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@NaijaFlyingDr Well said comrade, well said 🫡

For me I have never had to forgive him. Only myself. Whenever you feel yourself getting upset with your spouse as a comrade,it's your own fault for not using enough aboniki balm.🙏

“Conocí a mi esposa (Priscilla) en una fiesta universitaria. Estábamos en la fila del baño. Yo estaba a punto de ser expulsado de Harvard por un proyecto polémico y le dije, bromeando: ‘Si vamos a salir, tiene que ser pronto… probablemente me echen en unos días’. Nunca imaginé que esa conversación se convertiría en el inicio de nuestra familia.” Nos casamos años después y ahora tenemos tres hijas. Cada una me ha transformado de forma distinta. La más pequeña, Aurelia, un día se plantó frente a mí y dijo: ‘No soy una pequeña, soy una grande’. Desde entonces exige su propio escritorio. No quiere juguetes. Quiere trabajar, como papá. Tiene solo dos años y ya quiere ser parte del equipo. Intento pasar al menos media hora con cada una de ellas cada noche, de 6:30 p.m. a 8:00 p.m. Eso es sagrado para mí. No importa si tuve reuniones con jefes de Estado o lanzamientos de productos globales, yo les leo cuentos, les explico cosas del mundo, o simplemente escucho sus historias infinitas de la escuela. Todo lo que hago, cada línea de código, cada hora que invierto en FB… lo hago pensando en ellas. Porque el legado más importante que puedo dejarles no es una empresa. Es un ejemplo. Que vean que su padre trabajó por un futuro donde ellas puedan construir lo que se les ocurra, sin límites… y con todo el amor del mundo. Mark Zuckerberg sobre cómo su familia se convirtió en su mayor motor.

Everyone in my DMs wants Aubrey to fail. I'm going to tell you why I'm rooting for him to win. And why wanting him to fail is actually the anti-Africa take. Let me be transparent first. Chowdeck acquired Mira, one of my portfolio companies. I have real skin in this game. I want Chowdeck to win. And I still hope Aubrey succeeds. Here is why. The graveyard of well-funded foreign entrants who tried Nigeria and left is long. Jumia Food. Bolt Food. OFood. Every single exit became a data point investors used to justify the next rejection. Nigeria is hard. Logistics is tough. The market is not ready. Chowdeck survived all of them and came out stronger. Not because its competitors failed, but because local knowledge is a real moat. Four years of understanding the market in ways no outside operator can replicate. That advantage does not disappear because someone showed up with a bigger check. If Aubrey wins, it is not a loss for African founders. It is proof that Nigeria is fundable, scalable, and worth serious capital. That proof pulls the next hundred million dollars to the continent. If he fails, it becomes one more story investors tell each other about why Africa is too risky. The ecosystem does not grow when Aubrey fails. Here is what should actually make you angry. Femi Aluko built Chowdeck to profitability across 14 cities over four years and still spoke to more than 200 investors before getting a yes. Aubrey raised $7.3 million before surviving a single Lagos rainy season. His seed round is nearly as large as Chowdeck's entire Series A after all of that proof. That is the outrage. Not that a well-funded competitor showed up. The conditions that made Femi bleed for four years to earn what a 19-year-old raised on a thesis. That is what we should be fighting to change. The answer is not less capital flowing into Africa. It is more capital backing our own founders at the same stage. That is the only shift that matters. Everything else is noise. It's a great day to invest in Africa! :)

At @emPawaAfrica Publishing you don’t need to wait for your statements to see your catalog is performing, download statements etc. You can do it on your phone! Really cool 👌

@DadaBen_ Everyone is trying to fix logistics, every year. It's a massive problem with fragments yet to be connected.

South Africans just keep raising and raising, in a league of their own. Last year, they raised the most money

@NaijaFlyingDr @emeka Facts 💯

Nigeria the 'giant of Africa' is arguably the world capital of survivalist entrepreneurship with ~98% of businesses having 5 employees or less. -@emeka

@tosinolaseinde I sat in a hotel room once and contemplated my life choices. Like how did I allow this to happen. The pictures were good but real life is so far off. Spent the night looking for another hotel.

I’m not sleeping in a hotel I don’t like. I’d rather stay at home.

Flutterwave's move in Anambra is NOT really about: — offline POS distribution — eCommerce stores It's about a competitive advantage neither Moniepoint nor OPay has. Yet 👇

I log food and excercise on gemini daily, then ask ChatGPT to do the weekly analysis of the daily logs, the ask Claude to analyse quarterly.

@NaijaFlyingDr Your name has "Fly" in it. You are Superwoman,

I really don't like the narrative that female fund managers are "unable" to travel to fundraise as much as men. I have travelled more than any man I know.

@tosinolaseinde Space. Yaba doesn't have space.

Tech bro and sis fought so hard for Yaba to be the “Silicon Valley.” I wonder what changed as majority moved their offices to Lekki or Ikeja.

@DadaBen_ @bobolaojoami This tweet

@ultrapraise @bobolaojoami caption or which one?

A lot of founders reach out to me: - to spar about their new idea, mostly fintech - find talent, and/or - promote a product @bobolaojoami was one of those. In August 2023, he told me about a new venture he was working on that could solve all of fintech's back-office problems...with reconciliation being one of them. Reconcilitation et al. is a boring problem to solve. As a fintech PM, you just want to go from product discovery to tracking performance metrics. But your performance metrics will be flawed if your numbers do not tally. Your metabase dashboard is telling you that your 12 customers withdrew $2,000, but your provider's dashboard/statement is showing only $1,980 in the account. You are quick to check whether they deducted fees, but that's not the case. So, you escalate, and your HoP says, "Oh, liquidation takes 48 hours to settle". Meaning, one of your customers' funds is still in flight. You can try to build all of the logic and accounting entries to give you a true position at a time, but sometimes, you still don't get it right, as there might be a nuance you didn't anticipate. This complexity scales across markets, multi-currencies, new gateways and orchestrators and all of a sudden, EoM becomes the worst time in your finance team's life. This is the problem that Bobola, his cofounders Cleo (ex-Goldman Sachs and GTB engineer) and Bode (former FLW COO), are tackling together with Recital Finance. Read all about it here: thecondia.com/the-making-of-…

Interesting

@NaijaFlyingDr Maybe one can be scientifically explained I guess.

My husband finds zombie movies acceptable. But not vampires or werewolves. I don't understand the reasoning behind this.

Came out of retirement to tell y’all a story about how what Anchor did un 2025 is the future of fintech in these parts. At the start of the year, I predicted that every Nigerian fintech will become a cross-border fintech. The result: it was the fastest growing sub-sector (30%)

@FOjebiyi Before people say it's a good work, has anyone tested it and does it work?

Hi guys, I built an open-source alternative to @pewbeam_ai in one week. github.com/openbezal/rhema Started coding during a Sunday church service. By the following Sunday, we were using it live during our church service. Wild. Here's what Rhema does: it listens to your pastor's sermon in real-time, detects Bible verse references as they're mentioned, and displays them on screen instantly. No manual clicking, no dedicated slide operator needed. The tech stack: - Tauri 2.0 with a Rust backend handling all the heavy lifting: audio capture, transcription pipeline, verse detection logic, and system tray integration - Local AI embeddings using Qwen3-0.6B so everything runs on-device with zero cloud dependency. Your sermons never leave your machine - Real-time audio transcription paired with semantic search against a full Bible verse database The Rust backend was a deliberate choice. We needed low latency audio processing and efficient memory usage for running an embedding model locally, and Rust delivers on both. Is it perfect? Probably not. But the core functionality works and we're already using it in a real church environment This is where you come in. Rhema is fully open source and we need contributors to help take it to the next level. Whether it's improving the verse detection accuracy, adding multi-language support, building a better overlay UI, adding support for more Bible translations, or optimizing the transcription pipeline, there's real work to be done and real impact to be made. If you're a Rust developer, a frontend engineer, an ML enthusiast, or just someone who loves building tools for the church, come build with us. Star the repo. Fork it. Open a PR. Let's make this the go-to open-source solution for live Bible verse display in churches worldwide. github.com/openbezal/rhema

@hsprafrique @GammsApp @TosinOlugbenga Drop the git repo, I want to check something

In less than 2hours the new @GammsApp has been built by me with all 7 pages (Home, Communities, Creator, Spotlight, Blog, Jobs, Contact) I would be shipping it live in the next 48hours so that Techies and DEVELOPERS can use it FOR FREE ✨🔝@TosinOlugbenga

@mus_toyy Oh this is commendable 👏

Vaseline got a real Nigerian prince for a commercial about counterfeit Vaseline body oil. I am applauding THIS campaign.