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Posted on April 10, 2020

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Revolutionising Leadership In Nigeria

AUTHORED BY ADEBANKE ILORI OYENIYI Elections in Nigeria have been ranked to be among the most expensive elections in the world with the country outspending big countries and economies like India, The United Kingdom and Canada. According to data prepared by the National Institute for Legislative Studies in 2015, Nigeria with 67 million registered voters spent $625 million during the 2015 elections while India with 815 million registered voters spent $600 million. Interestingly, this expenditure did not include expenses incurred by...

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Posted on May 8, 2019

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Adebanke goes to Washington

We are glad and proud to announce that our Executive Director, Adebanke Ilori will be joining the 2019 set of the Mandela Washington Fellows. Adebanke is one of 700 outstanding young leaders from Sub-Saharan Africa who will be provided with “the opportunity to hone their skills at a U.S. college or university with support for professional development after they return home” according to the YALI Website. At Raising New Voices Initiative, Adebanke has led our team since 2018 and at a...

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Posted on April 1, 2019

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Experiencing the Citizen Fellowship Induction

My experience at the maiden NVCF is one that will last me a life time. On one part, it's joyful to be seated with people who influence the polity in the nation and even beyond but much more insightful to learn from them. The first guest speaker at the fellowship class was Prof. Oluremi Sonaiya, a woman in a woman. With her age, experience, leadership attributes and zeal for development of a total nation, she's easily one of the few Nigerians...

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Posted on April 1, 2019

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Restructuring, A Jobs Plan or Impending Chaos

Fellow Citizens, Good morning and Happy New Month. There are now no elections to be held in Nigeria in 2019 and for the next four years, there will be no general elections except for a few states that will go to the polls to elect their governors. A few weeks ago, hundreds of thousands of youth corpers signed out of the NYSC yearly program and are now on the streets of our cities applying for jobs and looking for how to make...

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Posted on March 25, 2019

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RNVi Partners with Friedrich Ebert Stitfung Foundation for Citizen Fellowships

I am happy to announce our partnership with the Friedrich Ebert Stitfung Foundation on our New Voices Citizen Fellowship piloting in the ancient city of Osogbo this weekend. Our objective is a simple one. If every local government in Nigeria has a young Nigerian and a voice speaking for its issues, organizing other citizens for demanding good governance and bringing its agenda to the centre stage, the demand side of good governance will increase and the supply side will have no...

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Posted on February 21, 2019

The Movement

Welcome to The New Voices Movement!

Welcome to the New Voices Movement Our country, Nigeria today has a population estimated at about 200m citizens and is confirmed as the poverty capital of the world with more than 60% of it population living in extreme poverty. This might be a bit difficult as chances are that if you reading this, you probably are living in our big cities or living in the state capitals which makes it difficult to put theses things into perspectives. But if you consider...

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Posted on February 11, 2019

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Elections will come and go, but …

Elections will come and go but … We need to ask ourselves some serious questions as a generation if we will not fall into the same trap that our fathers fell into. Once the winner of the elections are announced this time next week, will we have to wait for another four years before we get the chance to begin to build the kind of country that we desire? You already know my thoughts on the major contenders for the Presidency...

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Posted on January 2, 2019

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Happy New Year 2019: New Year’s Message – It’s NOT time to give up HOPE

Dear Fellow Nigerians, I am Jude Feranmi Kolawole Adejuwon, Convener of the Raising New Voices Initiative and the New Voices Movement. Please permit me to welcome you to 2019 and wish you a happy new year. I hope and pray that we will go from strength to strength and recover all lost ground on the path towards our individual and national destiny. If there’s anything I want to let you know, it is that 2019 is a critical year for us...

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Posted on November 16, 2018

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25 Candidates, 14 Political Parties, One Legislative Agenda … Our #BreakTheHold Press Statement

PRESS STATEMENT BY THE RAISING NEW VOICES INITIATIVE ON THE #BREAKTHEHOLD CAMPAIGN ON THE 15THOF NOVEMBER, 2018 AT Ecove Space, Adetokunbo Ademola, Wuse II, Abuja Fellow Nigerians, members of the press, esteemed partners and great Nigerian youths who have gathered here today to be part of this historic declaration, I welcome you all and thank you for joining us here today. Today, we answer the call of destiny to change the narrative, to bypass this status quo and to continue the journey to...

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Posted on September 23, 2018

News, The Movement

So, What is The New Voices Movement ALL About?

This is what the New Voices Movement is about. The Vision We want to fix Nigeria and make it the knowledge and technology capital of the world by 2050. Our vision is detailed here >> Please go through the vision. It is the COMPASS to where we are going. The Ideology To get there, we believe we must adopt a liberalism approach as a fundamental ideology. This is important because it is what informs our approach to building the kind of Nigeria we want to see. Founded...

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