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Femi Aluko

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Co-founder/CEO @chowdeck . Formerly Principal Engineer at @paystack . Messi stan account.

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Joined January 2012

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Femi Aluko

2 years

Today is my last day at @paystack . I've spent the last 4 years and 3 months doing the work of my life here. Paystack is family to me 🥺 I'll be waking up tomorrow to face an entirely new challenge fully - @chowdeckng 🚀 I documented the journey here -

The last 4 years and 3 months…

Hey!

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4 years

Mtshew, this Ozo is not even looking for solution to his problem. When you are ready, you will go and talk to BrightO.

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6 months

After 22 months of operations, @chowdeck has finally delivered items worth over a billion Naira in a single month! To think that earlier in March this year, we were celebrating delivering items worth a billion Naira since inception. In recent times, I have had to think a lot…

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3 years

Maria drinking water. Hay God. A healthy bad bitch. 😍

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8 months

Today, we crossed 10k deliveries in a single day (from 4.5k a day last month). We also crossed 1k deliveries in Ibadan in a day - the fastest growth we've seen in a new city. During our lunch peak period, we were delivering 19 orders per minute, the highest we have ever had.

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This made me really emotional. I just ran @chowdeck 's numbers for last month to get a good sense of the impact we have had, and it's truly mind blowing. 💚 We have built something really beautiful, and it gladdens my heart that our champions are equally well paid for the…

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21 days

Me to Chowdeck Riders: how much do you earn weekly? Chowdeck Riders: 👇👇👇

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4 years

I am the Femi in that story. With these people, the difference between life and death is vibes. The only person I have to pay for making my hair is my hairdresser. You can’t reason with these people. We have to end this! #EndSARS #EndPoliceBrutality

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For several months, several members of our team suffered experiences which can only be described as horrific. Here is one example of far too many. #EndPoliceBrutality (1/n)

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2 years

@chowdeckng struggled massively with ops when our numbers grew fast in January and everyone was scared. I took a big gamble by bringing in one of our most Senior riders in as a rider operations associate. We got John Ayaka a MacBook and onboarded him to the core system. 1/3

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31 on the 31st - Talk about perfect timing! 🎉 Last day of the month, and the first day of my new age! Jesus has risen, and so have I! 🚀🚀🚀 Happy birthday Femi! ❤️

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2 years

Q1 was massive for us @chowdeckng . We have delivered over 20,000 meals after I made this tweet. Delivering over 400 meals daily and over 2,500 active users(up from 206 users in January) is really really huge for us! Looking forward to Q2 🚀🚀🚀

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Femi Aluko

2 years

Today at 3:55pm, We at Chowdeck delivered our 1,000th meal to @ObiIk (check your wallet). This is a huge milestone for us. We have learnt a lot in the last 48 days and the team is super grateful to everyone that has contributed to this. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾

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2 years

I no longer believe there are bad employees. There are just bad managers(or maybe manager-employee mismatch). I have seen superstars become average under poor managers and seen average people become superstars under great management.

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The most popular Food & Drink app by country on the iPhone app store (last six months): 🇺🇸 DoorDash - Food Delivery 🇬🇧 McDonald’s U.K. 🇳🇬 Chowdeck | Food Delivery 🇩🇪 REWE Angebote & Lieferservice 🇦🇷 Burger King® Argentina 🇦🇺 MyMacca's 🇧🇷 iFood: pedir delivery em casa 🇨🇦 Dairy…

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This came with its own challenges and new opportunities for improvement. I'm very thankful to my team, our riders, restaurants and most importantly, our customers. I am super excited for the next phase! 💚 #JourneyTo100kDeliveriesADay

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Femi Aluko

2 years

Rain delivery is crazy & has wild compounding effects. Cold riders, spoilt phones(resulting in break in communication), bike issues and customers not coming out. Supply becomes small, demand is massive because everyone is indoors - Classic marketplace problem.

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Femi Aluko

3 years

We just delivered our 200th meal of the month via our app. This is hoooooouugggeeee for us. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. 🥺🥺🥺

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Chowdeck (YC S22)

3 years

Look who’s back 👀 We are now beta testing in Ikeja. 🍲🍝🥪🫔🍟🍗. Visit to sign up for early access. We’ll be in your area soon!

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I genuinely love having conversations with him because he is a detailed guy. He’s a key part of our operations team and frankly, we would have suffered massively without him coming in when he came! Thank you John! I am super proud of how far you have come! TheEnd!

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This To That

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This To That

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2 years

Nigeria is playing like they trained on WhatsApp.

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Femi Aluko

5 months

Two years ago. lol 🙈🙈🙈

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Femi Aluko

2 years

Today at 3:55pm, We at Chowdeck delivered our 1,000th meal to @ObiIk (check your wallet). This is a huge milestone for us. We have learnt a lot in the last 48 days and the team is super grateful to everyone that has contributed to this. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾

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Femi Aluko

2 years

Today at 3:55pm, We at Chowdeck delivered our 1,000th meal to @ObiIk (check your wallet). This is a huge milestone for us. We have learnt a lot in the last 48 days and the team is super grateful to everyone that has contributed to this. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾

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5 years

I love Paystack! The Paystack Band 😍😍😍

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Femi Aluko

2 years

Clear Communication. Empathy. Kindness. You can’t be a Senior dev and not have these three. No matter how technically sound you are, you are no different from the red rated competitive student programmer on Topcoder. Your problem domain is just different.

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Femi Aluko

7 months

Amen 🙏

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Benjamin Dada

7 months

There is a lot of bad behaviour in the startup ecosystem. You are not a fool for doing things right by your stakeholders and community. Your long game will pay off 🙏🏾

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Femi Aluko

2 years

We struggled with average delivery time of 36.7 minutes within Ikeja in the first two weeks of our beta. After some optimizations, our average is now 28.6minutes. Some really great delivery times. 😀

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Femi Aluko

2 years

John has a raw talent for figuring out the most complex operational issues. He started evening deliveries in Chowdeck and drove it largely(Yh, we now deliver up until 10pm). I mentioned it as a wish and he doubled down on it setting the rules and driving it. 2/3

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3 years

July photo dump 🥺

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2 years

My @chowdeck guys are on 🔥 even in the rain! I get really anxious when it rains and I suspect this is their own version of sending me traps. Well, it works! Rain deliveries are optional for them and a lot of them still show up! P.S: your deliveries will take longer today🙏

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Femi Aluko

2 years

Ohhhhhhhhh goooooddddd. Can people send in their one line pitch before they call them? 🥺🥺🥺🥺. E.g “my boss gave my dirty slap and my ear was doing wrrrnnnnnnn”.

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3 years

#NewProfilePic

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Femi Aluko

5 years

Today, I am one year old @paystack

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Femi Aluko

3 years

Love both the product and the broduct. 🔥🔥🔥

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Paystack

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Durag is made from fabric so stretchy and breathable you won't remember it's on your head. And each is hand-cut from a single large swathe of fabric, which means that no two are the same.

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2 years

As a lead, half of the job is making decisions. The other half is setting up yourself, the team and product to make decision making easy.

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Femi Aluko

4 years

We want to hear from our president. @TheOnlyIbukun was spot on here. #EndSarsNow #EndSARSImmediately #EndPoliceBrutality

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Femi Aluko

4 years

Summary of my day! #DotunTiti2019

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Femi Aluko

2 years

With the super smart & experienced people advising me, I have learnt in the last few months that the advice “counters” themselves if you listen really well. Person A says “this is what I think”, person B says “I think the exact opposite”. 1/2

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Femi Aluko

3 years

Off boarding after a long relationship can be very stressful. Passwords, shared accounts, Netflix removal, etc. it’s a lot tbh.

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Femi Aluko

3 months

I am so happy tonight men! We made it to the finals!!!!!!!! We did it! 💃💃💃💃💃💃

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Femi Aluko

2 years

I actually waited all year to turn up properly in December. Bought multiple tickets to multiple shows. Postponed all meetings with my mum till December. And guess who this stupid virus decided to visit? Fuck you covid. Lesson - Don’t plan enjoyment. Just enjoy like Kennedy 🙏🏾

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2 years

Ahhhhhhhhappy birthday Boss @0x

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Femi Aluko

2 years

1st day of the quarter, We had about 500(~200 active) users and did 24 orders on the first day of the quarter. Last day of the quarter, we had over 5000(~2500 active) users and did 445 orders in a single day. Bring in your orders. We will deliver with happiness!

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Femi Aluko

16 days

I am consoled in the fact that the team is a young one. There’s more Champions league games for most of them, including Araujo!

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Femi Aluko

2 years

The team is so grateful to everyone that has contributed to our growth. We are grateful for your patronage, your feedback, your reviews, insisting on high standards, and our joint mission to make inefficient food delivery a thing of the past. See you in Q2 🚀🚀🚀

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Femi Aluko

2 years

One of the hardest things to manage in a crisis/tough situation is your psychology. How you see/manage the situation will most likely translate to how everyone around you will see/react to the situation. You have superpowers, use it well.

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Femi Aluko

1 month

I loveee it! Thank you so much @LizOgunoye ❤️

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Liz 💰

1 month

Happy birthday my CEO @LordBinary_ 🎉 You’re really amazing, Femi Have the bestest year!🥳🥳

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Shaq

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CBS

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2 years

Moyo told me this and it’s stuck with me for a long time - “You may be in the same industry but you are not competitors. The idea that you have competitors is superficial. Your vision is massive”.

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Femi Aluko

5 years

This really did touch me. Thank you Paystack!

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Femi Aluko

2 years

Jesus is Lord. There’s a God in heaven.

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22 days

Lamine Yamal is a genius!

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Femi Aluko

2 years

That Ghanaian keeper can order food from Chowdeck and will get the food before he touches the ball 😩

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Femi Aluko

2 years

At the end, just make a decision you can live with. Everyone is right and everyone is talking from their own experience and context. No two situations are the same… Similar yes, but never the same. God help us 🙏🏾 2/2

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Femi Aluko

2 months

I really rested this weekend. Anikulapo helped me sleep properly today ❤️

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Femi Aluko

6 months

I really love it when Senior Team members demand excellence. He’s definitely a strong competitor and I like that he is trying to champion a culture shift. No more “we played well but we lost”. Don’t lose! I will go back to watching Barca’s games a lot more.

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Ilkay Gundogan called out his Barcelona teammates for their lack of passion after the club's El Clasico loss 😳 'I didn't come here to lose these type of games'. The details | #LALIGA #OptusSport

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Femi Aluko

3 months

I wrote C++ code on Thursday and the nostalgia it brought back. It was a beautiful first language to learn.

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Femi Aluko

2 years

Lmfao. So you and Luci go Dey do family meeting?

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Femi Aluko

3 months

The Ivory Coast story is a really beautiful one. Congratulations to Ivory Coast!

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Femi Aluko

5 years

I have been attending French classes for 3 weeks. It is finally time to enter this thing full time. My System is now in French. Just 1 target for this week. Every google search I do will be done in French(except for hot fixes and bugs - I can't think fast in french yet).

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Femi Aluko

2 years

Gen Z designers are solid sha. Especially the ones that wear glasses >>>

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Femi Aluko

5 years

My Top 4 of 2018😀😀

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Femi Aluko

3 months

Yessssss!!!!! To the finals!!!!

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Femi Aluko

3 months

Waseere Ekong! Draw his shirt! Hin papa!

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Femi Aluko

2 years

I love it so much and I love you all 🥺

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Ezra 'God' Olubi

2 years

love this

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Femi Aluko

15 days

lol. Maybe they are owing Bernardo Silva salary?

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Femi Aluko

16 days

I didn’t see this part of Xavi as a player. I saw him as cool headed. Collecting more red cards as a coach than a player is surprising to me. Does coaching have a lot more pressure than the champions league semis and finals he has played in?

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Femi Aluko

2 months

If this is who I think it is, then I was really rooting for the both of you 🥹. You were really really happy that period.

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Femi Aluko

2 years

Red card and we don’t even have keeper. That’s 9 men. Fuck

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Femi Aluko

3 years

I literally screamed here! That goal is a screamer! Oh God! My good old days on the Paystack pitch! Messi definitely watched my videos

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Femi Aluko

4 years

Me 🤝 Using the word "Cyclomatic complexity" during PR reviews. These days I have even become shameless. If I just see if statement inside another if statement, I go just jump in... "The cyclomatic complexity of this block though. How about we bla bla"...

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Femi Aluko

2 years

I heard tech bro and I thought it was Kennedy they were going to call sha.

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Femi Aluko

1 year

Tonight is the night my GOAT will take his team to the finals! I can't wait!

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Femi Aluko

2 years

For the delivery of 14 minutes, I didn’t believe it myself and I had to ask the customer if it was true. I thought my riders were whining me🙈

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2 years

Just to balance things, we also had some really terrible delivery times within Ikeja 😞

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Femi Aluko

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❤️♥️♥️

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shollsman

6 months

Today was a difficult day at Paystack. We’re reducing our operations outside of Africa, and will be parting ways with up to 33 employees in Europe and the UAE. In the last 3 years, our hiring philosophy was to recruit great talent regardless of location, including opening an…

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Pau Cubarsí kept Mbappe quiet in this match. He also kept Osihmen quiet in the second round. So proud of what Xavi is doing! La Masia >>>

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Femi Aluko

2 years

Depends. In most cases, quality. On very rare occasions, meeting deadlines is more important. E.g With regulators breathing down your neck, you’re forced to make tough calls like “let’s push it, let them see that we have started” knowing that you‘ll improve the quality with time.

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Ewgi

2 years

What's more important: meeting deadlines, or the quality of work?

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Femi Aluko

4 years

My poker story tonight! 😍😍😍

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Femi Aluko

22 days

That goal was no landing! Boom!

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Femi Aluko

2 years

Lmao. People respond to it differently. Some open their mouth and refuse to close it. Some take charge and grab it. The common thing is that everyone that comes in contact with it reacts as if their life depends on it.

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2 years

Twitter user ulxma grabbing booty like her life depends on it. Mood.

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Femi Aluko

2 years

This is going to be huge!!! 🚀🚀🚀

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Intl. #StreetFoodGuy

2 years

We can’t WAIT 😁😁😁… @KING_GLAB et @chowdeckng . A place where technology meets food !

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Femi Aluko

2 years

“Just don’t die”. One of the most frequent phrases I have heard in the last three months

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Femi Aluko

7 years

For d 1st time in my lyf, I stopped by d super mkt & bought a lot of tins 4 my mum. Provisions, fud stuff.. She cried & prayed. I love you!

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Femi Aluko

2 years

A full fan of Camavinga!

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Femi Aluko

4 years

It’s good to be back in church. Awesome time in his presence. 😀

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Femi Aluko

2 months

I see why Napoli loves osihmen men. They have been quiet all match and bro, one opportunity, he nets it in.

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16 days

Ter Stefan made some decent saves tonight sha.

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Femi Aluko

2 years

Awa omo sporting Lagos!!! Let’s go ⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️

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Femi Aluko

2 years

Omo, remote relationship hard ooooo. How do you people do it? What tools do you people use for cuddling? How do they rub your head remotely and tell you everything will be okay? Anybody building in this space?

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Femi Aluko

2 years

Thank you so much for coming man. Your presence really meant a lot to the riders 🥺

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Intl. #StreetFoodGuy

2 years

Live @chowdeckng Riders Award and Dinner.

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1 year

The first African team to get to the Semi finals in the World Cup!!!!

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Femi Aluko

3 months

There is no big or small team in this AFCON ooo. Nobody Dey gree for anybody 😭

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Femi Aluko

4 years

There is a reality in which I can walk freely in Nigeria. This is a possibility. We will make it happen! #EndSARS #EndPoliceBrutalityinNigeria

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Femi Aluko

6 months

Oh men. This Bellingham is a beast. Really great goal!

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Femi Aluko

3 years

Ha. No be our okta guy be this?

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GODSON EMEKA

3 years

Look at this beautiful bastard!

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3 months

Nigeria will get to the finals of AFCON!

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Femi Aluko

4 years

Also, Junior Firpo is gradually gaining confidence. He was quite impressive today and didn’t make so many mistakes as he would have.

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Edmund 💉

4 years

Barça Getafe Full Time Analysis: -Umtiti was solid after his horror show against Betis -Busquet is impeccable ❤️ -Ball circulation is still too slowww -Ansu Fati still plays like a Virgin. No Val for him to lose it yesterday? -Messi Griezmann partnership building -Progress

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3 months

Good game! On to the quarter finals! 🚀🚀🚀

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Femi Aluko

2 years

That Simon dribble was sweet sha

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Femi Aluko

4 years

Possible 🏃🏿‍♂️🏃🏿‍♂️🏃🏿‍♂️

@madamcondensed

Emerald 🍀

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There's no Igbo name that starts with "P".

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