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In my piece for Brave Nigerians, I weigh in on the debate on employability of Nigerians started by Moniepoint CEO, Tosin Eniolorunda. Read the piece here. bravenigerians.com/2026/05/04/the…

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We need to be serious about asking for details when people make claims like this and it starts to build virality. Sure, there is a chance they are doing what they claim, but there's almost no technical detail here about the capability of this model, how it was trained, and who did the training. > The site calls a Supabase backend and returns JSON all at once, not streamed. It does not transparently call its own model. > It returns reformatted model outputs with what looks like backend orchestration to search/tools and an LLM. > They're sending conversation history that makes it look more like app-layer than a model-serving API. At a minimum, they aren't exposing a model inference endpoint. They're sending messages to a backend that then feeds it into search/LLM elsewhere then spits a result back they modify and serve. They still could be forwarding this chat-wrapper to their own LLM but there's no evidence. It's much more likely this is either: 1. A wrapper/orchestrator on top of an existing LLM API with custom prompting. 2. A wrapper/orchestrator on a fine-tuned open model hosted elsewhere. The onus is on this team to clarify their claims and happy to update with technical details.

Our #inclusionquote today is from sociologist Tony Blackshaw. It is a reminder that as human beings, we are at our peaks when we are part of communities. At Finlay House of Inclusion, our mission is to empower communities so that individuals can thrive. #finlayhouseofinclusion

It's 10 days to the maiden edition of the Nigerian Gas Association Legal Forum happening at Eko Hotels and Suites. Victoria Island Lagos. We have a piece on Legal Pathway for Carbon Compliance on our blog today. finlayhouseofinclusion.org/blog/legal-pat…

Nigerian fintechs spent years building for an e-commerce boom that never came. Paystack, Flutterwave, OPay all launched online marketplaces. Every single one flopped or got quietly abandoned. Those failures set the stage for something bigger

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I like @mrstephendeng and think he's right here. African VCs didnt step up. @terraindustries shouldve been an African-backed thing. It wasnt. But, I think there's a broader point that's getting missed. Its not just that African VCs didnt step up, it's that venture capital globally isnt stepping up or seeing the opportunity in frontier markets. VCs keep making the same mistake in frontier markets: they suffer from outcome fallacy. They only see the future if it looks and feels like today’s developed world. If Africa can’t build jet engines yet, they conclude it can’t build anything “serious.” So they crowd into fintech rails and stablecoins and call it prudence. But intelligent investing isn’t outcome-anchored — it’s stepwise. You don’t underwrite the jet engine. You underwrite the jet-engine-minus-10. You invest in the primitives on the road to that end state: commodified hardware, autonomy software, training stacks, tooling, local manufacturing loops. Those steps are often profitable long before the final picture looks like Boeing or Airbus. This is why “non-consensus and right” matters. Most frontier VC is consensus and sorta-right — Sharpe-ratio obsessed, optimizing to what looks safe relative to Silicon Valley benchmarks. That might generate respectable IRR, but it misses the alpha that only exists where ecosystems are being created, not inherited. The irony is that if you looked at Africa like an alien, you’d say security, logistics, power, and infrastructure are the obvious first markets — not the 50th payments app. Yet defence and hard-tech are avoided because investors mentally price them as “impossible,” anchored to how those sectors look in the US or EU today. Yes, atoms are harder than bytes. Ecosystems matter. But technology is collapsing the pre-requisites: additive manufacturing, agentic software, “75% solutions,” commodified capex. You no longer need the entire Western industrial cathedral to build useful, sovereign capability. You need the right primitives and a path to local offtake. So the real failure isn’t Africa’s risk profile — it’s investor imagination. They price frontier futures as if the only possible outcome is a bad imitation of the West. They ignore that the road itself contains high-return businesses, and that the future — in Africa and in the West — may look nothing like the present.

To all of our followers in the Tech ecosystem, we wish you all a happy 2026. Here is to building sustainable tech communities, telling stories of tech innovators and growing a more inclusive tech ecosystem. Let's do it again this year. #techiesNode #Tech #2026

The prompt: I need an image that best conveys this theme. The future of Remote Work in Africa it should be the featured image of a tech blog post Chat GPT vs Co-pilot

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We are excited to announce @AdefunkeBola as a speaker for #DevFestIbadan25 @AdefunkeBola is a Medical Doctor and Information Security Consultant with deep expertise in privacy compliance, IT auditing, implementation, and training. She has led cybersecurity initiatives and risk assessments across Africa, Europe, and the Americas in banking, fintech, and healthtech, guiding organizations through tough regulations while building cultures of integrity and proactive security. She’s also a dedicated mentor for the next generation of cybersecurity professionals. Her session, “Shadow AI & Cybersecurity: Behind the Scenes, Beyond Our Control”, is a wake-up call: if you’ve ever copied personal data or code into ChatGPT “just to check,” you need this talk. Adefunke reveals the hidden dangers of shadow AI, data leaks, and compliance traps; then arms you with clear, practical steps to stay safe and responsible in the AI era. Get your ticket at devfestibadan.com

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