66 YEARS LATER!!
8 October 2026
66 years later we're still negotiating for:
Good roads.
Uninterrupted Power.
Ports.
Research and Technology.
Buildings.
Sometimes we're tempted to wonder if the heroes who fought for our independence were really right or overly optimistic.
Need I say that the founding father were actually very educated.
So if educated Nigerians fought for our collective freedom, why do we then leave its sustenance to uneducated folks or those without any regard for it.
Indeed, we can't neglect the infrastructure - Human Capital, beneath the problems and expect progress.
A country with talented people but weak institutions will struggle to convert talent into refined exports.
And this Education that so many of us now think is a scam, sits at that inevitable intersection.
It shapes the people who will design infrastructure, maintain institutions, create companies, teach future generations and solve problems we cannot yet name.
This is why education should not be treated as another expense on the federal budget but as national infrastructure.
And like every important infrastructure, it needs systems, standards, research, maintenance, measurement, investment and long-term thinking.
If we want a different Nigeria, we cannot merely change what happens at the top.
We must change what happens at the beginning.
Fellow Nigerians, The classroom is one of the most important nation-building sites in the country. Let's fix it.
If we fix education, we have inadvertently fixed all the problems in our country.
Happy Independence Day!
Good roads.
Uninterrupted Power.
Ports.
Research and Technology.
Buildings.
Sometimes we're tempted to wonder if the heroes who fought for our independence were really right or overly optimistic.
Need I say that the founding father were actually very educated.
So if educated Nigerians fought for our collective freedom, why do we then leave its sustenance to uneducated folks or those without any regard for it.
Indeed, we can't neglect the infrastructure - Human Capital, beneath the problems and expect progress.
A country with talented people but weak institutions will struggle to convert talent into refined exports.
And this Education that so many of us now think is a scam, sits at that inevitable intersection.
It shapes the people who will design infrastructure, maintain institutions, create companies, teach future generations and solve problems we cannot yet name.
This is why education should not be treated as another expense on the federal budget but as national infrastructure.
And like every important infrastructure, it needs systems, standards, research, maintenance, measurement, investment and long-term thinking.
If we want a different Nigeria, we cannot merely change what happens at the top.
We must change what happens at the beginning.
Fellow Nigerians, The classroom is one of the most important nation-building sites in the country. Let's fix it.
If we fix education, we have inadvertently fixed all the problems in our country.
Happy Independence Day!
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