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Dec 17 • 31 tweets • 6 min read
THE RISE AND FALL OF S.T SOAP 🧼
You Remember S.T SOAP 🧼 that was very popular in the 80s and 90s right?
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Late Alhaji Safiriyu Tiamiyu’s quality item, S.T Soap, immediately turned into an easily recognized name during the 80s into the 90s, due to its potency, packaging, and rhythmic advert jingle
Dec 2 • 14 tweets • 4 min read
Story of the Kano Groundnut Pyramids.
What happened to it ?
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Before oil was discovered in Nigeria 🇳🇬, Nigeria major source of income was agriculture !!
Peanuts, bagged and ready for transport, are stacked in pyramids at Kano, Northern Region, Nigeria. Groundnut pyramids were pyramid-like structures made from groundnut sacks.
Nov 25 • 33 tweets • 6 min read
The Story Of How UMARU DIKKO Was K!DN@PP£D In 1984. He was Put In A Box 📦 To Be Flown To Nigeria So He Can Face Trial For Charges Of Stealing $1bn (£625m) Of Government money.
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In London in 1984, a team of Nigerians and Israelis attempted to kidnap and repatriate the exiled former Nigerian minister Umaru Dikko. Mr Dikko, who had fled Nigeria after a military coup, was accused of stealing $1bn (£625m) of government money.
Sep 19 • 20 tweets • 3 min read
Story Of Tafa Balogun
From Inspector General OF Nigerian 🇳🇬 Police To A jail Cell
How It all happened
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Mustafa Adebayo Balogun was the 11th Inspector General of the Nigeria Police Force. He joined the police force in May 1973 and officially became the IGP in March 2002.
Sep 15 • 25 tweets • 5 min read
The story of ADELABU ADEGOKE PENKELEMESI
ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT HIM AND HOW HE DI£D
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One of the places you must endeavour to visit in the historic town is Taj Mahal in Oke Oluokun. That’s the residence and final resting place of Alhaji Adegoke Adelabu, the Lion of the West.
Sep 3 • 21 tweets • 4 min read
Story of the only Plane ✈️ Hijack that has ever happened in Nigeria 🇳🇬
Yes, it’s happened On October 25, 1993.
This is the story about it.
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This is a story of how young Nigerians
HIJACKED NIGERIAN AIRWAYS On October 25, 1993. Because They were dissatisfied by the annulment of June 12 elections by the military Head of States,Gen Ibrahim Babangida.
Aug 24 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
Most people have heard “Ajala Travel” before.
This is the story of Ajala Olabisi known as "Ajala Travel" and how we toured the world 🌎 on his scooter
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When someone in Nigeria like to travel allot, sometimes yoruba people call them “Ajala”.
This is the story of Ajala Olabisi known as "Ajala Travel" was famous in 1950s for travelling round the world.
He traveled to more than eighty (80) countries with his scooter.
Aug 20 • 14 tweets • 2 min read
Story Of Simeon Apata, the military father of Nigerian singer, Teni and Niniola who was assassinated
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Nigerian musician Teniola Apata, better known as, Teni the Entertainer is enjoying all the acclaim, fame and wealth that music offers.
Aug 6 • 39 tweets • 4 min read
Do You Know How Your State Got its Name ?
How The 36 Nigerian States Got Their Names and Abuja
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Abia is an acronym from the four main groups of people in the state as at the time it was formed in 1991: Aba Bende Isuikwuato Afikpo.
Jul 7 • 18 tweets • 3 min read
Do you know Charcoal whiten your teeth 🦷?
Everyday Amazing uses of charcoal that you didn’t know of !!
This thread will blow your mind
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Charcoal (activated) is something you must have on you all the time. In Case you never paid much attention, it's time to do it.
Here are the benefits of charcoal you never thought of:
Jun 22 • 17 tweets • 3 min read
How the Oba Of Benin “Oba Ovonramwen Nogbaisi” Was made to leave his kingdom and Exiled to Calabar by the British.
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This is the touching life story of Oba Ovonramwen Nogbaisi who ruled the Benin empire before he was exiled by the British
Jun 12 • 30 tweets • 5 min read
The Story Of June 12 and why it is now Democracy Day in Nigeria 🇳🇬
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Democracy Day in Nigeria is now being celebrated on the 12th. In 2019 was the first time the day has been marked on this date. And the change carries heavy symbolism for a country that’s known more years of being ruled by military men than by democratically elected leaders.
Jun 2 • 20 tweets • 4 min read
Story of Funsho Williams.
The man who could have become Lagos Governor and how he was assassinated in his home at Dolphin Estate, Ikoyi.
The person/people who did it are still walking free.
Funsho Williams attended the St. Paul's Catholic school at Ebute Metta and later St Gregory's College, Lagos. In 1968, he studied at the University of Lagos,attaining a degree in civil engineering. He then went on to attend the New Jersey Institute of Technology for
May 31 • 27 tweets • 4 min read
Story Of How and Why Kudirat Abiola The Wife Of MKO Abiola Was Brutally Assassinated in broad daylight on the streets of Lagos in the year 1996
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Alhaja Kudirat Abiola, a politically and socially active woman during her days, was the beautiful wife of late business mogul and respected politician, Chief Moshood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola.
May 30 • 23 tweets • 5 min read
Who kill£d Dele Giwa ? 🤔
The question yet to be answered till today!!
This is the story of How and why Dele Giwa was ass@ssinated.
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The story of dele giwa will not be well understood if the story of Gloria Okon, Nigeria’s Most Controversial Female Drug Smuggler is not told.
So we will start from there 👇🏾
May 18 • 22 tweets • 4 min read
Story of How And Why the Federal Capital OF Nigeria Was Moved From Lagos to Abuja.
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A walk down memory lane to see how the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) came about is necessary.
In 1960, Nigeria was granted political independence as a sovereign state under the 1960 Constitution from Britain.
May 9 • 40 tweets • 5 min read
Mineral Resources found in the 36 states of Nigeria and FCT
Nigeria is Rich and has what it takes to be one of the best country in the world 🌎
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ABUJA
Mineral resources in Abuja include:
Marble
Clay
Tantalite
Cassiterite
Gold (this is partially investigated)
Lead /Zinc (Found in traces)
Dolomite
Apr 25 • 30 tweets • 5 min read
Sad Story of How Afonja Lost ILORIN and Its Kingship to Fulani People.
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The rivalry between the Fulani and Afonja descendants over the throne of Ilorin is rooted in history.
Apr 9 • 12 tweets • 5 min read
Amazing places in Nigeria and around the world you won’t believe exist
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Gurara waterfall, Niger state
Gurara Waterfalls is located in Gurara, a local government area of Niger State, North Central Nigeria. The waterfalls is approximately 30 metres in height and it lies on the Gurara river along the Suleja-Minna Road.
Apr 7 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
As a yoruba person, your mother must have told you to go and wear BATA before abi ?
This is the story of BATA, a shoe company that was in Nigeria in the old days 😊
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The T. & A. Baťa Shoe Company was founded on 21 September 1894 in the Moravian town of Zlín, Austria-Hungary (today in the Czech Republic), by Tomáš Baťa, his brother Antonín and his sister Anna, whose family had been cobblers for years.
Apr 5 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
JUST IN: Lagos state authorities have notified Nigerian business mogul Paul Onwuanibe in march that he had seven days to leave his multimillion-dollar beach resort Landmark beach so it could be torn down 😳 to make way for coastal highway 🛣️
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