Probaly in future, crypto & blockchain technology will do to banks:
What computer did to typewriter , what email did to post office , what gsm did to phone booths & land lines , what smart phones mifis & pc modems did to cybercafes.
In the image below, the newspaper article was dated April 18, 1963.
Wahala for people who never know anything about crypto. LOL.

🇳🇬75.3% of Telecoms subscribers have Internet subscription - Q1 2021.

76.4% - South West
75.8% - North East
75.3% - North Central
75.3% - North West
74.3% - South South
73.4% - South East

Northern Nigeria: 75.4%
Southern Nigeria: 75.3%

#statisense

🇳🇬VOICE SUBSCRIPTION LOSS, Q1 2021

1 North West: -4.32m
2 South West: -2.62m
3 North East: -1.68m
4 South East: -1.64m
5 South South: -1.25m
6 North Central: -678.8K

Northern Nigeria: -6.68m
Southern Nigeria: -5.51m

Nigeria: -12.19m

#statisense
(NBS)

🇳🇬INTERNET SUBSCRIBER LOSS, Q1 2021

1 North West: -3.20m
2 South West: -2.12m
3 South East: -1.16m
4 South South: -1.14m
5 North East: -1.12m
6 North Central: -608.6K

Northern Nigeria: -4.92m
Southern Nigeria: -4.43m

Nigeria: -9.35m

#statisense
(NBS)

🇳🇬VOICE SUBSCRIPTION, Q1 2021

1 South West: 55.75m
2 North Central: 36.39m
3 North West: 35.22m
4 South South: 28.38m
5 South East: 18.42m
6 North East: 18.26m

Southern Nigeria: 102.54m
Northern Nigeria: 89.87m

Nigeria: 192.41m

#statisense
(NBS)

🇳🇬INTERNET SUBSCRIBERS, Q1 2021

1 South West: 42.59m
2 North Central: 27.41m
3 North West: 26.51m
4 South South: 21.07m
5 North East: 13.85m
6 South East: 13.52

Southern Nigeria: 77.18m
Northern Nigeria: 67.77m

Nigeria: 144.95m

#statisense
(NBS)

TELECOMS SUBSCRIPTION IN 3 MONTHS

Voice subscription
Q4 2020: 204.60 million
Q1 2001: 192.41 million
3 months Loss: -12.19 million

Internet Subscription
Q4 2020: 154.30 million
Q1 2021: 144.95 million
3 months Loss: -9.34 million

#statisense
(NBS)

According to Q1 2021 Telecoms Data published by NBS, Internet Subscribers dropped by 9.35 million in 3 months [Q4 2020 to Q1 2021].

Voice subscription dropped by 12.19 million within the same period.

#statisense

TOP 12 STATES BY INTERNET SUBSCRIPTION

1 Lagos: 17.6m
2 Ogun: 8.69m
3 Kano: 8.32m
4 Oyo: 7.74m
5 Kaduna: 6.63m
6 FCT: 6.62m
7 Rivers: 5.20m
8 Edo: 5.17m
9 Delta: 5.04m
10 Niger: 4.80m
11 Katsina: 3.81m
12 Benue: 3.76m

#statisense
(NBS)

Nigeria inflation rates - starting 1995 (previous decades)

Overall rate
2000: 136.3%
2010: 230.5%
2020: 207.9%

Food rate
2000: 54.6%
2010: 253.1%
2020: 255.4%

#statisense
(NBS)

Nigeria annual food inflation rates - last 10 years

2011: 12.1%
2012: 9.2%
2013: 8.4%
2014: 8.3%
2015: 9.6%
2016: 16.3%
2017: 17.9%
2018: 12.6%
2019: 13.7%
2020: 18.4%

#statisense
(NBS)

THE 10 BIGGEST WORLD COMPANIES

1 🇺🇸Apple: $2.1T
2 🇸🇦Saudi Aramco: $1.9T
3 🇺🇸Microsoft Corp: $1.8T
4 🇺🇸Amazon: $1.6T
5 🇺🇸Alphabet: $1.4T
6 🇺🇸Facebook: $839B
7 🇨🇳Tencent: $753B
8 🇺🇸Tesla: $641B
9 🇨🇳Alibaba Grp: $615B
10 🇺🇸Berkshire Hathaway: $588B

#statisense
(Visual Cap)

AFRICA: INCIDENCE OF COVID19 CORRUPTION

1 🇲🇼Malawi
2 🇰🇪Kenya
3 🇳🇬Nigeria
4 🇸🇴Somalia
5 🇺🇬Uganda
6 🇿🇦South Africa
7 🇿🇼Zimbabwe

#statisense

2021 PRESS FREEDOM IN COUNTRIES WHERE TWITTER IS SUSPENDED

TYPE OF GOVT
🇨🇳China: 177th - Authoritarian
🇮🇷Iran: 174th - Authoritarian
🇰🇵North Korea: 179th - Authoritarian
🇹🇲Turkmenistan: 178th - Authoritarian
🇳🇬Nigeria: 120th - Hybrid Regime

#statisense
RSF/Democracy Index

7 MOST CORRUPT & TERRORIZED NATIONS, 2020

CORRUPT
1 🇸🇸South Sudan
2 🇸🇴Somalia
3 🇸🇾Syria
4 🇾🇪Yemen
5 🇻🇪Venezuela
6 🇸🇩Sudan
7 🇬🇶Equatorial Guinea

TERRORISED
1 🇦🇫Afghanistan
2 🇮🇶Iraq
3 🇳🇬Nigeria
4 🇸🇾Syria
5 🇸🇴Somalia
6 🇾🇪Yemen
7 🇵🇰Pakistan

#statisense
(TI)

THE MOST CORRUPT NATIONS, 2020

1 🇸🇸South Sudan
2 🇸🇴Somalia
3 🇸🇾Syria
4 🇾🇪Yemen
5 🇻🇪Venezuela
6 🇸🇩Sudan
7 🇬🇶Equatorial Guinea
8 🇱🇾Libya
9 🇰🇵North Korea
10 🇭🇹Haiti
11 🇨🇩DRC
12 🇹🇲Turkmenistan
...
26 🇳🇬Nigeria

#statisense
(TI)

THE LEAST CORRUPT NATIONS, 2020

1 🇩🇰Denmark
2 🇳🇿New Zealand
3 🇫🇮Finland
4 🇸🇬Singapore
5 🇸🇪Sweden
6 🇨🇭Switzerland
7 🇳🇴Norway
8 🇳🇱Netherlands
9 🇩🇪Germany
10 🇱🇺Luxembourg
11 🇦🇺Australia
12 🇨🇦Canada
...

149 🇳🇬Nigeria

#statisense
(TI)

CORRUPTION RATING OF G7 COUNTRIES

1 🇩🇪Germany: 9th least corrupt nation in the World

2 🇨🇦Canada: 11th

3 🇬🇧UK: 11th

4 🇯🇵Japan: 19th

5 🇫🇷France: 23rd

6 🇺🇸USA: 25th

7 🇮🇹Italy: 52nd

#statisense
(TI, 202

G7 COUNTRIES, GROSS DEBT AS A % OF GDP [2020]

1 🇯🇵Japan: 256.22%

2 🇮🇹Italy: 155.56%

3 🇺🇸USA: 127.11%

4 🇨🇦Canada: 117.84%

5 🇫🇷France: 113.46%

6 🇬🇧UK: 103.66%

7 🇩🇪Germany: 68.93%

#statisense
(IMF)

Top 10 Most Liveable Cities in the World

1 🇳🇿Auckland
2 🇯🇵Osaka
3 🇦🇺Adelaide
4 🇳🇿Wellington
5 🇯🇵Tokyo
6 🇦🇺Perth
7 🇨🇭Zurich
8 🇨🇭Geneva
9 🇦🇺Melbourne
10 🇦🇺Brisbane

#statisense
(EIU, 2021)

Top 10 Least Liveable Cities in the World

1 🇸🇾Damascus
2 🇳🇬Lagos
3 🇵🇬Port Moresby
4 🇧🇩Dhaka
5 🇩🇿Algiers
6 🇱🇾Tripoli
7 🇵🇰Karachi
8 🇿🇼Harare
9 🇧🇫Douala
10 🇻🇪Caracas

#statisense
(EIU, 2021)

🇳🇬NIGERIA: PRIMARY CHANNELS FOR BRAND RESEARCH

1 Social Networks: 82.9%

2 Search Engines: 74.8%

3 Consumer Reviews: 49.4%

4 Product & Brand Websites: 47.5%

5 Mobile Apps: 44%

6 Product & Brand Blogs:33.3%

7 Price Comparison Websites: 27.0%

#statisense
(Hootsuite)

NIGERIA: SOCIAL MEDIA ADVERTISING AUDIENCE PROFILE

72.9% of social media advert audience are between the ages of 13 and 34 years.

#statisense

🇳🇬NIGERIA: SOCIAL MEDIA POTENTIAL ADVERT AUDIENCE

1 Youtube: 30.8 million
2 Facebook: 29 million
3 Instagram: 8.4 million
4 FB Messenger: 4 million
5 LinkedIn: 5.7 million
6 Snapchat: 6.65 million
7 Twitter: 3.5 million

#statisense
(Hootsuite)

🇳🇬MOST-USED SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS - Top 12

1 Whatsapp: 93%
2 Facebook: 86.2%
3 Youtube: 81.6%
4 Instagram: 73.1%
5 FB Messenger: 67.2%
6 Twitter: 61.4%
7 Telegram: 56.3%
8 Linkedin: 32.8%
9 Tiktok: 31.9%
10 Snapchat: 31.2%
11 Pinterest: 26.8%
12 Skype: 12.1%

#statisense

🇳🇬NIGERIANS ON SOCIAL MEDIA

As at Jan 2021, Nigeria had 33 million active social media users.

Social media users make up 15.8% of Nigeria's population.

99.2% of social media users access them via mobile.

#statisense
(Hootsuite)

MOST USED SOCIAL PLATFORMS - APRIL 2021

1 Facebook: 2.8b
2 YouTube: 2.29b
3 WhatsApp: 2bn
4 FB Messenger: 1.3b
5 Instagram: 1.29b
6 Weixin/Wechat: 1.23b
7 Tiktok: 732m
8 Douyin: 600m
9 Qq: 595m
10 Telegram: 550m
11 Snapchat: 528m
...
16 Twitter: 396m

#statisense
(Hootsuite)

Total statistic credit: #statisense

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🤣🤣REMEMBER AND LAUGH 😂

Anytime I told my wife this segment of the story of my life, she used to laugh to stupor.

It happened some twenty nine years ago yet it never looses it's comical attributes.

We were three close friend living on the same street. My two friends coincidentally were bearing same name Tolu. The first Tolu did something and it worked.

What was it?

Knowing quite well that his mother was watching, Tolu started tinkering with these Tiger Batteries, gathering the black powder into a nylon bag.

When the mother asked him what he wanted to do with the powder, he calmly told her that any day the mother made him angry by not aquescing to any of his request, he would swallow the powder and commit suicide. The mum was shocked and started panicking begging him to discard the idea. But it worked.

Tolu was getting all he wanted from his rich Mum. We saw the changes. Tolu spent more, he enjoyed more.

After a lot of hassles, he finally let us in of what he did. So we decided to copy and hoped it works too on our parents. Tolu's lifestyle was becoming oppressive to us.

When I got home, I made sure my Mum was around and so I started dismantling the battery casings. Of course, she asked what I was doing with the battery powder. I did as my friend said that I want to keep it to commit suicide if my Mum does not listen to me.

I never knew how my Mum covered the distance between us. The slap was deadening, the subsequent ones makes my cheeks bounced like skin of a beaten drum. It was sunny afternoon yet it seemed it was dark and it was about to rain. It was the slaps playing tricks with my vision.

She dragged me inside like a criminal and gave me a punishment that erased all suicide thought from my head. "Eedi fe di e abi?, Emi lo maa le edi Jade ninu aye e".

When my Dad came in the night, the punishment continued. He banned all my friends visiting or me getting out, said I was being influenced.

As if those were not enough, Mum invited her younger sister, my Aunt to talk "sense" into me. My Aunt?, her mouth was a razor blade, when she talked to you, you can even commit the suicide self. Like when she said "Anty mi, sheh won o paaro omo fun yin ni ward Sha?" She was asking if the wrong child was not given to my Mum at my birth!

I ended up begging and apologizing and that was when my Mum burst crying.

The way my sibblings now looked at me, it was if I was the devil incarnate. I was avoided like a plague. I felt sorry that I made Mum cried, especially when she started stating what she was passing through to put food on the table.

I really felt like Judas. But what happened to the second Tolu?

His own case was the worst. Indeed , he too did that same thing. When they asked him and he said he wanted to commit suicide, they didn't even behave as if they heard him. He didn't know his mother had given the elder brother signal to capture him.

They grabbed Tolu and lied him down, the mother said he should open his mouth so the powder would be poured in for him. My friend tightened his mouth struggling to get free. 'Ti o ba ku Alaye a shaye', (if you die those alive would go on living).

When Tolu finally struggled free, he ran like never before. He could not go home, he came to my house and I also told him my pathetic story. I told him to go before my Mum set eyes on him.

As he later told me, when he finally got home and was served dinner, he sniffed it, gave a spoonful to a dog and watched it before he could eat it.

We became gentlemen afterwards, there are some parents "madder" than you if you want to attempt madness.

Never stopped laughing.

Anytime the three jolly friends meet, we just remember and laugh...

The times are hard so laugh & let out the pressure😀

#copied

You cannot stop using the road because there is an accident every day, we all take a risk every day, life itself is a chance and tomorrow is not guaranteed. You can only be cautious, take a minimal risk that won't cost you a fortune.

Among all children that were born between 1981 and 1996 across the globe, 106 billionaires have emerged.
While 33 of them are Americans and 23 are Chinese, NONE has emerged from the whole of Africa!

In a way, this is some kind of scorecard for the African education system and by extension, a reflection of our patenting choices in the last 40 years! Please, do not dismiss this as vanity upon vanity as we always tend to overcompensate in Africa.

The richest Millennial in the world today is Mark Zuckerberg and you will agree with me that his $97 Billion USD net worth is not all there is to his achievements. He gave us Facebook and everything that comes with it!

It is easy to say he dropped out of school, but we often ignore the fact that he did not leave school because he was a dullard or because he never learnt anything. No.

At a tender age, his father taught him how to write codes and even hired a professional tutor to train him further. It might be that these private lessons were just enough for him to start out something that grew into Facebook today.

Like almost every other person in this list, Mark's father was very intentional about his child's future.
He set him on a path. Tech path.

Of all 106 billionaires in the world that are between thee ages of 25 and 40, more than 30 are also into TECH business! while another half of the remaining are doing businesses that are powered by TECH!

A great number of the rest are into Media, Entertainment and Fashion!

YET, African parents have strong aversion for introducing their children to TECH, arguing that they must go through the rigours of conventional learning processes.

Presently, there is a raging argument against the use of android phones by secondary school students in Nigeria!
And, I always wonder, to what effect?

So that our statistics will blow up by 2050 with numbers of unemployable youths?

And, that will be just fine because after all, we were able to stop them from accessing YouTube and TikTok while growing up?
I have read arguments that the disadvantages of exposing children to technology out weights the advantages of it!
Sad.

Our choices in the last 50 years or so, pertaining to education processes have been nothing short of mediocrity!
While China was encouraging their children to develop themselves in technology, we were doing what again?

And by this, our generation has relegated Africa to a continent of little or no consequence on the global stage.
Unlike previous African generations that competed head to head with the rest of the world with innovations and advancement, ours is a copy and paste generation that is always at the mercy of the western world.

As a nation, our economies do not contribute to the rest of the world. In frontiers of innovation and technology, we (as a nation) do not have anything to offer.
Instead, we are suffering a great deal of brain drain, bleeding us of our young talents!

Today is the right time to start putting in place new mechanisms that will dictate a different, better outcome for the next African generation.

We must chart new paths for today's African children so that in the next tide of global affairs, Africa must rise again to it's rightful position among other continents.

#dedamccarie