On this auspicious occasion of the birthday of His Excellency, Mr. Peter Gregory Obi, CON, we celebrate not only a statesman of uncommon integrity but also a leader whose life of service and compassion continues to impact positively on humanity. Mr. Obi’s journey in public service has been marked by discipline, transparency, and a commitment to human development, values that have distinguished him as one of Nigeria’s most exemplary leaders.
His unwavering commitment to education, healthcare, and philanthropy reflects a life dedicated to service and humanity. May this new year bring you greater strength and fulfillment.
Happy Birthday, Okwute!
I met this 14-year-old boy, Okpako-Onyokoko Ovie Joel, from Graceland International School, Port Harcourt, and I have been so impressed by his exploits.
36 international awards in Mathematics at just 14 years old.
He is a star, and the world will know him.
Take a look at the children gathered from 56 countries right now in Singapore for the Singapore Maths Olympiad Finals.
The winners of the 2027 South East Maths Olympiad have been invited to participate in the 2027 edition in Singapore, and we are coming.
The brightest people on earth are Nigerians, and we will prove it again on the world stage.
Roadmap to a New Nigeria That Is Possible – Part II
Education and Healthcare: The Foundation of a Renewed Nigeria
Recall that on July 1st, in Part 1 of "My Vision for a Productive and Prosperous Nigeria," I outlined the broad framework of my proposed roadmap for national renewal. In it, I emphasised that the transformation of Nigeria must begin with rebuilding our human capital through quality education and healthcare, supported by reforms in Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET), character and civic education, and strategic investments that will move our nation from a consumption-driven economy to a production-driven one. I promised to follow up with other parts in the coming weeks and months.
Today, July 16th, in the middle of July, I wish to expand on these two critical pillars - education and healthcare - because they are the bedrock upon which every prosperous nation is built. They are the cornerstones of the foundation that will ensure that a son of nobody can become somebody and remove many from the ranks of the disaffected who often become tools in the insecurity challenges confronting us.
Evidence from around the world shows that quality education and accessible healthcare are among the clearest distinctions between thriving nations and lagging ones. Princeton University Nobel Prize-winning economist Angus Deaton highlights this reality in his book, “The Great Escape: Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality.”
Nothing, therefore, could be further from the truth than the claim by some young people that “education is a scam.” Education, when combined with good health, provides the ladder for individual upward mobility and drives economic growth for the nation.
We must become more intentional about aligning education with our national priorities, as Singapore did, and challenge our country to value education in the same way Deng Xiaoping repeatedly urged China to do from 1978 onwards, with the remarkable transformation we see today.
We will work through commissions that strengthen collaboration among the tiers of government, ensuring that primary education is domiciled at the community and local government levels, with strong parental involvement and curricula that are sensitive to local economic factor endowments and the value chains derived from them.
State governments will be supported to expand high-quality Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET), as well as general secondary education, through targeted grants and incentives.
We are also developing schemes that will enable universities to focus more deliberately on specialised areas of teaching and research, making them globally competitive while producing a workforce equipped for the demands of the future.
A NEW Nigeria is POssible. -PO
We have been invited to Singapore for 2027. We will challenge their best students in Maths.
The winners of the 2027 South East Maths Olympiad will challenge the best in Singapore in 2027. 56 other countries will join too.
I like how the world is now taking an interest in our children.
I am benchmarking our education against that of Singapore, Finland, Shanghai, China, Canada, and the US.
This is how we can move from being a third-world country to a first-world country.
The future is looking exciting.
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I don't know who needs to see this.
If you live in UK, US, Canada or Diaspora. Don't just send supplements to your parents without checking in with the Doctor and medical team seeing them.
Someone sent High Dose Vitamin C and Vit D supplements to the parents, Parent was taking 1g of Vitamin C 3 times in a Day and taking Vitamin D daily and as she wants.
Comes to the hospital with Abdominal pain.
Scan shows she already has Kidney stones.
PS- Excess Vitamin C and Abuse of Vitamin D can increase risk of kidney stones which can damage the kidneys.
I don't know who needs to see this.
If you live in UK, US, Canada or Diaspora. Don't just send supplements to your parents without checking in with the Doctor and medical team seeing them.
Someone sent High Dose Vitamin C and Vit D supplements to the parents, Parent was taking 1g of Vitamin C 3 times in a Day and taking Vitamin D daily and as she wants.
Comes to the hospital with Abdominal pain.
Scan shows she already has Kidney stones.
PS- Excess Vitamin C and Abuse of Vitamin D can increase risk of kidney stones which can damage the kidneys.
We will be closing registration for the 2027 South East Maths Olympiad on September 30, 2026.
No other registrations will be accepted after the date above.
We currently have 32,738 students registered. Anambra State currently has the lowest registration so far.
The registration link remains: https://t.co/7tLQbIFrMy
We will also be introducing the South East Science Olympiad in 2027 and one registration covers both competitions. I’m worried about the current gap in science among our children, and we will urgently need to fix it.
Maths will be compulsory for everyone, while Science will be optional. However, the prize money will be split across both.
A student is allowed to win both Maths and Science. Only the winners of Maths will represent us at the global stage in Lisbon, Portugal in 2027.
We will also be sharing a new curriculum based on high-order thinking and pure application.
The Role of the Diaspora African in Sustainable Development
On Friday, July 10, 2026, I had the honour of delivering the keynote address at Mandela Hall, African Union Permanent Observer Mission to the United Nations in New York, on _The Role of the Diaspora African in Sustainable Development across Africa.
Africa is a continent of immense riches. Indeed, it is the richest continent in the world, not only because of its vast mineral resources but also because of its greatest asset, its people. It is the second largest continent by landmass, after Asia, covering more than 30 million square kilometres. It is also the second most populous continent, with over 1.5 billion people. Significantly, more than one billion of these are young people in their productive years, making Africa home to the largest youthful workforce in the world.
When this demographic advantage is combined with nearly one billion hectares of arable land, about 60% of which remains uncultivated, it becomes clear that Africa possesses everything required not only to feed itself but also to become the food capital of the world.
Regrettably, despite this enormous potential, Africa remains home to the largest concentration of the world’s poorest people. Of the approximately 800 million people living in extreme poverty globally, nearly 60% are in Africa. That is about 480 million people, with Nigeria and the Democratic Republic of the Congo among the countries most affected. In other words, nearly one in every three Africans lives in extreme poverty. Likewise, in multidimensional poverty, Africa continues to bear the greatest burden.
The question, therefore, is simple. With all these advantages, why has Africa not been able to lift its people out of poverty?
It means there is a missing link. That missing link is Competent Leadership with Capacity, Compassion, Character, and Commitment to good governance.
What Africa needs is leadership that will rise to the challenge and drive the continent in the right direction. This means competent leadership with character, capacity, compassion and commitment to begin turning the continent around. When we get leadership right, everything else begins to change. We start realising our true potential.
So, what is the role of the Diaspora African in this journey?
You have an enormous role to play.
Because you live in societies where institutions largely work, where democracy is strengthened by accountability and where systems function more effectively, you have both an opportunity and a responsibility to help build Africa. It is time to become stronger advocates for good governance. Even where you cannot vote, your voices matter. They should be heard both at home and abroad whenever things are going wrong on our continent. Stand firmly for what is right. Speak truth to the leaders who visit you. Let them know where they are getting it wrong. That is what some of us have continued to do.
The contribution of the African diaspora extends far beyond advocacy. History teaches us that many of the world’s great economic transformations were driven, in part, by their diaspora communities.
Japan offers one example. Following the Meiji Restoration of 1868, the country embraced modernisation and benefited immensely from Japanese scholars, professionals and citizens who studied and worked abroad, especially in Germany, before returning home to drive the technological transformation for which Japan is admired today.
China presents another remarkable example. It was under Deng Xiaoping’s reforms, beginning in 1978, that China embraced education, innovation and global engagement. These reforms created opportunities for the Chinese diaspora to contribute significantly to the country’s extraordinary economic transformation. In 1980, China had more people living in poverty than Africa. Today, China has reduced extreme poverty dramatically, while Africa continues to struggle with the challenge.
Nigerian lecturers get away with so many things and, because there are little to no consequences for their incompetence, some of them act like gods.
Because tell me, in what sane continent will a student sit for an exam, sign in and out on the attendance sheet, submit their answer booklet, and then, when the results are released, be told they have a missing script?
When students write letters or demand that their scripts be found, some lecturers frustrate their efforts until they are left with no other option than to register the course again.
Do you know how many students have spent extra year(s) in Nigerian universities because of this dysfunction?
Don’t even get me started on the bad habit of delaying students’ results, which eventually affects their academic performance.
There are students in 400L who are yet to see some, or even most, of their 200L results. They don’t even know if they have missing scripts, carryovers, or any issue that ought to have been identified and resolved long before they got to 400L.
Some of them end up spending extra year(s) that could have been avoided if their results had been released on time.
Or is it the fact that students write exams, and then some lecturers hand the scripts over to master’s students to mark? Those ones end up failing a large number of them.
If there were consequences for these things, a lot more Nigerian students would graduate with better grades. The anyhowness in the Nigerian educational system is not normal.
Lecturers and institutions should be sued for behaviour like this.
Actually this is a “class action” I can get behind on my own dime. I’ll have a team do some preliminary research and if we decide to pursue, I’ll give an update. We need more public interest litigation.
Today's Sterling Bank Online National Mathematics Quiz results are out!
Here are the top 20 performers from the elimination stage.
They will be invited to participate in a live quiz tomorrow, where they will compete for the grand prizes.
The winners will be determined tomorrow.
Prizes:
🥇 1st Position: ₦500,000
🥈 2nd Position: ₦300,000
🥉 3rd Position: ₦200,000
Enough of News agencies and editorials platforming absolute idiots.
It is important that we make academics attractive, again.
Education should be frontline on our TV screens.
Make Education Great Again.
Dear Alex @winexviv,
Hearty congratulations to all outstanding Nigerian champions who recorded wins in Mathematics and Science as well as you and the entire Educare family at the 2026 Olympiad! This is exactly the kind of excellence Nigeria needs. The laurels achieved by our children are proofs that when we invest in our young minds, they rise to meet the world.
You are building something that truly matters. Keep raising these champions; the nation is watching, and it is proud.
With deep admiration,
Oby🦾🥇🏆😃✍🏾✍🏾✍🏾
Mark their faces and remember their names: Chimdiebube Onwubiko, Egejurum Onyedikachi Ethan, and Don Anele Munachimso. They will all be global superstars.
You wonder what’s next after the Olympiad? The show is about to begin.
You will follow their live journey to greatness.
We will be introducing an Education Hall of Fame, and they will be inducted. This team will travel to several countries for competitions, and we will all enjoy the journey.
New outstanding students will join them, while those who are going to university will become exco members.
Each and every one of them will get into an Ivy League university in the US or top universities in the UK or Europe.
This is the time for education to take its place in our society.
Ndị Igbo, ka anyị tinye ego n’ala anyị, oge erugo!
The future is no longer something to watch from afar. It's being built here.
Enugu is rising to become one of Africa's leading innovation and investment hubs. This is our opportunity to build wealth, create opportunities, and leave a legacy for generations to come.
The future is home. The future is Enugu.