By Making Excuses for Unverified Certificates, We Are Planting Poison in the Soul of Our Society
A nation that tolerates unverified academic credentials at any level of leadership, regardless of who is involved, risks destroying the very standards upon which a society is built. The issue is not about an individual. It is about standards, accountability, and the values we choose to pass on to the next generation.
We cannot continue to excuse blurred, missing, questionable, or unverified credentials simply because they belong to someone we support. The process through which people attain positions of responsibility matters greatly. How we get into leadership is as important as what we do with leadership.
If we normalise the abandonment of basic verification today, tomorrow we may have professors who never attended a university, doctors who never studied medicine, and judges who never studied law.
That is the dangerous precedent we must never allow. Nigeria cannot sacrifice its future on the altar of today's transactional politics. We must build a society where truth is not partisan, standards are not negotiable, and accountability applies equally to everyone.
History will judge us not only by those we defended, but by the principles we were willing to defend. We must choose truth over convenience, standards over sentiments, and the future over political expediency.
A New Nigeria is possible, but only if we are willing to do the right thing, even when it is inconvenient. -PO
@sugabelly I'm sorry for this example, a better one:
"I think women exaggerate this thing of Uber drivers/Dispatch riders being rude. As a man, I have never had a rude Uber driver/Dispatch rider, on the contrary, I always see women being very disrespectful to them."
@sugabelly I'm sorry for this example, a better one:
"I think women exaggerate this thing of Uber drivers/Dispatch riders being rude. As a man, I have never had a rude Uber driver/Dispatch rider, on the contrary, I always see women being very disrespectful to them."
@sugabelly I'm sorry for this example, a better one:
"I think women exaggerate this thing of Uber drivers/Dispatch riders being rude. As a man, I have never had a rude Uber driver/Dispatch rider, on the contrary, I always see women being very disrespectful to them."
@sugabelly I'm sorry for this example, a better one:
"I think women exaggerate this thing of Uber drivers/Dispatch riders being rude. As a man, I have never had a rude Uber driver/Dispatch rider, on the contrary, I always see women being very disrespectful to them."
@sugabelly "I think women exaggerate this sexual harassment thing. As a man, I've never been sexually harassed by other men, it is in fact women who have inappropriately touched me and made uncomfortable remarks."
It's almost like I just invalidated the lived experience of another gender.
@Mimee_ilo Kindly provide another complaint women have that is exclusively about men, I will use that instead. The point still stands, you should not invalidate the lived experience of a group you are not a member of based on "I can't relate".
P.S. please find attached.
@Mimee_ilo Kindly provide another complaint women have that is exclusively about men, I will use that instead. The point still stands, you should not invalidate the lived experience of a group you are not a member of based on "I can't relate".
P.S. please find attached.
@Mimee_ilo Kindly provide another complaint women have that is exclusively about men, I will use that instead. The point still stands, you should not invalidate the lived experience of a group you are not a member of based on "I can't relate".
P.S. please find attached.
@Babajiide Hi Babajide, according to your linkedin your professional expertise is always divided into multiple places at the exact same time. Are you also an artisan or is it only a problem when your subordinates do it?
@ProbablyDafe So many of you in these comments agreeing you're inferior to Caucasians. The only difference between you and them is that they held their leaders accountable, they killed their corrupt elites time and time again. The ball is in your court.
@Danysleek Femco didn't steal any money.
You people need to stop with these foolish narratives.
They even released an audit. You're just allowing yourselves to be used by Nigerian politicians and cause division.
Do better.
@BigTJdaGreat I'm referring to "foundational black Americans" specifically, those of you that do not believe you are from Africa, please what have any of you contributed? Africans immigrants in America are literally one of the highest educated immigrant groups.
https://t.co/1CuCsSyU1c
You can insult Africans all you want, the white supremacists you're trying to please will not pick you.
You and your fellow pick-me foundational black Americans are never doing anything worthy of note. Never contributing to Science, Technology, Art or literature, just bigotry.
@Ifechideere The "North Africans" in question are the Barbary/Ottoman Corsairs, who were mostly Arabs and Europeans, united by the Muslim faith under the Ottoman Empire. They also raided and enslaved Black/Sub sarahan Africans, so please, what is your point?
@frau_ug Women not being able to open and carry things somehow that they should be entirely capable of. Women not being able to kill rodents etc.
I could go on and on, but you will still argue none of these things are weaponized incompetence.
@frau_ug Women not bothering themselves with the maintenance and repair of their own electronic gadgets. Electrical appliances in the home, repair of furniture and structural integrity of the home are also things they don't know how to do for some reason.