Nigerian developers, have you read the NIBSS Product Passport?
It helps you explore the products and services behind Nigeria’s payment infrastructure.
If you’ve ever heard NIP, NQR, BVN and other payment acronyms without fully understanding how they fit together, start there.
Stop learning Nigerian fintech exclusively from Twitter threads.
Read the actual documentation.
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First Comedy Skit from Delta State who remember this ? Where you there?? Comment below if you were
there, when this Skit was the first ever Skit from Delta State......... writing and produced by " Ena Ofughara"
Both kids played by @lindaetukudo kids
There’s a lady in our area whom everybody knew as an OS. But she eventually opened a shop in the neighborhood, and I guessed she wanted to start making a decent living. Perhaps she was still doing her OS business low key….I didn’t know, and it wasn’t my business.
One day, on my way home, I stopped at her shop to buy beer. I asked for canned Heineken, but she said she didn’t have it and offered me other brands. I bought one of the alternatives, but I told her Heineken was my brand and that she should try to keep it in stock if she wanted me to become a regular customer.
The next day, as I was passing by, she shouted, “Customer, I get Heineken o!”
I parked immediately and bought from her.
Fast-forward to one evening when we had a meeting in our compound about increasing the security and waste disposal fees. As we were concluding, this same lady mistakenly walked into our compound. The moment she saw me, she shouted, “Customer, na here you dey live?”
I went over to ask what she was looking for, only to discover that she had lost her way. I directed her to where she was going and turned back.
Omo, the atmosphere don change! 😂
People were already whispering among themselves. The looks on their faces told me they had concluded a completely different story in their heads. Nobody said anything directly to me, but everybody looked at me somehow before they eventually left.
I had to explain myself in our WhatsApp group, only for them to tell me that na guilty conscience dey make me shalaye. 😭😂
Imagine! A man cannot even patronize a businesswoman and help her grow her business again without the neighborhood turning it into a scandal!
Sometimes, people don’t need evidence before they conclude a story about you. All they need is an opportunity to gossip. 😂😭
No Country Seeks To Make Every Citizen A Graduate; Electricians And Chefs Are In Short Supply — Senator Oshiomhole Tells Nigerian Youths To Consider Technical Careers Instead Of Spending More Time In University
Senator Adams Oshiomhole, representing Edo North, has urged Nigerian youths to consider technical careers, citing shortages of electricians and chefs in Abuja.
Speaking during a Senate debate on a bill to amend the National Senior Secondary Education Act, Oshiomhole said countries should prioritise basic education rather than making everyone a university graduate.
“There is no country that seeks to make sure that every citizen is a graduate, but every country seeks to ensure that every citizen has sound basic education,” he said.
He added that basic education could equip citizens to pursue technical skills such as bricklaying and other vocational careers.
“Today, sir, in Abuja, go through some of the construction companies, they will tell you there is advocacy for electrician, there is none, sir. Ambassadors told me they are looking for chef they can’t find,” he said.
He argued that technical careers could offer better earnings than some university qualifications.
“So if a man or a woman has that basic education, he can veer it to this other technical career which in the end may even equip them to earn more money than what you will earn if you go and do public admin…”
Oshiomhole said he was not dismissing university education, noting that many lawmakers administer public affairs without degrees in public administration.
He supported the bill’s intention but called for its draft to be examined for loopholes and safeguards to ensure funds are used for their intended purpose.
“I think the bill is good, the intention is clear, but that is not enough. We need to see the draft of the bill so that we can all see if there are loopholes to be provided,” he said.
Senate President Godswill Akpabio announced that the bill had passed its second reading and referred it to the Senate Committee on Education, Basic and Secondary Education, which was given four weeks to report back.
Before 2020, I was always leaving the house every day of the week to work.
Sometimes, I would return home at 8 or 9pm.
Once I enter the house, my wife would welcome me.
On the TV, she would be watching one movie or series.
Then she will change the channel to CNN or BBC for me and ask me to go shower and have dinner.
"This is what you stay at home all day to do. Watch Telemundo or Zee world. You stay at home all day doing nothing. I go out every day to earn money to provide you for you and these children. Lazy woman!"
She won't say anything to me.
She'll go to the kitchen and wait for me to shower before dishing out my food.
I would notice that her eyes were blurry.
In the morning, I would be off by latest 6:30 am.
One day, I came back home, and my wife said that she wanted to discuss with me.
"Sweetie, I am depressed. I want to go back to work. I feel like I am useless in this marriage and I am not contributing anything to it. Please, help me find a job"
I blasted her and told her that I got a job without her, and I used my qualifications to apply, and that she should do same.
My wife cried so much that night.
Then came covid 19...
My office had asked us to start working from home.
Monday to Friday, I was home working.
My kids were still going to school under strict covid rules.
I started studying my wife more.
This woman was not resting.
I figured that she was only watching those series or shows just to stay awake to welcome me back home.
She was busier than I was.
She showed me what it meant to have a wife who is a housewife.
One day, I could not take it anymore.
"Baby, you have been asking me to pay you monthly salary, I think you're right. I will be giving you the money"
Covid made me appreciate my lovely wife, more.
Despite dating her for 9 years, I still could not see that God had blessed me enormously.
Because I was carried away by my female colleagues that were age mates with me and working.
And I wanted my wife to "fit in".
I was wrong.
That was why in 2021, I came here to write that a housewife that is playing her role effectively and efficiently without bringing a dime is not a liability.
It took me years into marriage to realize this.
My lovely wife is a hard worker.
And I have seen and still seeing the results of her hardwork on our lovely children.
Our children are so smart and they're high flyers in their schools.
Not only that, they are well behaved and very respectful and contented with what they have.
All made possible because of my lovely wife.
As a man, if you have a wife like mine, please be kind and be patient with her.
Yes, she may not be bringing money, but that's not her primary role or responsibility.
Your Lovely wife is more valuable to you than the money that you hope to be getting from her.
Only if you will open your brain and mind to understand me.
End.
If you learn backend engineering for AI, you will never be unemployed again.
Stage 1: LLM calls are backend calls
- Learn: tokens, streaming, timeouts, retries, structured outputs.
- Practice: wrap an LLM API with a timeout, retry limit, fallback model and a cost log per request.
Stage 2: Retrieval
- Learn: embeddings, chunking, hybrid search, reranking, metadata filters.
- Practice: RAG over real docs, with citations and a freshness filter.
Stage 3: Cost and latency
- Learn: prompt caching, semantic caching, model routing, batching.
- Practice: cut cost per query by 50% without dropping your eval score.
Stage 4: Agents in production
- Learn: tool calling, step budgets, idempotent tools, human approval.
- Practice: an agent that can issue a refund safely.
Stage 5: Evals and observability
- Learn: golden datasets, LLM-as-judge, tracing.
- Practice: an eval suite in CI that blocks a bad prompt change.
If PETER OBI ever attempts to go against the status quo in Nigeria, or against the west, this is how it will play out as it has played out exactly with other African leaders who dared to challenge them.
Week one: Congratulations from Washington, London, Brussels, Paris, Beijing, and the AU. Warm statements. Talk of partnership.
Month two: IMF technical team arrives for “consultations.” World Bank signals readiness to discuss debt restructuring. The British Foreign Office announces a new bilateral trade engagement program. French commercial delegations request early access meetings.
Month four: First conditions surface publicly. Subsidy framework review. Exchange rate liberalization. Trade policy alignment with multilateral frameworks. None of it is called conditions. It is called “technical recommendations from development partners.” The language is soft. The intent is structural submission.
Month eight: First media destabilization pieces land. Reuters runs “Can Obi Deliver?”
Bloomberg raises “governance uncertainty.” The ethnic tension framing begins circulating in Nigerian legacy media funded by the old order. The permission structure for domestic opposition is being quietly constructed. International cooling begins.
Month fourteen: Domestic opposition, now emboldened by that international cooling and the manufactured uncertainty, begins aggressive National Assembly obstruction. Budgets are stalled.
Key ministerial appointments are rejected on procedural technicalities. The destabilization has moved from narrative to institutional. Governance theater is in full production.
Month eighteen: Security crisis escalates on at least one front, Northwest bandits, Southeast tensions, or a coordinated Abuja-proximate incident.
The crisis is not random. It is the security weapon deployed on schedule. International media amplifies every casualty. “Investor confidence” language returns from the same financial press that celebrated him in week one.
Month twenty-four: The choice point. Submit to the architecture, or face the full weight of coordinated destabilization.
Nigerians have to prepare for when all this starts happening because it will happen and when it does, only the people united against a common enemy can build.
Be careful Nigerians ⚠️
This imported tomato paste “Pur tomato paste” is fake according to NAFDAC. They used a pure water NAFDAC number on the product to make it look original.
Humans are wicked 💔😭
Pass this awareness around!
Stay safe with what you consume.
🚨 THE INTERNET BROKE TODAY 🚨
Oct 21, 2026 will go down in history
1. eMudhra : Private key was literally "4". 8 keys forged ANY website for 17 months. 60M+ certs at risk.
2. SBI CONFIRMED. 3,897 customers' mobile, DOB, address + loan data found on dark web.
3. Rajasthan Police 🇮🇳ALLEGED hack. Group claims 70,000 identity records + 59,460 numbers for sale. Unverified.
4. php2shell [9.2] Unauth RCE in PHP. 70% of the web. WordPress, Drupal, Laravel. CISA: Patch or GO OFFLINE.
5. GitLab [10.0/10] PERFECT SCORE. Unauth RCE, no login needed.
6. Node.js [CVE-2026-111497] Brotli decoder RCE + TLS bypass. 10 CVEs patched today. Also blocked eMudhra.
7. Railway BREACHED TODAY. Env variables decrypted. Your API keys & DB passwords exposed. Rotate all.
8. OpenCode BREACHED. OpenAI, Anthropic, Google API keys exposed for Console users. Distillation attack. Bills run up in $$$$.
9. LiteLLM PyPI v1.107.0 was MALWARE today morning. Steals credentials + backdoor.
10. Plex2Shell ACTIVELY EXPLOITED. Hackers installing cryptominers LIVE. CISA KEV, deadline Oct 23.
AI found the bugs. AI is exploiting them. Humans can't patch fast enough.
Patch. Rotate. Revoke. Update.
RT to save someone's server ♻️
#CyberSecurity #DataBreach #India #php2shell
Lots of Security incidents today, here's some practical tips for those who just wanna protect yourself:
1) UPDATE EVERYTHING - main targets are:
a) Browsers - Chrome, Safari, Firefox
b) OS: : Settings -> General -> software update; Linux: sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade; Windows: I think there's a button. Do this for any remote home servers & Openclaw/hermes boxes
c) Phones: Update it all
d) Desktop apps (Slack, Cursor, Discord, etc)
2) Limit web browsing this week: Stay within walled gardens (twitter, youtube, etc); don't click random links this week. Just wait until the patches go through. Do step 1 again after a week.
3) Avoid untrusted Wifi networks until your devices are updated
4) Stay vigilant about phishing emails offering "certificate fixes" or fraud updates
5) Have an iPhone 11-16? TURN BLUETOOTH OFF for the time being until apple patches come through.
6) Code/Dev: UPDATE ALL YOUR REPOS - @charliermarsh has already updated uv 0.13.4 which reacts to the eMudra incident for uv (Python), Typesript according to Claude has equivelant. Tell your agents to go and update all your active repos to update package manager across uv, npm, bun, cargo, etc etc
What advice did I miss?