Roles in which the youths can help Igbaja land.

1. By
Engr. Ridwan Ishola Bakare
Former FISA President, Unilorin Chapter
Initiator of Igbaja Children Education Fund (ICEF)
From Ile Oloko Compound in Igbaja land

2. What is Development?
Development does not
simply mean becoming more
wealthy, or getting bigger
amounts of income.
Development means
changing and growing. It is
social change in all six
sociological dimensions.

3. What is Community
Development?
Community development, in
this series, is not the
provision of social services,
but the methods that will
encourage, guide, and
perhaps influence that
sociological development, as
applied to a community.

4. Let us learn from the Oak tree
When an arcon grows and
develops, it does not simply
become a huge acorn, it
changes shape, develops
new organs, and becomes
an oak tree. So too a
community or society;
development is social
change, not merely increase

5. And pictorially

6. Dimensions of Social Change
 (1) technological / capital,
 (2) economic / wealth,
 (3) political / power,
 (4) social / institutional,
 (5) ideology / values, and
 (6) beliefs / world view.
Each of those dimensions is linked to all
the others, and changes in one
dimension affect all others.

7. The Link between the
Dimensions
 Marx suggested that changes in the
technological and economic
dimensions occur first.
 Max Veber, in contrast, suggested that
changes in the values and beliefs
dimensions occur first and cause
changes in the remaining four.
 Modern sociologists see change as
much more complex, and that all six
dimensions are involved in the change.

8. Applying the Management Questions
for Igbaja
1. What do we want?
2. What do we have?
3. How do we use what we
have to get what we
want? and
4. What will happen when
we do?

9. What do we want?
Question one includes
the background,
definition of the
problem, and
identification of broad
goals and specific

10. What we want
 A community where there are mordern
amenities
 A community where all the able bodied
citizens are gainfully employed
 An industrialized community.
 A politically stable and dynamic community
 A literate community that is free of poverty
and disease.
 A religious and godly community
 A community where every young person can
be what s/he wants to be.

11. What do we have
 Question two is a situational analysis, observation
of potential and realized assets and liabilities,
inputs, constraints and hindrances.
 How many in the Academia?
 How many Business moguls?
 How many professionals?
 How many serious politicians?
 How many in the Armed Forces?
 How many large farms and Industries?
 How many students in Higher Institutions?

12. What can The Youth do?
 Question three involves general and specific
descriptions of strategy, scheduling,
organizational changes (for decision making and
for action) and proposed set-up.

13. YOUTH’S CHALLENGES
 YOUTH can compile a register of all Igbajans in
all endeavours at home and abroad.
 YOUTH can compile a register of all Igbaja
students in all Higher Institutions of Learning.
 YOUTH can disseminate the list in numbers one
and two by post and through a web site.
 YOUTH can start a new culture whereby Igbajans
at home and abroad can help themselves.

14. YOUTH’S CHALLENGE cont’d
 YOUTH can organize programmes
whereby the senior students can help the
junior ones to make good grades.
 YOUTH in higher institutions can
organize holiday programmes to help the
students in the secondary schools.
 YOUTH can collaborate with Other
Development Organizations in the
Community.
 YOUTH can launch Education (Up to
Higher Inst.) for All Igbajans by Year 2020
(EFAIx2020).

15. ‘IGBAJA DAY’ SO FAR
 Every thing has been done out of
tune with the original script written
by Igbaja Highlanders.
 Igbaja Day is supposed to be a
development strategy rather than
an entertainment programme
 Youth should insist on being
included in the programme next
time.

16. What will happen when you(YOUTH)
do?
Question four encompasses
not only predictions of
expected output and impact,
but should also indicate
methods of monitoring and
assessment of the process
during implementation.

17. OUTCOMES
 YOUTH will be better positioned to
contribute its quota
 YOUTH will have an overwhelming
presence in the affairs of Igbaja.
 YOUTH will be able to negotiate better
employment opportunities for Igbaja
Youth.
 Igbaja will be more developed.
 Igbaja will continue to be a giant in
Nigeria.

18. From the Sage
“No one can develop a
society; society develops
itself.”
Julius
Nyerere
Development does not simply mean becoming more wealthy,
or getting bigger amounts of income. Development means
changing and growing. It is social change in all six sociological
dimensions. Community development, in this series, is not the
provision of social services, but the methods that will encourage,

19. THANK YOU