Chi na-enye

Onye Igbo • Software developer

[Chi na-enye @kodervine]

Looking forward to the session

[Tonative @tonative_org]

After our keynote session, attendees will choose from focused breakout discussions.

Breakout Session 02: Annotation Tools & Data Infrastructure

Moderated by:
• God'spraise Okechukwu (@Prazehub)
• Chinenye Anikwenze (@kodervine)

We'll explore:
🔹 Localized annotation tools (open-source vs. proprietary)
🔹 The infrastructure needed to store, manage, and scale African language datasets

Afterward, we'll reconvene to share key insights across all breakout sessions.

📅 Aug. 6, 2026

#Tonative #DeepLearningIndaba #DataAnnotation

[Chi na-enye @kodervine]

@adaezennaji_ You did that 😊🔥

[Blessing Oluwafikayo Adisa @Fikkmaths]

Help Make My Scholarship Dream Come True 🙏

I'm Adisa Blessing Oluwafikayo, a First-Class Mathematics graduate (CGPA: 4.76/5.0) from UNILORIN.

I'm happy to have been awarded a fully funded Master's scholarship in Mathematics at the University of Calabria, Italy.

[Chi na-enye @kodervine]

@adaezennaji_ @ms___dale You're doing great with the lifting. Yeah, the gym doesn't burn as much right then, but as you build muscle, your body burns more calories at rest than cardio ever will. Keep lifting.

[Osaretin Victor Asemota @asemota]

Sustained wealth happens when you have a community thinking together. The key person who is visibly wealthy only achieves that wealth because others also have skin in the game and propel them for their benefit.

I am not engaging in "trillionaire worship" like others, but what was instructive about the SpaceX IPO was that the cafeteria workers and janitors at the same company also became wealthy. That is a bigger deal than anything else.

I hear so much talk about founders and investors in African entrepreneurship, but what nobody tells you is that the people who also became wealthy are the people who supported the entrepreneur and the enterprise with work.

Decades ago, I discovered that Dangote's depot operators, when he was selling commodities, were also Naira billionaires in their own right. They didn't need to cheat him to get wealthy, as most misguided people believe employees should do; they had an arrangement that made all of them wealthy.

Dangote took the financial risk while the depot chiefs took the operational risks. I see this same dynamic in many supply chains in Africa. My wife's aunt's 70th birthday in Accra last year was attended by all the key FMCG players and traders who worked together in an ecosystem that they all profited from.

Aliko became rich because his family learned about this model long before anyone else did. He benefited immensely from it, and he is passing this same ecosystem-building approach on to the next generation of his family.

This aspect of African entrepreneurship is rarely discussed. People want to hear grass-to-grace stories or miracles. True wealth in reality is built by communities and ecosystems that work in sync. I will be talking about it a lot more.

I survived surgery yesterday, and I am grateful for another chance to keep doing this.

[d. @dvnnse]

I wish we had gotten a deeper storyline for the #Michaelmovie . Sure, the performances are fun to (re)watch but it would be been nice to get more of how Michael felt behind the curtain. His anger after OTW, his disappointment after Motown 25 performance… there was sm to explore.

[Tonative @tonative_org]

🌍 As part of #TheArtificialFuture by @Ypeopleintech, Tonative is hosting Bridging the Data Skills Gap for African Languages on building language datasets for AI
Learn language documentation, translation, validation, and dataset curation for African languages.

📅 May 26, 2026
🕔 5 PM WAT
💻 Virtual

🔗 https://t.co/NNqiE92xnO

#AIForAfrica #AfricanLanguages #Tonative #YPIT

[Aaron Levie @levie]

CEOs are uniquely prone to AI psychosis because they’re sufficiently distant from the last mile of work that still has to happen to generate most value with AI.

So when they play with AI, they see the happy path results, often not considering the next 10 or 20 things that have to happen to get sustainable results from agents.

“Look I made this awesome product prototype”. Yes but you didn’t have to review the code before it went into production and fix a bunch of issues.

“Look I generated a contract”. Yes but you didn’t verify all the terms before it goes out to the counterparty and didn’t have to wire up all the past contracts to work with.

The best thing you can do as a CEO is to use AI a *ton* to figure out the real implications of agents in the enterprise, and come out the other side with an appreciation for both the upside and the real work that goes into them.

[Mai & Global Consulting Partners @MaiandGCP]

This is actually a brilliant observation that deserves a proper answer. You are not wrong about what you are seeing. But what you are describing is exactly how languages disappear without anyone noticing.

Adamawa alone has over 40 documented languages. Bura, Vere, Chamba, Gaanda, Lala, Bacchama, Bata, Marghi and more and no they are not variations as you pointed out.

But most of them are slowly being swallowed by Hausa and Fulani because those are the languages of trade, mobility and survival.

So yes, your Borno security guard speaks Shuwa Arabic and your Sokoto okada man speaks Hausa and they understand each other perfectly. That does not mean only one language exists. It means one language won the economic argument. This is what linguists call language assimilation. The dominant language does not erase the others overnight. It just makes them less useful for daily survival until the younger generation stops learning them entirely.

Now here are the facts. Ethnologue, which is the world's most authoritative database on languages, currently documents 520 living indigenous languages in Nigeria alone. Not dialects. Languages. Nigeria has also already lost 12 indigenous languages or more to extinction. Gone forever.

The Middle Belt is where this becomes undeniable. Plateau State alone has over 50 distinct languages. Keyword "Dinstinct".

Benue has Tiv, Idoma, Igede and more. Taraba has communities that cannot understand their neighbours two villages away without a translator. Your Yoruba example actually proves the point perfectly. The fact that a Yoruba person can move across the Southwest and be understood is evidence of one dominant language absorbing regional variations over centuries. That process happened. It is still happening everywhere else in Nigeria right now.

Now I am willing to bet you have never heard of Hyam, Ngas, Mwaghavul, Berom, Amo, Buji, Sura, Anaguta, or Irigwe from Plateau State. Or Kilba, Huba, Bura-Pabir, and Chibok from Borno. Or Mumuye, Jenjo, Yukuben, and Wurkum from Taraba. Or Tur, Nyandang, Kugama and Taram further into the riverine communities nobody talks about. Or what about Igala, Ebira, Bassange, Bassa-Nge, Kakanda and Oworo from Kogi alone. I have not even touched Rivers, Cross River, Bayelsa, Edo, Ondo, or Nasarawa yet. You want to know exactly where each of these is spoken? You will have to tour Nigeria for that. And I promise you, this country will humble you in ways no map ever could. The 500 languages are not cap. Most of them are just quietly dying (Bura has an estimated 11,000 speakers with most young Bura people now not able to speak the language) while we debate whether they exist. And that is the real conversation Nigeria should be having.

[Smita Barooah @smitabarooah]

The quiet grief of adult friendship: One of the most beautiful articles I've read in a while. Hits hard
https://t.co/qXi6UBaTs3

[Agọziem-Art @nneamaka_orji]

My name is Chiagọziem Nneamaka Chivụzọ Ọrjị, this is my artwork titled Ada Oke Osisi.

[🌸Rierie 🌸 @thatgirl_rierie]

“I want to see a video of those outfits on the red carpet”

Na video be this o
#AMVCA #AMVCA12

[Chi na-enye @kodervine]

@Zioraife I swear by this brand. Ihuoma really did a thing with the perfumes

[Chi na-enye @kodervine]

@Zioraife @SusanDede7 Cursed no be lie. Bought my first Goddess at 20k. Then my first Seduction and Passion at 15k each.

[Adéṣẹ̀tọ́ @Illusionist_126]

Do you know what the main problem is with you folks and shite arguments like this? You are treating these children simply as symbols of governmental failure rather than as human beings with present, immediate needs. It is also evident most of you do not know how NGOs and Civil societies work. For example, you cannot simply walk up to a public school and start handing out incentives to pupils without due permission from the Ministry of Education. If you also try to antagonize the government, your efforts will be utterly frustrated.

You will go on to condemn Tunde for compromising while you remain morally spotless but also entirely useless to the children in question. You want to keep them under the bridge, theoretically, so the bridge can function as an indictment of the state. Do you actually think you are more righteous by performing outrage on social media?

Listen, the children under the bridge are already there. The question is not philosophical anymore. They are hungry, undereducated, exposed to violence, and statistically on their way to lives you hypocrites will later lament. If he leaves these children right now and start supporting your candidate, will this immediately destroy all the slums in Lagos State?

All of you using these children's suffering as rhetorical ammunition against someone trying to address that suffering directly, I want to ask you plainly now: What exactly are you proposing instead, and when does it begin?

[bbl mccarthyism @hellciee]

omg i forget this app needs 100,000 disclaimers. SOME books are longer. YES it depends on your reading speed. YES it depends on the type of book. YES it depends on book format. YES it depends on word count. the point is you can read a single book in a 365 day period jfc

[Chi na-enye @kodervine]

@GistwithLala Love it for you sis 💪🏼💪🏼

[Alyssa 🌻 @alyssaleann]

It’s also persistent network effects

Maybe especially obvious in my field, but there are opportunities I will simply never have because I’m a first generation college grad and was not born into a family with a country club membership, and this didn’t become entirely obvious until well after graduation

I have friends who have already started their own practice, and it’s because (for example) their dad is friends with a guy who owns banks and was willing to take a chance on them

Or they got into that sophomore year internship pipeline (which I didn’t know was possible) because of a family connection in the building industry

Or took a prestigious but barely-paid job with a famous designer because they didn’t have to cover their own living expenses

I can, have, and will continue to work hard and build a reputation of my own, but there are whole corridors of doors that will never be open to me because of my background, and I’ve had to come to terms with that and learn to be a little nicer to myself

Hard work matters, but no, this is not a meritocracy. A lot of us have to muscle our way as high as we can and watch someone else take an escalator. There’s no point in being bitter about it, but it’s worth acknowledging every now and again

[Abdulfatai | Blockradar @iamnotstatic]

nothing humbles you like your body giving out on you. health is truly everything.