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8 Nov

In late 2018, as Managing Editor of an online newspaper, I transferred money to my reporters so they could cover a PDP governorship primary. I labelled the transaction “PDP primary”.

Not long after, my bank called me. They’d flagged the transaction & wanted me to explain it.
1/6

Meanwhile, weeks earlier, when I transferred money to my team for an APC primary and similarly labelled it “APC primary”, my bank didn’t call me.
2/6

That ‘PDP call’ ahead of the 2019 elections was the only time in eight years that my bank ever called me to explain a transaction!

Now, I leave you to make your conclusions.
3/6

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'Fisayo Soyombo

@fisayosoyombo

31 Oct

Last week’s Ikoyi ‘prison break’ was not a premeditated jailbreak. It was prompted by corruption, exacerbated by pent-up tension among images over the burning of the Igbosere court and sealed by inmates’ desperation to escape from the chaos they’d caused.

A thread.

1/14

How it happened, a warder popularly known as ‘Pastor’ had seized a phone from an inmate in D Ward. One account has it that ‘Pastor’, who is also the Yard Master, extorted the inmate but refused to release the phone.
2/14

Another is that ‘Pastor’ seized the phone and told the inmate who owned it to settle him, else his cell would be changed.

Whichever was the case, an inmate’s phone was seized and ‘Pastor’ wanted money (or more money) to release it.
3/14

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'Fisayo Soyombo

@fisayosoyombo

11 Sep

The 2020/21 English Premier League season, which begins tomorrow, will be won by Liverpool.

Reason? Coronavirus!

However, this time, it will be closely contested. There’ll be no repeat of last season’s 18-point gap.
1/4

Liverpool have been in the title mix for two consecutive seasons now; asking the players to have a go for the third time in a row is a huge mental challenge.

But the Reds do know that winning the league last season without the fans...
2/4

...robbed them of the full complement of a proper title celebration.

A part of them feels like they haven’t won the league yet; this will spur them on to success, the knowledge that fans are definitely back at Anfield before May 2021.
3/4

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'Fisayo Soyombo

@fisayosoyombo

7 Aug

I’m looking to hire five young investigative journalists with whom I’ll work directly on a long-term media project. The roles are based in Lagos and the pay is competitive. Please retweet; my ideal candidates could be on your timeline🙏.
1/8

Gender, academic discipline, class of degree or length of industry practice do not matter. If you consider yourself a fantastic writer and you have completed tertiary education, please give this a shot.
2/8

Specifically, we are looking for:

(i) Candidates who genuinely still believe in Nigeria despite all the odds and are convinced journalism has a critical role to play in the emergence of the Nigeria of our dreams.
3/8

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'Fisayo Soyombo

@fisayosoyombo

6 Aug

The man in the videos below — he claims to be a policeman attached to Pedro Police Station, Shomolu — today assaulted a resident of Awofodu Street, Pedro, who was spotting a dreadlocked hair. He also assaulted another and stabbed a third.
1/7

The policeman had stopped the guy in locks (first photo) and asked him to identify himself.

He explained that he is a dancer/actor with Segun Adefila’s Crown Troupe of Africa whose studio is down the road, but he got slaps in return.
2/7

A thoroughly-shocked woman intervened, explaining that as the wife of the Crown Troupe’s founder, she was in a position to confirm that the guy is indeed with the group.

She was slapped too.
3/7

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'Fisayo Soyombo

@fisayosoyombo

23 Jul

@StanbicIBTC

Attention @StanbicIBTC, some staff at some of your branches are illegally profiting from backdoor FX exchange by hoarding high-value currencies from your customers.

It’s a practice I’ve suspected for years but one I finally confirmed yesterday.
1/11

Every single time I’ve had to withdraw USD at your Allen Avenue branch, it always came with a caveat: “Please we only have small notes; hope you don’t mind.”

Since these were usually small amounts (often payments for pieces for overseas newspapers), I never minded.
2/11

@StanbicIBTC

Yesterday afternoon, though, I did.

The @StanbicIBTC branch at Allen had claimed to have only $20 notes, all totalling no more than $600, which was inadequate for my need.
3/11

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