Kahdihna Luckki

I'm going to say something, and I hope it will be understood as coming from a place of love and concern. A few weeks ago, I hosted a space with a prominent African entrepreneur. The space was curated in such a way as to give equal representation to different African nationalities so that it wouldn't skew toward Nigeria because of me. The unfortunate result of this was that it was painfully easy to draw connections between the speakers' countries of origin and the quality of their submissions. All the Kenyans who spoke had useful, important, well-communicated submissions. Ditto the Zimbabweans, the South Africans and the Anglophone West Africans (Gambians, Ghanaians, a Liberian, and a Sierra Leonean). And then there were the Nigerians. I remember giving the mic to 8 Nigerians, and first of all, 7 of them went overtime. These 7 seemed very keen to speak and had a lot to say, but within 2 minutes of listening to them, you had this disappointing realisation - this man (they were all men) has no point. Rambling, disjointed, unfocused, random point-hopping, lacking in joined-up thinking, missing any sort of conclusion and ultimately only stopped by the "can you please round up in 15 seconds?" I was so embarrassed, and I wondered whether the entrepreneur who co-hosted the space noticed what I had noticed. The answer is yes. She did. In fact, she specifically mentioned to me afterwards that everyone who came up and reduced the intellectual level of the space was Nigerian. "What's happening with education in your country?" was her exact question. I didn't have an answer. That's just 1 anecdote. I have several. I have met many, many other people who have similar stories. In fact it is often the case now that before accessing certain rooms on the continent, recommendations from other Africans need to go ahead of me, because the fact of being Nigerian in and of itself makes people take me less serious if they don't know who I am. Nigerians have always had a reputation in Africa for being loud and overbearing, but it used to be the case that we were seen as loud and domineering, but also eminently capable and useful - which made us just about tolerable. Now, it is increasingly the case that we are perceived around the continent as loud and stupid - the Special Needs children who have nothing upstairs, but believe they must express that nothing as frequently, and in as many grandiloquent words as possible. I cannot fix Nigerian education. I have no power to do so. Even if I did, it would take at least a generation for the effects to become visible. That's why in the meantime, all I can beg my countrymen (because again, it is men) to do if they are reading this, is to start making a conscious effort to talk less. Reduce your volume. Speak less. Listen more. Read more. Read for the sake of keeping the knowledge in your head, not for the sake of "performing" intelligence by spitting it out at people. The world will tolerate a loud but competent man. It will have sympathy for a quiet, incompetent man. But a loud, incompetent man? God abeg

Another proposal gone wrong today! He wanted to surprise his girlfriend with a proposal during her NYSC POP sign-out, but things didn’t go as planned. Watch till the end 😭💔

Considering how dumb you are, it's very ok to let smart people lead you so you also adapt to modern living. There are fewer elephants in Nigeria than in the zoos in China yet Nigeria was once home to thousands of elephants. Don't you feel sad your dumb forefather ate them all?

The fact that we do not have many cemeteries and that we mostly bury the dead in our homes in the Southeast is not something to be proud of. That culture has to change in this age because We definitely need cemeteries. Some communities are now looking like cemeteries, with grave littered in every compound, due to years of burying all their family in their homes. yes we should bring our deceased loved ones home to bury them but it must not be in our homes. Some communities do not even have lands or spaces to bury the dead anymore because they never made plans for it. Traditions are man made. change is constant, we need to be evolve with time!

Wow, the mentality of the women in Enugu Kayhikers Club seems quite different from what we’re used to seeing in other states. 🤔 This one is interesting o! My fellow men go soon dey rush Enugu to find wives. 😂

So who no wan vote for your candidate na mumu ??

I like whatever that is wrong with them.

Round 1: 🏆Bolsonaro: 56.1 million votes Lula: 53.9 million votes Round 2: 🏆Lula: 64.1 million votes (+10.2M) Bolsonaro: 59.8 million votes (+3.7M) To give you an idea of how unlikely this is: all the eliminated candidates from round 1 got 9.33M VOTES COMBINED

This is really embarrassing. On election day in Osun, while party members were exhausted from months of campaigning and anxiously awaiting results, you chose to post a skit. At the time, INEC results already showed Adeleke leading by over 25,000 votes. That night, I called to explain how demoralising that was, especially coming from the Youth Leader. Instead of listening, you got upset and ended the call. Look at the reactions to your latest post, because you are competing and fighting with someone. Must your personal issues come before the party and the President? Dayo, you need friends who will tell you the truth. At a time when millions are making sacrifices and trusting that reforms will deliver results, this kind of conduct is not helpful. Do better Dayo!