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The Mandela Rhodes Scholarship, South Africa
The Mandela Rhodes Scholarship offers comprehensive funding for the core costs associated with your studies. It covers tuition for a one-year Honours degree or a two-year Masters degree in any field at a recognised South African
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@ayosogunro
Greatest Nigerian Student! This is sardonically lugubrious! The great Orator Cicero once said that e po tan ninu atupa ku!
Cue in applause.
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@ozzyetomi
Here is a Google drive containing
#EndSARS
voicenotes for WhatsApp.
There is an orchestrated conventional media black out. But I bet it won't pass the evening news.
People can download and share on WhatsApp for awareness.
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@cchukudebelu
You are one of my fav. tweeps here. You are curious and intelligent. You are grounded. What is more, you are not afraid to be wrong.
Kudos.
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@Omojuwa
The MP for Tonbridge and Malling, Hon. Tom Tugendhat said it for effect. He did say that "it is said", meaning that the statement shouldn't exactly be taken as a statement of fact. But the point has been made that Gowon is not as popular in some records have we have believed.
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Sweet boy edition:
How it started. As ẹ dey go.
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If another country's Congress had to compel you to follow your own laws, where is your sovereignty?
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The Nigerian State eats her children like a pig.
Our campuses are littered with the corpses and dreams of leaders.
RIP Kunle Adepeju. RIP
#OAU5
! RIP Afrika!
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Ìwàásù lásán kò rán olè!
Don't fall for the ruse. We have been here before.
#EndSARS
In December 2017, IGP Idris banned SARS.
In September 2018, the same IGP Idris banned the same SARS he banned a year ago.
In January 2019, IGP Mohammed Adamu banned SARS.
Now in October 2020, the same IGP is banning the same SARS he banned last year.
They want to scam us! 😔
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@sugabelly
The same stupid joke. A Pullitzer winner once made me the butt of that joke in a class in Virginia. The class wasn't laughing when I retorted.
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I think it was Clint da Drunk that called Desmond Elliot 'Desmond Idiot'. Clint was not drunk. He was a seer.
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Don't let anyone browbeat you with their respectability politics.
SARS is an anti-robbery squad. They have no business with internet fraud. That is what the EFCC is for.
So when the SARS asks to check your phone and transfer funds to themselves, it is robbery.
#EndSarsNow
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A little note to my South African friend, Zipho
Tonight, I am pensive. In South Africa people I was in class with, people like Ziphokuhle Zwane are justifying the xenophobic attacks on foreign nationals because, as he claims, foreigners resisted arrest and hijacked buildings
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It was great reconnecting with Sunday Fadipe
@inspiredsunfad
, my old debate partner at the University of Ibadan. He is a brilliant lawyer based in Lagos.
Please contact him if you need legal representation.
He doesn't look like this anymore o...
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Later today I will be telling the good folks at
@MRF_Africa
what I have been up to. Don't miss it.
This afternoon on Mandela Rhodes Monday we are catching up with
@ajibolaadigun
(Nigeria & UKZN, 2016). We go live on IG at 18:00 SAST - Don't miss it.
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See Pastor! No be pastor be this?
Thanks to those that made comments on my tweet on the possibility of Nigerians getting mortgage loans for home ownership. It’s really not about the banks as it appears. It’s more about the structure of our politics and our economy.
#mortgage
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I don't think the lack of tact of a copywriter warrants a boycott. In this case it is not that deep.
Save the energies for more worthy causes.
Every time I have engaged Wema Bank, it’s always a woman. They have programmes & platforms specific to addressing the issues whoever cares about inclusion and equality care about and this is reflected in their leadership too. They haven’t done anything today to warrant a boycott.
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Start spreading the news
I am leaving today
I want to be a part of it
Da da, da da
These vagabond shoes
They are longing to stray
Right through the very heart of it
Da da, dà da
I want to wake up
In a city that doesn't sleep
And find that I am king of the hill
Top of the heap
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@dbrownAnalyst
This wierd theory is all part of the modernization trope. Why can't you all just be like us? No. It dismisses the interconnected issues of surplus and dependence.
Can we get ahead? Sure. But not by following any wierd theory.
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This is one of the reasons I am running for
@UAlberta
Graduate Student’s’ Association Vice-President (Student Life) because I believe whatever is good for the graduates students is good for the
@UAlberta
.
Please help tag grad students at the
@UAlberta
you know.
Addressing the Departure of Early Career Researchers in Canada: A Call to Action
The departure of early career researchers from Canada is a pressing concern, exacerbated by the challenges faced by graduate students and postdoctoral researchers living on stipends near the poverty
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It comes as a great shock…to discover that the flag to which you have pledged allegiance…has not pledged allegiance to you. It comes as a great shock to see Gary Cooper killing off the Indians, and although you are rooting for Gary Cooper, that the Indians are you. Baldwin
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Join us for a discussion on good governance in Nigeria as we delve into
@whowhywherewhen
's book.
📌 Date: Thursday, November 2, 2023
Register here:
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My friend who runs a medical supplies store told me of how much the Kippa app has been for his inventory management. He said he would not have guessed where he was making the most profit if not for the app.
Sometimes, data reveals counter-intuitive wisdom to scale businesses.
There are simple frustrations that can be solved in Africa to increase the size of markets. Before the pandemic, I would go to my barber at Ridge and the place will be full. I sometimes had to wait an hour before I got a haircut. I later figured out it was best to do mornings.
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Me to anonymous reviewer
#2
“Useless race of grammarians, digging at the roots of
Someone else’s poetry, luckless worms who walk on thorns,”
Γραμματικῶν περίεργα γένη, ῥιζωρύχα μούσης
ἀλλοτρίης, ἀτυχεῖς σῆτες ἀκανθοβάται
#Antiphanes
#graduation2018
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Research often truly starts in the post-graduate level in Nigeria, and even that is fraught with lack of access to resources.
How do we do then to access paywalled articles, and cutting edge research for our own work?
I will be sharing some tips during the week.
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Trumpet it louder for people at the back...
“The majority of kings and rulers are stupid”
Ἀλλὰ νοῦν οὐκ ἔχοντες οἱ πολλοὶ τῶν βασιλέων καὶ ἀρχόντων
#Plutarch
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I am at
@BudgITng
's CivicHive Demo day, from solutions to promote local governance solutions , to !flemer, which helps pre-trial detainees to get out of jail as quickly as possible, I am impressed at the new turn and energy in the Civic sector in Nigeria.
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Yoruba Angel edition:
How it started. How it is going...
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@ronaldnzimora
Have you seen generator oil before? How cheap or accessible are they that the akara sellers would use them instead of vegetable oil?
Fink about it.
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@alexlobaloba
-- Langston Hughes
What happens to a dream deferred?
Does it dry up
like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore--
And then run?
Does it stink like rotten meat? Or crust and sugar over--
like a syrupy sweet?
Maybe it just sags like a heavy load.
Or does it explode?
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@alexlobaloba
Flotsam and jetsam in a sea of nothingness in the eyes of your mother’s rival wife.
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@cchukudebelu
One
@Mazigburugburu1
too hasn't redeemed his pledge to pay me 100k. No honor code at LSE I guess... Ibadan people don't act like that.
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As
@ayosogunro
says, Everything in Nigeria will Kill You.
Chief of army staff on board as military aircraft crashes in Kaduna | TheCable
#ChiefOfArmyStaff
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Something wonderful came in the mail. I received my copies of the Aké Review.
I am side to side with one of my favs.
@yemisiAA
. Her writings have weaned me of meat and bread, and eggs and ógí, my pretense at a paleo diet. She will make an epicure of me yet!
@molarawood
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Glad to reconnect with Hon. Adekunle Alli, a foremost historian of Lagos at the
@LagosStudies
Conference. I used to play in his library in Lagos Island where he precociously gave me Thomas Moore's Utopia. It was my attempt to understand this text that introduced me to Pol.Phil
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"...the phones will always be a brick in the foundation of smartphone history. A fitting place for a company so set in its ways that it cemented its place in history."
The rise and fall of your former favourite smartphone brand: the BlackBerry
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I am in a WhatsApp group of academics where some people are saying the BBC exposé on
#sexformarks
is a western onslaught. Oga Ade, Zip up and stop blaming everything on neocolonialism.
Na una go teach why the African is cursed still dey use prick threaten people. Nonsense!
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I had applied for
@subomiplumptre
's free investment course a couple of times before. When I realized I was wasting time because of freebies, I made up my mind to apply for the last time or pay. I was accepted. Let me just say it was the first family bonding trip this year.
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@DavidHundeyin
@DavidHundeyin
I am not a betting man. But I am willing to put my training as an Ibadan trained scholar on the line that you are wrong. What do you wager?
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@kolatubosun
Of course I can use because because 'because' like any conjuction can conjoin parts inferred.
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@asemota
See the way the neobanks is displacing the old? Build your party, get your members, claim no easy victory.
You think those who had done all the work before you came would want to surrender to upstarts? If you think you can do better, prove it!
Claim no easy victory.
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TL;DR
1. Without a proper analysis of power, the free market is neither free nor a market.
2. Money matters. But there are more important things
3. Efficiency without equity is license to plunder.
4. Empiricism knows how to count. Seldom what counts.
The Nobel winning economist Deaton finally recognizing the problem with Economics. I esp like where he questions methods like Randomized Control Trials saying "historians...often do a better job than economists" at causal explanation
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Today at the
@SAAPSZA
#SAAPS18
conference at
@University
of Pretoria I will be presenting my paper on the Network Analysis of South Africa's Student Social Movement
#FMF
(2015-2016) at the
@UKZN
.
@movementsMcr
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It has taken me 10 years to reach 900 followers on Twitter. Am I now an influencer? How do I get verified yall?
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There is an old Canadian joke. How do you say Toronto?
To run to.
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There is just about 4 hours more for Graduate Students at the
@UAlberta
to vote for a quintessential professional to advocate for their wholesome wellbeing in graduate school at the U of A.
Vote Ajibola Adigun (Jibs) as GSA Vice President (Student Life) now.
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This fills the gap that
@PanasheChig
's essay may have missed. This is in the tradition of the entreaty by
@PanasheChig
not to fight, but to reason.
@iwalesino
draws on critical engagement with the historiography of Nigeria's pan Africana in the wake of coloniality and capitalism.
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Update!
The
@UAlberta
Graduate Students’ Association Elections and Referenda Committee has ordered a rerun for the GSA Vice-President Student Life position due to some irregularities in the past election.
So we go again.
@olumuyiwaayo
@Omojuwa
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Best geography refresher lesson in years.
Equator Mogotio, Baringo Kenya.
I have never seen anyone explain what happened round the Equator like this woman did. superb lesson💯
This phenomenon occurs along the equator, (a line that transverse round the center of the earth.)
In Africa, the line caught across Gabon,
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It is precisely because you have done things differently that caught them napping. Dare to be different and pay no mind to the naysayers. Continue to
#EndSARS
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@Omojuwa
Festus Adebayo, veteran journalist and former media aide to Ajimobi, has been appointed as aide to the Senate President to the disappointment of APC hangers on in Oyo state.
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If you haven't been to a beautiful Nubia concert you haven't lived...
It was deep, it was soulful. It was a revival.
Let the rhythm of sweet
#music
& the melodies of soulful rendition ease you of the stress & tension.
.
Beautiful Nubia live at
#Quintessence
is tomorrow you should be there.
.
Do call Juliana on (0803-327-5401) to get your ticket. You don't want to miss it!
#beautifulnubia
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@PolSci_UP
@Saaps
@UPTuks
From helping to print (Joy Green) to helping to fix the power point and the slides and just the dedication of the volunteers at the
#SAAPS2018
, the volunteers are the bomb!
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@cchukudebelu
Artifical creation isn't the problem. Italy was also referred to as a mere geographic expression before Awolowo became famous for the quote.
But are we willing to have the hard conversation and do the work?
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We have just launched to understand the convergence of educational interventions in developing African Youth. Please check it out and get involved
@Shwarzmanorg
@seenfromafar
@julietkego
@AishaYesufu
@DrOlufunmilayo
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@ronaldnzimora
I think we should start with how you 'learnt' this? Maybe we can then unlearn it?
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Aspire to be!
Applications are open! The Mandela Rhodes Scholarship combines financial support with a leadership development programme.
Apply if you want to do postgrad in RSA, if you have demonstrated leadership and academic excellence, and if you believe that change starts within.
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As someone who bunked Maths 3 times. Start with the numberline before asking people to find x.
A lot of people can't teach Maths because they don't understand it. They may know it but don't understand it. This is not peculiar to SA.
What maths researchers learnt from the mistakes made by pupils in 'top' South African schools
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@ShuyiOlutimi
By the time Bajinotu is through, Nigeria will be spending £ and basking in colonial nostalgia.
She is doing her job.
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Ajíbọ́lá and Antigone say Merry Christmas to you and your family.
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The guy say Mr Bent Bruised. Wao!
So Mr Bent Bruised from Haiti will just appear with his children in any Nigerian int airport and verbally tell them he’s from a Sagbama he saw on Google maps and ask to be allowed entry?
World hq for extreme poverty every time but when month ends, you’ll stretch hands for N15m
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The travel restriction and the freezing of
#EndSARS
protesters' accounts is eerily familiar. Anyone who is familiar with the history of police brutality knows that the panel will release a (black paper) and the sad song will continue.
Trust the process at your own peril.
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Everyone, Beyonce has given you
#TheGiftAlbum
, the people at Agbowo have put this issue of beauty together.
Earlier this year, we called for literary and visual art submissions towards the theme: Limits. We are beside ourselves with excitement announcing the second issue of Agbowó: The "Limits" issue.
It is available for download here:
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@MsChimezie
@GbenroAdegbola
@laruchi007
@Bolajuade
There was a 20 Pound policy for those who wanted to return Biafran pounds. There was no policy for seizure of property. Lies and propaganda have lives of their own and it serves various purposes.
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The primary school teacher in me cries in solidarity for the death of a professional quirk
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@Mochievous
@Mochievous
The personal touch to the welcome note of your newsletter was dope. Das how sta do
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Congratulations to all the lions and lionesses on my time-line.
The giants awake!
@LifeofaHeritage
@xploitdman
Lions 🦁 and Lionesses ,
Lovers of University of Nigeria 🇳🇬, Nsukka (UNN), and her campuses.
It’s our 60th Founder’s Day...
A call to listen again to our school anthem and be inspired.
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Siri’s mum has 4 children. The first she named May. The second she named June, the third she called July. What’s the name of the 4th child?
#VGTwithOmojuwa
#VirtualGameTime
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I got a rejection letter in French today!
Once I saw 'Malheureusement' I knew what it was.
In French! Viva shooting your shots Viva!
Aluta Continua!
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The
@LagosStudies
Conference has left an indelible impression on me on how academic conferences can be in Nigeria. The energies put into it shows what is possible with a little bit of consideration for participants and true collaboration. Kudos,
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Highlights of the 5th
@LagosStudies
Association Conference. Lagos. June 2021
Panel co-organizers: Ajibola Adigun () and
@misskstrong
(University of Pennsylvania)
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Tomorrow my brother Pastor Ademola aka P.D. is ordained! I couldn't be prouder. Like two sides of a coin, he is the spiritual to my secular. He has answered the call in Luke 4:18. "The Spirit of the Lord is on me because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor..."
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Just so you know
@flyethiopian
still has my trust. It is an African airline that has continually met expectations. So this trope riding on the tragic incident of the crash should go directly to
@BoeingAirplanes
. Please don't vex me abeg!
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Today I spoke the folks at
@OminiraTV
about why Nigeria should sign the
#AfCFTA
.
For one, Nigeria and Eritrea alone haven't signed. Because Benin is Nigeria's 37th state.
Also it is in Nigeria's best interest to leverage on its human capital and population.
This is an appeal to the President of Nigeria
@MBuhari
to sign the
#AfCFTA
on behalf of millions of organizations representing businesses, workers,
and entrepreneurs in
#Nigeria
.
@AfricaTradeLink
@AfCfta
@AfricaBizLink
@NiPSA_Nigeria
@TradeLawCentre
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I haven't read WS's Chronicles of the Happiest People on Earth. But I think what Wole Soyinka did was to try to explain how four, young idealistic students at Ibadan (Soyinka, Okigbo, JP Clark and Achebe) made sense of this mess and promise called Nigeria.
@bookcraftafrica
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A society that pays no premium to her women cannot care for her guests.
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