Note2note

The Nigeria Leadership Initiative (NLI), an international non-profit
organisation and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network has
announced the premiere of its Notes2Note video for youths.

NLI was founded in 2006 by Olusegun Aganga (who is presently Nigeria’s
Minister of Finance & Chairman of the Board of the Bretton-Woods
Institutes, the World Bank & the International Monetary Fund (IMF)) and Dr
Christopher Kolade CON (Pro-Chancellor, Pan African University & former
Nigerian High Commissioner to the UK).

NLI has become popular for its Future Leaders Seminar, which is a
values-based leadership seminar for young leaders who explore the modern
challenge of leading in societies; especially a society where people share
different and sometimes opposing values or goals.

The Notes2Note video is animated and features the following narrators: MI,
Kate Henshaw-Nuttall, Sasha, BOUQUI, Omawumi, Aisha Augie-Kuta, TY Bello,
Chioma Omeruah and the RoofTop Mcs. It tells the story of Nigeria’s rich
history using Naira notes and illustrates the core values of the country’s
founding fathers. The early sixties were an exciting and exhilarating time
to be Nigerian, says Tunde Olanrewaju, Co-Chair of the NLI Management
Board. We had gained independence and Nigerian youth exhibited an
insatiable thirst for education and innovation in different spheres of
life. During this time, strong values and a sense of community were the
fabric of Nigerian society and Nigerians upheld values in their everyday
activities. Today, this is just not the
case.

NLI believes that one step to getting the country back on track is to
reach out to young people during their formative years to start
reinforcing values necessary to rebuild a good society. This was the
driving impetus for the conception of Notes2Note. This initiative
incorporates and promotes 10 values that were identified by Nigerians in a
National Essay Competition as important for building a good society,
explains Yinka Odeleye, an NLI Associate. The values are Integrity,
Industry, Compassion, Justice & Equity, Tolerance, Discipline, Family
Values, Contentment, Spirituality and Patriotism.

A global premiere event will hold on Wednesday, May 26 at the Genesis
Deluxe Cinemas. The video will also be broadcast on TV and radio stations
on Children’s Day, May 27, 2010 at 8pm on Silverbird TV and Inspiration
FM. It will also be available for free download at www.nli-global.org.

The Notes2Note project is under NLI’s CLEVER initiative, which includes
other projects like the Wordslam competition where youth can write the
lyrics to a potential award winning song and international poetry book.
There’s also a Clever Club, which gives students an opportunity to take
responsibility for transforming the country by developing a sense of civic
responsibility.

It is NLI’s goal that by the third year of implementation, the CLEVER
initiative will be institutionalised and self sustaining through a
combination of private sector support, and partnership with the Federal &
State Governments.

About the Nigeria Leadership Initiative

The Nigeria leadership Initiative (NLI) was established in 2006 as an
international non-profit, non-partisan organisation. The mission of NLI is
to mobilise the energy, talent and resources of credible and accomplished
Nigerians in Nigeria and the Diaspora to tackle the challenges that
confront Nigeria. NLI provides a platform for highly accomplished,
uniquely qualified Nigerian Leaders (Fellows) and emerging leaders (Future
Leaders) to develop and express their values-based leadership skills and
to assume a transformative role in the development of Nigeria. NLI is registered as a Charity in
Nigeria, United Kingdom and the United States and is a member of the Aspen
Global Leadership Network.

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