African Community Changers

  LEAD4CHANGE MASTERCLASS The Lead4Change Innovators Initiative seeks to promote creativity and innovation among individuals to birth solutions to present-day challenges in their communities, whilst bringing young innovators together to lead change through problem solving and to challenge themselves to contribute to nation building – to the Nigeria that they want and deserve. The masterclass is geared towards a mindset change in the lives of young individuals who are socially conscious and impact driven, who have seen the challenges in their communities and willing and committed to socio-economic development. These category of individuals are tired of pushing the blame to other individuals or government and have decided to be proactive by not only birthing innovative and sustainable ideas to the situations around them but are willing to be a part of the Nigeria they desire to see thereby leading change. This masterclass will equip social innovator with mindset, competences and tools to

 In the wake of global leadership scarcity, 3 thought leaders across different sectors gather for a provocative conversation in order to inspire and equip young leaders to innovate and lead change around them. Tune in and join us on BrightFM Abuja Join Halima Ibrahim Abba (LLB, MPhil, FIIDM) Abdulmalik Badamasuiy, Innocent Aniekan and Shekinah Aziagba on the 14th December 2021 for our maiden edition of Lead4Change Masterclass. Date: 14th December 2021 On Bright 98.7 FM & TV, Abuja. Time: 11AM Register below. You can watch live broadcast on our YouTube Channel. About Lead4Change The Lead4Change is an event that seeks to promote creativity and innovation among individuals to birth solutions to present-day challenges in their communities whilst inspiring young innovators to lead change through problem solving and to challenge themselves to contribute to nation building – to the Nigeria that they want and deserve. Register Here: https://bit.ly/3I3LIbS What are your expectations

 b y Innocent Aniekan, Jameson Zhei and  Fayomi Tomide photo credit: National Population Commision In Nigeria according to the statistics we have 28 million persons living with disability and only 2% are privileged to have a comfortable life. If full inclusion of people with disabilities is fully considered, many persons with disabilities can get a lot of social subsidies and work benefits. Let’s look at the sports side, there are thousands of talented people with disability in Nigeria who would love to play soccer, racing, golfing, volleying, swimming, weight lifting and so on as a career, but couldn’t because of the societal shield of “THEY CAN’T”; which has been created for years in the society by nonphysical challenge individual. This act has deprived many in pursuing a career and the few who per adventure get through by their consistent effort are the ones seen displaying their talent at the just concluded Paralympics, people that were once called disable, representing their count