sci-fi movie watcher || pythonista || community manager @techsterstrybe || hardcore space enthusiast || S.T.E.M. Educator || Co-founder @lasu_space
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Someday, I'll definitely become one of the software engineers that make these space missions possible
Do you want your name sent around the Moon on the #Artemis I mission? It’s not quite writing it in the stars, but it’s still pretty impressive!
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Every so often, I like to post my 1993 study of how to build a base on the moon & sustain it. At that time, going back to the moon was so toxic to @NASA, I had to pretend it was just an innocent intellectual exercise. I got some money from @NASA_Marshall to spend a few hours on it and publish it. Now, with a few updates, I think it is still a viable plan where, among other practical matters such as annual tonnage requirements, my proposition that NASA be a partner in a consortium that has many goals greater than just going there. homerhickamblog.blogspot.com…
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Sometimes I wonder about the thought process of this man who calls himself an educationist.
If you’re in charge of education in Nigeria, you will willingly surrender the country's educational sovereignty, all in the name of being woke and modern.
You should be more concerned on how we can make WAEC and NECO better, how we can raise our own standards so high that it’ll be globally competitive and respected.
Instead, you want us to run away from our own system and worship foreign validation.
Innovation does not mean we should throw away our own national standards so a few elite schools can sell foreign certificates as a status symbol.
That’s a good policy proposed by the minister of education and it’s not taking us back to Stone age.
Any student who does SS1 to SS3 in a school licensed and operating within Nigeria should write either WAEC/NECO/NABTEB and can obtained foreign qualifications in addition.
Sovereignty is not Stone age
You can do better Mr Alex.
DANGER! THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IS ABOUT TO DRAG NIGERIAN EDUCATION BACK TO THE STONE AGE!
From 2027, the Federal Ministry of Education wants to force EVERY private and international secondary school in Nigeria to make students sit for WAEC, NECO or other approved Nigerian examinations, even when those students are already pursuing internationally recognised qualifications.
Schools that refuse risk losing their licences!
Instead of urgently modernising our outdated curriculum, fixing dilapidated public schools, building functional science laboratories, training teachers and introducing globally competitive learning standards, we are busy creating policies that threaten educational innovation.
Why are we more interested in forcing successful schools to conform than in raising the standards of failing schools?
The world is moving towards artificial intelligence, robotics, critical thinking, practical skills and competency-based education. Yet we are obsessed with forcing everyone into the same examination system.
We should be exporting educational excellence, not restricting it!
Nigeria cannot become globally competitive by punishing schools that dare to do things differently.
This policy must be urgently reconsidered before we sacrifice another generation’s educational opportunities on the altar of regulatory control.
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Calm down with your "Stone Age" theatrics. Reading your tweet shows you either did not read the guideline properly or you think excellence just means copying a foreign exam board.
Nothing in this policy bans IGCSE, IB, AI, or robotics. Foreign nationals in diplomatic schools are exempted. All it states is that Nigerian students schooling inside Nigeria must sit at least one national exit exam alongside any foreign qualifications they choose to take.
Go to the UK, France, Turkey, or China, open a school for their local citizens, and tell their government your students are above taking the national benchmark exam. Let’s see how long your license lasts.
It is only in Nigeria you people flex muscles.
Again, most private schools skipping WAEC are not building SpaceX labs either. If you have seen one, please tell us. What they do is to run foreign curricula so rich kids can live in Nigeria like tourists and relocate at 16 without knowing basic Nigerian history or civics.
So, swapping WAEC for Cambridge IGCSE is not innovation; it is just trading a local standardized exam for a foreign standardized exam.
Plus, when these same students finish university abroad and return home for NYSC or public appointments, they run into documentation walls because they have no recognized Nigerian O-Level record. Standardizing that baseline at SS3 fixes a real regulatory blind spot.
Yes, the government must fix dilapidated public schools and equip science labs. Nobody disputes that. Still, demanding better public schools does not mean elite private schools get to operate like foreign embassies on Nigerian soil. Every serious nation protects its educational baseline.
DANGER! THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IS ABOUT TO DRAG NIGERIAN EDUCATION BACK TO THE STONE AGE!
From 2027, the Federal Ministry of Education wants to force EVERY private and international secondary school in Nigeria to make students sit for WAEC, NECO or other approved Nigerian examinations, even when those students are already pursuing internationally recognised qualifications.
Schools that refuse risk losing their licences!
Instead of urgently modernising our outdated curriculum, fixing dilapidated public schools, building functional science laboratories, training teachers and introducing globally competitive learning standards, we are busy creating policies that threaten educational innovation.
Why are we more interested in forcing successful schools to conform than in raising the standards of failing schools?
The world is moving towards artificial intelligence, robotics, critical thinking, practical skills and competency-based education. Yet we are obsessed with forcing everyone into the same examination system.
We should be exporting educational excellence, not restricting it!
Nigeria cannot become globally competitive by punishing schools that dare to do things differently.
This policy must be urgently reconsidered before we sacrifice another generation’s educational opportunities on the altar of regulatory control.
Okay, then maybe AI, which is like the biggest thing right now, is a field primarily under music then. Maybe right now CS grads are not needed to advance the frontiers of AI. CS is more than just writing code. It's mostly about information theory,and information processing.
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There's been serious changes though, at least as at 2025/2026 digital technology was introduced and students have been introduced to AI, cyber security, pen testing, social media ethics, etc
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Err no.. what they're doing is the right thing. I've taken a look at the 2027-2028 history IGCSE curricula, for example and one thing I've seen that it clearly misses is Nigerian history . The education of a country's citizen in THAT COUNTRY
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SWE is at best , applied CS. This is actually the best time to be a CS grad, and I do not think SWE is dead, evolving?, yes, dead?, no. With every new invention comes more problems.
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Went on TikTok this morning and the first thing I saw was the video of a man who had to pause his cinematography job and take up dispatch riding to save up for his equipment, Only to get his leg crushed in an accident💔.
Imagine trying to make ends meet and almost meeting your end. I’m so heart broken. Nigeria’s has failed so many!
He’s crowdfunding for his surgery and if you’d like to donate, here’s the link: oncrowdr.com/explore/c/help-…
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Hi everyone
The DOHS Foundation is organizing a Run for Women and Girls killed by their partner, relatives or acquaintances
We will be running for DEBORAH OKWORI and other Victims of Femicide in Nigeria
details in flyer
#JusticeForDeborah
Register: dohscares.org/race-against-f…
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Good morning good citizens of Nigeria.
This is Deborah family calling for help.
Deborah was murdered by Lintex Oghale and the judge is changing the case silencing the family of the victim just because of money and power.
JUSTICE FOR DEBORAH !!!
Guys, please watch this video.
Watch what this guy called lintex did to his ex.
Watch what is happening in Nigeria prison.
Watch what the Nigeria judiciary system did yesterday.
Please watch and share 🙏🏾
- @BTOofficial look at what is going on in Nigeria prison !!!
