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West and central Africa correspondent @FT . Past lives in Joburg and London. Arsenal.
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I wrote about moving back to Nigeria at a time when young people like me are scrambling for the exits.
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You could tweet “this country is finished” and pretty much everyone would assume it was about their country. That’s the absolute state of the world right now.
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For anything you need from a Nigerian bank, always go to their Ikoyi branch.
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Kendrick Lamar is putting on a masterclass at Glastonbury. If it's this good on TV, can only imagine how much fun these folks are having irl.
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Some news, this: I’m joining the
@FT
as West Africa correspondent with an eye on Nigeria and the ECOWAS region. I’m heading out to Lagos soon to get started.
Thrilled to announce that
@aanuadeoye
is joining as our new West Africa Correspondent based in Lagos. Please welcome him to the
@FT
& to one of the most exciting jobs in journalism
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Middle class Africans spend a lot of time complaining about how difficult it is to travel to Europe. But not enough about how much more insane getting around Africa is. And that’s something our governments could actually change.
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Top of the table clash and players and managers hugging and smiling. Makes you miss the toxicity of the Wenger-Fergie era and Mourinho peak years.
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Scoop
@FT
: Two Binance executives have been detained in Nigeria as the country continues its crypto crackdown to rein in Naira “speculation”. By
@ScottChipolina
and me.
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In late March, weeks before Twitter launched in Ghana, a source at the company told me they didn't pick Nigeria because they were worried the government could try to shut them down. They've just been proven right.
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This week’s Lunch with the
@FT
: I sat down with Tony Elumelu last month.
He doesn’t eat much, has spicy opinions on colonialism and knows you all love his Instagram.
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If you've seen the BBC report on Black Axe, then I also recommend this excellent piece by Sean Williams from 2019.
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Peter Obi is shaking up Nigeria’s politics and has emerged as a serious contender in next year’s presidential elections.
My
@FT
story on the man buoyed by a young, urban support but faces steep obstacles to win.
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Starting this week at
@ChathamHouse
as Mo Ibrahim Foundation Academy Fellow for 2021-22. My research will focus on Russia-Africa relations.
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Burkina Faso junta which came to power last year via a coup says coups are unacceptable.
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You write 200+ stories in just over two years, and it is the one about the Nigerian president buying a new jet that gets your name on the front page for the first time. How delightfully random!
Just published: front page of the Financial Times, international edition, Saturday 24 August
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Excellent
@FT
interview with Adebayo Ogunlesi following his company's $12.5bn tie-up with BlackRock.
Shame he's a Spurs fan; every successful person has their blind spot.
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There have been four coups in Mali since independence in 1968.
Two of them have happened in the last nine months, led by the same man: the 38-year-old, former United Nations peacekeeper in Darfur, Colonel Assimi Goïta.
Our cover story this week:
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Great reporting here by
@TechCabal
. Worrying stat for Kuda Bank: 69% of their loans are non-performing, against a national average of 5%.
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FT editorial board: “With a few exceptions, his cabinet is full of lightweights who owe their jobs to political patronage, not to expertise. Technocratic talent exists in abundance. It must be marshalled.”
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We made an
@FT
doc on Nigeria’s ‘oil curse’. Subsidies, refining and whether Nigeria can diversify its economy away from the black stuff.
Watch in full here:
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If you need more context on just how important Twitter has become in Nigeria, last year I spoke to Dr Chikwe Ihekweazu, head of Nigeria's CDC, who told me how he sourced for help on this bird app.
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It’s happened!
I hope my next job in journalism is at a newspaper or magazine for the simple reason that I *still* love reading stuff in print.
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Sources say Nigerian authorities are demanding a list of Binance’s Nigerian customers since its inception.
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“Sheffield Hallam risked losing half of the 1,000 Nigerian students recruited annually if dependants were barred.”
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In the
@FT
, we have a rare sit-down interview with Olayemi Cardoso, governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, his first major interview with the foreign press, w
@davidpilling
.
We talked interest rates, exchange rates and inflation.
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On Dangote. From January in the
@FT
: “Someone clearly has an axe to grind with him,” said a senior member of the APC.
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Update on everyone’s favourite businessman: Dozy Mmobuosi has been barred from serving as an officer of a public company and fined more than $250m by a US court, via
@FT
.
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In an interview with the
@FT
, Dangote talks about his refinery, the challenges with securing crude etc. He wouldn’t comment on his feud with fellow mogul Rabiu or his relationship with President Tinubu. Me & and
@davidpilling
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My
@FT
dispatch from Sierra Leone where a drug addiction crisis sweeping the nation has forced the President to declare a national health emergency.
“People are addicted to escape…”
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In time-honoured election day tradition, there are young men playing football on mostly car-free streets.
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If you hosted an illegal Christmas party last year, confess to Pippa Crerar. Or not. But she’s going to find out anyway.
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If you’re in Africa, go get vaxxed as soon as it’s available. You cannot afford to be an anti-vaxxer on this continent. People with severe symptoms are more likely to die here than anywhere else. You know what prevents that? You guessed right.
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The FT's editorial board on Nigeria's "badly flawed election":
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New
@FinancialTimes
Big Read: Many expected the presidential election to be a two-horse race between political veterans Tinubu (APC) v Atiku (PDP) but Peter Obi's emergence has shaken up Nigeria's political scene. Could he win? By me &
@davidpilling
:
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ASUU, Nigeria’s lecturers’ union has been on strike since February, its 16th since 1999. The strike is a symptom of the crisis in Nigeria’s education system at all levels. My latest in the
@FT
.
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Jacob Zuma has been accused of rape, corruption and state capture. But he’s now in prison for contempt of court for failing to appear before a commission he set up. It’s like when they got Al Capone for tax evasion.
Our cover story this week:
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You may have heard this before. Nigeria says it’s planning to relaunch its national carrier, Nigeria Air, before the end of the year. Ethiopian Airlines is the single largest shareholder with 49%. New story in
@FT
.
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@AmakaAnku
The number of people using Twitter in Nigeria is not really germane to this ban, is it? Even if they had only two users in-country, it’s still an unjustifiable act of government censorship.
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The British Museum is concerned about stolen treasures?
British Museum dismisses member of staff and police are investigating after treasures reported "missing, stolen or damaged"
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If you work in politics, finance, economics and business, foreign affairs, and technology in West Africa, I’m open to tips, secrets and miscellaneous stuff. Please reach out, DMs open.
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@iaboyeji
I work on Africa-Russia affairs, so this is a serious question, what influence do you think Nigeria has to leverage in this situation? Maybe I’m missing something you’re aware of.
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Here’s my
@FT
interview with Julius Maada Bio, president of Sierra Leone.
“We’re working to bring pressure to bear on President Putin and all those concerned so the war can come to an end, so we can live peacefully,” he told me.
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My
@FT
analysis: Ecowas insists military intervention remains on the table ahead of today’s summit. But Nigerian president Bola Tinubu is facing opposition in his own country that complicates that effort.
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My
@FT
story on Nestcoin after FTX collapse:
•~$4mn in lost assets
•At least half of its almost 100 employees to be laid off; others offered 8-10 weeks of furlough; remainder to take 40% cut
•No CEO pay for the foreseeable future, etc.
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It’s not often that you get asked to write about your old job at your new place.
For the latest issue of
@ChathamHouse
’s
@TheWorldToday
magazine, I wrote about
@thecontinent_
and why it’s so good:
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The ease of travel around Africa will be critical for the success of the AfCFTA. Any other thing is just noise.
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The cost of everything in Nigeria has gone up. But it is MultiChoice that should keep prices artificially low because it is a charity? Gotcha.
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Anyway, I'm launching Twitter-as-a-Service. Nigerians in Nigeria should send their tweets to me via WhatsApp/Signal and I shall tweet them on your behalf. $10/tweet, $7 if I know you personally.
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Mikkel Damsgaard will have no hair left on his head in approximately four years.
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African countries should actually remove visa restrictions for fellow Africans.
Africans need to tighten visa requirements for Europeans travelling to Africa. We want a) 6 months bank statement b) proof of home ownership c) statement motivating why you will return to your home country d) must have travelled to at least 3 other black countries.
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Nigeria's Ministry of Information is using Twitter to announce that it is banning Twitter in Nigeria.
In a world where VPNs abound, I'm not sure how effective the ban will be anyway.
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I wonder if people would listen to a podcast that is 100% focused on African politics and foreign policy.
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I wrote about how Nigerians are resorting to emergency loans as austerity and inflation bite, via the
@FT
.
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Odd, considering he said Eritrean troops would leave Tigray a few months ago.
In the same interview he also denies there’s hunger in the region, when the UN is warning of starvation and famine.
In an exclusive interview with
@BBCAfrica
#Ethiopia
PM
@AbiyAhmedAli
says his government will continue working with
#Eritrea
troops fighting rebels in
#Tigray
region. PM Abiy also tells BBC his govt is working with
#Sudan
troops in
#Tigray
– but did not explain in what capacity.
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Today’s the last day of my
@ChathamHouse
fellowship. Thankful for the incredible opportunity, the good people at
@CHRussiaEurasia
,
@QEII_Academy
,
@AfricaProg
and the Mo Ibrahim Foundation.
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Is the IMF the architect of austerity in African countries? Or is it a convenient scapegoat for countries that have run themselves into the ground? A decades-old debate resurfaces after Kenya's protests.
By
@AndresSchipani
and me.
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I think we’re living through a particularly terrifying time as Nigerians. A time when we cannot even agree that a national tragedy is a tragedy scares me a lot.
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Turkey is (not so quietly) on the ascendancy in Africa, part of a growing cohort of "middle powers" exerting influence on the continent.
By
@adamsamson
,
@AditiHBhandari
and me in
@FT
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I knew Peter Obi had a large Lagos following but to actually see him defeat Tinubu, a former governor of the state, is next level. Whatever happens from here, this is massive.
🚨BREAKING: PETER OBI HAS WON LAGOS STATE.🚨
A huge blow to Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
The state he says he built & has been used as the linchpin of his campaign has rejected his presidential bid in favour of Peter Obi.
#NigerianElections2023
#NigeriaDecides
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50 not out. On the cover this week is Zambia’s independence leader who passed this week age 97. And inside, we meet the
@thecontinent_
team as well as an editorial outlining our vision:
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Come for the headline; stay for the analysis of how African military leaders have become more emboldened, knowing fully well that coups are almost impossible to reverse, w
@davidpilling
:
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@iaboyeji
And how does a voting bloc translate to negotiating a ceasefire? We have only three non-permanent members on the UNSC, without a veto power. The influence you speak of is nonexistent.
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Liberia’s president George Weah has been away since November 1, including in Qatar to watch his son Tim play for the USA. He’s not due back until December 18. His political opponents and civil society groups are asking questions.
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Highly recommend this in-depth look at TB Joshua, the man and his brand of Christianity. Well-written and disturbing.
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@OreOgunb
So, so unnecessary. No wonder the Norwegian dude puked after winning the other day.
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Pretty much everyone I used to hang with in Lagos no longer lives here. They’re scattered everywhere. Canada, the US & UK, Germany etc. And I was only gone for two and a half years.
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I’m in today’s issue of
@thecontinent_
with an analysis of the geopolitical issues at play in Mali and ECOWAS’s surprising turn as democracy defenders:
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My
@FT
interview with Yusuf Tuggar, Nigeria’s foreign minister, ahead of US Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s visit to Nigeria today. We talk coups, Palestine and Israel, BRICS etc.
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My
@FT
interview with Atiku Abubakar.
- Last time running for president?
- Removing fuel subsidies in 100 days
- Plans to privatise refineries, queries the “so-called privatisation” of the NNPC
- Government of national unity could include Obi.
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I know people are angry about the scarcity of the redesigned currency but I underestimated the level of anger. Went about reporting today and everyone was fuming. Bank security guards were either physically or verbally fighting with customers.
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As Afrobeats has grown, so have concerns over its seedier side. The death of Mohbad, a fast-rising star, earlier this month has thrust those concerns into the spotlight.
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“You say it is shock therapy,” says Olusegun Obasanjo.
“What is the shock? You want to shock your people to death.”
@davidpilling
& me on Tinubu’s year of reforms, via
@FT
:
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Far too many people in the tech industry think the press should be uncritical cheerleaders of their work. They’re wrong.
The operators' reaction to the Kuda story has verged on the "thou should not have dared publish it." Worrying.
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Insane thing just happened. I picked up today’s copy of a prominent Nigerian daily to read a story about the Dangote refinery. Turns out the author copied and pasted at least 50% of a story I wrote last week.
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If I were the Netherlands, I’d simply create chances for Miedema. But maybe that’s just me.
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Sierra Leone goes to the polls this weekend.
Incumbent president Julius Maada Bio is favourite to win but the cost of living crisis (43% inflation) makes him vulnerable to an upset by Samura Kamara.
Here’s my
@FT
piece from Freetown.
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No. Everyone needs an editor.
Can a writer get to a point in their career where they don't need an editor to look at their work?
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Tidjane Thiam is said to be considering a run for the Ivorian presidency in 2025. Comes as no surprise given his recent moves. Will have to give up his French citizenship to be eligible.
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At more than 6,000 words, this profile of former Nairobi governor Mike Sonko is the longest piece ever published in
@thecontinent_
. And it's well worth your time:
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I'd pay decent money for a Nigeria/Africa focused daily newsletter that is a roundup of what's going on around the continent. It's an untapped market.
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“What happens when a central bank lends more money to the government than is legally allowed in its own laws? You get Nigeria.”
I wrote about Nigeria’s $53bn Ways & Means debacle for
@FTAlphaville
.
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“When the Taliban rode into Kabul and captured the presidential palace on Aug. 15, it marked the return to power of one of Toyota’s most loyal—and most regrettable—customers.”
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There’s a crisis in Nigeria’s economy: a shortage of dollars is pushing up prices and driving investors away. New
@FT
piece by me &
@davidpilling
.
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Twitter: “Want to read the article first?”
Me: “No? I commissioned and edited it.”
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Don’t know which is funnier: the Congress Hearing or people who earnestly think Robbie is saying Africa is a country.
The country of Africa has the conflict, but looks like Congress is working to get to the bottom of it:
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No matter where you are in Africa, the party doesn’t start until the DJ starts blasting Nigerian music. It’s science.
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Spotify must be sick of me playing Burna Boy’s “For My Hand” with Ed Sheeran on repeat all day.
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This thread is exactly why I insist that every passion must be balanced with education for kids. Education is the most sure fire way to a decent standard of living.
I want to rant about football. No, not the beautiful game we all watch on TV. Something else I find increasingly disturbing as my kids get older. I wonder if the way the sport is structured is worsening whatever racial/class divides we have in this country.
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All of us will eat this climate change breakfast.
The floods right now in NYC are INSANE!!!
Abroad is not like it used to be, fam!!
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On news of Yevgeny Prigozhin's death, here's what Bellingcat's Christo Grozev told the FT just two weeks ago: "In six months Prigozhin will either be dead or there will be a second coup."
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This is my dream for Nigerian corruption.
I don't want to say Norwegian corruption are comically small-bore, but the speaker of the parliament has been forced to resign because her house was 29km from Oslo when she implied it was at least 40km away.
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