Star actor and
producer, Ali Nuhu Mohammed, has encouraged secondary school students to focus
on their future dreams and not be distracted, particularly as they take
decision on their career choices.
Nuhu, who featured
at the Kaduna edition of Promasidor Harness Your Dream, a corporate social responsibility
project of Promasidor Nigeria Limited held recently, told the students at the
event to embrace education first before any other pursuit. “Without solid
education, you can hardly achieve anything,” he counselled.
He said the students
should consider themselves lucky to have an organisation like Promasidor show
commitment to youth development through the programme. “You must understand the
importance of education and not allow this opportunity of career guidance to go
wasted. When I was like you, I never had the opportunity for career guidance,”
he told the students, who became excited as he stepped into the hall.
Nuhu commended
Promasidor for the project and said that other corporate organisations should
take a cue from the company. “Corporate organisations should emulate programmes
like this,” he enjoined.
Nuhu, who holds BA
Geography from the University of Jos, said that parents should support their
children in the careers they had flair for, explaining that his mother
encouraged him and convinced his father when he decided to go into the movie
industry.
Earlier, the Kaduna
State Government had praised Promasidor Nigeria Limited for conceiving the
project and bringing it to the state.
Addressing the
students and other stakeholders at Sardauna Memorial College in Kawo New
Extension, venue of the event, the Permanent Secretary of the state Ministry of
Education, Mrs Kande Nana Bage described Promasidor Harness Your Dream as “an
excellent programme.”
“I thank Promasidor
for choosing Kaduna State to be part of this programme. I feel highly delighted
that Kaduna is the sixth state where this initiative is being held,” the
Permanent Secretary further said, as she turned her attention to the students:
“I encourage you to make good use of this opportunity. If you allow such
opportunity to slip off your hand, you may not get it again. Work hard so that
you will excel in future,” she further said.
The Permanent
Secretary, who led her team from the Ministry and the State Universal Basic
Education Commission, urged other corporate organisations to join Promasidor in
developing the youth in their education and talent growth. “Other corporate
organisations should follow the example of Promasidor as this kind of
initiative will further boost the interest of the students in schooling,” she
admonished.
Students of five
other schools participated at the workshop. They are: Dalet Girls Secondary
School, Kawo; Government Girls Secondary School, Kawo; and Dr. Ahmed Mohammed
Makarfi Government Secondary School, Hayin-Banki.
In his remarks,
Promasidor’s Head of Legal and Corporate Communications, Mr Andrew Enahoro
recalled that the career development initiative has been held in five other
locations and that other states would soon benefit from the pan-Nigeria project.
From Lagos in November 2017, Promasidor Harness Your Dream has taken place in
Ogun, Enugu, Cross River and Kaduna State as well as the Federal Capital
Territory, Abuja. One edition of the project is held in every school term with
professionals from Promasidor sharing hands-on knowledge to guide the students
in choosing their future careers.
The facilitators in
Kaduna were Abolade Liyide, Olasunbo Amusan, Michael Nwughala and Andrew
Enahoro, all staff of Promasidor Nigeria Limited. They made presentations on
Personnel Management and Emerging Entrepreneurial Opportunities; Information
and Communication Technology; Accounting and Business Management; and Digital
Marketing.
Enahoro said that
Promasidor Harness Your Dream has provided the company the opportunity to give
back under its CSR strategy, which covers mentorship and empowerment. “We try
to let these children know how to make the right career choices as they go on
in life. For each of the key subjects being taught at the programme, we bring from
our Lagos headquarters professionals to impact hands-on knowledge on the
students,” he explained.
The Promasidor
spokesman said the initiative focuses on students in Junior Secondary School 3
as it has been designed to aid them to make proper career choices that relate
to their talents, attitude and dreams as they prepare to conclude their career
focus in the senior classes.
Promasidor has
become reputable for promoting youth development in the 26 years of operation
in Nigeria through other initiatives that include Cowbellpedia Secondary School
Mathematics TV Quiz Show, Loya Milk Swim Meet and Cowbell Chocolate Supa Strikas
competition.
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