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Fellow Nigerians, good morning. I woke up this morning after my church service with a deeply reflective heart, and despite every constraint, I felt compelled to share these thoughts with you. Many people do not truly understand the silent pains some of us carry daily—the private struggles, emotional burdens, and quiet battles we face while trying to survive and serve sincerely in difficult circumstances. We now live in an environment that has become increasingly toxic, where the very system that should protect and create opportunities for decent living often works against the people—a society where intimidation, insecurity, endless scrutiny, and discouragement have become normal. More painful is when some of those you associate with, believing you would find understanding and solidarity among them, become part of the pressure you face. Some who publicly identify with you privately distance themselves or join in unfair criticism. We live in a society where humility is mistaken for weakness, respect is seen as a lack of courage, and compassion is treated as foolishness—a system where treating people equally is questioned simply because you refuse to worship status, tribe, class, or power. Personally, I have never looked down on anyone except to uplift them. I have never used privilege, position, or resources to oppress others, intimidate the weak, or make people feel small. To me, leadership has always been about service, sacrifice, and helping others rise. Let me state clearly: my decision to leave the ADC is not because our highly respected Chairman, Senator David Mark, treated me badly, nor because my leader and elder brother, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, or any other respected leaders did anything personally wrong to me. I will continue to respect them. However, the same Nigerian state and its agents that created unnecessary crises and hostility within the Labour Party that forced me to leave now appear to be finding their way into the ADC, with endless court cases, internal battles, suspicion, and division, instead of focusing on deeper national problems and playing politics built more on control and exclusion than on service and nation-building. Even within spaces where one labours sincerely, one is sometimes treated like an outsider in one’s own home. You and your team become easy targets for every failure, frustration, or misunderstanding, as though honest contribution has become a favour being tolerated rather than appreciated. And when you choose to leave so that those you are leaving can have peace, and you step out into the cold, you are still maligned and your character is questioned. Despite all your efforts to continue working for a better Nigeria and engaging people with sincerity and goodwill, those who do not wish you well continue to attack your character and question your intentions. There are moments I ask God in prayer: Why is doing the right thing often misconstrued as wrongdoing in our country? Why is integrity not valued? Why is the prudent management of resources, especially when invested in critical areas like education and healthcare, wrongly labelled as stinginess? Why are humility and obedience to the rule of law often taken to be weakness rather than discipline? Let me assure all that I am not desperate to be President, Vice President, or Senate President. I am desperate to see a society that can console a mother whose child has been kidnapped or killed while going to school or work. I am desperate to see a Nigeria where people will not live in IDP camps but in their homes. I am desperate for a country where Nigerian citizens do not go to bed hungry, not knowing where their next meal will come from. Yet, despite everything, I remain resolute. I firmly believe that Nigeria can still become a country with competent leadership based on justice, compassion, and equal opportunity for all. A new Nigeria is POssible. -PO

"I am not going to take a Pregnant woman out of a Clinic, because she's not South African - she gives birth of an African child at the gate, that child dies and you want me to do that Be proud and look at my children and say "I'm proud father, after i have stopped Life, after i have killed someone. I will not do that" - Julius Malema

which kind farming be this oloun? no account number was included in the payload , so which account was actually credited? “A Nigerian Fintech”

but we are already in darkness.

Everlasting

@Dmadindividual @tonkiritari @berrytom02 @currentiyke Hi, can I send a dm ?

@tonkiritari @berrytom02 @currentiyke @orcabi_music If he writes Java company I work in are looking for Java devs. I can send the link

Please, if you know of any job openings or have links to vacancies, kindly drop them in the comments. Many people are looking for jobs to feed🙏🏻❤️

Everlasting

@linuxinator @o_gonna_ @lifeofdanel @lifeofbashox @tonybesto6 @_SendaRaven Mad man you Dey forbid marriage too ?

@o_gonna_ @lifeofdanel @lifeofbashox @tonybesto6 @its_ehis @_SendaRaven Send me your wedding invites please

@OfficialSamkayz I’m interested.

If you would love to be part of this Opensource project, drop a comment. Backend: Java, Spring, + other backend tools. Front-End: Any Javascript frameworks If you are a developer and love to know how the payment switch works, this project is for you 👌

happy 420.

Gave a talk on Saturday at @apiconflagos’ API connect: Q2 2026 event themed Systems Design for the age of AI-assisted engineering. My talk was titled -> Failure as a design input: Moving from resilient to antifragile. This was hugely centered on recognizing traditional design patterns and addressing the mindset shift that has to happen in order to have systems and APIs that thrive in chaos. Shoutout to @Greyisheep and the APIConf team for putting this together. Let’s do this again.

I’m not begging anybody to vote right or explaining my reason for voting Peter Obi. If you can’t see that there’s problem. Nothing I’ll say can change your mind. Fire down

Most payment bugs I've seen in production come down to one thing: someone stored a money amount as a float. $19.99 becomes 19.9899999999999984 after a few math operations. Multiply that across a few thousand transactions and your reconciliation is off by real dollars. The fix is simple. Store everything in minor units. Cents, not dollars. Kobo, not naira. Pennies, not pounds. Integer math only. But it gets worse when you go cross border. JPY has zero decimal places. BHD has three. If you hardcode "multiply by 100" you will either truncate yen amounts or misplace Bahraini dinars by a factor of ten. ISO 4217 defines the exponent for every currency. Use it. Build your money type around it. Don't assume two decimal places just because USD works that way. I've watched a team spend three weeks debugging a settlement mismatch between a Nigerian naira ledger and a USD ledger. The root cause was one service using kobo and another using naira with floats. 150000 kobo vs 1500.00 naira sounds equivalent until floating point rounding makes them disagree by a fraction of a kobo, and your ledger stops balancing. Store amounts as integers in minor units. Carry the currency code and its exponent everywhere. Never convert until the last possible moment when you display to a user. This is one of those things that's boring until it costs you money. Then it's very interesting.

@PsudoMike what about Java ?

Following up on my last post about moving to Canada as a software engineer. Here's another truth nobody tells you. If you want to work for Canadian provinces or the federal government, you need to be comfortable in the Microsoft ecosystem. ASP.NET, Azure DevOps, SQL Server. This is the stack. 🧵1/8

Now that we're soon running out of 32-bit namespace for transfer IDs at @Wise, the engineers are annoyed with me choosing int over long when I wrote the first lines of code in 2010. But why don't they appreciate the $17 of savings in storage cost over years!? 🤷

It’s all Gucci now 👏

From Pharisee to Tax Collector: Rethinking Tinubu’s Kenyan Comparison In a recent remark in Yenagoa, Bola Ahmed Tinubu suggested that Nigerians should find solace in being “better off than Kenya and other African countries.” While this may have been intended to soften the impact of economic hardship and rising fuel prices, the comment risks downplaying the severity of the current crisis. It echoes the biblical parable of the Pharisee and the Tax Collector in the Gospel of Luke (18:9–14). A similar warning is found in the Qur’an (53:32), which cautions against self-righteousness. Like the Pharisee who boasted of his superiority over others to mask his own spiritual void, such downward comparisons serve more as a refuge than a remedy. This validated an earlier dismissive remark by President Ahmed Bola Tinubu during electioneering: “Na statistics we go shop?” Yet statistics remain indispensable - they are the language through which nations understand their condition and chart progress. No country can develop in isolation from measurable realities or without comparing itself with peers. Comparisons, when properly grounded, are not instruments of escapism but tools of accountability. What is objectionable is not comparison itself, but comparison stripped of credible, verifiable data—mere tax collector comparisons that soothe rather than solve. On key development indicators such as security, the Human Development Index, life expectancy, GDP per capita, literacy levels, and electricity access, Kenya consistently outperforms Nigeria. Nigeria is the fourth most terrorised nation in the world, while Kenya is not among the ten worst. Kenya’s HDI ranking is 143 out of 180 countries, with a coefficient of about 0.630, compared to Nigeria’s ranking of 164 out of 180, with a coefficient of about 0.530. Its GDP per capita is roughly $2,200–$2,300, compared to Nigeria’s $807–$835. Kenya’s poverty rate is about 43% of the population (approximately 23 million people), while Nigeria’s is about 63% (around 150 million people), over six times that of Kenya. Kenya’s life expectancy is about 67 years, while Nigeria’s is about 54 years. The literacy rate in Kenya is approximately 81–85%, compared to Nigeria’s 62–65%. Kenya’s electricity access is higher, while Nigeria has one of the lowest levels of electricity access in the world. Kenya has about 3.5 million out-of-school children, while Nigeria has about 20 million. Kenya’s inflation rate has been about 4.5% or lower over the past three years, while Nigeria’s has remained above 15% within the same period. Kenya’s exchange rate has been around USD 1 to KES 130 over the past three years, whereas Nigeria’s exchange rate rose from below ₦500/$1 to above ₦1,250/$1 within the same period. Even with developments in the Middle East and rising oil prices, Kenyans have not experienced the sharp increases in petroleum product prices seen in Nigeria. Across other key indicators, Kenya also performs better. In the end, these indices clearly show that Kenya ranks higher than Nigeria on several development metrics. The standard of living of Kenyans is better than that of Nigerians. If the President considers Kenyans to be suffering despite these stronger figures, then Nigerians are in a far more difficult situation. He should therefore refrain from self-consolation and, in honest reflection, take responsibility for the situation and make a determined effort to drive improvement. This requires a posture of humility, accountability, and commitment to addressing the factors that have slowed Nigeria’s development. A new Nigeria is POssible. -PO

Kubernetes was built to solve Google-scale problems. You have 47 users.

@_priye_ Lmao

@its_ehis Yes now. The healthiest swallow 2 for breakfast 2 for lunch 2 for dinner. Based on doctor’s prescription

@_priye_ fufu na healthy food