Alexzus Echezona

You can still dream.

Tomorrow is Children’s Day. But honestly… What exactly are we celebrating? The Nigerian child wakes up in a country where survival has become a curriculum. A country where a child can score 9 A’s and still have no future. Where intelligence is punished by poverty. Where brilliance dies in classrooms without teachers. Where dreams are buried under school fees. Where children read under candles while politicians’ dogs live better than them. Some children trek kilometers to school barefoot. Some sit on broken floors to learn. Some haven’t touched a computer in their lives, yet we expect them to compete globally with children building robots at age 10. Some children are hungry in class. Some are abused at home. Some are already losing hope before adulthood even begins. And the painful part? We have normalized it. We have normalized failure. Normalized mediocrity. Normalized a broken education system. Normalized leaders who send their own children abroad while the children of ordinary Nigerians are trapped in collapsing schools. A country that destroys its education system is not just failing students. It is committing slow suicide. Because every abandoned classroom today becomes insecurity tomorrow. Every child denied quality education today becomes a wounded adult tomorrow. Every broken school today becomes a broken nation tomorrow. I have traveled across Nigeria. I have seen children who are incredibly brilliant. Children who could become world-class scientists, inventors, doctors, engineers, creators. But they were simply born in the wrong environment. That is the tragedy of Nigeria. Not lack of talent. Lack of opportunity. And this is why I fight. Why I speak. Why I refuse to stay silent. Because I believe the Nigerian child deserves more. A child should not need to “know somebody” before succeeding. A child’s future should not depend on whether their parents are rich. A child from Enugu, Kano, Bayelsa, Zamfara, Lagos, Ebonyi, or anywhere in this country should be able to dream again. Real nations are not built in government houses. They are built in classrooms. The greatest investment any country can make is not oil. Not buildings. Not politics. It is children. And until Nigeria treats education like a national emergency, we are only decorating poverty. So tomorrow, while people post happy Children’s Day graphics, I want us to ask ourselves one uncomfortable question: What kind of country are we handing over to these children? Because one day, history will judge this generation. And it will ask us whether we protected the future… or destroyed it. Happy Children’s Day to every Nigerian child still daring to dream inside a system that keeps failing them. Please don’t stop dreaming. Some of us are fighting for you.

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Here is the current education ranking in the South East from the cumulative result of our last South East Maths Olympiad. IMO State - 1st Enugu State - 2nd Anambra State - 3rd Ebonyi State - 4th Abia State - 5th Every state should deliberately support their children.

Today, we visited these schools in Abakaliki, Ebonyi State to spread the good news of Mathematics. Mathematics is too critical for the development of South East and we are radicalizing it. In 10 years we will be the greatest workforce in Africa.

My heart goes out to any Arsenal fans currently studying for their exams

Over the past few weeks, we have been intensely designing the new model for Igbo Apprenticeship program (Igba Boi) and Imu Aka Oru ( Skill Development). This center will be built in our proposed center in Enugu which is the heart of the South East. We are using a global framework for this and localizing it. Skills like plumbing, masonry, carpentry, welding, auto mechanics and HVAC will be learnt the most practical way with very high precision to meet global standards. We will be the greatest workforce in Africa in 10 years.

Education is the factory that produces politicians, lawyers, engineers, doctors, pharmacists, nurses, etc. So if education is corrupt, the nation is finished. No country becomes great with fake exams. So the first national emergency is assessment integrity. WAEC, NECO, GCE, JAMB, university exams, professional exams, all must become clean, technology-driven, traceable, and consequence-based. Exam malpractice should not be treated as “normal Nigerian behaviour.” It should be treated as economic sabotage. Because every fake A produces a weak graduate, and every weak graduate weakens the nation. This is what the Minister for education and all state commissioners for education should face head on and solve.

For the last time this season...

There’s a silent disaster happening in Nigeria that nobody wants to confront honestly. We keep shouting about unemployment, bad leadership, low productivity, corruption, poor healthcare, failed institutions and why our country is not working. But many people are avoiding the root cause. Our education system has been deeply compromised. A student enters secondary school or university full of dreams, intelligence and potential. Then the system teaches them something dangerous: “You do not need competence to succeed.” WAEC malpractice. NECO malpractice. GCE runs. Sorting. Sex for grades. Extortion. Intimidation. Victimization. Handout rackets. “See me after class.” “Talk to your lecturer.” “Settle this course.” And after 4 or 5 years of surviving that environment, we expect excellence to magically appear. It won’t. A country cannot repeatedly reward dishonesty in classrooms and expect integrity in government offices, hospitals, engineering sites, courtrooms and businesses. This is where many of our unemployable graduates are coming from. Not because Nigerians are not intelligent. Not because our youths are lazy. But because too many people were trained inside a system where merit was murdered. The painful part is this: UNN, UNILAG, FUTO, ABU, UI, IMSU, ABSU and many others are using largely the same NUC-regulated curriculum. The difference is standards. The universities that still command respect are usually the ones with stronger resistance against sorting, extortion and academic fraud. The ones collapsing in reputation are often the ones where corruption became normalized. Once a student realizes they can buy an “A” with ₦20,000, or sleep their way through a course, or manipulate results through connections, the motivation to truly learn starts dying slowly. And when millions of such graduates enter the labor market, the entire country pays the price. That weak engineer may eventually supervise a bridge. That poorly trained nurse may handle a patient. That compromised accountant may manage public funds. That fake first-class graduate may become a lecturer and reproduce the same cycle again. This is no longer just an education problem. It is a national security problem. Countries become great because they protect competence fiercely. Singapore did it. China did it. Germany did it. South Korea did it. You cannot build a first-world country with a third-world attitude towards education integrity. Nigeria does not have a shortage of talent. Nigeria has a shortage of systems that protect excellence. And until we become ruthless about fighting academic corruption, exam malpractice, sorting, sex-for-grades and institutional intimidation, we will continue producing certificates instead of competence. This fight is bigger than schools. It is about the future survival of Nigeria itself.

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In the comings days we will be hosting Mathematics conferences across the 5 eastern states. We want to bring all our maths teachers to speed. Maths and critical thinking is too important for South East rapid development plan. We are very serious about education in the region.