BILLY

Benson👨‍🎤
Master Builder👨🏿‍💻
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@SaiprisHQ keeps me up at night.

[BILLY @__benxn]

Today, more and more businesses rely on the automation and inter-operational efficiency that newer technology affords.

#Thread

[TalkTechWithTracy🤓👩‍💻 | Fashion Tech @TracyhansPeter]

Like guy 😅😅😅😅
Meanwhile you’ve not eaten
You’re using your last card for subscriptions
Running on reserve
Trading midnight sleeps for what can I do better
How do I reach more users
How do I break even
How do I get funded
So many how’s with no answers
Suffering & smiling 😅

[BILLY @__benxn]

I was just saying this today. How can I trust an insecticide that cannot choke me small; all in the name of odorless.

If it no get odor na knife it wan use kill the insects?

[SB @seyedele]

The first thing you need to understand is that insecticide is no longer what it used to be in this country.

My brother been flit my room yesterday and I just walked in to pick up my laptop and do one or two things, only for me to hear him complaining outside that he had just flitted (flote? flite? 🤔) the room and why did I go in.

In the prime days of Mobil, Rambo and Baygon, you no go even live to hear the complain. Na your asphyxiated body dem go drag comot for the room.

Game’s gone fr fr 💔

[BILLY @__benxn]

Literally and figuratively

[Ebuka Obi-Uchendu @Ebuka]

So, Apple finally folded

[Saipris @SaiprisHQ]

This is one of the problems we are thinking about as we build Saipris.

How can schools make learner support easier to coordinate without losing the context that makes each person’s work useful?

How does your school currently keep everyone supporting a learner on the same page?

[Saipris @SaiprisHQ]

The goal is not to make everyone responsible for everything.

It is to make sure the right information reaches the right people, and that support can continue over time.

That is what turns inclusion from a good intention into a consistent practice.

[Saipris @SaiprisHQ]

A teacher needs to understand what matters in the classroom.

A SEN educator needs the information needed to support learning access.

A therapist needs the goals and progress relevant to their work.

Parents need a clear picture of what they can support at home.

[Saipris @SaiprisHQ]

This is why inclusion needs structure.

The school needs a clear way to organise the relevant information, support plans and progress around a learner.

Each person does not need to see everything.

They need to see what is relevant to their role.

[Saipris @SaiprisHQ]

Each person can be doing meaningful work while the overall support remains disconnected.

Information gets passed around informally.

Important context can be missed.

And when responsibility changes, people may have to piece the learner’s story together again.

[Saipris @SaiprisHQ]

A teacher may know what is happening in the classroom.

A SEN educator may understand the learner’s support needs.

A therapist may be working towards specific goals.

Parents may have important observations from home.

[Saipris @SaiprisHQ]

Inclusion is often discussed as a commitment.

But what happens when several people are responsible for supporting the same learner?

That is where many schools face a less visible problem: keeping the support connected.

[BILLY @__benxn]

@godonly1 @chinedu_10 The genocide that is already ravaging our backyard and we are doing nothing about it or which other genocide?

Why are we talking as if we are not all in this Nigeria.

[chinedu🦀 @chinedu_10]

The criticism around the Terra guys is wildly disconnected from reality.

Picture this: you walk into a room of Nigerian investors and pitch a drone company in Nigeria. They’d laugh you out of the building. And yet it’s mostly people who’ve never built a thing in their lives doing the loudest wailing.

Have you seen how this country treats innovation? Little to no support. No infrastructure. No patient capital. So what exactly do critics expect these founders to do turn down real investment to preserve some nonexistent sovereignty?

Calling it a CIA takeover or saying they “sold their soul” is lazy commentary. If you feel that strongly, put your money where your mouth is. Create a fund. Back the next one. But that requires effort, and outrage is free.

Look at companies like Nord or Innoson. How many times has the government genuinely supported them? And I don’t mean buying a fleet of cars for a photo op I mean actual structural policy. Ban fairly used imports. Create financing plans that make locally made vehicles accessible. Build an ecosystem. They won’t do any of that. But the moment a foreign entity shows interest in a Nigerian company, suddenly everyone’s a nationalist.

If you fail to keep your own house clean, someone else will do it for you. That’s not a conspiracy that’s cause and effect. Do what you can with what you have. Shikena.

[BILLY @__benxn]

@onyinyee_n @RealJgr8 @olayinka_pen I don’t think he is talking about competence here, our judicial system is very rotten. As a lawyer there’s a limit to how much you can do in some cases.

You may be competent but facing a corrupt judge or opposition council weakens your client’s chances.

[BILLY @__benxn]

@ikenjoku_david @AnyinaChidi @SemudaraAbayomi It’s possible they have sovereignty safeguards around the deal that we are not aware of but we focus too much on potential downside.

If Terra industries shut down today, another (possibility American) company can pick up exactly where they stopped.

[BILLY @__benxn]

@ikenjoku_david @AnyinaChidi @SemudaraAbayomi Our leaders are doing more damage to our security every single day that when this foreign investment is doing.

Nigeria doesn’t have any dog in the fight when it comes to to intelligence so what information will this partnership expose that the US doesn’t have already

[BILLY @__benxn]

@KayLax61418 @SemudaraAbayomi When the other option is to let the business die, what do you think is the right decision to make?

[Darlington @0xdarlington]

I have no dog in this fight, but it’s not the straightforward picture you paint here.

Building a food delivery app, the 10 millionth fintech app etc is very different from building a “defense company for the global south”, or building the “LLM for the global south” etc.

There are certain businesses that play directly into geopolitics; defense is one, information, semiconductors, energy are another.

It’s sad a company as distinguished as Terra has to seek outside capital to build, more particularly seek it from the devil (you know who).

But it’s stupid to blame them, they already mentioned they tried raising from local funds to no avail.

That’s why I find it funny when people assume Africa could somewhat work or be built from a capitalistic angle. There’s never going to be proper industrialization (which we badly need), without government intervention.

Even the very capitalistic America, works because of the government. If you’re doubting it go do a bit of reading on the lengths the government go to for the big dogs.

Companies like Terra are meant to be mostly government backed. Do you even know how critical defense is? Imagine building a system which when critically needed could be rendered useless with a single call from Washington.

We speak big about sovereignty but Nigeria and most of Africa are still very much as colonized as they once were just rather unofficially. Dependency on foreign capital, foreign infrastructure, with no will to break out of the mess we are.

China already did the homework, we really just have to copy. Until then, let’s keep salivating at the idea of “sovereignty”

[BILLY @__benxn]

All these HR gymnastics is the reason I hate job applications.

[BILLY @__benxn]

@slimsuki_ Unemployment is also toxic 😂