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Re: Goodbye Medium: Re – Porting Back to Base

Chukwuemeka Fred Agbata Jnr. — Fri, 16 Feb 2018 14:48:32 -0000

We dey follow you

Re: Goodbye Medium: Re – Porting Back to Base

AfroladyX — Wed, 14 Feb 2018 15:16:59 -0000

Lol. Okay o

Re: Mark Zuckerberg’s Visit. Between Lagos and Abuja.

ozo — Fri, 09 Sep 2016 09:25:43 -0000

"No be because person wan chop meat e go begin dey call cow broda." LMAO

Re: Mark Zuckerberg’s Visit. Between Lagos and Abuja.

Havilah — Sat, 03 Sep 2016 10:23:26 -0000

Thanks bro! This sums up my difference to a certain question one of them asked. I know most of the people defending are doing so because I named name and it's their person. This space is supposed to be neutral and apolitical.

Re: Why Andela’s Nigeria Story is Important

Oo Nwoye - @OoTheNigerian — Mon, 20 Jun 2016 02:07:57 -0000

Good one E.

Like I wrote, it was never about whose idea or where the legal HQ is. You highlighted two things which are very critical

"Andela started in Lagos, Nigeria, in Mrs Titi Adeoye’s (shout-out to her!) vacant duplex"

and

"Two years ago, who could have thought a crazy twenty-something-year-old Nigerian from a humble middle class family could co-found a global company from Nigeria funded by THE Mark Zuckerberg?"

Going forward, I hope Andela never forgets where they come from. Cos we won’t 😄

All the best man!

Re: Why Andela’s Nigeria Story is Important

Iyinoluwa Aboyeji — Mon, 20 Jun 2016 01:05:00 -0000

This is E, Andela's co-founder.

First of all, I'd like to make it clear that I really appreciate the thought behind this article. Oo is somebody I respect and a true voice for our ecosystem. I owe him a lot. We all do. However, I'd like to add some more context to all of this and perhaps reminisce a little...

Since it would be impossible to do justice to the founding story of Andela in a comment, I decided to elaborate in a Medium post : https://medium.com/@iaboyej... "

Re: Why Andela’s Nigeria Story is Important

Nzube — Sun, 19 Jun 2016 06:55:14 -0000

There is a reason to feel hard done by but I think we are pointing our guns in the wrong direction. If you read the comments section of the news article in WSJ (http://www.wsj.com/articles... you will find a different POV.

My take is that, we in Africa need to find a way to train our millionaires and billionaires, that there can be value, as well as societal good, derived from investing in our start-ups. Our governments need to do more. We cannot and should not depend on foreign capital.

On a side note, the geo-politics of starting up is certainly worth a more in-depth article. Andela, for example is not a 'Nigerian' head quartered start-up. It isn't even a 'US' registered startup either. You may find it perplexing, but Iyinoluwa, his colleagues and their registered company are actually Canadian! Maybe as part of the deal, a US registered entity is in the works? Or perhaps Panamanian? Who knows!

Re: Why Andela’s Nigeria Story is Important

William Obanla — Fri, 17 Jun 2016 21:45:00 -0000

Love to be a partner with you

Re: Why Andela’s Nigeria Story is Important

Lotanna Ezeogu — Fri, 17 Jun 2016 09:08:13 -0000

haba "E"?...everyone gets a full name but E...worris dat?

Re: Why Andela’s Nigeria Story is Important

Ndianabasi — Fri, 17 Jun 2016 08:33:50 -0000

I've been following this topic since the news broke and have been expecting Iyin to comment about this. But I think that is asking for too much. Why should he comment about a non-issue? That Andela was not credited as a Nigerian startup? After he has raised $24M? Do you think we really cares? Has Iyin ever present Andela as a Nigerian startup? Visit Andela.com, the contact number is a US phone number. The NY office is their corporate office. Iyin, personally, has referred to the Lagos and Nairobi operations as campuses? So did the foreign media present the story in a wrong way? No! Foreign media only rewrote the script Andela and Jeremy has been busy crafting for the past two years?

I think some Nigerians just got themselves unnecessarily worked up about this non-issue. We should take solace in the fact that this isn't the first time a Nigerian startup has raised big money. Jumia and Konga have done this long time ago. Visit their Crunchbase pages for comfirmation.

Re: Why Andela’s Nigeria Story is Important

Oo Nwoye - @OoTheNigerian — Fri, 17 Jun 2016 04:21:01 -0000

I remain, Oo :)

Re: Why Andela’s Nigeria Story is Important

Godswill Okwara — Fri, 17 Jun 2016 04:12:00 -0000

Boss, awesome article here. Please keep being Oo, speaking up when necessary.

Re: Why Andela’s Nigeria Story is Important

Rich — Fri, 17 Jun 2016 04:09:42 -0000

But even local media ain't helping matters, see TheCable re: 'Nigerian' startup

Re: Why Andela’s Nigeria Story is Important

Frank — Thu, 16 Jun 2016 23:47:00 -0000

I am curious. Is there any indication of how many shares Iyin has in Andela? Has his share worth tripled with the new valuation?

Re: Why Andela’s Nigeria Story is Important

Jude — Thu, 16 Jun 2016 22:56:19 -0000

How much of Andela's equity is held by Nigerians though? How many Nigerians are on the board? Where is it incorporated? How many shareholders are Nigerian? Money talks. Sentiment, not so much.

Re: Why Andela’s Nigeria Story is Important

Sugabelly — Thu, 16 Jun 2016 21:02:45 -0000

Glad you wrote this because frankly I was getting so disgusted by Andela's very whitewashed public image.

Re: Why Andela’s Nigeria Story is Important

ChiomaChuka — Thu, 16 Jun 2016 18:14:19 -0000

Yes, we do. Been such a helpful resource since we found out about it. Nice, re improvements. If I may, especially around arranging the tweets in such a way that you don't have a number that ends up just having a full stop or some other random punctuation mark.

Re: Why Andela’s Nigeria Story is Important

Oo Nwoye - @OoTheNigerian — Thu, 16 Jun 2016 18:10:02 -0000

Very glad to hear that.

We hope to bring out a few new improvements soon.

Re: Why Andela’s Nigeria Story is Important

ChiomaChuka — Thu, 16 Jun 2016 18:08:36 -0000

Solid article by the way.. I just got carried away reading what products Fonebase Labs has out. I love WriteRack. TechHer uses it every Thursday for TechHerTeach, a teaching series we run on Twitter unboxing tech-related terms/concepts for our community.

Re: Why Andela’s Nigeria Story is Important

Oo Nwoye - @OoTheNigerian — Thu, 16 Jun 2016 18:08:36 -0000

Our Team is. #MadeInNigeria :)

Re: Why Andela’s Nigeria Story is Important

ChiomaChuka — Thu, 16 Jun 2016 18:06:56 -0000

Oo you're behind WriteRack? Wow...

Re: Creating a Qualitative Assessment Sheet for Governance in Nigeria

Oo Nwoye - @OoTheNigerian — Mon, 30 May 2016 04:25:05 -0000

Oh. Nice. Didn't know Budgit shared it.

Re: Number of sectors. What I put up is just an example. It can be as many as required. Like I said in the post, the type of sectors will depend on priority areas although some like education, healthcare, security etc should be general in every state.

I agree with you that listed project should be tracked and verified. Budgit is doing something in that area with a tool they call Tracka.

However I am happy to brainstorm with you.

You can holla on Twitter. @OoTheNigerian is my handle and DM is always open.

Re: Creating a Qualitative Assessment Sheet for Governance in Nigeria

Omowunmie — Mon, 30 May 2016 03:44:08 -0000

Got here from the BudgIt facebook page. This is a good idea - I believe active tracking, no matter how small, will help in driving the right conversations (and hopefully decisions) on governance and accountability among nigerian youths. Just thinking the list of items to track on is a bit limited (5 sectors), except you plan to expand it. I've been thinking of a tool to track the performance of the 2016 budget and looking for where to bounce ideas off on this.

Re: Why the MTN – Rocket Internet Deal Worries Me.

Oo Nwoye - @OoTheNigerian — Mon, 16 May 2016 09:32:49 -0000

Surprisingly it didn't.

Re: Why the MTN – Rocket Internet Deal Worries Me.

Kokoro Dudu — Sun, 15 May 2016 18:27:31 -0000

I guess you got yourself worried too early, this didn't amount to anything!