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@ShoutsAndMiras
Apr 8, 2020 • 9 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X
Adventure at the Kaduna @DHLAfrica office! I came here to mail some sample tomato mix to my equipment supplier in Italy. They want to see how the end product looks to make sure their packaging line can meet our needs. Also want to measure viscosity and examine sacheting material.
I get here and I have like 4.5kg of product. Challenge #1: Italy apparently requires permission from the Italian ministry of health before they can import food items. I call my equipment supplier. He calls his local DHL office in Parma. 30 minutes pass by...
Eventually we learn that if I sign a declaration form stating that the products are for testing, nor consumption, we will be able to proceed. My contact emails me the form. I forward the form to the DHL guy here in Kaduna. We print it but then notice a problem.
The form has to be printed on company letterhead! I do t have my laptop with me but I WhatsApp someone at the office and ask him if he can paste the information from the declaration form on our letterhead and send back to me. He does. Great!
Except, he forgot to include this one part of the declaration form: the declaration statement! So now the DHL guy is going back to the original email that I sent him and inserting that language back into the version of the letter that is on TJ letterhead. Shout out to Seun! 👏🏾👏🏾
Challenge #2: payment. It’s hella expensive to send 5kg of anything internationally from Nigeria (if yo include the weight of the packaging, it adds up to 5kg even though the product itself is 4.5kg). This consignment costs 90k to send! I have my debit card but POS no work.
Fortunately, the same guy at the office can issue a transfer, so I send him the invoice and account details on WhatsApp and he makes the transfer. Shout out Fori for your quick assistance! 👏🏾👏🏾
So thanks to technology (email, WhatsApp and online banking) and the ingenuity and problem solving skills of 2.5 people (I’m not sure how much I really contributed), my package is now on its way! And it only took me 2 hours and change to get this done 😅.
PS bonus: I found out what “cumulation” means. #neverstoplearning

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Jun 18
Ok. I’m going to share my best explanation as to why tomato prices are high. I’m going to do it as definitively and comprehensively as I can, so that next year when they’re high in June I can point everyone back to this thread.
Tomatoes are SEASONAL.

All over the world, open-field tomatoes are seasonal. They need cool nights, hot days, and a dry climate.

In Nigeria during the rainy season, it is hard to grow open-field tomatoes.

EVERY YEAR in June, the prices go up. Every year guys.
And every year like clockwork you get some tomato association crying to the media about tuta absoluta, saying that’s the reason yields are down.

NO.

Tuta can be controlled easily with chemicals that are available in Nigeria. We (touch wood) haven’t had tuta issues since 2016.
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Oct 15, 2022
His Highness Khalifa Muhammad Sanusi II has got to be one of my top truth-tellers.

First, the good news: the war in Ukraine has negatively impacted many nations/regions, but Sub-Saharan Africa is actually doing BETTER than predicted so far this year.
Then, the bad news: if our woes in Nigeria can’t be linked to the war in Ukraine, that means our woes in Nigeria are linked to…. Nigeria. The dollar is gaining strength and we continue to be an oil economy with no oil revenue.

#KADInvest7
Yikes - presentation interrupted by the entrance of BAT.
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Aug 17, 2022
I’ve had a lot of strange experiences living in Nigeria for the past 12 years, but this is a new one! Currently flying from Lagos to Kaduna with a plane full of soldiers… 😳
Never seen anything like it! We are all mixed together, civilians and men/women in uniform. I tried to ask one of them about why they are flying commercial but he stonewalled me. I was like… “don’t you usually fly in military planes?” And he said “not today.”
I told the soldier “I’ve never had this experience before in my life” and he said “well, now you have.” 😂😂😂
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Oct 25, 2021
Scientists love to argue about nature versus nurture. The “nature” argument makes the case that everything we are today and everything we will become tomorrow is all a result of our genetic background – it’s almost an argument about destiny.
If you’ve seen the movie GATTACA, you will understand this argument perfectly.
The “nurture” argument, on the other hand, makes the case that our environment and the way we were raised– everything from the cultural context, to our nutritional intake, to the habits that our parents help us form– plays a far larger role in determining the course of our lives.
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Aug 16, 2021
A hard but important read. 👇🏾

I’m not sure how to organize my thoughts... I have friends & loved ones who served, & I don’t want to believe it was such a colossal waste. Some parts of this article are reminiscent of Vietnam, others reflexively make me think of Nigeria...
I’ve pasted some key parts of the article that stood out to me below.
1. Was al-Qaeda the enemy, or the Taliban? Was Pakistan a friend or an adversary? What about the Islamic State and the bewildering array of foreign jihadists, let alone the warlords on the CIA’s payroll? According to the documents, the U.S. government never settled on an answer.
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May 20, 2021
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advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/48/e…
"Venture funding allocations are particularly vulnerable to the gender bias that underlies the lack of fit phenomenon..."
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