Look at America, Europe and Canada today.
Indians are leading top companies, building global technology, running hospitals, teaching in world-class universities and occupying important positions across the world.
Look at China.
They moved hundreds of millions from poverty to global power by taking education, science, engineering, manufacturing and national planning seriously.
None of this happened by accident.
Nations that invest in human capital eventually export influence.
That is the path we must take.
We are not grooming children just to survive Nigeria.
We are grooming a generation that will compete with the best minds on earth.
Our education must move from survival to global domination.
Education Crisis: Calls for Fundamental Change, Not Just Policy
The Federal Government has finally admitted to its poor management of the education sector. Recently, the Minister of Education acknowledged that the policy separating junior and senior secondary schools has failed to improve educational outcomes. This is evident in recent examination results. In 2024, the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) reported that only 38.32% of candidates passed English and Mathematics in the WASSCE. In 2025, only 32% passed the computer-based WASSCE. This poor performance has been consistent across major examinations over the past two years.
This admission is tragic because education is the most vital contributor to human capital development, which forms the foundation for growth and economic development of any society. We cannot overcome economic stagnation without prioritising education, healthcare, and job creation to lift millions of unemployed youths out of poverty. As successful Asian nations have demonstrated, educational excellence requires sustained investment in curriculum development, motivated teachers, and better learning environments.
Unfortunately, the government continues to neglect the sector. In the 2026 budget, education received only ₦3.52 trillion, just 6.17% of total expenditure, down from 7.87% in 2025, and well below UNESCO’s recommended 15–20%. This low allocation indicates a failure to recognise education as a driver of sustained economic growth.
Education advocate, Mr Alex Onyia @winexviv , recently revealed that Nigeria failed to sponsor students to the International STEM and Mathematics Olympiads due to a lack of funding. It is heartbreaking that the government can sponsor hundreds to irrelevant international conferences yet fail to support its brightest students on the world stage.
The Minister’s admission reflects a broader failure of public leadership. The issue is not the JSS/SSS policy itself, but the lack of commitment to properly fund, manage, and deliver quality education.
In Anambra State, we proved that committed leadership can transform educational outcomes. Through effective funding, oversight, provision of laptops, generators, internet connectivity, and other learning aids, we turned the sector around. For example, our effort in providing computers across all secondary schools (public and private in the state) was recognised by HP Africa Head, who declared that Anambra had procured the largest number of laptops for school children of any subnational government in Africa.
For the future of our society, we must deliberately invest in education, healthcare, and job creation. As I have always said, failing to do the right things is equivalent to abusing society, and the society we abuse today will take its revenge on us and our children tomorrow.
A New Nigeria is POssible. -PO
My friend sends his children’s nanny's kids to his children's school and he pays the fees. The fee is not cheap. The kids all play together.
They won't understand what is happening until they are big.
In his simple logic, the person looking after your kids deserve to have her kids looked after. Your children's lives are in her hands and she would raise them as her own.
#Mentality
@MarkDestiny20@NigeriaStories I went to a Nigerian secondary school when someone who's educated was in power. Someone who values education not someone who allocate whatever budget that comes up in his head to education. You still don't have an answer why that merging would solve the problem.
@NigeriaStories Are these marketers bigger than the federal government or is there something both parties are not telling us? Cos what kind of impunity is this?
@MarkDestiny20@NigeriaStories Do you mind explaining to me how it will put an end to it sir? Have you not seen the condition of public schools in Nigeria?The learning conditions are so poor and unhealthy for students to learn in such conditions. So merging the section won't solve a thing,it will make it worse
The story of Akaza in demon slayer is magnificent one... He did all he could just to make his sick dad get better, the society labelled him a thief but couldn't stretch their arms to help me out. That is the reality of our lives today, we are quick to call out others for their wrongdoings but can't stretch out our arms to be the help they seek. Demon slayer should be the greatest anime of all time.
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Children in privileged private schools have enjoyed this for years.
It’s open to any child from any school regardless of your family background.
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SAD REALITY OF LIFE IN NIGERIA:
A good relationship with every gender = Money
Being a good wife or husband = Money
Being a good father or mother = Money
Being a good brother or sister = Money
Being a good uncle or aunty = Money
Money has turn to measure on how good people do things now.
US embassies across Africa are no longer distributing red t-shirts to local communities with solidarity hashtags about missing Nigerian children printed on them?
No one is wearing red and doing daily protests at Unity Fountain? No hijab-wearing lunatics screaming and pouring spit at TV cameras everyday? No one is pasting posters of missing schoolchildren under Falomo Bridge?
Guardian newspaper is not printing a black square with "Where are the girls?" on the top left corner of its front page everyday? American celebrities have not rediscovered their love for kidnapped Nigerian children?
How droll.
Until the 230 million tabula rasas learn to differentiate between their factual reality and the contrived, sponsored nonsense funded by the NED budget for a foreign regime change operation.
Shebi I'm just a "conspiracy theorist" and America has only ever wanted the best for you? Shebi there was no US-led regime change operation in 2015 intended to derail the development of the 3rd fastest growing economy in the world which was on track to become Africa's first trillion-dollar economy by 2024?
Shebi everything that has happened since 2015 including the loss of 65% of national GDP, the generational talent haemorrhage, the total collapse into ungoverned space, the ascension of a drug dealer from Chicago into the presidency, and the creation of a permanent US military base on Nigerian soil for the first time, are all just separate, coincidental events that have nothing to do with each other?
Don't worry, your tears have not even started yet.
You will cry hot tears for help that will never come.
@ChelseaFC Unrelated:
I don't want us playing Conference league next season, If it is possible for us to lose our last game to avoid qualifying I will be happy.
@jon_d_doe The number of people that will show up for APC campaign rallies this year will determine if we want a better country or we are just deceiving ourselves. These people have nothing to campaign with, they have brought so much pain and sorrow to the citizens of this country.