Omowunmi Babatunde

Digital Marketing Strategist|otpyrc eibwen
Partner @propertysmithng @elbowroomcomms
Social media associate @idealbookstore

[Omowunmi Babatunde @omowunme]

Let me make a guess!
If you intend to contest in 2027 elections in Lagos, Ogun, Osun and may be Oyo states, give it a shot.
Don't back down.
Don't back out.

If this coalition movement continues, the man will need concentration to protect what he's holding at moment.

[Omowunmi Babatunde @omowunme]

If you don't know, now you know!

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

For the record, Uber never made or intended to make money in Nigeria. Anyone who is familiar with Uber's core business model knew this since 2015. Uber's business model is to enter a market, set its fares well below those of the existing traditional taxis, burn VC money to absorb the losses while driving taxis out of the market, then raise prices after it becomes a monopoly.

That model needs a large middle market segment to work - people who don't own or drive their own cars but have enough discretionary income to regularly pay for comfy private transport. In Lagos and Abuja, there are only maybe a couple of hundred thousand people within that income segment. People above it who own their own cars and/or have their own personal driver don't need a ride hailing service, and the vast majority below it who don't, generally aren't willing to pay even the VC-subsidised "cheap" fares because what is considered "cheap" in San Francisco is definitely not cheap in Bariga.

In the ideal market, Uber is only competing against the traditional taxi. In the extremely price-sensitive environment of Nigeria, the opportunity cost of taking an Uber in the minds of the addressable market is the cost savings one can make from taking a danfo, BRT bus, korope, keke, okada, or even literally walking instead. All the VC dollars in the world cannot subsidise a trip made in a low-capacity, air-conditioned, 4-wheeled car into ever becoming cheaper than a bus or rickshaw trip over the same distance. The only people who were regularly and predictably using Uber to get around were a small minority of well-heeled, mainly female customers who chose not to own or drive their own vehicle for various reasons - and this was far too small a market segment to build the Uber business model on. The mathematics made no sense from day 1.

Also from a driver and cars POV, Uber is known to operate like a pyramid scheme. It depends on a constant stream of new drivers and cars being onboarded onto the platform to replace the drivers and car owners who drop out in vast numbers everyday after realising that after fuel, repairs and depreciation costs in Nigeria, it is mathematically impossible to make any real money on Uber. The best one can do with it (as I did for 3 months in 2016) is just use it to temporarily get by - but the fuel costs will eat nearly half of whatever you make, the repairs will be expensive and incessant, and your car will be transformed into a pile of moving metal trash with next to no resale value.

There was no real business case for Uber Nigeria, and this was known as far back as 2015 just 1 year after launch. The real reason it stayed another 11 years after the entire initial set of drivers and car owners pulled out citing everything I just said, is that its real business in Nigeria was not ride hailing, but **data gathering.**

Uber is part of the US military industrial complex, like every other thing out of Silicon Valley. Edward Snowden's leaked files already showed us that the American NSA uses Uber, Lyft etc as its "God's Eye" system, giving the US government round the clock surveillance access into where people go, what routes they use, what items they buy, what social relationships they have etc. Thinking of Uber as just a ride hailing app is like thinking of Google as just a search engine.

Over 12 years in Lagos and Abuja, the data Uber has collected would have given whoever gathered it some extremely useful, and possibly dangerous insights into whoever might be a person of interest. The data would include people's home address, work addresses, which Airbnbs they book to meet their side pieces, which takeaway restaurant they order from, what pharmacy they buy condoms or morning after pills from, what routes they take to work and back, where their kids go to school...

I'm willing to bet that the decision to end Uber's presence in Nigeria was not sudden at all, but merely the expiration of whatever US government contract it was executing.

[Omowunmi Babatunde @omowunme]

@mehwishkiran07 This is so beautiful ❤️

[Omowunmi Babatunde @omowunme]

@Nig_Farmer Funlola Aofiyebi's "Touch Of Spice" theme beat on radio.

Dem no dey compose songs like this again 🤦‍♂️

[Omowunmi Babatunde @omowunme]

@InibeheEffiong @InibeheChambers Congratulations 👏🏻

[Omowunmi Babatunde @omowunme]

@Officialpasuma Sarolaj kẹ 🤷‍♂️!...

[Omowunmi Babatunde @omowunme]

@AhuwaOboro @UnkleAyo To be fair...you and your guarantor will provide your NIN to rent|buy or lease a property.
It is called KYC, yes the same kyc the banks do.

You don't want to rent or sell a property to a criminal

[Omowunmi Babatunde @omowunme]

JUNE IS MY ERA OF FINANCIAL STABILITY

[MrBanks💰 @Mrbankstips]

JUNE IS OUR ERA OF FINANCIAL STABILITY

[Omowunmi Babatunde @omowunme]

THE BEST OF JUNE WILL BE MINE. I AFFIRM 🍀

[MrBanks💰 @Mrbankstips]

THE MOST OF JUNE WILL BE MY LUCKIEST MONTH. I AFFIRM 🍀

[Omowunmi Babatunde @omowunme]

My Win is Coming soon

[MrBanks💰 @Mrbankstips]

Tweet it into existence this month

[MrBanks💰 @Mrbankstips]

A moving man will surely meet his luck

[Omowunmi Babatunde @omowunme]

Don't invent it, if you can't use it!
That's order!
Just as with most inventions, they are latter exploited for purposes other than their initials.

Yesterdays Activists, todays Cashtivists
Yesterdays NADECOs todays Tyrants

[IfeX @SupremeJigga01]

@BoluAyos Gunpowder used to be for entertainment, then it was used to kill.
Drones used to be for entertainment, then they were used to kill.
AI is being used for entertainment.

[Omowunmi Babatunde @omowunme]

O deep!

[Harry Da Diegot @trigottista]

Dear @PastorEAAdeboye as you dey follow God drink tea today, don’t forget to discuss the Oyo kids in cap-tea-vity 😊✌🏿

[Omowunmi Babatunde @omowunme]

100% True!

[Jan6ix @Jan6ix_001]

@JosephLaughterS This APC government have destroyed this gas business for many of us in the business. People that used to fill 12kg before are now filling 3kg or highest 6kg now. Gas now is very expensive. And on top of that, there's a lot of price competition now in the business.

[Omowunmi Babatunde @omowunme]

I am interested on learning this

[Omoalhaja @omoalhajaabiola]

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Registration for cohort 3 starts soon. Let me know if you are interested

[Omowunmi Babatunde @omowunme]

This here, is the reality of not just most Nigerians in diaspora but also a high percentage of Nigerians in Nigeria.

Communal living has been altered by several factors - tech, finance, insecurity, privacy, religion, etc.

The extended family ways of growing up is now eroded.

[👑S.A.L.A.K.O🕊 @UnkleAyo]

You think I'm happy living abroad?

I have a family I grew up with, whom I love with all of my heart - and the reality keeps dawning on me, on how many times I will see them before I one day turn 60.

People I saw daily, or once a month - I haven't seen in years, and would realistically only see once a year, going forward.

You think I'm happy?

That one day, I might end up having children and my siblings might not have the relationship with them - the relationship I had with my uncles, in my formative years? I remember clearly how they would take us to MrBiggs every Sunday - I am currently reliving the flavour from that meatpie.

How we would go to the family house in Ikeja, every year for Eid. The grandchildren uniforms, the snacks while watching your uncles slaughter rams.

You think I'm happy that I might one day lead a family of children who might not know their version of that?

WTF will I be doing in another man's land, if I did everything they asked me to do from childhood (face your studies, be exceptional, stay away from crime, be hardworking) and opportunities lined up for me to be the best I could, in my motherland? WTF will I be doing here?

Why will I condescend myself to living in a clime where I have to mentally switch from sun burning weather to teeth clenching winter - when I came from a land where I never needed gloves? You think I'm happy?

If I could do honest work, be on my way home and not have to bother about the risk of getting shot by the people meant to protect me, because I have some lines of tattoos on my body - you think I would leave?

If I could trust a justice system to defend me, ensure my rights even though I am a nobody - have trustworthy institutions banking on the highest standards, not have to worry about the bread I eat, the fake drinks from the club or streets, the fake drugs - you think I would leave?

Don't get me wrong. I am grateful for the opportunities this clime has given me, to test my limits - to be everything I thought I could be. But all of these, in replacement for the soul I grew up with?

You know the satisfaction that settled within me when I could wake up on a Saturday morning, stroll to the Iya wanke's place - relish an entire plate, or some ewa agonyin while watching children battle it out, in a 5 v 5 across the streets.

That communal living that relished my soul, is now replaced with silent streets and finely divided sealed terraces.

You walk through the city centres in the evenings - you see friends having an aperitif (they do so every evening), you see grandfathers meeting up with their children, you see entire families with extended families living across the streets, first cousins are even able to use the same gym and you remember what that looked like for you back home?

You think of all your friends scattered across continents, some you might never get to hug again.

For a lot of diasporans, you don't want Nigeria to work more than us. A lot of us want to come home, but what is home? Where is home? When will home feel like home?

I hope to continue living life without lack, in comfort, with accomplished dreams - but I want to do so, with soul. When I die one day, I want to do so - with soul.

[Omowunmi Babatunde @omowunme]

@Diplomeme This is great!
How do you come up with these prompts that the end results are always wonderful?

You are very skilled with these tools. 💪

[Synthia @AIwithSynthia]

GPT Image 2 on ChatGPT

Prompt :

Luxury tech fashion campaign, oversized professional telephoto camera lens placed horizontally like a sculptural object, female model in white shorts and fitted crop top sitting confidently on the lens, one leg bent and one extended downward, sleek ponytail, athletic yet elegant pose, minimal dark studio background, bold oversized typography “FOCUS” behind the model in modern condensed font, glossy reflective floor, cinematic lighting with soft highlights and deep shadows, ultra-clean composition, high-end editorial aesthetic, product integrated naturally with model posture, sharp details, 1:1

[Omowunmi Babatunde @omowunme]

You are doing good.
You really took a "deep dive" into the these their documents

[𝘙𝘖𝘓𝘈𝘕𝘋™🌍 @ryansbury]

@trigottista Even if the signatures na drag and drop, the admin hold the mouse well. So accurate 🌚

[Omowunmi Babatunde @omowunme]

Sakamanje! ...that's a trick - an intentional act to blend with the trend and attract more attention.

[V @VectorThaViper]

“ Man of God “ dey think of acronym in sadness…

he mourns in word play.

[👑S.A.L.A.K.O🕊 @UnkleAyo]

Dear struggling Kings,
I've had my own fair share of life's trouble and hopeless waiting.
Let me talk to you.

If you're
~ unsure what the future holds
~ feeling terribly lonely and all you get is rejections
~ ladened with responsibilities and no sign of help
OPEN THIS THREAD