Idris allegedly stole N109.5bn
Malami allegedly stole N213bn
Emefiele allegedly stole N154.39bn
Sirika allegedly stole N19.4bn
Yahaya Bello allegedly stole N110.4bn
Mamman allegedly stole N33.8bn
Total: N640 billion = $464 million
Here’s what N640 billion built in other countries:
🇺🇸 USA — New York City fully renovated its entire Alexander Hamilton Bridge for $400 million.
🇨🇳 China — Hunan Province built the full Chishi cable-stayed bridge, a major engineering landmark, for $300 million.
🇰🇭 Cambodia — Built a brand-new 1.76km bridge across the Mekong River plus an entire national highway upgrade for $112 million.
🇬🇧 UK — Manchester Airport’s major terminal expansion, “The Avenue,” including new retail, dining and a business lounge, cost £440 million (~$544 million).
🇮🇷 Iran — Imam Khomeini International Airport’s new T4 terminal, a 400,000 square metre facility built to handle 31 million passengers a year, cost $500 million.
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We captured this beautiful moment of Chimdiebube Onwubiko arriving in Enugu yesterday to a hero's welcome.
He won a gold medal at the International STEM Olympiad Grand Finale in Rome.
I love seeing education reclaim its rightful place in our society.
This is just the beginning of something great.
How do I tell people that Prince Adeyemi’s case with Gbaja is a tip of the iceberg in our federal budget?
The National commission for the Almajiri and Out of School Children Education situated in Abuja will spend 1,400,000,000 ($1.1m) on “Rehabilitation & Construction of Obasanjo-Itele Road & Idogo Township road” in faraway Ogun state”
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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.
The first thing Singapore did was to educate its people.
This journey is not even going to be long.
Nigerians are already very smart people.
Give quality primary and secondary education.
Bring in companies that can employ thousands of people.
Set them up in several states. See this mining situation. Get a hold of it and make it a very formal sector.
Allow the people who want to sell Akara and other things access to soft loans. Create a structure with every bank to help them be accountable. Like a credit score.
Fix electricity.
If it’s too hard to change all the lines, create solar plants for different clusters while you take a few years to fix power lines to be efficient.
Step by step, country will be better.
I don’t know why we don’t have a leader that wants to do this.
It’s not rocket science.
Nigeria has now been delisted from the International Maths Olympiad, whose finals are happening in Shanghai, China, this July.
It is one of the most prestigious academic competitions in the world.
Nigeria can now only participate as an observer nation, while other countries can participate fully.
This was because of the Ministry of Education’s inability to fund students for 4 consecutive years through National Mathematical Center.
It’s a big shame for Nigeria.