Kolade Chuks

Relentless.Building great software. Building Fusion Intelligence. Moving man trying to meet his luck.

[Kolade Chuks @koladeCh]

I will build a company that’s bigger than Oracle and Microsoft right from Nigeria. Might be delusional but will be a very fun ride.

[Kolade Chuks @koladeCh]

Look of remorse knowing fully well he’ll do it again 😂😂

[RT @RT_com]

Famous gorilla Kiyomasa falls into deep contemplation after spat with mate — caught on camera in Japanese zoo

[Dr Ola Brown @NaijaFlyingDr]

Why did TOE buy a company instead of building from scratch to scale? Because he has never done that.

UBA was in business before he was born. His stake in Transcorp was acquired from other share holders as well. These are the advantages below👇

[L @lanreadelowo]

Last week na Moniepoint no scale, today na Sim Shagaya no scale.

You are expecting a 3/4 times successful founder to find it hard to raise? If he can’t raise monies, shouldn’t you be extremely bothered lmaoooo.

All these ones na just bad belle written as opinions

[ꨄ︎ Dr. Princess ꨄ︎ @PinKIYSensei]

Pls go look at the “man” that sparked this convo.

[Elnathan John @elnathan_john]

Repeated claims like this show how little Nigerians know about their own country. There is enough scholarship on these issues to not make broad and widely debunked claims like this.

First: The claim that the almajiri system functions as a conveyor belt to terrorism and banditry is contested by the most rigorous scholarly work on the subject and there is the work of Dr. Hadiza Kere Abdulrahman @dj_kere whose doctoral research "The Men They Become": Northern Nigeria's Former Almajirai: Analysing Representational Discourses of Identity, Knowledge and Education (2018), involved years of fieldwork and direct engagement with former almajirai. Assuming I read her work correctly, she found that the mainstream representation of the system (which has been repeated in the tweet below) is only "one possible set of articulations and that alternative meanings exist." Other research she has done found no operational extension of say Boko Haram in almajiri Qur'anic schools, and that almajiris themselves "vehemently rejected any moves to join Boko Haram activities." @dj_kere has also argued that the almajiri system's deterioration, is a product of colonial disruption and post-colonial governance failure, not an inherent feature of Qur'anic education itself.

Even in the case of Boko Haram, where the almajiri connection is most often asserted, the evidence does not support a direct causal line. We have the work of @HannahHoechner for example. She has argued in this piece here (https://t.co/XuohhpnSfN) about this. In the article she mentions that "correlation is not proof of causation: That almajirai joined does not automatically mean that almajirci made them join." There is also the 2017 paper, "The Almajiri System and Insurgency in Northern Nigeria: A Reconstruction of the Existing Narratives for Policy Direction," where research shows that "the Almajiri system in itself does not radicalize the Almajirai cohort," but that decades of bad governance have produced a large, alienated, and economically destitute youth cohort who become targets for recruitment — a crucial distinction between vulnerability and causation.

Meanwhile, Boko Haram's founder, Mohammed Yusuf, was not himself a product of the street almajiri system: according to Hussain Zakaria (for example in the US Institute of Peace report "Why Do Youth Join Boko Haram?", 2014), Yusuf had the equivalent of a graduate-level education, having studied theology at the University of Medina in Saudi Arabia, where he absorbed Salafi-jihadist ideology from transnational networks — not from classical Qur'anic schooling.

Finally, and perhaps most importantly, the conflation of Fulani banditry with the almajiri system is especially unsupported. There is ample research here. For example, in "The Other Insurgency: Northwest Nigeria's Worsening Bandit Crisis" (published in Security and Defence Quarterly 2021), the research establishes that that northwest banditry is driven by land-use conflict, Fulani pastoralist "grievances" (quotes mine- you can call it something else), climate-driven competition over grazing routes, and governance collapse — not by Qur'anic schooling of any kind.

Added to that, the Fulani ethnic militia phenomenon has its own distinct social base. If you read the War on the Rocks analysis by @jh_barnett and Murtala Rufai, they have noted that "the majority of bandits have shown little interest in adopting" jihadist ideology, with alleged cooperation between bandits and jihadists being "less meaningful than many observers assume." You can read that analysis here: https://t.co/YM22c3fPhn

As for Boko Haram's actual membership profile, the documentary record points in the opposite direction from the almajiri narrative. Again I urge people to read the USIP report "Why Do Youth Join Boko Haram?" of 2014 which documents that as early as 2004, "students, especially in tertiary institutions in Borno and Yobe states, withdrew from school, tore up their certificates, and joined the group." This account is corroborated by Human Rights Watch in "They Set the Classrooms on Fire": Attacks on Education in Northeast Nigeria (2016), which records testimony of a local imam urging believers to destroy their educational documents, with university graduates complying publicly. @HannahHoechner's own work confirms that "some members of the group used to be university graduates who tore their university certificates at the beginning of the Boko Haram propaganda" — a fact that fundamentally complicates any simple narrative linking Islamic street education to the rise of the insurgency.

Please people, read, read, read. Especially at a time like this when people are angry and making broad claims.

[Kolade Chuks @koladeCh]

@ChuGailx 🫂❤️

[chiefest chief @soniajohn_]

The official trailer for our short film, IKEMEFUNA - Big Boys Don’t Cry, ladies and gentlemen 🤭

I still can’t believe we made this film 🥹

[Nigerian Box Office @NGAboxoffice]

Something exciting is coming and I can't wait to share it.

[Hãppy_TRÇH🍀 @happykvng]

GUYS! I figured it out. Victors dad is the old man that was underground when Boyd “ story walked “ at the beginning of the show. The blood that the MIY put Victors dad shot glass probably made him crazy & they had to chain him up for the safety of others. This means that ,

[Ik. @ik_fiinn]

Boyd: "Kenny, once you see the monsters, you stab and run!, do you hear me — stab and run!!!"

Kenny:

[Sir J (J9) @SirJarus]

A former chairman of one of the top banks, who is a silent follower here, and we have never physically met, was on the phone with my family till midnight on the night I was being dragged here, trying to intervene.

Two months later, his company offtook one of our projects for almost half a billion Naira.

I also randomly retweeted a sick baby's fundraising. He came to my DM, asked whether I confirmed the case, asked for the hospital account and sent N10m, the entire hospital bill, for the baby's surgery.

May almighty Allah continue to bless him.

We have never met in person but he is such a kind person.

Our paths crossed on Twitter.

[Kolade Chuks @koladeCh]

@eldivine 😂😂😂

[-valar morghulis- @eldivine]

My apologies Sir. Thank you for explaining how IPOs work to me, as I did not actually know this before now. I was trying to explain that despite the valuation there seems to be very strong demand and perhaps this means Friday might see even more action on the open market.

Could you please suggest a way to say this in a way that meets your online expectations?

I await your further communication.

Best regards.

[The Pragmatic Engineer @Pragmatic_Eng]

What it’s like to receive a job offer directly from Satya Nadella. @kelseyhightower, former Google Distinguished Engineer, on the Microsoft offer that revealed a pay tier he didn't know existed:

“I got this email from Satya, the CEO of Microsoft.

He wrote this nice email: 'Kelsey, heard you had a good experience with the team' - remember I did the interview at the Microsoft headquarters - “heard really good things from the team, just wanted to let you know, you're going to be respected here. We're going to support you as a team.”

I'm like, damn, support as a team? Coming from the CEO?

So, number one, what an honor. This is the CEO of Microsoft. He has so many more important things to be doing than to be emailing me about a role. I opened the PDF - not very often in your career does a zero get added to the equation. And so you're looking at this like, I didn't even know that they do that.

We know that it happens. But the person that graduated from high school in 1999, that chose the A+ Certification didn't know that was available. Even while I was at Google having all the success. Google paid me pretty well too, but I didn't know you can add another zero still.

And I'm like, wow. I showed my wife and she was the one that said you should just go interview, like put your ego to the side and let's go see what's out there, so shout out to my wife.

And so I get the PDF, and I'm like, okay, this number is perfect. Honestly, I don't know what to say, but let’s just find out, is this really the only number? So I remember giving a counter: you know what, I think it should be this.

The funny thing is, Microsoft countered back higher, like we're not playing around. I'm like, oh, whoa. Now I understand that I don't understand this part of the game.”

[Boyd Stevens @Boyd_333]

@anghkooeyyy He is my son
And ain't nothing gonna happen to him

Do you understand?!
Say you understand!

[Matt Janiga @regulatorynerd]

1/ With Open AI and Anthropic both having announced they’ve filed an S-1, they should officially be in their quiet period.

This means no new communications from execs and no announcements beyond what’s already in the S-1. Even then, most companies just shut down exec appearances and product announcements.

So tl;dr — it’s the best time to tweet outrageous things about Sam Altman and Dario because they’re limited in their ability to respond publicly.

I’ll go first . . .

[El Smuggo @El_Smuggo49]

Some are still talking about the World Cup. Me? I’m still catching championship-winning vibes.

Different mindset, different energy. 🏆✨

[Bolaji Ogunmola Armies @bolajiarmies]

These numbers? All thanks to YOU.
Fans of Ajosepo, you showed up and showed out.

We’re grateful. we love you ❤️

Keep spreading the word!!! Ajosepo (The Gathering) is showing in cinemas nationwide

[ESPN UK @ESPNUK]

Arsenal have added "Champions" above the away entrance at the Emirates stadium 🏆🏟️

[ADÉMỌ́LÁ @Oye440]

Waking up every day and not supporting Arsenal must be incredibly boring.