Davίδ

MD || Techie || Open Source Junkie.

[Omoyele Sowore @sowore]

Yesterday, July 10, 2026, marked 27 years since George Iwilade, popularly known as Afrika, a vibrant, brilliant, and courageous student leader and Secretary-General of the Students' Union Government of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, was murdered by cult gangs sponsored by the university authorities.

Since his brutal killing on July 10, 1999, Afrika has grown from a fallen comrade into a timeless legend of the Nigerian student movement. His courage, conviction, and sacrifice continue to inspire generations of young people committed to justice and liberation.

For context, this photograph was taken during one of our solidarity actions in Yaba, Lagos, protesting the persecution of OAU students. Standing together were Afrika, then OAU SUG President Lanre Adeleke aka "Legacy", and my humble self as we unfurled a giant banner inside a massive police cordon in defiance of intimidation.

Afrika and I shared many struggles before I left Nigeria in February 1999. His life was cut short, but his ideals could not be buried. Twenty-seven years later, we still remember him not merely for how he died, but for how he lived: fearless, principled, and unwavering in pursuing justice.

Aluta Continua. Victoria Ascerta. #RevolutionNOW

[Davίδ @d3vess]

@Zone345689 @dideestars I could have guessed your nationality and I'll be right. The hate you people harbour, will end up swallowing you all up.

[Name cannot be blank @hackSultan]

Imagine all the opportunities we’ve missed as a country because we lacked representations.

If Alex Onyia had not made the push to get these kids to Rome, Onyedikachi might not be going home with gold today. But the bigger issue is that these kids wouldn’t have gotten the chance to see what they’re capable of on a global stage.
This is why representation matters. Nigeria needs to be present.

[❗️ @Drealad0nis]

The average Nigerian faces a fundamental problem that goes beyond economics or infrastructure:

This lady came out lamenting that her ₦10 million house she rented was on the verge of flooding. Her distress was genuine until she looked around and saw that her neighbors were suffering even more. At that point, her tone shifted. She burst into laughter, visibly relieved and almost comforted by the comparative misfortune.

This moment is telling. Even amid personal hardship, the reflex is not solidarity or collective urgency, but quiet satisfaction that “at least I’m not the worst off.” Progress becomes measured less by real improvement and more by staying one step ahead of the next person. The result is a society where shared problems persist because the incentive is rarely to solve them together, but simply to endure them slightly better than others.

[Davίδ @d3vess]

@hackSultan They obviously have the statistics for users, including IP addresses and the location of requests, so their decision was not likely influenced, not in the least, by cho cho cho.

I believe the decision was made long ago.But I agree that Nigerians in the UK are too talkative.

[Davίδ @d3vess]

@grayshurz No surprises here. The olodo uprising is global, with "it's just cruise" now serving as its favourite disguise.

[VALOR EMPIRE @Valor_Empire]

3. Eisenhowrr Matrix

Draw a 2×2 grid:

Urgent/ important

Important/ not urgent

Urgent / not important

Neither

Sort every task into one box.

Do box 1, schedule box 2, delegate box 3 and delete box 4.

[Davίδ @d3vess]

@DrJohnBishop Congratulations on this outstanding work rate. Meeting you in Treliske in early 2022, I was, and still am, in no doubt of your brilliance and commitment.

[𝐃𝐫 𝐁𝐢𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐩 @DrJohnBishop]

FRCEM ✅✅✅✅✅

Officially a Fellow of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine!!!!

I no longer have to take any mandatory exams till the end of my training. It has been a hectic journey but definitely worth it.

[Sahil Bloom @SahilBloom]

Major cheat code for life: Become difficult to rush. The world will pressure you to rush into everything. Rushed decisions. Rushed conversations. Rushed relationships. Rushed timelines. There's immense power in rejecting that trend. Slow down. Create space to think clearly.

[Dr STAN @realBigStanH]

In Nigeria, people get irate and very envious when you meet your mentors and jump for excitement.
When you become a citizen of another country, Nigerians call you all kinds of derogatory names. Canadians, finish, Latvians, Armenians, Norwegians are celebrating becoming a United States citizen.
My Norwegian horse trainer and big business owner, who came to the United States on a work visa, finally got his green card after that threw a huge drinking party.

Yet any milestone you achieve, Nigerians back home will turn it into a negative.
In my lifetime I’ve rarely seen such spite and envy. A group so poor, unemployed, and hooked on social media, yet so loud.

Nigeria will not rise with this mindset in the these generations.

I’m very unhappy about it -I’m glad I have no business with many of these people/them.

I’m happy for IShowSpeed. Goodluck on being a FIFA president for 5 minutes.

[Ihtesham Ali @ihtesham2005]

A team at Oxford built a search engine for every drug the NHS prescribes, and it has quietly saved the health service millions.

It's called OpenPrescribing.

The NHS publishes its full prescribing dataset every month. It's 700 million rows of raw numbers nobody could actually read. So Oxford built a tool that turns it into live charts in seconds.

You type a drug name. It shows you which practices over-prescribe it, which regions are slow to follow new guidelines, and where the money is being wasted.

→ Search any drug across any GP practice in England
→ Find safety and cost outliers instantly
→ 70+ ready-made quality measures
→ Updates monthly, automatically
→ Free, open source, MIT licensed

20,000 people use it every month. Doctors. Researchers. Journalists.

Public data that sat unreadable for years is now one search away.

https://t.co/U9KI0mUCAp

[Dr. Ose Etiobhio @osemagnum]

i just finished my theatre list. 4 main surgeries.

one of them, you only read it in textbooks, very rare. Some obgyn may never see it in their career.

i took it as a teaching session. I, myself have never seen it before. my senior consultant who was my assistant was really impressed with my four surgeries with him.

you know what?... when I posted the "Life is spiritual tweet", I was about entering the theatre. I asked for God's name to be praised in the theatre!... and He answered.

Lord, I give all the glory to you. You were clearly in that operating room today.

[Davίδ @d3vess]

@solobliss1 @Medzonetv Nope.but close

[Davίδ @d3vess]

@joinpesa @ladytiffs_ @TheSolape This has been sorted less than 5 minutes ago, but has left a sour test in my mouth regarding your platform-it cannot be trusted for emergencies

[Davίδ @d3vess]

@joinpesa @ladytiffs_ @TheSolape I made a naira transfer from your platform to my zenith Bank account but this has not reflected for almost one day. It is causing a lot of distress as it was an emergency transfer. Please help

[Davίδ @d3vess]

@instablog9ja All these will be purchased by a skilled worker's 1 hour wage in some developed countries.

Who use poverty curse Nigerians to this extent?

[Davίδ @d3vess]

@Nmalizz @GbengaWemimo This right here, is one reason Nigerians will continue to write IELTS

[Davίδ @d3vess]

@BlockNedu 100% agree with you.

Despite being maths back to back, the beauty of also actively applying the principles, made me love and engage with the course.

We have a long way to go in Nigeria.

[Davίδ @d3vess]

I completed my machine learning module last yr, from a non Nigerian university, and it was maths beginning to end.

The advanced principles learnt from my engineering friends back in undergrad was not wasted.

[BlockNedu @BlockNedu]

Bruh 😂 CS is a big branch of mathematics.

Take example sorting: it's based on algorithmic pattern recognition, set theory, permutations and combination.

AI is practically just probability and statistics, linear algebra.

The issue with Nigeria is that they have taken the applied Mathematics out of applied Mathematics which is what I think computer science is. And turned it into maths lecturing