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Abubakar

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Abubakar

@IAtalkspace

Analyzing tech and media businesses. MBA @Cornell. Ex: Tech Journalist @TheInformation; Knight-Bagehot Fellow @Columbia; Advisory Board Member @InsideTheCabal.

NYC

curiousdraft.com

Born March 27

Joined October 2009

Abubakar
@IAtalkspace
Sep 4, 2022
On ASUU: "You dialogue with bandits, why can't you dialogue with professors?" — Peter Obi. #NaijaWeCan
Abubakar
@IAtalkspace
May 22, 2025
I watched the panel session of UBA's Tony Elumelu and Tan Su Shan of Singapore’s DBS Bank at the Qatar Economic Forum. It was fascinating to see how these two banking executives approached the same questions. One gave actionable insights. The other was bland and basic. 😕
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Abubakar
@IAtalkspace
Oct 8, 2022
MC Oluomo is a known thug. He cut his teeth on the streets of Oshodi as a violent enforcer, electioneer and tax collector extorting transporters and small businesses in the state. If you publicly admit to being his friend, it's because you're in cahoots with a political thug.
JJ. Omojuwa
@Omojuwa
Oct 7, 2022
Your enemies aren’t my enemies! You aren’t important enough for that. I spent ample time with the Chairman of Lagos State Parks and Garages, Alhaji Musiliu Akinsanya. Oba. MC Oluomo. People fear & hate who they don’t know, I simply move closer for a better perspective!
Abubakar
@IAtalkspace
Jul 6, 2023
The way Nigerians consume stock fish you'll think it's a locally produced fish product. But it's actually imported from Norway. Despite having its own coast line, Nigeria reportedly imports around $125 million worth of Norwegian seafood annually. Fascinating stuff.
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Abubakar
@IAtalkspace
Apr 26, 2021
NURTW doesn't provide any valuable service to Lagos State. They don't build bus stops, ensure road safety or remit funds to the govt. Instead they extort drivers, fight, litter bus parks and contribute to reckless driving by chasing buses and bikers. Why do they still exist?
Abubakar
@IAtalkspace
Jun 9, 2022
Excluding Peter Obi's camp, I don't think any intelligent & non-political person needs to go all out for their presidential candidates on social media. There's no appealing argument you can make for them. The candidates themselves have shown they don't care about Nigerians.
Abubakar
@IAtalkspace
Nov 27, 2020
Nigeria is not a capitalist society. An okada man buys a motorbike to transport people. He hustles morning and night moving people around Lagos, only for some dudes to stand at every junction and collect N500 from them for no reason. This is worse than communism.
Abubakar
@IAtalkspace
Feb 7, 2021
Between 2011 & 2013, an American developed Silk Road platform on the darkweb to sell heroin, cocaine & other illegal drugs. Payments were in Bitcoin & he sold $1B+ worth of drugs. He was shutdown & arrested. But the US did not ban BTC activities. Companies stepped up KYC instead.
ARISE NEWS
@ARISEtv
Feb 7, 2021
How FBI Alerted Nigeria’s Central Bank to Scammers Using Cryptocurrencies to Defraud the West arise.tv/how-fbi-alerte…
Abubakar
@IAtalkspace
May 17, 2023
Today, May 17, 2023, I graduated from Columbia University as a Knight-Bagehot Fellow in Business and Economics Journalism. Such an awesome experience!
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Abubakar
@IAtalkspace
Dec 20, 2022
Over the last seven years, Nigerian politicians unlooked as Emefiele (alongside Buhari & his Ministers) ruined the domestic economy. But after one of Emefiele's poorly developed policies posed a threat to politicians' electoral corruption plans, they're now calling for his head.
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Abubakar
@IAtalkspace
Dec 5, 2021
Uber and Bolt surges are becoming ridiculous. The economics of ride hailing was never sustainable, but in Lagos, it's pure madness. Is there a (open-source) way to verify that indeed there was a surge as a price control mechanism? Or is this how the algorithm randomly goes crazy?
Abubakar
@IAtalkspace
Sep 1, 2025
This the problem with bad writing, it causes confusion. 🥲 Would have been better to say: "Titan Trust rebrands as Union Bank following acquisition of the 108-year-old Nigerian bank." 🫠
Nairametrics
@Nairametrics
Sep 1, 2025
Titan Trust Bank ceases operations in Nigeria as Union Bank finalizes takeover - nairametrics.com/2025/09/01/tit…
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Abubakar
@IAtalkspace
May 22, 2025
Replying to @IAtalkspace
Fundamentally, I think more Nigerian executives need to fix up and get more sophisticated when they speak. This is why I like hearing GTCo's Segun Agbaje speak. He's insightful, he genuinely enjoys speaking and is lifelong learner. That's what other local executives need to do.
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Abubakar
@IAtalkspace
Mar 30, 2021
I'm finishing Q1 2021 on a high!💪 I'm proud to announce that I've been selected as a Venture Scout for Saison Capital, the VC arm of Credit Saison, a Tokyo-listed consumer finance company with $30B assets under management and one of the largest credit card issuers in Japan.