GovTech Specialist - TA - KTSG | Katsina Directorate of ICT | @katdict | Technology Solutions Manager

Joined June 2015
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Muhammad Khalil retweeted
A year ago, I presented my Hypertension Prediction App at the @PythonKatsina launch. This week, someone reached out and paid me to build a Diabetes Prediction App. Your work is speaking for you even when you don't realize it. Keep building and putting yourself out there.
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Successfully concluded the Modern AI Training Program for selected students of KSITM. Proud to have served as Project Lead on this initiative sponsored by the DG @9aufal Ahmad Foundation and facilitated by the @kebramtech Team through @CiscoNetAcad cc: @kebram @devkaahl
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Muhammad Khalil retweeted
Remove yourself from the mood swings of 23 year olds who have never made any important decisions or faced any consequences in their lives. It takes 759,646 flights landing safely before 1 crashes. Flights that landed safely never make the news but a plane crash always does.
I need happily married people to speak up more because the internet is making marriage look terrifying 😭
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The strongest people are not always the loudest. Some strength is calm, disciplined, and controlled. Quiet strength lasts longer. whatsapp.com/channel/0029Vb6…
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Do you have a big idea? Prove it. Applications for the OPay National Innovation Challenge 2026 is ongoing. Build. Innovate. Compete for the chance to become an OPay Scholar. See eligibility and everything you need to apply. Applications close June 14, 2026. OPayScholars2026
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I encourage all University students in Nigeria with a startup idea to please apply again. This is an extension of the Opay 1.2 billion naira scholarship fund A life changing opportunity to show the world what you’re truly made of. Reach out if you need help with your application
Proud to announce my role as ambassador for the 2026 @OPay_NG National innovation challenge in partnership with Google. We’re giving 18 million naira prizes and internship opportunities to undergraduates in Nigeria. Please apply here with your ideas and a team. Rooting for you
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Muhammad Khalil retweeted
2026 Update: Yesterday in Lagos, the commissioning by @jidesanwoolu X @taiwoyedele X @nsia_nigeria of a phase of the Kasi Cloud @KasiCloud Hyperscale Data Center Campus. (NSIA is an investor in the project) Construction started in 2022 (see below) Described as "West Africa's first hyperscale-ready, AI-capable, carrier-neutral data centre platform." Will, when completed, support up to 100MW of IT capacity for Nigerian businesses. Sits close to six subsea cable systems, including Equiano and 2Africa. Powered by a hybrid combo of gas, solar, and battery storage. (Second image is a rendering).
Replying to @toluogunlesi
Kasi Cloud Ltd broke ground on a new hyperscale data center in Lagos, Nigeria. 4 hectares of land acquired in Lekki, estimated investment of $250 million, with @nsia_nigeria among the investors. businesswire.com/news/home/2…
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Muhammad Khalil retweeted
I was going to build two websites for a multimillionaire. I am sure his business was making around 50 million a month. I sent an invoice of 1.8 million, but his assistant reduced it to 800k, saying Oga wouldn’t pay. When the invoice reached him, he called me personally and asked me to lower it to 600k, saying it was too high. I stood my ground, and we agreed on 400k for just one of the sites. On the day we launched the site, I joined their team celebration dinner. It lasted less than two hours, and the restaurant bill was 420k. He literally paid for a one-night dinner that cost more than what he paid me for three weeks of work When we wanted to buy a domain, the one he liked was $80, he paid for two years upfront, that's over 200k I realized he wasn’t concerned about the money; His goal was to keep me small.
I'll also say this as someone who grew up on the nice side of the barbed wire fences and high gates in the very nice part of town where the Nigerian 0.1% live - learn to touch grass and worry about yourself because rich people really do not care about you. Like, at all. The Nigerian rich don't even like each other. They barely tolerate one another and make practical alliances to preserve wealth and influence. And now that the economy is too small to support all the children of the Nigerian 0.1%, nearly everyone I grew up with in the nice, leafy part of town now lives in Toronto or London or wherever. You, Mr N250k/month Union Bank contract staff are not part of rich people's thinking at all. At. All. The rich have no plans for you. They have no plans to create opportunities for you. They have no plans to fix the things they broke on their way to building that N1bn townhouse in Parkview Estate. They have no plans to contribute towards making society better. If Satan came from Hell with a tail and horns growing out of his head and he ran for political office, the rich would all go make deals with him - because in the world of the rich, the only thing that matters is their own interests, and making sure that they never, EVER have to live like you or next to you. So all this simping and vicarious fawning over wealth and fame that you people do everyday is the most redundant thing in the world - the rich have no intention of expanding their circle to let you in, and they have no intention of enabling the conditions for you to create your own independent circle of wealth. The only thing the rich need from you is to be poor and obedient, so that your labour can be cheap, plentiful and replaceable. Statistically as a Nigerian, you will NEVER be rich or close to it. You will NEVER live in Maitama. 99.99% of Nigerians who have existed since 1960 have prayed and fantasised about becoming rich, and 99.99% of those prayers and fantasies never came true. That's just math. You will never be a rich and famous celebrity. You will never be a successful content creator. You will never make millions shilling crypto, trading Forex, sports betting, or whatever the fuck is the latest quick wealth fantasy in town. It's just not going to happen. That being the case, a much more constructive use of your time would be to fight for the material elevation of what you actually have, where you actually have it. Instead of daydreaming about the N300m house in Lekki that 3 generations of your family cannot buy, get involved in a local effort to give your own immediate neighbourhood a facelift, or a political campaign to pressure the state to build high quality social housing. If you hate being harassed without consequence online, instead of vicariously enjoying how a celebrity has used their wealth and influence to jail someone for making a horrid tweet, fight for a judiciary and legal system that is transparent and accessible to all, so that a singer living in the UK on a global talent visa doesn't get to have more access to your Nigerian justice system than you who lives in Nigeria 24/7. Instead of building your mental architecture around the false idea of being a "temporarily embarrassed millionaire" who will someday take your rightful place on Banana Island, touch grass tonight and accept that it will never happen, and what you need to do instead is fight for where you are to become a better, more liveable place that you no longer wish to escape from. Stop cosplaying as rich folk. Stop cooing and fawning over rich folk. Stop daydreaming about someday "blowing up" and buying a house next to Burna Boy. Rich people have no intention of sharing their world with you. Free yourself from the tyranny of living vicariously through people who don't care that you exist. Them no really send any part of your papa at all.
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Muhammad Khalil retweeted
Katsina State Governor Malam Dikko Umaru Radda, presided over the 8th Executive Council meeting in the newly renovated and upgraded State Executive Council Chamber following the completion of its renovation and upgrade works. Digital Malam.
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Lessons from Katsina Self-powered Digital Initiatives – THISDAYLIVE We serve as a central clearinghouse for all ICT projects, procurement of hardware, software development, training and change management,” he said. thisdaylive.com/2026/05/09/l…
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🌍 "Why don't you start one?" In four words, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu turned a moderator's question into a continental challenge from the main stage of the Africa CEO Forum Annual Summit in Kigali. 🛒 The question on the table was simple. Why does Africa, with all its commodity wealth spread asymmetrically across borders, still lack a continental exchange platform where producers and buyers can trade with one another rather than routing every transaction through external markets? Tinubu's answer turned the question back on the room. The continent's two largest economies, Nigeria and South Africa, have the scale, the volumes, the capital markets infrastructure and the political weight to launch precisely that platform. The case for waiting is increasingly difficult to defend. 📊 The numbers behind the provocation matter. Nigeria's non-oil exports to African markets grew 38% year-on-year in 2024. Intra-African trade is projected to climb from 15% in 2023 to 25% by 2030 under the AfCFTA framework. Cargo clearance times at major Nigerian seaports have already dropped by roughly 30% since 2023. The architecture for deeper intra-continental trade is being built piece by piece, but a continental commodity exchange would mark a qualitative leap, moving Africa from price-taker to price-setter on its own resources. 🤝 The deeper message is one of leadership by example. For years, the integration debate has been carried by communiqués and frameworks. Tinubu's challenge cuts through that. The two giants of the continent should stop debating who should move first and instead move together. That is what pan-African capitalism looks like when it stops being a slogan, African producers trading African commodities on African platforms, settled in African currencies. 🇷🇼 The question Kigali is putting on the agenda this week is no longer whether the AfCFTA will be implemented. It is who will dare to build its missing institutions. #ACF2026 #AfricaCEOForum
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Muhammad Khalil retweeted
20 things that make your VIBE CODED app a SINKING SHIP : 1/ no rate limiting on API routes > anyone can spam your backend into a $500 bill overnight 2/ auth tokens stored in localStorage > one XSS attack = every single user account compromised 3/ no input sanitisation on forms > SQL injection still works in 2026. your AI didnt tell you that. 4/ hardcoded API keys in the frontend > someone WILL find them within 48 hours of launch 5/ stripe webhooks with no signature verification > anyone can fake a successful payment event 6/ no database indexing on queried fields > works fine at 100 users. completely dies at 1,000. 7/ no error boundaries in the UI > one crash = white screen = user never comes back 8/ sessions that never expire > stolen token = permanent access to that account. forever. 9/ no pagination on database queries > one fetch loads your entire database into memory 10/ password reset links that dont expire > old email in someones inbox = instant account takeover 11/ no environment variable validation at startup > app silently breaks in production with zero error message 12/ images uploaded directly to your server > no CDN = 8 second load times massive hosting bill 13/ no CORS policy > any website on the internet can make requests to your API 14/ emails sent synchronously in request handlers > one slow SMTP server = your entire app hangs 15/ no database connection pooling > first traffic spike = database crashes 16/ admin routes with no role checks > any logged in user can access your admin panel 17/ no health check endpoint > your app goes down silently. you find out from a client. 18/ no logging in production > when something breaks you have zero idea where or why 19/ no backup strategy on your database > one bad migration = all your user data. gone. 20/ no TypeScript on AI generated code > AI writes confident, wrong, untyped code and you ship it anyway
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Muhammad Khalil retweeted
I hope other states from the north will look at how your leadership is changing creating jobs opportunities and boosting the state economy and put all into practice
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Muhammad Khalil retweeted
From home of hospitality to home of technology sooner. Have a visit to @katdict and see how far we have gone on E-government 🤗 #digitalkatsina
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Muhammad Khalil retweeted
Dear Lagos, this is good.
Lagos is positioning itself as West Africa’s digital hub, with more than 20 operational data facilities and a market valued at $374m this year, drawing global firms including Google.
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