Academically able people think theirs is the only kind of ability that matters, not true. Visibility requires a different kind of intelligence that the academically able lack. They thus downplay and brand visibility as low status rather than cultivate the visibility skills that are unnatural to them.
But make no mistake, the highly visible are smart in their own way. They've figured out human emotions and how to manipulate people's attention. This is a highly valuable skill, so valuable that it can land you in the most powerful house in the world, the white house.
God has done it again✅
500 Level MBBS Result = 3 out of 3 Distinctions
Distinction (D) in Community Health & Primary Care
Distinction (D) in Obs & Gynae
Distinction (D) in Paediatrics
100L-500L Result = 5.00CGPA, 11 out of 11 Distinctions.
Mbbs, Unilag.
A man in the Philippines is seen at home checking his Dentist Licensure Exam results on his laptop, one of the most difficult professional exams to pass. His father stands beside him as he waits nervously. After tense moments, the result shows PASS, officially making him a licensed dentist. His mother, brother, and grandmother break down in tears, celebrating the emotional achievement together.
Less of this rubbish this year pls, If you can’t afford an international masters degree you need to sit your ass down in your home country.
I’m sure unilag has masters degree programs you can explore.
I wonder how long is the acceptable duration of humility post crowdfunding.
Like if you crowdfund your international masters tuition - when is an acceptable time to be seen “flexing”?
It is deeply revealing how casually Nigerians say things like “X (a private citizen) arrested Y”—as though it were normal, even acceptable, for private individuals to deploy the police as personal enforcers. Hardly anyone pauses to ask how, in a so-called democracy, a person can be abducted and detained by armed agents of the state simply for saying something offensive, when clear legal remedies for libel and slander already exist. That silence tells you everything.
The Nigerian Police is not a law-enforcement institution in any meaningful sense. It functions largely as a marketplace for coercion—thugs for hire, available to whoever can pay or threaten enough. A society policed this way cannot develop. It cannot mature. It cannot be trusted to protect anything fragile: dissent, minorities, truth, or even basic fairness.
What makes this worse is the moral incoherence of the public outrage that occasionally erupts. Nigeria’s violence is not merely institutional; it is cultural. Many who protest injustice do so only because they are on the receiving end of it—not because they believe in dignity as a principle, or equality as a value, or restraint as a civic virtue. They do not oppose cruelty; they simply resent being its targets.
I learned this the hard way. I once joined others in calling for the release of a man unlawfully detained by a politician in Kaduna. Months after his release, I came across his tweets calling for violence against gay people—describing them as disgusting and deserving of harm. The same man we had defended. The same man invoking rights when power turned against him, and brutality when it did not.
This is the country as it is. Nigerians do not yet want justice; they want advantage. They do not yet want dignity for all; they want immunity for themselves. When Nigerians truly desire equality, restraint, and a humane public order, they will organise, resist, and demand it—consistently, even when it protects people they dislike. Until then, the present reality is not an accident. It is the outcome of collective choices, rehearsed daily and defended loudly.
For now, Nigerians deserve each other.
The foolish achiever develops a Messiah complex. He imagines he can save the world, attend to every need. Never forget your name is not Jesus Christ. You're a product of grace. All you can do is all you can do. Don't take on unnecessary guilt.
𝟒.𝟗𝟏/𝟓.𝟎𝟎 𝐂𝐆𝐏𝐀 - 𝐌𝐞𝐞𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐂𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐬 𝐑𝐞𝐩 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐡 𝐥𝐞𝐝 𝟐𝟖 𝐅𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭 𝐂𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐬 (𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐥𝐮𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐎𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐁𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐆𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐮𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐒𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭), 𝟑𝟓 𝐒𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐝 𝐂𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐬 𝐔𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐫, 𝟎 𝐒𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐝 𝐂𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐬 𝐋𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝟎 𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐫𝐝 𝐂𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐬 𝐆𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐮𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐡 𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞.
Meet Jimeto Kehinde Iyanu, the Class Representative of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CVE) Graduating Class of 24.
Kehinde graduated with an exceptional CGPA of 4.91/5.00 and ranked in the top 1% of the graduating class. He completed 79 courses, (72 As and 7 Bs)
His other achievements includes;
🏅 Served as Class Representative for Civil and Environmental Engineering Class of 2024 from 100L to 500L.
🏅 Contributed to the remarkable achievement of 28 First Class Honors and 35 Second Class Upper Division among his classmates (excluding spill-over students) - this is first in FUTA’s 44-year history.
🏅 5 out of the 28 First Class graduates finished with CGPAs above 4.9.
🏅 Led the department to produce the overall best graduating student, Aduragbemi Akindunbi, who achieved a record 4.98/5.00 CGPA.
🏅 Produced the second-best graduating student, Olaseile Oluwatosin, with a CGPA of 4.97/5.00, the second highest in FUTA's history.
🏅 The only Class Representative in the graduating class with a CGPA above 4.9 (4.91/5.00).
🏅 Earned 10 Dean’s List Awards throughout his 10 semesters.
🏅 Served as Technical Director of NICESA Southwest (2022/2023).
🏅 Served as Ondo State Coordinator of NICESA (2023/2024).
🏅 Held the position of President of his Student Fellowship (CSU FUTA) in his final year.
🏅 Served as Ushering Coordinator in 300L(CSU FUTA).
🏅 Served as Level Coordinator from 100L to 400L (CSU FUTA).
🏅 Interned at Ove Arup and Partners Nigeria Limited and Chevron Nigeria Limited.
🏅 Received multiple scholarships from 100L to 500L