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FKA @AjalaYemi . Olùwà ló ń ṣẹ ọlá 🎶. Musing about Naija/human condition. Polymath. NUFC. HalaMadrid. Literature. History. Politics. Data. Physics. Design.

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@TheYemiKing
Yemi King
9 years
...Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life? ~Mary Oliver, "The Summer Day" (poem)
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@TheYemiKing
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4 years
Because not everyone wants to code and some people actually want to learn microbiology?
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Instead of wasting 4/5 years studying Microbiology why not learn JavaScript?!
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2 years
Professor D. Olu Olagoke, the author of the famous book "The Incorruptible Judge" dies at 88 at his Ayegbaju Ekiti country home.
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My hypothesis is this: Guys that jump at ascribing any professional success by a ldy to sexual favours will demand sexual favours for professional/upliftment if they are in position of power
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@TheYemiKing
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1 year
Remi Tinubu to Seyi on the podium: Ìwọ sha like kò má lẹ̀ mọ mí Followed by a shared laugh. Awwwwwwwwn. I want that for my wife and kids
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@TheYemiKing
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2 years
When I need a lil laugh, I remember that Canada requires IELTS for British immigrants. Bursts my brain.
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@TheYemiKing
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4 years
The Nigerian Police Force is half the reason Nigerians don't help one another in emergencies
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4 years
"If we are not careful, World War III would be started by fake news, and that fake news will probably be generated by a Nigerian" - Prof Wọlé Ṣóyinká
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2 years
Head Boy of a school. Couldn't pay for JAMB last year. Said his dad could not pay for higher institution. Case taken up by old students of the school. He got 310 in JAMB. So happy for him
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@TheYemiKing
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4 years
17 years ago today, Elijah Olugbemiga Olayimika Abefe Adeboye, Jengbetiele, the gifted, genius, broadcaster per excellence , unbeatable comedian, event compere, song writer and a singer, died. And comedy has not returned to Yorùbáland since then
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@TheYemiKing
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1 year
Obi supporters: Peter Obi didn't run on religion! Also, Obi supporters: God punish RCCG for not endorsing Peter Obi! Me:
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@TheYemiKing
Yemi King
3 years
Teju Babyface, Bukky Ajayi, RMD, Liz Benson, Bimbo Akintola all delivered brilliantly in the 1998 movie Diamond Ring by Tade Ogidan. Rest in Peace Mummy Bukky Ajayi
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@TheYemiKing
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1 year
If na Peter Obi sef enter and he announced immediate removal of fuel subsidy, Obidients go dey defend am while BATists go dey attack am. Politics <<<<<<
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@TheYemiKing
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11 months
Sanwo-Olu increased the hazard allowances of medical workers in Lagos State. I haven't seen people talk about it on twitter.
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@TheYemiKing
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11 months
BREAKING : Ogun Assembly Approves Isese Cultural Day Ogun State House of Assembly on Tuesday, passed a resolution calling for the observation of every 20th August as the annual Isese-Cultural Day and to be declared as a work free day in the State.
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@TheYemiKing
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30 days
No one can touch the garment of "Elewure wọlé" By Fatai Olowonyo dissing Ayinla Omowura
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The Culture Custodian
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Fans of Nigerian music, what is the greatest Nigerian diss track ever?🤔
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1 year
No one apologised for falsely accusing Governor Charles Chukwuma Soludo for the arrest of Chude sha. Including people who should have known better than to make a public accusation/insinuation
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@TheYemiKing
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1 year
Single that blew up the artiste, producer, and video director. You just had to be there
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WeTalkSound (WTS)
1 year
Name a song where an artist was in their IDAN moment.
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@TheYemiKing
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5 years
Stop arguing on social media with people who bathed with salt water to prevent Ebola
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@TheYemiKing
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1 year
If shameless was a person This man, my senator and former governor, in conjunction with his then Ondo state governor killed the Olokola FTZ and forced Dangote Refinery to be moved from the Ondo/Ogun state border to Lagos State. Smh 🤦🏽‍♂️ 🤦🏽‍♂️ 🤦🏽‍♂️ 🤦🏽‍♂️ 🤦🏽‍♂️ 🤦🏽‍♂️
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@TheYemiKing
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5 years
If she was queer in Abia State, would she have been elected into its House of Assembly?
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1 year
@Letter_to_Jack Letter to Jack Re-Insurance Limited 😂🤣🤣
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@TheYemiKing
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6 years
Cleaner Lagos
@CH3OMA
Bush
6 years
Talk dirty to me
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@TheYemiKing
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2 years
Thoughts and prayers go to Michael Johnson as more Nigerians wake up. I hope his mental health is sturdy
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@TheYemiKing
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3 months
Sigh. It's difficult to have nuanced conversation with people who have settled on preconceived notions that others suggest to them, especially about Lagos State and Ogun State and the inter-relationship. Let me do a small thread to address some of the things this lady mentioned.
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@TheYemiKing
Yemi King
4 years
Every journalist giving this man a platform is an enemy of Nigeria and Nigerians
@DailyPostNGR
Daily Post Nigeria
4 years
End SARS: Nigerians have wounded the psyche of its police officers – MURIC
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@TheYemiKing
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5 years
Yesternight till now was what twitter was before late 2014. Fun times
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@TheYemiKing
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1 year
Extremely sad that the Nigerian government couldn’t lift a finger for Senator Ekweremadu's victim
@TheoAbuAgada
Thεό Abu
1 year
Extremely sad that the Nigerian government couldn’t lift a finger for Senator Ekweremadu.
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1 year
They are novice, they don't know anything (x4) The elephant appears on the horizon, you brought out cane (x2) An elephant is not an animal you hit with a staff (x2) Which way will you turn, how will you do it? (x2) We are brass, they don't know anything.. 🎶 🎶 🎤
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5 years
I've said it before and I'll say it again. I can't take Nigerian lawyers serious until they collectively throw away their nonsensical wig and garments which even the colonial masters have thrown away. Like our imported morals, the law system is still stuck in Victorian era
@AJENews
Al Jazeera Breaking News
5 years
Malawi court suspends wearing of wigs, gowns as temperatures rise
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@TheYemiKing
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2 years
The fact that you think and loudly proclaim grassroot politics is about bribing voters show that you don't know what grassroot politics is all about
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@TheYemiKing
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1 year
Me, while reading Ogbeni's letter to Asiwaju
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@TheYemiKing
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5 months
Before. After. Please Ibadan needs all the support it can get. Individually and collectively. @dabiodunMFR @jidesanwoolu please marshal as much help as you can to Ibadan
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1 year
We knew that Peter Obi was not duly elected/selected as the Labour Party candidate. We also knew that the Abure faction of Labour Party may not be the authentic Labour Party. All these before election. Imagine if Peter Obi won, and the courts said he's not a true candidate. E
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4 years
I come to you as a man....
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1 year
Once Dangote Refinery commence full operation, how long do you think it would take for the conspiracy theorists to go "Dangote is now selling fuel that's why we don't have light. He wants us to be using generator all the time"?
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@TheYemiKing
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2 years
Reminds me of an advise I gave a young tech guy some years ago: Be wary of those who 'love' you because you fit a profile. Let me explain a bit
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@TheYemiKing
Yemi King
5 years
So, South Africans started their xenophobic looting based on FAKE NEWS. Even their TV stations said a Nigerian drug dealer killed a taxi driver which triggered this madness. It wasn't. It was a Tanzanian. Na wa ooooo
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Dear Governor @dabiodunMFR once again sir. I have come again ó. Congratulations on your birthday and 2nd term inauguration. There is much work to be done. Thats why I want to offer you a free advice on the issue of the 25 abandoned model schools sir. If you'd take it sir
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@TheYemiKing
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5 years
Real activism in Nigeria died with Ganiyu Oyeshola Fawehinmi (SAM, SAN)
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@TheYemiKing
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4 years
@adedapoX Yo @Zlatan_Ibile , I had this video on replay throughout my time in bathroom this morning. When is this banger dropping in January?
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dipo
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ZLATAN WHAT IS THIS MADNESS!? 🔥🔥🔥
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2 years
Someone said "Alagbado mi Àṣàkẹ́" and I've lost it 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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Bola Ahmed Tinubu
2 years
Many have said I have died; others claim I have withdrawn from the presidential campaign. Well... Nope. This is the reality: I am strong, I am healthy and I am READY to serve Nigerians from Day One. #BAT23
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7 years
"Most Nigerians will rather tithe than pay taxes. That's why we have mega churches on shitty roads."
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@TheYemiKing
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4 years
I don't think I can ever understand the denigration of Dele Momodu on this app. He's a lot of things, including a very sound journalist with good business acumen.
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Sola
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Dele Momodu is agba awo.
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2 years
IBB is you people's new bride now? Okay o. Go and ask your elders at home about Gloria Okon, Dele Giwa, and Gulf war windfall
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@TheYemiKing
Yemi King
1 year
In today's episode of Nigerian impunity, here is a store at Leme, Abẹ́òkúta blocking the walkway and parts of the road with its goods. School kids were almost crushed this morning by vehicles as they trying to meander around this
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@TheYemiKing
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6 months
Fire service camo? Why? Are they camouflaging from fire?
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Yemi King
5 years
This thing can trigger PTSD
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5 years
I want to thank Ohaneze Ndigbo for changing my mind about who I wanted to vote for on February 16.
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@TheYemiKing
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2 years
Maybe na wetin vex Pastor Sam comot Nigeria be this. I know it's what annoys me the most about this country
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@TheYemiKing
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1 year
@Letter_to_Jack And that's just Abacha government. If we start with Babangida government, we will still be here by next election. Ejirin plne crash, Dele Giwa, Mamman Vatsa phantom coup, Gloria Okon etc
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1 year
You know it's over when a fuel station is installing solar
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1 year
@danopejo For most intent and purposes, she is
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@TheYemiKing
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11 months
Nigerians 🤝🏽 deliberately conflating issues New JAMB registrar came in with Buhari's administration and was cleaning house. He asked about money missing under JAMB during GEJ. They told him snake swallowed it. The old registrar and staff are being tried in court over it Yet👇🏽
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@TheYemiKing
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6 years
To survive in Lagos, you must have multiple personality disorder
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@TheYemiKing
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1 year
I won't be surprised if from June/July, there are fuel shortages in Benin Republic, Niger Republic, Cameroon and other satellite countries sha. (if fuel subsidy removal stays)
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@TheYemiKing
Yemi King
4 years
On 4th May 1904 (exactly 116 years ago), Ọba Gbádébọ̀ I (Grandfather of the reigning Aláké) & his team of Egba leaders sailed from Lagos, to honour the invitation of King Edward VII. Aláké became the first monarch outside Europe to be given royal honour at Westminster Abbey.
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@TheYemiKing
Yemi King
6 years
By remembering the atrocities of King Leopold against Africans
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1 year
General Muhammadu Buhari turned out to be a far better democrat to General Ólúṣẹgun Ọbásanjọ́
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@TheYemiKing
Yemi King
4 years
A culture that is not appropriated, dies.
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3 years
Fun fact: Ayinla Omowura's band was actually started by Adewole Onílù Ọlà You see, Àpàlà was actually a drum genre and Ayinla was invited as side attraction. According to reports, Baba Onilu Ola passed on to the great beyond yesternight at the age of 97
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@TheYemiKing
Yemi King
5 years
Sunday Igboho talking about how Governor Seyi Makinde invited him to Kogi during the guber elections. Is that Olú of Ìtori I see?
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4 years
@Tyek000n @notevenvibes Or, you know, actually travel out to study more and practise because they actually love microbiology
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@TheYemiKing
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3 years
Reminder that Umar Yar'Adua (GCFR) took back the moribund refineries that Obasanjo sold. We've wasted money paying salaries, pensions and on turnaround maintenance since 2007 because of that nonsensical policy summersault
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@TheYemiKing
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5 years
@astroafro I stan!
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@nagge_22528 You sha like to dey gum body me
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@TheYemiKing
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2 years
Late Baba Olagoke also authored "The Iroko Man and the Wood Carver". He was a renowned professor of English who touched so many lives in great ways leaving indelible marks. May his creative soul rest peacefully.
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@TheYemiKing
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4 years
Body and Soul by Plantashun Boizis the original no bad songs album I bought it three times. You'll be listening to "You and I", heartbreak will be hungrying you
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Yemi King
2 years
Many Nigerians are energy thieves and see nothing wrong with it. They will put their freezers and ACs on "Nepa" direct and everything else on prepaid meters. Many of them are on social media postulating about how others are who made Nigeria a bad place
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@TheYemiKing
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6 years
Blood of Zechariah! This review came with bombs!
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3 years
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1 month
No matter how long we live, may the tombstone of our children never exist in our lifetime
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1 year
You are happy that Elemiemere is suspended. But your candidate supported his cash confistication policy. I know what you are. A bloody hypocrite
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3 years
80 years of Hollywood propaganda undone in four years. Genius
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4 years
Not many young people will understand "Kill and go" reference. Ask your elders. They will sigh first before telling you. Nigeria is a nation skilled at killing its young and frustrating its brightest. Your parents were not cowards. They have PTSD.
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@dondekojo Africa Traditional Religion practitioners lives matter! #ATRPLM
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1 year
@tobijosephD Yep. ST clearly is ọmọ mummy
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2 years
@BabaDuduu @BRANDENDORSERng @_Ikwomma If you don't report, you are also partly responsible for the possible deaths that will ensue. Are you a murderer sir?
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1 year
Nigeria has never been the no 1 country where fraud originates from. But we have been the most talked about in the last decade. Why?
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@TheYemiKing
Yemi King
4 years
This video of one of the guys caught in the rest gang/turf wars in Ogun/Lagos border towns is making rounds on WhatsApp. Every single time I receive it, multiple thoughts run through my head, including what Lord Sky will make of this guy's "singing"
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@TheYemiKing
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4 years
Chief Theophilus Olusoji Ajala, my grandfather, did on Valentine's day in 2016. We buried him on April Fool's Day of same year. I think I know who the baby is. 😈😈😈😈😈😈
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Yoruba History - by NNP
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Undated photos of an unidentified couple (and a friend) likely taken to mark the birth of the child seen in the photos. Photo by: "Ikems Photo Works, Press and commercial photos, 2 Bridge street, Lafenwa, Abeokuta". Source: Chief Theo Olusoji Ajala DL
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There is a reason Landmark is no suing anyone.
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Yemi King
3 years
"No dey use *555*1 to load card. Na Obasanjo dey get ₦1 when you recharge like that"
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3 years
It's just basic decency.
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4 years
Maybe Bill Gates should have poured his money into education in Africa instead of trying to save lives. The ones who survive will at least be able to read and write
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1 year
Translation: Gasoline prices have already reached 575 CFA francs, 600 CFA francs. This creates difficulties. The cost of transportation has increased, taxi drivers are limited in their activities, and gasoline vendors are experiencing reduced profitability.
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#Amonabele. 🇧🇯🇹🇬
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L'essence est déjà passé à 575f, 600f. Ça crée des difficultés. Le coût du transports a augmenté, les chauffeurs de taxis sont limités dns leur activité, les vendeurs d'essence n'ont plus la même rentabilité. Il Faut trouver une solution Pour le bien commun.
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Let's go back to this day in 2018 when this Canadian called Messi a fraud and said the GOAT debate is over and Ronaldo as GOAT #FCBFCB #BAYBAR
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@TheYemiKing
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So your slapping Senator allegedly sued the Nigerian Navy in 2004 for reportedly denying him admission to Onne...because he is HIV positive? Hmmmmm 🤔🤔🤔
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@tunmishe_ @KhanYeNoni I think at least half of Ejigbo people were born in Cote d'Ivoire
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4 years
Gbenga Adeboye skit I
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1 year
Good evening sir @Princemoye1 . I received this on WhatsApp. Reports says it happened today (17th of May,2023) at Molipa road Ijebu-Ode, Ogun State The police thought the driver was a yahoo boy but it was actually a mechanic that was taking the vehicle for repairs. @PoliceNG_CRU
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One should also note that here he was talking about Lagos Island and environs, and not Lagos State. The remaining 17 LGAs of present day Lagos State were under Western Region until 1967.
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Lengdrxx Àlàbí
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Awolowo's position on Lagos. What a man!
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Every Yorùbáland capital city has an Obafemi Awolowo Way/Road.
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Martini Olakunle Akande
11 months
Is Chief Awolowo the most immortalized Nigerian?
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Yemi King
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When I said this, they insinuated that I was foolish. Now people are fainting on queues, dying in hospitals, and getting shot. You want to save Nigeria but you know nothing of the sociology and psychology of Nigerians. Smh 🤦🏽‍♂️ 🤦🏽‍♂️ 🤦🏽‍♂️ 🤦🏽‍♂️ 🤦🏽‍♂️
@TheYemiKing
Yemi King
1 year
If there is no announcement of extension by midday Monday, I fully expect violence to erupt
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5 years
Ikeja City Mall is where you will meet your classmate that died in 1993
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Yemi King
2 years
@Idiakosesunday @dondekojo @JoeyAkan someone here doesn't like you ooooo
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