GAZETTE EXCLUSIVE: Bank documents expose how Buhari regime funded Adamu Garba’s Crowwe to rival Facebook, Twitter

Peoples Gazette has uncovered how the Buhari administration provided seed capital for Adamu Garba’s Crowwe social media platform, hoping the firm would help the government dominate internal narratives while squaring an ardent challenge to Facebook and Twitter for the Nigerian audience.

The Gazette obtained bank documents that carried a transfer of funds from the Central Bank of Nigeria to Mr Garba’s IPI Solutions, a software engineering firm run by Mr Garba. The company developed and deployed the Crowwe social media app.

The CBN on May 21, 2019, transferred N136.8 million to Mr Garba’s IPI Solutions, documents said, marking one of several transfers that our sources said the Buhari regime advanced to Mr Garba in the course of building the Crowwe app.

Although a major beneficiary of the social media storm that weakened the Jonathan administration and amplified the opposition’s messages ahead of the 2015 presidential election, Mr Buhari has relentlessly railed against the negative influence of social media since coming to power. After realising the enormous control that social media has in shaping public opinion, even amongst citizens with little education or financial ability to be on the Internet, Mr Buhari started introducing different tactics to regulate online speech.

A few months after assuming office in 2015, members of his ruling APC pushed a so-called social media bill that civil liberties campaigners said was too offensive to be accepted in a democratic system. The bill was summarily defeated, but the government pushed at least two other similar bills, including one that proposed death penalty for online speech, that were defeated under the Bukola Saraki-led parliament.

But shortly after narrowly securing a second term, Mr Buhari agreed with his aides that it was necessary to control social media, according to sources familiar with the matter. Several ways to ensure that the government’s message dominated the public space with little to no pushback from citizens were suggested.

“It was while the government was trying to find ways to control the media space that Adamu Garba’s company was picked as one of the promising businesses that could proffer solutions,” an administration official said. “The seriousness of controlling social media cannot be overplayed.”

Mr Garba earned instant name recognition in 2018 after showing interest in running for president against Mr Buhari. He summarily abandoned his campaign and became a recognisable voice in support of the president. The regime provided hundreds of millions to Mr Garba’s firm in anticipation that its Crowwe platform would make a sufficient dent on the appeal of Facebook and Twitter, officials briefed on the matter said under our policy on anonymous sources.

But two years after funding began and several months after Crowwe was introduced to the public, the app has not appealed to Nigerians on the scale expected by both the regime and its developers. Only a few thousands users have signed up, and even then the app has been riddled with complaints around its functionality.

As part of efforts to give life to Crowwe, Mr Garba sought to push Twitter out of Nigeria, filing a lawsuit against the platform in the wake of last October’s historic #EndSARS campaign. More than any other social media rivals, Mr Garba saw Twitter’s presence in Nigeria as an existential threat to his own platform and assumed its exit would push Nigerians to his own platform by default.

But his expectation was again dashed this month when his platform failed to pick up despite the government’s ban on Twitter. Instead, Mr Garba found his Crowwe app removed from Google Play Store a week after the Twitter ban following a deluge of complaints from users. He said the app was taken down to upload, but failed to explain why it was only Crowwe that required being taken down before an update could be pushed to enhance user experience. The app was largely unusable that Mr Buhari, his administration officials and supporters had to move to Indian platform Koo following their exit from Twitter earlier this month.

The presidency did not return a request seeking comments from The Gazette about its dealings with Mr Garba. Mr Garba confirmed to The Gazette that he received funds from the government, but said it was one of several payments the government paid for a series of “intervention” projects his company executed for the government.

“We do projects and receive payments from the Central Bank,” Mr Garba said. “I think it is a project we did for the EFCC.” He was silent on whether or not the projects were through competitive bidding in line with extant public procurement regulations.

Crowwe was “100 per cent developed by us internally,’’ Mr Adamu added. “We are even looking for investors locally and internationally. We are looking for investors to further scale up and improve Crowwe capacity.”

Source: https://gazettengr.com/exclusive-bank-documents-expose-how-buhari-regime-funded-adamu-garbas-crowwe-to-rival-facebook-twitter/

We in the system knew that Adamu Garba used the Buhari hatred for Twitter to cashout and GBA their head ....Adamu Garba is a shart con artist who looted the FG funds and delivered a crappy app

A wicked government that seek to subdue and silence its people will itself be subdued and silenced by the people.
It's only a matter of time...

I'm not surprised

Exactly how many non-Nigerians around the world use this "Crow we" app?

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Interesting

FarahAideed:
We in the system knew that Adamu Garba used the Buhari hatred for Twitter to cashout and GBA their head ....Adamu Garba is a shart con artist who looted the FG funds and delivered a crappy app

Is the app really that crappy

COW NATION REPUBLIC!!

C r O W we.......even from the name of the app, they made it obvious what it entails!!....

Ofourse their brain dead zero conscience artificial intelligence team(ZOMBIES) , would see nothing wrong with the app initiation far as it has alot to do with COWS!!....HEAD SLAMMERS!!

The text in the OP is chopped up and the link is broken. Probably because of the word ban:

Peoples Gazette has uncovered how the Buhari administration provided seed capital for Adamu Garba’s Crowwe social media platform, hoping the firm would help the government dominate internal narratives while squaring an ardent challenge to Facebook and Twitter for the Nigerian audience.

The Gazette obtained bank documents that carried a transfer of funds from the Central Bank of Nigeria to Mr Garba’s IPI Solutions , a software engineering firm run by Mr Garba.

The company
developed and deployed the Crowwe social media app.

The CBN on May 21, 2019, transferred N136.8 million to Mr Garba’s IPI Solutions, documents said, marking one of several transfers that our sources said the Buhari regime advanced to Mr Garba in the course of building the Crowwe app.

Although a major beneficiary of the social media storm that weakened the Jonathan administration and amplified the opposition’s messages ahead of the 2015 presidential election, Mr Buhari has relentlessly railed against the negative influence of social media since coming to power. After realising the enormous control that social media has in shaping public opinion, even amongst citizens with little education or financial ability to be on the Internet, Mr Buhari started introducing different tactics to regulate online speech.

A few months after assuming office in 2015, members of his ruling APC pushed a so-called social media bill that civil liberties campaigners said was too offensive to be accepted in a democratic system. The bill was summarily defeated, but the government pushed at least two other similar bills, including one that proposed death penalty for online speech, that were defeated under the Bukola Saraki-led parliament.

But shortly after narrowly securing a second term, Mr Buhari agreed with his aides that it was necessary to control social media, according to sources familiar with the matter. Several ways to ensure that the government’s message dominated the public space with little to no pushback from citizens were suggested.

“It was while the government was trying to find ways to control the media space that Adamu Garba’s company was picked as one of the promising businesses that could proffer solutions,” an administration official said. “The seriousness of controlling social media cannot be overplayed.”

Mr Garba earned instant name recognition in 2018 after showing interest in running for president against Mr Buhari. He summarily abandoned his campaign and became a recognisable voice in support of the president. The regime provided hundreds of millions to Mr Garba’s firm in anticipation that its Crowwe platform would make a sufficient dent on the appeal of Facebook and Twitter, officials briefed on the matter said under our policy on anonymous sources .

But two years after funding began and several months after Crowwe was introduced to the public, the app has not appealed to Nigerians on the scale expected by both the regime and its developers. Only a few thousands users have signed up, and even then the app has been riddled with complaints around its functionality.

As part of efforts to give life to Crowwe, Mr Garba sought to push Twitter out of Nigeria, filing a lawsuit against the platform in the wake of last October’s historic #EndSARS campaign. More than any other social media rivals, Mr Garba saw Twitter’s presence in Nigeria as an existential threat to his own platform and assumed its exit would push Nigerians to his own platform by default.

But his expectation was again dashed this month when his platform failed to pick up despite the government’s ban on Twitter . Instead, Mr Garba found his Crowwe app removed from Google Play Store a week after the Twitter ban following a deluge of complaints from users. He said the app was taken down to upload, but failed to explain why it was only Crowwe that required being taken down before an update could be pushed to enhance user experience. The app was largely unusable that Mr Buhari, his administration officials and supporters had to move to Indian platform Koo following their exit from Twitter earlier this month.

The presidency did not return a request seeking comments from The Gazette about its dealings with Mr Garba. Mr Garba confirmed to The Gazette that he received funds from the government, but said it was one of several payments the government paid for a series of “intervention” projects his company executed for the government.

“We do projects and receive payments from the Central Bank,” Mr Garba said. “I think it is a project we did for the EFCC.” He was silent on whether or not the projects were through competitive bidding in line with extant public procurement regulations.

Crowwe was “100 per cent developed by us internally,’’ Mr Adamu added. “We are even looking for investors locally and internationally. We are looking for investors to further scale up and improve Crowwe capacity.”

(replace "12345" with the app's name)
https://gazettengr.com/exclusive-bank-documents-expose-how-buhari-regime-funded-adamu-garbas-12345-to-rival-facebook-twitter/

The name of the site sef na huge turnoff...like ""
What d fvck....they can't think of a better name and idea.....Tufia

While the North and SW are suffering and at same time regretting voting Buhari into power, de SE and SS are only suffering, they don't have anything to regret after all they were never part of the plot to bring in Mr Buhari...

This man has successfully killed his business, because anything buhari touches dies.

U gave adamu 136 million for his app and forgot to give adamu a benz and mansion. So adamu used to money to buy benz and build mansion. That's why his app is crap.

I love the Gazette for their incisive reporting

Who doesn't know the ediot have always been sponsored by the APC and the govt even during the last elections..

So the app is still banned, thought he said it was just an upgrade procedure and will be running soon?

PMB minions won't talk...

...and they still failed at it.

Buhari is worst than the devil

He's all out to fulanize Nigeria but he would continue to fail.

Imagine dolling out N136 million to build Fulani owned app in the midst of poverty..

Chei

KRSWon:
Exactly how many non-Nigerians around the world use this "Crow we" app?

Don't bother yourself, the Cr0wee or Cowree of an app has been permanently sent into obscurity so shall it remain .

Meanwhile, how many of you noticed that, the word Cr0wee has been sensorred on nairaland ?

Pls try and write it, it will not appear in your post, that's why I have to put zero instead of letter o.

These guys in the power seriously need to have their brains examined. Have anyone wondered why Facebook bought Instagram for such an outrageous sum when Facebook can easily built a like for like similar app? Its the users that Facebook needed. And they went about it the ethical way. The same goes for Facebook acquiring WhatsApp? Not the way these goons think. The same Media they used to criminalize the previous administration is the same Media they wish to destroy, little wonder no one pays attention to state owned media houses. How on earth do these clowns think they could topple Twitter, Facebook and Such like with arm twisting tactics. And these morons failed to understand that you cannot use scare tactics in a market dominated by demand and supply.


We are ruled by such backward people, it is no surprise we are so backward. Its like having a luxury bus been driven by a bunch of monkeys: net effect no motion.

That

Ok

Nigeria is sitting on a keg of gunpowder



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The lies of this government and the fraudulent transactions they did and continue to do must be exposed at all cost by well meaning Nigerians.

To rid Nigeria of corruption and lies is a task that must be done!

A failure cannot produce success no matter what you invest in a failure. Adamu garba is a failure, and cannot produce success.
I was shocked when the fulani cow said he was the first in Nigeria to develop a social media app. Infact I was shocked more than buhari when Adam garba made that statement.
Please someone should tell adamu garbage to Google the following apps on play store.
1. Kings chats by pastor Chris 4.5 ratings
2. Y00kos by pastor Chris 4.8 ratings
These two social apps were developed when adamu was still applying for jamb.

Awon werry fulani.

Buhari and his Jihadist team think they can lure Nigerians into their contraptions as concorted by Pantami??
Pantami, the Terrorists supporter who is heading Buhari Data collection apparatus wants to lure Nigerians into nonsense Fulani app so they can access our informations and track us down and kill.
It can not work.
Align yourself with Fulani Aboki or anything Fulani at your peril.
Let them ban FB and Whatsapp join, I won't go near Crowwee app for anything in the world.
Our mumu don do.

Gazette has been right about everything thus far

Liar mumundi will deny this as usual

But following the trend of they deny it, it's very true