Ojoma @ojomaochai Twitter profile

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@ojomaochai

4 years

LOL. 1st the visa process. Then the smelly toilets at MMA, then airport officials asking anything for me? Then touts when you come out of the airport, then SARs along airport road as you drive out, then no running water in hotel. That’s just day 1. Landmark ko. AirField Ni.

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@StearsInsights

4 years

The Eiffel Tower welcomes seven million visitors a year and makes an annual revenue of £71 million. How can Nigeria position it's landmarks for similar gains?

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I am proud & honoured to assume leadership of CcHUB and all our companies including @iHub @cchubdesignlab and @cchub_namibia . Big shoes of @bosuntijani to fill, but I have a great foundation based on his legacy and the work of @femilonge @tunjieleso and other leaders before me.

Co-Creation Hub

@Cc_HUB

5 months

Big News! 🎉 @ojomaochai steps in as the new Managing Director of Co-creation Hub. Read more:

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5 years

I see one of my ogas in Addis. She’s headed to Nigeria. I give her my card. She loses her wallet in Lagos. Malik (in Lagos) finds the wallet, calls me because he sees my card in wallet. I’m in London, call Lagos office, colleagues retrieve wallet. #NotAllNigerians

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3 years

@ImohUmoren @ImaniDH_x Ogbomosho!!! Ogby for short

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@ojomaochai

10 months

A leader who knows the way, goes the way and shows the way... @bosuntijani

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@ojomaochai

2 years

Really excited to get going! Thanks to you Jack, Jay and all who made this happen! Look forward to working with fellow board members…

jack

@jack

2 years

Announcing the ₿trust board: @actuallyCarlaKC , @ihate1999 , @obi , & @ojomaochai ! I'm so grateful for you all and so inspired. 🧡⚡️🌍 They'll now work towards defining the operating principles as they think about how to best distribute the 500 bitcoin towards development efforts.

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2 years

I called it! 😭

CNBC International

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2 years

Jack Dorsey’s new title: Block Head

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@ojomaochai

1 year

@EddieMadaki Not Rufai asking with a straight face ‘was that house a bank?’ 😭

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3 months

@imohumoren Jos Fogerrabourrit

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@ojomaochai

1 year

Pleased to be @OxfordSBS as a tutor at the Impact Investment Programme this week. I'll be sharing on opportunities for Impact Investment in Creative Economies in the global south and co-leading an Action Learning exercise on setting up an Impact Investing Facility for this area.

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@ojomaochai

4 years

@O_Danielz @chukwunenyenwaM First of all, #EndSARS

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@ojomaochai

5 years

My aunty. @obyezeks . 😍😍😍😍

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@ojomaochai

3 years

After an amazing fifteen years, and eight jobs, I’ve now left the good people @BritishArts @ssaBritish . Sad to leave but excited to work with @Cc_HUB to build a new Africa-wide Creative Economy Practice. See details of what we are cooking at the link.

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@ojomaochai

5 years

Yes. Let us investigate and hear the other side of the story. While we are doing that, I stand with Busola Dakolo.

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@ojomaochai

2 years

@folasanwo @D_iiW Narrator: and it was in that moment that he knew… him and his money were going to be parted that night.

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@ojomaochai

2 years

This is hands down the most confusing piece of clothing I’ve ever seen.

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@gechife

2 years

This jacket reminds me of something but I just can’t put my finger on it 🤔

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@ojomaochai

1 year

Some personal news! I’ve been invited to be a resident @RockefellerFdn ’s Bellagio Center in Lake Como, Italy this year. Excited to live and work among other big thinkers on breakthrough solutions #RFBellagio . Apply here:

The Bellagio Center Residency Program

www.rockefellerfoundation.org

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@ojomaochai

4 years

@DrJoeAbah 😂😂😂 somehow I cant imagine you speechless 😂😭

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@ojomaochai

2 years

I just published Six Aspirations for the African Creative Economy in 2022

Six Aspirations for the African Creative Economy in 2022

At the end of October 2021, I left my role as the Regional Director of the British Council’s Arts and Creative Economy Programme in Sub…

link.medium.com

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@ojomaochai

5 years

Pleased to launch this after many months of planning. Thank you @AO1379 for all the work and for believing in it. Thanks @LSETF @biolaa1 and @creativeengland Looking forward to the project and the impact it will have! Filmmakers get in here. Details at

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@ojomaochai

4 years

And to those saying two wrongs do not make a right, we hear you. You know what else does not make a right? One wrong. #EndSARS

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@ojomaochai

4 years

@Omojuwa Too much sense wee nor keee you 😂

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@ojomaochai

1 year

@DrJoeAbah Next time it happens, just answer and say - speak Lord for your servant is listening.

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@ojomaochai

6 months

Thank you so much! ☺️

CcHUB Creative Economy

@CcHUBCreative

6 months

Cheers to a visionary leader and the heartbeat of our Innovation journey! Today, we celebrate our Managing Partner, @ojomaochai , whose unwavering commitment to advancing the African Creative Economy is truly remarkable! (1)

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@ojomaochai

5 years

Exciting couple of days ahead, facilitating a working group in Brussels, looking at New Opportunities for Job Creation and Inclusiveness in the Cultural and Creative Industries. #Pumped

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@ojomaochai

7 years

We are nothing but pencil in the hand of the creator. And you Dr Abah, outpencil them all.

Dr Joe Abah, OON

@DrJoeAbah

7 years

Looking forward to speaking on "21st Century Civil Service Reforms" at Oxford University on 4th September. To God be the glory.

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@ojomaochai

1 year

8 weeks of incubation / acceleration and potential to secure $20K of seed grant from the AfDB Fashionomics Programme. Open to entrepreneurs working in any part of the fashion / textile / accessories value chain in Africa! Run by @CcHUBCreative #fashion #africa

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@ojomaochai

4 years

@DoubleEph Oh and we’ve taken to mixing the stew and white rice before he gets it - we tell him it’s jollof and he eats it. 😎

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@ojomaochai

1 year

@TonyOElumelu Verily, if wahala doth beset thee, what then shall us lowly mortals say? 🤣

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@ojomaochai

8 years

. @makingcheddah @bilikiss This Is someone's boyfriend. He too doesn't have two heads.

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@ojomaochai

2 years

Always a joy to be in Kigali. And delighted to be speaking on multiple panels and topics in the #Africa InColours conference.

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@ojomaochai

6 months

@folasanwo This sounds like me! Except in my case I’ve accepted it as laziness 😭

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@ojomaochai

5 years

@temite For the first time since we’ve had kids, we have no maid or nanny. In less than one month, I kid you not, we can see they are more responsible - no one to clean up after them, sense has fallen on them 😂 When we get new help, we now know to make sure they retain their chores...

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@ojomaochai

4 months

Looking forward to this.

Bitcoin Atlantis

@BitcoinAtlantis

4 months

Meet @ojomaochai , Managing Director at @Cc_Hub and Co-founder of @CcHUBCreative . Driving innovation in Africa's Creative Economy through research, advocacy, and collaboration. Board Member at ₿Trust @btrustteam . #CreativeEconomy #OjamaOchai

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@ojomaochai

1 year

Join me at the #InternetForTrust Global Conference at @UNESCO online or in Paris today 22 February 2023 at 5.15 GMT. To register and know all the details about the programme and speakers, visit:

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@ojomaochai

2 years

Have had the most amazing time traveling to strengthen ties with the startup and creative ecosystems in Botswana and Namibia with @bosuntijani and @damilolateidi , supported by our friends @NestHubs and @startupnam . Great learning experience... Loved every moment!

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@ojomaochai

3 years

@folasanwo @Chydee @chefobubu 😂😂 damn soundtrack got all of us

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@ojomaochai

4 years

Still. We rise. #EndSARS

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@ojomaochai

6 years

Hello, @FilmhouseCinema , please when does Black Panther start showing? Is there aso Ebi? Please where can we buy it? Or at least tell us the colors. Thanks

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@ojomaochai

2 years

If you are an Angel, VC, PE, Banker / Lender, grant funder or any other type of funder and want to start / scale your investments in the African Creative Economy, then you want to attend this. More info at:

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@ojomaochai

6 years

Nigerian Musician aged 18-35 and would like to do a collaborative project in the America funded by the State Department? Oya thank me later. OneBeat OneBeat 2018 Application

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@ojomaochai

2 years

Wrote for UN @africarenewal about @afreximbank @CanexAfrica With shout outs to inspiring African creatives / institutions like @HEVAFund @BlackRhinoVR @edithbrou @saadlamjarred1 + others… Africa’s creative industries on the move, breaking barriers

Africa’s creative industries on the move, breaking barriers

www.un.org

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@ojomaochai

2 years

@joelblaCK07 @jack @actuallyCarlaKC @ihate1999 @obi Haha thanks

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@ojomaochai

1 year

Proud to unveil the Creative Vibrancy Index for Africa. By @CcHUBCreative and @africanofilter + @ssaBritish @Cc_HUB , WCCF and AFAC. To view the full index, please go to: To join our workshops on 3rd , 7th and 10 please go to

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@ojomaochai

2 years

🔥🔥

Bitcoin Magazine

@BitcoinMagazine

2 years

BREAKING: Cash App begins rolling out the Lightning Network to its users ⚡️ #Bitcoin

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@ojomaochai

4 years

I have been invited (as have thousands I’m sure!) to an Africa Day Manel (all-male panel) by a ‘reputable’ brand. I am of course not attending (on principle) but contemplating whether to give them feedback or ‘bank’ on someone else doing it. What do you think?

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@ojomaochai

2 years

@seyitaylor @jack @actuallyCarlaKC @ihate1999 @obi Hahah! 🙌🏾

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@ojomaochai

2 years

I'll speaking at 8.30 p.m WAT today about local content legislation in Africa as it relates to online audio and audiovisual content. Join us if you can! You can register at:

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@ojomaochai

2 years

As someone who has talked about Post Covid Recovery, I stand corrected and duly ‘guided’!! This is so true. #PostCovidReimagination Thank you ma as always!

Oby Ezekwesili

@obyezeks

2 years

When I hear African political and policy leaders trumpet “post-Covid recovery”, one cringes. No dears, you cannot be talking of “recovery” because what poorest level are you wanting to recover to? Let’s upgrade please. The world; especially Africa should be “Reimagining” now✍🏾

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@ojomaochai

5 years

@ronkeemployment In which case, I’ll stay standing with Busola Dakolo.

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@ojomaochai

5 months

🚀🌍 Edtech Innovators in Nigeria & Kenya, here is an amazing #Opportunity ! We're championing a transformative journey for Edtech Founders in Kenya (through iHub - our innovation centre in Kenya) and Nigeria (through CcHUB Nigeria)! If you're a startup revolutionising K-12,

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@ojomaochai

5 months

I am steadily working through all your messages at my recent work announcement and responding individually but I also wanted to say a general thank you in the event I miss out some! I don’t take your wishes for granted at all. Thank you.

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@ojomaochai

6 months

Mutual Adoration Society… 😍

Uncle Gachara

@Gachara

6 months

I am backstage with one of my most favourite Africans @ojomaochai ❤️👑 I am always blessed to be in alliance, to collaborate and to be friends with you, ma'am. I am looking forward to our dialogue in financing Creative Industries in the continent later this afternoon.

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@ojomaochai

8 years

Wedding in Enugu. Couple dancing into reception to Adekunle Gold's 'pick up'. Nothing unites us like our creative industries, sports.

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@ojomaochai

4 years

Hi All, I’m supporting this effort by donating to support creatives across Africa who have lost / are losing income / want to design new creative projects linked to Covid. For further details and to donate, please click on Please donate and / or Retweet 🙏🏾

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@ojomaochai

2 years

Graduated our first cohort of the Business 101 for Creatives and Artisans project today! It was delivered in partnership with @sailnigeria who are supporting the the top 3 with investment. Applications still open for the second cohort. Apply at

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@ojomaochai

7 years

Took seven kids (aged 3 to 7) out today. 1. I'm a bawse. Nobody killed anybody. 2. Thanking God anew for the invention of birth control.

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@ojomaochai

6 months

Really interesting …

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@hackSultan

6 months

Hi Twitter, please give me 2 minutes of your time, and RT when you find this useful.🙏🏽 We’ve( @TalentQL ) finally built the first Tinder for Co-Founder platform…. A fast platform that pairs you with your potential co-founder. We also take it a step further; we help you test

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2 years

Speaking on this panel with these women at #AFRICANXT today. Come through!

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@ojomaochai

4 years

When the week has given you a shellacking but you still have to go to #ClubIsol8 #Multitasking

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@ojomaochai

6 years

I’ve moved on from what is probably the most exciting job in the world. 😭 Looking for a worthy successor 😛 Please apply

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@ojomaochai

2 years

!!!

Outlander Magazine

@StreetFashion01

2 years

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@ojomaochai

11 months

@Audu Lmaooo eyah. All those women you could have married.

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@ojomaochai

3 years

@adetolaov 100%!! I go a step further and add a small task eg when people ask me to mentor them; me, sure, send me an email with details of what you’d like to get out of the mentoring. 99% of the time, I never hear back. Or, I’m looking for funding - sure, email me a short concept. Crickets

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@ojomaochai

4 years

Tomorrow ...👇🏾 Please join us!

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@ojomaochai

1 year

We never said we did first. We said we do it better. 😎

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@iamlazypoet

1 year

UNESCO has officially recognised Senegal as the origin of Jollof rice, settling a long-standing debate between West African nations Ghana, Nigeria and Senegal.

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@ojomaochai

4 years

My boys had a great time at the online @STEM_Cafe session yesterday. The instructor Efoseh was great! Thanks @bosuntijani for the freebie!

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@ojomaochai

8 years

Happy Birthday boo of life, my forever recipient of 'have you eaten', daddy of the boys, all round awesome somebody.

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@ojomaochai

2 years

Looking forward to building new types of partnerships between African and European Creative and Createch ecosystems based on a two way flow of knowledge and ideas and mutual respect and benefit. Thanks FESCAAL for creating the opportunity for dialogue as a first step…

Festival Cinema Africano, d'Asia e America Latina

@fescaaal

2 years

▶ What about Creative Africa? Ojoma Ochai answers | FESCAAAL31 #fescaaal31 @ojomaochai

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@ojomaochai

1 year

@AffiSupaStar Japada …

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@ojomaochai

4 years

I get so stressed when people call my phone. Why doesn’t everyone just text? 🤷🏾‍♀️

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@ojomaochai

4 years

I’m lying in bed reading and I heard a plane flying overhead. I paused, found myself smiling in nostalgic remembrance of trips taken, places been. Damn you Covid 19.

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@ojomaochai

7 years

Endorsement of Life. ☺️

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@ojomaochai

2 years

I really enjoyed researching and writing on 'New Opportunities and Challenges for inclusive Cultural and Creative Industries in the Digital Environment' in this report. I look forward to discussions and exchanges on the findings in the coming weeks.

UNESCO 🏛️ #Education #Sciences #Culture 🇺🇳

@UNESCO

2 years

Why do culture and creativity matter? Find out in the new UNESCO Re|Shaping Policies for Creativity report. Now available: #SupportCreativity

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@ojomaochai

2 years

Looking forward to this! Always a joy to talk and learn about Bitcoin and to go to Accra, so, doubly looking forward :). Get tickets at

Africa ₿itcoin Conference

@AfroBitcoinOrg

2 years

🗣 Announcing Ojoma Ochai as Africa Bitcoin Conference 2022 speaker! @ojomaochai is the Managing Partner of The Creative Economy Practice at CC Hub focusing on stimulating innovation and technology application to catalyse African Economy growth.

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@ojomaochai

7 years

#FreeAudu

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@ojomaochai

4 years

Simple. You aspire to perspire so that you can acquire all that you require to misfire.

TONI KAN (Aspaya2Inspaya)

@tonikan11

4 years

Biko, how does one become a motivational speaker?

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@ojomaochai

4 years

@chikaunigwe @NdaliOzegbe Is it me or... His most prized ‘possessions’ - his wife and his two daughters. Sigh.

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@ojomaochai

3 years

Anybody leading crossover service on Clubhouse to hook us up? Or is there gonna be #ClubIsol8 crossover edition? Maybe Chioma Jesus as special guest DJ? 😀 @TexTheLaw how far?

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@ojomaochai

4 years

@MI_Abaga Haven’t watched the interview. I won’t lie, there’s a part of me that thinks so too. However, Nigeria has broken my heart too many times. That part of me (that is believing Jide) has been locked down and thrown into the abyss.

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@ojomaochai

2 years

Had a lovely time! Good luck with the amazing stuff you’re planning with No Filter PR. Rooting for you!

Victoria Crandall

@tori_crandall

2 years

The inimitable @AffiSupaStar and lovely @ojomaochai swung by for some lively banter. 6/

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@ojomaochai

4 years

Africa imports almost 94% of the pharmaceutical products it uses. ( @NOIweala in a New York Forum Institute panel) Did I hear that right?!!? Gosh. how can we change this????? #NYFInstitute #ResilientAfrica

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@ojomaochai

3 years

I’ve added a new aunty to my life. 🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾

Deja_X

@PoliSciGirl_X

3 years

Absolutely brilliant speech by Barbados PM Mia Mottley at #COP26 If you only have time to listen to one COP26 speech - this is the one!

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@ojomaochai

10 years

This woman dripping with diamonds and talking about passion for the down trodden. We can see your passion. They are lovely. -_-

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@ojomaochai

2 years

This is for funders, investors, donors looking to make more impactful investments in the African Creative Economy. It is the 2nd session in the 3-part series we are running to contribute to strengthening the investor landscape for the Creative Economy in Africa.

CcHUB Creative Economy

@CcHUBCreative

2 years

The 2nd edition of the African Creative Investors Masterclass for existing funders or investors is here. It will be led by Fran Sanderson, Director at @nesta_uk & moderated by @ojomaochai , Managing Partner @CcHUBCreative . Register here:

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@ojomaochai

5 years

@ImohUmoren You understand ???? And sensible people are 1. Not waiting around to be greeted 2. Not coming on social media to complain about not being greeted. Issa wonderful something.

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@ojomaochai

4 years

Please click here to register for the webinar:

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@ojomaochai

2 years

Really excited to join the International Cultural Relations Research Network!

ICR_Research

@ICR_Researchers

2 years

Delighted to welcome @ojomaochai to the @ICR_Researchers network! Looking forward to collaborating on #internationalculturalrelations and #CreativeSociety

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@ojomaochai

4 years

@DoubleEph 😭😭 Such a funny (and reassuring) thread - my younger son doesn’t eat stew - he’d rather eat the rice white. And wants to put ketchup in everything - bread, indomie, yam... I thought for sure I had done something wrong but no stew seems to be a common thing. Phew.

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@ojomaochai

4 years

So I saw something yesterday and I don’t know how I feel about it. I was flying from Nairobi to Kigali and an obviously Nigerian guy, ahead of me on the queue into the airport, happened to be on the same flight as me. #Thread

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@ojomaochai

7 months

Looking forward to @CanexAfrica this year!

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@ojomaochai

8 years

It costs N8K more for a bag of 'abakiliki' rice than imported rice. Just bought abakiliki. Don't know if this makes me an idiot or a patriot

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@ojomaochai

3 years

@obyezeks I think it’s in the interest of self preservation. We’ve seen too many pple ‘disappeared’, brutalised & economically sidelined cos of their engagement. I think it’s also why Diaspora are sometimes more vocal; We have country-based activists of course, often at great personal cost

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@ojomaochai

6 years

@DrJoeAbah Eeeez like baby boys can neither be created nor destroyed; they just transmute from one form of baby boyism to another 😂

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@ojomaochai

4 years

In the midst of all this nonsense. My aunty 😍😍😍 we are still rooting for her jo.

EU in Nigeria 🇪🇺🇳🇬

@EUinNigeria

4 years

European Parliament Backs Okonjo-Iweala WTO Job Bid

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@ojomaochai

2 years

Many governments are focused on doing what is best for said government (and their cronies). Know this and know peace. And oh, vote wisely when / if you have the chance.

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@ojomaochai

6 years

I couldn't agree more 😛

Dr Joe Abah, OON

@DrJoeAbah

6 years

For the avoidance of doubt, when you say “I couldn’t agree more”, it means that you completely agree. When you say “I couldn’t agree less”, it means you completely disagree.

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@ojomaochai

2 years

Please leave us out of this 😐

alexandra hall hall 🇺🇦🌻

@alexhallhall

2 years

My America husband (who's lived and worked in countries around world) reaction was to say "this is the kind of thing which I thought only happened in developing countries, or failed states." Quite. It's simply unbelievable, and I feel both revolted and outraged.

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Ojoma

@ojomaochai

6 years

You people that answer your phones in the middle of public events and start fake whispering, I am here to tell you that we can hear you and you are disturbing us.

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