@BishopPOEvang This is Ghana and you’re likely to see more of it over there. No exaggeration. You will be amazed at what their secondary school students does.
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Over the past few weeks, we have been intensely designing the new model for Igbo Apprenticeship program (Igba Boi) and Imu Aka Oru ( Skill Development).
This center will be built in our proposed center in Enugu which is the heart of the South East.
We are using a global framework for this and localizing it.
Skills like plumbing, masonry, carpentry, welding, auto mechanics and HVAC will be learnt the most practical way with very high precision to meet global standards.
We will be the greatest workforce in Africa in 10 years.
This is hilarious! It reminds me of the Late Dr. Emmanuel Ijewere in 2004. We were trying to buy a company selling telco airtime where he was Chairman and the numbers didn’t look good. He liked me for some reason (maybe because we always met in church at Falomo) and decided to discourage us from buying.
After some talking, he told us to forget the business and took us to the back of his house in Ikoyi. He got a bowl, dipped his hand and threw some food into the concrete ponds they created behind and fish came swarming up to eat.
He said - “This is 4 million Naira from my backyard each harvest. This is how I pay for the school fees of my kids. This is the business you should be into.”
I once again remembered what Chief Ibru told me. “Go and sell fish, everyone eats fish.” Dr. Ijewere later expanded his pond into a large and profitable farm that still exists today in the Lagos/Epe axis.
Very few people in Nigeria tell you the true source of their wealth. Even those her friends selling wine would have their own secrets they hide from her.
This young lady raised an alarm over the type of story her son is reading school and she is being threatened by the author.
Who approved this type of book in Nigeria?
So many kids are growing up abroad without knowing their roots! Even if their feet have never touched the soil, educate them about where they are from! Let’s stop promoting a generation of “my papa said I be Igbo”!!!
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Today, I visit University of Nigeria Enugu Campus (UNEC) and I saw first hand the deplorable state of the female hostels.
The students are really suffering. Their hostels are constantly being robbed at night because of bad windows.
Their toilets are a mess and environment bad.
This is South East Educators Conference Day 1 we just concluded. Watch and you will love it.
Listen carefully. We are no more complaining.
We are stepping up to lead the South East to the promise land.
In 10 years we will lead Africa to greatness.
So this is how we are thinking of redesigning the Igbo apprenticeship program “Igba boy”.
For the pilot program, we will likely take in 200 persons to engage in the training on global quality carpentry, bricklaying, tilling, plumbing, HVAC, POP and electricals.
The trainees will engage in an intensive 1 year program which they will be housed and fed. No holidays during the program. An additional 3 months will be on business and commercialization.
Once they complete the cohort and they meet the standards set, they will be settled with a good amount of money to build on the business arm of their skills. Those who don’t meet up will be dropped off from the program.
We will be visiting training centers in Togo and Germany in the coming weeks to solidify our plans and training partnerships.
Let’s brainstorm… what do you think?