…takes motivational speaker, Fela Durotoye to Nigerian campuses
As part of its commitment to create a promising future for the next generation of young leaders, leading telecommunications services provider, Airtel Nigeria, in collaboration with Gemstone Group, has embarked on a tour of tertiary institutions across Nigeria aimed at constructively engaging and motivating students towards leadership development.
The tour named ‘Deliver the Future’ will cover eight Nigerian tertiary institutions beginning from October 2014. It affords students in the tertiary institutions opportunities to be inspired and mentored by motivational speakers including multi-award winning author, Fela Durotoye.
According to the Telco, students in these eight campuses will be motivated with a series of energetic, engaging and exciting activities aimed at inspiring them with exemplary values required to achieve personal success and ultimately transform Nigeria into a most desirable Nation to live in.
Chief Commercial Officer, Airtel Nigeria, Mr. Maurice Newa, noted that Airtel as a youth-centric telecoms organization gives priority to the needs of Nigerian youths, in supporting them to achieve their dream.
Newa said: “Airtel Nigeria through the ‘Deliver the Future’ programme has identified the timely need to re-orientate Nigerian youths because they are the future of this country. The initiative provides them a rare opportunity to gain knowledge and wisdom from the activities and the motivational speakers. It is practical that as forward-thinking individuals and organization, we need to encourage and motivate our future leaders in preparing them for the task ahead.”
Chief Executive Officer of Gemstone Group, Fela Durotoye, who was speaking at the official press conference announcing the tour, hopes that the programme will “leave in its trail, academic excellence by engaging the academic and non-academic staff of the school to improve the standard of communication and process of knowledge impartation, thereby creating a more conducive learning environment.”
Speaking further, Durotoye, a motivational speaker, maintained that, “DTF’s mission is to raise leaders of excellence at every stage and age who will commit to the process of building Nigeria. DTF intends to build such leaders in every school; leaders who will commit to the educational, moral, social infrastructural growth and development of the school during their undergraduate years, and even more as part of the alumni. This program will also create a platform for past students of the institutions to come on board to support and contribute to the school’s developmental policies.”
The tour will arrive each campus with three exciting competitions that connect young future leaders in universities with icons of success who have become positive role models of excellence. The competitions include Positive Vibes, a music competition showcasing talent, good music and positive lyrics; Campus Speaker Number One, where aspiring young speakers showcase their speaking skills and ability to inspire others and AddVantage, a business competition for budding campus entrepreneurs to present their ideas and get angel investors on board.
The eight schools that will play host to the first season of DTF are Benson Idahosa University, University of Ibadan, Ahmadu Bello University, University of Port-Harcourt, Federal University of Technology, Owerri, University of Ilorin, Obafemi Awolowo University and the University of Lagos.
The tour, which will commence in October 2014, is billed to end in June 2015. The “Deliver The Future’ tour is powered by GEMSTONE NATION BUILDERS FOUNDATION, a not-for-profit, that seeks to inspire, empower, motivate and raise leaders of excellence, at every level of society who are willing to commit to an exemplary lifestyle of leadership and excellence to enable them build personal success and ultimately, build Nigeria into a most desirable nation to live in.