Thursday, 25 May 2017
Tuesday, 23 May 2017
THE FLAWS OF OUR DEMOCRACY
By Dr. Ahmed Adamu
This
month, Nigeria will celebrate Democracy Day on the 29th of May, but
I have concerns about whether the democracy we practice is the best option for
us. First, democracy allows everybody above the age of 18 to vote, irrespective
of their education, knowledge or political awareness. This is one of the flaws
of our democracy, not everyone is informed of the requirement or competence for
leadership, not everyone has the skills to interpret information presented by
candidates, not everyone has the correct mindset or upright ideology in making
the right decision, and if everyone including the uninformed are handed over
the ballot, we risk the chances of ignorant choices.
Therefore,
casting a vote is a skill that everyone must acquire, and if you do not have
the skills, you will not be qualified to have a ballot. It is just like handing
over guns to everyone, you will risk giving the gun to an uninformed person,
and he may end up shooting himself or shooting the good guys. Just like not
everyone should lead, not everyone should vote too. If a child is denied the
ballot because it was believed that a child may not be well informed or acquire
the necessary knowledge to participate in the voting, likewise even among
adults, there are those who are not informed or have the knowledge to guide
their decisions. Some children may have
the knowledge, but they will also be denied the chance to vote. So, there has
to be clear requirements to qualify to vote in a democracy, especially in
developing countries where there is mass illiteracy or unawareness, which
reflects in the ballot and can cause the poor selection of leaders, resulting
in bad governance.
Uninformed
citizens can easily be manipulated and used through bribery, bogus promises, or
intimidation to make the wrong choices. The votes of uninformed citizens may
not necessary reflect their own opinions, which is against the principles of
democracy. So, some sections of society need to be stripped of the voting
chance. However, highly informed and educated citizens will have fewer
tendencies of being used or manipulated. In some elections, a leader can emerge
even with a 1% margin, and it does not matter if that margin was as a result of
a vote from an uninformed voter. That one percent will also make the other
major 49% voiceless. Uninformed voters
can decide the course of the ship of our democracy. Giving uninformed citizens
the ballot is like giving unprofessional the wheel of a ship at the middle of a
sea during a storm, how would they steer the ship? But, if you hand over the
ship to a qualified person, they will handle the situation and direct the ship
to a safer route. Even in courts, we don’t allow every citizen to give
verdicts, a select few competent judges are the ones we trust to give verdicts,
because we believe they have the skills in making a sound and fair decision,
and we accept their judgments.
This
also applies to candidates contesting in our elections, once you have a lower
educational qualification, irrespective of the quality of that education or the
depth of your knowledge (especially political and economic affairs), you are
free to contest. It is just like an aeroplane, not everyone deserves to fly the
plane, if someone who is not an expert stepped up to fly the plane, no one will
agree to that. So, why should we allow those who are not expert to steer a country's
direction, candidates must have certain strict criteria to contest. We cannot
risk allowing people with shallow knowledge of politics and economics or
education to stand for elections, if we do that we put ourselves at risk of
voting in incompetent leaders. If a private company wants to appoint a new
MD/CEO, they will shortlist those with the best qualification in terms of
knowledge and ability to meet the company’s targets. So, why can't we shortlist
the best candidates for leading our respective countries, why do we accommodate
incompetence in our shortlists? That is why we have to raise the requirements
for who we allow to contest in our elections.
To
achieve this, we have to change the system of nominations for elective
positions; first, candidates must be allowed to stand for election
independently without standing under a political party. Political parties must
allow every member of their party to cast their votes in the selection of their
party’s candidates, instead of few people, i.e. delegates. These delegates are
targets of manipulation, bribery, and deception because there is no strict
requirement for their selection, and once they are manipulated, the entire
country is manipulated too. So, for immediate remedy, parties must open the
selection of their candidates to every member of the party. Any party that does
that will for sure have more appeal to the people. Political parties must be forced to reduce the
cost of nominations for political positions, to give room for competent candidates
who may not afford high nomination fees.
Restricting
candidacy to parties is what produces leaders without ideas. Shehu Musa Ya’adua
once said, “Our major problem as a country is that we elect people that we know
are not competent, and leave out those that we know are competent”. One of our
African orators, Harmon Okinyo once said, “the problem with Africa is that
those that have ideas, have no power, and those with power, have no ideas. Once
Africans are presented with the option to vote between those with ideas and
those without, they will vote for those without the ideas”. So those who are
the 'good ones' don’t get the chance. The good ones do not have the money to
outcompete the bad ones, and the bad ones use illiteracy and an uninformed
electorate to find their way, and that is why it is dangerous to give the
ballot to the uninformed citizens.
So,
let us have an intellectual democracy and not democracy by birth right. Another
issue with democracy is the frequent change of leaders, and giving them
absolute powers to change the course of governance. This creates inconsistency
and the desire to accumulate wealth within the limited span of their tenure,
unlike a constitutional monarch, which prevents continued rent seeking from
rotating powerful leaders. Frequent change of governments and elections
attracts huge costs, which short-change the citizens. Monarchs tend to take
responsibility for success or failure of their countries, because their faces
or images are at stakes, and they want to command loyalty and love from their
people.
To
ensure informed choices and better selection of leaders, Islamic, traditional
or new systems of democracy can be looked into. We can consider electing voting
representatives in each district or ward, who are knowledgeable, respected,
experienced and reputable. These voting representatives will cast their votes
on behalf of their people, and will undertake by oath to be fair and just in
their selections. They will be like judges, who will use facts and evidence to
give a verdict without sentiment, fear or favour. All candidates must then
present themselves and their visions to earn the votes of the voting
representatives. This will give a chance to credible candidates from unpopular
parties, marginalised ethnicities or sections of society, because it is about
who is more competent. The voting representatives will vote according to their
conscience and conviction, and they have to report back to their respective
communities and explain the justification for their choices. So, they will be
the judges, who make verdicts on our behalf. This kind of system is found in
Islamic election processes, where few selected respected members of society are
chosen to select a leader. It is also found in the traditional system of
democracy, where few selected king makers choose the king on behalf of the
people.
Finally,
the above system can be merged with direct democracy, where a proportion of the
votes can be allocated to the citizens and the bigger proportion to the voting
representatives. We can say, voting representatives have a 60% weighted
proportion of the votes, and 40% goes to the citizens. If a candidate wins, the
entire votes of the voting representatives can emerge. A candidate can still
win if he has the majority of the overall votes, combining proportions from
both voting representatives and the citizens.
Dr.
Ahmed Adamu
Petroleum Economist and
Development Expert,
First-Ever Global President of
Commonwealth Youth Council,
University Lecturer (Economics),
Umaru Musa Yar’adua University, Katsina.
(08034458189,
ahmadadamu1@gmail.com)
Tuesday, 18 April 2017
How the North Fare in Nigeria?
By
Dr. Ahmed Adamu
Recently, the emir of Kano, Alhaji Sanusi Lamido Sanusi
proclaimed that if northern Nigeria was to become an independent country, it
would be one of the poorest countries in the world, everything being equal.
This inspired argument on the economic sensitivity of the north in a United
Nigeria, I was interviewed on one of northern Nigeria’s most watched
international Hausa TV channel- Wisal TV- to assess how Northern Nigeria fares
in Nigeria socially and economically, and I wish to share with you some of my
points during the live TV interview as follows:
First, one needs to first look at facts and realities before
building opinion or sentiment. Let us look at the economic perspective of the
argument using the indicator of Gross Domestic Product (GDP), the most recent
available disaggregate statistics of 2010 showed that among the top 10 most
contributing states, only two were from the north, which were Kano and Kaduna
placed at 6th and 10th Positions respectively, the
remaining top eight states were all from the south. Looking at the bottom of
the table (the relegation zone), eight out of the ten least contributing states
were from the north. Based on these statistics, the north contributed only 26%
of the total GDP of the country. This means that out of the total GDP of $369
billion in that year, the north contributed only $95 billion.
Therefore, if things are to stay as they are, the north will
compare with countries like Sudan and will be placed at 63rd
position in the world GDP ranking, instead of the current Nigerian position of
26th, the south would then (without the north) be placed at 54th
position.
Looking at poverty indicator, on average, 66% of northerners
are poor taking the average poverty prevalence rate of the 20 northern states
including the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) as reported by the United Nations
using the international poverty threshold. Specifically, the north west is the
poorest region in the country, with an average poverty rate of 81%. The average
poverty rate of the south is just 24%. So, this indicates relative higher
income level and perhaps more expenditure and economic activity in the south
than in the north.
Even though poverty is multidimensional, some poverties
cannot be measured, but the real experience and observations have shown higher
level of mal-nutrition, higher illiteracy, poor health care system and poor
drinking water in many of the rural and some urban populations in the north.
This weakens productivity and efficiency of many of the northerners.
Despite the agricultural potentials of the north, this has
not helped improve the productivity of the region significantly. Firstly, from
a macroeconomic perspective, agriculture contributed 21.26% to the Nigerian GDP
in the last quarter of last year. This share did not only come from the north,
because the south also engages in agricultural activity. So how much the north
really contributes to the agricultural productivity of the country? It is
obvious, it contributes higher than the south, but the sensitivity of the
northern agricultural production to the GDP will not be more than 15%. This is
what the Nigerian GDP will lose if the north stops agricultural production in
my own estimate.
Some argue that significant portion of agricultural outputs
from the north profit the southerners more than the northerners, because the
southerners invest and add value in most of agricultural produce in the north.
For example, in meat production, a northerner may suffer to rear a cow and sell
it at N60k (hypothetically) to a southerner, who will then slaughter the cow,
process the meat and package it and sell it either within the country or
abroad, and will eventually sell that cow at anything above N100k, making more
profit than the northerner that reared the animal. This also applies to
vegetables and other crops productions.
There is nowhere in the north where crude oil is being
produced, which means 100% of the Nigerian crude oil production comes from the
south. Even though oil contributes only 7.15% to the Nigerian GDP in the last
quarter of last year, it is still the significant source of foreign earnings
for the country. So, without the north, Nigeria can generate significant
foreign income from production of crude oil. However, the north may soon find
and produce oil, then the equation may change, we will wait and see.
Following all this, one will start to build opinion that
north is not a significant contributor to the economy of the country. This may
not be mistaken despite the huge population of the region. This is because, the
northern population lack the required competitiveness and efficiency to
translate into more productivity. With almost half of the region’s population
being women, who are largely socially restrained from becoming economically
active, as a result they become absolutely dependent on the remaining half of
the population, that is men. Though men are the providers, but that does not
give excuse for women to live below their potential and rely heavily on the
men. Doing this causes high level of divorce and disrespect on women for their
dependency. It also makes the economy of the northern women vulnerable to the
shock of men’s economy.
Another reason why the northern population seems immaterial
is children street begging, where over 20 million children from the region roam
the streets begging for food without shelter, appropriate discipline and care.
This causes huge waste of human capital, and all the potential productivity of
these segments of the northern population are lost. So, despite the growing
northern population, that has not translated into increasing economic activity.
One major cause of the poverty trap in the north is the
quest for easy and quick money. Relying and preferring government jobs or white
collar jobs has crippled the economy of the region. While in the south, hard
work, perseverance and creativity has been the major drive of growth and
development, especially in the state of Lagos. Some northerners hold the belief
that God is the provider (which is true), but tend not to make efforts and
endure, they would rather spend all what they have for today, leaving tomorrow
uncertain. Of course, God is the provider, but one has to do his/her best, and
leave the rest to God. This behaviour discourages efforts and make them engage
in spending for a moment of enjoyment without reinvestment, thereby making their
future uncertain.
The States’ Reliance on federal government allocation adds
salt to the wound, where any shock in the federal government revenue will
directly affects the purchasing powers of the northerners and shake their
economy. Due to limited number of competitive professionals, viable
opportunities are easily accessed once one is qualified in the north. However,
in the southern part of the country, professionals will have to create and
endure new businesses and opportunities to survive, because there are many
competitive professionals competing for limited opportunities, so the safest
option for southerners is always to create the job, which helps in growing
their economy. So, there is no resistance to new opportunities in the south as
opposed to north where traditional jobs and employment are the preferred option.
When talking about development, we have to look at the
educational level of the regions, and it is obvious that the south is ahead of
the north in terms of educational enrolment, where south has an average
enrolment ratio of 88% and the north has 57%. This alone can justify the feeble
development of the north, as education drives development. Finally, for every
region to develop, it has to have leaders who are visionary, who look at
today’s challenges and build a future free of those challenges. Sheikh Mohammed
bin Rashid Al Maktoum once said “The word impossible is not in the leaders’
dictionaries. No matter how big the challenges, strong faith, determination and
resolve will overcome them.” The north will need to be more receptive and
revisit certain cultural ethics and value that are confused with religion, and
reorient its social settings. The 21st century civilization and
development require a cultural shift from rigid to elastic one, so as to fit
and catch up with the tide of globalisation.
Dr. Ahmed Adamu,
Petroleum Economist and Development Expert,
First-Ever Global President of Commonwealth Youth
Council,
University Lecturer (Economics), Umaru Musa Yar’adua
University, Katsina.
08034458189.
Thursday, 13 April 2017
REGISTER FOR LEADERSHIP AND PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME
LEADERSHIP AND PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT
PROGRAMME
For Professionals and emerging leaders
“How educated you are, is determined by how
much you learn outside the classroom”
“A child
educated only at school is an uneducated child” George Santayana
Life
expectations and requirements evolves; you have to keep improving to catch up
with life.
Delivered by Millenium Prime Solution
(MPS)
copyright reserved©2017
INTRODUCTION:
Recent
Leadership literatures argue strongly that leaders are made not born, and if
they are made, there has to be strategic effort to create them. Leaders are not
necessarily the ones on top, but those who participate, make and shape
organisations, institutions or societies. In modern world, those that influence
a group of people to achieve certain objectives are the leaders. This underpins
the relevance of every person in a group or community. Leadership is not
peculiar or subjected to positions in organisations, institutions or society.
Everybody can be a leader, but that depends on whether the person has what it
takes to be that leader.
Professionals
and Young people have mental and physical stamina and innovations to drive the
required change in society, and that has to be complemented with strategic
leadership and personal development training to make them better leaders. Acquiring
education in school is not sufficient to make better leaders, they have to be
trained and tracked beyond the classrooms. Life pose many evolving challenges
that static school curriculum may not address or prepare the emerging leaders to
face it.
The Leadership and Personal Development Programme is
an initiative that fills development gaps and prepares professionals to be more
effective, efficient and professionals in their places of work and social
environment. The programme is designed
to help participants realise their strengths and weaknesses and enhance their
leadership, professional and development skills.
The participants of the programme are mainly professionals
that work in corporate organizations, businesses, institutions, academia, military,
security, sports, social and public institutions, as well as entrepreneurs,
graduates, students etc. We also encourage young people and emerging
professionals to participate in the programme, as that will enhance their
productivity, employability, responsibility, efficiency and patriotism.
At the end of the programme, participants will be
much better and effective leaders and professionals in their environments. Some
of the benefits they will get from the programme include but not limited to the
followings:
- The participants will get to
know themselves more, their own source and many other sources of
inspirations, and to help them build life vision and focus. This entails
strategic discovery of their personality, aptitude, and leadership class.
They will also be familiar with inspiration boosters and killers.
- The participants will also be
inspired to do and achieve more in their lives.
- They will realise strategies
to apply in approaching everyday situations and in achieving their goals.
- They will build
self-confidence and improve their expression and communication skills.
They will improve their Attention To Detail skills too.
- They will improve their
reading skills in terms of speed, spelling and comprehension.
- They will be able to get rid
of fear in public speech and in leading or managing a large or diverse
group. They will learn basics of public speech and identify speech
mentors.
- They will be able to put into
practice the learnt skills in public speech through practical speech for
improvement.
- They will improve their
professional writing skills especially in writing professional letters,
emails, and SMS.
- They will build team work
skills, and master how to become effective team leaders and in managing
and adapting among diverse groups. They will be presented with the
opportunity to practice the skills of effective team management.
- They will build the skills of
peer sharing and confession to drive lessons and motivation for
improvement.
- They will learn the skills of
influencing and wining over people.
- They will enhance their civic
education, and know more about their and other people’s constitutional
rights and responsibilities.
- They will build the skills of
strategic thinking and planning.
- They will build their
professional conducts and manners especially in interpersonal approaches,
appearance, tones, and other professional etiquettes.
- They will learn how to control
emotions and temperaments.
- They will be presented with
the opportunity to meet successful leaders from different sectors and
backgrounds to hear, reflect and learn directly from their successes and
failures.
- They will be taught how to
develop their integrity, volunteerism and selflessness.
- They will advance their MS
office skills especially advance skills in Word, Excel, and PowerPoints.
- They will learn the real
causes of leadership failures and successes from real life examples, and
they will practice the leadership roles in different circumstances to help
them improve leadership skills.
- They will improve their
entrepreneurship skills, and they will be exposed to many entrepreneurship
opportunities. They will learn the business skills of planning and management.
- They will improve their
employability skills. They will learn how to write a competitive CV and
build job interview skills.
- They will meet with
prospective employers to learn from and engage with them. The participants
will then have a glimpse of what is required and expected for development
in their chosen careers.
- They will build skills of
financial discipline and time management.
- They will be assigned with
highly influential and successful people for mentorship and guidance after
the programme for a period of one month.
- They will be assessed through
a quiz examination to help them evaluate the impact and their
understandings of the modules they attended.
THE GAPS:
It
was discovered that emerging leaders especially in Africa may lack certain
global competitive skills required in the 21st century economic,
social, and political spectrums. Young people are not necessary leaders of
tomorrow but leaders of today, and they shape society and its future. Few of
the gaps that are largely identified among professionals and emerging leaders
in Africa include but not limited to the followings:
a.
Lack
of expression and communication skills
b.
Low
self-esteem, fear and lack of self confidence
c.
Lack
of professionalism
d.
Lack
of IT application and skills
e.
Poor
team management
f.
Lack
of resilience and maturity
g.
Lack
of career and academic guidance and focus
h.
Egoism
and inexperience
i.
Lack
of adaptability
j.
Lack
of big dreams and ambitions
k.
Poor
preparation for job markets and uninformed perceptions
l.
Unemployment
and dependency
Jeff
Boss once said “The challenge of staying relevant in today’s fast-paced and
hyper–connected world can be daunting if you don’t know when to move forward,
when to stay put or when to adapt.” Young people in African must be willing to
adopt and move forward to outcompete their counterparts in other continents.
They must realise their weakness and be ready to improve.
OBJECTIVES:
Leaders
shape the world in different spectrums, and there has to be strategic training
programme to prepare them to be better and suitable for modern challenges.
Emerging leaders are required to acquire necessary skills that help make them
better leaders. These emerging leaders include young people whether currently
in school or in professional careers. The leadership and personal development
programme is a 7-days intensive or
weekend intensive sessional programme that builds the capacity and
capability of professionals and emerging leaders in various leadership skills
and opportunities, which include but not limited to the followings:
1.
Public
confidence and Communication (language, writing and speaking) skills
2.
Professionalism,
team work and time management
3.
Inter
personal relationships
4.
Self-esteem,
Visions and self confidence
5.
Resilience
and maturity
6.
Self-realisation
and development
7.
Mentorship
and guidance
8.
Appearance,
manners, discipline and presentations
9.
Modern
IT and software solutions applicable in various sectors
10. Adequate preparation for job
market, employability and self-employment opportunities
11. Business/entrepreneurship skills
12. Inspiration and network with real
life leaders
13. Analytical thinking, Professional
ethics, and integrity
The
programme also helps participants to understand:
i.
The
kind of leaders they are
ii.
The
scopes of their leadership skills (coverage, when, how and why they lead, types
and level of their subjects)
iii.
Their
adaptability to changing circumstances and environment
iv.
How
to build up and bridge their leadership skills gap
It
exposes the emerging leaders to real-life challenges faced by leaders from
various sectors, to enhance their skills in solving complex life challenges and
working under diverse groups.
It
provides opportunities for the participants to meet leaders from different
sectors to share personal and professional experiences.
SIGNIFICANCE:
In
the 21st century’s civilisation, academic qualification is not
sufficient to prepare and inspire emerging leaders; it must be complemented
with strategic leadership development programmes. At the end of the programme,
the participants will come out looking at the world from different and diverse
perspectives, and they will be better leaders and be able to make differences
in other people’s lives too. They will be more matured and resilient to face
real life challenges, and their appetite to explore and learn beyond classrooms
will be enhanced.
STEPS AND MODULES:
Diagnosis: to identify the disparity in
personality, exposure and experience of the participants to help cluster them
for strategic development in line with their strengths and weaknesses. This involves
identifying the level of communication skills, IQ, team work skills,
professionalism, personality, aptitude, resilience, past experiences, etc.
Leadership
indicators will be set, and each participant will have to be assessed based on
these indicators to enable the programme track the level improvement of the
participants over time. These indicators are set around the identified
objectives. This will help in identifying individual weakness and clustering
them into proper groups and teams.
The
Diagnosis stage will take a day to assess the participants for proper
placement, and the result will identify the area of concentration for each
participant. Each participant will be categorised according to the class of
leaders he/she belongs at the end of the programme.
Preliminary sessions:
this stage gives
emphasis to participants that either do not have past leadership experience in
business, organisations, institutions or society or were discovered to have
more deficiencies in the diagnosis stage. The modules during the preliminary
sessions are indicated in the programme schedule and must be attended by
participants who scored below the required point in the diagnostic test.
Regular Courses: these are mandatory for all
participants to attend. To be eligible for certificate, participants must have
at least 70% attendance of the regular courses.
Induction
and Graduation: Specific
event will be organized for introduction and familiarization among
participants, and they will be inducted to understand the purpose and
expectations from them during and after the programme. Certificates will be
presented during the Graduation ceremony, which will be on the last day of the
programme.
Final Examination: Final examination will be
conducted on the final day.
Mentorship and
Tracking: Alumni
of the programme will be attached with particular mentors for further
mentorship or counseling for a period. The alumni will be updating the
programme with progresses and successes they achieve after the course. This
will help track the impact of the course.
Feedback: at the end of each session,
feedback form will be filled by interested participants to received responses
and suggestions for improvements.
MODULES:
The
following will be some of the courses to be offered to the participants. These
modules will continue to be updated to accommodate more innovations and
strategic courses based on the specific demand or emerging gaps.
1. Introduction
1: Introduction
and Induction
This
entails registrations, tag distribution, personal introduction of participants
and ceremonial declaration of the programme.
The introduction of the programme will be presented by the Programme
leader. The participants will become familiar with the courses to be
administered and the expectations from them. They will get to know the
programme team members. They will ask questions during the interactive session.
This will last for maximum of two hours, depending on the designed programme
for the day. A group picture will be arranged after the induction.
2.
Diagnosis 1: Diagnosis
(Psychometrics): Personality and Aptitude Tests:
The
Module aims:
i.
To
identify the strength and weaknesses of the participants and give them area of
concentration for improvement
ii.
To
identify their level of experience particularly in leadership and personal
development
iii.
To
identify participants’ commitment to learning
iv.
To
identify skills each participants needs to develop
v.
To
realise the kind of personality and leadership style they have.
vi.
To
benchmark their leadership abilities
vii.
To
test the level of English language proficiency in oral and writing.
viii.
Identify
their IQ level
At
the end of this module, participants are expected to leverage on their strength
in character, vision, strategy, tactic, focus, persuasiveness, likeability,
decision ability and team building.
3. Realisation
and Categorization 1: Self-Discovery
and Grouping of Participants
At
the end of the module, participants will reflect back on their new discovered
strengths and weaknesses. They can be asked to mention it. They can then be
asked to identify what sort of leaders they think they are. They will be able
to also develop clear understanding of what they will work on to personally
develop, and identify important next steps to personally develop. They will
also be given recommendations on the areas they need to concentrate for further
self-development. The participants will then be grouped according to the
similarity of their leadership and personal development stages.
The
module also helps participants to have an idea on:
i. The kind of leaders they are.
ii. The scopes of their leadership skills
(coverage, when, how and why they lead, types and level of their subjects).
iii. Their adaptability to changing circumstances
and environment.
iv. How to build up and bridge their leadership
skills gap.
4.
Inspiration 1: Inspiration Boosters and Killers
The module aims to:
i.
Equip
participants with the understanding of inspiration and its various sources
ii.
Educate
participants on the major inspiration boosters and killers
iii.
Inform
participants on how to maintain continuous life inspiration
At the end of the module,
participants will be able to
-
Know
the sources of inspirations
-
Identify
the major killers and boosters of inspiration
-
Realise
their strong source of motivations
5. Inspiration
2: Inspirational
and Motivational Talks
The
module aims:
i.
To
inspire participants to believe in themselves and dream higher.
ii.
To
build urge in participants to achieve more in life.
iii.
To
build higher benchmark for life achievements.
iv.
To
help participants learn from other people’s lives.
v.
To
help participant identify their sources of inspiration and what motivates them.
vi.
To
motivate participants to give full attention to the program.
Expected
outcome:
At the
end of the class, participants will be:
-
Motivated
and inspired
-
Inspired
to open their minds and explore new ideas
-
Prepared
and excited to chances and risks to succeed
-
Encouraged
to work harder
-
Able
to reaffirm faith in hard work and optimism
6. Vision
1: Developing Ambitions
and Targets
The aim of this module is to:
- Understand
what is vision and what is not a vision
- Inspire
participants to create visions and set targets for their lives
- To
educate participants on how to build visions and the steps to achieving it
At the end of this module, participants will be able to:
-
Develop visions for the lives they want.
-
Be acquainted with the steps to building a vision.
-
Develop plans and goals to achieving their visions.
-
Get rid of unconscious fear in building a better
future.
-
Detach themselves from their present conditions to set
new visions for the future.
-
List down their visions and apply all the lessons they
learn in this programme toward achieving it.
7. Vision
2: Developing Ambitions
and Targets
The same objectives
and expected outcome as in “Vision 1” above.
8. Reading
1: Improving Reading
Skills (Speed, Spelling and Comprehension)
The Module aims:
i.
To
help participants improve their reading skills.
ii.
To
inspire the reading culture among the participants.
iii.
To
prepare participants to become effective and fast readers.
iv.
To
help participants improve their spelling and comprehension skills.
Expected
outcome:
At the end of the module, participants will be able:
At the end of the module, participants will be able:
-
To
build passion for reading.
-
To
learn best practices to improve the speed of their reading skills.
-
To
develop effective comprehension and spelling skills.
9. Reading
2: Improving Attention
to Detail Skills
The module aims:
i.
To
improve participants’ attention skills in reading and listening.
ii.
To
acquaint participants with certain exercise to improve attention.
iii.
To
identify the level of attention of each participant for the purpose of
improvement.
At the
end of the module, participants will be able:
-
To
become meticulous and pay attention to detail.
-
To
realise and learn effectively any learning opportunity through attention.
-
To
improve their learning skills.
-
To
identify their attention gaps and recognise the necessary steps to improve
attention skills.
-
To
enable participants to think outside the box to help in addressing problems.
10. Expression
1:
Pronunciations, Vocabulary and Grammar Development
The Module aims:
- To identify and address weaknesses or common
mistakes in expression especially in English language.
- To improve efficiency and fluency in
communication.
- To improve attentiveness in listening and
writing in English language.
- To improve pronunciation of English words and
grammar in English language.
- To identify easy techniques of improving
communication in English language beyond text book.
At the end of the course,
the participants will be able to:
-
Significantly
improve his/her English Language communication skills.
-
Avoid
common mistakes in English language communication.
-
Take
up challenge to undergo independent tasks and studies to improve his/her
English Language.
-
Build
confidence in public communication as a result fluency in the language.
-
Improve
his/her vocabulary.
-
Be
trusted, efficient and earn respect in leaderships and representation roles.
11. Expression
2: Getting rid
of fear and building confidence in public speech
The Module aims to
help Participants:
- Overcome fear in self-expression.
- To be effective and build confidence in public
speeches.
- To help discover latent skills in public
communication.
- To teach techniques and approaches for
effective public communication to the participants.
- To inform participants of risks of fear.
- To unveil various fear syndrome and how to
overcome it.
- To improve general self-confidence.
At the end of the
course, the participants will be able to:
-
Be
confident in public communication.
-
Understand
fear and master how to get rid of it.
-
Live
to their full potentials because fear is capable of holding people back.
-
Dream
big and build hope to achieve success and greatness.
-
To
be actors not only dreamers, and accept any opportunity presented them.
-
To
face life challenges confidently and try any possible dream.
12. Expression
3: The Basics of
Public Speaking
The Module aims:
- To develop ethics and best practices in
delivering public speeches.
- To discover basics of implementing effective public
speeches.
- To identify steps in preparing for effective
public speeches.
At the end of the
course, the participants will be able to:
-
Learn
how to be excellent speakers.
-
Adopt
perfect tunes and engagement relevant to the audience, purpose, expectations and
topic.
-
Structure
speeches in an easily logical and clear pattern.
-
Make
impressive and indelible memory of their speeches.
-
Be
experts in retaining attentions of the audience and engage with them in public
speeches.
-
Be
able practice public speeches and discover weaknesses and strengths.
-
Make
concise presentations within limited time
13. Expression
4: Video
presentation of good public speakers and selection of speech mentors
The Module aims:
- To showcase selected best public speeches to
give participants feel and understanding of effective public speeches.
- To inspire participants from best public
speeches.
- To enable participants to select their own
speech mentors, from whom they will build their skills.
At the end of the
course, the participants will be able to:
-
Understand
what to expect in good public speeches, and how it looks like.
-
To
practically identify the key components of good speeches.
-
To
compare and contrast between various speeches to identify common features of
good speeches.
-
To
select their favourite public speaker and identify reasons why they chose them.
-
To
ponder on a selected speech and revert to the team to share the qualities they
found in the speech.
-
Learn
the basic secrets of great speakers.
-
Watch
great speeches.
14. Expression
5: Reflection
and lessons from selected speakers
The Module aims:
- To enable participants to outline basic
qualities of speeches from their chosen speeches.
- To build image of a good speech.
- Improve listening attention to speeches to
learn and discover qualities from them.
- To give the participants opportunity to learn
and share among themselves basic skills they independently discovered from
their speech mentors.
At the end of the
course, the participants will be able to:
-
Discover
diverse qualities that make great speeches.
-
Put
those qualities into practice.
-
Analyse
and evaluate any public speech.
-
Prepare
themselves to be efficient communicators and great speakers.
15. Expression
6: Practice
through public presentations (topic to be chosen by participants)
The Module aims:
- To give the participants the experience of real
life speech.
- To enable participants practice the good
qualities they learned from their speech mentors.
- To encourage peer learning and inspiration in
public speeches.
- To enable participants review each other’s speeches.
- To help participants improve on their specific
weakness practically.
At the end of the
course, the participants will be able to:
-
Will
be able to deliver a public speech within the stipulated time and qualities.
-
Demonstrate
their strengths and qualities in public speech.
-
Deliberately
work on their weakness and receive feedback on their progress from their colleagues.
-
Experience
how to identify filler words used in speeches and general evaluation of a
speeches.
-
Identify
the best speakers in the group.
-
To
disclose their specific weaknesses so as to deliberately observe how they
overcome it.
16. Writing
1: Writing
professional letters, emails, texts etc
The module aims to:
i.
Enhance
the participants’ professionalism in official and semi-official paper and online
communications.
ii.
Expose
them to a more professional way of writing emails and letters.
iii.
Understand
the ethics and manners in writing emails and letters.
iv.
Understand
the different formats and approaches in official communications.
At the end of the module,
participants will be able to:
-
Write
professional letters and emails in concise and correct format.
-
Reduce
the grammatical errors and imprecision of official letters and emails.
-
Give
good impression to readers of their emails and letters through politeness and
adequate presentation and structure.
-
Adopt
professional ethics in regular text messaging.
17. Movies
1: Inspirational
movies
The Module aims:
- To Inspire participants from world most
inspirational short videos.
- To enable participants to draw lessons from
each inspirational short videos.
- To inspire participants to take action and
increase their morals.
At the end of the
course, the participants will be able to:
-
Realise
themselves and what they are meant to be and can achieve.
-
Take
up life opportunities and become highly optimistic.
-
Boost
their self-confidence and increase their hope for the future.
-
Expand
their visions and goals in life.
-
Be
ready to take action and overcome challenges.
-
Rate
and note lessons from inspirational videos.
-
Narrate
their experience and lessons learnt from the videos.
18. Team
1: Team work
development
The Module aims:
- To
highlight the importance of teamwork.
- To
develop a team spirit of participants.
- To
prepare participants to understand the process of building teamwork.
At the end of the course, the participants will be able to:
-
Develop necessary skills in team building.
-
Work effectively in a team and achieve more success.
-
Inspire and help in the success of others.
-
To work effectively without caring about who takes the
credit.
19. Team
2: How to be a
good team leader
The Module aims to:
i.
Develop the participants’ leadership talents in a team
ii.
Prepare Participants to become effective team leaders
iii.
Identify what make up a good team leader
At the end of the module, the participants will be able to:
-
Become effective team leaders
-
Lead by example
-
Master the art of delegation
-
To relate to their team members
-
To earn respect from their team members without
demanding it
20. Team
3: Peer sharing,
motivation and confession
The module aims to:
i.
Provide
opportunity for participants to share their story.
ii.
Inspire
participants from the lessons of their colleagues’ stories.
iii.
Eliminate
shyness and hiding of weaknesses.
iv.
Encourage
confessing past and present mistakes or challenges and how they were (or to be)
overcame.
v.
Enhance
peer inspiration.
At the end of the
module, participants will be able to:
-
Freely
express themselves and highlight their own identified challenges.
-
Listen
to others’ stories and make them feel they are not alone.
-
Inspire
them to be ready to take measures to overcome their challenges.
-
To
learn from others’ struggles in overcoming challenges.
21. Team
4: Adaptability
and working among diverse groups
The module aims to:
i.
Improve
the expression abilities and confidence of participants among diverse groups,
and help them adapt and become successful
ii.
Help
participants develop and build adaptation skills
iii.
Introduce
the basic benefits of diversity
iv.
Help
participants learn how to get along with individual or group from different background
At the end of the module, participants will be able to:
-
Freely
converse and have confidence where ever they find themselves
-
Respect,
learn and adapt to other people’s cultures and opinions
-
To
overcome the challenges and fear of diversity
-
Be
effective leaders even among diverse group
22. Team
5: Practical Team
Work
The module aims to:
i.
Expose participants to real life experience of team
work.
ii.
Enhance the basic practical skills required in a team
work.
iii.
Realize their strengths and weaknesses in team work.
iv.
Set targets for each participants and evaluate his/her
performance in a team.
At the end of the module, participants will be able to:
-
Experience real team work and apply certain skills in
the team.
-
Perform a specific role in a team and realize their
abilities and specialties in team work.
-
Collectively deliver a mission within a specified
timeframe to assess their effectiveness of their teamwork
-
Showcase various skills in achieving a mission and
establish trust among team members for more efficiency.
-
Receive feedback on their performance within the group
by their team members.
23. Civic 1: Civic and Citizenship Education: Nigerian Constitution
and Electoral Acts
The Module aims:
- To promote good and informed citizenry for
unyielding patriotism
- To
promote civic consciousness and nationalism against extremism
- To explore the founding values of Nigeria
- To promote character and social cohesion
- To promote law and order
- To enlighten participants of their major
constitutional rights and responsibilities in democracy
- To fill the gap of social and citizenship
education in tertiary institutions
At the end of the
course, the participants will:
-
Become
aware of their rights and responsibilities as citizens
-
Be
patriotic and law abiding citizens
-
Be
willing to sacrifice and engage in civic participation
-
Be
involved in public life and affairs
-
Be
open to volunteer and become selfless in their socio-economic endeavours
-
Become
responsible and become concern about other people’s welfare
24. Thinking
1: Strategic Thinking
Development and Planning
The module aims to:
i.
Develop
the skills of strategic thinking.
ii.
Build
the skills of strategic planning.
iii.
Build
vision and the skills of thinking outside the box.
iv.
Build
logical and creative minds.
v.
Build
the skills of strategic planning.
At the end of the module, the participants will be able to:
-
View
issues from different perspectives.
-
Possess
the skills of strategic planning.
-
Understand
the steps of developing strategic thinking.
-
Adapt
the habits of strategic thinkers.
-
Understand
the key component of strategic plan.
25. Manners
1: Professional approaches, appearance, manners,
wining people, inspiring others
The Module aims:
- To
develop professional manners, approaches, and appearances.
- To improve the skills of socialization in a
formal setting.
- To educate participants on the professional
etiquettes and ethics.
At the end of the
course, the participants will be able to:
-
Look
and act professionally in a formal or professional environment.
-
Improve
on formal communication skills and behaviours.
-
Earn
respect, love and integrity among their colleagues.
-
Inspire
others.
26. Manners
2: Control of Emotion
and Temperament
The Module aims to:
- Build skills for emotional and temperamental
control.
- Equip participants with tactics to avoid
negative thoughts and overreaction to circumstances.
- Build emotional intelligence of the
participants.
At the end of the
module, the participants will be able to
-
Control
their anger and act nicely even at disappointing outcomes.
-
To
understand the strategy to quench anger and build positive temperament.
-
To
identify why and what make them angry.
-
To
know their temperament and how to control it.
-
To
improve their good health, emotional maturity and happiness.
27. Face
to Face 1: Meeting
and Hearing (success and failures stories) from different Leaders of different
styles and organizations
28. Face
to Face 2: Meeting
and hearing (approaches to problems) from different Leaders of different styles
and organizations.
29. Face
to Face 3: Reflection on the lessons and discovery after
meeting leaders
The modules (Face to
Face 1 to 3) aim to:
- Connect participants to real life leaders
- To hear and lean from real life experiences
- Have primary contact with different types of
leaders
- Hear and learn from success and failure stories
of real life leaders
- Inspire participants and guide them in career choice
- Understand the different approaches to
addressing problems
At the end of the
module, the participants will be able to:
-
Understand
the real life challenges and how to overcome it
-
Learn
the qualities required for success from practical perspective
-
Identify
the causes of failures in many sectors of life
-
Link
up and create contacts with real life leaders for guidance
-
Hear
directly from practical experience of successes and failures
-
Solve
problems on their own
-
Understand
the behind the scene of every success
-
Understand
different leadership styles and approaches
-
Reflect
on the lessons and discoveries learned from the leaders
30. Manners
3: Integrity Development,
Volunteerism and Selflessness
The module aims to:
- Maintain high ethical values in participants.
- Improve reliability and confidence on the
participants.
- Improve the culture of selflessness and
volunteerism.
At the end of the
Module, participants will be able to:
-
Be
honest and sincere in every circumstances.
-
To
stand for the truth even if it displeases others.
-
Improve
self-awareness and live to specific values.
-
Be
selfless, volunteers and patriotic.
-
Widen
their horizons.
31. Advanced/Intermediate
MS office skills 1: Advanced
skills/application of MS office (Word, Excel, and PP)
The module aims to:
i.
Assess
and advance the skills of participants in MS office for word, excel, and PowerPoint.
ii.
Identify
the gaps in the MS office application skills and help fill them.
iii.
Improve
the general proficiency in MS office
At the end of the
module, participants will be able to:
-
Fill
the MS office skills checklist to identify their strengths and weaknesses
-
Be
able to confidently itemise and communicate their MS office skills
-
Know
how to improve their proficiency and speed in MS office.
32. Leaders
1: Causes of Leadership
Failures and Successes with Examples
The aim of this module is to
- Broaden
the participants’ leadership inspiration beyond local leaders to global
leaders
- Explore
other common traits of successful leaders
- Study
theories and examples of successes and failures in various leadership
spheres
At the end of the module, participants will be able:
-
To be inspired by global success and failure stories
-
To learn and adopt leadership traits from
-
Understand what differentiate successful and
unsuccessful people in different sectors
33. Practice
1: Learning from
Real Leadership Challenges
The module aims to
- Give opportunity to participants to practice
real leadership
- Allow participants implement the leadership
skills they learnt
- Reveal the actual leadership approaches and
creativity of the participants
- Be familiar with variety of real life
leadership challenges and approaches to address them.
At the end of the
Module, participants will be able to:
-
Have
a real impression of facing and overcoming challenges
-
Practice
leadership
-
Cope
with both external and internal challenges
-
Employ
strategies to cope with the challenges that leadership brings
-
Build
sense of imagination of possible challenges in leadership
34. Entrepreneurship
1: Training on Business
Skills: Unveiling Business Ideas and Opportunities
35. Entrepreneurship
2: Training on
business skills: Business Plan and Management
The modules
(Entrepreneurship 1 & 2) aim to:
- Equip participants with the required skills to
be successful entrepreneurs.
- Unveil various business opportunities to
participants.
- Train participants on business plan and
management.
At the end of the
Module, participants will be able to:
-
To become aware of new ideas and opportunities to be
an entrepreneur.
-
To appreciate business ideas and how to implement it
despite inadequate capital.
-
To plan and manage business.
-
To learn new business skills of sourcing capital,
financial management and marketing.
36. Job
1: Employability
Skills, Preparing a Good CV and Interview Skills
The module aims to:
i.
Enhance
the participants’ employability skills.
ii.
Help
in discovering the participants’ interest and the kind of job that will be good
for them.
iii.
Help
in identifying the specific goals of the participants in their life.
iv.
Prepare
participants to write a very good Curriculum Vitae.
v.
Prepare
the participants for successful job interview.
At the end of the
module, participants will be able to:
-
Identify
the missing skills they need to have for their dream job.
-
To
discover their interest and concentrate in preparing for specific jobs.
-
Identify
their life goals, and avoid distractions.
-
Write
an impressive Curriculum Vitae.
-
Confidently
prepare and pass any job interview.
37. Job
2: Meet Prospective
Employers. Meet, learn from and engage with employers to know what they really
look for. Interview strategies.
The module aims to
i.
Expose
participants to the real experience of work environment
ii.
Acquaint
participants with the required skills in work place
iii.
Connect
participants with the employers of their dream careers
iv.
Enhance
the employability of the participants
v.
Help
participants prepare for their careers adequately
At the end of the
Module, participants will be able to:
-
Connect
and engage with employers
-
Understand
specific requirements for their chosen careers
-
Prepare
for the labour market
-
Understand
different career options in their field
-
Boost
their confidence in their ability to interact with employers
-
Build
their network
-
Develop
their professional communication skills
-
Meet
people with career paths that will inspire them
-
Get
insider information on internship, mentorship & job opportunities
38. Accountability
and Time Management 1:
Accountability, Financial Discipline, and Time Management
The module aims to:
i.
Improve the financial discipline and management
ii.
Prepare participants to effective and rationally
manage their resources
iii.
Improve the participants’ integrity, accountability
and financial prudence
iv.
Improve the participants’ skills in time management
and task prioritization
At the end of the module, participants will be able to:
-
Apply different time management strategies
-
Be more productive and efficient
-
Be accountable and develop financial prudence and
accountability
-
Know how to prioritize tasks, delegate tasks, and
discard unimportant tasks
-
Monitor time spent for every activity
39. Mentorship
1: Assign Mentors
to Each Participant
The module aims to:
- Connect successful practitioners and
professionals with emerging ones for guidance and support
- Build confidence of the participants and help
them choose a specific and informed career path
- Build skills of consultations, Interpersonal
relationships and learning from experts
- Identify specific development gaps and help
fill them
- Help
participants set relevant goals for their vision
- Give opportunity for mentors to share knowledge
and invest on the emerging professionals
- Pair and match mentors with the participants
for two months after the programme.
At the end of the
module, participants will be able to:
-
Have
confidence and fill their development gaps
-
Receive
feedback on their personality, strengths and weaknesses
-
Build
a clear path to achieving their visions
-
Expand
their networks for collaborations and supports
-
Break
down barriers and creates opportunities for success
-
Develop
cognitive skills in order to strengthen the mental process of discovering,
analysing and solving problems to overcome obstacles.
-
Have
mentors that will mentor them for two months after the programme
40. Categorization
2: Final Discovery
of Self-Strengths and Kind of Leadership Class Each Participant Belongs and Examination
The
module aims to:
i.
Enable
participants to reflect back on their new discovered strengths and weaknesses.
ii.
Identify
the kind of leaders they are.
iii.
Enable
participants to develop clear understanding of what they will work on to personally
develop.
iv.
Receive
recommendations on leadership and personal development beyond the programme.
v.
Identify
among the participants who they share common strengths and weaknesses for future
collaboration or mutual support.
vi.
Give
space for participants to share their experiences during the programme.
At the end of the module, participants will be able to:
-
Realise
who they are and opportunities they have.
-
Develop
clear vision on what their life goal is and areas they need to work on more.
-
Create
network of friendship and partnership for future collaboration and development.
-
Receive
strategic and relevant recommendations on how to personally develop.
-
Tell
how much difference the leadership programme has made to them.
Calendar for the programme
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Time
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Day 1
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Day 2
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Day 3
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Day 4
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Day 5
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Day 6
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Day 7
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9:00-10:00
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Introduction 1: Induction and
Introduction
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Reading 1: Improving
Reading Skills (Speed, Spelling and Comprehension)
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Expression 5: Reflection and
lessons from selected speakers
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Team 1: Team work
development
Team 2: How to be a
good team leader
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Manners 1: Professional approaches, appearance, manners,
wining people, inspiring others
Manners 2: Control of
Emotion and Temperament
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Advanced/Intermediate MS office skills
1: Advanced
skills/application of MS office (Word, Excel, and PP)
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Job 1: Employability
Skills, Preparing a Good CV and Interview Skills
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10:00-11:00
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Diagnosis 1: Diagnosis (Psychometrics): Personality and Aptitude
Tests:
Realisation and Categorization 1: Self-Discovery
and Grouping of Participants
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Reading 2: Improving
Attention to Detail Skills
Expression 1: Pronunciations,
Vocabulary and Grammar Development
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Expression 6: Practice
through public presentations (topic to be chosen by participants)
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Team 3: Peer sharing,
motivation and confession
Team 4: Adaptability
and working among diverse groups
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Face to Face 1: Meeting and
Hearing (success and failures stories) from different Leaders of different
styles and organizations
Face to Face 2: Meeting and
hearing (approaches to problems) from different Leaders of different styles
and organizations.
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Leaders 1: Causes of
Leadership Failures and Successes with Examples
Practice 1: Learning from
Real Leadership Challenges
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Job 2: Meet
Prospectus Employers. Meet, learn from and engage with employers to know what
they really look for. Interview strategies.
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Break
11:00-11:15
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Break
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Break
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Break
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Break
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Break
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Break
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Break
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11.15-12:15
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Inspirational 1: Inspiration
Boosters and Killers
Inspirational 2: Inspirational
and Motivational Talks
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Expression 2: Getting rid of
fear and building confidence in public speech
Expression 3:
The
Basics of Public Speaking
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Writing 1: Writing
professional letters, emails, text
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Team 5: Practical Team
Work
Civic 1: Civic and
Citizenship Education: Nigerian Constitution and Electoral Acts
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Face to Face 3: Reflection on the lessons and discovery
after meeting leaders
|
Entrepreneurship 1: Training on
Business Skills: Unveiling Business Ideas and Opportunities
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Accountability, and Time Management 1:
Accountability,
Financial Discipline, and Time Management
Mentorship 1: Assign Mentors
to Each Participant
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12:15-13:15
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Vision 1: Developing
Ambitions and Targets
Vision 2: Developing
Ambitions and Targets
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Expression 4: Video
presentation of good public speakers and selection of speech mentors
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Movies 1: Inspirational movies
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Thinking 1: Strategic
Thinking Development and Planning
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Manners 3: Integrity
Development, Volunteerism and Selflessness
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Entrepreneurship 2: Training on
Business Skills: Business Plan and Management
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Categorization 2: Final discovery
of self-strengths and kind of leadership class each participant belongs and
Examination
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OPTIONAL PERIODS FOR THE
PROROGRAMME:
1.
7-days Intensive: This runs from 9:00 to 13:15
daily for the continues period of 7 days. The programme sessions can take place
anytime if at least 30 participants registered for the programme in a location.
2.
Weekend Session: This runs from 9:00 to 14:15 for
only weekends for three weeks. The programme sessions can take place anytime if
at least 30 participants registered for the programme in a location.
FEES AND ENROLMENT:
Cost
estimation for each programme can be provided upon request, and will be based
on the available opportunities, location and specific requirements. The costs
will cover cost for course materials and instruments, facilitators, resource
persons, certificates, venue, running cost, logistics and transport, etc. The
minimum number of participants per session is 30, and maximum of 50. Participants
are to sponsor themselves for the programme by paying a stipend that will cater
for the running cost of the programme. However, philanthropists, organisations,
government officials, academic institutions or individuals may wish to sponsor interested
participants for the programme.
The fees
is decided per state, and admitted participants will be advised on the fees in
their admission letters.
To sign
up for the programme, please fill the online registration form from the
following link for free. Upon successful registration, participants will be
informed of the period in which they are expected to make payment and provide
evidence of that for them to enrol into the programme.
CONTACTS:
For more
information about the programme, enrolments or timetable, you can contact:
Dr.
Ahmed Adamu,
Programme
Leader,
08188949144,
08034458189,
About the Programme Leader:
He holds PhD in Oil
and Gas Economics from Newcastle University, United Kingdom; He is a University
Lecturer, also a member of many international and national professional
organizations. He published and presented many international and national
academic papers, and participated in several international and national academic
conferences. He published a book titled “Comparative Assessment of Petroleum
Sharing Contracts in Nigeria”.
He was honoured
with many International prestigious awards which include; the Global Achievers
Award by the Global Achievers Awards; Outstanding Service Award by the
Commonwealth; Award of Excellence by the Commonwealth Youth Council; African
Young Personality of the year (2015) award by African Youth Awards; and African
Achiever of the year for 2014 by the African Achievers Awards. He is the winner
of GPLUS Award, UK and he was named among the 100 most Influential Young
Africans (2016). He was also ranked among the top 20 most Influential
Young Nigerians in the list of 2016 100 most Influential Young Nigerians by
Advance Media Africa. He is a recipient of Nationalist Beacon Award and
Nigerian Dream Personality Honors. He was also honoured as an inspirational
Nigerian by Those Who Inspire Ltd. He also received award of excellence from
the League for Democratic Youth, and was awarded as the most influential
student union leader by the National Economics Students Associations (NESA).
Dr. Adamu is one of the most influential youth leaders in the world. Being the
Pioneer Global Chairperson of the CYC, he met with many global leaders and
travel wide; he has recorded numerous achievements under his leadership as the
CYC Chairperson. He is a youth worker, mentor, motivator and inspirational
speaker. He is blessed with a son and a wife.
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