Azeez Mustapha
The Abubakar Tafawa Balewa stadium in Bauchi played host to a crowd of stars and starlets from June 26 to 27th. The event was the second edition of the African Children Talent Discovery Foundation (ACTDF) talent hunt and mentoring programme being promoted by Noah Dallaji, an entrepreneur and philanthropist.
In both essence and relevance, the event achieved two major objectives: Providing a platform for identifying talented young Nigerians in their teens by experts and legends who graced the occasion as resource persons and facilitators. The second import of the talent discovery show was that it held peacefully in an open place in Bauchi, north eastern Nigeria, without any security incident or even as much as a whiff of security threat. This not only proved that the north east is safe for all forms of socio-economic activities, it also dismantled long held notions that insurgency has cankered the entire north east zone and has rendered the states prostrate.