Ogbonna Ohakwe

Founder | | | - Building tools that help creators and businesses in Africa. Link in bio

[Ogbonna Ohakwe @ohakweng]

You see this company called @nombahq

The way I will drag you people today eeeh.

You will be asking yourself, what exactly did you do.

I'm giving you guys only few hours and if by 4pm you guys did not tell me why you debited my wallet.

Then I know what to do.

[Ogbonna Ohakwe @ohakweng]

Algorithm, stop pushing this type of post to my TL

[Shengkun @shengkun_ye]

We just killed Higgsfield.

You can now use Seedance 2.0 directly from Claude Code or Codex. No subscription required.

Higgsfield: $129/mo, limited credits.
Monid: $0.04/10K tokens, pay as you go.

[Ogbonna Ohakwe @ohakweng]

@paulabae63 https://t.co/ZInpcefr79

[Ogbonna Ohakwe @ohakweng]

@GlobalSola Tool for?

I am building from scratch

[Ogbonna Ohakwe @ohakweng]

Thank God I am building this my personal social media comments and dm automation system.

I have set up a new comment keyword trigger and DM automation.

This will also take care of my facebook page comments sections so that i will not be manually available to respond all comments that comes to my own page.

I don't know if I will make this tool a commercial tool or just a personal tool?

But let's see how things will turn out to be.

[Ogbonna Ohakwe @ohakweng]

It seems like all @nombahq are in leave.

I have called Jumoke, called others and even send emails but they are not responding.

This is not good abeg

[Douglas Kendyson @KendysonD]

Hi @jidesanwoolu, @hanneymusawa

I'm deeply disappointed in your @lirs_govng team hounding Selar in the name of claiming creator royalty taxes. I turn 30 in Oct and I've spent the last 10 years building Selar, so this is what the youth mean by policies being created to crush growing businesses. We are the pioneering and largest creator company in Nigeria (Africa actually), and instead of being supported by the government, the LIRS team is keen on trying to scapegoat us to set a precident.

Beyond the huge numbers seen in the headlines, we are still a young company just trying to make our mark for the creator economy in a country where we've never been supported once, we're literally a bootstrapped company. In 2025 alone, we've fulfilled our tax obligation in almost 9 figures and we've never missed out on any of our tax obligation over the years. You can check the records.

We are a software company, we make our ecommerce software available to our thousands of creators in not just Nigeria but 13 other African countries and for that, we earn a small commission of 4%, most of which goes to our payment provider. This is the same business as shopify, teachable, e.t.c There is no reason LIRS is hounding us for a backdated 5% royalty fee on all sales when we've clearly explained our line of business to them and shared everything to prove we are not a royalty based business.

What they're asking us to do is raise our pricing to extort these funds from our creators which is odd considering our creators still pay taxes on their income. No creator company in the world charges as high as even 5%.

Also, less payment gateway charges we get 1-3% max, so where do we pay backdated 5% fees from?

The government would have to decide if it wants the Nigerian creative economy to grow or not.

This conversation is important to me because we pioneered this industry of monetizing digital products online in Nigeria and today we host over 400k creators selling using our platform.

This is an opportunity for the government to show it's committment to making Nigeria work for young Nigerians especially in the creator economy.

Time and money we should be spending investing into our business and it's growth for the GDP of this nation is being spent in long back and forth.

We can't catch up with the west if this is what we're facing at home. Above everything else, disputes like this are distracting from the real work.

If anything, for all our CSR contributions to the education system in the country with our Smart Hustle Anti fraud initiative and our other efforts, we should be getting tax rebates, but we're not even asking for anything but to be left alone to build our business.

Thank you.

[Ogbonna Ohakwe @ohakweng]

@KendysonD @jidesanwoolu @hanneymusawa @lirs_govng This is not good.

Government should be the one support creators and founders

[Ogbonna Ohakwe @ohakweng]

@joanna_bepeh Switch to WhatsApp business

[Ogbonna Ohakwe @ohakweng]

I have been creating lots of videos lately and mehn.

It is getting crazy

[Ogbonna Ohakwe @ohakweng]

Use https://t.co/ZInpcefr79 for everything please.

[Mayowa @mayowaofyt]

For voiceovers, use AI33Pro.
For scripting and deep-research niches, use Claude.
For thumbnails, use ChatGPT.
For multi-login, use AdsPower.
For proxies, use TubeProxies.
For niche research, use NexLev.
Add the tools you use and what you use them for in the comments. RT so more people can learn.

[Ogbonna Ohakwe @ohakweng]

@GlobalSola Yes, to me it is easy to use

[Ogbonna Ohakwe @ohakweng]

Dear @x, @grok and algorithm.

Please stop pushing this type of content to my feed.

[Elon Moose @ecommmoose]

We've done $100M+ in sales

In just the last 12 months...

So I made a video.

10 lessons.

Such as:

Focus is overrated..

Numbers don't actually matter..

Speed compounds more than anything...

& 7 more.

Scaling to 8-9 figures?

Then this is a must watch.

Like + RT + Comment "send" (must follow) & I'll DM it

[Ogbonna Ohakwe @ohakweng]

@ebryhheem2nde When you die, you will know.

[Ogbonna Ohakwe @ohakweng]

I don't blame any creator platform restricting Nigerians at all, because if I were in their shoes, I would equally do the same thing.

Don't say anything yet till you build a system that serves Nigerians and the world at large; then you will have a taste of your own medicine.

What you are going to be reading here is my own experience after building instantTopUp (a bill payment and payment platform) and now building several SaaS platforms.

Now listen, oooh.

There is a new wave of fraud going on in the creator economy. And most importantly, these are not digital creators.

These people are not coaches, mentors, or those showing up daily on social media.

You can't even do a quick check online and pinpoint something to their names.

These people are cold-blooded criminals, fraudsters, and scammers.

Fraudsters are now looking for ways that seem easy to use now because they have had so many eyeballs on them.

As the founder of https://t.co/JyefBgsG3d, a commerce platform for digital creators, I have seen so many things firsthand.

Like I have seen so many creators trying to even break a system.

For example.

There is this creator that created an account on SellPass recently; he went through all the verification processes and even did a KYC, but something was off.

Immediately after his KYC was verified, he immediately went to the payment link features on SellPass and created a payment link for a product.

But this is not the most shocking part.

This very guy tested several debit cards just to make a purchase of his own product, but all transactions were declined.

Then he noticed that very channel was blocked.

He created the same products in 4 parts but with different product titles. The one that even made me start laughing was that he priced one of the products at $20,000 and tried making a purchase instantly, but our fraud detection system blocked it.

Other products he created, one was one dollar, and others were from 10 dollars to 70 dollars.

But the shocking thing about this thing is that this very guy has tried multiple times to make a purchase of his own products using the same debit card and different emails that end with custom emails and Gmail domains.

One thing he does not know is that all these activities were recorded and were coming from one IP address, the same phone, the same browser fingerprint, and other things.

About 10 to 15 minutes into this very act, his account was limited and temporarily restricted till he could confirm all activities were not fraudulent and also submit a second KYC information.

And since SellPass operates a legal business, I have personally notified authorities.

This is my appeal to everyone, please stop else you will be caught

[Ogbonna Ohakwe @ohakweng]

@egbokavictory_ @nestuge Those things are not magic.

Sometimes the delays can come from NIBSS

[Ogbonna Ohakwe @ohakweng]

This is pure racial discrimination and profiling.

In some organizations in Nigeria, before they can issue you an ID it will take months.

[Ozor Ndi Ozor @OzorNdiOzor]

Nigerian🇳🇬 traveler stopped for a random search at the U.S airport by the US🇺🇸 border authority was found with expired professional ID card

[Ogbonna Ohakwe @ohakweng]

@mayowaofyt This is like double of the old price.

[Ogbonna Ohakwe @ohakweng]

https://t.co/PR5LNxyXgM is one of the best platform for your faceless content creation platform.