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[Alexander Ehanire @HrhKingAlex]

This tweet accidentally explains one of the deepest problems with Nigerian education.

We have confused early literacy with early intelligence.

A 5 year old kid reading and writing before everyone isn’t impressive. Childhood development is not a race to finish the ABC. Those early years should be about building curiosity, creativity, problem-solving, communication and independent thinking.

Let them build things. Draw nonsense. Play games. Solve puzzles. Ask annoying questions. Learn to disagree and explain why.

Then reading, writing and maths become tools for a mind that has already started learning how to THINK.

And Twitter is probably the funniest evidence of what happens when we get this backwards 😂

Every day you meet people here who can read and write beautifully. Big grammar sef.

But comprehension? Omo.

You write A. They read B. They argue passionately against C. Then 4,000 people retweet aggressively 😭

That is the tragedy.

Literacy is not the same thing as education. Being able to read is useless if you were never taught how to think.

[NEFERTITI @firstladyship]

1 liter of fuel in Iran: ₦38.
1 liter of fuel in Libya: ₦32.
1 liter of fuel in Saudi: ₦823.
1 liter of fuel in Nigeria: ₦1,500.

Minimum wage in Iran: ₦165,000.
Minimum wage in Libya: ₦210,000.
Minimum wage in Saudi: ₦1.4 million.
Minimum wage in Nigeria: ₦70,000.

Min. wage in Iran will buy 4,342 liters.
Min. wage in Libya will buy 6,562 liters.
Min. wage in Saudi will buy 1700 liters.
Min. wage in Nigeria will buy 46 liters.

The four are oil producing nations.

[Lasisielenu @lasisielenu]

To the president and 36 state governors 😔

[Olumide Adesina @olumidecapital]

Real economic wealth of a country is measured by purchasing power, robust consumer credit markets, and formal industrial infrastructure

[Kalu Aja @FinPlanKaluAja1]

As I said

You are repeating yourself

I have shared GDP from 1960 to 2025; go and look at it. Your principal got resources of N20t and spent 1.1% on education, thats the person you are comparing with a person that did Almaji school, create new universities ?

The issue you can't run away from is this: all the past presidents (excluding Buhari, whom you also supported) reduced inflation, grew the GDP and built infrastructure while STILL PAYING SUBSIDY

No other President in the history of modern democracy has removed all essential subsidies, borrowed, and got tax revenues like BAT, yet here we are with a major road impassable and food inflation up

GEJ passed FOI; your principal is jailing journalists and politicians and seeking a one-party state

So again, I am here; if you think I will go you are mistaken, we will ask the questions

1. Where has all the borrowing gone?

[Kalu Aja @FinPlanKaluAja1]

1. Tinubu met poverty rate at 56% took it to 64%

2. Tinubu met MPR (interest rates) at 18.5% took it to 26.5%

3. Tinubu met public debt at N87t took it to N159t

4. Tinubu met zero presidential yacht, he added one

5. Tinubu met one Boeing , he added an airbus to Presidential fleet

6. Tinubu met ISIS, he added Lakurawa

7. I will not mention fuel price and exchange rate, I don’t want to annoy people

“Na Statistics we go chop”

[Uforo Brownson @Brawnsenn]

Woman dey beat you, you de shout aye axemen 😭😭😭

[MERIT🕶️ @LM_MessiRebirth]

Southeastern governors should focus on fixing their depleted state infrastructure instead of campaigning for Tinubu.

___ Dr Alex Otti

[Ola @olami_plenty1]

“Rasheed Yekeni waiting for ball inside the box”

Okocha:

[Dr. Yerima @Ad_Yerima]

I served the federal government for 10 years and left the civil service at GL 14 - CONMESS 04. And you know how much my monthly pension is - 74k and those that wait until retirement and left at GL 17 - CONMESS 07 are collecting around 125k monthly as pension.
This is the job security that you are been promised. Young men and women run while you can there’s nothing in the civil service unless if you’re aiming to pilfer which is becoming almost impossible to reach that level
A word is enough for the wise

[E.P Aninze Esq. @EkeneAninze]

When I heard him speak, I knew it immediately that there is no Catholic Bishop that will speak with so much high-handedness in denial of a matter where the facts are so obvious.

But when I double-checked and realised that he is a Methodist Bishop, I just chilled.

(This is not to cast aspersions on true worshippers of the Methodist Church please.)

Bishop Stephen Adegbite is not different from Daniel Bwala, Reno or Bayo.

Why?

They all enjoy the same appointment from President Tinubu.

So, it is their duty to protect the interest of the man they work for.

Outside the red robe that Bishop Stephen Adegbite wore to that interview, the only difference between Stephen Adegbite and Daniel Bwala is this:

While Daniel Bwala is a Special Adviser to the President of Nigeria on Media and Policy Communications,

Bishop Stephen Adegbite is the Executive Secretary of the Nigerian Christian Pilgrim Commission and the Chaplain of the Aso Rock Villa Chapel, all appointed by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu.

So, look beyond the robe he wears and rate him on the same pedestal with Daniel Bwala and others.

Do not allow the robe to make you forget the office behind the man wearing it.

I am Ekene Aninze, Esq.

[Ose Anenih, CPM @ose_anenih]

The Presidency tweeted the @officialEFCC statement at 8.50pm on Wednesday; then, the very next day at 1.15pm, the same Presidency tweeted that the President was unaware of EFCC’s action and had ordered that it be reversed.

A government cannot disown at 1pm what it broadcast at 9pm the night before.

Abi inside this our Presidency, anoda Presidency dey inside?

[Kalu Aja @FinPlanKaluAja1]

A bond trader in Frankfurt just discovered that a federal agency in Nigeria can freeze the entire accounts of a state, meaning the State can't repay bond coupons.

That same bond trader wants to offer an African bond to investors in Canada. Would he recommend a Nigerian bond? No.

Why?

Sovereign risk for Nigeria is high.

This is why Nigeria is struggling to attract FDI today. Nigeria is attracting expensive FPI.

Later, you will blame the CIA for self-inflicted wounds

[MrBanks💰 @Mrbankstips]

FINANCIAL STABILITY TO ANYONE READING THIS IN THE MONTH OF AUGUST

[Dele Farotimi. A victim of Nigeria @DeleFarotimi]

200 Million Mumus..🇳🇬🤬

[G2H @G2H29341650]

36 Hattricks since turning 30 is literally mental bro 😭😭😭

[Kalu Aja @FinPlanKaluAja1]

Price fixing?
Subsidy?

[Uncle Ruckus @Emarged]

“A nation of fools will always have things to laugh about.”

[ajay @1meajay]

😂😂😭😭

[Kalu Aja @FinPlanKaluAja1]

DO NOT IMPOSE ANY NEW TAX

DO NOT IMPOSE ANY NEW TAX

DO NOT IMPOSE ANY NEW TAX