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that same 200k, a man will buy you clothes, pay for your nails, subscribe your data, take you out to restaurants, send you emergency 2k, cover your medical bills etc. Yet somehow, he still doesn’t get your respect. Meanwhile, the rich man may never concern himself with your basic needs, but somehow he gets all the admiration.

This video is sooo funny 😂 how can you says you can’t marry someone that works 9-5 and earns the same salary of 200k 🤔. This life no favor men at all

Now see this woman, Multiply her by x1000000000 Welcome to Nigeria.

If your love, care or willingness to spoil your man only shows up after he does it first, then that’s not genuine love… that’s a performance. A relationship shouldn’t be “I’ll do mine when he does his.” Omo love is dead fr 💔

@Mayor_slimzy @General_Somto Paying hefty salaries alone doesn’t guarantee global competitiveness. Yes, many talented developers in Nigeria have been underpaid for years despite how talented they are. But You cannot Surpass Giants like Paypal by just increasing salaries. Peace✌️

@timijayondtrack @General_Somto Pay same value and see if you won’t see an Nigerian that can give that value you’re looking for, you want to over work someone for peanuts

“To The Moniepoint CEO Tosin Eniolorunda, That’s a Very Stupid And Myopic Statement You Made. A Big Shame On You. Can You Pay Nigerians Global Standard Rates Since You Want Nigerians To Provide Global Standard Work For You In Nigeria? Can You Pay Nigerians The Same Way The Chinese Government Pays Their People In China? The Harsh Environment, Harsh Policies, And Harsh Economy In Nigeria Is To Be Blamed For Nigerians’ Inefficiency, Not Nigerians Themselves.”

Saying Nigerians are not bright is a very condescending statement.

@Akintola_steve This is 100% true. We fool and brag too much. Many claiming senior devs are just folks that have been privileged to get some high paying gigs. Nothing special. The level of seriousness in Indians on my TL is unmatched. Even their jokes are educational. We need to do better.

Moniepoint won’t be the last company in Nigeria to face this problem. The market is not broken. The pipeline is just shallow. Go deep enough that companies stop asking: “Can we find this talent in Nigeria?” And start asking: “How do we keep this person?”

Back to Moniepoint. When they said they struggled to find qualified Nigerians, the subtext was never: “Nigerians are not smart.” It was: “We need engineers who have operated high-volume financial systems under real production pressure, and deeply understand the problems we face daily.” That kind of engineer is rare everywhere. Even rarer locally.

2. Distributed Systems Engineering This is the person thinking about what happens when your system spans 12 nodes and 3 fail at once. CAP theorem isn’t interview prep for these people. It’s a real production constraint. They understand: • Consensus protocols • Clock skew • Eventual consistency • Distributed locking • Network partitions And why your “just add retries” solution can corrupt data at scale. Most backend engineers never think past a single server.

1. Payments & Financial Systems Engineering This is the one Moniepoint actually needed. It’s not just “integrate Paystack.” It’s understanding: • Settlement cycles • Reconciliation logic • Ledger design • Float management • Chargeback flows • Idempotency at transaction level • Regulatory constraints baked into architecture A backend engineer who has only built CRUD apps cannot own this layer. Completely different way of thinking.

Backend engineering is an umbrella. Underneath it are multiple disciplines, each with its own depth, tooling, failure modes, and hiring bar. Companies like Moniepoint, Stripe, Flutterwave, Paystack, Cowrywise… They don’t just hire “backend engineers.” They hire people who can own a specific layer of the system. Let’s go through them.

Being a "backend engineer" is not a skill. It's a department. Moniepoint posted roles, struggled to find qualified Nigerians, and Nigerians on the internet showed their displeasure. But still, nobody touched the actual problem. This thread will make some of you uncomfortable. That's fine. It's only a problem for people who don't read with an open mind.

Let me clarify this. The likes of Moniepoint, Cowrywise, and other companies within that niche are heavily fintech-focused systems, especially around payments. Now here’s what people don’t know, and I honestly don’t care if it triggers anyone: you can be a backend engineer and still not be employable in those companies. Why? There’s something called specialization. You’ll hardly see companies like these put out a role and simply say “Backend Engineer.” And even if they do, once you read the description properly, you’ll see things like: “Experience in payment infrastructure/payment gateways required.” Now the real question you should ask yourself is: Do I actually have solid experience in this specific area they need? If the answer is no, then there’s no reason to get emotional about it. You’re simply not employable based on their current needs. Again, there are lots of backend engineers, but only a few with real areas of specialization. Some companies need backend engineers specialized in: - payment infrastructure - streaming systems - distributed systems - security/authentication systems - data engineering & high-scale processing So I guess that’s where I’m coming from. But again, was the Moniepoint CEO right? I’d say he could have broken it down better by saying they’re struggling to find engineers with the exact specialized experience they require.

The Moniepoint CEO said Nigerian developers don't meet global standards. Let me tell you what global standards actually look like for a backend developer at a fintech company: Can you design a payment system that handles concurrent transactions without duplicate charges? Can you implement idempotency across distributed services? Can you explain CAP theorem and which tradeoff you'd make for a Nigerian payment rail? Can you build a fraud detection system that catches anomalies in real time not in batch jobs? Can you write a database migration on a table with 50 million rows with zero downtime? Can you design for intermittent network specifically Nigerian infrastructure not AWS us-east-1? If you can answer all six confidently with working code You meet global standards. The next question is whether Moniepoint's offer meets yours.

@kinnsokoye @General_Somto 😂😂😂 totally unrelated. But continue stroking ur ego.

@timijayondtrack @General_Somto I started editing videos from 9 years too. So shut the F up

@doses_of_nicole @General_Somto God bless you for this tweet. The only reasonable person so far. My take is that the CEO of should have periodic seminars & programmes to train his staffs to his standard. Simple.

@timijayondtrack @General_Somto And is that the fault of Nigerians???? Is it our fault that Chinese programmers have been programming since 8 years old??? He wants global standards, is he even willing to offer a training program???

@Captain_G_01 @General_Somto You are a stupid fool. And you lack comprehension.

@timijayondtrack @General_Somto @timijayondtrack You’re very stupid. You compare Nigerians to people growing up with opportunities, structure, and support we don’t even have here. Despite all the struggles in Nigeria, we still compete at the top.

@Investordee4663 @nathanviktor50 @General_Somto Pls find me 1 kid in secondary school. JSS 1-3 Must be very conversant in HTML & C++ 1million Naira for you wen u find one

@timijayondtrack @nathanviktor50 @General_Somto I don't talk too much. I believe in action. Put your money. What is coding 😂 Kids in some high schools will teach you HTML and C++

@Davidsmith6654 @Investordee4663 @General_Somto Na him you never hack CBN all this years.

@Investordee4663 @timijayondtrack @General_Somto I am an hacker if they can pay 50 million a month I will work .

@tipseebone @General_Somto And whose fault is it that Nigerians don’t have same equality as other nations? First of all fix the interrupted power supply, Bad Roads, security, education, hospitals e.t.c Then we can talk of equality with other Nations.

@timijayondtrack @General_Somto You misconstrued. Equality is the problem and not competition.