NOA comes up with “Heir Apparent”

Nigeria,not peculiar to other developing nations, has been saddled with leadership challenges as can be observed through the criticisms of certain policies introduced by past leaders coupled with their actions and inactions, commission or omission and several other developmental projects, especially the decline in constructive engagement of youths in the country’s crucial development agenda.The National […]

Nigeria,not peculiar to other developing nations, has been saddled with leadership challenges as can be observed through the criticisms of certain policies introduced by past leaders coupled with their actions and inactions, commission or omission and several other developmental projects, especially the decline in constructive engagement of youths in the country’s crucial development agenda.
The National Orientation Agency  (NOA),the arm of government saddled with the responsibility of promoting Nigeria’s core values through the advocacy for  attitudinal change to the citizenry, burdened by the lack of dynamic leadership structured on perpendicular generational inheritance, conceived  the idea of cultivating a distinct crop of national leaders with a world class stature. A leadership that is visionary, credible, responsible, dynamic, patriotic  and epitomizes the distilled Nigeria’s core brand values coupled with a conceptualized model whose attributes challenge our sensibilities and could ultimately be held up to young adult-Nigerians who are potential national leaders.
The introduction of “HEIR APPARENT”, a television reality programme by NOA as a vehicle to drive the vision of charting a generational compass for leadership role models for the  country has not only generated interest and curiosity from many Nigerians but has also been described as a welcomed development long overdue.
HEIR APPARENT has been described as the only reality television programme that is well represented by Nigerians both from the grassroots to the national level as the subscription cuts across the 774 local government areas of the 36 states including the FCT .The auditioning which took place on September 25,2010 at every state headquarters of NOA across the country witnessed large turnout as participants thronged in their numbers  each trying to win the hearts of their examiners and become the HEIR APPARENT.
After the screening and auditioning, names of successful candidates who eventually emerged as winners in their respective states were forwarded to NOA Headquarters for short listing and onward communications and correspondence to report at the camp base in Abuja come Saturday, 9 October 2010.
Bamun Nii- Veror writes from National Orientation Agency (NOA) Headquarters, [email protected]