THE 2021-YEAR-END REVIEW: A YEAR MARKED BY RELENTLESS PURSUIT OF THE GOOD OF ALL. MAPPING THE NEAR FUTURE
The NOL Board of Administrators would like to congratulate our community across the stable for another year of roaring success in its central vision of mobilization of our people to respond to the challenges of modernity per the needs of the community.
The Board acknowledges that the core principles of its vision came under strains at several need points in the course of the year in review. The NOL Board was in the clear when it made the decision not to directly use any of its platforms for the purposes of raising funds for any budgetary titles. That unsurprisingly went against the contemporary run of events in the public space. The Board believes in the innovative idea of reliance on the transparent use of the abundant human resources within and without the membership of the NOL family in rising to the challenges of Nenwe. Pursuant to this objective, the Board further believes that our best suited human resources can only be scanned out from a broad diversity of our population unhindered by restrictive admission requisites.
Unlike NOL affiliate organizations, there's no forms to complete, no registration fees to pay, and no annual dues to think about before enrolment in any of NOL operating platforms including at the NOL University. In most cases prospective members are just required to be of Nenwe ancestry and preferably deep-seated interest in working together for the upliftment of ourselves, & Nenwe as a community. The Board remains unwavering to its commitment to the good of all Nenwe (Nenwe first doctrine), as a policy and politics.
In that frame of operation The Board would first like to report to you, our virtual community members, and other interested public, some of the unresolved problems facing all of us as the curtain is drawn on 2021. These issues will continue to be called into your attention as carry-overs into the new year:
1) Permanent fix for the cyclical vandalization of public infrastructural utilities, including suspected arson on the local Police Station.
2) Continuing Scrutiny of the quality of work and upgrading at the Boys High School Nenwe.
3) Continuing Logistic Support to peaceful resolutions in the efforts to fill the outstanding open seats in the traditional administration in each of the four Autonomous Communities or Kingdoms of Nenwe.
4)Conclusions and resolutions on the Chidalu Ugwueke saga.
... AND NOW, WITH YOUR SOLID SUPPORT, HERE ARE SOME OF THE THINGS WE WERE ABLE TO GET DONE BY WORKING TOGETHER:
1) NEW PROGRAM AT THE NOL UNIVERSITY:
The affiliation with the International educational services. Under this program the university is continuously seeking financial aids in the form of scholarships to avail our interested members with possible further educational opportunities overseas, in the first instance, with minimum of risks.
2) SUPPORT FOR"THE DETAILS"
This us a weekender, in-studio live -interview of business, academic and political headliners in Nigeria. The program was conceived, and anchored by one of us Mr. MARTIN OKAFOR. Since inception NOL aptly adopted it as a potent opportunity to expand the reach, and create wider awareness of the program and the good name of Nenwe, to better reposition it for state and national conversations. The link up with Mr.Ndubisi Ebube Aniobi and Mr. Iyke Degreatest Udeh remains our dream team.
3) THE INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED STUDIES IN NENWE DIALECT & CULTURE OF THE NOLU.
With the Head of department and director of studies Prof. Silas Nwenya concluding his sabbatical leave , the Institute is still thriving & doing well with the addition of the 'volunteer' Uche Mbah to the faculty. It's worthwhile to pause, and take notice that it has grown from a department to an Institute within the university. The NOL Board remains grateful to the participants for their enthusiasm for the elevation, and preservation of Nenwe dialect, Culture and People.
4) THE ILLUSTROUS SEARCH AND RECOVERY OF ONE OF OUR OWN.
When late Mary Mbah (nee Olovo Ali) was reported missing after attending the end-of-year meeting of the Women's Wing of the N.I U. Lagos Branch was reported to the forum by the Matron of the Union Branch, Mrs. Geraldine Ekwe (nee Chukwubike), the alarm and anxiety in all of us was palpable. But it also brought out the best in us in rallying for our own, and the love for ourselves. The search, and recovery was total, and coordinated between Mrs. Ekwe, the Moderator Charles O Chukwubike, NOL, Manzi Clement Ebere, Dr. C.O Oleh and the family. Sadly, even with those efforts, Mrs. Mary Mbah, couldn't be found alive. She had since been buried in her husband's native home in Nenwe.
5)GRASSROOTS MOBILIZATION FOR VOTER REGISTRATION EXERCISES IN NENWE.
With the inspiration and support drawn from NOL, the PGs or their substitutes lent great hands in bringing the registration information to the doorsteps of our people back at home, without getting embroiled in political partisanship. The NOL Board is very grateful to Hon. Osondu Eze, PG, Amoji Town Hall, Elder Linus Mbah, Chairman, NDA, Chief Gabriel Ejim, former PG, Amoji Nenwe. Their efforts are ongoing in sensitising our people for the most participation in the political process.
One of the revolving facilitator roles of the NOL is its unwritten affiliation with all the other organizations with a variety of service orientations & offerings for the development of Nenwe. The NOL readily grants these various organizations unfettered access to the use of its facilities as the marketplace for membership recruitment, program advertisements, and as sounding board for their projects including solicitations for expertise and technical know-how. Best known among these organizations, just to mention only 3, and their star accomplishments in the year under review include:
6) NIF & ITS MEDICAL MISSION:
The Abuja based Nenwe Integrity Foundation, NIF, recorded a huge success when it undertook the delivery of primary health-care to the the Nenwe Community early in the Fall, 2021. The NOL Board applauds their continuing charitable programs, and projects aimed at contributing to positive changes in Nenwe.
7) THE ENAA - NOW AT CUSP OF RESOLVING THE FORMERLY INTRACTABLE POLITICAL POLARIZATION IN EMUDO NENWE.
Deriving, in part, from the good efforts & the unity of purpose among Emudo Nenwe people around the world; and the inspiration from NOL Board of Administrators, the Emudo Nenwe Ambassadors Association, ENAA, registered with the Corporate Affairs Commission, CAC, Abuja Nigeria, as Emudo Global Community Association invested a lot of financial, & human resources capital to help streamline, and restore normalcy in the traditional, grassroots administration of the Emudo Kingdom. Additionally, and working in tandem under the "fierce urgency of now", members of this 2-year-old, worldwide organization have taken various initiatives to assist with enabling students, and schools in Emudo Nenwe attain higher educational accomplishments. And the Association is even planning for more in the form of physical infrastructural development of the Kingdom.
8) NDA & THE INSTALLATION OF SPEED BUMPS ALONG MAJOR ROADS IN NENWE.
The Nenwe Diaspora Association, NDA, came into being at the height of insecurity in Nenwe Community. In the year under review the NDA carried out ambitious projects involving the construction of speed humps at intervals along some major roads traversing the Community. This humanitarian, and development service has, as envisaged, helped reduce incidents of road mishaps in the areas covered by these bumps.
9) NOLU BRIDGE TO THE FUTURE PROJECT
The bridge to the future project of the NOL University, NOLU, is a mentorship program where the NOLU expertly matches a mentee with a mentor, approximately aligned for optimal chances of succes. The aim of this program of the University was to help some of our aspiring community members overcome initial, often encountered hurdles, in a timely manner, on the road to blossom in their chosen vocation by pairing them with members of the faculty and/ or community with cognizant experience. The field of expertise is quite wide, not only academic but also trading and handcraft making and other vocations in between.
MAPPING FOR THE NEAR FUTURE.
The NOL Board plans to, while continuing to stress on the existing , ongoing projects in the upcoming year, have in place an annual dollar-denominated cash prize & plaque for the best grassroots leadership in Nenwe. Each winner would have shown extraordinary skills in bringing about any of the following in the community: peace, civic engagement, mass participation in the political process, solving the problem posed by hunger, eradication of adult illiteracy, primary health-care awareness and practice, access to clean drinking water, etc. The winner/s will be announced at year-end award ceremony. Presently NOL is soliciting for a generous sponsor of the cash prize, and in whose memorial it would serve.
Once again, The NOL Board of Administrators profoundly would like to thank you for your abiding interests in all we do. We do, however recognize, how much NOL depends on you, our community members, for strength & for the continuation on road of success. We value your inputs, particularly in terms of innovative, original ideas so as to cater for even more diverse, larger population of our people. Thank you.
Signed
Charles O Chukwubike
The Moderator, NOL
For The NOL BOARD
