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[ExCeL⭐⭐ 👑🦁 @ExcelwizzY001]

Name a Better Goat that Can single Handedly Scoop Every Single Award at a tournament than Messi? We definitely won't find anyone like Him.
🔵 BEST PLAYER
🔵 TOP GOAL SCORER
🔵 TOP ASSIST

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[Man of Letters. @Letter_to_Jack]

We must make a deliberate effort to restore academic excellence to the very top of our social value system. A society that ridicules education is toying with its future.

This constant insult towards educated people has gone too far.

[Oyindamola🙄 @dammiedammie35]

Omoh, this one touch everybody, not just Peller 🧎🏻‍♂️‍➡️

[Inibehe Effiong @InibeheEffiong]

One of the most profound statements that @DeleFarotimi has made was applauding Tinubu for exposing many people who we thought had integrity.

I dislike inconsistent people so much.

[👑S.A.L.A.K.O🕊 @UnkleAyo]

Have you people seen this?

Students who went to take their NECO exams got abducted from the exam hall?

This happened in Borno and I hope it gets the same media outrage as Oyo's.

This is unfortunate.

[Kunle Kenny -The Joy Dispenser @kunle_kenny]

This is DAY 46!
Toddlers, children and teachers have spent 46 Days as captives of kidnappers. The rains are pouring heavily, the despair, the physical and emotional torture they face!These people are just there suffering!!!
Is this how we will keep counting days???

[Leo Dasilva @SirLeoBDasilva]

The first thing Singapore did was to educate its people.
This journey is not even going to be long.
Nigerians are already very smart people.
Give quality primary and secondary education.
Bring in companies that can employ thousands of people.
Set them up in several states. See this mining situation. Get a hold of it and make it a very formal sector.
Allow the people who want to sell Akara and other things access to soft loans. Create a structure with every bank to help them be accountable. Like a credit score.
Fix electricity.
If it’s too hard to change all the lines, create solar plants for different clusters while you take a few years to fix power lines to be efficient.
Step by step, country will be better.
I don’t know why we don’t have a leader that wants to do this.
It’s not rocket science.

[Sir Dickson @Wizarab10]

The woman selling akara is not praying for her kids to take over the business. She wants to give her child an education that helps him compete in this world.

It is one thing to be overtly stupid. It is another to be heartless.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Oh. Looks like your pal didn't score again at a World Cup game. 😉

[Ja Leto @_falsi1ke]

There are people with high level of self respect. You stop talking to them, they stop talking to you too. They easily match energy.

[Ghost Writer ✍️ @Prezain_LJ]

You need to see the joy on olodos' faces when a very academically sound person doesn't succeed in life. They relish it. It's almost as if it gives them more reasons to talk down on education and intelligence.

When we were graduating, after I finished as the top student in my class, many of my coursemates were really eager to see how I would turn out. In fact, I would always hear them gossiping: "No be by Best Graduating Student. To make am for life no be by acada. Street na military. We go see."

I'm glad I turned out really well. Even most of those who went to Ghana for "updates" after school and eventually resorted to fraud can't measure up to my accomplishments. Till today, many of them still randomly call me and jokingly ask, "Senior man, you just dey chop dey go. You no wan give men update na!"

Deep down, they genuinely believe I must be secretly involved in fraud. This is the society we live in, where many young people have come to believe that you can't succeed legitimately, and that every young man who is doing well for himself must be involved in fraud. Even many elderly people and police officers aren't exempt from this line of thinking.

I haven't seen a country that is trying so hard to make education unattractive like ours.

"School na scam."

"No be by BSc. You get BTC?"

"Education is the key to success. Oya, use the key start Benz na 😂."

"Lecturer pack 1999 Camry, student don pack Lexus beside am."

If we continue this way, in a few years, there will be nothing left of our educational system. We are so money-centred that we don't even realize education can be an end in itself and not necessarily just a means to an end.

Everything has become, "How much do you have in your account?" or "Use your intelligence buy Benz na."

This is one of the reasons it really hurts me to see highly intelligent and brilliant people end up poor. I'm always rooting for academically sound people to succeed because I genuinely want people, especially young people, to see that you can make it legitimately through hard work and academic excellence.

Any society where only the olodos become financially successful while the brighter minds, the ones who believe in due process, continue to struggle is a society that is bound to fail.

[Guinness World Records @GWR]

Lionel Messi is the first player to score in SEVEN consecutive World Cup matches, a run that goes back to Argentina’s Round of 16 game against Australia in 2022.

[👑S.A.L.A.K.O🕊 @UnkleAyo]

As you're setting your own records, he is breaking your own records, setting his own records, and breaking his own records.

I might not haved lived in the times of Shakespeare, Aurelius, Alexander the Great or Napoleon - but it has been the honor of my life to call you my GOAT.

[FIFA World Cup @FIFAWorldCup]

Lionel Messi becomes the first player to score in seven consecutive #FIFAWorldCup games 🌟

[Fabrizio Romano @FabrizioRomano]

💥🇦🇷 Lionel Messi breaks another record as he becomes the FIRST PLAYER EVER to score in 7 consecutive World Cup games.

Perfect free kick. 🎨

[B/R Football @brfootball]

Lionel Messi becomes the first men's player to score in SEVEN consecutive World Cup matches.

We're witnessing greatness 🐐

[WILSON @wilson_]

SCHOOL was never and can never be a scam

Die that mentality

[Omotayo Olokede @Iamkolotayo]

I dont think the number of the kidnapped Children rings any bell in our heads.

Let me try..

42 Children will comfortably fill up this bus here while their teachers are standing and driving.

Have we moved on ? 💔💔
Should we forget about them ? 💔💔
How can we forget about them ? 💔💔

God will judge you if you still support this government that cannot keep their Children and citizens safe 💔💔

[Bami- @Bamixoxo_]

First thing we need to understand with figures of speech is that context matters a lot.
Let me explain.

This will be quite lengthy, so skip it if you have a short attention span.

Euphemism: A polite substitution used to soften meaning. It is the use of a mild, polite, or indirect expression instead of one that may sound harsh, unpleasant, or offensive.

Examples:
She passed away instead of She died.
They let him go instead of They fired him.

The purpose of a euphemism is to avoid causing discomfort or offense through one’s choice of words.

Dysphemism: A harsh substitution used to intensify meaning or express disapproval. It uses a harsh, blunt, or offensive expression instead of a neutral or polite one. (Opposite of Euphemism)

Examples:
He croaked instead of He died.
Calling a house a “shack” or an old car a “heap of junk.”

These two figures of speech are not the focus because he used Peller as an example to illustrate the decline of education and the glorification of mediocrity. The best expressions to examine here are synecdoche and metonymy, which are often confused with each other.

Moving on.

Synecdoche is a figure of speech in which a part of something represents the whole, or the whole represents a part.

It is a special type of substitution. (Hold on don’t draw your conclusions yet.)

Examples (Part for the Whole):
All hands on deck. (Hands = sailors or crew members.)
There are many mouths to feed. (Mouths = people.)

Whole for Part:
Nigeria won three gold medals. (Nigeria = the Nigerian athletes.)
The school celebrated its success. (The school = the students and staff.)

Now for metonymy. It is a figure of speech in which you refer to something by the name of something else that is closely associated with it, rather than by its own name. Get it?

For example:
The White House announced a new policy.(The White House refers to the U.S. President or administration, not the building itself.)
The Crown will address the nation. (The Crown refers to the monarch.)

People confuse synecdoche and metonymy because they both involve substitution, but they work differently.

I’ve been seeing tweets saying it’s synecdoche and I don’t think some people understand the subtle difference. That’s where I come in.

The best way to understand them is this:

Synecdoche = inclusion (part–whole relationship).

Examples:
Hands = workers
Wheels = car
Heads = cattle or people

Metonymy = association (relationship by connection).

Examples:
Aso Rock = the Nigerian government
The Crown = the monarch
Nollywood = the Nigerian film industry

Synecdoche specifically depends on a part–whole relationship, whereas metonymy depends on any close association.

What do I mean?

Peller is known to be uneducated, so when ycee says “Peller culture,”

he is not saying Peller is literally a part of illiteracy as a whole. Instead, Peller has become associated with illiteracy because of his reputation as a known olodo.

That is metonymy.

It can only be synecdoche if Peller is presented as one member of a larger class, and the intention is for that member to stand for the entire class.

For example:

If he had said “Peller is the face of olodo culture in this country.”

Here, Peller is one individual standing for the larger group of illiterate people. Remember: part–whole representation.

So, in conclusion, “Peller culture” is best analyzed as metonymy because:

Peller’s name is being used because of its perceived association with the idea of illiteracy/glorification of mediocrity.

The name “Peller” becomes shorthand for the olodo uprising that ycee was criticizing.

He was not attacking Peller personally. Instead, he used Peller’s public image as a symbolic reference to a wider social issue. That is a metonymic use of the name.

You’re welcome.

An interesting point is that synecdoche is often treated as a subtype of metonymy because it is simply a more specific form of associative substitution.

[Kunle Kenny -The Joy Dispenser @kunle_kenny]

This is now Day 44. Day 44!!!
44 Days of innocent toddlers, children and teachers in captivity of terrorists!! 44Days!!! Ah!!!😭😭😭

[Kunle Kenny -The Joy Dispenser @kunle_kenny]

The #OlodoUprising conversation is not just spotlighting our communal decline in academic excellence. The main issue here is the erosion of core values. We have culturally exalted money and fame over wisdom and strong core values. Folly took centre stage in our culture.