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234 Essential

234 Essential

By: Global Village
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Join AOT2 and Ugochi on their wild journey as they discuss everything Pop culture, music, movies and more. 234 Essential focuses on Nigerian pop culture but goes beyond trending topics on social media. It looks at the bigger picture and provides accurate historical and societal context to what is trending online. 234 Essential Podcast is another podcast original from Global Village. For fan mail: fanmail@234essential.com For ads: info@globalvillage.studio 234 Essential on Twitter 234 Essential on Instagram© Global Village Social Sciences
Episodes
  • Labour of Love
    Sep 5 2025

    AOT2 and Ugochi catch up on everything that has made the rounds this past week.
    OUTLINE
    00:00 - Introduction
    26:10 - Fan mails
    39:35 - X of the week
    4338 - Catch Up
    01:16:50 - Believe or not
    01:23:57 - weekly essentials
    01:32:20 - Once upon a time
    01:42:40 - President Tinubu says the creation of state police is inevitable

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    2 hrs and 8 mins
  • NTA & Beauty Queens
    Aug 28 2025

    AOT2 and Ugochi discuss a fan's release therapy, a Magistrate Court fining a lady ₦450,000 for collecting transport fare from a guy and not showing up, NTA appointing a new Director General, the President saying the country is better than he met it, and other news that made the rounds this week.
    OUTLINE
    00:00 - Introduction
    12:50 - Fan mails
    41:49 - Catch up
    01:20:25 - Believe it or not
    01:31:30 - Once Upon A Time
    02:35:20 - Release Therapy
    02:45:00 - Prop of the week
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    Newsletter: https://234essential.com/

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    2 hrs and 53 mins
  • Pomp and Pageantry
    Aug 21 2025

    AOT2 and Ugochi discuss the bizarre 2015 case of a man in Nigeria who used monkeys and snakes to steal, the surprising journey of Egusi seeds that made it to space aboard a NASA mission thanks to a Nigerian university experiment on July 31, the disturbing assault of a female NYSC member by security operatives in Anambra State on July 23, and other major headlines that made the rounds this week.
    OUTLINE
    00:00 - Introduction
    04:15 - Fan mails
    18:15 - Release Therapy
    49:00 - Catch up
    59:25 - Believe or not
    01:04:50 - Once Upon A Time
    The Okotoko riot in 1996
    01:30:00 - Prop and flop of the week
    01:40:00 - Sign out

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    1 hr and 43 mins
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