Having a successful leadership is always the goal of every responsible leader. This doesn’t come easy with putting tangible effort and acquiring necessary skills to make such happen. Being able to work effectively on, and lead a team is critical. It requires fostering the right leadership qualities in yourself and […]
TEAM BUILDING FOR EFFECTIVE TEAMWORK
Effective teamwork is both profoundly simple and difficult at the same time. This is why so many teams struggle to get the relationships, the interaction, and the task execution right. Their success depends on these factors. A team, whatever its mandate is, comprises of humans with a mix different beliefs […]
Youth of the Week: ABIOLA OLANIRAN
Hello, Happy New Week! This week, we celebrate Abiola Elijah Olaniran from Nigeria. Abiola Olaniran, Nigeria’s highest paid Windows Game developer, is a software developer and founder/CEO of Nigerian gaming company, Gamsole. Olaniran founded the company in 2012, and it has venture backing from 88mph, a Kenyan seed fund. The company’s […]
2018 LCD BLAZES THE TRAIL…
Following the conclusion of the 2018 LCD Tour, in-depth training activity commenced in 14 Schools across the focus LGAs. Led by trained facilitators who are volunteers from the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), teenagers are gaining insightful and practical knowledge, skills and experience in leadership and community development efforts. Week […]
$10,000 Prize and Funded Trip to San Francisco: TechNovation Challenge for Girls Worldwide 2019
Every year, Technovation invites teams of girls from all over the world to learn and apply skills needed to solve real-world problem through technology. WORTH Technovation offers girls around the world the opportunity to learn the necessary skills to become tech entrepreneurs and leaders. Girls ages 10 to 18 learn […]
World Bank Africa Regional Blog4Dev Essay Competition 2018 for Young Africans
Technological progress is constantly changing how we work, from automation to artificial intelligence. With these advancements, firms adopt of new ways of production, helping markets to expand, and societies to evolve. While advances in technology can eliminate the need for some jobs, the World Development Report 2019 notes that it […]
Fully Funded Transparency International Competition for Young Africans 2018
If you have a passion for innovation, the ability to devise new solutions to old problems, and a willingness to challenge the established orthodoxy, then we want to hear from you. Who are we? We are Transparency International, the global coalition against corruption. From villages in rural Africa to the […]
$1000 USD Scholarship Contest for Students Worldwide 2018
The PDFelement Scholarship contest 2018 is now open. PDFelement is a simple yet robust PDF editing software that empowers teams and institutions around the world. Their goal is to help you work smarter, not harder! How do you use PDFs at school? What kind of documents do you work with […]
Youth of the Week: MISAN REWANE
Hello, Happy New Week! This week, we celebrate Misan Rewane as the youth of the week. Misan was born in Lagos, Nigeria where she attended her primary and secondary school after which she moved to the UK to do her A Levels, and then afterwards to US to study Economics, […]
#IdeasChangeLives Challenge 2018
Do you have a great digital idea that has the potential to create a better world? If so, please enter the #IdeasChangeLives challenge. You could win a prize of £20,000 and the chance to work with the British Council’s Digital, Partnerships and Innovation team on an initiative to help achieve one of six of the […]
OVER 600 STUDENTS FROM PUBLIC SECONDARY SCHOOLS TRAINED TO MODEL LEADERSHIP IN THEIR SCHOOLS AND COMMUNITIES
In the last 5 years, The Bridge Leadership Foundation (TBLF) has committedly engaged students in public secondary schools across the 18 LGAs in Cross River State to inculcate in them, the essential leadership and life skills required to become transformational leaders through the Leadership and Community Development (LCD) programme initiated […]
TBLF BUILDS CAPACITY OF 190 TEACHERS UNDER HER TEACHERS SUPPORT PROGRAMME
To ensure that the systems and institutions teenagers and young people engage with the most, like universities, secondary and primary schools, shapes and builds them to become proactive and creative and engaged citizens, the Teacher Support Programme was designed. TSP will build teachers capacity to support students’ performance and progress […]
YOUTH OF THE WEEK: IYINOLUWA ABOYEJI
Hello, Happy New Week! Celebrating Nigerian youths who add value to the society is a ritual at The Bridge Leadership Foundation and this week, our youth of the week is IYINOLUWA ABOYEJI, more popularly known as “E”. Iyinoluwa was born on March 28, 1991. He is a Nigerian serial entrepreneur with […]
Hamzat Commends Liyel Imoke
The Career Day 2018 conference was indeed a memorable one as positive remarks have been made by thousands of participants and speakers of the august event. The event had notable speakers and panelists such as Tonye Cole, Chris Ngwodo, Toyosi Akerele-Ogunsiji, Hamzat Lawal, Onofiok Luke, Paul Nwulu, Victoria Ibezim-Ohaeri, Frankland […]
Over 200 Teachers Commit to Building Young Leaders in their Classrooms
With over 988,376 teachers in secondary schools (2016 Nigerian Education Indicators, Federal Ministry of Education), we can only hope that a reasonable percentage of these number are adequately competent and possess the character and capacity required to train the students of today into leaders of tomorrow. Borne out of the […]