The Evening Dew

17.7 billion naira lost to fraud in 2023. looking at the data from NIBSS Fraud data. And YouTube is looking to add internal games to its platform. Our sources: ⁠⁠NIBBS Data YouTubeGames Our podcast: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠The Musa Obed podcast⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠The notjustdesign Podcast⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠ ........ This podcast is managed by whatspodcasting. Contact us whatspodcasting@gmail.com Subscribe to the ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠...

Tinubu has doings after 365 days? Speaking about showing workings. That's what this episode covers it gives an idea of his major doings both good (potentially) and the ones he has been dragged for. Timestamp: 00:00 - Introduction and welcome to The Evening Dew. 00:09 - Today marks one year since President Tinubu became Nigeria's president. 00:14 - Episode overview: achievements and controv...

The CEO, CTO, and Head of Product will be replaced. Well, well, well, another one was about to bite the dust when a consortium led by Paystack came in like the Avengers and bought it out, including the debt, liabilities, and employees. In other news, Musa explains why and how you should care about the rise of the dollar. 00:00 - Introduction by Drounz and overview of today's tech news includin...

Lightbox a Nigerian focused hardware product could be a threat to ACs in Nigeria while saving you money. Speaking of money, the CBN Governor Cardoso has mentioned that yes, we increased the interest rate, but we're going to keep it that way and do whatever we can to protect the value of the Naira. Meanwhile, in tech, it turns out Nigerians can indeed bring up actual innovative tech like the Li...

Yha a loaning company is owing investors 1 big B (billion)Naira, You might have heard about the Black copper news here is the break down of what supp, and in the business side Musa talked about how the Interest rates have gone up higher. (0:00) - Introduction and Falcon's 2022 interview quote about founding a business to help Nigerians (00:18) - Central Bank of Nigeria's MPR increment (01:...

Elon Musk's Starlink has over 23,000 subscribers and is ranking third after Spectranet and Fiber One in terms of customer base. Business News: Inflation rate dropped -0.6% in 2 year's, Some recent developments affecting Nigeria's inflation rate. Our sources: For more details, check the Techloy article . Nigerian Bureau of Statistics report . Our podcast: ⁠⁠⁠⁠The Musa Obed podcast⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠...

Business News: There is a bill in the Senate that suggests the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) may soon have an overall head of the board, with some powers being taken away from the CBN governor. Tech News: We discussed Microsoft's new AI-powered computer hardware that will run computing tasks on your computer locally. Our source: https://placng.org/Legist/senate-proposes-amendments-to-cbn-act/...

Tapswap is a new coin that has people tapping their screens like zombies for money(tokens). I'm not trying to judge, just pointing out some facts about Tapswap. On the business side, there's news about the IMF assessment and how it affects your banks. This is not any form of financial advise just for informational purposes To contribute to the poll on X click here Our sources: Technext24:...

Oh I have mixed feelings for this one, Apple IOS17.5 update is bringing back deleted images to its users and it beta user's. And In Nigeria there are only 43 Deposit money banks (DMBs) in Nigeria. Our sources: https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/15/24157284/apple-iphone-ios-17-5-update-deleted-photos-voicemails https://www.cbn.gov.ng/Out/2024/CCD/LIST%20OF%20DEPOSIT%20MONEY%20BANKS%20AS%20AT%2026T...

Shocked that Ibadan has more tech hubs and innovation hub than your beloved Lagos yes, me too! In the tech news, Flutter 3.10 can now allow you to build more demo apps that you don't ship on the web but faster and better, plus more amazing features from Flutter I/O. Our sources: https://medium.com/dartlang/announcing-dart-3-53f065a10635 https://medium.com/flutter/whats-new-in-flutter-3-10-b21d...

Nigerians Start ups as of 2022 only employed only 19k people and for OpenAI Ilya and Karpathy left the company . Our source : https://old.disruptafrica.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/The-Nigerian-Startup-Ecosystem-Report-2022.pdf https://time.com/6978195/ilya-sutskever-leaves-open-ai/ Our podcast: ⁠The Musa Obed podcast⁠ ⁠The notjustdesign Podcast ⁠ ........ This podcast is managed by whatspodcast...

Now, with Google's new 2 million token, which is the highest of any AI yet, Google can do more. We talked about what 'more' means for you. Also, if you are into finance, Musa had time to talk about the finance news on Access Bank. Our source : https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/googles-gemini-1-5-pro-will-have-2-million-tokens-heres-what-that-means/ https://youtu.be/MzHCWZ...

The potential to make our own AI tech is here (maybe), and in respect to a trading transaction of $404 million on the NGX. Our sources: https://techcabal.com/2024/05/14/whats-the-more-sustainable-path-to-africas-ai-participation/ https://www.techloy.com/chart-top-countries-with-highest-ai-startup-activity/ https://doclib.ngxgroup.com/market_data-site/other-market-information-site/FPI%20Report/NGX%...

Based on Spotify, indie artists need just 2 million streams to start making money. In other news, no African country is anywhere near the AI revolution. Our sources: https://www.techloy.com/chart-top-countries-with-highest-ai-startup-activity/ https://gazettengr.com/nigerian-artistes-earned-n25-billion-in-2023-from-streaming-spotify/

Funding in Q1, 2024 equals $160 million for Nigeria startups X NIBSS is in a ₦1.4 billion lawsuit Our source: https://businessday.ng/companies/article/nigerian-startups-raised-160m-amid-funding-drought-in-q1/ https://techcabal.beehiiv.com/p/prime-offer?utm_source=techcabal.beehiiv.com&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=the-prime-offer This podcast is managed by whatspodcasting. Subscribe t...

Sam Altman has gone to bed with Stackoverflow now they can give birth to super Ai code generators that works well! And now we know 1% of Nigerian farmers borrow from Nigerian banks. Our sources: https://www.techloy.com/stack-overflow-will-now-allow-openai-to-tap-into-its-api/ https://www.stears.co/premium/article/accessing-nigerias-3-billion-consumer-lending-market/?utm_source=Stears+3.0&utm_c...

Well well well, CBN strikes again, this time they did not come for the FinTech only they cam for the users, and they came to tax them all, for 0.5% of all their money. And Microsoft may just layoff its Nigerian staffs or shutdown the branch. Timestamp: 00:00 - Introduction to The Evening Dew by Drounz 00:08 - Microsoft may shut down its innovation center in Nigeria 00:40 - Unconfirmed reports abou...

A lot of AI tools have come to live but this one is set to take lives from people jobs, like Eraser. And now we know that out of 200 Million + Nigerians only 58Million have an actual bank account. (for eraser Several big names have already invested in the platform, including Elad Gil and former GitHub CEO Nat Friedman. Jack Altman, CEO of Lattice and brother of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman). Our sources:...

We talk about the 100 milly club the big boys of start ups in Africa. and while we where trying to do that Microsoft just announced its investment in data center in Asia. "In every squared another squared dey inside" Quote by: one guy like that. Timestamp: 00:00 - Introduction and announcement of Microsoft's data center in Thailand. 00:22 - Details on Microsoft's investment in AI...

Moniepoint, and Paga are snitching its users to the feds, they sent out some Notifications that they will be slying you to the "authorities" if you account has anything to do with crypto. And in the Business news CBN has asked and given deadlines to the major banks the big boys that they should raise more money, they should step up their game, so they can be able to do more stuffs in the...

Now you can play games and tell us a funny story on how your marriage proposal that you planned taught you about B2B marketing. And on the flip side, if you are into marketing well Nigeria after 60 years is still a maturing consumer market. This is what that means. Our sources: https://x.com/StearsInsights/status/1775560131893219553 https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:719185718464...

Speaking of things on things scientists have started putting camera on babies head, don't ask me I am surprised as well. And in the other news Nigerians inflation rate, the gap that just keeps wider. Our source: https://x.com/StearsInsights/status/1775560131893219553 https://www.superhuman.ai/p/metas-rocky-ai-start?utm_source=www.superhuman.ai&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=meta-s-...

From CBN banning FinTech banks and the high Price of food stuffs. Our Source: https://nigerianstat.gov.ng/elibrary/read/1241494 https://techcabal.beehiiv.com/p/3bg?utm_source=techcabal.beehiiv.com&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=3bg Check out whatspodcasting

Apple is under fire from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) for allegedly using minerals mined by children in conflict zones for their products like iPhones. The DRC claims these "conflict minerals" are smuggled into the global supply chain and could be ending up in Apple devices. While Apple insists on ethical sourcing, the DRC argues they lack proof. This raises questions about con...

Well well well... Nigeria just announced it can lead AI in Africa with its own initiative to build it's own LLM. If we can lead Afro beat and Jellof, yes we can lead AI if you ask me. Timestamp: 00:00 - Introduction 00:18 - Nigeria announces first multilingual language model with other initiatives 01:33 - Debriefing about the Technical Talent Program 03:24 - Outro Our sources: https://techcaba...