Jo Blue 🌍

Technology Evangelist

[Jo Blue 🌍 @JosephBlue1]

Do what makes you happy ❌

Do what makes you happy + as long as it is the right thing to do. ✅

[Jo Blue 🌍 @JosephBlue1]

@Adikastakes 😅 only we did not eliminate both the same day. Not even same month, in 1945. But yeah, that was clever.

[ESPN FC @ESPNFC]

Hakimi showing respect to Van de Ven after his goal-saving tackle on him 🤝

[World Cup 2026 Daily @TotalFootball]

The Norwegian team and fans doing the Row are just beautiful.

[Jo Blue 🌍 @JosephBlue1]

@asemota Guys, there is no news here, at least for traditional banks. The data has always been saved in local servers - either bank-owned or Data centers in Lagos (we have a number of them, Google it). At best, this is for newer/fintech banks.

[Cristiano Ronaldo @Cristiano]

RIP THE SCRIPT @Nike

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[Shola 👑 @itsSh0la]

If you’re proud of your father, retweet and like this tweet.❤️

[Jo Blue 🌍 @JosephBlue1]

@Morris_Monye Okay, I'm just realizing that I don't follow you, but see all your tweets. X likely pushes them to me because I always stop to read and/or like the post. So it's possible.

[Collin Rugg @CollinRugg]

JUST IN: General "Raizin" Caine gives a detailed breakdown of the U.S. attack on Venezuela, says they were so detailed that they knew what Maduro ate and where his pets were.

- 150 aircraft involved.

- U.S. forces arrived at Maduro's compound at 1;01 a.m.

- Helicopters came under fire, but "replied with that fire with overwhelming force and self-defense."

- Maduro and his wife gave up and were taken into custody.

- The youngest crew member was 20, and the oldest crew member was 49.

- Preparation took several months.

- "Those in the air over Caracas last night were willing to give their lives for those on the ground and in the helicopters."

- "After months of work by our intelligence teammates to find Maduro and understand how he moved, where he lived, where he traveled, what he ate, what he wore, what were his pets..."

- The weather was just clear enough for the mission so aviators could operate.

- All U.S. soldiers are safe.

[Jo Blue 🌍 @JosephBlue1]

@bylerthings She was. We saw her jump down from the truck. Also, one of the soldiers alluded to seeing her for a moment.

[Aproko Doctor Global @aproko_doctor]

The safest way to travel is by plane. Do you know why?

Because they crash.

A few months ago, I learned a concept called Black Box Thinking which is a system that defines how entire industries respond to failure.

In aviation, when a plane crashes, they don't just look for who to blame.

They find a device called a Black Box, retrieve the data, and then ask what went wrong with the system.

And there is a reason for this.

To explain this, there is a famous story of a crash involving an Asian airline years ago.

When investigators listened to the recording from the black box, they found the engine didn't just fail on its own, the junior pilot actually noticed a mistake.

But because of a cultural hierarchy in Asia that demanded absolute respect for elders, he didn't question his senior pilot.

Instead, he hinted and spoke softly and the plane crashed.

That tragedy changed aviation safety forever.
It moved the focus from "Who made the mistake?" to "Why did the system allow this mistake?"

As we stand on the 29th of December, looking back at 2025, I want you to adopt this strategy of Black Box Thinking.

Most of us look at our failures this year and feel shame.

We hide the crash, and blame the economy, government, or something that does not exist.

But Black Box thinking demands a harder question: "How did I contribute to this problem?"

Did I stay silent when I should have spoken up?

Did I rely on motivation instead of a system?

Did I ignore the data because of my ego?

Don't bury your failures of 2025.

Open the box and analyze it.

Because that is the only way to fly safer in 2026.

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

The technology may already exist, but that doesn't mean that Nigeria has it. CFM International, Pratt & Whitney, Rolls-Royce, GE, etc do not share the patents or blueprints behind their jet engines. They only share generalised information and basic operating principles. So as a recipient of that generalised information, you might "know" how a jet engine works, but they will never share what metal alloys they used to make their engines, their design specifications to make it fuel efficient, wind tunnel testing data, safety testing data etc. In reality, you are not much closer to having that technology than a farmer in the 16th century. All you have is the ability to rent temporary access to it by paying money to the manufacturers and their designated maintenance companies.

This means that every jet engine in Africa is foreign-made, and all significant maintenance involving proprietary knowledge on those engines is usually done abroad, which means vast amounts of USD must be spent regularly just to keep Africa's airspace running, and the US government can ground almost every plane in Africa if it likes by issuing sanctions that prevent engine manufacturers or maintenance firms from doing business with African airlines.

That isn't theoretical BTW. It's exactly what happened to Russia in 2022, when NATO sanctions against Russia made Russian Airlines unable to access spare parts and supplies to keep their Boeing and Airbus fleets operational. And that's why Russia accelerated its indigenous Yakovlev MC-21 program, which has created a fully homegrown alternative to the Boeing 737 with indigenous engines, body, and avionics.

Just because a technology exists and you have access to it does not mean that you have the technology, especially when it is a complex technology like aircraft engines. You're basically just renting space on it from the technology owner, and if you have a geopolitical disagreement with the owner, it can lock you out and return you to the stone age at any time. That's why countries often need to "reinvent the wheel."

If Nigeria ever becomes a wealthy and important country in the future, US trade sanctions are 100% guaranteed. To prepare for those inevitable sanctions, multiple technologies that we are currently renting must be fully localised. Not that they impose sanctions and then we realise that we can't build roads anymore because the technology to drive bridge pillar piles into a river bed was something we were just renting from white people. That's why Ziko's jet engine is important. It won't power a passenger aircraft anytime soon, but it provides the technical foundation to even begin that project.

If your country has no Ziko's, then you don't own your country. All of you are just tenants of richer countries.

[MP10 @MusicPills10]

🎙 Shakira and her kids

[Jo Blue 🌍 @JosephBlue1]

@Sisi_Tomiiii @yabaleftonline sure?

[Instablog9ja @instablog9ja]

Check out how cameroonian minister of sport and education, Mouelle Kombi, walks👀
https://t.co/rnpsv2OhfA

[Jo Blue 🌍 @JosephBlue1]

@toniaa__x Yikes, I did not know I had the same settings. I barely ever go to settings...

[Sir Dickson @Wizarab10]

As a 9ja man, if you don't learn anything from this, you're hopeless.

[Jo Blue 🌍 @JosephBlue1]

Panic!!!! 😆

[Adika @Adikastakes]

Real Madrid is opening the Gap, Barcelona Wake up ohhh

[Jo Blue 🌍 @JosephBlue1]

@AdoraNwodo Well, I’d agree to this point because it pertains to Nigerians. And the conversation is within the context of Nigeria. But in some other parts of the world , I don’t think so.

[Jo Blue 🌍 @JosephBlue1]

@Babajiide Same thing you all said about Mbappe. Always too soon to conclude. Give the lad some time to adapt.