It was 7 pm on November 22, 2019, a warm Friday evening at Chartwell Hotel, Bauchi. Guests kept pouring into a 50-capacity hall adorned with beautiful ornamental designs, with sounds from the loudspeaker signaling the event had started. Then came Olayemi Olaniran, one of the event organizers frantically walking out…

Google Developer Group (GDG)& Google Cloud Developer Community in Bauchi are two communities that have pushed the technology communities in Bauchi state (Nigeria) out of the box and consistently inspiring new members to get out of their comfort zones and grow. Our success stories can be found in the successes…

Over the past 2 years, Bauchi in Bauchi State, Northeastern Nigeria has seen an increase in Tech meetups and communities. During almost every weekend, there is a meetup happening somewhere in the city and UpliftHub hosts most of them. The communities that are based in or hosts their events/meetups at UpliftHub includes: Google Developer Group (GDG) Bauchi Digital Ocean Bauchi Facebook Developer Circle Bauchi

On October 13, 2017, the first Hacktoberfest meetup in Bauchi was held at UpliftHub with 20 participants in attendance. 50 % of the participants were new to Git and 90% had never contributed to Open Source in any form. The meetup started by introducing the participants to Git, how they…

It all started in May 2015 with the approval to establish a Google Developer Group (GDG) in Bauchi, by DevRel team of Google SSA. I was the Lead organizer and I invited Fidelis Okafor, Racheal Onoja, Olayemi Olaniran and Mallam Umar Saleh Gwani as organizers to strengthen the group. We…

Hello World! Its good to be back to writing again. Aside from tweets, Facebook posts and comments, I’ve not written any content online for more than a year. I like to say I’ve been busy with work, but lets just say I haven’t really been managing my time properly and…