🚨 UNICEF Is Hiring!
Applications are now open for WASH Specialists at UNICEF.
📍 Duty Stations:
Abuja, Borno, Bauchi, Kano, Kaduna, Lagos, Sokoto, and Enugu.
📅 Application Deadline: 13th August, 2026.
Apply before the deadline and share this opportunity with someone who may be interested.
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ECOWAS is presenting an opportunity for you.🌍
Applications are now open for the ECOWAS Young Graduates Immersion Programme (Batch 2027).
This is a 12-month, full-time, in-person programme designed for young graduates from all 15 ECOWAS member states, including Nigeria, Ghana, Benin, Senegal, and others.
Eligibility:
• Citizens of any ECOWAS member state
• Age: 18–32 years
• Bachelor’s degree or higher
Required documents:
• CV
• Motivation letter
• Academic certificates
• Valid national ID or passport
Previous stipend (Batch 2026):
• $500/month for participants posted to their home country
• $800/month plus a return flight ticket for those posted outside their home country
Note: The stipend for Batch 2027 has not yet been announced.
Application Deadline: 31 August 2026
Apply here: https://t.co/ED22TzLVjD
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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)
One of the very Sheihks i so much respect despite emanating from Izala discipline is Sheikh Ahmad Algarkawai. He’s a principled man with his unmatched sense of aversion to material things. Here’s a snippet story about his life. He lives a stone-throw distance to my house.
Nigeria has had some of the worst occupants of key offices since 1999:
Abubakar Malami – The most disastrous Attorney General and Minister of Justice.
Godwin Emefiele – The most destructive Central Bank Governor.
Maurice Iwu – The most incompetent INEC Chairman.
Mohammed Musa Bello – The worst FCT Minister in history..
Moniepoint is hiring for 82 roles right now. Remote. Onsite. Tech. Non-tech.
And 99% of Nigerian job seekers will miss it because nobody told them.
Consider this me telling you 👇
Manzon Allah (s.a.w) ya yi gargaɗi mai girma ga al’ummah, inda ya ce: “Ku guji manyan laifuffuka guda bakwai masu halakarwa.”
Wadannan laifuffuka ba ƙanana bane, suna daga cikin abubuwan da ke lalata rayuwa da addini baki ɗaya.
(1) Na farko shi ne Shirka, wato haɗa wani da Allah a ibada ko ɗaukaka wani kamar Allah, wannan shi ne mafi girman zunubi wanda Allah baya gafarta wa idan mutum bai tuba ba.
(2)Na biyu shi ne Sihiri, wanda yake lalata rayuwar mutane, yana haddasa cuta, rarrabuwar kawuna da rashin zaman lafiya, kuma haramun ne mai tsanani a Musulunci.
(3)Na uku shi ne Kashe rai ba bisa ƙa’ida ba, wato zubar da jinin da Allah ya haramta, wannan yana daga cikin manyan laifuffuka da ke kawo azaba mai tsanani.
(4) Na huɗu shi ne Cin riba (Riba), wanda yake rusa tattalin arziki da dukiya, yana kuma jawo fushin Allah.
(5) Na biyar shi ne Cin dukiyar maraya, wato cin amanar wanda ba shi da kariya, wannan zalunci ne mai girma wanda Allah ya yi gargaɗi a kai.
(6)Na shida shi ne Guduwa ranar yaƙi, wato tserewa daga filin jihadi lokacin da ake buƙatar tsayuwa, wannan yana nuna rauni da rashin tsoron Allah.
(7) Na bakwai kuma shi ne Yiwa mata muminai masu tsarki ƙazafi, wato zarginsu da zina ba tare da hujja ba, wannan yana lalata mutunci da darajar bayin Allah.
Don haka ya zama wajibi a gare mu mu kiyaye wadannan laifuffuka, mu nisance su gaba ɗaya, mu roƙi Allah Ya tsare mu daga fadawa cikinsu, domin samun tsira a duniya da lahira.