Uche

African founders × capital.
Convener, #StartupSouth & ASVLP.
Startup policy • Venture infrastructure.
If it scales, I’m interested.

[Uche @Havilah2]

@supersanusi @AdunaCapital more neglected secondary cities. I expect to see more of these sort of news.

Note that I had guessed the Monthly traffic between Lagos and Port Harcourt to be at roughly 9000 but I found it was actually about 30,000 as of Q1, 2018.

https://t.co/BfNYYBOQvh

[Uche @Havilah2]

Don't embarrass this country ke?

[Channels Television @channelstv]

Seun Okinbaloye: Are you not bothered that there is a feeling that people in government live large and in luxury, and there is a lot of poverty?

NRS Chairman Zacch Adedeji: Mr President goes from home to office on foot, not even driving except when he is going to the airport. I don't know where you see the convoy.

#SundayPolitics

#CTVTweets

[Uche @Havilah2]

@liadreaamy 40

[Uche @Havilah2]

@danielcberk This is just so crazy what I am reading in the CS. Didn't know the hate is this bad.

[Uche @Havilah2]

The last part is particularly important for relationship - including marriage levels.

Before you say I do: confirm there's someone that can say to him/her stop and without questions, they'd do so.

[Uche @Havilah2]

Does Peter, Paul & Jude not have Kinsmen?

Wait. They grew up in Jos and may not be close to home.

No matter what you do, be close to home. This kind of matter can easily be settled by kinsmen.

Beyond that: I think they don't have someone they mutually respect or submit to.

[Uche @Havilah2]

Does Peter, Paul & Jude not have Kinsmen?

Wait. They grew up in Jos and may not be close to home.

No matter what you do, be close to home. This kind of matter can easily be settled by kinsmen.

Beyond that: I think they don't have someone they mutually respect or submit to.

[Uche @Havilah2]

Your dreams are valid. Don't let an incomplete map distort your journey. Go OffChart!

Port Harcourt. October 22-23, 2026

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#offchartnxt #emergingcities #portharcourtevent #startupevent

[Uche @Havilah2]

The most important product innovation and solutions are not the ones that expect too many behavioural changes. The less changes the target has to make, the easier the adoption.

[Nwanyi Ocha @nwanyi_ocha]

I want to be fair to @PeterPsquare . He is not wrong that French opens doors Igbo does not. He is not wrong that parents get to decide how they raise their own children. But I guess he underestimates the fact that he is not just any parent. P-Square is a name millions of Igbo people grew up admiring, their success made them proud to be who they are. People all over the world sang their songs using Igbo words. So when a voice like that says Igbo is not worth passing on, it does not land like one man’s private choice. It gives permission for a belief a lot of people were already quietly carrying, that English and French, in short anything foreign, sits above Igbo, that their native language is something to graduate out of rather than something to hold onto.

I am not Igbo. I am Swiss. But my husband made it clear from the beginning that our children would speak Igbo, and I have never once seen that as a burden or a complication. Our children speak Swiss German, English, and Igbo at home, German at school, and now French as well, since that is part of their school curriculum too. Five languages, and none of them fighting each other for space. That is the part people forget when they frame this as a choice. Children do not need to pick one language to be strong in. They can navigate several at once, easily.

It is adults who turn language into a competition. Children just absorb what is spoken to them and grow fluent in all of it.

A language is not only a tool for getting ahead. It is also a rooting tool, the place where love, memory, and belonging live. It is the specific way a grandmother scolds you and forgives you in the same breath. It is a joke that only works in the original. Lose the language, and you do not just lose a skill. You lose a room in your own house, one you can still visit as a guest but never quite live in again. That is what worries me most in this conversation. A child who cannot speak their father’s or mother’s language will, at some point, stand in that homeland and feel like a stranger. Not unwelcome, not unloved, just outside something that was supposed to be theirs by birth.

One day, my sons will be handed a kola nut, and in that moment, no one should have to do it for them. They should know how to receive it, how to speak over it, how to break it themselves, not pass it along to someone else because they never learned the words or the meaning behind them. That is such a small moment, and yet it says everything. It is the difference between being someone’s guest and being someone’s own.
So when I hear “Igbo is useless,” what I actually hear is a wound that has not healed.

From the outside, I have watched how often English or French get treated as the languages worth keeping, while Igbo gets treated as the one you can afford to let go of. That preference did not come from nowhere. It is a colonial hierarchy that convinced generations of people that closeness to their own culture was a limitation rather than a foundation. I don’t say this to shame anyone, least of all a man raising his own family the best way he knows how. I say it because the people who shape how we see ourselves carry a weight beyond their own households, whether they asked for it or not.

My hope is simple. That we stop treating our children’s languages as a competition with only one winner. That we let them have both the world and their roots, and trust that they are capable of holding both without ever having to choose.

[Uche @Havilah2]

@NaijaFlyingDr This is why when ordinary Nigerians are quarrelling about how the elites work together, I smile. People don't realize how connected a lot of them are - they are all business partners and co-stakeholders. TOE and (even) Herbert are holding many things in trust for many others

[Uche @Havilah2]

@NaijaFlyingDr Yes but this was how they all created the Capital Management Firms they still use till today. They setup private syndicates and hold the stocks in trust on behalf of their friends (investors) who pooled that resources.

[Uche @Havilah2]

No offense meant. But do you agree?

See you at OffChart NXT. October 22-23, 2026.
Port Harcourt

offchartnxt.startupsouth.prg

[Uche @Havilah2]

@NaijaFlyingDr But AIG & Tony raised private capital from close friends - plus their money obviously - to buy the businesses. No?

[Uche @Havilah2]

@SergioASanta @0xLuciferCore This is genius move. However the instruction was - move one match stick. Turning the cardboard will amount to two moves

[Uche @Havilah2]

@0xLuciferCore 116

[Uche @Havilah2]

@miradreaamy 4

[Uche @Havilah2]

@RealAyanfe1 Batitusta

[Uche @Havilah2]

@elokanwobi They know this already

[Uche @Havilah2]

In the US if many decisions of a lower court judge gets overturned by higher courts, it affects the progress and growth of that judge - including their chances of ever making it to the Supreme Court bench.

But it'd seem that's not an issue in Nigeria. Justice Lifu on my mind.

[Uche @Havilah2]

Growth Doesn't Follow Maps.
Uncharted spaces hold the ace for future expansions.
Let's go OffChart NXT!

Get ready.
Port Harcourt October 22-23, 2026.
https://t.co/vthFzuZSp2

#offchartnxt
#startupsouthxi
#africa
#emergingcities

[#StartupSouth @StartupSouthNg]

Growth Doesn't Follow Maps.
Uncharted spaces hold the ace for future expansions.
Let's go OffChart NXT!

Get ready.
Port Harcourt October 22-23, 2026.
https://t.co/OZdHb77SrN

#offchartnxt
#startupsouthxi
#africa
#emergingcities

[Uche @Havilah2]

This is a Stadium!

[Oyindamola🙄 @dammiedammie35]

A more detailed view of the 100,000-capacity Ark Auditorium currently being built by Bishop Oyedepo’s Winners Chapel in Ota, Ogun State 🥶✨ 🏟️