Made In Nigeria Tech Podcast

Hello guys, Ace & Silm again with the MINT podcast. We just clocked 20 episodes young old. Pardon us as we started this episode lamenting how short a week is, ordinary 7 days Lol.

This episode was quite fast & furious and our brake lights came on for the first time when we talked about this tweet making waves by Wes Bos and someone said Nigerian like jumping on things like Danfo, let's find him!! The replies to the tweet made it even more emotional & there's someone making a joke about 'the Nigerian Prince' in there. Smh.

Ryan Hoover, Founder of Product Hunt did us the honours and announced that we will be having our own very first Product Hunt Meetup in Lagos, May 20th. To be honest, this has been in the works for a while, powered by your favourite MINT Podcast :) You can RSVP here

We went on to drop a long list of meetups & events coming up. Long enough to burn our nitro out haha.

In another exciting episode of the Made in Nigeria Tech Podcast we are back to our short episodes you love so much. We talked about the new Andela Office, a place called the Epic Tower.What do we think? Epic indeed! Pictures are everywhere on the internet 😉.

As usual, it was an event packed weekend, from Android Learning Community to the DotNet Ragnarok meetup - very exciting.

We have cool apps riding the waves, this time one on the twitter wave called Timeline Expert. Timeline Expert is a game of some sorts that feeds you tweets from your twitter timeline and you have to pick which account tweeted it from four options (No guessing pls). What do we think? Super Addictive, Interesting & no bugs nor any of those underworld code-aliens :) Uber and Taxify at war and how it benefits users and the drivers alike.True talk here. Real life story.

The 18th episode of the Made In Nigeria Tech Podcast came with a big guest - Neo! Neo Ighodaro is the CTO of hotels.ng & Founder of Creativity Kills. He also writes for Pusher & Scotch.io

In terms of experience, Neo has about 12years under his belt & he took us along as he relived how he started out at the beginning from Secondary School and even telling us a cool story somewhere along. After his personal story, we got to talk about the tech community in Nigeria; the popular hotels.ng internship, Laravel meetup (another story came up here again haha)

Graphics design? Server-side? Cyber-cafe? Yahoo-yahoo? We have it all in this episode! Listen along and realize why they say Neo is the one’

Alert, ALERT, ALAT!! - No typo. Wema bank just launched Alat - A 100% digital bank. Wawuu, amaze-balls right?

You can create an account & get started once you download the app from either the App Store or Play Store. What do you need? BVN number, any utility bill & a regulatory ID Card (International Passport, Driver's License or Permanent Voter's Card) and #Dazall. You can deposit into the account by transferring from other bank's cards or walking into any Wema bank branch nationwide. It also comes with an ATM Card of it's own they claim will be delivered to your doorstep - for free! Listen to the episode and catch much more drifts.

Before we ended this episode, we made a quick announcement of the new Writerack update. It's really cool, you should check it out & we already talked about them & a couple of other tools on MINT 003.

Aisha Bello (@AishaXBello) is a tech enthusiast & Pythonista. She is also an organizer of PyLadies & DjangoGirls - Communities we talked about in MINT 005. She graduated from Bells University of Technology in 2013, after which she furthered her education in Information Technology at Cardiff Metropolitan University.

She took us through how she got started in tech (did somebody say Mavis Beacon?), her story in Bells which came with a couple of up & downs as usual (talk about programming on paper), her bootcamp at Andela which properly 'started' her tech career, her Masters story (where she found her passion in data) & a lot lot more.

Hello guys! Welcome to the 15th episode of MINT Podcast.

In this episode, as the title implied, we are taking things slow for this episode. We had some technical issues delivering this week's episode but here we are. We gave a quick talk about the last couple of guests we had on the show, an exciting article on Distributed Learning in Africa by Babajide Duroshola and Solomon Osadolo's ForLoop Nigeria Newsletter. Leaving us much to look forward to in the next episode :)

We had the honour to welcome Babajide Duroshola on this episode. @Babajiide is currently a Community Manager at Andela & a Tech Evangelist :) He walked us through his journey of switching jobs at Andela and highlighted some perks that comes with the new position.

Before we ran out of time, we managed to get him to talk about the future of UX Design in Andela & his opinion on the 'Mentor-Mentee' talk that has been going on for a while.