Tim of Lagos

Highly radioactive, thinker, talker, writer. Come with cold, hard facts. No less.

[Lagos Grassroots Alliance @Lagosgrassroots]

🎙️ THE CONVERSATION CONTINUES!
What role should young people play in shaping our communities, politics and democracy?
Join Owolabi J. Falana, Convener, Lagos Grassroots Alliance, on Straight Talk with Mariam on Champion FM 90.7.

One Lagos. Many Voices.
#lagos
#YouthParticipation

[Iyalaya @lollylarry1]

It was a rousing welcome for Asiwaju Munirudeen Bola Oyebamiji (@OyebamijiBola) in Ila Local Government Area of Osun State.

The day is getting closer, the people are talking, expectations are high.

It is all about AMBO!

#AmboAtide
#BridgeToModernOsun

[Tim of Lagos @timoflagos]

Joint Enforcement Operation Continues Clearance of Illegal Squatters Along Alakija, Agboju, Mazamaza Axis of Badagry Expressway

.. LAWMA, KAI, LASTMA, Task Force, RRS, MOPOL, Military Personnel sustain operation in line with Governor’s directive

https://t.co/JiDH1rzROP

[America @america]

BREAKING: U.S. Supreme Court votes to uphold Birthright Citizenship in a 5-4 ruling.

[Iyalaya @lollylarry1]

Wherever you see LAWMA, always appreciate them. They are the ones making sure Lagos is clean, because some residents are just extremely terrible with the way they dispose dirt.

I witnessed the way they do this job wholeheartedly recently, I can't but appreciate them.

LAWMA Night Operations Clear Multiple Blackspots Across Lagos

… Sanitation crews deploy across Ikorodu, Maryland, Alapere, and Lagos Island in sustained environmental offensive

https://t.co/kxb5FlZdCA

[Tim of Lagos @timoflagos]

@abimbolaxoxo Wow.

[Jude Bela @realJudebela]

The heartbreaking story of Nigeria's dying President.

#PowerandPlunder13

[ADEWUYI Roseline Adebimpe @AdewuyiRoseline]

B.A. French (First Class Honours) – Obafemi Awolowo University
Best Female Graduating Student, Faculty of Arts (OAU)

M.A. French (Distinction) – University of Ibadan
Best Graduating Student, Department of European Studies

Ph.D. French Literature – Purdue University, USA
Student of the Year

DALF C2 (French Language Proficiency)

Chegg Global Student Prize 2024 Top 50 Finalist (Selected from over 11,000 nominations across 176 countries)

I am honored to be nominated by JCI Nigeria as one of the Top 30 Outstanding Young Persons in the category of Academic Accomplishments and Leadership.
I would greatly appreciate your vote and support:

https://t.co/aiGfYjp45z

Thank you. 🙏🏽

[Making of Champions @MakingOfChamps]

First 200m victory of the season 👏 👏

Favour Ofili won the women's 200m at the LA Grand Prix, and it was a good performance from her, running into a headwind to win her first 200m race in 2026.

Ofili claimed an easy victory, winning the race in 22.45s (-3.1), way ahead of Gemima Joseph who was 2nd in 22.88s, and Rosemary Chukwuma grabbing 3rd spot in 22.94s

[Wamutahi @Son_of_Laikipia]

Qatar has held a World Cup where everyone who could afford to attend attended, wait till it's the USA hosting and they will have visa restrictions even on the players themselves 😂.

[Jude Bela @realJudebela]

Gen. Sani Abacha.

#PowerandPlunder

[Ibironke Khadeejah Quadri @ronkecarew]

Mama Nike was one of 15 wives. When she left her husband to make art, the other 14 wives chose to follow her...

Artist Nike Davies Okundaye - better known as Mama Nike - grew up in an area of Nigeria where polygamous marriages were common. Her own father had three wives.

The women in her family were makers of traditional adire cloth. From the age of six, Mama Nike's great grandmother, mother, and aunt taught her how to spin, weave and dye.

"I didn't know it was my own future food," says Mama Nike - because, despite her family's craft, money was scarce.

At the age of 13, her father decided to marry her off to someone who already had several wives.

But her great grandmother wanted her to choose her own marriage - and so did Mama Nike. She escaped from the men who had come to take her away, and trekked for five days back to her village.

"It's the biggest risk I ever took," she says. "I didn't care if I died."

She arrived home exhausted and covered in bee stings. Even so, her father tried to marry her off again. This time, Mama Nike ran away and joined a travelling theatre, until police arrested her and brought her back.

Eventually, she agreed to marry a well-known artist and musician from Oshogbo, a town renowned for its artistic community.

She used her sewing and embroidery skills to make costumes for her husband's band - while trying to make her own art.

"The men didn't want a woman to be an artist. So, I worked in the night, and worked for them in the day," she says.

Her husband went on to marry 14 other women.

Tradition demanded those who were already wives accept each new marriage - but Mama Nike says they didn't always want to.

On one occasion, the husband took the women to a church where they were denied food, water, or access to their children.

Mama Nike says she was forced to agree to her husband marrying an addition woman: "By the third day we said, 'Bring the wife, we're not jealous anymore.' Our mouths were like boards - dry,".

She says living with her husband made her feel "like a lion with no teeth. You have no power."

She began to teach her co-wives traditional adire making skills, and soon, each of them was able to make their own money.

Sick of her husband's control and abuse, Mama Nike left him as soon as she'd saved enough to buy her own place - and the other wives chose to follow her.

She opened her first formal gallery in Oshogbo in 1986.

She is now an internationally renowned artist, with a huge gallery in Lagos where she teaches others and makes her own colourful, beautiful art.

🎧 Outlook: https://t.co/SxIvUTWprL

Copied from at BBC world service

[Tim of Lagos @timoflagos]

@Maazijnr @_tobyblush You don’t even know who she is. Haaaa

[Making of Champions @MakingOfChamps]

Good outing in Shanghai for Tobi Express!

Just a day after arriving in China for the Shanghai Diamond League, Nigeria's Tobi Amusan ran a Season's Best of 12.41s to finish 3rd in the women's 100m Hurdles.

USA's Masai Russell, ran a Meet Record and World Leading time of 12.25s to win the race. While Devynne Charlton finished 2nd with a Bahamas Record of 12.38s.

Tobi Express will come good this season.

[Jude Bela @realJudebela]

As Nigeria counts down to 2027, my team and I have spent the last five months building something big.

It’s called Power and Plunder — a series that takes you through the entire history of Nigeria’s leadership.
From Tafawa Balewa in 1960 to the current administration, we’re doing deep dives on every single leader who has occupied that office. How they governed. What they built. What they destroyed. And how, for better or worse, each one shaped the course of this country.

First episode drops Wednesday, May 6th. Watch this space.

[Tim of Lagos @timoflagos]

@XolaniMamkeli @Maletsapa1 Do you even know the continent at all?

[Tim of Lagos @timoflagos]

Quite bold to think they are maintaining "Africa"

Ignorance is really a disease.

Get out of your shell.

[Glasgow 2026 @Glasgow_2026]

Amazing Amusan 🇳🇬

[Tunde Kelani @tkelani]

Originally composed in 1964 during a period of intense political friction, "Yorùbá Ẹ Ronú" (Yorubas, Reflect) by Chief Hubert Ogunde, the doyen of Yoruba Theatre, remains a definitive anthem for self-examination, unity, and integrity in leadership.
The musical video by Tunde Kelani features Crown Troupe of Africa led by Segun Adefila.
https://t.co/Ucm00NovI8