PeaceJoyLove:

Look at the underlines sentence...hmmm. Have you ever noticed that many fairly average or even poor students in Nigeria usually get outstanding (first class) grades when they travel out? I know many who finished with 3rd class division and they ended up having super high CGPA for their masters and PhD in foreign universities. I remember reading a story of a guy whose teachers were forced to ask him take IQ test, and he happens to be a genius. There is something wrong with our system.
You are wise really!!!
The truth is clear, but we dont want to accept it. How can Borno student's cut off mark to government model colleges is 2 point? What kind of nons.ense is that? While that of Anambra is over 130. Lol. How can a person like Buhari lead Nigeria? You cannot compare is IQ to Osinbajo. Not possible. How can someone who is an Islamic phd holder be minister of Communical and Digital Economy? What does Pantami know about digital economy and tech? He was suppose to lead the Nigerian delegates to Silicon Valley, but Buhari himself knows he is not able, and he had to send Osinbajo. The Nigerian system puts du.llards in positions real brains should occupy. And they block good things from happening. This is what corruption and nepotism do.


I talked about 2D printing above. Since toy you mentioned it again, watch this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pS5OgZkf74Q
This new technology drives down the cost of housing by 60% in one documentary I watched. That was a bungalow, but this one is a 2 storey building meaning that the decking is concrete. Not just fixing wood. You know that the houses which are fixed easily get burned when there is fire disaster. This is huge sir. You can imagine having a printer using cement as its ink. Laying metals, etc. This is huge.


This is purely AI. Lol. Watch this video for the concept you talked about:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6piefdXjL8
This one even covers a wider range. It can be used in a whole city. You can imagine using this technology in Lagos, this is huge. This is what we can implement here sir. And as a matter of fact, it is a project I have a team working on.


If we create the right atmosphere, we can do better, but it looting we want to do. Even parents dont care what their children do to make money as long as they are settled. Hushpuppi is a business man until....lol.





They are making money via bandits. Lol.


Nairaland should be better than this. I see a new "thing" making NL obsolete very soon. You know it seemed Yahoo was the god of internet, but innovation got rid of it. And google is just advancing and innovating. Google isn't sleeping like how yahoo slept in thos days. Nairaland is the typical example here.

PeaceJoyLove:
Characteristics of CEOs programmers need to cultivate in Nigeria

Please, kindly take note of the poster above, and use him as an example. To be a CEO, you must be well grounded in many areas. Also, your IQ must be high so that no one needs to explain and re-explain a point before you understand the concept. And you must not be stubborn to argue what is obvious to you that is the right answer. You need to be able to read body language when dealing with clients and investors face to face, and also be very sharp to blend and quickly grab the path a discussion is going.

You even kill yourself more when you loud the path you want the discussion go, instead of listening. The main area most Nigerians fail is that they do not listen. Imagine, is "Nigeria is now in an industrialized state and able to take the opportunity" same as "Nigeria is already rich as the US in 1940?". I mean how does someone mix up the main discussion and still continue exposing himself to ridicule? This is exactly the attitude I talked about. I told you earlier, bring the work of a failed or struggling programmer or that of an ordinary person in Nigeria, and I will show you his/her errors. This person above is talking about the GDP of Nigeria now compared to the US in 1940 and using it to argue. Did I ever write that the GDP of Nigeria is like that of the US was in 1940s? In economics term, what he is talking about is the GDP. I dont understand how someone will start an argument which is not there? His problem is that he has a shallow knowledge of economics. Lol. And the energy used for such argument, one always imagine if this person cannot use it into developing his IQ? But he sees it that I am abusing him. Too bad. Stupidity is terrible.

China did not have the GDP of the US when Americans started outsourcing production there. We are ready for industrialization is the main focus here, and why is it so? This is what this person above should ask instead of just exposing himself.

Nigerian Human Capital is rich and affordable
Someone created a thread I made comment there asking why programmers in Nigeria cannot set up their businesses while we have the talent. Let me put the link here:
https://www.nairaland.com/6618977/what-stopping-building-own-company#103100872

Our Human Capital is Rich and affordable
Our human capital is rich because we have talents here. But it is affordable or let me say it is cheap. Ok. For instance, a manager earning N600,000 is a big boy/babe in Naija. Now, let's convert the cash into $. It is just around $1,200. Damn it! Let's use CBN rate when naira was ok...at N380 to $ (remember CBN rate is around N415 presently), its $1,578. Ha ba! This is M-level Manager ooo. Let's go down to workers. Minimum wage in naija is N30,000. And many find it hard to pay. Let's convert this amount to per hour. 8am to 5pm job is 9 hrs, and that is 234 hours per month. So that per hour in naija is N128. Waooo. Convert this to $, you get $0.28 at N450. Imagine, the amount we pay unskilled workers who are the driving force of production is $0.28 per hour. Tell me why Americans will not rush down here to pay $2 per hour when they know we are smart enough to produce what they want. And at that $2 per hour, it is N210,000 monthly salary for each worker. Now, tell me if the whole Nigerian new and old graduates will not abandon white collar job and do unskilled activities for even N150,000 naira which is less than $1.5 per hour. When you have the brain of a CEO you can think with numbers and facts. Come on! Is there any American here who can tell us the minimum wage per hour in his/her state in the US? Please, if there is an american here, kindly help me out. I swear, I will honor you here. Please come here.

The Induatrial age is the availability of Willing Talents for production
We are in the industrial age because all what is left for the advance nation to see is that they are safe and that power is available. There are many nations with constant power and are safe but are "no go areas" for the Americans. Why? Their human capital is not rich. They arent that smart and active. Chinese are smart and active. And all they provided was the atmosphere for the americans to come and establish factories there. And that was it. This was the reason the British invested heavily in Hong Kong.

Please, programmers who intend to be CEOs, learn from this person constituting nuisance of himself here. Try to understand the path of the subject of discussion rather than arguing your points blindly. You will lose customers and investors with this attitude. And this attitude is what I have been talking about. They write codes for you, and you call them to explain what they built is not doing what you want, instead of them to listen, they start telling you what they think you need. They start arguing they have given you the real stuff you need. I mean, they push you to punching them in the face and knock out their front teeth, but as a gentle man/lady, just let the person go. If not, you will get more annoyed. And this is why they do not make it. It is what is in their mind they want to do, and will always do. Mainwhile, what is in their mind is what they see their colleagues do. And perhaps something else is needed to be done. They see their colleague "hammer it hard" in finance, automatically they start looking into developing similar apps in finance. Lol. Many of them even start developing exact product like the guy who hammered. What a ridiculous way!!!

mosesdejaviano:
@PeacejoyLove, kudos to your write-up. I read all your write-ups on this thread and they are top-notch. I like your style of writing.

I understand the angle from which you are writing. And this is very good. We need more of such writings.

Concerning being innovative, I think people that comes from other careers such as finance, agriculture and health to IT field have practicable ideas better than a full core IT guy from the beginning.

For example, I am a Clinical Dietitian with about 10years experience. I came into the field of IT in 2019. I saw that there is a huge gap and the necessity of IT in the field of Human Nutrition and Dietetics in Nigeria.

These innovative ideas are brought up by experiences gotten by years of working in the field of nutrition.

There are certain fields that require core IT guys to collaborate with experts in those various fields to be able to bring out innovative ideas that will be practicable in those fields.

I will continue to read more of your write-ups. Please I sent you an e-mail. Kindly respond to it.

Thanks.

PeaceJoyLove:


Thank you sir. You are right. Let me show you something. The US know that business people with experience are people who can think well. So for their researches, go and look at the kinds who are admited for PhD Business in top schools in the US. They are fresh undergraduates from engineering, computer science, and some mathematical disciplines cos they want people who can think very deep, or experienced people with minimum of 10 years.

One can also achieve the skills of being a deep thinker with experience. And I am happy you gat my point. These young lads who are programmers dont know how to think well. They must work under a deep thinker. But they aren't humble.

I know a 65 years old Naija man who vexed and picked up Python. Today, baba is doing well. Cos these boys are frustrators. And its not their fault. Naira is "yeye" now. Just imagine. They are even getting cash now after covid pandemic in the US. Indians are doing "yanga" now. So, they are giving more Naija boys remote jobs. Imagine a US company who pays an American $4,500 monthly, and then, finds an Indian man who agrees to take $2,500....is this not good? O boy, it is even juicy to find a smart Naija boy who gladly accepts $500. Oga, Buhari don turn that $500 to N247,500 oooo. Yeeepa! Imagine the guy dazzles them and they just say, let's upgrade him to Indian level, that is N1.2million for the boy or month. Tell me how this boy will not slap you if you tell him rubbish. It is the reason some of them are mannerless. Meanwhile, na peanut the boy is making compared to what is in the cooler.

Bros....money is in the air. Tap into it via your computer. This is legit and comfort from your room.

As regards dietetics, I went deeply into it during the pandemic. And I tell you that this is a huge area. Bros...I want to load something out but I have some technical challenges which I pray to solve soon. Do you know the number of people with Diabetics, high blood pressure, infections, autoimmune diseases which are aggravated or caused by poor diets? Yes, this is an area where there is big cash sir. I know how huge this business is when I started relating with oncologists. Sir, the money sick man spends is not small oooo. Hmmm!

mosesdejaviano:


This is plain truth but so pathetic. My supervisor during my master's degree days is a Professor of Medicine. He ventured into software development around the age of 65 too. He was the first person that developed a software for all our indegenious foods with their nutrient content.

He was patented for the software product. And I can tell you that it is a multi-million producing product. That is the only software we use when making diet plans and Nutritional recommendations.

There are huge gold mine that lies in every field that has interactions with people in Nigeria.

God will help us all. Thanks for your contribution.

PeaceJoyLove:
Innovation is David
Did you read what I have just written? Innovation's second name is David. And who is David? The killer of the giant Goliath. Hahahaha! David had to invent a small weapon to kill the giant. Same way, you cannot compete with business giants. You must kill the giant to prosper. And how do kill the giant? Do you expect to kill the giant with the same skills, tools, and methods used by the giant? The giant is an expert in the game already using those features excellently. David wore the kind of armor Goliath had worn all his life, but was too heavy. David had to dump it and picked up what he had mastered which was small but did the job perfectly by weakening the giant. And then finished the giant with the giant's weapon. You must bring new stuff on board to at least weaken the giant. Catch the giant unaware, and kill him/her/it permanently. Remove its/his/her roots. Take that market share from the giant and dont lose it again.

Kodak, the greatest "mumu" of all time
Kodak is the greatest mumu of all time in Photography. Why? This yeye coy started digital photography. Invested so much in it, but cos the tech was just beyond human at the time, kodak concentrated on using films. They were making massive money on photo films with those old styles. Making money on picture papers, inks, etc. So, they refused to bring on board digital. And they sold the tech they developed in order to recover money for the investment on the research. They felt they were a giant who could not be defeated. Today where is Kodak? They made the first websites like Instagram and refused to use it. Why? They want to keep selling more physical frames for photos albums. Today we have digital collections of photos and we share digitally. Where is Kodak? Lol.

Read this Harvard Review on Kodak: https://hbr.org/2016/07/kodaks-downfall-wasnt-about-technology


Nairaland, a case study
I researched deeply Nairaland. Let's be frank about it. What innovative actions or upgrades do we get here? Who knows? Imagine google or FB is like this, what do you think would have happened? This is to show you that we are not innovative enough in Nigeria. The innovative ones are checking out. Who blames them? Why would anyone who is innovative want to overtake NL? When there are better things to do outside Nigeria. When there is cooler cash out there. Why should any sane person want to do it?

Well, the love of Nigeria can. And if it is done well, there may be fruits here. Let us face reality, this is a redundant giant. I mean it without any apology. I am very frank and straight forward. Now listen, guys in diaspora who are reading me. This post may be for someone or a group of people, there is money in Naija. Trust me. You know what it takes to give Nigerians something great. You can do it. Please, do something. It is only innovation which can do it.

Yeah! I have seen many people doing exact same thing as NL. Lol. How can you beat a giant with the same approach the giant has mastered? How?

Three giants were killed
In the 90s, three giants were so strong I couldn't even imagine they can be defeated. They are: Yahoo, MSN and AOL. Your email had to be: @yahoo, @hotmail, @aol or their siblings at that time. You wanted to search, it was either yahoo or MSN's bing, or aol search. Front Page news was about these 3 giants too. Wow! I could not even imagine a time would come these giants will be defeated. But what happened? Google came on board.

Google focused at that time in just on one business area of these 3 giants - search engine. And we can see the continous innovation google is doing till date using AI algorithms now. Amazing stuff. It's easy to Google even programming codes now. Lol. Google killed these 3 giants permanently in the area of search engine and took over the business.

Google too met another innovative killer
Google was riding and bouncing like a giant. Lol. OMG! Ask Mr Osewa how google almost turned him to a pauper. Lol. Guys were always posting porn then which he has not resolved till date (this is to show you that there is no innovation here at all...an algorithm should have been developed to auto detect porn, deletes the posts, and spam bot do the justice as soon as such appear online instead of admins manually removing them). So what happened? Google took away NL's adsense. Hahaha. He suffered oooo. But how did he overcome it. Let me tell you the story.

Facebook came on board. And they took a huge percentage of paid advert from google. Ahahhaba. Google lost oooo. Facebook refused to compete via search engine, but came on board via social media. And they injured google seriously. This was how Mr. Osewa too thought of having his own ads too. And "small small" his prayers were answered again. Maybe this owner wouldn't have thought about doing his own. Or maybe hunger and desperation would have pushed him to start innovating. Who knows? But he is comfortable in the zone he is in today. Who can blame him? Lol.

Nairaland, a local non innovative giant
The state of our economy is why NL is still a giant here. But I tell you, it is a giant which is going down soon if the owner doesnt start innovating. If things continue like this, I give this forum 10 years max to be relevant again. And again, listen to me....the era of forum is almost wrapping off. Maybe someone will bring an innovative idea to make it better...maybe. Recently, I had a zoom meeting with some guys who wanted to do some stuff and after I discussed with them, they had to go again to the drawing board to look at the insights I gave them. What they have now cannot really catch up. What they need is an overtaking strategy, not a catching up one.

Well, perhaps something new entirely will remove NL permanently. Maybe its gonna be a bad ass mobile app instead of web based forum. Just think. You dont have to copy NL to compete with it. The focus is to have exchange of info through continuous flow of discussions. But I pray innovation occur here too. But it seems it will never happen.

I do not see using forum software or packages compete with this giant. You are wasting your time. You need something smarter and better. Think deep! What can it be?

ClixMaster:
Though your statement about Nairaland is true but Nairaland is using AdSense now.

PeaceJoyLove:
Innovation is David
Did you read what I have just written? Innovation's second name is David. And who is David? The killer of the giant Goliath. Hahahaha! David had to invent a small weapon to kill the giant. Same way, you cannot compete with business giants. You must kill the giant to prosper. And how do kill the giant? Do you expect to kill the giant with the same skills, tools, and methods used by the giant? The giant is an expert in the game already using those features excellently. David wore the kind of armor Goliath had worn all his life, but was too heavy. David had to dump it and picked up what he had mastered which was small but did the job perfectly by weakening the giant. And then finished the giant with the giant's weapon. You must bring new stuff on board to at least weaken the giant. Catch the giant unaware, and kill him/her/it permanently. Remove its/his/her roots. Take that market share from the giant and dont lose it again.

Kodak, the greatest "mumu" of all time
Kodak is the greatest mumu of all time in Photography. Why? This yeye coy started digital photography. Invested so much in it, but cos the tech was just beyond human at the time, kodak concentrated on using films. They were making massive money on photo films with those old styles. Making money on picture papers, inks, etc. So, they refused to bring on board digital. And they sold the tech they developed in order to recover money for the investment on the research. They felt they were a giant who could not be defeated. Today where is Kodak? They made the first websites like Instagram and refused to use it. Why? They want to keep selling more physical frames for photos albums. Today we have digital collections of photos and we share digitally. Where is Kodak? Lol.

Read this Harvard Review on Kodak: https://hbr.org/2016/07/kodaks-downfall-wasnt-about-technology


Nairaland, a case study
I researched deeply Nairaland. Let's be frank about it. What innovative actions or upgrades do we get here? Who knows? Imagine google or FB is like this, what do you think would have happened? This is to show you that we are not innovative enough in Nigeria. The innovative ones are checking out. Who blames them? Why would anyone who is innovative want to overtake NL? When there are better things to do outside Nigeria. When there is cooler cash out there. Why should any sane person want to do it?

Well, the love of Nigeria can. And if it is done well, there may be fruits here. Let us face reality, this is a redundant giant. I mean it without any apology. I am very frank and straight forward. Now listen, guys in diaspora who are reading me. This post may be for someone or a group of people, there is money in Naija. Trust me. You know what it takes to give Nigerians something great. You can do it. Please, do something. It is only innovation which can do it.

Yeah! I have seen many people doing exact same thing as NL. Lol. How can you beat a giant with the same approach the giant has mastered? How?

Three giants were killed
In the 90s, three giants were so strong I couldn't even imagine they can be defeated. They are: Yahoo, MSN and AOL. Your email had to be: @yahoo, @hotmail, @aol or their siblings at that time. You wanted to search, it was either yahoo or MSN's bing, or aol search. Front Page news was about these 3 giants too. Wow! I could not even imagine a time would come these giants will be defeated. But what happened? Google came on board.

Google focused at that time in just on one business area of these 3 giants - search engine. And we can see the continous innovation google is doing till date using AI algorithms now. Amazing stuff. It's easy to Google even programming codes now. Lol. Google killed these 3 giants permanently in the area of search engine and took over the business.

Google too met another innovative killer
Google was riding and bouncing like a giant. Lol. OMG! Ask Mr Osewa how google almost turned him to a pauper. Lol. Guys were always posting porn then which he has not resolved till date (this is to show you that there is no innovation here at all...an algorithm should have been developed to auto detect porn, deletes the posts, and spam bot do the justice as soon as such appear online instead of admins manually removing them). So what happened? Google took away NL's adsense. Hahaha. He suffered oooo. But how did he overcome it. Let me tell you the story.

Facebook came on board. And they took a huge percentage of paid advert from google. Ahahhaba. Google lost oooo. Facebook refused to compete via search engine, but came on board via social media. And they injured google seriously. This was how Mr. Osewa too thought of having his own ads too. And "small small" his prayers were answered again. Maybe this owner wouldn't have thought about doing his own. Or maybe hunger and desperation would have pushed him to start innovating. Who knows? But he is comfortable in the zone he is in today. Who can blame him? Lol.

Nairaland, a local non innovative giant
The state of our economy is why NL is still a giant here. But I tell you, it is a giant which is going down soon if the owner doesnt start innovating. If things continue like this, I give this forum 10 years max to be relevant again. And again, listen to me....the era of forum is almost wrapping off. Maybe someone will bring an innovative idea to make it better...maybe. Recently, I had a zoom meeting with some guys who wanted to do some stuff and after I discussed with them, they had to go again to the drawing board to look at the insights I gave them. What they have now cannot really catch up. What they need is an overtaking strategy, not a catching up one.

Well, perhaps something new entirely will remove NL permanently. Maybe its gonna be a bad ass mobile app instead of web based forum. Just think. You dont have to copy NL to compete with it. The focus is to have exchange of info through continuous flow of discussions. But I pray innovation occur here too. But it seems it will never happen.

I do not see using forum software or packages compete with this giant. You are wasting your time. You need something smarter and better. Think deep! What can it be?

fascia:




lol i can see you are still your arrogant self .no can be perfect sha .
well i agree with some of your recent posts ,they made a lot of sense .

innovation is good and all but marketing is harder ,convincing people to use your product is hard even if your product is amazing.

yes nairaland deserves all the bashing but you have to ĝive kudos to them ,managing a website with millions of users and millions of visitors per day is not moi moi..even growing a website to this size is amazing.i assurre it not by luck but hardwork ..

my advice to nairaland is that they should start refactoriñg their code base little by little.the potential for this website enormous. they already havthe userbase .they should expand their functionalities and look for more ways of adding value.

presently no indiginous website comes close to nairaland .they are till the undisputed king

PeaceJoyLove:
I am always flabbergasted when I see the "Every man for himself" syndrome in every business area in Nigeria. But guess what? It is not the way forward in tech start ups.

Programmers are trying to position themselves into getting huge pay for developing apps for startups (nothing bad in it, but does our economy allow it?). Lol. Most programmers don't have the business developing instinct, but they want to get huge pay. How can you get huge pay in this Nigerian economy at this time? There are only few "money bags" who will spend money on developing apps for a business the future is unpredictable. It is not like a manufacturing company where you know sales is sure since there are potential customers on ground.

There are many reasons "money bags" will not take the risk of paying you that huge amount to develop app. One is that the future of the startup is not guaranteed. And you know that Nigeria is an emerging market. Industrialization is just beginning to pick up. We are just getting to fix our roads, railways, boats, etc after we abandoned fixing these basic amenities for long. We are in a stage the US is in around early 1900 to 1940s. Oh! Having 24/7 electricity is still a rocket science here, so, we haven't started production which is another area "money bags" will rather invest in for any emerging market. So, there are many areas the "money bags" can put money into instead of paying you that huge money for the app you want to develop. And even after developing it, it is the "beta" version. Oh! You want him to even pay you more and more for every correction made..lol. Be real and get a life. It is not that possible.

Oh! No wonder many programmers are unfulfilled in Nigeria. Eeeeh....Yaaa. Poor you. Keep hoping someone will employ you to develop a app you can hit it big. Eeeehhh.....Yaaa!

I will take you on the journey
Here, I will write insights and we will look at the real situation of tech startups in Nigeria. I will xray it out for you so you can see the real situation, and then decide how you can tap into it. My approach is from the business view of the business.

I'll try to update this thread daily.

wetdspace:
Hello Gurus
Please I need a guide.
I just made decisions to go for programming and probably full stack that would enable me get a remote job.
I’m an idealistic person so I would love something that would be able to make me develop my ideas. E.g in 2014, I wrote down in my jotter the need to create a digital money saving app. I told a friend in 2015 but he’s afraid he didn’t wanna get involved with anything money. I think that same year, piggybank was created.
In 2016, I still shared this to a friend who went behind me and Partner with a tech bro to create their own company here in Lagos. I won’t disclose his name cos it’s a well known coy.

So please my bosses, I need help, I want to learn things that would make it easy to transfer money from a phone to another phone through our bank account of course, even though I might eventually end up partnering with another developer , I want to learn these things too at least be very good at something.

I need help cos I want to focus on this.

Please help me out, advice, links, leads, critics is needed.

I just want to start something very meaningful with myself.

Thank you.

PS. If you see this on another topic, it’s me I’m just looking for where to get genuine answers. Thanks.

PeaceJoyLove:


You simple want to do money transfer. The most important is security first, then you can tweak it around your business. Piggyvest (formerly piggybank) you mentioned is all about money transfer too via Mastercard and Visacard linked to their clients accounts. Also, there is POS, USSD (via phone) and other various kinds of money transfer linked to customers' account. You sound like you will use more of USSD. The most important is to use a secured means. The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) which is an information security standard for organizations that handle branded credit cards from the major card schemes. The PCI Standard is mandated by the card brands but administered by the Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council. The standard was created to increase controls around cardholder data to reduce credit card fraud. Not sure if this is what you really need, but there are other kinds also. Two companies you can approach in Nigeria which come to my mind are - Flutterwave and Paystack. PiggyVest uses Paystack. You may want to consult these two companies. You may discuss with them more and they will give you more ideas on how you should go about your business. But first, consult a cyber security specialist very well. This is what you need to get around first cos it has to do with money. Your friend probably didnt go with you cos you do not know about the basis of security, and you could not explain well. Another person came on board and was able to convince him to do the project you talked about (not sure if it's still security). Or he hijacked it because he was not gifted in the area...meaning that he wasn't the one you supposed to talk to in the first place. You just gave him an idea he couldn't solve. So, he had to get out to look for solution. Too bad of him, but really, you were a liability. You opened too early without first making research. And the way you are going about dropping messages in many threads, you will fall into the trap again and again sir. Anyway, get around securities applied to your business first. When you know it and the protocols to use you then look for a co-founder well grounded in the area. You must not sound like an illiterate when discussing with the person. You must know what you want, and you pick who is the best in the area. Not like just asking every jack and jerry who can code to be your partner or to start explaining to you...by the time you starting talking, you would have dropped all your ideas and the person or people will hijack them again.

Goodluck sir!

wetdspace:
Wow!

I’ll say you read part of my mind.

I want to learn something that’ll relate to something you’ve discussed here...
I just want to learn
To have a skill I’m proud of before the biz launch.

What wot you advice?

God bless you for this response.

Thanks!

wetdspace:
Hello Gurus
Please I need a guide.
I just made decisions to go for programming and probably full stack that would enable me get a remote job.
I’m an idealistic person so I would love something that would be able to make me develop my ideas.
Especially in fintech industry.

PeaceJoyLove:
Someone asked me again why I am talking about Artificial Intelligence when people need to eat. Hmm! I am not saying you should not hustle. You should, but do not get so much trapped in it.

I took the person on an extensive lecture, and let me quickly summarize how I am able to convince this person to tap into it also.

The Arctic Sea Ice
According to wikipedia, the Arctic Ocean is the smallest and shallowest of the world's five major oceans. It spans an area of approximately 14,060,000 km2 (5,430,000 sq mi) and is also known as the coldest of all the oceans. The International Hydrographic Organization (IHO) recognizes it as an ocean, although some oceanographers call it the Arctic Mediterranean Sea. It has been described approximately as an estuary of the Atlantic Ocean. It is also seen as the northernmost part of the all-encompassing World.

Our climate is changing due to human activities. And let us look at the attached pictures. The ice is disappearing. Hmmm! Dangers awaits.

1. Heat wave is getting more intensed, and that's why the world is getting warmer.

2. Also, the land roads are collapsing. The roads are actually ice. And travellers keep using delicate routes and destroying the roads more and breaking more ice. Enough death records.

3. Again, new sea routes are created. And travellers are tempted to take these new shorter opened routes, and they get trapped and perished. Even damaging the sea more.

4. I will give you a link where you can read more, and check the presentation of the project directors.

The US and Russian govt arent doing much about it as there are more to do. But guess what? Two private companies came together to get it done. One is specialized in drone technology while the other is into data and Artificial Intelligence. They have managed to cut down 93.7% of the cost of the project if done some years back. Wow!!!! This is the power of technology.

Do you remember the silly Nigerian minister who flew a plane over a renovated dam when she could have flown a drone? And she felt she was doing a good job, but the twitter community blasted her? Do you remember the story? Lol.

Do you know the reward these two companies will make soon? This is huge money. Forget it. These are forward looking people.

Now, think of what government will do with their data. Think how it will save the sea. Think about the amount they are generating in the future from this project. Wow! And its cheap.

And the goal of this project is to create map of safe roads on the ice. Wow!


We can do same
We can scan the whole of Sambisa Forest and we get terrorists hidden places. We then move in Agriculture there to open it up. Plan it well to preserve the forest.

Trust the government if they do it. They will put in $50 billion as the budget, when only $10,000 to $50,000 can do the job. Do you think such will be approved by these useless politicians? Nope. They will put in billions so they can embezzle it. This is why private citizens like us should step up and get this job done.

I have so many ideas which I am not going to release here. But my point is that we should start collecting data. There are so much to do. If I start talking about wild life data which can generate millions of dollars soon, hmm. But where are the forward looking Nigerians? They are all travelling out to develop more the developed nations.

Data collection is profitable
When we have data, we can build a business around it. Trust me, this is what wise people are doing presently.

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What do you think?

tensazangetsu20:


I dont know how Artificial Intelligence will solve terrorism in Nigeria. The US with all its power and drone technology still lost the war in afghanistan. The Nigerian government knows where the terrorist are hiding, afterall they got them and gave them food and told Nigerians to forgive them. Where boko haram is hiding isnt hidden, their sponsors are also well known so building a solution to look for them is a waste of time.

PeaceJoyLove:

Be careful of what you say or write. Look beyond war. The US did not lose the war in Afghanistan. They achieved exactly what they went there to do. Nothing more to do there. Do not let me go into the details cos there is no point. And they have found a better way to address issues like that instead of going inside the nations. Bro, their interests come first.

I can start counting the efficiency of the drone technology. And if you think the drone technology is not that able to win wars, try Russia or Isreal. Do you hear me? But I am not going into details of that.

Now, back to the issue. Scanning the whole of Sambisa itself is a huge profit for anyone who does it without even thinking of Boko Haram. I actually deliberately did not give so much into what drone can achieve cos I have so much to achieve, and I dont want any distraction. Did you read where I wrote what that can achieve in the forestry and wild life business? Do you know what that can achieve in Agriculture? Do you know how far it will help mining and nature? Think forward.

The point here is that you have refused to see deep into the usefulness of data. I am going to be frank with you, php is going down soon. Well, I think it is down for the western programmers and programmers from developing nations are used for the jobs with so much salary cut.

Data is what I am after.

Back to sambisa. When you scan the place, and you know where they are, you know how to tackle govt. You have just accused government of knowing where they are without any proof but just cos they asked us to pardon some of theirs. Naturally, it is ok to feel this because of Kanu and Igboho. It's normal. But can you prove it? If you really think government knows where Boko Haram is, and there is no way you can compel government to go after them, the best way is to use tech. Use drone to get them (since govt is not doing it), and then, compel government to go after them. When they know they are monitored, they will sit up. Thank you for bringing out this issue, and thanks again cos indeed it as an opportunity to buttress my point.

If you still say you dont see how AI can solve terrorism issues in Nigeria, it maybe that you dont understand data science and Artificial Intelligence well.

tensazangetsu20:

They know where they are. The other day the police escorted gumi to go meet bandits in the forest and they don't still know where they are. So a programmer in Nigeria will build AI and drone systems to find what isnt hidden.

PeaceJoyLove:

Let us assume they know where they are, here is my point again. We know their hides out is in Sambisa. If we map out sambisa, we at least will clear out the place. They will be forced to relocate. Can you see my point? You force government to do it. With evidences, the military will move there.

OK, let us move to South west where there are thick forest bandits and herdsmen operate. Bro, there are many things in the forest. Damn too much. The security of any country is safer when you can scan wild life. Have you been to Oyo state down to the border side. Mehn! If you see the thick forest there... Even with this, we can compel government to be brutal with those exporting charcoal. They are destroying wild life there exporting charcoal to Europe. Europe has forest too, but they have stopped cutting down trees. But here we are still doing it. Let us map out the area and we will know what's up. Government will be forced to close down the charcoal exporting business permanently.

Even you are right that government knows where they are, let's scan Sambisa. If Buhari and his gangs refuse to do what is needed after we have scanned and gotten the data we need, another president will.

The reason I said you do not understand AI and data science is cos you really do not still understand what scanning does. I am talking about data. When the data and map is on the table, you will see ideas coming in. Even you that created the data and map will be shocked what people will come up with. Innovation here and there will come up. I am shocked you are still going against this just for the incompetence of Buhari. Bro, leave that man aside and let us talk. It is beyond terrorism.

Do you know foreign choppers that move in and out of our wild without us knowing? We need to install aerial scanners everywhere. This is data collection. Everything is data. If we know all the spots of rivers, canals, valleys, dams etc., we will perform better. If the Alaska guys I talked about earlier can know the thickness of ice there without drilling but just by scanning via flying a drone, we can know what is under the tree, and even underground. Instead of matching people there, clearing the land, destroying the trees, we are saying that just fly a drone over the place and take data. What is hard in this when we have the brain? It doesn't cost us moving heavy machine there. Innovation will come up after we do this.

Mapping Alaska sea ice is just 6.3% of the total amount it should cost. If we use this as a guess, it means that if government is saying it will take 30 billion naira to do it, just know that the real cost is like 30%, that is like 9 billion naira if government is sincere with old tech. Now we know it doesnt cost much, at most we will spend 200usd (assumption) cos this is Nigeria. 9 billion is 18 million dollars. Lol. And 200,000US is what? 1.1%. Meaning we are cutting off 98.9% And its $200,000 estimation when I know $50,000 can do it. Think about it. Maybe we will cut off 99.999% of the cost

Now think how this will re educate us about governance, budgeting, and spending. See bro, tech is what we can use to make Nigeria great again oooo. If not, these old politicians are ready to finish Nigeria.

Listen, you should think positive and forward. You dont see anything in it cos you are not ready to think forward. Data is profit. Guys like you will come up with ideas after we put the map online for everyone to be able to use.

Hey! Think deep. Think again. Think it through. Just leave out incompetent Buhari for now.

I will talk more about AI in fighting fraud. All we need to do is to keep pushing it till these politicians accept it. Yes, APC may get away now with not publishing election results electronically (I know they were alive and witnessed Biden Vs Trump), but they deliberately did not allow it. But it can still change. 2023 is still far. And if they dont, by 2027, it is very sure, they will. Can you see the progress?

Tech will change things. But when you guys keep promoting obsolete stuff and you dont want to think forward, then , we will allow these old men to destroy Nigeria. Tech is the only tool we have.

Buhari banning Twitter exposed him more that he doesnt know what he is doing.