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Exploring investing while geeking out over technology trends

[Daniel Ekenta @ekentadaniel]

4 years ago, a day before my birthday, I was given admission into anatomy instead of MBBS, despite having As and Bs in WAEC and 331 in JAMB.

My birthday was spent at that school pleading my case. I remember my dad being on his knees, asking them to reconsider.

[Ola @letterbytes1]

Man to Man:

Tell us when you realized you can never marry her.🙂

[Ola @letterbytes1]

16/TL;DR

🍽️ Vendease = downstream. Feeds restaurants. Contracting.
🌾 Agriarche = upstream. Empowers farmers. Expanding.

Not rivals. food.

If this was useful, retweet 1/ and follow for more 🇳🇬 tech breakdowns.

[Ola @letterbytes1]

1/Vendease vs Agriarche
Everyone keeps pitting Vendease against Agriarche like it's a cage match.

It isn't.

They're both "Nigerian food + tech" but they're solving opposite problems for opposite people.

Let me explain what these two are actually doing 🧵👇

[Ola @letterbytes1]

15/The lesson for Nigerian founders isn't "marketplace bad."

It's that asset-heavy + BNPL + FX exposure is a brutal combo in this economy. Vendease learned it the hard way.

Agriarche's slower, grant-anchored, farmer-first build is looking wiser by the day.

[DonAza @DonAzag]

THE BACKDOOR IS OPEN: How APC is Entering INEC's Secret Database

The lie that INEC is independent has finally been exposed. It did not happen because a whistleblower spoke out or because of a big investigation. It happened because APC operatives are now so proud of their power that they do not even care about hiding their tracks.

To mock actor Emeka Ike because he transferred his voter registration from Imo State to Abuja, an APC apologist, Lere went online to share screenshots. But he made a big mistake. He did not just share a rumor; he shared clear screenshots taken from inside the secret, password-protected backend database of INEC.

For an ordinary person, the pictures look like normal registration slips. But if you look closely at the top of the browser tab, the web address shows https://t.co/Ne2YNhFv0f.

Let this sink in very well. This cvradmin is not a public website. It is not the place where you and I go to check our voter cards. It is the highly restricted, internal database meant ONLY for INEC ICT officials and data managers. Yet, an APC member has the password to enter inside, see a citizen's secret tracking number, check his private details, and look at internal system steps.

This shows us two scary things: First, it means INEC has completely sold out. They have handed over their secret passwords to APC boys so they can spy on citizens' data whenever they want. Second, it means INEC’s computer security is totally broken. Their database has an open door where politicians can easily enter to pack, track, and change the data of over 90 million Nigerian voters.

If you think this is just a fight between big politicians, you are wrong. If the ruling party can sit in their house, log into INEC’s backend, and track who is transferring their PVC, exactly when they applied, and where they are moving to, then no opposition strategy is safe. Your privacy as a citizen does not exist.

This explains the magic numbers we always see during elections. When a political party has access to the computer backend, they can trace where voters are moving to. They can target specific transfers and reject them, stop registrations in areas where people do not like them, and fix the election results long before the election day. By using private data to bully people, they have proved what Nigerians have been saying all along: INEC and APC are using the exact same server room.

This is a big crime under the Nigeria Data Protection Act and it threatens our national security. INEC cannot just release one useless press statement to blame "glitch." The Data Protection Commission must launch a proper investigation immediately to find out the exact INEC staff whose password was used to leak this file. Also, the INEC insiders who gave out the password and the politicians who used it must be arrested and sent to jail under the Cybercrimes Act.

The battle for Nigerian democracy is no longer just about guarding ballot boxes at the polling units. The real war is now inside the INEC computers. If INEC has given its keys to the ruling party, then a free and fair election in Nigeria is a total lie. INEC Chairman must tell the nation the truth: Why is APC managing your backend?

[Mr Sergio @samson_samsen]

Do you know the thing you will never see in this video unless I tell you?

Jim Iyke made his wife experience what women do in 97% of marriages, which is neglecting the man emotionally the moment kids come into the picture.

It is one of the few and rare times that a woman will experience “women in marriage,” and I love it.

But the only difference here, and the lesson-packed part, is that when women do this, when women become obsessive with the kids while showing little care and affection for the husband, the man never leaves.

He complains randomly and sparingly to the woman and sometimes to friends about how his wife is a very good mother to his child, but “the only thing is” she does not like sex anymore.

They laugh about it, drink over it, and he returns home to the torture, but will never leave.

Jim Iyke’ ex experienced what many married men experience in marriage, the decline in affection and, in some cases, the alienation of intimacy, but she chose to leave.

The irony in this video is not that she left.

The irony is that millions of men live this exact reality quietly for decades without leaving.

The world is made up of good and bad people, and morality is not gendered, but the only people capable of being good are men. And they are.