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started a blog just to get some traffic| make the best podcasts in Nigeria| eic, @takingcustody @tweetedbyCC

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@MayowaIdowu
Oluwamayowa Idowu
3 months
. @kfayemi built credibility through two government accountability devices: media and civil society. I spoke to him about growing up in Ekiti, winning/ losing the governorship, June 12, APC's roots, the 2015 elections, running for President, and more.
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@MayowaIdowu
Oluwamayowa Idowu
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Actually, I’m the campaign manager.
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SULAIMAN, Gafar Blessing
1 year
I have been wondering what Sanwo-Olu took away from you. I just figured your popman is the campaign manager and you're here acting like Sanwo-Olu took away your reproductive organ.
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@MayowaIdowu
Oluwamayowa Idowu
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Two men whose whole identities linked to their daddies without any sense of shame.
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B-RED!!!
4 months
President’s son x Governor’s son 💪🏾🇳🇬
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@MayowaIdowu
Oluwamayowa Idowu
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#winner 🤭🤭🤭🤭
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@Jollz
Jola
12 years
I wrote essay for that bournvita competition when I was 9. They didn't choose me. Best believe till date we drink only Milo in my house
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Oluwamayowa Idowu
4 months
Tems and Ayra are dropping in May. The girls save the world while the boys are in a never-ending sorry show of shame.
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Oluwamayowa Idowu
9 months
Considering the continuity the ruling party has had in Lagos since 1999 and the noise about some mythical “master plan”, it’s such an insult to our intelligence that this clamp down isn’t acknowledging the government’s uselessness at its job.
@tokunbo_wahab
Tokunbo Wahab
9 months
A drone footage of the encroachment of the drainage channel on System 156 (fully built) Igbo-Efon to Ikota channel in Lekki. Red arrow indicator showing the extent of encroachment and total blockade and diversion of system 156 Into system 157 by the developers and property
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@MayowaIdowu
Oluwamayowa Idowu
2 years
The first episode of ‘Overnight Success’ is out with the absolute legend that is @Jollz . Please check it out and tell us what you think
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@MayowaIdowu
Oluwamayowa Idowu
1 year
Lmaooooo! Since the day I saw an IG live of some clown doing plastic surgery while playing ‘Killin Dem’ in the background, known we were in dipshit.
@ozzyetomi
Ozzy
1 year
I don’t understand why ppl with certificates in aesthetics and other kinds of medical and psuedo medical degrees that are NOT plastic surgeons are carrying out invasive plastic surgery procedures in Nigeria? Will noone start to regulate this industry?
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@MayowaIdowu
Oluwamayowa Idowu
2 years
Camilla won sha. If you like be waiting for "karma" to catch your opps. Take control of your destiny!
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@MayowaIdowu
Oluwamayowa Idowu
2 months
This stupid FEMCO discourse does nothing but disincentivize the idea of personal sacrifice. Nigerians are the type of people you’ll die for who’ll turn around and piss on your grave.
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@MayowaIdowu
Oluwamayowa Idowu
7 years
I died at this bit of @Toure ’s Rolling Stone piece on the Migos.
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@MayowaIdowu
Oluwamayowa Idowu
2 years
This enthusiasm for LP in Lagos has to be replicated in two weeks o. Let’s retire the pointing clown that is Sanwo.
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@MayowaIdowu
Oluwamayowa Idowu
4 months
I wish more people understood this. Reliability is the attribute I try to project in most of my relationships and what I tend to value most.
@ozzyetomi
Ozzy
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Being reliable is better that 95% of all the other things you can be because being many other great things doesn't matter if people can't rely on you.
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@MayowaIdowu
Oluwamayowa Idowu
8 years
To prove how cyclical Nigeria's problems are, I gathered headlines from the 80s that read like they were done today. #EchoesFromThePast
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@MayowaIdowu
Oluwamayowa Idowu
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This episode has been such a show of shame by the Nigerian ruling class. From the condescension of people like Wike and Akpabio to the President who has not deemed his people worthy of addressing.
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@MayowaIdowu
Oluwamayowa Idowu
4 years
The best thing about that Atedo Peterside interview is the quality of the communication. No talking down or using big words for the sake of them. Just crisp messaging followed with easy to understand analogies/concepts. 10/10 will recommend.
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@MayowaIdowu
Oluwamayowa Idowu
2 years
Headies could have just freed everything tonight and staged the Buju x Ruger wrestling match.
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@MayowaIdowu
Oluwamayowa Idowu
9 months
RazzzzZzzzzzzZZZZZZzzzzzzzzZZZZZZzzzzzzz
@EricaNlewedim
Erica Nlewedim⭐️
9 months
I almost forgot I have a second passport 🤭It’s time to put some distance between me and the crab mentality people
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@MayowaIdowu
Oluwamayowa Idowu
11 months
“Mavin’s valuation in the proposed deal is above $125 million and could be worth $150 million to $200 million.”
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@MayowaIdowu
Oluwamayowa Idowu
1 year
Don’t want to feel sorry for myself cos some fool will come and tell me “privilege” but this country IS really hard rn and we’re not talking about it enough.
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@MayowaIdowu
Oluwamayowa Idowu
7 years
That Apple Music placement is big for Mr Eazi. Doing James Corden tonight too.
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@MayowaIdowu
Oluwamayowa Idowu
7 years
Google Searches/Interest for Davido vs Wizkid. Davido in blue, Wizkid in red.
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@MayowaIdowu
Oluwamayowa Idowu
9 years
Nigerian Tinder the best! http://t.co/FT8f9rQltD
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@MayowaIdowu
Oluwamayowa Idowu
8 months
Validation isn’t why we do what we do but getting confirmation that the work you do resonates away from your primary circle is always uplifting. Thank you @WithChude_ for this (second year in a row 😎). My mum loves you so this will make her happy and earn me some respect. ❤️
@WithChude_
#WithChude
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Oluwamayowa Idowu @MayowaIdowu made 2023 a joy! #The Joy150 #WithChude
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@MayowaIdowu
Oluwamayowa Idowu
7 months
From Corona hall to the Grammys stage in 15 years. Crazy!
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@MayowaIdowu
Oluwamayowa Idowu
6 months
Wizkid is an idiot but please let’s stop falling into this trap of giving these clowns the outrage they seek, each project cycle. The talent has depreciated, hence resorting to gimmicks. Reflective of the size of the man.
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@MayowaIdowu
Oluwamayowa Idowu
1 year
Processing all this, it’s the feeling of futility in the face of institutional manipulation and suppression that’s getting me. How can you organize against people who want to kill you?
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@MayowaIdowu
Oluwamayowa Idowu
5 years
Wrote something on Burna Boy and Mr Eazi- the two canniest operators in Nigerian music, the “strategy” behind their moves and possibly breaking the big 2’s duopoly. via @takingCustody
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@MayowaIdowu
Oluwamayowa Idowu
5 months
🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯 LFG!
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@MayowaIdowu
Oluwamayowa Idowu
8 years
What does this even mean?
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@MayowaIdowu
Oluwamayowa Idowu
4 years
God told me what’s mine will be mine and that’s that on that.
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@MayowaIdowu
Oluwamayowa Idowu
4 months
I pray that when success finds me, I do not lose touch with reality.
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@MayowaIdowu
Oluwamayowa Idowu
4 months
A small snippet of how criminal kingpins get their image laundered by pop artists.
@TeniEntertainer
THE REAL IDAN
4 months
I MEET IBD DENDE FOR PLANE, BABA DON DROP OOOOOOOO!!!! MAKE I LAND FISRT!!!!!! I GO SHARE UPDATE!!!
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@MayowaIdowu
Oluwamayowa Idowu
10 months
@davido
Davido
10 months
3 nominations at the Grammys!! Delay is not Denial!! 🏆🌎
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@MayowaIdowu
Oluwamayowa Idowu
2 years
Mothers are such elite human beings.
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@MayowaIdowu
Oluwamayowa Idowu
10 months
Seun Kuti and Odumodu are prototypes of people dumb people think are smart.
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@MayowaIdowu
Oluwamayowa Idowu
7 years
Took this picture at Cuppy’s concert a couple of years ago. His little sister was buzzing about him DJing so she ran up to stand with him.💔💔
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@MayowaIdowu
Oluwamayowa Idowu
10 months
Very funny watching people grind without visible public support from their friends. They hit a milestone, find validation from people deemed socially desirable and those friends suddenly become their loudest cheerleaders. “Success has many friends, failure’s an orphan.”
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@MayowaIdowu
Oluwamayowa Idowu
8 months
Very interesting how quincy quences for bad behavior in Nigerian public life seems to only apply to women.
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@MayowaIdowu
Oluwamayowa Idowu
27 days
New Overnight Success with Ronami Ogulu- a key cog in the @burnaboy machine. We dig into their unique family dynamic, her sense of style, leaving a life in Finance to build out Burna’s operations, and building out Afrobeats’ greatest show.
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@MayowaIdowu
Oluwamayowa Idowu
2 years
I've always argued that the Obedient movement was bigger than Obi (and at times, it felt like he was even scared of them) but my oh my, he has done such a phenomenal job of meeting the moment and the movement.
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@MayowaIdowu
Oluwamayowa Idowu
10 years
#throwbackthursday Kanye and Donda cover JET, six months before she died. @TeamKanyeDaily http://t.co/E53A9bd7Vl
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@MayowaIdowu
Oluwamayowa Idowu
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@MayowaIdowu
Oluwamayowa Idowu
7 months
Feels just like it felt with Kobe where you want a story to be untrue but drip- drip validation just renders your hope invalid. Sending love to everyone grieving.
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@MayowaIdowu
Oluwamayowa Idowu
2 years
Really and truly all I want from this election is the death of APC.
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@MayowaIdowu
Oluwamayowa Idowu
2 years
The joy of the Lord is my portion this year.
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@MayowaIdowu
Oluwamayowa Idowu
4 years
A decade! A reminder to all of us trying to build something of substance within the Nigerian space on how long and tortuous the process can be.
@nytimes
The New York Times
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Stacey Abrams spent a decade building up Democratic infrastructure in Georgia. Now, as Jon Ossoff and the Rev. Raphael Warnock look to flip Georgia’s two Senate seats, many see her as the person most responsible for its shifting political landscape.
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@MayowaIdowu
Oluwamayowa Idowu
10 months
No offence to anyone but we are actually best in podcast. Uncultured o, With An S o, Submaroach o, y’all should go and find other work to do. Nobody’s doing such great work across the spectrum. Signed, Management.
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@MayowaIdowu
Oluwamayowa Idowu
10 months
And Burna achieves what it was clear this album was designed to do: play in the mainstream field. 🫡
@tweetedbyCC
The Culture Custodian
10 months
Burna Boy's “Sittin’ On Top of The World” ft. 21 Savage has been nominated for “Best Melodic Rap Performance” at the 66th #GRAMMYs award.
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@MayowaIdowu
Oluwamayowa Idowu
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Good news will find you this week. Amen.
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@MayowaIdowu
Oluwamayowa Idowu
8 years
Tomi's phone got moved in Vapors in the summer. My Mum's motto became “That's how you went to Vapors and your phone vaporised”.
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@MayowaIdowu
Oluwamayowa Idowu
7 months
Williams this. Williams that. Till the real boss stepped in.
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@MayowaIdowu
Oluwamayowa Idowu
1 year
Schmooooooood
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@MayowaIdowu
Oluwamayowa Idowu
5 years
@toluogunlesi Man, I wonder what the old you would make of the new you. Hope the #content is worth it.
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@MayowaIdowu
Oluwamayowa Idowu
5 years
Because it's Beyonce's album and that whole spiel about "being inspired by Lion King" is pretty much just marketing speak. The real play is building it off the back of the most successful and unheralded ecosystem on the continent which= Naija.
@bule_jr
Papa Burrito
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Why are we acting like these East Africans don't have a right to be slighted by the Lion King album not including people from their ends when the movie has quite a lot of things (songs, characters, language) from their culture?
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@MayowaIdowu
Oluwamayowa Idowu
5 months
I hate you people mannnnnn
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@MayowaIdowu
Oluwamayowa Idowu
1 year
Living in my home has really made me extra conscious of how to behave when I go to other people's homes. From the ones who put cold bottles of water on wood to the ones who put feet on the sofa when we're not gang like that, a lot of you lack home training.
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@MayowaIdowu
Oluwamayowa Idowu
6 months
Modern Love is one of the finest media products of my lifetime.
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@MayowaIdowu
Oluwamayowa Idowu
5 years
Which Nigerian pastor is going to speak out against this nonsense?
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@MayowaIdowu
Oluwamayowa Idowu
10 years
Nigerians will be like "Her daughters are doing well. They're all married." As if marriage is a metric of how well you're doing in life.
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@MayowaIdowu
Oluwamayowa Idowu
4 years
Wait did Jide say “Daddy Ekaaro”? 😩🥴🥴
@tope_bisade
TA
4 years
BREAKING - Asiwaju Tinubu in company of his son Seyi and others visits Sanwo Olu. #EndSARS
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@MayowaIdowu
Oluwamayowa Idowu
1 year
Dapo and Sanwo getting second terms is one of the great travesties of this election cycle. Wretched politicians.
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@MayowaIdowu
Oluwamayowa Idowu
2 years
🚀🚀 Absolutely buzzing that the work we’re doing @takingCustody gets this type of validation. Love to @TitoJayCeez , @mayowa_ak , and @T0MI_ID0WU for their day to day leadership and the rest of the larger team (past and present) whose hard work and sacrifice has sustained us.
@NAMIP_MDIF
Nigeria Media Innovation Program
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Announcing #NAMIP 's first participants!!! We are excited to announce these 11 participants who are mission-driven #media passionate about trying new approaches to local news and information in #Nigeria . Read the full announcement here 👇🏾:
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@MayowaIdowu
Oluwamayowa Idowu
7 years
Maleek Berry doing all genres and flourishing. Man of the Year.
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@MayowaIdowu
Oluwamayowa Idowu
2 years
I know a lot of us are jaded af but we must remember that this thing is a process. We can't check out. Thank you so much @PeterObi for giving us a little taste of that dangerous but necessary drug: hope. I pray God sustains you on this quest for the country of our dreams.
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@MayowaIdowu
Oluwamayowa Idowu
3 months
Being bound to the decisions of the most stupid people in society is a bad advert for democracy.
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@MayowaIdowu
Oluwamayowa Idowu
3 years
This government has a very troubling history of constantly making bad decisions. In the context of how Buhari came into power, it’s been such an exercise of wasted goodwill that’s going to set this country back decades.
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Oluwamayowa Idowu
8 years
Have you ever been at an Owambe chatting up older babes forming oil and gas dude and then your mother comes and asks if you've eaten?
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@MayowaIdowu
Oluwamayowa Idowu
2 years
This bit from Rochas’ Wikipedia always kills me.
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Oluwamayowa Idowu
3 years
Some “motivational speaker” is seeing all this and planning a “your network is your net worth” speech. Let it go, king.
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@MayowaIdowu
Oluwamayowa Idowu
7 months
The thing it really feels like we missed out on with PO is his work rate. This week alone, he’s been in Abuja, Nsukka, Jos and Abidjan. In stark contrast with the “elected” who’s jollofing in France while the country is burning.
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@MayowaIdowu
Oluwamayowa Idowu
1 year
APC bots are so dumb that after their godfather lost the state he supposedly built in the presidential elections, they can’t process the godson’s lack of popularity. They think everyone is like them who only know stomach infrastructure.
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@MayowaIdowu
Oluwamayowa Idowu
1 year
Tmt, am I your non successful friend?
@tmtisclutch
Temitayo
1 year
All my successful friends have checked out of naij in a way that is quite frankly impressive
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@MayowaIdowu
Oluwamayowa Idowu
3 months
New Free The People in which I talk about how my mother has shaped my understanding of love. Don’t think I’ve ever put anything this vulnerable on the internet but it really does capture the essence of this podcast as a safe space. ❤️
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@MayowaIdowu
Oluwamayowa Idowu
7 years
Traveling to the Emirates to line up at Theo’s book signing, buying only one copy and getting it autographed for the girl I was dating at the time because she had a crush on him is top of the list of most Balu things I’ve done in my short life.
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@MayowaIdowu
Oluwamayowa Idowu
7 months
Nigerians need to legit go out and “touch grass”.
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Oluwamayowa Idowu
2 years
Praying for favour this week. Need everything to go right.
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Oluwamayowa Idowu
2 months
Also how history is rewritten in real time. Something we all witnessed o, people have projected their class insecurities onto and come up with alternative facts.
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@MayowaIdowu
Oluwamayowa Idowu
7 years
Tweet in appreciation of Parents who move mountains to make our lives easier. True love.
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@MayowaIdowu
Oluwamayowa Idowu
10 months
Latest Overnight Success with @DenolaGrey on everything from being the most fashionable man in Nigeria, the misconception of being a “nepo baby”, multi-hyphenatedom, Fenty Beauty and more.
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Oluwamayowa Idowu
2 years
My flatmate just spent like 10 minutes raising hell cos her watch was "missing". "You're not helping." Guys, the watch was on her wrist.
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@MayowaIdowu
Oluwamayowa Idowu
4 years
Unmarried people having anniversaries is hilarious to me.
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Oluwamayowa Idowu
3 years
A train line that's not functional after 20+ years. Dogwhistles when it's election szn. Turning thugs and area boys into a state department. This is Tinubu's legacy in Lagos. Anyone who wants him to take over from Bubu is absolutely knocked.
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Oluwamayowa Idowu
2 years
In the years to come, we’re all going to be embarrassed by how popular a song ‘Buga’ was.
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@MayowaIdowu
Oluwamayowa Idowu
6 months
Michael’s a valued member of the ⁦ @tweetedbyCC ⁩ team who’s got the opportunity of a lifetime to attend NYU. The combination of Nigerian economics and catering for an ill relative have complicated his journey. With your help, we can get him there.
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@MayowaIdowu
Oluwamayowa Idowu
1 year
Burna’s whole MO this year has clearly been to transcend the Afrobeats movement. The 21 Savage single, Champions League final, doing stadiums, the Apple documentary and this remix- he’s setting himself apart from all cats- old and new.
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@MayowaIdowu
Oluwamayowa Idowu
6 months
Thank you Jesus. I will never tire of praising your name.
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@MayowaIdowu
Oluwamayowa Idowu
6 years
Spoke to @Arsenal and @NGSuperEagles @alexiwobi for @takingCustody on how he got here, what’s coming next amidst a bunch of segues and diversions. Read it! 📸 @awkward_iguana
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Oluwamayowa Idowu
1 year
Writing is 80% sitting on your laptop faffing about, 10% panicking about your deadline, and 10% typing sentences that don't make sense.
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@MayowaIdowu
Oluwamayowa Idowu
3 years
Yh! This is the best day of my life.
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Oluwamayowa Idowu
10 months
Today in random things you see in Lagos I just saw Tim Westwood in aso ebi at a funeral party.
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@MayowaIdowu
Oluwamayowa Idowu
2 years
This year has felt like the first time where everything I’ve learnt on this journey has really come together. I just pray that God overlooks my wrongs and gives the grace to unlock new levels going forward.
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Oluwamayowa Idowu
5 months
Can never tell her directly cos she annoying af but Jola has been good to me in this life. My sister fr!
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@MayowaIdowu
Oluwamayowa Idowu
8 months
Spent like 4 hours yesterday recording @WithAnSpod and @Subma_Roach and again, none of you losers are touching us. “Best in class” products. May this year be the year where the commercial and critical acclaim matches product quality cos it’s been game over. 😝😝😝😝
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@MayowaIdowu
Oluwamayowa Idowu
4 years
My latest for @takingCustody is on Universal Music Nigeria- its market entry, its lack of success, its recent change in management, "South Africa" and the complexities of investing in Nigerian music. Please read, RT and share for good vibes
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@MayowaIdowu
Oluwamayowa Idowu
2 years
Anytime Emerson Royal gets the ball, I just imagine him asking himself “what would Hakimi do?”
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@MayowaIdowu
Oluwamayowa Idowu
6 years
Today was our first day. ❤️🙏🏾
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Oluwamayowa Idowu
7 years
Nigerian Police + Nigerian Media = a cocktail of fuckery.
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