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The Thread: “Your father raped your nanny” “You seductress from hell” | Irose & Olivia fight dirty on Abuja Twitter
It was a pretty quiet day on Twitter Nigeria, with a few paying half-hearted attention to the Kachikwu-Baru NNPC saga until Abuja Twitter came to our rescue with the most…
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The Thread: “Drivers and cooks can molest your children” | Why housewives should be valued more
Last week, Pastor Funke Felix-Adejumo's viral video made the rounds on Twitter Nigeria again. A number of people took exception to it, saying she was bashing professionals who endure the…
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The Thread: The challenges of raising biracial children
It's been rumoured that Nigerian women (or black women, in general) prefer to marry white men because their children will have great hair and that golden, beautiful mixed complexion. Really,…
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The Thread: 3 tweets that prove men are scum
#MenAreScum is a popular hashtag on Twitter. Each time it trends, it is debated vehemently. This thread, however, speaks to the aggravating nature of male entitlement. See below: ;
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The Thread: Top 7 reactions to Super Eagles’ World Cup qualification
The euphoria that came after Nigeria qualified for Russia 2018 did not stop with jumping about and mere congratulations. Twitter, as usual, came up with interesting reactions, ranging from the…
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The Thread: Corruption has never been fighting back
The expression "corruption is fighting back" is a crutch government officials lean on to explain why the anti-corruption war is anything but smooth sailing. Does it hold any water, though.…
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The Thread: He’s super creepy | Twitter reactions to Nelly’s rape allegation
After being off the news for a while, rapper Cornell Haynes Jr. popularly known as Nelly is back. This time, not because he released a new song but for alleged rape, even as…
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“We were slaughtering Igbos on the pretext of fighting to keep Nigeria one” | Gen Alli’s revelations about the Asaba massacre
The anniversary of the dastardly Asaba massacre is today. 50 years to the day, Igbo civilians were mowed down by Federal forces. We've heard a tale of survival, we've listened…
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The Thread: What is Nigeria saying about the Asaba Massacre?
Today some members of Twitter Nigeria have a remembrance going on in form of threads, to honour their ancestors whose lives were brutally taken in the Asaba massacre by the…
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The Thread: How I survived the Asaba Massacre
Today marks the 50th Anniversary of the gruesome Asaba massacre. That day, the indigenes of Asaba were deceived by the Nigerian Army that they were coming to broker peace. Instead…
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The Thread: This is one of the most tragic marriage stories ever
The patriarchal nature of the Nigerian environment makes marriage touch-and-go. This means there are almost always tales of woe, particularly from the female folk. From the ever-giving stables of Twitter,…
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The Thread: All the APC fanboys who have lost their voice over Buhari-Baru’s NNPC $26Billion contract scandal
Political Twitter Nigeria can be an amusing and deadly space, and should, therefore, come with a caveat: enter at your own risk. We're issuing you a caveat in respect of…
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The Thread: These are the problems with Tiwa Savage’s comments
In Round 2 of Tiwa Savage vs the Public, the famous singer has been the unfortunate punching bag of Twitter Nigeria. Why? Because she dared express that men and women…
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The Thread: “I will rubbish gender equality for the D” | TwitterNG serves Tiwa Savage to the Sharks
Tiwa Savage has set TwitterNG on fire again. Over a year ago (April 2016), the Mavin singer's marriage issues went viral after her husband slammed her on Instagram and proceeded…
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The Thread: Nigerian teachers are legends
Today is #WorldTeachersDay and Sam Hart, a media aide to the Governor of Abia state has done this topic justice. He didn't just tweet random stuff about the importance of…
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The Thread: “Disgusting” “You insult a man asking for food” | TwitterNG drags @JajaPhD for mistreating a beggar
Remember that Kendall Jenner Pepsi ad that had all of Black Twitter (all of America, really) up in arms because it made a mockery of the Black Lives Matter movement…
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The Thread: “Buhari is a thief” “Fela sang about him” | TwitterNG goes down memory lane
Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Ibe Kachikwu opened a can of worms when he disclosed the fraudulent schemes in the NNPC, courtesy Baru, the Group Managing Director of the…
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The Thread: “Buhari does not want to see Kachikwu, period!” | Aisha Yesufu’s perspective on the leaked memo
Political Twitter Nigeria is astir again after the memo by Minister of State for Petroleum Resources to Mr President was leaked. In the memo, Kachikwu accused the Group Managing Director…
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The Thread: Has Buhari’s presidency finally taken a really scary turn?
It will be 50 years on the 7th of October when the bloody Asaba massacre which wiped out Igbo civilians took place. To commemorate this moment in history, Cheta Nwanze…
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“Nigeria is officially back to a military regime” | NBC shuts down #AsabaMassacre show; TwitterNG reacts
Looks like PMB is running a totalitarian government now. The first thing he did when he returned from London was to warn Nigerians about crossing national red lines, declaring that…
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The Thread: “Kachikwu’s days are numbered” | TwitterNG reacts to Kachikwu’s leaked memo
A leaked memo written by Ibe Kachikwu, the Minister of State for Petroleum resources, surfaced yesterday. In it, Kachikwu blew the whistle on the Group Managing Director for corrupt practices…
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“It’s telling how much more interested the media is in humanising white mass shooters” | Americans attack the media
The Las Vegas shooting, which took place on Sunday, has Americans in their feels. Perhaps because Trump dubbed the shooter "sick" and "demented" instead of a terrorist (The shooter was…
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The Thread: “59 dead is a miracle? WTF are you smoking???” | Americans spew vitriol on Trump
America has been taking hits from different directions in the past couple of months. From Hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria, to the Las Vegas shooting, America has not had a…
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The Thread: “The President and VP’s obsession to ‘not allow Nigeria break’ is ridiculous” | Chude Jideonwo lectures the FG
President Buhari's October 1 speech was not well received on TwitterNG. Nigerians already flagged President Buhari's blame game as useless. Chude Jideonwo tackles the notion that Nigeria is indivisible. See…
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The Thread: The good thing about ASUU strikes
Strikes are a way of life in Nigeria. They are the last resort for organizations seeking to bend the Federal Government to their will, particularly after failed negotiations. From the…
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The Thread: Hilariously ridiculous things Nigerian policemen do
Nigerian policemen are unlike any breed of cops anywhere else in the world; this we hold to be true. How else do you explain the utterly brain-dead schemes they come…
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The Thread: The incredible pep talk you didn’t know you needed
You'd think this thread is more suitable for a Monday because that's when everybody gets the blues right? Not to mention it's Friday night and most of us have plans…
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The Thread: Another story that proves short cuts never work
Truthfully, this thread got us guffawing without restraint and the reason is simple: the storyteller's quest is every curvaceous woman's longing. Just like the search for the elixir of life,…
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The Thread: Finally, men tell us why they rape
This is not to assume that men are always the perpetrators when it comes to rape, even if by the laws of Nigeria, a man cannot be raped. Currently, Abuja…
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The Thread: Nicki Minaj’s throwback tweet goes sideways; Twitter has a field day
Twitter can make gold out of anything. All it takes is a determined tweep (read troll) and a snappy, witty comeback. Like gold, sometimes it can take a while for…
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