Folaranmi Ajayi is an educator, and investigative journalist with a special interest in education, social justice, afrocentricism & inclusion stories.
Lagos, Nigeria.
Joined July 2014
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Have the nice meal.
Your salary shouldn’t only exist to solve problems. Sometimes it should also remind you that your hard work is producing a life worth living.
If you’ve created a healthy financial system where you’re saving, investing, paying your bills, and meeting your responsibilities, then it’s okay to intentionally enjoy a percentage of your income too.
A part of what you earn is yours to enjoy. 😉
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15 interesting facts about Lamine Yamal, one of football’s brightest young stars,2026 World Cup Winner
Heritage: Yamal has a Moroccan father and an Equatorial Guinean mother, but chose to represent Spain internationally.
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Police Arrest Students Over Brutal Bullying at Igbinedion Education Centre
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Valid point!
I have said this many times, and I will say it again.
Science classes usually have a much higher concentration of academically strong students than art classes, and the disparity is very wide. It is not even close.
In many schools, when students struggle badly with science subjects, the usual solution is to move them to the art department because they “cannot cope”.
So, when science students end up with very high JAMB scores, it should not be surprising. When a department already has a heavy concentration of strong students, the results will naturally reflect it.
If those same students were the ones writing art combinations, you would probably be seeing plenty of 350s there, too. Maybe the issue is not JAMB at all… Maybe the gap in ability is just wider than people want to admit.
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This is Egejurum Onyedikachi.
He’s a brilliant little boy who won the SouthEast Maths Olympiad 2026 (Primary School Edition).
He is from Diamond Special College, Owerri, he came 1st out of over 11,500 participating students.
We should make him famous!!!
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Nyash’, ‘Mammy Market’, ‘Amala’ Added to Oxford English Dictionary
Among the Nigerian words added are everyday expressions and food items such as “nyash,” “mammy market,” “amala,” “moi moi,” “abeg,” “biko,” and “Ghana Must Go.”
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Lagos Sets January 12 for School Resumption
According to the government, schools are to commence full academic and administrative activities immediately upon resumption to ensure a smooth continuation of the school year.
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Until Nigeria is ready to give every child the same quality of teachers, classrooms, labs, libraries, and learning time…
A child in a forgotten village should not be forced to sit the same WAEC or JAMB exam as a child in elite schools in Lagos, Enugu or Abuja.
That is not lowering standards.
That is refusing to pretend equality exists when it doesn’t.
Standardised exams only make sense in a standardised system.
Anything else is a lie we tell poor children and call it opportunity.
Fix the classrooms.
Fix the teachers.
Fix the system.
Then we can talk about one exam for all.
This is a hard truth Nigeria must face.
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If a police officer invites you to the station on a Friday over a petition, there’s a smart way to handle it:
Politely inform them you’re out of town and will be available on Monday.
Why?
Because weekend bail is not guaranteed, and you don’t want to spend Friday–Sunday as an unplanned “weekend tenant” at the station.
Many people don’t know their rights, and ignorance can be costly.
Key Tips:
(1) You have the right to request a convenient date to appear.
(2) Always go with a lawyer or at least inform one.
(3) Never ignore the invitation respond respectfully.
(4) Document your communication (call, text, or message).
Stay informed. Stay smart.
Legal knowledge is not for lawyers only, it’s for survival.
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One of the best changes we can make in Nigeria education system should be titled towards teaching our children how to think critically and learning values.
The current cramming and pouring method has kept us backward for decades.
It made alot of Nigerians educated illiterates.
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Make it a goal to never do your PhD in Nigeria.
Write GRE and apply for foreign university scholarships.
Brush up your LinkedIn profile and make good use of it while scouting for the right university abroad.
PhD in Nigeria is a waste of time. You will suffer for no reason.
A careless nation with zero security intelligence.
Nigeria is a wild place.
DSS officers are actually intelligence officials and largely undercover agents.
How can you sack them and then allow their pictures to litter the internet? Imagine what the criminal underworld can do to them and their families.
Someone who has investigated terrorism and corruption at high levels, maybe even gotten some big guys into jail. Then you sack him and post his picture publicly. By next week, when he goes missing and his body is found chopped up in a canal, we will wonder how and express shock.
Why is this country like this?
Why is there so much insanity and incompetence at the highest levels of almost all our national institutions? Who did this thing to us?
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