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News Editor @ TheCable, ex-Senior Editor Pulse Nigeria, ex-Managing Editor Quest Times, ex-contributor at Sahara Reporters, Premium Times, Guardian

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@egbas
JustJude
10 months
I recall working on this story circa 2021. Thanks to an insider source, I had all documents at my disposal. Long story short, after story was published, the ex-NIRSAL boss threatened to sue my company. Management got jittery and issued me a query. One query soon turned two
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Daily Trust
10 months
N5.6bn wheat project scam: Ex-NIRSAL boss arrested 11 months after sacking
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JustJude
3 years
This, right here, is why Lagos and Rivers should be encouraged in this VAT battle. States who smash bottles of beer with glee, should not benefit from beer taxes
@PulseNigeria247
Pulse Nigeria
3 years
Hisbah seizes 2 vehicles carrying assorted beer in Kano
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JustJude
7 years
The average Nigerian is a happy-go-lucky chap. I'm at this gas station in Lere, and some1 just hollered 'merry Xmas' from middle of the queue, brings out a crate of beer from trunk and begins to hand out a can to every1. Na here we go turn up 2day
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JustJude
3 years
You just know that Angel will go far after this show... She's made for the glam, for showbiz, for the klieg lights #BBNaija
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3 years
Whitemoney's DS is really interesting 😂😂😂 #BBNaija
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2 years
@ChetoManji @gbolubunmi That sliding window net that doesn't close properly 😭
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JustJude
4 years
Nkechi Okorocha's gleaming estate on Akachi road, Owerri
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3 years
What are Saskay's fans called please? Make una put my name for dia
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JustJude
10 months
Management began to frustrate me. Story was taken down after the man reached out. With the way things were going, I knew I was soon going to be out of a job. So I quit. When people slate Naija journos sometimes on here, I laugh. You don't know what we go through. You don't
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JustJude
3 years
You'd think a series of investigations unearthing how members of Nigeria's political class evade taxes, would enrage young people. But here we are making excuses for them.... Tax is what is used to develop the functional countries you are all japa-ing to
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JustJude
1 year
All the TIME journalist did was write a citation on a name she had been given. She didn't include Tinubu on the list, she just did her job. The Editorial Board chooses who goes in the list. How is this so difficult to understand? What's this bullying going to achieve?
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JustJude
6 years
Stopped by the INEC office in Surulere. Stacks of uncollected PVCs rise to meet you from white plastic tables. If you registered in the Surulere area, please go get your PVC. There's no long wait, no queues, no tipping, no stress.
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JustJude
3 years
Don't worry Saskay. We go again next week. Na so life just be #Bbnaija
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JustJude
4 years
Let's be clear here. Only the Commander-in-Chief can deploy soldiers. His name is @MBuhari #EndSARS
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3 years
Let's goooo
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Kemi Lala Akindoju
3 years
Voting Saskay all day today. We still want to see her on our screens
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JustJude
3 years
This is the smoothest stretch of road in Lagos at the moment. You can do Cele to 3rd mainland interchange in 10mins. That's how infrastructure improves the economy. Don't know what Peter Obi was on about
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June12 Mandate
3 years
Dangote Construction and Hitech Construction Companies delivered this project on behalf of the Federal Government of Nigeria. Anthony/Gbagada Expressway, Lagos state....🇳🇬🇳🇬🇳🇬🇳🇬🇳🇬
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JustJude
2 years
@FabrizioRomano Premier League proven, ambidextrous, skillful, can take on people in a heartbeat, fearless, has pace to burn, price is a steal. Astute signing 👍
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JustJude
5 years
Update. Hawkers destroyed the work overnight because getting it motorable is bad for business. They dug up the patched portion. Back to square one
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JustJude
5 years
In Sango-tedo, near Ajah, the Rotary Club hired police officers for security, hired a contractor and fixed the bad patch of road that causes so much traffic. IN THE RAINY SEASON. I'll never understand Sanwo-Olu's excuse
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5 years
MC Oluomo who you love to shame as an uneducated thug, is sensitizing his members about the Coronavirus and placing sanitizers in parks. You who went to school with multiple degrees be telling people that there's no Coronavirus patient in Lagos
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JustJude
5 years
There was no collapsed building anywhere in Lagos today. Just got to the reported Edgerton site. A building marked for demolition was being brought down. It wasn't a collapse and no one was trapped
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JustJude
6 years
Just emerged from Adereti village in Ife South. There is no network in there. But police was civil and even had to explain why they stopped my car from going through the cordon. The vote here was peaceful too. Orolu is next
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JustJude
4 years
Gov Ben Ayade of Cross River State is about to waste tax payers' money on a luxury resort called 'CalasVegas'. Apart from the un-originality of the name, Cross River has an abandoned Tinapa and Obudu Cattle Ranch. He's also abandoned his superhighway 😭😭😭
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JustJude
3 years
Nigeria's Central Bank Governor challenges a forex publisher to a bare-knuckled duel, in order to stem the slide and depreciation of the nation's currency. How about that for a monetary policy. In 2021 Unbelievable....Pathetic...
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JustJude
9 months
@Nedunaija Budget of Blush and Bliss or Qabalistic Densification?
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JustJude
3 years
You wanted Elrufai off #theplatform because you don't like his face or can't stand him. That's not quite how it works, my dear. You see, #theplatform didn't grow to become this big, national brand by shutting out controversial characters or policy makers
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JustJude
4 years
No youth should attend their panels of inquiry any longer. The govt is showing plenty of bad faith while publicly posturing as doing the right thing. You can't be seizing passports, freezing bank accounts and warning folks about protesting during probes. Withdraw!!
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JustJude
5 years
Nigerians steal manhole covers, solar panels from street lights, bridge and transformer parts, clog drainage channels and vandalize pipelines. It's always easy to blame govt. But as a people, we haven't helped this country much.
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JustJude
4 years
On AriseTV, Gov @jidesanwoolu says security cameras were not removed on the night. That they are still there. Adds that what was removed were laser cameras that scan cars...taken off because a curfew had been declared and the toll was going to be closed
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JustJude
7 years
A police officer dies in active service while watching over a bank. The bank and the govt abandon his family after. We are sick.
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JustJude
6 years
Davido is a human being abeg. Had to get Mayourkun to speak 1st during his own big moment. Class #Headies2018
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JustJude
4 years
The construction of the Apapa-Oshodi expressway is an example of what can happen if we really want to get things done in this country. Just under two years and the stretch from Cele to Anthony interchange is as smooth as a baby's bum. Quality work too
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JustJude
6 years
Okonjo-Iweala says Jonathan’s weakness on corruption frustrated her
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JustJude
4 years
Incorrect and false. Someone committed suicide at the Badore jetty. An ambulance arrives to pick up the body and everyone automatically assumes he's a COVID-19 patient
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JustJude
5 years
These buses are dope tho. Air-conditioned, charging ports, sufficient leg room, very comfortable. Just introduced for the CMS-Ajah route and no hassles getting in at 6:30am
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JustJude
7 years
If each time some Chibok Girls are released and your 1st default reaction is premised on politics, you are a miserable person.
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JustJude
2 years
Outside the banks at ATMs today. Please explain to me like I'm 5, how this affects Tinubu in Bourdillon or Atiku in Dubai....
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JustJude
5 years
This. Is. Lagos . Mile 2-Badagry expressway. Shame of a nation
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JustJude
2 years
You people swore that the scarcity of cash will stop vote buying. How's that going now? Pls just tell Emefiele to release the remaining money. Election don finish. I wan try cook small egusi
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JustJude
2 years
Oyetola hasn't impressed. Flat is the word Accord Party's Ogunbiyi, LP's Yusuf Lasun and SDP's Omigbodun have been the most articulate in my opinion; presenting the clearest, workable ideas. Adeleke is all sound and fury. Emotional too #OsunDebate2022
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JustJude
3 years
"He is not the 1st rich person to have offshore companies.." "They all have shell companies" "Why now?...Oh, he is from my part of the country. It's becuz of 2023..." "He can't be tainted no matter what they do..I'd still vote him even if he pees on me" Wee you keep kwayeet!
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JustJude
3 years
Chelsea may soon begin auction of their players..."bend down select" style. Na to stand outside Stamford Bridge catch the ones you like
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JustJude
5 years
Last RT, some day, this nation will wake up to realise what a huge fraud Governor Ben Ayade of Cross River State is
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JustJude
4 years
Police officer confesses: ‘DPOs force us to collect bribes on the roads' via @Pulse Nigeria
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JustJude
3 years
How can't we see the nexus between tax evasion and why our country remains perpetually impoverished and under-developed? How can't we see that tax evasion and erecting shell companies abroad is theft in itself...is robbery?
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JustJude
3 years
What kind of poverty will make you carry chainsaw to chop off railway if you are not a devil?
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JustJude
3 years
I don't agree with this take...no other mode of transportation beats rail in terms of multiplier effect to the economy in the long term. We are just restarting our rail after a prolonged lull...let's not throw away baby and bathwater
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JustJude
6 years
Osinbajo is playing politics with his every public appearance, bla bla bla. What should he be playing with two months to the elections? Ludo?
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JustJude
4 years
This spin is laughable. The governor has said precisely the same things in the interviews he granted Arise and BBC. Shows you guys haven't been following
@TheGreyHunter
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4 years
Look at Babajide Sanwoolu admitting to what he first denied, is it because this was on a global tv? Anyway, he’s complicit and needs to resign and be tried by competent authorities. #EndSARS
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JustJude
4 years
Everyone who's worked in a digital newsroom knows how tough these situations are. At the end of the day, if the boss says edit this or take this down, you got to obey. The boss sees the bigger pix, your ego be damned
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JustJude
5 years
Most of the street lights are dead. Driving through Ikeja early today and the place is pitch black. All the street lamps in Surulere are dead. Lagos is darker today than it has ever been. What's the problem @jidesanwoolu ?
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JustJude
3 years
Impressed. The trucks and tankers that have been stationed from Ijesha to Mile 2 for three years are no more. They made driving on that stretch a living hell for motorists. Thank you @jidesanwoolu @followlasg @followlastma ..Please endeavour they never return
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JustJude
7 years
Family of the cop who died during that Zenith bank robbery shootout, now unable to feed, are about to be thrown out 4 owing rent👇👇
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Punch Newspapers
7 years
Bank robbery video: Brave policeman’s son, 5, slumps, dies at dad’s burial
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JustJude
5 years
In Sango-tedo, near Ajah, the Rotary Club hired police officers for security, hired a contractor and fixed the bad patch of road that causes so much traffic. IN THE RAINY SEASON. I'll never understand Sanwo-Olu's excuse
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JustJude
5 years
Outside COZA Lagos
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JustJude
6 years
Presidential candidate @obyezeks stopped by @PulseNigeria247 today to share her plans for a new Nigeria. It was quite the session. Check our social media pages for the full dossier
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JustJude
4 years
In what capacity is a failed, washed up politician like Fani-Kayode inspecting projects in an oil rich region? Is he some regional minister of works? My piece on why we should all condemn the politician's attack of a journalist doing his job
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JustJude
6 years
DSTV increased subscription but won't be airing the Community Shield, English FA Cup, Carabao. Definition of fraud
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JustJude
4 years
"No country can intimidate us Africans ever again. We do not dance to the drumbeat of any country or any continent in Africa. Our sole tune is the African Beat."-- @obyezeks 👏👏👏
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Oby Ezekwesili: Yes, I insist that China must pay Africa for coronavirus damages
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JustJude
3 years
Nigerians must think theirs is the only nation on the continent. Entitled much?
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JustJude
6 years
So, because he's Vice President, he shouldn't go to the cinemas again if he wants to? I don't get you guys sometimes
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JustJude
1 year
@therealdaddymo1 @ArsenalBuzzCom How in God's name is this not a penalty?
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JustJude
6 years
Obalende this morning. The vision is now a land-scape
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8 years
President @MBuhari on budget padding: "Very embarrassing. Won't go unpunished". Cc @SpeakerDogara @AbdulAbmJ
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JustJude
6 years
Osinbajo has left out no one. Beautifully scripted. The best toast to young Nigerians I've ever listened to. #ThePlatformNG
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JustJude
4 years
Just look at the body language of the people promising police reforms. The govt is still using apparatus of state to intimidate and gag while assuring the rest of the world that it's turning a new leaf. Right now, believe the govt at your peril
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JustJude
1 year
What have we become? Besides, the citation was balanced and a fair reflection of the election and the prevailing sentiments in Nigeria. It was far from a hagiography or a veneration, because that's not what these lists are about. Did you read the others?
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JustJude
4 years
Ok. Where's the onions now coming out from? What changed? Because the onions I just bought for N100, I go use am for one month. Same for tomatoes. When e plenty laidis, no tweets. When scarcity hit laidis, na weapon. Smh
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JustJude
4 years
Ending the petrol subsidy regime, like most clamoured for, meant that the price of PMS at the pump was going to go up. Inevitable. This is just the beginning. Market forces. Deregulation. Until we begin to refine our own crude, we are in soup
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JustJude
8 years
This man is still on this electric pole in Lekki phase 1. Says N5m or he dies. Photo credit : @kenegbas
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4 years
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4 years
People I protested with on a few occasions under Jonathan, suddenly can't stand protests or bring themselves to tweet the relevant hashtags because that will make this administration look bad. All of you are mad! And yes, we blocked roads too when we wanted
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@egbas
JustJude
6 years
Mrs Bisola, one of d cooks here, spells out feeding TT: Mon (Bread, egg, stew), Tue (Rice, beans, Chicken stew), Wed (Beans with catfish stew), Thurs (Rice, melon stew and chicken), Fri (Mashed corn and beans, beef). Fruit daily #VisitOsun
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1 year
@ifyasia Did you bother to read what she wrote?
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JustJude
3 years
Simi's "Woman" is so on point. A jam, and then some 👌
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JustJude
4 years
That Siemens deal on the power sector is a good one. Hopefully, none of the parties defaults on their end of the contract and timelines are sacrosanct. Expanding the grid capacity to 25,000mw will posiitively impact our nation's economy in more ways than one
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JustJude
5 years
MC Oluomo doesn't have a Twitter account. That handle you folks have been interacting with is being managed by a clown who should have just made it clear it is a "parody".
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JustJude
2 years
@OsmanBukari9 You owe no one an apology for how you celebrate scoring at the pinnacle of world football. It was an emotional moment for you; and how you chose to celebrate it was your business and yours only
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JustJude
6 years
Mrs Tinubu had no business making that Igbo remark, whether as a joke or a piece of legislation. Reckless, careless, insensitive and silly.
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JustJude
6 years
Why Nigeria’s currency swap deal with China makes economic sense H/T @DrJoeAbah @emma_dele
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JustJude
1 year
Influence: "The capacity to have an effect on the character, development, or behaviour of someone or something." The TIME 100 INFLUENTIAL LIST is not a list of Saints. Has never been You can influence people positively or negatively. And if you wield power, you influence
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JustJude
2 years
@afcstuff My Idolo!!!
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JustJude
6 years
Over 256,000 pupils across all the primary schools in Osun are entitled to one free meal a day. Breakfast today is egg and bread. #VisitOsun
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JustJude
6 years
Lichsteiner no be am abeg
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JustJude
3 years
I love Ebuka 👏...WM and every1 in that house need to stop thinking for viewers. Just play your game...how is that difficult FFS!!! If there's one thing against this set of HMs, it's their annoying over cacu #BBnaija
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JustJude
4 years
I watched the men reconstruct that most important road from Day 1. They worked at night and during the day. They were there in the pouring rain and in the biting sunshine. If we attack other infrastructure across the country this way, we could get there
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JustJude
6 years
You only need to look at the state of inner city roads and constant floods to conclude that Ambode hasn't exactly set the nation's economic capital alight. He may well ride the storm and survive, but he's been a downgrade 4rm Fashola's purposeful years
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JustJude
8 years
You should count yourself lucky to have watched Messi play. Generations yet unborn will read tons of literature on what a beauty he was
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JustJude
2 years
@FabrizioRomano And oh, he sure knows where the back of the net is and has shots in boots for days...
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JustJude
3 years
Today, I said my final, emotional goodbyes to everyone at Pulse Nigeria @PulseNigeria247 . It's been such a rollercoaster ride. One that I badly needed. Pulse has been my life for 5 amazing years and the experience was worth the while 😭😭😭
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6 years
Same old problems. We haven't moved an inch. #Nigeria
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3 years
@_theladymo @DanielRegha Na so you sabi blow grammar? Please remind me not to ever offend you 😳😳
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JustJude
4 years
I'm yet to see a governor who builds castles in thin air like this guy. Rather than complete Tinapa and revive a Calabar carnival that has lost its glamour, this man is erecting an elite city called CalasVegas. I hope the EFCC picks him up when he completes his term
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JustJude
4 years
CalasVegas ladies and gentlemen...
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5 years
Johnny Drille belongs in a different era. An era when art really mattered for the sake of it. Just hurts that a voice that golden arrived in the pangolo era.
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JustJude
6 years
Buhari grants an interview to Arise TV but insists it shouldn't be 'LIVE'. And then Arise TV crew is told to drop own cameras and make do with the recorded version from NTA. Interviews are only worth it if they are unscripted and off the cuff. Meh
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JustJude
6 years
Tinubu says @AkinwunmiAmbode has deviated from the Lagos master plan. Can't argue much with that one. It's interesting that the Lagos monorail 4rm Mile 2-CMS and the Badagry exressway remain the way Fashola left them
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@egbas
JustJude
9 years
This is what Soyinka thinks of Fashola. Difficult to disagree too much. http://t.co/D8e72kzbLM
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3 years
We started this game playing "big man football." Everyone was jogging, no pressing, no urgency. A knockout game o We deserve to be kicked out of the competition
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