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[I Z A L A @el_uthmaan]

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*Professor Idris Bugaje wrote:*

A strange thing is happening in Nigeria.

A young man spends 20 years climbing the educational ladder.

6 years in primary school.
6 years in secondary school.
4 to 6 years in university.
1 year of NYSC.

By the time he is done, he has invested roughly 6,500 to 7,000 days preparing for life.

Then life arrives and asks a simple question:

“What problem can you solve?”

Silence.

Not because he is unintelligent.

Not because he is lazy.

But because somewhere along the journey, we confused education with certification.

We taught people how to pass exams, not how to create value.

Think about it.

An electrician who never attended university can walk into a building worth N500 million and confidently power every room from the foundation to the penthouse.

A graduate with multiple certificates may stand beside him unable to identify which wire powers the building.

One has credentials.

The other has capability.

The market pays for capability.

That is why reality often delivers a rude mathematical lesson.

If a graduate earns N100,000 monthly, that is N1.2 million annually.

A skilled technician charging N40,000 per job and handling just two jobs weekly earns over N4 million yearly.

Same country.

Different skills.

Different outcomes.

The tragedy is not that one earns more than the other.

The tragedy is that we keep preparing millions of young people for a race that no longer exists.

We celebrate admission lists like victory trophies.

We celebrate graduation photos like guaranteed employment letters.

Then we act surprised when hundreds of applicants compete for one vacancy.

Imagine 1,000 people chasing 10 jobs.

Basic mathematics says 990 people will be disappointed.

No motivational speaker can negotiate with arithmetic.

Yet we continue producing graduates faster than we produce opportunities.

That is like manufacturing keys without building doors.

The painful irony?

The people we once looked down on are increasingly becoming the people we depend on.

When your transformer fails at midnight, you do not call a philosophy graduate.

When your water stops running, you do not search for a political scientist.

When your air conditioner breaks in April heat, theory suddenly becomes less important than technical competence.

The economy has a brutal honesty.

It rewards usefulness more than status.

Nations that understood this long ago built prosperity differently.

They stopped asking only, “How many graduates do we have?”

They started asking, “How many builders, technicians, machinists, coders, welders, mechanics and innovators can we produce?”

There is dignity in intellectual work.

There is dignity in skilled labour.

The mistake is ranking one above the other.

A society that worships certificates while neglecting competence eventually discovers that framed documents cannot build roads, repair machines, wire factories, manufacture products or create wealth.

The future belongs to people who can solve problems.

Whether they learned it in a lecture hall, a workshop, an apprenticeship centre or under a mango tree is secondary.

Because at the end of the day, the market does not award marks.

It awards value.

And value has never asked to see anybody’s certificate before writing the cheque.

May Nigeria win 🇳🇬🇳🇬

Engr Prof IM Bugaje

Executive Secretary,
National Board for Technical Education (NBTE)

[Kent @FamozzyyK]

It’s not too late for Zirkzee to transition into a CM.

Dembélé started as a winger and later transitioned into a striker/attacking midfielder as he got older.
He joined Fulham as a forward, but scored just 3 league goals in his first season. Martin Jol eventually converted him into a central midfielder permanently because he was excellent on the ball but struggled in front of goal.

He spent 9 years in England and never scored more than 3 league goals in a single season.

He became known for his strength and ability to retain the ball even under intense pressure. Most people don’t even know he was a failed striker.

The earlier Zirkzee makes this change, the better for his career.

[Obiasogu David @afrisagacity]

Buhari Government spent N11 trillion on fuel subsidy in 8 years. Fuel sold for N195.

Tinubu came in and immediately removed the fuel subsidy. Fuel price jumped to N1,200.

But through the back door, Tinubu continued paying fuel subsidy - but renamed it “Energy Security Expenses•”

What’s worse? Tinubu has already spent N11.9 trillion, in less than 4 years. Nigeria now secretly pays a higher fuel subsidy, while Nigerians buy fuel at a crazily higher price!

Tinubu wins!✍️

[Emeodi Mba @EmodiMba]

A country with no budget implemention for complete 3 years, but some educated mórons want you to believe that it's REFORM.

As bad as Buhari, he wasn't this terribly bad.

[Erin Elizabeth Health Nut News🥜 @unhealthytruth]

I’m glad that ABC is admitting that the toxic chemicals in your sunscreen are dangerous and cause cancer.

Everyone I know who has skin cancer wore them. 😬😭

Do you still put this on your kids?😭🤣🤯

[Trending Explained @TrendingEx]

TRENDING: Nigeria lost its first-ever female neurosurgeon, Dr. Salamat Ahuoiza Aliu, to the U.S. where she retrained as a pediatric resident, and now works at a Children Clinic in Missouri. She was a Senior Consultant Neurosurgeon at the University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital 🏥

[OLAMIDE not Baddo🧢 @Hirazzy]

Fuel went from ₦185 to over ₦1,350 under one administration, and the average Nigerian is expected to smile through it. This is madness. People are exhausted.

[Wyatt @wyatt_xe]

Your life is boring because you don't have side quests. Here are 33 side quests to complete before July.

[Ahmad Ganga @AhmadGanga]

Maza sun dauki mata a matsayin bayi, su kuma mata sun raina mazan suna ganin matsayin su daya (gender equality), maza bama kyautata zamantakewa kuma bama kyautata sakin ma da aka halatta; mata ma basa yi ma maza biyayya kuma suna ganin auren ma ba a bakin komai ba; dukan mu bama yi ma auren kallon ibada. Abinda muke gani shine, ‘yar wa zan aura don in dinga cika baki a cikin abokaina, haka ma matan wanene za su aura wanda yau suna Disney Land, gobe suna Maldives, jibi suna Santorini; haka dai haka dai. Dole aure ya dinga mutuwa kuwa! Mu koma ga Allah a lamuran mu; kyautata niyyar yin auren, daukar shi a matsayin ibadah, kudurin yin adalci, da sauran su.

[AM Ngidda @AYNgidda]

There is a subconscious bias and nepotism that exist even in Nigeria's private sector against Northerners.

But Nothern Twitter cooperate guys will make you think kaine matsalar.

Kai... Allah ya rufa wa kowa asiri and I pray our hard works yields fruits.

Try not to give up.

[Ucheego @Ucheagalii]

When I newly got married, my mother-in-law came to stay with us for a while.

There was one thing she always did.

Whenever food was served, she would ask, “Nwam eriela nri”
Meaning “Has my son eaten?”

At first, I didn’t think much of it. After all, that’s her child.

But one particular day, I had gone to the market, come back tired, entered the kitchen straight away, cooked, and served everyone.

By the time I finished dishing her food, I was exhausted.

She called me and asked the usual question:

“Has my son eaten?”

That day, I wasn’t in the mood to keep quiet.

I looked at her and said,

“Have you asked me if I have eaten?”

“You saw me leave for the market. You saw me come back and start cooking immediately. You have not asked if I have rested, if I have eaten, or if I’m okay. The only question is whether your son has eaten.”

I told her, “I know he’s your child, but am I not also your child now too?”

Immediately, she apologized.

She said, “No, no, don’t say that. You’re my last born now. You’re my baby girl.”

I told her, “I don’t feel like a baby girl right now.”

We talked about it, and that was the end of it.

But do you know what happened afterward?

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[Abuja President ⚖️ @AbujaPresident]

If you own the house you are currently living in, you have solved 70% of your problems in life especially in this Tinubu economy.

[Rahmaniyya🥷 @Abdulrahma14382]

I’ll reserve judgment until the full context of this video is clear. I sincerely hope Governor Bago is not mocking Mallam Nasir El-Rufai. If that’s truly the case, it would be deeply disappointing.

Those who lives in a glass house do not throw stones.

[Abu Aa’ish @_Abou_bakr]

Having an automatic washing machine at home is one very underrated blessing.

Just load and go to bed. No headache.

Every Man planning to get married should include it in their plans as top priority.

[Dejii™ @_Dejii]

Total length of these four projects: 2,657 km

• Lagos–Calabar Coastal Highway: 750 km
• Sokoto–Badagry Superhighway: 1,068 km
• Akwanga–Maiduguri Superhighway: 700 km
• Gombe–Biu Highway: 139 km

According to you, only the section 1 (30km) of the Lagos Calabar highway has been substantially completed.

Out of 2,657km, you have only completed 30km in over 3 years. That's roughly 1.13%

Are you not ashamed of yourself

[A.Y.O @YusufAsunmogejo]

Beautifully, what Dr Aisha has described is how memorization is done.
This was what my aunt did in Ilorin.
This was same thing what my aunt did in Lagos.

All of this started the way she narrated it. A regular Mallam comes home to take them on memorization. But it was never enough.

Why? There was no intensity. There was no structure and the accountability was diluted.

Remember we are talking about kids who will watch Oduma and Friends, Naruto and co after Tahfeez.

We knew early on that we won’t get what we wanted. So withdrawing them from conventional school was the best decision my both aunty made.

Now, the first one will be completing his second year soon. The second one will be returning to conventional school too soon. Both will be returning as Hafiz-l-Quran with a sharper brain than their peers.

One lesson we must learn when training kids: When the going gets tough, you need to take tough decision. Life’s journey is never easy and you must be ready to trade off some comfort to get the best version of them.

[Aisha Yahaya Ndanitsa, PhD @DrAishaYahayaN]

Many people have asked how my children were able to memorize the Qur’an, so I thought I’d share our journey.

This is simply what worked for our family, and I pray it benefits someone.

Our children started memorizing the Qur’an from a very young age. They attended regular Tahfiz classes alongside their conventional schooling, just as many children do.

However, there came a point when my husband and I felt we needed to make a bigger commitment.

At the time, our eldest was in JSS 2, while the second had just completed primary school. We made the difficult decision to withdraw them from the conventional school system and enroll them in a full-time Tahfiz programme.

It wasn’t because we didn’t value western education. On the contrary, education has always been important in our family. Both my husband and I hold PhDs, and some of my friends couldn’t understand why someone with my educational background would choose this path for her children. They would ask, “After all your education, why would you do this?”

My answer was always the same: In shaa Allah, they can also earn a PhD one day. But before any academic qualification, I want them to have a PhD in the fear of Allah 😄

If they know Allah, understand His Book, and build their lives upon it, then every other form of knowledge becomes much easier to pursue. As a parent, that foundation also makes my own work much easier.

Once we made that decision, we became fully committed to the process.

Their Tahfiz school began around 6:00 a.m. and usually ended around 6:00 or even 7:00 p.m., after Maghrib.

It was an intensive programme, but the school itself was very organised.

They had a structured curriculum with clear memorization targets, so we always knew what each child was expected to complete within a given period. That structure made it easier for us to monitor their progress and support them at home.

The school also played its part. If a child fell behind, they provided additional support. During Ramadan and some special periods, selected children would even stay overnight at the school for extra revision and memorization. Their teachers were genuinely invested in helping every child succeed.

Our responsibility as parents began when they returned home.

Every day, we woke them up about an hour before Fajr for revision. Those quiet moments before dawn became one of the greatest blessings in their memorization journey.

When they returned from school in the evening, they ate, freshened up, rested briefly, and then around 8:30 p.m., their home mallam arrived. For about an hour, he revised and tested everything they had learned that day before they went to bed to prepare for the next morning.

We also tried to eliminate unnecessary distractions. Television was almost nonexistent in our home. Sometimes we went as long as six months without renewing our subscription. My husband and I were never really television people, so this wasn’t difficult for us. The younger children had tablets for age-appropriate cartoons, but those in Tahfiz had very limited screen time.

Although we withdrew them from conventional school, we didn’t neglect their academic education. Fridays were free, so we employed a lesson teacher who came every Friday morning to teach Mathematics, English and Science.

Interestingly, our lesson teacher was a Christian. After some time, he said something that has stayed with me. He told us, “Whatever you people are doing must be a brain booster because these children are exceptionally good with their assignments.” That was reassuring because it confirmed that memorizing the Qur’an had not hindered their academic development. If anything, it had strengthened their discipline, concentration and ability to learn.

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[Mubarak @mubee4abu]

Do you really understand what 1,300 km of road means, Mr. Accountant?

Abuja to Kano is only about 400 km. If completing the project will cost around ₦700 billion, where does Uba expect the money to come from?

We truly have problem with numbers in this country.

[G. S. Babatunde🌕 @gsbabatunde]

BUA ESTATE IS MASSIVE - The deeper I dig into Nigeria's real estate market, the more I realize how little most of us actually know.

Especially those of us looking in from the outside.

I spent a good part of my weekend studying some of Nigeria's largest real estate developments, and one project that kept me thinking was BUA Estate.

I must say, my findings were mind-blowing.

The vision. The scale. The capital. The planning. The infrastructure. The execution.

Projects like these operate on an entirely different level.

As I studied them, one lesson kept echoing in my mind...

Not all of us are called to become real estate developers.

Developing an estate is far more than buying a large piece of land. It requires enormous capital, years of planning, regulatory approvals, infrastructure development, technical expertise, risk management, and the operational capacity to deliver at scale.

It's a completely different game.

And that's perfectly okay.

One mistake I see many people make is rushing to register a real estate company simply because they want to "enter real estate."

But here's what I'm learning...

You don't necessarily need to own a real estate company, especially if your goal isn't to become a long-term developer.

Instead, partner with reputable developers and established real estate companies.

Leverage their projects, their credibility, their systems, and their commission structures.

You'll earn while you learn, build strategic relationships, gain industry experience, and create wealth without carrying the enormous financial and operational burden of developing an estate yourself.

The more I study this industry, the more convinced I become that real estate is not just about ownership, it's about positioning.

Sometimes, the smartest business move isn't to build another company.

It's to build the right partnerships.

Daniel ADENIYI
Leadership Architect and Systems Strategist
Founder TheDALFinc - The Daniel Adeniyi Leadership Factory

#thedanieladeniyi

[Usman Modibbo @DrModibbo1]

Back in 1996, as Graduate Assistants at ATBU Bauchi, an elderly professor walked past us wearing shoes so worn out they looked like they had sworn never to touch the ground again, paired with what he said were his daughter's NYSC socks. We greeted him, then stood in silence for about five minutes. My friend finally said in Hausa, "Wadannan fa su ne manyanmu, kuma nan gaba su muke so mu zama?" ("So these are our seniors, and this is what we hope to become?")
That day, we decided we would find businesses alongside our academic careers. By Allah's grace, we both eventually became professors.
The lesson remains relevant today: in Nigeria, many professionals need a legitimate source of income beyond their profession. May Allah continue to bless us all and make the path easier for everyone climbing the career ladder. Ameen.