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42—SATURDAY Vanguard, OCTOBER 16, 2021 Nigeria needs transformational leadership to attain economic growth, says SCCF Boss Stories by Moses Nosike ollowing the present Fleadership challenges in the country, the future leadership conference, the preventive arm of the Second Chance Care Foundation and annual gathering of young professionals drawn from various disciplines across Nigeria believes all hope is not lost for Nigeria. The group which is strategically conceptualized to promote the spirit of leadership and entrepreneurial consciousness amongst young Nigerians is of the opinion that Nigeria needs transformational leadership to join in the community of common wealth nations, hence the sixth edition of its future leadership conference. Speaking more on the group, the Founder/Executive Director, Second Change Care Foundation and the Convener of Future Leadership Conference, Mark Idiahi, it provides supports to individual initiatives as well as empowering those who are committed to personal transformation for the purpose of facilitating societal transformation at all levels of our society. “It is a fact that leadership has been our collective albatross as a nation and it will not be out of place to prepare our youths for the future challenges of Leadership in Nigeria. This sixth edition of Future Leadership Conference is in strategic partnership with Chartered Institute of Strategic Managers and Leaders”. According to Idiahi, we are working assiduously towards ensuring that we use this opportunity to change the narratives of leadership in Founder/CEO, SCCF, middle, Mark Idiahi and his workers during press conference for the forthcoming 6th edition conference. Nigeria. It is more obvious now than ever that the trouble and concerns about the issue of leadership in Nigeria will thrive without the appropriate workable model of leadership. “As a nation, we have domesticated different kinds of leaderships in Nigeria but unfortunately they have all not being able to resolve our collective developmental issues. It is a collective desire for most Nigerians that we have the right and appropriate model of leadership because the sufferings due to failed leadership have hit the roof. Hence, our quest for transformational model of leadership in addressing the quagmires of failed leadership. The theme for FLC 6.0 2021 is Transformational leadership: An Antidote to Nigeria’s Leadership Quagmire. We have extended invitations to two distinguished personalities to deliver keynote papers on the theme from different perspectives. This is to give the audience a robust comprehension of transformational leadership. Dr Bashir Yusuf Jamoh, the current Director General of Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency has been invited as the Lead Keynote Speaker. Nneaka Onyeali-Ikpe, Managing Director of Fidelity Bank Plc is the Adjunct Keynote Speaker. She is expected to speak on the conference theme from the entrepreneurship perspective. The years conference and award ceremony will be holding on Saturday 30th October but at two different venues. The conference holds at the Nigeria Institute of International Affairs while the awards ceremony is scheduled for Oriental Hotel, Lagos. read more on www.vanguardngr.com Felix King Foundation is one of those non governmental and non profit organisations that refuses to see widows cry. The founder, Dr. Felix King has been doing this with joy and at the same time takes it as a divine calling. Before now, he was funding it with his personal earnings without soliciting help from anywhere. So, far, thousands of widows have r e c e i v e d consolation through the Foundation since their late husbands abandoned them with children with increased family responsibilities while nobody is coming to their rescue from anywhere. These added burdens have seen of their children dropped out of schools, especially since the advent of Covid-19 living has been difficult for these widows and their children to cope. However, having seen the importance of this humanitarian service embarked over the years by Felix King Foundation, a US based organisation, Organisation of World Leaders has decided to join the Foundation in partnership to support the more these widows living among us. Speaking recently on a programme to empower more widows for self-reliance, Dr. Felix King said that the challenges widows go through in this part of the world is unimaginable. “So, what we had decided to do was that at the beginning of this Toc ochukwu, Oluwarotimi, Ginika, emerge winners s at Act ctor ors Crib Africa Reality TV V Show T he organisers of Actors Crib Africa Reality TV Show had done a good job gathering some African youths especially Nigerians impacting on them knowledge, training that could help them unleash their potentials and as well create jobs for themselves and other upcoming youths in the society. However, as the Season One of the Actors Crib Africa Reality TV Show ends on a good note as contestants and winners chart freely with journalists relating their experiences. Commenting, one of the organisers, Executive Chairman, Stretchout Group, Dr Stanley Acho, said, “we decided to have this show having discovered there is a gap in the film industry. There is no known school where people who are naturally talented are trained and horn their skills for them to become professionals. On a lighter note, more than 10,000 applied, and the contestants were reduced it to 200, to 50 and to 30, and now 30 of them entered the house and 18 has been evicted and now there are 12 contestants that will compete for the grand prize at the end of the day. The winner gets a car, $20,000 worth of deals while the first runner up gets $3,000 worth of deals and second runner up gets $2,000 worth of deals. Also, to ensure that Actors Crib Africa Reality TV Show delivered its desired expectations, Madiba Group and its subsidiaries played a lead sponsorship. The General Manager, Kohinoor and Head of Operations, Mandiba Group, Ubanwa Oyudo, said, “We are the lead sponsor of Actors Crib Africa Reality TV Show, and we decided to venture into this show L-R: 2nd runner-up Ulasi Maureen Ginika; winner, Tochukwu Johnbosco Amuluche and 1st runner-up Okutagidi Oluwarotimi Michael at the just concluded Actors Crib Africa Reality TV Show, season one, held in Lagos. because we have the fair to sponsor and support the youths. We like raw talents, we believe in developing the society and we saw that it is going to be an avenue of giving back to the society in as much as we believe that we want to make country better for Nigerians. My name is Tochukwu Johnbosco Amuluche aka PEEJAY: I’m the winner, Actors Crib Africa Reality TV Show, Season One. The hurdle was not easy. I think is all about being focused and work towards it if you know what you want. That was the key point that helped me. My experience is something that till tomorrow, next year I would remain grateful to the organisers. As an actor before now I thought it is all about acting only. I never knew there are some technics, some things I needed to know. So, after spending 30 days in the house I became better than I came. I’m a skit maker and also a businessman. I won a car and $20,000 worth of deals. I have a plan of giving back to the society, and I’m going to give full time for the entertainment industry. Okutagidi Oluwarotimi Michael aka Durotimi: I am in my final year in Federal University of Technology, (FUTA), Akure, Ondo State. I am student of Fisheries and Aquaculture Technology. Coming to this competition was majorly to expose myself to acting that I was not so good at. I came to learn and to build myself to become stable and have knowledge so that I can take Nollywood to the next level, which is my dream. Felix King Foundation, OWL empower another set of widows •Target 1000 before year end As first runner up, I won $3,000 worth of deals. I’m going to establish a production studio where young people will also be trained. The organizers are a force to be reckoned with. Ulasi Maureen Ginika: I’m from Anambra state. This is my first time of participating in TV Show. I saw the advert on Instagram and I applied because I always like entertainment. So here I am on Actors Crib Africa Reality TV Show. I’m the 2nd runner up and star girl gim. Before emerging as the 2nd runner up, there was a commercial we were asked to do at one of the hotels at Lekki in the course of the programme. I won the commercial which made me become a brand ambassador of the company and with a prize of N100,000.00 attached to it. As the 2nd Runner up, I’m entitled to $2,000 worth of deals. R-L: Dr Felix King presenting a cheque to a widow middle with Dr. Dee Dawkins-Haigler left year, we gave ourselves a target of reaching 1000 widows by December 31, 2021. And our strategy is not just giving these women fishes but giving them net, try to help them stand again”. According him, we know that Covid-19 actually did a lot of havoc, unfortunately the people who were going to find difficult to recover are women, most especially widows. “The highest percentage of children that wouldn’t be able to go back to school belong to these set of people. The highest percentage of people that die everyday from malaria belong to these set of people. The highest percentage of people who cannot cope anymore belong to these people”. Continuing, Dr. Felix said that for the past 6 years we have tried ignore going into partnership with anybody. “Everything you see till this moment is 100% Felix King Foundation effort. But of late I went to the US, people were asking why don’t you look for people who will support you or partner what you are doing, and I said I’m not ready, let me do what God has directed me to and I’m doing it within my power. When Dee spoke to me and said, allow us to be part of what you are doing, it came at the right time when outside the country, what people are thinking about Nigeria is negative. So when you see somebody who is from America thinking positive things, that was a major motivation for me to say yes to her request. I believe so much in Nigeria and there is no place as good as this country. Let’s forget all the negative that is going on, every country has its own problem, and that is the reality”. read more on www.vanguardngr.com L-R: Deputy Chief Financial Officer, TVC Communications, Victoria Ajayi; Executive Chairman, Ikosi Isheri LCDA, Princess Samiat Abolanle Bada; Director, People Culture, Experience & Operations, TVC Communications, Kemi Shonubi, and Head, Corporate Communications, PR & Digital, TVC Communications, Mabel Aladenusi - Adeteye; at the 2021 TVC Communications Child Health Day Symposium in Lagos.
Take away the freebies from the international engagements of national sports teams and see the restoration of sanity into Nigerian sports administration, accountability in funding, less crisis and fair process in the elections in sports federations, and focus on development of domestic sports. It is as simple as that, really. The scramble for offices within Nigerian sports associations/federations is largely motivated by the opportunities to reap from the largesse of international travels, estacode allowances, bonuses and access to sponsorship monies, all of which are largely never properly accounted for to anybody. I am beginning to sound like a broken record, saying the same things over and over again, and hardly being heard. Yet, my responsibility to sport is never to be deterred. My over four decades of an unbroken relationship with sports is valuable experience and knowledge that cannot be bought in the market place. Looking at how messy the sports landscape has become today, those experiences can also not be disregarded. If we do not know where we are going in sports, at least we know where we are coming from. That is the wisdom to apply in the current situation in Nigerian basketball, a crisis that is reflective of a general situation in many other sports, strangulated by inexperience with challenges that are now beginning to look intractable. Unfortunately, most of those that know ‘where we are coming from’, because they were active participants when a National Sports Policy document piloted sports development in the country are no longer in the sports ecosystem to provide the needed light and guidance through the present dark clouds. The Sports Ministry, the supervisory body responsible for sports direction in the country has lost a lot of experienced and knowledgeable sports administrators to retirements without adequate replacements. There is hardly anyone left in the system to properly guide the Ministry in putting Nigerian sports back on track after the systemic ‘derailment’ that occurred under the watch of Amos Adamu, who became the most powerful man in the history of Nigerian sports administration, but was not well-grounded in the original foundations laid and vision for Nigerian sports development. He remained for too long in the system, impacting and influencing the direction in which sports would go after him. Since his exit, most effort to put the train back on track have been truncated because the deviations from the original course were too far gone. Also, administrators across all of sports had tasted the sweet juices and rewards of short-cuts, convoluted processes and systems, easy money, dilution of the role and responsibilities of government resulting in a new scramble for sports offices, manipulated processes for electing sports association boards, politicization of sports, and the inevitable creation of friction and conflict between government, stakeholders and sports associations. His successors tried but failed to change the course of sports that became mired and wandering in the ‘errors’ of new constructs that are based on fanciful and untested theories and not reality - new ideas anchored to a weak SATURDAY VANGUARD, OCTOBER 16, 2021 — 43 Who is in charge of Nigeria’s national sports teams? foundation, like new wine in an old wine bottle. So, the crisis deepened and lingered unendingly. Whereas, the answer is like a low hanging fruit, almost too simple to be true – the sports ministry must discard its ‘fear’ of perceived and unfounded international sanctions and take decisive charge over its own responsibilities, and render proper supervision, without fear or favour. It cannot surrender any of its primary roles and responsibilities to sports associations that are not equipped in any way to carry such responsibilities no matter their bluff or posturing. The first step to progress is a return to the structure that puts a National Sports Commission, with the right leadership and structures in place, to pilot Nigerian sports going forward. That is an imperative without which the decay will continue under a ministry structure as we have seen through previous and present experiences. It does not work, with the burden of bureaucracy in government slowing down, and even halting, proper development. The current basketball crisis provides a good casestudy and a reminder on how not to attend competitions and treat the welfare of Sports Personality of the Year award: Pamodzi hails Shaibu Foremost Sports Marketing outfit in Nigeria and organiser of the silver label Okpekpe international 10km road race, Pamodzi Sports Marketing Nigeria Limited has congratulated Rt. Honourable Comrade Philip Shaibu, the Edo State Deputy Governor on his award as the Sports Personality of year (2020) by The Sun newspaper. In a statement signed by Mike Itemuagbor, its Chief Executive Officer, the Edo Deputy Governor’s choice as the Sports Personality of 2020 is a perfect recognition of his untiring efforts at repositioning sports in Edo state and Nigeria. ‘’ I rejoice with you on this occasion of your award as the Sports Personality of the year 2020. On behalf of the management and staff of Pamodzi Sports Marketing Nigeria Limited, please accept our warmest congratulations on your deserved award,’ wrote Itemuagbor who insists The Sun Newspaper has made the best choice for the award. ‘I must say that your award is one of the best choices ever made by the board of editors of The Sun newspaper in the area of sports development. ‘No doubt, you have worked tirelessly to reposition sports in our native land of Edo state in particular and Nigeria in general. So, you are a perfect choice,’ the statement read further.’’ The Pamodzi CEO also thanked ‘His Excellency, Godwin Obaseki, the Governor of the state for providing the enabling environment that has led to the huge development in the sports sector.’ Edo state hosted what has been described as the best National Sports Festival ever in April under the supervision of the Deputy Governor. The state is also home of the first road race in West Africa to be granted a World Athletics label, the Okpekpe international Whereas, the answer is like a low hanging fruit, almost too simple to be true – the sports ministry must discard its ‘fear’ of perceived and unfounded international sanctions and take decisive charge 10km road race and ‘both the Governor Obaseki and Comrade Shaibu have been a strong part of it from its conception and have been a solid pillar of support to the historic and enviable height it has attained.’ athletes. Monies meant for athletes are held up in the Central Bank of Nigeria because necessary approvals from the ministry of Finance are being awaited. Such stories are the ‘enemies’ of sports development, an enterprise, otherwise, driven by dynamism and quick responses to issues. In the absence of a sports commission, the Ministry of Sports must fill the space and provide the ground ‘rules’ of engagement with all the organisations that it supervises. What is missing is a sports architecture where everybody knows their roles and responsibilities. The Ministry, itself, must lead by example and not be led by the nose by sports federations bent on exploiting the unclear situation to rule and ruin the administration of sports in the country. The biggest stakeholder in Nigerian sports is government – local, State and Federal. For a developing country and economy, that is how it would be until sport becomes a major economic contributor that can stand on its own and become what it is in the USA and other developed climes that we always use as a template. No federation, the Nigerian Football Federation inclusive, can stand on its own without government once the international dimension to sports at national teams’ level is added to their list of responsibilities. Without international engagements added to their mandate, national sports federations will survive on their own, be fully independent from any interference including from government, and shall carry out their major mandates of organizing their local members for national and international club competitions and programmes. The sports architecture of Nigerian sports places grassroots sports development in the hands of the local governments, schools, States and the Tyson: Smoking weed led me to God BOXING legend Mike Tyson has credited his use of marijuana and magic mushrooms for ending his party days and helping him find God. The former heavyweight champion lived a wild party lifestyle during and after his hall-of-fame career. Tyson’s party ways saw him fall afoul of the law in January 2007, when he was arrested for drink driving and possession of cocaine. Iron Mike gave up booze and drugs in 2016 in a bid to turn around his life after excessive weight gain, which was around the time he started he started using weed and psychedelics. He told Forbes: “You see how much my life changed five years ago? I was a junkie five years ago. “I didn’t even think I could survive. Then I got introduced to animal and plant medicine.” Tyson, 55, is happy with his new healthy lifestyle. He said: “Before you Action resumes this weekend in domestic leagues across Europe following two weeks of international football, which had the World Cup qualifier, UEFA Nations League and international friendlies. Kelechi Iheanacho and always read about me in the papers, doing something negative. “Now, what happened to that guy? You don’t see me partying anymore. That’s not my life anymore. “It’s hard to really articulate it from my Profile Polo Team Patron, Babangida (left)receives his prize from Kashim Bukar after leading his Profile team to the historic victory at the concluded Rubicon Resort Polo Tournament in Abuja Federal government through schools, sports councils and the sports commission/ ministry of sports, combining and institutionalizing the essential need of education for all children and their fundamental right to play. Federations, private association of clubs, cannot take up that responsibility. Elite Sports development and International engagements are also the responsibility of government. The National Sports Commission is the organ of sports with experts in all aspects of sports, with all the major facilities, with all the infrastructure and with all the needed resources from government, to drive national sports development. It cannot pass on this responsibility or surrender it, for now. The Afrobasketball Championship attended by the Women’s national team of Nigeria, is an international event, the equivalent of football’s AFCON. It is the primary responsibility of the Ministry of Sports to fund the team’s preparations, competition, bonuses and allowances. They must do these things working in collaboration with the basketball federation, without ceding their responsibility. Should there be money derived from sponsorships by the effort of the federation, this should either be accounted for properly to the ministry and used for the purpose it was secured. It can also be for the purpose of reducing the burden on government for funding. There is too much friction between the sports ministry and sports federations when it comes to money issues. That is what is at the root of the present scandalous crisis in Nigerian basketball. Who is in charge of the national teams of Nigeria to several different competitions? The answer to this question unlocks the key to one of Nigerian sports’ most intractable problems. Iheanacho up against Man Utd •As Onyeka welcomes Chelsea Frank Onyeka are the two players to watch. Iheanacho has been used mainly as a substitute in the league this season, but he showed why perspective, but psychedelics helped me assume my relationship with God. “I don’t use it for recreation. I’m not a recreational user. This stuff is only done from a spiritual perspective.” he deserved to start more games after he scored on his first start in Leicester City’s 2-2 draw against Crystal Palace at Selhurst Park just before the international break. The 25-year-old will now hope to get his second start of the season when Brendan Rodgers men welcome Manchester United to the King Power Stadium on Saturday. Iheanacho scored twice against United in the FA Cup last season, and he could be the man again to fire the Foxes to victory on Saturday. Meanwhile, at the Brentford Community Stadium, Frank Onykea will hope to feature in Brentford’s clash against table-toppers Chelsea on Saturday evening. Onyeka, who played the two games against CAR, started the season well, but a coronavirus positive test halted his progress. But having featured against Liverpool and West Ham from the start, he will hope to be in the lineup against the Blues. Also, Alex Iwobi could make his return against West Ham after missing Everton’s trip to Old Trafford and Nigeria’s games against CAR.
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