"What is poor people doing with a phone"
"We don't need 24 hours electricity"
"During our time, we use to fetch stream water to drink"
A terrifyingly dysfunctional society where mediocrity reign supreme, applauds & celebrate older ignorants who "breakthrough" a failed system 📌
On the issue of the dead woman found in Umahi’s country home and his claim that she was seconded to him as a physiotherapist, I have a very simple question;
Dear Umahi, if a medical test is conducted on this lady, would your semen be found inside her or not?
So a young lady died at the residence of Nigeria's Minister of Works, David Umahi - the police hasn't even launched a proper investigation.
Scenarios like this remind me of Ekweremadu, Nigeria's former Deputy Senate President who wanted to illegally harvest a child's organs.
He's rotting away in a UK jail because he didn't commit the crime in Nigeria.
"Nigeria is a giant crime scene" is an unbelievable understatement.
With sadness in our hearts and gratitude to God for a life well spent , we announce the call to glory of Nkechi Stella Rhodes-Vivour, ( Nee Waboso).
A loving wife, devoted mother and grandmother. The epitome of Love. She will be sorely missed. May her beautiful soul rest in perfect peace.
Funeral arrangements will be announced shortly.
Announcer-
Olawale Rhodes-Vivour
For the family.
We will be closing registration for the 2027 South East Maths Olympiad on September 30, 2026.
No other registrations will be accepted after the date above.
We currently have 32,738 students registered. Anambra State currently has the lowest registration so far.
The registration link remains: https://t.co/7tLQbIFrMy
We will also be introducing the South East Science Olympiad in 2027 and one registration covers both competitions. I’m worried about the current gap in science among our children, and we will urgently need to fix it.
Maths will be compulsory for everyone, while Science will be optional. However, the prize money will be split across both.
A student is allowed to win both Maths and Science. Only the winners of Maths will represent us at the global stage in Lisbon, Portugal in 2027.
We will also be sharing a new curriculum based on high-order thinking and pure application.
I just learned that under Ghana’s Free Senior High School policy, the government pays the WASSCE registration fees for every student in public schools.
Then I looked at Nigeria, where WAEC and NECO fees have just increased.
I’m struggling to understand the logic.
Nigeria has one of the largest populations of out-of-school children in the world.
Thousands of children drop out every year because their families simply cannot keep up with the cost of education.
Education is under attack in Nigeria and we have to fight back.
Yesterday, there were some kids selling lemonade on my street. As I was parking, they walked up to me and asked if I’d like a cup for $1. I didn't have a dollar on me. After searching my car, I found 50 cents. I handed it to them and told them not to worry about giving me any lemonade.
They refused. Instead, they insisted I take a small box of Skittles, which was one of the other things they were selling. Omo, it was as if they told ‘We are not beggars. We are businesswomen.’
A culture that teaches kids that they have to work to earn their wages is a culture where people know the value of money.
I once said here that $100 is a lot of money anywhere in the world. Some people here were arguing, but I understand.
This 15-year-old boy, Bassey Stephen Etim, won today's Sterling Bank Online National Mathematics Quiz.
He is currently an SS2 student at Dority International Secondary School, Aba, Abia State.
He outperformed every other student who participated from across the country.
Another star has been discovered.
We captured this beautiful moment as Egejurum Onyedikachi and Don-Anele Munachimso arrived at Sam Mbakwe Airport, Owerri, yesterday to a true hero's welcome.
These are not football stars. They are not musicians. They are not politicians.
They are children.
Children who became the world's best in Mathematics in the Primary and Senior categories. Don-Anele Munachimso is also the world's best in Science.
The last literary figures from the South East to receive this kind of heroic public welcome were Chinua Achebe and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.
Watching our brightest young minds being celebrated like national heroes gives me hope.
For too long, we have celebrated almost everything except academic excellence.
That is beginning to change.
Education is reclaiming its rightful place in our society, and a generation of children is growing up believing that knowledge, hard work and excellence deserve standing ovations too.
This is bigger than two children.
This is the beginning of a movement.
Owerri Airport was at a standstill this morning on the arrival of Egejurum Onyedikachi and Don Anele Munachimso. Thousands of people came out to welcome them.
They are the world’s best in the Maths Primary and Senior categories. They are also the world’s best in Chemistry.
Education has taken back its place in our society, and it can only get better.
We are extremely serious about education in the South East, and we are not backing down.
Dear Alex Onyia,
You probably don’t realize what you’ve done.
It’s been days, and people still can’t stop talking about you. They waited to see you and your participants fail, but God had other plans.
The meltdown has been crazy
Enough of News agencies and editorials platforming absolute idiots.
It is important that we make academics attractive, again.
Education should be frontline on our TV screens.
Make Education Great Again.
Makes a whole lot of sense. Kids can multi tasking very well and they are already doing both.
Well done for the great work you are doing.
It is worthy of emulation
16 students from The Ambassadors Schools won 15 gold medals, nine silver medals, nine bronze medals combined.
Munachimso emerged as the gold medalist in the Science category, Onyedikachi Ethan won gold in Mathematics.
Celebrating academic excellence.
SCHOOL IS NOT SCAM.
If you believe someone committed a traffic violation, issue the ticket and send it to their address. There’s no need to turn it into a public spectacle by posting it on Twitter with a long, self-congratulatory caption.
The accused should also have the right to appeal or dispute the ticket through the appropriate legal process. That’s how functional systems operate: due process, not social media theatrics.
Keyamo owns a house in Texas, so I expected that somewhere along the way, he would have learned how these things are handled in societies with functioning institutions.
Awon “no place like home.”
The whole thing is embarrassingly backward.
Dear Alex @winexviv,
Hearty congratulations to all outstanding Nigerian champions who recorded wins in Mathematics and Science as well as you and the entire Educare family at the 2026 Olympiad! This is exactly the kind of excellence Nigeria needs. The laurels achieved by our children are proofs that when we invest in our young minds, they rise to meet the world.
You are building something that truly matters. Keep raising these champions; the nation is watching, and it is proud.
With deep admiration,
Oby🦾🥇🏆😃✍🏾✍🏾✍🏾
Ovie Okpako-Onyokoko from Port Harcourt.
Currently the world best in Grade 11 mathematics and third world best in coding by codementum at the ISTEM Olympiad in Rome.
Academic Excellence 🔥🔥🔥
You won’t know things are happening in this world if you don’t frequent these places
1. Courts
2. Hospitals
3. Police stations.
You will hear all sorts of abnormal/unusual cases.
I've interviewed presidents, governors, generals, activists and politicians. But sometimes it's the interviews with the families left carrying the emotional burden that stay with you.
A few days ago, I interviewed the lawyer Asiya El-Rufai, wife of former Kaduna state governor, Nasir El-Rufai. She spoke with the precision of a legal expert and the pain of a spouse.
She didn't ask me to defend her husband. She didn't ask Nigerians to take sides. She spoke instead - quietly but powerfully - about constitutional rights, due process, access to lawyers and doctors, and the emotional toll prolonged detention takes on a family.
It reminded me that behind every politically charged courtroom battle is a human story.
Whatever anyone thinks of Nasir El-Rufai politically, one truth remains: the rule of law only has meaning when it protects people whose politics we may disagree with. That is why due process is not a favour. It is the foundation of democracy.
Power is temporary. The legal precedents we tolerate today may become the standards - and the nightmare - we all live under tomorrow.