Last Thursday, I had the rare opportunity to meet the former Vice President of Nigeria, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, during his visit to the Bayelsa Tech Hub as part of the 2025 NBA Yenagoa Law Week.
He walked up to me, asked what I was working on — and listened with genuine interest.
After watching this video, I now have an understanding of why the Nigerian military has a budget of over 400 billion and yet insecurities still have a place in the country.
I also understand why our corrupt leader squanders public funds and has the confidence that nobody will judge them.
Our heroes lied to us, they made us feel Abacha was the villain in the whole story.
The Nigerian military has been a scam right from the onset.
🔥 This Week’s Africa Startup & Funding Digest
Apex VC Fund (Innovation and Transformation Centre)
💰 Up to $100,000 for seed and early-stage startups across Africa
🎯 Eligibility: Startups in AgriTech, FinTech, HealthTech, GovTech, AI, and CleanTech
🗓️ Deadline: Ongoing
🔗 Apply: https://t.co/0deUl9vQqn
Venture Ready Program – @PlugandPlayTC
🚀 4-month fee-free & equity-free growth program for scaling startups
🎯 Eligibility: Revenue-generating startups in Alexandria and neighboring governorates (Egypt)
🗓️ Deadline: May 21, 2026
🔗 Apply: https://t.co/XoqCxF8Wji
The Green Leaders Incubator Program
💡 Supporting bold ESG-driven and sustainable tech-enabled projects shaping Africa’s future
🎯 Eligibility: Idea-stage and prototype-stage innovators
🗓️ Deadline: May 23, 2026
🔗 Apply: https://t.co/2L3xnCtNIG
AfCFTA Startup Acceleration Programme 2026
🌐 Scale your startup into Korea and global markets with support from @AfCFTA & Korea Africa Foundation (KAF)
🎯 Eligibility: Startups in fintech, e-commerce, logistics, agri-tech, manufacturing, and digital platforms
🗓️ Deadline: May 24, 2026
🔗 Apply: https://t.co/uNni67idYM
Future Founders Programme 2026 (YönBox Innovation Hub)
💡 Virtual entrepreneurship initiative helping innovators build practical African solutions
🎯 Eligibility: Students, innovators, young professionals, and first-time founders
🗓️ Deadline: May 25, 2026
🔗 Apply: https://t.co/uR6KO3Bfc3
Foundhercity Incubator Programme
👩🏾💼 3-month incubation program helping first-time women entrepreneurs transform ideas into thriving ventures
🎯 Eligibility: Female undergraduates or recent graduates in Nigeria
🗓️ Deadline: May 26, 2026
🔗 Apply: https://t.co/ko9y6zFNrF
@UNICEF Startup Lab – Safely Managed Sanitation Hackathon
💰 GHS 110,000 prototype funding + bootcamp + expert mentorship to design and build tech-enabled sanitation systems in Northern Ghana
🎯 Eligibility: Developers, data experts & WASH/health innovators
🗓️ Deadline: May 29, 2026
🔗 Apply: https://t.co/IZdAu83Ob0
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GitHub just got hacked, a single VS Code extension did it.
→ Nx Console (2.2M installs) got hijacked, credential stealer hidden in an orphan commit
→ it harvested tokens from GitHub, npm, AWS, Kubernetes, even 1Password
→ a GitHub employee installed it
→ attackers accessed ~3,800 of GitHub's internal repositories
→ threat actor "TeamPCP" is now selling the stolen data on the dark web
→ the poisoned version was live for only 11 minutes before detection
→ GitHub confirmed it and spent the night rotating all critical secrets
one extension, 11 minutes. 3,800 internal repos compromised.
check your extensions right now.