A little over two years ago, I came to the U.S. from Nigeria at 14 with a suitcase and an obsession with ML.
Today, I'm 16 and working on Computer Vision + Robotics at @Apple
Recap:
→ Competed in Math & Physics Olympiads from 11y/o
→ Won Rubik’s Cube competitions at my boarding school, with a personal best of 18 seconds
→ Lost my grandma to an undiagnosed illness: one of the reasons I became very interested in AI
→ Graduated high school and started college at 15
→ Researched diffusion models for crystal generation, inspired by drug discovery
→ Prototyped robotic wheelchairs for people with disabilities
→ Worked on an EdTech startup, OpenClaw for Students
→ Joined @Apple this may on the ESCI org!
→ Went to @ycombinator startup and met of the brightest and most ambitious minds
My dream is to build companies that expand what humanity can do with AI
I'll be sharing my journey here! Physical AI, agentic systems, and everything I'm learning along the way.
By Making Excuses for Unverified Certificates, We Are Planting Poison in the Soul of Our Society
A nation that tolerates unverified academic credentials at any level of leadership, regardless of who is involved, risks destroying the very standards upon which a society is built. The issue is not about an individual. It is about standards, accountability, and the values we choose to pass on to the next generation.
We cannot continue to excuse blurred, missing, questionable, or unverified credentials simply because they belong to someone we support. The process through which people attain positions of responsibility matters greatly. How we get into leadership is as important as what we do with leadership.
If we normalise the abandonment of basic verification today, tomorrow we may have professors who never attended a university, doctors who never studied medicine, and judges who never studied law.
That is the dangerous precedent we must never allow. Nigeria cannot sacrifice its future on the altar of today's transactional politics. We must build a society where truth is not partisan, standards are not negotiable, and accountability applies equally to everyone.
History will judge us not only by those we defended, but by the principles we were willing to defend. We must choose truth over convenience, standards over sentiments, and the future over political expediency.
A New Nigeria is possible, but only if we are willing to do the right thing, even when it is inconvenient. -PO
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From acquiring the property in March 2025 to where we are today in August 2026, what a journey it has been!
EbonyLife Place London, the UK’s first cinema hub dedicated exclusively to African and Black films, is coming to London this October 2026.
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Dear readers from all over the world - thank you!
This year marks 10th anniversary of “How China Escaped the Poverty Trap.” It couldn’t have scaled walls and traveled without your support & sharing
The book is now FREE to download (link below)
https://t.co/OX87veC0RW
😂😂 This is such a dumb thing to do (confirm). Babies obviously don't know that snakes can be venomous. The same way they don't know humans can be deceitful, or that adults can be dumb.
No offense to this woman, but at some point we’re going to have to talk about how social media has made it so that women feel this incessant need to “bounce back” after going through a highly traumatic experience like child birth all to try and impress strangers on the internet
A child accidentally swallows a small button battery from a toy.
What is the FIRST safe thing to give while rushing to the ER?
A) A glass of warm milk
B) Two teaspoons of pure honey
C) A spoonful of mustard
D) Plenty of plain water
You want to stay home, bake sourdough and have 9 kids? Wonderful!
But if another woman wants to go to med school and become the ob-gyn who helps you deliver those 9 kids, you don't get to guilt or shame her for HER CHOICE.
I find it strange that every few years, some Africans argue about whether their own native language is “useful.”
A language is not valuable because it gets you a job.
A language is valuable because it carries the memory of a people.
English connects you to the world but your mother tongue connects you to your identity, your history, your grandparents, your culture, and a way of thinking that cannot be fully translated.
The future belongs to people who can preserve who they are while engaging the world.
The real advantage is raising a child who can think, dream, and express themselves fluently in their local language, while also communicating confidently in English and other global languages.