@Hugo_Chiez@esther_stan Abeg rest, na child wey no reach 16 be man?
You think he just started telling him that out of nowhere?
Wasn't it because of the instructions his sister left?
Why do we make freshers feel silly for being excited to start uni?
They’re happy, lol. Let them be!
Even if they’ll encounter problems on the way, they’re still allowed to have their moment.
“You cannot survive in Engineering.”
“The best student in your department will struggle in MBBS.”
“Any XYZ student will excel in your Economics department; you can't achieve that in…”
Hey, pleaseeeeee...
These are the kinds of things you hear from supposedly intelligent graduates, especially from top science degrees, being said to people in the Arts and Commercial fields.
Few days ago, Engineering and Science graduates came to the TL flaunting their performances in Graduate Training exams, postgraduate Finance degrees, management courses and the likes. While at it, they boastfully challenged even the best brains in these fields with variations of the statements above.
Unfortunately, as serious as this conversation is, I always find it funny.
Because there is often very little behind these claims beyond ARROGANCE and a needless SUPERIORITY COMPLEX.
Let's make something very clear: INTELLIGENCE IS INTELLIGENCE.
A brilliant Law student does not suddenly become unintelligent because he cannot solve an Engineering problem. An exceptional Economics student does not become less intelligent because she has never studied Organic Chemistry. And an Engineering graduate does not automatically become intellectually superior because his degree required calculus, mechanics or thermodynamics.
You are confusing specialisation with intelligence.
Engineering requires a particular combination of mathematical reasoning, spatial thinking, technical knowledge and problem-solving. Medicine demands its own enormous combination of scientific knowledge, clinical reasoning, memory, decision-making and practical skills. Economics, Law, Accounting, Literature, Political Science and the other disciplines also demand different combinations of reasoning, analysis, communication, abstraction, interpretation and judgement.
The fact that your discipline trains you to solve a particular class of difficult problems does not mean you are the only person capable of difficult thinking.
In fact, educational assessments themselves recognise that performance across different cognitive domains overlaps without being identical.
The OECD's PISA studies basically show that being good at maths, science, reading, or creative thinking can be related, but they are still different abilities. Being strong in one does not automatically mean you'll be equally strong in all the others.
That distinction matters.
A person can be exceptionally intelligent and still need to learn the language, concepts and techniques of a completely different discipline before becoming excellent at it.
Training, knowledge and exposure matter, but so does raw intellectual ability.
And this is where the superiority complex becomes funny.
If you take a brilliant graduate from Economics, Law or Philosophy and drop them into Engineering without preparation, struggling does not prove that they are unintelligent. It proves that Engineering is a specialised field.
Do the reverse.
Take an Engineer and drop him into advanced Constitutional Law, Literary Criticism, Financial Economics or a completely unfamiliar field without preparation. Struggling there would prove exactly the same thing.
Nothing.
Because you cannot use unfamiliarity with a discipline as a scientific test of intelligence.
Your degree tells me what you have been trained to know, not the full limits of what your brain is capable of learning.
So please, let's retire this strange DISCIPLINARY CHAUVINISM where people turn their courses into IQ rankings.
A difficult degree is difficult because of what it demands — not because everyone outside it is intellectually inferior.
Your discipline can be difficult without everyone else's discipline being easy.
And honestly, some of the smartest people I've encountered are smart precisely because they know this.
Let's be guided.
And let's reflect the true wisdom that our degrees are meant to build in us.
✍️: SOBUR || Ọmọ Afáríogun
@Lanre_banjo@TheQueenAminat While throwing the meat away was rude, I don't think it's okay to assume that she's lying.
People practice even the same religion in different ways.
Some Muslims also eat Christmas meat and others don't because it's Haram.
Bad behavior, yep but you don't have to make assumptions
@Sehndudu19@Tspiceskitchen It's very true!
They call me too and I'ver never used any of their services.
Thanks to Truecaller that keeps blocking them for me.
@Latifat_writes Even if Islam is brought into it sef, does Islam allows spreading of misinformation?
She should face the consequences of her action Biko.
Learning Is Dead, and AI Killed It!
I want you to actually read this. Not skim it, not scroll fast to pick up something to comment onto can move on to the next tweet, actually read it.
I want to talk about the generation effect. Now, I could hand you a definition right now and you'd read through, file it away, and forget it by dinner. Instead I'm going to make you sit with some stories. Because that's the whole point of what I'm about to tell you: the struggle of getting there is the thing that makes it stick.
@VikyInsights "Allow women to dress the way they want."
Until she chooses to cover up, and you start conjuring stories based on your imagination.
Different strokes for different folks, let people be!
Does she looks unhappy or did she complained that she felt invisible?
Muyiwa, my brother. Thank you for this question. May God bless you. Āmīn.
First and foremost, in Islam, anyone who unjustly kills another person is committing one of the gravest sins in the religion. The fact that such a person identifies as a Muslim, recites Islamic supplications, or shouts the name of Allah does not make the act Islamic or permissible. This is not merely my personal opinion; it is firmly established in Islamic teachings.
Regarding Boko Haram, I am not going to deny their identification with Islam. The founder of Boko Haram, Mohammed Yusuf, was a Muslim from Borno State. So, if we are discussing whether they have claimed an Islamic identity, the answer is yes. But there is an important distinction we must make: a person can identify as a Muslim and still commit acts that Islam explicitly prohibits. Likewise, a Christian can identify as a Christian and still commit acts that Christianity condemns. The actions of an individual or group should therefore not automatically be attributed to the religion they claim to follow.
Boko Haram members and other criminals who kill, kidnap and terrorise innocent people are not doing so because Islam commanded them to. They are acting upon their own misguided ideology, criminal interests, political motives, greed, or other personal objectives. Their actions should be judged against the teachings of Islam, not used to define Islam itself.
One of the clearest ways to understand Islam’s position on murder, kidnapping, banditry and terrorism is to look at the punishments and obligations prescribed by Islamic law.
For example, Islam recognises Diyah, commonly translated into English as “blood money.” In cases of accidental or unintentional killing, the Qur’an prescribes compensation to the victim’s family. In today’s Nigerian currency, the exact monetary value of Diyah is ₦805,724,000. This is if you’ll kill someone by mistake. Not just that, you have to free a slave, but in today’s society that we don’t have slaves again, you have to observe 60 days of fasting. And importantly, the prohibition against unjustly taking human life is not limited to Muslims, either the person you kill is a Muslim or not, as long as you the killer is a muslim, you must serve the punishment that Islam prescribe.
Now, regarding kidnapping, banditry and terrorism.
If someone commits armed violence, kills people and takes their property, the classical jurists discuss execution and crucifixion among the prescribed punishments.
If someone kills but does not take property, execution is the applicable punishment.
If someone takes people’s property through such armed violence without killing, the punishment is cutting off the hand and the opposite foot (right hand—left foot).
If someone terrorises people through armed force and weapons without killing anyone or taking their property, exile or banishment is the punishments discussed by the jurists.
If someone terrorises people without weapons, such will be jailed.
Therefore, when Boko Haram, bandits or any other armed group kidnaps innocent people, murders, steals their property and terrorises communities, it is completely wrong to suggest that they are carrying out Islamic teachings simply because they use Islamic language or identify themselves as Muslims.
Quite the opposite: the Qur’an itself condemns the very kinds of violence and corruption that they commit.
So, Boko Haram members and violent bandits may identify themselves as Muslims, but their crimes cannot be justified by Islam. A Muslim who genuinely understands his or her religion should condemn murder, kidnapping, terrorism, banditry and the unjust taking of people’s property, regardless of who commits them.
Islam is not judged by the crimes of those who claim its name. It is judged by what the Qur’an and the authentic Sunnah actually teach.
So Bokoharam are not going to heaven.