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Iyefu retweeted
Screenshots from my piece, “The Primacy of Ideas”, for @thezeitgeistnow’s Praxians.
Read the full piece here: thezeitgeistnow.com/articles…
"If I hadn't participated in Olympiads, I would never have challenged myself in a maths class in Nigeria. Not to brag, but I feel I could have gotten an A in WAEC maths as early as JSS3 or even earlier," Mmesomachi says.
He urges schools to always challenge their best minds and ensure they don't get comfortable, irrespective of how talented they are.
🎧 Watch the full conversation on YouTube. Link in the comments.
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Meet Mmesomachi Nwachukwu, a four-time AMC national champion, two-time Pan-African Mathematics Olympiad silver medallist, and three-time honourable mention recipient at the world's most prestigious mathematics competition, the International Mathematical Olympiad.
Undoubtedly one of the finest mathematical minds to come out of Nigeria, Mmesomachi @Mmesomachi1 has had a journey spanning several continents, culminating in a Master's degree in Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence from the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, one of Russia's top research institutes.
He is currently a co-founder and instructor at Special Maths Academy @SpecialMaths, a premier academy in Nigeria that focuses on the discovery and nurturing of mathematical prodigies, in collaboration with the Nigerian Mathematical Centre and the African Olympiad Academy, Rwanda.
Driven by a passion for excellence, he has mentored, among others, Nigeria's first-ever female Pan-African Mathematics Olympiad silver medallists.
For our first episode, Zeitgeist Now: The Interview sits down with Mmesomachi to discuss what it takes to build a culture where mathematical ability can thrive. The episode drops on October 1st, the launch day of @thezeitgeistnow.
Iyefu retweeted
"If I hadn't participated in Olympiads, I would never have challenged myself in a maths class in Nigeria. Not to brag, but I feel I could have gotten an A in WAEC maths as early as JSS3 or even earlier," Mmesomachi says.
He urges schools to always challenge their best minds and ensure they don't get comfortable, irrespective of how talented they are.
🎧 Watch the full conversation on YouTube. Link in the comments.
nitter.cf/iyefuu/status/21053694…
Meet Mmesomachi Nwachukwu, a four-time AMC national champion, two-time Pan-African Mathematics Olympiad silver medallist, and three-time honourable mention recipient at the world's most prestigious mathematics competition, the International Mathematical Olympiad.
Undoubtedly one of the finest mathematical minds to come out of Nigeria, Mmesomachi @Mmesomachi1 has had a journey spanning several continents, culminating in a Master's degree in Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence from the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, one of Russia's top research institutes.
He is currently a co-founder and instructor at Special Maths Academy @SpecialMaths, a premier academy in Nigeria that focuses on the discovery and nurturing of mathematical prodigies, in collaboration with the Nigerian Mathematical Centre and the African Olympiad Academy, Rwanda.
Driven by a passion for excellence, he has mentored, among others, Nigeria's first-ever female Pan-African Mathematics Olympiad silver medallists.
For our first episode, Zeitgeist Now: The Interview sits down with Mmesomachi to discuss what it takes to build a culture where mathematical ability can thrive. The episode drops on October 1st, the launch day of @thezeitgeistnow.
Iyefu retweeted
Hmmn lol
Remembering somebody I was involved with years back that kept referring to his ex as his “Dream-girl” just because she does 9-5.😭😹 to me that just finished Nysc and was struggling so hard to find my feet😭.
Anyways, Thank God for God cause I somehow happened to see Dream girl’s Cv yesterday and the way I laughed ehn😭😭😹
Time is really your ally, you just don’t die❤️
Iyefu retweeted
Comparative advantage says trade helps everyone. It doesn't say it helps everyone equally. Four things decide how much a country actually gains.
Read our latest article “The Components of Advantage” from our column, The Convergence.
thezeitgeistnow.com/articles…
Iyefu retweeted
Your uncle is retarded. He landed at the airport in the city, and instead of going to the nearest industrial pig farm and working out an business contract, he drove 200km into the wilderness to try to rope villagers into animal husbandry.
Is that how your country industrialized?
My uncle did a mission trip to Africa to teach a village how to raise pigs for food.
They flew in with a bunch of pigs, built pens for them, Food and water troughs, and taught them how to breed them so they could always have meat. Two weeks of work and teaching.
They went back a year later to check on the village. They had thrown a giant party the night after my uncle left, slaughtered and ate all the pigs, sold the feeders and fencing, and were really pissed off that the mission didn't bring them more pigs.
Iyefu retweeted
Europeans get taxed because the taxes fund welfare states and extremely strong public services.
Can you say the Nigerian state esp in this current iteration has been able to make proper use of what it currently has?
Higher taxes in Nigeria is like giving money to a drug addict.
Iyefu retweeted
And by the way there’s no Nigerian that’s demanding rich country standards.
24/7 electricity, at least in urban areas is something that has since been solved in comparable countries.
Decent road infrastructure, basic healthcare. Life expectancy.
These are things that are achievable in our current iteration. For our size and potential, we are way behind our peers. It is not acceptable