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Pelicanbrief:
You mean this coward?

No, this coward

Pelicanbrief:
You mean this coward?

Just 200 Yoruba soldiers ruined the lives of thousands of lips shivering biafran... soldiers....I mean scallywags at Ore without breaking a sweat.

Wahabfuture:
Ewedus are the most useless and stupid set of sub-human being on this earth, they all look like apes

Says an ape looking, smelling cannibal from the region of dirty cannibals.

Mumu talk.

kingbee90:
Egbon, just type "BROWN ROOF REPUBLIC" on Google search bar then thank me later.

Ibadan don cast enter Google tey tey! [font=Lucida Sans Unicode][/font]

Nnewi in Anambra state looks more developed than Oyo, Ogun, Osun and ekiti put together.

lol
Is like somebody posting Makoko pictures and saying that is Lagos.

You are ashamed of posting videos of Igboland against Ibadan city only because you already know that Ibadan is more developed than Igboland.

You are just as cowardly as Ojuku,your Lord and personal saviour.


This is Ibadan:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-STeGqbawUY?si=uM2MpqkcIpo9MYDJ



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWdAcjjOAbE?si=nRYg0hCKus_mTZcx

Free2Fly:
Can you see how you gooat has finally agreed with me that lagos wasn't developed by your lazy fathers?
Why didn't your people continue the devpt in Oyo after the Unitary govt started, if they knew how to develop a city own their own?
You forgot that lagos's devpt continued even after the Unitary govt was established because the FG kept investing in it

Fyi bingo, apart from Lagos, there's no other SW state that is more developed that the SE states!
The problem is that you ediots don't travel beyond your villages & lagos, but will sit there and pass stupid judgemnets

You sound dumb.
Lagos was still more developed than any place in Nigeria except that Ibadan was more developed because Yorubas faced it squarely for development.

Ibadan had the first tv,radio,stadium etc and their infrastructures before Lagos.

As for travelling,Yorubas are like Americans and Europeans who travel to different places but do not stay there permanently like you Igbo migrants because Yorubaland is the richest region.

It is on nairaland here that Yorubas travel abroad more than any other tribe in West Africa.
Census of USA,UK and Canada etc have shown that.Not only that,Yorubas are the most successful Nigerians abroad.
In business,ICT etc,they are your masters.


As for development,I don't make unsubstantiated claims or stupid mouth like eyepobian from the East.
I repeat again,Ibadan is more developed infrastructurally than the East.

Let us compare videos of Ibadan against all your SE states if you have the balls.
SE is a dilapidated space where you are all running from to the rich SW.

I have been to the East and the only place I like is that space between Obossi and Nkpor junction in Onitsha.
This was even developed by Igala and Benin/Yoruba descendants.

Don't make too much noise,let us compare SE to Ibadan city only by posting videos.
I can bet you that you cannot post 9 good places in the entire SE.
I will post 30 superb places from Ibadan if you can post 9 fine places from the SE.
Your cowardly will still give excuses like Miss Ojuku.

kingsceemark:
Did I hear you talking about not to be allowed to rule Nigeria clearly? May the way Nigeria is been ruled by the former and present leaders happens to you and your entire generation both born and unborn in the Name Of Jesus Christ Amen

Says a smelling cannibal from the region of dirty cannibals.
Nigerians slaves will not be allowed to rule Nigeria for a long time to come.

Free2Fly:
You senselss ediots at it again!
Which SW city or state was developed by the yorubas??
Lagos??
Foool, Lagos's development was a collective effort involving the British empire(which used it as its capital), Nigerian govt, NGOs, cooperate institutions, and individuals, aided by its strategic location to the Atlantic ocean.

It wasn't the yorubas or your useless T!efnubu that developed it.
If you're too ignorant to think so, why haven't your lazy fathers use the same hand to develop Ogun, Osun, Ekiti, Ondo and Oyo state, which all look like states in 1800??
The little devpt Oyo experienced is even because of the university that was sited early there.

You see your mumuness?
Ibadan was more developed than Lagos or any other place in Nigeria until your envious,jealousy soaked brother,Aguiysi or whatever stupid name he bore,turned Nigeria to a unitary state.
Till date,Ibadan is more developed than your 5 Eastern villages..Abi na states.. combined.

muykem:
Tinubu will be reelected in 2027 but not without an opposition.

The 2023 opposition included President Buhari then.
They were all defeated squarely.Tinubu will garner more votes than 2023 because before the end of this year,things will look more brighter for all Nigerians.

kingsceemark:
My fellow Igbo brothers and sisters please avoid this thread like cancer, those dirty cowards from the brown roof region go leave their northern slave masters wey do the comments and start to attack the igbos. Please they be brothers and sisters according to ThieffNubu

Says a smelling cannibal from the region of dirty cannibals.
Nigerians slaves will not be allowed to rule Nigeria for a long time to come.

Free2Fly:
So, destroying the Nigeria's economy that other presidents(including the dumb Buhari he foisted on Nigeria) were afraid to destroy is now something to boast of, right?

Yeye people. Ndi iberibe

Bet you are an eyepobian with their usual dull trait.
Just take a period in the history of Nigeria and compare West with the East and you will see why Westerners are way above you..

SIRAO:
Tinubu is great leader and visionary type doing what past presidents were afraid of doing. Hate him or like him, his accumen is second to none.

That guy doesn't understand what it takes to reform a nation.
He should read about nations like Singapore,China etc.
No pain,no gain is a painful slogan but true.

They have been slaves all their life.Igala to Ijaw to being Nigerians slaves
Nobody takes Igbo slaves serious.What will Nigerians' slaves say or do that goes beyond looking at his chain and cursing the day he was born?

Yorubas have never been slaves to any African. We have had Hausa/Fulani who were slaves in Oyo Empire.

We have had Igbos who were slaves to Igala,Ijaw,Benin/Yoruba people.
There is this permanent trait of slavery/slavishness in their blood.

Hausa/Fulani had the British privilege of becoming the first govt because of their perceived mumuness.

Yoruba as warriors and Empire owner like Britain,China etc didn't go crawling to become slaves like the Igbos whom,though more educated,became the vassals of the Hausa/Fulani,thinking that they are mumu that they can overcome but they were suysnised like what they actually have always been.

Without being in govt and because of their superiority,Yorubas (and Yorubaland) became the richest,most progressive,most developed people not only in Nigeria but the black world.
Yorubas are a superior tribe not only in Nigeria but Africa and the world because they control (in the black people's world)..Music,Movies,Education, Business both in Africa and the world as blacks.

They have oil,ports,custom,VAT etc which the Igbos will go extinct if Yorubas don't 'feedbottle' them for just a couple of months.


All Nigerians know that Yorubas are the everlasting pillar and brainbox of Nigeria.

Yoruba are a very intelligent race.They have watched Hausa/Fulani and seen that they don't run their mouths like Igbos.They have been very careful.Reason Yorubas have let them be even as slavish Igbos have tried everything foolish to make them clash.
A few Yoruba have talked negatively about Hausa/Fulani but they have gotten very timid reply.

Yorubas are the only people that have defeated Hausa/Fulani in politics and in wars.

Yorubas control the jugular of the economy of Nigeria both in Nigeria here and abroad.
They are the slave masters.Nobody else.
They fear nobody but respects everybody who respect themselves.

Igbos bow for everybody.Nobodyvwill bow for a slave.
Nobody wants a slave as President grin


Fulani bowing and begging Yoruba

SeeWahala:
All these long long epistle and in the end you said nothing meaningful concerning the topic of the thread

Why not be like your fellow agbadoid blacknp and post one or 2 sentences so we at least know that even if the pain of the realization hit home you still have some bantering spirit within you to voice out balablu

They have been slaves all their life.Igala to Ijaw to being Nigerians slaves
Nobody takes Igbo slaves serious.What will Nigerians' slaves say or do that goes beyond looking at his chain and cursing the day he was born?

Yorubas have never been slaves to any African. We have had Hausa/Fulani who were slaves in Oyo Empire.

We have had Igbos who were slaves to Igala,Ijaw,Benin/Yoruba people.
There is this permanent trait of slavery/slavishness in their blood.

Hausa/Fulani had the British privilege of becoming the first govt because of their perceived mumuness.

Yoruba as warriors and Empire owner like Britain,China etc didn't go crawling to become slaves like the Igbos whom,though more educated,became the vassals of the Hausa/Fulani,thinking that they are mumu that they can overcome but they were suyanised like what they actually have always been.

Without being in govt and because of their superiority,Yorubas (and Yorubaland) became the richest,most progressive,most developed people not only in Nigeria but the black world.
Yorubas are a superior tribe not only in Nigeria but Africa and the world because they control (in the black people's world)..Music,Movies,Education, Business both in Africa and the world as blacks.

They have oil,ports,custom,VAT etc which the Igbos will go extinct if Yorubas don't 'feedbottle' them with for just a couple of months.


All Nigerians know that Yorubas are the everlasting pillar and brainbox of Nigeria.

Yoruba are a very intelligent race.They have watched Hausa/Fulani and seen that they don't run their mouths like Igbos.They have been very careful.Reason Yorubas have let them be even as slavish Igbos have tried everything foolish to make them clash.
A few Yoruba have talked negatively about Hausa/Fulani but they have gotten very timid reply.

Yorubas are the only people that have defeated Hausa/Fulani in politics and in wars.

Yorubas control the jugular of the economy of Nigeria both in Nigeria here and abroad.
They are the slave masters.Nobody else.
They fear nobody but respects everybody who respect themselves.

Igbos bow for everybody.Nobodyvwill bow for a slave.
Nobody wants a slave as President grin


Fulani bowing and begging Yoruba

Pelicanbrief:
I didn't bother to read your bunkum but please don't hurt yourself trying to prove a nonexistent point. Timid of Ede says hi 😆 🤣

Atiku says hi

They have been slaves all their life.Igala to Ijaw to being Nigerians slaves
Nobody takes Igbo slaves serious.What will Nigerians' slaves say or do that goes beyond looking at his chain and cursing the day he was born?

Yorubas have never been slaves to any African. We have had Hausa/Fulani who were slaves in Oyo Empire.

We have had Igbos who were slaves to Igala,Ijaw,Benin/Yoruba people.
There is this permanent trait of slavery/slavishness in their blood.

Hausa/Fulani had the British privilege of becoming the first govt because of their perceived mumuness.

Yoruba as warriors and Empire owner like Britain,China etc didn't go crawling to become slaves like the Igbos whom,though more educated,became the vassals of the Hausa/Fulani,thinking that they are mumu that they can overcome but they were suysnised like what they actually have always been.

Without being in govt and because of their superiority,Yorubas (and Yorubaland) became the richest,most progressive,most developed people not only in Nigeria but the black world.
Yorubas are a superior tribe not only in Nigeria but Africa and the world because they control (in the black people's world)..Music,Movies,Education, Business both in Africa and the world as blacks.

They have oil,ports,custom,VAT etc which the Igbos will go extinct if Yorubas don't 'feedbottle' them for just a couple of months.


All Nigerians know that Yorubas are the everlasting pillar and brainbox of Nigeria.

Yoruba are a very intelligent race.They have watched Hausa/Fulani and seen that they don't run their mouths like Igbos.They have been very careful.Reason Yorubas have let them be even as slavish Igbos have tried everything foolish to make them clash.
A few Yoruba have talked negatively about Hausa/Fulani but they have gotten very timid reply.

Yorubas are the only people that have defeated Hausa/Fulani in politics and in wars.

Yorubas control the jugular of the economy of Nigeria both in Nigeria here and abroad.
They are the slave masters.Nobody else.
They fear nobody but respects everybody who respect themselves.

Igbos bow for everybody.Nobodyvwill bow for a slave.
Nobody wants a slave as President


Fulani bowing and begging Yoruba.

DuttyChuks:
They will leave Elrufai son to attack igbos now! Cowaŕds! Yoruba people!

Not up to 200 of those Yoruba soldiers defeated battalions of your lily livered Biafra army at Ore.

cjudy:
Same with me, I’m not Igbo and everyone here knows that. I’m just showing you that Drug pushing is in every tribe

Every society has criminals but Igbos are topnotch in and unknown crimes.
They pioneered skull and organ mining.
They invented baby factory,child selling etc

jaxxy:
Reminds me of the Chinese company that went into phantom agreements with ogun state government but nothing happened except court cases.

However If the project can materialise as stated it would be a great achievement. The projections are very high.

Neveah is owned by a Nigerian.

Great

The real Supreme Court judge has spoken.
Those judges at Supreme Court are impostors

Sometimes I marvel at what will happen if NAFDAC or NDLEA faces the South East squarely the way they have been fixated on the SW for ages.All hell of massive criminality will be let loose.

Beerfraud and SE news are like bone and skin

Just noise.
A lot of rhetoric maneuver in the article without saying whether the woman gave another design other than the Portuguese design to the UAV.
The UAV was a Portuguese/Nigeria collaboration with Portuguese design and name.
Though withh her resume,she is a gem.
Kudos to her and to Nigerians.

NB:Proforce has produced lots of UAVs for the military before this.

betnedge:
No one noticed the op just kept on subtracting $50m from their net worth until he got to the fifth

It is a made up list.
They are all surely rich but not as worthy as what the writer gave as their estimates.
Even Alakija is a little less than 1 billion dollars now according to Forbes
Most of the others might not even worth up to $50 million.

Melagros:
COMRADES are speechless, this one na old list nah, we don read am tired, we need new female billionaires
By the way, this list is not complete without the likes of Okonjo Iweala and co

lol
Who told you that Okonjo is a billionaire.
She is a salary earner but earns in dollar.
She is comfortable.That is the most important thing

If it is not from Bloomberg or Forbes,it is fake.
They are all rich but the estimates can only be done by globally recognised entities like Forbes who use globally accepted methodologies.
The only Forbes recognised female billionaire in Nigeria is Dupe Alakija
It was on Nairaland here that Vanguard newspaper posted that Tiwa Savage was worth up to $5 billion which was and is a fat lie.

Ask this writer how he knows how much they are worth and he will begin to look at his feet like a mumu.

15 worst African currencies against dollar in 2024

Chisom Michael

January 7, 2025

15 worst African currencies declines against dollar as 2024 Closes.


Several African currencies experienced sharp devaluations against the US dollar in 2024, reflecting economic challenges such as inflation, trade imbalances, and dwindling foreign reserves. These issues have intensified pressure on exchange rates, impacting economic stability and purchasing power in the affected nations.

Nigeria’s Naira and Malawi’s Kwacha recorded significant depreciations, with the Naira falling by 104.38% and the Kwacha by 66.82%. Other currencies across the continent also faced worsening exchange rates, driven by high inflation, persistent trade imbalances, political instability, and increasing debt levels.

The depreciation of local currencies has contributed to rising inflation by increasing the cost of imported goods and services, straining consumers and economies. Countries have struggled to stabilize their currencies, with limited success due to underlying structural challenges.


Read also: 7 worst performing African currencies in 2023

Statista data as of August 1, 2023, provided insights into the performance of African currencies against the US dollar. Sierra Leone’s Leone had the highest exchange rate, with one dollar equalling 21,021.7 leones, marking it as the weakest currency on the continent.

Other currencies included the Guinea Franc, trading at 8,521 to the dollar, and the Malagasy Ariary at 4,430. Nigeria’s Naira was at 758.9 per dollar, the Angolan Kwanza at 824, Sudan’s Pound at 599, and the Liberian Dollar at 185. The Libyan Dinar, Ghanaian Cedi, and Egyptian Pound traded at 4.77, 11, and 30.85 per dollar, respectively, highlighting the variation in currency strength across Africa.

The US dollar’s global role as a reserve currency and its stability in international trade continue to shape exchange rates. While some African countries have managed to strengthen their currencies by addressing inflationary pressures, others face ongoing challenges that hinder sustainable improvements.


The economic impact of these devaluations underscores the importance of addressing the structural issues driving currency depreciation across the continent.

1. Nigeria – Naira
In 2023, the Nigerian Naira was trading at 758 to the US dollar. By the end of 2024, it had reached 1,549.18, representing a dramatic 104.38% depreciation. This steep decline shows Nigeria’s ongoing economic difficulties, including inflation and a lack of foreign exchange reserves.

2. Malawi – Kwacha
The Malawian Kwacha experienced a sharp drop from 1,043 per dollar in 2023 to 1,739.98 by the end of 2024. The 66.82% fall underscores the challenges faced by Malawi’s economy, such as high inflation and a reliance on imports, which put additional pressure on the currency.

3. Rwanda – Franc
The Rwandan Franc fell from 1,166 per dollar in 2023 to 1,392.32 in 2024. This 19.41% decrease points to rising inflation, a widening trade deficit, and the global economic climate, which has impacted Rwanda’s foreign exchange rates.

Read also: Naira among worst performing currencies in Sub-Saharan Africa— World Bank

4. Congo – Franc
The Congolese Franc saw a drop from 2,457 in 2023 to 2,866.15 in 2024, a 16.65% fall. The decline reflects the Congolese economy’s struggle with internal challenges and external shocks, leading to a weakening of the currency.

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5. Angola – Kwanza
The Angolan Kwanza saw a smaller decrease, moving from 824 to 912 per US dollar. This 10.68% depreciation reflects Angola’s efforts to stabilise its economy, although external factors like oil prices and inflation continue to challenge the national currency.

6. Sierra Leone – Leone
The Sierra Leonean Leone moved from 21,021 to 22,902 per dollar in 2024, marking an 8.95% decline. This increase reflects economic hardships, including high inflation rates and the country’s vulnerability to global financial shifts.

Read also: Beyond Naira: Foreign currencies shaping Nigerian businesses

7. Madagascar – Ariary
The Malagasy Ariary depreciated from 4,430 to 4,685.45 against the US dollar, a 5.77% decline. Madagascar continues to face structural challenges, such as high poverty levels and limited economic diversification, which contribute to the weakening of its currency.

8. Burundi – Franc
Burundi’s Franc depreciated from 2,809 to 2,967.11, a 5.63% fall. The country’s persistent economic difficulties, including inflation and political instability, are evident in the continued devaluation of its currency.

9. Comoros – Franc
The Comorian Franc fell from 445 to 466.12 per dollar, reflecting a 4.75% depreciation. Comoros, a small island nation, faces numerous economic challenges, including reliance on imports and a fragile economy.

Read also: We are revolutionising arbitrage trading in Nigeria – Kyvatron CEO

10. Uganda – Shilling
The Ugandan Shilling experienced a slight fall from 3,608 in 2023 to 3,686.17 in 2024, showing a 2.17% decrease. While not as drastic as other currencies, the Shilling’s minor decline is indicative of the pressure Uganda faces due to rising inflation and its dependence on imports.

11. Guinea – Franc
The Guinean Franc saw a small depreciation from 8,521 to 8,672.54 per dollar. The 1.78% decline highlights the country’s economic struggles, which include political instability and a reliance on mining exports.

12. Somalia – Shilling
The Somali Shilling had a marginal decrease from 565 to 573.47 against the US dollar, a 1.50% depreciation. Despite the slight decline, Somalia’s fragile economy, coupled with political instability and high inflation, continues to affect its currency.

Read also: Why Nigeria’s currency rebounded and what it means for the economy

13. Sudan – Pounds
The Sudanese Pound experienced the smallest drop of 0.42%, from 599 to 601.5 per dollar. While the decline is minimal, it reflects the ongoing economic challenges faced by Sudan, including political instability and international sanctions.

14. Liberia – Dollars
The Liberian Dollar saw a slight appreciation, moving from 185 to 183.63 per US dollar, a -0.74% change. Although the currency appreciated slightly, Liberia still faces challenges, such as inflation and reliance on foreign aid.

15. Tanzania – Shilling
The Tanzanian Shilling experienced a 1.18% appreciation, moving from 2,454 to 2,425 against the US dollar. Despite this modest improvement, Tanzania’s economy continues to struggle with inflation and a trade imbalance, which affects its currency.


https://businessday.ng/news/article/15-worst-african-currencies-declines-against-dollar-as-2024-closes/

The way Tinubu is pushing for Nigeria's economy growth,Nigeria is going to be the 8th economy in the world before 2031.
Kudos to Nigerians
This hardship is still biting sha

After creating 2 million GPT tokens, this UNILAG student has built an AI text-to-speech model with Nigerian accent

Azeez Saheed YarnGPT founder
In November 2024, when I asked Saheed Azeez how difficult it was to create Naijaweb — a dataset of 230 million GPT-2 tokens based on Nairaland — he brushed it off as something simple. "It's just web scraping," he said.

However, in my latest conversation with him, his new passion project seems to have pushed him further. He calls it YarnGPT, a text-to-speech AI model that can read text aloud in a Nigerian accent.

In a world where AI can generate lifelike voices in seconds, a text-to-speech model with a Nigerian accent might not seem groundbreaking at first. But when you consider two things, it becomes a big deal.

First, Azeez is a Nigerian university student with limited resources. Second, developing a model that accurately captures the nuances of a Nigerian accent is technically challenging.

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From tokenising audio to the many mathematical concepts Azeez referenced while explaining the process, it was clear that this wasn’t a simple task. Even Azeez, in his usual fashion, didn’t downplay the effort involved.

"It was quite tasking, especially gathering the data needed to make this happen."

How YarnGPT was created
Screenshot of YarnGPT
Inspired by the success of Naijaweb, Azeez was eager to build something new. "The amount of conversations and interest people had in Naijaweb was a great motivation. Imagine getting featured on Techpoint Africa; it motivated me to do this."

He was also motivated by failure. Before starting YarnGPT, he had applied for a job at a Nigerian AI company but didn’t perform as well in the interview as he had expected.

YarnGPT became the project that would help him improve his skills and increase his chances of securing such roles in the future.

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Building an AI model that sounds Nigerian required gathering a vast amount of Nigerian voices.

"I used some movies that were available online. I extracted their audio and subtitles."

Nollywood produces over 2,500 movies a year, and with many filmmakers uploading their work to YouTube, it seemed like Azeez had plenty of data to work with. But in reality, he had almost none.

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"The problem with building in Nigeria is data. Replicating what has been built overseas isn’t that hard, but data always gets in the way."

While there are thousands of movies for him to choose from the audio wasn't up to the standard he wanted, and their subtitles were inaccurate. To compensate, Azeez turned to Hugging Face, an open-source platform for machine learning and data science. He combined the audio from Nigerian movies with high-quality datasets from Hugging Face to train his model.

The next step was training the AI model, but without access to his own GPU, he had to rely on cloud computing services like Google Colab. This cost him $50 (₦80,000) — a significant amount for a university student. Unfortunately, it was a waste.

"The model I built wasn’t working well, and the $50 cloud credit was burnt just like that. It was painful for me."

Determined to find another way, he discovered Oute AI, a platform that had developed a text-to-speech model in an autoregressive manner.

"The way the model works is, you give it a piece of text, and it predicts one word at a time. It takes that word, adds it back to the text, then predicts the next one — kind of like how ChatGPT completes sentences. That’s what makes it autoregressive."

While I found the autoregressive framework difficult to understand, Azeez pointed out that it simply gave him better results.

Maths, tokenisation, and the hard part of YarnGPT
Oute AI provided a structure, but Azeez still had to build his own model. He took a language model called SmolLM2-360M from Hugging Face and added speech functionality to it, a process that involved major algorithmic changes.

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After this, the final-year Mechanical Engineering student at the University of Lagos had to spend another $50 to train the model. The training took three days.

Interestingly, like he pointed out when he created Naijaweb, AI models need data to be tokenised. Large language models (LLMs) understand numbers, not words, so tokenisation converts words into numerical representations.

"If we were to tokenise the word CALCULATED, for example, we could split it into four tokens: CAL-CU-LA-TED. A number is assigned to each token."

Meanwhile, tokenizing audio is different.

"Tokenizing audio is basically breaking down continuous sound waves into smaller, manageable pieces that a model can understand and process. Unlike text, which has clear breaks between words, audio is continuous—there are no natural pauses in a raw waveform.
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"So, the model needs to convert the sound into a sequence of discrete values, kind of like turning a long speech into tiny puzzle pieces. These smaller audio tokens can then be used to train the AI, and later, the model can reassemble them to generate speech that sounds natural."

This entire process was made possible by a wave tokenizer. Using resources from Hugging Face, Oute AI, and other Nigerian repositories, Azeez was able to create YarnGPT.

Publicising YarnGPT
Saheed Azeez: He built Naijaweb which is 230 million GPT2 tokens based on nairaland
Azeez might be a nerd, but he isn’t afraid to put himself in front of a camera to showcase his work. In a two-minute video, he explained YarnGPT and caught the attention of 138,000 people on X (formerly Twitter), including Timi Ajiboye, Co-founder of Hellicarrier (formerly BuyCoins).

Creating YarnGPT was difficult, but making the video was another hurdle.

"I called my friend and logistics manager, Aremu, and told him I wanted to make a video. We reached out to another friend who had a camera he wasn’t even using, and then we went to yet another friend’s house to record.

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"We rearranged the whole house and used their TV as the background. His mum wasn’t too pleased when she returned."

The results were worth it. The video got thousands of views across social media, and people began testing YarnGPT. The model could not only pronounce English in a Nigerian accent but could also read Nigerian languages—Hausa, Igbo, and Yoruba.

It has various applications. Content creators can use it for voice-overs in Nigerian accents, Google Maps could provide directions in Nigerian languages, and it could even enhance accessibility for non-English speakers.

Nigeria and the AI race
While innovators like Azeez and American-born Ijemma Onwuzulike (creator of Igbo Speech) are developing exciting AI models, Nigeria remains far behind in the AI race. The industry has evolved beyond a hobbyist’s playground into a battleground for global superpowers, with the U.S. government committing $500 billion to AI development.

Meanwhile, AI breakthroughs like DeepSeek have shaken up Wall Street, causing giants like Nvidia to lose billions in market value due to new competition.

Even Azeez acknowledges Nigeria’s position.

[sub]"Honestly, we’re way off. We’re not even in the race. The big AI models today — like OpenAI’s or the ones from China — are trained on massive datasets with huge computational resources, things we don’t have here."

But he remains optimistic.

"I think there’s a way forward. Instead of trying to build from scratch, we can focus on localising AI for our own needs. We can take what’s already been built and adapt it for Nigerian languages and accents. That’s how we can start catching up."

Nigeria’s Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Bosun Tijani, has been vocal about positioning the country as a key player in AI development. Perhaps, with talents like Azeez, there is hope.

https://techpoint.africa/2025/02/04/how-unilag-student-created-yarngpt-ai/

Mumu thread.

Chief of staff is somebody the president sees everytime and confides in.
If there is any altercation,the president will fire him straight not ignore him.

Ikinternational:
My issue is how are you this comfortable speaking for a place you don't know? Never Lived ..

When Igbos talk, they speak from experience. When you people talk, you speak from 600km away.

If PO polls less than 80% in Anambra, I'd be shocked. In terms of Favorable or Unfavorable Opinions

There's no need to lie to make a point. If you don't like him you don't like him. No be by force

Stop supporting a failure.

https://www.nairaland.com/870945/what-exactly-peter-obi-doing?s=08