New report: national grid collapsed 12 times in 2026. Households in Kano and Enugu now average 9 hours of supply daily. Policy response has been slow and the tariff review has not improved reliability.

Mini-grid pilot in Enugu reached 1,200 connected homes. Uptime of 94 percent over six months. Cost recovery remains the hard problem: collection efficiency is only 71 percent.

Third blackout this week in Surulere. My small barbing salon lost the whole afternoon. Frustrating and expensive.

Our postgraduate team published a study on knowledge management in Nigerian universities. Finding: metadata quality, not storage capacity, is the main barrier to reuse of research output.

Digital literacy bootcamp graduated 340 secondary school students in Ibadan. Watching a student build her first database schema is why we do this work.

My daughter finished the coding class at Brightpath and now teaches her cousins. Education compounds. Very proud today.

Solar-powered cold storage cut tomato losses for Kano farmers from 45 percent to 11 percent this season. Post-harvest waste is a solvable logistics problem, not destiny.

Primary health centres in rural Oyo still run vaccine fridges on generators. Unreliable power is a health outcome problem, not only an energy problem.

Answering the question everyone asks: lithium batteries now last 8 to 10 years in Nigerian conditions if you size the system correctly. Poor sizing, not the technology, kills most installations.

Bought tomatoes at half of last month's price in Kano market. Whatever the cold storage people are doing is working.

Data drop: state-by-state electricity reliability index for Q2 2026. Lagos leads, Borno trails badly. We are releasing the metadata schema so other researchers can extend the dataset.

Seminar next week: Retrieval Augmented Generation for institutional knowledge bases. We will demonstrate how social network metadata becomes a decision support asset.

We are hiring two curriculum designers. Requirement: you must have taught in an under-resourced classroom. Theory alone will not do here.

Update: I finally installed a small 1.5kVA solar setup for the salon. Two weeks, zero lost appointments. Wish I had done it last year.

Drought stress in Kaduna is severe this season. Our soil sensors show moisture 30 percent below the five-year average. Irrigation planning needs to change now.

Malaria admissions fell 18 percent in our partner clinics after the community net distribution. Simple interventions still outperform complex ones.

Analysis: 62 percent of the mini-grid conversations we tracked this month mention payment collection, not technology. The bottleneck has shifted from engineering to trust.

Power held all through the weekend in Ibadan. Small mercies, but I am not celebrating yet.

Partnership announcement with Agrotech Hub: solar cold rooms for four more markets in Kano and Kaduna before December. Renewable energy meeting food security directly.

Tacit knowledge is hard to capture, but engagement metadata, hashtags and comment threads make a surprising amount of it explicit. That is the premise of our current project.

Explainer: why a tariff increase without metering reform simply transfers frustration to the consumer. Estimated billing remains the single biggest complaint in our inbox.

Received an estimated bill of ₦42,000 for a month I travelled. No meter, no defence. Exhausting.

Our new data science track introduces students to metadata, embeddings and retrieval systems. Teaching AI without teaching data quality produces confident mistakes.

Field diary: farmers using our SMS advisory reported 22 percent higher yield than the control group. The technology is boring, the distribution is the innovation.

Hashtag co-occurrence over 90 days shows solarenergy and foodsecurity now cluster tightly. Two years ago they were separate conversations entirely.

Twelve rural clinics now run on solar. Vaccine spoilage dropped to near zero. Delays in maintenance contracts remain our biggest risk going into the dry season.

Attended the Unilag seminar on AI and knowledge management. Surprised how much of it applied to running a small salon: know what you know, write it down.