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ON THE SUPPOSED UNMANNED ‘BOOTH’ AT TICAD – MY OPINION I feel compelled to set the record straight regarding Nigeria’s so-called booth at TICAD, which has become the subject of some unfortunate commentary. The space in question is not a conventional national pavilion. It is set out as part of the designated spillover area typically used by delegates without access to the main auditorium to follow proceedings or engage informally. These rooms can often be used as workspaces, quiet zones, or hubs for side meetings or as some countries have done, converted to National pavilions. They are not required to be continuously manned or styled as permanent showcases. Any Nigerian delegate can use the space at any time to work, provide support for official activity, or showcase material. That choice rests with the delegation. Several other countries also had spaces today that were either quiet or lightly used. It is neither unusual nor a sign of disengagement. Now to the heart of the issue. Nigeria is not in Japan for optics. We do not need to mimic others to prove our relevance. Visibility is not the only metric. Value is. While some chase optics, Nigerian officials have been working deliberately, consistently, and with focus. •HM Pate is working to finalise a landmark health sector agreement with Japanese partners. @muhammadpate •HM Power is also working on a major energy partnership to be discussed in my later post. @BayoAdelabu •Bank of Industry (BOI) and Bank of Agriculture (BOA) are there and are deep in investment negotiations •HM Foreign Affairs is leading ministerial level engagements as well as aligning National plans on behalf of the country. @YusufTuggar •Mr President @officialabat is also meeting with Japanese investors, the Nigerian diaspora business community, development partners, and fellow heads of government on the sidelines. The work is being done. Quietly. Strategically. With impact. So again, what purpose is served by using a such visuals to imply national failure especially when based on incomplete information? Even if unintended, this kind of knee-jerk commentary, framed as patriotism, can be damaging. It undermines real progress and reinforces a cycle of misrepresentation. Visibility should not be confused for value, or applause mistaken for achievement. Koko of the Matter: Nigeria’s space was not unmanned in the sense being implied. And we are under no obligation to adopt the performative routines of others. In diplomacy, presence is not always performance and substance will always outweigh spectacle. What may appear as silence is most times, deliberate engagement. In line with the structure of TICAD, Nigeria’s assigned space will be more actively used on Day 2 and Day 3, which are thematically focused on Economy and Society. It will also function as an open national stand, accessible to all delegates for engagement. I do hope we can actually focus on outcomes, not optics in the best interest of our country. ~ Otega #TheTiger Ogra @NigeriaGov @NGRPresident @NigeriaMFA

The future of design is… engineering. All designers at @vercel now also build, thanks to tools like @v0, Claude Code, and Cursor. They've been contributing to our frontends and apps for a while now. But over the past few months, the leap they've made is engineering the design process itself by building agents. A big part of shipping is getting the word out in a compelling way, especially on the @x platform, the everything app. In the past, we used to spend a bunch of time hand-crafting images and illustrations for social cards. Our design team built an internal agent and web ui using @v0 and Claude Code that makes this process fully self-serve. It even includes a previewer of what the final artifact will look like on X. It's called Leap. It's probably saved us hundreds of hours of work but also massively raised our quality bar. The artifacts it produces are beautiful. If you had asked me even 12 months ago whether our design team would be building their own design tools, let alone be this good, I would call bs. There was no master plan, or God forbid, a "sprint" to make this happen. It just took a handful of prompts to build and it propagated on Slack. Leap is now one of the many agents that helps us run our company more smoothly, built and securely deployed on @vercel for our internal use.

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