My greetings ladies and gentlemen and all protocols duly observed !!!
As for those who still need my introduction; I am Fame Agidife, an alumnus of I.G.S, a class of 98 Session, currently an Entrepreneur also into Human Resource Development and a Writer✍️ who holds the custody of the people's conscience against social ills.
(1) I would like to begin with by redefining whom we are, why are we here and what this platform is all about.
Yes, it is imperative to begin on the premise of this universal ♾️ saying that says; if you do not know where you are going you should know where you are coming from. I termed that simple saying a universal sayings for the fact that its application cut across all human divides. It has helped redefined indiduals, peoples, traditions and social cultural heritages across all diversities of life.
Again, whom are we, why are we here and what this platform is all about ?
(i) Yes, we are alumni, ex or old students association of Iyede-Ame Grammar School still on the process of birthing.
(ii) We are here to socialize, network, familiarize, brainstorm, exhibit our different talents, share ideas 💡 on both social development and academic development of I.G.S and to also develop a roadmap on how these ideas 💡 can be translated into ideals 💡 for both I.G.S and the generality of our people. And
(iii) We all must be reminded that this platform is never and it can never be the dreamed I.G.S Alumni association we all intended to form and that means we all have big tasks upon our shoulders if we are to achieve that dream. However, what we have here as a social media platform that seems to be a veritable tool to achieving that dream if those who knows its wherewithal handles it properly. Alumni associations just like every other social associations and groups in likes of the rotaries, the Lions, the social clubs and what have you that fall outside pressure groups and political groups take a lot from their members in terms of voluntary sacrifices and free will donations. Yes, never to be deterred, "hope alive yes we can" !
(2) Learning how to tolerate today's overbearing social controversies. And to start with, permit me to say we lived in a crazy World 🌍 and the crazier you are even the merrier you become. And to digress a little into the ongoing controversy on Okuthuru's 'comments', I stand to say he 'commit no sin' and all those calling him out for unreserved apology also 'sin not'. At least that is the beauty of the social media activism which philosophical tenent is founded on the 21st century liberal democracy where only the digital numerals count irrespective of how such followersship are achieved. May it be nudity, bad commenting, comic💪 innuendos, being antagonist, and even playing the role of the villains all are well in today's 21st century social media liberal democracy as long as one's activism does not violate, nor insult neither assault the fundamental rights 👍 and the integrity of the others.
(3) The I.G.S Old Student association or Alumni association whatever the name is documented will be birthed only when the structure and the leadership had been put in place out of the current register on hand today. The most important tool🔥in social association like this is the register and you do not necessarily need to belong to this social media group to be a member. The register can be raised 🤚🙌 from the school records. Every institution has records of attendees and graduates right from its inception. And as I said earlier; the social media platform is just a 'medium' owned by the association to promote the ideas 💡 and to serve as capacity building 🏫 for the association. It is like Television Continental (TVC) to Asiwaju Bola Amed Tinubu, Radio Unilag to University of Lagos and Ted Turner CNN to the United States Of America. In other words, you can be a member of the association as long as the membership is for all those who attended the school and that makes you an automatic beneficiary of rights 👍 and benefits that attached to all in that status. However, you can 🥫 be a member of the social media platforms owned by the social association without necessarily being a member of the main association and that I if their programme, social activities and social influences are attracted to you as individual. After all, it is not for free 🆓 nor a charitable platforms. Social platforms are commercial outfits; you pay for data, pay for freebies, podcasts, advertorials, symposiums and even social reforms lectures like this and on and on ... And funds generated from such commercials 👍 that are donated for the funding of the instituted association and its primary social 🏫 responsibilities such as supportive amenities for the school, supportive academic programme | activities and scholarships for best academic | special talent discovered students.
(4) Item number (1) on the general rule should be scraped for it is draconic and anti insect killer.
*General Rules to The Group*
(1. No posting of other group's link or any kind of link whatsoever unless admin permit you to do so. ❌)
2. No posting of scam messages or any unverifiable information! ❌
3. No insult on/negative comments towards other members.❌
Defaulters to these rules faces outright removal from the group. .⚠️🚷❌
Sign✍🏻 # Prince Okudhuru( Senior Admin)
We need whole lots of sugar in here to attract whole lots of insects from all works of life to promote and to translate the ideas 💡 of the social platform into ideals 💡. At that, we need all kinds of talents onboard and even if you are dried you are at liberty to share whatever you feel it can impact others positively and it also avails others the opportunity to verify the very source of such information ℹ️. Even global platforms in likes of Facebook, Twitter and whole lots of other popular social Community platforms do not have such draconic rules and that's why they are popular for reasons that people are not that unecessarily restricted.' I have always emphasized on the importance of social freedom to social progress whenever I am invited to talk about this subject on platforms like this. At that, we must focus on things that make us grow on social spaces 🌌 like this and not things that relate to non-social freedom which are averse to social progress . After all, it is not a church or family platforms that involve only personalities of such but this is an institutionally oriented platform that host people from different thoughts and works of life. What actually matters in social media groups or platforms like this are the numbers and the popularity that count and the money 💰 that rolls 🥐 in thereafter from commercials.
(5) Leadership: As I always like to define it; it is that very nucleus of atomic units that make up matter. In other words, it is that force that champions the direction and the course for every other components of a body to follow. I always frowned at it when people try to see leadership from a perspective of rulership ... As a leader you do not sit down there and measure rulers for others to do but you get up there and do it for others to follow. The very idea 💡 of selecting leaders in form of endorsement had been come something archaic in today's 21st century leadership dynamism. It is more encompassing of innovative ideas and capacity to deliver and at whose behest lies the followers to decide 💡. I am always of the notion that if one has something to offer let him thrown his heart on the ring. Let such one carry out campaigns and advocate on what he wants to do for his people or his very constituency. Over 70% to 80% of people freely selected or endorsed from their bedrooms do not really do well or had failed to perform in leadership because they were not prepared for such herculean task of responsibilities. Barack Hussein Obama, Abraham Lincoln, JF Kennedy Jnr, Great Mahatma Gandi and all great leaders of the World 🌎 that had lead even our 'Lord Jesus Christ and Prophet Muhammad ibn Abdullah all campaigned and propagated their ideas 💡 to everyone who cares to follow and all for the betterment of mankind. Dispensation of leadership is not free and it is the greatest sacrifice from a singular entity to others. And as such I recommend the following for the association's leadership formation:
(i) The leadership should be made competitive through electoral process (ii) Interest Forms should be introduced and be sold to prospective contestants as part of fund raising to finance the process.
(iii) Perspective aspirants should be encouraged to campaign and sell their ideas 💡 to members on best possible way they are to lead and what they have to offer.
(iv) The social platform should be seen as the best social platform possible to breed young talents and young leaders that can stand and strive to represent and drag in developmental strides to that Isoko-Ame Island in which I.G.S stands as a significant symbol.
(6) The name Iyede-Ame Grammar School Old Student Association is too long. I therefore, recommend that the name should be shortened and formed on the acronym Sach as 'IGSOSA' . And let the name be used in full to define the acronym as a subtitle or part of a slogan. This is imperatively in anticipation of the future that the platform might grow into an ICT Hub or a social Community platform website it will then be easier because long names do not really sell much socially; nobody really have enough time to search for long names on the internet in today's 21st century information technological exploit.
(7.) Talents exhibitions should be encouraged to acttract in numbers, greater participations and content creation for more useful impacts. And
(8) I promised to hannes the best possible talents that can be discovered on this platform into Global Matrix as interns on tech and entrepreneur development.
(9) The usage of the phrase removal from the group or will be deleted from the platform or will be exited out of the group should be alternated for suspension.
(10) Creation of a super hub website to accelerate a new social cultural growth and to asscentuate a new dynamism of tech values among our teaming youths.
The current platform that is in used now has only 15GB Google storage capacity only and if seriously jammed with serious traffic as we all might anticipate it will get exhausted at some point.
(11)DRAFT CONSTITUTION OF IYEDE-AME GRAMMAR SCHOOL OLD STUDENTS ASSOCIATION OF NIGERIA.
ARTICLE 7. Titled: ELECTION
Subsection B. Captioned: Electoral Guild lines.
Act (5): "Member going for elective (president) position must have WAEC/SSCE/NECO from I.G.S."
The tag "from I.G.S" negates 'the principle of all inclusiveness and equality'. It promotes the doctrine of "all animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others" against the principle of a true egalitarian society where everyone ought to have equal benefits as it was originally propounded of George Orwell's Memorable satire ~ Animal Farm'. And it also possesses an inherent element and spirit of systemic oligarchy and it inhibits trueness to power, freedom, social growth and collective societal development. It is a breeder of some few bunch of oligarchs to exploit the collective will and the thought process of the people.
I do not know who is using such baby definition 'alumni' to influence the thought process of the general house that a school dropout who was legitimately admitted in an institution which host the records and history of such student that are traceable to such institution is not an alumnus of such an institution simply because he or she could not complete certain stages of the academic process there. And to whose interest is that being propagated ? Yes, to the very interest of non-social growth, non-social development of the institution we all hold dear to our hearts and the general lack of social development of our people.
Isaac Adaka Jasper Boro, a fresh undergraduate of Chemistry of University Nigeria, Nsukka, contested as
President of Students Government Union and won. But never returned to the institution from all out celebration for the new NANS' EXCO in Lagos as he from there left for his famous Kaiyama declaration of 'February 23, 1966 Niger-Delta Republic' with the ultimate goal of 'liberation and emancipation of Niger-Delta people'. And till today he still remained one of the most famous and proud about Alumnus of University of Nigeria, Nsuka (UNN). Bill Gates of Microsoft and consistently among top 3 richest people of the world for over a decade now is a Harvard's dropout and proud Alumnus of Harvard. In 2010, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg donated $100 million toward creating an education foundation in Newark, New Jersey. The goal was to help the city's struggling school system, a Harvard's dropout also a Harvard's alumnus.
Base on this premise of fair play, principle of equality and all inclusiveness for all hands to be on desk for a collective development of our dear institution and our people. I therefore, recommend that the criterion number 5 under Article 7. Session A. With the Act: "The minimum academic requirement to contest any elective position, most especially the national president shall be SSCE." With the addition of equivalent requirement or certification should stand. But Act: 5 session B. Same Article 7. State as "(5) Member going for elective (president) position must have WAEC/SSCE/NECO from I.G.S." That is with the 'tag "from I.G.S" should be expunged, be buried in 'the deepest place of Sheol' for the survival of the association. Let us not generate ill feelings that some people's membership dues are only good enough to be 'milk cowed' while they are not good enough to attain certain privileges of the association.
Thank you and God bless you all.
~ I am Fame Agidife, An Entrepreneur and Social Wright Activitist.
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