“I have known Onyeka Nwelue since 2007, back in our University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN) days. Those of us who encountered him in that formative period of our lives will agree on one thing: Onyeka has never been content with shallow questions. Even as a young undergraduate, he was restless not in a careless way, but in an intellectual way.
He was always searching, always interrogating assumptions, always dissatisfied with the easy answers that most of us were willing to accept.
Years have passed since those Nsukka days, but that core trait has not changed. If anything, it has deepened.
The book you hold in your hands The Algebra of Poverty: Eradicating Poverty in
Africa Through Physics Education is not a casual work. It is the product of a mind that refuses to accept poverty as destiny and refuses to romanticize suffering as culture.
Onyeka’s central provocation is both simple and radical: poverty in Africa is not merely an economic condition; it is also a cognitive and structural condition. And if it is cognitive and structural, then it can be modeled, understood, dismantled and rebuilt differently.
That is an audacious claim.”
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I have known Alex Onyia since 2007. We were in University of Nigeria same time. When I was interviewing people for my documentary film, The House of Nwapa, he went around with me to interview the children of Flora Nwapa.
Alex believes he was created to support people. He has not changed.
I hope he does not change.
I took the boys and teachers to the Italian Parliament building in Rome, which is equivalent to the National Assembly in Nigeria.
The boys asked why everyone was walking freely and why the police were being so nice to us.
I told them that what you see in Nigerian government offices is Third World behavior.
If you’re leading your people well, nobody will want to kill you.
Egejurum Onyedikachi is at the Colosseum.
As we wait for our results to get our gold medals, the adventure begins.
We will make this experience unforgettable.
This is another local farmers market in Korea. They are called farm-to-shelf stores. The local governments, [not the Korean national govt] fund and supervise them to stabilize incomes for elderly or small-family farms.
Today is D-day.
Our boys are now at the Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma for the Grand Finale of the International STEM Olympiad in Rome, Italy.
I’m optimistic about their victory.
Zero shots on target in a Round of 32 match is completely unacceptable, Ghana. We looked lost from the first whistle.
Colombia dominated passes (575 to 387) and shots on target (8 to 0). Colombia had 20 total shots.
I promised to come with receipts, this is an excitement I cant contain. Years of hard work, investing in these kids is paying off hugely.
We have just broken 20 year long record in the just concluded Pan African Maths Olympiad, 2026, in Ivory Coast.
Nigeria won 3 Silver Medals and 1 Bronze Medal.
Silver:
Chimfumnanya Aghaduno of Penny International School, now studying at African Olympiad Academy
Damaris Oyerinde of Ambassadors College,Ota
Luis Lu of Nigerian Tulips International College, Abuja
Bronze:
Ikenna Enwere of BrightSun. By the way, he got the second highest score (370) in Jamb this year, amazing talent.
This is the first time Nigeria has a female student that secures Silver medal at PAMO making Chimfumnanya the first Nigerian female with the highest score at PAMO ever.
This also means this is the first time we have 2 girls securing Silver medals from Nigeria.
This is a huge win for Nigeria and testament to the investment @SpecialMaths had made on these kids in the last couple of years.
Moment like this brings pure joy, we remain resolve that every child that enters our doors would leave a champion.
Big congratulations to the students, parents, schools for your continual cooperation.