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Adebayo Afolabi

@debayoorr.bsky.social
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Building. Testing. Scaling | Governance & policy

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Stephen King @stephenking.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Reading has become an endangered species. Which is half the problem with American political life. Maybe more than half. If you can't read, you can't think. Then you can fall for anything. The idea, for instance, that the truth is fake news.
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Adebayo Afolabi @debayoorr.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Humanity has a very long history of looking completely cooked and then somehow producing another chapter. I’m betting on another chapter.
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Adebayo Afolabi @debayoorr.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
One thing I wish more business owners understood is that marketing cannot permanently hide a bad customer experience. You can attract people once. Their experience decides what happens after that.
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CdnDoodInOz @cdndoodinoz.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
💯 Positive change is rarely linear.
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Adebayo Afolabi @debayoorr.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
EVs aren't perfect. Neither was the first version of most things we use today. But the environmental idea is pretty simple: If we can move millions of people without burning fuel and putting exhaust into the air, that's worth pursuing.
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Adebayo Afolabi @debayoorr.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I wrote about Nigeria’s accountability crisis, but the bigger question is universal: What happens to a democracy when political failure carries little cost? In Nigeria, this shows up across corruption, insecurity, institutions and public trust. africanarguments.org/2026/09/nige...
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Nigeria's Accountability Crisis Is Fueling Every Other Political Crisis | African Arguments
In Nigeria, corruption, insecurity and misgovernance share one root: almost no one in power ever faces consequences. Six in ten graft cases never reach judgment.
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Adebayo Afolabi @debayoorr.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
I can’t believe “the U.S. owns the Moon” is a sentence I’m reading in my lifetime.
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Rae Radford @raeradford.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
This is lovely…. #BookSky
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Lady with an opinion @ladymitopinion.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
No amateur sports program is worth sexually abusing children to prove their gender
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Adebayo Afolabi @debayoorr.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Industrial policy is back because governments have stopped asking, "Can the market produce this?" They're asking, "Can the market produce this during a crisis?" Those are completely different questions.
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Adebayo Afolabi @debayoorr.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
I treat dance videos on TikTok like episodes of a TV series. Just one more... then another... then another.
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Gale Sinatra @galesinatra.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
I think we just passed oops.
A timeline of climate change concern.
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European Investment Bank @eib.org · 24/06/2026
We've signed a €50 million credit line with Wema Bank to support SMEs across Nigeria. This partnership will expand access to finance for businesses, with a strong focus on youth entrepreneurship, women-led enterprises and environmentally sustainable investments. ➡️ go.eib.org/Wema_Bank
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Anonymous ⩜ @youranona.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
In Nigeria social media algorithms push untested herbal mixes like Jinja for fertility yet cause respiratory issues and liver disease in 46% of cases overloading hospitals as scammers use AI fakes to exploit a broken system. #Nigeria
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Mongabay @mongabay.com · 25/06/2026
In Nigeria, where poaching and habitat loss have devastated vulture populations, some traditional medicine practitioners are switching to plant alternatives to save the birds from extinction. Conservationists are cautiously optimistic but warn that enforcement and public awareness must expand.
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Hope for vultures in Nigeria as some belief-based users adopt plant alternatives
Using plants instead of vulture parts for belief-based practices is helping to tackle poaching of the birds in some regions of Nigeria, say conservationists. Vulture populations have collapsed in…
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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 24/06/2026
The biggest operator of solar mini-grids in Africa said it sold a stake to the IFC to help raise money to expand into Nigeria and the Democratic Republic of Congo
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Africa’s Biggest Solar Mini-Grid Operator Sells Stake to Expand
WeLight, which operates more solar mini-grids in Africa than any other company, said the International Finance Corp. bought a stake in the business, backing its expansion into Nigeria and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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Robin Boardman @robinboardman.com · 24/06/2026
1995: Nigeria executed Ken Saro-Wiwa for opposing Shell's destruction of Ogoniland. 2008: The company was alerted to 100+ ruptures since 2008 but ignored them. 2026: Their leaky pipelines are still operating across Nigeria. This is the death project in action. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Shell pumped oil through Nigeria pipeline for years despite pollution evidence, documents show
The oil giant says the documents ignore the critical context of the complex operating environment at the time.
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Little Angus @littleangus.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
"We are wired to associate fluency with accuracy..."
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Adebayo Afolabi @debayoorr.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Sounds Right, Feels Wrong: Our Dangerous Flaw of Forgetting to Fact-Check AI by Adebayo Afolabi medium.com/no-time/soun...
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Sounds Right, Feels Wrong: Our Dangerous Flaw of Forgetting to Fact-Check AI
June 22, 2026. I was sitting with an article I’d written about Xiaomi phones, making edits, cleaning things up. Nothing out of the…
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folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Who was Amílcar Cabral, and why does his legacy still matter today? He was a revolutionary leader, thinker, and strategist whose ideas on decolonisation connected ideas with action and continue to influence scholars, activists, and movements around the world. folukeafrica.com/amilcar-cabr...
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Amílcar Cabral: To Be Mountains, To Return to the Source of Power
Assassinated 20 January 1973. Yet still today we cry “Viva Cabral! Viva!”
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JuneBug - Berta’s Biggest Fan @junethenarwhal.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Life Update: I’m finally employed again. And I’m getting paid to play with dogs all day. I accepted a position as a shift lead at a pet boarding facility. I started this week. I’m so sore but I’ve gotten an incalculable amount of puppy kisses… it’s so worth it.
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Adebayo Afolabi @debayoorr.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Turns out the bottleneck was never access to information. It was always the will to think.
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Adebayo Afolabi @debayoorr.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Every atrocity in history had paperwork, bureaucrats, and people just doing their jobs.
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Reuters @reuters.com · 09/06/2026
Dozens kidnapped in northwest Nigeria after bandits invite them to talks reut.rs/43kegdd
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Dozens kidnapped in northwest Nigeria after bandits invite them to talks
Armed bandits in northwest Nigeria abducted dozens of villagers whom they invited to a meeting about potential peace ​negotiations, authorities and residents said on Monday, highlighting ‌the region's worsening security.
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Daily Cannon @dailycannon.com · 09/06/2026
Alex Iwobi will get his 100th cap for Nigeria on Wednesday if he plays against Portugal.
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Ọgbẹni Perkinson 📸 🇳🇬 @perkinson.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
I still don't get why the Europeans are quiet about it. They made more noise about Qatar & Russia, and they didn't do half this shit
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Adebayo Afolabi @debayoorr.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Denying sports personalities visas to a World Cup is wild. These are not random people.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
A literacy crisis means people are struggling to UNDERSTAND what they are reading, not that people can't necessarily read.
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nicola @gleanniucha.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Two separate incidents on 15 May In total almost 100 children and their tutors abducted www.opendoorsuk.org/news/latest-...
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Children kidnapped, captives executed – another wave of violence in Nigeria - Open Doors UK & Ireland
Vulnerable communities in Nigeria have once again been devastated by extremist attacks. Almost one hundred people have been kidnapped, over half of them young children and in a separate incident, seve...
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aj @strawberry.bsky.to · 27/05/2026
how did we go from “reduce your carbon footprint” to building data centers everywhere
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Adebayo Afolabi @debayoorr.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Today is Children's Day and dozens of Nigerian children are still missing, abducted from their classrooms by bandits 12 days ago. Their teacher was beheaded in captivity. On camera. The President has not said a single word. Not one. Bring them home. 🙏🏾🇳🇬 #Nigeria
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 26/05/2026
Cost of living crisis reshapes Eid spending in Nigeria aje.news/sdkfnp
Cost of living crisis reshapes Eid spending in Nigeria
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Poverty is a policy choice. Concentrated wealth is a policy choice. Inequality is a policy choice. None of it is natural or inevitable. Remember: We have the power to build a system that serves the many, not the powerful few.
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Adebayo Afolabi @debayoorr.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
It was never just a Northern problem. The country just needed time to find that out the hard way.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 19/05/2026
Gunmen abduct 39 students, 7 teachers in attacks on Nigeria schools aje.news/a48ydl
Gunmen abduct 39 students, 7 teachers in attacks on Nigeria schools
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Adebayo Afolabi @debayoorr.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Thank you 🤗
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Adebayo Afolabi @debayoorr.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Thank you, Gina.
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Adebayo Afolabi @debayoorr.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Thank you! 😊
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Adebayo Afolabi @debayoorr.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
The immigration argument falls apart the moment you look at who was being expelled. Teachers. Traders. People who came when Nigeria was booming and built lives there. The economy turned and suddenly they were illegal.
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Adebayo Afolabi @debayoorr.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Thank you, Gwen. 😊
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Adebayo Afolabi @debayoorr.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Thanks ☺️
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Adebayo Afolabi @debayoorr.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Thank you 🤗
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Adebayo Afolabi @debayoorr.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Thank you! the old timers had the right idea all along
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Adebayo Afolabi @debayoorr.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
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Adebayo Afolabi @debayoorr.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
The insecurity sits heavy. There's no way to make sense of it because there's nothing sensible about it. People just living their lives and then suddenly they're not.
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Adebayo Afolabi @debayoorr.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Thank you 🤗
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Adebayo Afolabi @debayoorr.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Thanks 🤗
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Adebayo Afolabi @debayoorr.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Thanks 🤗
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Adebayo Afolabi @debayoorr.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Thanks 🤗
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Adebayo Afolabi @debayoorr.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
you're the MVP of this Monday 😊
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