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Yemike:
Ilorin was lost as a result of the attribute most synonymous with Yoruba - Betrayal.

Where's the sense in the comparison?🤷‍♂️

Betrayal that cost Banky his seat and place an ibo man there by woke Yoruba.

Igbo face your region
I have never seen anytime any Yoruba person or other tribe come get involve in your region politics Abi your SE na him good past for Niger

Yoruba think ooooo

nairanaira12:
Lolz. You think these politicians think tribalism or religion when ir comes to contracts and sharing money?


Those rubbish things only seem important to peeps like you. The politicians are united in looting without religion or tribal sentiments.

It is those of you down the ladder that are deceived with stupid sentiments.

The deception has truly eaten into you.

Nothing concern me with politician
Igbo face your region and stop mending into our politics. Simple

Topmaike007:
mind you Atiku Running mate is Igbo so it Is still win win for us Igbo man,if you guys result it to fight and military man should take over na still Igbo man from Agbor that's still win win for us Igbo...

If you guys are not ingrate all of you suppose to follow us because we followed Obasanjo with our full heart in 2003 even when our own son Ojukwu came out we didn't follow him, my father followed PDP with his full heart in Ile Ife in 2003..

You Yorubas are ingrate

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.pulse.ng/news/politics/2003-presidential-election-how-nigerians-voted/m7fn68j.amp

You're the ingrate here
Because according to the result release so far by inec have seen a lot of vote from different SW that voted LP because your candidate is out does not mean SW didn't vote him and that's where my issue is with you ibos because you sabi change history and cry victims. Na only ibo voted LP because that's what most of you have been saying why evidence speak different.

I will still say it we're not one and stop mending with our local politics.
Yoruba RONU.

26pushing30:
Just because Tinubu is from our tribe doesn't mean we should support him. I'd rather support someone that is competent and healthy than have someone that is the opposite.

Iwo lo need lati RONU!!!!

If truly you're Yoruba as you claim don't forget that's the same way Ilorin was lost till date.
Read history to be educated not forming woke.

RONU

ObamaMessi:
Peter Obi is your next President

I don't have issue with obi being my president
Don't interfere in our local politics simple.

saintrow1:
You said it all. After this election we need to start a solid clean up.

Solid clean up my brother that's how Ilorin was lost till date. Don't wait till it would be too late.

Draslo:
God bless you. I used to be liberal on tribal issues but this election has taught me a vital lesson. You're right...if we continue on this path an Igbo man will be governor and it will seal the no man's land claim to Lagos. We're on a path to destruction on our hope for when this country is eventually split.

Thanks God you can see their plan
Please speak to your other liberal friends to have a rethink before it's too late.
Am Yoruba first before religion or being a Nigerian

chigator2:
Oga go and kiss ass northerners ass and leave me alone. We don't play like that here that is why our religious composition has remained intact since 1960 can you make a claim about Yoruba land, defeated cowards I spit on you. Carry your slavish shitty ass and get out of my face.

My concern and heart goes out to the minorities in the North who have long suffered and been persecuted for their stance only to get insulted with a Muslim-Muslim ticket and a Muslim replacing a Muslim. I pray they don't cave in and for them make the right decisions in the coming years.

And your Atiku is a Christian

ObamaMessi:
You are playing a reversed psychology so as not to be attacked.

You are a foolish Northern Muslim trying to use divide and conquer method on Ibos and Yorubas. These people are wise and they are one now. No matter what you say, they can't succumb to your mind games again.
Ibos, Yoruba christians and somany Yoruba Muslims are aware of your foolish Fulani agenda so NO, we ain't buying your crap. Northern Christians are now together with the southerners so you can go suck gutter no one cares about you and your opinion. To hell with you and your delusion.

Your writeup can only work on the woke yorubas not me
Nothing like Yoruba christian or Yoruba Muslim that's Igbo word. We're one in Yoruba land, no family in Yoruba land that don't have both religion among them please go away with your divide mentality.

YORUBAS HOPE YOU'RE SEEING HOW THE IGBO WANT TO DIVIDE YOU, DON'T ALLOW IT NEVER. Your friendship with them can never help you only your tribe can you run to....think
YORUBA RONU OOOO

Psady:
Tell them my brother! Am so shocked that most so called educated Yorubas failed to have a rethink of their choice.They are easily brainwashed to believe Tinubu is their enemy.it will soon dawn on them to know how the world works.

They will learn by fire by force
I pray is not too late
Same mistake we did in Ilorin that's still hurting us to today, the woke yorubas are about to make another bad history.

westside365:
Who is a tribalist btw you and I? I am a pure Yoruba guy but I didn't support Tinubu rather Obi . I chose my presidential candidate based on what plans they have. Mumu get sense by fire by force

Stop hiding under I am Yoruba
That's you Igbo trademark oga
Nothing concern me with your choice of candidate I never tackle your choice of candidate but for ibo to lay claim to my land and say only ibo voted LP and they prefer ATIKU to win over another southern candidate is Wrong.

zanebaddo:
They can jump inside lagoon lol. Let's see if you'd remain the same if Atiku wins. I urge you start the call for disintegration of Nigeria. It is better don't you think so? Igbos are your nightmare which is fine but why don't you start to advocate for the break up of Nigeria just like the igbos have always done since it is obvious they don't like the yorubas and Hausas like you claim. Yorubas hate igbos so much therefore it is better you have your own country before you Strangle your self to death over bigotry. I want you to reply this quote. Tell me one reason why you don't want to have your own country where the most powerful yoruba like Tinubu will rule your entire generation

Nothing concern me with your Biafra, You can't force me to your submission okay, one thing about your tribe is you don't value/respect other tribe choice. Abi the oduduwa nation no be agitation, you want them to be killing there Kingsman like ipob before you know they want their own country.
Nothing concern me about atiku ruling, what am pointing out for you is your ways toward the Yoruba nation and you can't take it if played back to you.

Jcoleworld911:
This is purely “hate speech”😒

Hate speech you say🤡
Or basic fact.
YORUBA E RONU OOOO

chigator2:
I am just watching Yoruba and One Nigeria Igbos fighting over who will be the better slave, who gets to play with Northerners. It's a pity and it's shameful.

Igbos please leave this Yoruba people to this their degrading game. They know how to Kiss Ass like no man business. It has been ingrained in them from birth and encultured. Please let's leave Nigeria for this couple to continue their love making. I hope the result of the election will send Igbos the right message.

It will be great we all go out separate ways because one Nigeria has cause us more damage than good that's why you've the fullish audacity to lay claim to Lagos calling it no man's land and voting against our interest abeg go your Biafra we're not one and can never be one. The best system of government has been cancel by you Igbo yet cry every where like it's another person fault, you guys blame every tribe expect yourself. Rubbish

Nayturalistic:
May God Bless you for all this observation

I pray my woke Yoruba brother learn, have been there before.

wacoj:
TINUBU will NEVER be our president.

If Obi is rigged out, let Atiku take it so that Wike will see shege!

This is the problem I have with the Igbo people, their aim is to cancel the most powerful politician in Yoruba land and not the love for Yoruba kingdom cause they see his progress as a treat to their region going federal. I believe the woke yorubas can learn their history, same thing they did to awolowo using yorubas against him same thing they are using the woke yorubas against TINUBU again learn from your mistake, Yoruba learn nothing concern you with Igbo presidency let them fight their fight alone nothing like marginalization. Once it favor them they don't care about you. Think read history, you all claim to be educated but you don't know your history shame on you (woke yorubas) all. Am very angry with you all because you want history to repeat itself. The mess we are in now was cause by this same Igbo shouting marginalization when the cancel the first constitution and stage the first coup now that hausa has beat them to their game they're now shouting marginalization. Na Yoruba suppose dey shout marginalization because we're doing great under regional government.

Let me take you back to 1999 till date, tell me any project the Yoruba get from 1999 to 2015 under PDP, none. Because Igbo are the one that gain due to their alliance to PDP we loose out because we didn't invest much to demand much but I can tell you what we gain with the evil APC in 2015 till date. Lagos Ibadan express way, Lagos Ibadan railway, Lagos gbadagry express way, approval of Lekki sea port approval of Lekki airport, approval of gbadagry sea port, approval of Ibadan dry port and so on. We didn't get all this before 2015 now they are using you against someone that demand for this development to your region. Think Think Think.
Forget been Libra
You've been Libra but shortchange
Fight for your development so your children will have a better place to call home. If awolowo didn't try then you will not be proud to call yourself an educated Yoruba today, same ideology TINUBU used in giving everybody including outsiders free education and paying for your exam. Tell them the Igbo to face their region, I believe they have governor there too. Abi any of their state is better than any SW state. Tell them to face their governor and channel their bad energy to their governor. No Yoruba has ever rule them so why the hate for all Yoruba politician.
They will lie for you, if is osibanjo they would have voted.ask them who brought osibanjo who introduce their messiah abode, they're just fill with hate for TINUBU and the progressive yorubas. Know this and know peace.

The ibos are already saying they prefer atiku to win than TINUBU should win, they want 16years of Fulani that they call cow but don't want you (Yorubas) to be their president. The woke yorubas you never see anything sebi they're already saying it to your face that it's only Igbo that voted LP, una just start you never see anything, sebi Lagos is no man's land, ema gbon by fire by force, sebi Igbo man don win eti osa federal Abi very soon they will win the Lagos you so much cherish with their Igbo governor. Then it will be too late for you. I was once like you claiming woke until I see the handwriting and I have to retrace my steps. I pray is not too late for you all to see the bigger picture forget we're not one don't let anybody to deceive you. Hausa love hausa. Igbo love Igbo only Yoruba hate themselves.

YORUBA RONU UUUUU


The bashing can come in I care not
Have pass my message already if you're not certified jump inside lagoon or go back to your region.

westside365:
You get time ooo to write bullshit. Joblessness na disease na so we warn Una to Vote for Obi Una no hear, U go vote for Tinubu .

Wetin concern me concern your obi
You can't vote TINUBU due to old age but you want atiku another Fulani. Shame on you

LesbianBoy:
If this election goes to a run off and Peter obi is not there then it's atiku we are going for

Anybody but tinubu! I don't want a situation where that thief called tinubu wins and mc oluomo would be minister for education

This is the problem I have with the Igbo people, their aim is to cancel the most powerful politician in Yoruba land and not the love for Yoruba kingdom cause they see his progress as a treat to their region going federal. I believe the woke yorubas can learn their history, same thing they did to awolowo using yorubas against him same thing they are using the woke yorubas against TINUBU again learn from your mistake, Yoruba learn nothing concern you with Igbo presidency let them fight their fight alone nothing like marginalization. Once it favor them they don't care about you. Think read history, you all claim to be educated but you don't know your history shame on you (woke yorubas) all. Am very angry with you all because you want history to repeat itself. The mess we are in now was cause by this same Igbo shouting marginalization when the cancel the first constitution and stage the first coup now that hausa has beat them to their game they're now shouting marginalization. Na Yoruba suppose dey shout marginalization because we're doing great under regional government.

Let me take you back to 1999 till date, tell me any project the Yoruba get from 1999 to 2015 under PDP, none. Because Igbo are the one that gain due to their alliance to PDP we loose out because we didn't invest much to demand much but I can tell you what we gain with the evil APC in 2015 till date. Lagos Ibadan express way, Lagos Ibadan railway, Lagos gbadagry express way, approval of Lekki sea port approval of Lekki airport, approval of gbadagry sea port, approval of Ibadan dry port and so on. We didn't get all this before 2015 now they are using you against someone that demand for this development to your region. Think Think Think.
Forget been Libra
You've been Libra but shortchange
Fight for your development so your children will have a better place to call home. If awolowo didn't try then you will not be proud to call yourself an educated Yoruba today, same ideology TINUBU used in giving everybody including outsiders free education and paying for your exam. Tell them the Igbo to face their region, I believe they have governor there too. Abi any of their state is better than any SW state. Tell them to face their governor and channel their bad energy to their governor. No Yoruba has ever rule them so why the hate for all Yoruba politician.
They will lie for you, if is osibanjo they would have voted.ask them who brought osibanjo who introduce their messiah abode, they're just fill with hate for TINUBU and the progressive yorubas. Know this and know peace.

The ibos are already saying they prefer atiku to win than TINUBU should win, they want 16years of Fulani that they call cow but don't want you (Yorubas) to be their president. The woke yorubas you never see anything sebi they're already saying it to your face that it's only Igbo that voted LP, una just start you never see anything, sebi Lagos is no man's land, ema gbon by fire by force, sebi Igbo man don win eti osa federal Abi very soon they will win the Lagos you so much cherish with their Igbo governor. Then it will be too late for you. I was once like you claiming woke until I see the handwriting and I have to retrace my steps. I pray is not too late for you all to see the bigger picture forget we're not one don't let anybody to deceive you. Hausa love hausa. Igbo love Igbo only Yoruba hate themselves.

YORUBA RONU UUUUU


The bashing can come in I care not
Have pass my message already if you're not certified jump inside lagoon or go back to your region.

Azyne:
March 11th people are coming out en masse to vote out APC from the governors seat in protest

This country is Dead for real, its disheartening

This is the problem I have with the Igbo people, their aim is to cancel the most powerful politician in Yoruba land and not the love for Yoruba kingdom cause they see his progress as a treat to their region going federal. I believe the woke yorubas can learn their history, same thing they did to awolowo using yorubas against him same thing they are using the woke yorubas against TINUBU again learn from your mistake, Yoruba learn nothing concern you with Igbo presidency let them fight their fight alone nothing like marginalization. Once it favor them they don't care about you. Think read history, you all claim to be educated but you don't know your history shame on you (woke yorubas) all. Am very angry with you all because you want history to repeat itself. The mess we are in now was cause by this same Igbo shouting marginalization when the cancel the first constitution and stage the first coup now that hausa has beat them to their game they're now shouting marginalization. Na Yoruba suppose dey shout marginalization because we're doing great under regional government.

Let me take you back to 1999 till date, tell me any project the Yoruba get from 1999 to 2015 under PDP, none. Because Igbo are the one that gain due to their alliance to PDP we loose out because we didn't invest much to demand much but I can tell you what we gain with the evil APC in 2015 till date. Lagos Ibadan express way, Lagos Ibadan railway, Lagos gbadagry express way, approval of Lekki sea port approval of Lekki airport, approval of gbadagry sea port, approval of Ibadan dry port and so on. We didn't get all this before 2015 now they are using you against someone that demand for this development to your region. Think Think Think.
Forget been Libra
You've been Libra but shortchange
Fight for your development so your children will have a better place to call home. If awolowo didn't try then you will not be proud to call yourself an educated Yoruba today, same ideology TINUBU used in giving everybody including outsiders free education and paying for your exam. Tell them the Igbo to face their region, I believe they have governor there too. Abi any of their state is better than any SW state. Tell them to face their governor and channel their bad energy to their governor. No Yoruba has ever rule them so why the hate for all Yoruba politician.
They will lie for you, if is osibanjo they would have voted.ask them who brought osibanjo who introduce their messiah abode, they're just fill with hate for TINUBU and the progressive yorubas. Know this and know peace.

The ibos are already saying they prefer atiku to win than TINUBU should win, they want 16years of Fulani that they call cow but don't want you (Yorubas) to be their president. The woke yorubas you never see anything sebi they're already saying it to your face that it's only Igbo that voted LP, una just start you never see anything, sebi Lagos is no man's land, ema gbon by fire by force, sebi Igbo man don win eti osa federal Abi very soon they will win the Lagos you so much cherish with their Igbo governor. Then it will be too late for you. I was once like you claiming woke until I see the handwriting and I have to retrace my steps. I pray is not too late for you all to see the bigger picture forget we're not one don't let anybody to deceive you. Hausa love hausa. Igbo love Igbo only Yoruba hate themselves.

YORUBA RONU UUUUU


The bashing can come in I care not
Have pass my message already if you're not certified jump inside lagoon or go back to your region.

This is the problem I have with the Igbo people, their aim is to cancel the most powerful politician in Yoruba land and not the love for Yoruba kingdom cause they see his progress as a treat to their region going federal. I believe the woke yorubas can learn their history, same thing they did to awolowo using yorubas against him same thing they are using the woke yorubas against TINUBU again learn from your mistake, Yoruba learn nothing concern you with Igbo presidency let them fight their fight alone nothing like marginalization. Once it favor them they don't care about you. Think read history, you all claim to be educated but you don't know your history shame on you (woke yorubas) all. Am very angry with you all because you want history to repeat itself. The mess we are in now was cause by this same Igbo shouting marginalization when the cancel the first constitution and stage the first coup now that hausa has beat them to their game they're now shouting marginalization. Na Yoruba suppose dey shout marginalization because we're doing great under regional government.

Let me take you back to 1999 till date, tell me any project the Yoruba get from 1999 to 2015 under PDP, none. Because Igbo are the one that gain due to their alliance to PDP we loose out because we didn't invest much to demand much but I can tell you what we gain with the evil APC in 2015 till date. Lagos Ibadan express way, Lagos Ibadan railway, Lagos gbadagry express way, approval of Lekki sea port approval of Lekki airport, approval of gbadagry sea port, approval of Ibadan dry port and so on. We didn't get all this before 2015 now they are using you against someone that demand for this development to your region. Think Think Think.
Forget been Libra
You've been Libra but shortchange
Fight for your development so your children will have a better place to call home. If awolowo didn't try then you will not be proud to call yourself an educated Yoruba today, same ideology TINUBU used in giving everybody including outsiders free education and paying for your exam. Tell them the Igbo to face their region, I believe they have governor there too. Abi any of their state is better than any SW state. Tell them to face their governor and channel their bad energy to their governor. No Yoruba has ever rule them so why the hate for all Yoruba politician.
They will lie for you, if is osibanjo they would have voted.ask them who brought osibanjo who introduce their messiah abode, they're just fill with hate for TINUBU and the progressive yorubas. Know this and know peace.

The ibos are already saying they prefer atiku to win than TINUBU should win, they want 16years of Fulani that they call cow but don't want you (Yorubas) to be their president. The woke yorubas you never see anything sebi they're already saying it to your face that it's only Igbo that voted LP, una just start you never see anything, sebi Lagos is no man's land, ema gbon by fire by force, sebi Igbo man don win eti osa federal Abi very soon they will win the Lagos you so much cherish with their Igbo governor. Then it will be too late for you. I was once like you claiming woke until I see the handwriting and I have to retrace my steps. I pray is not too late for you all to see the bigger picture forget we're not one don't let anybody to deceive you. Hausa love hausa. Igbo love Igbo only Yoruba hate themselves.

YORUBA RONU UUUUU


The bashing can come in I care not
Have pass my message already if you're not certified jump inside lagoon or go back to your region.

sean079:
Banky wey dem dey claim woke don loose to unknown Thaddeus. His wife was shouting tribalism on twitter but all these yoruba woke kids never see anything. No ibo man will allow half of what they are dishing out to other tribes

Thank God you're a free thinker
Banky will get sense by force
They should all be thinking woke jare
Awon🤡

MikeofAfrica:
Our objective is to retire Tinubu from politics. While Atiku will win the election, Peter Obi will retire Tinubu by taking lagos from him.

This is the problem I have with the Igbo people, their aim is to cancel the most powerful politician in Yoruba land and not the love for Yoruba kingdom cause they see his progress as a treat to their region going federal. I believe the woke yorubas can learn their history, same thing they did to awolowo using yorubas against him same thing they are using the woke yorubas against TINUBU again, learn from your mistake. Yoruba learn, nothing concern you with Igbo presidency let them fight their fight alone nothing like marginalization. Once it favor them they don't care about you. Think, read history, you all claim to be educated but you don't know your history shame on you (woke yorubas) all. Am very angry with you all because you want history to repeat itself. The mess we are in now was cause by this same Igbo shouting marginalization when they cancel the first constitution and stage the first coup, now that hausa has beat them to their game they're now shouting marginalization. Na Yoruba suppose dey shout marginalization because we're doing great under regional government.

Let me take you back to 1999 till date, tell me any project the Yoruba get from 1999 to 2015 under PDP, none. Because Igbo are the one that gain due to their alliance to PDP we loose out because we didn't invest much to demand much but I can tell you what we gain with the evil APC in 2015 till date. Lagos Ibadan express way, Lagos Ibadan railway, Lagos badagry express way, approval of Lekki sea port approval of Lekki airport, approval of badagry sea port, approval of Ibadan dry port and so on. We didn't get all this before 2015 now they are using you against someone that demand for this development to your region. Think Think Think.
Forget been Libra
You've been Libra but shortchange
Fight for your development so your children will have a better place to call home. If awolowo didn't try then you will not be proud to call yourself an educated Yoruba today, same ideology TINUBU used in giving everybody including outsiders free education and paying for your exam. Tell them the Igbo to face their region, I believe they have governor there too. Abi any of their state is better than any SW state. Tell them to face their governor and channel their bad energy to their governor. No Yoruba has ever rule them so why the hate for all Yoruba politician.
They will lie for you, if is osibanjo they would have voted.ask them who brought osibanjo who introduce their messiah abode, they're just fill with hate for TINUBU and the progressive yorubas. Know this and know peace.

The ibos are already saying they prefer atiku to win than TINUBU should win, they want 16years of Fulani that they call cow but don't want you (Yorubas) to be their president. The woke yorubas you never see anything sebi they're already saying it to your face that it's only Igbo that voted LP, una just start you never see anything, sebi Lagos is no man's land, ema gbon by fire by force, sebi Igbo man don win eti osa federal Abi very soon they will win the Lagos you so much cherish with their Igbo governor. Then it will be too late for you. I was once like you claiming woke until I see the handwriting and I have to retrace my steps. I pray is not too late for you all to see the bigger picture forget we're not one don't let anybody to deceive you. Hausa love hausa. Igbo love Igbo only Yoruba hate themselves.

YORUBA RONU UUUUU


The bashing can come in I care not
Have pass my message already if you're not certified jump inside lagoon or go back to your region.

Well said but I don't trust our legislators, most of them would soon decamp to the winning party. That as always been our problem

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Lagos State House of Assembly has commenced a probe of the 2019 Auditor-General’s Statutory Report on the accounts of Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs).

NAN reports that Public Accounts Committee Chairman, Nurudeen Saka-Solaja, made this known on Tuesday.

He explained that the inquiry was not to witch-hunt but to invite all heads of indicted MDAs.

Saka-Solaja said the committee will seek clarifications as regards the outstanding queries raised in the Auditor-General’s report.

The committee is empowered to direct officials to produce documents or examine such persons as witnesses.

The lawmaker added that monies budgeted for the MDAs would be properly scrutinized to ensure it was judiciously spent.

https://dailypost.ng/2020/09/22/lagos-assembly-begins-probe-of-ministries-agencies/

The business of grooming and matching tech talent in Africa began with Andela in 2014. Having undergone a series of changes in its business model before arriving at what it is now, Andela claims to have successfully trained over 1,000 software engineers through programmes like the Andela Learning Community.

The idea, which the African tech community quickly embraced, has seen exceptional minds released into the African tech ecosystem. Oyelade Oladayo, who joined in 2014, is one of such talents; and he went ahead to build a similar platform years later.

Having worked directly with the founders of Andela, led at least two teams, and participated actively on many projects including Google’s, he left after 18 months. For the next couple of years, he worked at other local and international companies as a full-fledged senior developer.

Towards his exit from Atlas, a fintech company, he was in charge of recruiting African developers and managing developers in Nepal, India, France, Germany, and the US.

By June 2019, he pulled together his wealth of experience in software engineering, teaching, and mentorship to build Enyata. His goal was clear — to build a community of devs — but he planned to approach it distinctly.

“We’re more of Engineering as a Service than a software engineer training institute. We plan to train and recruit a team of world-class engineers.”

Before Enyata, Oyelade had mentored young people interested in software engineering at no cost. Alongside his passion for imparting knowledge, he wants everyone to have the opportunity to learn from scratch without any experience.

An Academy with a flexible model
At some point, Oyelade was mentoring up to 25 talents in product development and software engineering. This basically spurred him to address a need. Hence, Enyata.

“On the African scene, I saw a lot of opportunities with startups and enterprises looking to hire engineers to build products for them. From my experience, I knew that wasn’t really the answer because there were a number of them working on more than one project. I knew having an engineering team working on a product would deliver better results.”

After discovering this gap and the constant need to encourage and motivate the team, Oyelade was ready to provide firms with this required team.

Inspired by how football academies had produced the best the sector had seen, Oyelade decided to adopt this concept — train them while they know nothing about software engineering, and develop them to work in teams. However, they need to have some soft skills to speed up their learning process.

“We call it the Academy. Coming to the market, there were three things we intended to achieve: quality of service, character, and speed of execution.”

While finding these three qualities in raw talents might be difficult, the Academy looks out for at least one during the recruitment process. Eventually, the accepted candidates get to make up for whatever they lack during their time in the Academy.

It takes candidates four months from the moment they are selected for remote training to become junior engineers at the startup. The process is simple: applicants are selected for a boot camp after registering on the website.

“The idea of the Academy is that we train you for four months remotely, you will be paid a stipend during this period. After this, you will join the company as a junior developer. You will be groomed in computer programming for six weeks, after which you will be placed on a team following a scrum framework.”

However, people are free to choose whether to become a part of the team after completing the process. It is worthy of note though that the trainees are not required to sign a bond before the program.

The Academy has churned out 21 junior devs from the last three batches.

Because the Academy model is one that’s strategically designed to populate the startup with hand-picked and well-groomed devs, a large percentage of them decide to work with the company. Interestingly, this confidence is based on the startup’s culture of trust.

“It’s part of our recruitment strategy in the sense that if we scale, we will continue with the model and maintain the synergy. I believe that is what makes the system work. Whatever change happens in the future will be an improvement on the current model. By the way, we are under no pressure to train more than we can handle.”

After operating for one year and four months, it has grown to a team of 60 people, with more to join soon.

The idea behind this strategy is to reduce cost while achieving a balance of both junior and senior developers. Assuming the team has to hire software engineers, barring the cost, they might not be able to meet the company’s demand.

Asides this, Oyelade mentioned that it’s easier to achieve an inclusive mix of engineers. At the moment, he claims that 46% of the team are women; something he is looking to balance soon.

“One of the lessons I learnt from Andela is to create a path for women. The next set of Academy intakes will all be women. I have noticed they even do better than men most times.”

While Enyata’s processes might be similar to Andela’s, Oyelade does not hesitate to reiterate the difference.

“We do not match trained engineers with other companies. After agreeing to work with the team, they’re assigned to a project from our partners.”

A sustainable revenue model and plans
Enyata generates revenue by partnering with local and international companies like Ecobank, NIBSS, and Empire, among others, either to take up the engineering role in their company or take on projects for some time.

Asides this, the Enyata team also has plans to build products that will become an offshoot of the company. The founder expects the first set to be completed by Q1 2021.


Enyata team
Apparently, the African dream isn’t limited to Nigeria. Oyelade submitted that the startup envisages expansion into other African countries. For now, Ghana seems to be the first stop, with Namibia and Dakar also on the list.

Oyelade takes pride in a stable team, which has been key to surviving during the pandemic even though they just opened a physical office. Because of the structure of each scrum team, collaboration and communication were done easily.

Oyelade added that there are no intentions to source for external funding, although there’s no ruling out such as it looks to scale in the future.

So far, the business has survived on bootstrapped capital and revenue. That explains why it is deliberate about the number of intakes it accepts for each Academy session. For one, expenses are controlled while it gets just enough talents to join the team.

With the startup currently serving up to 20 partners, and with more to come, it is interesting to note that some of them came through the good relationship that was built during his time at Andela.

An updated PwC CEO insight for 2020 revealed an increased paucity of talent, a condition which is considered high risk for companies between the last quarter of 2019 and now. Oyelade believes that with Enyata’s current model, it is prepared for what’s to come.

Ultimately, Enyata looks to become the preferred community for exceptional engineers in Africa in a very near future.

https://techpoint.africa/2020/09/21/enyata-software-engineers-institute/