I was heartbroken to learn about these students today.
Their dad had both kidneys fail and no one could fund their education. They were forced to drop out of school in December last year.
Their names are Emmanuella Ngaha and Jason Ngaha. They came by themselves from Owerri to Enugu this morning to attend our 2-week intensive bootcamp.
They were both high-flying students at Ambassador College, Ota. The boy was the best in Maths and Chemistry in SS1, and the girl has won so many national awards.
Today they are out of school with no hope of continuing.
They decided to use their last ₦24,000 to take a bus to Enugu to attend the bootcamp.
Unfortunately, this morning they were defrauded of the ₦24,000, which left them with no option but to beg for transport support until someone helped them.
A lot of young, bright children are going through a lot that is beyond their control.
We can’t let these bright stars lose their shine because of challenges beyond their control.
I have now received further disturbing reports from multiple schools, teachers, parents and students about what happened during this 2026 WAEC examination.
In some examination centres, question papers were reportedly insufficient. I received reports of as many as FOUR students sharing ONE question paper.
Think about that.
Students prepared for years for an examination that could determine university admission, scholarships and, in many cases, the direction of their lives only to enter examination halls without enough question papers.
There are also serious reports concerning the security of examination materials, including allegations that some papers or answer materials circulated before the appropriate examination period. These allegations must be independently investigated, not internally explained away.
Even basic examination materials raise questions. Students have reported that calculators and other materials they expected WAEC to provide were unavailable in some centres.
We need an independent forensic investigation of the entire 2026 examination process from question-paper production and distribution to examination security, marking, CBE systems, grading, result processing and eventual release.
WAEC should preserve and make available for independent scrutiny the examination records and, subject to appropriate privacy safeguards, provide candidates access to their scripts including relevant paper-based scripts and CBE records.
If an independent investigation establishes that systemic failures were serious enough to compromise the integrity of the examination, then Nigeria must be prepared to consider every remedy necessary, including remarking, reprocessing results, rescheduling affected papers or, in the most extreme case, invalidating affected examinations.
No institution is bigger than the future of millions of Nigerian children.
Behind every WAEC result is a human being.
A child waiting for admission.
A scholarship that could disappear.
Parents who have sacrificed everything.
A family whose plans may depend on those grades.
This is why WAEC cannot be allowed to investigate WAEC and simply tell Nigerians that everything is fine.
The Federal Ministry of Education, National Assembly and other relevant authorities should urgently demand answers and establish an independent investigation into the conduct and processing of the 2026 WAEC examination.
If WAEC did everything correctly, an independent investigation will clear it.
But if something went terribly wrong, Nigerians deserve to know what happened, who was responsible, how many children were affected and how their futures will be restored.
This is no longer merely an examination issue. It is a question of institutional integrity, accountability and justice for Nigerian children.
We cannot gamble with the destinies of an entire generation.
These young engineers successfully designed and printed this medication container using a 3D printer to be attached to their drone.
This will help labs and hospitals deliver medications in minutes to save lives.
In the end, every hospital in the South East will have a low-cost drone for the quick delivery of medications.
We have now taken legal action against WAEC.
WAEC has 14 days to respond and take appropriate action, failing which we will proceed with litigation.
You can carefully read the details here https://t.co/x1JhbqoKe1 .
There appears to be a serious problem with the recently released results that WAEC has so far refused to publicly acknowledge and address. The consequences are not abstract. Real students are affected. Their admissions, opportunities and futures are at stake.
We cannot sit back and watch an institution as important as WAEC toy with the destinies of young people because it is unwilling to admit that something may have gone wrong.
If there is a glitch, admit it. Investigate it transparently. Fix it. And where students have been wrongly affected, correct their results.
That is what accountability looks like.
No institution should be too big to admit an error, especially when the future of a child may depend on it.
WAEC must be accountable. WAEC must be transparent. And every affected student deserves answers.
I've spent the last several months researching, travelling, and studying why countries like Singapore, Netherlands, United Kingdom, Canada and Finland built some of the world's best public education systems.
One thing became clear:
Nigeria doesn't just have an education problem. We have a school management problem.
Today, I'm releasing a white paper that proposes a new way to transform our public schools, keeping them publicly owned while introducing world-class management and accountability.
This isn't about politics.
It's about giving every Nigerian child the opportunity to attend a world-class public school.
I hope this sparks one of the most important conversations our country has had about education.
Read it. Criticise it. Improve it. Share it.
If we get education right, we change Nigeria.
Here is the link https://t.co/EViU52FKFi
We captured this beautiful moment as Egejurum Onyedikachi and Don-Anele Munachimso arrived at Sam Mbakwe Airport, Owerri, yesterday to a true hero's welcome.
These are not football stars. They are not musicians. They are not politicians.
They are children.
Children who became the world's best in Mathematics in the Primary and Senior categories. Don-Anele Munachimso is also the world's best in Science.
The last literary figures from the South East to receive this kind of heroic public welcome were Chinua Achebe and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.
Watching our brightest young minds being celebrated like national heroes gives me hope.
For too long, we have celebrated almost everything except academic excellence.
That is beginning to change.
Education is reclaiming its rightful place in our society, and a generation of children is growing up believing that knowledge, hard work and excellence deserve standing ovations too.
This is bigger than two children.
This is the beginning of a movement.
Today is D-day.
Our boys are now at the Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma for the Grand Finale of the International STEM Olympiad in Rome, Italy.
I’m optimistic about their victory.
I bookmarked this to respond later. Here you go.
I remember how I felt when I made my first 5K naira salary - it was the same feeling I had when I made my first 7 figure.
One of the first concepts I mastered was the art of "Joy Regardless".
I couldn't wait until everything makes sense, before I decided to be happy. That mindset have remained consistent throughout my journey.
And about your question? If I could have imagined my current reality then? Guy yes.
I always told my friends: "My chances of making it are higher than my chances of finding love"
I believe in myself die - and I don't allow the variable of brilliance delude me from the necessity of consistently deepening capacity.
Post NYSC, when I was struggling in the dirt of dirts. 20K teaching job with 3 tutorial hustles.
I would come back every evening, wear my nicest shirt and walk into a car shop - pockets empty.
"I like the rims on this one, do you have the color in black?"
"Hmmm. The price isn't bad. Can I see the BMW equivalent?"
I'd do this from car shop to car shop. Not because I wanted to waste their time, swimming in delusion or had nothing better to do with my time but I understood the power of visualization.
Sportsmen use it all the time.
You see bah, you stay long in a particular situation - your system starts to normalize it. You start to figure out how to "manage".
" 20K salary abi. Well, if I see like 50K own. I'll just try and walk 2km instead of entering bus"
This is worse than comfort zone because there's no iota of comfort and you're slowly conditioning yourself to optimize it as your new normal.
I found ways to constantly put fire in mybosom.
To make your dreams nightmares, and your living daylight daydreams. Visualization helps you to see what is possible.
It doesn't have to be with cars, but it has to be with variables incredibly beyond your reach at the moment.
You'll never be big. You'll never grow. You'll never breakforth - if your mind hasn't first conceived the possibility of that future.
Don't let your mind condition what's supposed to be a bus stop for you, become a final destination.
I’m beginning to see a pattern with supporters of Tinubu and Atiku. I’m sure you have too.
When they can’t defend their candidates’ records, they mock Peter Obi’s accent and diction. But since when does Queen’s English equal leadership?
Lula of Brazil doesn’t speak it. Mandela didn’t perform for colonial approval. And when Prof. Kingsley Moghalu ran, impeccably spoken, these same people shifted the goalposts. So it was never about grammar. The qualification they want is simpler: be a “big man” of questionable character and zero accountability. Someone familiar. Someone compromised.
Now let’s talk records. Peter Obi holds a degree from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka and is a graduate of executive programmes at Harvard, Oxford, and Columbia. Didn’t steal.
Tinubu cannot tell us his real age, name his classmates, or explain why $460,000 of his drug-linked accounts were quietly forfeited to the US government in 1993. He claims Deloitte paid him an $850,000 bonus for a single engagement, Deloitte said they have no record of any “Tinubu”. No pay stub, no colleague, no paper trail. Just a story, like his certificate.
Atiku is no better. His former aide Michael Achimugu released emails showing Atiku personally asking him to procure a degree from a polytechnic where qualifications would, in his own words, “not be subject to scrutiny.” This is the same man El-Rufai accused under oath before a Senate committee of using his position as Vice President to manipulate Nigeria's privatisation programme for personal gain. A former ally. On the record. Under oath.
What we’re seeing today is a political culture that has decided integrity is a disqualification, and impunity is the only credential that counts.
Obi’s accent is Igbo excellence. Nigerian excellence.
Tinubu’s diction is a forged document read aloud.
Atiku’s CV is a career of proximity to public money, and a private, frantic search for credentials to match.
The pattern is clear. And so is the choice.
The entire Aso Rock media team Daniel Bwala, Reno Mockery, FFK, Sunday Dare, Bayo Onanuga, all primary is to attack Peter Obi
The governors are already incentivised to work against Obi
Datti Baba-Ahmed and his brother are motivated to start attacking Obi
Kenneth Okonkwo and the entire Atiku Mikano Boys already mobilised to lunch attacks on Obi
Arabambi reactivated and mobilised against Obi and Apapa is waiting to receive his own Alert
The Data Boys are back into the payroll for just one mission, attack Obi
All these are because Obi is their nightmare. Atiku doesn't pose any threat to them, hence they're not bothered about him.
BUT YOU KNOW WHAT? THE OBIDIENTS ARE LIKE THE CHINESE BATALION, AN IMMOVABLE FORCE.
Dear Nigerians, PAY ATTENTION!
Lere Olayinka has deleted the tweet that exposed his crime. He deleted it without accountability. The DSS are yet to pick him up.
@OlayinkaLere is yet to explain to all Nigerians how he was able to gain unfettered access to INEC’s restricted area of the backend.
Wike’s aide is yet to tell us how he managed to publish Emeka Ike’s sensitive data. Professor Joash Amupitan has explanations to make as well. It will cost you nothing to retweet this, until INEC gives a satisfactory explanation.
Lere must tell us what happened to the IREV.
INEC wrote a whole load of rubbish, but failed to mention @OlayinkaLere name; not once!
WHAT DOES THIS TELL YOU?
INEC & whoever wrote the rubbish on their behalf, including Lere Olayinka, are laughing at Nigerians behind the scene. Any result/results declared by Joash Amupitan will be REJECTED!
INEC WILL SET NIGERIA ON FIRE!
#ArrestLereOlayinkaNow !!!
@PoliceNG You should "celebrate" your occasion with the pictures of these children still in captivity.
"Every child matters" - do these children matter?
What are you doing to bring them back?
It's not enough to defraud innocent Nigerians on the road. Do your job.
INSIDER SOURCE:
Wait, so Obi actually insisted on Primaries in the ADC & was ready to pair with Kwankwaso base to slug it out till ADC Leadership told him POINT BLANK that “ADC WILL NOT HOLD ANY PRIMARY”?
And they’re lying against him in the media?
I Dare them to Deny This. 📌
"Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others change their principles for the sake of their party." Winston Churchill
Today, May 9th, I attended the 1st convention of my latest party, the Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC) in Abuja, Nigeria. The convention was successful and continued to show the resilience of Nigerians to change
I express my sincere appreciation and gratitude to the NDC family, led by the distinguished Senator Henry Seriake Dickson, for inviting us and for the generosity of spirit with which they have accommodated us at this critical moment in our national journey.
I also wish to express profound gratitude to the African Democratic Congress(ADC), particularly Distinguished Senator David Mark, for providing a democratic platform and showing uncommon understanding when the ongoing litigation forced us out of the Labour Party and the New Nigeria People's Party, NNPP respectively. That spirit of solidarity must remain the foundation upon which a better Nigeria will be built.
Today, the most painful aspect of our political existence is that many who once benefited from democratic governance have now become willing accessories to the destruction of democracy itself. Those who once fought for justice now openly celebrate electoral injustice. Those who once spoke against impunity now defend coercion, manipulation, intimidation, and outright political gangsterism, especially against opposition voices. What we are witnessing is not politics; it is a systematic assault on democracy and the will of the people.
Nigeria today stands at a dangerous crossroads. Our democracy is under severe threat. Our nation is drifting without direction, and our people are passing through immense suffering. Across the world, Nigeria is increasingly described as a failing and disgraced nation. This is not the destiny God ordained for our great country. It was not always so, and it must never be allowed to remain so.
Across virtually every recognised indicator of good governance - accountability, political stability, rule of law, control of corruption, government effectiveness, regulatory quality, and the separation of powers - Nigeria continues to record alarming failures. The institutions that should protect the people are weakening daily, while the burden on ordinary citizens grows heavier with each passing moment.
Today, over 140 million Nigerians live in multidimensional poverty. Tens of millions of young people remain unemployed or underemployed. Inflation continues to crush families. Businesses are shutting down. Farmers can no longer safely access their farms. Communities live in fear. In this month alone, hundreds of innocent Nigerians have lost their lives to insecurity, while many others have been kidnapped, displaced, or thrown deeper into poverty.
The most heartbreaking question confronting us is this: Who consoles the grieving mother whose child was abducted on the way to school? Who speaks for the father who can no longer feed his family despite working every day? Who defends the young Nigerian whose dreams have been destroyed by a nation that rewards connections over competence and corruption over character?
Our present tragedy is not accidental. It is the direct consequence of years of deliberate sabotage by a political class that prospers by dividing the people and weakening the nation. Nigeria is not a poor country; rather, we are being looted into poverty. We have abundant human and natural resources, yet we remain trapped in deprivation because leadership has failed to place the common good above personal interest.
Our choice as a people is therefore clear: whether to surrender to despair and national decline, or to summon the courage to rescue our country and rebuild it on the foundations of unity, equity, justice, competence, and productivity.
Almost a week off the internet to finalise an outstanding decision for our futures.
The time is now for us to get a Nigeria we can be proud of.
Get involved and add your voice.
We are all a part of this change we seek.