Announcing the 4th Annual Nigerian Leadership Summit 2013
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - THE 4TH ANNUAL NIGERIAN LEADERSHIP SUMMIT 2013
Media Contacts:
Ifeanyi Obinali – (917) 488-6260 -
iobinali@leadnigeria.org
Joanne Mapis – (614) 260-1771 -
jmapis@leadnigeria.org
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On August 16-17, 2013, LEAD Nigeria will host the 4th Annual Nigerian Leadership Summit at the Hotel Pennsylvania, downtown New York. Guided by the theme: “Developing a Roadmap for Engaging the Nigerian Diaspora in Development”, the
summit will provide an opportunity for Nigerians in the diaspora
especially the youth to extensively discuss and equip themselves with
strategic information, knowledge and resources necessary to make viable
contribution to Nigerian development by acquiring the skills and tools
needed for engaging their fellow peers in good governance and societal
development.
Specifically, this year’s summit will focus on how the Nigerian
Diaspora-based and Nigerian-based youth can work together to generate
and share new ideas, learn about best practices of creating empowerment
programs and project management, create opportunities to collaborate and
forge partnerships that will enhance the prospects of developmental
change within the Nigerian youth population, while shaping a broad
development vision as the center piece and framework of cooperation
between youths and the government.
As part of the leadership summit, from August 12-15, 2013 – Lead
Nigeria in partnership with The Council of Young African Leaders will
host 40 Nigerian youth leaders and activists from Nigeria for a 3 day Leadership Empowerment training retreat focused
on building their leadership, organizational and community service
skills with the goal of designing and organizing a project of choice to
be carried out in Nigeria, a project that will impact the lives of
members of the community within a year.
A special feature of the Nigerian Leadership summit 2013 will be the launch of the LEAD Nigeria fellowship program.
The LEAD Nigeria fellowship program will provide selected Diaspora
Nigerians annually with the opportunity to participate, intern,
volunteer or work on a program of choice in Nigeria for 3 months in
areas such as youth empowerment, leadership development,
entrepreneurship, media, healthcare, education and vocational skills
training, providing an in-depth understanding of issues threatening the
survival and development of youths and young people with an intensive
mentoring and training module to develop relationships with on-going
projects and highly committed and accomplished youth leaders working
collaboratively to motivate and inspire their fellow peers in particular
and their community in general
The Nigerian Leadership Summit is expected to attract about 200
participants from across the United States, Canada, the UK and Nigeria,
with emphasis on providing opportunities for current youth leaders and
professionals leading developmental change campaigns and initiative to
actively be involved and engaged in the programs dialogue.
About the Nigerian Leadership Summit
The Nigerian Leadership Summit is an annual gathering designed in 2010
to connect Nigerian Professionals, Academicians, and Entrepreneurs from
all across the Diaspora and friends from the International Community,
especially youths and young people to discuss Nigeria’s present
leadership issues, share innovative ideas, knowledge, experiences,
addressing issues threatening the survival and development of the
Nigerian democracy and familiarize participants with the Leadership
styles and strategies needed in the partnership required to deliver
results that will trickle down to Nigerians at home for the economic
growth of the country.
Kindly forward to your networks. For more information, visit www.leadnigeria.org.
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