Animated video on values of Nigerian founding fathers premiered in Lagos

The video put together by Nigeria Leadership Initiative (NLI) is targeted at the youths and aimed at bringing to fore Nigeria’s rich history and men of integrity represented on the naira notes. The 12 minutes animated video features narration from top Nigerian artists – MI, TY Bello, Bouqui, Sasha, Kate Henshaw-Nutall, Rooftops MCs, Omawumi, Chioma […]

The video put together by Nigeria Leadership Initiative (NLI) is targeted at the youths and aimed at bringing to fore Nigeria’s rich history and men of integrity represented on the naira notes.

The 12 minutes animated video features narration from top Nigerian artists – MI, TY Bello, Bouqui, Sasha, Kate Henshaw-Nutall, Rooftops MCs, Omawumi, Chioma Omeruah and Aisha Augie-Kuta.

The men personalities focused on are Sir Tafawa Balewa pictured on N5, Alvan Ikoku on N10, General Murtala Mohammed on N20, and The diversity of tribes and culture represented on Nigeria’s N50. Others include Chief Obafemi Awolowo on N100, Sir Ahmadu Bello on N200, Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe on N500 and Dr. Clement Isong and Alhaji Aliyu Mai-Bornu on the N1000 notes.

Each of the above leaders as represented in the video stood for these values in the society – integrity, industry, compassion, justice and equity, tolerance, discipline, family values, contentment, spirituality and patriotism.

Thus the message is clear as MI says “you can make Nigeria great. Anytime you hold the Naira note, take a look at the faces on it and say one day I will be like them. But most importantly, you cat and behave like them so Nigeria can be great again.”

Speaking at the video premiere in Lagos, Hauwa Magoro, an NLI executive, said Notes2Note will be used for advocacy across secondary schools in Nigeria to celebrate these great Nigerians and have the youths imbibe the values they stood for, the values that set them apart from other Nigerians.

The idea, she explained, was that since most people are motivated by money, the need arose to find a way to use an easily recognisable medium (money) to reach out to the audience.

She said the Notes2note is one of three NLI projects under the banner CLEVER.

CLEVER she said is an acronym for character, leadership, education, values, effort and results.

NLI believes that one step to getting the country back on track is to reach out to young people during their formative years to start reinforcing values necessary to rebuild a good society. This was the driving impetus for the conception of Notes2Note, the producers said. This initiative incorporates and promotes 10 values that were identified by Nigerians in a National Essay Competition as important for building a good society, explains Yinka Odeleye, an NLI Associate.

Major General Mohammed Magoro (Rtd) told our correspondent at the premier that the initiative is welcoming following the erosion of role models in Nigeria.

“It is unfortunate that Nigerians go abroad to enjoy good facilities and when given opportunities to provide those facilities back home, they pilfer the monies into private pockets,” he said.

The Nigeria leadership Initiative (NLI) was established in 2006 as an international non-profit, non-partisan organisation. The mission of NLI is to mobilise the energy, talent and resources of credible and accomplished Nigerians in Nigeria and the Diaspora to tackle the challenges that confront Nigeria.