On February 13, 2026, the assistant director of information and public relations at the Ministry of Finance, Uloma Amadi, announced through a statement that President Bola Tinubu had signed an executive order suspending the collection of management and frontier exploration fees by the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC). This new order requires that taxes, royalties, and profits of oil under Production Sharing Contracts will, from henceforth, be remitted to the appropriate federal fiscal authorities.
Hmmmmmm Adulthood…... can you just imagine that long sigh? Well, nobody told me to prepare for this kind of adulthood. When we were much younger, I’m so certain majority of us anticipated being an adult just because of the freedom that comes with being a full-grown adult. But, this adulthood is not adulting, many of us are seeing SHEGE. I’m sure I’m not the only one who feels this way especially with the current state of our dear country, Nigeria. This phase of our life is where we are faced with various life challenges. One of the biggest challenges is definitely financial responsibility. Managing money, paying bills and saving for the future is super stressful. Many of us certainly weren’t told we would have to go through various heartbreaks in relationships, being with the wrong partner will also make you feel as if life is really unfair to you as an adult.
How do you define Growth ? To me, growth simply means increase. Growth can be physical, spiritual, mental, emotional, social, economical, etc. Growth is very important, we can all see the physical growth in us. We grew from new born babies to adult. During these physical changes, we encountered some other form of growth: spiritual growth, emotional growth, mental growth that shape us to what we see ourselves as today. However these growths did not just occur automatically, unlike the physical growth. We went to school, read books to enhance our way of thinking and learning which brings about mental growth, we attended churches and mosques, read Bibles and Quran to improve us spiritually.
Every young, enthusiastic Nigerian has that one friend who just relocated or is currently processing their documents to move out. The search for greener pastures beyond Nigeria's borders has become more an act of survival than a choice. A survey conducted by Afrobarometer found that 56% of Nigerians have once considered emigrating, a figure that has tripled since 2017. Recently, migration policy has tightened, and most advocates are encouraging the youths to stay back and build since most developed countries have become less welcoming.
OrbStack's built-in Kubernetes only supports single-node clusters. If you need multiple nodes to test scheduling or distributed systems, you'd normally switch to k3d or kind and lose OrbStack's automatic domains and TLS. After some experimenting, I found a way to use k3d for multi-node clusters while keeping OrbStack's domain features.
Without my accountability partner, I would have failed my first role as a Product Manager.
Life is a collection of moments, some as steady as a Lagos morning and others as unpredictable as the harmattan season. It’s a mix of the hustle we put in every day and the small joys we find in between like a good meal, a laugh with friends, or finally beating the traffic.
I remember some years back in Nigeria, it was completely normal not to have a borehole at home. Most families bought water from vendors who pushed carts through the streets, or from neighbors who sold water by the bucket. It was part of daily life. You woke up early, fetched water, stored it, and managed it carefully. Having a borehole in your own compound was rare and often seen as something expensive.
Imagine you’re sitting at a restaurant with your friends. The sun is hitting the table at a specific angle, the smell of jollof rice is thick in the air, and someone just dropped a joke.
Imagine being married to a smooth-talking, high-flying lawyer for years, only for him to waltz back from a "business trip" with a brand new wife. Then, when you ask for basic maintenance money for your three kids, he tries to "delete" you from his life using a legal loophole.
Understanding yourself isn’t just about knowing your favorite food or what music you like; it’s about peeling back the layers of your "social onion" to see what actually makes you tick. In a world that’s constantly trying to tell you who to be, knowing your true personality is like having a compass in the middle of a storm, it keeps you headed in the right direction even when everything around you is chaotic.
Over the course of my career, I’ve been privileged to work mostly in remote roles (one being hybrid, but essentially remote since I didn’t go into the office). While some teams struggled with work culture and coordination, others had clearly hacked their workflow and made remote work feel seamless.
There is a terrorism problem in Nigeria, period. And it doesn’t discriminate.
Most apps don't launch on pristine infrastructure. If you're like me, you've probably shipped code to a setup that's one power outage or bad config away from chaos. I remember my first real deployment in Lagos back in 2018. We were building a payment gateway for small businesses, bootstrapped with a team of three. Our infra? A single DigitalOcean droplet costing $20 a month, shared with our staging environment. No Kubernetes, no auto-scaling groups - just SSH, rsync, and a prayer that NEPA wouldn't cut the lights mid-deploy. That app processed millions in transactions before we ever touched AWS properly. The point is, imperfect infra is the norm, especially when you're starting out or running lean. Perfect setups are for companies with deep pockets, not the scrappy teams driving Nigeria's tech scene.
Before & after laundry transformation. Wrinkled clothes restored to fresh, crisp, clean perfection.
Before diving in, a quick disclaimer : my basic needs are met, and on a good day, having a job makes finding the next one easier. The market is unstable, and I am fully aware of that.