Alex Onyia

Last jamb was a disaster for my village youngsters. Over 70% of them failed jamb and the rest sparely passed. Rather than waiting for the government, we decided to take a different approach. We took the challenge upon ourselves for it not to repeat itself again. Every youngster…

We should keep it as South East Education Intervention (SEEI) or Intervention for South East Education (ISEE) ? Your opinion and clear reason will be appreciated.

Why is Delta State forcing their poorly paid teachers to buy tablets? Teachers in Delta State barely earn up to minimum wage. This should be given to them as a free teaching aid. There is madness everywhere!

In 2016, the Nigerian Senate passed a bill to make JAMB results valid for 3 years. 9 years later, it was NEVER implemented. Every year, over 1 million poor students are forced to pay again and again for the same exam — because someone benefits from their suffering. They don’t…

Why does JAMB expire in 1 year? A student scores 320 in JAMB but doesn’t get admission. Next year, same student must pay to write again — not because they failed, but because JAMB expires in one year. WAEC lasts for life. SAT lasts 5 years. Why is JAMB the exception?

Last year, these group of students from Evergreen schools Enugu went on a school organized visit to less privileged areas to see how other children fare. Amongst all the children they met, they picked interest in this 8 years old girl Amazing Grace. She lost her mom at age 7 and…

Rotimi Amaechi sent over 2600 poor Rivers students to top global universities on scholarship. Nyesom Wike came in and killed the entire program — left brilliant youths stranded abroad, some dropped out, some never recovered. Not because it was bad, but because it wasn’t his…

Someone wants to offer scholarships to 80 children from the South Eastern States from September. He wants it to be evenly distributed across the 5 states. His intention is to take less privileged or out of school children to nearby private schools. How do we select them?

Yesterday I spoke with PN Okeke. He is still researching and working on a new Physics book at 83 years old. He is very strong, happy and filled with so much energy. He will be 84 years old in October. Learning never stops!

Lets choose one: South East Education Intervention (SEEI) or Intervention for South East Education (ISEE) We will adopt the name with the most votes.

Nigerian Ministry of Education stopped foreign scholarships for brilliant poor students — but politicians’ kids are still in London & Harvard, funded by stolen public wealth. The message is clear: quality education is for the rich, while the poor should manage underfunded,…

Olusegun Mimiko gave pregnant women phones—each linked to a personal maternity nurse. Even women in the bush of Ogbese had a government-bought phone to call for help. Childbirth was free, even C-sections. Triplets and twins got gifts. He kept Akungba school fees at ₦25k. Aketi…

I support Peter Obi. If that’s the reason you will hate me, so be it. Offer me money, I don’t care.

Olusegun Mimiko gave poor kids in Ondo free uniforms, free buses, free meals — then put them in world-class “Mega Schools” with ICT labs, libraries, and AC classrooms. He even set up Nigeria’s first Medical University. Public education had dignity under Mimiko. After Mimiko…

Why is there no marriage certificate for traditional marriages?

Peter Obi is like Lee Kwan Yu of Singapore. Leaders like him come once in a generation.

Nigerians are willing to drive rapid change. We just need a leader that will inspire us.

From May 2009 - 2012, Rotimi Amaechi sent over 2,000 students abroad to study medicine, engineering, natural sciences and social sciences in 10 countries which includes UK, US, Canada, Singapore, India, Netherlands etc —fully funded by Rivers State Government. It was one of…

First class graduates should we awarded N10M each by their state governments in today’s Naira. This will be a huge encouragement to academic excellence amongst students.

In March 2014, Peter Obi awarded ₦1 million each to 160 Anambra indigenes who graduated with first-class honours from universities across Nigeria. Back then, ₦1M = $6,060 Today, $6,060 = ₦9,423,300 He used his security vote — not for convoys, but to reward brilliance. This…

I learnt today that in Kano, Rabiu Kwankwaso actually picked children of vulcanizers and farmers and sent them to Russia to become doctors and engineers. He gave scholarships to over 2600 children. The more interesting thing was that they were all by merit.