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Dr. John Walker Oritse retweeted
Joe Biden had trouble navigating his way from a podium back to his chair, but he (his ghost writer) thinks he knows better how to navigate Israel’s course among nations? What a joke.
Dr. John Walker Oritse retweeted
In June, the town of Lawrence, Kansas, danced and blasted Algerian music in the streets while welcoming the country’s World Cup team and fans to the U.S.
Now, the African nation is repaying the favor by rolling out the red carpet for a delegation from the town.
Dr. John Walker Oritse retweeted
The Emanuel Nine Memorial officially opened to the public today in Charleston, S.C., in honor of the nine worshippers murdered during Bible study at Mother Emanuel AME Church in 2015
(Photos: Joshua Parks)
Dr. John Walker Oritse retweeted
It's been about a year 6 months since I took over management of the school (at the board level, not day to day). When I came in, we had about 440 students. Now we are at 770 students. We have one of the highest transfer rates to the school in the town - outside of a very high JSS1 enrollment, we have 20+ students joining into each of the higher classes. This is in spite of an 80% increase in school fees.
What was the strategy? Well, combining various things:
1. High standards for teachers and employing a lot of new, very good teachers
2. Constant staff salary increment
3. Big focus on extra-curricular activities and fun
4. Video strategy, what we do should be shown to the world
5. Open forums for parents to complain, and prompt reactions. The old methods of hiding complaints just makes schools bad
6. Constant infrastructure work and "getting better every day"
7. Discipline and no leniency on anything
8. Reducing all those massive enrollment fees to allow cheaper switching. A parent may be able to afford fees, but cannot bring out money for the enrollment fees
The goal is to hit 1000 students as quickly as possible, which we still push the standard up. A lot to do - we will have a world class computer + physics lab by next term (we are working on it now). Then we turn attention to the boarding houses and the sports hall, and do more solar (we already have 3 blocks on solar, but we are not done).
Also, we are doing a lot of works on academics now, the goal is that we should be in the top 5 in WAEC results nationally.
We did all this without layoffs or staff disruptions. And I only spend ~ 3 hours per week in active management. A strong team + ideas from the digital world are good enough.
My Dad made me chairman of the board in his school as he retired. I looked into the finances - boarding house was making a loss, day school was fine but teacher grossly underpaid.
I increased teachers pay, increased school fees a bit, increased boarding fees quite a bit. This would normally lead to a drop in population of the school by about 20% to 30%. People don't like increments.
First thing I did was an extensive renovation across the entire school - sinking in money to fix all parts of it at high speed (took less than 4 weeks).
I turned on Meta ads for the school with heavy spend, and started advertising in nearby towns - Port Harcourt, Aba, Uyo.
We still have 15 days before the term starts but we have already increased school population by 100 new kids, even with the new fees.
There is a lot more to do, but the takeaway for me is this - if you have something with physical infrastructure, run ads.
Dr. John Walker Oritse retweeted
Won nothing, got paid a record amount, national team in full rebuild.
Ultimate American grift complete, you have to respect it.
Dr. John Walker Oritse retweeted
JD Vance is the only politician in the world where news of him having an affair would actually elevate his brand
Dr. John Walker Oritse retweeted
Look, it's an open secret that we let veterans do disability fraud
Dr. John Walker Oritse retweeted
*skips his meal and social life for his patients*, nothing dey sweet Una pass doctor wey him life dey spoil
Dr. John Walker Oritse retweeted
US Soccer, no need for a long term replacement, you can hire Pochettino back in a year.
Dr. John Walker Oritse retweeted
He's not a good person and not enough person realise it.
It's like one Abia guy that served the very worst governors and comes here to talk about good governance.
The day I become 2 Face Idibia. Call me to order privately (preferred) but also publicly, if needed.
Dr. John Walker Oritse retweeted
Joseph Abah @DrJoeAbah
Finally takes a stand, when it is against the weak. 🤮 👎🏾 And definitely proud of it!
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To be clear, you definitely should not sell chips while taking vitals. But I'll bet that nurses salary is not more than ₦150K / month and she works full hours.
So how does she bridge the gap? Hustling like every Nigerian does. A lot take the path of criminality (unforgivable) the others take the path of either begging (Yuk) or side trading (not cool).
When a weak person makes a poor forgivable and immediately harmless error like pitching you chips when taking your vitals, you correct them. If the person is polite as Joe Abah indicated, you see if you can help them escape the rat race. Or if you are possibly non challalant, you ignore.
You do not try to use their livelihood to score points in this terrible economy.
Has Joe Abah reported of the police or immigration folks that perpetually greer you for the weekend and then proceed to beg on duty?
Much easier to fire a harmless nurse.
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Dr Joe Abah, do you know what erodes confidence in an institution?
1. Decriminalization of forgery as it relates to elections
2. Awarding contracts worth trillions of Naira to Chagoury without any procurement process.
3. Judges and the House of Representatives singing "On your mandate we shall stand" to an 'elected' official.
I am happy to focus on you because you know and ought to do better. You are a governance experts after all.
You are the "elite" that give cover to the bastardization of Nigeria, but somehow, no one calls you out. Amazing.
You Sabi the works Sha. As a DAI boss, You na 001 of NGO waka so you sabi this image management thing.
Anyway, since you've blocked me, you will not see it except someone is bold enough to tag you.
Dr. John Walker Oritse retweeted
It's astonishing, isn't it, how half of veterans who served since 9/11 are disabled? It's really incredible how a war with 53,000 wounded produced 2.8 million invalids.
Good thing their crippling disabilities don't keep them from working -- 71.3% labor force participation rate.
Dr. John Walker Oritse retweeted
Lot of people forgetting that Melinda Gates was literally an employee at Microsoft before Bill Gates decided to marry her
Warren Buffett literally told the world he had two wives and absolutely no one cared. Elon has a dozen women who he got pregnant
This entire Jensen thing feels like a coordinated attempt to try and remove him as CEO. Definitely pissed off the wrong person somewhere along the way
Dr. John Walker Oritse retweeted
Aged hags up and down the country demand their husbands stop having the option to sleep with tight wet 18 year olds. Who could have seen that coming.
I think like a lot of women - and a lot of men as well - I’ve found the last week pretty emotional.
Famous and powerful men - who abused that fame and power - finally not getting away with it. And behaviour and culture that we were all supposed to just laugh along with - well now we can actually say - this is not ok. It was never ok.
It felt like a watershed moment.
But what is a watershed moment? It’s a moment that is critical turning point or decisive event that permanently changes things.
So what IS actually going to change?
Well - there is one thing I would suggest could change - and it would be controversial - not everyone would agree with it.
Right now - if you’re a 16 year old girl having sex with another 16 year old - or the boy from the year above at school - that’s treated exactly the same as if you have sex with a 45 year old not in a position of trust.
Should it be?
Here's the thing - there’s a cliff edge on how you’re treated when you turn 16 - but not the other way round.
In England and Wales, if you’re a child, and someone has sex with you - the law treats you completely differently if you’re under 13 or if you’re between 13 and 16.
If you’re under 13 - it’s rape - consent is legally impossible. But if you’re 14 or 15 - it can be prosecuted as “sexual activity with a child” rather than rape which of course carries a lower sentence.
This was a massive issue during the grooming gang scandal - and the Gvt is looking to change it.
But right now - the law staggers the age of consent the wrong way.
It tapers the cliff edge for people who have sex with children - people that you and I would call rapists, but the law doesn’t treat as such.
But it DOESN’T taper the cliff edge when you turn 16. And maybe it should.
How about a staggered law of consent the other way instead - so you can have sex with a 16 year old - but only if you’re under 18 yourself?
Then the events of the last week really WOULD be a watershed.
Dr. John Walker Oritse retweeted
the discussion shouldn’t be whether buddy meant what he said (no idea what he believes now). it should be how so many people knew what he was doing — because he told them! — and it still worked.
I’m not going to go back and forth with you (it’s football season for God’s sake!), but I can’t believe you’re actually denying this interaction so I’ll jog your memory:
August of 2016, during the Olympics, at the (now shuttered) Intercontinental hotel, a couple blocks from the Fox lot off Pico.
We had just finished a night show that no longer exists where (among other things) we debated the Summer Olympics (it was a bad segment because we didn’t have rights to the footage, so we could only show still pictures of what we were talking about) & went to have a drink/meal with a colleague who was on the show with us.
The exchange I discussed happened in the lobby bar, at a table with said colleague, and then after I said what I needed to say to to you I went outside and bummed a cigarette off a valet.
We haven’t spoken in person since.
You know as well as I do this is 100% true, and verifiable, by the colleague that was with us and/or our then bosses who contemporaneously heard the story.
We actually also had the same agent at the time, and you and I both know he heard the story and could confirm it as well.
So, I’ll pull a page out of your book; I’ll bet you $1,000,000 I’m telling the truth.
I assume you’ll pretend you never saw this tweet & continue the grift. And that’s cool, but we both know what the facts are.
Also, let this be a reminder that while you have found an amazing lane where you often are actually the smartest guy in the room, this ain’t that lane. So my advice would be to tread carefully.
Dr. John Walker Oritse retweeted
This is a society that demands nothing other than money and maybe power. This is a highly educated, successful man, and there’s no difference between the quality of his thoughts and that of a weed-addled maniac under the bridge.
