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The Sower, the seed, the ground!

[Eunice Ajim @euniceajim]

Before I was writing checks, I was braiding hair.

When I moved to the US as a student, braiding was how I paid my way through school. Hours in a chair, hands cramping, a full day gone for one client. I know this industry from the inside.

So when I saw that Yinka Ogunbiyi just raised $7M to commercialize HaloBraid, the world's first patented braid assist robot, I had to stop scrolling.

A few things stood out to me.

This is not a "replace the stylist" story. HaloBraid is built as a cobot. The human still parts the scalp, sections the hair and sets the foundation. The robot takes over the repetitive mid shaft weaving that eats up roughly 80% of a knotless braid appointment. Then the stylist finishes and styles the ends.

The demand is already proven. Over 7,000 salons are on the waitlist before this has even scaled.

And @sevensevensix, @alexisohanian firm, led the round, with @alley_corp and @blingcapital backing it too. Seeing investors I deeply respect put capital behind this tells me something: smart money is catching up to what millions of Black women and their braiders have known for decades. This industry is massive, physically brutal on the people who run it, and it has been overlooked for far too long.

Braiders develop carpal tunnel, arthritis and spinal strain from doing this for years. Almost nobody talks about that. A tool that cuts appointment time in half is not just a convenience play, it could add years to someone's career.

We keep hunting for disruption in the flashiest categories. Meanwhile, some of the most meaningful tech is quietly showing up in the "boring" service businesses that touch millions of people every single day.

What other "unsexy" industries do you think are next?

[Alex Onyia @winexviv]

Tomorrow and Monday, we’re running an experiment that could change education in remote and low-income areas in Africa.

We’re bringing together about 60 children from a rural community in Enugu and about 150 in IMO to watch world-class mathematics lessons in preparation for the 2027 South East Maths Olympiad.

I want to gauge the impact.

If it works, we’ll replicate it across communities and use village town halls as learning centres during holidays and after school.

My goal isn’t just to prepare students for the Olympiad.

My goal is to close learning inequality.

Because talent is everywhere. Access isn’t.

I’ll share the results publicly. The good, the bad, and everything we learn, so anyone can copy, improve, and scale the idea.

[Alex Onyia @winexviv]

This morning, we conducted our first experiment in Abor Village, Enugu State.

Every child in this hall is from the village.

We gathered them together and delivered a world-class Mathematics lesson designed to build the strong foundations they need to compete confidently with students from the best private schools in the 2027 South East Maths & Science Olympiad.

The most remarkable part?

After the lesson, many of the children said they never knew Mathematics could be this easy. Several of them told us it was the best lesson they had ever attended.

That alone says a lot about the learning gap we need to close.

This is about more than preparing for an Olympiad.

It is about eliminating the learning inequality between children born into privilege and those born into underserved communities.

On Monday, we’ll run the next experiment in Imo State. If the results are equally promising, we’ll begin developing a model that can be replicated across villages throughout the South East.

I’m beginning to believe that we don’t have an intelligence problem, we have an access problem. When children are exposed to world-class teaching, regardless of where they live, they rise to the occasion.

If this model works at scale, it could fundamentally change how we democratize learning in Africa.

We appreciate TN Onodingene Abor ICT Center, for making their facilities free for every child.

[Alex Onyia @winexviv]

One of the reasons I share almost everything we're doing in the South East is simple:

I want you to copy it.

If a strategy gets more children learning, gets more students excited about STEM, raises academic standards, or inspires excellence, don't admire it from afar or criticize Alex. Replicate it in your region. Improve it. Scale it.

Africa has spent too much time protecting ideas instead of spreading what works.

I don't want the South East to be the exception. I want it to become the template for Africa civilization.

Imagine every region in Nigeria building its own Olympiads, ranking schools, training teachers, identifying talent, and making education a public movement.

Imagine every African country adapting the same ideas to fit their own realities.

That's how continents change.

Education is Africa's greatest opportunity. If something works, copy it.

[Alex Onyia @winexviv]

One thing that deeply worries me about Nigeria is this:

Some dreams are almost impossible to achieve if you're born, raised, and educated here.

Want to become an astronaut? There is virtually no pathway.

Want to become a world-class professional footballer? For most talented children, the route is far harder than it should be because the development ecosystem is weak.

And there are many other careers where your biggest obstacle isn't your talent, it's your geography.

This is why some Nigerians have to leave the country, not because they hate Nigeria, but because that's the only way to fully pursue their dreams.

That should concern all of us.

A child's future should be determined by their ability and hard work, not by the accident of where they were born.

Nigeria has no shortage of talent.

What we're missing is a system that allows talent to become greatness.

[Alex Onyia @winexviv]

35,705 students have registered for the 2027 South East Maths Olympiad!

Boys: 16,569
Girls: 19,136

Registrations by state:

Anambra: 2,258
Abia: 8,281
Enugu: 8,491
Ebonyi: 6,919
Imo: 9,756

This year's competition will now include both Mathematics and Science (optional), with a single registration covering both.

Our winners will represent the country at the International STEM Olympiad in Lisbon, Portugal, and the Singapore Maths Olympiad Finals in Singapore in 2027.

Following the competition, we will also rank the educational performance of the South Eastern states based on the average assessment results.

The entire South East is building remarkable academic momentum, and it is inspiring to watch.

We will broadcast the competition live on Afia TV, and I will also try to secure a live broadcast on Arise News.

It is now the biggest academic competition on the continent.

Remember, participation is completely free and is open to any child who lives in or attends school in the South East.

[Alex Onyia @winexviv]

I've spent the last several months researching, travelling, and studying why countries like Singapore, Netherlands, United Kingdom, Canada and Finland built some of the world's best public education systems.

One thing became clear:

Nigeria doesn't just have an education problem. We have a school management problem.

Today, I'm releasing a white paper that proposes a new way to transform our public schools, keeping them publicly owned while introducing world-class management and accountability.

This isn't about politics.

It's about giving every Nigerian child the opportunity to attend a world-class public school.

I hope this sparks one of the most important conversations our country has had about education.

Read it. Criticise it. Improve it. Share it.

If we get education right, we change Nigeria.

Here is the link https://t.co/EViU52FKFi

[Jay Bisen @JayBisen473370]

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[Beloved @Dickson_Osa]

@BarcaUniversal Yeah!
He should bring Johan Cruyff and also all the founding fathers of barca from their graves. 🥺

[Big Brain Marketing @BigBrainMkting]

Nestlé won Japan by understanding one principle:

People don't buy what tastes good, they buy what feels familiar.

And familiarity starts in childhood.

[Alex Onyia @winexviv]

Let me say this clearly and publicly.

Nigeria deserves answers.

I have made inquiries from sources within the education ecosystem, and what I’m hearing raises serious concerns about transparency around the new national curriculum.

So I’m asking directly and naming institutions that should provide clarity:

Has the Honourable Minister of Education ever seen or fully reviewed and publicly presented the complete curriculum framework?

Has the Nigerian Educational Research and Development Council (NERDC) made the full curriculum openly accessible to the public without barriers?

Have the National Assembly Committees on Education conducted transparent oversight hearings on its contents?

Have examining bodies like WAEC, NECO, and JAMB publicly demonstrated alignment with the final approved framework?

Because here is the reality:

None of these agencies have seen the new curriculum and anyone you see online is fake.

This curriculum should determine what tens of millions of Nigerian children will learn.
It shapes national productivity.
It defines our innovation capacity for decades.

Yet try this yourself:

Write formally to NERDC today and request the complete official curriculum document, not summaries, not extracts, the full framework. They will never respond to you because it does not exist. This new curriculum was funded by a foreign agency.

If you receive it transparently and without obstruction, publish it for Nigerians to see.

Education cannot operate behind closed doors. Curriculum cannot be treated like classified intelligence.

The intellectual future of our children must never be opaque.

I am calling on:

Media houses to investigate
Legislators to demand disclosure
Educators to speak up
Parents to ask questions

Nigeria must move from secrecy to transparency in education governance.

We cannot claim to build a knowledge economy while hiding the blueprint of knowledge itself.

[Steven Bartlett @StevenBartlett]

My mum told me that if I dropped out of university to start a business she wouldn't talk to me again... she wasn't joking.

we didn't speak properly for 2 years until she realised this business stuff was paying me enough to cover my bills

I've never held a grudge about this because back then I knew she was standing in my way BECAUSE she loved me.

She'd struggled in business after we moved here from Africa, so she was scared I would struggle like she did.

I think at some level i work hard to avoid the struggle I saw her endure

The truth for all of us (especially for 1st generation immigrant families):

The people who love you the most will sometimes give you some of the worst life advice… and not because they don't care…. but maybe because they care a little too much…

They'll optimise for your comfort - the thing they probably didn’t have - and not for the growth the comes from risk and struggle.

So you have to ask people who've been where you're going, not people who are where you're from.

And ultimately it's your life, you have to face the consequences, so it has to be your decision…

[Victor Okafor @TheVictorOkafor]

If you’re a young man, there’s a trap you’re most likely to fall into in your early 20s and 30s that can easily ruin your life.

Have you seen older guys that used to be happy?

Used to do well financially.

Used to be excited about living.

Used to be enthusiastic about the future.

Now their stare is dark. The spark is gone.

I’ll tell you exactly how that happens.

Because of your natural proclivity to be productive and to provide for your people, it becomes easy for you to build your identity around the work of your hands.

That’s how many men have died while standing.

Have you met those old men in their 60s and 70s that are ALWAYS telling stories of when they worked in a bank at age 27/30? Always sharing stories about how they were the big boys in their prime until they were fired.

…or the government made a policy that shut down their business.

And then you wonder what they’ve been doing for the last 25 years.

Well, nothing. You underestimate how much time flies when you’ve pitched your tent in the past.

In really simple terms,

when you make a job/career your entire identity, as soon as it’s taken away from you, you become a lost soul in this world.

As humans we survive on a conceptual level.

Your identity is everything you have in this life.

If your entire identity is built on the fact that you’re a Big 4 consultant, and you’re fired from that job, you will fall into a kind of depression that you would most likely not recover from.

Why? Identity has been stripped away from you.

Your identity must never be tied to a job. No matter how secure it feels.

Your identity should have a solid bond with your purpose. Your convictions. Your unshakable beliefs beyond what you do for work.

That’s how you stand the test of time and change.

Amen.

Rooting for you, brother.

❤️⏰

[JayNaija @JayNaija]

“ Go home daddy, go home” 😂😭😂

[DON “Tobechukwu” Ade 👑 @Row_Haastrup]

This is talent 🙌🔥

How do they do it?

[Tony O. Elumelu, CFR @TonyOElumelu]

LEADERSHIP - THE POWER OF RELATIONSHIPS

On Tuesday, January 13, 2026, we held our first executive knowledge-sharing session for 2026. A time to reflect and rethink how we lead.

The World around us is constantly shifting, creating opportunities and threats.

Leadership cannot be passive, complacent, arrogant, or distant. Leadership is often about simplicity; the clarity of an objective, discipline of execution, and courage to lead with authenticity.

[Mr. Czar @Mrczar_]

If You want To Win in Life and get whatever you want …You need to think like a BET company.

This is really how I approach my problems.

Here is what I mean.

Everyday THOUSANDS of people bet against bet companies.

If you win, you take their money…if you lose they take your money.

Every friggin day this happens.

But somehow the bet company NEVER folds.

Why?

It is because BET companies don’t care about ONE lucky gambler winning ₦1 million. They think in volume.

40 people may beat their odds…but 1,000 others will not. And everything they lost to the 40 will be recovered from the 1,000 This is the law of averages.

If you send 100 cold DMs; maybe 10 reply, 3 are interested, but eventually only 1 will convert.

You run ad to 30,000+ people, 100 place an order, and only 20 confirm and pick up on delivery

You run 10 ad creatives; 8 may flop, 1 breaks even, and 1 becomes a winner.

….like that like that.

Don’t worry yaself over that one person who didn’t buy.

Or that one customer who ghosted you.

Or the one ad that did not covert.

Focus on making a LARGE number of effort on ONE PARTICULAR outcome, and this way you engineer the law of average into your life.

[Nathaniel Bassey @nathanielblow]

A good time to make this spread and trend again…….
Let’s go !

Jesus just has to be who He says He is. No one gives this joy that He gives.
We celebrate our king, JESUS !

[Beloved @Dickson_Osa]

@FaithOyedepo GOD is too faithful to fail me!

[Beloved @Dickson_Osa]

@RCCGworldwide Amen