Kolade Chuks

I will build a company that’s bigger than Oracle and Microsoft right from Nigeria. Might be delusional but will be a very fun ride.

Facial reconstruction of a 11,250-year-old man from Nigeria The Iwo Eleru rock shelter in Nigeria, excavated in 1965, yielded over 500,000 Late Stone Age artifacts and radiocarbon dates ranging from ~15,000 to 9250 BC. A poorly preserved, tightly contracted human skeleton was found in undisturbed layers. The skull is long and low, with moderate brow ridges, a sloping forehead, and relatively flat nasal features. Despite some post-mortem distortion and reconstruction, its overall shape appears reliable. The face is mostly missing (missing hard tissue fragments were added for the reconstruction, some aspects of which are hypothetical), but the mandible is robust, though lacking a pronounced chin. The postcranial skeleton is highly fragmented, making precise measurements difficult. However, the long bones suggest a moderately robust individual of medium build, with an estimated height not exceeding ~165 cm. It has been argued that the Iwo Eleru fossil represents either an archaic hybrid or a relict archaic Homo population. In 2014, Christopher Stojanowski of Arizona State University outlined three main explanations for its unusual cranial shape: It was a hybrid with archaic African populations; it belonged to a relict archaic group later replaced by modern humans at the start of the Holocene; or it came from a population that diverged from other North African groups during a period of extreme Saharan aridity.

Imagine like you live with a giant who you cannot communicate at all with. The giant will feed you and see to your basic needs in exchange for occasionally subjecting to horrors beyond anything your brain can even begin to comprehend.

Since @Ssaasquatch posted about @hoaqclub, I’ve seen a lot of people follow us. A couple of things to note: - we started 6 years ago as a way to democratize angel investing, especially for Africans and those in the diaspora. - we’ve invested in over 100 companies, some of those you probably use daily (Chowdeck, Lemfi, Mono, Rayda, Audiomob) - We spend a lot of time doing due diligence on companies we bring to the collective, but this doesn’t guarantee that companies will work out. - We started investing in tech startups but have recently expanded into the cultural and creative industry. We want to fund movies and assets related to the creative space. - we charge an annual membership fee of $100. You can cancel at anytime. You don’t need to pay anything else unless you decide to invest. - Investing in startups is very risky and you 1 out of 10 investments will return your investment, this means you should aim to invest $1k across 10 investment opportunities ($10k) - we have a vibrant community and hosted events across London, Lagos, Paris, Dubai and Nairobi - @Myaa_osho runs HoaQ as a GM and can make time to share more about how things run. She runs an onboarding session once a month for new members. - we built the technology that powers HoaQ, which means anyone can now start their own syndicate without the infrastructure stress - if you re reading this and is curious about learn more about HoaQ, check us out by clicking the link below app.onborderless.com/share/c/hoaq

Mo Abudu was working in oil and gas. She was 40 years old. She quit. And she built EbonyLife, Nigeria's first globally distributed premium entertainment network. The network that trained Genevieve Umeh through its Creative Academy. The network behind "Fifty," "Blood Sisters," "Crime & Justice Lagos," and a deal with Sony Pictures for African film distribution. She was 40. In oil and gas. With no entertainment background. And she decided that African stories deserved a world-class platform. And then she built one. The people who built Nigeria's entertainment industry didn't wait for permission. They were often doing something else entirely when they decided to start.

Erica (not that Erica) unveils one of the five films screening at our first edition of Saving Cinema on the 11th of April! You can still save yourself a seat to save cinema at the link below! pv.rsvp/saving-cinema

when my wife who just got back home from work says "come to mommy" and my child starts walking to her😭

@ChuGailx What’s the strength training regimen

I have been told to not run for three days. Runners’ knees have come with a vengeance. I hate when this happens. I was really improving. And the run program for this week? Chef’s kiss! Anyway, strength training will fix these knees.

Is it only my DM’s that’s not working?

"We must approach my bedroom at once, not because it is easy, but because I am hard."

Haven’t seen it yet, but like Gail said, we engage with Nollywood films with so much bad faith. If it’s possible in the story world. It is possible, full stop. Suits did something similar and no bat an eye.

Happy Easter ⭕️

MTN Mobile Money didn’t fail because the idea was bad. They were actively blocked. The CBN gave them a licence and revoked it a week later, and Nigerian bank CEOs behind the scenes threatened to cut off MTN’s distributors if the licence went through. And remember, MTN at that time already had the largest customer base in Nigeria, millions of users across every state. If anyone was positioned to dominate mobile money it was them. OPay on the other hand came in with zero existing users. They quietly acquired Paycom Nigeria, a company that already held a dormant CBN licence, and that became their golden ticket bypassing years of regulatory red tape. Then they launched ORide and OBus not to be a transport company but purely to get millions of Nigerians to download their app. The transport business was just the bait, fintech was always the real plan. That was actually a smart move.

With the arrival of Behind The Scenes on Netflix and Kava, here are other 2025 Nollywood cinema films now available to stream at home whatkeptmeup.com/listicles/2025…

Finally back to pre-Covid admission numbers! It can only get better. Don’t forget to watch #OnobirenTheMovie in cinemas.

Will be in cinemas again. Real soon! You will love this one! The Other Side of the Bridge!!!

Happy Easter Celebrations ✝️ We pray that in this season, your heart is filled with joy and love. Don’t forget to spend this time with family and friends. From all of us @FusionIntelTech

The guys in private equity or any form of advanced dealmaking…. All they spend their lives doing is how to do deals that will allow them to put in the least equity.😄 They will finetune and engineer all kinds of structures to that end. I am reviewing a particular one and I am like lmaooo

Happy Easter!

The Nigerian box office just delivered its strongest Q1 admissions in 6 years, driven by record runs from Behind The Scenes and a standout performance from Oversabi Aunty. Q1 Admissions Trend 2021 – 709,803 2022 – 709,979 2023 – 620,477 2024 – 597,061 2025 – 661,720 2026 – 752,136 Nollywood alone accounted for over 553,000 admissions in Q1 2026, a 73.5% share of total admissions, its highest first-quarter figure since 2021 (587.7k), a period largely shaped by limited Hollywood presence and releases due to COVID-19.