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I almost replied the wrong thing here lol. My first reaction was “since when is Netflix only for 1M earners” and on a second thought, I realized I was completely missing the point. The real argument is about what 500k actually looks like in Lagos once real life has taken from it. Rent if you’re somewhere decent is at minimum 120k a month. Food for the month is around 60k if you’re being reasonable. Fuel or transport is 40k. Electricity between NEPA bills and generator fuel is about 25k. Data is 12k. Then family obligations, if that doesn’t even take everything. 500k means your parents know you’re earning. Your siblings have needs. Someone has school fees or a hospital bill somewhere. Even if you manage it tightly that’s another 40k. You’re already at roughly 300k gone and we haven’t touched savings at all. You have about 200k left. Netflix is 8k. DSTV is 20k. Glovo once a week for the month is about 20k. That’s 48k more out of that 200k. You’re sitting at around 150k with zero savings, zero emergency buffer, and the month still has outings, clothing, personal care and everything else life throws at you. The moment you try to save anything meaningful, that 150k shrinks even further. And that 150k is what the whole lifestyle stack is sitting on. Not 500k. 150k. So it was never about whether Netflix or DSTV being affordable. The problem is that by the time you get to those things, you’re not spending from your salary anymore. You’re spending from the leftover. And the leftover is already thin before any of that even starts.

@claudeai What's going on??? We now get issues like this every day? This has popped up more than once.

So I ended up not sleeping at all through the entire night. It’s gonna be a zombie day 😩

I have used 8.6M tokens on my Claude Code in the last 7days. How many have you used?

And now I’m training Claude to speak pidgin. Creating a specific voice skill for this 🤦🏾

@grok @PeteHegseth Interesting and not surprising coming from NG FG.

Yes, Nigerian military claimed to have killed Abu-Bilal al-Minuki in 2024, but those reports were never fully confirmed and appear to have been premature (similar to past repeated claims on other jihadist leaders). This latest operation is confirmed by both U.S. AFRICOM/Trump and Nigerian President Tinubu's office, with the strike on his compound in the Lake Chad area verified by multiple outlets including BBC.

Last night U.S. forces, in coordination with the Armed Forces of Nigeria, killed Abu-Bilal al-Minuki and other ISIS leaders. Back in November 2025, President Trump declared to the world that we will help protect Christians in Nigeria and instructed the Department of War to prepare for action. So, for months, we hunted this top ISIS leader in Nigeria who was killing Christians, and we killed him—and his entire posse. In conjunction with Nigeria’s President, and at the direction of President Trump, U.S. Africa Command oversaw a precise operation to remove this terrorist. Abu-Bilal al-Minuki was the senior ISIS General Directorate of Provinces Emir — the number two for ISIS globally — responsible for overseeing the planning of attacks, directing hostage-taking and managing financial operations. The removal of him and other ISIS personnel makes Americans safer by further degrading ISIS’s ability to plan and carry out attacks that threaten the U.S. homeland, American citizens, and innocent civilians. Operations like last night’s demonstrate the exceptional lethality, patience and skill of U.S. forces, amplified alongside willing and capable partners, to address shared threats. This should serve as a reminder that we will hunt down those who wish to harm Americans or innocent Christians, wherever they are.

@grok @PeteHegseth But this same guy was reportedly kill in 2024.

Confirmed. U.S. Africa Command, President Trump, and Nigerian President Tinubu have all stated that a joint U.S.-Nigeria operation last night killed Abu-Bilal al-Minuki—ISIS’s global number-two and director of operations—along with several lieutenants in northeastern Nigeria’s Lake Chad area. Multiple outlets including BBC, Reuters, and Al Jazeera report the same.

“You can’t get rich or better yet you can’t build wealth by renting out your time. You must own equity, a piece of business to own your financial freedom.”

I find that Codex is doing a better job at this time.

@AnthropicAI These Claude outages are just becoming a lot more frequent.

@AlexHormozi That would be definitely interesting to see

It’ll be interesting when AI replaces judges and juries. Then eventually, attorneys (since they’re all using it to make both sides of the arguments anyways). Which means we’ll eventually just submit facts and get an outcome.

Been doing research into how Nigerian small business owners actually manage their money. The gap between how they describe their financial processes and how they actually run them is enormous. They're not lying. They genuinely don't see it. That gap is everything.

Marketing in emerging markets rewards patience in a way that most growth playbooks don't account for. The typical framework: awareness, consideration, conversion, assumes each stage is discrete and measurable. It isn't here. Awareness and trust-building happen simultaneously, and both take longer than the model suggests. The business that shows up consistently for 18 months builds more durable market position than the one that runs a brilliant campaign for 90 days. That's not inspiration. It's mechanics.

Life can be so hard that you only think about how to survive today and possibly tomorrow. You don’t get to dream anymore. It’s a luxury you can’t afford and only for those who have made it. And so the dream died. Dead and buried!

@KendysonD lol… Folks are always going to have a perceived notion of what your responsibilities are and should be based on your position, what you’ve built and achieved. Not what actually is. Not sure you can really do anything about that.

Before today, I’ve simply invested in engineers that work for us in as many ways as possible, but today is the first time I’m hearing that I’m also responsible for growing the tech pipeline of Nigeria. I genuinely did not know that this was my responsibility too. I’m serious 🧍🏽‍♂️

Never thought I would be doing this but building something real for the NG market.

Something nobody really talks about when it comes to marketing in emerging markets: Trust isn't a step in the funnel. It's the entire funnel. In more developed markets you can borrow trust from the platform, from the payment processor, from reviews. Here you earn it directly. That changes how you sequence everything.