J. Olayinka Ọlárìnóyè

Aged Wine... Writer | Historian (Governance, Identity, Globality) 📚 | GRC | Process-Reader⚙️

[J. Olayinka Ọlárìnóyè @epiphany_writes]

If I sit on it just enough—without losing interest, it'd make sense eventually.

There's my "Learning 101".

[Shav Ngah ★ @shavnyuyngah]

I believe when contemporary architects across this continent try to design flat roof bungalows, this is exactly what they intend to build. Most end up doing it only partially.

This home has natural light in abundance. Deliberate material choice. Real ventilation and lighting strategy. Finishing and landscaping that make it a living home, not the all white, grey, beige, black boxes we keep trying to recreate.

Vishraam Vaadi Nu Ghar, Navsari, Gujarat. Ikshhana Design Studio, principal architect Devansshi Shroff. The house sits parallel to the Purna riverbank, positioned deliberately to give every living space a sightline to the water.

Two brick clad walls anchor the main structure along key axes, paired with saw toothed walls finished in sand faced plaster, earthy and grounded rather than smooth and sterile. Green pockets, open to sky spaces, and glass skylights pull daylight and air through the house without depending on artificial lighting during the day.

The living room opens on two sides, front landscape on one, river on the other, with two verandas extending that connection further. A riverside gazebo completes the outdoor experience.

Built up area 3,015 sq ft on a 5,605 sq ft plot, existing trees preserved rather than cleared, completed 2025 after two years of construction.

This is what a flat roof bungalow is supposed to feel like when climate, material, and light are actually designed for, not painted over in one flat finish and called modern.

Distribution plan and sections are in the comments.

Architect: Ikshhana Design Studio, Ar. Devansshi Shroff, Ar. Jhanvi Jariwala, Ar. Parshva Shah, Ar. Salloni Parekh
Location: Navsari, Gujarat, India
Completed: 2025
Photography: Manan Surti

[xkxhc @Penggunasony]

This looks way too satisfying to watch 🤤

[Dr Oludayo Sokunbi @Oludeewon]

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[Tope Dada @TopeDada17]

New Culture Studios
📍Ibadan,Nigeria

[Osas @osazenoo]

This young Nigerian built a $10 million automated shoe factory here in Nigeria while sourcing 90% of its leather from Kano.

I like to promote and celebrate Nigerians adding value to Nigeria.

[𝑻𝑯𝑬 𝑮𝑬𝑵𝑬𝑹𝑨𝑳 𝑺𝑵𝑶𝑾 🇨🇮 @GeneralSnow_]

You have met the 3 wise Men from the East.
Have you met the 3 Wise Women From the East?

Chioma Ezedimbu,
Amarachi Mitchell Orji,
Ugwu Kassandra Chimziterem
all won golds for Nigeria at TeenEagle Global Finals, held at the University of Surrey in Guildford, Surrey, England.

The international competition brought together students from around the world to test their English language proficiency, critical thinking, public speaking, and academic abilities.

[👑S.A.L.A.K.O🕊 @UnkleAyo]

Unfortunate greetings to you @OgbeniDipo

This message is not in anyway intent to educate you, you've descended below the capacity to retain any form of intelligence - it is intended to ridicule you.

Absolute wonderkids went to represent the country you claim to love more than us, they excelled wonderfully only for you to dogwhistle your fellow ewedu crooners to a space in order to ridicule them on the grounds of their ethnicity.

You and your fellow guttersnipes love to exist in the delusion that you're the most educated tribe - as someone who has twice whatever the height of your academic peak is, no modicum of education shines through you - just bubbles of intellectual fraud & disgusting bìgötry (I added the ami ohun to satisfy your insatiable need for cultural preservation.

For years, you hawked CV reviews like your life depended on it - when it stopped putting food on your table, you began to ridicule education to promote the akaranification & kukulization of the economy just because of your new job designation as Dean of Studies, Apoda Twitter.

It hurts me personally you know, that a good number of trees have to stay alive just to satisfy the oxygen need for people like you. People like you who play destructive roles in the society, who deserve to be melted into asphalt to fill potholes.

People like you are cancerous because your presumed academic journey & perceived exposure allows your to command a certain level audience when the strength of your intelligence can be measured in kilobytes.

Whatever Alex has done that you and your insiduous ilk suppose to imitate, celebrate, collaborate or encourage - you're tearing down at the expense of children who have done nothing to you.

Just because the covering duvet doesn't have pockets, motorcycles don't have conductors & we cannot put airconditioning units in tricycles - every single effort you commit to will convert to vain.

If the owners of the morning agree to initiate your progress, the custodians of the night will stage a protest.

We cannot be championing a campaign against olodo uprising only for our first major academic win as a country to surface weeks after - only for proglottides like yourselves to shit on it, just because it satisfies your bìgötry KPIs.

It will not be well with you.

[NEFERTITI @firstladyship]

WOW!! WOW!! WOW!!

There was another Math Competition, the Pan African Maths Olympiad (PAMO). The 2026 competition was just concluded in Ivory Coast.

Young Master Chifus from Nigeria decided to break a 20-year record. They did it in style.

Nigeria won 3 Silver & 1 Bronze Medals:

Chimfumnanya Aghaduno of Penny International School won a Silver medal.

Damaris Oyerinde of Ambassadors College, Ota in Ogun State won a Silver medal.

Luis Lu of Nigerian Tulips International College, the FCT Abuja won the third Silver medial.

Ikenna Enwere of BrightSun bagged the second highest score in JAMB’s UTME this year. He scored 370. Ikenna won the Bronze medial.

Chimfumnanya is the first Nigerian female to win a Silver at PAMO. She is the first Nigerian female with the highest score ever, at PAMO.

THAT’S NOT ALL. This marks the first time two Nigerian girls have won Silver medals. This is huge for Nigeria, & it was made possible by @SpecialMaths who tutored the children.

Their investment in these children over the years has paid off! I am so proud of them. These are the Diamonds we should celebrate.

Congratulations to our superstars, their parents, the teachers, & the schools involved.

[Alex Onyia @winexviv]

We captured this beautiful moment of Chimdiebube Onwubiko arriving in Enugu yesterday to a hero's welcome.

He won a gold medal at the International STEM Olympiad Grand Finale in Rome.

I love seeing education reclaim its rightful place in our society.

This is just the beginning of something great.

[Mazi Ndu @maziNdu4Real]

If you are below 35 years old, you have an asset that the billionaires on the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NGX) would give up all their wealth for: TIME

Right now, you are in your prime accumulation phase. But let's be honest, compounding only works if you actually give it something to compound.

If you keep waiting for the "perfect time" or "huge capital" to start investing, you are throwing away your greatest leverage.

Here is how to play the game while time is still on your side:

1. Stop Chasing Only "Next-Gen" Hypes

It is easy to get distracted by flashy foreign tech stocks or volatile assets. But look around you, who owns the critical infrastructure in Nigeria? The banks handling the transactions, the telcos powering the data, the factories making the cement and food.

The NGX lets you own a piece of the companies that Nigerians must patronize every single day, rain or shine.

2. The Power of "Aggressive Reinvestment"

Because you are under 35, you don't need to live off investment income yet. This means every single Naira you get in dividends should go straight back into buying more shares.

When you reinvest dividends, you buy more shares.

More shares mean higher dividends next year.

Higher dividends mean even more shares.

This is the flywheel of compounding. Start it in your 20s or early 30s, and it becomes a monster by the time you're 45

3. Build the System, Ignore the Noise
You don't need to be a financial analyst to win here. You just need discipline.

Find a secure, SEC-licensed stockbroking app

Set aside a fixed "tax" on your income every month, even if it's just ₦10,000 or ₦20,000.

Automate it. Buy fundamentally sound, dividend-paying tickers consistently.

In Nigeria, inflation actively devalues your hard work if it's just sitting in a savings account

The best time to start was 5 years ago; the second best time is on the next market opening day. Don't sleep on your twenties and early thirties.

[CHISOM UNACHUKWU @therightanglee]

Venni, vidi, vinsi.

I woke up a world champion🥺. A gold medalist.
I'm beyond grateful to God for helping me live my dream through my students 🙏🏽.

God bless you @winexviv

En route Enugu.
#rome #STEM #SEMO

[The Wolf Of #ALTCOINS @EnekemG]

As a founder, If you’re raising venture capital, sitting in board meetings, or speaking with institutional investors, there are about 30-40 business terms you should know cold. I have been doing this for more than 10years so these are the ones that matter.

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1. WACC — Weighted Average Cost of Capital
This is one of the most important concepts in corporate finance.
Meaning
The average cost of every dollar the company uses to finance itself.
Money isn’t free.
A company can obtain money from:
Equity (selling shares)
Debt (bank loans, bonds)
Each has a cost.
WACC combines both.
Example:
You need ₦100 million.
You raise
₦60m from investors
₦40m from the bank
Investor expects 20% return.
Bank charges 10% interest.
Your WACC is
(60% × 20%) + (40% × 10%)
= 12% + 4%
= 16%
Meaning:
Every project you invest in should ideally earn more than 16%.
If not, you’re destroying value.

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Why VCs care
Suppose you tell a VC
“Our expansion will generate 8% yearly.”
If your WACC is 16%
The VC thinks
“Why are you investing in something earning less than your cost of capital?”
Bad management.

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2. CAC — Customer Acquisition Cost
One of the first numbers investors ask.
Formula
CAC = Marketing Spend ÷ Customers Acquired
Example
You spend
₦5 million on ads
Acquire
500 customers
CAC
= ₦10,000
Meaning
It costs you ₦10k to get one customer.

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3. LTV — Lifetime Value
How much one customer generates before leaving.
Example
Customer pays
₦10,000/month
Average customer stays
36 months
Revenue
= ₦360,000
Gross margin
70%
LTV
≈ ₦252,000

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Investors love
LTV : CAC
If
LTV = ₦250k
CAC = ₦10k
Ratio
25:1
Fantastic.
Generally:
Below 1:1 → Losing money
Around 3:1 → Healthy
5:1+ → Excellent (assuming the numbers are sustainable)

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4. Burn Rate
How fast you’re spending money.
Example
Cash in bank
₦120m
Monthly expenses
₦10m
Burn rate
₦10m/month

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5. Runway
How long before you run out of cash.
Cash
₦120m
Burn
₦10m/month
Runway
12 months
VCs almost always ask
“How much runway do you have?”

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6. EBITDA
Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation and Amortisation
Measures operating profitability before financing and certain accounting charges.
Think of it as
“How much does the business generate from operations?”
Very common in acquisitions.

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7. ARR
Annual Recurring Revenue.
Critical for SaaS.
Monthly subscriptions
₦2m
ARR
₦24m
Investors love growing ARR.

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8. MRR
Monthly Recurring Revenue.
If subscriptions
₦500k
Next month
₦700k
MRR increased.

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9. Gross Margin
How much remains after direct costs.
Example
Revenue
₦100m
Cost to deliver
₦30m
Gross margin
70%
High gross margins usually make companies more scalable.

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10. EBITDA Margin
EBITDA ÷ Revenue
Shows operational efficiency.

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11. ROI
Return on Investment.
Simple.
Invest
₦1m
Earn
₦1.5m
ROI
50%

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12. IRR
Internal Rate of Return.
Measures the annualised return of an investment over time.
Private equity firms use this constantly.
Higher IRR = better investment.

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13. NPV
Net Present Value.
Money today is worth more than money tomorrow.
NPV discounts future cash flows to today’s value.
Positive NPV
Good investment.
Negative
Reject.

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14. Cap Table
Capitalisation Table.
Shows
Founders
Investors
Employee stock options
Ownership percentages
Every startup should have one.

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15. Dilution
Every fundraising round usually reduces existing shareholders’ percentage ownership.
Example
You own
100%
Raise investment
Now own
80%
You’ve been diluted.

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16. Valuation
What the company is worth.
Pre-money
Value before investment.
Post-money
Value after investment.
Example
Company worth
₦900m
Investor puts
₦100m
Post-money valuation
₦1 billion
Investor owns
10%

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17. TAM
Total Addressable Market.
Entire possible market.
Example
Nigeria spends
₦5 trillion yearly on facilities management.
TAM
₦5 trillion.

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[Toye234 @Toye234]

If you have not done MBA or you don’t have a background in Economics or Finance, please read the book “Personal MBA” when starting a business. It will save you of the embarrassment of not knowing some basic business terms.

It’s available for free online.

[NEFERTITI @firstladyship]

The children of Gonzaga Jesuit college Okija, Anambra state, won 8 Gold medals at the STEM Olympiad in Rome as well. Gold na water.

WOW! WOW! WOW! 🤩💪👏👏

[Tunde Onakoya @Tunde_OD]

Jamiu takes down Grayson-New York State elementary champion in a grueling endgame battle!

One step closer towards gaining the USCF national master title. Go Jamiu🇳🇬👏🏾

[Tonymaths @tonymaths042]

One of my best days as a teacher.
God is great.

[Tunde Onakoya @Tunde_OD]

Currently in New York with one of our kids @chessinslums as he begins his sojourn towards earning the US National Master title under the supervision of Grandmaster Alex Lenderman.

We are all rooting for you Jamiu🇳🇬❤️. Give them hell!

[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.

[CHISOM UNACHUKWU @therightanglee]

Gold medal in Mathematics.
Silver medal in Science.

Enugu✅ Abuja✅ Rome ✅ World✅

Best Junior Secondary Mathematics Student on the planet!

Rome, you're welcome 😌.

[Alex Onyia @winexviv]

Egejurum Onyedikachi shares his experience winning the gold medal at the International STEM Olympiad Grand Final in Rome.

He is the best in the world in the Mathematics Primary Category.

He is a genius.