Building a learning institution with a better experience at @altschoolafrica @hacksultan_ea

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Side project: Currently building the only 1992 BMW e36 daily + sport build in Nigeria. Selling at 40 Million Naira when I finish building.
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This was supposed to be an opportunity to push our own companies out there too, give them bigger opportunities and build that support system from home. Global partnerships are great, but our own companies should be at the table too.
I should be helping @DrTunjiAlausa give shout-outs for the Federal Government’s partnership with Coursera and Pluralsight?? I actually think getting more Nigerians access to digital skills is a good thing. But I also have to say this: We’ve been building AltSchool brick by brick here in Nigeria, hiring Nigerians, building infrastructure here, training Nigerians, and contributing to the Nigerian economy. And then my own Federal Government goes outside Nigeria to partner with US companies to provide many of the same skills we already provide here to Nigerians. The Digital Training Academy is a six-month programme targeting 32,000 Nigerians, with training delivered through Coursera and Pluralsight. I genuinely believe AltSchool could have delivered significantly more value for a fraction of the cost. With AltSchool, we could provide live classes, dedicated mentors, structured learning, diploma certificates that students can use as part of pathways towards further education in and outside Nigeria, and job support. And beyond AltSchool, my bigger concern is this: At what point do we deliberately start looking inward when Nigerian companies have already built the capacity to solve the problem? Global partnerships are important. We should learn from the best companies in the world and work with them where it makes sense, but Nigerian companies also need Nigerian institutions to believe in them. Because every time we spend locally, we’re not only training the beneficiaries. We’re strengthening Nigerian companies, creating jobs, building local infrastructure, developing intellectual property, and increasing the capacity of our own ecosystem. I want to see more Nigerians get access to quality education, so I genuinely hope the Digital Training Academy succeeds. I just also hope that the next time we want to make an investment of this scale in Nigerian talent, Nigerian education companies are invited to the table too. The right approach would have been making both local and global companies partner to deliver this training, but it is what it is.
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I should be helping @DrTunjiAlausa give shout-outs for the Federal Government’s partnership with Coursera and Pluralsight?? I actually think getting more Nigerians access to digital skills is a good thing. But I also have to say this: We’ve been building AltSchool brick by brick here in Nigeria, hiring Nigerians, building infrastructure here, training Nigerians, and contributing to the Nigerian economy. And then my own Federal Government goes outside Nigeria to partner with US companies to provide many of the same skills we already provide here to Nigerians. The Digital Training Academy is a six-month programme targeting 32,000 Nigerians, with training delivered through Coursera and Pluralsight. I genuinely believe AltSchool could have delivered significantly more value for a fraction of the cost. With AltSchool, we could provide live classes, dedicated mentors, structured learning, diploma certificates that students can use as part of pathways towards further education in and outside Nigeria, and job support. And beyond AltSchool, my bigger concern is this: At what point do we deliberately start looking inward when Nigerian companies have already built the capacity to solve the problem? Global partnerships are important. We should learn from the best companies in the world and work with them where it makes sense, but Nigerian companies also need Nigerian institutions to believe in them. Because every time we spend locally, we’re not only training the beneficiaries. We’re strengthening Nigerian companies, creating jobs, building local infrastructure, developing intellectual property, and increasing the capacity of our own ecosystem. I want to see more Nigerians get access to quality education, so I genuinely hope the Digital Training Academy succeeds. I just also hope that the next time we want to make an investment of this scale in Nigerian talent, Nigerian education companies are invited to the table too. The right approach would have been making both local and global companies partner to deliver this training, but it is what it is.
Checking @cousera today, if you are selected, it's like being given access to all the corses out there on the platform. Can y'all please made a shout out so the applicants can check their mail and make use of this opportunity? @hackSultan @ireteeh
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Facts bro, i got a Cartier recently should be a tank Musk, my sister came over and saw it and she was like oh you got a Cartier but na fake 😂 Normally if you never guide to some certain level, even your original will still be perceived as a fake believe me.
~95% of the world’s population cannot identify a fake luxury wristwatch if it’s being worn by someone they perceive as rich. People size you up before looking at your watch or shoes. For this life, just guide.
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~95% of the world’s population cannot identify a fake luxury wristwatch if it’s being worn by someone they perceive as rich. People size you up before looking at your watch or shoes. For this life, just guide.
A man’s wristwatch says a lot about him.
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lol. You no notice since I no dey too tweet like before? Startup don dey stress my life for the past 2 years now. 🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️
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Bring the department to play the U18 academy, if they win them, I will donate 1m to the team. If you lose, you post an apology video in a @SportingLagos jersey and you give me a free haircut.
walai my department team for UNI go beat this sporting lagos
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This landmark partnership matters to me because we are rethinking how African content is experienced. @storipodApp already has 200,000+ users and 12M+ story reads. @plotweaverapp is bringing Nigerian voices and multilingual language infrastructure across English, Pidgin, Yorùbá, Igbo and Hausa. Together, we are enabling one book, film or audio story to reach more people across languages and markets without rebuilding the production process each time.
PlotWeaver (@plotweaverapp) has partnered with storytelling and distribution platform Storipod (@storipodApp) to support multilingual distribution of Nigerian books, films and audio content. The partnership will integrate PlotWeaver’s STORM OS language infrastructure with Storipod’s 200,000+ user platform, with the first phase supporting Nigerian English, Pidgin, Yorùbá, Igbo and Hausa. Read more: techpoint.africa/brandpress/… -Brand Press
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Last season, in the promotion sprint, we were sat in 3rd position and had an away game against the 2nd position team. Coach Jeff led the boys to beat the home team 1-4 and passed them on the table. The owner of the team we beat was so impressed he dashed the boys money - dollars o. Thats one more reason why we believe in Coach Jeff Ball!
Sporting Lagos travelled to Aba today and defeated Enyimba 3-2. After the 3rd Goal, the People of Aba started cheering for the sporting Lagos team. After final whistle, the People of Aba waited behind to give Sporting Lagos players a standing ovation. Absolute Class ❤️
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Thank you so much @Tunde_OD I am really enjoying the class✌️ thank you so much 🫂❤️
Really glad that @Harri_obi's foundation is supporting myself, @SamuelOtigba and @Tunde_OD on this 250M Naira NYSC project. Thanks man. Let's do more.
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Tech really gave me friends and brothers across the globe.
man i just love all of you in the tech community like all the friends ive had the privilege to meet over the years and spend time with at various events literally from all over the world people like @hacksultan, @jayphelps, @kapehe_ok, @BenLesh, @kyliestew, @ScriptedAlchemy, @threepointone, @camiinthisthang, @kunalstwt so many people from so many continents and shit… you ever stop and think how many things would have to go right so that we could like meet and commune? it’s so wild, yet here we are fr any response other than awe and gratitude is just invalid man thank u all, also all the others; the broader community like @kenwheeler and @knitcodemonkey and @crtr0 and everyone for being so cool. wow.
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man i just love all of you in the tech community like all the friends ive had the privilege to meet over the years and spend time with at various events literally from all over the world people like @hacksultan, @jayphelps, @kapehe_ok, @BenLesh, @kyliestew, @ScriptedAlchemy, @threepointone, @camiinthisthang, @kunalstwt so many people from so many continents and shit… you ever stop and think how many things would have to go right so that we could like meet and commune? it’s so wild, yet here we are fr any response other than awe and gratitude is just invalid man thank u all, also all the others; the broader community like @kenwheeler and @knitcodemonkey and @crtr0 and everyone for being so cool. wow.
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always ready.
lifting weights alone won’t give you this, do calisthenics.
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We’re excited to announce Muutassim Mukhtar (@triplemcoderr), Senior Site Reliability Engineer at MTN (@MTNNG), as a speaker at SysConf 2026! His talk is titled “Performance Engineering Beyond Dashboards.” As part of Muutassim’s work at MTN, he has to find, understand and fix reliability and performance bugs in production Kubernetes workloads. And in multiple cases, he’s found metrics and dashboards insufficient. This talk is about how an SRE has used eBPF to profile production workloads, uncovering CPU hotspots, scheduling delays and network bottlenecks. #SysConf #SysConf26
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Got a Solid invite from my idolo @hackSultan I met my longtime chief @julian__duru And finally got to meet @Tunde_OD for the Good Chess Club official launch
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To everyone who has chosen to work with me, I consider our time together a privilege. I know it’s borrowed time because no matter how big my company gets, we’re individually destined for something bigger. Thanks for over 5 years (and counting) of support 🙏🏼
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@hackSultan is one of the best bosses anyone could ask for. He always wants the best for you, at work or personally. If you get the chance to talk to him, you’ll always leave with a solution or a different perspective. Genuinely grateful for you, Boss. This is your flower 💐
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You can double the size of a team without doubling its output. As a group gets larger, the average contribution per person can decline. The team might still produce more overall, but not in proportion to the extra people involved. In startup, we call it bloating, a system where everyone swears they’re handling too much and needs an assistant and the assistant also needs another executive later. The titles keep getting longer but not in correlation to the output. Be careful, and be guided. Or you’ll learn from experience.
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Everyone is just dying, this week alone, like 2 adults are dead. 🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️ Our life expectancy in this country is truly a thing.
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You guys Lock in o ! E Dey benefit gaan and it has a compounding effect
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Lmao 🤣 this one isn’t the craziest ! One day I was working and got an email that I could buy a house 🏠 lmao 🤣. So I obeyed the email 😆
Was lying down on my bed one day and browsing through whatapp stories. Saw a Benz on @MinkailAutosLtd ‘s stories so went there the next day to buy it lol 😂 So unplanned. But 6 months later car prices went up significantly so I was very happy with my impulse buy
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I have stepped down as CEO of @Mazerance. Mazerance began with an idea I had early last year. Together with friends who loved puzzles and escape rooms, we set out to build a story-driven co-op strategy game, and to show what a game studio out of Africa could look like on the world stage. That idea became a studio registered in Australia, Nigeria and the United States, with a team that brought everything they had to building the game and the company behind it. Eighteen months ago, none of this existed. No company, no team, no community, no world to build a game in. There is now, because of everyone who made it possible: the team, family, friends, my co-founders and the people who backed us from the start. We built a community of roughly 20,000 people and generated over 8 million impressions on this app alone. Through Project 9, Rancers Remix and Pass It On, we became one of the most talked-about budding game studios in Africa, earned more than five press features and made our presence felt at Moonshot, one of Nigeria's largest tech conferences. More than 25 people across three continents have worked on Mazerance, and in the first eight months alone that team produced over 600 pieces of brand, world and community work, from characters and lore to artwork, videos and campaign content. That is close to three assets produced a day, every single day; working closely with these talented individuals has been the highlight of my career. The studio is also set up on Steam and Kickstarter, which as a company registered across three countries is harder than it sounds. None of this was one person. It was everyone who has put something into Mazerance, and leading that team every day for eighteen months has been nothing short of a privilege. There is still a lot of work ahead. I do not count any of this as the finish line, but the effort and the outcomes deserve recognition. The game is still in development, and delivering it would be the best outcome for me, the team, the community and our stakeholders. The foundation is there, and whoever leads the business next has something substantial to work with. I have poured almost everything I have into this company for eighteen months. I need to step back, look after myself, and go back to the work I love. I am a designer and storyteller before anything else. Leading Mazerance has been one of the most difficult and beautiful things I have ever been in service of. I believe I did it well, and I am grateful for every moment of it. But design is where I do my best work, and what I build next will reflect that: experiences that transform how physical products understand human interaction and change how people live with them. As for who takes the seat, the company has chosen an interim successor. To the team (past and present) and my co-founders, thank you. To the Rancers, our investors and everyone who backed us early, thank you for believing in what we set out to build. I remain on the board, and will continue to support Mazerance in whatever capacity it needs me. This is my child and I have its best interest at heart. More on what is next for me soon.
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