Onyedikachi D. Ngidi

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[Adedayo Agarau @adedayoagarau]

I'm 31. I'll be 69 by the time Nigeria finish paying the 2015-2026 debts. This year alone, BAT has added $7.77bn this year alone.

So I made a tool that tells you how old you'll be when Nigeria finish servicing some of the 2015-2026 debts. Vote wisely.

https://t.co/zUCDgYm1oe

[Onyedikachi D. Ngidi @Unclegodd]

@Officially_Kriz The real product is always you, not what you’re selling or not selling.

[Onyedikachi D. Ngidi @Unclegodd]

@Rufyb CFA full your head!

[Onyedikachi D. Ngidi @Unclegodd]

@MasterBolaji Finally some good news about security

[Onyedikachi D. Ngidi @Unclegodd]

Nigeria is a conundrum.

A lot has been said about 2050. If the upside plays out as projected the optimists win, and they don’t just win, they win big.

Only the pessimists with internal (Japa) experience win cos they just come back home as expats.

[Mobilisingnigerians™ @mobilisingniger]

This is numbers of motorcycle moving Lithium earth minerals from (Daba) Old Oyo National Park to Kishi or Igbeti, and each of this Okada riders charge 12000naira per bag, the individuals acting like a union for the motorcycle rake about 20-50million naira while those working for the union daily take home is 200,000naira.

The whole illegal mining stuff is a cabal and a organised crime.

[Business Nerd @Business_Nerd_]

Jane Fraser, CEO of Citi and the first woman to lead a Big Four US bank, on the piece of advice that rewired the next decade of her career:

Early in her time at Citi, the firm's then-CEO called her into his office and asked her to bring her development plan. She wrote one up that night and brought it in. He tore it up in front of her. "Do you remember when Nancy Pelosi just tore up the things behind the president? That's what he did to my development plan."

Then he reframed the entire exercise.

"You're thinking about it all wrong. You are laying out a plan as to what are the jobs you would like and how you get there. What you need to think about is how are you going to succeed in those jobs."

The distinction sounds small. It isn't. Most ambitious people build career plans around titles, the next promotion, the next rung, the C-suite seat they want by 40. He was telling her to invert it: start from the job you eventually want to do well, work backwards to the skills, relationships, and exposures required to do it well, and then go acquire those even if the path looks weird from the outside.

Jane took the advice literally. She continues:

"It completely changed the next 10 years of my life. I went around doing much more lateral moves. I went out systematically building what are the different skill sets, relationships, things I would need to know to have the jobs at the C suite of Citi, rather than just laying out an aspiration."

That's how a London-based private bank head ended up running the mortgage business out of a call centre 45 miles outside St. Louis, at the back end of the mortgage crisis, with no mortgage experience. From the outside it looked like a demotion. From the inside it was a deliberate acquisition: how to run a factory business, how to operate in a crisis, exposure to Congress, a whole new category of risk.

She closes the thought with the line that ties it all together:

"Go the unorthodox path. But think about what are the skills, skill sets and things I need to be successful in the job, not how do I get the job. Because surprise, surprise, you will get the job if you have the skills to be successful in it."

[Onyedikachi D. Ngidi @Unclegodd]

@winexviv 19 others you say? This is amazing. My state has transformed

[Onyedikachi D. Ngidi @Unclegodd]

@Rufyb I read your article on LinkedIn, my investment approach just changed

[Ben Cera @Bencera]

My mission is to turn 1,000,000,000 people into founders.

AGI is here. The hard part now is harnessing AI agents to run a whole business end-to-end, without making mistakes.

It's a very hard task, and I'm working 16-hour days to make it real.

Everyone is a founder.

[Name cannot be blank @hackSultan]

All the scams that has happened in Nigeria in the last 10 years isn’t up to $3.7 BILLION.

Stop thinking Nigerians lose VISA access because of issues like fraud or terrible press, the biggest reason is because we have a very low negotiating power as a country and our leaders are not doing their job.

[Kalu Aja @FinPlanKaluAja1]

"They were wrong in 1812. They were wrong in 1905. And they’re wrong again.

In 1812, English textile workers stormed mills across Yorkshire and Nottinghamshire. They smashed power looms and burned cotton frames. They called themselves Luddites, after a possibly mythical weaver named Ned Ludd who’d supposedly done the same years before.

Their grievance was simple: the machines were taking their jobs.

They were right about the short term… but spectacularly wrong about the long term.

The power loom didn’t destroy textile work. It created an industry so large Britain built an empire around it. By 1850, there were more textile workers in England than there had ever been, and they were richer, worked in heated buildings, and lived longer.

I call this the Wrecker’s Fallacy: the belief that a tool which replaces one task will destroy all the tasks around it. It sounds sensible. It’s almost always false.

When Gutenberg invented the printing press, scribes panicked. The Church worried about large-scale heresy. Scholars warned that cheap books would drown readers in bad ideas.

But what happened instead? Literacy skyrocketed. Yes, the scribes disappeared. But new professions like editors, typesetters, publishers, and journalists came into being. The written word had become a generous employer indeed.

When the car arrived, blacksmiths and livery stable owners screamed doom. The auto industry killed its trade.

What also happened? America built 4 million miles of road. Mechanics, gas stations, trucking, tourism, suburbs, and fast food emerged from nothing. It gave us more employment, not less.

When spreadsheets hit in the 1980s, accountants feared mass unemployment. The opposite occurred. Cheap computing made financial analysis so useful that demand for accountants rose sharply for the next two decades."

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[Chidi Anselm Odinkalu, CGoF @ChidiOdinkalu]

Let's be clear: The claim by the chairman of @officialEFCC labelling 60% of students in #Nigeria's tertiary universities as criminals is plainly irresponsible & unconscionable.

It is not law enforcement.

1st, it is outside the statutory responsibility of the #EFCC to profile a demographic or social group by reason of or with reference to their station in life. #Nigeria's constitution actually prohibits that.

2nd, it is already difficult enough to be young in Nigeria at this time without having to deal with being officially labelled as expendable by the authority of the Chairman of the EFCC.

3rd, the EFCC was established to go after high profile criminals & #PoliticallyExposedPersons who have designs on Nigeria's patrimony. Those are not students. They are politicians & in pursuit of that species, the record of the EFCC is - at best - abysmal. The only political rogues whom the EFCC is able or willing to pursue are those who are in opposition. Even in that, it mostly has worse than a patchy record. Those of them in the ruling party are patrons of the EFCC.

4th, the EFCC has not provided proof that its claim against or about students is founded on any study or survey that can stand the test of minimal methodological rigour. If it had, then the thing to do would be to make that report public so that its claims can be assessed with due regard to its methods.

Above all, even assuming that the EFCC has undertaken a rigorous study to inform this claim, it amounts to an irresponsible waste of public resources to focus on or prioritise students over & above the politicians who have kidnapped Nigeria & hold its citizens & communities hostage to sovereign ransom.

It will be interesting to see the EFCC's study on what proportion of Nigerian politicians are involved in criminal pillage or, in fact, what proportion of civil servants or even judges & magistrates are thieves.

Until the EFCC Chairman can produce such studies, his attempt to criminalise Nigeria's young people, especially students, must assume its pitiful place in a disreputable pantheon.

The Chairman of @officialEFCC has not yet made good on his promise to bring @OfficialGYBKogi to account.

He is still unable to comply with the order of @SupremeCourtNg to ensure the retrial of @OUKtweets.

The Commission seems congenitally wired to fail in bringing every senior politician to account, including those caught with their hands in the proverbial cookie jar.

The EFCC should not be this idle or distracted.

It is unfortunate that a succession of public servants with pathetically thin records of achievement turn on Nigeria's young people & students when they should have more important things to do.

https://t.co/pcptuj12VX

[JUST KINGS @JustKingss]

If this appears on your timeline just repost it.

#EndPoliceBrutality ✊🏾

[Onyedikachi D. Ngidi @Unclegodd]

Great insight here

[Brutox @Itsbrutox]

One man is building the future.

• Tesla - how we move
• SpaceX - how we leave Earth
• Neuralink - how we think
• Starlink - how we connect
• xAI - how AI evolves
• X - how we communicate
• Robotaxi - autonomous transport
• Boring Company - how cities move

All of it.

He’s not even 60.

Terrifying or inspiring?

[Kalu Aja @FinPlanKaluAja1]

The US president has a private helicopter
Nigerian President has private Helicopter

The US president has a private jet
Nigerian President has a private jet

The US president has an armoured SUV
Nigerian President has an armoured SUV

The US president posted his tax returns
Nigerian President has private Helicopter

The US president pays for meals in WH
Nigerian President has a private jet

The US president does press conference
Nigerian President has armoured SUV

🙃

[Tokunbo Wahab @tokunbo_wahab]

I met with Adetokunbo Ogunnoiki @tokunboxyz , a young graduate of mathematics from the University of Ibadan, and his startup partner Ademola Gbadero, after his viral post on X caught my attention. They proposed a tech platform that uses geo mapping to help Lagosians locate clean and available public toilets in real time, with features like cleanliness ratings, walking directions, and estimated arrival times. They have already deployed a similar solution on their university campus with success.

I invited them in, listened to their presentation alongside the Special Adviser to the Governor on e-GIS, Dr. Olajide Babatunde, and the Director of Sanitation Services, Dr. Hassan Sanuth. Fascinated by the idea and impressed by their depth of work, I approved the proposal on the spot and requested a comprehensive budget for the next meeting in a few days.

This project will further bolster our drive for a cleaner Lagos under Governor @jidesanwoolu led administration. We welcome objective criticism that offers solutions, not outright condemnation, insults and curses. Governance is about collective solutions and empowering the next generation.

#AGreaterLagosRising

[Onyedikachi D. Ngidi @Unclegodd]

Current obsession: Financial modeling and Valuation

Stage: moving from simple models to complex infrastructure models with multi decade timelines.

more to come

[Onyedikachi D. Ngidi @Unclegodd]

@Rufyb @cowrywise Chief marketer… @cowrywise