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All phones look like IPhone. It started from ipod design.

YoungBlackRico:
They drink water a lot?

Surplus kidney failure

This one loud oooooo, thread about to get messy.

Bello Turji is getting more skills .

Omorr that gender don't forgive ooooooo. Ratak/commando fit surplus for your food.

PremiumLeaks:
I want to say something that may offend some parents, so let me start with my own shame.

My son scored 289 in JAMB. Everybody celebrated. Relatives called. My mother prayed on the phone for eleven minutes. For three weeks, I was the proudest man on my street.

Then I asked him to explain a chapter on photosynthesis he had just studied.

Not the definition. Just explain what happens inside a leaf, in your own words.

He couldn't.

He gave me the textbook definition, word for word. When I pushed him to explain it differently, he looked at me and said, “Daddy, is it not the same thing?”

No. It isn't.

That night I realised my son hadn't really been learning. He had been storing.

The Examination Is Not the Education

Our children are often trained to recognise answers, not understand ideas. They memorise patterns, match questions to past papers, and reproduce stored answers.

It works. My son got 289.

But change the question slightly and the confidence disappears.

Not because he isn't intelligent. He is. Nobody taught him what to do when he doesn't already know the answer.

That is the skill that survives school.

Where the Money Goes

School fees. Lesson teachers. Holiday classes. Textbooks. Past questions. JAMB apps. Extra tutorials. Transport. Data.

Now ask yourself: what have you actually bought?

Mostly, supervision.

What you haven't necessarily bought is a child who can pick up an unfamiliar book, understand it, and teach himself something nobody is around to teach him.

And that skill is free.

A child who can teach himself can keep learning anywhere. One who can't may remain helpless inside an expensive university.

The Phone Isn't the Problem

We blame TikTok because a child can scroll for four hours but can't read for twenty minutes.

But the phone may simply be exposing a weak attention muscle.

School often requires attendance. It doesn't necessarily teach sustained attention.

So taking away the phone may remove the symptom without building the muscle.

What I'm Doing Differently

My son is seventeen. I'm doing some of this ten years late, and I have to live with that.

I no longer ask only what he scored. I ask what he understood.

I make him explain things to his sister in his own words. When he says, “I don't know,” I don't immediately give him the answer. I ask, “How would you find out?”

It's slower. More annoying.

But something has changed.

If you have a younger child, you still have time.

Don't spend all of it buying more of what isn't working.

The greatest inheritance you can give your child isn't a certificate, school, or money.

It's a mind that can teach itself anything.

ABOUT THE RESOURCE

From Phonics to Calculus: A Parent's Blueprint for Raising a Self-Taught Mind in a Distracted World is a 65-page guide for Nigerian parents who want to build reading, independent learning, and attention skills in their children.

It covers how to diagnose what your child can actually do—not just what their results say—plus practical ways to develop independent learning, rebuild attention, and do it even without money for tutors.

It draws on WAEC, JAMB, UNICEF data, and education research.

La Click and pass, sure odd ticket

Thanks to Tinubu massive hunger and poverty reforms

God1000:
https://en.mehrnews.com/news/247214/Strait-of-Hormuz-ship-traffic-drops-to-single-vessel

Propaganda, price of crude is coming down, local pump price has reduced 🤷‍♂️

Dangote should buy Strait of Hormuz and forget about Arsenal .

Buba Shehu of Bauchi

Poco Lee is in for a deep mess.

Yari has collected his retirement pension from Tinubu.


Tinubu will learnnn

Jokers, refund Tinubu his billions .

Riggers bodies will be added as scores.

Svoboda:
Obviously, Wike has introduced his brazen gangster politics to the fct and has put the area council bosses under tremendous pressure to deliver. But will such naked incinerating threats sway voters from making their informed choices? If Osun didn't buckle, then FCT wont. Maybe the lg chairman was barking at his dogs, because the fct residents I know are no slaves.

Wike style of politics can't work where northerners reside madness dey body .

Azaaman don cashout #600M

Rig and Kpai, Pro Amupitan knows the end .

Nawa Oooooo, this mata tie gele .

Bayo Onanuga is yet to respond with his basket mouth.
Tinubu should better subsidise Naira.

Official exchange rate
Baseline: ~N460/$
Current position: ~N1,358/$

What's our benefit as Nigerians

Trustyourself:
This is an old figure that has been in existence for the past three months

Why resurfacing same figures?

E tire me too, $50B since

Bigsin:
I have a tank filled with about 3,000 catfish and I change their water EVERYDAY because it gets dirty easily. Changing their water affects my electricity bill a lot because the fishes don't like rushing or eating their foods when the water is dirty. Anyhoo, that's a story for another day. In regards to feeding, I feed them 3-4 times a day.

The problem I'm facing now is that I'm losing them slowly and it hurts. Everyday, I get up to 5 mortalities.

What could I be doing wrong?

Overcrowded and cannibalism.

Attributing the apparent increase largely to greater public awareness.

Drinking water culture, Northern border states are well known for that.

oluwaseyi0:
What should we do about palmpay and other loan shark that will call reporting a defaulter I never stood guarantor for

Those are loan bandits, the criminal software takes all contacts of defaulter.

NIGERIAJAGAJAGA:
Who stand as guarantor to Nigeria when they borrowing all these loans pls.

Federation Account, no time.

dominique:
I've never seen anybody forcefully want to stay in a country where they're not wanted, where they're risk of serious bodily harm. It's like she's enjoying this hostile attention she's getting

Ndi ablod , malaria and hunger is waiting for her

GloriousGbola:
It is not free delivery

It is a page from techs playbook

When you want to kill an established, traditional market, undercut them till they die. When you are a monopoly you can then turn on the enshitifficatiion.

This is dangote strangling and killing nupeng (tanker drivers union)

Once he is fully established, he will charge what he wants for bridging and everyone will have to take it

I do not have the figures today but in 2014 it cost 100k to pay a tanker to move product from apapa to trade fair. Today it would likely be 400k or more. That is intracity cost. You can now multiply that on a cross state scale. It is a significant cost and dangote will NOT carry it forever.

Diesel was around 100-120 per litre. It's around 1500+ now

saheed24:
Campaign never even start proper, this one don they pocket 600m metre from just 1 man. at this point theres no need 4 presidential election

The snake oil merchants don cash out, dan muala .

AMINDA:
Meanwhile, here is Masari, Tinubu's 2023 placeholder and Special Adviser on Polical Affairs donating 600 million naira to Sheikh Yahaya Jingir. Those who say Yahaya Jingir's rethorics are state-backed may not be far from the truth. In any case, the muslim-muslim ticket is ageing like soured milk in the core North.

If you are following Yahaya Jingir to shout Muslim Muslim ticket look at this video! 600 million Naira 😂😂

And you still think removal of subsidy is for you and me! 😂 pic.twitter.com/qTUx12LThz

— Mal. Imran U. Wakili (PULLO) 👑 #iSTANDWITHELRUFAI (@IU_Wakilii) August 24, 2026

Sheikh Yahaya Jingir don cashout .

Their economy will take the hit in no distant time .

Evaress:
Not bad. But UNN and ESUT still remains the best

Madam, nothing like best so far it's accredited. Government school will stress you out in general courses. Hundreds packed like sardines