Nollywood’s Aneke Twins Motivates Students at Promasidor Harness Your Dream
Addressing the students, who attended Promasidor
“Harness Your Dream” career guidance initiative at Queen’s School, Enugu on
Thursday, the twins said that they did not lose the focus of fulfilling their
dreams despite the deprivation that followed the death of their father in their
formative years.
Now the promoters of Aneke Foundation, which supports
humanitarian activities, the twins recalled how they hawked around Enugu in
order to support their mother in funding their education.
They eventually graduated from the University of
Nigeria, Nsukka with degrees in Mass Communication and Banking and Finance, but
admitted that they would have chosen courses that suited their natural flair if
they had been exposed to career guidance.
Chidiebere said: “If we had the kind of opportunity
that you now have, we won’t have read those courses. We were in our church
drama group and then found out that we had the talent for acting. Somebody
invited us and then we began to act but still hawking our akara (beans cake) and bread and going to school. But after school,
we would go to the movie industry for auditioning. We found out that we needed
to know more about acting, so we went to school.”
The 32-year-old twins joined Nollywood in 1999 and
had their first movie outing in “Ebuka”. But the break did not come until they
acted the lead roles in “Desperate Twins. They had featured in over 80
Nollywood movies since then and won several awards.
Explaining that education made the total being,
Chidinma said that they had to inspire themselves and rise above the challenges
of becoming fatherless at a young age.
“When our father was alive, we had everything. But
when our father died, everything changed – nobody to help. We looked around,
there was nobody to help. We then decided to inspire ourselves,” she
reminisced.
The celebrity twins commended Promasidor for
sponsoring the project and urged other corporate organisations to follow the
example.
Earlier, the Enugu State Commissioner for
Education, Prof. Uche Eze had appreciated Promasidor Nigeria for bringing
“Harness Your Dream” to the state.
The commissioner, who was represented by Mrs.
Chidiogo Ugodu said that the impact of the project would be felt in later years
by the beneficiaries, who would now be able to make the right career choices.
The Principal of Queen’s School, Enugu, Mrs. Ada
Nweke also thanked Promasidor for extending the programme to the state. “You
did not make any mistake by choosing our state as one of your catchment zones.
Our amiable governor is education friendly. He always wants to see children
achieve their aims in life,” she said.
In his welcome address, the Managing Director of
Promasidor Nigeria Limited, Mr. Anders Einarsson assured that the company would
continue to support Nigerian youths in fulfilling their potentials, adding that
the motivation for the initiative was to guide students to choose careers that
match their talents, skills and aspirations.
“We specifically target your class because by next
session, you will be selecting relevant subjects that will determine your
future careers,” explained Einarsson, who was represented by the company’s Head
of Legal and Corporate Communications, Mr Andrew Enahoro.
Enahoro later told reporters that Promasidor
Harness Your Dream is promoting the spirit of hard work among young Nigerians.
He said the choice of courses taught at the
programme was skewed towards helping the benefitting students ultimately
becoming gainfully employed and useful to the society. “Next year, we are going
to change the syllabus because this one has run for a whole year. We will like
to incorporate other professions and careers into the programme,” he hinted.
Promasidor
staff, who served as resource persons, shared their educational and career
experiences with the students and explained how to become professionals in
several disciplines. These are: Personnel Management and Emerging
Entrepreneurial Opportunities, Information and Communication Technology. Others
are: Accounting & Business Management, and Digital Marketing.
A CSR initiative of Promasidor Nigeria
Limited, Harness Your Dream has been held in Lagos and Ogun States, as well as
the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja since it was launched in November last
year. It is a pan-Nigeria project, which is held every school term.
The primary objective of “Harness Your
Dreams” is to help public school students understand varieties of career
options and guide them along their career paths.
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