DIRA Registers Presence in Nigeria

The Nigeria’s chapter of ‘Do It Right Africa’ (DIRA), a multinational initiative committed to mobilising African youths for the liberation of Africa from self-inflicted poverty and underdevelopment, has demonstrated its commitment to effecting fundamental shift in values among African youths by supporting the ambition of one its members to pursue graduate studies.

The group recently gave a token support of seventy thousand naira to Miss Aina Abiola Omobowale, a graduate student of Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago-Iwoye, Ogun State.

The organisation’s global coordinator, DIRA Olamide Idowu, said in a telephone chat with Newsmakers, that DIRA is poised to “work with positive-minded Nigerians to ensure genuine reorientation among the youths to create a new Nigeria, whose value, culture and destiny will no longer be in the hands of recycled politicians.”

He said “no nation has ever developed without building strong institutions, coordinated by the youths, whose capability and strength provide the core elements required for true development.”

Miss Omobowale thanked members of the organisation in Nigeria for what she described as “a great gift” and “a miracle that never stops amazing her”.

She said she has been inspired greatly by DIRA’s gesture, as she looks forward to becoming a “role model for other women”.