Africa’s greatness lies in her young people — Maduka, Ezuma

…Nigerians indispensable repair breached quality for progress, says Maduka

By Chimaobi Nwaiwu

NNEWI—Founder, President and Chief Executive Officer of Coscharis Group, Dr Cosmas Maduka, has said that for Nigeria to determination forward, its citizens indispensable repair their breached character.

Dr Maduka, who spoke yesterday astatine the 2025 Ultimate Destiny Uplifters Foundation (UDUF) Africa Under-45 CEOs Business and Leadership Summit, held astatine the Archbishop C.J. Patterson International Auditorium Complex, Onitsha, Anambra State, stressed that enactment is not conscionable astir skills, but astir character, which helium described arsenic “the top superior 1 indispensable person and support jealously.”

According to him, the situation of raising today’s children stems from the information that galore parents themselves deficiency character.

“The occupation we person successful raising our children is not that we person delinquent children, but that we person much delinquent parents. Leadership is not conscionable skill, quality is portion of it. It is your top capital, support it,” helium said.

Maduka warned that nary 1 tin physique a lasting bequest without honesty, integrity, and trust. He advised Nigerians to halt pursuing wealth arsenic an end, but alternatively absorption connected solving problems.

“Stop pursuing money, look for problems to lick and wealth volition travel you. You cannot physique thing lasting connected crooked lines. Integrity whitethorn beryllium dilatory successful gathering your business, but successful the agelong run, you volition succeed,” helium said.

He further lamented that leaders successful the state person failed to show stewardship, noting that “power without intent leads to corruption and occurrence without integrity leads to destruction.”

On Nigeria’s potential, Maduka cautioned against speaking sick of the country, describing it arsenic a “goldmine.”

“Nigeria is not a useless country. This state is the powerhouse of the satellite economy. If we usage 15 percent of what God has deposited successful us, we volition surpass the world’s biggest economies,” helium declared.

Also speaking, the Founding President and Chairman, Board of Directors of UDUF Africa, Dr Smart Ezuma, said the acme was a telephone for a caller procreation of leaders committed to integrity, creativity, and courage.

“The greatness of Africa rests successful the hands of her young people. Our imagination is to physique a assemblage of servant leaders and ethical entrepreneurs who recognize that enactment is not astir taking, but giving, not astir self, but astir service,” Ezuma said.

In her remarks, Deputy Chancellor of Paul University, Awka, and Nigeria’s archetypal pistillate Professor of Mass Communication, Prof. Chinyere Stella Okunna, urged young entrepreneurs to clasp hard enactment and integrity.

“Process leads to the product, and erstwhile process leads to product, you person bid of mind. Believe successful hard work, integrity, and legacy,” she advised.

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