Chukwuebuka

Onye kwe, chi ya ekwe. | Public works, Theology, Supply-chains.

[Chukwuebuka @xtremevalue3]

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[Mustafa. @oprydai]

Study arithmetic.

before algebra. before calculus. before any advanced math.

get comfortable with numbers first.

• fractions → understand parts, proportions, and division
• ratios → compare quantities and relationships
• percentages → understand relative change and growth
• exponents → understand scaling and powers
• mental math → develop numerical intuition

arithmetic is not just adding and subtracting numbers.
it's the foundation of quantitative reasoning.

> if you struggle with fractions, algebra becomes harder.
> if you don't understand ratios, physics becomes confusing.

if you can't reason about percentages, economics becomes guesswork.

master the basics.
advanced math is built on them.

[Alex Onyia @winexviv]

Imagine if Nigerian students were taught maths this way!

An easy rule of thumb for short distances is the length of a football pitch.

A standard pitch is around 100 meters long. 1000 meters (10 football pitches) make 1km.

A mile is 1.6km (16 football pitches), and a km is 0.6 miles. So to convert miles to km, multiply by 1.6, and to do the reverse, multiply by 0.6.

Assuming we are familiar with inches already (your smartphone is most likely between 5.5 and 6.5 inches tall), 12 inches make a foot and the distance between the floor and the ceiling of a typical Nigerian residential apartment is 9 feet.

1 yard = 3 feet. So to get yards from feet, divide by 3, and to do the reverse, multiply by 3.

For navigation, most of us already know East And West based on the perceived rising and setting of the sun.

North is the direction to your left when facing the East ('rising' sun) and the direction to your right when facing the West ('setting' sun)

Don't try to memorise them. They are grasped intuitively through culture, individual curiosity, or line of work.

A lot of children will love maths even more, because it’s relatable to their everyday reality.

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

The problem isn’t that AI is intelligent. It isn’t. The problem is that too many adults (but not all) are at once mechanistic, imitative, unimaginative, stupid, formulaic, influenceable, & gullible, arrogant beyond their skill set, & too expensive to maintain.

[Onye Nkuzi @cchukudebelu]

What happens when the pilot of the plane he is being flown in, is a "non-tither"?

[Onye Nkuzi @cchukudebelu]

Some of our "Technocrats" talk as if the whole point of "running the Nigerian Economy" - is "to attract foreign investors".

If you strip away their technocratic jargon, these people are total bereft of ideas of their own.

Given a choice between them and a young Nkrumah, I would choose Nkrumah three times daily; because Nkrumah had some ideas of his own - which these people totally lack.

[Merriam-Webster @MerriamWebster]

'Zombie' is derived from the Louisiana Creole or Haitian Creole word 'zonbi.'

[Rui Ma @ruima]

As a friend and several commenters pointed out, it was only eight years ago, in 2018, that the hit Chinese film Dying to Survive came out. Based on a real case from the early 2000s, it told the story of a man helping leukemia patients obtain generic cancer drugs from India at a fraction of the price of the treatments available in China, which many patients simply couldn’t afford.

At the time, cancer survival rates in China were also substantially lower than in developed countries, partly because patients lacked access to advanced treatments, but also because of late diagnoses and uneven quality of care.

The film sparked widespread public outrage over the cost of lifesaving medicines. China certainly hasn’t solved all these problems, but access to innovative drugs has improved dramatically since then. It’s remarkable how much has changed in less than a decade.

[Naija Ballers @9ja_Ballers]

My younger brother who plays for a team in Abuja was telling me about a team mate that he had, they were born in Sweden but after his father had retired, he moved his family to Nigeria.

Now they have stayed in Nigeria for two years and his father had gotten ill, and everything seemed to be working against him. So the father's siblings who also live in Sweden had forced him to come back with his family.

They contributed money and the family moved back to Sweden.

My brother told me that yesterday when they had went for training, their coach informed them that the boy had joined a second division club in Sweden.

The boy is 19, I have seen him play and the way he plays, you simply know that something is different about how he plays but he had gone to several trials in Nigeria with NPFL sides and everytime he was not picked.

In Sweden, he had joined his old team to train for a couple weeks and his coach has spoken to a second division club sporting director, he was invited for a trial and he aced their trial.

He got signed and he is being told that if he does well this season, he will move to the Allsvenskan.

Geography is destiny.

[Phryne Astynome @PAstynome]

I forgot to mention this but a lot of Western medtech firms make watered-down products for the Global South while China gives the full spec products at reasonable prices. The watered-down products are fine for the majority of cases but who wants a second-tier product?

[Commissar of The Council of Kalinga @HindooMolotov]

By the mid-2000s, China’s coastal provinces (Guangdong, Zhejiang, Jiangsu) were overheating, land was expensive, and coastal labor wages were rising.
Rather than letting factories flee to Vietnam or Bangladesh, Hu Jintao implemented the Western Development Strategy.
The state

[Alex Onyia @winexviv]

The only chemistry laboratory at Imo State University.

What a shame!

We can no longer tolerate this level of decay and institutional neglect in the South East.

Our students deserve better. This is unacceptable!

[People's Art of War @pplsartofwar]

Strategy tip:
If you can read carefully, look at context, and stop equating recall or volume with knowledge, you’ll pull ahead of most people.

most people treat recall as the same as actually understanding it. but lack sense to analyze it. or can't sit with ambiguity.

they force a resolution or act like the gap isnt there. or don't want to have falsifiable opinions. the ambiguity and falsifiability help you grow as a tactician or strategist they keep you accountable.

everything builds on everything else. you don’t get to skip ambiguity and expect fact memorization to do the work.

[forgotten bookshop @oldbookishplace]

I have an older gentleman who comes into the shop about once a week. He’s very quiet, says hello, browses books for half an hour or so, finds something he likes, leaves. Today he told me that he has spent years trying to rebuild his library after his wife decided she was

[Dr. Ify Aniebo Rhodes-Vivour @IfyAniebo]

Nigeria confirmed an Ebola Bundibugyo case in Abuja today, after a woman who arrived from Uganda tested positive for the virus. Contact tracing and surveillance have begun.

Early signs are non-specific and mimic illnesses like malaria or typhoid, therefore, diagnosis requires specialized laboratory testing.

Early symptoms include fever, severe headache, extreme tiredness, fatigue, and weakness, muscle aches, joint pain, sore throat.

#ebola

[Onye Nkuzi @cchukudebelu]

A few things about "Nigerian Technocrats";

1. For most of them improving their cvs is a lot more important that driving the nation forward. They will take a job, with the most venal and corrupt regime imaginable - and continuously lie to themselves, and the general public that public service is their primary motivation.

2. Their knowledge base is mostly limited to 1980s-era Washington Consensus "shock therapy" - and financial engineering. They have limited appreciation for "innovation", and how to make it happen here. They will tell us "that we have to pay more for electricity" - while the Chinese are busy marketing "solar refrigerators".

The typical Nigerian "technocrat" isn't someone who "thinks out of the box". You aren't likely to find social democratic thinkers among them - their ideological vision is narrow; limited to what is taught in Ivy League business schools (or what they think is taught in Ivy League business schools).

[Hadassah|Al workflow and Agents 💻 @iretiayo_queen]

Geography is destiny like maddddd!!!

[Peter Obi @PeterObi]

FROM PARIS TO THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT: NIGERIA’S FUTURE IN FOCUS

Following our dialogue at the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) office in Paris yesterday, we made a one-hour stop at a Nigerian restaurant, where we met and interacted with fellow Nigerians before departing for Strasbourg. We arrived at 12:15 a.m. today, Tuesday, 20 October.

By 9:30 a.m., we were at the European Parliament, where we held a series of constructive meetings with Members of the European Parliament representing various committees. Our engagements continued until 6:00 p.m.

Throughout these discussions, I reiterated that Africa is a continent of immense potential, the world’s second-largest continent by both land area and population, richly endowed with natural resources and blessed with a vast, youthful population capable of driving production, innovation and economic transformation.

I called for stronger European support for Africa’s development, particularly Nigeria’s, through partnerships that promote good governance, strengthen democratic institutions and protect the integrity of our electoral processes.

Africa needs leaders with the vision, competence and integrity to unite our people, confront corruption decisively, tackle insecurity and reduce inequality. These are essential foundations for building prosperous, stable and inclusive societies.

Africa must not be seen merely as a continent of needs, but as a continent of opportunities, solutions and possibilities. Nigeria, in particular, has the human and natural resources to play a significant role in global development.

Our future must be built on responsible leadership, productive partnerships and a shared commitment to human dignity and prosperity.

A better Nigeria is POssible. A New Nigeria is POssible! -PO

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