Abuja White Veil Party (Pictures) .

We had the opportunity to cover The abuja white Veil Party which turned out as a great Success. Many people showed up for the event, including the famous abuja based Musician popularly known as White Nigerian. Jeremiah Gyang was also present at the summer event organized by the sabali team and ARC.   One important aspect of the event is we had a great opportunity to share ideas with some amazing young entrepreneurs. Below are pictures from the event,

Picture Credit: Lemmy Vedutti Photography and Arewamagazine. Lemmy is a professional Photographer based in Abuja. Special S/O to the White Veil Media team and BZ clothings . 

Special S/O to team Sabali and ARC for bringing abuja youths together . Follow us on instagram @arewamagazine

My Hult Experience by Fahad Aliyu.

It still feels like yesterday, when I stared down at my acceptance letter from Hult. It was October 2013, right after finishing a masters in Computer Network Management. I was at a career crossroads, a point at which life decisions weigh a bit extra. After months of research and thinking, I had finally found a business school that suited what I was looking for. Consequently, I set off on my MBA journey.

 

I came to Hult’s San Francisco campus open and looking forward to a new experience. I was very much aware that I was embarking on my most challenging educational experience yet.  Being both a temporal and financial investment, I had to be fully aware of the importance of an MBA before deciding to come to Hult. In hindsight, I couldn’t have made a better decision. My experience has been worth all my investments.

 

The school organized a set of activities throughout the start of the school year in September that serve as an immersion into the program, aimed at welcoming and integrating the diverse group of new students. In my program, the MBA, about 50 different nationalities are represented, though there are 100 different nationalities across the campus. A scavenger hunt around San Francisco on registration day helped us acclimatize to the city, a place many of us were calling home for the next year. But it was a rope course that was the definite highlight of the immersion. We experienced the type of adrenaline rush that can push you to do stuff you have never done before, like walking on wires suspended between forest trees, and trusting your team members to hold on the rope when you jump, walking on thin planks and ropes with a team member balancing and helping one another among other exciting activities. The majority of the activities were aimed at building teamwork and communication skills, along with understanding. At the end of immersion we all joined together with other programs at a welcome party; the school year had officially begun.

Before long, I realized and appreciated Hult as the home of diversity. Where else could you have a chef, a professional DJ, a former military officer, a dentist, a nuclear physicist, a lawyer, a former Olympic athlete–among many others—situated within the four walls of a classroom, and learning and sharing experiences? The new experiences continue, months into the academic year, and I still see and meet new faces within the MBA program and across the others. Stefan, a fellow Hult Ambassador summed up this dynamic well by saying, “at Hult San Francisco there are no strangers, just friends you haven’t met yet.”

 

The Hult atmosphere is uniform across various campuses globally, rotating to the Dubai campus to take two courses in May/June was an extension of the San Francisco campus. Meeting whole new sets of friend, exploring new opportunities and culture in a different city. Accounts of friends that rotated to other campuses (New York, Shanghai, London and Boston) all are of similar narrative. Coming back to my home campus (San Francisco) for the homestretch of our program was the perfect way to end our academic year.

As a Hult student, I’ve transformed into a true global citizen, one that appreciates an assortment of cultures, experiences, and respects people for who they truly are, what they represent and not what I want them to be. My journey has been a non-stop roller coaster ride filled with excitement, challenges, long hours, team meetings, discovery, BBQs, friendships and non-stop learning. Which has definitely made me evolve as a person, pushed me out of my comfort zone to fully understand who I am and what am capable of doing. We recently set a new Guinness World Record for “Most Nationalities in a Business School Class”, where 80 different nationalities took a finance class on derivatives to set the record.

 

There’s a saying that success occurs when opportunity meets preparedness. I believe this describes the MBA program at Hult. All our hard work is helping us to prepare for re-entry into the real world, but we also have many unique opportunities through the school that makes the year more memorable. As Louis Pasteur said, “Fortune favors the prepared mind.”

To reflect and celebrate the past one year before getting our diplomas, over 600 MBA students from across the various Hult International Business School campuses will all be heading to the small mountainous city of Davos which has a population of little above 11,000. With an elevation of around 1500m, it is the highest city in Europe and home to the World Economic Forum (WEF) held annually in January. This year it is also home to the graduation ceremony and gala of Hult 2015 MBAs, can not think of a better way to end our Hult experience than at home of WEF.

 

If you can imagine it, you can achieve it; if you can dream it, you can become it. - William Arthur Ward

 

You’re not going to get very far in life based on what you already know. You’re going to advance in life by what you’re going to learn after you leave here. - Charlie Munger

 

Nothing is as important as passion. No matter what you want to do with your life, be passionate. The world doesn't need any more gray. On the other hand, we can't get enough color. Mediocrity is nobody's goal and perfection shouldn't be either. We'll never be perfect. But remember these three P's: Passion + Persistence = Possibility. - Jon Bon Jovi

 

Congratulations to Hult Class of 2015!!!! We did it!!!

 

Fahad Garba is a Hult Global Ambassador and a 2015 MBA candidate based at the Hult San Francisco campus. He is looking forward to hearing from you – find him on Twitter: @fahadaliyu and email: fahadaliyu@gmail.com

Red Dish Chronicles Culinary School opens tomorrow.

Red Dish Chronicles Culinary School opens tomorrow. You don't want to miss this one. Come in to discuss your culinary education needs with any of our Chefs.

We are located @ Maina Court, 252 Herbert Macaulay Way, Opp. NNPC Tower, Central Area, Abuja

T: 09092222208

E: abuja@reddishchronicles.com

W: www.reddishchronicles.com

What we failed to feel towards humans we felt for Cecil.

What we failed to feel towards humans we felt for Cecil

News of an American dentist slaying a lion has literally shock the net and other media outlets around the globe in recent days, this isn't surprising as Cecil was supposedly lured and tricked to his final moments on earth. These is an outrageous brutality and should be condemned with all morality, but the scale of the response to the lions death and mass public and media outcry are powerful reminders of our misplaced priorities as the superior creatures that inhabit the earth.

This is not to say at the least the life of any being is worthless, especially when such life is taken not to feed as it's commonly done in cases of cows and sheep, but to boost the ego of some comfortable dentist whom lives far away from Cecil and can be rest assured that he's immune to any threat the beast might present. To feel towards the loss of another life are important as they are part of what constitutes humanity.

My reservations if I may are however enormous and I wouldn't prefer to bore distinguished readers with them, thus I will cut straight to the chase, if only the millions of. Syrian refugees, Iraqi's Afghanistani's Nigerians and countless of millions fleeing either war or repressive regimes or terrorism as the case maybe received such continuous media coverage to the extent of beaming a portrait on the Empire State Building wouldn't we be more humans?

The case of Cecil is rather sad as many Africans myself included upon his death never had of a famous lion coined "Cecil" but he's the news and the other of the day, the media continues to filter news and reports to suit a certain class and serve the interest of a certain. We as humans need to reflect and re-appraise our priorities as we have lost course and favored the spread and displayed outrage over the killing of a lion over; millions that have been for years starving and continue to across the globe, over thousands maimed and killed incessantly by extremist, over hundreds of thousands displaced with no where to call home, yet we sit in the comfort of our homes and tweet or update our status over the killing of an animal that could easily harm us if we cross his path!

Yahaya Yakubu
PhD Candidate

Still on the Stolen Dress.

Still on the Stolen Dress.

Hudayya posted the Video of a girl known as Habiba who allegedly stole a dress from her shop in abuja. The Video went Viral on Instagram. However we couldn't clarify if the Dress was really Stolen . What caught our eyes was the comments on her Instagram page after she posted the Video. Some people posted serious comments while others made a joke out of it . What can you say about the whole issue? Drop your comments.    

Disguise of imperialism as globalization

Disguise of imperialism as globalization

Ali Mazrui one of Africa's foremost intellectuals through his works across various disciplines have sparked some controversial as well as exhilarating debates in the academia, during the course of his purposeful life. One of such works is the taming of Western-Oriented imperialism disguised as globalization and he puts forwards five strategies to address the issue. They are;
. Indeginisation which to him means protection and preservation of indigenous culture, re tooling indigenous skills for use in modern context and making sure that indigenous human and natural resources are employed to optimized the interest of the local population.

. Domestification, the use of foreign institutions and technologies to suit the need of the local society, thus adoption of modernization without Westernization.

. Diversification here he argues that the globe possesses and array of production and cultural knowledge and non-western societies should consider all these centers and learn from them instead of privileging the West.

. Horizontal Interpretation amongst non western societies via partnership with countries at approximately the same level. To avoid exploitation of weaker states by stronger ones, this shouldn't in any way discourage partnership with more powerful states, but it points out the high tendencies of exploitation in such partnerships.

. Counter Penetration, lastly clamped for the reversal of leverage and influence from western societies. Owning to the fact the western societies have penetrated no western ones through colonialism and neo-colonialism, he argues for reversal of the favor and only then globalization can be truly attained.

By
Yahaya Yakubu

Arewa youths and drug abuse craze Yahaya Yakubu @yahayaayakubu & Fatima Allahnanan @kraziestkandy

Arewa youths and drug abuse craze

This is a very old trend and it is still enjoying stardom like pop culture. Drug abuse is a stigma that the government and other health organizations need to device policies and strategies aimed at it curbing the ever growing trend or menace. 

A lot is been said about drug abuse, and so far it has continue to grow, thus, either more needs to be done or nothing is been done to curb it.

Been a worldwide phenomena with countries such as United State, Iran, Mexico amongst others, WHO and other organizations concerned with drug abuse are trying to end this escalating trend, even though more needs to be done.

The focus on arewa is nothing but mere awareness. It is sad but the truth remains drug abuse is rampant in the northern parts of Nigeria as compared to others.

Even though this is base on an upsetting 2008 statistics by NDLEA, we have to be sincere to agree that it is spreading and fast at that.

Reasons for the abuse of drugs by ill-informed youths ranges from but not necessarily limited to; depression, peer pressure, accessibility, availability, affordability, the parties involved ranges from drug administrators to pharmacists, processes ranges from smugglers and their endless sources if one May say. Though research as to why drug is abused have showed different reasons across time and space the above listed can be said to be peculiar to the youth of the northern hemisphere of Nigeria, popularly called Arewa Youths. 

Curbing drug abuse is not an easy job, considering the clandestine nature of the drug industries and big names involved in manufacturing these drugs and the original purposes(s) for which such drugs were fabricated, as most them consumed in the northern part can be classified under sedatives and anti-depressant and when abused causes nausea and drowsiness, there's little the government can do as a ban on such drugs is detrimental to those who need them under supervision or prescription of a health practitioner.

Thus, there's need for awareness the dangers of drug abuse posses, sensitization programmes both publicly and privately funded need be carried out in high school amongst other tertiary institutions not just in the north but across the country to educate the youth on the imminent dangers of drugs and the right to say NO when offered.

Lastly, a derailed youth means a bleak future, Arewa youths needs to abandon the trend of abusing drugs for what ever reason and allocate thier time and resources the further acquiring knowledge or dedicating such monies used to purchased drugs to a charitable cause, as over a period of five years a typical drug user whom spends an average 5000 a week can educate a two kids through high school. Long live Arewa, long live Nigeria

By 

Yahaya Yakubu

@yahayaayakubu

& Fatima Allahnanan 

@kraziestkandy