Nancy Gerald || AI + Data + Health

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[Aproko Doctor Global @aproko_doctor]

Feyi was just 26, yet, she was dealing with stage 4, cervical cancer. Back in 2021, a doctor mentioned HPV to her during a checkup. She said she understood and would follow up. Then…

[Gbemisola Taiwo @MisolaofJesus]

My husband is genuinely one of the most balanced people I’ve ever met.

He’s one of the very few people I know who intentionally has a rich life outside of work. He serves God diligently, evangelizes often, plays badminton and tennis, does photography, reads books completely unrelated to his career at least five times a week, cooks, experiments with new recipes, bakes new things… honestly, I could keep going.

It’s something I deeply admire because so many people unintentionally let work become their entire identity.

He recently wrote an article about why people should build a life beyond just their professional careers, and I’m putting the link here and next tweet.

And yes, I’m commanding all of you to read it 🫵🏽🫵🏽😃

https://t.co/3iGWUeqQio

[Nancy Gerald || AI + Data + Health @thenancygerald]

@DabereNnamani Wow
This is great! Congratulations 🎉 ✨️

[Chinàzaēkpērē Chukwu @ChuGailx]

If the media team for Peter Obi is taking volunteers, I volunteer to write video scripts and blog posts.

I’ll write anything you need me to write.

Just hit me up.

Let’s get this show on the road.

[CH£€Z¥💫 @Cheezylicious_]

I understand your dilemma.

When I graduated with a BSc in Human Anatomy and Cell Biology, people told me I couldn’t use my course for anything in Nigeria. It was frustrating, and honestly, it made me question my choices.

But I didn’t let that derail me.

Instead, I focused on identifying a niche. For me, that was public health.

Because I didn’t have experience, I started volunteering with public health and social impact organizations. That decision changed everything. I built connections, gained practical skills, and stayed active on LinkedIn.

I also applied to graduate internships and took online courses to upskill myself.

My first job came through a referral from an organization I volunteered with. My second came from cold messaging on LinkedIn. Eventually, I secured a fully funded scholarship that took me further.

So here’s my advice:

Identify a specific niche within industrial chemistry. The field is broad, so narrow it down, whether it’s quality control, production, cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, or environmental chemistry.

Once you identify your niche, start building connections within that space. Go on LinkedIn, follow companies working in that area, and connect with people there.

Don’t be afraid to message decision makers. Reach out to directors or team leads and pitch yourself. You can ask to shadow them, learn from them, or express interest in a graduate trainee role. Let them know your background, your interest in the field, and how you’re willing to grow while contributing to the organization.

Start somewhere, even if it’s volunteering, internships, or small roles.

Build skills that are relevant to your chosen niche. Take courses, learn practical tools, and understand how your knowledge applies in real life.
Referrals and relationships matter. Often times, in Nigeria, opportunities won’t come from applications alone.

While doing all this, actively look out for scholarship opportunities. They definitely open doors to new advanced training, and global exposure.

Your degree is a foundation and what you build on it is what makes the difference.

[Nancy Gerald || AI + Data + Health @thenancygerald]

Sharon had a 2.5 GPA in her 100L.

I met her during enrollment week, that busy first week of resumption when everyone is running from one office to another with documents and passport photographs and the JJC nerves.

She was in a different department under the same faculty, so we thought we'd somehow meet around.

Then, I did not see her again for almost a full year.

I bumped into her near her departmental building in second year, close to first semester exams.

She looked fine, and we did some catching up. I asked how 100 level had treated her, the way you ask when you already expect the answer to be "stressful but fine."
She said her first semester GPA was 2.5.

On a 5.0 scale.

I heard myself make a sound before I could stop it.

Not a mean sound. Just the sound a person makes when what they are hearing does not match what they expected.

Because where I was coming from, a 2.5 did not exist. In my department, the lowest anyone had scored was just above 3.5. And it was just one person. Everyone else was a 4.0 and above.

I caught myself. I asked her what had been difficult. She talked, and I mostly listened. I was in no position to give advice. I was in the same level as her. But I could hear that she was not lazy.

She was not careless. She had just been put inside a system that was not set up to help her succeed.

The lecturers handling their 100L courses were mostly shared lecturers who did not only belong to her department.

Their student association had no real structure. No student leadership that was actually doing anything. No older student passing down knowledge to the younger ones. Nobody looking out for the other person.

Everyone was alone with their confusion, their goals, their textbooks, and their worry.

In my department, we had all of those and didn't even know how lucky we were.

Student leaders who actually showed up.
Senior students who shared past questions and held free tutorials like it was a tradition.
A culture where your result mattered to the people around you.

We thought we were simply serious students. We did not realise we were also lucky to have a structure holding us up.

When I eventually conversed with other students from her department, I saw it clearly.
The students were not less intelligent. They were just less supported. The environment had quietly taught them what was normal, and they had accepted it.

Those who stood out had to go the extra mile.

Sharon found her footing eventually. But I still think about that sound I made when she told me her GPA. How close it was to judgment before I caught myself.

And I think about how many people are sitting somewhere right now, thinking they are the problem, when the real problem is the room they were put in.

Before you judge someone's result, look at the system they were handed.

#StoryTelling #TrueStories

[Lekan Olayinka @lekan_olayinka1]

Also, Peter Obi is not a “lesser evil”.

I am again begging us all to have moral clarity.

The man who said if anyone finds N5 that he embezzled should come forward and he’d leave the race:

That man is not a “lesser evil” I am begging you guys.

The man who has donated more money to education and health from his own purse more than the CapEx for health by the government is not a “lesser evil”.

The man who left no debt but actual surplus in the treasury of the state he governed is not a “lesser evil”.

The man who has successfully without any corruption led as:

Chairman of Fidelity Bank Plc

Director of Fidelity Bank Plc

Chairman of Next International Nigeria Ltd

Chairman of Guardian Express Mortgage Bank Ltd

Chairman of Future View Securities Ltd

Chairman of Paymaster Nigeria Ltd

Chairman of Chams Nigeria Plc

Director of Chams Nigeria Plc

Director of Data Corp Ltd

Director of Card Centre Plc

Independent Non-Executive Director of Nigeria LNG Ltd:

Is not a “lesser evil”.

The man who went to Egypt to study how to make power constant for you is not a lesser evil.

The man who said he wouldn’t tax you unless he has prospered you isn’t a lesser evil.

The “lesser evil” bifurcation came when we wanted to choose between a corrupt incompetent Buhari and a corrupt incompetent Atiku.

I don’t really like politics Twitter. But I’m saying this so we all have moral clarity.

I am begging us all. Please, let’s dump these contrarian virtue signaling.

I am begging.

We are up against vicious people. These are the people who have witnessed around 5 generals and colonels die and nothing is moving them.

I am begging you all, please.

[Nancy Gerald || AI + Data + Health @thenancygerald]

@BoluAyos @attah_akor There's a camp in this current set with Corp members sleeping in a building without roof...Nigeria will make you question your sanity🤦‍♀️

[Omoalhaja @omoalhajaabiola]

A group of mummies messaged me about their interest in freelancing.

“Abiola, could you suggest something mummies like us could learn as a stay-at-home?”

“Go for no code tools. I mean noloco, softr, and airtable”

Gave them learning resources and challenged them to come back to me in July with their first gig. Let’s see if the market still aligns with my thesis or I’m washed

[Unathi @au_badela]

If you’re still a virgin, hold onto it, my biggest regret in life is losing my virginity outside the confines of wedlock.

[Nancy Gerald || AI + Data + Health @thenancygerald]

@mediaablogg Wait! Did I hear that cute baby doing some riffs and runs?💥💥

[Brother Possible @BrotherPossible]

I did courtship for over one year without having a handshake with my wife; and I'm very much happily married, and extremely thankful to God.

We made that decision. No physical touch until marriage.

My wife even added her own. That she's not cooking anything for me to eat until we get married. I disagreed with it but she held out her decision. My friends was like how would you know that she can cook? I trusted God who led me.

We're married. My wife is some of the best cook I ever know. That my friend visited, ate and said he's going to the men of suit WhatsApp group to confirm.

It's more than possible. Two people who want to please God will please God even when it's unpopular and costly.

[Nancy Gerald || AI + Data + Health @thenancygerald]

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[Nancy Gerald || AI + Data + Health @thenancygerald]

A lot of graduate trainee programs in Nigeria are a disguise to overwork and underpay the interns...it is such a pity.

[Uncle K @chukwurah__]

My guy joined this company as a graduate trainee yesterday. Today, they gave him prod access to setup infra 😂😭

[Nancy Gerald || AI + Data + Health @thenancygerald]

@softfolayanyemi @chukwurah__ Thissss🤣🤣

[Tegbe! @TomiwaTegbe]

People have been killed and kidnapped on Benin-Ore road, people have been kidnapped on Ibadan-Ijebu road, that corper is still in the kidnapper’s den and that Unijos student is still being held by kidnappers. More and more and more people have been and are being killed, kidnapped, driven out of their homes on a daily basis, the government has completely remained unresponsive, like it’s none of their concern. Media house have been blacked out from reporting, the president has been more focused on campaigning and clinching a second term while his people are being killed and kidnapped daily due to his deliberate inaction. And there are bare people, real human beings, still supporting this government, knowing that they and their families could be victims tomorrow. This is so sickening, I can’t believe this is our reality, why are we in a country that so desperately wants to see us all dead?

[Nancy Gerald || AI + Data + Health @thenancygerald]

@chrisdadiva Congratulations are in order 🎉

[Joseph Brendan @Joe_brendan_]

As a young Nigerian, please build something.
I am not talking about just apps

Build anything
- A community
- A platform
- A Youtube channel
- A business
- An agency

Build something

[Nancy Gerald || AI + Data + Health @thenancygerald]

Stop paying for overpriced AI bootcamps from random gurus.

The team actually building Claude dropped a massive library of 13 official courses, and they are giving away the cheat codes for FREE.

You get certified, it costs exactly $0, and you actually learn how to build instead of just copy-pasting prompts 🎉

Here is the full list so you don't have to go digging: 👇

1. Claude 101:
🔗 https://t.co/SJpNCvQooM

2. AI Fluency: Frameworks & Foundations:
🔗 https://t.co/PepfzboDUc

3. Introduction to Agent Skills:
🔗 https://t.co/ENm1Ll5kZt

4. Building with the Claude API:
🔗 https://t.co/xro9nix2Lz

5. Claude Code in Action:
🔗 https://t.co/rnsz8Pznte

6. Intro to Model Context Protocol (MCP):
🔗 https://t.co/qb3WWRzVtI

7. MCP: Advanced Topics:
🔗 https://t.co/fnS44vj4Df

8. AI Fluency for Students:
🔗 https://t.co/GBVPJSsseW

9. AI Fluency for Educators:
🔗 https://t.co/pC9VaqW2ru

10. Teaching AI Fluency:
🔗 https://t.co/4VNTLuWJqv

11. AI Fluency for Nonprofits:
🔗 https://t.co/HxDJtRDzhV

12. Claude with Amazon Bedrock:
🔗 https://t.co/bnZwnyV3Gh

13. Claude with Google Vertex AI:
🔗 https://t.co/gfZQ6Q51zq

You know the drill. Don't just bookmark this and forget it exists in your saved folder forever 😁

Pick literally one course that matches what you do, spend an hour on it, and actually try applying it. That's the only way this stuff sticks.

If you know someone about to waste money on another AI masterclass, send them this instead.

Catch you later,

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