OGUDU

“No Country can progress if her POLITICS is more profitable than its INDUSTRY”

[OGUDU @AforMikel]

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[OGUDU @AforMikel]

@SirLeoBDasilva I will take Tesla anyday; the charging network is second to none and it’s cheaper compared to other EV’s out there.
BYD feels a bit premium with the interior but Tesla for me is better overall.

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

Africa is not being underestimated by anyone. That is a dangerous misconception that I once had.

What is actually happening is that Africa is being deliberately underreported and suppressed from mainstream global news cycles because some powerful people need to keep it a secret that their dominance over the global economy as we know it is entirely built on extracting 100 for the price of 0.5 from Africa.

If that coup in Niger had never happened for example, we would never have known that France's famously cheap and plentiful nuclear energy which makes up 70% of its energy mix, and which it sells to the rest of Europe, was cheap and plentiful because Orano spent decades bending Niger over a barrel, paying the country 50 euro cents/kg for Yellowcake uranium when the market price was between €150 and €200/kg.

We didn't know this - but France and its EU collaborators absolutely did, which is why they're sponsoring EU resolutions condemning the AES every 5 minutes. They know exactly what they've lost!

The only people underestimating Africa are Africans - because we have no fucking clue what we are sitting on and we still get most of our information from predatory western sources. Don't get it twisted - everybody outside Africa who matters fully understands what Africa is, which is why Ethiopian Airlines keeps recording a new record profit every year, and it is building the world's largest airport in Bishoftu. Most of that traffic is not made up of Africans.

People from around the world don't stampede in such numbers into a continent that they "underestimate." We're the dummies chasing visas to go work for gold elsewhere while we inherited the entire fucking gold mine.

[OGUDU @AforMikel]

Merino, Zubimendi and David Raya are world champions. 🥂🏅🏆

[OGUDU @AforMikel]

Deserved champions. Only conceded 1 goal.
Champions of the World.

[OGUDU @AforMikel]

Spain 1 - Referee 0
Vamos!!

[Osaretin Victor Asemota @asemota]

I have concluded that we Africans are delusional about technological innovation, but my fellow Nigerians are especially unrealistic. There is no realistic or sustainable ecosystem-building strategy because we are living in denial.

First, nobody living in the slums wants to make money and continue living there, not even drug dealers. They always move up. If you think of this deeply, you will understand why certain things keep happening.

Most people investing in the tech sector should ask themselves one question: if this founder or startup succeeds at what they are doing, will it make life in Africa better? Will it make you as an investor more willing to live there?

I no longer live in Nigeria, and I made that decision even before I started investing in technology. I almost moved out of Africa completely when I was almost assassinated during an acquisition conversation for a publicly listed company. I left, but I still moved back, only safely away from Nigeria.

There are real issues with living in Nigeria that technology won't fix in a hurry, but there are many things that tech innovation can fix, and people are taking the lead. My problem is that far too many of them are working remotely because it is very difficult to function amid the chaos.

I am seeing ideas that were heavily funded in the frothy 2021 era being pitched again by a new set of younger founders after the previous ones took the money and relocated. I don't blame those who have relocated, because even their investors can't live under current local conditions. I moved too.

We trained 120,000 people in Benin at Edo Innovates, and they all left. There were no jobs for them there, and even if there were, they didn't want to live in Benin. I saw a chilling video of an armed robbery attempt by a gang yesterday and understood perfectly why they would choose to leave.

Our best and brightest have left, and many are still leaving to help others cover their talent deficit. They are suffering indignities abroad, but they remain because the quality of life is much better and life can be planned.

You can't build an ecosystem remotely from abroad. It is not done by magic or spells. People who do serious need to worry less about other things and deserve to live well. I said this long ago during the craze about Yaba in Lagos and wrote this article about it 9 years ago. It is not just about money - https://t.co/5doBcplpB0

The retinal surgeon who fixed my eye 5 weeks ago used to live in Canada and moved back to Ghana. I am seeing many others doing the same despite the difficulties. The oncologist treating my relative in Lagos didn't leave; both doctors are overwhelmed by patients. They are both outliers and there are only very few of them coming back home for a reason. It is not just compensation but also living and working conditions.

It took me over an hour to get to the hospital at Mataheko in Accra for a checkup last week because of flooded roads. I saw pictures of Nigerian doctors doing surgery inside a flooded theater and I just sighed. We have a very long way to go.

[OGUDU @AforMikel]

Officiating has been one sided in this tournament.

Spain win it for football!

[OGUDU @AforMikel]

Good for him! Such a vile player!! Spain all the way!

[OGUDU @AforMikel]

DECLAN RICE!!!

[OGUDU @AforMikel]

@Mrbankstips David Raya will save this easily. This is why he is the best EPL goalkeeper. He would have anticipated the cross and make himself available to clear it. His aerial prowess is second to none.

[OGUDU @AforMikel]

@MonsoG10 My point still stands about Pepe; yes Arteta should’ve given him sometime esp it’s as it is a new league for him. Has Pepe gone to show an elite level of performance since he left? We already know the answer. There are a combination of factors that had stopped us winning the EPL

[OGUDU @AforMikel]

@Onyx_Em @nurse_kidda I was quite teary 🥹. I love this

[OGUDU @AforMikel]

@SirLeoBDasilva Ramsdale was a stop gap. Arteta should’ve kept faith with Martinez; his rockie call meant we had to deal with Ramsdale inconsistency in some important games. His aerial duels were abysmally poor. Pepe didn’t have the elite mentality and plus the media barely let him play.

[OGUDU @AforMikel]

Porkie pies

[OGUDU @AforMikel]

It’s time to nail your colours to the mast.

[OGUDU @AforMikel]

@ObidiNwaGOD1 @DHKRULLAH I didn’t say I was looking for ILR.

[OGUDU @AforMikel]

@DHKRULLAH Most have a shallow understanding of d gains attached to ILR. The poll isn’t a true reflection of the reality. The benefits are much more than just getting a stipend when you are out of work. Subsidised housing, bursary, easier access to education and a lot more

[Mayowa @Mayoveli]

This is probably the first time I’ve ever replied to the guy. I don’t care enough about him to even notice him that much. So even if I didn’t like him, as you suggested, there’s no way you, or anyone else, could have known that. So you’re just making things up. 😂

If I joined politics in a democratic system, I would focus on serving the people well so I wouldn’t have to waste extra effort trying to cripple the opposition. The idea that, in a supposed democracy, the opposition should be treated as the enemy is absurd.

Whether you like it or not, if you become a president or governor, you’ll have opposition members in parliament or the legislature. There will be times when you’ll desperately need to work with them to move the country forward. If you’ve spent years antagonizing them and destroying their party structures, how exactly do you expect that cooperation to happen?

You call it a democracy, yet you want to weaken the opposition and create an echo chamber where only your party’s ideas are heard. That’s not how a healthy democracy works.

Are you people even listening to yourselves, or are you so blinded by ethnic loyalty and your hatred for Obi that you’re trying to defend an obviously flawed argument?

[Alex Onyia @winexviv]

This 15-year-old boy, Bassey Stephen Etim, won today's Sterling Bank Online National Mathematics Quiz.

He is currently an SS2 student at Dority International Secondary School, Aba, Abia State.

He outperformed every other student who participated from across the country.

Another star has been discovered.