User:Akgideens/sandbox

Early Life === Akgideens was born in Idah LGA of Kogi State, North Central Nigeria. With the creation of additional local government areas for easy administration and grass root governance, a new LGA – Igalamela/Odolu was created which is now my present LGA of origin.

Education
Akgideens started his intellectual journey in 1992 at LGEA Primary School, Alade, Igalamela LGA of Kogi State. He was one of the brilliant pupils often alternating between 1st and 3rd positions in his class. He was the class captain of primary 5 and 6 and finished second best pupil of the set 1998 after clinching second position in the final exam in fulfillment of the requirements for the award of First School Leaving Certificate FSLC. Akgideens proceeded to Government Secondary School, Idah after trying unsuccessfully to enroll in St Kizito Minor Seminary and St Peter’s College, both Catholic missionary schools Idah, Kogi State. At the government secondary school GSS, akgideens worked very hard to match his mates who had come from academically stronger primary schools who were intellectually more sound than himself. Akgideens finished secondary school in 2007 but his SSCE was deficient. He sat for GCE in 2007 and 2009 and was overwhelmingly successful in 2009.

Akgideens studied Mass Communication at Kogi State university Anyigba with major academic focus in Journalism, Public Relations and Advertising. Graduated in 2014 with B.Sc Mass Communication with a good grade. While in the university he wrote lots of articles for his department and the Nigeria Federation of Catholic Students NFCS Kogi State University Chapter magazine publications.

Profession
Akgideens is a journalist working majorly with the print media. He was a crime/defense correspondent with the Sun Newspapers between 2012 and 2013 as an intern. Now a freelancer, he writes for two popular online newspaper platforms. He’s also a creative, result oriented PR,  and professional social Media manager with years of experience. Akgideens writes political campaign messages helping politicians to deliver their policies and agendas to the electorates in their own voices. His creative political campaign contents is a paradigm shift from Nigeria politicians’ conventional monotonous messages of bogus promises without outlining the major problems of the society and ways of dealing with such challenges. Akgideens is seeking to bring oratory to the political landscape of Nigeria where election campaigns are issues based with persuasive messages against messages of hate, violence and destruction. In the heat of the 2019 Nigeria presidential election, he was one of the leading campaign messages writers in the camp of opposition People’s Democratic Party PDP for the election of the former vice president Atiku Abubakar who was running against the incumbent president Muhammadu Buhari for the seat of commander-in chief of the armed forces and President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. Akgideens was appointed campaign message writer after presentation of creatively written campaign messages to Segun Sowumi spokesman of the opposition’s leader Atiku Abubakar Presidential Campaign Organisation. Political life Akgideens has immense interest in politics and has contested and won a number of positions in university politics. He also got some political appointments. In 2010 in his first semester year one he was appointed class captain but declined the position to pave the way for a friend who had campaigned vigorously for the position. In 2010 he became Publicity Secretary and editor in-chief of the Department of Mass Communication after winning the election into that office for a term of one academic session. In 2011 he ran for department of Mass Communication seat in the institution’s foremost Students Union Government’s parliament but was effectively rigged out by then department president and her cohorts. Their reason was that Akgideens was a junior student and would not be allowed to represent the department. Akgideens plan was to be in the students parliament in 2012 assembly and return for second term in 2013 assembly as a ranking senator to fulfill part of the requirements for running and holding office of speaker of the institution. In a keenly contested poll,  in 2011 Akgideens  won the position of Secretary General of the association of Social Sciences students Kogi State University.