Dr.  Okey Ikechukwu    Femi Esan A communication expert and Executive Director, Development Specs Academy, Dr. Okey Ikechukwu, has tasked Nigerian youth leaders to embrace environmental consciousness, while also building effective communication skills to better their leadership experience. He gave the charge at a workshop, specially designed for the Nigerian Price for Leadership ambassadors, 2021 in Abuja. Dr. Ikechukwu noted that every youth leader who aspires to attain a great height of leadership accomplishment must possess effective communication, public speaking, emotional intelligence, and non-violence communication skills. Speaking further, he described effective communication as a viable tool for societal and institutional transformation and conflict resolution. He emphasized the need for youths to be conversant of their environment while recognizing their feelings and using the same as a basis for human management and problem-solving. Dr. Ikechukwu condemned yout...

Group picture of NPL 2021 Ambassadors and NPL Governing Board  Femi Esan The Nigerian Price for Leadership, NPL, has held an orientation for its leadership ambassadors, the second edition of the leadership programme. The orientation programme took place at the Public Service Institute of Nigeria, one of the partners of the leadership programme, in Abuja. In his Goodwill message, the Vice-chairman of the NPL Governing Board, Professor Jerry Gana, congratulated the new ambassadors, adding that their selection as participants is a proof of their competence and leadership strength. According to him, the essence of the leadership programme was to build youth leaders of distinguishing character, integrity, positive-minded, trustworthy, and above all, God-fearing, for transformational change. Also speaking at the event, a member of the Governing Board, Senator Ibrahim Idah, while congratulating the new mentees, noted that different considerations were taken before selecting the participan...

 

Award presented to Esan Femi Williams as the winner (postgraduate category), John Kayode Fayemi Annual Essay competition, 2021. By: Esan Femi Williams   Nigeria is a heterogeneous society with an ethnic pluralism that is grounded in diverse cultures. With over two hundred different languages and ethnic groups, and diverse political ideologies that vary by individuals, communities and social strata, the variability of Nigerian culture is rather undeniable. Democratic governance, as it stands today, remains the only viable bedrock of a value-based political system; a system of government where institutions function according to democratic processes and norms, both internally and in their interaction with other institutions. This system of government, as a matter of necessity, must operate within a solid system of checks and balances whereby each arm of the government operates independently, but with a form of mutual oversight to ensure there is no abuse of power within any arm. Democ...