usman

Mechatronics, AI, and the science of data ||

An old boy from the North ||

[usman @usmanbiu]

Hi @Halal_Match
hope you have been good

[Abu Jawad @Abu_Jawaadd]

Retweet Help and SAVE the Life Of This Boy.
They’ve been nursing this child at UDUTH Hospital, Sokoto, since before Ramadan began.

They observed the fast here, they performed Salah here, and until now they are still here at ICH with this child.

The child’s name is Usman. His father is Sulaiman from Ruwan Ɗorowa village in Maru Local Government Area, Zamfara State.

His father is a hardworking man who strives for his family, but this child’s medical treatment has completely drained him beyond measure, to the point where even affording food has become difficult for them.

With this, we are seeking your help for the child’s medical procedure, ₦450,000, for the sake of Allah.

For anyone whom Allah has blessed with something to assist them, here are the account details:

8105891413
Alhassan Musa
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May Allah grant the ability to help, Ameen.

Please help us by sharing — perhaps Allah will place someone among your followers who will assist.

[Quds News Network @QudsNen]

Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Katz met with the soldiers (wearing masks) who sexually assaulted a Palestinian detainee, apologized to them for what he described as 'the psychological harm' by the military system and ordered their return to the army.

[usman @usmanbiu]

@fisayosoyombo Woke up to see a "not so surprising" trend on X concerning the passport process. Some people are defending/deflecting away from the wrongs of the current system, likely for some personal benefit and would return to complain when something affects them negatively.

[Bello Saleh, PhD بيللؤ ساليح۔ @bellosaleh]

NIGERIAN STRAWBERRIES

Nigeria built the strawberry value chain on a runway..the plane left! Now the harvest has nowhere to go.

We’ve entered strawberry season (November - February) with no credible way to move berries out of Jos.

For years, Arik was the only lifeline. In our own operations, we paid more per kg in air cargo than we paid farmers per kg of produce. Logistics cost more than the fruit, and we still paid for it, because at least the berries arrived fresh and wholesome across the country.

But overnight, it collapsed, Arik stopped flying into Jos (Oct 2025). ValueJet is now the only carrier flying out from Jos, and they refused to carry strawberries.

So today, Nigeria has strawberries, but Nigeria cannot move strawberries.

So you would suggest using the road? Only if you’ve never tried it.

Fresh strawberries survive 1–4 days at room temperature. That is the entire window.

On our last attempt by road, we used Styrofoam boxes (additional cost), packed ice for 48 hours, turned prayer warrior against checkpoint delays and rough roads, but still lost 20–30% to sweating fruit, broken boxes, heat pockets and delays. You can’t get any refund, just absorb the losses and move on.
Road is not a solution today. It’s a controlled disaster.

One question from a farmer tells the whole story.

“Should I harvest, or let it rot so the loss impact is smaller?”

Peak harvest is here (15–30 tons/hectare), but farmers are debating whether picking their crop is the bigger loss. This is what a system failure sounds like, not some headlines or reports.

And this is not only a cold chain issue, the flaw runs deeper.

Nigeria built production without securing logistics, food security is logistics security. We’re not losing strawberries because farmers don’t know how to grow them, we’re losing them because a berry’s entire value chain depended on a plane we didn’t control.

If Plateau produces ~700 tons this season and we lose 50% due to lack of movement, 350 tons will rot in 120 days. By April, Lagos will import strawberries, puree and concentrate while fresh berries rot in Jos.

This season will decide whether Nigeria has a strawberry industry or just a strawberry harvest.

But this is the conversation Nigeria avoids, we celebrate yields without asking how food moves across the value chain, we talk about food security while losing food to logistics, not production, we push “value addition” while value dies at the farm gate, long before processing ever begins.

Strawberries are just the clearest example of a delicate fruit with a 4-day lifespan exposing a national blind spot.

However this isn’t a tragedy waiting to happen. It’s a test.

If harvest only creates beauty on the Plateau and scarcity in Lagos and the rest of the country, the numbers will speak louder than any report.

At the end of four months, one question will remain. What is the value of production if we cannot deliver the product?

Until we answer that honestly, we will keep planting pride and harvesting loss.

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@NGRPresident @nassnigeria
@FmardNg
@PLSGov
@CalebMutfwang

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

In a normal world, this should be an immense scandal in Europe.

Le Monde has a long article (https://t.co/HsWFThQ5wF) describing the hellish life of Nicolas Guillou, a French judge at the ICC in The Hague, due to U.S. sanctions punishing him for authorizing arrest warrants against Netanyahu and Gallant for war crimes in Gaza.

Guillou's daily existence has been transformed into a Kafkaesque nightmare. He cannot: open or maintain accounts with Google, Amazon, Apple, or any US company; make hotel reservations (Expedia canceled his booking in France hours after he made it); conduct online commerce, since he can't know if the packaging is American; use any major credit card (Visa, Mastercard, Amex are all American); access normal banking services, even with non-American banks, as banks worldwide close sanctioned accounts; conduct virtually any financial transaction.

He describes it as being "economically banned across most of the planet," including in his own country, France, and where he works, the Netherlands.

That's the real shocking aspect of this: the Americans are:
- punishing a European citizen
- for doing his job in Europe
- applying laws Europe officially supports
- at an institution based in Europe
- that Europe helped create and fund

and Europe is not only doing essentially nothing to protect him, they're actively enforcing America's sanctions against their own citizen - European banks closing his accounts, European companies refusing him service, European institutions standing by while Washington destroys a European judge's life on European soil.

Again, in a normal world, European leaders and citizens should be absolutely outraged about this. But we've so normalized the hollowing out of European sovereignty that the sight of a European citizen being economically executed on European soil for upholding European law is treated, at best, as an unfortunate technical complication in transatlantic relations.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Why do farmers release bags of tiny crab larvae into rice fields?

[🎞️ dalli_mickey_mouse]

[usman @usmanbiu]

@optomachina 👋 hi

[Neto @docneto]

The Nigerian federal government has just released N33 billion to primary healthcare centres, state health insurance schemes and state emergency management committees.

This money will loss if you don't actively monitor it.

for PHCs - go to https://t.co/gsuOg5gYLd find your PHCs location. Go visit, ask them for reports on how they spend the money. Ask to join the council. Follow them up every week.

For state health insurance schemes. Download the wellahealth report here https://t.co/aFcqhc1WOF. Find details for your state. Go ask them how they're spending the money they're getting. Follow them up every week.

For Emergency care. Contact your state ministry of health and ask about the emergency committee, the ambulances theyr should buy, the call center they should set up. Ask for the emergency number you can call. Test it and see if it's working. Follow them up weekly.

If you and I do this today and follow up every day, our healthcare will be excellent in no time. If we don't, it's only a matter of time before Nigeria will happen to us and we will lament but it will be too late.

[Typical African @Joe__Bassey]

For years now the genocide and killings in Congo and Sudan have been ongoing. Africans really need to create a solution to solve these problems and killings, we need to know that the world doesn’t care about Africa except its resources.

[Zee @zbits33]

“To offend a weak man tell him the truth” - Marcus Aurelius

[massimiliano tanzini @tanzmax]

#FreeHussamAbuSafiya

['Fisayo Soyombo @fisayosoyombo]

IKEDC Official Inflates Bill After Lagos Tenants Resisted Request for Bribe https://t.co/i7FGgxcyvs

[Issa Amro عيسى عمرو 🇵🇸 @Issaamro]

Happening now: After the army raided my house, it’s now the settlers’ turn. Israeli settlers are throwing stones at my home and have tried to break in. There is no protection at all. I called the Israeli police , they can’t come was the answer.
Mohammad who was arrested from my house few hours ago, the army ambulance took him to unknown place, it seems he was shot or severely beaten.

[فردوس🇵🇸 @Firdausi_um_]

Please help repost

[Hon. Red Pen ❗️ @Minikothe3rd]

There’s an ongoing social media Israeli sponsored propaganda going on against Nigeria, white influencers are being paid to be throwing some serious and insanely false figures of Christians being killed in Nigeria, projecting it as some genocide against Christians.

Speak Up !!!!!

[usman @usmanbiu]

The recent email notifications I get from Quora are basically PR for Isreal. Did anyone else notice that?

[Tom London @TomLondon6]

Do you HEAR that sound...?

TWO MILLION people are being starved, bombed and shot to DEATH, right now, at this moment

Western politicians and Western media are SILENT

Their SILENCE is DEAFENING

WHAT WORLD IS THIS?

[WearThePeace @WearThePeaceCo]

Gaza is being exterminated.

[Abdulrahman Ecotox 🌱🐈‍⬛ @Ibnsulaiman01]

🆘FINAL PUSH TO SAVE ABDULRAZAQ!
After over 2 years of pain, struggle and resilience. @IamAdebajo is finally cleared and scheduled for surgery, but unless the full balance is paid this week, he won’t be attended to.

Over ₦77M raised, ₦38M still needed ⏰

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