e-madubuko

An incurable optimist.

[引きこもり投資家/投資収益５０００万到達！ @JO0sthSYpVRt2hn]

トレーダー1年目。

[Esther Umoh @EstherUmoh10]

As a photographer, I have learned that the most powerful people are often those who understand people, culture and history beyond the camera moments. Being part of Peter Obi’s envoy to South Africa gave me the opportunity to witness that firsthand.

Listening to him speak about his long-standing relationship with South Africa, from his early business engagements with South African Breweries, to witnessing Nelson Mandela’s release from prison, and living in the same neighborhood at the time with Mandela, showed a man who genuinely understands the importance of relationships, diplomacy and African unity.

What stood out the most was his belief in what Africa can become if we begin to work together intentionally as one continent. Conversations like these make you understand what his kind of presidency would mean for Nigeria, stronger economic partnerships, better international respect, healthier relationships across Africa, and a country that is once again seen as a serious and trusted voice on the global stage.

For me, it was more than a trip. It was a reminder that leadership is also about experience, exposure, relationships and the ability to connect Nigeria to bigger opportunities across the world.
#NigeriaWillBeOk

[Alex Onyia @winexviv]

There’s a silent disaster happening in Nigeria that nobody wants to confront honestly.

We keep shouting about unemployment, bad leadership, low productivity, corruption, poor healthcare, failed institutions and why our country is not working. But many people are avoiding the root cause.

Our education system has been deeply compromised.

A student enters secondary school or university full of dreams, intelligence and potential. Then the system teaches them something dangerous:

“You do not need competence to succeed.”

WAEC malpractice. NECO malpractice. GCE runs. Sorting. Sex for grades. Extortion. Intimidation. Victimization. Handout rackets. “See me after class.” “Talk to your lecturer.” “Settle this course.”

And after 4 or 5 years of surviving that environment, we expect excellence to magically appear.

It won’t.

A country cannot repeatedly reward dishonesty in classrooms and expect integrity in government offices, hospitals, engineering sites, courtrooms and businesses.

This is where many of our unemployable graduates are coming from.

Not because Nigerians are not intelligent.
Not because our youths are lazy.
But because too many people were trained inside a system where merit was murdered.

The painful part is this:

UNN, UNILAG, FUTO, ABU, UI, IMSU, ABSU and many others are using largely the same NUC-regulated curriculum.

The difference is standards.

The universities that still command respect are usually the ones with stronger resistance against sorting, extortion and academic fraud.

The ones collapsing in reputation are often the ones where corruption became normalized.

Once a student realizes they can buy an “A” with ₦20,000, or sleep their way through a course, or manipulate results through connections, the motivation to truly learn starts dying slowly.

And when millions of such graduates enter the labor market, the entire country pays the price.

That weak engineer may eventually supervise a bridge.

That poorly trained nurse may handle a patient.

That compromised accountant may manage public funds.

That fake first-class graduate may become a lecturer and reproduce the same cycle again.

This is no longer just an education problem.

It is a national security problem.

Countries become great because they protect competence fiercely.

Singapore did it.
China did it.
Germany did it.
South Korea did it.

You cannot build a first-world country with a third-world attitude towards education integrity.

Nigeria does not have a shortage of talent.
Nigeria has a shortage of systems that protect excellence.

And until we become ruthless about fighting academic corruption, exam malpractice, sorting, sex-for-grades and institutional intimidation, we will continue producing certificates instead of competence.

This fight is bigger than schools.

It is about the future survival of Nigeria itself.

[e-madubuko @E_madubuko]

Not everything that is possible should be done.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Tesla will be one of the companies to make AGI and probably the first to make it in humanoid/atom-shaping form

[Rev. Fr. Chinenye John Oluoma #FadaOluoma @fadaoluoma]

The Ministry of Criticism😂😂

There was a time wheel chairs and crutches were recklessly brandished as evidence of healing in every crusade. Through criticisms, the shenanigans has radically reduced if not totally stopped. Yet crusades and rallies go on to the glory of God.

There was a time raising altar with dollars, pounds and naira were normalized like dogma. Through criticisms the 'pious robbery' has ended and genuine altar calls still go on to the glory of God.

There was a time our 'powerful' men and women of God released their new year predictions and called them prophecies, every 31st Dec. Criticisms led to the demise of the clever gimmicks. Yet genuine prophetic declarations and utterances go on in our different churches to the glory of God.

There was a time it was normal to procure healing, admission to university, visa to Europe or America, breakthrough in business, any and every desired miracle with money. In one word, transactional gospel. Criticism has exposed it's falsehood and drastically reduced it. Yet giving to the church and support for God's work continues.

There was a time the clergy arrogated final authority on spiritual matters to themselves exclusively. Criticisms punctured that error and today lay brothers and sisters have taken their rightful places in the church as ministers too. Yet, the clergy still play their role.

There was a time tithe was touted as the surest and quickest way to financial breakthrough. Criticisms exposed the lie in it, freed those who were tithing wrongly. Yet people still tithe in church with the right motives.

As we preach, teach, correct and admonish, we will also critiy'al, sometimes with a touch of innocent vawulence. We will strive to do all with love and sincerity, and ultimately to the Glory of God. If criticisms make you angry and insultive, biko ndo, no vex, but buckle up because in this 2026, you will see more.

To those who criticise us and even our criticisms, thank you very much. I try to learn from your criticisms of my criticisms so I can criticise better.

May our ministry of Criticisms lead to elimination of falsehoods and errors, may we be mature to give and take them with love and sincerity, may we grow through them.
Happy new year y'all

[e-madubuko @E_madubuko]

@obiohaukekwe @DrJoeAbah Profound submissions that is hard to argue with. Winning election is even more complex. A governor or a president does not need to run anything nor be an expert on anything. They only need to have a determined willingness and then the experts will set the complex things moving.

[Obioha Ukekwe @obiohaukekwe]

I see things differently.

While education in governance can help, I don’t believe that’s the real problem with Nigerian governors, LGA chairmen, or even the president. Many of them are already well-educated lawyers, engineers, and even PhD. holders, as you mentioned. They also have access to policy experts and seasoned bureaucrats. Whenever an issue is complex, they have people who can guide them.

The real issue, in my view, is that some leaders are simply wicked and corrupt.

There is no governor who doesn’t understand that building a world-class cancer or dialysis center would benefit their people. There is no governor who doesn’t know that connecting the major cities in their state by rail would help development. Even an illiterate person knows these are the right things to do.

Do governors have the resources to make these things happen? Yes.
Do they choose to do them? No. Why? Because, in many cases, they are corrupt and lack genuine concern for the people.

In my opinion, you don’t need a special school to know what is good for your citizens. You can not wake someone who is deliberately pretending to be asleep.

[Dan Ferris aka Boxer the horse @dferris1961]

@stats_feed Spending lots of time on X.

Watching a lot of TV news and thinking it's not mostly lies and distortion.

Not spending most of your time trying to create or produce something.

[e-madubuko @E_madubuko]

@sakastweet @thefashygram @OurFavOnlineDoc 😭😭🤣🤣🤣

[Charly Boy Area Fada 1 @AreaFada1]

Everybody is shouting “Let’s unite and take back Nigeria.”
The noise is loud. The outrage? Clear.

But you see ehn… when you look past the press conferences, the hashtags, the handshakes… one question still dey remain:
Unite for what exactly?

Is this about Us/Nigerias, or just about power?

Because some of the same people that sank this country are suddenly singing redemption songs.

Coalitions are forming, but let’s not pretend that every alliance is progress.
Sometimes, it’s just old wolves in new agbada.

Are they fighting for you, or fighting to sit where their enemies used to sit?

Are they shouting “enough is enough” because they’ve changed…
Or because they’re no longer the ones benefitting?

We don’t just need new names.
We need new values, new visions, and people with the guts to live by them.
2027 is not about revenge. It’s about rescue.

Let’s not trade one oppressor for another with nicer grammar.
Let’s ask the hard questions now, before our dreams of a better Nigeria is again snatched from us.

[Brandon Turner @BeardyBrandon]

There's 3 levels of rich...

Level 1.) Cutting your own grass

Level 2.) Paying someone else to cut your grass

Level 3.) Cutting your own grass

[Mr. Czar @Mrczar_]

📷 I posted this on my WhatsApp Status a long time ago; Maybe I should Share it here
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The first activity I did to put money in my pocket was mixing concrete, that won’t be the first move for Dangote’s son, even if he has absolutely no support from his dad - why?

[Alexandros Marinos 🏴‍☠️ @alexandrosM]

In the quagmire of modern discourse, where mediocrity often parades as wisdom and verbosity masquerades as eloquence, there emerges a plea, seemingly sensible, for the judicious use of what are pejoratively termed ‘recondite words’. This advisory, however, veers dangerously close to the banal, suggesting that the deployment of an uncommon lexicon should be confined strictly to necessity, fenced in by the utilitarian bounds of ‘need’. But such counsel—superficially prudent—is a dismal capitulation to the philistine and a betrayal of the literary arts.

To argue against the liberal use of rich, albeit less common, vocabulary on the grounds that it is ‘not beautiful writing’ is to misunderstand not only the purpose of communication but also the artistry of language itself. Language is not merely a tool for the conveyance of the simplest, most direct message possible; it is also an instrument of precision and a palette for the painterly crafting of thought and emotion. To limit oneself to the pedestrian and the commonplace is to forsake the vivid hues for a drab monochrome. Does not the rare word, precisely because it is rare, light up a sentence like a torch?

Indeed, when the critic cautions against the use of the perfect—if rare—word, they advocate for a dilution of potency in expression. To eschew ‘recondite’ words simply because they are not within the immediate grasp of every reader is an affront to the pursuit of clarity and depth in language. We must ask: Who benefits when we level down our language? Is it the reader, supposedly spared the onus of reaching for a dictionary, or is it rather the writer, indulging in intellectual laziness by sticking to a safer, more mundane set of expressions?

This fear of the recondite is symptomatic of a broader cultural malaise—a dread of elitism that masks a relentless push towards mediocrity. To disdain the precise word for its rarity is akin to scorning the gourmet dish because its ingredients are not stocked in the local supermarket. It is a form of intellectual cowardice, a refusal to challenge the reader or to elevate the discourse.

Furthermore, the charge that using precise, uncommon words constitutes ‘misuse’ is itself a perverse inversion of logic. Misuse implies a discordance between word and meaning, form and function. A word, however rare, that perfectly encapsulates a meaning, used in its right place, is the very epitome of linguistic propriety. It is not the rarity of the word that disrupts communication, but rather the reader’s unfamiliarity with it—a condition that is, after all, remediable through curiosity and learning.

In conclusion, to counsel against the use of precise, uncommon words under the guise of advocating for clarity is nothing less than a covert affront to the richness of the English language and the capabilities of its users. It is a call for conformity, a plea for simplicity at the cost of depth, and an encouragement of intellectual complacency. The true writer, the devoted articulator of complex realities, must not be cowed by the specter of obscurity but should instead cherish and wield the full array of the language’s offerings with audacity and precision. After all, the beauty of a diamond does not diminish because of its rarity, but rather, is enhanced by it.

[Peter Obi @PeterObi]

Let me confess that the label of being a vintage Onitsha-based trader does not in any way confer on me the status of an economic expert. With my vast trading knowledge and my involvement in the real sector,

[Danny Walter 🧸 @AjeboDanny]

Someone with half your IQ is making 10x more than you because they aren't smart enough to doubt themselves.

[e-madubuko @E_madubuko]

@ikeobiy It's hard to believe anything on social media these days

[e-madubuko @E_madubuko]

This is the answer I am voting for

[Andy @NDrAgwoTurumbe]

@aproko_doctor It is because only wise people give gifts. Three people gave gifts the rest were efulefu 🤠

[e-madubuko @E_madubuko]

@ikeobiy Lolz. For the people that have sold their souls to the devilish politics, this is nothing.
If they are this shameless on camera you can begin to imagine what happens when there is no camera watching

[e-madubuko @E_madubuko]

Foundation completed. Now we make the money.

[Freedom. @mr_efreedom]

📍MSc. Information Technology with Business Intelligence

@RobertGordonUni

God did! 🎉

[e-madubuko @E_madubuko]

@dawuzi @Estherokafor_ Clean off Google staff from post and it's 100% spot on.
Fact is, most people are not wired to succeed as an entrepreneur. Most people can learn to give their best in a team.