In 2015, Educated people with Msc, PhDs that are vastly traveled, watched several campaign videos & interviews of Muhammadu Buhari & said “he’s the messiah that will bring change to Nigeria”
APC & Buhari’s emergence as president took this country back to the Stone Age. It should never have happened!
One of the reasons we are seeing the rise of the Olodo culture is that many intelligent people are too quiet. They hesitate to put their work out there or raise their voice. They think nobody will listen. They assume there are already enough intellectuals writing articles, making podcasts, or posting on Twitter and other platforms. Some even believe they’re too intelligent to engage in everyday social discussions.
But when thoughtful people stay silent, they create a vacuum. And as we all know, nature abhors a vacuum.
That Vaccum is quickly filled by people who are more confident than competent. People who are not afraid to speak, create content, or dominate the conversation, regardless of the quality of what they have to say.
If knowledgeable people refuse to participate in public discourse, they shouldn't be surprised when less informed voices shape public opinion, and when Olodos start being role models.
This is why I will always be an advocate of intelligent people being outspoken and taking up spaces, because the more you say you don’t like the limelight, the more you keep giving room for the olodo uprisers to dominate. They have numbers.
The last time Nigeria participated in the International Maths Olympiad (IMO) was in 2019.
The government's reason then was that it was not important enough.
The actual funding required is less than the cost of a brand new Hilux.
This is the most prestigious academic competition in the world, and our children have been deprived of participation for years.
Education has been pushed to the back seat for a long time, while illiteracy has been elevated.
This needs to stop now!
Olodo Uprising for me was in 2015. When people saw Buhari and said he was the “Chosen One”. They argued against history and data. It was just not only about the increase of anti-intellectualism, it was its acceptance. We have not recovered, we may never recover.
Next week, I will be taking 3 students and 2 teachers to Rome, Italy, all expenses paid by me.
All visas have been issued and all arrangements have been sorted.
The students will represent Nigeria in the Maths and Science categories of the International STEM Olympiad.
They will compete alongside 154 other countries.
The students who won the 2026 South East Maths Olympiad and the teachers who supported them are going. Both the teachers and the students will experience growth together.
I will continue to push our bright minds to global stages.
In 10 years, I pray you will be alive to see the outcome of our investments in our children today.
Four years since #EndSars, LASG has refused to release body of the 20yr old photo journalist Pelumi Onifade who was haunted, klled for filming a grassroot APC politician shoot live at protesters.
Pelumi captured the gruesome moment Abiodun Bolarinwa pulled out a gun, and ended innocent lives at Abule Egba.
Apparently, Olusegun Abiodun Bolarinwa the President of the Yoruba Youth Forum went there to calm and control the protesting crowd.
But they figured he was attempting to use them to boost his political profile, so they ignored and asked him to leave.
Following the rejection, in the heat, he brought out a pump action, shot two in the air. Got down from his SUV, walked towards the vulnerable crowd and shot six times, allegedly resulting to the death of two people.
The story would have been a rumor, but Pelumi Onifade who is the only son of his single mother, was on ground to capture the whole event on tape for GboahTV.
As the video went viral, later that evening, men of Lagos Task Force (Police) haunted and arrested the 20yr old Pelumi, hours later he was found dead in a mortuary at Ikorodu.
Since then, Lagos state government has frustrated every efforts from his single mother to collect his body for proper burial, ranging from random DNA tests to prove she (Bose Onifade) was his real mother, down to frivolous excuses from officials. As police reportedly refused to investigate the case.
According to eye witness, the other victims chose to remain silent, out of fear and threats.
Although, in 2022 Olusegun Abiodun Bolarinwa was arraigned and sentenced. Mr Abiodun perpetrated a N266.5 million fraud in 2020 claiming to be former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s son and pitching for appointment as the Chief of Army Staff.
He was sentenced to 7yrs imprisonment, but many assume he isn't doing the time, due to the Idris Okuneye saga.
Lagos police have been reluctant to open investigations concerning his role in Pelumi's demise. But last August, a federal high court finally ordered an investigation be carried out to understand why he was arrested by the police alive and later found dead.
Nigeria has now been delisted from the International Maths Olympiad, whose finals are happening in Shanghai, China, this July.
It is one of the most prestigious academic competitions in the world.
Nigeria can now only participate as an observer nation, while other countries can participate fully.
This was because of the Ministry of Education’s inability to fund students for 4 consecutive years through National Mathematical Center.
It’s a big shame for Nigeria.
Every single part of your daily peace is governed by politics. If you're holding onto a cracked screen because phones now cost millions or you can't buy shawarma without doing mathematics, you are feeling the real-world weight of state failure.
Everything is politics.
Been watching the entire World Cup. I'm confused. Why was no VAR used twice on the England/Ghana match. Goalie tackle and the Ghana near breakaway late 70s minute. Help?
"And I shall wipe away all tears from your eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away."