If you’re a Nigerian secondary school student, participate in the Sterling Bank Mathematics Quiz happening online on July 11, 2026.
Register here: https://t.co/dnjSLGbm07 and wait for the countdown to elapse to participate.
You can practice with the mock test there to get a feel for it.
It’s free for every student to participate, and ₦1 million is to be won.
First place: ₦500k
Second place: ₦300k
Third place: ₦200k
Let’s engage all our young minds. Parents, teachers, uncles, and aunties, kindly encourage them to participate.
Let’s make education fun, entertaining, and rewarding.
In Ghana, any child who qualifies to represent the country in the International Maths Olympiad gets an automatic scholarship to MIT.
Interestingly, the head of their local Olympiad unit is a Nigerian. He left Nigeria the moment the Nigerian government stopped sponsoring our students for the program.
MIT students regularly travel to Ghana to prepare their students for the Olympiad.
It is also a huge talent pipeline for a company called Jane Street. They are the major sponsor for Ghana Maths Olympiad. Their starting salary is between $300k - $600k annually.
This JSS 3 boy, Victor Onwubiko, has finished K.A. Stroud’s _Engineering Mathematics_ back to back. He is the best mathematician in the country at the junior secondary level.
He will be competing with students from 154 other countries this week in Rome, Italy, at the fierce International STEM Olympiad competition.
He is a genius, and the world will celebrate him.
Germany didn’t become an industrial powerhouse by sending everyone to university.
They built something smarter.
It’s called Ausbildung, a structured apprenticeship system where young people earn while they learn inside real companies.
A 17-year-old in Germany can train to become:
• a mechatronics engineer
• an industrial technician
• an automotive systems expert
• a precision machinist
• a medical equipment technician
They are paid during training.
They graduate with globally respected skills.
And many of them end up earning more than university graduates.
Over 50% of German youth pass through this system.
Now look at Nigeria.
We push everyone into universities.
Millions graduate every year.
But the country is still importing basic technical expertise.
We have degrees but we don’t have enough skills.
This is why we are studying the German Ausbildung model closely to implement in the South East.
Because the South East must lead Africa’s skills revolution.
Imagine a structured apprenticeship system across Aba, Nnewi, Onitsha, Enugu and beyond where young people can train to become:
• industrial fabricators
• automotive engineers
• robotics technicians
• electronics specialists
• renewable energy installers
• precision manufacturing experts
Training will happen inside real companies.
With structured certification, modern tools and clear career paths.
Not the informal “Igba Boy” system, but a world-class apprenticeship ecosystem.
The South East already has the largest concentration of indigenous manufacturers and traders in Africa.
What we need now is structure, technology, and certification.
If Germany can power Europe’s manufacturing through apprenticeships, there is no reason the South East cannot power Africa’s industrial future.
The next generation of millionaires in Africa will not only be software founders.
Many will be master craftsmen, engineers, and industrial builders.
And when Africa finally fixes its skills crisis, history may remember that the revolution started in the South East.
We will work hard to make the South East Maths Olympiad an annual event.
We got reports from teachers that JSS1 students that participated in Junior have covered up to JSS3 maths syllabus.
Students generally became serious in school at scale never have seen before.
Over the years, we may get the price money up to N100M. Education deserves all the attention.
If we get it right in Maths, we have fixed education permanently.
We can then build a strong global workforce, innovators and inventors.
It is 5years today.
We will never forget.
We will always remember 20.10.20.
May those who died find rest.
May their families find consolation.
May their killers never know any peace.
Forever in our hearts. #EndSARS
His name is Chinedu Agu
He is in a prison cell today, a victim of our virulently corrupt and incompetent Criminal Justice System, but it is the SYSTEM itself that is brazenly criminal.
In the feudal DEMONCRAZY called Nigeria, his sole offense was to have dared to question the Supreme Cult Gomina.
#FreeChineduAguNow