Samkay

パフォーマンス、平和、そして進歩💪

[Samkay @SamKay25]

こんにちは、日本 🇯🇵

ナイジェリア 🇳🇬には、みんなをひとつにする料理があります…ジョロフライス。

トマトソースとスパイスでじっくり炊き上げ、薪の火で仕上げるこの料理は、ただの食べ物ではありません。誇りであり、競い合いであり、文化そのものです。

パーティーでも、お祝いでも、日曜日でも…ジョロフライスは欠かせません。

スモーキーでスパイシー、そして忘れられない味。

一口食べれば、なぜ私たちがこれで言い争うのか分かります 😄🔥

ナイジェリアのジョロフライス、食べてみたいですか？

[ูุุุุุุุุุุุุุุุุุุ𐬯𐬀𐬠𐬀𐬔𐬎𐬠𐬛 𐬰𐬀𐬥𐬌𐬐𐬀🦋 @masayasan201911]

(聴こえますか、アラブやパキスタン、イラン等にいるインプレゾンビのみなさん、、、カタコトでもいいので日本語でしゃべりながら地元の料理や音楽をカメラで撮ったもの、自分の日本語学習進捗をXにアップロードしインプレを稼ぐのです、、、そちらのほうがハラールです)

[Michael Taiwo @AskMichaelTaiwo]

My first day on campus, the graduate school coordinator looked at me and warned me about bribery.

Because I am Nigerian.

I passed my PhD qualifying exams in my first semester. The department turned around and offered two more scholarships to Nigerian students.

Five years after graduation, they invited me back to speak.

That speech became the book.

The people who doubt you first are often the first to celebrate you. Let them. But never forget the doubt. It is fuel.

[Nigeria Stories @NigeriaStories]

Billionaire Tony Elumelu Corrects Trainee for Calling Him 'Tony' at UBA Event

[Codie Sanchez @Codie_Sanchez]

Your success will not come from your goal setting it'll come from your daily habits repeated

[Adedeji Disu, Ph.D🇺🇸 @docdisu]

I vowed never to do my Masters in Nigeria.

Got a lot of UK offers between 2010-2012 but no funding.

Big kudos to my Dad (of blessed memory). He stayed on my neck till I got the Unilag entrance form.

Completed my MSc Structural Engineering in 24months while working full time. It was a hectic schedule.

3 years later, I got Ph.D admission in the U.S and my F1 visa was approved on first attempt.

That "no go area" may eventually become your stepping stone to achieving your ultimate goal.

Today, the rest is history.

[Michael Taiwo @AskMichaelTaiwo]

Even if he is not the Chairman, even if he is the janitor, "sense" should tell you to address him with some respect.

"Tony" 🙄 she even first said, "Toyin."

[Michael Taiwo @AskMichaelTaiwo]

One of the most common questions I get is: I have a 2:2, can I secure a fully funded scholarship?

Or, I study Arts, can I get a funded Masters or PhD program?

I think the issue here is that people have fallen into the danger of making one story THE definitive story.

Applying to grad school is not like that. (Nothing in life is.)

There are several factors that play into whether you get a fully funded graduate school admission or not.

Think of your pursuit as a system, for instance, a football club, where different players are responsible for different parts.

Ideally, you want to be strong in all areas. But that rarely happens. You play the hand you are dealt.

The fact that you are weak in one arena (e.g. GPA) doesn't mean you can't still assemble a winning team/application.

In grad school application, as in life, you won't have all the things you want but if you want it badly enough, you will find a way.

[Michael Taiwo @AskMichaelTaiwo]

Two Nigerians just closed Africa's largest seed round.

$52 million.

Not fintech. Not crypto. Defense technology.

Nathan Nwachuku and Maxwell Maduka founded Terra Industries in 2024. They build autonomous drones, sentry towers, and unmanned ground vehicles from a 15,000 sq ft factory in Abuja.

Two years in. On track to book $100 million in contracts by year-end.

A second factory in Ghana opens Q4 2026. 34,000 square feet. When fully operational, it will be the largest drone factory on the African continent. Capacity: 50,000 units per year by 2028.

Not an isolated story either.

Nigerian startups raised $214 million in equity in the first half of 2026 alone. More than Egypt. More than any other country on the continent. The strongest equity showing since 2022.

People will tell you Africa cannot build hard tech. That the continent is only good for mobile apps and consumer fintech.

Terra is manufacturing autonomous systems in Abuja and opening offices in London and San Francisco.

The narrative that Africans only consume technology is dying. Slowly, expensively, and loudly.

When a seed round from Nigeria is bigger than most Series B rounds in Europe, the conversation has already shifted.

You just have not been listening.

[Samkay @SamKay25]

Good job

[Sir Dickson @Wizarab10]

This new hospital in Ogun is very impressive. I've always maintained we need state of the art hospitals like this around the country. We can never have enough good hospitals.

Flr the good of all of us, I hope they maintain the standard because we have a maintenance problem in this country.

[Samkay @SamKay25]

Its Either i save this Money 💰 or I save my Life.

And I am saving my life first ❤️.

[Samkay @SamKay25]

Gsm- before you make phone calls you will have to go to a Business Center. Phone is now general

Internet- before you can check your mails and Surf internet. You will need to visit a business center. Now everyone has access

Water- Was scarce but now. Everyone has borehole

[Samkay @SamKay25]

@Kosiengine Ask Meta founder his first innovation.

All innovation start with hobby and curiosity about what the inventor love

[Olumide Adesina @olumidecapital]

OPay is now profitable, it posted an annual net profit of $72.5 million as against $51 million loss in 2024

[Toby @TomolaGroup]

OPay just dropped crazy numbers.

2024: $51 million loss

2025: $72.5 million profit

Revenue jumped 161% to $536 million

Transactions more than doubled to $358 billion

Monthly active users now at 39.3 million

One of the cleanest turnarounds I’ve seen in Nigerian fintech. From burning cash to printing money in a single year, and they’re already eyeing IPO.

[Michael Taiwo @AskMichaelTaiwo]

Half of Nigeria is under 18.

The median age sits around 18 years, one of the youngest on earth. Over 230 million people, and most of them are still deciding what to do with their lives. For context, Japan's median age is 49. America's is 38. Nigeria's is younger than a university freshman.

Economists call this a demographic dividend. The theory is simple: a massive young workforce enters the economy, productivity jumps, savings grow, and the country booms. South Korea did it. China did it. India is riding it now.

But the dividend is not automatic. It only works when the young people are educated, skilled, and employed. Without that, the same population bulge becomes a liability.

Right now, youth unemployment in Nigeria sits above 40 percent. Four out of ten young Nigerians who want to work cannot find it. Meanwhile GDP growth has picked up to 4.4 percent, the strongest in over a decade, and inflation has dropped from 34 to around 15 percent.

The macro numbers are moving. But the clock is louder than the progress.

Every year without enough schools, training, and jobs, that dividend window narrows. Other countries rode the wave for 20 or 30 years. Nigeria's wave is already here.

The question is not whether the youth exist. It is whether the system will meet them before the window shuts.

[Samkay @SamKay25]

You can't follow trend it's dangerous
You can only flow with trends

Staying out of trend equals to staying outdated.

The best thing is to create the trend

[Belusochim Ugochukwu @belusochim]

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.

[Michael Taiwo @AskMichaelTaiwo]

For fun, I decided to calculate this Software Engineer's "net" i.e. how much are they actually taking home?

Federal income tax, remove $66,159
California income tax, remove $24,259
Social security tax, remove $11,439
Medicare taxes, remove $5,403
California SDI payroll tax, remove $3,985

Total money removed = $111,245

In short, the government will take over one-third of his pay.

If he wants to live in a very normal one-bedroom apartment, he will need to shell out about $4K/month. If he prefers something nicer or in a safer part of town, then expect around $6K/month.

So, between taxes and housing, about $200K out of the $300K is gone.

Leaving him with only $100K

Still a respectable sum but just a third of what he is being paid.

Welcome to America.

[Samkay @SamKay25]

Its Either i save this Money 💰 or I save my Life.

And I am saving my life first ❤️.

[Samkay @SamKay25]

Life really about to get better 💜

[Samkay @SamKay25]

Interesting 🤔.

😎

[Olumide Adesina @olumidecapital]

CBN cancelled the planned N700 billion treasury bills auction for 5 August amid a sharp tightening of liquidity after it mopped up N4.7 trillion from 🇳🇬 banking system