The problem with prolonged incompetence is that it dampens the imagination of people and compels them to accept mediocrity as the gold standard.

Firstly, between 1988 and 1991, less than four years, South Korea delivered over two million homes to tackle homelessness and affordability.

Between 2020 and 2024, Algeria delivered 1.7 million units to tackle affordability and access, a program driven and implemented by the ministry of housing.

In Singapore, where housing is views as a social welfare infrastructure, homelessness is practically zero and every young graduate gets an accommodation because the government invested in building millions of housing.

I can give several more examples from Finland, Vienna, or even Ireland.

But sadly, our people can’t imagine this because for nearly 26 years in power, the APC HAS NOT delivered up 20,000 units of social or affordable housing.
Even worse, our people have forgotten that Alhaji Lateef Jakande delivered over 20,000 units in 4 years over 40 years ago.

How can people imagine possibilities when President Tinubu’s ambitious housing program has actually completed about 1000 units in almost four years.

So honestly, i understand why this basic idea passes off as impossible. But is it also so because the APC has been so incompetent they have killled our collective ability to dream.
#Ourlagos

No electricity in a heat wave where people are predicted to die and that’s who you call your hero?

Election is next year, no light, but the government don’t care cause they know the citizens are stupid and they will still vote for them.

Allahu Akbarriers

It's been a rough few weeks for security.

I pulled together a guide of the highest-impact actions you can take today: x.com/i/article/2117…

This is something I used to ask myself until I realised that we live in a low-trust society.

It's often easier to scam Westerners precisely because they come from high-trust societies, and we mistake that trust for stupidity.

Take the US, for example. You can print your own check, deposit a check by simply taking a picture with your banking app, and even start using some of the money before the check has fully cleared. You don't even have to visit a bank.

Compare that with most parts of Africa, where something as simple as forgetting your banking app password can mean physically visiting a bank branch with all your identification documents.

We have become so accustomed to suspicion and distrust that we mistake our cunningness for intelligence and other people's trust for foolishness.

We think we are smarter because we are harder to fool, without realising that we have built societies where nobody trusts anybody.

So, Apple finally announced a touchscreen MacBook, after years of Apple fans telling us it's a useless feature. I wonder what the narrative will be now?

"These games aren't for you anymore, if you don't like it don't buy it"

"Ok"

*Several long standing studios collapse*

A cult of absolute terror … a disease and cancer to modern civilization.

4000+ religions in the world btw,

But one happens to be the consistent headache - regardless of country, regardless of continent.

Somehow everyone else is the problem, not them.

I've not seen anything like this before.

Bangladeshis, who are predominantly Muslims, are protesting against the barbaric act of Saudi Arabia, whereas some clowns in Nigeria supported the execution.

If every conversation for you is an opportunity to start gender war, you cannot be happy in life.

You genuinely cannot.

doomscrolling habit so bad playing videogames feels productive

Bandit: "yauwaaaaa kaii stop your motor..."

Me asf:

Do you know that there are simple infrastructure configurations you can set up today that will help your application handle growth without writing a lot of extra code?

For instance, with Cloudflare, you can enable:

CDN and Caching: Serve static assets from locations closer to your users, reducing latency and the load on your origin server.

DDoS Protection: Help protect your application from malicious traffic intended to overwhelm your infrastructure.

Rate Limiting: Control how frequently clients can hit your endpoints to reduce abuse and protect your backend resources.

WAF (Web Application Firewall): Filter suspicious requests and block common web attack patterns before they reach your application.

Now, if you’re deploying on platforms like AWS, Vercel, or Render, there are also infrastructure capabilities you can take advantage of.

AWS Auto Scaling: Automatically add or remove compute capacity based on demand.

AWS Application Load Balancer: Distribute incoming traffic across multiple healthy targets.

Vercel Edge Network and Caching: Deliver supported content closer to users and reduce unnecessary requests to your application.

Render Autoscaling: Automatically scale supported services based on traffic and resource demand.

The interesting thing is that much of this infrastructure already exists. In many cases, you don’t need to build everything from scratch. You need to understand what your platform offers, configure it correctly, and know when to use each capability.

Of course, these configurations don’t replace good application design. Database bottlenecks, inefficient queries, memory leaks, and poorly designed background jobs can still become problems as traffic grows.

But before writing hundreds of lines of code to solve one scaling problem, first ask yourself:

Does my infrastructure already have a solution for this?

They’d rewrite the bible in Rust if you let them 😂

This is what Nigerians across all levels don’t understand. We are not all going to get rich, the chance is even slighter in this climate. But we all deserve a decent life, and for that, we must have functioning systems & institutions.

For the women wondering how men treat fellow men convicted of child murder 👇👇. They don't wear blue, carry placards in protest and blame mental health.

If you want to know who is actually shaping stablecoin infrastructure in Francophone Africa, start with this list.

On October 12, Stables in Senegal brings together operators from across the stack.

Here’s the speaker lineup, and why every name matters 🧵🔻

Every transaction carries an expectation: that the money moves, that the information is clear, and that someone will be there when needed.

At Zynta, customer service is how we honour that expectation beyond the technology itself.

This week, we’re putting the people who make of the camera.

Happy Customer Service Week to the team that keeps going the extra mile 🩵