“I have observed something else under the sun. The fastest runner doesn’t always win the race, and the strongest warrior doesn’t always win the battle. The wise sometimes go hungry, and the skillful are not necessarily wealthy. And those who are educated don’t always lead successful lives. It is all decided by chance, by being in the right place at the right time.”
Ecc 9:11 (NLT).
Or as the wise Yoruba saying goes:
“Obo ko ni skill, igi sunmo igi ni”
(The monkey has no exceptional skill, if the trees are not located near each other).
Essentially, success in life is not always about skill or strength or money or education or anything else- many times in life, success can simply be a function of being at the right place at the right time.
I still don’t understand something.
Why are PhD students in Nigeria paying school fees?
PhD is not school in the normal sense.
It’s research work.
You’re producing knowledge.
You’re teaching undergrads.
You’re publishing papers.
You’re raising the university’s ranking.
In every sane system:
– PhD students are funded
– Their tuition is covered
– They are paid stipends for research and teaching
In Nigeria? We treat the highest level of knowledge production like a burden instead of an investment.
You can’t starve research and expect innovation.
Education in Nigeria is just upside down.
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I genuinely think that China is already a thousand years into the future. But because they don’t want to raise suspicion, they simply play along. And then, once in a while, they release something like this, some casual display of technological absurdity, that reminds you they are not on the same technological rat-race like the rest of the world. They own the course.
I had a female roommate who badged into my room one night and said her boyfriend want to beat her. She was crying, so I asked what happened, and she said he wanted to beat her becuse he claimed she took some of his weed he had plan to sell.
I confronted the guy, and he said he didn’t touch her. Keep in mind, he was about 6’4”.
The next morning, I heard her telling my brother’s girlfriend that nothing really happened and that it was just a small quarrel.
That made me angry, so I asked her why she would say that after running into my room crying and scared. She turned on me, started attacking and insulting me, and told me to mind my business. I left her alone.
Two years later, she had twins with him. He already had five other children with different women and only sells weed for a living. Women are the architect of their problems.
I hate how theft has been normalized in the Nigerian culture. Offices oh, businesses oh, in the home front oh. Everyone is trying to steal and take advantage of people. The kinder you are, the more of a mumu you are - they will show you pepper.