Olalekan Soleye

Helping School Owners & Parents Build Thriving Learning Systems | School Startup • Policies • Teacher Leadership • Homeschool Coaching

[Olalekan Soleye @LekanAlfred]

@Verydakman_ @OPay_NG kindly enable or do something about receiving my statement of account. It's important I get this statement. I've neither gotten any response to the email I sent to you nor a solution to this complaint earlier lodged.

[Olalekan Soleye @LekanAlfred]

@OPay_NG Can I get my statement of account to be downloaded please. It has not worked for three days now

[Olalekan Soleye @LekanAlfred]

https://t.co/tIZoMBOUPG

[Olalekan Soleye @LekanAlfred]

6/ Africa needs to raise the bar for teachers — in training, pay & prestige.
Because without great teachers, there is no great future. ✨ #edu

[Olalekan Soleye @LekanAlfred]

1/ If a nation wants to rise to first-world status, it must never downplay 3 professions: Education, Security & Health.
Let’s talk about education. 🧵

[Olalekan Soleye @LekanAlfred]

5/ Next time you pick a school for your child, don’t just admire the facilities.
👉 Ask how much teachers are paid compared to the school fees.
That alone will tell you the quality of education you’re buying.

[Olalekan Soleye @LekanAlfred]

4/ The result?
Our classrooms risk becoming dumping grounds for unemployed graduates.
When teachers are not respected, motivated, or properly trained, the future of education suffers.

[Olalekan Soleye @LekanAlfred]

3/ In many African countries 🇳🇬:

Teaching is often a “stopgap job” for unemployed graduates

Few enter the classroom by calling or training

Private schools prefer them because they are cheaper

Trained teachers are rare & undervalued

[Olalekan Soleye @LekanAlfred]

2/ In Finland 🇫🇮:

All teachers must have a Master’s degree

Only 10% of applicants are admitted into teacher training

Teachers are respected, well-paid & trusted
Teaching = as prestigious as law or medicine.

[Olalekan Soleye @LekanAlfred]

What do you think?
Should more countries adopt a Finland-like approach that positions parents as the first teachers? And do you see homeschooling as a stronger option for the future

[Olalekan Soleye @LekanAlfred]

Every parent is a teacher, whether they realize it or not.
I’ve always wondered about this…
How is it that even parents who never went to school are still able to teach their children to speak their indigenous language so fluently? #parenting #ECEC

[Olalekan Soleye @LekanAlfred]

Reflecting on this has made me more of a proponent of homeschooling lately. If parents can teach language and values at home, imagine what else is possible when we’re more deliberate about those first years of learning.

[Olalekan Soleye @LekanAlfred]

In Finland, those early years (0–6) are seen as the foundation, and parents are empowered to be intentionally involved before formal schooling begins. The result? Children enter school curious, confident, and ready to thrive.

[Olalekan Soleye @LekanAlfred]

For me, that’s proof that parents are naturally their children’s first teachers. Whether educated or not, they shape a child’s earliest learning.

This is one of the reasons I admire Finland’s education system. ?

[Olalekan Soleye @LekanAlfred]

@brainjotter__ I'll start a car wash business with it and the #300,000 remains my capital for the business because it will always come back. #InvestorsAtRiskNG

[Olalekan Soleye @LekanAlfred]

@Coolverydarkma If an @inDrive passenger decides to be malignant against a driver for no just reason, they can get away with it because of @inDrive policy that's anti-drivers especially for Nigerians. I got blocked on the app without a fair hearing. I'm left to start wondering what I did wrong.

[Olalekan Soleye @LekanAlfred]

@Shehusky Why France and not US or other first world? Just wondering why

[Olalekan Soleye @LekanAlfred]

If an @inDrive passenger decides to be malignant against a driver for no just reason, they can get away with it because of @inDrive policy that's anti-drivers especially for Nigerians. I got blocked on the app without a fair hearing. I'm left to start wondering what I did wrong.

[Olalekan Soleye @LekanAlfred]

I write to @YouVersion to request a partnership with you on behalf of my church community. Kindly furnish me with your email or how to reach you. Thanks

[Olalekan Soleye @LekanAlfred]

@kudahelp_ng I had changed my phone number on my kuda app in a long time. Surprised to see a message asking that code he sent to a phone number I no longer use. Pls update this. Or let me email you but I can't seem to see any email address.