Odogwu Machalla
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Nigerian youths firing from all cylinders.
- Praying in tongues
- Raising money (over 30M raised in a few days)
- Driving ambulances
- Doctors & lawyers on standby helping & releasing arrested folks
- Walking miles with placards
- Deploying websites & bots
TURN THE SHIP AROUND!
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I really can’t believe “Senior man” became a global brand name for Iheanacho. Fucking love it!!! 😂
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When my sister was about entering University, I opened my big mouth & bet with her that if she graduates with a First Class, I’ll buy her a car.
*She’s smart, but codedly I thought this would never happen*
Mama went ahead & graduated with a 4.8. Now, she’s tormenting my life
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When you write code for 15 mins straight and it runs without any error.
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Writing code actually changes your life.
Today, you can’t afford an Uber ride because you’re figuring out what JavaScript is.
Tomorrow, you can fly to anywhere in the world & pay for two more folks to join you & your bank account won’t shake.
Code does that. 🔥🚀
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“Naija stand up” yet this video is not available in my location.
Why una dey always do this kain thing?
Naija stand up! HE'S DONE IT!
@Stylebender
finishes Whittaker in the 2nd round! Wow!
#UFC243
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Debugging Node.js code for the first time without using nodemon. 💀
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The Lekki toll gate should never be a money collection spot again & should serve as a reminder of what happened on October 20, 2020.
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If you are at least 30 & above, and lived in Lagos all your life (like I did), you will truly understand what GRV & co are saying.
Before 99, clean water was flowing in our taps. Remember water works?
Traveling from Epe to Ikeja & the rest was smooth & fast. Wetin be agbero?
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When I was earning 300k, my rent was 24k per month. Then I moved to shared Andela apartment (rent free)😂😂
Anyways, I didn’t know how to borrow so I lived within my means. Bought food mostly from the road side. I never ordered food. Clothes were from Ikeja along 💀💀😂😂
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Help people. A lot. I mean, a lot. Get to the point where you can’t remember when you rendered help.
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Software is eating the world. Real world copy & paste. 🚀
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I’m seeing a lot of Nigerian men react negatively to that Emeka Ike’s son video interview with Chude.
Common theme is “Don’t worry, you will become a man, have your family & understand your father”
I’m genuinely confused. Is it the sawdust in the air or are you people just mad?
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SARS officers arrested me & my boss
@ridwan_olalere
.
They took my passport & asked me why I had too many stamps. They said that I might be one of the boys politicians use to launder money because I travel too much.
Nigerian Youths, STAY ANGRY & FOCUSED.
#ENDSWAT
#ENDSARS
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“I worked for it and I got it” 😊
That will be your story this month. I assure you! 🔥🚀
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RT to piss off a Nigerian in Nigeria.
5G has hit the UK today and I’m getting 980Mbps on a MOVING TRAIN. Yes i know nobody is using it, but this is exciting!
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The grace to know exactly what to work on, who to work with & where to be.
Receive it for 2023. 🤲🏾🙏
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I just landed in Uyo & discovered that I was not breathing properly in Lagos.
The fresh air alone that greeted me at the airport is synonymous to someone rubbing my head and whispering intermittently “Prosper, you’re a great man” 😁🔥😍
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Policemen mistake programmers for yahoo boys.
Whatever rot you allow at the bottom will find its way to the top. It’s happening already.
Soldiers mistook policemen killed in Taraba for kidnappers —Army
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Client: The product is going to be ready by next week right? Let's put a launch plan in place!
Developer:
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Africans in Africa wearing suit & tie to look “professional” & “serious”
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Just got off the phone with my parents. Call lasted for almost 1 hour.
At least 20 mins was prayers for me & my future household 😁. Mum kept saying “Prosper, great people will call you great”. 🔥🚀
The devil is in trouble. June will be great for my team & I. We move 🔥🔥🔥🚀🚀
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What kind of money is this? 😩😩
Madness!!!
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When feeling overwhelmed by a faraway goal, repeat the following: I have it within me right now, to get me to where I want to be later
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30 today. Grateful 🙏🏽🤲🏾 🎂
If my life has affected you - be it vibes, value, impact or inspiration, please share in this thread! 💚💚💚
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Someone that was in the club trying to spend money & remembered your career tweets. Call him back!!!
How can you call someone 14 times before 6:51am because you want to fix your CV? 🙃. Very weird.
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As you attend crossover or whisper some prayers tonight, don’t ask for:
- 1 million Naira
- 2 million Naira
- 5 million Naira
- Food
- New shoes
- Gadgets / devices
- Better Income
Ask for the grace to receive insights for success & the capacity to act on them in 2020. 🔥🚀
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God bless you & your family, bro.
We’re in a very toxic generation with bitterness, anger & hate everywhere.
When there was a casting down, you found someone (which is super rare) that lifted you up. Protect this woman at all cost 🔥🚀💚
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By 2021, we’ll have:
- Facebook Engineers here
- Microsoft Engineers
- Google (not sure)
- Maybe Github (based on Africa expansion)
- 100s of tech startups (Paystack’s exist alone will ensure another 50 - 100 come along)
Mad success is guaranteed. So,
#EndSarsNow
now!
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I swear everyone is watching this thing.
Do you know how crazy things have become? To have a lot of us watching this APC presidential primaries? 😅😅
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Life at Eden (Jan 2022 Update) 💚
- Rolled out stock options to every employee.
- Adjusted salaries for inflation (17% increase).
- Everyone still gets 15% off any plan they choose.
Nothing special, just us doing this hard life together softly & looking out for one another.
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This
#10YearsAgoChallenge
should be for folks that are 25 and above.
So many 20 year olds now captioning theirs with “Thank God we don’t look like what we’ve been through”.
No dear, you were 10 years old drinking golden morn & wearing stretchable pants that’ll last you 2 yrs
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In 1 week:
- Nigerian Youths started a massive protest to
#ENDSARS
- They raised 65M+ Naira to coordinate events
- They created & sponsored a security response, medical service, tech, legal, content, food, & therapy units
- Paystack got acquired for $200M+
Resourceful Fellows!
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The great thing about living alone is how you can be mad for at least 20 out of 24 hours & no one would know. 🌚
When I write code, I sing, break dance, skip, speak in tongues, run around & shout. 😁
Then I step out for a conference & assume the face of a very serious man 🔥🚀
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Reminds me of when GTB said “These tech startups are over valued. We will build our own instead of acquiring them”
Oya do am if e easy.
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I admire people who take steps and action daily rather than dreaming big, talking about it repeatedly and doing nothing.
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I don’t have enough data to back this up but it looks to me from my view that the boring things seem to last.
- The boring businesses
- The boring lifestyle
- The boring products
Same processes with daily optimizations here & there but freaking reliable, durable & dependable
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“Our Engineering team is working on it”
You are the only engineer 💀💀💀
When solo founders pitch customers but use third person pronouns like: “our product” and “we are looking forward to working with you”
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In my early 20s, I believed success was directly proportional to how hard you work.
I was fed a huge lie. Now, I have discovered that the successful folks create value in areas that matter & delegate unprovoked.
Everyday we spend time doing things that really doesn’t matter.
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I see tweets like this & remember there are two types of people in every industry (including software)
1. The people that become big, rich & famous by collaboration & working smart.
2. The “skillful” people that think category 1 are not technical enough & wail continuously. 😊
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Start learning how to code, invite others to code with you.
Start building a company, invite others to build with you.
Start investing, invite others to back others with you.
Start working out, invite others to train with you.
Community wins via more leverage!
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I wanted to fly to Sierra Leone for the weekend but the not-so-cheap flights available had a 19hr hour layover and would land in Lagos on Monday night.
Discovered Kenya Airways could land on Sunday, checked the price & saw over $2000.
I closed my laptop & loved Lagos more 😊
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I am today, with utmost humility formally declaring my intention to run for the office of the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria on the platform of the National Tech Bros & Investor Party. 🔥 🚀
Counting on your support on this journey. 🙏
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Nigerian youths are lazy? Lol 😂
I can tag at least 80 developers/techies that are shaking & breaking tables here & abroad without Government’s help.🔥
PS: We still pay tax that helps you & family survive your stupendous health bills ☺️
#LazyNigerianYouths
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Naija Developers 👋🏿
Someone should turn this into a simple mobile web app.
- Search by Senator name / district to get their info easily
- Send text message via the app ASAP
- Go further to provide template messages to be sent to avoid stress
Can be done in less than 2hrs
Below are the contact details of the 109 Senators. Don't just retweet, but also take action. Send an email! Send text messages! Call them! Tell your friends and families to do the same! TALK TO YOUR SENATORS!
#Thread
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Microsoft new hires in Lagos. Software Engineers 🔥🔥🔥🔥🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀
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Lol. It’s easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than a Nigerian parent allowing 1...2...3 children join the army.
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This woman at the passport office just called me Otedola instead of Otemuyiwa. 😱
Looooooooordddd, speak...your son is listening 😁
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Ghana, TAKE YOUR L again! "It was delicious, it was really good" - Mark Zuckerberg commenting on Nigerian Jollof 🔥🙌👌
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I hear my name for this space. My heart skipped. Please let’s be guided.
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Just need to be sure whether I have another sister out there apart from the one & only sister I know!
Do we really look alike? 😅😭🙆🏿♂️
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After Buhari’s SARS speech, he, Osibanjo and some people went to commission a Presidential Youth Empowerment program.
They commissioned Okadas & Shawarma stands for the Youths.
A very deliberate attempt to keep the youths below the poverty line. Never forget.
#SARSMUSTEND
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Anytime you see a very simple UI and functionality on a website, and app. You tap with a few clicks and the intended action is done.
That 3 mins of pure joy on that piece of software is 5 months of work by designers, software engineers, QA & PMs.
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One of the fastest way to become a better and hot programmer is to dive into the source code of the libraries, plugins, components and frameworks you use frequently.
Initially, you’ll have headache but in a matter of time, you’ll start to think & write code like the gods. 🔥🚀
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This decade we saw:
- Konga
- Andela
- Paystack
- Flutterwave
- Irokotv
- Eden
- Cowrywise
- PiggyVest
- Kudabank
- Farmcrowdy
- Kobo360
- LifeBank
- HotelsNG
- Printivo
- Reliance
- Cars45
- Cheki
- OPAY
- Paylater (now Carbon)
This decade we saw:
- The first iPad
- Facetime
- WhatsApp Video Calling
- Uber
- AirBnb
- Tinder
- The first mobile banking apps
- Instagram
- Snapchat
- Social Media Influencers
- The first smart watches
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4 years ago, I was in charge of a set of newly admitted Andela recruits. Tasked to scale them up.
One of them
@dara_tobi
went ahead to create
@QuotedReplies
& got a job offer from
@Twitter
this year.
Met him again yesterday
@TFAAfrica
& it was all smiles. Dara, I salute you🔥
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“Pata ni Logo Benz” - 😳. I never knew it had gotten this bad. I rebuke this song for everybody. Madness!!!
Come and learn to code if you need to live a really decent life. You might not get Benz immediately, but you’ll get close 😉🔥
#Developer
#Benz
😁
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Imagine marrying someone that uses StackOverflow to code.
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Technology strikes again. Low barrier to entry
Wordle guy built an app. The world started playing it. It got acquired for over $1M
- Developer is happy.
- Over a million users are happy.
- Acquirer is happy.
Side project. Prolly 1 laptop, a few servers, HTML, CSS & JavaScript
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For Emerging, First time & Future African tech founders. Don’t let anyone bamboozle you in the name of investing.
These 3 books will help you:
Founder’s Pocket Guide:
- Startup Valuation ✅
- Cap Tables ✅
- Term sheets & Preferred shares ✅
Arm yourself with knowledge 🚀
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We’re still applying spirit for the beard to join. Now, Thanos neck is the standard?
Blood of Nebuchadnezzar!
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Sometimes we condemn ourselves by thinking the steps we took in the past has totally altered God’s purpose for our life.
I need you to remember Jeremiah 32:27
You’re not powerful enough to destroy God’s plan for your life. A new day, another opportunity to be world class 🔥🚀
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With all due respect sir, you are very mad & grossly incompetent.
I stopped driving my car because of your men. Started taking Uber.
They stopped my Uber one day & told me to come down & started searching me(bag, mails, laptop). Took me away in their rickety bus. 😤
#EndSars
To all those having frightening dreams- “shot/beaten by police”. Pray to God not to allow it happen + avoid areas where police are responding to incidents in real life.
If such dreams persist, GO SEE A PSYCHIATRIST.
We only deal with real life police complaints
@PoliceNG_PCRRU
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The Nigerian startup ecosystem in 2021 will be crazy.
- Younger founders creating companies
- More fintech platforms will emerge
- Funding for pre-seed & seed will massively change (e.g $1M for pre-seed)
- More professionals will earn more because of these startups
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One man:
- Petroleum Minister
- Foreign Affairs Minister 🌚
- Enjoyment Minister 🌚
Legendary
Buhari spends one year, 39 days abroad in three years, 10 months
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This is called distributed systems in computing. One disappointment shouldn't affect the whole system’s uptime.
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Operation Crocodile Smile. Stated to be a cyber warfare, but it wasn't. It was a physical genocide.
#EndSARS
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- These youths are not in school (ASUU strike)
- These youths lost their jobs because of covid19
- These youths businesses suffered because of covid19. No relief or bailout fund from anywhere.
YET, Nigerian youths are funding everything with every dime they have left. I STAN!!!
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This is why I advocate for tech folks to document and be vocal about what they do. Do great things from a small place and tell the world about it. The opportunities are endless. Congratulations
@Tunde_OD
🚀
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Open 450 tabs on your chrome, open at least 10 electron apps and then run Docker on your laptop to keep you warm during this Harmattan.
Stay safe, developers. I love JavaScript. 😭😭😭 Saving lives since forever ❤️ ❤️ ❤️
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Also, no engagement with Lagos night lifestyle unless someone else was paying for it. I used to envy people that attended the equivalent of south social, clubbing, parties etc
In certain stages of life, one has no business involving in certain lifestyles 🥺. Know that & succeed
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Let me talk about youths in the Nigerian tech. industry. This is my domain. 🔥
These men & women work really hard. Blood & sweat make up a great chunk of their daily diet to make the most difficult things happen. THREAD!!!
#LazyNigerianYouths
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I had the rare privilege of training several developers at Andela from 2014 to 2016.
At least 10 of them have now relocated to Germany & Canada as solid software engineers.
*Opens Facebook*: Another one has relocated. 😅😅😅
Very interesting to watch. I love it 🔥😍❤️
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Give a programmer three weeks to complete a large task, and she’ll spend two weeks procrastinating, and then one programming.
Give the same programmer one day to code a small, specific feature / task, and she'll complete it, ready to move onto the next one.
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Nigeria’s problems is built on wickedness. Not ignorance, not lack of exposure, not lack of wealth. Just pure aggressive wickedness.
One advice I got early in life is “Do what you can, protect yourself & family.”
Don’t be a hero, don’t play God in people’s lives.
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I had an issue while coding, but forgot the command needed to resolve it. Did a quick google search and got the answer on Stackoverflow, but something was really strange!
Guess who answered the question ???
Sanwo-Olu! 🤦🏿♂️😲
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Coding is funny. It invokes two emotions.
1. The emotion that makes you excited because you can figure it out.
2. The emotion that makes you hate it because you can't figure it out.
It's literally a thin line that you cross every single day.
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The fastest way to change yourself is to hang out with people who are already the way you want to be - Reid Hoffman
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Wahala for any tech companies in Lagos still telling their engineers to come to the office this week.
Code yen ma lana nii straight!
#RemoteWork
#SARSMUSTEND
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A subtle reminder for every distraught “Junior” developer out there: No platform holds the key to your growth & success.
They’re amplifiers & stimulators. The willingness to break even is within you. Be dogged & own your growth with your chest. It’ll never end in tears 🔥🚀💚
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First major intro to programming was C & C++. I tried to make sense of the monstrous heap of alphabets but understanding failed me.
It was not until the next year when I started learning Java that it made sense. You are not alone! If you’re learning, it will make sense soon 🔥
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Can’t believe I have actually become that Uncle / Egbon that asks:
“How are your studies?”
“What class are you now?”
“You are in your final year right? That’s awesome”
…and then squeeze something into their hands for the holidays. 🎄🎁
Lmao!
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You are not dumb, you are just learning. The earlier you realize that, the better your confidence to take on things you have never done before! 🔥 🚀
#WorldClass
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It's interesting how you don't have to be great at programming for you to be a good software developer.
- Know the fundamentals really well,
- Be consistent,
- Be open to learning,
- And constantly break apps in production. 🙂
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It’s crazily becoming clearer that the work I put in around 2010 - 2012 impacted my life in 2014 - 2016.
The work I put in from 2014 - 2016 shot me from that “new guy in the industry” to “Who doesn’t know Prosper?” till now.
Now, I am putting in the work again in 2019. 🔥🚀
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Your job is not to simply write code. Your job is to help your company succeed by virtue of your code prowess.
Reason like this & you’ll go up the ladder real fast as an Engineer.
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Small boy, Big god 🙌🙌🙌
President Buhari to begin Holiday in London for 10 Working Days
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They destroyed cars, they shot at unarmed protesters yesterday. They sent thugs to folks at the CBN HQ.
These things make me sad. BUT WE GO AGAIN TODAY.
Of Baal. Of Wickedness. Of Evil. Of Incompetence. We will end them all
#EndSARS
#EndPoliceBrutalityinNigera
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On Monday, I think I’ll move the motion with a couple of folks for Nigerian tech companies to scrap the requirement of degrees for software developer roles. 😁
Let’s change the narrative! 🔥
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The ideas of yesterday. The startups of today. The unicorns of tomorrow. Build! 🔥🚀
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