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What I read in 2025. If you make it all the way to the end, there is a short selection of long-read articles as well aguntasolo.co/what-i-read-in…
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My cancellable Afrobeats take is that Kizz Daniel is the GOAT. This dude had the nerve to release a 20-song album titled ‘No Bad Songs’ and…there was no bad song on it
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Whatever else one might think, it is really remarkable that the son of the president of one country will be representing another country at the World Cup
George Weah is the first and only African footballer to win the Ballon d'Or, yet he never went to a World Cup.
Now, his son Tim Weah is going to to the World Cup with the USMNT. 🏆
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This brother from South Africa asked me to take a photo of him in Doha a couple of weeks ago. He gave me his email address but typed it wrong. I think he might want this photo so Twitter, do your thing
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Rather than add a colour to his product like other refiners around the world do to make it identifiable, he’s now pushing a narrative that implies ‘clear petrol’ = good. What a guy
He said, “This is the sample of the petrol. You see it as a different colour but that is the real deal. You are now going to have a good and real product.”
punchng.com/why-petrol-from-…
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Went into my kids room today. And my older son was on the computer. Without looking back at the door he said “hello, whichever parent that is”
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Overheard Naija guy complaining at the zoo that he paid £40 to enter and the lion is sleeping
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Kizz Daniel said God’s blessings are like HIV because they often take time to show. Frankly, I think prison sentences should be introduced for bad writing in Nigerian songs and movies to tackle this issue
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Nigerian Police advising you to be careful with Nigerian Police as Nigerian Police cannot vouch for the state of mind of Nigerian Police Officers
Oftentimes, you hear people say things like ‘shoot me, if you can!” Note that this is a recipe for disaster! It is very provocative and an unnecessary call for war. So, please play safe, more so, as you do not know the state of mind of the officer concerned.
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The death of Abba Kyari greatly saddens me. He was one of the Nigerian government officials I abused the most here. Until one fine day last December
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Couple days ago, David Ornstein went on TV and said he doesn’t know what’s going on with the Man Utd manager situation. 2 days later he broke the story once he knew. That man is the gold standard of journalism in this country. Political journos can learn a thing or two from him
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This is when I point out - AGAIN - that Nigerian lawyers still wear wigs for one reason and one reason only - because they want to
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Even by Nigerian standards this is just insane. And for millions of Nigerians, this oppression and inconvenience is the *only* contact they’ll ever have with their leaders
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Buhari was a useless president, that is not in doubt. But as someone who lives outside Nigeria, one of the worst things about his presidency has how he made Nigeria completely irrelevant outside of Nigeria. A big country no one cares about
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An incredibly fascinating case I've spent a lot of today reading.
- Jeremiah "Jerry Boy" Useni bought a house with stolen money, as Nigerian Generals do, and without thinking too much of it, registers it in the name of a non-existent woman.
- Nearing the end of his life, he perhaps wants to give the house to Barrister Ozekhome (a SAN, I hasten to add) to settle a debt or as a gift
- As the fake woman in whose name the property is owned does not exist, Ozekhome finds an actual living man with the same name to transfer the property to him
- Court says house belongs to woman so man cannot obviously transfer it. A right old mess ensues that leads to practically every type of Nigerian identity documentation proven to be fake (so when next your Nigerian document is looked at with suspicion outside of Nigeria, it is because of people like these).
-Ozekhome's "clever" plan backfires. Court says property belongs to non-existent woman and since woman is non-existent, she cannot transfer property because, nemo dat.
- Jerry Boy is now dead. Property stuck.
As I always say, the behaviour of the Nigerian elite is truly something to behold
I just found a property dispute ruling in north London that involves a dead Nigerian general, a woman that dies during the court case & then turns out to have never existed, and two sets of people alleging fraud and identity theft against eachother, including a Nigerian judge 🧵
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Knew Bola Tinubu was/is a crook and not really someone you should hand over the presidency of a country to. I expected nothing but corruption. Still, I’ve been blown away by the sheer brazenness of it in just one year of him being president. Truly incredible
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Rich Nigerians maltreat their househelps. Poor Nigerians also maltreat their househelps. It is a deeprooted cultural problem about abuse of power
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Once you add the stew of patriotism it should be fine.
Just because we closed our borders for a few weeks, see the kind of nonsense rice we've flooded our markets with. This one even felt like sandy soil the moment I turned it into water. Is this honestly the best we can do as a people? Who cursed us with mediocrity so wickedly?
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I vowed now to do it but everyday people keep asking me ‘Feyi, when are you going to do a photo thread of Sanwo pointing at things? We badly need it!’
Ok, fine you win. So here goes
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Kids came to me pretending to cry that they had damaged the TV. Got to the living room and saw this. I wanted to flip. Turns out it’s a YouTube background. Sharing this for awareness. Don’t let your kids send your blood pressure up
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Yoruba caps are back. I love the Nigerian elite. It will not surprise me at all if Wike starts speaking with h-factor very soon. It is what it is
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...and put them in multidimensional poverty
FG lifts 5m Nigerians out of extreme poverty in 3 years – Presidency thenationonlineng.net/fg-lif… .
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The guy is a complete idiot. Bringing out a camera around a school is the first indication that he doesn’t know the basics of how to behave in public
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Nigerian billionaire (or at least husband of billionaire) is suspended from exclusive club for beating up an Indian guy. I very much enjoyed this letter he wrote to defend himself
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Man, these guys are irredeemably stupid
Kidnap of @MBuhari ’s in-law shows Daura not given special treatment —Presidency
punchng.com/kidnap-of-buhari…
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One woman kissed another woman and squeezed her bum and next thing I know, they’ve kidnapped Buhari’s in-law
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I had absolutely no idea about Specsavers. Just assumed it was another private equity owned chain or something. Amazing [ft.com/content/3c9c8a2b-cd3a…]
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Been blocking on average 3 to 4 Buharideens a day lately. Some of them didn’t even do anything, I just blocked them for intellectual hygiene purposes
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The aphorism goes - Talent is universal, opportunity is not. And sometimes that opportunity is the littlest things. Cost me nothing. And yet
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I see you guys are going to continue pretending like the Attorney General of the Federation didn’t just marry the President’s daughter as his 3rd wife. Cool cool
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Saudi Arabian Government conducting a mass recruitment of Nigerian doctors in Nigeria in the middle of an ongoing Nigerian doctors strike is the level of rudeness I aspire to
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Governor’s watch - $130k
Senate President’s Watch - a mere $40k
Being a Nigerian politician is such a good life
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To see if their cars will be able to drive through Nigerian fog? Stop letting Yoruba people write headlines you won’t hear
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IAAF sent $130,000 to Nigeria in error. For over a year they’ve been asking for the money to be returned.
We go over to the Nigeria’s sports minister for an update
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A Spiritual Leader at rest. Shoes off, Agbada off, toothpick in mouth as he savours his state sponsored meal and watches himself on tv. You guys can keep shouting on twitter from morning till night in the meantime
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This is fascinating indictment as it unwittingly gives an insight into what a lot of the Nigerian ‘elite’ got up to during the (ongoing) currency crisis that started after oil prices crashed in 2014 and Buhari got elected in 2015. Short 🧵
Allen Onyema, the Chairman, CEO, and founder of Air Peace, a Nigerian airline, has been charged in a superseding indictment with obstruction of justice. justice.gov/usao-ndga/pr/ceo…
ALT Quote: “After allegedly using his airline company as a cover to commit fraud on the United States’ banking system, Onyema, along with his co-defendant, allegedly committed additional crimes of fraud in a failed attempt to derail the government’s investigation of his conduct,” said U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Buchanan. “The diligence of our federal investigative partners revealed the defendants’ alleged obstruction scheme, making it possible for the defendants to be held accountable for their aggravated conduct of attempting to impede a federal investigation.”
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Aston Villa and West Ham also backed out. United were the 4th premier league to interview him
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Discussing emigration with a few friends and the different ways you can emigrate and look at what a friend of mine said.
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Many years ago I was MC at a friend’s wedding in Lagos. I made a joke about June 12 - Vice Admiral Mike Akhigbe was a guest of honour and he sent someone to warn me about it not long after. Mildly threatening. Now thinking I got off lightly
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National chairman of party suspended by his state party branch. Nigeria is extremely interesting
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For the last 6 days, the Central Bank of Nigeria has been tweeting about milk. I ask again - is this real life?
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Overhead water tank in the president’s house. If I speak, I will be in big trouble
VIDEO: With God's guidance, Tinubu will lead Nigeria to avoid ruin, says Tunde Bakare
📹: @NTANewsNow
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Today is 30 years since Samuel Okwaraji collapsed and died on the pitch at the national stadium in Lagos. #WILT But he did not die on the pitch - the ambulance to take him to the hospital failed to start ...
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CIA sold equipment to countries to bug them BUT NIGERIA HAS TOO MUCH SENSE AND CAN NEVER BE BUGGED! (washingtonpost.com/graphics/…)
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I reviewed F.Ote$'s memoirs. The things I do for you. You're welcome. Link🔗 in next tweet
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As soon as I saw Omotola’s tweet, I knew she had made a mistake with that ‘lack of money in circulation’ line. Buharideens are one-way automatons and you have to insure your tweets against their stupidity
Madam Omotola those who are working for CLEAN money are not complaining and will never refer our dear country as ‘hellish’. In Kano State alone, from 2015 to 2018, no fewer than 200 medium and small scale rice milling centres emerged. For that, billions circulated among millions.
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50 million Nigerians will be pulled out of poverty in 42 months.
- Dr Betta Edu, Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation
#PoliticsToday
#CTVTweets
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This is not an image washing exercise - many people dislike him strongly (I was one of them too not long ago).
But hearing the news of his death has left me deeply deeply sad. And I pray that God grants his soul eternal rest and comfort his family
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Another day, another one. And trust me, he’s not just ‘changing the straps’ #TheWatchesofSanwo
Is it true that he’s wearing a Patek Philippe in the second frame and that they cost £40k or more? Will like someone to verify before rumours start spreading that a Nigerian governor wears expensive watches
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In nearly 20 years working as an accountant in financial services, it remains the case that some of the smartest accountants I’ve come across have been people with a first degree in engineering or some other science course like physics. It’s like cheating
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Rich people policing poor people’s food is nothing new. You know like when a poor man likes food, issa glutton. But when a rich man likes food, issa foodie. That’s what is going on in this thread. Rice class war
1. Honestly guys, Nigerian needs a total mindset refit. Sometimes last week I was in a discussion with someone from a low income group & he was complaining about how expensive rice was. I asked him how many bags of rice he buys in a year. He said at least 7 bags.
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ANNOUNCEMENT
@FolaFagbule and I have written a book of popular history about Nigeria's formation
We start with the Jihad in 1804 and end with the Amalgamation in 1914 and cover all the events and characters in between.
Get in formation here nigeria-formation.com
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Consistent with a demographically young country that has a habit of forgetting its past, every past leader and politician of note gathered at this book launch today.
But I just want to state for the record that IBB was a very very bad person. Don’t be fooled
PHOTOS: Tinubu, Obasanjo, Jonathan attend IBB’s autobiography launch in Abuja | TheCable thecable.ng/photos-tinubu-ob…
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If you ever plan to come back to this world as a politician, make sure you come back as a Nigerian politician. The work is minimal, the pay is incredible and resignations are unheard of.
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This is how bad things are. This guy basically wrote the regulation for the industry he’s competing in then stole his competitors tech and sees nothing wrong in it. The Dangote Protocol
*MIC Check* Hello Twitter. I am Segun Cole. CEO Ekocab. I know this is so 2000 and late, but better now than never.
1. I have been a policy Consultant on New Mobility to State Governments. Advising them on how to better Regulate the Industry and proffering solutions.
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The makeup brush videos are tremendous. Please continue to produce and deliver such content
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It is with a heavy heart that I have to inform you that Lai Mohammed is at it again guardian.ng/news/approval-of…
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Ganduje got away with it. We were all alive when this happened. It will be ludicrous to complain about the effects on this kind of thing tomorrow. A governor caught on tape - video and audio - collecting bribes has gotten away with it
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Today is Monday, which means it's a good day to remind you that Buhari and his acquiescent party, APC, were 100% responsible for the economic crisis 2016. The recession was avoidable and caused by them. Issa thread
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To call this woman and her husband ‘leaders’ is to completely strip the word of all meaning. All political careers end in disgrace, but I pray for a double portion of disgrace to end theirs
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When Amorim is eventually sacked from this job, there surely must be an investigation into how a very average manager talked himself to a position where one of the biggest clubs in the world gave him such free rein to do as he likes with almost zero accountability.
Cannot stress this enough - even the team cook is now one of his Portuguese buddies
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Overheard - “Nigeria being a low trust society even shows up in dating. You meet a guy and ask him ‘are you married?’. If he says no, you then have to follow up with ‘ok but is someone married to you?’”
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Next INEC chairman should be
1. Someone who has been the CEO of Fedex, UPS or DHL in Nigeria
2. Someone who has been a CEO of a luxury bus company like Ekene Dili Chukwu
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Yes, Saudi Arabia - where religious police go about with canes flogging women who expose their ankles - is the perfect comparison to use when talking about freedom
My Saudi Arabia diplomat friend once told me “I am amazed at how freely and vigorously you guys in Nigeria express yourselves on social media in Nigeria”
That is actually a fact. Freedom of expression on social media in Nigeria is as good as you can find anywhere.
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Today is the 4 year anniversary of the plague known as APC. So let us insult them.
A thread
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Conversation I had earlier today made me conclude the U.K. riots can be explained in no small part by “the weather is good and the cocaine is cheap”
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World’s bjggest black nation. 200 million souls. This guy woke up one day and decided to close the border. Now there’s no chicken in Chicken Republic. And life just goes on
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The neck brace is moving from right to left so I will advise Saraki to avoid stairs and slippery floors for now
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Pays no taxes. Leads no innovation. Kills jobs. Just sells expensive cement. All my Dangote beef now in 1 article qz.com/1098137/africas-riche…
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“Senegal is the only place in Africa where sex workers are regulated by the state. Identification cards confirm the women as sex workers and give them access to some free health care, condoms and education initiatives” economist.com/blogs/economis…
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This is what I’m talking about. No time for audio donations - businesses should step up. This is being done by a partnership between @gtbank and @africa_finance
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Skype pioneered video conferencing at scale and is nowhere to be found right now in the biggest moment for video conferencing. Yet another example of First Mover Disadvantage
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Don’t think Nigerians appreciate how insane it is for the people at passport control at the airport to be asking for ‘something for the weekend’
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2019 has been full of surprises but I did not expect it to end with Kanye West leading people to Jesus
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Someone said I should inform you that this is how you should tweet once the hate speech law has been passed by the National Assembly so you’re not sentenced to die by hanging
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Not waiting for anyone to congratulate me. Just going to go ahead and congratulate myself for seeing one child through primary school.
Well done Feyi 👍🏽 Good effort!
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We just completed our 13th human spaceflight and the 33rd flight of the New Shepard program. The astronaut crew included Allie Kuehner and her husband, Carl Kuehner, Leland Larson, Freddie Rescigno, Jr., Owolabi Salis, and Jim Sitkin. To date, New Shepard has flown 70 people to space. Read more: bit.ly/4nfgQKe
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28yr old journalist downloaded all the information Facebook/Meta has kept on her since she was 11 and …. Lord have mercy [thetimes.co.uk/article/meta-…]
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Buhari’s ability to lower expectations of him to rock bottom levels is truly a superpower. At a time when other world leaders are having to cope with heightened expectations (daily briefings, working while sick/isolated), he simply has to show Nigerians he’s alive. That’s all
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This is why I support border closure. We need to stop whatever hard drugs you’re taking from entering into the country
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Just a funny thing I’ve been tracking. Anyway if you’re curious, this is donation number 9 of N500m or more she has made since her husband came into office.
First Lady Oluremi Tinubu Donates One Billion Naira To Mokwa Flood Victims In Niger Stste
Nigeria’s First Lady, Oluremi Tinubu has made a special intervention of one billion Naira, this time to the victims of flooding in Mokwa, Niger State.
She made the donation on behalf of Renewed Hope Initiative in Minna, during a condolence visit to the state government and families affected by the flood.
Handing over the cheque sum and other relief items to the state governor, Umaru Bago, the First Lady noted that victims must be supported in their journey of recovery.
She also launched a separate intervention to support small and medium scale businesses among women of the state with the flagging off of RHI Women empowerment programme in conjunction with the Tony Elumelu Foundation.
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Someone said he was heeding the US govt advisory for all non-essential workers to leave the country and I’ve been crying since I heard it
The UK issued a travel advisory on your capital city and canceled flights leaving many of your citizens stranded. Your govt called the advisory reckless. You did not summon or demand a retraction from US/UK ambassadors. Instead, you went on a medical trip to the UK days later.
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