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John Adoyi

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Indexed articles, last 90 days
26
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Sep 30, 2026
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Top 500K sites
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Jul 16, 2026

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  1. Article · Sep 30, 2026 · John Adoyi

    How 297 job applications led Bode Roberts to build Dataleum (opens the original)

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    When Bode Roberts struggled to break into the workforce, he realised the problem was not his drive; the system itself was broken. So, instead of waiting for a seat at someone else’s table, he built his own. In his latest My Life in Tech feature, JOHN ADOYI chronicles how Roberts turned years of job-hunting silence into Dataleum, an award-winning EdTech platform transforming African talent into a global export. 297 applications. 48 interviews. Three years without a job. For Bode Roberts, co-found

  2. Article · Sep 28, 2026 · John Adoyi

    Nigeria can build solar power plants, but funding remains elusive (opens the original)

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    Nigeria has demonstrated that distributed renewable energy can successfully expand electricity access beyond the national grid. Through the Nigeria Electrification Project (NEP), private developers built 180 solar hybrid mini-grids across 23 states, connecting over 146,000 households and deploying 19.2MW of renewable capacity. However, the fundamental challenge is no longer technical viability—it is securing sustainable, scalable financing. Despite these advancements, as of 2024, only 62.5% of N

  3. Article · Sep 24, 2026 · John Adoyi

    Could AI threaten humanity? 8 Africans weigh the risks (opens the original)

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    It sounds like the plot of a science fiction movie, but in 2026, the question is being taken seriously by some of the people building the technology. As AI systems become more capable of reasoning and carrying out tasks with less human input, concerns are growing about what happens when humans can no longer fully control them. Jacob Coxon, a former researcher at Anthropic, recently resigned from Anthropic, warning that AI companies are racing towards self-improving systems and “gambling with our

  4. Article · Sep 24, 2026 · John Adoyi

    How Africa’s AI boom is leaving 100 million disabled citizens behind | TechCabal (opens the original)

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    Over 100 million Africans live with a disability, yet local sign languages, speech accents, and street layouts are virtually absent from global AI models. JOHN ADOYI, in this feature, writes about the Hub for AI and Disability Inclusion (HAIDI) and the African Disability Data Network (ADDN): the new pan-African coalition building the data rails needed to fix AI’s disability desert. When Francis Elendu, a secondary school teacher in Enugu, in southeastern Nigeria, wants to go out, he picks up his

  5. Article · Sep 15, 2026 · John Adoyi

    This blind Nigerian founder uses AI to create her visual designs (opens the original)

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    Omolara Daniel sits at her laptop, describing the logo she wants in painstaking detail. She tells an AI tool what she wants the design to look like, waits for it to generate the image, then asks the tool to describe what it has produced. If the description does not match the picture in her mind, she prompts it again. When she is satisfied, she sends the design to a friend for a final check. Daniel is blind. She cannot see the logo she has just created. “I just enjoy doing this. It is becoming so

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