Since sunday 2nd of May, Nigerian youths have been in The NATIONAL HIV/AIDS Conference and honestly believe me alot of things have been happening in the youth HUB,things are haappening there,we have been provided a free voluntary counselling and testing centre.wao isnt it amazing?
The most Amazing thing here is that youths from Every part of Nigeria has been represented massively folowing the consultative sessions we organised,its really happening in ABUJA nigeria,meeting with lots of foriegn youths and donors .things are happening.
The youth caucus has been all series of Activities,today we had a rally and imagine things were properly done and every youth there caught fun,I actually had an opportunity to ride with a popular Star in his power bike all thru the rally and people must have thought i was his girlfriend or something??? even the media interviewed me and asked me some questions concerning if i was related to him ,but we said it was just him that wanted me to ride with him,cos we were leading the rally .
waooo fun all the way from Nigeria.WE Would participating in ICASA meeting as youth stakeholders in Nigeria.
Tomorrow is our press briefing international press men and women are every where around Nigeria.The youths in Nigeria will be sharing and discussing the NATIONAL YOUTH DECLARATION ON HIV/AIDS.
this is all for now more detailed report backed up with pictures would sonn come your way.

It was fun for TIG Enugu Nigeria,yesterday .As we on Air
for 15mins. waoooooooooooooooooooo

Many things have been happening throughout this period and honestly it hasnt been easy .But just yesterday we were invited over to the NAtional Television Authority Nigeria.

Firstly they have promised to cover The National HIV/AIDs Consultative Forum.2ndly they gave us five minutes to talk about The NAtional Youth Consultative forum and how youths are nation builders.And at 7pm and 8pm News we were on Air and before Friday we will be on Network.

so this is to show that we are almost there for the change we wish to make.

lets continue to strive as we are sure we re on the right track.
thank you .

The National HIV/ AIDs conference will be coming up on the 2nd-5th of May,2004.And we are in the process of working the youth caucus out o we can be on stage in Abuja
But before then consultative forums for youths in the 6 geo political regions have been planned.The idea behind the National Youth Consultative Forum is to seek the opinion of Nigeria youth about HIV/AIDS and give them some basic education about the virus and its implications for them both today and tomorrow, collect data from them about their work in the past, current projects and plans for the future.The process will take place in a sequence of days Enugu 16, Minna 18, Lagos 21 and Port Harcourt 25 April. In Port Harcourt, we must have put all of our observations and the inputs together, then we can now have a National Youth Declaration on HIV/AIDS. We will present this in Abuja,we will get back for other regions dates.

we need youths from our country Nigeria and outside to be part of this,participate in any of the forum near you ,cos your VOICE counts.
Contact me or jerry nwigwe if you want to participate in the youth caucus thanks

Reinvent according to the advanced Oxford dictionary means to the ability to create something that has been in existence to have a new look or new image.

Leadership according to the oxford Advanced Dictionary Leadership is the state or position being held by a leader,or it is the ability to be a leader or to have the qualities of a leader should have .

Qualities of a leader are as follows,
*trnaspanrency
*Accountability
*Listen to pulic opinions
*Lead
*Knowlegible
*Team Building
*Skill Negotiator
*versatile
*Educated
*Integrity is neccessary for nation building
*A leader should serve as a model to the led.
*A leader is supposed to work strictly for the welfare of of the goverend.

Having listed all the qualities i believe a leader should have ,looking at the type of leadership that exists today our leaders do not have the above listed qualities.This is when the need for reinvention comes up.and for leadership to be reinvented in this century of ours .Our youths has to imbibe the above mentioned qualities.

The Big Question here is How do we Reinvent leadership among youths,
Firstly, leadership should be taught as a subject or a course in schools,
Theirs need to organise leadeship trainings,seminars,workshops,symposiums and conferences for youths and up coming youths .
And any body who aspires to be a leader must be made to face several segments of of the society in an interactive forum to give people opportunity to select their real leader.
there should be massive political education.illiteracy should be eradicated or drastically reduced.And youths should be encouraged to read to imbibe the culture of reading to enable them follow events and make constructive criticisms that will help leaders.
Infact nobody who is not educated should be a leader.And theirs need for continuing education on governance for leaders.
thank you

A coalition of NGOS in Enugu Nigeria, working in the area of HIV/AIDS and Partnering With DFID, has successfully completed a pilot project using the community based initiative (CBI) as a strategy and has established community based action communities on HIV/AIDS (CACA) In the rural communities to take the fight against HIV Aids.
This network needs further funding to extend to other communities and update the knowledge of members of the already establishment.