For some consecutive years, Nigeria’s Southwest states have stuck out like a sore thumb in the West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WAEC) with their dismal performance.

Abeokuta has been credited with pioneering religious tolerance in Nigeria. According to a source, in the Abeokuta of the nineteenth century, churches were built side by side mosques and shrines.

Three times one, three; three times two, six; three times three, nine; three times four, 12; three times five, 15; three times six, 18; three times seven, 21…three times 12, 36,” repeat after me, the enthusiastic teacher read out in Efik.