Prince Obiuto

Backend Developer | IT | Java | IoT and Smart home| Networking(CCNA) | Renewable Energy Services | JW | Just about anything

[Big Vik @_bigvik]

It's been a good run at Futo. Officially unemployed now hehe

[Victor Amaobi @victorcamaobi]

Finally, I’m done with my exams. I signed out from FUTO yesterday.

[Prince Obiuto @princeobide]

It's today! 🎉
Finally made it! Mum, Dad your last born made it. Time to take the needed rest

[Ibrahim @ibroraheem]

This community transformer racket has to stop completely. It is daylight robbery disguised as community self-help, and the regulatory double standard is sickening.

​Look at how the power sector works in Nigeria:

​When a community transformer blows up, the DisCo goes deaf. You write letters, make calls, and nothing happens. Six months down the line, residents are suffocating in darkness, small businesses are dying, and fuel prices are draining everybody's pockets.

​Out of sheer desperation, landlords gather, task every household 50k, 100k, or more, and scrape together 5 to 8 million Naira to buy a brand new transformer, buy heavy copper cables, and pay for poles.

​The moment that equipment is energized, the DisCo claims it as company property. They add it to their network balance sheet, and within two weeks, they start distributing Band A and Band B bills. If you do not pay, they disconnect you with the ladder leaning on the very pole you bought with your own sweat.

​How can a private, for-profit utility company take free capital equipment from struggling citizens, pay zero interest, give zero equity, and then charge those same citizens full price to use it?

​If NERC mandated that customers who pay upfront for meters under the MAP scheme must be refunded their money over time through energy credits, why does the exact same logic not apply to transformers?

​A meter costs 100k to 150k and you refund it via monthly energy units.

A transformer costs 6 to 10 million Naira funded by an entire street, and you pretend it was a charitable donation to a private entity?
​This injustice has to end.

​If a community is forced to step in and buy infrastructure because a DisCo failed its obligations, NERC should make automatic amortization mandatory:

​Every single household on that street that contributed to buying that transformer should have their meter credited with monthly energy units until the full cost of the asset, cables, and installation logistics is completely paid back.

​You cannot let private DisCos enrich their asset portfolios with crowd-funded community blood and then charge those same people premium tariffs for power. If DisCos want to own the asset, they must refund the people who paid for it.

[Prince Obiuto @princeobide]

A journey of 5 years is gradually coming to an end. It wasn't easy but shout out to all who made this possible, it couldn't have been without you guys.
We thank Jah for everything 🤲🙏.

[✞ @Layomi_04]

Never force convo, once u notice the dry replies, just come twitter come chill.

[South East Blockchain & Games Week @SEBchainGamesWK]

We planned it to be big, now with a 2-week date extension…it’s gonna be bigger!

From SEPT 16-19, the Southeast Blockchain & Games week @SEBchainGamesWK🇳🇬 is convening these two ecosystems for 1 wk in Enugu

Reg:https://t.co/iixSCLuDAW

Bounties for builders, creators+gamers💰✅

[The Block Hive @theblock_hive]

In ‘25, we set out to redefine builder spaces - merging co-working spaces, co-living residency apartments, creator studio & more into 1!

8 months later, we’re excited to share @theblock_hive is finally ready!

Priv. Launch June 30 & open for public walk-ins July 5

Take a look⤵️

[Prince Obiuto @princeobide]

@yettydlaw_ Could I please get the link to share to my WhatsApp contacts? Twitter shortens the link and opens it in-app making it difficult for me to copy.

[ӨƬᏦ👑 @osasthekid]

Guy you just remind me of my project topic😂

[Prince Obiuto @princeobide]

This was in our school's motto that we recited every morning. "When wealth is lost nothing is lost, when health is lost something is lost, when character is lost all is lost."
Whenever the old boys meet together that is what is always on our lips, never to lose character

[Alex Onyia @winexviv]

There is no country on earth where a child will be sent to prison because they scored an F in an exam.

But every day, people lose their freedom, destroy their futures, or even lose their lives because of poor character, lack of discipline, greed, dishonesty, or violence.

Yet many parents panic over grades and ignore character.

If your child leaves school with integrity, discipline, empathy, resilience, and the ability to do the right thing even when nobody is watching, you’ve already won.

Academics can open doors.

Character determines what happens after those doors open.

The greatest product of any school should not be straight A’s.

It should be responsible human beings.

What’s your view?

[Alex Onyia @winexviv]

I've spent the last several months researching, travelling, and studying why countries like Singapore, Netherlands, United Kingdom, Canada and Finland built some of the world's best public education systems.

One thing became clear:

Nigeria doesn't just have an education problem. We have a school management problem.

Today, I'm releasing a white paper that proposes a new way to transform our public schools, keeping them publicly owned while introducing world-class management and accountability.

This isn't about politics.

It's about giving every Nigerian child the opportunity to attend a world-class public school.

I hope this sparks one of the most important conversations our country has had about education.

Read it. Criticise it. Improve it. Share it.

If we get education right, we change Nigeria.

Here is the link https://t.co/EViU52FKFi

[Alex Onyia @winexviv]

I've been thinking about this almost every day.

What would it actually take to ensure every single child in the South East is in school?

I don't mean reducing the number of out-of-school children.

I mean ZERO.

I'm setting myself a target:

Zero out-of-school children in the South East within the next 24 months.

And within 4 years, I want us to drive illiteracy as close to zero as possible.

I know it sounds ambitious.

There are children out of school because of poverty. Some because of culture. Some because of religion. Some because they have to work. Others because there are barriers we've not even identified yet.

But I genuinely believe this is a problem we can solve if we stop treating it as someone else's responsibility.

So I'm asking for your help.

If you had to achieve this, what would you do?

I want practical ideas. Bold ideas. Crazy ideas. Lessons from other countries. Community-based solutions. Technology. Policy. Anything.

I'll read every suggestion.

If we can solve this in the South East, we'll create a blueprint that the rest of Nigeria and maybe even Africa can learn from.

[Malay Krishna @Malay4Product]

I taught JEE physics for years. That paper breaks strong kids in three hours.

This exam is five hours of theory and five hours of lab work, and these five did close to perfect scores on it.

Let me tell you what actually happened.

The International Physics Olympiad is the world championship of school physics. It was the 56th edition. Held in Bucaramanga, Colombia, from July 5 to 12.

381 students. More than 85 countries. Every one of them the best physics student their country could find.

India sent five kids.

All five came back with gold.

Their names are Kanishk Jain from Pune. Riddhesh Anant Bendale from Indore. Rishit Garg from Dwarka in Delhi. Shresth Suraiya from Mumbai. Svarit Joshi from Ahmedabad.

We know a hundred cricketers by their nickname and not one of these boys. :)

That clean sweep put India at joint World Number One. Tied with China, Russia, Kazakhstan, South Korea and Taiwan.

Those are countries that pour serious money and national pride into science education. We are standing level with them.

Now here is what the exam actually was.

Two papers. Each five hours long.

The theory paper had three problems. One on the thermodynamics of paramagnetic cooling. One on the photoionisation of ozone. One on the dynamics of electron positron pairs.

The experimental paper was another five hours in a lab, working through heat transfer and thermodynamic processes in fluids.

That means you get given equipment you have never seen, and you have to design your own experiment, take your own readings, handle the errors, and reach a real answer.

Not multiple choice. No shortcuts. No pattern recognition. You either understand physics or you sit there for five hours.

HBCSE says the Indian students were near perfect on theory and excellent on the practical too.

Now, this was India's 27th appearance at the IPhO.

Across all those years, about 44 percent of Indian students have won gold, 41 percent silver, 10 percent bronze.

In the last ten years, every single Indian student has come home with a medal. 62 percent gold, 38 percent silver.

Not one kid has gone and come back empty handed in a decade.

Five golds in one year has happened only twice. This year, and in 2018.

So who built this.

The programme is run by HBCSE, the Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education. It sits under TIFR, which sits under the Department of Atomic Energy.

They run the whole funnel. A national exam, then a national olympiad, then a brutal selection and training camp, and out of everyone in the country, five kids get on a plane.

The team was led by Professor Anwesh Mazumdar of HBCSE-TIFR and Dr Leena Joshi from St Xavier's College, Mumbai.

The scientific observers were Professor Ananda Dasgupta from IISER Kolkata and Nisha Kelkar from Gogate-Joglekar College in Ratnagiri.

Yes. Ratnagiri. A college in a small coastal town in Maharashtra.

This is public education doing something the private coaching industry could never do on its own.

The coaching industry is very good at one thing. Teaching you to solve a known problem fast.

That is what JEE and NEET reward, and I say that with love because I was part of that world.

But an olympiad paper does not have a known type. There is no shortcut chapter. There is no formula sheet that saves you. You have to sit with a problem you have never seen and think.

That is a completely different muscle. And a government funded centre has been quietly building it in Indian teenagers for 27 years.

So yes, be proud. Loudly.

HBCSE also shared that around 64 percent of India's olympiad medallists go on to do a PhD.

But only about 32 percent of medallists end up settling in India.

I do not say that to spoil the moment. These kids owe the country nothing. They earned every option they have.

But it should tell us something. We are excellent at finding this talent. We are excellent at training it. We are still not great at giving it somewhere worth staying.

Congratulations Kanishk, Riddhesh, Rishit, Shresth and Svarit. This is one of the best things an Indian did this year and most of the country will never hear about it.

[Alex Onyia @winexviv]

Onyedikachi Egejurum got a Gold.

He is the best in Mathematics in the world Primary Category.

This is the beginning of greatness for the country.

[Vibhor Agarwal @vibs98]

One of the best indicators of a country's future is what its students are building.

Semiconductor fab is one of the most complex manufacturing systems humanity has ever created → requiring precision across materials, chemistry, vacuum systems, optics, electronics & software.

Fact that students are attempting to build pieces of that stack themselves is remarkable.

This is exactly the kind of obsession India needs more of.

[Prince Obiuto @princeobide]

Countries with a focus in education will always see it pay out. With the knowledge that is gained from this and possible future investments from the government and private sector they can build on the knowledge to create a fab in the country. It always trickles down

[Runtime @RuntimeBRT]

Indian students are DIYing a semiconductor fab at IIT Bombay.

In just 10 months they've built:

1. A DLP-based lithography machine.
2. A tube furnace to oxidise silicon.
3. A DC plasma sputter.

Total cost: ₹30 lakh.

Here's a rare behind-the-scenes look at HackerFab IITB.

[Runtime @RuntimeBRT]

Indian students are DIYing a semiconductor fab at IIT Bombay.

In just 10 months they've built:

1. A DLP-based lithography machine.
2. A tube furnace to oxidise silicon.
3. A DC plasma sputter.

Total cost: ₹30 lakh.

Here's a rare behind-the-scenes look at HackerFab IITB.

[OurFaveOnlineDoc 🇬🇧 🇳🇬 @OurFavOnlineDoc]

On “malaria and typhoid” scam in Nigeria, pls kindly read this and share to everyone you care about.

First things first;
The vast majority of “malaria and typhoid tests” done in Nigeria (especially that popular ‘MP Widal’ test) is a COMPLETE SCAM and an elaborate fraudulent scheme to defraud you while hospitals make money from your ignorance.

Yeah. I’ve said this many times.
And I will say it again:

Pls STOP doing “malaria and typhoid test” IF you are well and feel healthy. The common “widal test” done for typhoid is a largely useless and nonspecific test.

Also routine malaria testing is a useless exercise in a country like Nigeria where malaria is endemic because almost everybody has the malaria parasite in their system- but not everybody needs any treatment as long as they are well and fine in themselves.

The actual cold brutal truth is that many people suffer from some degree of hypochondriasis (which is a health anxiety condition where you persistently believe strongly that something is ‘wrong’ with your body and that you have an undiagnosed illness EVEN THOUGH you are actually well and fine in yourself).

This makes you keep going to hospitals who then exploit your illness anxiety, make you pay for tests you don’t need and end up giving antimalaria and antibiotics medicines you don’t need to treat an illness that only exists in your imagination. This is why some of you keep “treating malaria and typhoid” every month and it never goes away.

You know why? You never had any malaria or typhoid that needs treating. What you need is to STOP doing unnecessary tests and STOP spending you don’t have to treat a malaria that doesn’t exist. And if this persistent health anxiety is overwhelming for you, pls go see a therapist or a mental health expert to help address the hypochondriasis and persistent health anxiety.

Don’t get me wrong:
I am NOT saying all malaria/typhoid testing is useless. NO. I have not said that.

What I am saying is that if you are well and healthy in yourself, you do NOT need any malaria or typhoid tests.

If you have malaria symptoms like fever, vomiting, diarrhea (especially bloody diarrhea), recent travel outside the country or recent visit to somewhere where you drank unclean water and ate unhygienic food, severe headaches, new bitter taste in your mouth, not being able to eat or drink, abdominal pain and you feel very weak and unwell; then yes, you should get tested and treated. This makes perfect medical sense.

But to go and be getting “malaria typhoid test” randomly and on a routine regular basis like you are going to the salon for a new hairstyle, is an absolute waste of your time, and waste of your money.

Malaria testing is ONLY relevant IF you are not well. As I said before, in Nigeria, millions of people are bitten regularly by mosquitoes and so they will have a positive malaria test result if you routinely and randomly test.

There is NO need to “treat” a person who is well and healthy in themselves. The hospitals won’t tell you this because they need to make money: and many of you won’t still listen because you like to waste your money.

Anyway the bottom line is simple:
IF you are well and feel fine in yourself,
THERE IS NO NEED FOR ANY MALARIA OR TYPHOID TESTS.

It is far better to convert this energy you use chasing unnecessary wasteful malaria tests (when you are well and don’t need it) use that energy instead to regularly check your blood pressure, your blood sugar and your weight at least once every year- because the highest risk factors for kidney failure, heart attack, stroke, unexplained paralysis and sudden death in young people is undetected/untreated high blood pressure, high blood sugar and unmanaged excessive weight. This is a far more important use of your time and money.

Pls kindly read and share this post.
You never know who this information will save their life and save their money.
Thank you.

[Cowrywise @cowrywise]

A windfall is not automatically wealth. It only becomes wealth when it starts protecting you, paying you, and improving your ability to earn.

If you somehow find yourself with ₦20M, ₦100M, ₦1.4B or any amount of money you've never received as a lump sum before, your job is simple:

Make sure no one in your bloodline ever has to ask this question again.

Do not just spend it. Convert it into a system.

Here's how to think about it🧵