Good People, thanks for joining us at Tekedia Institute for Tekedia Institute Mini-MBA edition 11. Our team has sent your login instructions. Please read through and get ready as classes will begin on June 5, 2023. The WhatsApp Group link is also in the Board along with Live Zoom schedules.

I will open the session and our faculty members from Microsoft, Schlumberger, SAP Africa, Access Bank,  NATO Luxembourg, etc, will follow through.  We will have 12 business modules (both live and pre-recorded) for more than 100 courses.

This is our best edition yet. I am truly excited to be co-learning with you at this academic festival. Our team operates 24/7 on shifts because we will be supporting dozens of countries. So, someone will respond anytime you send support help.

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Ndubuisi Ekekwe

Professor and Lead Faculty

Tekedia Institute

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Class begins on June 5, 2023.

Tomorrow, a new brighter and energetic day will break from the eastern horizon.  The energies of  the men and women chronicled in Omenuko by Pita Nwana will rise again.

An amazing land where boys become builders, and girls leaders, will wake up. In the Igbo Nation, it pioneered many aspects of free mercantilist enterprise and invented core spirits of entrepreneurial capitalism on “together we rise”. As their women rose during the Aba Women Riots, leading a nation, the men built communities.

Legends are called again to rise, with decency, focus, hardwork, honour, and for a service, because a new day will break.  We can feel it in Ovim, the land of generals. We can feel it in Ngwa lands, the home of Aba, where human creativity is unbounded. We can smell it in Arochukwu, Ohafia, Bende, Abiriba. We can touch it in Umuahia, Umunneochi, Isuikwuato, Ukwa, etc. It is going to be Good Morning in Abia State.

The sounds of the little birds,  the melodies of the crickets, the shouts of joy, the drums of the dancers, and the horns of cars, celebrating a new chapter of their son, Dr Alex Otti, are here. Live it. Celebrate It. Because as tomorrow breaks, the heavens will release the ribbons with “Abia Is BACK and Will Rise”. I rejoice with All Abians and let’s work together to make that future happen. No one person can make us #great, only all of us can make #AbiaGreat. God bless Abia.

This was the full speech delivered by Buhari today; possibly his last as the commander in chief of the armed forces of Nigeria.

My fellow Nigerian brothers, sisters and friends of Nigeria.

1. I address you today, in my last assignment as a democratically elected President of our great and well-endowed nation, with a deep sense of gratitude to God, a great deal of appreciation to the Nigerian people and a modest sense of fulfilment.

2. Today we mark and celebrate another peaceful transition of power from one elected government to another in our steady march to improve and sustain Nigeria’s democracy.

3. This year we witnessed the most keenly contested Presidential Elections since the first Republic and this demonstrates that our democracy is getting better and more entrenched with each election.

4. We must as a nation improve and sustain gains we make in the electoral process, on an incremental basis for Nigeria to take its rightful place among Nations.

1. Irrespective of the outcome of the various cases, I urge all parties involved to accept the decision of our courts and join hands to build a better Nigeria.

2. I salute the doggedness and resilience of all the Presidential Candidates and their political parties for believing in our judicial system by taking their grievances with the election results to court.

3. In the course of the campaigns, we had argued and disagreed on how to make Nigeria better but we never disagreed or had any doubts that Nigeria has to be better.

4. As your President, I call on all of us to bring to bear the strength of our individualism, the power of our unity, the convictions of our beliefs to make Nigeria work better and together with one spirit and one purpose.

1. You have indeed worked for this day and God has crowned your efforts. I have no doubt that your passion for excellence, reliance on competence, fairness in relationships, commitment to equity, loyalty to the country and desire for Nigeria to be globally relevant would come through for you, under God’s guidance, as you lead our country to levels higher that I am leaving.

2. You are the best candidate among all the contestants and Nigerians have chosen well.

3. The last eight years have been an exciting experience in my desire and commitment to see a Nigeria in which public goods and services are available, and accessible within a united, peaceful and secure nation.

4. Fellow Nigerians, on the strength of your overwhelming support for me and my political party, I started this journey with a great deal of promise and expectation from you. I never intended to be just politically correct but to do the correct things that will make meaningful impact on the lives of the common Nigerian.

1. To ensure that our democracy remains resilient and our elected representatives remain accountable to the people, I am leaving behind an electoral process which guarantees that votes count, results are credible, elections are fair and transparent and the influence of money in politics reduced to the barest minimum. And Nigerians can elect leaders of their choice.

1. The Nigerian economy has become more resilient due to the various strategies put in place to ensure that our economy remained afloat during cases of global economic downturns.

2. You would all recall the supply chain disruptions and economic downturn that the world witnessed between 2020 and 2022 as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. The deftness of our response to the pandemic still remains a global best practice.

3. Furthermore, we increased the ability of the poor and rural Nigerians to earn a living, provided more food for millions in our villages and gave our women opportunities to earn a living.

4. Young men and women in urban centres were also supported to put their skills into productive use. Our administration also provided an enabling environment for the private sector to engage in businesses for which their return on investments is guaranteed.

5. The private sector proved a strong partner in our drive to build a resilient and sustainable economy as evidenced by the growing number of turn-key projects in various sectors of the economy.

6. In the course of revamping the economy, we made some difficult choices, most of which yielded the desired results. Some of the measures led to temporary pain and suffering for which I sincerely apologised to my fellow countrymen, but the measures were taken for the over-all good of the country.

7. Mindful of the need to ensure adequate infrastructure to drive economic growth, we completed age-long projects and processes notably amongst which are the Petroleum Industry Act, completion of some power projects, completion of the second Niger bridge and various important roads linking cities and states.

8. Our battle to ensure that all Nigerians live in a safe and secure environment has achieved considerable results. As I complete my term in office, we have been able to reduce the incidences of banditry, terrorism, armed robbery and other criminal activities considerably.

9. To sustain the gains made so far, I call on all Nigerians to be more vigilant and support the security agencies by ensuring that our values defined by being your brothers’ keeper govern our actions.

10. Up-till now, I still grieve for our children still in captivity, mourn with parents, friends and relatives of all those that lost loved ones in the days of the senseless brigandage and carnage. For all those under unlawful captivity our Security Agencies are working round the clock to secure their release unharmed.

11. Fellow Nigerians, you know how dear the desire in my heart is, to rid the country of corrupt practices that had consistently diminished our efforts to be a great country.

12. I did pursue this commitment relentlessly, in spite of the expected push back. I am happy that considerable progress had been made in repatriating huge sums of money back to the country and also taken over properties illegally acquired from our common wealth.

13. To improve service delivery, we began the implementation of a number of reforms aimed at producing an Efficient, Productive, Incorruptible and Citizen-oriented (EPIC) Federal Civil Service and the results are beginning to show.

14. On the international scene, Nigeria’s influence continues to grow as exemplified by notable Nigerians occupying headship and leadership positions in renowned global bodies.

15. Our democracy is built on and continues to thrive on the principles of separation of powers. The leadership and members of the National Assembly deserve my appreciation for their patriotism which did not detract from their roles as a check to the executive arm.

16. I also want to use this opportunity to express my appreciation to a good number of Nigerians who provided their support and encouragement to help me navigate the exciting journey in moving Nigeria forward.

17. I cannot and will not forget the millions who prayed for me during my illness in my first term of office. I am constantly praying for you and for Nigeria to thrive in peace.

18. As I retire home to Daura, Katsina State, I feel fulfilled that we have started the Nigeria Re-Birth by taking the initial critical steps and I am convinced the in-coming administration will quicken the pace of this walk to see a Nigeria that fulfils its destiny to be a great nation.

19. I am confident that I am leaving office with Nigeria better in 2023 than in 2015.

20. I thank you all. And may God Bless the Federal Republic of Nigeria.