Today I received the Report of the Presidential Panel on the Reform of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS). We constituted the Panel as a result of public outcry and various media reports on allegations of human rights violations perpetrated by officers and men of SARS.
I didn't get to go to NYSC with my set and didn't want to sit at home waiting for the next batch. I got a 'summer' job at ISW and have spent the last 15 years building foundational payments infrastructure across Africa.
Come join the rockstar Product team at Paystack!
We're looking for PMs that'll help us achieve our ambitious goals to expand across the continent; apply here >>>>
Our focus on expanding into new markets is a testament to our commitment to your business growth🌍💪
Save the date for our upcoming webinar, where we'll explore how this can propel your business forward. See you there!
Keynote Speaker: For 15+ years, Khadijah (
@kdxxl
) has worked in the Fintech and Payments space, working across Operations, Business Provess Re-Engineering, Strategy, Expansion and Product Management
@OxfordSBS
Calling all Product Managers!
The State of Product Mgt report for 2022 is now underway.
If you’re a PM working out of Africa, please take this survey, it’ll only take a few minutes 🙏🙏🙏
Heartbreak that made me fail my 2nd semester 300 level exams smh. Anyway affliction shall not arise a second time...my heart is now like pomo, unbreakable 💃
If you’re a Product Manager working out of any country in Africa, please fill out this 5-minute survey that's aimed at uncovering key insights about PM practices on the continent.
Thank you!
#Prdmgmt
🚀 We're excited to announce the Paystack CLI, which helps software developers set up, run, and manage Paystack integrations right from the terminal!
THREAD 👇🏾
This thread articulates why it’s so hard to give prescriptive answers when it comes to Product Management.
The answer to everything is almost always ‘it depends’ and that is why the most important question is ‘what are you trying to achieve’?
@adetolaov
Taking a 'holiday job' at Interswitch pre-NYSC instead of waiting to serve at Exxon Mobil. Ended up spending 10 years there and kickstarting my career as a PM in payments.
We are excited to announce that our next Northern Founders Program masterclass is scheduled to hold on Wednesday, 8th of May, 2024 with Khadijah Abu
@kdxxl
. The masterclass is centred on Startup Growth and Expansion. The time scheduled for this class is 7.00 pm - 8.00 pm WAT.
The Paystack folks had the privilege of catching up with some of the amazing people building for Ghana last weekend.
Looking forward to more exciting wins!
"There is nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency something that should not be done at all"
~Peter Drucker
Dear PM, that (meaningless) thing you're building, should you really continue building it or should you pull the plug now?
PSA: Don’t let anyone shame you for wearing a mask, gloves or not touching anything when you’re out. Let them say you’re doing the most. It’s better to be dramatic than to be infected or dead
🇰🇪 Hi team — we’re thrilled to announce that Paystack is now out of private beta, and available to all businesses in Kenya!
We’re excited to bring our payments and growth tools to even more ambitious businesses across Africa.
[Thread 🧵]
In our family Whatsapp group, my mom is only allowed to send forwarded messages on Fridays. It's always so funny when she unleashes them on Friday mornings, you can tell she had been saving them up all week 😂😂😂
So based on this new CBN fee regime, as a payer, when I want to pay a merchant, it’ll cost me:
-N0 to withdraw and pay N20,000 cash;
-N50 to pay N20,000 via a POS (the merchant will likely have passed this cost to me);
-N25 to transfer N20,000.
Meet Khadijah Abu
@kdxxl
Head of Product
@paystack
& organizer of
@ProductTankLag
From Customer Support to Ops, Software Testing, Technical Sales, now PM, she's seen it all.
Find out what it's like being one of the coolest Product Managers in
#fintech
👉🏽
Are you telling me that these people cannot produce just 1 person responsible for any of the murders in the past week? They really don't rate us
#SARSMUSTEND
Year's ago, the communities
@bfgmartin
built helped me navigate my career as a budding PM and I don't know how I would've survived without them.
I'll be moderating this session, so please join us tomorrow at 6pm. Trust me, you don't want to miss this one!
Our Speaker for tomorrow is
@bfgmartin
who in addition to helping companies deliver great products, is the Founder of
@producttank
and Co-Founder of
@MindtheProduct
– the world’s largest product management community with meetups in 200+ cities.
When you only build what your customers ask for, you are building for today.
Make time to understand the market opportunity so you can anticipate their future needs ~
@ezinneudezue
#mtpcon
Happy World Product Day to all the brilliant Product Managers focused on building solutions to make our lives easier!
Join me this evening at 7pm as we unpack Decision-making for PMs.
See you then!
#ProductTankLag
It’s World Product Day 🎉
We’re excited to host Colleen Graneto &
@JubrilJuma
at our virtual meet-up on “Making Strategic Decisions as a PM”.
Set your alarms for 7PM this evening and join the live stream here:
#producttanklag
🚀 We're excited to announce one of Africa's first direct payment integrations with
@Wix
.
African creators can now sell more online with one of the world's best commerce platforms.
(THREAD 👇🏾)
POS adoption declined by 30% in October. The effect of stamp duty payments or Nah? POS adoption declines by 30% in October. The effect of stamp duty payments or nah?
As a PM, you need to build up your Trust currency. Engineers need to trust that you have done your homework before coming to them and Stakeholders needs to trust that you are making the right choices. Otherwise, you will be second-guessed every step of the way
#prodmgmt
Hey everyone! Our next Product Mgt Meetup is at noon on August 31st.
Come hang out with other PMs and hear from
@opeadeoye
and
@ope_bukola
on what to do with an inherited product.
See you there!
RSVP >>>
Sugar Rush was a hilarious, hot mess of movie that had me laughing out loud almost all through. I'd like to ask the writers what they smoked before coming up with this storyline. Will 100% recommend.
If you're a Product Manager in Lagos, let's meet up next Saturday. This time, we'll be learning about Product Design...come through!
#prodmgmt
#ProductTank
Hey!
Join us and our host
@seamfixltd
to meet & learn from Henry Uku, Product Manager
@get_carbon
and
@fathermerry
Product Design Lead
@paystack
on how to effectively leverage design principles to create excellent customer experiences.
Register here :
It’s exactly 1 week to World Product Day!
On May 27, we’ll be hosting Colleen Graneto &
@jubriljuma
as they share their perspectives on "Making Strategic decisions as a PM" with us. This is one event you don’t want to miss.
Register :
#ProductTankLag
“Hello…"
"I’m here…"
"Can anyone hear me?"
"What is this meeting for?"
"Can somebody do a brief recap of why we are here? (30 minutes in)"
“Hello…"
Me:🤦♂️
Remember this the next time you're building a feature 'because a customer said so'. What people say is not as telling as what people do. Humans are unreliable
#mtpcon
If you've ever been curious about how some of the Fintech products you see around came into being, then this is for you.
I had super fun hosting this series and working with the best team to put it together, have a listen, follow
@DecodeFintechHQ
and tell me what you think!
🎉 Hi team, we're excited to announce the Decode Fintech Podcast - a monthly deep-dive discussion with the most innovative teams solving the biggest challenges in African fintech!
⚡️ Hi team, we’re hiring a Senior Product Manager who’s curious about our users’ pain points, and can help conceptualise, build and maintain products they’ll love ❤️
⏰ Application deadline: December 22
Kindly share with your network!
Loved hearing about the influence of Lagos and seeing the Lekki-Ikoyi bridge.
Well done to the Paystack team. Great news about the power of the youth in Lagos.
I understand that this is further proof of the importance of ending police brutality and allowing the youth thrive.
Being able to make smart decisions when working with a cross-functional team is a crucial part of being a great product manager.
Join us at 6PM on August 20 as we learn how to align teams to make better decisions, faster from
@bfgmartin
.
Register here:
I can't believe we've hosted 10 quarterly meetups over 2 years already! The PM community in Lagos is super inspiring 💜
Shoutout to our volunteer team
@nifemioluboyede
@TejuAdeyinka
@alaba_fadase
for all the work they do to make this happen 💜
Hey Everyone!
Thank you for joining us and our sponsor
@paystack
at ProductTank Lagos Meetup, it was truly a pleasure to have you around.
A recap of the event is here along with speaker decks
⚡️ Hi team, we're thrilled to announce Paystack Storefront - our most powerful Commerce tool yet - to help African creators sell more online, beautifully.
Isn't it high time banks provided an interface from their mobile/internet banking apps to enable customers log disputes on any transaction they have been debited for? I can't be reconciling which ones have been refunded and which ones are still pending via email everyday
Yo
@fkabudu
, This one who claims to be a legal person is saying the crowdfunding done on
@theflutterwave
is suspect. This is typical Nigerian parents behavior. They don't understand technology. If this is your mother, please educate her.