Uber is leaving Nigeria today. And I think there is a much bigger economic lesson here than simply “Uber is leaving.” Uber launched in Lagos in 2014. At the time, it was entering one of the most exciting consumer markets in Africa. It helped create an entirely new category of mobility and eventually expanded beyond Lagos. So why leave now? Uber says the decision follows a review of its business priorities and investment focus across Africa. Importantly, the company says the decision is not related to the recent FAAN airport restrictions. But the economics are worth examining. 1. A huge population does not automatically equal a huge addressable market. Nigeria has more than 200 million people, but the relevant market for Uber isn’t 200M people. It is people who: - have smartphones and reliable connectivity - can afford app based transportation regularly - live in cities where Uber operates; prefer Uber over alternatives and can pay fares that make the platform economically viable. That distinction matters enormously. 2. Purchasing power is probably the biggest structural challenge. Nigeria can have enormous demand for mobility while simultaneously having relatively low purchasing power. When household incomes are under pressure, transportation becomes highly price sensitive. Consumers don’t necessarily ask: “Which platform has the best experience?” They ask: “Who can get me there for the least money?” And that creates a brutal environment for premium or differentiated platforms. Nigeria’s recent economic reforms have improved some macroeconomic indicators, but inflation and cost-of-living pressures continue to squeeze household incomes. 3. Competition makes monetisation even harder. Uber isn’t operating in a vacuum. Bolt has become a formidable competitor, while inDrive and several local platforms compete aggressively on price, driver supply and geographic coverage. Bolt was reported as Nigeria’s most downloaded mobility app in 2025, ahead of Uber and inDrive. And this is important: In a low-purchasing-power market, the cheapest acceptable product can beat the best product. That is a very different competitive dynamic from markets where consumers have more disposable income. 4. The market itself isn’t necessarily small. This is the fascinating part. One 2026 market estimate puts Nigeria’s ride-hailing and mobility-platform market at about $450 million in 2025, with projected growth toward almost $1 billion by 2032. So this isn’t necessarily a story about no demand. It is potentially a story about the size of the opportunity relative to the capital, operational complexity and returns required by a global company. That’s a very different question. 5. And Uber is making capital-allocation decisions globally. Today, Uber is also cutting approximately 3,300 jobs, around 10% of its workforce, as it simplifies the organisation and redirects resources toward strategic priorities, including autonomous mobility. That context matters. A company doesn’t have to believe Nigeria is a bad market to decide that another market is a better use of the next $1 of capital. And I think this is the most important lesson. The lesson for African founders: If the money is not big enough for Uber but it’s good enough for you, get in there. Africa doesn’t just need bigger markets. It needs business models designed around the economics of African consumers. Uber’s exit is a useful reminder of that.

The biggest vulnerability in crypto isn't on-chain. It's how we store backups. Every approach trades one risk for another: ▨ Ledger Wallet - handles recovery via the cloud. It’s definitely easier for everyday users, but it means handing over some trust to a third party and dealing with KYC. ▨ Trezor Hardware Wallet - keeps it old school with paper or metal backups. You get total offline control, but you take on the full risk of physical damage or losing the seed phrase yourself. ▨ ERA Wallet - uses encrypted NFC cards instead of storing seed phrases on paper. You get the security of staying offline without the fragility of paper, but you do have to figure out how to securely store those extra physical cards. So the backup you choose isn't really about absolute security. It's about which risks you are willing to accept.

The internet rewards attention. But attention isn't reputation. And deep down, everyone knows it. Twitter. Discord. Wallet. Transaction history. All fragmented. None of it is yours. What if your reputation followed you everywhere? That's what @Moca_Network is building.

Electricity is proxy for industrial might. It is the foundation of the economy.

It’s only embarrassing if you’re embarrassed.

Our levels of desire, patience, persistence, and confidence end up playing a much larger role in success than sheer reasoning powers.

audacity is a skill know when to use it to your advantage

I must cultivate the will to act on every opportunity! I need to do more!

When I analyse a company, I may see that the income statement is bad but the balance sheet is strong. When I see this, I am not worried. My worry is when an income statement is good but the balance sheet is horrible.

I've never felt this much behind as a programmer. The profession is being dramatically refactored as the bits contributed by the programmer are increasingly sparse and between. I have a sense that I could be 10X more powerful if I just properly string together what has become available over the last ~year and a failure to claim the boost feels decidedly like skill issue. There's a new programmable layer of abstraction to master (in addition to the usual layers below) involving agents, subagents, their prompts, contexts, memory, modes, permissions, tools, plugins, skills, hooks, MCP, LSP, slash commands, workflows, IDE integrations, and a need to build an all-encompassing mental model for strengths and pitfalls of fundamentally stochastic, fallible, unintelligible and changing entities suddenly intermingled with what used to be good old fashioned engineering. Clearly some powerful alien tool was handed around except it comes with no manual and everyone has to figure out how to hold it and operate it, while the resulting magnitude 9 earthquake is rocking the profession. Roll up your sleeves to not fall behind.

I don't know who needs to hear this, but most things in life are way more achievable than you think. If you decide what you want, and go after it with full effort and intensity, the world will bend to your will far more easily than you might think. You can just do things!

Freedom remains one of my top values in life. I hate constraint, and I also hate being around people who make me feel constrained.

Maybe WhatsApp should introduce contact-specific settings. Like the ability to turn on read receipts and last seen for specific contacts only. I think this feature would go a long way.

If you don't actively shape the life you desire each day, you'll eventually wake up to find that years have slipped by unnoticed

From $422,624 → $1,179,340 in 11 months. → 45 global hackathon wins. → 530 active contributors. → 29 states reached. → Met with Ministers. → Built products processing $12M+ How @SuperteamNG became Africa's blueprint for Web3 communities in 2025 👇

Thought I was done? I'm back againnn😂 So, I condensed the entire ticketing process into a conversational flow on WhatsApp. Wild idea? Yeah, I know.🙂 Now, the user can discover events by title, category, date or location, select ticket tier and get a secure checkout link to make payment. The bot guides the user throughout the process and retrieves contextual data from the backend service if necessary. The bot's dynamic responses are powered by Gemini. On checkout, when the user completes payment, the backend service handles the processing and notifies the bot of the payment status via webhook. This project stretched me to my limits though, but I've learned so much. A teeny tiny update on the backend service: I saw what @tixdotafrica did in their latest update, so I added a ticket resale feature🌚. Attendees can sell tickets if plans change, and they'll be unavailable for an event. My name is Kevwe, and I'm a backend developer with ~2 years experience. I'm on the lookout for entry roles or internships. My major focus is on NestJS, but I'm currently learning Golang. Refer, recommend and hire me. PLEASEEEEEEE🙏🏾

The most dangerous career trap is the comfortable role that's good enough to stay but not good enough to grow. Ok pay. Reasonable hours. Team you like. Work you can do in your sleep. No major problems. But you aren’t growing. Six months becomes a year. A year becomes three. You're making enough to pay the bills, so leaving feels risky. Then you wake up and realize the world has moved past you. Your skills are antiquated. Your resume tells a story of someone who stopped growing years ago. Comfort and growth are opposing forces. The more comfortable you get, the less you're developing. The hardest career decision is to push yourself when you don’t have to. But better to do it now rather than when reality punches you in the face.

On Solana, ⚡speed is everything... until it's not. Do you remember the last big airdrop claim? Kamino, JUP, Layer, or the countless high-demand mints? One thing is always common during these airdrops; → The network gets congested and seems to grind to a halt. → You see the CLAIM button go live. You click on it. "Transaction Failed." You click again. "Transaction Failed." You're spamming the button, but by the time your transaction finally gets through, the token has already started dumping. We've all been there !!! → Seeing the public RPCs grinding to a halt, →"Transaction Failed" appearing repeatedly, and → that 1-second claim turning into a 10-second nightmare. This shows that milliseconds matter. What if you could instantly claim your airdrop with a >99% success rate, even while others are stuck facing peak network congestion? Let's explore how @FlashBlocktrade, Solana's transaction accelerator helps you with that. A 🧵

agree with the spirit. landed my first blockchain job at 17 with no degree, just an app i built on my phone but here's what people don't tell you: i still had to outwork everyone to prove i belonged "you can just do things" is true, but it's 10x harder without the credibility boost doing my degree anyway because some doors only open with it, regardless of what you've built