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I am Peteru

January 18, 2023January 19, 2023 - by admin - Leave a Comment

My parents used to live in Bida, then along the line, my dad was transferred to Ibadan and so they came here and made it home. I was born at …

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Larva Stories

December 31, 2022 - by admin - Leave a Comment

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

April 20, 2022April 25, 2022 - by admin - 1 Comment

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

February 23, 2022March 1, 2022 - by admin - Leave a Comment

. 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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Seyi Adisa: God’s Plan

February 1, 2022February 11, 2022 - by admin - Leave a Comment

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

August 23, 2021August 30, 2021 - by admin - Leave a Comment

“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

August 11, 2021August 14, 2021 - by admin - Leave a Comment

  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

July 12, 2021July 15, 2021 - by admin - Leave a Comment

. . 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

June 29, 2021July 2, 2021 - by admin - Leave a Comment

  “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!

June 16, 2021June 19, 2021 - by admin - Leave a Comment

“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

May 26, 2021May 28, 2021 - by admin - Leave a Comment

  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

May 9, 2021 - by admin - Leave a Comment

  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

November 5, 2020November 6, 2020 - by admin - Leave a Comment

“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

September 12, 2020 - by admin - Leave a Comment

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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COVID19Stories – Padova, Italy

April 7, 2020 - by admin - Leave a Comment

  “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

March 4, 2020March 4, 2020 - by admin - 1 Comment

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

February 13, 2020February 17, 2020 - by admin - Leave a Comment

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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The Man Who Typed His Way To The Bar

January 21, 2020January 24, 2020 - by admin - Leave a Comment

1/5 I was born and brought up in Isero compound at Oja’gbo – Ibadan North East Local Government. It is one of the interior parts of Ibadan where you lived …

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F&K Saving: A Story of Grit, Sweat & Reward

December 9, 2019December 12, 2019 - by admin - 1 Comment

F&K Savings is Ibadan’s leading digital savings platform founded by two upstanding gentlemen – Feyi and Folarin. These two young men are dogged, visionary and innovative. Both are graduates of …

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TESTIMONY: A Pair of New Feet For Adenike

November 28, 2019November 29, 2019 - by admin - Leave a Comment

This is the story of Adenike Adebayo, a student of the Polytechnic of Ibadan. In this first part, Nike’s mother narrates the story of how her legs were amputated at …

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