Reading, the key to solving the nation's problems – Ladoja's wife
The President and Founder of the Reading for Development in Africa Awareness Society, Ms. Bukola Ladoja, said that the solutions to the nation's problems are available in books.
According to her, leaders who do not engage in thorough reading are doomed to failure.
Ladoja, the wife of a former governor of Oyo State, Rasheed Ladoja, spoke to reporters shortly after a program titled "Readers Are Leaders" held for some public secondary school students in Ibadan, the capital of Oyo State.
According to her, the program aimed to train young people who would become agents of change and providers of solutions.
She said that SADRA, which was established in 2007, had traveled to almost all geopolitical areas in Nigeria, adding that it already had stakeholders in the Capital Territory federal, Owerri, the capital of Imo State and Port Harcourt, the capital of Rivers State.
Ladoja noted that RASDA recently launched its new 'One Child, One Book, One Week' project in Abuja, although she revealed that private schools are gradually adopting the 'One Child, One Week' project. book, a Week", an original idea of RASDA.
She said, "We say we lack leaders, but maybe that's because most of our leaders are driven by leadership without sufficient preparations in terms of adequate knowledge on various aspects of life, which of course can only be derived from a thorough reading.
"Such leaders are doomed because you can't give what you don't have. The technical know-how to solve the nation's problems is found in books, but we don't want to read books. Parents don't see the correlation between reading and leadership or even success in life. But it's the knowledge from books that will prepare their minds for future leadership.
Speaking on the topic "The relationship between public speaking and leadership", the director of training at the National Broadcast Academy in Lagos, Dr. Ayodele Aliyu, said that 'a leader must, through public speaking, be able to move people to action, show your followers your feelings and lead by example.
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The President and Founder of the Reading for Development in Africa Awareness Society, Ms. Bukola Ladoja, said that the solutions to the nation's problems are available in books.
According to her, leaders who do not engage in thorough reading are doomed to failure.
Ladoja, the wife of a former governor of Oyo State, Rasheed Ladoja, spoke to reporters shortly after a program titled "Readers Are Leaders" held for some public secondary school students in Ibadan, the capital of Oyo State.
According to her, the program aimed to train young people who would become agents of change and providers of solutions.
She said that SADRA, which was established in 2007, had traveled to almost all geopolitical areas in Nigeria, adding that it already had stakeholders in the Capital Territory federal, Owerri, the capital of Imo State and Port Harcourt, the capital of Rivers State.
Ladoja noted that RASDA recently launched its new 'One Child, One Book, One Week' project in Abuja, although she revealed that private schools are gradually adopting the 'One Child, One Week' project. book, a Week", an original idea of RASDA.
She said, "We say we lack leaders, but maybe that's because most of our leaders are driven by leadership without sufficient preparations in terms of adequate knowledge on various aspects of life, which of course can only be derived from a thorough reading.
"Such leaders are doomed because you can't give what you don't have. The technical know-how to solve the nation's problems is found in books, but we don't want to read books. Parents don't see the correlation between reading and leadership or even success in life. But it's the knowledge from books that will prepare their minds for future leadership.
Speaking on the topic "The relationship between public speaking and leadership", the director of training at the National Broadcast Academy in Lagos, Dr. Ayodele Aliyu, said that 'a leader must, through public speaking, be able to move people to action, show your followers your feelings and lead by example.
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