caz

We rise by lifting others.

[K.O.O @Dominus_Kelvin]

I’m looking for the right remote role for the next five years.

Not because I’ve stopped building independently.

Because I want to experience what becomes possible when the range I’ve developed is combined with an ambitious team, global distribution, serious resources, and problems operating at scale.

Today, I:

• Lead Sails.js, actively maintaining the framework, shaping its direction, and growing the ecosystem around it
• Build The Boring JavaScript Stack
• Build Slipway, a deployment platform for Sails applications
• Run Sailscasts, where I teach developers to build full-stack JavaScript applications
• Publish The African Engineer, covering how technology is built across Africa
• Build Hagfish, an invoicing product for creators and independent professionals
• Consult with companies on engineering, architecture, products, and developer experience
• Write, teach, speak, lead, and build in public

I have spent years operating across software engineering, open source, infrastructure, education, media, product, community, and business.

Now I want to bring that experience into the right global technology company.

I’m looking for a role where I can build software, lead technical initiatives, improve developer experience, teach developers, write, speak at conferences, shape products, and help grow an ecosystem around important technology.

I do my best work in an environment that is:

• Remote and async-first
• Low-meeting and high-trust
• Flexible rather than rigidly 9-to-5
• Built around deep work and strong written communication
• Focused on outcomes, quality, and impact
• Compatible with responsible open-source and independent work

I don’t want to perform productivity.

Give me meaningful problems, clear context, ownership, talented teammates, and the freedom to deliver excellent work.

Above all, I want to work on something I’ll be proud to attach my name to.

I’m especially interested in Developer Experience, Open Source, AI Developer Platforms, Staff Engineering, Developer Relations Engineering, Developer Education, and Technical Ecosystem roles.

If your company needs someone who can build the technology, understand the developer, explain the product, teach the market, and grow the ecosystem around it, let’s talk.

Reposts appreciated.

[Alex Onyia @winexviv]

Today is D-day.

Our boys are now at the Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma for the Grand Finale of the International STEM Olympiad in Rome, Italy.

I’m optimistic about their victory.

[caz @caziko_]

https://t.co/CxCEHIZc0h

[Peter Obi @PeterObi]

Education Crisis: Calls for Fundamental Change, Not Just Policy

The Federal Government has finally admitted to its poor management of the education sector. Recently, the Minister of Education acknowledged that the policy separating junior and senior secondary schools has failed to improve educational outcomes. This is evident in recent examination results. In 2024, the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) reported that only 38.32% of candidates passed English and Mathematics in the WASSCE. In 2025, only 32% passed the computer-based WASSCE. This poor performance has been consistent across major examinations over the past two years.

This admission is tragic because education is the most vital contributor to human capital development, which forms the foundation for growth and economic development of any society. We cannot overcome economic stagnation without prioritising education, healthcare, and job creation to lift millions of unemployed youths out of poverty. As successful Asian nations have demonstrated, educational excellence requires sustained investment in curriculum development, motivated teachers, and better learning environments.

Unfortunately, the government continues to neglect the sector. In the 2026 budget, education received only ₦3.52 trillion, just 6.17% of total expenditure, down from 7.87% in 2025, and well below UNESCO’s recommended 15–20%. This low allocation indicates a failure to recognise education as a driver of sustained economic growth.

Education advocate, Mr Alex Onyia @winexviv , recently revealed that Nigeria failed to sponsor students to the International STEM and Mathematics Olympiads due to a lack of funding. It is heartbreaking that the government can sponsor hundreds to irrelevant international conferences yet fail to support its brightest students on the world stage.

The Minister’s admission reflects a broader failure of public leadership. The issue is not the JSS/SSS policy itself, but the lack of commitment to properly fund, manage, and deliver quality education.

In Anambra State, we proved that committed leadership can transform educational outcomes. Through effective funding, oversight, provision of laptops, generators, internet connectivity, and other learning aids, we turned the sector around. For example, our effort in providing computers across all secondary schools (public and private in the state) was recognised by HP Africa Head, who declared that Anambra had procured the largest number of laptops for school children of any subnational government in Africa.

For the future of our society, we must deliberately invest in education, healthcare, and job creation. As I have always said, failing to do the right things is equivalent to abusing society, and the society we abuse today will take its revenge on us and our children tomorrow.

A New Nigeria is POssible. -PO

[caz @caziko_]

A false prophet is someone who prophesies falsely, on purpose.

https://t.co/nTmmMA6wje

[Peter Obi @PeterObi]

Today, Thursday 7th May, I continued with my commitment to supporting critical areas of development—education, healthcare, and helping people out of poverty—with a visit to the University of the Niger, Umunya, Anambra State.

The university, which was established just five years ago, has continued to make remarkable progress, and I have made it a point to visit every year to support the good work being done there. My last visit to this institution was at its teaching hospital in Ogidi.

Today, I encouraged the students to remain dedicated to their studies, reminding them that the world today is driven by knowledge, and the future of Nigeria rests in the hands of young people like them.

In support of scholarships and educational development, I made a donation of 25 million naira for the development of the institution.

I sincerely commend the Diocese on the Niger, for their foresight, vision, and steadfast commitment to educational and institutional growth. I also wish to express my appreciation to the Vice Chancellor, Prof. Chinedu Nebo, for his evident dedication to education. His commitment is reflected in the many schools and institutions he continues to support in their growth and strengthening.

I remain fully committed to the growth of education and the development of students in our country because no nation can rise beyond the strength of its education and human capital.

A New Nigeria is POssible. -PO

[Ọládélé 🇳🇬👑 @Oladele]

The cure for sickle cell disorder is now available at sickle cell foundation Nigeria, LUTH.

Please retweet for others to see.

[Akintola Steve @Akintola_steve]

Being a "backend engineer" is not a skill.
It's a department.

Moniepoint posted roles, struggled to find qualified Nigerians, and Nigerians on the internet showed their displeasure.

But still, nobody touched the actual problem.

This thread will make some of you uncomfortable.

That's fine.

It's only a problem for people who don't read with an open mind.

[caz @caziko_]

Whatever is said, Peter must be careful. Nigerians will not avenge him. Nigerians, me included, are basically cowards.

[Kio Amachree @Ivory1957]

AN OPEN LETTER TO PETER OBI — A WORD FROM A SON OF NIGERIA

On Power, Courage, and the Unfinished Business of a Nation

Kio Amachree | President, Worldview International · Stockholm | April 2026

Dear Mr. Peter Obi,
I owe you a confession before I offer you counsel. In the last presidential election, I supported you. Not casually — I believed in you. I watched you speak in Atlanta, and what I saw was something Nigeria has rarely produced: a man who sounded like he had actually read the brief, who understood the gravity of the office he was seeking, and who spoke to Nigerians not as subjects to be managed but as citizens deserving of respect. I was moved. I was persuaded. And I trusted a process that, as I now understand more completely than ever, was never designed to be trusted.

I looked across at Bola Ahmed Tinubu — a man who, in the most charitable interpretation of his observable condition, appeared to be fighting a daily battle simply to remain upright and coherent — and I made the mistake of assuming that what was obvious to my eyes would be obvious to the outcome. I did not account sufficiently for the depth of the organised criminality arrayed against the Nigerian people. I did not account for the degree to which the machinery of power in that country has been engineered not to reflect the will of the citizenry but to override it. I switched off in disgust. I am ashamed to admit it, but I did. For a moment, I despaired.
What reactivated me was not optimism. It was fury — and the particular fury of a man who was raised to believe that silence in the face of injustice is its own form of complicity. My father, Chief Godfrey Kio Jaja Amachree QC — Nigeria’s first Solicitor-General, Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations, General Gowon’s personal envoy to Washington during the Civil War, one of the architects of Rivers State — was not a gentle man. He was rigorous. He was demanding. He was, at times, difficult to love. But he built into me something I could not switch off even when I wanted to: the sense that Nigeria is not merely a country one happens to have been born into. It is a responsibility. It is a debt owed to those who came before and those who will come after.

My grandfather, Chief Sekin Amachree, sat at the 1958 Constitutional Conference and the Willink Commission. These men shaped Nigeria before it was even Nigeria. I am their reflection — and as any man who has stood before a mirror knows, a reflection does not always like what it sees. But it cannot look away.

Now I come to you with what I hope you will receive in the spirit in which it is offered: not as flattery, not as political alignment, but as the hard, frank counsel of one educated man to another. I was educated at Eton College — not the softened, therapeutic Eton of today, but the Eton that broke you down and rebuilt you; the Eton that fed you deliberately terrible food so that you would learn to endure discomfort without complaint; the Eton that placed you among the sons of dukes and diplomats and expected you to hold your own. The school that in its long and morally complicated history produced twenty-four British Prime Ministers — including, most recently, Boris Johnson and David Cameron.
I mention those two men for a reason, Peter, and I need you to listen carefully because there is a lesson in them for you. Boris Johnson — the blond, blundering, self-consciously bumbling figure that the British public came to love and loathe in equal measure — is not what he appears. That persona is a construction, polished over years at Eton, refined at Oxford, deployed with extraordinary precision.
Johnson’s great-great-grandfather was a Turkish journalist named Ali Kemal, a man of dark complexion and Muslim faith who was so critical of the Atatürk revolution that he was killed by a mob and his body dragged through the streets of Istanbul. His family fled to England during the First World War — on the wrong side of the conflict, since the Ottomans had fought with the Axis against Britain — and his widow, terrified of persecution, changed the family name to Johnson. A safe, plain, English name. Over generations, the Turkish identity dissolved. The grandson of that terrified widow became the Foreign Secretary and then the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

I am not telling you this to diminish Johnson. I am telling you this because it is the greatest lesson Eton teaches, though it never states it plainly: the surface is a weapon. The carefully constructed persona — the apparent bumbling, the Latin quotations, the self-deprecating humour — was armour and ammunition simultaneously. While his opponents were laughing at him, he was outmanoeuvring them. David Cameron, by contrast, came from genuine money and genuine breeding. He had no need to construct anything. He was charming, handsome, instinctively confident, loved his Bob Marley, smoked his weed at school, was caught — and was not expelled, because Eton looked at him and saw a future Prime Minister, which is precisely what he became. Two very different men. Both utterly ruthless. Both winners.
The lesson I am drawing for you is this: you must stop campaigning like a man who is trying not to offend anyone, and start campaigning like a man who intends to win. Nigeria in 2027 is not a debating competition. It is a knife fight. And a knife fight is not won by the man who is most correct — it is won by the man who is most prepared to use what is in his hand.

Let me now speak plainly about Bola Ahmed Tinubu, because plainness is what this moment demands. In my considered assessment — and I do not use such language lightly — Tinubu represents the most comprehensively corrupt political figure to have occupied the highest office in Nigeria’s troubled history. That is not rhetoric. That is a conclusion drawn from evidence that is now, in significant part, part of the public international record.
There is the matter of the United States federal narcotics investigation — the case that cost him his forfeited funds in Chicago and that lies at the core of the FBI and DEA files that a United States federal court, under Judge Beryl Howell, has ordered released. Those files, due by June of this year, may well constitute the most consequential document release in the history of Nigerian political accountability. The man currently sitting in Aso Rock has a documented relationship with American federal law enforcement that has never been honestly reckoned with by the Nigerian political establishment or the Nigerian press.

And then there is Gilbert Chagoury. Let us be precise: Chagoury is a man convicted in Switzerland of money laundering and reported by American intelligence as having financed Hezbollah. He is also the man to whom Tinubu’s administration has directed billions of dollars in no-tender infrastructure contracts — including the controversial Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway — without competitive bid, without transparency, without the basic procedural safeguards that any functioning government owes its people. The relationship between Tinubu and Chagoury is not incidental. It is structural. It is the architecture of how power and money move in this administration.

And then there is the son. Seyi Tinubu. A young man installed on corporate boards, positioned as a conduit for the family’s accumulation of influence, presented to the public through the cynical theatre of rice distributions to the poor while billions are being distributed to the connected. He is not a peripheral figure. He is the succession plan. He is also, for your purposes, the most humanly comprehensible point of attack — because nothing angers ordinary Nigerians more than watching a president’s son live like a king while they cannot afford to eat.

Peter, here is my direct counsel to you. Stop being careful. The time for careful has passed. These are not normal political adversaries operating within a normal political system. These are people who have weaponised the state, corrupted the judiciary, terrified the press, and enriched themselves beyond any defensible measure while the Nigerian naira has collapsed and ordinary families have been reduced to desperate improvisation simply to survive. You are not going to defeat them by being measured. You are going to defeat them by being relentless.

Make the Chagoury contracts the centrepiece of your campaign. Demand accountability for every naira. Make Nigerians understand not just that money has been stolen — they already know money has been stolen, they have always known — but where it has gone, into whose hands, and at whose instruction. Make the connection between the billions flowing to Chagoury’s companies and the intelligence reports linking Chagoury’s network to Hezbollah financing. Ask the question publicly and loudly: are Nigerian state funds being used to finance terrorism? Ask it until you get an answer.
I write this from Stockholm. I cannot vote. I cannot march. I am a Swedish citizen of Ijaw and Niger Delta royal lineage, a diaspora voice, a man who has slept in palaces and on floors and worked on Wall Street and in the City of London and in the Nigerian National Assembly and in the boiling heart of African civic struggle. I have no party. I have no financial interest. What I have is a name, a history, and a conscience that my father — for all his severity — programmed to be incapable of looking away.

I pray that the United States releases those FBI and DEA files on schedule. I pray that the Central Intelligence Agency, which has long maintained its own complex relationship with Tinubu, makes the calculation that he has become more liability than asset — particularly as the Chagoury-Hezbollah nexus moves from allegation toward documented fact in international law enforcement circles. These are not fantasies. These are live proceedings in active jurisdictions.

Nigeria does not need saving — that framing is too passive, and it places too much burden on a single individual. Nigeria needs someone willing to fight for it with the same ferocity that those who have looted it have fought to keep it. My grandfather helped write the terms of this nation’s existence. My father spent his life in its service. I have spent mine trying to honour them both while finding my own voice in a world that did not always make room for it easily.
I am offering you that voice. The counsel of an Old Etonian who was taught not how to be a gentleman — though that too — but how empires are built, how power actually functions, and why the most dangerous man in any room is often the one who appears least threatening. I am offering you the analytical framework of a man who has studied Nigerian politics from the inside and from the outside, who understands the diaspora, who understands the international legal architecture that can be brought to bear, and who believes, despite everything, that this fight is still winnable.
Go for the jugular, Peter. Do it with evidence. Do it with precision. Do it with the controlled fury of a man who has genuinely reckoned with what is at stake. Cast away the niceties — they have cost you enough already.
Nigeria is watching. The diaspora is watching. And the dead — among them the men whose names I carry — are watching too.

I wish you strength, clarity, and the wisdom to know that in this particular fight, mercy extended to the wrong people is simply cruelty extended to the right ones.

Go well. And go hard.
Kio Amachree
President, Worldview International
Stockholm, Kingdom of Sweden
Son of Chief Godfrey Kio Jaja Amachree QC, Nigeria’s First Solicitor-General

[caz @caziko_]

@Prince_dc21_ I have had two experiences like that, kudos to the lady for something about it.

One was similar to the MLM thing, another pitched me to buy a training program that would lead to a job placement from them. Person wey dey find job, them dey waste the small money he get on tfare

[Lekan Olayinka @lekan_olayinka1]

Also, Peter Obi is not a “lesser evil”.

I am again begging us all to have moral clarity.

The man who said if anyone finds N5 that he embezzled should come forward and he’d leave the race:

That man is not a “lesser evil” I am begging you guys.

The man who has donated more money to education and health from his own purse more than the CapEx for health by the government is not a “lesser evil”.

The man who left no debt but actual surplus in the treasury of the state he governed is not a “lesser evil”.

The man who has successfully without any corruption led as:

Chairman of Fidelity Bank Plc

Director of Fidelity Bank Plc

Chairman of Next International Nigeria Ltd

Chairman of Guardian Express Mortgage Bank Ltd

Chairman of Future View Securities Ltd

Chairman of Paymaster Nigeria Ltd

Chairman of Chams Nigeria Plc

Director of Chams Nigeria Plc

Director of Data Corp Ltd

Director of Card Centre Plc

Independent Non-Executive Director of Nigeria LNG Ltd:

Is not a “lesser evil”.

The man who went to Egypt to study how to make power constant for you is not a lesser evil.

The man who said he wouldn’t tax you unless he has prospered you isn’t a lesser evil.

The “lesser evil” bifurcation came when we wanted to choose between a corrupt incompetent Buhari and a corrupt incompetent Atiku.

I don’t really like politics Twitter. But I’m saying this so we all have moral clarity.

I am begging us all. Please, let’s dump these contrarian virtue signaling.

I am begging.

We are up against vicious people. These are the people who have witnessed around 5 generals and colonels die and nothing is moving them.

I am begging you all, please.

[caz @caziko_]

@housecor Not sure how near this future is. AI can give you the feature/behaviour you asked for while breaking things in interesting ways. And the tests it writes won't catch this.

Yes, testing will become more important, but knowing what it is doing won't fade soon.

[Peter Obi @PeterObi]

Tinubu in Jos Confirms ‘Don't Vote for Me’ Prediction on Power Supply

During the 2023 campaign, President Tinubu made a clear electoral promise: “If I don’t give you constant electricity in four years, don’t vote for me for a second term.”

When he took office in 2023, Nigeria had a power supply of over 4,000 megawatts and lower tariffs. Today, the electricity power supply is less than 4,000 megawatts on the average, and Nigerians are paying higher tariffs. Nigeria currently has the lowest per capita electricity consumption in the world, with a rate below 30% of the African average. Africa’s average is 617kwh, Nigeria’s is 144 kWh. This means that Nigerians consume least electricity than other Africans.

In a glaring display of disregard for promises and a lack of trust, President Tinubu, during a brief airport stopover to visit grieving families of the Jos attack on Thursday, April 2, 2026, stated that one of the reasons for his 10-minute stay was that the airport had no electricity. “You have no light here I fly out in ten minutes” At a time when Nigerians are enduring days without power, our leaders cannot even stay a few minutes without it.

Now is the time to stop incompetent leaders—those lacking the capacity and compassion—who prioritise their own comfort over the well-being of the people and make empty promises.

A new Nigeria is POssible. -PO

[caz @caziko_]

Given the rate supply chain attacks are being published, I think the best thing for the JS community will be to pin every npm install to a specific version. No more tildes or carets to allow minor or patch updates.

Every update will now need to be intentional.

[Alex Onyia @winexviv]

So this is how we are thinking of redesigning the Igbo apprenticeship program “Igba boy”.

For the pilot program, we will likely take in 200 persons to engage in the training on global quality carpentry, bricklaying, tilling, plumbing, HVAC, POP and electricals.

The trainees will engage in an intensive 1 year program which they will be housed and fed. No holidays during the program. An additional 3 months will be on business and commercialization.

Once they complete the cohort and they meet the standards set, they will be settled with a good amount of money to build on the business arm of their skills. Those who don’t meet up will be dropped off from the program.

We will be visiting training centers in Togo and Germany in the coming weeks to solidify our plans and training partnerships.

Let’s brainstorm… what do you think?

[DON “Tobechukwu” Ade 👑 @Row_Haastrup]

Canada just criminalized the Bible.
Bill C-9 passed by Canada’s lawmakers.

Now quoting Scripture on marriage, sin, or God’s design for sexuality can be prosecuted as “wilful promotion of hatred.”

They ripped out the decades-old religious exemption from hate speech laws — the very protection that allowed believers to preach the Gospel in good faith.

Pastors facing charges for teaching Romans 1.
Parents labeled criminals for guiding their children by biblical truth.
Everyday Christians at risk for simply sharing God’s Word online or in public.

This isn’t “combatting hate.”
This is a direct assault on Christianity — turning faithful expression into a potential crime while hiding behind the mask of tolerance.

[caz @caziko_]

@Dominus_Kelvin By the time you're done with all these replacements you will leave the product you want to build and start managing infrastructure. Or maybe hire someone full time to manage it which may end up costing more than outsourcing it. Trade offs...

[Aproko Doctor Global @aproko_doctor]

A hospital in Lagos was holding a woman hostage.

Not with guns. With a bill she couldn't pay.

She had received treatment. She was well enough to leave. But the hospital wouldn't discharge her until someone settled the balance. So she stayed — trapped in a ward, away from her family, unable to work.

This happens every single day in Nigeria. In a country where 97% of the population has no health insurance, a hospital visit can become a prison sentence.

The Aproko Doctor Foundation exists because we refused to accept that.

Through community-led financing — thousands of everyday Nigerians contributing small amounts monthly — we've built something that looks a lot like insurance, except it belongs to the people:

• ₦50M+ paid to hospitals. 100+ patients freed.
• 1,500 women screened for cancer in one Abuja weekend — 500 more than planned.
• 150 women caught cervical cancer early. Alive today because of a free screening.
• Solar power installed in hospital NICUs so incubators don't go dark.
• ₦3.1M raised in 4 hours — one tweet, one community, one woman's prosthetic leg.

The community is the insurance.

We're not waiting for the system to fix itself. We're proving that when people pool their resources — even ₦500 at a time — they can do what budgets and bureaucracies haven't.

If you believe healthcare should involve everybody, join us.

Contribute: 0139722962 | Sterling Bank | Aproko Doctor Foundation

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Nobody should go broke because of healthcare.

#AprokoDoctorFoundation #CommunityLedFinancing #HealthcareInNigeria #The100KClub #PublicHealth #Africa

[Lola Okunrin @lollypeezle]

When she’s sobbing and acting like the victim, calm down to seek the truth. These women are manipulative 🤦

[Alex Onyia @winexviv]

Sterling Bank will be giving us N60 million for prizes only towards 2027 South East Maths Olympiad.

This is now by far the biggest academic event in the country.

We are projecting to have up to 100k students in participation for 2027 and we will also remain transparent in every step.

Senior category winner takes N10 million
Junior category winner takes N5 million
Primary category winner takes N3 million

Teachers in each category takes N3 million

Schools for each winner takes N5 million

Every student that qualifies for round of 45 gets N100k

Second position gets N1 million
Thirst position gets N500k

The winners will represent us in 2027 International STEM Olympiad finals and also 2027 German Maths Olympiad Grand Finale.

Participation is FREE for every child who lives or schools in the South East regardless of your nationality or tribe.

We are on track to build the greatest workforce from Africa and we will make education highly rewarding and exciting like never seen before.