@NigeriaStories This should be nationwide. And it shouldn't be for just those kidnapped in Oyo State, Borno Niger etc as well. We must force this inept maladministration to secure lives at least.
You cannot:
Work full time, raise children, keep a spotless home, show up fully in your marriage, maintain friendships, stay fit, build wealth, read books, pursue hobbies, serve only home cooked meals, answer every email, and still make the 3:30 school pickup.
That standard was created to keep you exhausted and blaming yourself. Let it go.
“Tunde Ednut, Gossimill, Yabaleft, Cutie Juls, Gistlover and many other bloggers in Nigeria, it’s time to wrap it up. The country is facing serious challenges and, at this point, we don’t want to keep seeing posts of girls dancing or celebrity weddings anymore. We want to be seeing updates about what is happening in Nigeria on your pages.”
— AlvinOfLagos calls out Nigerian bloggers.
We’re slowly getting used to an insane amount of violence. Levels of violence that are unprecedented. We’re seeing children whipped and burnt and we’re scrolling.
Trying to imagine the kids of the beheaded mathematics teacher right now , his immediate family members and friends
Only one offence , he went to school to impart knowledge and never returned , the Government failed him.
Anytime I go to Benin-City I feel so sad... No improvement, ugly structures, streetlights not working, dirt littered everywhere. Benin City with its past glory and great history deserves better.
Okpebholo must be kicked out of the office if he can't fix the city!
Bandits entered a school .
Kidnapped all the students and teachers.
Now they just beheaded one of the teachers. 💔💔💔💔
Torturing the rest.
Everywhere is silent like nothing happened.
This country is fucked 😭💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔
I don't have any issue with anyone that called out GEJ that year, his govt was far from perfect, but things have gone 10X worse now, whatever anger you felt then ought to be multipled now..
But keeping quiet? Strange & questionable
There’s a silent disaster happening in Nigeria that nobody wants to confront honestly.
We keep shouting about unemployment, bad leadership, low productivity, corruption, poor healthcare, failed institutions and why our country is not working. But many people are avoiding the root cause.
Our education system has been deeply compromised.
A student enters secondary school or university full of dreams, intelligence and potential. Then the system teaches them something dangerous:
“You do not need competence to succeed.”
WAEC malpractice. NECO malpractice. GCE runs. Sorting. Sex for grades. Extortion. Intimidation. Victimization. Handout rackets. “See me after class.” “Talk to your lecturer.” “Settle this course.”
And after 4 or 5 years of surviving that environment, we expect excellence to magically appear.
It won’t.
A country cannot repeatedly reward dishonesty in classrooms and expect integrity in government offices, hospitals, engineering sites, courtrooms and businesses.
This is where many of our unemployable graduates are coming from.
Not because Nigerians are not intelligent.
Not because our youths are lazy.
But because too many people were trained inside a system where merit was murdered.
The painful part is this:
UNN, UNILAG, FUTO, ABU, UI, IMSU, ABSU and many others are using largely the same NUC-regulated curriculum.
The difference is standards.
The universities that still command respect are usually the ones with stronger resistance against sorting, extortion and academic fraud.
The ones collapsing in reputation are often the ones where corruption became normalized.
Once a student realizes they can buy an “A” with ₦20,000, or sleep their way through a course, or manipulate results through connections, the motivation to truly learn starts dying slowly.
And when millions of such graduates enter the labor market, the entire country pays the price.
That weak engineer may eventually supervise a bridge.
That poorly trained nurse may handle a patient.
That compromised accountant may manage public funds.
That fake first-class graduate may become a lecturer and reproduce the same cycle again.
This is no longer just an education problem.
It is a national security problem.
Countries become great because they protect competence fiercely.
Singapore did it.
China did it.
Germany did it.
South Korea did it.
You cannot build a first-world country with a third-world attitude towards education integrity.
Nigeria does not have a shortage of talent.
Nigeria has a shortage of systems that protect excellence.
And until we become ruthless about fighting academic corruption, exam malpractice, sorting, sex-for-grades and institutional intimidation, we will continue producing certificates instead of competence.
This fight is bigger than schools.
It is about the future survival of Nigeria itself.
People are being so unbelievably dishonest. In what world does the AI-generated pic look closer to the finished look than the sketch and design we can all see with our own eyes? You shared an idea via AI slop with long sleeves, disorganised architectural elements, nonsensical hems, etc. Someone else painstakingly did the work of drawing the sketch, outlining the architectural elements, designing the bodice, and giving it structure. Somehow the contract fell through and you gave that design to someone else to bring to life, completely leaving out the fact that the design and structure did not belong to them. Now it’s your idea? But somehow the finished look looks nothing close to what you shared? So disrespectful.