forms in the north alone. If I were a politician, I'll probably weigh the impact elimination of such provisions would have on my reelection prospects, too.

Ayobami

@dondekojo

6 years

He knows, it's a bait

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Samuel Ogundipe

@SamuelOgundipe

3 years

A minister going on the radio to blame Peoples Gazette for “diluting” Buhari’s legacy is beyond ridiculous. Buhari’s undiluted disdain for everyday Nigerians remains his undoing — and blocking our website with amateur smear campaign will never change that.

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@Towchukwu

3 years

2014 - buck stops at GEJ's table. Full Stop! 2022 - owners of buck: 1. Elumelu 2. NOI 3. Abati 4. Otedola 5. Oil Price 6. 🇷🇺 vs 🇺🇦 war 7. COVID19 8. 16years of PDP 9. NBS 10. #EndSARS 11. Unpatriotic youths 12. Journalists 14. People's Gazette 15. Diezani 16. OBJ 17. The church

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Samuel Ogundipe

@SamuelOgundipe

6 years

Egbon, this story that you're shading Premium Times for does not even stack up amongst the top scoops we've published from the innermost corners of the State House, some of which you read and even helped share to a broader audience. I know where you stand politically, though.

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@ogundamisi

6 years

So @NGRPresident met with @PoliceNG in @AsoRock the meeting was a closed meeting but some of our ever vigilant Nigerian press who had "Sauses" (a fly on the wall) heard @MBuhari giving @PoliceNG IG the "NOD" to arrest @bukolasaraki I tuwale for una! After una na @foxandfriends

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Samuel Ogundipe

@SamuelOgundipe

9 years

Arije Sunday, 7th Division, Maimalari. Thanks for your service, brother. #ThankASoldier

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Samuel Ogundipe

@SamuelOgundipe

7 years

He also knew about the Ikoyi money. When it blew, he feigned ignorance. That the president has been getting away with blatantly swindling the public is a damning precedent his successors may exploit for the foreseeable future.

Ayobami

@dondekojo

7 years

Our President brought a fugitive back. No jokes.

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Samuel Ogundipe

@SamuelOgundipe

8 years

Police officers just raided Premium Times. They arrested the publisher, Dapo Olorunyomi, and my colleague, Evelyn Okakwu. Story up shortly.

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Samuel Ogundipe

@SamuelOgundipe

5 years

Thrilled as part of a fresh collaboration with Global Environmental Reporting Collective ( @PangolinReports ). A unique, science-themed investigation into pangolin trafficking was published today across Asia, Europe & Africa. Encore multimedia version here:

Premium Times

@PremiumTimesng

5 years

Pangolins: Trafficked to Extinction

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Samuel Ogundipe

@SamuelOgundipe

7 years

In the wake of #EndSARS , do the police pay damages to victims as ordered by courts? If you have a compensation ruling that has not been obeyed by the police, or you know a victim that procured such verdict, please enter my DM or call me. I'll be featuring these in a story.

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Samuel Ogundipe

@SamuelOgundipe

7 years

Dear @GarShehu and @FemAdesina , I've spent all day trying to get either of you to respond to HoS memo that president knew of Maina's recall.

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Samuel Ogundipe

@SamuelOgundipe

6 years

The president regularly gets letters from media outlets seeking interviews, he just ignores them.

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@kcnaija

6 years

Let me ask, does it mean Nigerian media practitioners don’t request to speak to Buhari? Don’t they request to feature him on programs and ask him questions? Don’t they request interviews and meet the press? How else does Buhari talk to Nigerians? @nicholasibekwe @SamuelOgundipe

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Samuel Ogundipe

@SamuelOgundipe

8 years

SSS operatives have raided CoreTV offices in Abuja this morning. Their computers, digital cameras and documents carted away. How pathetic.

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Samuel Ogundipe

@SamuelOgundipe

7 years

So el-Rufai also uses ghost writers like many other Nigerian so called columnists? The proliferation of mediocrity in this country...

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Samuel Ogundipe

@SamuelOgundipe

6 years

Core index shows Nigeria remained flat versus its 2017 standing. Countries ranking, while encouraging, is not the same as the composite itself, which Transparency Int'l lucidly stressed with credible bodies relied upon. Journalistically speaking, my copy captures report's crux.

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@ogundamisi

6 years

. @PremiumTimesng headline here, so let us break it down, @anticorruption said Nigeria moved up in the corruption perception index, but @SamuelOgundipe quoting Rafsanjani who is the local CICLAS TI affiliate & regular @npower_ng and @Trader_Moni critic. Compare @thecableng with PT

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Samuel Ogundipe

@SamuelOgundipe

2 years

There are many characters like this out there: they just don’t want to see you achieve actual success on your own terms. That’s why it’s always best to learn to ignore idiots, no matter their status, and keep up with your life.

Banks Omishore

@MrBanksOmishore

2 years

Often, those pushing for you to succeed only want you to succeed to a certain level. They want you to succeed enough not to be a pest but not successful enough to no longer need their help. It is my prayer that God will break the shackles and your success will know no limits

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Samuel Ogundipe

@SamuelOgundipe

6 years

Joyce's tweet about Buhari spending more than past admins was read on radio today. I couldn't breathe.

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Samuel Ogundipe

@SamuelOgundipe

6 years

Last two retweets, Buhari's contempt for the Nigerian media now borders on pathological. He doesn't even hold similar town halls at home, anyway.

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Samuel Ogundipe

@SamuelOgundipe

6 years

The courage. Twitter encourages it, anyway. Perhaps that's where the praises should really go.

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Samuel Ogundipe

@SamuelOgundipe

7 years

"I'm not a lawyer." Reply I got from Defence ' spokesperson when I asked him about legal grounds for his IPOB proscription announcement.

Premium Times

@PremiumTimesng

7 years

IPOB: Jonathan advises Buhari, urges Council of State meeting

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Samuel Ogundipe

@SamuelOgundipe

7 years

If you've ever been arrested and/or charged by Nigerian authorities under the Cyber Crime Act, or know any victim, pls enter my DM. Thanks.

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Samuel Ogundipe

@SamuelOgundipe

5 years

Let me call my mama then, I yaff made it. 😂😂😂😂😂😂

Charles the 1st

@9jaBloke

5 years

Sammy @SamuelOgundipe , you're now a global citizen! 🙂

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Samuel Ogundipe

@SamuelOgundipe

6 years

To say constantly means always without a break. Buhari did not constantly get 12 million votes. He scored 12 million when he faced two southerners, OBJ 2003 & GEJ 2011. But when he faced a co-northerner in 2007, he scored only seven million —his influence virtually cut in half.

Daddy D.O🇳🇬

@DOlusegun

6 years

Boda @doyinokupe said even though buhari has consistently gotten 12 million or more votes in three electoral cycles, its still a myth.

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Samuel Ogundipe

@SamuelOgundipe

8 years

Gbadamosi is a major business owner in Lagos. An ex-governorship aspirant yet he's locked up without information, SSS is setting Nigeria up.

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Samuel Ogundipe

@SamuelOgundipe

6 years

'Severally', 'Mustapha', '2013', deliberate removal of Onnoghen's name from the three judges who ruled in Buhari's favour and Buhari's compensation of the remaining two with critical diplomatic postings despite being octogenarians. This blunder from our foreign minister? Lord!

Chxta

@Chxta

6 years

Paragraph 5 of this thing. One of the THREE Supreme Court judges that wrote a minority judgement in favour of Candidate Buhari was a certain Walter Onnoghen. But see how they stylishly removed his name. There's something called Karma. She's a female dog. She will come.

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Samuel Ogundipe

@SamuelOgundipe

6 years

Notwithstanding what Premium Times weathers with this fundamental lapse in editorial workflow, Nigerian journalism will be better for it. Even more so if other platforms also own up. Those latching onto this to unfairly malign me may continue, I didn't buy their data.

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Samuel Ogundipe

@SamuelOgundipe

6 years

Both @AmnestyNigeria and @chairmanNHRC did a great job tracking the exploits of Abba Kyari and his men, especially in the Southeast. Bears repeating all that glitters is not gold.

Premium Times

@PremiumTimesng

6 years

Top police unit under fire for ‘confiscating’ assets of slain ‘kidnapper’, pocketing millions

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Samuel Ogundipe

@SamuelOgundipe

6 years

Thank you, Your Excellency.

Hassan Ibrahim Dankwambo

@HEDankwambo

6 years

I condemn the detention of Journalist, @SamuelOgundipe of Premium Times by the Nigerian Police. This arbitrary arrest of Journalists and clampdown on the fourth estate of the realm must stop. Press Freedom is very important to the development of our democracy.

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Samuel Ogundipe

@SamuelOgundipe

4 years

One of Ohimai's classics. Nostalgia!

Ohimai Amaize

@MrFixNigeria

4 years

Dear Nigerian journalists, don't be intimated by any "big man", no matter how highly placed. You have a duty to hold powerful people to account, even when they resist or attempt to bully you. #FromTheArchives on @WeekendShow_Ng

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Samuel Ogundipe

@SamuelOgundipe

8 years

Instrument One of 1999 is not a law. It's an administrative guideline for SSS, NIA & DIA. It was never gazetted & has no statutory sections.

Government of Nigeria

@NigeriaGov

8 years

. @pacacng has prepared a FACTSHEET on the legality of recent judicial searches and arrests by the DSS—

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Samuel Ogundipe

@SamuelOgundipe

6 years

Atiku has somewhat identical plan as Buhari on how herdsmen crisis should be tackled. Gov. Ortom left Buhari's APC primarily over their conflicting solutions. An Ortom aide told me: "You could say we are reluctant to openly blame ourselves for thinking Atiku has a better plan."

Premium Times

@PremiumTimesng

6 years

Herders Crisis: Grazing laws in Benue, Taraba, Ekiti to be reviewed — Atiku

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Samuel Ogundipe

@SamuelOgundipe

6 years

It's not even a week since Theresa May left Africa and Ohimai has knocked down the straw man about Nigerian journalists and their ability to be brutal.

Ohimai Amaize

@MrFixNigeria

6 years

Interesting exchange with @FemAdesina on @WeekendShowNG ... We were discussing the arrest of @PremiumTimesng journalist @SamuelOgundipe #WeekendShowNg | Watch full segment on @YouTube

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Samuel Ogundipe

@SamuelOgundipe

8 years

That's Niyi Oyebade, GOC of 1 Division that was indicted for authorising the Shiites massacre. Premium Times report:

Adeda

@tosinadeda

8 years

BUHARI is back!! On his feet 😊😃😄😅😆

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Samuel Ogundipe

@SamuelOgundipe

5 years

If the president makes an appointment that reeks of nepotism, altbeit consistent with his character, don’t you think the public would like to know at least why? That copy did a fair job in that regard.

Esther Agbarakwe

@estherclimate

5 years

@PremiumTimesng @SamuelOgundipe And Sam, dragging his late father to this is very disappointing. Ahmad has spent more than a decade serving, both formal and informal. And yes you could have done a thorough investigation on his background.. but No, His late father is a better focus. Shame

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Samuel Ogundipe

@SamuelOgundipe

7 years

Three days, hundreds of lives and millions of reprimands later, Baba is now pulling an @akaebube on Nigerians: his attention has been drawn.

Muhammadu Buhari

@MBuhari

7 years

I have received with great concern reports of the flooding in Benue State, displacing, from early estimates, more than 100,000 people.

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Samuel Ogundipe

@SamuelOgundipe

5 years

The same story was reported by many local and foreign outlets hours after I broke it. Whose headlines do you consider more ‘patriotic’, seeing as you’re the arbiter thereof?

The Best Man🐐

@ibrahim0608

5 years

@SamuelOgundipe is very mischievous guy. You sort to write about security and conflict in d NE and this is your headline? "Several Boko Haram fighters were also killed by the Nigerian soldiers" was d only mention in d entire write-up abt Boko Haram's casualties. Perhaps @AsoRock

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Samuel Ogundipe

@SamuelOgundipe

4 years

Wow! Packed stuff! We can't wait, Ohimai.

Ohimai Amaize

@MrFixNigeria

4 years

Beginning this Friday, I will be hosting a 30-minute live show discussing politics, trending stories, social issues and global events. At the moment, I will be focusing a lot on #Nigeria . Guess who is going to be my first guest on the show? Stay tuned. #TheFixWithOhimai

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Samuel Ogundipe

@SamuelOgundipe

3 years

😂😂😂😂😂😂

Ebube The Statesman

@akaebube

3 years

Finally, Ole has left office We are now waiting for EFCC to go after him The mismanagement under his watch was monumental.

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Samuel Ogundipe

@SamuelOgundipe

1 year

The vendor is anonymous and, like the president, is entitled to privacy.

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@I_Am_Ilemona

1 year

What is the name of the 3rd party vendor that helped Bola Tinubu secure his replacement certificate?

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Samuel Ogundipe

@SamuelOgundipe

6 years

And there is actually a recrimination over whether or not Buhari actually applied before WAEC issued this obviously questionable document to him. So untidy to be candid.

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Samuel Ogundipe

@SamuelOgundipe

6 years

The most edible tweet, ever!!! Egbami!!!

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Samuel Ogundipe

@SamuelOgundipe

5 years

Wow! I have only seen this trailer like many others, but I know the full package is going to be another epic from @kikimordi — something she’d worked diligently on for so long. Thank you Kiki for your invaluable journalism.

BBC News Africa

@BBCAfrica

5 years

For the past year, BBC Africa Eye has been secretly investigating sexual harassment by lecturers at West Africa's most prestigious universities. Stay tuned... 👁 #BBCAfricaEye l #SexForGrades

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Samuel Ogundipe

@SamuelOgundipe

9 years

Those exasperated by President Buhari's silence over Zaria massacre should exercise patience, he'll speak on it in Burkina Faso next week.

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Samuel Ogundipe

@SamuelOgundipe

6 years

Scoops are usually based on agenda. If they can't see immediate benefits, politicians are unlikely to disclose details of their private chats.

Gege

@nigeriasbest

6 years

@SamuelOgundipe What is dis guy? Did any of you deliver a scoop?

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Samuel Ogundipe

@SamuelOgundipe

7 years

Agbaje's back on Twitter because he's gunning for an office.

Jimi Agbaje

@jimiagbaje

7 years

My official declaration for PDP National Chairman.

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Samuel Ogundipe

@SamuelOgundipe

9 months

Brilliant simplification of journalism's existential pain today. I should emphasise the brief part of social media speed, which moots core media output even with its epistemic superiority. The ride might be long indeed.

Jay Rosen

@jayrosen_nyu

9 months

Last week CNN asked me how I explain the downturn in the news industry: big layoffs, scant investment, no recovery in sight. A list of factors is not an explanation, I said. But that is what I have. So here's my thread. None of it should be news to people in the business. 0/

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@SamuelOgundipe

6 years

Prof., our story was based on a four-page cautionary statement which Chief Justice Onnoghen dispatched to the Code of Conduct Tribunal on January 11. He handwrote the response, containing his address and telephone number, with a black ink pen and signed.

Farooq Kperogi

@farooqkperogi

6 years

When did Onnoghen say he “forgot to update his asset declaration”?--A SHORT THREAD The Buhari Media Centre (BMC) troll and propaganda factory has been running amok with a Jan. 12 Premium Times story that quoted CJN Onnoghen to have purportedly said he

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Samuel Ogundipe

@SamuelOgundipe

8 years

A military chief spoke with Premium Times about goings-on in the Northeast. Story is now live on the Web site:

Francis Ogbuka

@TheEmekaa

8 years

@SamuelOgundipe whose?

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Samuel Ogundipe

@SamuelOgundipe

8 years

19 months, 1000s of lives and N7 trillion later, our 'intellectuals' are now questioning if the Emperor ever had any clothes to begin with.

Premium Times

@PremiumTimesng

8 years

Buhari and the Anti-corruption War: What Happened to Our Strongman?, By Oluseun Onigbinde

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Samuel Ogundipe

@SamuelOgundipe

6 years

Thank you, Your Excellency.

Peter Ayodele Fayose

@GovAyoFayose

6 years

The arrest and detention of Samuel Ogundipe of @PremiumTimesng by the police must be condemned by all lovers of freedom of speech and of the press. I join other well meaning Nigerians to call for his immediate release. #FreeSamuelOgundipe

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Samuel Ogundipe

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7 years

It'll also be enlightening for the presidency to tell explain why Buhari conveniently shakes hands with Merkel, Sirleaf and other foreign leaders but not with prominent Nigerian women.

Rachel Savage

@rachelmsavage

7 years

I'm all for humour in politics. But in such a divided country, Buhari's choice of banter, especially the "cattle rearers" jokes, seems in bad taste at the very least

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Samuel Ogundipe

@SamuelOgundipe

8 years

In 2012, Jonathan quickly fired & prosecuted the DPO who shot a man in Ogba. Buhari's soldiers will shoot you on camera & he'll defend them.

Michael Abimboye

@mmakesense

8 years

The moment we have a successful anti-Buhari protest in Lagos, Port-Harcourt and any other state, that's the end of @MBuhari 's govt.

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Samuel Ogundipe

@SamuelOgundipe

4 years

Won ni o d’ola. Baalu shi wa lori (iro) ofurufu.

Tunde Leye

@tundeleye

4 years

Se vaccine ti de?

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Samuel Ogundipe

@SamuelOgundipe

6 years

Not really, madam. There's no way we would have been able to get anything from her if I didn't ask those questions. Blame the SSS for the botched parade and abuse, not journalists for who try to give her a voice.

Mercy

@AbangMercy

6 years

When I saw everyone is an abuser in Nigeria I mean it. I have watched Nigerian Journalists interrogate suspects and abuse them in the process, this takes the piss, there’s no bar. This is disturbing . I am so sad

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