wale dada

Welcome to Twitter! There are no friends here, it's strictly functional: 'I follow you, you follow me'. So much for a global village.

[Dami Ajayi @JollyPaps1]

“ I worked at the Model Hospital, Ubaha in a dusty community called Ndiowu. Ndiowu was popular for two reasons. One: former Vice-President of Nigeria had married two wives from one family in Ubaha Village. Two in 2012, a Dana Air Flight 992 from Abuja crashed in Lagos and six members of the Anyene family of Ubaha Village perished. The death news remained on the lips of the townspeople. The tragedy of losing six souls in one aircraft. Ndiowu was the biggest casualty of that air crash which killed one hundred and sixty souls.”

[S.A.Cosby @blacklionking73]

I don't post here much anymore but this...this is special. I started with nothing. Grew up in a trailer in the shadow of the South
I love my home
I love telling stories about that place
THANK YOU TO ALL THE READERS BOOKSELLERS AND FELLOW WRITERS
And thank you Mom I miss u

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

VEVO was the only reason YouTube didn't get sued out of existence in 2009.

Universal and Sony were ready to pull every music video off the platform. The labels argued YouTube was generating billions on their content while paying back almost nothing. Eric Schmidt's solution: let the labels build a parallel platform where they controlled the ad sales, the curation, and the branding. They called it Video Evolution. VEVO.

The deal was simple. Every "official" music video would route through a VEVO-branded channel. The labels owned the inventory. They sold premium ad slots that regular YouTube videos couldn't access, charging advertisers top dollar to run alongside Beyoncé instead of a random gaming clip.

The leverage was real. In 2010 when https://t.co/dqNjjTgbQ2 tried to renegotiate licensing, UMG pulled every Universal video off the site. MTV's online platform collapsed. The labels had figured out something the platforms hadn't priced in. The platforms needed the labels far more than the labels needed any one platform.

JustinBieberVEVO had 33.6 million subscribers. His personal YouTube channel had 4.2 million. TaylorSwiftVEVO had 27.3 million. Her personal channel had 2 million. The VEVO suffix marked the most valuable real estate on the platform.

Then YouTube counter-punched with Content ID. Every fan upload using a licensed song could now be monetized directly for the labels. By 2016, YouTube had paid labels over $2 billion through Content ID alone. The labels stopped needing a parallel platform to get paid. YouTube was already paying.

In 2018, YouTube started "consolidating" VEVO channels into Official Artist Channels. Artists could not opt out. The 33.6 million Bieber subscribers got auto-merged into a single channel without VEVO branding. https://t.co/sDEAF89gM6 shut down the same year, despite generating 25 billion monthly views.

The VEVO logo still sits in the corner of every official music video. That's the only thing left of the last time a record label cartel had real leverage over a tech platform.

[H i s t o r y V i l l e @HistoryVille]

Eni Njoku was the first Nigerian Professor of Botany and the first Vice Chancellor of the University of Lagos (UNILAG) at its founding in 1962.

Njoku was born on November 6, 1917, in Ebem Ohafia, at a time when higher education in Nigeria was still in its infancy. Raised in an Igbo community that valued discipline and learning, he showed early promise as a scholar. His formative years coincided with the late colonial period. Like many of his generation, he became part of the small but growing class of Nigerians who would go on to shape the intellectual and institutional foundations of the new nation.

He received his early education locally before proceeding to the Hope Waddell Training Institute, Calabar, between 1933 and 1936, and later to Yaba Higher College, then Nigeria’s premier higher institution.

Determined to pursue advanced studies, Njoku travelled to Britain, where he studied botany at the University of Manchester, graduating with a first-class honours degree in 1947, followed by a master’s degree. He later earned a doctorate from the University of London in 1954, placing him among the earliest Nigerians to achieve such academic distinction in the sciences.

On his return to Nigeria in 1948, Njoku joined the University College Ibadan as a lecturer in botany, becoming one of the very first Nigerian academics at the institution. His research focused on plant physiology, particularly the growth patterns of tropical crops, and he quickly rose through the ranks to become a professor, as well as Head of Department and Dean of the Faculty of Science. His work helped lay the scientific and academic foundations of botany in Nigeria at a time when the country was building its intellectual independence.

Njoku’s influence soon extended beyond the laboratory into national leadership. In 1962, he was appointed the first Vice-Chancellor of UNILAG, a historic role in which he helped shape one of Nigeria’s foremost universities.

After a controversial political dispute over his reappointment in 1965, he left the position and later became Vice-Chancellor of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, from 1966 to 1970, guiding the institution through the turbulent years of the Nigerian Civil War. He also served in public office, including a brief tenure as Federal Minister of Mines and Power, and chaired the Electricity Corporation of Nigeria.

Beyond Nigeria, Njoku gained international recognition as a scientist and educationist, serving on advisory bodies affiliated with UNESCO and the United Nations and contributing to the advancement of higher education across Africa. He received several honours, including honorary doctorates from Nigerian and foreign universities.

Njoku was married to Winifred O. Njoku (née Beardsall). He had four children, three daughters and a son. His son, Eni G. Njoku, is a scientist who worked in the United States of America at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

Professor Eni Njoku died on December 22, 1974, in London. He was just 57. #HistoryVille

[Dami Ajayi @JollyPaps1]

Unfortunately, most of these songs are not available online, and little is known about Julius Olofin in general. He was probably a contemporary of CA Balogun, Ojoge Daniel, Ayinde Bakare, and Akanbi (Ege) Wright. His earthy style of Juju music is similar to that of the aforementioned musicians—soulful and low-tempo, closer to a native blues than to the guitar-led, spacey, expansive medleys that were the Juju style of the ‘70s.

[Ahmad Salkida @A_Salkida]

Running a newsroom in sub-Saharan Africa has stretched me in ways I never anticipated. Grants disappear without warning. Local advertising or subscription is an extreme sport. Real philanthropy for journalism is almost absent, and when funding appears, it is crowded, competitive, and tilted toward safer, less disruptive themes. You push for accountability, and governments bristle. Corporations shut their doors. Your reporters navigate legal threats, online harassment, and real physical danger. The public value of this work is obvious. The market value is not. Profit has never been the reason to wake up and do this again each morning. What keeps me here is impact. The farmer who got his land back after we exposed the grab. The detainee who walked free because we would not drop the story. The quiet policy reversals that happened because the facts refused to disappear. Somehow, @HumAngle_ has survived six years. That survival is not just ours. It belongs to the communities that trusted us with their pain and who endured the crossfire of violent conflicts across Africa. Today, we mark another year.
We are still here.

[Merriam-Webster @MerriamWebster]

'Monosyllabic' is not.
‘Abbreviation’ is 12 letters.
‘Thesaurus’ doesn’t have a synonym.
'Non-hyphenated' is hyphenated.

Say what you will about English, but it has a sense of humor.

[wale dada @walata3]

@SarahMajdov @nikadubrovsky @Graeber_social What's the title of the book? If I may ask

[Merriam-Webster @MerriamWebster]

You didn’t hear this from us, but the Old English word 'sibb' meant “related by blood.”

This is where we get the 'sibling.'

And 'godsibb' essentially meant “godparent.”

Over time, it came to mean "close friend."

Now it is something we share w/ close friends...

'gossip.'

[wale dada @walata3]

@MerriamWebster I only came across this some weeks ago. It's called the 'dangling preposition'

[Adéjọké̩ Ẹwàèdè @AdejokeEwaede]

Ó yá o!
Ẹni bá ti sùn k'ó dìde o!
Show us how well you understand yorùbá langauage,
Name the item on the second slide and get #10,000.
Kínni orúkọ tí àwọn baba wa n pé oun tí wọn fi n t'ukọ̀ yìí?
Ìtó̩jú ède yorùbá, ojúṣe gbogbo wa ni o

[wale dada @walata3]

@tadepen It's about commercialising and monopolising agricultural resources such as patenting seedlings etc. Treating the victuals of nature like any other resource e.g minerals. The ethics debate, whether pro or con, is a smokescreen. Follow the money...

[Dami Ajayi @JollyPaps1]

I have two poems from my long prose poem sequence The Good Immigrant in the Ownership Issue of Magma. I was honoured to read the poems yesterday at and to be in the company of such brilliant poets. @magmapoetry thank you to the editors, @DrDanne & @stephenson_pj & Kathy Pimlott.

[Dami Ajayi @JollyPaps1]

The most hardworking music writer & curator in Nigeria has written his review of Burna Boy’s eight studio album for my music newsletter, London Listening Sessions. I am grateful to @tmdmrv for this propulsive piece. Please read & retweet. Share! https://t.co/BezSaXJlIx

[Femi Morgan @Fairchild09]

We had a splendid time engaging @Ademola Adesola PhD, author of the book, Representation of Child Soldiers in Contemporary African Narratives last week Saturday at RovingHeights Bookstore, Landmark Centre, Victoria Island, Lagos.

#bookconversation #diaspora #childsoldiers

[🇳🇬 Super Eagles @NGSuperEagles]

🇳🇬🕊️ Forever in our hearts, Dodo Mayana.

We mourn the passing of legendary Super Eagles goalkeeper, Peter Rufai, a giant of Nigerian football and a 1994 AFCON champion.

Your legacy lives on between the sticks and beyond.

Rest well, Peter Rufai. 💚

#SuperEagles #AFCON

[Dami Ajayi @JollyPaps1]

On this day two years ago, Mohbad released his second EP, Blessed. He would suddenly die less than three months later. In the aftermath of his passing, the Yoruba proverb, death destroys wealth was brought to life, bringing out the beast in everyone involved, from family to friends. Like Israel Nwoba, Ayinde Bakare, and Ayinla Omowura, Mohbad’s tragic death is another sad story in our music history.

[Government of Ekiti State @ekitistategov]

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[wale dada @walata3]

@tadepen "My hands are tied"- Sir Adetokunbo Ademola
These infamous words at the trial of Awolowo marked a beginning of the end for the Nigerian judiciary

[wale dada @walata3]

@nduxsir @Mege01 Abeg, where Boki dey FESS?