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I want to do everything I can. I want to be everything I can. So that on that Day, when I shall see my Maker, I shall say, "I have used ALL my Talents."
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Ayọmide Akinbọde
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Ayọmide Akinbọde أُعيد تغريده
Ayọmide Akinbọde أُعيد تغريده
LAGOS, NIGERIA: HistoryVille’s Ayomide Akinbode (@AmazingAyo) was present at the Citizen Town Hall hosted by @ZikokoCitizen on February 28, 2026, under the theme “Who Shapes the Nigerian Life?”
The panel explored Nigeria’s journey from independence through military and democratic rule, examining why certain policies succeeded while others failed—and why the country often repeats the same policy mistakes.
At the session, Akinbode emphasised that Nigeria must begin to treat history as data rather than nostalgia. Understanding the decisions, institutions, and policies that shaped the past is essential to building stronger systems and avoiding cycles of repeated failure.
Special thanks to @ZikokoCitizen for the invitation and for creating a space where history, policy, and civic responsibility intersect.
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Ayọmide Akinbọde أُعيد تغريده
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Ayọmide Akinbọde أُعيد تغريده
.@Adesuwa_G, @je_mc2 and @AmazingAyo speak on the “Then, Now and What Changed” panel session
#citizentownhall2026
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There is another one: ai — a pale-throated sloth found only in the tropical forests of northern South America.
So, we have ox and ai.
Ayilola of Nigeria /Laptop Guy 🩺 🇳🇬 🇬🇧🇺🇸@silverpenydr
What is the only Animal that is just 2 Letters ?
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There is another one: ai — a pale-throated sloth found only in the tropical forests of northern South America.
So, we have ox and ai.
Peter Agboola@baba_Omoloro
There's only one and everyone knows it.
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Gather your manna early in the morning, as much as you can eat, before the sun grows hot and melt it.
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Ayọmide Akinbọde أُعيد تغريده
Ayomide Akinbode is the founder of @HistoryVille, Nigeria’s leading online history magazine and a respected voice in history journalism and storytelling.
He’ll be speaking at #CitizenTownhall on 28 February.
Click the link to join the conversation: tix.africa/discover/citiz…
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I just heard the most interesting Bible rizz.
"Did you walk around me seven times? I realised I have been falling for you."
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Interestingly, President Goodluck Jonathan and Chief Justice Aloma Mariam Mukhtar were marking their birthdays on the same day you tweeted this.
In fact, it was the same day Mukhtar retired. She had just clocked the statutory age of 70.
Meanwhile, Jonathan was 57.
Olúwatósìn Olaseinde@tosinolaseinde
I paid N178 to the dollar for an online transaction. CBN needs to consider other options to rein in the Naira besides its defence strategy
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Which of your brothers? 😒
Peps@St_Desola
I have so much to tweet,but my brother is my PR manager 😂. “Lois take down that post”😞.
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I finally got my driver's licence after nine months.
Ayọmide Akinbọde@AmazingAyo
I renewed mine in February. I was given a timeline until May. But when I visited in July, I was told it wasn't ready that I should wait until the end of August (which I doubt). That's six months just to renew. In this era of ours, the FRSC is just as useless as "P" in psychology.
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...1990 Orkar coup which led to the founding of the Arewa Consultative Forum 10 years after, and the latter cries for Sharia throughout the North.
The bloody violence that followed in Kaduna, a 50:50 Muslim/Christian state, proved that the North was not one. It is still not is.
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There was never "One North" in the first place. It was the British that subjugated the Tiv, Igala, and other minorities in the region under Ahmadu Bello's Arewa. The January 1966 coup shattered it.
Then, the plan to make the North "one" again started in response to the...👇👇👇
Onye Nkuzi@cchukudebelu
The Political Sharia Movement of the 2000s ended the "One North" narrative.
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This served as a prelude to the founding of @HistoryVille four months later, and it has been UP.
Forward! Onward!!
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#OnThisDay 10 years ago, I wrote and published my first history article: 50 Interesting Facts About Ahmadu Bello, on the free WordPress dot com website. I have written over 100 articles since then.
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The processes and plans for Nigeria's Amalgamation on January 1, 1914, took 16 years.
Frederick Lugard was just a pawn. It was not his decision.
Also, without George Taubman Goldie and his Royal Niger Company, there would have been no Nigeria, especially as it is currently is.
Michael Taiwo@AskMichaelTaiwo
Tell us a crazy but true story.
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....became a political party in decline, even in Lagos. So, when Awolowo was to rival Zik in 1951, he had to form a new party, the Action Group, by using a Yoruba organisation, the Ẹgbẹ́ Ọmọ Odùduwà, that was as popular as the NCNC, to stop Zik from "taking over" the West.
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....as many Yoruba joined the party. Macaulay died 22 months later and Zik became the President. He was the brain behind everything while Macaulay was the face of the party. By 1951, the NCNC had become popular, not just in Lagos, but across the country. Its rival, the NYM...
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Your first assertion is wrong. It was the 39-year-old Zik who founded the NCNC in August 1944 and "appointed" the 79-year-old Macaulay as President using the latter's popularity (even though his political pedigree had waned) to front the party in Lagos and it was a success...
F Ọ L Ú 🚀@FolushoxFolarin
😆🤣😂 Its that thing that happened during NCNC-AG joust for power in the 1950s we must tell people. 1 - Herbert Macaulay, a Yoruba Man is widely recognised as the founder of the National Council of Nigeria and the Cameroons (NCNC). Acknowledging Zik’s great work with West African Pilot, Macaulay drafted him in 1944 and the Party appointed Zik General Secretary. At its formation NCNC was Lagos-Centric. Its founders saw Zik as an option to curate a truly nationalist party, so they supported him. 2 - Zik contested 2 times in Lagos (Lagos Town Council Election & Nigerian Legislative Council Election) to represent Lagos & the Western region on the platform of the NCNC and the people of Lagos who are predominantly Yoruba supported him and voted en masse for our dear Nnamdi & he won. Two great acts of political support. After bring politically welcomed, embraced and voted for by Lagosians and other Yorubas - Guess what the Great Zik of Africa thought was the next best thing to do? Become Premier of Western Region. 🙃 Anyway, He was strategically, tacitly and tactically handled and he wisely packed his bags, his charisma & his newspaper back to his homeland - East - to go become Premier there, where he was great success. That is politics. Lagos has been cosmopolitan since the 1700s way before colonisation in 1861. But You see - There is a common thread we repeatedly see in Yoruba Land when we welcome, embrace and support non- Yorubas in our politics. After a while they tend to forget where they come from and I attribute it to how cosmopolitan Yoruba land is, that liberal cosmopolitan nature is what made Zik not only participate in our politics but thrive. However, the shortcomings of our nature, culture & philosophy of life are what has led us here. To be clear: Just as non-indigenes can’t determine politics & governance on indigenous land anywhere in Nigeria, Non-Yorubas are not welcome in the politics of Yoruba land, nominally or actively, you are not welcome in our politics. The cosmopolitan liberalism that led Zik to think he could be the Regional leader of the Western region in 1951 is absolutely dead. He was taught a lesson, he learnt it and went back home. As at today, that political Self Preservation and Conservatism of 1951 is back as the dominant political ideology for the foreseeable future. And that’s the final consensus ✌🏾 Anyone who is displeased can take it up with their ancestors. ❤️ and💡
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