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Northern celebrity, actor and film maker Paul Sambo has advised students to discover
themselves early and choose the careers most suitable for them.
The Bauchi State-born artiste, who was a star guest at the Promasidor’s Harness Your Dream
career workshop held at the Junior Secondary School Jabi Abuja, admonished the students to
believe in their dreams and strive to be the best as they still have time on their side.
He told the JSS3 students of the host school and those of Junior Secondary School, Tudun-Wada
and Junior Secondary School, Wuse, Zone 1, who joined the session, that they should begin to
explore their natural talents in the near future.
Sambo said: “Most of you have talents in dancing, acting, but you have to finish your studies
because school has a way of nurturing your talent. I decided to pursue Agricultural Science as a
course and studied hard and I graduated and today, the world is turning into farming. I now have
several farms and most of my friends now come to me for business advice.’’
He explained that while in school, he supported himself with the sales of groundnuts he
scavenged from the farms and added the proceeds to whatever he got from his parents to finance
his secondary school education in Bauchi.
The popular actor therefore applauded Promasidor Nigeria for the career workshop and described
it as a project that would aid students to pursue their dreams effortlessly.
Earlier, the Chairman of the Universal Basic Education Board (UBEB) for the Federal Capital
Territory, Abuja, Dr. Kabiru Ibrahim Matazu had urged other corporate organizations to emulate
Promasidor on similar initiatives aimed at boosting career awareness among secondary school
students.
Matazu, who was represented by Alhaji Usman Yahaya, Board Member 1 of UBEB, Abuja said
that career guidance was very key and important at the early stage for a child development,
especially at the junior educational level, as it unlocks the brain of the child to choose what is
good and what he should be interested in.
He said that through Promasidor’s Harness Your Dream, students would be able to know the
steps and processes to take to attain their career objectives which would place them in leadership
and entrepreneurial positions in future.
The Principal of the school Mrs. Aishat Bello, who was represented by the Vice Principal, Mrs.
Abiola Adewunmi, expressed gratitude to Promasidor Nigeria Limited for holding the event in
the school. She said the students left the workshop more enlightened about their career options.
The company’s Head of Legal and Corporate Communications, Mr. Andrew Enahoro, explained
that the main objective of the project was to guide students to choose careers that match their
talents, skills and aspirations. He maintained that Promasidor’s Harness Your Dream and
Cowbellpedia Mathematics TV competition were just two among the corporate social
responsibility initiatives embarked upon by the company to help develop the youths. “Through
the Cowbell Football Academy, ‘Loya Swim Meet’ contest and other activities, we have also
supported the sports development aspirations of thousands of youths. We do these not because
we have excess resources but because we are genuinely interested in assisting you and other
young people to achieve your dreams,” he said.
He commended the Federal Capital Territory Authority, the FCT Universal Basic Education
Board and the school personnel for the successful hosting of the event.
Launched in November last year at Oregun High School, Ikeja, Lagos Promasidor’s Harness
Your Dream has since been held in Abeokuta and now Abuja. The primary aim of the pan-
Nigeria project is to help public school students understand varieties of career options and guide
them along their career paths with PNG staff members serving as resource persons.
Promasidor Nigeria, makers of Cowbell, Milk, Loya Milk, Onga, Top Tea and other quality
brands, supports education and youth development, among other CSR interventions.
