This reminds me of that year Maersk got hacked, and the only reason they were able to recover quickly was because a power outage in their Lagos office took server offline, disconnecting it from the global network. 😂
I've been putting data together. I know Nigerians are now insensitive to death, but I tell you this: even as underreported as it is, Nigeria has only witnessed 1 day with zero violent killings in 850 days.
this girl fainted infront of me today at Euston and they were saying it was probably cos of her low iron but deep down ik the real reason was cos of how good my trim is. my barber done me so nicely, he said it should be illegal for how sharp it is.
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.