Development Communication Authority | Director, Centre for Devpt Communication | Supporting NGOs, govt & donors to design communication for sustainable devpt.
“I understand your worry, and I know you just want me to be safe and respected. But I’m not writing to prove I have a PhD — I’m writing to make the PhD useful. If knowledge doesn’t live beyond the certificate, then it dies in silence.”
When Universities Become Political Compensation Centres, Education Dies
Nigeria’s university system is gradually being destroyed by political patronage, and many people are pretending not to see it. @asuunews
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“We don’t believe the noise on the radio. It is what our healthcare workers and birth attendants tell us that we follow. If you want to help us, come here first. Ask us questions.”
@OpenSociety@UN_Women@UNICEF@nighealthwatch@OseniDevTalks
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Dear @OfficialNSUK,
Some of us have completed all graduation requirements, including clearance and collection of results, yet our portal still reflects “student” status. Kindly update the portal to reflect our correct status as graduates.
Thank you.
A person I guided through his MSc thesis at a university in South Western Nigeria, close to Lagos from start to finish, including data analysis is now questioning other people’s degrees.
Someone who likely would not have graduated without my support
Life is not always balanced
In West Africa, we proudly announce election results as if democracy has spoken, yet what we often count are ballots, not votes. That confusion is not just technical; it is the silent fracture at the heart of our democratic crisis.
https://t.co/qTc36LHYKh
West African democracies risk reproducing colonial patterns of exclusion and extraction, not because colonialism never ended, but because its logic has been internalized and localized by postcolonial elites.