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Kyrian Obikwelu retweeted
Thank you @ElizabethN !!
First, from the PHPTalks community, we were pleased to have this opportunity to understand PHP Foundation.
We specially thank you Elizabeth for joining us at PHPConnect’26 and, more importantly, showing us that contributing to PHP is something we can all be part of. We’re grateful for the time you took to make that opportunity feel real and accessible.
We hope to see our community become a core part of the amazing work in PHPFoundation
You are amazing
Kyrian Obikwelu retweeted
Dear Nigerians. Pls Read Very Carefully.
A Total of 9 Toll gates were agreed upon for the Lagos Calabar Coastal Highway. Each Toll Unit will charge N3,000 for cars and N5k for Trucks. Nigerians are expected to Pay this Tolls on that Road OVER A 15 year TOLLING PERIOD.
A $1.87 billion loan was borrowed by the Tinubu administration from Deutche Bank, Afrexim Bank and First Abu Dhabi group for that Highway. Every Investor in that Room knew that A whole new Lagos to Calabar route CAN NEVER BE AS LUCRATIVE as the current East West Legacy Corridor filled with Travelers, Transporters, Goods & Traders plus a huge December travel Upsurge season.
The Devil works Hard but APC works harder. Umahi knew what he was doing from Day 1. THEY WERE NEVER BUILDING ANY ROAD TO CALABAR. Thats why the EIA never Fucking mattered to start with. Intelligent Nigerians were doing Geography and Topography maths for our Govt. Explaining to them that the Highway will need over 70 bridges to navigate the swamps of the Naija Delta alone etc. It didn’t matter. The Road was Never going to go tru the original Map Umahi posted publicly. 🤣 The Lagos end is completed and has boosted their Eko Atlantic phase 2 project. Zero Toll Gates were erected.
This people actually planned to put the 9 toll Gates along the East West Corridor.
The EAST will be the ones made to Pay for that 15 year Loan eventually. The Lagos end is clearly Untolled. Any investor looking to recoup an almost $2 billion Loan is not waiting for Umahi’s ridiculous 8 Yr Construction Timeline to build that new Road when a profitable route already exists. They sold Nigerians a smoke screen from Day 1. A very Unfair and diabolical plan if you ask me.
Just to Prove my Conspiracy theory right. Any Journalist that gets to Interview Minister Dave Umahi moving forward Pls ask him a simple question. Where does he Exactly plan to place the 15 year loaned 9 TOLL GATES along that Route? and I will be proven Right. I bet you he will answer Benin Bypass, Agbor, Asaba, Onitsha, Oba/Nnewi junction and 9th mile. If he even answers you at all. 😎
I know this party like the back of my Hand. APC has taught me to Ignore what they are Saying Publicly and Look for the actual Scam that they are Running underneath. They can’t help themselves.
#GoAndVerify 🧐🤬🇳🇬
Kyrian Obikwelu retweeted
What if PHP didn't need an interpreter to run?
No PHP installation.
No external runtime dependencies.
Just a native executable.
Meet Elephc 🐘
PHP compiled to native machine code. Built in Rust.
elephc.dev
Kyrian Obikwelu retweeted
Vatar Inc., the company behind the viral Nigerian browser game Lagos Life, has closed a $500,000 pre-seed round at a $10 million valuation three days after incorporation.
You can read the article here: techcabal.com/2026/10/09/lag…
Kyrian Obikwelu retweeted
Over 1 million players in 3 days!
I asked @Shalom_HeyEliy how it happened for Lagos Life, what broke, and if she’s selling for $100,000.
Kyrian Obikwelu retweeted
My talk from PHPConnect 2026 is up: youtu.be/VRzzu89k128
Kyrian Obikwelu retweeted
Thank you for your input and contributions. I value all your suggestions and comments.
I think opening another page on X will be the best approach for now. This page was fueled by mostly X users. Some people even joined X because of this page and I would only think it fair to keep them on this platform
A subscription will come in later. We will see how best to make subscribers benefit maximally (I don’t think the deals will do this for now). The reason being that winners are picked on first come, first serve basis. What if as a subscriber you almost never get the deals? This would discourage a lot of people from subscribing. We have followed those who subscribed and we thank you deeply for deeming us worthy of your money 🙏🏿
In line with these thoughts, we have opened an official deal page @dabzglobal_deal. All our deals will be posted on here hence forth. Tonight will be the last deals on this page @dabz_global. This will help people transition to the new page
Thank you again. We are nothing without all of you
Dabz ❤️❤️
We have so much deals to post‼️‼️
Posting on this page makes visibility of other items difficult!
We have tried going the community route but that has been discontinued on x and replaced with subscription. There is nothing like free subscription. It’s a dollar.
Here are the options:
1) Subscribe one dollar for deals monthly ?
2) Go back to our whatsapp channel
Please we need your honest input
Kyrian Obikwelu retweeted
And….
PHPConnect 2026 was a successs❤️
@PhpTalks team, @drumzminister , @stephenjude_ we have done well
Where do I even begin✨
Kyrian Obikwelu retweeted
Now live: @bosunski Egberinde — Software Engineer and creator of @phpsandboxio — with "The Engineer and the Loop." 🔁
Join us as he unpacks how engineers iterate, grow, and keep showing up, cycle after cycle.
🔴 Watch live: youtube.com/watch?v=-OwKO_-b…
#PHPConnect2026 #AIandTheEngineer #PHP #Laravel
Kyrian Obikwelu retweeted
Up now: @ElizabethN takes us through the PHP Foundation — communities, contribution, and the opportunities open to you. 🐘
PHP is for everyone, and @ElizabethN is here to share her experience in building communities, contributing to PHP language
🔴 Watch live: tsh.ink/phpconnect-26
#PHPConnect2026 #AIandTheEngineer
Kyrian Obikwelu retweeted
Congratulations to @eureka_seamless
Funny thing is, I had already built something similar, but I kept waiting for it to be “perfect” before putting it out there. Meanwhile, he shipped his.
Lesson learned: ship it.
On to the next one.
lagos-run-opal.vercel.app/
Kyrian Obikwelu retweeted
GPT-6.1 Sol is out!
Our colleague @kristel_tech asked GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6.1 Sol to "Build a cinematic, photorealistic rocket launch scene using Three.js"
GPT-6.1 Sol: $0.553 | 17 mins
GPT-6 Sol: $1.01 | 22 mins
Try it in JetBrains Air or Junie.
@OpenAIDevs
Kyrian Obikwelu retweeted
7,000 drivers in 2 days. 🚌
I built Lagos Run in my spare time, and you turned it into a whole Lagos traffic jam. Thank you for every score, every "pooon", every bug report.
Big updates are coming: agbero, LASTMA, new buses, and an Independence Day paint on Oct 1. 🇳🇬
Follow @eureka_seamless so you don't miss them 👇
danfo.horpey.dev
#LagosRun
I built a game where you drive a danfo through Lagos 🚌
Load passengers, dodge okadas, beat the traffic. Plays in your browser, no download.
danfo.horpey.dev/
#LagosRun #Lagos #IndieGame
Kyrian Obikwelu retweeted
I finally get to post this 3d animation I did in After Effects. Native 3d objects are not the easiest to animate in After Effects, especially if you’re not making use of the right format or file extension.
Regardless, I love how this came out😊
Kyrian Obikwelu retweeted
Some small businesses don’t know when to hire.Asides considering the financial capacity of the business, hiring should be when the work is important,repetitive and economically valuable enough to justify transferring it. Some tasks like sales closing, logistics, book keeping or accounting should be sorted out because the task in these roles are repetitive
Kyrian Obikwelu retweeted
I do think about the reasons some products sell faster than others online. There are sever factors at play.
Kyrian Obikwelu retweeted
I’ve spent the last few years selling physical products online and it has been a rollercoaster. I’ve run ads that worked.
I’ve run ads that wasted money. At some point, I lost about 40 meta ad accounts to permanent restrictions.
I’ve dealt with customers, delivery companies, inventory, cash flow and everything else that comes with trying to grow a physical-product business in Nigeria, Ghana and Kenya.
I will be sharing most of my experiences here.
Kyrian Obikwelu retweeted
When you are outside the ecosystem, you’ll want to pay 'global' salaries. Even as an employee, if you don’t understand the business side of tech, you’ll think you should earn San Francisco salary in Lagos.
It takes becoming a tech founder to understand it and those who try to pay 'global' salaries in a local market get to learn the hard way.
Employees will never understand when you owe them salaries notwithstanding the reason, and this is why you should pay what the business can afford, not what you think you’d have loved to earn as an employee.