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Episode 1. The Origin

When Nigeria decided to plug in. The definitive short cut of your sample, fuller and fact-checked. Every beat below shows the exact voiceover, the on-screen text, and the visual, so the words, the picture, and the motion line up before a single frame renders.

Length ~50s Format 9:16 vertical Template Locked doc floor Voice edge-tts, cinematic
Green tags = fact checked against the research pack. Channel name LOCKED: How We Got Online (@howwegotonline).
0:00 - 0:04Cold openINTRO
On screen
HOW WE GOT ONLINE
HOW WE GOT
ONLINE
Episode 1 . The Origin
Voiceover

(No narration. A dial-up modem screech handshake over black, then the wordmark ignites in gold.)

Visual

Black screen. The classic modem connect sound. Gold wordmark fades up with a light sweep.

Motion   Gold sweep line, wordmark fade + slight scale up. Grain. Hooks with nostalgia in 4 seconds.
0:04 - 0:12The wait1990
On screen
HOW WE GOT ONLINE
1990
10 MILLIONon the NITEL waitlist
10+ YEARSaverage wait for a line
Voiceover

"In 1990, getting a phone line in Nigeria meant joining a waitlist ten million people long. The average wait was over ten years."

Visual

Retro TV / NITEL phone-box B-roll, warm amber, slow Ken Burns push.10M waitlist0.4 phones / 100

Motion   Gold date stamp 1990 counts in. Stat cards slide up on the exact words "ten million" and "ten years".
0:12 - 0:21The break1992
On screen
HOW WE GOT ONLINE
1992
NOV 24, 1992
DECREE 75
breaks the monopoly
Voiceover

"Then in 1992, one signature broke the monopoly. Decree 75 created the NCC, Africa's first real telecom regulator, years ahead of anyone else on the continent."

Visual

A document being signed, Abuja government-office tone, dramatic low light.Decree 75, Nov 24 1992Africa's first regulator

Motion   "DECREE 75" stamps in hard on the word "signature". Kinetic line "AFRICA'S FIRST TELECOM REGULATOR" wipes across.
0:21 - 0:27The moveWHY
On screen
HOW WE GOT ONLINE
IT DIDN'T RUN
THE LINES.
IT LET
COMPETITORS IN.
Voiceover

"It did not run the phone lines. It just licensed the competitors. That small distinction is the whole story."

Visual

Abstract: dark screen, a single gold line splitting into many. The insight beat, text-led.

Motion   Full kinetic-type beat, no clip. Words fill the screen in sync, the second half lands in gold.
0:27 - 0:36Online1995
On screen
HOW WE GOT ONLINE
1995
FIRST DIAL-UP9.6 kbit/s into a Lagos line
THE CYBER CAFE BOOM
Voiceover

"By 1995, the first dial-up modem screamed into a Lagos phone line, and Nigerians rushed online through crowded cyber cafes."

Visual

Crowded 90s cyber-cafe, rows of CRT monitors, people leaning in.1995 first dial-up9.6 kbit/s

Motion   Date stamp 1995. Modem-screech accent returns under "screamed". "CYBER CAFE BOOM" flickers on like a CRT.
0:36 - 0:45The payoffTODAY
On screen
HOW WE GOT ONLINE
paystack
$1B+and a wave of unicorns
Flutterwave . Paystack . more
Voiceover

"That one decision, three decades later, gave us Paystack, Flutterwave, and a wave of billion dollar startups."

Visual

Modern founder in a bright office, then the real Paystack logo reveal (you have the asset).$1B+ unicorns

Motion   Date stamp TODAY. Real Paystack logo reveals on "Paystack". "$1B+" counts up on "billion dollar".
0:45 - 0:50ResolveEND
On screen
THE STORY OF
HOW NIGERIA
GOT ONLINE
HOW WE GOT ONLINE
Voiceover

"This is the story of how Nigeria got online. Follow for the whole series."

Visual

Full-screen wordmark on black. The line fills the frame (your note: never leave it blank).

Motion   Words fill the screen, "GOT ONLINE" lands in flag green. Soft CTA end card, then optional Pejji / Securva tag if this episode routes there.