〈 Elliot | Menkah 〉

Research Scientist | #Comp. Chem PhD | Software Eng | #Parallelprogramming | Lover of Physics | #HPC from @Sissaschool | @oniochabooks 😎

[Scanty SZN @EiiScanty]

as citizens, we are indiscipline. that is why we have leaders. enact laws, deal with us. we will refrain.

- fine anyone who dumps rubbish.
- sack the sellers occupying the streets.
- fine those who destroy government properties.
- fine drivers who block streets & drive carelessly.

In all, sack leaders who cannot do their jobs. arrest the corrupt ones. we will progress bit by bit

[Agriculture Insider @Agrinsiderhq]

Industrial manufacturing of car wheel from old gas bottles

[Caleb Karawa @karawamedia]

UPDATE on the Senegal chess match ♟️ and OH this is good 🍿

It's official Ousmane Sonko just got elected President of the National Assembly. The same man Faye fired as PM on Thursday is now running parliament four days later. FOUR DAYS

Here's how it went down today: → PASTEF (Sonko's party) holds 130 of 165 seats, so they basically had the whole board → Lawmakers first reinstated his old MP seat, then immediately voted him in as Speaker →

President Faye tried a last-minute block, ran to the Constitutional Council… who shrugged and said "not our business, that's internal Assembly stuff" 💀 → Opposition screaming "power grab," legal folks side-eyeing Article 54 — none of it mattered

WHO IS LAUGHING NOW?

So now Senegal has the president and the man he just sacked sitting at the two highest seats of the State, staring each other down. King vs. former kingmaker, except the kingmaker just took control of the other half of the board.
Sonko didn't get knocked off the table. He castled.
I can't wait to see the outcome of this movie 🎬 😂♟️

[EURAXESS Africa @EURAXESSAfrica]

#SaveTheDate

📣𝗢𝗻𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗘𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 : 𝗘𝗥𝗖 𝗚𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗕𝗮𝘀𝗲𝗱 𝗶𝗻 𝗔𝗳𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮 🌍🇪🇺
🇫🇷Tuesday, 3 June 2026 10am CEST
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🇬🇧 Friday, 5 June 2026 10 am CEST
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[LakeSail @LakeSailHQ]

Spark rebuilt in Rust — no JVM, 8x faster, 94% less cost.

[Bryce Greene @TheGreeneBJ]

Surprise!

[Big El 🏝️ @BlackKyle5]

A lot of people seem attractive until you see the way they think.

[FIFA World Cup Stats @alimo_philip]

🇬🇭 Happy 69th Independence Day, Ghana!

🌍 From the first sub-Saharan nation to break free in 1957 to becoming the Gateway to Africa, they've carried that same pioneering spirit onto the pitch.

🏆 The Black Stars lit up the continent:
- 4x AFCON Champions (1963, 1965, 1978, 1982) – joint-third most in history.

🥈 5 heartbreaking runner-up finishes (most ever)
🌍 Historic quarter-final run at the 2010 World Cup – the closest Ghana came to a semi-final.

🇬🇭 Ghana doesn't just play football – they define African football pride.

🌟 Here's to more glory, more Black Stars shining bright and a future as unstoppable as your independence spirit!

#GhanaAt69

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

If you’re in Korea and want to work on chip design, fabrication or AI software, join Tesla!

[〈 Elliot | Menkah 〉 @eMenkah]

@_onlyscott Michael Essien

[〈 Elliot | Menkah 〉 @eMenkah]

@LegacySiu Di Maria

[KANI’s Kolibea @pk_mante]

In academia, one of the top goals is Full Professor - and I did it!
Thrilled to begin the year on a high with a promotion to Full Professor of Pharmacology.
Grateful beyond words for the journey and the shoulders I stood on. Cheers to an impactful 2026. May we all be great✨

[〈 Elliot | Menkah 〉 @eMenkah]

@Bigg_paradise @grok what song are they singing along?

[〈 Elliot | Menkah 〉 @eMenkah]

@consoleghana This is a project in Algeria, Africa.

[〈 Elliot | Menkah 〉 @eMenkah]

@LegacySiu Ozil

[The Nobel Prize @NobelPrize]

BREAKING NEWS
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2025 #NobelPrize in Physics to John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis “for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation in an electric circuit.”

[〈 Elliot | Menkah 〉 @eMenkah]

@Krishnasagrawal Send

[Vertigo_Warrior @VertigoWarrior]

5. Technology wise Japan is TOP. Making Electricity from your footsteps.

[Bright Simons @BBSimons]

1. I was totally perplexed to read that a retired Wing Commander (equivalent to a Lieutenant Colonel in the army branch) of the Ghana Air Force says that the 4 Harbin Z-9EH helicopters, one of which tragically crashed last week, were DONATIONS from China to Ghana.

2. No disrespect to the retired senior officer, but this information is INCORRECT. I'm only motivated to post this because the claim appears to be circulating widely in mainstream media.

3. Ghana bought and paid for the helicopters from CATIC, a major Chinese defence contractor. CATIC is actually busily pursuing more deals in Ghana now. It wants to sell major platforms to the Ghana Navy. (Analysts feel that the Navy is behind on its procurement plans compared to the other services leading to smart brokers pushing their luck in the bid to cut deals.) And last year, CATIC asked Ghana to sign a maintenance and overhaul deal for both the helicopters and the Air Force's fixed-wing attack planes.

4. Ghana got the money to pay CATIC for the 4 helicopters from a $3 billion China Development Bank (CDB) loan signed in 2011. The loan was meant to be disbursed in two fat tranches. Twelve separate credit facilities covering 12 major projects were identified for the two tranches. Not all projects could be delivered after the loan was capped following a disagreement over how much collateral in oil was required.

5. The helicopter deal was in Tranche B of the deal, under the $150 million "ICT surveillance" component. (Interestingly, Tranche B projects were executed ahead of Tranche A.) Ghana Gas was the entity designated as the notional beneficiary. The helicopters were meant to be used to monitor oil & gas infrastructure in the Western enclave, covering fields and installations to pipelines as well as processing plants.

6. Though the specific cost of each helicopter was not disclosed, it can be deduced by subtracting the Huawei component of the project that they must have cost roughly $11 million each. Important to note, however, that the cost on delivery would normally depend on the customisation specs as agreed with the Ghana Air Force.

7. The original thinking was that live feed from helicopters and other aerial vehicles would be integrated into a central console for round-the-clock monitoring of Ghana's petroleum. That vision was somehow aborted. No one has asked why, and no answers have been offered.

8. In the Air Force, 2 Squadron is normally tasked with VVIP transport. However, 2 Squadron, to the best of my knowledge, has no helicopters. 3 Squadron has thus become increasingly responsible for VVIP transport where helicopters are required. However, none of the MI-17, Agusta/Bell, and Z-9 crafts in the Ghana Air Force fleet are VVIP configured. This is something that I suspect will come up during the expert inquiry.

9. The Nigerian Air Force, for instance, has a strict protocol for VVIP-configuration when buying helicopters. Example: the AW101 Mk 641 helicopters delivered by Augusta in 2014.

10. Saying all the above does not, however, suggest in any way that Ghana got the helicopters as a gift or that they were not customised for field deployment. It only raises a few questions about whether the crashed helicopter was customised for the VVIP transport use case. It is not being suggested that lack of VVIP customisation implies a safety limitation. However, it is usually understood that VVIP configuration would entail a higher than usual standard.

11. I don't know why the Wing Commander thinks the helicopters were gifts. Maybe because Ghana is paying through a loan facility provided by the Chinese government? Well, that does not make it a gift. Ghana has had to deliver thousands of barrels of oil every quarter or so from its share of production in our oilfields to Unipec for loan service purposes since 2015. China is not Santa Claus.

12. I have attached extracts from Parliamentary records for our colleagues in the media who may want to correct the impression.

[Tomas Fiala @TomFiaLAB]

We have multiple PhD and Postdoc positions open in my new group at Masaryk University. Are you an excellent and motivated candidate interested in organic and peptide synthesis and chemical biology? Get in touch! Start in January 2026. https://t.co/zJqvPmPtL5
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