We have officially started the bootcamp today in Enugu. 40 engineers are participating. These children are going to learn how to make drones from scratch to help tackle security challenges and also speed up hospital medication delivery. They will also learn hardcore Robotics and AI, Automechanics, Bricklaying, Welding, and Electricals. This will be the beginning of a new direction for education in the South East. We are raising real problem solvers with real skills, not a theory-based generation without skills. The future is exciting!

I've spent the last several months researching, travelling, and studying why countries like Singapore, Netherlands, United Kingdom, Canada and Finland built some of the world's best public education systems. One thing became clear: Nigeria doesn't just have an education problem. We have a school management problem. Today, I'm releasing a white paper that proposes a new way to transform our public schools, keeping them publicly owned while introducing world-class management and accountability. This isn't about politics. It's about giving every Nigerian child the opportunity to attend a world-class public school. I hope this sparks one of the most important conversations our country has had about education. Read it. Criticise it. Improve it. Share it. If we get education right, we change Nigeria. Here is the link

I've been thinking about this almost every day. What would it actually take to ensure every single child in the South East is in school? I don't mean reducing the number of out-of-school children. I mean ZERO. I'm setting myself a target: Zero out-of-school children in the South East within the next 24 months. And within 4 years, I want us to drive illiteracy as close to zero as possible. I know it sounds ambitious. There are children out of school because of poverty. Some because of culture. Some because of religion. Some because they have to work. Others because there are barriers we've not even identified yet. But I genuinely believe this is a problem we can solve if we stop treating it as someone else's responsibility. So I'm asking for your help. If you had to achieve this, what would you do? I want practical ideas. Bold ideas. Crazy ideas. Lessons from other countries. Community-based solutions. Technology. Policy. Anything. I'll read every suggestion. If we can solve this in the South East, we'll create a blueprint that the rest of Nigeria and maybe even Africa can learn from.

Today is D-day. Our boys are now at the Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma for the Grand Finale of the International STEM Olympiad in Rome, Italy. I’m optimistic about their victory.