The group is Crony Network
Crony means...friend, pal, paddy, besty etc.
The group is a social platform where youths can fully mingle with one another freely, meet other people, express themselves and realize their potentials.
STRUCTURE
Structurally, the group is divided into two major sub groups namely teams and hubs.
TEAMS
Teams membership is based on one's birthday, birth sign and zodiac.
Membership is free and fun.
Every member is expected to contribute positively to the growth and development of the team. A member can only be a member of one team. Every team is led by a team leader (TL).
There are four teams in all.
Team Red
Team White
Team Blue
Team Green.
HUB
Hub membership is determined by one's location or area of residence.
One can only belong to one hub at a time. Every hub is led by a leader titled Dynast.
There are hubs such as...
Ikeja Hub
Ikorodu Hub
Oshodi Hub
Yaba Hub
Island Hub
Ogun Hub.
ACTIVITIES
Online, members of the group meet generally on the group walk on facebook to socialize, educate, inform and entertain one another.
The whatsapp forum of teams and hubs are meant for the same purposes.
Offline, members meet as much as they can through various activities in different locations.
BIRTHDAYS
Monthly, we meet to celebrate all the celebrants of that month in any chosen location.
HANGOUTS
These are initiatives of team and hub leaders to strengthen and get to meet their members physically and to discuss the progress of the teams and hubs.
Its usually fun.
GIVE
Give is the main even on crony island. It is a charity event in which members contribute generously as much as they are capable of to buy items of various kinds to donate to children in orphanage homes or children who are less privilege or with disability.
This event is rotated throughout Lagos, but it could also be outside Lagos and takes more than one or two days.
It is usually on Easter Mondays.
OLYMPICS
This is an online competition where teams compete online with one another in different areas of human intellectual.
Art
Poems
Photography
Handwriting
Race etc.
There's prize to be won for every category.
This event holds every August of every year.
ODYSSEY
This is an offline that brings all members of a hub together to have fun at a place collectively agreed to by the hub members.
It holds on every 1st of October of every year.
CNP
CNP means: Crony Network Party.
This is an annual event on the island. It holds every 26 December of every year. It is usually of different form and dimension every year.
It brings all the members of the group together to have fun.
It is not free and usually clothes were picked in form of polo for the event.
Membership is free but the only requirement is a person must be an adult as enshrined in the Nigerian constitution of 1999 as amended.
Ola Falola.