A researcher with Daily Trust Newspaper, Rabiyat Usman, has emerged winner of 2019 LeaderCom award.
LeaderCom is a platform that develops a person’s ability to communicate and present his or her ideas, passion, wisdom, experience and knowledge in effective and powerful ways.
LeaderCom event themed “My Journey, my truth” attracted 11 trainers and 27 participants across the country who applied through social media to contest presentation of leadership ideas.
Usman, a first class graduate of Computer Science from Rhema University in Aba, Abia State, came out tops, among the 12 finalists that emerged from the 27 participants.
Lead Manager of TRT-Events, Atuzie Tuzzi, emerged the first runner-up while the programme officer of Yali-Network Lagos Hub, Nendirmwa Malafa, was the 2nd runner-up.
The five-day event was organised by two non-governmental organisations: ServeLead Global and Social Good Fund.
Speaking during the presentation of awards, Usman called on youths to exploit social media to improve their artistic and technological knowledge.
She said that social media could be gainfully used to direct the attention of youths into positive things that would promote self-reliance.
Atuzie described social media as platforms that enable users create and share contents or participate in social networking.
“I am a regular user of social media; the claim by some young people to always use social media without positive impact on their life is false.
“If you go about social media with ulterior motive that becomes an individual issue; if you do that you will have a workspace problem.”
