WEEKLY NEWSLETTER
Hey AIESEC!!!
How are we feeling?
I trust our week has been cool. I also trust that we have
been sufficiently well acquainted with the new EB team.
Firstly before I go on to update us with what is going on in
the LC and beyond as will be my custom weekly, I would like to formally launch
our blog as being back into operational; whoop!! Whoop!! Also I want to
describe a structure which our newsletter would take consequently. Like every
good news report, it shall contain sections; main section which would
definitely have a brief summary of the previous meeting (with lots of comments
from me :) ) and links to any applications available for conferences and posts.
From next week most likely, before I give a heavily commented upon summary,
minutes of the meeting will be included(most likely).Also little updates on
what is going on with AIESEC Nigeria and AIESEC International will be
dropped(If any). Now that we are all acquainted with the structure let's go on
to the main business of the day.
LC Meeting 24th, July 2015
Yes! It's a new term; AIESEC Lagos 2015/2016. We have a new
EB team, we have new structures and ideas in place, and we have goals to be
achieved, quotas to be met and dreams to be fulfilled. Today was the first
meeting of the term and it got on to a healthy start (*winks*). It was healthy
especially for us who came early. You could hear Simi huffing and puffing as
you got closer to the caravan. If one looked at Mujidah's (our new VP TM)
positive and weirdly content face as she lifted that "light" looking
piece of metal to set up the canopy, one might think lifting heavy objects is
the one true way to attain peace of mind. But then again, she's a VP. She's the
personification of ideal optimism.
SO, Mujidah Sakibu gave us a hearty welcome back and we all
introduced ourselves and commented on our holiday breaks. Let me just say;
apparently some of us were meeting boys, some of us needed the fasting, and we
have a cyclist among us (hmmnn!).
Moving on, our new
LCP Rachel Bassey gave us an introductory speech and finally introduced us to
the new EB team! Those who will be "serving us". "Leadership is all
about service" Rachel said as they boldly stepped out for us to see. And
they are ;(*drumrolls*)
1.
Yomi Adenekan - VP MaC
2.
Miracle Chukwu - VP OGIP
3.
Ugochukwu Modum - VP OGCDP
4.
Mujidah Sakibu - VP TM
5.
Olumide
Abejide - VP Fin& LA
6.
Nnoye
Oswagu - VP BD & IGIP
7.
Sandra
Adeniran - VP IGCDP
8. Rachel Bassey - LCP
Apparently they all have wonderful plans for us; we have
interns coming in mid-August, we have a new caravan coming in too (YES! *fist
pumps*). I heard an awesome deal with Kaspersky which I am personally looking
forward to. Also we were made aware of the intern buddy fun role we could take
up. Rachel closed it up with a remarkable speech of self-re-evaluation. She
said and I quote "... I think that it's really important that for us as
individuals to start asking ourselves basic questions; why am I here? Why am I
in AIESEC? Why am I in this world? What do my friends think of me? What do I
think of myself? ... What can I point to as my achievement in AIESEC?” Now
that’s a food for thought and I shall fill myself up.
We went on to another wonderful section of the meeting,
mujidah spoke to us on a lot of topics that center around increasing of one's
abilities. She asked us questions on failure, on what it means to focus, on
what makes us to take action and on how we see our self-worth to the society.
She then went on to give us snippets of advice to help us with whatever our situation
to the above answers were. We were eventually asked to move into our respective
functional areas for a revision and a plan to take on the new term. This went
on for 15 minutes at which point the functional areas broke up and reformed the
LC.
To make the day even better than it already had been, guess
who showed up? (*drumrolls*) Someone from the MC our LC coach - Esther!! SO she
made us aware of the good work the immediate Ex EB team did and our splendid
position in the entity. She also reminded us not to rest on our oars as we
still have a lot to accomplish. Watching Esther speak to us with such passion
and love for our LC and AIESEC itself made me want to feel what she felt for
AIESEC. It also made me realize this new AIESEC term shall be all the more,
very awesome. She promised us more of her presence and that we were going to
learn a lot with her. Lastly we went on to roll calls (whoop!! whoop!!). Wow
let me just say as much as this new EB team likes to work, they certainly like
roll calls too. Some of us though who claim to not be too familiar with roll
calls needed to watch someone's steps. They chose to watch the LCP,and Esther
which was fine and made sense totally. Though why they watched them from behind
or why they chose to only watch the females, I don't know. I mean, they could
have watched Ugo(VP OGCDP and roll call lord)
but it seems behind Rachel and Esther is much more instructive :) (*okay
oh).
So that brought the meeting to a close and the term to a
wonderful start. I myself am insanely inspired and most motivated to give it my
all this term, I hope you are too. Good day and have a wonderful week ahead of
you.
LC Updates and news:
1.
Coming up this Friday 31st July, 2015
and 1st August, 2015, an awesome opportunity of a lifetime to
rebuild passion in AIESEC Lagos!! Is our very own Local Committee Conference!!
AIESEC Nigeria
NATIONAL TRAINING SEMINAR
(NTS) 2015
500+ delegates
20+ universities
15+ States
5 days
1 Conference
1 Lagos
21 - 27 September, 2015
20+ universities
15+ States
5 days
1 Conference
1 Lagos
21 - 27 September, 2015
This is going to be the biggest conference in AIESEC in
Nigeria's history and imagine yourself being part of the team that will deliver
this MEGA life-changing conference! Deadline has been extended to 23rd July,
2015, so what are you waiting for? Consider it also as an opportunity to
develop yourself, this promises to be a life changing experience. If you have
any questions regarding this conference contact the Conference Managers uzoma.justice@aiesec.net and ayowale.obineye@aiesec.net.
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The AIESEC WORLD mobile app enables you to see and connect with AIESECers around you. All you need to do to download and install the app then login with your EXPA/OP Account and voila! You are good to go! If you downloaded the BETA version, kindly delete it and redownload and install.
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