Obinna Oke

Bestselling author of Desert Breed.
Medical Doctor. Humanist.
Chairman @jofaglobal.
A vacuum seeking to be filled.

[Obinna Oke @obinna_oke]

#DesertBreed, a fiction, sweet and intoxicating like fine wine! Available in print nationwide. Order copies @AMABBooks via https://t.co/fivdAA2lWR or reach the author @obinna_oke
@DrJoeAbah, my brother, please retweet🙏

[Obinna Oke @obinna_oke]

Don't succumb to the pressure of measuring your success by another's yardstick. The end of that road is discontent and depression. You can be inspired by people's accomplishments but let your goal be self-driven. Only you know your circumstances and your needs.

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We need to build systems that train minds to think, not just to remember. As Albert Einstein so rightly put it: “Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think.”
We need more thinkers. Not crammers!

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We Need Thinkers, Not Crammers: a thread.

There is something fundamentally wrong with our educational system in Africa. We have placed an enormous premium on memorising things discovered or written by others, while almost completely ignoring, discouraging,

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Meanwhile, a curious and resourceful secondary school leaver might offer ideas that solve the entire problem. Why? Because insight is rare in our society, even though information is everywhere.
Our education must be restructured.

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@Tsitati_George Hi George. Trust you're well. I'm trying to send you a Dm

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He alone can't effect the needed revolution. It's only a matter of time and they will bait him and lock him up. The Nigerian people must realise that they possess the superior powers.

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The job cannot be done by @Coolverydarkma alone. In a country of over 200 million people, the citizen's responsibility of holding government to account cannot be left for one brash young man.

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@Eze_thought @kunmydrey But the battle has just begun naah. It's too early to say that Dele isn't prepared or has no evidence. Besides, you can never be prepared enough in a lawless system where money and influence are all that's required.

[Obinna Oke @obinna_oke]

Don't wish for it. Surround yourself with those who tell you the uncomfortable truths. The comfort in lies is short-lived and inevitably leads to complications.

[Obinna Oke @obinna_oke]

When faced with challenges there are people who readily feed your illusions. They egg you on and you appreciate them because their words appeal to your sentiment and vulnerabilities. It's often consoling, but stings hard at last.

[Obinna Oke @obinna_oke]

The owl you sight and fear, and cast and bind as a spiritual weapon from your enemies is the same owl that lives in the house of another as a beloved pet. Dear African, if you don't decolonise your mind you'll continue to live in mental prison while loitering free.

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@ruffydfire What if Nigeria has given up on you?

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

The Blindsight device from Neuralink will enable even those who have lost both eyes and their optic nerve to see.

Provided the visual cortex is intact, it will even enable those who have been blind from birth to see for the first time.

To set expectations correctly, the vision will be at first be low resolution, like Atari graphics, but eventually it has the potential be better than natural vision and enable you to see in infrared, ultraviolet or even radar wavelengths, like Geordi La Forge.

Much appreciated, @US_FDA!

[Obinna Oke @obinna_oke]

Don't be deceived, nobody wakes up to success. Success is a lifetime journey. It's a marathon, not a sprint. Be diligent in your chosen path, making those tiny, unnoticed advances, and one day you'll be proud of what you've achieved.

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It's confusing when I see Nigerian parents abroad talk of sending their children to Nigeria to learn good morals? Educate me, how and where in Nigeria can one learn good morals? How does one of the most corrupt countries in the world teach morality?

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@ElderlyPerson11 @PeterObi Aboki come and shine my shoe.

[Peter Obi @PeterObi]

When Nigeria returned to democratic governance in 1999, it maintained an average GDP growth of about 6.72% for 16 years from 1999-2014. The impressive growth trajectory, unfortunately, was not sustained by the then-new government and our GDP growth collapsed to 2.79% in 2015 and