Lagos COJOSA EXCO meeting held at King size place, Kudirat Abiola way, Ikeja. It was held from 3pm on Sunday 25th September 2011.
Attendees; Frank Agbagidi Godwin – PRO Bamidele Ajibola – Provost Barka Saleh – President Taiwo Babayeju- Vice President Emmanuel Fasinte – Treasurer John Akadang – Sec Gen Absent; Razaq Elegbede – Ass Sec Gen Benedicta Osumele – Finacial Sec Bimbo Kwashie – Director of Socials Meeting Highlights; Synergy with other COJOSA Branches US Convention Election Dues End of Year Party Synergy with other COJOSA Branches COJOSA global structure to form part of discussions from our representative (Vice President) attending the US convention. Discussions will look at functionality of the Global COJOSA structure so as to come out with a working document Giving Back to our school, CSSJ renovations is being hammered at our different branches. Our UK Branch had brilliantly proposed a =N=1M per set for the first 17set. Set coordinators to be appointed to coordinate their sets as will be directed by a Fund Raising committee. The president and Vice President are to visit CSSJ Thursday/Friday and hopes to get the year book from the school to help with reaching every set through the set coordinator. Modality to driving the =N=1M/set will be discussed on Next EXCO meeting when the president and Vice are back from Jos. The following were proposed for appointment as set coordinators to drive the 17M target; 88 set (Frank Agbagidi Godwin), 86 set (Barka Saleh), 84 set (Taiwo Babayeju), 93 set (Ibrahim Kadiri), others to be nominated US Convention Our vice president was given an interview date at the US Consular in March 8 and an application to expedite the interview date before the convention period was made and is being followed up. To give a precise state of the school at the convention; statistics of student / teacher ratio, state of the school facilities, developmental needs, etc, will be sought at during the planned visit by both the president and Vice this Thursday 29th /Friday 30th. Feedback will be given to the Lagos EXCO on our next EXCO meeting being October 2nd and to prepare same for discussions at the convention Election The present Lagos EXCO’s tenure officially and constitutionally EXPIRES this September 2011 and so necessitates kick starting another election of new executives. However, by October ending, it is being planned to have a general house meeting to discuss the next election. In order not to leave a vacuum, the present EXCO will assume an interim WORKING COMMITTEE Position until a new Lagos Chapter EXECUTIVES and or the Global COJOSA comes into force. An election umpire/coordinator will be reached to handle the election matters. Dues We are please advised to pay up our annual =N=5,000 dues. Associations are run with money, please pay up your dues. End of Year Party An end of year party for Lagos chapter is being planned for, Harold Nwariaku has opted to cater for the bill of the event Manager Next meeting, an Event manager will be interviewed and discussion made with him to see how best to come up with a good and well planned party for COJOSA. Best Regards John Akadang FHH, 88 Sec Gen "For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God" Eph 2:8
