Olawale Bashiru

On a mission to improve life, one change at a time.

[Olawale Bashiru @OlawaleTheFirst]

Financial and identity-sensitive products often need to answer one important question:

Is this a real user completing this flow?

That matters for onboarding, fraud reduction, account protection, and user trust.

[Olawale Bashiru @OlawaleTheFirst]

I’ll be publishing my second npm package soon.

[Retired Polysaccharide Patriarch @bigbrutha_]

I swear technology should have gone past needing to ask “current or savings” by now

[gst @wearegst]

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[SB @seyedele]

What I like most about this tweet is how I imagine his facial expression when he arrives Ikoyi with N400m to buy house and they show him the actual prices.

[DAIO @Theifedayo]

Where is the pedestrian walk ?

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

54 million people subscribe to Speed for free. To watch him stream a World Cup match, they have to pay FOX $20 a month.

That gap is the whole story. Speed's World Cup match streams live on FOX One, a $19.99/month service sold through YouTube's Primetime Channels storefront. The free channel everyone pictures, the one with the IRL streams and the barking, has nothing to do with it. FOX owns the English-language rights to all 104 matches. Speed owns none of them. He's the watch-along.

Here's the clever part. FOX One carries the exact same 104 games as YouTube TV's Sports Plan. Same feed, same matches. The one thing FOX One has that the cable bundle doesn't: the option to watch the game with Speed. That's the entire pitch. The creator is the differentiator.

Now look at who he reaches. 54 million subscribers. Peaks of 1 to 2 million concurrent on a regular IRL stream. An audience that skews heavily to teenage boys, the single demographic legacy sports broadcasters have spent 20 years failing to convert into paying customers.

FOX has tried to sell live sports to young men through ad reads and halftime promos for a decade. It never worked, because that audience cut the cord before they ever held it. Speed walks them straight to the checkout page.

Run the funnel. If even 1% of a 1 million viewer co-stream subscribes for a single month, that's 10,000 subs at $20 off one game. The conversion rate doesn't have to be big. The audience is.

The games were always going to air somewhere. What FOX bought was the one person who can march a million teenagers to a $20 checkout in real time. The most efficient acquisition channel on the internet, and it barks.

[Olawale Bashiru @OlawaleTheFirst]

@MissGijae Oh wow

[Olawale Bashiru @OlawaleTheFirst]

@Pheelz why is your new project not on YouTube music?

[Kunle Kenny -The Joy Dispenser @kunle_kenny]

This is now Day 35 of these children and teachers in captivity of terrorists!
What is the fate of these children and teachers even after release?
The level of damage being done to their minds and bodies in captivity is unimaginable!!! We cannot just be counting days!! Noo!! 😭😭😭

[cyn🌸 @cynugwudike]

it was a 7 year old girl

they found out because she was being hypersexual in school

[Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour @GRVlagos]

Your Excellency, unsurprisingly, this statement is an admission of failure, not a solution.

Lagosians do not need periodic emergency evacuations of mountains of refuse. What they need is a functional waste management system that prevents waste from accumulating in the first place.

For years, residents have endured overflowing dumps, uncollected refuse, blocked drainage channels, and worsening environmental conditions despite billions of naira allocated to environmental management.

The fact that you now have to “direct an immediate scale-up” after waste has already overwhelmed communities is an utter failure of leadership.

Indeed, Lagos generates over 13,000 tonnes of waste daily today, just as it did yesterday, last month, and last year. This is not a surprise. It is a known reality that should be planned for through efficient collection, waste sorting, recycling infrastructure, transfer stations, waste-to-energy investments, and transparent performance management of operators.

Like your commissioner, you cannot continue to shift responsibility to citizens to “bag their waste properly” when many communities are left without reliable and affordable waste collection services. Rightly, Citizens have a responsibility to dispose of waste properly, but government has an even greater responsibility to provide the infrastructure and systems that make proper disposal possible.

Lagos cannot continue operating reactive clean-up exercises and public relations statements whenever refuse piles become impossible to ignore.

Lagos deserves a modern, accountable, and sustainable waste management system: one that measures success not by the number of trucks deployed after a crisis, but by the absence of the crisis itself.

Again, Your Excellency, after seven years in office, why is Lagos still battling a problem that should have been solved through competent planning, execution, and oversight?

I guess the answer is obvious: if e didn’t dey, e didn’t dey.
#OURLAGOS

[Aproko Doctor Global @aproko_doctor]

Ngozi had her first baby in 2023. It was a tough delivery, but mother and child were fine. Everyone rejoiced. Fast forward 7 months…

[Aproko Doctor Global @aproko_doctor]

Planning together strengthens marriages. It is an act of love and mutual respect.

If you love your wife, you will not put her body through back-to-back stress just because you want a large family.

Sit down with your wife today. Ask her how her body feels. Talk about the timeline for your family together.

That is what real leadership looks like.

[Aproko Doctor Global @aproko_doctor]

Leaving the spacing of your children to chance stretches her body, stretches your finances, and quietly destroys the peace in your marriage.

Birth spacing isn't about having fewer children. It is about protecting the woman carrying them.

[Aproko Doctor Global @aproko_doctor]

Yet, so many men leave family planning to chance.

We think because we provide money, our job is done. We think family planning is a woman's business. It is not.

[Aproko Doctor Global @aproko_doctor]

World Health Organization recommends AT LEAST 24 months between pregnancies.

That 2-year gap is not just medical advice. It is the minimum time her body needs to heal and replace everything the first baby took.

[Olawale Bashiru @OlawaleTheFirst]

@Theoladeledada Nothing about their interaction suggests an ulterior motive though

[Nedu_🔥 @Hhonor_]

What is actually wrong with our government? These buildings already belong to the state and could be repurposed for schools, hospitals, offices, housing, or other public needs. Why destroy valuable assets when they can still serve the people?

[Babájídé @Babajiide]

Better still why not do this

Buy a flat for 150m-200m
Furnish it with 30m
Get a car 70m
Fix 1B at the new 10 year bond of 22% (gives you 220m yearly)
Have 100m as sundry!

Then you are set for life

[Kunle Kenny -The Joy Dispenser @kunle_kenny]

It’s raining HEAVILY this morning. This is DAY 34 of toddlers, children and their teachers in the bush with terrorists. They are unsheltered, malnourished, mentally and physically abused in ways we cannot even imagine! 34 Days!!! #bringbackourchidren

[Elnathan John @elnathan_john]

This is why you need journalists who are actually grounded to push back when politicians speak like this. How will you convince people whose parents, siblings and children have been slaughtered to accept back into communities those who have committed those murders, rapes and kidnappings? What will that reconciliation look like? What justice will you offer the families of those killed and assaulted? Beyond telling those who have committed serial murders to just go and sin no more, what will this negotiation involve? How will you prevent recidivism and exploitation of any such amnesty by bad actors who simply want to get the heat off their backs while they restrategise?