The Isi Benedicta Institute has urged graduating students to cultivate the right mindset for leadership development, stressing the need for continuous retraining of the mind to produce a new generation of leaders capable of transforming Nigeria and the world.
Founder of the institute, Apostle Isi Igenegba, said leadership must not be handed to individuals without proper grounding in governance, unity and peace, noting that the impact of leadership decisions lasts for generations.
She spoke at the Go School 2026 graduation ceremony organised by the institute for participants drawn from across the world.
The participants included students from the United Kingdom, United States, Australia, Germany, Trinidad and Tobago, Guyana, Liberia, Kenya, South Africa and Nigeria, among others.
She said: “At the institute, we hope to foster unity by ensuring our curriculum is inclusive and that we have all necessary translations in place, breaking down learning in a way that promotes unity. We also incorporate love, peace, joy, righteousness and all that enables peaceful coexistence.
“But most importantly, we teach that any knowledge that does not foster unity and peace in a nation is not the kind of knowledge needed for leadership.”
Igenegba urged the graduating students not to relent, but to progress through life’s stages until they reach their peak.
“In life, be ready to start as a dreamer, then move to becoming a dream interpreter. From there, you become a dream maker, and eventually you become the dream others aspire to become,” she said.
Keynote speaker and Pastor of Ecclesia Hills Church, Lagos, Nigel Cookey-Gam, said the programme was designed to help leaders develop the right mindset and reshape systems globally.
“We all complain about governments worldwide, but it starts from you in your own sphere.
If you cannot change your area, you cannot change your country,” he said.
He advised graduates to remain teachable and make God their compass in life.
Dean of the institute, Sandrah Namwaya, said over 6,000 people across the world have benefited from the institute’s programmes.
Two graduates, Nekaycha Cavil from the United States and Camilla from Trinidad and Tobago, described the course as exceptional, saying it gave them clarity about their purpose and direction.
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