A one-day youth talk/mentorship program convened by Barrister Nnenna Anozie to help Nigerian youths to know how to achieve their goals through workable strategies has ended in Enugu.
Speaking during the opening session of the youth mentorship event on 17/4/2021 at the conference room of Quinxotel hotel, Enugu, the convener Nnenna Anozie, welcomed resource persons and participants and emphasized in the essence of the gathering which is to help equip the youths with basic ingredients to help them achieve their strategies.
Speaking during the event, the National Coordinator Police Campaign Against Cultism and other Vices (POCACOV) and one of the resource persons, CSP Ebere Amaraizu, charged youths to always listen to their heartbeat as regards inner mind calls for self discovery through entrepreneurial skills and other life coping skills activities.
He further maintained that some youths appear to be everything at a time and states that such a situation conflicts with the power of focus and advised that they should get involved in strategic thinking, planning and positive implementations of their workable strategies and importantly remaining focus which must fall under the S-M-A-R-T principles of specific on the nature of the programme which also ensures that such programmes are measurable, achievable, relevant and also to be realizable within a specified time framework to enable proper evaluation.
Also Speaking, Chukwuma Ephraim Okenwa, the founder of Lead network advised youths to remain focused and not to get distracted in order to achieve their workable strategies.
Adding his voice, POCACOV ambassador and La Liga ambassador as well as ex-Nigerian international Mutiu Adepoju the headmaster, charged the youths on the need to remain focused at all times, dedicated and committed in order to make it in life.
He also advised them to try to be patient as well as considering other people’s point of view to avoid mistake and costly errors. He, however, shared his life experience as a youth/player and how he got to the international scene, how he was able to make it in life through hard work and remaining focused and advised them to be focused and eschew act of violence, crime and criminality, bad influence and associates.
Another speaker, Lemi Jonathan advised youths on positive relations as well as its effects and took them on the principles of engineering of self.
Over five hundred youths drawn amongst schools, communities and universities and working class attended the epoch making event aimed at affecting positively the minds of young people in the community.
