Today is Father's Day, and at Techcrier we want to take a moment away from the news cycle to celebrate a category of person that does not get nearly enough credit in the technology conversation: the Nigerian dad who quietly became the household's first IT support.

The one who bought the first desktop computer in 2004 and told everyone not to touch it, then spent the next six months explaining why nobody should open emails from strangers. He is the one who figured out DSTV installation by trial, error, and a lot of very specific phone calls. He is the one who set up the WiFi router, wrote the password on a piece of paper that has since been laminated, framed, and placed in three different rooms of the house because every visitor asks for it within ten minutes of arriving.

He is the dad who does not always understand what you do for work when you say you work "in tech," but who forwards you every article about technology he comes across, usually with a voice note that says "see this thing, is it real?" He is curious, even when the technology confuses him. He is proud of you, even when he cannot pronounce the name of your company. He is the reason many of us grew up believing that figuring things out was always worth the effort.



To the dads who bought the first family phone and guarded it like a national asset. To the ones who discovered WhatsApp in 2016 and have not stopped sending good morning messages since. To the ones running small businesses on their phones, navigating POS machines, and sending money transfers at midnight because that is when the network is least stressful. To the retired civil servants who now manage entire family group chats with an authority and consistency that most corporate communications teams could learn from.

To the dads building companies, writing code, driving for Bolt and inDrive to keep the school fees covered, farming with one eye on weather alerts and the other on commodity prices, and showing up every day in ways that do not always make the headlines but matter more than most things that do.

Happy Father's Day from everyone at Techcrier, you are more important to this story than you know.