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Unfortunately, many young Nigerians on the opposition side of politics lack a full lifecycle understanding of how the political process actually works. The candidates they support often bypass the critical primary stage, emerging as flagbearers without having built any real foundation at the grassroots. These candidates rarely attend ward meetings or invest in building political structures at the ward and LGA levels, yet they expect a tsunami of votes on election day. If the average educated Nigerian truly understood how politics operates at the grassroots, they would better appreciate why Nigeria is such a complex nation to govern. A major challenge is the political superiority complex many young, educated Nigerians display toward their fellow countrymen seeing them as less educated, exposed, or living in poverty, but who actually lead political parties in their localities as chairmen or key stakeholders. These local leaders often determine the quality of candidates that eventually emerge for general elections. At the ward level, voting decisions are driven by deep primordial instincts or direct instructions from political establishment leaders. You hear reasons like “his mother is not from our village” or “his family was used as sacrifice 100 years ago.” Religion is frequently weaponized, even down to intra-faith lines: “He is Catholic, I will vote for my Anglican brother.” These parochial considerations often outweigh policy, character, or competence. Often, money becomes the unifying factor that helps factions reach consensus among delegates. Personal grudges such as missing ward meetings, refusing to buy a crate of beer at gatherings, or failing to attend a naming ceremony or funeral held months earlier of a ward chairman can decisively swing votes against a primary candidate. Even when a grassroots politician delivers tangible impact like building a local hospital four years earlier to serve impoverished constituents, party bosses at the state level can still instruct members, just two days before the primary, to vote for the son of a Governor who has never visited the LGA. Politics at the grassroots is brutal, transactional, and deeply personal. The next generation is not being properly socialized into this political system no thanks to opposition leaders who have mastered the art of bed hopping from party to party skipping these foundational processes, that leaves them ill-equipped to understand it deeply enough to reform and redesign it for the better.

Can I just go to the court to listen to cases even if I am not related to any of the cases?

Was I the one who disqualified them? Don't you know what it means for the Appeals Committee to hear the appeals of those disqualified? This ignorance is truly galling!

One day I'll tell my story about startup funding in Africa. It's just a syndicate, and it's sad. Sad because those who had the opportunity to receive international funding close the doors on others either by recycling opportunities amongst themselves and getting re-funded by proxy, or triggering investor apathy on competing startups. I'm starting to think it's this melanin 😭

I have been sitting with Hebrews 11:10 all week and I cannot get out from under it. Abraham was looking forward to a city with foundations, whose architect and builder is God. This is so explosive to me because I live in Paris, and I have stood in New York. So I know what it feels like to have a city stop you cold. Paris does something to you. The boulevards, the weight of the stone, the light on the Seine in October, centuries of human aesthetic judgment compressed into every street. New York is different but equally staggering. Human ambition forced upward into something that became, against all logic, sublime. But these cities were built primarily by humans and secondarily by God. He created the physical laws that make stone load-bearing. He designed the mind capable of conceiving beauty and executing it across generations. Every boulevard, every skyline, every bridge that ever stopped your breath is the image of God expressing itself through creatures He made and endowed. And then my mind went to Psalm 2. “He who sits enthroned in the heavens laughs”. God looks at Paris, at the Eiffel Tower standing as the pride of a civilisation, at Manhattan lit up at night, at the ancient wonders humans built to chase glory, and He laughs. Not in contempt but in disproportion. The laughter of the master watching his students produce their finest work, knowing with the certainty of infinite creative capacity that they have not yet seen what He can do when He builds something Himself. Humans build cities competitively. Cities are statements. The Eiffel Tower is Paris saying something about France. The Empire State Building is New York saying something about human ambition. Every great city was built to chase glory, to outlast its builder, to make the world acknowledge that something magnificent was made here. God is the master architect. The builder of reality itself. If humans, made in His image, build to chase glory, what does God build when He decides to build for Himself? The city whose architect and builder is God has foundations. Human cities crack, erode, and fall. The foundations God lays are not subject to the physical laws He authored. He is not working within the ecosystem. He is the ecosystem. And when He builds outside it, directly, as craftsman and architect simultaneously, with nothing delegated and nothing held back, the words run out. Revelation 21 tries and visibly strains. A city whose light source is not installed infrastructure but the presence of God Himself. It does not have light the way Paris has light. It is luminous because God is there, and the two things are inseparable. Abraham understood this. He walked through the greatest cities of the ancient world, saw what human civilisation at its peak looked like, and called himself a stranger in all of it. He spent his life looking forward to the one God built Himself. I live in one of the most beautiful cities ever built. Reading Hebrews 11:10 this week I felt, for a moment, exactly what Abraham felt. Like a pilgrim. Like someone passing through something magnificent on the way to something the magnificent thing cannot prepare you for. I too am looking forward to that city. If Paris made me feel this way, I cannot begin to imagine what that city does.

Not every time “and you?” 😡 Sometimes ask your talking stage questions that will make both of you forget you met on the internet 😔 Ask things like: 1. What’s your relationship with God or your mum like? 2. How was your day… like really? 3. What’s something small that instantly makes your day better? 5. What’s your most unnecessary talent? 😭 6. What’s something you want for yourself this year? 7. What’s something you’ve learned about yourself recently? 8. What do you appreciate more now than you did a few years ago? 9. What’s your love language? 10. What genuinely makes you happy? 11. What helps you feel emotionally safe around someone? 12. Have you ever met someone and the conversation just felt easy? 13. What’s your idea of a peaceful life? 14. What’s one thing you wish people understood better about you? 15. Do you think timing matters as much as connection? 15. What kind of conversations do you enjoy the most? 17. What’s something you’re still trying to heal from? 18. What’s one thing you wish people asked you more often? 19. What’s a random memory you’ll never forget? 20. What’s something that scares you about relationships? 21. What’s something you’ll never tolerate again? 22. Are you heal? 23. Are you still seeking closure from your ex? 24. Is your ex aware that you’ve moved on? Lastly, please stop asking people “what’s your weak point?” You’re not a hired assassin

I remember those days when PDP Governors forum was at the height of its powers. They were almost a checkmate to the President. They no longer exist today. Today it’s Progressive Governors forum, time and space will do its job.

We have a problem with our education system as a nation, and Moniepoint and Tosin are not part of it in any way. Don’t be deceived by these Twitter thought leaders. Double up!

I’ve been following this interesting TL conversation for a bit. This is exactly right. You’re spot on about the 3 dimensions of scale. To add, the real test of scale is not the volume of transactions you process. It is about portability of your core engine. Can your model enter a new market without breaking? Can it adapt without needing to be reinvented? Netflix rewrote content + pricing per region on the same core system. Most “high-volume” businesses can’t even leave their home base without breaking. They are tightly coupled to hyperlocal conditions/constraints. For example, DoorDash works at scale in the US because of suburban spread, tipping culture, and restaurant density. In markets without those conditions (like Germany, Japan), the same model struggles to work profitably. A simple test: If each new market increases complexity for your business, you’re expanding. If each new market gets easier, you’re scaling. At true scale, marginal cost trends toward zero. That is why software leads. WeWork looked big until every location started performing like a whole new business. Each new location increased complexity, operationally and financially. McDonald’s scales by removing dependence on the builder. If excellence depends on proximity to the original builder, it’s not a scalable business yet. Unfortunately, transaction volume can disguise this gap for many. That is how you get the inflated valuations we see on these streets until the business model is stress tested and things fall apart. As for the other loud egbon, it’s okay to be humble enough to learn. Social media fame is not a measure of real world experience or knowledge.

Flutterwave operates in over 30 countries, with a presence across Africa, Europe, and North America (WakaAbuja) , while Paystack is available in Nigeria, Ghana, South Africa, and Kenya. Moniepoint's core operations are still essentially Nigeria-only, with the UK MonieWorld launch being a remittance product rather than a full market entry. From the product architecture where scale is really considered, Flutterwave and Paystack are payment infrastructure companies, APIs that businesses plug into. What Moniepoint APIs are out there? Have you used any? Flutterwave secured 34 US Money Transmitter Licenses and expanded regulatory approvals across Ghana, Cameroon, Senegal, and Zambia in 2025. Moniepoint's model which is POS terminals, agent networks, business banking, loans is a lot more operationally heavy and harder to replicate abroad quickly. So maybe before you call me loud and wrong, start with a definition of terms, so you don't resemble what you project.