My latest piece in Premium Times gives insights into the social scene in Lagos in 1915. Archival research can be quite revealing.

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Tomorrow 10am, we are opening the Biggest Privately Owned Sports and Recreational Center in Abuja Monoliza!! Be there on time in your Sports Clothes!

Her submission for the Climate Change Poetry Prize that AkeArts&BookFestival organised in 2022 made the shortlist. She's one of those brilliant all-rounders so the fact that she's chosen this path means we can expect great things. Massively talented writer!!

Here's how I managed to get into Teslim Balogun Stadium, Lagos, for the APC presidential convention on December 10, 2014. Re-reading this all these years later, and I think it's hilarious...
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2012: edition.cnn.com/WORLD/africa/a…

Random things I find out and share: Asari Dokubo's daughter, Habiba Dokubo-Asari is an accomplished young writer. 1st Prize Winner of the 2024 Stephen A. DiBiase Poetry Prize; shortlisted for the 2023 Commonwealth Short Story Prize, among others. Also happens to be a Pharmacist.

JUST IN from Presidency Nigeria: President Tinubu has appointed Mr. Jim Ovia, CFR, as the Chairman of the Board of the Nigerian Education Loan Fund NELFUND Nigeria

Arrival to the National Institute For Policy and Strategic Studies (NIPSS), Kuru by 10:30 am today, as Guest Lecturer to speak on 'Performance Evaluation for Digital Economy, Youth Empowerment and Sustainable Job Creation' to the participants of Senior Executive Course 46 (2024).

Join me to wish our young scientists the best as they represent Nigeria 🇳🇬 at the VEX Robotics World Championship 2024 #VexWorlds - the largest robotics competition in the world - in Dallas, Texas, USA.

“Making an African City” is now available open access through the publisher Indiana University Press ! Check it out here: publish.iupress.indiana.edu/projects/makin… Virginia Tech Liberal Arts VT History

A hero’s welcome 🇳🇬 ❤️

Super Interesting anyone would even THINK of saying this about #LagosIbadanRail

Deleted—but that he even thought to think & then type it.

I was there Mar 7, 2017, when Prof. Yemi Osinbajo did groundbreaking (shortly after FGN paid its full share of financing), and there Jun 10, 2021…

Fotografe o AfDb no Brasil, mas faça disso arte. #TolaniAlli #TheHat #Contador de Histórias

E pain me say na local players like Osi Sir J (J9) wan face tomorrow. Foreign based players like myself and AareMusbau weren’t invited for this one. Na return leg we go come save the day! Osi don dey freeze before match day.

PBAT and his youngest appointee so far to a Federal agency.

Who, and what agency?

The longer I recruit out of Nigeria, the more I realize - we're really on to something here...

JUST IN: Government of Nigeria (through FMITI Nigeria) is launching a $10 Billion Nigeria Diaspora Fund, and is looking for Fund Managers.

Details:

Call for EOI: nigeriadiasporafund.gov.ng/assets/docx/RE…

Nigeria Diaspora Fund website: nigeriadiasporafund.gov.ng

#InvestNigeria

Akwa Ibom: Only State in Nigeria other than Lagos with an undersea-internet-cable landing-site

Also the site of BUA Group’s Crude Oil Refinery; and OCP AFRICA—NSIA’s Integrated Ammonia & Fertilizer production plant

Also have Government of Nigeria approval for Deep-Sea Port