You need to see the joy on olodos' faces when a very academically sound person doesn't succeed in life. They relish it. It's almost as if it gives them more reasons to talk down on education and intelligence.
When we were graduating, after I finished as the top student in my class, many of my coursemates were really eager to see how I would turn out. In fact, I would always hear them gossiping: "No be by Best Graduating Student. To make am for life no be by acada. Street na military. We go see."
I'm glad I turned out really well. Even most of those who went to Ghana for "updates" after school and eventually resorted to fraud can't measure up to my accomplishments. Till today, many of them still randomly call me and jokingly ask, "Senior man, you just dey chop dey go. You no wan give men update na!"
Deep down, they genuinely believe I must be secretly involved in fraud. This is the society we live in, where many young people have come to believe that you can't succeed legitimately, and that every young man who is doing well for himself must be involved in fraud. Even many elderly people and police officers aren't exempt from this line of thinking.
I haven't seen a country that is trying so hard to make education unattractive like ours.
"School na scam."
โจ"No be by BSc. You get BTC?"
โจ"Education is the key to success. Oya, use the key start Benz na ๐."
โจ"Lecturer pack 1999 Camry, student don pack Lexus beside am."
If we continue this way, in a few years, there will be nothing left of our educational system. We are so money-centred that we don't even realize education can be an end in itself and not necessarily just a means to an end.
Everything has become, "How much do you have in your account?" or "Use your intelligence buy Benz na."
This is one of the reasons it really hurts me to see highly intelligent and brilliant people end up poor. I'm always rooting for academically sound people to succeed because I genuinely want people, especially young people, to see that you can make it legitimately through hard work and academic excellence.
Any society where only the olodos become financially successful while the brighter minds, the ones who believe in due process, continue to struggle is a society that is bound to fail.
I finally realized why I like Twitter so much. It has NO SOUND. ๐ No screaming TikTok audios, no random music, no sensory overload. Just text. My overstimulated ADHD brain can finally breathe here.
Infinite power lies within the man who trusts in God fully โ not abstractly, but in the manner in which he lives, loves, gives, labors, smiles, writes, sows, walks, and talks in secret and with others
Nothing can stop him, nothing at all
This week marks International Men's Week 2026.
I started to put together this thread last week & this morning - I have all my thoughts together.
From one man to another,
From the core of my heart to yours,
From the recognition of my struggles to yours,
I share this:
Bro! E get some Wizkid songs wey you go Listen to.. you go be like! How did he sing this! How did he come up with this! HOWWW!! He has some evergreen iconic music that will last forever!!
Sometimes i understand him acting like a nonchalant man because you cannot be that Talented|creative and be Normal. Itโs impossible!
Wiz will go down as one of the best Nigerian Music ever. You can h*te him, Dislike him but you Must listen to his Music. Heโs one of the few that walks the talk.
Bro! E get some Burnaboy songs whe you go Listen to.. you go be like! How did he sing this! How did he come up with this! HOWWW!! He has some evergreen iconic music that will last forever!!
Sometimes i understand him acting like a mad man because you cannot be that Talented|creative and be Normal. Itโs impossible!
Burna will go down as one of the best Nigerian Music ever. You can h*te him, Dislike him but you Must listen to his Music. Heโs one of the few that walks the talk.