Theatre_god

Brand & Communication Strategist | Narrative Builder | Public Affairs|Presidential scholar

[Theatre_god @offfiongandem]

This argument is built on exceptions, not evidence. For every Ronaldo or Wizkid, there are millions whose lives would have been better with access to quality education. School isn't the only route to success, but it's the safest and most accessible path for the majority.

And let's stop pretending football isn't an intellectual profession. Modern football is highly academic. Players study tactics, analyse opponents, understand positional play, nutrition, sports science, psychology, and data analytics. When Messi moved to France, he had to learn French to communicate and integrate. Football clubs are like universities they educate players every single day, even if it's not in a traditional classroom.

Success isn't about avoiding education; it's about continuous learning. The world's best athletes never stop learning, so why should anyone glorify ignorance? Talent may open the door, but knowledge keeps you at the top.

[Theatre_god @offfiongandem]

No be everybody go learn tech.
If you learn how to hold rain, you go too hot for Lagos, Abuja and China this period 🤝

[Theatre_god @offfiongandem]

@abazwhyllzz Olodo uprising lol

[Theatre_god @offfiongandem]

@Wizarab10 He said he's back... Spain said, 'Back home.'The 'I'm back' era lasted longer on social media than in the tournament with a one-way ticket home.

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇳🇴 Norway just pulled off a massive one, eliminating Brazil from the tournament.

And it didn’t stop there, the Norwegian army even posted a video doing the Viking celebration afterward.

When your national team wins, and the military joins the celebrations… you know it’s a very big deal.

Writer: Lynn

[Theatre_god @offfiongandem]

Channeling ancient Norse power! Erling Haaland and Norway turn the pitch into a longship ⚔️🚣‍♂️ Pure creativity and unity 🇳🇴

[Theatre_god @offfiongandem]

Channeling ancient Norse power! Erling Haaland and Norway turn the pitch into a longship ⚔️🚣‍♂️ Pure creativity and unity 🇳🇴

[Cleverly 💐 @Cleverlydey4u]

Norway vs Brazil…its about to get real 😬

[Oyindamola🙄 @dammiedammie35]

Omoh, this one touch everybody, not just Peller 🧎🏻‍♂️‍➡️

[Theatre_god @offfiongandem]

The “olodo uprising” that Ycee is speaking about, along with the ongoing debate around Peller culture, is truly a pandemic threatening the productivity of this country. This doesn’t mean he is insulting Peller; rather, he is using him as a classic example. He wasn’t simply talking about going to school, because you can attend school and still be an olodo I’ve seen them, I’ve shared classrooms with them. He is speaking about so many deeper issues.

There are far too many people we’ve handed microphones to who have no business speaking to the public. We are now a country comparing Wole Soyinka with GehGeh and asking who is wiser. This is how low we have fallen. A lot of average people holding microphones and doing podcast analysis have no business being there, yet we have glorified their ignorance and made them feel intelligent. This is the level of mediocrity we’ve reached.
I see influencers arguing about underpaid doctors while comparing them to TikTokers. Until we understand that it wasn’t an olodo who built that app and is making billions, we will continue to downgrade academic excellence.

If BBN Naija gives its winner ₦100 million while a top student in school gets only ₦10,000, that is not a fair or intelligent comparison. BBN is a business and an advertising platform, it’s a completely different and flawed analogy. We have seen Tony Elumelu and many others actively rewarding academic excellence. There are thousands of academic grants out there worth thousands of dollars, but because we have more olodos, they don’t know about them. There is actually more reward for academic excellence than many realise it’s just not for merely finishing school. Finishing school and actually being intelligent are two very different things.

The level of anti-intellectualism in Nigeria is dangerously high. As a nation of over 200 million people, if we remain largely unproductive, we will crash. We are not producing anything meaningful, and that is a recipe for national collapse.

[CHUKS 🍥 @ChuksEricE]

"The Olodo Uprising we're seeing in Nigeria today is the second phase. Many of those involved in this present generation are still learning.

I grew up during the first phase of the Olodo Uprising in the 1970s and 1980s. Back then, that was when 419 became widespread. Some people dropped out of school, made quick money, and I can tell you for free that about 95% of them didn't end well"

— Canada-based Nigerian doctor, Zo

[Theatre_god @offfiongandem]

On the brighter side of things, Akara and Corn sellers have made lots of sales since Mrs Tinubu’s statement, because, those who are going there to create content must definitely patronize them

[Theatre_god @offfiongandem]

May God forgive us for the times we have looked down on the very people keeping this country alive. May we learn to see with clearer eyes, speak with kinder hearts, and interpret intentions with empathy instead of arrogance.

[Theatre_god @offfiongandem]

The First Lady’s speech has been grossly misinterpreted across the nation.

She wasn’t speaking in abstract terms to the whole country, She was deliberately reaching out to those specific women , the often invisible, undervalued roadside sellers of akara, pap, corn, and kuli-kuli, the struggling mothers who wake before dawn, sweat under the sun, and carry the weight of their families with quiet dignity.

In a society quick to dismiss them, she chose to get down to their level, acknowledge their reality, and offer real support through grants and empowerment.

What she said was targeted hope for them. Yet some have twisted it, generalised it, and used it to mock and blackmail the masses ridiculing struggling parents and our traditional fast foods as if they are something shameful. How dare we?

[Theatre_god @offfiongandem]

These roadside sellers are the unsung heroes who have fed generations. Every single morning, they serve hot, affordable breakfast to students rushing to school. Many have used this humble trade with nothing but resilience, sacrifice, and pure love to train and graduate their children from university. I grew up watching it: a woman selling akara and pap who single handedly raised two graduates, and yet we sit behind keyboards and shame them? Mock the very hands that fed us? Belittle the women whose daily hustle kept our nation’s children nourished and our families moving forward? That is not just misunderstanding it, it is ingratitude. Their support may not mean much to the privileged or the loud critics, but it means everything to these women and the lives they sustain.

This lack of comprehension, this eagerness to mock grassroots reality, is exactly what fuels the painful conversations around the “Olodo Uprising.” Instead of celebrating or at least respecting those who build from the bottom, we tear them down for daring to exist and thrive in their own way.

Let us stop shaming our akara sellers, our corn roasters, and our kuli-kuli makers. Their work is not a joke. It is dignity. It is sacrifice. It is the real, raw strength that holds so many of us up.

[Theatre_god @offfiongandem]

That said, betting everything on “forgo education” like Speed is terrible advice for 99% of people. Most who drop out or skip serious skill-building crash hard without the discipline, networks, or fallback options that education provides. High school completion is baseline; beyond that, structured learning (formal or self-taught) builds deeper competence in complex fields. True success comes from stacking real value-creating skills, consistency, and optionality not hoping for viral fame. In Nigeria or anywhere, the smart move is maximizing both: grind your talent while acquiring knowledge that compounds. Paperwork isn’t everything, but rejecting learning because a few

[Theatre_god @offfiongandem]

School doesn’t define success, but dismissing it entirely is naive and risky especially for most young people. IShowSpeed and Peller are rare outliers who leveraged extreme talent, timing, personality and the algorithm to build massive audiences without university. Their stories prove that in the creator economy, raw execution and audience capture can outperform traditional credentials. In Nigeria’s tough job market, where formal employment is scarce and many graduates are underemployed, it’s understandable why some youths romanticize this path. Hustling in content, tech, or trades can indeed beat waiting endlessly for “employment,” and certificates alone guarantee nothing in a broken system.

[Theatre_god @offfiongandem]

This is a classic false equivalence.
MrBeast, Logan Paul, and David Dobrik didn’t just “drop out and blow.” They are highly intelligent, strategic, and obsessed with learning business strategy, content engineering, audience psychology, marketing, scaling systems, etc. They read, study, test, iterate, and constantly acquire knowledge. They are not “olodos.”

An olodo (in the context Ycee used) is not someone who didn’t finish school. It’s someone who proudly rejects learning, depth, critical thinking, and excellence then celebrates that emptiness as “vibes” or “content.” That’s the pandemic we’re fighting in Nigeria.Peller is not being dragged for lacking a degree. He’s being used as an example of a growing culture where:Empty-headed skits and brain-rot content are celebrated over substance,Influencers with zero intellectual weight now argue with doctors and economists, We compare Wole Soyinka to GehGeh and call it “democracy of talent.”

Success is not solely about formal education that part is correct. But real success at scale almost always requires rigorous self-education, discipline, high intelligence, and value creation. The dropouts you mentioned have those traits in abundance many of our local “Peller-style” creators do not.We can celebrate genuine talent without lowering the bar for knowledge and excellence. That’s not jealousy that’s wanting Nigeria to actually rise.

[Theatre_god @offfiongandem]

This argument is built on exceptions, not evidence. For every Ronaldo or Wizkid, there are millions whose lives would have been better with access to quality education. School isn't the only route to success, but it's the safest and most accessible path for the majority.

And let's stop pretending football isn't an intellectual profession. Modern football is highly academic. Players study tactics, analyse opponents, understand positional play, nutrition, sports science, psychology, and data analytics. When Messi moved to France, he had to learn French to communicate and integrate. Football clubs are like universities they educate players every single day, even if it's not in a traditional classroom.

Success isn't about avoiding education; it's about continuous learning. The world's best athletes never stop learning, so why should anyone glorify ignorance? Talent may open the door, but knowledge keeps you at the top.

[Theatre_god @offfiongandem]

@_raesparkles The conversation shouldn't be "graduates vs olodos." It should be about building a society where excellence whether intellectual, creative, technical, or entrepreneurial is respected. Anti-intellectualism is just as dangerous as academic elitism.

[Theatre_god @offfiongandem]

This argument creates a false dichotomy between academic excellence and real-world success, as though one must diminish the other. Intelligence isn't measured only by grades, and success isn't measured only by fame or money. They are different dimensions of achievement.The issue many people raise isn't that "olodos" shouldn't succeed. It's that society increasingly glorifies ignorance while dismissing knowledge, discipline, and expertise. That's a cultural concern, not bitterness.Creativity, consistency, and popularity require intelligence but so do research, engineering, medicine, law, and countless professions that don't come with millions of followers. Equating academic achievement with envy is just as reductionist as equating poor grades with stupidity.Someone can be a first-class graduate and still fail in business. Someone else can struggle academically and become an exceptional entrepreneur. Both realities can exist simultaneously. Mature societies celebrate competence in all its forms instead of pitting education against entertainment.