Peacemaker

Writer, Poet, Author, Ph.D

[Peacemaker @kindways2004]

@nwanyi_ocha Happy birthday, Ezenwa Isuofia! Many more blessed returns of your special day. Ka ina-azu umu, unu ga/etolite zukwaa gi, n’afa Jisos! Stay blessed my brother!

[Peacemaker @kindways2004]

@FDynamics59140 @chima46708 @winexviv @grok Look at his clip again. Smell aside see how the water ways are paved. U can stroll along it smell or not. Grok find out why Nigeria leaders cannot provide for its people! Grok go explode. Dem enjoy dis country well-well dia time and spoil am for you & all u do is defend. Na waoh!

[Alex Onyia @winexviv]

Today, I was invited to the OECD Headquarters in Paris, France to discuss how we can implement PISA in Nigeria.

In 2027, Nigeria will experience its first-ever PISA assessment, and by 2029, we aim to participate in the global education rankings.

PISA measures how well students in a country can apply what they have learned in school to solve real-world problems. It goes beyond memorisation and examines whether education is actually preparing young people to think, reason and function effectively in society.

In the last ranking, some of the strongest performances came from education systems in East Asia, including China.

Through initiatives like this, Nigeria can gradually build and strengthen its global reputation. Over time, we can improve how the world sees our education system, our institutions and the quality of our human capital.

One thing I learned from my conversations today is that much of Africa is waiting for Nigeria to rise. Nigeria’s progress has the potential to accelerate development across the continent.

Our ambition must be bigger than improving our rankings. We must build an education system capable of producing young people who can compete anywhere in the world.

Within the next 10 years, Africa can become a major source of the global workforce and Nigeria must lead that transformation.

[Peacemaker @kindways2004]

@winexviv Keep moving!

[Peacemaker @kindways2004]

@IdrisZekeriJnr Happy birthday Ma’am!

[Peacemaker @kindways2004]

@noprofiledj @gboyepet @ruffydfire 5k data dey tok 🤣🤣🤣

[Peacemaker @kindways2004]

@polyglotodulesi @winexviv @polyglotodulesi here’s 🥂 to an amazing you. Thou should do this with languages Sir. Imagine the possibilities when intelligence meets cultures and languages across the world! Stay blessed!

[Peacemaker @kindways2004]

@francisalabi41 @ruffydfire Go listen to the video again. He got clearances

[Peacemaker @kindways2004]

@aruhullahi @ruffydfire Rufai as SA? Ahh! 😱 That would be the sweetest thing before sliced bread. Oga @aruhullahi? How that job will fit him. Be careful what you dream of because it will come to pass.

[Alex Onyia @winexviv]

Treasure Okegbola developed a machine learning model that detects malaria from blood samples.

We ran a live test today, and it was amazing.

She will be training it on other diseases so that people can run quality and free tests in their homes. It can then detect even diseases people may not be aware of.

She says this will be her way of supporting poor families who can’t afford quality healthcare or are afraid to do tests because of cost.

I have always known that Treasure will make a great impact in the world.

What a start!

[Peacemaker @kindways2004]

@ParallelFacts Imagine for a moment that Tinubu resigns! Abandons his 2nd term bid. He will be a hero in Nigeria; his ills forgiven. The world may embrace him finally. Just one noble act, but would he? Tell me I’m not deluded!

[Peacemaker @kindways2004]

@DrFolaseye Beauty and Brain… thank you for giving to the Lord, Dr. Folaseye. May He reward you manifold in Jesus Christ’s Name!

[Peacemaker @kindways2004]

@Reincate26 @Uptownoflagos We should not ignore the wider implications. When Christians call someone an infidel, they don’t hurt you; they let you live your life. Are Muslims the same? Answer na! That’s why we have BH, ISWAP and all the chaos that has become Nigeria. Think!!!🤔

[Peacemaker @kindways2004]

@nwanyi_ocha Now I know why I’ve been missing your posts.

[Peacemaker @kindways2004]

@nwanyi_ocha Happy 40th Birthday Nwanyiocha! It was hard to imagine what was going on in Ezenwa’s mind as an Igbo man. He had his whole family riding a cable car. I don’t blame him for looking scared! Happy it was all good.

[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.

[Peacemaker @kindways2004]

@winexviv Get down on it, Alex!!! Let’s go!!!

[Peacemaker @kindways2004]

@AbuUbayy1 @winexviv Why did you make this issue about Mr Peter Obi? Mr Onyia did not connect what he said to Mr Obi but somehow because Obi is living rent free in your head you must join him. Haba! What’s wrong with people sef?

[Peacemaker @kindways2004]

@afrisagacity @kevinStanlex How is this different from the SQ3R (Survey, Question, Read, Recall, Recite) Method which I’ve used for decades? It overlaps. Nothing new IMO.

[Peacemaker @kindways2004]

@nwanyi_ocha How meat is shared! NOSTALGIA!!!