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| Peller (Nigerian Content Creator) |
If you have read the books Tipping Point (Malcolm Gladwell) or The Power of Habits (Charles Duhigg), or if you have followed my articles in the last 8 years, especially since 2024, when I got back from the UK, I have consistently written about two important factors in changing a geographic region: CORNERSTONE HABITS & TIPPING POINT.
I am a firm believer that change will only come when people are first informed of the truth, and then allowed to make the right decision at the inflection/tipping point- what people call ''the last straw that broke the camel's back''.
[On the contrary, if they unfortunately choose to continue in willful ignorance and falsehood, change will still come in the form of judgment- when God says ''their cup is full''; ''their time is up''.]
SO, HOW IMPORTANT IS THE ''CORNERSTONE''?
When you want to build a skyscraper, you never start above. Nah. You start from the chief cornerstone in its foundation.
If you want to deliver a demon-possessed person, you will get the cornerstone issue that gives the demon legal right over them.
Ditto if you want to change history, you don't start from the top, you start from "Cornerstone issues''. For example, Jesus is the chief cornerstone in the foundation (Eph 2:20) of how Christianity has changed the world over the last 2000 years. As God, he could have forced a top-down approach from heaven on humanity, instead, he came to live as a man on earth- doing things properly, as he should, thereby fulfilling all righteousness.
We must go to the root of problems to solve them. This is 2026; we must use technology (including AI) to drive the positive change that we want to see, not only to make more money.
HOW CAN THIS BE APPLIED TO AFRICA?
In the book "The Power of Habits'', Charles Duhigg explains the importance of KEYSTONE HABITS in changing a people, a corporation, or a country.
Of particular note is their importance in;
i) Creating Momentum: They shift your mindset and build behavioral consistency, making other positive changes require less willpower.
ii) Sparking Chain Reactions: Changing one core routine (e.g., morning exercise) can subconsciously improve other areas (e.g., diet and sleep).
iii) Reducing Friction: With an easy anchor activity/routine, decisions are automated. You no longer need to think before acting, thereby eliminating overthinking, decision fatigue and analysis paralysis.
Since the advent of Social Media, Tech has been an EASY tool for change. It is our work to find keystone habits for black Africans till we see the positive change we require, not just use (''being online''/social media) apps as passive consumers.
Nigeria's Practical Examples of Habit Changes: THE YORUBAS VALUED THEIR NAME ABOVE MONEY,...UNTIL THEY MET THE IGBOS
When I was growing up as a Yoruba in SouthWest Nigeria, I was taught that a typical Yoruba person values their name above wealth. In fact, the Yorubas lived simple no matter how wealthy they were- we never had a practice of ostentatious show-off despite global consumerism. That has since changed with the increasing number of Igbos living among us. Even if you are blind, by the time you have seen multiple big cars or mansions acquired by an Igbo person who, for example, arrived in Lagos from a South-East village just five years prior with absolutely nothing, you will begin to question the wisdom of your Yoruba elders who prioritize a good name over material wealth. lol
[If you were ostentatious, an envious Yoruba witch or wizard could kill/destroy you. Therefore, living simple in Yoruba land was necessary for survival -"Ti isu eni ba ta, a ma fi owo bo je ni".]
The Igbo people like to show off. No! They absolutely love to show off, in the same way the Yorubas love to party. You can even say that they live to show off and oppress their neighbours. Even now, they organise parties better than the Yorubas to further display wealth & oppress.
No other tribe in Nigeria beats the Igbos at this (-and we have more than 300 tribes, including the 3 major ones)! Whenever they are at work, you might catch them dressed casually, but look beyond that to their ''trophy wife'' and vacations abroad and material wealth display...if you don't begin to question your purpose in life, your Yoruba wife will make you do that as she stresses your life out. looool
[Note: At first, that was ok/didn't bother us much, but then it became a societal cancer when they now started to do all sorts just to make money (including kidnapping, money rituals, counterfeiting drugs, goods/IP theft, IT scams, etc) while the society looked the other way or even celebrated it. All of these simply to display opulence and oppress their neighbours?!
And that cancer has spread particularly to the Yoruba youths who now engage in ''yahoo-yahoo'' (IT/Internet scams) & ''Yahoo Plus'' (rituals) among other vices, to keep up with the Joneses. If you live simple, or don't pursue money like a hamster in a wheel, people think you are a fool.
The argument of the Igbos is that they are trying to make a name for themselves in Nigeria post-civil war, especially with how Nigeria ostracizes them. But at what cost? The Igbos are practically burning down the house to smoke out a rat, while the Yorubas simply ''ja pa'' to escape the problem, like the proverbial ostrich burying its head in the sand.
Sharia was deceptively added into their 1999 military Constitution (and Obasanjo, the Judiciary & HoA, looked away at the illegality). Today, the Boko Haram zealots believe the country is theirs for the taking since they got away with that illegality. I hope OBJ is happy in Ota at this ''2026 Nigeria''?
Sharia was not in our Constitution originally in 1960. It is like adding Sharia into the American Constitution in 2020 and expecting every American to swallow it, hook, line & sinker. Yet, someone will say- Dr Siji, why are you always calling Nigerians docile fools? Am I supposed to be celebrating what they have turned my country into?
And for those asking- ''Siji, what about the Hausa/Fulani tribes?'' They are mostly too married to the negative aspects of their Arabic religion (aided by the duplicitous British) to think straight about what constitutes ''Progress'', ''Justice'', ''Decent standard of living'' for the average Nigerian...as if the average Arab in Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi and UAE are paupers living as they do in Northern Nigeria. Or, do you see Almajiri children on any streets in those Middle Eastern countries? Even their Elites send their children to Western Universities, yet Boko Haram/Taliban wants us to live as Mohammed lived in 620AD.]
APPS ALREADY CHANGING AFRICA & APPS FOR THE FUTURE - WHY PELLER IS NOT AN OLODO!
In 2011, the Arab Spring uprising in Egypt, Tunisia, etc, was a tipping point that made politicians, globally, start taking Social Media apps seriously. Tiktok, Twitter/X, Meta's Whatsapp/Facebook/Instagram, and many others have learnt and perfected the information I've presented above to the point that our use of those apps is now effortlessly addictive.
Moreover, the 2020 Pandemic made everyone take ''online'' seriously. We even have remote jobs now, while some prefer hybrid jobs.
Today, Content Creators make so much money that Tiktok and Facebook now essentially pay everyone who can generate tons of traffic with their personal account/SM handles (i.e. they want every single account to automatically be a SM influencer).
There was even an ''Olodo debate'' last week, with some questioning how an uneducated online content creator -Peller (Habeeb Hamzat)- will make more money than those who went to a physical university or who have offline jobs. That is the power of the internet/apps. That is the economic future those critics failed to see, as they continue to live in the past: CONSUMING TECHNOLOGY PASSIVELY, instead of using it for change in their country. They are the actual illiterates, not Peller!!
Peller simply appeals to a KEYSTONE HABIT of laziness & passivity in Nigerian youths. He is wise, but are you?!
Finally, the apps we are creating henceforth are for making a positive change around us... till we see the Nigeria we believe in; the Nigeria God told us about. Moreover, it never ends at the cornerstone- it continues from there. We build PARALLEL. Amen. As Evil people don't relent, we also cannot go to sleep.
AFRICAN APP IDEAS FOR THE FUTURE (30th June, 2026)
MINE
1. I have just created WATTWIZE, an app to help you save energy costs and ensure PHCN/IKEDC/your Energy company does not steal your money in your prepaid account. It should be ready on Play store in 2 weeks. You can also use it to monitor your smart plug & solar system set-ups.
[Note: it has an offline LLM model (Gemma 4-E2B-int)...in case you don't have internet on your phone.]
2. We are also almost through creating - Glohsen- an app to ensure Africans can teach any difficult topic in the world by converting it into a game, quiz, mind map or flash card.
We should launch that fully soon.
OTHER APP IDEAS
3. African DEFENSETECH apps- for your physical/offline defense, using African Science.
4. African SAFETY/SURVIVAL apps - in case you are in an African forest/remote area & need to survive. You can also map your forests/farms so that you can fish out those BH kidnapper bastards living in them.
5. Apps that can bypass the internet...in case the FGN shut down the internet all over Nigeria very very soon i.e. your phone can connect even if you are offline.
You want to organise a REVOLUTION? Be smart. This is 2026, my dear!
[VPNs, Antivirus, and cybersecurity apps also come in here. All the apps that I create can usually work without the internet.]
6. Apps that can still work if your phone battery is very low (1%) or dead or switched off. For example, my alarm still works even when my phone is switched off.
7. BCI (Brain-Computer Interface) apps that can work while inside your body, thereby bypassing the need for a phone.
Think Elon Musk's Neuralink, Blackrock's Neurotech, Paradromics, Synchron, etc.
[Note: The Antichrist will be able to launch the MARK using this tech, very very very soon. Brace up for that.]
8. Finally, African PHARMACEUTICAL apps- for documenting the herbal power of the leaves in Africa.
[Note: Pharmakeia could be interpreted as ''Witchcraft''. In the past, a pharmacist/herbalist was seen as performing wizardry/witchcraft using the power of leaves...lol. Let your app document the power of African ''tewe tegbo''.]
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