"The real estate industry is armed robbery. Leonardo Di Caprio owns an island in America that costs $1.7 million. There's a house in Osapa, it is $1.5 million; Osapa that has no drainage. It is armed robbery..."
- Frank Edoho
Roadmap to a New Nigeria That Is Possible – Part II
Education and Healthcare: The Foundation of a Renewed Nigeria
Recall that on July 1st, in Part 1 of "My Vision for a Productive and Prosperous Nigeria," I outlined the broad framework of my proposed roadmap for national renewal. In it, I emphasised that the transformation of Nigeria must begin with rebuilding our human capital through quality education and healthcare, supported by reforms in Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET), character and civic education, and strategic investments that will move our nation from a consumption-driven economy to a production-driven one. I promised to follow up with other parts in the coming weeks and months.
Today, July 16th, in the middle of July, I wish to expand on these two critical pillars - education and healthcare - because they are the bedrock upon which every prosperous nation is built. They are the cornerstones of the foundation that will ensure that a son of nobody can become somebody and remove many from the ranks of the disaffected who often become tools in the insecurity challenges confronting us.
Evidence from around the world shows that quality education and accessible healthcare are among the clearest distinctions between thriving nations and lagging ones. Princeton University Nobel Prize-winning economist Angus Deaton highlights this reality in his book, “The Great Escape: Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality.”
Nothing, therefore, could be further from the truth than the claim by some young people that “education is a scam.” Education, when combined with good health, provides the ladder for individual upward mobility and drives economic growth for the nation.
We must become more intentional about aligning education with our national priorities, as Singapore did, and challenge our country to value education in the same way Deng Xiaoping repeatedly urged China to do from 1978 onwards, with the remarkable transformation we see today.
We will work through commissions that strengthen collaboration among the tiers of government, ensuring that primary education is domiciled at the community and local government levels, with strong parental involvement and curricula that are sensitive to local economic factor endowments and the value chains derived from them.
State governments will be supported to expand high-quality Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET), as well as general secondary education, through targeted grants and incentives.
We are also developing schemes that will enable universities to focus more deliberately on specialised areas of teaching and research, making them globally competitive while producing a workforce equipped for the demands of the future.
A NEW Nigeria is POssible. -PO
Heårtbreaking final video of a Nigerian nursing student, Favour, recounting how she was r@ped by a 44-year-old popular Asaba-based content creator, Odogwu Asaba, before she reportedly di€d by su|c|de.
According to Favour in the video, she contacted him after watching his post about teaching people how to make money on social media. She said she explained that she had no one to support her financially and was struggling to pay for her education. She also claimed she told him about another man who had invited her to Abuja to help her, but she refused because she was not willing to exchange s£x for financial assistance and preferred to work hard instead.
Favour alleged that after hearing her story, Odogwu Asaba invited her to Asaba and asked her to meet him at a hotel. She said she initially believed he would not assault her because he was a popular content creator and would fear being called out on social media. However, she alleged that after they entered the room, he forcefully r@ped her despite her repeated pleas and after she told him she was a virgin. She further alleged that he later said he was happy he did it.
She also claimed that after the alleged ass@ult, Odogwu Asaba told her there was nothing she could do because he was influential in Delta State.
We have been invited to Singapore for 2027. We will challenge their best students in Maths.
The winners of the 2027 South East Maths Olympiad will challenge the best in Singapore in 2027. 56 other countries will join too.
I like how the world is now taking an interest in our children.
I am benchmarking our education against that of Singapore, Finland, Shanghai, China, Canada, and the US.
This is how we can move from being a third-world country to a first-world country.
The future is looking exciting.
“I’ve seen ‘Olodo Uprising’ in a lot of ways, but the greatest we've experienced in this country is Professor Yemi Osinbajo agreeing to be Vice President to the late Muhammadu Buhari” —Journalist Edafe.
A law professor agrees to be VP to an illiterate.