Alex Sumaila

Building the future of learning @useCliqueHQ @useElevateApp

[Alex Sumaila @alexsirguy]

The limits you see are often the limits your mind creates.

[Alex Sumaila @alexsirguy]

@Mochievous Owning a Toyota Highlander excited me in 2023, but today I no longer fancy driving it. The car has sat in the garage for almost a year.

Reliability means little without excitement.

[Alex Sumaila @alexsirguy]

Took a crazy ride but I’m finally back here again.

[Alex Sumaila @alexsirguy]

@TosinOlugbenga Claude Finance will target large corporates. If your product is built with SMEs in mind, you can still capture your share of the market.

[Alex Sumaila @alexsirguy]

They don’t realize that even being a technical lead or SME for a product comes with a lot of responsibility. Someone else breaks something, and you’re the first person they call, especially when it impacts revenue.

People assume that because you’re not doing all the low-level work, you’re not doing anything.

[Alex Sumaila @alexsirguy]

@seyedele We don hear o. Make Arsenal just collect their bottle at the end of the season.

[Alex Sumaila @alexsirguy]

@TosinOlugbenga @bolaabanjo @cencori Okay o.

[Alex Sumaila @alexsirguy]

@seyedele @asemota 😂😂😂😂😂

[Alex Sumaila @alexsirguy]

@seyedele @SoribeStella Lol 😂

[Alex Sumaila @alexsirguy]

@hackSultan Lack of trust and the tendency to seek cheaper alternatives offline.

[Alex Sumaila @alexsirguy]

The gross incompetence you find on the side of the agencies that were compromised is alarming. Unprotected access to files on public domains, committing production credentials to Git, plaintext user IDs, just to mention a few.

There is clearly a shortage of talent.

[David Odes @chiefdavidsays]

I emailed ByteToBreach, the threat actor behind the Sterling Bank, Remita, and now Corporate Affairs Commission breaches, with 10 accountability questions.

He answered all of them.

In my latest piece, I break down the Corporate Affairs Commission breach in full.

How he got in. What he accessed. The scale of what was taken, a second access vector into the CAC's systems that he revealed directly to me, not in any published artefact and direct confirmation on whether any corporate records were modified.

He also confirmed he was in active ransom negotiations with Sterling Bank for €250,000 before dumping their data.

The CAC has since issued a public statement. I break down what it says and what it leaves unanswered.

And he told me directly why Nigerian institutions have become his focus.

Read the full piece here:
https://t.co/wk59fdUId4

[Alex Sumaila @alexsirguy]

We made good progress on a game I’m building with my 3-year-old.

The goal is simple:
Make maths and science feel like play.

Because how a child first experiences learning…

shapes everything that comes after.

[Alex Sumaila @alexsirguy]

@seyedele To show people are already paying.

[Alex Sumaila @alexsirguy]

In addition to asking them to show you what they’ve built in the past, because they can easily present someone else’s work, ask them to walk you through the process they would use to build an app you’ve already researched ahead of the interview, and compare their answers to your findings.

[Alex Sumaila @alexsirguy]

@instablog9ja The 9-5 no be UBA bank teller o.

[Alex Sumaila @alexsirguy]

The biggest problem in EdTech is not technology.

It’s incentives.

Students are not rewarded for understanding.

They are rewarded for passing exams and memorizing past questions.

That’s why many “better learning” products struggle to scale.

[Alex Sumaila @alexsirguy]

Why are EdTech solutions struggling to take off in Nigeria?

[Alex Sumaila @alexsirguy]

@akintollgate If Nigerians are dragging you, it means you are winning.

[Alex Sumaila @alexsirguy]

@Joe_brendan_ Coding may have become easier, but ideas remain hard.

[Alex Sumaila @alexsirguy]

Why are EdTech solutions struggling to take off in Nigeria?

[Alex Sumaila @alexsirguy]

I kid you not, poverty is a difficult battle where some win the war but lost the battle.