NYSC ZAMFARA STATE COORDINATOR HAILS CORPS MEMBER ON CD PROJECTS
By Bamidele Kogbe, Gusau,Zamfara State
The NYSC Zamfara State Coordinator, Mrs. L.B. Meller has commended one of the corps members on personal community development projects in her host community.
The coordinator, who was represented by the Head of Community Development Service, Mr. Ifeayin Agoha expressed the satisfaction of the scheme recently at the commissioning of personal community development projects embarked upon by Miss Babalola Afusat Bola, a corps member in the state. The projects were carried out at Shettima Model Primary School, Tudun Wada Round About Gusau, Zamfara State. The projects which were a Modern well, Planting of Trees and Training of Twenty Female Pupils of the school on life Building Skills were highly commendable by the beneficiaries of the projects.
Speaking at the occasion, the sponsors of the projects as well as the Director General of MDGs Office Zamfara State, Alhaji Bello Muhammad Auta who was represented by the Director Planning of MDGs Office, Alhaji Mustapha Salau Shinkafi and the Senior Special Adviser on MDGs, Alhaji Gazali Yusuf Mafara, expressed satisfaction on the initiative of the corps member, Miss Babalola Afusat Bola for taking pains to fill the developmental gaps of her host community.
Commending corps Babalola Afusat Bola, the headmaster of the school, Comrade Aminu Jubril expressed gratitude on behalf of the school to the corps member and NYSC/MDGs scheme for providing her an enabling environment to make impact on the developmental need of the school.
In her words, Miss Babalola appreciated the kind gesture of NYSC for providing an enabling environment to execute her projects successfully. “ I am indeed glad for this ample opportunity to make significant impacts on the developmental needs of my host community”
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Thursday, June 25, 2009
Nigerian Youth Mark WHO World No Tobacco Day
THE REPORT OF “WHO-WORLD NO TOBACCO DAY” PROGRAMME
ORGANIZED BY EDUCARE TRUST YOUTH, ON JUNE 1, 2009, AT EDUCARE TRUST YOUTH EXHIBITION CENTRE, IBADAN
Every 31st May of the year the world marks WHO-World No Tobacco Day with series of relevant activities aimed at stemming the ever-increasing tobacco deaths worldwide. The adopted theme for this year is “Pictorial Warning”.
In showing our commitment as a Youth-Oriented Organization, a widely covered one-day programme was organized on Monday June 1, 2009 to mark the Day. The programme, which took place at Educare Trust Youth Exhibition Centre, between 10:30 am and 1:00 pm, featured Pictorial Warning Presentation, Posters Exhibition, Drama, Dance Music, Talks, Media Coverage and Interviews. The programme had 101 participants from ten senior secondary schools in Ibadan, The Polytechnic Ibadan, and University of Ibadan, including the staff and volunteers of Educare Trust in attendance.
All the invited media houses graced the programme and made prompt broadcast of it in their respective news items and relevant programmes. The Media houses were Nigerian Television Authority (NTA) Network Centre, Broadcasting Corporation of Oyo State (BCOS TV) and Radio am / Fm, Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria (FRCN)/ Premier Fm and The Nigerian Tribune.
Mr. Seye Omiyefa, National President/Coordinator of Youth Action on Tobacco and Health (YATCH) and one of the African Regional Coordinators of the Global Youth Action on Tobacco (GYAT), in an interview with the media houses implored the Federal Government of Nigeria to support the passage of the Bill on Tobacco Control presently in the Nigerian National Assembly and also mandated the big tobacco operating in Nigeria to inscribe pictorial warnings on all tobacco products and desist from luring the youth into the habit of tobacco smoking.
The following creative talks were presented at the programme by the youth and for the youth:
The overview and brief remarks on this year’s WNTD celebration BY Bamidele Kogbe
The Need For Pictorial Warnings by Seye Omiyefa
Why You Should Join the Campaign Against Tobacco by Olamide Ogunnika
Documentary film of the 14th World Conference on Tobacco Or Health, “The Mumbai Experience”
Educare Trust’s ideals and ideas against tobacco by Daniel Henshaw
The closing remarks by Taiwo Ogundimu
Yele Olaseinde anchored the programme
Yours sincerely
Bamidele Kogbe
2009 WNTD Educare Trust Programme Cordinator.
ORGANIZED BY EDUCARE TRUST YOUTH, ON JUNE 1, 2009, AT EDUCARE TRUST YOUTH EXHIBITION CENTRE, IBADAN
Every 31st May of the year the world marks WHO-World No Tobacco Day with series of relevant activities aimed at stemming the ever-increasing tobacco deaths worldwide. The adopted theme for this year is “Pictorial Warning”.
In showing our commitment as a Youth-Oriented Organization, a widely covered one-day programme was organized on Monday June 1, 2009 to mark the Day. The programme, which took place at Educare Trust Youth Exhibition Centre, between 10:30 am and 1:00 pm, featured Pictorial Warning Presentation, Posters Exhibition, Drama, Dance Music, Talks, Media Coverage and Interviews. The programme had 101 participants from ten senior secondary schools in Ibadan, The Polytechnic Ibadan, and University of Ibadan, including the staff and volunteers of Educare Trust in attendance.
All the invited media houses graced the programme and made prompt broadcast of it in their respective news items and relevant programmes. The Media houses were Nigerian Television Authority (NTA) Network Centre, Broadcasting Corporation of Oyo State (BCOS TV) and Radio am / Fm, Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria (FRCN)/ Premier Fm and The Nigerian Tribune.
Mr. Seye Omiyefa, National President/Coordinator of Youth Action on Tobacco and Health (YATCH) and one of the African Regional Coordinators of the Global Youth Action on Tobacco (GYAT), in an interview with the media houses implored the Federal Government of Nigeria to support the passage of the Bill on Tobacco Control presently in the Nigerian National Assembly and also mandated the big tobacco operating in Nigeria to inscribe pictorial warnings on all tobacco products and desist from luring the youth into the habit of tobacco smoking.
The following creative talks were presented at the programme by the youth and for the youth:
The overview and brief remarks on this year’s WNTD celebration BY Bamidele Kogbe
The Need For Pictorial Warnings by Seye Omiyefa
Why You Should Join the Campaign Against Tobacco by Olamide Ogunnika
Documentary film of the 14th World Conference on Tobacco Or Health, “The Mumbai Experience”
Educare Trust’s ideals and ideas against tobacco by Daniel Henshaw
The closing remarks by Taiwo Ogundimu
Yele Olaseinde anchored the programme
Yours sincerely
Bamidele Kogbe
2009 WNTD Educare Trust Programme Cordinator.
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
AWAKENING THE YOUTH FROM FADING DREAMS
“Dream youth are youth of purpose. You want to work “anywhere” that pays well. I’m sure that’s the answer I will get if I ask many of you where you want to work. That answer is what you get from a person who does not know his purpose in life. This is about the worst thing that can happen to any human being”
These were some of the thrilling words of Miss Ngonzi Nwozor, the editor of Campuslife and guest speaker, last Thursday at the orientation programme of the faculty of Business and Communication Studies Students Association, (FABCOMSSA) The Polytechnic Ibadan. Nigeria
In her lecture themed “ The Youths’ Roles Towards Evolving Our Dream Nigeria”, Miss Nwozor described the Nigerian youth with the present realities as failure if the social stakeholders like parents, leaders including the pastors and imams do not take measures to ascertain that the young people in this country get their purpose in life clear with sturdy pursuits. She put a challenge to the leaders and attributed the blame to them, “if what we have as the “Nigerian Factor” today is the best they could bequeath to us… compared to their own time, the future indeed is bleak, if we have young people that are already failures”
She therefore charged the students that despite the bleak future with the failures of most youth, there is still good news that something can be done from now on. The students must see themselves as ambassadors with enormous responsibilities on their part to the humanity and for the betterment of our dear Nigeria.
To share this vision and the viability of “Dream Nigeria”, the speaker referred the students to Friedrich Nietzsche’s book, “The Will to Power” to understand the true essence of life and its purpose. She made it clear that a purposeless life is a meaningless life. Only a purposeful life makes meaning out of life by living to make people happy without being self-centered and exploitative at the disadvantage of people around you. The students were advised against a pursuit of best comfort at whatever cost to others. Living to make impact or to leave glory and greatness in the wake of the youth is an honourable life that can make a Dream Nigeria a reality. No one outside the boundary of this country will embrace this life of purpose on our behalf; the onus lies with the youth.
Miss Nwozor advised the students to be renewed as postulated by the great German Friedrich Nietzsche, ‘each of you must be renewed in his thinking. To be renewed means to be restored, to be reaffirmed, to regain or restore the physical or mental vigour of an essence.’ However, becoming a renewed youth, she said “the object of renewal must make him/herself available for the act of renewal to take place. The students were urged to make themselves available to be refined for the renewal so that the objectivity will not be defeated. This is because, “renewal cannot be delegated”.
Elucidating the roles of the renewed youth, she divided the roles into two broad parts first - personal roles that relate to spiritual responsibility with God, self and the immediate family; the second is the community roles that relate to the community service, neighbourhood, or institution and nation.
The speaker explained the personal roles “ our personal responsibility to God is primary, first and foremost while self role deals with the understanding and evaluation of individual SHAPE and SWOT. You must know your place, your gifting and your purpose. You must evaluate your SHAPE (spiritual gift, Heart/Passion, Abilities, Personalities and Experience) and SWOT (Strength, Weakness, Opportunities and Threats) and align these to God’s perspective. Put in all that is needed to acquire the necessary training and education to sharpen them. You also need discipline integrity, diligence and sincerity.”
The speaker never failed to remind the thrilled audience to learn and practice financial prudence, conduct self-examination and never for any reason be idle. She prodded them to find something to do now and have faith in God for best guidance.
Miss Ngozi Nwozor concluded by charging the youth to believe that our dream Nigeria is real and can come to life, if we share the vision and defy its impossibility like the big Dream of Martin Luther King that gives birth to President Barack Hussein Obama;’s wind of change in the United State of America.
“ We talk about a dream Nigeria because of you. Most people over 30 (age) are diehard cynics who are convinced that Nigeria is a write off. Funny, these are the first people who do everything to undermine constituted authorities and leadership. If it is not about the immediate gratification they would get, they won’t support anything (good).
“ I don’t share such people’s belief. I want to believe you are not like that. If you were, you would not have invited me, knowing what I stand for through my writings. I have a dream that every Nigerian who has seen the inside of a higher institution will understand his or her purpose and give its realization everything it takes. I have a dream that we will no longer separate our service to God from our service to this nation. I have a dream that we will bring the essence of Nigeria to life by living out our purposes Both are intertwine.
The chairman of the occasion, the dean of the faculty, Mr. Femi Aramide, represented by the HOD of Marketing, Mr. Akin Alagbe, congratulated the newly admitted students of the faculty and enjoined them to know the children of whom they were that they should work hard for excellence and never forget their primary objectives in the institution
In his welcome speech, the FABCOMSSA president, Comrade Alimi Muyideen thanked the faculty officers and the departmental heads for their continuous support to the association. He also thanked the guest speaker, Miss Ngozi Nwozor, the editor of Campuslife for honouring their invitation to motivate and inspire the students to actions for the betterment of The Polytechnic Ibadan community and Nigeria as a whole. .
Reacting to the lecture, in the interviews conducted with the participants, the students expressed their feelings about lecture. .
Adeleke Adefowope, HNDI a student of music technology department, “the presentation of Miss Nwozer really thrilled me and from now on I am in the renewed process for a purposeful life”
Yussuff Sakiru, is an HNDI student of Marketing department, “the lecture was full of inspiring messages that Nigerian undergraduates must pay attention to and act them out for betterment of our nation”
Hamzat Sukurat is an HNDII student of Mass Communication, “the lecturer is heavy and quite inspiring, to the speaker, I doff my that”
Tijani Sarafat Foyeke is HNDII student of secretariat Administration, “what a motivating lecture with an apt presenter, today has a special date in my memory”
Kiki Abidemi is an NDII student of public Administration “the lecturer is very good and inspiring. I like the way the speaker delivered the message”
Mary Dennis, Miss Olori Hall and NDII student of public Administration department, “the lecture is full of dreams and lesson for the future”
The president of the faculty, comrade Alim also had this to say, “my orientation was changed by the powerful lecturer and made me realized that one’s achievements is not mainly on property acquisition or a number of certificates gotten but the significant impacts one is able to make in the life of others”
Other Student’s leaders in attendance included the SUG president com Salau Ibrahim, Union’s treasurer comrade Adekoya Suliat, Miss Poly, Departmental presidents and their executives.
These were some of the thrilling words of Miss Ngonzi Nwozor, the editor of Campuslife and guest speaker, last Thursday at the orientation programme of the faculty of Business and Communication Studies Students Association, (FABCOMSSA) The Polytechnic Ibadan. Nigeria
In her lecture themed “ The Youths’ Roles Towards Evolving Our Dream Nigeria”, Miss Nwozor described the Nigerian youth with the present realities as failure if the social stakeholders like parents, leaders including the pastors and imams do not take measures to ascertain that the young people in this country get their purpose in life clear with sturdy pursuits. She put a challenge to the leaders and attributed the blame to them, “if what we have as the “Nigerian Factor” today is the best they could bequeath to us… compared to their own time, the future indeed is bleak, if we have young people that are already failures”
She therefore charged the students that despite the bleak future with the failures of most youth, there is still good news that something can be done from now on. The students must see themselves as ambassadors with enormous responsibilities on their part to the humanity and for the betterment of our dear Nigeria.
To share this vision and the viability of “Dream Nigeria”, the speaker referred the students to Friedrich Nietzsche’s book, “The Will to Power” to understand the true essence of life and its purpose. She made it clear that a purposeless life is a meaningless life. Only a purposeful life makes meaning out of life by living to make people happy without being self-centered and exploitative at the disadvantage of people around you. The students were advised against a pursuit of best comfort at whatever cost to others. Living to make impact or to leave glory and greatness in the wake of the youth is an honourable life that can make a Dream Nigeria a reality. No one outside the boundary of this country will embrace this life of purpose on our behalf; the onus lies with the youth.
Miss Nwozor advised the students to be renewed as postulated by the great German Friedrich Nietzsche, ‘each of you must be renewed in his thinking. To be renewed means to be restored, to be reaffirmed, to regain or restore the physical or mental vigour of an essence.’ However, becoming a renewed youth, she said “the object of renewal must make him/herself available for the act of renewal to take place. The students were urged to make themselves available to be refined for the renewal so that the objectivity will not be defeated. This is because, “renewal cannot be delegated”.
Elucidating the roles of the renewed youth, she divided the roles into two broad parts first - personal roles that relate to spiritual responsibility with God, self and the immediate family; the second is the community roles that relate to the community service, neighbourhood, or institution and nation.
The speaker explained the personal roles “ our personal responsibility to God is primary, first and foremost while self role deals with the understanding and evaluation of individual SHAPE and SWOT. You must know your place, your gifting and your purpose. You must evaluate your SHAPE (spiritual gift, Heart/Passion, Abilities, Personalities and Experience) and SWOT (Strength, Weakness, Opportunities and Threats) and align these to God’s perspective. Put in all that is needed to acquire the necessary training and education to sharpen them. You also need discipline integrity, diligence and sincerity.”
The speaker never failed to remind the thrilled audience to learn and practice financial prudence, conduct self-examination and never for any reason be idle. She prodded them to find something to do now and have faith in God for best guidance.
Miss Ngozi Nwozor concluded by charging the youth to believe that our dream Nigeria is real and can come to life, if we share the vision and defy its impossibility like the big Dream of Martin Luther King that gives birth to President Barack Hussein Obama;’s wind of change in the United State of America.
“ We talk about a dream Nigeria because of you. Most people over 30 (age) are diehard cynics who are convinced that Nigeria is a write off. Funny, these are the first people who do everything to undermine constituted authorities and leadership. If it is not about the immediate gratification they would get, they won’t support anything (good).
“ I don’t share such people’s belief. I want to believe you are not like that. If you were, you would not have invited me, knowing what I stand for through my writings. I have a dream that every Nigerian who has seen the inside of a higher institution will understand his or her purpose and give its realization everything it takes. I have a dream that we will no longer separate our service to God from our service to this nation. I have a dream that we will bring the essence of Nigeria to life by living out our purposes Both are intertwine.
The chairman of the occasion, the dean of the faculty, Mr. Femi Aramide, represented by the HOD of Marketing, Mr. Akin Alagbe, congratulated the newly admitted students of the faculty and enjoined them to know the children of whom they were that they should work hard for excellence and never forget their primary objectives in the institution
In his welcome speech, the FABCOMSSA president, Comrade Alimi Muyideen thanked the faculty officers and the departmental heads for their continuous support to the association. He also thanked the guest speaker, Miss Ngozi Nwozor, the editor of Campuslife for honouring their invitation to motivate and inspire the students to actions for the betterment of The Polytechnic Ibadan community and Nigeria as a whole. .
Reacting to the lecture, in the interviews conducted with the participants, the students expressed their feelings about lecture. .
Adeleke Adefowope, HNDI a student of music technology department, “the presentation of Miss Nwozer really thrilled me and from now on I am in the renewed process for a purposeful life”
Yussuff Sakiru, is an HNDI student of Marketing department, “the lecture was full of inspiring messages that Nigerian undergraduates must pay attention to and act them out for betterment of our nation”
Hamzat Sukurat is an HNDII student of Mass Communication, “the lecturer is heavy and quite inspiring, to the speaker, I doff my that”
Tijani Sarafat Foyeke is HNDII student of secretariat Administration, “what a motivating lecture with an apt presenter, today has a special date in my memory”
Kiki Abidemi is an NDII student of public Administration “the lecturer is very good and inspiring. I like the way the speaker delivered the message”
Mary Dennis, Miss Olori Hall and NDII student of public Administration department, “the lecture is full of dreams and lesson for the future”
The president of the faculty, comrade Alim also had this to say, “my orientation was changed by the powerful lecturer and made me realized that one’s achievements is not mainly on property acquisition or a number of certificates gotten but the significant impacts one is able to make in the life of others”
Other Student’s leaders in attendance included the SUG president com Salau Ibrahim, Union’s treasurer comrade Adekoya Suliat, Miss Poly, Departmental presidents and their executives.
BUILDING TOMORROW TODAY-Bamidele Kogbe
The logical reasons behind a thought provoking intellectual criticism and evenhanded recommendations by many a change-loving Nigerian writer for a meaningful development of our dear country, had been a drive for me as an undergraduate to estrange the muteness in the polity that needs the voice and the pen of the constructive critics and political analysts in the crucial period of another dawn of democratic dispensation where the trumpets of instructions and warning should be held blowing into the ears of the new peddlers of the boats of our political leadership.
Nigeria is our own and we must not fold our hands watching her heading to the way of destruction. It is a common saying that the future of any society depends on the foresights that its leaders have and the precedence laid behind for the people that belong to the future. Today, the current political bourgeoisies in the society who pay little or no attention to the career of the children of the less privileged citizens in the country had bargained for Nigeria’s future. The pupils in the public schools despite, the media hype of the universal basic education still lack the essence of schooling; imagine a form of education system where ignorance and illiteracy is celebrated in our young children who by the unfortunate wishes of their parents land in the classes of public schools.
Whenever, I see those children that compose the junior chamber, I respect their background. I salute the logic behind their reasons, their words creation and the orientation that brought them to the fore. These are Nigerian children who are being nurtured with patriotic spirit and the appreciation of Nigerian values. These young promising leaders stand a good position for our common country tomorrow. They are already treading the path of our great heroes. In a true fact, how many children of the common Nigerian parents are parts of these upcoming creams of the crops? We should remember as will breed the future leaders that we must take the cognizance of equity. Otherwise, the bred ones will rise, the unnurtured ones may forgive but the reality beacons the defiance and liabilities that they seemingly become to ‘the nurtured’, and ‘the society’ which in all facets will cripple the progressive move of the country.
Our public tertiary educational system deserves a glorious return of academic excellence. The system is nothing now but a ‘refuge’ of a created class of citizens whose parents have to drudge every day and night to ascertain their educational break through. This, among other factors, had greatly contributed to the vice and abysses in our social culture. The reading culture is dead and must be revived towards the resurgence of the academic system of our dream. The administration of President Musa Yar’adua should create a learning atmosphere that is well academic and conducive for both the students and the lecturers. If our humble president could reestablish Students Loans Schemes it will encourage the scholarship among the ready Nigerian students who had been denied the right to education.
The idea of establishing more than a "Youth Care Center" in every political ward is a very good step to build good future for our tomorrow. All lovers of a cultured and crime-free society should embrace the idea. The NOA, National Orientation Agency should also see reasons in it. Let our political office holders, the erstwhile and the hitherto should try to give back to the society part of what society has given to them. They should immortalize their names in the Nigerian history. One of the ways to do this is the establishment of their personal "Youths Care Centre" that will see to the mental and social development of those that will lead Nigeria tomorrow.
The federal, state and local governments should please create a fair play ground for every Nigerian citizen that has good contribution for our social economic and political development. The less-privileged youths should be helped, and encouraged by the government so that they have the sense of belonging in the Nigerian polity.
Thus, the history is set to justify the action of today of every leading man to tell tomorrow when the unprinted memory might have faded away. What do you want people to remember you for when you leave office? This is because, immediately, "a child is born, people get the pen for his record in order to paint him without prejudice when he returns to his source".
Nigeria is our own and we must not fold our hands watching her heading to the way of destruction. It is a common saying that the future of any society depends on the foresights that its leaders have and the precedence laid behind for the people that belong to the future. Today, the current political bourgeoisies in the society who pay little or no attention to the career of the children of the less privileged citizens in the country had bargained for Nigeria’s future. The pupils in the public schools despite, the media hype of the universal basic education still lack the essence of schooling; imagine a form of education system where ignorance and illiteracy is celebrated in our young children who by the unfortunate wishes of their parents land in the classes of public schools.
Whenever, I see those children that compose the junior chamber, I respect their background. I salute the logic behind their reasons, their words creation and the orientation that brought them to the fore. These are Nigerian children who are being nurtured with patriotic spirit and the appreciation of Nigerian values. These young promising leaders stand a good position for our common country tomorrow. They are already treading the path of our great heroes. In a true fact, how many children of the common Nigerian parents are parts of these upcoming creams of the crops? We should remember as will breed the future leaders that we must take the cognizance of equity. Otherwise, the bred ones will rise, the unnurtured ones may forgive but the reality beacons the defiance and liabilities that they seemingly become to ‘the nurtured’, and ‘the society’ which in all facets will cripple the progressive move of the country.
Our public tertiary educational system deserves a glorious return of academic excellence. The system is nothing now but a ‘refuge’ of a created class of citizens whose parents have to drudge every day and night to ascertain their educational break through. This, among other factors, had greatly contributed to the vice and abysses in our social culture. The reading culture is dead and must be revived towards the resurgence of the academic system of our dream. The administration of President Musa Yar’adua should create a learning atmosphere that is well academic and conducive for both the students and the lecturers. If our humble president could reestablish Students Loans Schemes it will encourage the scholarship among the ready Nigerian students who had been denied the right to education.
The idea of establishing more than a "Youth Care Center" in every political ward is a very good step to build good future for our tomorrow. All lovers of a cultured and crime-free society should embrace the idea. The NOA, National Orientation Agency should also see reasons in it. Let our political office holders, the erstwhile and the hitherto should try to give back to the society part of what society has given to them. They should immortalize their names in the Nigerian history. One of the ways to do this is the establishment of their personal "Youths Care Centre" that will see to the mental and social development of those that will lead Nigeria tomorrow.
The federal, state and local governments should please create a fair play ground for every Nigerian citizen that has good contribution for our social economic and political development. The less-privileged youths should be helped, and encouraged by the government so that they have the sense of belonging in the Nigerian polity.
Thus, the history is set to justify the action of today of every leading man to tell tomorrow when the unprinted memory might have faded away. What do you want people to remember you for when you leave office? This is because, immediately, "a child is born, people get the pen for his record in order to paint him without prejudice when he returns to his source".
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