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My latest research article analysed Speaker Lists of the Global Investigative Journalism Conference (#GIJC) from 2019 to 2023 by ethnicity, gender, speaker duration and session type. The findings show that:👇🏾
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No lies detected!
I had to tweet-shout this because my brother is getting called out for using ChatGPT in assignments at postgrad level as we speak. Just days ago he had to write a paragraph on the spot in class (on a question asked by the lecturer) and the AI detector still said it was likely ChatGPT!
These things aren’t just Twitter banter by Graham and co. It’s affecting real humans and undermining trust in honest writers.
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To any cancer patient who reads this: you are not less because all you could do today was have a shower, or wash your hair, even if your last treatment was one year ago.
You are no less because you don’t have constant help. You are here today, and you deserve to be here. ❤️
Signed,
A Two-time Cancer Survivor
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I'm muting @aproko_doctor until January 2.
I cannot be opening fridge for rice, turkey and malt and be seeing his face inside there. 😑
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Bad Nigerians and Nigerian cultists have literally used their hands to ruin travelling to Dubai for every single person under the age of 30.
See what you are doing to your own innocent brothers & sisters! 😤
Think about your behaviour abroad, before you cause far-reaching harm.
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Germany has a new Skilled Labour Immigration Act, which was passed in June 2019, and comes into effect March 2020.
This is what was referred to in the meeting with President Buhari. We lack skilled workers so the new law allows migrants from countries outside the EU.
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A year ago, I was diagnosed with breast cancer.
Jan 5 to mid-June I had chemotherapy.
July 10, I opted for a full mastectomy, and declined implants.
I’ve been in remission since July 18.
To start this awareness thread, here’s me on my last day of chemo!😎
#cancerinafrica
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Twelve years ago today, my father was assassinated for being a journalist. Rest on, Godwin Agbroko. We will forever miss you 💔
#JournalismIsNotACrime
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On this using “delve” means you wrote with ChatGPT matter, I feel like:
Even after being colonised with English, we’re about to also be penalised for using the language better than the coloniser.
Is it our fault we write big-big grammar?
😫😭
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Toyosi Ogunseye called London to try and get them to remove me from the Emmys trip, claiming my conduct on my personal Twitter account was a problem.
Note:
I had resigned MONTHS ago, so no longer staff😏
The BBC wasn’t paying for this trip too.
See what your faves do?
🤡🤡🤡
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On this day, 14 years ago, my father Godwin Orokeyeri Agbroko, aged 53, was killed for being a journalist.
Today is always horrific for my family and I.
His grandchildren, children by marriage I weep the most for.
What they have missed, and are denied of, cannot be quantified.
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Kiki, make sure this time you at least share whatever prize money there is with O.O and acknowledge her - given this was all her story as pitched, sourced/started.
Real journalists have honour and also hold themselves to account, not just the government.
#TruthIsSacrosanct
With the Elliott family & @ONECampaign, we're thrilled to present Nigerian journalist Kiki Mordi (@kikimordi) the 2020 Michael Elliott Award for African Storytelling. Her documentary uncovered sexual harassment at universities and had a tremendous impact: icfj.org/news/nigerian-journ…
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That video of the journalists asking a suspected kidnapper more than once if he is Fulani is one of the things us journalists will have to tackle, and tackle honestly.
Too many of you are letting your bias into the work - that is the plain truth. Please, do better.
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🎶Unbreak my baaaank🎶
🎶Say you'll forex againnn🎶
🎶Undo these rates that you caused🎶
🎶As you run Aso Rock🎶
🎶And mess wit Naija lives🎶
🎶Un-dry the gluuut🎶
🎶Of loans for many many goons🎶
🎶Unbreak my....🎶
🎶Unbreak my baank, oh Meffy...🎶
It will not surprise me if Meffy announces an intervention fund for the R&B sector after being tickled by Toni Braxton
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I start my dream job this week.
I have no words for how thankful, nervous, excited and ready I am.
My mood is really low due to very recent news events but despair is never an emotion I give into.
So...
Alhamdulillah. Always.
To God be the glory.
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Guys, I am still taking it all in but...here goes:
Sweet Sweet Codeine has just got an #emmys2019 NOMINATION for News and Current Affairs, the FIRST for the BBC World Service and #Nigeria!
CONGRATULATIONS, Team Africa Eye!
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One of my BEST prayers, due to its realistic standpoint, is a phrase from the Muslim religion:
"May Allah make it easy for you."
Not every challange can be escaped in life, but the ability to pass through it with ease is key.
Today, may Allah make it easy for you.
🤲 Amin.
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You dish out personal insults to public officials and expect them to ignore you. I’m amazed.
Are they not someone’s mother, father, auntie, lover or colleague?
They need to stomach your bullying because..?
You do realise it’s like hitting someone but acting shocked they hit back?
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So. My not signing with Opera News months ago was actually ZERO to do with money. It's why I said it will take me time to show why.
I wasn't going to, but in life one must speak up, so others do not make mistakes.
Or lump you in same money-is-my-sole-motivation basket. Ugh
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I’m reliably informed that South Africa and Nigeria are more or less the two countries that are currently ferrying requests for all African nationalities hoping to evacuate from #Ukraine
Nigeria embassy staff won’t go on record but are still at an unnamed border receiving people.
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My Dad, Godwin Orokeyeri Agbroko would have been 66 years old today.
But for a bullet to the neck from an assassin's gun, 3 days to Christmas 2006. His crime? Journalism
In 1997, Godwin won the PEN Prize after several arrests, torture under military rule.
pen.org/advocacy-case/godwin…
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Hungary, Budapest and Slovakia borders being suggested as alternatives for Africans fleeing #Ukraine - provided they can make it to a border.
This wonderful group is also liaising with NGOs and providing tangible support. nitter.app/i/spaces/1vAxRkXkOnNKl
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42 met me alive, healthy and working, learning with and doing for. Happy birthday to me.
To God be the glory.
Alhamdulillah. 🥹
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Home of my ancestors
Land of my birth
My super-power is:
I am Nigerian by blood, by choice and will always proudly be.
Today is about ME.
What will I give this perfectly imperfect love of my life?
I pledge to Nigeria my country
To be faithful, loyal and honest.
#IndependenceDay
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It is with a great sense of responsibility I announce my new role as Manager, Africa Initiative at the Solutions Journalism Network.
Solutions journalism is not new, as proven by our implementing partners @nighealthwatch, @ScienceAfrica5 and various media organs across Africa.
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My piece on a 5-month undercover investigation on codeine cough syrup. The documentary airs in a few hours.
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Just here to say a big WELL DONE to Ms @abikedabiri.
Her office and person were heavily mocked and "cancelled" and called irrelevant.
Thank you for consistently doing the work. A Ugandan colleague has testified.
Thank you, Ma'am!🤲
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Pleased to say I’ve officially signed on as a Visiting Research Associate at King’s College London, UK.
Details to follow soon.
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Nigeria, we didn't get the Emmy ... this year 😊😉😉
Congratulations remain in order, because our nomination is intact!
Thank you all for your love and support. I will never forget it, fam! ✌
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I must say this, and for long I’ve avoided it. But na me, so:
The eye-watering incompetence of Rufai Oseni is a stain on the sterling folks at Arise TV.
How can you fail at the simple journalistic task of noting a newsworthy individual’s birthday?
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Finally 39!
Happy birthday to me.
Gratitude is a must.
📸: Herr Meyer
*Frame 4 is for my champions. #flatmastectomy
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That President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s ECOWAS video has many sound bites and I’m wondering if I should make a thread of memes?
😝😇🥳
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If you see yourself deleting tweets, apologising on the TL lately...
You are one of Nigeria's main problems, yes.
Fake news kills, and kills more people via social media, quickly.
Spreading panic that makes people despondent, angry, seek physical or verbal retaliation is BAD.
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I hate how y’all act like Lafun isn’t a top tier baddie.
The disrespect!
Just because that other “amala” has more melanin.
No Lafun slander will be tolerated.
ALT A bowl of white amala, stew and jute leaves, fish, meat and cow offals. Picture by foodblog9ja on Instagram
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Your guest is upset, and you are LAUGHING.
On air.
As in, on air. Laughing repeatedly at your guest.
@ARISEtv your Morning Show is literally disgrace in airtime form.
Dr Abati really should have closed the programme as he was mentioning he would.
What was that utter MESS?
🤢🤮
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Folks, I just got the results from my annual scans and it’s all clear.
I’m telling you this so you know: even if you get a #breastcancer diagnosis, you can increase your chances of survival with early treatment.
Please don’t be scared. Don’t delay.
I chose flat mastectomy too.
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Someone’s husband tweets about his wife on her birthday. Because you have beef with her, you quote the innocent man’s post & troll his spouse.
Na why I dey change am for una for this app. Some of una won’t rest until you realise what’s missing in your life is not others’ fault!
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Imagine I go and buy a Nigerian football jersey and print "Editor in Chief" on it.
Then, you all start hailing me as the Editor in Chief of The New York Times.
What does that make me? What does that make you?
Yup.
That's how ridiculous your AFCON influencer looks 😂🤣
#Delulu
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Three months waiting to see a doctor is not normal anywhere that has the tag “developed nation.”
Please find a less illogical way to talk down on your country.
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Our ancestors were sooo wise in various ways.
Imagine the formalised concept of grandmothers coming to take care of the new mum and her baby.
And what that did/does for reducing, eradicating postpartum depression.
Imagine what the “market days” concept did for the environment.
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Imagine a COVID-19 survivor asking for N1mn to be interviewed for their story, yet forming advocate for the people on Twitter.
😆😜
After dem go say na only Nigerian government be the problem.
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Special thanks to @aproko_doctor.
That tweet many months ago yabbing us for midnight eating helped me break the habit.
I actually took a look at myself and closed the fridge.
Since then, I have more or less stopped the 2am meal.
Thanks ✌
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Those of you influenzas that are teaching Japa Studies everyday on Twitter threads and Instagram lives.
Please teach your students that they shouldn’t go there and be carrying cutlass and breaking other laws.
Tenks!
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You come and shout japa this, japa that.
You snap fine selfie with your fine sneakers and fine passport and caption “goodbye Nigeria the evil you have…”
But na you dey go do evil wey worse pass sotay road don block now for everybodi.
Reason am now. E good??
Ewu Senegambia 😏
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Schedule for townhall debates with Nigeria's Presidential Candidates, to be moderated by the pioneer firebrand interviewer herself, Ms
@KadariaAhmed
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You want testing at the same level at Germany...that's only possible because some of us have been parting with up 30% to 40% of income (plus bonuses) in taxation for years.
Corruption aside, dear Nigerians, do you or will you pay tax?
Na question I ask.
I wan see something.
Ditto. There’s a lot that goes into being able to spend £100 billion plus, a year, on your national health service.
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Facts! And I am forever grateful for the scholarship from Waziri Adamawa in 2011.
Nagode. 🤲🏾
#GrowingTheCreativeSector: @RGAMeyer formerly called Ruona Agbroko and Ruona Agbroko-Meyer is a beneficiary of @atiku’s scholarship at the University of Westminster in the UK.
She is an Emmy-nominated, multimedia investigative journalist, researcher and trainer.
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FYI, dear foreign colleagues:
Aisha Yesufu is not the only source or "expert" you can speak to on the End SARS protests. There are many others who were at the centre of the protests from the beginning.
It borders on laziness and even nonchalance to not seek out sources.
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One clapback from Aunty Abike and suddenly…
Everybody issa taxpayer.
Wonderful news for @FIRSNigeria
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Congratulations to Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the President-elect of my beloved country Nigeria.
May Nigerians experience FOKAN BALE in your time and beyond.
God bless the Federal Republic of Nigeria. 🇳🇬🇳🇬🇳🇬🇳🇬🇳🇬🇳🇬
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I've watched the Hausa-speaking debacle at the press conference. I shook my head at most of it.
Let me tell you a short story.
When I worked at this place in South Africa, there was always certain high profile news sources. You always had to go with two journalists. Why? Well...
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Who knew corn emojis were such a trigger for bigots? 🥳🤗
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“As for backlash - I don’t care about it because I’ve never lived for the crowd. You don’t feed me. I didn’t steal@your money.”
Iyin nailed it!
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Let me be clear, please.
If you believe in and actively stoke violence and ethnic conflict in Nigeria, I want nothing to do with you.
Even virtually, yes.
Thank you for your understanding.
So stay blessed and scram.
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When I lived in the UK, I waited months for scans, and surgeries, even with debilitating symptoms.
Then I move to Germany, which has a larger population, and in my experience, scans are gotten on the same day at my specialist doctor’s practice, specialist surgeries in the same week.
But someone wants to tell you that three months is normal in a developed country.
Doctor Neto will be a successful contortionist in a circus because the way e twist and turn that lamba for una ehnnn.
Anyway…good morning.
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Any 19-year-old proven to have intentionally undermined the validity of a nation’s examination system, doing so not only publicly but for a prolonged duration…should face the full extent of the law.
We’re talking about a country.
Not your damn WhatsApp group.
Dey what?
Dey play.
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Same Seun Kuti that Nigeria Twitter said is a failed musician is on the official NBA track in the US with Janelle Monae. 🙃
The way dis Twitter dey make una dey wind unasef ehnnn... piped.video/idhfJmS-Sds
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Side-note:
Until Nigerians who are working honestly and are COMPETENT, thoroughbred PROFESSIONALS make themselves more visible, and exhibit the same "arrogance" in showcasing their talents (brains, art and thought)...
The only role models your children will have is LoudBingo.
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I’m here for the pettiness of Festus Keyamo.✌🏾
I am a firm believer in not starting something, but making sure you end it.
That’s how frauds will be postulating. They’ll first be the ones to try it and leak DMs but they start crying when folks take it up and show the full DMs 🤣
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If you’re knowledgeable in your work, your field, in your current or intended profession…
Then one thing I want you to focus on having today is AUDACITY.
There’s too many folks making it out there and taking up space based on nothing but AUDACITY, so you with the skills?
Get in there and get your bag!
Enough with wondering about your competence.
Back it up with ruthless AUDACITY.
Good morning.
❤️
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My current goal when next I am in Nigeria is to take the train from Lagos, just to eat oka in Ibadan.
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Those of you who shared that NONSENSE, make sure you share this walkback just as widely. 👇
"The United Kingdom has distanced itself from the alleged financial impropriety leveled against ... Yakubu Gowon, by a member of its parliament, Tom Tugendhat."
thenationonlineng.net/uk-dis…
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Hi,
Please note I'm a "Flat Advocate."
I don't need videos of prosthetics because I chose to have no reconstruction, choose not to use foam bras.
I want to normalise flat mastectomy in black women.
Every woman is enough as she is, whatever her choices are, after breast cancer❤
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Woke up this morning, remembered that:
My allegiance is to JOURNALISM - it comes even before family.
An "autopsy" of the Dangote #Coronavirus story.
1. It should have been labelled OPINION.
2. I'm VERY relieved it was not on a major publication - there's hope.
Here's why:
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She now works for Cummins in the US - she is Cummins' first engineer hired for a full-time position in metal additive manufacturing development.
Meet Adeola Olubamiji , who went from hawking pepper at age ten in Ibadan, to becoming the first Black person to bag a Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from Canadian University of Saskatchewan. From having little food to eat before ,to working as Lead Metallurgical Engineer today.
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Fun fact:
I’m a twin. Ibeji. Ejima. Tagwaye.
My brother is a more private, but crazier and definitely more intelligent version of me.
I arrived first. So you can call me Taiye.
Call me “Amuka” and I will block you😏
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AUGUST WILL ALWAYS COME BEFORE DECEMBER
Journalism, for all its bells and whistles, shiny business models, is fundamentally built on honour.
None of the big offices, fancy equipment will matter, if the humans are not humane.
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Any Nigerian business owner who can, should remain working remotely for at least a month more.
It's the sensible thing to do.
Adjust accordingly because only those who are alive can make and chop money!
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Germany officially recognises its role in colonising #Namibia as GENOCIDE and IMMEASURABLE SUFFERING.
It will send the President to:
1. Apologise to Namibia “on site”
2. Support Namibia and the victims' descendants with a €1.1bn program for reconstruction and development
👍🏾🇩🇪🇳🇦
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So, Nigerians are being invited to a public hearing on the proposed altering of the Constitution along 17 points. This will happen 26-27 May, across designated zones nationwide.
As a journalist, where do you fit in? A few suggestions...
Yup, issa short #RuonaTips thread!
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E jail my papa at least two times.
Im goons chook broomstick inside my papa penis wella, call am torture.
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Lmao Nkiru Mordi @kikimordi in true fashion.
Hushpuppi of journalism.
YOU called me, as recommended by C of Africa Eye & BEGGED me for tips on what I did to maintain SEO.
If u applied yourself To this profession you'd KNOW external clicks redirect away from ur site.
Journ 101.
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Which of you at BBC Pidgin thought it a good idea to interview someone who was once arrested for Advance-Fee Fraud AND air him saying he will embezzle money if made President?
Is it OK to air someone say "I will shoot a school?"
Y'all did 🇳🇬/journalism a GREAT disservice.
Yuck.🤮
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Really weird to see people say they feel nothing about the crash because it was state-owned military aircraft.
Those are people for goodness’ bloody sake!
I know how I ran about calling anyone remotely around Abuja.
To think like this is bad.
To tweet it?
Please see a doctor!!
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The WORST types of "influenzas" and "fraudalists" masquerading as influencers and journalists are those selective with info.
Disinformation is when you take a section of a report and neglect others, to whip up really dangerous sentiments. The latest?👇
schengenvisainfo.com/news/eu…
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Henceforth, anyone who wants to hack interviewing Transport Minister Rotimi Amaechi should consider watching his interview with Mr Seun Okin.
All your tips are there.
In this profession it is advised to interview people like Minister Amaechi. They test you. In a good way.
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Everyone, please read the proposed social media Bill first.
Most of you, both for and against, are making statements that SHOW you haven't read it, or only read it partially.
The greatest crime is to take a stand, tweet & try to shape discourse without reading.
READ. IT. NOW.
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Regarding this Bosun matter:
It’s just another reminder for us all that what distinguishes constructive criticism from destructive caterwauling, what distinguishes debate from diatribe is…
Nuance, adding solutions to the comment, and a willingness to return to update when/if things change.
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Yesterday, I went for a walk in the park.
I'm not sure which one makes me happier - that I turned 38 today...
...Or that my hair can now be braided, yo.
🤸♀️🤸♀️🤸♀️🤗
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The Ikoyi registry has been extorting millions of Naira per day from Nigerians wanting to marry.
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Emzor announces it has suspended distribution of Emzolyn with Codeine hours after #BBCAfricaEye's documentary Sweet Sweet Codeine airs.👇
The distribution of Emzolyn with Codeine has been suspended pending the results of a full and thorough internal investigation.
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If you want other details, and to check if your skill is covered, click on this website and type in your profession. Try using a browser that translates to English, or use Google translate to get the name of your job in German & translate your results too. anerkennung-in-deutschland.d…
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Lagos state, Edo state, please journalists are essential services.
Thank you for your cooperation.
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1/29 I’m making this PUBLIC disclaimer to FULLY dissociate myself from business dealings I had with @FunkePhillips in 2015/2016, which I terminated in 2016…
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This CJN wheelchair thing is yet another Poopoo Cassette fail, but when journalists speak up against fake news and unethical actors…those grant-dependent hoes in our dear continent will come and be saying issa jealousy. 🤡🤡🤡
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Fellow Nigerians,
CONGRATULATIONS!!!!
Your own @fisayosoyombo is a finalist for the highly-coveted International Journalist of The Year award at @onewm!
Mr Soyombo, we are PROUD of you, and rooting for you! 👏👏👏👏
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