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Taiwo Obe

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Jan 8

@nytimes

1. Barbara Walter's death took my mind to Oriana Fallaci, profiled in this @nytimes obit, & charity being from home, my mind switched to the Nigerian media landscape and to a media roundtable @Clinic4Journos held in 2016. See next slide.
nytimes.com/2006/09/16/boo…

@LandeMsfootball

2. This report by @LandeMsfootball @vanguardngrnews summed up the roundtable.
Something I hoped we'd do then was a WINM directory.
For now, here is a rolling thread of Women in Nigerian Media who held/hold their own in a male-dominated space.
vanguardngr.com/2016/01/whos-m…

3. Caveat: This roll is entirely based on my recollections and those of the people I contacted for this exercise. And I've restricted it to the print media where I've played, and to the mid-90s when I was active in the newsroom. With hope, this will inspire other interventions.

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Taiwo Obe

@araisokun

Aug 19, 2022

@danieliyam

1. In May 2020, @danieliyam, listing some songs, asked which is Nigeria's "biggest ever wedding song?" I weighed in, listing a couple of oldies. Since then I'd thot of doing a #thread on #NigerianOldMusicians.
I start 2day with Ambrose Campbell. Pls RT.

https://twitter.com/danieliyam/status/1256503176116744192?t=7V8-WG-KyKCk5-FVo6TgbA&s=19

2. Campbell, a pioneer of pioneers was born today 103 years ago.
Here's the interview which the icon reportedly described by Fela as "the father of modern Nigerian music" had with Osaze Iyamu. It was published in the "Nigeria Monthly" mag in Apr 2005.
drive.google.com/file/d/17M5Rcr…

@FMICNigeria

3. Nigeria Monthly was published by TaijoWonukabe Ltd - which I co-founded in 1995 - for @FMICNigeria to "accentuate the positives of Nigeria." I was its editorial director. My key collaborators were @ChidoNigeria & @ogbenyiegbe. Chief Emeka Chikelu was the founding minister.

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Taiwo Obe

@araisokun

Apr 17, 2021

@Official_NRC

The nearest I'd got into entering a train in 🇳🇬 was in the 1970s whenever my now late uncle, T. S. Obe, then Principal of @Official_NRC Training Sch visited Ibadan. I remember fondly walking down the tunnel at the Dugbe station to get to the trains. #Thread
Pic: Voice of Nigeria

2. Later in life, I often told all who cared to listen that if there was an efficient train service, I'd live in Ibadan (my fave city) and work in Lagos. Now, I long to live in Ìgbàrà-Òkè, Ondo State. Anyhow, I took my first ride in 🇳🇬 yesterday (16/4) from #LOS2IBD. Let's go.

3. I had gone to the NRC Ebute Meta Office on Thursday (15/4) for a recce: generally, find out what time to be at the station, prices and all that. I took these pix.

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Taiwo Obe

@araisokun

Aug 19, 2020

It’s #WorldPhotographyDay2020 so this #thread is a curation of photographers and photography in Nigeria - and, yes, it may not be exhaustive.
I start with a photographer being described as the “first indigenous photographer”
artnews.com/art-in-america…

Meet George S A Da Costa, born in the present-day Lagos, who in 1895 invested £30 to train as a photographer and went on to set up a thriving photography business. He was described as the “ablest and best known professional photographer in Nigeria".

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Da…

Mr Da Costa's works were featured in "The Red Book of West Africa" (1920) and they include pictures of the construction of the railway tracks from Lagos to Jebba to Kaduna. #WorldPhotographyDay2020
africainthephotobook.com/2019/04/08/the…

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Taiwo Obe

@araisokun

Dec 31, 2019

@toluogunlesi

In no particular order, here, @toluogunlesi, is an inexhaustible directory of the professors who are from my town, Igbara-Oke. Sit back, relax and enjoy yourself... 2020 is around the corner.
(Oh: navigating through the website of some Nigerian universities was tortuous.)

https://twitter.com/araisokun/status/1211546808155021312

1. Prof Victor Adebayo Adetiloye, the Chief Medical Director of Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospitals Complex. He’s a professor of medicine with radiology as his speciality.

2. Prof Julius Ajilowo Olujimi, Urban and Regional Planning, FUTA.
urp.futa.edu.ng/home/profile/3…

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Taiwo Obe

@araisokun

Oct 20, 2019

@Stylomedia

THIS is St. Paul’s Anglican Church in the nodal town of Igbara-Oke, in all its magnificence, as shot on Tuesday by @Stylomedia. It is said to have been built in 1884. My dad wrote a book detailing how Christianity came into the town. Come with me to Igbara-Oke.

2. In the book “Origin of Education in Igbara-Oke”, my dad, Isaac Adebayo Obe, states that his own father, Samuel Olaworo Ogunlusi Obe (you’ll hear more about him later) told him that “one Mr Eso introduced Christianity to Igbara-Oke.” He’s the one here.

3. I found out more about the man known as Oyinbo Joel Eso. He was the dad of Femi Esho (he added “h” to his own name), of Evergreen Music, promoters of old Nigerian songs. Pa Eso was one of the early CAC evangelists with Joseph Ayo Babalola. (Pic: Both of them in 1946.)

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