To our viewers...

We truly appreciate the time you take out to go through our posts, and we would like to be personally in touch with you all, on this note, please we encourage that you don't just 'pass by', but feel free to drop a comment each time you do. In response to the mails from some of you concerning what PROMISING NIGERIA INITIATIVE (PNI) is all about, we've drafted out a synopsis to give you a heads up. We trust this would shed the light you need about us:

The Promising Nigeria Initiative justification stands on the following premise;

PROBLEM STATEMENT

• Erosion of values amongst young adults due to incessant promotion of Harmful media content.
• Low performance in academics and lack of responsibility-driven lifestyles.
• High rate of School crime and Teenage pregnancy
• Spread of HIV/AIDS among young people due to careless lifestyles.
• The dangerous impact of the get-rich-quick mentality

NEEDS IDENTIFICATION

• Provide them with mentors and role models in different spheres of society.
• Available Mentors who can train and disciple these young adults to become all they possibly can.
• To be engaged in worthy-societal courses.
• Provide a powerful alternative to ill-morals the media promotes.
• Equipped with life skills for employability and entrepreneurship.

PROPOSED APPROACH
Our strategy to solve these problems is to encourage early participation of these young adults in Nation building through community development services, leadership development, and entrepreneurship.

The book, ‘THE PROMISE’, which has been fully written, is the first material to be promoted by Promising Nigeria Initiative, and serves as the first phase of the project. We are of the assertion as stated by the Reading Association of Nigeria that “Reading maketh a man”, yet we do not fail to take into cognizance the poor reading culture that exist amongst youth today, hence there are powerful incentives to encourage students in reading the books, and enclosed in each book is an engaging interactive CD that students can listen to.  This is why the PNI Project is creatively distinct and tailored to empower the youths totally; these materials will not only add quality to the lives of these young adults, but brings to live the rich values contained in the National pledge, and inspire in them to believe in and work for the good of our Nation.
The book distribution will be supported by;

HYPE IN COLLABORATION WITH V2F
HYPE Foundation is a non-governmental organization established primarily to foster early participation of young people in community and national development. While achieving this feat, we do not place negligence to the tireless efforts of other social entrepreneurs and non-governmental bodies to empower the young people.
Our network covers different territories in the north, south, east and west. This gives us leverage to serve, train and attain maximum impact across the regions with respect to their individual and cultural challenges. References to our previous events since 2007, including training and supervisory activities show a promotion in behavioural change in their social self, educational self, moral self, leadership/career self etc.

VISION-2-FRUITION is a body of training consultants whose focus is on empowering the youth as leaders of the future. This is achieved by offering lifelong trainings and mentorship to young adults in the areas of ethics and values, career guidance, personal transformation and entrepreneurship.
Together, we have decided to pedal higher to facilitate a self-sustaining training process in the secondary schools through our purposed project which will involve additional care and support plan to create a most favourable environment for our target group, to equip them and position them to be an agent of change in their sphere of influence. We have a vision to see the Nigerian youths transformed into patriots of high moral and social standards.

BENEFICIARIES
The Target group for this project is secondary school students and freshmen undergraduates across the federation, with FCT Abuja, Lagos, Port-harcourt, Imo and Anambra state as pilot states for the execution of the project. Over the long haul, families, instructors in various schools, employers, the society and Nation at large profits from the wealth of values these young adults possess, through their empowered, morally sound lives.

 Contact us via e-mail: promisingnigeria@gmail.com

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WHY DO WE MAKE PROMISES?

Every national progress begins with a national promise, a fulfilled national promise.
Every form of progress, for that matter, is sustained by fulfilled promises
So wherever progress is noted, a promise was fulfilled.

'The Promise', an insightful book that richly and deeply explores our Nigerian Pledge and the truths in it if which imbibed will lead to a national transformation.
It is guaranteed to shape the mindsets of both generations present and to come concerning our National Pledge.

This book is a must-get! stay tuned!

I observed, I reflect and so, I write...

Sunday, the 3rd day of June, 2012 would probably go down in the Nigerian history as the 'blackest Sunday'; a Dana air craft crashes in a populated town, claiming the lives of over 160 individuals.
As Nigeria mourns this gory waste of lives and human resources, as embittered individuals cry for their loved ones and as countless more rage for justice, a quiet lesson sort of meanders past all the grief and ache in my chest, surfaces unobtrusively  in my consciousness: the more people that depend on me, the more important keeping my promises become.
Think of all those people who promised their friends and family they would be with them within the hour but never got to keep their promises -- because an airline failed to keep it's own promise. Over 150 promises made in one form or the other could not be kept because one entity failed to keep its promise.
"To be recognized and respected as Nigeria's most reliable and customer- friendly airline" is the noble, lofty mission statement of Dana Air. This is the promise they made to Nigerians, to customers who expect them to live up to their promise to be reliable and customer friendly. But they failed, for some reason.
This gets me thinking soberly and I realize: a promise, a given word-no matter how small- is never a thing to be taken lightly. It can mean the difference between life and death.
 

Man's word is God in man - Tennyson

More thoughts: www.danielokolic.wordpress.com

WHAT DO WE TRULY VALUE?

Does human life mean anything to us? With what can we measure the value of a life? Are we putting profits before people? Or are we most interested in getting ahead at any cost no matter whose head goes for it? The echoes of the cries of wasted lives from ethnic clashes, careless economic or technical issues can’t be suddenly drowned.

 

Daily we hear diverse tales about the Boko Haram sect, that they are a different group of Muslims, are not particularly Nigerians but hail from the brink of Africa - Niger to be precise, and all what not; but truth remains that there are top countrymen in the know of who these people are, where their next attack would be, and who actually sponsor their activities.

It was a black weekend for the country on Sunday, 3 June 2012, as the plane crash claims the lives of everyone on board, with serious damages to some residents in Iju, Lagos state, leaving many families in grieve. Report has it that the plane has been under repairs for several weeks and the authorities who insisted it could be put to use were well aware of this. Where is the love for human beings in all these? Nothing is worth giving up for a man just like you. As long as we don’t have value for human lives, we can’t become a developed Nation.

Whether you are strong or weak, termed among the masses or in the corridors of might, we all have the opportunity to save a life, to care for the other man like we would for ourselves, to make a difference in another’s life daily – by saying the right words that would build and not destroy; by being content with the resources you have or have not yet amassed; by being committed to the terms of your leadership or position, by ‘wearing’ the shoes of others. Think about it, when it comes to that defining moment called death, nothing matters anymore, not the wrong that was done to you, not the money you have stashed somewhere, not the mind-blowing plans yet to be accomplished, but the works you have done and what you would be remembered for; so why don’t we make the best of life we’ve got, while we can?

This is a call for each one of us to go beyond ourselves; be concerned with the welfare of others. At this time the caution of Julius Berger on road safety comes to mind, “Drive like it is your family in the other car” and the foundation of the law which the good book emphasizes, “Love your neighbour as you love yourself”… for whoever your actions or decisions would affect is your neighbour, and family. 

God bless you, God bless Nigeria and her citizenry!