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1. When apps on your phone update to a new version, you’re like:

Who asked you please?
2. Whenever you get a new phone and you need to master all the programs on it.

This wahala is too much.
3. When tech people start speaking their tech jargon and expect you to understand.

Is this even English these people are speaking?
4. When you hear there is new operating software training at the office.

Kuku kill me!
5. When people try to convince you to join more social media platforms.

So that my confusion can be greater? No thank you.
6. When you finally get a guy you can pay to help you sort out all your tech problems.

Look at God!
7. When someone asks you to help them out with something tech based, you’re like.

You must be dreaming.
8. When people try to insult you for not liking technology.

My friends leave here!
1. How your class is on a regular day at anytime

Everywhere in commotion.
2. How it is when someone shouts “principal is coming”

Because nobody wants to ride okada.
3. Your principal’s motto

They did not care to listen to what happened.
4. Your principal at the PTA meeting about to tell the parents how useless you have all been

The man won’t even code the bad gist at all.
5. When you hear “the principal is calling you in his office”

Jesus Christ. What is it again.
6. That photo in his office of when one white man came to your school

Very proud moment for him.
7. All the students when the principal says the hostel food will get better

Yeah right. And the exchange rate will be N1 to $1 as well.
8. Every principal had a framed photo of himself and his friends at conference

We don’t even understand.
9. What it feels like when your principal is trying to famz the students

This man sef.
10. When inspectors come and your principal is forming “best guy”

Can these people go so we can continue our lives.
11. Your principal and his vice principals on inter-house sports day

Embarrassing the whole school.
12. The unofficial cap of principals

Only God knows when last they washed it.
13. You when you think you have outsmarted your principal

Amoshine!
14. Your principal, when he knows visiting day is coming and he will see your parents

The way he will twist the story.
Every year since 2014, the Center For World University Rankings (CWUR) compiles a list of the top 1000 universities in the world.
It’s however unfortunate to note that not even one Nigerian university made the list.

In fact, there has never been a Nigerian university on the CWUR ranking since 2014.

In spite of this, Uganda, Egypt and South Africa were the only African countries on the list.

The CWUR based this ranking on 8 factors including: quality of education, alumni employment, quality of faculty, influence, citations, publications, broad impact and patent.

This means an average Nigerian university does not meet any of these standards and cannot even match up to any of these international universities.

Looking at the alumni factor, after doing so much wahala to even get a degree in Nigeria, there are no jobs available for the graduates.

The extent of the failing education sector comes to light every other day and must be addressed!

For Nigeria to move forward and progress, the system responsible for grooming and producing citizens that will enforce this change has to be fixed.

You can check the full list here.
1. Every time somebody asked you what you wanted to be in life

Because everybody must be a doctor or engineer.

2. When you got to JSS 3 and your parents were now interested in your education

See these people.

3. When they ask you what class you want to be in

Do you want to be in science, or science class?

4. But they hear you whisper art or commercial

So who will now be a doctor in this house?

5. So you end up in science class for SS 1

God why?

6. First further math class

My God! As if Math wasn’t hard enough, they decided to further it.

7. Then your physics teacher is the worst person

What is my business with two cars accelerating? Who distance/time don epp?

8. When you can’t understand how the periodic table and elements will bring money

Can we just call it salt? What is NaCl?

9. With all your problems they decide to add technical drawing

Can you not?

10. The day your parents suggest you get a lesson teacher

At my age?

11. When you see your mates in commercial and art class having free periods

Do these ones have two heads?

12. When you hear that exam timetable is out

What do you mean the term is ending soon?

13. You, in the exam hall

What is everybody using french curve to draw?

14. When your parents ask you to show them your result

Let’s just be grateful for the gift of life.

15. When your parents finally let you go back to your true love

Hello commercial/art class. I have missed you.
The fact that the educational system in Nigeria needs a complete overhaul isn’t news.
And since it looks like it could take the Nigerian government a while to get to that point, a group of Nigerian youth have decided to make a change, one step at a time.

In the past 4 years, Slum2school Africa has reached out and provided educational scholarships and support to 650 disadvantaged children in slums and remote communities such as Okuagbo, Saga Islands and Makoko.

The award-winning NGO, founded by Orondaam Otto in 2012, has engaged over 5000 volunteers across 12 different countries who have actively participated in realising the vision of the organisation.

2016 seems to be an unstoppable year for Slum2school Africa. In February, the first Early Childhood Development Centre was launched in Makoko to celebrate the 4th anniversary of the organisation.

The center was furnished with adequate educational materials and 4 learning spaces to conveniently service 600-1000 children weekly.

And in June, they commissioned the first fully-equipped children health care center in Makoko.

The health center was designed to serve about 2,000 children and will at least reduce the spread of diseases among the school children. The center will also provide first aid services to children in the community.

Thanks to these guys, there will be fewer Nigerian children out of school. Even with these accomplishments, the government needs to play its part and provide necessary amenities to children living in remote parts of the country.
79 year old Hajiya Fatima Kurfi finally achieved her life-long dream of getting an education when she bagged her B.Sc degree in Islamic Studies from Al-Qalam University in Katsina state.
Although the mother of four and grandmother had completed her degree in 2009, her convocation ceremony was deferred till May 2016 when the university hosted its convocation ceremony for seven graduating sets of the school.

Hajiya Kurfi who didn’t have the opportunity to attend school while growing up, began learning how to read and write when she married her husband who eventually relocated to England. She followed him shortly after.

After returning from England with her husband, she enrolled in an Arabic Teachers College for her secondary school education, where she was in the same class with one of her grand-kids, before obtaining a Diploma at Danfodio College.

Hajia Kurfi was still determined to continue her education and eventually got admitted into Al-Qalam University in 2005.

Currently, she runs a private school for children and an NGO which aims at advocating education of the girl-child.

Although she doesn’t want to go further in her education, she has decided to continue researching at home by studying books and research papers written by her husband, Dr Ahmadu Kurfi, who is a teacher and former federal permanent secretary. Go grandma, we couldn’t be more proud!!!
A number of people who are studying accounting are either there by choice, or because their parents are accountants so you can’t be a prodigal child. Every accounting student has been in one or all of these situations.
When you get admission into the university and you made it into the accounting department

And your first two months are as easy as ABC so you think life is a bed of roses

First semester exams show up and you get all A’s and you believe you will be the next Accountant General of Nigeria

Your second year starts and things start having k-leg

Your balance sheets start refusing to balance

And the number of accounts you have to prepare are now six per question

Income statements, adjusted trial balance, journal entries, balance sheet, profit and loss, cash flow accounts…
As if that is not enough cost and Financial Accounting and Case Analysis start bringing up their head on your course list

And then Taxation becomes advanced and Auditing and Assurance starts looking like hell

Taxation Y U become advanced? People, Y U have to do fraud and give us errors to find?
And then you start seeing letters and greek symbols in your textbooks in Financial Management

What is a beta? What is ‘r’ doing here? What is this funny looking ‘E’ what is all this Lord?
To make matters worse you are told you need to start getting ready to start ICAN lessons

God what is all this? Who invented accounting?
Every weekend from 9AM to 9PM

Is this ICAN lesson or prison in disguise?
So you have no social life, no sleeping pattern, wonder if life’s worth living and are about to give up

Somebody can’t even go to Quilox or go and buy Suya and relax.
So you start to reconsider all your life choices and if it is too late to change your course

Is all this worth it? Mass Communication wouldn’t have stressed me like this…
But you remember your parents, uncles, and even your pastor is an accountant and you can’t be the black sheep

Before they say I want to bring shame to the family.
So you just have to carry your cross and die with it

I’m not the first, I wouldn’t be the last.
ICAN exams come and you are tired of life and reading and just want the world to end

Can Jesus like come back today or the apocalypse happen?
Then the results come out and you passed everything

FINALLY!! ITS ALL OVER!!
Now you can add “ACA” to your name and start carrying shoulders

Please respect me I’m now a Chartered Accountant.
Augusta Uwamanzu-Nna has shown that Nigerians will continue to excel at home or even abroad. She was accepted into all 8 Ivy League universities in America.
The 17 year old senior of Elmont High School, Long Island, New York will have taken 13 advanced courses when she graduates.

The Ivy League schools include: Harvard University, Yale University, Princeton University, Dartmouth College, Brown University, Cornell University, University of Pennsylvania and Columbia University. She was also offered admission by 4 other universities: John Hopkins University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, New York University and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
She credits her accomplishments to her supportive parents who made sure she appreciated the importance of education and the dedicated teachers of Elmont High School.

She believes her resilience and hard-work also helped her achieve some of her goals. Although she wasn’t born in Nigeria, her visits to the country have inspired her to be of positive impact to Nigeria.
Although she hasn’t decided on a school, Augusta wants to study a science related course and is very interested in research.

The 17 year old upon discovering her school lacked the hi-tech equipment required for her research, went on to apply for an internship in Columbia University so she could continue.
However, she isn’t the first African to achieve this feat.

Harold Ekeh and Victor Agbafe from Nigeria, Kwasi Enin from Ghana and also Somalia’s Munira Khalif were accepted into all 8 Ivy League schools in 2015.
Studying architecture in the university is not just a course, it affects everything in your life from sleep pattern, social life, eating schedule, how you view life and everything. Only architecture students will understand these situations.
1. When you realize RedBull or Power Horse are your favorite drinks

Can’t afford to be weak for one minute, before you sleep for two days.
2. Realizing you have been in the studio for 22 hours

Ahan where is this time running to?
3. When everyone in the studio hates you because you play music too loud

Don’t be angry oh please block your ears now or go and build your own studio.
4. When everywhere is a bed space

The tables and chairs looking like a comfortable bed or roses. Opportunity comes but once.
5. When everybody is saying good morning and it’s just your bedtime

This backwards sleeping pattern life.
6. When you eat your breakfast, lunch and dinner at one sitting

Because there will be no time again till tomorrow.
7. When you are an expert at the different smells of glue

UHU, Pritt you can smell them in your dream.
8. When you don’t know what day of the week it is at all

Could it be Monday? Or is today Friday? Been in the studio for two days…
9. When you realize your parents have a better social life than you

*cries in spending hours on projects*
10. When you can’t find one of your instruments

THE END OF THE WORLD.
11. When you become a scavenger for materials for your model

Toothpick, rubber bands, screws, straws almost anything on the floor is useful.
12. When you are tired of hearing “didn’t you wear this yesterday”

Is it your cloth? Is it your body? Please let me repeat my clothes in peace.
13. When you can’t remember what your bed feels like

Dear bed, I miss you.
14. When you are an expert photoshop, autocad, illustrator user but you fumble with Excel

See, some software programs are not really that important in this life.
15. When you tell your friend to wake you up and they forget

YOU WANT ME TO BE A FAILURE IN LIFE ABI?
16. When your boo doesn’t believe you forgot to reply or call on their birthday

See, I am sorry it’s not really my fault.
17. When you only think of sleep when you hear “weekend”

What is a turn up? Finally, I can have more than two hours of sleep.
From the stables of EVCL studios is this cartoon series aimed at educating children between the preschool and toddler ages.

Learning just got more interesting and creative.
The cartoon series was created to reach out to African children within and outside the continent by providing information on African history through entertainment and fun.

The need to help African children connect with their heritage prompted the EVCL team to create the series in 2010.
The characters are siblings who go on really awesome adventures with their friend, Zeena the butterfly.

Based in a modern African city setting, Bino and Fino live with their grandparents, Mama Mama and Papa Papa.
Topics such as female empowerment, geography and also the ways of life of people of other cultures are explored during their adventures.

The cartoon has been viewed across countries like Nigeria, South Africa and even the UK.

Some of their videos are on their Youtube channel, while more episodes can be bought off their website.
You can watch the official trailer of Bino and Fino here.

1. When apps on your phone update to a new version, you’re like:

2. Whenever you get a new phone and you need to master all the programs on it.

3. When tech people start speaking their tech jargon and expect you to understand.

4. When you hear there is new operating software training at the office.

5. When people try to convince you to join more social media platforms.

6. When you finally get a guy you can pay to help you sort out all your tech problems.

7. When someone asks you to help them out with something tech based, you’re like.

8. When people try to insult you for not liking technology.

1. How your class is on a regular day at anytime

2. How it is when someone shouts “principal is coming”

3. Your principal’s motto

4. Your principal at the PTA meeting about to tell the parents how useless you have all been

5. When you hear “the principal is calling you in his office”

6. That photo in his office of when one white man came to your school

7. All the students when the principal says the hostel food will get better

8. Every principal had a framed photo of himself and his friends at conference

9. What it feels like when your principal is trying to famz the students

10. When inspectors come and your principal is forming “best guy”

11. Your principal and his vice principals on inter-house sports day

12. The unofficial cap of principals

13. You when you think you have outsmarted your principal

14. Your principal, when he knows visiting day is coming and he will see your parents

It’s however unfortunate to note that not even one Nigerian university made the list.

In fact, there has never been a Nigerian university on the CWUR ranking since 2014.

In spite of this, Uganda, Egypt and South Africa were the only African countries on the list.

The CWUR based this ranking on 8 factors including: quality of education, alumni employment, quality of faculty, influence, citations, publications, broad impact and patent.

This means an average Nigerian university does not meet any of these standards and cannot even match up to any of these international universities.

Looking at the alumni factor, after doing so much wahala to even get a degree in Nigeria, there are no jobs available for the graduates.

The extent of the failing education sector comes to light every other day and must be addressed!

For Nigeria to move forward and progress, the system responsible for grooming and producing citizens that will enforce this change has to be fixed.

1. Every time somebody asked you what you wanted to be in life

2. When you got to JSS 3 and your parents were now interested in your education

3. When they ask you what class you want to be in

4. But they hear you whisper art or commercial

5. So you end up in science class for SS 1

6. First further math class

7. Then your physics teacher is the worst person

8. When you can’t understand how the periodic table and elements will bring money

9. With all your problems they decide to add technical drawing

10. The day your parents suggest you get a lesson teacher

11. When you see your mates in commercial and art class having free periods

12. When you hear that exam timetable is out

13. You, in the exam hall

14. When your parents ask you to show them your result

15. When your parents finally let you go back to your true love

And since it looks like it could take the Nigerian government a while to get to that point, a group of Nigerian youth have decided to make a change, one step at a time.

In the past 4 years, Slum2school Africa has reached out and provided educational scholarships and support to 650 disadvantaged children in slums and remote communities such as Okuagbo, Saga Islands and Makoko.

The award-winning NGO, founded by Orondaam Otto in 2012, has engaged over 5000 volunteers across 12 different countries who have actively participated in realising the vision of the organisation.

2016 seems to be an unstoppable year for Slum2school Africa. In February, the first Early Childhood Development Centre was launched in Makoko to celebrate the 4th anniversary of the organisation.

The center was furnished with adequate educational materials and 4 learning spaces to conveniently service 600-1000 children weekly.

And in June, they commissioned the first fully-equipped children health care center in Makoko.

The health center was designed to serve about 2,000 children and will at least reduce the spread of diseases among the school children. The center will also provide first aid services to children in the community.

Thanks to these guys, there will be fewer Nigerian children out of school. Even with these accomplishments, the government needs to play its part and provide necessary amenities to children living in remote parts of the country.

Although the mother of four and grandmother had completed her degree in 2009, her convocation ceremony was deferred till May 2016 when the university hosted its convocation ceremony for seven graduating sets of the school.

Hajiya Kurfi who didn’t have the opportunity to attend school while growing up, began learning how to read and write when she married her husband who eventually relocated to England. She followed him shortly after.

After returning from England with her husband, she enrolled in an Arabic Teachers College for her secondary school education, where she was in the same class with one of her grand-kids, before obtaining a Diploma at Danfodio College.

Hajia Kurfi was still determined to continue her education and eventually got admitted into Al-Qalam University in 2005.

Currently, she runs a private school for children and an NGO which aims at advocating education of the girl-child.

Although she doesn’t want to go further in her education, she has decided to continue researching at home by studying books and research papers written by her husband, Dr Ahmadu Kurfi, who is a teacher and former federal permanent secretary. Go grandma, we couldn’t be more proud!!!

When you get admission into the university and you made it into the accounting department

And your first two months are as easy as ABC so you think life is a bed of roses

First semester exams show up and you get all A’s and you believe you will be the next Accountant General of Nigeria

Your second year starts and things start having k-leg

Your balance sheets start refusing to balance

And the number of accounts you have to prepare are now six per question

As if that is not enough cost and Financial Accounting and Case Analysis start bringing up their head on your course list

And then Taxation becomes advanced and Auditing and Assurance starts looking like hell

And then you start seeing letters and greek symbols in your textbooks in Financial Management

To make matters worse you are told you need to start getting ready to start ICAN lessons

Every weekend from 9AM to 9PM

So you have no social life, no sleeping pattern, wonder if life’s worth living and are about to give up

So you start to reconsider all your life choices and if it is too late to change your course

But you remember your parents, uncles, and even your pastor is an accountant and you can’t be the black sheep

So you just have to carry your cross and die with it

ICAN exams come and you are tired of life and reading and just want the world to end

Then the results come out and you passed everything

Now you can add “ACA” to your name and start carrying shoulders

The 17 year old senior of Elmont High School, Long Island, New York will have taken 13 advanced courses when she graduates.

She credits her accomplishments to her supportive parents who made sure she appreciated the importance of education and the dedicated teachers of Elmont High School.

Although she hasn’t decided on a school, Augusta wants to study a science related course and is very interested in research.