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Building a Modern, Free, Inclusive, and Future-Ready Education System - #Sowore2027 Education Manifesto
Education is the greatest investment any nation can make in its future. It is the foundation of economic prosperity, scientific advancement, democratic participation, national security, and social justice.
A #Sowore2027 administration will place education at the centre of national development by guaranteeing every Nigerian access to free, high-quality education that nurtures knowledge, creativity, innovation, critical thinking, and productive citizenship.
Our objective is not merely to prepare students to pass examinations but to develop leaders, scientists, engineers, entrepreneurs, artists, skilled professionals, and responsible citizens capable of transforming Nigeria into one of the world’s most advanced societies.
Public education will be free at every level, from early childhood through university.
No Nigerian child or adult will be denied the opportunity to learn because of poverty.
Rather than burdening young people with exploitative student loans, students in public tertiary institutions will receive semester education grants to support their academic and living expenses.
Investing directly in students is an investment in the nation’s future, and no society has ever developed by making education inaccessible to its citizens.
My administration will restructure Nigeria’s education system to make it simpler, more efficient, and better aligned with global best practices.
We will restore a 5-year primary school system followed by five years of uninterrupted secondary education. University education will generally consist of four-year bachelor’s degree programmes, except where internationally recognized professional standards require longer periods of study.
To expand access to higher education, every Local Government Area will receive federal support to establish a Community College offering two-year associate degree programmes that provide affordable pathways into employment, entrepreneurship, vocational training, and university education.
We believe that learning begins long before primary school. Universal early childhood education will become an integral part of Nigeria’s public education system through well-equipped nursery and pre-primary schools staffed by professionally trained educators.
Every Nigerian child deserves the strongest possible educational foundation regardless of family income or geographic location.
Education in the twenty-first century must no longer be confined to the classroom alone.
Our administration will establish an integrated system of physical and virtual learning that allows every learner access to quality education, irrespective of where they live.
Every public educational institution will be connected to high-speed broadband internet and equipped with digital classrooms, virtual laboratories, cloud-based learning platforms, and online libraries. Through technology, students in the most remote communities will have access to educational opportunities comparable to those available anywhere in the world.
Artificial intelligence and digital technology will become central components of learning rather than privileges available only to a few.
AI-assisted personalized learning will help students progress at their own pace while enabling teachers to identify learning gaps and provide targeted support.
Coding, digital literacy, robotics, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, data science, and computational thinking will become core elements of the national curriculum beginning in primary school. Every graduate should leave school equipped with the skills required to succeed in today’s economy while preparing for the technologies of tomorrow.
Community Colleges will become pillars of local development throughout Nigeria.
Every Local Government Area will operate a Community College offering associate degrees, technical certifications, adult education, continuing education, entrepreneurship training, digital skills programmes, and workforce development initiatives tailored to the needs of local communities.
These institutions will expand access to higher education while supporting local economic growth and reducing educational inequality between urban and rural Nigeria.
Technical and vocational education will enjoy the same status, funding, and public respect as traditional university education.
Nigeria cannot industrialize without highly skilled technicians, engineers, artisans, and innovators.
Training programmes will focus on renewable energy, manufacturing, construction, agriculture, aviation, maritime industries, healthcare technologies, software engineering, artificial intelligence, and the creative industries.
Our objective is to produce graduates who can create jobs, build industries, and compete successfully in global markets.
The long-standing and discriminatory divide between universities and polytechnics will finally end.
All polytechnics and monotechnics will be upgraded into universities with specialized mandates in engineering, applied sciences, technology, industrial innovation, entrepreneurship, and research. This reform will remove artificial barriers to educational advancement while strengthening Nigeria’s capacity for technological development.
No education system can rise above the quality of its teachers. Our administration will place teachers at the centre of national development by establishing Teachers’ Institutes dedicated to continuous professional development.
Every teacher, regardless of previous qualifications, will undergo periodic advanced training in modern pedagogy, educational technology, digital learning, artificial intelligence, curriculum development, classroom leadership, and contemporary teaching methods. Teachers will also receive significantly improved salaries, better housing support, expanded research opportunities, and greater professional recognition.
Universities must remain centres of independent thought rather than instruments of political control. Our administration will guarantee genuine academic, financial, and administrative autonomy for universities while maintaining strong systems of public accountability.
Vice-Chancellors and governing councils will be selected through transparent, democratic, and merit-based processes free from partisan political interference.
Academic freedom will be fully protected. Students and lecturers will enjoy the constitutional rights to research, teach, publish, organize, criticize public policy, and participate peacefully in democratic life without intimidation from government or security agencies. Nigerian campuses will once again become centres of intellectual inquiry, innovation, and democratic debate.
Independent student unionism will also be fully restored and protected. Students have the democratic right to organize themselves, defend their welfare, advocate for reforms, and participate in institutional governance.
No student will face victimization, suspension, expulsion, or prosecution for engaging in legitimate and peaceful activism.
Nigeria must become a producer of knowledge rather than merely a consumer of discoveries made elsewhere.
Our administration will dramatically increase funding for research and innovation across universities and research institutes. Priority investment will support research in medicine, renewable energy, artificial intelligence, biotechnology, agriculture, climate science, manufacturing, transportation, defence technology, public health, and other fields capable of driving national development.
Research grants will be awarded transparently on the basis of merit, measurable impact, and relevance to Nigeria’s developmental needs.
To support learning and innovation nationwide, we will establish a National Education and Innovation Cloud providing every student and teacher with free access to digital libraries, academic journals, AI learning assistants, virtual laboratories, educational software, research databases, and open educational resources. Access to knowledge should never depend on geography or personal wealth.
Our administration will undertake the largest investment in educational infrastructure in Nigeria’s history.
Every school will be equipped with modern classrooms, functional laboratories, libraries, renewable electricity, clean water, reliable internet connectivity, sports facilities, creative arts centres, and infrastructure accessible to persons living with disabilities.
University campuses will feature AI-powered smart hostels with modern security systems, efficient energy management, digital student services, and technology-enabled learning environments.
No child should attempt to learn while hungry. We will establish a nationwide school nutrition programme providing healthy daily meals for pupils in public primary and Secondary schools using food sourced from Nigerian farmers.
Student welfare will also include accessible healthcare, counseling services, mental health support, menstrual hygiene programs, and comprehensive wellbeing initiatives designed to improve educational outcomes.
Our education system will be fully inclusive. Children and adults living with disabilities will receive equal educational opportunities through accessible infrastructure, assistive technologies, Braille and sign-language instruction, specialized teaching personnel, and individualized learning support.
Every Nigerian deserves an education regardless of physical or cognitive ability.
Education must develop the whole person. Our schools will place renewed emphasis on sports, music, literature, theatre, visual arts, film, and cultural education.
Modern sports facilities and creative arts centres will become standard features of educational institutions, enabling young Nigerians to develop their talents while strengthening national identity and cultural confidence.
Nigeria is blessed with one of Africa’s largest communities of scholars and professionals abroad.
Through a National Academic Return Programme, we will encourage Nigerian academics, scientists, researchers, innovators, and professionals in the diaspora to contribute to national development by offering competitive remuneration, research funding, modern laboratories, housing support, and flexible academic appointments. Their expertise will strengthen teaching, research, mentorship, and international collaboration across Nigerian institutions.
Learning should continue throughout life. Every Nigerian will have opportunities to acquire new knowledge and skills through flexible online learning platforms, community colleges, vocational education centres, continuing education programmes, and lifelong learning initiatives designed to keep pace with changing technologies and labour markets.
Education will be recognized and protected as a fundamental constitutional right. Every level of government will have a legal obligation to provide quality education to every Nigerian without discrimination based on income, gender, disability, ethnicity, religion, or place of residence.
Finally, our commitment to education will be matched by our commitment to good governance. A #Sowore2027 administration will allocate 30 percent of the national budget to education, treating it as a strategic investment rather than a recurring expense.
Every allocation will be subject to complete transparency through open budgeting, digital procurement, independent audits, and public reporting.
Corruption in education financing will not be tolerated. Funding for schools, universities, and research institutions will be distributed transparently through Blockchain Technology and linked to measurable improvements in learning, research, innovation, and national development.
We will establish a National Research and Innovation Fund to support groundbreaking discoveries and ensure that publicly funded research delivers practical solutions to Nigeria’s economic, technological, environmental, and social challenges.
This is our vision: an education system that is free, inclusive, technology-driven, research-intensive, democratic, globally competitive, and firmly rooted in the belief that every Nigerian deserves the opportunity to develop their full potential. Our goal is not simply to produce graduates, but to produce thinkers, innovators, creators, scientists, artists, entrepreneurs, skilled workers, and leaders who will build a prosperous, just, technologically advanced, and truly liberated Nigeria.
When I become President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria:
@JAMBHQ will be abolished. Admission into tertiary institutions should be determined by the institutions themselves under a transparent, merit-based system, not by another layer of bureaucracy.
The National Youth Service Corps @nysc_ng , in its current form, will be scrapped. In its place, we will establish a two-year, voluntary National Job Corps that guarantees participants meaningful employment, practical skills, entrepreneurship support, and pathways into permanent careers.
Nigeria's young people do not need more compulsory schemes. They need opportunities, jobs, skills, and the freedom to choose their future.
𝗜𝘁 𝗰𝗼𝘀𝘁 ₦𝟬.𝟬𝟬 𝘁𝗼 𝗿𝗲𝗽𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗺𝘂𝘀𝗹𝗶𝗺 𝘂𝗺𝗺𝗮𝗵
The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said:
"You see the believers in their mercy, love, and compassion for one another like a single body. When one part of the body suffers, the whole body responds with sleeplessness and fever."
As Eid-ul-Fitr approaches, many of us are concerned about our Eid clothes being ready, filling our fridges with food, and buying gifts for our children so they can celebrate with happiness. Yet, many indigent Muslims are worried about something far more basic—what they will eat on the day of Eid.
Our brothers and sisters who are in dire need are part of this Ummah, and their hardship should move our hearts to act. This is why Zakat-ul-Fitri was prescribed—so the poor and vulnerable can share in the joy and dignity of Eid.
Your Zakat-ul-Fitri can be a lifesaver for families who have nothing to prepare for the blessed day. We humbly seek your support to ensure that as many indigent Muslims as possible have food on their tables and a reason to smile on Eid day.
Kindly entrust us with your Zakat and Zakat-ul-Fitri, and we will ensure it reaches the most vulnerable members of the Ummah.
May Allah (SWT) accept our fast, dua, supplications, our charity, purify our wealth, watch over us, grant us the best, and reward us all abundantly for bringing relief to those in dire need. [Ameen] 🤲🌙✨
🌸🌸 February 2026 Monthly General Meeting – Highlights 🌸🌸
The February Monthly General Meeting of the NSE Ibeju-Lekki Branch was impactful and eventful, reinforcing our commitment to professional development, structured growth, and active member engagement.
My Speech at the 25th Year Reunion of Offa Grammar School Class of 2000.
La Mango Restaurant, Ikeja, Lagos on November 29, 2025
Dear brothers and sisters, good evening.
I am genuinely grateful to be here today. It has been a quarter of a century since I saw many of you. I am thankful for the opportunity to reunite. I have been asked to speak on Nation Building and to do this, allow me to open with the words of Confucius:
The illustrious ancients, when they wished to make clear and to propagate the highest virtues in the world, put their states in proper order. Before putting their states in proper order, they regulated their families. Before regulating their families, they cultivated their own selves. Before cultivating their own selves, they perfected their souls. Before perfecting their souls, they tried to be sincere in their thoughts. Before trying to be sincere in their thoughts, they extended to the utmost their knowledge. Such investigation of knowledge lay in the investigation of things, and in seeing them as they really were. When things were thus investigated, knowledge became complete. When knowledge was complete, their thoughts became sincere. When their thoughts were sincere, their souls became perfect. When their souls were perfect, their own selves became cultivated. When their selves were cultivated, their families became regulated. When their families were regulated, their states came to be put into proper order. When their states were in proper order, then the whole world became peaceful and happy.
In this short but profound text, he teaches that the road to a just and peaceful nation begins with the individual.
Before a state can be properly ordered, the family must be regulated. Before the family can be regulated, the individual must be cultivated. Before the individual can be cultivated, the heart must be made sincere. And sincerity begins with honest thought, grounded in true knowledge.
That ancient ladder - from knowledge to thought, to character, to family, to nation - captures the central message I want to share tonight: nation building starts with me. With you. With each of us.
We look around Nigeria today and we see failure in leadership, failures in institutions, and failures in systems. It is easy, very easy, to blame government officials, politicians, and people in authority.
But the uncomfortable truth is this:
We have corrupt leaders because we are a corrupt people. We tolerate what we should reject. We excuse what we should confront. We accept what we should challenge.
In quality management, we are taught three simple rules:
Do not accept defect.
Do not create defect.
Do not pass defect along.
If we applied these three principles to citizenship, Nigeria would be a different nation entirely. Imagine a society where no one accepts wrong, no one creates wrong, and no one inflicts wrong on another. Imagine a society where personal integrity is non-negotiable. That is what Confucius meant. That is what nation building demands.
Because the truth is this: every time we cut corners, pay a bribe, inflate an invoice, cheat the system, or even look away when wrongdoing happens, we contribute - quietly but powerfully - to the decay of our own country.
We talk about bad leaders. But as political scientists often say, nations rarely rise above the moral standard of their citizens. In other words, we get the leaders we deserve.
Let me remind you of our final year at OGS when Suraj was omitted when the list of prefects were announced, despite clearly being one of the best students around. This omission reflected a policy of selecting only science students for leadership roles. At barely seventeen, Suraj refused to accept this wrong. The next day he returned to school with a ten‑page rebuttal, pasted it on the notice board, and challenged the authorities. It sparked a conversation that would not be silenced. Inspired by him, I later led a protest demanding that our WAEC fees be refunded after we heard on the radio that the state was returning the money but our school had taken no action. Over the following years the policy changed; non‑science students began to hold leadership positions — an assistant head girl in 2001, an assistant senior prefect in 2002, and a head girl in the 2003/2004 set. One person’s refusal to tolerate injustice made a lasting difference.
We gather tonight as people who have been blessed with education, opportunities, networks, and a measure of influence. Twenty-five years ago, we sat in the same classrooms dreaming of a better future. Today, we are no longer dreamers - we are the adults in the room. We are the ones responsible for shaping the future our children will inherit.
So the question is no longer, “What is wrong with Nigeria?”
The question is, “What is wrong with me? What am I contributing? And what can I fix?”
Nation building is not a speech. It is not an election cycle. It is not about whichever administration is in power.
Nation building is a personal discipline.
A daily decision.
A moral commitment.
It is stopping at traffic lights even when nobody is watching.
It is refusing to pay bribes even when it inconveniences you.
It is choosing honesty in business even when fraud seems easier.
It is treating people with dignity even when you have power over them.
It is raising children who know integrity not as theory, but as lifestyle.
Because as Confucius reminds us:
If we regulate ourselves, our families will be strong.
If families are strong, communities will be stable.
If communities are stable, the nation will thrive.
The next 25 years of our lives will be even more influential than the past 25. We must not waste them.
Let us commit tonight to becoming the kind of citizens Nigeria needs - citizens who are disciplined, principled, courageous, and uncompromising in the face of wrongdoing.
Let us commit to nation building as a personal responsibility.
Let us leave this reunion determined that when history records the story of Nigeria, it will say: “They handed over a better country than the one they met.”
And if anyone asks how we did it, we can point back to Confucius and say….We started by fixing ourselves.
Thank you, and God bless you all. God bless our families. And God bless the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
@Adebo_ogund From the post, the major achievement of the Gov visit is his direction of the people to New towns and Cities Development Authority, for any complaint regarding any affected property?, or was their any policy revisit from him?
Rising Star! MT Scholar Mariam Kareem Shines With Innovative Eco-Efficient Farming Research
💡 We are excited to celebrate Mariam Kareem, a 2024 MT Scholar currently pursuing her PhD in Soil Microbiology at the New Mexico State University (NMSU), USA.
Mariam recently earned international recognition after being featured in an Africa Science News article titled “Young African Scientist Pioneers Eco-efficient Farming Solutions for Water-Stressed Regions.” This spotlight highlights her groundbreaking contributions to transforming agriculture in some of the world’s most challenging environments.
In an era where climate change continues to threaten food security and environmental stability, Mariam is courageously leading innovative, eco-efficient farming solutions designed for water-scarce and drought-prone regions. Her work is empowering farmers to increase yield, manage soil health, and conserve precious water resources; a truly life-changing contribution to sustainable agriculture.
📌 Read the full article here: [https://t.co/MMS1ZVwNN5]
✨ We celebrate Mariam’s passion, brilliance, and unwavering commitment to improving lives through science. The MT Scholarships Community is incredibly proud of her achievements and excited for the global impact her research will continue to make.
Mariam holds a BSc in Soil Science & Land Management [CGPA: 4.80/5.00] an MPhil in Irrigation & Drainage Engineering [CGPA: 4.75/5.00], and a GRE score of 339/340.
#PhD #MTScholarships
Nigeria keeps breaking my heart, we can't keep letting evil dominate our narrative.
@officialABAT, all governors & security agents, we need insecurity to be urgently curbed. No good policy or achievement can thrive in the face of the terrorism that plagues our nation.
Do not be deluded that all is well as long as your region doesn't experience such violence, what affects one affects all. Evil keeps spreading if not curbed on time. We shouldn't be living in fear in our own country. This shouldn't still be happening,
This is one of the most honest and educative takes on the current threat of a USA invasion of Nigeria.
May God bless and reward this girl wherever she is.