Yinka Daramola

A prolific inventor with 100+ United States wireless telecommunications patents. Black. Female in a male-dominated industry. Married. With Children. What’s your excuse? Listen closely and re-ignite your desire to make your own unique mark on the world.. Listen on the go Audio: open.spotify.com/episode/6ENWIK…… Video: youtu.be/rPtn97P1B7k?si… Full Video on YouTube: youtu.be/rPtn97P1B7k?si…

@slimvnsn Enjoy your bachelorhood. It goes by quickly.

My friend Rotimi bought a car he had no business buying in 2019. Tokunbo Camry. 2006. Big boot. Leather seats with a crack on the passenger side he covered with a towel he called temporary and is still there today. He drove it off the lot in Berger like a man handed a small country to govern. We called it the Landlord. Not because it was fine. Because it acted like it owned everywhere it went. That car changed our lives in a specific way none of us planned for. Before the Landlord we were 4 men in Lagos doing what young men do. Complaining about traffic from inside danfos. Eating at bukaterias because they were close and Mama Ngozi knew our orders. Talking about things we were going to do someday in the way people talk when someday feels safely far away. After the Landlord we had no excuse. Rotimi showed up one Friday at 7pm outside my flat and said get in. I asked where. He said Ibadan. I said for what. He said suya and a drive and stop asking questions. We called Femi and Kazeem. Both in within 20 minutes. We drove to Ibadan on a Friday night talking absolute nonsense for 2 hours. Kazeem argued the entire way that Rotimi was driving wrong. Not dangerously. Just wrong. Wrong gear changes. Wrong AC. Wrong station. Rotimi said it was his car and Kazeem said it was everyone's car now and that was somehow accepted as truth without further debate. We found a suya spot near Dugbe at 10pm. Old man. Iron skewer. Newspaper wrap. The kind that makes you angry because you know you'll spend the rest of your life comparing everything else to this moment. We sat on a bench outside and ate with our hands and argued about everything. Football first. Then money. Then which one of us was most likely to be successful. Kazeem voted himself immediately. Femi said Kazeem's definition of success was suspicious. Rotimi said he was already successful because he had a car and none of us could argue with that. We drove back at 1am. Kazeem fell asleep before we reached the expressway. Femi was on the phone with someone he refused to explain. Rotimi drove and I sat in front and we talked quietly the way you talk at 1am when the others are sleeping and the road is empty and Lagos is something you're returning to instead of something you're inside. He said he bought the car because he was tired of waiting to be ready. Said we all kept saying when things are better we'll do this when things are better we'll go there and things were never better enough so nothing ever happened. I said that was the wisest thing he had ever said. He said don't tell Kazeem. Many trips followed. Port Harcourt for a wedding where we ate bole and fish by the roadside for 45 minutes and nearly missed the ceremony. Benin City once with no plan, just driving, found a restaurant that served the best ofe onugbu any of us had tasted and sat there 3 hours ordering more than we could finish. A beach in Badagry that took 2 hours to find and was worth the wrong turns. The Landlord broke down 7 times across all of it. Twice on the expressway. Once in Benin at midnight. Once so dramatically in Ibadan that a mechanic came out laughing before he even looked at the engine. We fixed it every time. Stood by the road eating whatever was nearby waiting for the thing to be sorted. Rotimi would say she's resting. Kazeem would say she was never built for this. They argued while Femi and I found cold drinks. Last month Rotimi sold the Landlord. New owner came and drove it away and we stood in the compound watching it go like we were seeing off something that had carried more than just us. Rotimi was quiet. Then he said we did good with that car. Kazeem said the car did terribly and we overcame it repeatedly. Femi said same thing. We laughed on that compound for a long time. Then Rotimi said he was getting a bigger one. Kazeem said God help us. He wasn't complaining.

@MrEazi105419 @BukolaOni10 Maggi or Curry for seasoning? 🤔

@BukolaOni10 The scriptural verse that says "Pray without season" wasn't a joke..

In December 2016, a friend of mine rented a shop at Awawire, Orji Owerri for 480k, at least I was there when he paid. For almost 6 months, this guy didn’t make sales of up to a 100k. One day, part of the roof started leaking. The landlord asked him to move to another shop in the same block so repairs could be done.

Working on your accent is not about you or how convenient it is for you. It is about having mercy on others who are struggling hard to understand you. What is the point of talking, if nobody understands what you are saying? Even where you don’t have an accent problem, it is still difficult to communicate effectively. But when the other party does not understand your accent, it is downright impossible to get your message across. Even speaking slowly does little to help. So stop being self-centered. Resolve to work hard on mirroring how the prevailing language is spoken properly. Watch movies. Build relationships and immerse yourself in physical and communal activities to better absorb the culture. Spend more time around people who are native speakers. Get a speech coach, if you need to. Practice relentlessly. Record and listen to yourself speak. Keep refining yourself until people actually start complementing you on your grasp of communication in the language. In summary, have mercy on others. And in helping others, you will find out that you are also helping yourself.

There will always be people who are more interesting than you are. Don’t lose sleep over it. Keep improving yourself.

It is amazing how your grammar, punctuation, spelling, and writing skills mean so little in Natural Language Processing. What an era we are in!

The person who is training you has no muscles.

One man’s idea of excellence is another man’s pre-workout snack.

No matter how good you are at risk analysis, some mistakes and failures are still inevitable. It is your ability to recover from small or big mistakes that really counts.

I worked for many years as a business manager. I never once saw a situation where women were paid less than men for the same job. And yet there’s this pervasive and persistent societal narrative that women routinely get paid less than men. Why is that?

They be praying so much, they miss when the answer to their prayers is in front of their faces.

Here’s another: Prof. Ayodele Awojobi (University of Lagos) invented Autonov 1. Autonov is a modified vehicle (converted from an army-type jeep) that can drive both forward and backward using all four gears without needing to reverse. Autonov enables military advantage during retreats or ambushes. The year was 1975.

We have 300 accredited universities in Nigeria and also 150 accredited polytechnics. We also have 11000 professors and 85000 PhD’s in Nigeria. The first university (UI) was established in 1948. Can you name one Nigerian invention? I’ll wait…

@GbengaWemimo Wild.

I have a friend who got married in 2012. Hos wife couldn't conceive naturally and she suggested IVF In total they did 14 IVF's between 2014 and 2025 He spent quite a lot of money Another classmate of ours from the University told this friend of ours about a fertility specialist in Ibadan He and his wife had use this doctor's hospital and they were able to deliver a set of twins So the classmate advised this friend of mine to bring his wife to Ibadan to try out the new hospital My friend's wife refused to try another hospital She insisted she must stick with the same set of people they had been using without any result for eleven years. There was a lot of back and forth My friend left home for almost a month and started treathening to divorce his wife His mother got involved and persuaded the wife to follow her husband to Ibdan and get a second opinion Reluctantly, his wife followed him Tests were carried out by the doctor He spoke with my friend's wife in confidence He spoke with my friend too in confidence They left the hospital The doctor told them what it would cost to do another IVF My friend told the doctor they would start the procedure the following week Later that evening, our classmate called my friend He received a mail from the hospital It was a mistake that it was to him that the mail was sent because it was the result of my friend's wife's medical tests The classmate forwarded the result to my friend It revealed that HER UTERUS HAD BEEN REMOVED FOR SEVERAL YEARS! She got pregnant in secondary school, had an abortion that almost claimed her life and her uterus had to be removed due to excessive bleeding She knew this and she didnt say a word to my friend Her so called specialist doctor in Lagos also knew it and was not giving her any treatment They were collecting my friend's money under false pretense My friend confronted his wife with the truth that night The next day, she moved out without any explanation My friend is 42 years old now and looking to remarry. If not for the unethical action of the doctor in Ibadan, he would have continued to shell out millions to the woman who married him without a uterus while claiming to be doing IVF. I know doctors are bound by confidentiality but they should also be kind enough to set victims like my friend free mistakenly.

@mrmikeMTL Who forgets that?

Does anyone who grew up before social media still remember their parents’ landline number?

@winexviv The Yam Pounder was invented by Emeritus Professor G.A. Makanjuola in 1975. That is one of many.

It is more discipline than it is smarts.

@simonmaechling Except for with the Covid vaccine.

I had no idea how many of you were experts on pharma R&D so I think it’s important to understand how drug development actually works. It happens in stages, each designed to answer a different question. First comes in vitro work - experiments in cells. This is where researchers check whether a compound does anything at all: does it hit the right target, does it affect cancer cells, and at what dose? Many ideas work here. Most stop here. Next is in vivo testing - usually in animals like mice. Now the question becomes: does it work in a living organism? Is it toxic? Does it reach the tumor? Does it improve outcomes? This is where results like “tumor regression in mice” appear. It’s an important step - but still an early one. Only after that do we move into human clinical trials. Phase I asks whether the drug is safe and what dose can be used in 10s of patients. Phase II looks for signs it actually helps patients in 100s of patients. Phase III tests whether it’s better than existing treatments in 1000s of patients. Each step filters out ideas that don’t hold up until a drug candidate and treatment protocol is found that is highly reproducible amongst different patient groups and has the desired risk/benefit profile. That’s how progress in research actually happens. Long, slow and thorough.

@RefilweSeboko My wife had two beautiful children in her forties. You’ll be fine. Just get the best healthcare you can access throughout the process to make sure all bases are covered. 🙂

Are there any women on here that had a healthy pregnancy/birth 35+ years old? I'm looking for hope for myself.🤞

This is mostly true. But let me just clarify that not all PhDs are funded in more developed countries, though. If you are unwilling to go to school full time for your PhD, you will likely not get funding. For someone who already makes far more in the real world than what the PhD funding may offer, it does not make economic sense to go back to school full time for a PhD. I can tell you that there are still many who pay cash for their PhDs because they are not willing to do full time research.

I still don’t understand something. Why are PhD students in Nigeria paying school fees? PhD is not school in the normal sense. It’s research work. You’re producing knowledge. You’re teaching undergrads. You’re publishing papers. You’re raising the university’s ranking. In every sane system: – PhD students are funded – Their tuition is covered – They are paid stipends for research and teaching In Nigeria? We treat the highest level of knowledge production like a burden instead of an investment. You can’t starve research and expect innovation. Education in Nigeria is just upside down.

@Talk2_Frankjay Fortunately, she has no classmates that are still seeking employment.

Elizabeth casually made this tweet in that small space of her hostel- she never saw what was coming - now she may be warming-up to be a translator at the national parliament of the Federal Republic of Germany which is the Bundestag (Federal Diet), located in the Reichstag building in Berlin.

There is nothing new under the sun. Before the mobile phones came, there was Reader’s Digest for bathroom breaks.