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Maxwell Chibuogwu 🥻🧥 retweeted
This week, the @DAISEA_AfricaBP officially launched the African DSI DataBank (AfricaDB) in a Commentary published in @NaturePortfolio Reviews Genetics. Click for more:
Press release: hub.africandsidatabank.afric…
Free PDF: rdcu.be/vftBko2iDPza
Article URL: nature.com/articles/s41576-0…
Maxwell Chibuogwu 🥻🧥 retweeted
I bought fuel yesterday in Toronto, Canada, at $1.7999 CAD per litre, and it cost about $98.95 CAD to fill up my tank. This should ideally last me about a week or more.
Now, the minimum wage in Canada is $17.95 CAD per hour, which means someone who works an average of 8 hours a day will earn $143.60 CAD before tax. A day's salary is enough to fuel his or her car for 2–3 weeks. This means that even one of the lowest earners in Canada can afford to own and drive a car daily without the cost of fuel becoming an overwhelming burden. Public education for children is also free and of high quality.
In Nigeria, fuel is about ₦1,300 per litre. It would cost about ₦88,000 to fill up a similar tank. The minimum wage in Nigeria is ₦70,000 per month. This means that an entire month's minimum wage cannot even fill the tank once.
A minimum-wage earner in Nigeria cannot realistically afford to own, fuel, and maintain a car. The same person still has to afford food, rent, children's education, healthcare, electricity, transportation, and other basic necessities. The list goes on.
In fact, even a bank manager in Nigeria earning ₦1 million monthly could still struggle to maintain a decent standard of living after covering these basic expenses.
This is one reason poverty is so widespread in Nigeria. The cost of basic living is simply too high relative to what the average person earns.
You don't just have an income problem in Nigeria. You have an affordability problem.
For millions of Nigerians, simply living a decent life has become too expensive and increasingly impossible.
Maxwell Chibuogwu 🥻🧥 retweeted
By 2029, Nigeria could emerge as a critical hardware ecosystem. Yes, over the last few years, I have watched more young Nigerians move into hardware and other domains where atoms, not only bytes, matter. This shift has profound implications because, without hardware, many of software’s promises will remain muted. Software may provide intelligence, but hardware gives that intelligence a physical expression in the world.
At Tekedia Capital, we are seeing a growing number of entrepreneurs who aspire to design, manufacture and build tangible products. Perhaps the success of Terra Industries is inspiring more founders to pursue this path.
I am an engineer, and this is what my workbench used to look like. I understand the excitement of turning ideas, components and circuits into functional systems. That is why I remain committed to supporting those who want to build.
One of our most successful investments in Nigeria remains Egoras, a company that designs and builds physical products and operates its own showrooms. It demonstrates what becomes possible when engineering, manufacturing, software and distribution are brought together.
As you plan your hardware venture, consider building within a cluster. Hardware innovation thrives when people with complementary capabilities work together, share infrastructure and exchange knowledge. Unlike many purely digital products, world-class hardware increasingly requires mastery of both physical engineering and software.
The age of Nigerian hardware is emerging. It is time to build. And if you have an exciting idea, remember that Tekedia Capital partners with great founders. In the last three months, we have made more than 20 investments, and ready for more. We will like to partner with you.
Maxwell Chibuogwu 🥻🧥 retweeted
We’ve agreed to a partnership with @SpaceX that will substantially increase our compute capacity.
This, along with our other recent compute deals, means that we’ve been able to increase our usage limits for Claude Code and the Claude API.
Maxwell Chibuogwu 🥻🧥 retweeted
A vascular surgeon friend spent $50,000+ and over 2 years navigating the U.S. immigration system from petitions to waivers to medical exams.
He did everything right. Lived legally in the country for 9 years now. Completed 8 years of US training.
His green card petition was approved based on EB1A for extraordinary ability. Based on that, he signed a job in an underserved rural area that had been searching for his specialty for years, accepted a $100,000 signing bonus, bought a home, and enrolled his children in school.
Then everything stopped because USCIS stopped processing application based on where he was born.
No final step. No physical green card. Not even the work permit or travel document normally issued while you wait for your green card. Even his H-1B extension that hospital filled has been sitting for 6 months despite premium processing.
In 1 week, he may lose his job, his health insurance, and his entire financial stability.
He told me:
“I don’t want this anymore.”
He is now thinking of leaving the country.
But then the question becomes:
Who pays the mortgage?
Who covers the loans he took?
Who repays the signing bonus he accepted in good faith?
When the government takes your money, approves your petition, invites you to build your life around it, and then freezes at the last step…
That is not policy.
That is not vetting.
That is state-inflicted financial ruin, and punishment for trusting the legal process.
#UscisPause #LiftTheHold
"We're always looking to charge more." USCIS head @USCISJoe Edlow, who is leading the fraud of $1 billion in fees from Americans and immigrants, says he "always" wants to charge more, even as he delivers worse and worse service.
Apt…
And
Ouch 🤕
If you have 100 runners in a race and 50 of them are told to stop and wait indefinitely at mile 3, the “average finish time” calculated from the 50 who actually finished tells you nothing meaningful about how long the race takes. The stopped runners are not slow finishers — they are non-finishers being counted as if they’re still running.
Maxwell Chibuogwu 🥻🧥 retweeted
There's a physicist at Stanford named Safi Bahcall who modeled this exact principle and the math is wild.
He calls it "phase transitions in human networks." When you're stationary, your probability of a lucky event is limited to your existing surface area: the people you already know, the places you already go, the ideas you've already been exposed to. Your opportunity window is fixed.
When you move, your collision rate with new nodes in a network increases nonlinearly. Double your movement (new conversations, new cities, new projects) and your probability of a serendipitous encounter doesn't double. It roughly quadruples. Because each new node connects you to their entire network, not just to them.
Richard Wiseman ran a 10-year study at the University of Hertfordshire tracking self-described "lucky" and "unlucky" people. The single biggest differentiator wasn't IQ, education, or family money. Lucky people scored significantly higher on one trait: openness to experience. They talked to strangers more, varied their routines more, and said yes to invitations at nearly twice the rate.
The "unlucky" group followed the same routes, ate at the same restaurants, and talked to the same 5 people. Their networks were closed loops. No new inputs, no new collisions.
Luck isn't random. Luck is surface area. And surface area is a function of movement.
The lobster emoji is doing more work than most people realize. Lobsters grow by shedding their shell when it gets too tight. The growth requires a period of total vulnerability. No protection, no armor, soft body exposed to the ocean.
That's the cost of movement nobody posts about. You have to be uncomfortable first. The new shell only hardens after you've already moved.
Maxwell Chibuogwu 🥻🧥 retweeted
Defending my PhD in aerospace engineering as the 4th Black woman to do so at Georgia Tech during the 100th Black history month was >>>>
First generation college student
First generation Doctor
6.5 years of masters + PhD done. I GOT OUT and I’m a helluva engineer!🚀
Maxwell Chibuogwu 🥻🧥 retweeted
WE NEED HELP IN NIGERIA!
Pls do not open this video if you have a weak heart.
This is Gwoza LG in Borno.
Terrorists invaded this community, overpowered security, went on a killing spree and kidnapped over 100+ women and children.
LET THE WORLD SEE THIS.
Maxwell Chibuogwu 🥻🧥 retweeted
The CDC is recruiting for two faculty positions! Follow the links below for details. A Pulse Crop Breeder (tinyurl.com/Pulse-crop-breed…) and a
Cereal & Flax Pathologist (tinyurl.com/cereal-and-flax-…)
Did a thing for Science a few weeks ago.
Released the complete reference genome for a Fungus!
linkedin.com/posts/maxwell-o…
Maxwell Chibuogwu 🥻🧥 retweeted
This is gory, graphic and saddening.
Here is a kidnapped NYSC member dehumanised by terrorists.
I will keep posting these videos because this is the only way to awaken the anger in all of us. We must speak up and tell the animals in govt enough is enough.
xitter.cf/gwaska_dsd/status/2027…
Maxwell Chibuogwu 🥻🧥 retweeted
Most professors doing world-class work have zero followers.
Their research never makes it to your feed. Not because it's boring-because the algorithm doesn't give a shit about substance.
You find them by accident at conferences. Or buried in academic newsletters nobody reads.
What we need: a discovery tool that actually works.
Not "people you might know." Not "trending topics."
Something that says: "You care about game theory? Here are 12 researchers you've never heard of doing work that'll blow your mind."
Based on what they study. Not who they know.
The knowledge is out there. The connection layer is broken.
Maxwell Chibuogwu 🥻🧥 retweeted
💥IGNORANT AND BRAINWASHED CARLO CIPOLLA CONFIRMED STUPIDS- ALWAYS DEFENDING THEIR OPPRESSORS
BRAZIL....
POPULATION: 212MILLION PEOPLE
BRAZIL'S (GDP) IN 1970 WAS $35.2BILLION. WITH GDP PER CAPITA OF $370.3.
BRAZIL'S GDP IN 2024=$2.2TRILLION/ GDP PER CAPITA, $10,300
MINIMUM WAGE : R$ 1,518 /N407,000
PRICE PER LITER OF PMS IS N1,380
PERCENTAGE OF PMS PRICE/LTR TO MINIMUM WAGE =0.3%
POVERTY RATE: 20%. NO IDPS, NO REFUGEES
LITERACY LEVEL: 94.4%
OUT OF SCHOOL KIDS IN BRAZIL IS 1MILLION
NATIONAL OIL CORPORATION; PETROBRAS
CRUDE OIL RESERVE-15.5BILLION BARRELS
CRUDE OIL PRODUCTION: 3.98MILLION BARRELS/DAY
REFINERIES POPULATION: 19
COMBINED REFINERY CAPACITY : 2.43MILLION B/D
PETROBRAS NET ASSETS SIZE: $103BILLION/N144.98TRILLION
PETROBRAS TURNOVER: $121BILLION (2022)
PROFIT: $36BILLION, ROYALTIES PAID $44BILLION
BRAZIL PETROL IMPORT 2024=$23BILLION
NIGERIA .....
POPULATION: 232MILLION (2024)
NIGERIA'S GDP IN 1970 WAS USD12.55BILLION, WITH GDP PER CAPITA OF $524.50
NIGERIA GDP IN 2024=$187BILLION (REBASED TO $243BILLION)/ GDP PER CAPITA, $806
MINIMUM WAGE : $46/N70,000
PRICE PER LITER OF PMS IS N1,000 (LAGOS IS NOT NIGERIA)
PERCENTAGE OF PMS PRICE/LTR TO MINIMUM WAGE =1.43%
POVERTY RATE: 61%; 3,5MILLION IN IDP CAMPS, 330K IN REFUGEES CAMP IN NIGER, CHAD AND CAMEROON
LITERACY LEVEL: 62%
OUT OF SCHOOL KIDS IN NIGERIA; 24MILLION KIDS
NATIONAL OIL CORPORATION; NNPC
CRUDE OIL RESERVE-37.82BILLION BARRELS
CRUDE OIL PRODUCTION: 1.65MILLION BARRELS/DAY
REFINERIES POPULATION: 3 (INACTIVE) AND OTHERS
COMBINED REFINERY CAPACITY :1.1 MILLION B/D
NNPC NET ASSETS SIZE: $20BILLION/N30TRILLION
NNPC TURNOVER: $17.136/25.7TRILLION
PROFIT: $2.198BILLION/N3.29TRN, ROYALTIES PAID $440M
NIGERIA PETROL IMPORT 2024=N15TRILLION/$10BILLION
If you are educated and knowledgeable enough to interpret numbers and statistics, kindly go through the numbers above and explain to me why any sane and patriotic Nigerian will support the imposition of 15% VAT on petroleum products imports, when the PERCENTAGE of price per liter of pms to minimum wage in Nigeria is a whopping 1.43%, which is 433% higher than that of Brazil and other peer nations as at 1970 ....
The question that should agitate the minds of any patriotic Nigerian , is what creative policy and program initiatives , actions and architecture can we adopt to enhance greater productivity in our all stream oil and gas sector to reduce drastically the cost/prices of energy and petroleum products, protect consumers and ensure speedy all inclusive growth and prosperity in the land
I am so sure that the objective works that I have taken time to present, will still fly over the head of the many ignorant and ethno-religiously brainwashed jesters in the land
God help us
OBIARAERI, Nnaemeka Onyeka
