SPECIALE: Chief Dotun Sanusi, A Star Out of Ilaji
1 “After Oja’ba, close to the late Oba Adetunji’s palace at Popoyemoja is a compound called Ile-Ilaji, Idi-Arere. That Ile Ilaji is where my mother hailed from. It so happened …
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As the year 2019 came to an end, my girlfriend at the time broke up with me for a reason that felt (and still feels) so triffle. We’d been in …
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I am Peteru
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G R A C E From the time I left secondary school in 2017, I discovered that I was passionate about how technology solves problems. I went online and I …
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A Story of Breaking Through
In the interiors of the city of Ibadan is a community called Oja’gbo. Life in Oja’gbo is rough; to survive you have to be rugged. It is a place where …
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Adeola Raji – A Peek Into America From New York to Atlanta
. I randomly came upon an advert on the internet in 2017 requesting applications to attend the United Nations Youth Assembly – in New York – as a delegate and …
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I was age 13 when – for the first time – I really thought about my future. What spurred the thinking? I was moving from JS3 to SS1 and I …
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Adewumi: The Arabian Slavery Called Work
“When agents pitch to you about working in Saudi Arabia, they will tell you great things about the place; they’d tell you that you can work as a nurse or …
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DJ Wiseone Ijaya: A Long Journey To Djaying
My mother passed away when I was three. No one really cared much for me going to school – education wasn’t such a priority; it was just a mere …
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Ayoola Odeyemi: Ontario Blues
. . I have been away from Nigeria since 2013 and whew! It has been quite an experience being away from home. First, let me say that I had no …
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Maybe I Was Stupid
“I was born into a Christian home and my father was a clergy. Not only was he a clergyman, he was a very strict, disciplined man. He was the …
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Deji Layade: Step Up, Ibadan!
“Growing up in Ibadan, I was a Bodija boy. I had always felt Ibadan was slow-paced even when I was much younger so by 2010 I was already going to …
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Seun Sean Jimoh: Lagos to New York
1/3 I grew up in an average home in Ibadan, but the truth is, there was a time we used to be stupendously rich. My family suffered a setback …
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The Music Mogul
Saliu Adetunji was born in Ibadan, Western Nigeria in 1928. He was the first of 17 children – a modest number by standards as his father was quite influential. …
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A UNILAG Love
“When I got into UniLag, I attended an interview to join JCI, that was when I first met the man that would later become my husband. I was in 100 …
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Celebrity Convos – Second Edition
That this edition of #CelebrityConvos is published at such a time as this – when the world is brought to its knees by a tiny, microscopic organism – a virus …
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“On the 20th February, the Italian government declared a lock-down of my province – Padova. It was one of the first places where the virus began to spread so, …
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A Conversation About Ivanovo
Leaving Nigeria I left Nigeria on October 1 2018. In my heart, I was both excited and anxious. I was excited because I was finally leaving Nigeria and I would …
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The Weeldrop Story
Three months after I was born my mother passed away. My grandmother took me in after the incident and raised me in my early years at Gege, around Agbeni market …
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