Earlier, this morning, the name Tobi Amusan had captured the air with pervading euphoria, following Nigeria’s outstanding performance at the 2022 world’s Athletics Championships in Eugene, Oregon. Tobi Amusan, a Nigerian female sprinter broke a lifetime jinx as she clinched a gold medal at the women’s 100m hurdles final and emerged the first ever Nigerian Athlete in history to win a world title at the World Athletics Championships.

The Nigerian hurdle sprinter who has suddenly become a wide-reaching internet sensation also broke a six-year-old record of 12.20 seconds held by Keni Harrison by finishing at 12.12 seconds in the semi finals.

Records show that Tobi’s victory is not a flash in the pan. The Nigerian 25-years-old University of Texas graduate has been on her journey to stardom for over a period of ten years now. In a twit posted on her twitter page six years ago, Tobi Amusan had said she was going to set a record that would make her name unforgettable in history, and she indeed has worked towards making her dream a reality.

From a story of shocking denial of her capability due to a failed time-machine in the Olympics Trials in Nigeria, Tobi has rewritten her story on the global stage, casting her shadow to be larger than life.

Last year, during the finals of the Olympics Trials of the Athletics Federation of Nigeria which held at the Yaba College of Technology in  Lagos, Tobi Amusan was denied the chance to break a 23-years-old record held by Gloria Alozie due to the faulty electronic timer.

She’d won comfortably but the electronic timer failed to display the time at the end of the race. The hand timer which was eventually deployed showed she won the race in time of 12.3 seconds which would have supplanted Alozie’s 12.44 seconds that was set in 1998.

However, since the world athletics only recognises the electronic timing device, her record was denied. It was a big disappointment for her and many of her fans who had anticipated to see her set a new African record in the women’s hurdles event.

This year came with a huge compensation for Tobi Amusan on a global stage as she set the record far away from Nigeria.

Asked about how she felt about her winning, Amusan said, even though she’d always believed in her abilities, she did not expect a world record at this championship. According to her,

“It’s a dream come true. I knew I had it in me, but I could not believe it when I saw it on the screen after the semis. But it was just a matter of time.”

Nigeria finished at overall 13th position in the championship, following Amusan’s gold medal in the 100m women hurdles and Ese Brume’s silver medal in the long jump.

Fellow Citizens, I am very happy to share that in the next few months, more than 2,000 young people will have jobs in Nigeria. Egoras has opened for operations in a big factory. We looked at ways to help Naira and we concluded on one thing: if we can refurbish all the imported electronics, furniture, etc into Nigeria, and resell them, Naira will have freedom to dance atilogwu, koroso, bata, etc.

We trialed the business model in Port Harcourt, filled our supermarket with items and projected to sell them within 3 weeks. To our surprise, everything sold off in 90 mins! Then, we invested to build a bigger factory. That factory was launched this weekend.

Now, we are reaching Nigerians and companies, and I want to connect you with CEO Ugoji Harry. Egoras will buy your unused or old household items, electronics, radio, phones, dishwashers, generators, TVs, furniture, etc – and refurbish and resell them in our supermarkets, the only ones we know that sell only refurbished items.

Team has a process with valuers, risk managers, etc making sure people are selling items that belong to them.  Let’s keep everything clean. If you do not have the receipts, they require you to get a police report for lost receipt.

Ugoji is executing the mission – he is hiring technicians, etc. But for this business to thrive, we actually need those old items, so that we can get them back to “new states”. All items sold in Egoras supermarkets are guaranteed for up to 6 months. Email support@egoras.com

Send us your unused items, forget the new ones made in US, Asia and Europe; our trained engineers will get them back to “new states”.

Locations

Oyigbo Branch:
#25 Clemedy Plaza, PH/ABA Express way, Oyigbo Express Junction, Rivers State

Rumuokwrushi Branch:
No 282 Aba road by Rumukoroshi Junction, Port Harcourt, Rivers State

Agip Branch:
kilometer 7 Ikwerre Rd, Rumueme, beside Rivers State College of Health Science and Technology
Port Harcourt.

Dear President Buhari, we write to offer to fix the leakages in Nigeria’s fuel subsidy program especially now that our national currency is struggling; any help will go a long way. Our technology has been tested by filing stations and other players in the downstream oil & gas sector. We have accomplished the capability of reconciling fuel volume/Naira from depots via trucks to pumps and shifts.

Mr. President, if contracted and within 3 months, we will make it possible for you to know the fuel volume in Nigeria, and the exact location, across trucks (parked or on the go), depots, and stations, on your smartphone, and LCD monitor in the Presidency.  Zero leakage, zero diversion guaranteed. No wuruwu in subsidy payment. Naira will dance atilogwu, koroso, bata, etc.

We will answer the call. Please share this with President Buhari; I just feel that we can help the nation, considering that many of us went on largely free education in Nigeria. We’re 100% Nigerians-owned and the founders are grads of the Nigerian university system (FUT, Owerri) – give us a challenge!

We will create total (direct/indirect) jobs of 50,000 and save at least $2 billion for Nigeria.

Update: Intermittent network availability is not a problem when the trucks are moving across cities. Our sensors have in-memory microprocessors which have capacities to retain information and then push them via different gateways once a network is established. The data transmitted is “text” [not video, not image]  and the cost is negligible.

Response to questions on possible cloud latency on my post yesterday.

Some questions on our technology which ensures 100% revenue assurance with zero financial leakage in the downstream oil & gas sector. A key one is network issues where say an attendant completes a shift at 1pm and his supervisor is closing it, reconciling money at hand and total fuel dispensed in the pump. We have intelligent software agents which ensure that you are reconciling well. 

The payment part is always up to date but you can have small delays from the tank sensors. If that happens, you will see a notification on the dashboard, telling you the last volume records and informing you that sensors in the pump have that data in the memory and will update them once the network connection is re-established. And once that happens, you will see data before the 1pm as in-memory chips keep data and ensure you have solid system integrity.

This process will not affect the next shift as the technology is bi-directional which has intelligence in both directions. From productive sites

Our technology has the ability to reconcile in seconds all subsidy volume delivery, payments with where the diesel, petrol, kerosene, etc are located across Nigeria within 5 minutes on Mr. President’s desk. 

Building the Operating System for Payment in Nigeria’s Downstream Sector

Tracking on Smartphone

With our technology, when that truck loads in the depot, and moves across your locations, to drop petrol, via your smartphone, you can see the path, the volume, where the next stop is programmed to be, and more. We’re bringing uncommon transparency in Nigeria’s downstream oil and gas sector. We do not just track trucks, we also track the liquid content. As everything is happening, we are reconciling payment transactions!