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Sports, Academics, Leadership and Entrepreneurship Academy births!!
SOCA
SOCA is the acronym for Segun Odegbami International College and Sports Academy.
Inside SOCA, something new and very interesting is birthing.
SPORTS AND THE MILITARY
I went to observe and to report the African Military Games in Abuja.
I love what I same .
I returned to Lagos inspired, determined to do something with my experiences.
I am lucky. During the games I met the man whose work in reviving the Military Games after 22 years also revived my hope in the future of sports in Nigeria.
During the Games, I observed a daring-do attitude, discipline in organisation, proper work ethics, respect for authority, adherence to rules and regulations, an atmosphere of peace and friendship everywhere and amongst the participants from different countries.
My conclusion was simple - there is something different about the man and the ways of the military.
BOOT-CAMP
I remember my vision when I was to establish SOCA 20 years ago. The academy was to be a military-style boot-camp, a place where strict rules and disciplined conduct are primary. You either conform or you are booted out.
That spirit fits into my original vision of the sports school I wanted to establish. It is only such an atmosphere that will produce Champions - quality scholar/athletes who will graduate as the best version of themselves believing they can become amongst the best in the world.
That is the surest path to success in life through the instrumentation of sports.
MISSING LINK
Despite the remarkable progress made by SOCA in 17 years since the academy began, I always knew there was something ‘missing’.
I finally found it at the African Military Games.
NEW DEPARTMENT IN SOCA
So, I returned from the Games with plans to add elements of military training and discipline into the curriculum and programs of SOCA. Hence, the new Centre.
GEN. CHRISTOPHER MUSA CENTRE FOR LEADERSHIP AND SERVICE IN SPORT
I decided that the Centre shall be named after the man that inspired it - General Christopher Musa, the Chief of Defense Staff of the Nigerian Military.
I contacted him and sought his approval to use his name. He granted it.
I also proposed to a few prospective organisations to fund the establishment of the Centre. I found one.
SPACE NETWORK
Space Network is a young company dealing with communication satellites and internet access services around the world.
They are already engaged in empowerment projects in some communities in Nigeria as part of their Corporate Social Responsibility activities.
They find the concept of the new Centre in SOCA interesting. They decide to fund it.
PRESENT SITUATION
Things are moving very fast.
An MOU has been signed with Space Network Ltd to begin the construction of the Centre and its facilities in the next few weeks.
In the picture, Kayode Jegede, an Associate Director (Africa) in Space Network and I, representing SOCA, signing the dotted lines of the MOU in Lagos.
Dr. Olusegun Odegbami MON, OLY, AFNIIA, FNIS
SOCA
SOCA is the acronym for Segun Odegbami International College and Sports Academy.
Inside SOCA, something new and very interesting is birthing.
SPORTS AND THE MILITARY
I went to observe and to report the African Military Games in Abuja.
I love what I same .
I returned to Lagos inspired, determined to do something with my experiences.
I am lucky. During the games I met the man whose work in reviving the Military Games after 22 years also revived my hope in the future of sports in Nigeria.
During the Games, I observed a daring-do attitude, discipline in organisation, proper work ethics, respect for authority, adherence to rules and regulations, an atmosphere of peace and friendship everywhere and amongst the participants from different countries.
My conclusion was simple - there is something different about the man and the ways of the military.
BOOT-CAMP
I remember my vision when I was to establish SOCA 20 years ago. The academy was to be a military-style boot-camp, a place where strict rules and disciplined conduct are primary. You either conform or you are booted out.
That spirit fits into my original vision of the sports school I wanted to establish. It is only such an atmosphere that will produce Champions - quality scholar/athletes who will graduate as the best version of themselves believing they can become amongst the best in the world.
That is the surest path to success in life through the instrumentation of sports.
MISSING LINK
Despite the remarkable progress made by SOCA in 17 years since the academy began, I always knew there was something ‘missing’.
I finally found it at the African Military Games.
NEW DEPARTMENT IN SOCA
So, I returned from the Games with plans to add elements of military training and discipline into the curriculum and programs of SOCA. Hence, the new Centre.
GEN. CHRISTOPHER MUSA CENTRE FOR LEADERSHIP AND SERVICE IN SPORT
I decided that the Centre shall be named after the man that inspired it - General Christopher Musa, the Chief of Defense Staff of the Nigerian Military.
I contacted him and sought his approval to use his name. He granted it.
I also proposed to a few prospective organisations to fund the establishment of the Centre. I found one.
SPACE NETWORK
Space Network is a young company dealing with communication satellites and internet access services around the world.
They are already engaged in empowerment projects in some communities in Nigeria as part of their Corporate Social Responsibility activities.
They find the concept of the new Centre in SOCA interesting. They decide to fund it.
PRESENT SITUATION
Things are moving very fast.
An MOU has been signed with Space Network Ltd to begin the construction of the Centre and its facilities in the next few weeks.
In the picture, Kayode Jegede, an Associate Director (Africa) in Space Network and I, representing SOCA, signing the dotted lines of the MOU in Lagos.
Dr. Olusegun Odegbami MON, OLY, AFNIIA, FNIS
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