Abubakar
@IAtalkspace
Analyzing tech and media businesses. MBA @Cornell. Ex: Tech Journalist @TheInformation; Knight-Bagehot Fellow @Columbia; Advisory Board Member @InsideTheCabal.
Policy trade-off😏. We investigated Buhari's ABP & found: ~ Some farmers felt it was FG bonanza, married multiple wives & went on pilgrimage ~ In Jega, hub of rice farming, politicians hijacked it & some real farmers didn't benefit ~ Bad loans, product diversion, racketeering
The FG wanted to crash the price of rice. Instead of subsidizing fertilizers, gasoline, and provide modern farm equipment for our farmers, they decided to offer import waivers, building other country’s economy while our local farmers run at a loss. 1/
Unfortunately/fortunately, if a word is used with regularity - by a certain number of people - for a certain length of time - to mean a certain and specific thing it becomes a word, whether we like it or not.
Today, the tenth edition of Big Brother Naija kicks off. In reality TV in Nigeria, there is nothing bigger than this show. We have seen its rise, dominance and fall.
Scoop: Elad Gil is raising a $1.5 billion fund, which if closed would be one of the largest hauls for a solo GP. More in Dealmaker today! theinformation.com/articles/elad-…
The AI action plan has been released.
Tomorrow is the unveiling of the AI Action Plan.
OpenAI agreed to pay Oracle $30B a year for data center services | TechCrunch techcrunch.com/2025/07/22/ope…
Nigeria’s economy 30% bigger after GDP recalculation. First statistical rejig in more than a decade makes debt ratios appear healthier. ft.com/content/38b06d…
prescient. headline: went to a private university. fine print: parents gave up everything, including the ability to afford private tertiary education for his siblings. could only afford 2-meals fees. he lived off completing schoolmates' coding projects and selling sachet water.
*cries in the realization that any narrative that smells like a grass to grace story of me will be instantly marred by the fact that i went to babcock university
Astronomer CEO resigns from his role after he was caught embracing an employee in viral Coldplay concert video. cnn.it/44Fxbka
Ibadan, kini so? 🇺🇸🇳🇬 U.S. Consulate Public Affairs Officer Julie McKay ticked Amala Skye off her bucket list of things to do in Ibadan. Where should she visit next time she’s in the city? Drop your suggestions in the comment section! #USinNigeria #FoodDiplomacy
Gunmen killed at least six people and abducted more than 100 others, including women and children, in an attack on Kairu community in Nigeria's northwest Zamfara state, a local lawmaker and residents said on Friday. reuters.com/world/africa/b…
You don't have to be good at everything, you just need to double down on what you're naturally suited for.
When the team you underrated scores their 5th goal 👋🏾 NIGERIA: 5 - ZAMBIA: 0
I am so proud of my brave, brilliant colleagues @khadeeja_safdar and @joe_palazzolo, proud to live in a country where the founders put freedom of speech in the very first amendment, and proud to work at The Wall Street Journal. wsj.com/politics/trump… via @WSJ
Interesting: "Apollo is in talks with Atlético Madrid about taking a stake in Spain’s third-biggest football club in a move that would mark a rare foray into sport for the Wall Street investment giant." ft.com/content/4cfbd2…
Death shouldn’t automatically convey sainthood on anyone. If you did some wicked shit people should be allowed to say ‘that dead guy did some wicked shit’
The total addressable market for cars priced above 50l ($58.2k) in India is around 50,000 units, or about 1% of the total market - Morgan Stanley
From @Jessicalessin's interview with Mark Zuckerberg for The Information's TITV earlier today:
Among big tech companies, Meta has one of the highest growth ceilings. It's an advertising & consumer tech firm that benefitted from UGC with limited rev-share with creators. Now it is sitting on powerful AI tech it can sell to enterprise, there's also VR, payments & now search.
Meta is working on a search engine that crawls and indexes the web so its Meta AI assistant can deliver information about current events and news, in a bid to lessen its reliance on Google and Bing for that information. theinformation.com/articles/meta-…
Nigeria faces severe U.S. visa restrictions and 24% new tariffs (14% reciprocal + 10% for BRICS alignment) from the U.S. Worth noting that Nigeria has not had an ambassador to the U.S. since Oct 2023, and has not had a consistently engaging ambassador in D.C. for a decade. 1/