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THE BOSS'S STORY-Meet The CEO SLAM Initiative

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Ngozi Marion Emmanuel, is a Lecturer and a Researcher at the department of mass communication, with Nnamdi Azikiwe University Awka and the CEO of SLAM Initiative Nigeria, a non-governmental organization. This is her STORY on how she started the SLAM INITIATIVE and how she has been able to sustain it. How I Began. I started SLAM in my third year of University out of the growing need that I saw in young people. So, I thought to myself that young people need direction and also need to be gainfully occupied with community building and positive leadership. SLAM is an acronym for Smart Leaders Are Made and it was registered with the CAC in 2010. Ever since then, the initiative has been involved in several community development projects especially targeted at youths and younger adults in Secondary Schools. How I Deal With Challenges. Well, there is no worthwhile venture devoid of challenges. SLAM has its ups and downs. I mean times when we were down to nothing and it was tough g

THE FOOL I ONCE DATED

By  Precious  Eminent So boastful like the wind So lowly like the seas So fat like fattened rams As dark as chicken’s ass The limitations were unknown For Love had bound my sight He who sucked coins from me He who used the cunny words to beg He was not a friend but a gold digger He has gone behind the lions back To see the lioness. I will not roar Will I roar? No I will not for he is not a threat He is an unsweetened meat full of fats He knows not that the lion’s teeth are not made of sweets But of indescribable bones I will tear him apart with swings Of ego, kingly elegance, with the armored achievements the  Upgrade will be so bursty that he will fear my foot prints He is nothing more than the fool I once dated.