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Taiwo Obe
@araisokun
Thinker. Doer. Human.
Jan 16 • 22 tweets • 12 min read
This man was once returning from a UK trip w/out any luggage, & a bemused airline staff told him to see his compatriots struggling behind him with excess luggage. What followed, led to the birth, 15/12/2005, of Shoprite & later, more malls/supermarkets in Nigeria.🧵
Pic: THISDAY Image Back home, Mr Tayo Amusan, better known as Chairman, was queried by a frustrated Caucasian tenant at his Persianas estate on Victoria Island, Lagos, who had been searching for about six months for good furniture: "Can't you people think?"
Pic: Adeola Dayo Image
Mar 22, 2023 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
"No one has blocked highways, as happened in Brazil after Jair Bolsonaro lost his reelection bid. Opposition party supporters have not attempted an insurrection."
You see how no example of the 6 January Capitol attack was given. That's the US media protecting American interest. I was in the system: with the Wash, DC bureau of Newsweek International mag in Wash, DC, and I knew that the newshole for Africa was miniscule and often about despair, disease, deaths. So, a part of me feels some pity for Nigerian/African correspondents when they are bashed. Image
Mar 16, 2023 • 7 tweets • 4 min read
Wherever M K O Abiola was, he was right behind or beside or sometimes in front clearing the way. He was Abiola's Chief Security Officer/bodyguard. His name: Isaac Durojaiye Agbetusin. His aliases: Otunba Gaddafi & Senior Agbépo of Nigeria (SAN). In 1992, M K O's son, Kola, yes, the same one who contested the 25 Feb Presidential election on the platform of the People's Redemption Party was to wed Victoria Ossom, and there was an issue with toilets at the venue, TBS Cricket Pitch. Isaac suggested an idea: mobile toilets.
Jan 10, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
"For every one of you having any challenges, be strong in faith, find your tribe, embrace your journey. Live intentionally." - Peace Anyiam-Osigwe.
#RIPeace
medium.com/@AMAAWARDS/god… A graduate of Law & Politics from Oxford Brookes University, UK, through the @AMAAWARDS, she trained at least 5,000 young people across Africa in different aspects of film making.
thisdaylive.com/index.php/2022…
Jan 8, 2023 • 59 tweets • 37 min read
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… 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…
Aug 19, 2022 • 42 tweets • 18 min read
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.
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…
Apr 25, 2021 • 53 tweets • 25 min read
I needed to be where only the chirping of birds would be the environmental sounds, if at all, to wrap up a job I had started during the Covidian lockdown. For 10-12 days.
#Thread 2. That was why I took the train ride from #LOS2IB the other Friday. If you missed my travelogue, or if you didn't, but you'd like to refresh yourself, here is it.
My destination was Oloyo Village, Ona-Ara LGA in Oyo State, about 19.7km from Iwo Road.
Apr 17, 2021 • 19 tweets • 9 min read
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.
Aug 19, 2020 • 37 tweets • 21 min read
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…
Dec 31, 2019 • 17 tweets • 5 min read
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.) 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. Source: Living Seed Gloriou...
Oct 20, 2019 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
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.