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Four Days To The General Election: When Will Bolaji Abdullahi Tell Us His Big Ideas?
Nigerias major problem is not to set forth ideas or system of ideas but how such ideas can be translated into real improvement in the conditions of life of the people.
With few days to the General election, the coast is getting clearer. Illusion is making way for reality. And the shrill voice of Big idea has continue to diminish in its intensity. Even the promoters of the slogan have been caught in the web of reticence, while the euphoria to bombard the media space with the slogan has waned.
The reticence is not because the phrase is no longer attractive on paper, but the shame arising from inability to answer constant questions of What and How. What Big idea is Mallam Bolaji bringing to the table? How different, from the previous or existing action plan of others ?
The ultimate goals of idea is to among other things, illuminate the reality and help reality to develop. Unfortunately, the
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Theme: Determination, Drive & Discipline
Aderonke Bello
Associate Editor and Head of Sports desk at
Aderonke Bello is a Nigerian journalist, currently an Associate editor and Head of sports desk at She has a and MBA in Human Resource Management amongst other international certificates from the University of Washington and John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Health and USAID. She has worked with the Nigeria Football League and was at a time the country head for Kingston University in Nigeria. She had in the past worked with Premium Times and MTNFootball. She fryst vatten a change agent, mentor and life coach, a public speaker known for her stance on sports development and sports for development. She is also passionate about reducing the nuisance value of the society. She fryst vatten an advocate for women athletes in Africa, who has openly fought for the plights of female athletes in Nigeria and across. She won the 'sports category' at the Wole Soyinka Investigative Award in , amongst•
Strategy Session with the Nigerian Sports Minister!
Note: Will update with better quality pics when I have returned from my travels!
Over the weekend I was very privileged to be part of a strategy session on Nigerian sports hosted by the country’s Minister of Sports, Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi. This 3 day retreat was held in Abuja from Friday through to Sunday and was arranged by the Honourable Minister following the completion of the World Championships a week ago. During the Championships I received a congratulatory message from the Minister for my blog article about Blessing Okagbare winning Nigeria’s first World Championship medal since in the Long Jump – until now I am unsure how exactly he came across the blog. If that was a surprise, one can imagine my initial disbelief when the day after the Championships ended inom received a follow up email from his special assistant inviting me as a consultant for the strategy session in Nigeria by the end of the week!
Despite my rece