Ọrẹ Ogunbiyi
@OreOgunb
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covering Africa for @TheEconomist • co-wrote @TakingUpSpacebk • spending less time on here these days 🧘🏾♀️
London
Joined March 2012
✨some personal news✨ This summer, I'm heading to Lagos to be @TheEconomist 's new Africa Correspondent. It is my absolute dreeeeeeeam role and I'm really looking forward to shaking our coverage up a little (1/3).
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RT @bulamabukarti: Even as someone who has monitored terrorist groups closely for many years, this video shook me deeply. It brought tears….
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Someone tell my employers I have no more passwords left in me.
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One of the best bits of my job is that I get to see lots of the continent. It wouldn’t be such a rare privilege if it weren’t such a PAIN to fly around Africa. Hear me whinge in this week’s issue of @TheEconomist .
economist.com
Bad connections, high fees and strict visa rules hamper travel around the continent
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okay see but this is fascinatinggggg?! 🤯. Ngl I don't recommend for early morning reading. may send your mind spiralling a little. Maybe not evening either because you may not sleep? But find some time to read this. Quite crazy.
economist.com
Markets for goods, services and financial assets, as well as labour, would be upended
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"The ability of AI models to tackle ever more challenging tasks is growing faster than humanity’s understanding of how the systems it is building actually work." 😬
economist.com
They have ideas about how to restrain wayward models, but worry that doing so will disadvantage them
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I find myself oscillating between being really fascinated by how AI is shaping the world, and being way too scared to read anything else about it 🫠 .I felt both, multiple times, reading this week's cover package 😭
economist.com
If Silicon Valley’s predictions are even close to being accurate, expect unprecedented upheaval
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intrigued as to what counts as “unconventional wearing of face cap”.
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RT @SavvyRinu: In case you forgot, Buhari inaugurated a 21 billion naira clinic in Aso Rock less than two weeks to leaving office. https://….
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hospitals quite a lot. Surely that would have gone down better than this? Quality of care, quality of personnel, especially in the best hospitals in Nigeria is not the problem. Our doctors are renowned worldwide for a reason and I hate when people speak like this.
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A better spokesperson might have at least said the former president didn’t want to burden Nigeria’s already overburdened healthcare sector. We don’t have enough doctors and having even as few as 5 working to keep him alive would have come at great cost to some of our specialist.
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and to be honest that probably would have pissed people off for other reasons but it would have been the best possible signal to send as someone who was constantly banging on about the importance of patronising local industry. Those things matter.
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My issue with this is not even just that it’s not patriotic or whatever. It’s just not true. Nigeria has brilliant doctors and the very best of them would have been brought to the state house to do whatever was needed to treat him.
Buhari Could Have Been Long Dead If He Had Used Nigerian Hospitals — Adesina.
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RT @MssZeeUsman: Nigeria faces severe U.S. visa restrictions and 24% new tariffs (14% reciprocal + 10% for BRICS alignment) from the U.S.….
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The U.S. Department of State updated its reciprocal nonimmigrant visa policy. Effective today, most nonimmigrant & non-official visas for Nigerian citizens will be single-entry with 3-month validity. Visas issued before July 8, 2025 remain unchanged. Read more here:
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V v good piece by @TomGardner18 on why you should really be paying attention to what’s going on in Kenya right now.
“We want to know how so much money can disappear,” says a Kenyan businessman. “If the government says it is spending a billion shillings, I believe a billion shillings has been wasted or stolen”
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