I have a genuine concern.
Why are Nigerian startup founders building countless payment apps, betting platforms, and delivery services, yet hardly anyone is building serious solutions to insecurity, hunger, poverty, and failing education?
These are the problems affecting hundreds of millions of people.
What exactly is stopping our brightest minds from working on them?
Is it that investors wonβt fund such ideas?
Or have we become more interested in convenience than solving the problems holding the country back?
Nigeria doesnβt need another payment app as much as it needs solutions that make people safer, put food on tables, create opportunities, and help children learn.
I've been thinking about something.
Through the Olympiads, Maths Quizzes, and competitions we run, we come across some exceptionally brilliant children. Not just students who score high once, but young people who consistently demonstrate extraordinary problem-solving ability.
What if companies could identify and invest in these students early?
Not as charity.
As talent investment.
Imagine a company picking a brilliant 14 or 15-year-old student, funding their education, providing mentorship, laptops, internships, exposure, and opportunities throughout secondary school and university.
In return, the student gains a clear pathway into a career, while the company gets early access to exceptional talent. We can all agree that finding exceptional talents is high, and with an early investment a company can access this privilege.
We do this for sports.
We do this for entertainment.
Why don't we do it for intellectual talent?
Some of these children will become future engineers, scientists, founders, researchers, and innovators. The challenge is that many brilliant young people never get the support they need at the stage when it matters most.
Perhaps we need to start thinking about academic talent the same way the world thinks about football talent.
Does this make sense?
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This is Sophia Dominic. She is 13 years old and an SS1 student of Federal Government Girls College, Owerri.
She took first place in the elimination round of the Sterling Bank Maths Quiz beating every school in the country.
The grand finale is today at 6pm on YouTube.
She will compete with the other top 10 finalists today for the grand prize.
π The results are out!
Here are the Top 10 finalists for Sterling Bank's Online Mathematics Quiz.
The finalists will return tomorrow for a live YouTube showdown, where they will compete in real time for the grand prizes:
π 1st Place: β¦500,000
π₯ 2nd Place: β¦300,000
π₯ 3rd Place: β¦200,000
The live final is designed to ensure complete transparency and integrity, allowing parents, teachers, students, and the public to watch the competition unfold and see Nigeria's brightest young minds compete live.
For everyone who participated, the learning doesn't stop here.
You can now log in and review your performance to see:
The questions you got right
The questions you missed
The correct answers and explanations
Areas where you need more practice
This is not just a competition. It is also a learning journey.
One of the fastest ways to improve in Mathematics is to understand your mistakes and learn from them.
Whether you made the Top 10 or not, take time to review your answers. Today's lesson could be the reason you become one of tomorrow's finalists.
The Sterling Bank Online Mathematics Quiz will continue every two weeks, giving students across Nigeria a regular opportunity to learn, compete, and win.
Congratulations to the Top 10 finalists, and well done to every student who participated. You showed up, challenged yourself, and took another step forward in your learning journey.
See you tomorrow on YouTube.
This little boy, Godwin Chijindu Ikeobi, a JSS1 student of Government College, Owerri, surprised me today.
Today he won first place in the Junior Category at the Mathematical Association of Nigeria (MAN) Imo State Chapter Olympiad exam.
He failed to qualify for the final round from Imo State for the 2026 South East Maths Olympiad and has been crying and depressed.
He attends a government school and felt he was disadvantaged. He was one of the reasons I deployed learning content for all participants in the 2027 South East Maths Olympiad for education equality.
He took the lessons seriously and has been studying them on his own daily. Today he has proven that your background cannot limit you if you are determined to succeed.
He beat all the private and public schools in Imo State today to attain that position.
What a star!
If you find any child in the South East with exceptional ability, please bring to my notice. I mean EXCEPTIONAL and UNIQUE ability.
We need to support them.
Exceptional talents are scare and we can harness it for the good of the society and let them get destroyed.
Good News: Don Anele Marvelous Munachimso from Diamond Special College, Owerri, who won the Senior Category prize at the 2026 South East Maths Olympiad, got the highest score in IGCSE Chemistry (98) in Nigeria.
He also got 6 A*s in the Cambridge IGCSE Examinations.
Weβre heading to Rome in 12 days to bring home the gold as well.
What a star!
A lot of fraudulent lecturers are now being picked up by security operatives at Abia State University.
The system cleansing is intensifying by the state government.
Students who participate in such fraud will be expelled as well.
Once integrity is restored in our universities, the quality of our graduates will significantly improve.
We now have 22,070 students registered for the 2027 South East Maths Olympiad.
Boys: 10,162
Girls: 11,908
This is now the largest academic event in Africa.
Beyond a competition, this is a movement to identify talent, reward excellence, and inspire a new generation of problem-solvers.
We are building the greatest workforce in Africa within 10 years.
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It was great joining Njideka Akunyili Crosby β a gifted Nigerian-born, Los Angeles-based artist β to unveil our first portrait together. This piece reflects so many chapters of Michelle and my story, and weβre thrilled that it will be on display in the Hope and Change lobby at the Obama Presidential Center starting this Juneteenth.
Every terrorist was once a child.
The difference between a future engineer and a future extremist is often opportunity, education, and hope.
If Nigeria is serious about security, education should be treated as national defense.
Instead of investing only in weapons, invest in educating children.
Our daily program for Rome is out for the International STEM Olympiad Grand Finale from July 2β8, 2026.
We received about β¬2,000 in total contributions toward this program; however, the hopes and aspirations of these youngsters must not be cut short at this point. Hence, I have decided to fund it in full. The total cost is β¬32,500.
This alone will inspire millions of other children to work hard.
Victor Osimhenβs success has inspired millions of Nigerian children. So the winnersβ success will do the same in the lives of millions of children and families.
154 countries will be participating, and we will come out victorious.