Today more than ever I’m reminded to not compromise when it comes to my friendships. Book that flight, visit that friend, invest time in your friendships and relationships. Show people you love them. Money will come and go. But you can’t buy back lost time with people you love 😊
Ngozi Ibe got $75,000. Hired 22 staff. Signed contracts with three major wholesale distributors.
A shoe factory. Not an app. Not a startup. A shoe factory.
Abdul Sani Adeyemi built CleanMove to deliver solar lanterns, improved cookstoves, and clean energy products to off-grid communities using technology and a fleet of electric tricycles.
They won the Green Africa Innovation Prize. $220,000. Then raised millions more in venture capital.
Thousands of families now have access to clean and affordable energy because of it.
Amara Obi founded FutureSkills in Enugu to equip young people with digital literacy, coding, and vocational skills for the modern job market.
They secured funding from the Ford Foundation, USAID, and the MacArthur Foundation.
An NGO. Built in Enugu. Funded by the world.
A shoe manufacturer. A cleantech founder. A skills development NGO director.
Three different industries. Three different funding sources. One continent.
None of them waited until they felt ready.
They built the thing and found the money to scale it.
That is the only story that matters.
Repost so every African entrepreneur who needs to see it does. And get motivated to keep going.
Sin will make you creative in iniquity, brilliant in evil and wisely depraved.
If you live in holiness, the world may rightly call you a fool, but you'll be wise unto salvation!
Restoring the order - Minister Dunsin Oyekan
Sacrifice of praise - Pastor Nathaniel Bassey
Recharge Conference - Pastor Yemi Davids.
Body of Christ overfeeding this week.
H1—
- Took a break from my PhD.
- Started a new role where I am designing the future of agentic commerce
- Moved cities.
- Started 1000Reasons. All-time traffic hit ~400k
- Won the Nossrat Yassini Poetry Prize — $10k
- The Years of Blood named a NYPL Best New Poetry Book of 2026
- Pushed the publication of my second book to 2029
- Published The Years of Blood in Nigeria (now sold out)
- Launched the Arole Agarawu Prize which awards $2k for Black and African Poets
- Left The Rumpus
- Building an agentic chatbot for the future of the Nigerian Civil tech
- Started building Portico, the OS for the opportunity layer of the world
- Launched CD Agency, your content design CLI
- Building a content design internal tooling system for my team at work
Super H1. I’ll go to bed tonight and try again when I wake up.
For Poetry, Content Design and Country
NYSC was designed in the 1970s for “unity” - that’s why people are posted to other states
No longer feasible today at all
All of a sudden, you people want to make it Unemployment intervention because a government has failed to trigger industrial and private sector growth 🤣
Surface level change every time
digital, leadership, and entrepreneurial skills 😂😂😂😂
For a person that just spent 4-5 years in university and couldn’t build the skills - they will build it in 6 weeks
MIRACLE WORKERS OKAY
You might disagree
But, from all indications, there is absolutely nothing you are teaching graduates in a 6-week camp that they cannot learn from JSS 1 to final year.
Likely the changes are better than leaving as is, but with all due respect, the only recommendation should have been to END NYSC. It is a waste of our most precious resource - our young minds.
On the morning of the Call Of My Life premiere, I wrote these notes to myself. I didn’t know how the journey would unfold-I only knew what I was hoping and praying for. Reading them again today, on my birthday, filled me with gratitude. Some of these prayers have already started coming to pass, and I know there’s so much more ahead.
I’m sharing them because maybe someone else needs the reminder to write the vision down, do the work, and trust God with the outcome.
Thank you to everyone who has been part of this journey. ❤️
#COML
🚨BREAKING: Nigerian Supreme Court abruptly CANCELS hearing in Yahaya Sharif-Aminu's challenge to death penalty blasphemy laws.
The delay is outrageous! He's been in prison >6 years!
How much longer must Yahaya wait for justice? When will this law be ended? @ADFLegal@ADFIntl
Christian: “Come quickly, Lord”
Other Christians: “Ah!. Stop it o. I never marry”
Smh. Priorities.
Whatever you think marriage is or will give, seeing your Lord is a gazillion times better.
So here's the update 😂
Afe Babalola University partnered with Zhejiang Polytechnic University of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering in Haining, China.
I'm here for a 20 day practical training programme in Intelligent Manufacturing Technology.
The opening ceremony was Tuesday 🙂↕️💐
#OsasInChina