Nigeria's population increased.
More people became eligible to vote.
Yet something unexpected happened.
Voter participation moved in the opposite direction.
Nigeria didn't lose the 2023 election at the ballot box.
It lost it at home.
A thread that might make you uncomfortable 🧵
I woke up very angry and sad. This country will not kill me.
I finally set up my backup solar power system yesterday, and I kept complaining to my housekeeper about how abnormal it is to spend that much money at such a young age.
Working remotely in Nigeria is genuinely a drag. The electricity situation alone can frustrate the life out of you.
I can't stand the sound of generators, and I'm big on clean energy, so I eventually had to bite the bullet and invest in solar.
But it's honestly ridiculous that we have to spend so much of our hard-earned money providing basic necessities for ourselves.
We really need to lock in and vote like crazy next year. We cannot keep living like this.
It's exhausting, expensive and genuinely unsustainable.
We deserve better than having to build our own solutions to problems that should have been solved a long time ago.
I’m just tired abeg.
What if your focus isn’t as consistent as you think? 👀
Ever wondered what makes it drift, and how yours compares with others?
Take this 6-minute anonymous study by @TheDataArc to find out:
👉 https://t.co/uoC8XwyuR5
Come to think of it...I don't understand why you only need a SSCE certificate to be eligible to contest for president, but needs NYSC certificate to get a ₦120k job.
"We know how to control nuclear weapons... We don't yet know how to control AI."
Former Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon, who recently left the company, is sounding the alarm on artificial intelligence, calling it "possibly the most dangerous technology that humanity has ever created."
Coxon, who says he spent three years conducting research at Anthropic and OpenAI, wrote in a viral post on X that the companies are more focused on beating each other to build the most advanced AI models than they are on safety.
He says an international AI arms race would be "disastrous," arguing global cooperation is the only way to manage the rapidly advancing technology.
@SpecialReport
And what happens if the numbers aren't telling the full story?
I explored the full analysis here:
https://t.co/WPint5NyGA
#DataAnalytics#DataVisualization
Africa being misrepresented on the map got me thinking about something else:
If the way we represent Africa’s size can change how people perceive the continent, what happens when the population figures we use are inaccurate?
The consequences could be much bigger than we think. 🧵
very young populations.
At the same time, parts of Europe and East Asia are ageing.
This is why data analysis isn't just about getting numbers and putting them into a dashboard.
It's about asking:
What am I actually looking at?
What might this representation be hiding?
And what happens if the numbers aren't telling the full story?
I explored the full analysis here:
https://t.co/WPint5NyGA
#DataAnalytics#DataVisualization
I looked at growth, migration, fertility, density and median age too.
And that changed the picture.
Africa wasn't simply a continent with a large population.
It showed some of the strongest population growth rates, while countries like Nigeria, Uganda, Mali and Chad also had...