Check out this Tutorial I wrote that walks you through start to finish everything you need to build a full-stack Pyramid scheme on @Algorand using some of my favorite tools.
- @reachlang
-Next.js
-Typescript
#blockchain#typescript#nextjs#reachlang https://t.co/Gcmi8jdzZV
Fellow Nigerians, good morning.
I woke up this morning after my church service with a deeply reflective heart, and despite every constraint, I felt compelled to share these thoughts with you.
Many people do not truly understand the silent pains some of us carry daily—the private struggles, emotional burdens, and quiet battles we face while trying to survive and serve sincerely in difficult circumstances.
We now live in an environment that has become increasingly toxic, where the very system that should protect and create opportunities for decent living often works against the people—a society where intimidation, insecurity, endless scrutiny, and discouragement have become normal.
More painful is when some of those you associate with, believing you would find understanding and solidarity among them, become part of the pressure you face. Some who publicly identify with you privately distance themselves or join in unfair criticism.
We live in a society where humility is mistaken for weakness, respect is seen as a lack of courage, and compassion is treated as foolishness—a system where treating people equally is questioned simply because you refuse to worship status, tribe, class, or power.
Personally, I have never looked down on anyone except to uplift them. I have never used privilege, position, or resources to oppress others, intimidate the weak, or make people feel small. To me, leadership has always been about service, sacrifice, and helping others rise.
Let me state clearly: my decision to leave the ADC is not because our highly respected Chairman, Senator David Mark, treated me badly, nor because my leader and elder brother, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, or any other respected leaders did anything personally wrong to me. I will continue to respect them.
However, the same Nigerian state and its agents that created unnecessary crises and hostility within the Labour Party that forced me to leave now appear to be finding their way into the ADC, with endless court cases, internal battles, suspicion, and division, instead of focusing on deeper national problems and playing politics built more on control and exclusion than on service and nation-building.
Even within spaces where one labours sincerely, one is sometimes treated like an outsider in one’s own home. You and your team become easy targets for every failure, frustration, or misunderstanding, as though honest contribution has become a favour being tolerated rather than appreciated.
And when you choose to leave so that those you are leaving can have peace, and you step out into the cold, you are still maligned and your character is questioned. Despite all your efforts to continue working for a better Nigeria and engaging people with sincerity and goodwill, those who do not wish you well continue to attack your character and question your intentions.
There are moments I ask God in prayer: Why is doing the right thing often misconstrued as wrongdoing in our country? Why is integrity not valued? Why is the prudent management of resources, especially when invested in critical areas like education and healthcare, wrongly labelled as stinginess? Why are humility and obedience to the rule of law often taken to be weakness rather than discipline?
Let me assure all that I am not desperate to be President, Vice President, or Senate President. I am desperate to see a society that can console a mother whose child has been kidnapped or killed while going to school or work. I am desperate to see a Nigeria where people will not live in IDP camps but in their homes. I am desperate for a country where Nigerian citizens do not go to bed hungry, not knowing where their next meal will come from.
Yet, despite everything, I remain resolute. I firmly believe that Nigeria can still become a country with competent leadership based on justice, compassion, and equal opportunity for all.
A new Nigeria is POssible. -PO
A maliciously edited 15-minute snippet of a recent livestream I was on with Precious Enyi and Judd Saul's Nigerian water carrier has been floating about
If you're interested in watching the actual conversation where I spoke for over 40 minutes, it's here:
https://t.co/17c5zdOmjF
Wow. Alibaba Cloud just launched Coding Plan.
Starting at just $3/month for 18,000 requests.
For that price, you get access to 4 of the best open-weight models right now without needing to subscribe to multiple platforms:
- Qwen 3.5-Plus (multimodal)
- Kimi K2.5 (multimodal)
- GLM 5
- MiniMax M2.5
how to build a bootstrapped startup without funding:
1. pick a problem you personally have. if you don't use your own product daily, quit now
2. skip the pitch deck. open your code editor. ship something ugly in a weekend
3. charge money from day 1. free users give you nothing but support tickets
4. use boring tech. PHP, SQLite, vanilla JS. frameworks are a trap that mass waste your time
5. host on cheap VPS ($5-20/mo). not AWS. you don't need kubernetes for 1,000 users
6. do customer support yourself. it's the fastest product feedback loop that exists
7. automate everything you do more than twice. cron jobs > employees.
8. grow on Twitter/X by building in public. your journey IS the marketing
9. keep your burn rate near zero so you never need to raise. ramen profitable > series A
10. say no to investors, cofounders, and "advisors" who want equity for intros
i've been doing this for 10+ years now. no employees, no funding, no board meetings
the entire VC game is designed to make you think you need permission to start
you don't
I'm just happy to be alive at a time when you have to really work hard to not see who the actual criminals messing up the world for everybody are.
They've spent so long successfully creating boogeymen and red herrings for the whole world to waste time and energy fighting over, like "Islamic terrorist", "tyrannical African strongman", "ghetto Black criminal", "Latino gangster" etc.
Meanwhile it was one tiny group of white people in London, Paris, Washington DC and Tel-Aviv who were the entire spectrum of terrorist, criminal, brutal dictator and gangster tormenting the whole world all along.
And now the evidence is in the open everywhere. "The US government trains and supplies drug cartels" is no longer a "conspiracy theory" - it's now a picture on Twitter.
If you like, don't decouple from this diseased western parasite civilisation and find value in your African self in your African land. Continue chasing their "investment" and "grants." Continue immigrating to their dying countries. Continue worshipping their racist God. Continue taking their economic and political instructions. Continue taking their "education" seriously, and continue carrying their diseased ideologies on your head.
When you eventually wake up, your morning will be brutal.