M.S Dalhatu

Data Scientist | MSc Data Science & Computational Intelligence | AI & Predictive Analytics | Fintech & Education Intelligence Enthusiast | Python • SQL • Machin

[Nigeria Stories @NigeriaStories]

“If I had to start afresh with ₦0.00, I’ll open a car wash; wash 40 cars daily with quality omo, that’s 40k daily, ₦1.2M monthly. Then hire boys, pay them 50% per wash, that’s ₦6M a month, then open branches, and start selling trucks of tomato and onions.”

~ CEO Sujimoto says

[Prof. Isa Ali Ibrahim, CON @ProfIsaPantami]

On the Necessity of Physical Exercise

[I Z A L A @el_uthmaan]

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*Professor Idris Bugaje wrote:*

A strange thing is happening in Nigeria.

A young man spends 20 years climbing the educational ladder.

6 years in primary school.
6 years in secondary school.
4 to 6 years in university.
1 year of NYSC.

By the time he is done, he has invested roughly 6,500 to 7,000 days preparing for life.

Then life arrives and asks a simple question:

“What problem can you solve?”

Silence.

Not because he is unintelligent.

Not because he is lazy.

But because somewhere along the journey, we confused education with certification.

We taught people how to pass exams, not how to create value.

Think about it.

An electrician who never attended university can walk into a building worth N500 million and confidently power every room from the foundation to the penthouse.

A graduate with multiple certificates may stand beside him unable to identify which wire powers the building.

One has credentials.

The other has capability.

The market pays for capability.

That is why reality often delivers a rude mathematical lesson.

If a graduate earns N100,000 monthly, that is N1.2 million annually.

A skilled technician charging N40,000 per job and handling just two jobs weekly earns over N4 million yearly.

Same country.

Different skills.

Different outcomes.

The tragedy is not that one earns more than the other.

The tragedy is that we keep preparing millions of young people for a race that no longer exists.

We celebrate admission lists like victory trophies.

We celebrate graduation photos like guaranteed employment letters.

Then we act surprised when hundreds of applicants compete for one vacancy.

Imagine 1,000 people chasing 10 jobs.

Basic mathematics says 990 people will be disappointed.

No motivational speaker can negotiate with arithmetic.

Yet we continue producing graduates faster than we produce opportunities.

That is like manufacturing keys without building doors.

The painful irony?

The people we once looked down on are increasingly becoming the people we depend on.

When your transformer fails at midnight, you do not call a philosophy graduate.

When your water stops running, you do not search for a political scientist.

When your air conditioner breaks in April heat, theory suddenly becomes less important than technical competence.

The economy has a brutal honesty.

It rewards usefulness more than status.

Nations that understood this long ago built prosperity differently.

They stopped asking only, “How many graduates do we have?”

They started asking, “How many builders, technicians, machinists, coders, welders, mechanics and innovators can we produce?”

There is dignity in intellectual work.

There is dignity in skilled labour.

The mistake is ranking one above the other.

A society that worships certificates while neglecting competence eventually discovers that framed documents cannot build roads, repair machines, wire factories, manufacture products or create wealth.

The future belongs to people who can solve problems.

Whether they learned it in a lecture hall, a workshop, an apprenticeship centre or under a mango tree is secondary.

Because at the end of the day, the market does not award marks.

It awards value.

And value has never asked to see anybody’s certificate before writing the cheque.

May Nigeria win 🇳🇬🇳🇬

Engr Prof IM Bugaje

Executive Secretary,
National Board for Technical Education (NBTE)

[RecruitmentPQ @RecruitmentPq]

Apart from graduation dates, here are other things to remove from your CV right now if you want to get hired:

[Allah Islam Quran @AllahGreatQuran]

Which of the favors of your Lord will you deny?

[Sir Kay @Rise_Forge]

Nigeria's problems can only be solved by Nigerians.🇳🇬👀

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[Dr Nabila Yusuf Ahmad/Uwar Marayu-Masoyiyar Annabi @NalhatNabila]

❌Why the North Keeps Bleeding 🩸 : the Truth We Can No Longer Ignore, The Root Causes of Northern Nigeria’s Insecurity, Before We Blame the Present, Let’s Confront the Past.
By Dr Nabila Yusuf Ahmad. [email protected]
The seeds for the current insecurity ravaging the North were planted long ago and will continue to geminate and bear negative fruits unless we uproot the seeds from the roots. Here I will like to identify a few negative trends responsible for the bleeding of the North. These must be squarely addressed if we must defeat this monster responsible for the bleeding of Arewa.
1. The Fulani Challenge: Historically the Fulani in Northern Nigeria is divided into two, the Nomadic Fulani loosely referred to as Fulanin Daji and the Fulani who reside in the townships or Fulanin Gida
There solution is to is to connect the two Fulani groups and design a template to end nomadism. This is an imperative not just a simple necessity. No group remains detached from governance and still feels obligated to obey the laws of the land. They must be resettled on a homeland, served by government like every citizen and be forced to operate within extant laws of the land.
2. Hausawa in Southern part of the country Over the years, the Hausa has moved all over the communities of the north down to the south as traders through vast and elaborate trade caravans. The ruling elite realized that micro nationalism is a short cut to political leadership. They began to promote a reverse discrimination that rejected each group as unwanted within communities where they had lived for more than a generation. Naturally each side resisted the status of strangers.
3. The North Silent time bomb The Almajiris. This is the biggest challenge for Arewa, but the easiest to address
4. The Daba Phenomenon and it’s variants:
Arewa cannot be peaceful unless our political class stop using thugs in the guise of “yan daba”
5. Drug Abuse as a Regional Emergency
6. The collapse of Quality Education
7. Widespread poverty
8. Corruption
9. Religious and ethnic intolerance
10. Rapid population growth
11. Weak parental guidance
12. Recruitment by extremist and criminal groups
13. Misinformation and hate speech
14. loss of trust between Communities, securities and the government.
15. Poor governance.

Few Solutions
1.Establish a Security Research and policy institute
2. Establish a Regional Early Warning and Response System.
3. Adopt Technology as a Force Multiplier.
4. Address Youth Unemployment as a Security Priority
5. Strengthen Intelligence Coordination
6. Secure Borders and Disrupt Criminal Supply Chains
7. Promote Justice and the Rule of Law
8. Counter Violent Extremist Ideologies
9. Institutionalise Transparency and Accountability
10. Strengthen Local Government and Community Policing Structures. Among others.

The success should be assessed through clear indicators such as reductions in kidnappings and bandit attacks, increased school attendance, lower youth unemployment, improved intelligence sharing, enhanced border security, and stronger public confidence in security institutions.
Ultimately, the success of the Arewa Security will not be measured by the amount of money raised, but by the lives saved, communities restored, businesses reopened, children returned to school, and confidence rebuilt across Northern Nigeria.
This is an opportunity to redefine security beyond weapons and warfare to make governance more responsive, institutions stronger, communities more resilient, and development more inclusive. If approached with vision, professionalism, accountability, and unwavering political commitment, these can lay the foundation for a peaceful, prosperous, and united Northern Nigeria for generations to come insha Allah.

[Usman Modibbo @DrModibbo1]

Back in 1996, as Graduate Assistants at ATBU Bauchi, an elderly professor walked past us wearing shoes so worn out they looked like they had sworn never to touch the ground again, paired with what he said were his daughter's NYSC socks. We greeted him, then stood in silence for about five minutes. My friend finally said in Hausa, "Wadannan fa su ne manyanmu, kuma nan gaba su muke so mu zama?" ("So these are our seniors, and this is what we hope to become?")
That day, we decided we would find businesses alongside our academic careers. By Allah's grace, we both eventually became professors.
The lesson remains relevant today: in Nigeria, many professionals need a legitimate source of income beyond their profession. May Allah continue to bless us all and make the path easier for everyone climbing the career ladder. Ameen.

[H’s mom @aiishadahir]

Imagine you are a Muslim and your child asks you: Why do we pray Dhuhr and Asr silently while we recite aloud in Maghrib and Isha?

(And you don't know the answer)

[Allah Islam Quran @AllahGreatQuran]

Some delays are actually protection. Some rejections are actually blessings. And some endings are actually Allah saving you.

[National Orientation Agency, Nigeria @NOA_Nigeria]

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[Sanusi Dantata @SasDantata]

"THE HISTORIC HAJJ TRIP OF ALHASSAN DANTATA

The first prominent Nigerian to perform the Hajj by sea was The Emir of Katsina Muhammadu Dikko in 1921.

The second was Alhaji Alhassan Dantata, reputed to be the wealthiest man then in the West African sub-region. The richest Black man in the world today, Aliko Dangote is his great-grandson.

On 1/4/1927, Alhassan Dantata left Kano with the following entourage:

1. Abdullahi, his eldest son
2. Yusuf, his younger brother
3. Adamu Bagwanje, his in-law
4. Bashari, his in-law
5. Abubakar, his in-law
6. Barau, his in-law
7. Abdulmumin, his in-law
8. Malam Madu, his close friend
9. Malam Adhama, his close friend
10. Abubakar, his servant
11. Balarabe, his servant
12. Malam Abubakar, his teacher
13. Malam Umaru, Babban Malami na Madabo, his teacher
14. Abdullahi, representative of Emir of Kano Abdullahi Bayero
15. Malam Usman Kambari, his uncle and teacher.

The entourage left Kano by rail to Lagos, then drove to Tema, Gold Coast (Ghana).

On 7/4/1927, they left Tema and arrived Liverpool port, United Kingdom on 21/4/1927 after 14 days at sea. They were received on arrival by officials of the Department of Colonial Affairs as well as Alhaji Alhassan's business partners (London and Kano Commercial Company). They rested at a comfortable lodge at Liverpool for one day.

The team left Liverpool and arrived London on 22/4/1927. King George V, father of Queen Elizabeth the Second (the princess was only one year old then) granted them a royal reception and accommodated them at the Buckingham Palace for two days.

They left London on 24/4/1927 for Marseille, France. They rested there for several days.

They left France by sea and arrived Cairo, Egypt on 7/5/1927. The following day, they left Cairo for Port Tawfeeq, Egypt, boarded a ferry and arrived Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, where they rested for two days.

On 16/5/1927, they put on their white shroud (ihram), left Jeddah for Makkah riding camels. On arrival, they performed Umrah even before lodging. An account says on sighting the Holy Ka'ba for the first time, Alhaji Alhassan broke into tears of joy, having fulfilled his life's ambition.

He donated a substantial amount of money to the Saudi authorities to assist in maintaining the Holy Mosque. He also made a grant to AIN ZUBAIDA, a charitable organization responsible for supplying drinking water to pilgrims and helping the needy.

After completing their Umrah and resting for 15 days at Makkah, they left for Madinah, a journey that took them two days. They visited the Holy Prophet's Mosque for one week, then returned to Makkah to await the time for the Hajj proper.

After completing the Hajj, Alhaji Alhassan asked for a list of all Nigerian pilgrims who had no means of returning home. 430 stranded pilgrims were identified and he paid for the passage of all of them.

The entourage returned to Madinah where Alhaji Alhassan assembled teachers and scholars at the Holy Prophet's Mosque for fervent prayers and Quranic recitation, after which he distributed charity to the needy. They left Madinah for Jeddah.

On 25/6/1927, they bade farewell to Saudi Arabia, left Jeddah by ferry to Port Tawfeeq, Egypt then drove to Alexandria in North Egypt. Then they left by sea to Marseille, France and proceeded to Liverpool, UK where they stayed for nine days conducting business transactions.

On 20/7/1927, the pilgrims left Liverpool and arrived Lagos, Nigeria on 5/8/1927, after 16 days at sea. They rested a few days there.

The entourage arrived Kano by train safely on 11/8/1927, concluding a journey of faith they started from 1/4/1927 to 11/8/1927 (131 days). In today's parlance, one would say they traversed Nigeria, Benin, Togo, Ghana, Atlantic Ocean, Canary Islands (Spain), Madeira (Portugal), UK, English Channel, France, Egypt, Red Sea, Saudi Arabia (a minimum of 10 countries & 3 seas).

May Allah have accepted their gigantic sacrifice by rewarding them with al-Firdaus, along with us too, amin."

[Nigerian Tribune @nigeriantribune]

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[M.S Dalhatu @DeeNyce2]

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[The Superior Man @superior_hombre]

Psychology Says You Can Sell Anything to Anyone...

if You Understand These 26 Rules: 🧵

[Sola Adesakin @SolaAdesakin]

If I had a daughter starting her career today, there are 10 investments I'd tell her to make.

Only one of them is on the stock market.

The rest will shape her earning power, influence, opportunities, and wealth for decades.

[RecruitmentPQ @RecruitmentPq]

The interview question behind every interview question. What they actually mean and what to actually answer:

[M.S Dalhatu @DeeNyce2]

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[M.S Dalhatu @DeeNyce2]

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[Haj Halima Idris @bachure]

Some of us don’t chase validation or acceptance from anyone. What we carry within is ours alone- authentic, unapologetic, and deeply rooted.
How you feel about us is strictly your business. Your thoughts, your emotions, your projections… that’s all within you, not us.
We remain real, own our mistakes with sincere apologies when we’re wrong, and quietly walk away the moment respect is missing.
Moto: No drama. No compromise. Just peace and self-respect.