Inauguration
By Diana Omueza
Abuja, Sept. 20, 2019 (NAN) Project One Production (POP), a civil society organisation, has inaugurated its Leadership Club in secondary schools within the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).
Mrs Bisayo Busari-Akinnadeju, Executive Director of the group, announced this in an interview with News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Friday in Abuja.
She said that the organisation inaugurated the club in Government Secondary School Karu, FCT and would move to the remaining five approved secondary schools.
“The club is the first of its kind in secondary schools in the FCT and it is targeted at sensitising students to the need for taking up leadership roles, especially politics as a career after leaving school.
“We have inaugurated the first club in GSS Karu FCT, and we shall be inaugurating others with the same enthusiasm, vibes and speed,’’ she said.
Busari-Akinnadeju said that the club was a stage and a platform for potential future leaders to begin to contest elective positions in school among students.
According to her, POP has a mandate to raise a million leaders before 2050 through the Nation Builders Academy programme and the leadership club is one of the arms of the mandate.
She said that the nation builders’ academy was structured to guide and groom the leadership qualities and potential in youths and secondary schools were major focal point, before tertiary institution.
She urged parents, guardians and even teachers to groom students who had certain traits of leadership and not allow them to remain untapped.
According to her, discovering, tapping and building the potential of young minds cannot be over emphasised.
“Any child or student who stand out or have been identified to have certain potential and leadership qualities, such a person should not be left untapped,’’ she said.
NAN reports that the FCT-SEB approved the establishment of leadership clubs in six secondary schools in the FCT to serve as a pilot scheme for student.
The schools are GSS T/Wada, GDSS Karu, GSS Wuse, Zone 4, GSS Gwarinpa, GSS Karu and GSS Wuse II.
Project One Production is a non-profit making organisation, instilling in youths right leadership and political values appropriate for national development through conferences, campaigns and seminars.(NAN)
DOM/AMM/KAY
============
Edited by Abiemwense Moru/Kayode Olaitan