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Joshua Akinyemi

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What a week! Covering #NigeriaDecides2023 (round one) has been an *experience* Thank you for watching/reading/listening! We go again (elsewhere) for round two. BBC Team Yola, over and out!

What a week! 

Covering #NigeriaDecides2023 (round one) has been an *experience*

Thank you for watching/reading/listening!

We go again (elsewhere) for round two.

BBC Team Yola, over and out!
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Good morning all! It's a big day today as #NigeriaDecides2023 again! Three weeks after the disputed presidential election. millions will be voting in governorship and local assembly polls. This is why they matter. Full video: bbc.com/news/av/world-…

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Joshua Akinyemi & I are back in Adamawa for the supplementary elections. Last month's gubernatorial polls were declared inconclusive, so voting will take place again in 69 polling units across the state. Will Adamawa elect 🇳🇬's first female governor? 🤔

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🗳 Voting is due to start any moment at this polling unit in Yola. The streets are calm, but there is a heavy security presence and roadblocks in parts of the city. 📷 Joshua Akinyemi

🗳 Voting is due to start any moment at this polling unit in Yola.

The streets are calm, but there is a heavy security presence and roadblocks in parts of the city.  

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Some Nigerian students who fled Sudan are heading to Cairo in Egypt on buses, where they expect to be evacuated. The BBC has spoken to one student, Aysha who says the process has not been smooth. 🎥 Azeezat Olaoluwa 💙 Anthony Irungu Joseph Jegede Joshua Akinyemi

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Lai Mohammed described the shooting at the Lekki tollgate on 20.10.20 as a "massacre without blood or bodies." The government still deny a number of people were killed, 'where are the families?"they ask. Well, Joshua Akinyemi and I spoke to them. They're right here

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"It's like Buhari is better than Tinubu. Renewed hope? What is the renewed hope?" Joshua Akinyemi spoke to Lagosians about cost of living, which has worsened since the removal of the fuel subsidy. Needless to say people are not happy, especially this man, who voted for Tinubu.

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We went to the Central African Republic to find out more about the country's relationship with Russia. President Touadera defended the presence of Wagner mercenaries telling us, "80% of the country was occupied by armed groups, today, these figures are completely reversed.” 🧵

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“I am not alone in this world.” In 2021, Dean Onwuchekwa, a lance corporal in the Nigerian Army, had a mine laid by Boko Haram blow up in his face. It didn't stop him and in 2023 he took part in the Armed Forces para-snow sport event run by the Invictus Games Foundation ⬇️

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'Stranded: Exposing the UK’s immigration scammers' Coming Monday from #BBCAfricaEye 📽️ Subscribe to our YouTube channel now for first access: bit.ly/subscribetoafr…