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[mkurfi2 @mkurfi2]

@RealAyanfe1 Bastistuta

[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)

[InfoGram @_InfoGram_]

🇮🇷Reporter: "Trump called you guys liars and sick."

🇮🇷Araghchi: "Do you know how much Trump lies?"

🇮🇷Reporter: "No."

🇮🇷Araghchi: "He lied more than 35,000 times during his tenure. That’s documented. Everyone knows who the serial liar is."🤣🔥

Araghchi is master in Cooking Trump 👏

[InfoGram @_InfoGram_]

8:00 AM: Trump said, “I will take over Greenland 🇬🇱.”

11:00 AM: Trump said, “I will take over Iran’s Kharg Island 🇮🇷.”

2:00 PM: Trump said, “I will take over the Panama Canal 🇵🇦.”

4:00 PM: Trump said, “I will take over Cuba 🇨🇺.”

6:00 PM: Trump said, “I deserve the Nobel Prize for settling eight wars 🤣”

Believe me, all these statements in a single day.

77.3 million people voted for him to do this.

[mkurfi2 @mkurfi2]

@Lfc_ola_ Matip

[mkurfi2 @mkurfi2]

@Asewerejaye59 @ahmaad_ak Thank you, pls tell them.

[mkurfi2 @mkurfi2]

@LFC Yes!!! 😊

[Liverpool FC @LFC]

Liverpool FC can confirm Arne Slot is to depart his role as head coach with immediate effect and that the process to appoint a successor is under way.

He leaves with a Premier League title to his name and our deepest gratitude and appreciation.

[Mohamed Salah @MoSalah]

I have witnessed this club go from doubters to believers, and from believers to champions. It took hard work and I always did everything I could to help the club get there. Nothing makes me prouder than that.

Us crumbling to yet another defeat this season was very painful and not what our fans deserve. I want to see Liverpool go back to being the heavy metal attacking team that opponents fear and back to being a team that wins trophies. That is the football I know how to play and that is the identity that needs to be recovered and kept for good. It cannot be negotiable and everyone that joins this club should adapt to it.

Winning some games here and there is not what Liverpool should be about. All teams win games.

Liverpool will always be a club that means a great deal to me and to my family. I want to see it succeed for long after I have moved on.

As I’ve always said, qualifying to next season’s Champions League is the bare minimum and I will do everything I can to make that happen.

[Naokii @LfcNaokii]

🚨 Sir Alex Ferguson gave us the Relentless 4-4-2

🚨 Jurgen Klopp gave us the Heavy Metal 4-3-3

🚨 Antonio Conte gave us the Title-Winning 3-4-3

🚨 Pep Guardiola gave us the Treble-Winning 3-2-4-1

🚨 Arne Slot gave us.… look below

[Abuja President ⚖️ @AbujaPresident]

Abuja 🇳🇬 District Names and Their Meanings

1. Maitama
• Origin Name: Maitama
• Meaning: One who possesses iron ore
• Lang: Hausa

2. Wuse
• Origin Name: Wushekwo
• Meaning: Look up to God
• Lang: Gbagyi

3. Asokoro
• Origin Name: Asokoro
• Meaning: Land of the Koro tribe
• Lang: Koro

4. Apo
• Meaning: Wisdom or common sense
• Lang: Gbagyi

5. AYA
• Origin Name: AYA
• Meaning: Alhaji Yahaya Ahmed

6. Mpape
• Origin Name: Unape
• Meaning: Rock of Upna
• Lang: Gbagyi

7. Gwagwalada
• Origin Name: Gbangadan
• Meaning: Bamboo stick
• Lang: Gbagyi
• Reason for the Name: There were many bamboo sticks in the area

8. Gwarinpa
• Meaning: Settlers on the rock
• Lang: Gbagyi
• Reason for the Name: Because of the area’s rocky topography

9. Lugbe
• Origin Name: Lugbe
• Meaning: Mouth of a bird
• Lang: Gbagyi

10. Nyanya
Origin Name: Nyanya
Meaning: Dance
Lang: Gbagyi

11. Karu
• Origin Name: Karuwa
• Meaning: Increase
• Lang: Hausa

12. Lokogoma
• Origin Name: Lokogoma
• Meaning: 10 o' clock

13. Garki
• Origin Name: Peyi
• Meaning: The Hills

14. Area 1
• Origin Name: Areawane
• Meaning: One place for hustlers

15. Karmo
• Origin Name: Karmo
• Meaning: Land of wealth
• Lang: Gade

16. Galadimawa
• Origin Name: Gazihima
• Meaning: Settlement where title owners live
• Lang: Gbagyi

17. Abaji
• Origin Name: Abaji
• Meaning: Come together

18. Bwari
• Origin Name: Bawaya
• Meaning: Pound here
• Lang: Gbagyi

19. Dawaki
• Origin Name: Dawaki
• Meaning: Horse
• Lang: Hausa

20. Idu
• Origin Name: Idu
• Meaning: Honor or resp
• Lang: Gbagyi

[Bakatsine @DanKatsina50]

Governor Bala Mohammed has ordered the immediate closure of 24 cattle markets across four LGAs of Bauchi State. Alkaleri, Bauchi, Kirfi and Tafawa Balewa in a crackdown on bandit financing.

Authorities say intelligence links the markets to:
• Sale of stolen livestock
• Illegal arms and ammunition trading
• Ransom negotiations
• Extortion and illicit taxation by armed groups

Security forces have been directed to enforce full compliance, while traditional leaders are tasked with preventing underground trading.

The move comes amid increased movement of armed groups fleeing military operations in neighboring States.

[Nas @Nas_tech_AI]

Your Android phone’s storage is full.

You delete photos, videos, apps. It’s still full.

Because it’s not the visible files that are eating up your storage. Most of it is the HIDDEN junk that Android never tells you about.

I cleaned mine yesterday and got 23GB back without deleting a single photo.

Here’s how:

[Senior Pst Okezie James Atañi. @Onsogbu]

Last week, a man died because he was “right.”

He was driving straight. His lane was clear. His speed was normal. He did nothing wrong.

Then suddenly, a bus jumped the median without warning.

The bus driver was wrong. Everyone agreed.

But the man in the car was the one they buried.

This is the first rule of defensive driving most Nigerian drivers don’t understand:

Never assume the other driver will do the right thing.

On Nigerian roads, assumptions can kill you.

That driver in front of you without brake lights?
He can stop suddenly.

That okada rider squeezing between cars?
He can fall.

That truck with shaky containers?
It can drop.

That driver indicating left?
He may still turn right.

Defensive driving is not about proving you are right.
It is about staying alive.

Many drivers approach the road with pride.

“If he tries nonsense, I will show him.”

But defensive drivers approach the road with awareness.

“If he tries nonsense, I will be ready.”

The graveyard is full of drivers who had the right of way.

Pride doesn’t stop accidents.
Preparation does.

The Federal Road Safety Corps can not sit beside every driver.

So you must protect yourself.

Slow down when you see danger early.
Increase your distance.
Watch behaviour, not signals.
Expect mistakes.

Because on Nigerian roads, the best driver is not the fastest.

It is the one who arrives home.

Drive safely

[Brian Joyce @brijoyce]

@jacksonhinkle But I thought trump had spoken to the Iranians again and they asked him for a ceasefire very strongly

[Nick's Pizza @Al_Must3rph3r]

New Hausa Proverb!😭😭

"Zancen banza sulhun siyasa a makabarta"😭

Nigerians ain't nice😭😂

[Robert Bruce @24_70xu]

Finally after so many years, Iraq has got freedom. Entire NATO has left Iraq. While American forces are leaving

[Jet2 @jet2]

@iRussianGirl_

[Siraj Ugwu (Nwa Nsukka)🕋🇳🇬 @siraj_ugwu]

This is Eid al-Fiṭr prayer ground from Alor-Agu Muslims community in Igbo Eze South LGA Nsukka District of Enugu state Nigeria. 01 / 10/ 1447.
20/ 03/ 2026