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Scaling growth into local markets, mathematician, Founder/CEO @usescaloo, @Tonyelumelufdn 2024 Alumni.

Nsukka, Nigeria
Joined August 2017
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The Local Guy 🌟 retweeted
Peter Obi and Rabiu Kwankwaso of the NDC ✌🏽 with my full chest!!
Everybody, drop your preferred candidate with your full chest... stop hoping around the corners. If you support Peter Obi, say it... if you support Tinubu, say it... Netanyahu, say it... Atiku, say it
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NEVER IN DOUBT!!!
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The Local Guy 🌟 retweeted
If you’re right wing and you can’t admit liberals (not communists) are way better at art and design and boutique coffee shops and restaurants, you’re not living in reality. If you’re left wing and you can’t admit conservatives are way better at running cities and businesses and police departments, you’re not living in reality. You step inside a beautiful coffee shop in the PNW and think “man, these liberals are great at this stuff…conservatives should take notes.” Then the moment you step outside and trip over a homeless drug zombie shooting up fentanyl on the sidewalk, you think “man these liberals are terrible at this stuff…they should really take notes from conservatives” Communists make disgusting anti-beauty art, but classical liberals aren’t like that. Put the libs in charge of the coffee shops, put the conservatives in charge of city hall. This is how you get a city that is beautiful, clean, and functional. If you can’t accept that, you need to check your tribalism. We are never getting rid of each other, so figure out how we strike a balance or else the communists swoop in and take everything from us while we quarrel over stupid bullshit…which is exactly what’s happening now.
Conservatives make society functional. Liberals make society beautiful. We really do need each other.
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The Local Guy 🌟 retweeted
Igbo man will not be President - Vote for Seyi Makinde I don’t just like Obi - Vote for Seyi Makinde Obi quotes wrong Statistics - Vote for Seyi Makinde I wont vote Obi because Obidients are toxic - Vote for Seyi Makinde YOU NOW HAVE AN OPTION. 📌
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The Local Guy 🌟 retweeted
Industrialisation remains the most realistic way of leveraging our large population and resources to create wealth/jobs at scale, and reduce poverty. Not agriculture. Not finance. Not software. Not AI. Manufacturing and industrialisation! If we cannot build industries that convert our resources into useful products, everything else, is at best a temporary remedy.
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The Local Guy 🌟 retweeted
GOOD DAY, MR PRESIDENT: NIGERIANS DESERVE ACCOUNTABILITY Good day, Mr President. I congratulate you on spending a night in one of Nigeria’s states outside Lagos and Abuja. I hope you enjoyed the warmth, hospitality, and delicious cuisine of Akwa Ibom, which I am sure is even better than those of the destinations where you have spent over 260 days outside Nigeria since coming into office. I sincerely hope this visit will inspire you to travel to the remaining 33 states of the federation, spend time with the people and, more importantly, explain what your administration has done with the ₦15.8 trillion saved from the removal of fuel subsidy, the over $100 billion you have borrowed, the increased revenues accruing to the government from taxing Nigerians, and the additional government revenues which your administration celebrated last year as having surpassed its target. Nigerians deserve to know how many that were pulled out of poverty within this period, how many out-of-school children were returned to school, and how many functional primary healthcare centres you have built. They also deserve to know how much electricity supply has improved, especially given your promise that if you do not fix power, Nigerians should not vote for you. They deserve an explanation of how you have secured the country, which still ranks among the most terrorised countries in the world. Mr President, Nigerians deserve answers. They deserve to know what has been done with the resources entrusted to your government. The New Nigeria we want to build will be based on accountability, transparency, and the physical, measurable impact of our public resources on the lives of citizens. A new Nigeria is POssible. -PO
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The Local Guy 🌟 retweeted
That Peter Obi of the Nigerian Democratic Congress (NDC), having satisfied the requirements of the law, is hereby declared the winner and is returned elected as President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.🥹
Type Something in Faith :
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The Local Guy 🌟 retweeted
Up until this morning, our customers kept asking for Swahili and German. We've received so many requests that we've lost count. Today, Pewbeam hears German and Swahili. The same speed and accuracy you've seen in English are now available to you too. Live in Pewbeam now.
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The Local Guy 🌟 retweeted
One of the hardest hitting Bible verses is, "Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, and today, and forever." Imagine having to defend what Jesus said or did in 16 BC with, "it was the custom at that time." 2000 years later, no single spot on him by moral standards. Bruh!
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The Local Guy 🌟 retweeted
Pewbeam @pewbeam_ai has become so fast and intelligent, see it at work. We are seeing a speed we could only dream of months ago. The same intelligence is coming to lyrics soon.
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The Local Guy 🌟 retweeted
Blackouts is not what happens in Nigeria, light is what happens. We live in a blackout and get light from time to time.
Frequent blackouts
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Solar is not the solution. We need stable power.
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Anyways in January, vote Peter Obi for president. Thanks.
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Many Nigerians support Democrats because of immigration. Beyond that, what Nigerian cultural or social values genuinely align with the Democratic Party? Many traditional Nigerian values align more with Republicans principles particularly in family and social conservatism.
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Greed can be satisfied. Envy, cannot.
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The Local Guy 🌟 retweeted
Keep exposing them, I spoke about opposition using international influencers since a lot of Nigerian influencers are working for APC. I’m glad we are gradually getting there🤭🤭
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The Local Guy 🌟 retweeted
Genuinely happy for them A great comeback it was… #championsleague #cunha
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We know how ambitious this is. We also know we can’t build it alone. We’re always looking for engineers, researchers, infrastructure builders and partners who want to help build this from the ground up. We’re heavily bootstrapped. There’s no big budget behind us, and I won’t pretend otherwise. But if building Africa’s own AI computing infrastructure, all the way down to the silicon, is a mission you believe is worth your time and effort, I want to hear from you. My DMs are open.
Today we're making a commitment. Cencori (@cencori) will build energy-efficient inference infrastructure for Africa, from the platform AI agents run on all the way down to the silicon. Most of Africa's AI runs on computers thousands of miles away. It's expensive and slow, and the data leaves the continent. We think that has to change. So we're building it here. Models served from African soil. Infrastructure designed to do more with less power. And over time, our own inference chips: ENX. This is a long road, and we're starting now. cencori.com/newsroom/energy-…
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The Local Guy 🌟 retweeted
Posting this because many of you have been tagging me everyday for an update and it’s only right that I provide one. I don’t own Nectarfi; I was only an advisor. I established a relationship with the company to use it as a platform for implementing some of my tokenization objectives along with the founders but it was a short-lived relationship. We parted ways less than a week after my first post endorsing them cos we couldn’t find common ground on a few key areas. I’m sorry it took this long to provide this update and I wasn’t able to follow through on some of the things I promised. As it stands, I’m not affiliated with any fintech and am currently fully focused on my own business. I’ll be sure to update you guys if anything changes on my end. Selah
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The Local Guy 🌟 retweeted
My hope is already renewed, I just want Nigeria to be OK! We just want good governance Vote for @PeterObi & @KwankwasoRM Vote @NigeriaNDCHQ 2027 (PS: I just signed out from University of Nigeria) 🇳🇬
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