News

• [Jul 2026] Selected among 7,000+ applicants to attend the Africa Everywhere Festival by Oge Elumelu.
• [Jun 2026] Speaking on Breaking into AI without losing your mind on a PyData Twitter Space. Recording here.
• [Jun 2026] Published an exhaustive analysis on the reality of real estate in Lagos State - findings and dataset.
• [May 2026] Team placed 2nd of 1,600+ teams at GTCO Squad Hackathon 3.0 with Recivo, winning $2,100. Work featured by UNILAG. Congrats Quadri, Abdulrahman and Shazily.
• [Apr 2026] Co-organized Building With AI - Rooted in Reality workshop with GDGoC UNILAG.
• [Mar 2026] Won 3rd place in the code track of the Raenest × DevCareer Hackathon with Setld.
• [Jan 2026] Wrote a retrospective on the past year.
• [Jan 2026] Joined the Core Team at GDGoC UNILAG on the Trainings and Competitions team. Co-founded a 50+ member Data Science study group.
• [Jan 2026] Joined Sourcing Sprints as a Talent Analytics and Sourcing Intern.
• [Jan 2026] Reached the final stage for a Data Analyst role at Stears, Africa's most comprehensive financial data & research provider. Couldn't proceed because I'm an undergrad.
• [Nov 2025] Spoke to 200+ high-school students about building with purpose and creating real impact at the YIBA Tech Up event.
• [Oct 2025] Launched Setld, the platform that revolutionises student housing in Nigeria - 4,000+ views and 100+ signups in two weeks with zero paid promotion. Launch post.
• [Oct 2025] Completed my Data Science Diploma from AltSchool Africa with a First Class.
• [Oct 2025] Got my first Data Science gig.
• [Sep 2025] Participated in the AltSchool Africa ML Hackathon and built Soma, a multiclass classification model that helps diagnose common communicable diseases.
• [Aug 2025] Completed my first year at University.
• [Aug 2025] Team won the 234 AI Hackathon with Curio, an adaptive e-learning platform, mid-exams. Congrats Quadri, Wisdom and Shazily.
• [Jul 2025] Published an A/B testing project on Reddit headline sentiment and engagement.
• [Jul 2025] Became a Bridge Program Fellow at the Afara Initiative.
• [Jun 2025] Team placed 4th at the CJID AI Hackathon with HealthRec, a platform that takes health data from smart devices and Google Fit further with AI-enhanced insights. Congrats Ugoeze.
• [May 2025] Published an EDA on ALX Nigeria learner outcomes.
• [Apr 2025] Completed a Python BootCamp from the Yomi Denzel Foundation.
• [Feb 2025] Awarded my first undergraduate scholarship from the FATE Foundation. Details.
• [Jan 2025] Completed the 100 Days of Code challenge.
• [Sep 2024] Started my Data Science Diploma at AltSchool Africa and my BSc Statistics at University of Lagos.
• [Aug 2024] Attended Fusion Tech Fest as a volunteer. Graduated from high school.
• [Sep 2023] Completed my internship at Microsoft ADC.
• [Aug 2023] Won 2nd at the Microsoft ADC Hackathon with Smartwaste Bin - an IoT device that detects bin fill levels with proximity sensors and optimises waste management routing.
• [Aug 2023] Selected from 5,000+ applicants nationwide to intern at Microsoft ADC - one of 20 high-school students chosen.