Umez - The Coordinator

Welcome to Nigerian Leadership Council (NIGERLEC). NIGERLEC was formed on September 1, 2004, on the basis that leadership can be learned. Just as we learn how to drive, write, sing and dance, leaders must learn how to be GREAT LEADERS.

First, leadership is action, not a position. The job of a leader is to take his people to a new height - bearing in mind that the progress of his people is the JOB No. 1. Legacy is all important. Second, leadership is parenthood. Just as parents take care of their own children, leaders must take care of their own people. By utilizing our talents, our knowledge, and all the resources bestowed upon us by nature, Nigeria, will once again, reclaim its status as "The Giant of Africa."

Our goal here is, therefore, very simple: To remake Nigeria through leadership pedagogy. We want to produce great, effective leaders in Nigeria, who will rise and act in obedience to the following fundamentals of GREAT leadership:

(1) leaders are the parents of their own people;

(2) leadership is action, not a position;

(3) if leaders lead well, followers will follow well;

(4) development is civilization; and

(5) civilization can only be brought about by those leaders who truly recognize that leadership is action, not a position; and leadership is parenthood.

To bring that development & civilization to Nigeria means to produce intelligent, and energetic leaders -- i.e., leaders with common sense -- to recognize that:

(a) leaders of the countries we call "developed" or "civilized" have no penny in Nigerian banks, and therefore, wisely invest Nigerian money in Nigeria; and

(b) leaders of the "civilized" countries do not fly to Nigeria for medical checkup or treatment, and therefore, wisely build and maintain excellent hospitals in Nigeria; and,

(c) "Civilization" and "development" can only come about if and only if leaders INVEST in their own countries and their own youth -- nothing more, nothing less.

Kindly explore our prescribed solutions here, and feel free to share your views with fellow citizens.

Welcome to the Leadership Forum - NIGERLEC.

Your Fellow Compatriot,

Prof. Bedford Nwabueze Umez
Coordinator, NIGERLEC
Personal Websites: www.Umez.Com & www.lee.edu/~bumez