In October 2011, I began a series on BellaNaija.com which I titled, OnBecomingAMan<\/a>.<\/p>\n Four months prior to this, I had attended the Men’s Convocation, a biennial men’s conference hosted by Peace House Ministries at their Bethany Resort campground\u00a0in Gboko Benue State, where I had been posted to serve Nigeria under the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) programme. In the last few days at the NYSC camp in Wanune, I had got wind of the programme and decided to attend alongside a few other members of the NCCF.<\/p>\n The 3-day programme blessed me in tremendous ways even as I listened the men of God share important truths from the scripture. I left Gboko with the resolve to be a better man going forward. I made copious notes and continued to refer to them. I also began to read some of the books I had bought at the meeting.<\/p>\n There is an important call upon the lives of men to leadership in their personal lives, for their families, and ultimately the nation. This site is a place to begin where such can be shared and encouraged.<\/p>\n This is the start of a beautiful journey.<\/p>\n Featured image via.<\/a> There is an important call upon the lives of men to leadership in their personal lives, for their families, and ultimately the nation. This site is a place to begin where such can be shared and encouraged.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":374,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[149,148],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onbecomingaman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onbecomingaman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onbecomingaman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onbecomingaman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onbecomingaman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/onbecomingaman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":919,"href":"https:\/\/onbecomingaman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions\/919"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onbecomingaman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onbecomingaman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onbecomingaman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onbecomingaman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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