{"id":231391,"date":"2026-04-25T15:21:54","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T13:21:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-trending-our-education-english-accent-better-than-nigerias-kenyan-president\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T15:21:54","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T13:21:54","slug":"nigeria-trending-our-education-english-accent-better-than-nigerias-kenyan-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-trending-our-education-english-accent-better-than-nigerias-kenyan-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Trending &#8211; &#8216;Our Education, English Accent &#8216;Better&#8217; Than Nigeria&#8217;s&#8217; &#8211; Kenyan President"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"11\">The 59-year-old made the comparison while highlighting his country&#8217;s human capital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">Kenyan President William Ruto has triggered debate on social media after taking a swipe at Nigeria&#8217;s education system and English proficiency.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">In a viral <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DXeyv-niTcV\/?igsh=MTRpejhvd3VxbHk3cg==\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">video<\/a><\/strong> obtained by PREMIUM TIMES on Friday, the 59-year-old made the comparison while highlighting his country&#8217;s human capital to Kenyans resident in Italy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><br \/>\nKeep up with the latest headlines on <a href=\"https:\/\/whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VaIdDi8Bqbr263erhw1K\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WhatsApp<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/allafrica\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LinkedIn<\/a><br \/>\n  <\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">He maintained that his country&#8217;s&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202604240562.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 59-year-old made the comparison while highlighting his country&#8217;s human capital. Kenyan President William Ruto has triggered debate on social media after taking a swipe at Nigeria&#8217;s education system and English proficiency. In a viral video obtained by PREMIUM TIMES on Friday, the 59-year-old made the comparison while highlighting his country&#8217;s human capital to Kenyans [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":231392,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[23609,258,256,1632,14588,4524,257,4687,393,5761,2450,254,14729],"class_list":["post-231391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-accent","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-education","tag-english","tag-kenyan","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-nigerias","tag-president","tag-south-africa-today","tag-trending"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231391\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}