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LG NEWS ACADEMY ORGANISES ONE DAY SEMINAR FOR YOUTHS
BY LEO EZEKIEL
Speaking to the participants at the Moremi Meeting Room, Lagos Sheraton Hotel and Suites, Bank Anthony way, Ikeja, Lagos at the LG News Academy organises one day seminar for youths. Hon Kamal Bayewu, chairman Local Government Service Commission stated the theme of the LG News Academy one day Seminar Leadership, Development and Values speaks volume adding that to be a good leader, the leader must be physically available for those he or she is leading positively not negatively, because the leader must be visible for all and sundry to notice. Speaking again to the participants the Local Government Service Commission Chairman Hon Bayewu stated that even in a classroom one is visible whether the person comes out on top as the best student or the last student, that both of them are visible, adding that the leader must see himself or herself as somebody who is ready to help peoples from whatever situations, they are involved by showing them empathy as he added again that the leader must be able to adapt to the environment, because the leader had to adapt to the environment, again the leader must have followership and if as a leader nobody is following the leader, therefore it means that the self-acclaimed leader is not a leader to the peoples he or she portends to be leading.
Speaking further to the audience Hon Bayewu stated that a leader without a followership is just taking a stroll, adding that the leader must have a vision, where does the leader wishes to be, as the leader must have sharp intellects to know what affects his or her peoples, and as well as that the leader does not need to quit because though times fizzle away, but, though leaders do not quit, because a good leader must prepare himself or herself for the great task ahead. Speaking further to the audience Hon Bayewu says that as a leader one does not need to deceive himself or herself as the leader sees himself or herself as leader of today as the leader must take it up programmatically to champion the situations that affect his or her peoples adding that the breakdown of the values within the system and he suggested that the only thing to be done is to remedy what has gone wrong with the values system.
Speaking again to the audience he says that when they were growing up that they had good mentorship and mentoring system adding that they was good mentorship from their parents in the old good days and as well as that any child was not only the child of his or her parents, but, that the said child belongs to the entire community, because the child runs for errands for his or her parents and as well as runs errands for others within the community. Speaking further to the participants Hon Bayewu says that when they were growing up that there was a communal life for all and sundry, which he says sadly that the good communal life has disappeared into thin air adding that there are no more systems within the body polity.
He stated that as at today if one is a money bag, the so- called money bag sends his or her children to abroad for further education adding that when they go to abroad, he queried whether they are learning the cultures of Nigeria or they are learning the white man’s cultures and he says that these things are the ones that is breaking down the values system and he also stated that there has to be effective communications within the body polity. Speaking again to the audience the erudite scholar Hon Bayewu stated that there has to be family communications by telling the children the right things at all times regardless whose ox is gored and he says that if parents are not able to correct their children aright, that is why there is general break down of the values system, but, again, he says that these break down of the values system can still be corrected by organizing a seminar like what LG News Academy is doing today, let the people to know that it is not all about profitability as some politicians come for employability while some of them come for service.
Speaking further to the audience the ebullient lead speaker Hon Bayewu stated if any leader comes up for employability he or she would not be able to offer good service to the generality of Nigerians adding that the whole nation needs to go back to base so that the warped values could be corrected adding that the government should provide more of skill acquisition centres so that people could learn various trainings which would employ them and as well as employ others within the body polity. He says that the children are doing well, as he added that in those days apart from going to schools, that one still goes to technical schools, to learn one trade or the other, as Lawyers are now fashion designers, Lawyers are now creative managers and he says that this is diversification and if the diversification is properly done, then it is not only looking for white collar jobs, because those that are doing other businesses are not captured, to other skill areas and if that is done the employability rate would be there for the teeming youths because not the universities, polythenics and colleges of education could provide skill acquisitions and entrepreneurial skills alongside with ICT skills.
Speaking with journalists the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of LG News Academy Mr. Tunde Jankada stated that this is the 10th year the LG News Academy has been holding series of seminars and workshops for Nigerian Youths and that today seminar at Moremi Meeting Room, Lagos Sheraton Hotel and Suites, Bank Anthony way Ikeja, Lagos with the theme of Leadership Development and Values do really meant a lot to improving and sensitizing the open consciousness of the Nigerians Youths for the Leadership roles ahead of them. He says that the management of LG News Academy has taken careful steps in assembling erudite scholars as speakers to handle various subject matters that would propel the Nigerian youths to a greater heights of leadership attainment in the nearest future adding that LG News Academy is poised to change the narratives that Nigeria Youths are not lazy as President Muhammadu Buhari alluded some years back.
He says that all the Nigeria Youths do need an adequate knowledge, information enabling environment et’al to operate and function optimally because the wind of change in leadership is blowing globally. Speaking with journalists the Auditor General of Local Governments Mrs. Idiat Abolarin stated that the warped value in the body polity is as a result of most parents not able to put down their legs on the grounds to discipline their children and wards adding that the Holy Bible says that parents should train up their children and wards in the ways of God so that when they grow up they would not depart from the Godly ways, they had been raised up morally.
She says that LG News Academy got to be commended for the uncommon contributions she is adding to make the entire space of Nigeria Youths to be properly prepared for the herculean task of leadership ahead of them. Delivering her paper presentation on Harnessing the Potential of Young Women For Leadership Position and of a truth she did not disappoint the participants most especially the women folks that attended one day seminar of LG News Academy. She wrote out a poem on women as she says that women are hospitable receptive, cooperative, tolerable, affectionate, helpful, graceful, positive attitudes, tender, empathic, elegant, kindhearted, that women should be able to douse tensions at all times that women should use the words of Grace at all situations, women must have a balanced life and that women should have a good family, good friends, good health, good wealth and above all that women should be spiritually minded at all times.
And, again, she says that women should be softhearted, that women should always welcome all and sundry at all given times, that women should put honor before naira and dollars, women should not destroy others when climbing and that women should possess integrity to pull themselves through and she encouraged the women participants to look up for women leaders that have made marks in changing the narratives of leadership globally and these women are Angele Merkel – Chancellor of Germany, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf former President of Liberal first female president elected, Michelle Bachelet former President of Chile, Judy Smith Crisis Manager, United State, Janet Yellen Chair of the Federal Reserve, United State of America, Helle Thorning Schimidity former Prime Minster of Denmark, others are Loretta Lynch former Attorney General USA, Park Creunhye former President of South Korea, Christine Lagarde, Managing Director International Monetary, Tsailing – Wen President of Republic of China, Theresa May former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Idiats Abolarin Auditor-General Local Government et’al.
Speaking to the audience the Director General PSSDC, Magado Lagos Dr Ajose Harrison who represented the Head of Service Lagos State Mr. Hakeem Muri Okunola and of a truth he did extremely well with his scholarly expose on the theme leadership, development and values. And other great speaker is Prince Sunday Olujobi, Chair Body of Council Managers Lagos State and he too did extremely well with his celebral presentations on Climbing the Ladder of Success. Another speaker again, Mr. Ibrahim Odumbon, Managing Director and CEO of Lagos State Waste Management Authority LAWMA and he was ably represented by Akinleye Kayode Akeem Director Public Affairs LAWMA he also did unimaginably well with his own presentations which dwelled on Discovering Innate Responsibilities of Leaderships and he used lots of models of youths who became leaders in all parts of the globe at their youthful ages examples are Gowon 31, Ojukwu 32, Kaduna Nzeogu 30, Victor Banjo 29, Barrack Obama 40 +, Emmanuel Macron of France 41 et’al. He encouraged the participants to be focused driven and engage themselves positively at all times.
Another speaker is Mike Egbayelo who delivers his presentations on a paper which used the past industrial age, computer age, internet age currently ongoing on a global space and he concurs that in the year 2030 that Robots will do most of the functions that human beings are doing now. At the end of the one day Youths seminar certificates of attendance were issues to the participants
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