if u offer me a sincere apology & change ur behavior, I'll never bring up our past issues again. But if no apology was given and ur still repeating mistakes, u can't ask me to stop mentioning the past. The "past" is actually the present if u haven't changed.
One of the major lessons here has been how even the highly educated elite is using Arday's "downfall" as a Trojan horse. They are laundering their anti-Black prejudice under the guise of academic integrity.
The usual suspects leading this charge are using Arday as a battering ram against diversity initiatives. They have deliberately tied the legitimacy of all Black academia to one man's success, creating a dynamic where his isolated failings are now used as a systemic indictment of an entire community.
They are trying to gatekeep their racial-elite spaces by using the weapon that has worked for their ancestors before them.
How many White academics have done worse? How many have been used to indict the entire White academic community and question their place in universities? They are treated as just "a few bad apples".
They have, including all other privileges, the right to fail as individuals and individuals alone.
By all means investigate Arday, but when you start masking your racial resentment behind a sudden devotion to academic standards, that is just modern segregation acting exactly as it is intended.
Best in father, but your wife was having to wake up by 4am, heavily pregnant to cook for you so that you will not beg for food at work.
If you don’t leave this place.
I genuinely hate coming to Ibadan. Every person I ever interact with here is finding a way to scam. 6k for a 13min Keke ride, as how? And this is how almost every interaction goes. It's so frustrating everything is visit.
I think every student who graduates with a First Class from any Nigerian university should have 100% of their school fees refunded, plus a ₦1 million excellence bonus.
I came across a similar incentive model in the Netherlands, and it made me think.
Imagine the message it would send: Hard work pays. Excellence is rewarded.
Instead of only celebrating academic success with certificates, why not attach real value to it?
It could fundamentally change how many students approach their education.
Tyrion was very rubbish at strategizing. He failed everytime he tried bar once. The siege of meereen, capturing the zombie abi wight, westeroos, casterly rock. The battle of blackwater was the only time he shone. His tactics were no good outside Westeroos.