Tejumade Afonja

Ph.D Student at CISPA and Co-founder @aisaturdaylagos | General Chair @deepindaba 2025 | Fellow @datascifellows 2022 | ex Student Researcher @GoogleDeepMind

[Tejumade Afonja @tejuafonja]

"We set ourselves up as arbiters of what is good when often our standards of goodness are driven by narrow interests, by what we want" - Robin Wall Kimmerer

[TRI AI Saturdays (formerly AI Saturdays Lagos) @AISaturdayLagos]

It’s been 8+ years of building this amazing community, and now we want to hear from you.

How has TRI AI impacted your journey?

Fill out our Community Impact Survey and let us know.

🔗https://t.co/YPL335yUQk

[Tejumade Afonja @tejuafonja]

Shame on you.

[Home Office @ukhomeoffice]

Under the Earned Settlement model set out before Parliament today, the right to live in the UK permanently will no longer be granted automatically after five years.

Instead, it will be earned.

Under the reforms:

➡️The standard route to settlement will double from five to 10 years
➡️ People who enter illegally, including by small boat, face a wait of up to 30 years to settle
➡️ Care workers who meet the visa requirements will retain a five-year route
➡️ Higher earners on more than £50,000, skilled public service workers and refugees arriving on safe and legal routes will be able to settle in five years
➡️ Migrants who claim benefits face a 20-year wait for settlement
➡️ Migrants with a criminal record will be prevented from settling in the UK
➡️ Migrants will be required to meet A-level standard English to settle in the UK

[Tejumade Afonja @tejuafonja]

I haven't been able to fully get back into X like the good ol days when it was called twitter (& before I deleted my prev account) but I came across @karpathy tweet about @askalphaxiv and I like it so far! So, thanks Andrej - you remain goated :+)

https://t.co/pGBd2vmr8G

[TRI AI Saturdays (formerly AI Saturdays Lagos) @AISaturdayLagos]

Today, we celebrate the team behind TRI AI's tech and our voice.

Mmesoma Osele, Iwejuo_Gerald, Favour Barau, and Imran Musa Bello volunteer to keep our tech running and our story told.

Thank you team!

#MeetOurVolunteers #TRIAI

[Tejumade Afonja @tejuafonja]

@2ayasalama Have you considered reaching out to the committee about this? Maybe would be willing to reconsider the disqualification and fairly evaluate your application.

[Tejumade Afonja @tejuafonja]

@2ayasalama Oh no. I'm so so so so about this.

[TRI AI Saturdays (formerly AI Saturdays Lagos) @AISaturdayLagos]

Join @AyoOdumakinde as he unpacks why our inherited evaluation assumptions fail for live agentic environments nd how to fix them.

Tommorow, Sat, 24 Oct 2026 | 10:00 AM WAT
🔗RSVP: https://t.co/IbYar7hQoY

Don't miss this deep dive!

#TRIAI #AIAgents #ExpertColloquium

[TRI AI Saturdays (formerly AI Saturdays Lagos) @AISaturdayLagos]

AI models have evolved, but how we evaluate them hasn't caught up.

This Saturday, the TRI AI #Expert_Colloquium_Series tackles one of the biggest AI challenges today: Evaluating AI Agents.

RSVP: https://t.co/IbYar7hQoY

[TRI AI Saturdays (formerly AI Saturdays Lagos) @AISaturdayLagos]

Port Harcourt came through!

Community members, learners, and AI/ML enthusiasts came together to learn, network, and have fun.

Thanks to @GoogleDeepMind & Inspace for partnering with us.

Up next, KANO!!!

#TRIAI #TRIAISaturdays #TRIAICohort10

[TRI AI Saturdays (formerly AI Saturdays Lagos) @AISaturdayLagos]

Welcome to Week 13!

Due to unforeseen circumstances, Aminu Hamza Nababa is unfortunately not able to join us this week to teach the lab and lecture sessions. We wish him the best and hope to see him in future cohorts.

Blessed Guda steps in to handle this week’s sessions.

[Tejumade Afonja @tejuafonja]

@sarahookr Hehe :+) Are we in sync sis ? ;)

[Tejumade Afonja @tejuafonja]

@AISaturdayLagos Cohort 10 Week 12 is all about the Transformer Architecture. Tune in
https://t.co/Ecc4EmRETP

[TRI AI Saturdays (formerly AI Saturdays Lagos) @AISaturdayLagos]

Week 12 of Cohort 10 is here and this week's topic is the idea that changed everything in modern AI.

Topic: THE ATTENTION MECHANISM - The idea that made transformers possible. The idea behind every modern LLM.

Meet Blessed Guda; our instructor for the week.

[TRI AI Saturdays (formerly AI Saturdays Lagos) @AISaturdayLagos]

ABUJA tomorrow, KADUNA next!

The TRI AI Saturdays Community Meetup is coming to Kaduna.

Sat, 22 Aug 2026 | 9AM

Register to secure your spot (closes 21st Aug):
https://t.co/rGLSclDor4

Don't forget, ABUJA is up first, this Sat 15th Aug.

#TRIAI #TRIAISaturdays #TRIAICohort10

[TRI AI Saturdays (formerly AI Saturdays Lagos) @AISaturdayLagos]

Wednesday's Lab set the tone for Week 11.

Tomorrow's Lecture takes Cohort 10 into a deep dive.

Our instructor for tomorrow is Olumide Okubadejo

Olumide is a technologist and AI Research Scientist with a PhD in AI Image Processing from Université Grenoble Alpes.

[TRI AI Saturdays (formerly AI Saturdays Lagos) @AISaturdayLagos]

What a week at Deep Learning Indaba 2026.

Team TRI AI showed up as organizers, poster presenters, and booth hosts and it was incredible.

Thank you to everyone who stopped by our booth, asked questions, and connected with us. Meeting our community was the best part of the week.

[TRI AI Saturdays (formerly AI Saturdays Lagos) @AISaturdayLagos]

Third in-person TRI AI Saturdays meetup of the year, done. Second time in Lagos! 🇳🇬

Huge thanks to Prof. Victor Odumuyiwa @vodumuyiwa for gracing us and for his support via our partnership with @nithub_lag

Abuja, you're next!

#TRIAI #TRIAISaturdays #TRIAICohort10

[Tejumade Afonja @tejuafonja]

@JeffDean All the best, Jeff.

[TRI AI Saturdays (formerly AI Saturdays Lagos) @AISaturdayLagos]

Week 10 of Cohort 10 is here and our instructor has spent his career solving some of the hardest optimisation problems in engineering.

Meet Fortune Adekogbe @fortsadek

[Tejumade Afonja @tejuafonja]

@_stevenkolawole @em07_adoz Aww, Steven!! Thank you for the kind words. @em07_adoz it was lovely meeting you. Please say hello if you see me around.