By Emmanuel Asuquo

Hope beams on young people resident in Ikorodu area of Lagos as all is set for the launch of the Successor Generation Community; a Smart community which will provide a platform for gifted, intelligent and smart young people in Ikorodu and in due course all of Nigeria to explore opportunities and grow together.

The community is expected to work closely with the Lightfield House, a talent profiling firm to profile members and help set goals for personal development and career path progress for community members.

According to Mr. Johnson Abbaly, the Chief Executive Officer of Lightfield House and initiator of the  Successor Generation Community(SGC), “the basic vision of SGC is raising the true successors; the leaders and titans of the future; aimed at purely harnessing the potentials of thousands of underachieving but smart young people and making them realize their real capabilities. We are aimed at exposing young people to the real world, keeping them updated with modern trends and spurring them to astronomical heights. We believe that a successor is not just someone who takes over from a predecessor. We believe that a true successor is one who is trained to take over from a predecessor. The true successors that the community shall produce will be able to handle all their duties  and obligations as they take over from their forerunners -in the no distant future-, solve all the problems the previous leaders couldn’t solve and set new standards for national development. We have the visions of growth-inducing interactions, Inspirational mentorships that lead young people to lasting success, positive change, development and reorientation of the mindsets of Nigerian youths, and excellence of members of the SGC in all facets of their lives; Academic, Social, Financial and even Spiritual”.

Membership of the Community according to Mr. Ejide Temitope, Chief Information Officer of SGC, is opened to people who are young, passionate and unrelenting in the pursuit for more within the age bracket of 18-35 resident in Ikorodu. The launch of SGC Ikorodu coincides with Nigeria’s political transition of May 29.

”There will be rigid meeting times, mentorships, trainings, seminars and different avenues of outings for our community’s members. And we aim, ultimately, for the construction of our planned world-class Successor Youth Center, which will be the haven for all members of the SGC. We plan to equip the Youth Center with state-of-the-art equipment with the latest technology from around the world, tailored to our needs. The center shall possess E-libraries, Mind rooms, Music studios, Conference halls, Indoor games rooms, Sports facilities, and even incubators for young, small-business owners to grow their businesses”, Mr. Abbaly added .