Judith Ozioma

PharmD| avid learner| geek | Capricorn 😊| Jesus Christ is King

[Nwanyi Ocha @nwanyi_ocha]

I want to be fair to @PeterPsquare . He is not wrong that French opens doors Igbo does not. He is not wrong that parents get to decide how they raise their own children. But I guess he underestimates the fact that he is not just any parent. P-Square is a name millions of Igbo people grew up admiring, their success made them proud to be who they are. People all over the world sang their songs using Igbo words. So when a voice like that says Igbo is not worth passing on, it does not land like one man’s private choice. It gives permission for a belief a lot of people were already quietly carrying, that English and French, in short anything foreign, sits above Igbo, that their native language is something to graduate out of rather than something to hold onto.

I am not Igbo. I am Swiss. But my husband made it clear from the beginning that our children would speak Igbo, and I have never once seen that as a burden or a complication. Our children speak Swiss German, English, and Igbo at home, German at school, and now French as well, since that is part of their school curriculum too. Five languages, and none of them fighting each other for space. That is the part people forget when they frame this as a choice. Children do not need to pick one language to be strong in. They can navigate several at once, easily.

It is adults who turn language into a competition. Children just absorb what is spoken to them and grow fluent in all of it.

A language is not only a tool for getting ahead. It is also a rooting tool, the place where love, memory, and belonging live. It is the specific way a grandmother scolds you and forgives you in the same breath. It is a joke that only works in the original. Lose the language, and you do not just lose a skill. You lose a room in your own house, one you can still visit as a guest but never quite live in again. That is what worries me most in this conversation. A child who cannot speak their father’s or mother’s language will, at some point, stand in that homeland and feel like a stranger. Not unwelcome, not unloved, just outside something that was supposed to be theirs by birth.

One day, my sons will be handed a kola nut, and in that moment, no one should have to do it for them. They should know how to receive it, how to speak over it, how to break it themselves, not pass it along to someone else because they never learned the words or the meaning behind them. That is such a small moment, and yet it says everything. It is the difference between being someone’s guest and being someone’s own.
So when I hear “Igbo is useless,” what I actually hear is a wound that has not healed.

From the outside, I have watched how often English or French get treated as the languages worth keeping, while Igbo gets treated as the one you can afford to let go of. That preference did not come from nowhere. It is a colonial hierarchy that convinced generations of people that closeness to their own culture was a limitation rather than a foundation. I don’t say this to shame anyone, least of all a man raising his own family the best way he knows how. I say it because the people who shape how we see ourselves carry a weight beyond their own households, whether they asked for it or not.

My hope is simple. That we stop treating our children’s languages as a competition with only one winner. That we let them have both the world and their roots, and trust that they are capable of holding both without ever having to choose.

[♡ @ArtCelineLove]

I've already given it my all this week and it's only Tuesday.

[Made In Canada @MadelnCanada]

Today would have been Terry Fox’s 68th birthday. Happy birthday, Terry ❤️

A true Canadian hero 🇨🇦🐐

[90s Football @90sfootball]

Jay-Jay Okocha. So good they named him twice!

[Cuong Nguyen @cuonggiau2]

Mọi người làm việc ngồi một chỗ lâu đứng dậy phải từ từ cho máu tuần hoàn kịp,ở một mình không biết đâu mà lần bệnh này càng ngày càng trẻ hoá.

[Maliq @MasterMaliq]

As a Muslim, I have a question for my own community.

Why do we demand freedom to build mosques, preach Islam, and wear the hijab in non-Muslim countries...

Yet in some Muslim-majority countries, churches are restricted, Christian evangelism is criminalised, and converts live in fear.

If religious freedom is a right for us, it is a right for everyone.

Truth does not need censorship to survive.

[Moni Ukpeya @Ntob]

I hope Nigerians know by now that Obi’s only offense is that he wants to wrestle power from the political establishment and hand it over to the people. It is you they hate not Obi.

[Queen Bee 👑 🐝 @RealQueenBee__]

Seun: Kwankwaso is a big asset to you, and you believe that he can help you win the election.

Peter Obi: Don't say Kwankwaso is an asset to me; he's an asset to Nigeria. He believes in education and in pulling people out of poverty; that's why Nigeria needs both of us.

WISDOM!

[ARISE NEWS @ARISEtv]

₦44bn Fraud: I Blew The Whistle, But I Got Reprisal Instead Of Honour - Shehu

I gave the EFCC documents and evidence. The facts speak for themselves. I provided everything needed to clear my name of these false allegations, including records of the transfers and evidence of breaches in financial procedures, from the Office of the Accountant-General to the Ministry, including the payment of the remaining ₦3 billion from the COVID-19 funds into 11 accounts without my authorisation, consent or approval. I reported all of this to the EFCC, yet instead of being commended for speaking up, I faced reprisal.

Halima Shehu, Former National Coordinator/CEO, NSIPA

[Defense News Nigeria @DefenseNigeria]

This isn't a mob or a group of vigilantes. These are South African police officers. It's one thing to restrain a suspect who has already been subdued. It's another to wrap a cloth around his head to suffocate him while continuing to hit him.

He died, and the response from a South African female minister was that the "foreigner was resisting arrest."

This man was killed inside his own home. We are witnessing the systematic targeting of Nigerians in South Africa.

[Alex Onyia @winexviv]

A time will come in Nigeria when the whole nation will be at a standstill because we are about to launch our first real rocket into space.

We are currently investing in the talent that will make that happen.

Our real wealth and potential lie in the millions of young talents we are building.

The future will be exciting and inspiring.

[Alex Onyia @winexviv]

I struggle to understand public officials who proudly celebrate sending their children abroad while the schools they oversee are collapsing.

It's not about whether they can afford it. They have every right to spend their money however they choose.

It's about emotional intelligence and leadership.

Publicly celebrating your escape from a system you are responsible for fixing sends the wrong message to millions of families who have no such option.

The goal of public service shouldn't be to build an exit plan for your own children.

It should be to build a country where every parent's child has access to an education so good that leaving becomes a choice, not a necessity.

That's the standard we should demand.

[🥷 @_iamhabeeb]

Until death, all defeat is psychological.

[Alex Onyia @winexviv]

I’m thinking of a concept where we gather children especially those from low-income communities and rural villages in viewing centres to learn Mathematics and Science together in preparation for the South East Maths Olympiad to close learning inequality.

The centres would be designated quiet zones, where every child studies with their books while watching world-class lessons delivered on large screens. The quality of instruction would be far beyond what many of them currently have access to in their schools.

It could become a powerful way to keep children meaningfully engaged during the holidays while strengthening their academic foundation.

What do you think?

[Alex Onyia @winexviv]

One of the reasons I share almost everything we're doing in the South East is simple:

I want you to copy it.

If a strategy gets more children learning, gets more students excited about STEM, raises academic standards, or inspires excellence, don't admire it from afar or criticize Alex. Replicate it in your region. Improve it. Scale it.

Africa has spent too much time protecting ideas instead of spreading what works.

I don't want the South East to be the exception. I want it to become the template for Africa civilization.

Imagine every region in Nigeria building its own Olympiads, ranking schools, training teachers, identifying talent, and making education a public movement.

Imagine every African country adapting the same ideas to fit their own realities.

That's how continents change.

Education is Africa's greatest opportunity. If something works, copy it.

[Ekwensu Business @ekwensubusiness]

IGBO AI and drone engineer just signed a $9.52 million partnership with the Institute of Management and Technology (IMT), Enugu.

Emmanuel Ezenwere is the founder, CEO, and CTO of Arone Technologies, the deep-tech and hardware startup headquartered in Nsukka, Enugu State.

[Anambra 1st son @UchePOkoye]

Remember the Anambra secondary school that defeated top schools from the UK to win the inaugural UK–Nigeria Debate Championship?

They’ve made headlines again.

St. John Vianney Science College, Ukwulu, owned by Fr Ebube Muonso, has been named the Private Secondary School of the Year at the 2026 Anambra Man of the Year (AMTY) Awards.

The school has quietly built one of the strongest records of any secondary school in Nigeria.

In the last few years, it has:

• Won the Diamond Challenge Nigeria and represented Nigeria in the United States.

• Emerged National Champions of the Prime Value Mathematics Competition in both 2022 and 2023.

• Won the inaugural National Girls in ICT Competition.

• Produced Nigeria’s Head Girl of the Year at the National Head Girls Competition in Lagos.

• Emerged among the winners of the National Inter Senior Secondary Schools E-Debate Championship in Abuja.

• Defeated top schools from Nigeria and the United Kingdom to become inaugural champions of the UK–Nigeria Debate Championship.

• Produced two students selected to represent Nigeria at the World Schools Debating Championships in Kenya.

The latest recognition was received by the School Manager, Gerald Ogbulikpe, on behalf of the proprietor, Rev. Fr. Emmanuel Obimma (Ebube Muonso), whose vision has transformed St. John Vianney Science College into one of Nigeria’s fastest-rising centres of academic excellence.

Congratulations to the students, teachers, management, and everyone who continues to raise the bar for secondary education in Nigeria.

[Alex Onyia @winexviv]

The calendar for the 2027 South East Maths & Science Olympiad is now out!

The competition is open to Primary, Junior, and Senior categories.

All stages will be fully computer-based, and students will receive their results next day, along with detailed answer explanations, enabling them to learn from the questions they found most challenging.

We are building the greatest workforce in Africa within 10 years.

[Alex Onyia @winexviv]

One thing that deeply worries me about Nigeria is this:

Some dreams are almost impossible to achieve if you're born, raised, and educated here.

Want to become an astronaut? There is virtually no pathway.

Want to become a world-class professional footballer? For most talented children, the route is far harder than it should be because the development ecosystem is weak.

And there are many other careers where your biggest obstacle isn't your talent, it's your geography.

This is why some Nigerians have to leave the country, not because they hate Nigeria, but because that's the only way to fully pursue their dreams.

That should concern all of us.

A child's future should be determined by their ability and hard work, not by the accident of where they were born.

Nigeria has no shortage of talent.

What we're missing is a system that allows talent to become greatness.