Hello,

I will like to notify you folks that the 2nd International Conference of Nigerian Students/Youths in UK (ICONS 2008) is around the corner. The dates are March 15th & 16th and the venue is the University of Hull. This is an interesting opportunity to meet representatives of the foremost Nigerian organisations in the UK and also a good time to set up your exhibitions and make presentations. Special guests and plenary speakers will include Hull FC very own Jay Jay Okocha, Chairman of the Central Association of Nigerians in the UK, Nigerians in Diaspora Organisation in Europe (NIDOE), representatives of the British Council Nigeria, representatives of the Federal Government of Nigeria, and a host of others. For registration details please visit the conference website www.icons2008.org .

Building Sustainable growth and Development in our Communities- ‘Youth Access and Participation’

Calabar 12-14 October, 2007

Conference Overview

About the Conference

In October 2007 TakingITGlobal members will meet in Calabar  through the Creating Local Connections in West Africa- Nigeria (CLCWA) project. The first National Conference on Building Sustainable Growth and Development in our Communities- will be held with the theme “Youth Access and Participation”. .
Around the world, greater engagement of youths and communities are becoming feature of many governments both public and private organizations. Young People expect to be involved and to have a say in the business of government and the decisions of organizations that affect their interests. Many are concerned about low levels of development and youth restiveness in our communities which have contributed to reduction in the trust in public and private institutions. This, in turn, affects decision- making and the achievement of social and economic development, and the environmental sustainability outcomes. Accordingly, some governments and organizations are responding with commitment to effective engagement of young people in developing programmes and projects. The need to provide a platform for young people’s participation and access becomes vital in order to guarantee sustainability and impact.

Dear Young Nigeria Professionals

Song lyrics
The me decade is gone
You can't do it alone, no
You'll find out like the rest ….

NiPRO in cooperation with Iven technologies Limited presents Accelerated Networking event, a unique way to market your business, service or employment needs to a network of young professionals who are interested in helping each other in their business endeavors and professions.

Accelerated Networking Event with the theme:
Building Professional Relationships will bring together three categories of people, namely:

6 Ways To Fund Your New Business
I'm often asked: what is the best way to finance a new business venture. This question is usually followed by "So, do you ever invest in new business ventures?"
The answers, respectively, are:
1. there is no way to fund a new business; and 2. I do invest in new business ventures, but darn it I can't today because I left my checkbook in my other suit.
The truth is there are a variety of ways to finance a new business and which way is best for you depends totally on your product, your market, your financial requirements, your burn rate, and most importantly, your personal and financial situation.

She cries without consolation,
On first October 1960 she was born
She had come with a might hope
But now seeking whom to wipe her tears

Who shall wipe the tears of
A great and might widow,
Who shall raise her up again?
Her riders are never trusted
Peace, justice & progress the husband is gone.

In 1967, she took up a sword
But in 1979, she made a re-think
The widow, not still sure of her destiny,
May 29 1999, she took again another test

I pray the widow finds back her husband,
I pray a party system holds us not
She is just too big for one mans pocket,
How I wish you

endapathy



Education is a key element to solving a problem or issue 



Youth Against Poverty is a organization focused on spreading
awareness of child poverty. We hope that the younger

generation will understand the need of eradicating child poverty globally and do
their part in the fight to end it.





www.youthagainstpoverty.org




www.groups.myspace.com/youthagainstpoverty



Youth Against Poverty is not based on religion or faith.





 

Wole Soyinka

The Nobel Prize in Literature 1986

Wole Soyinka was born on 13 July 1934 at Abeokuta, near Ibadan in western Nigeria. After preparatory university studies in 1954 at Government College in Ibadan, he continued at the University of Leeds, where, later, in 1973, he took his doctorate. During the six years spent in England, he was a dramaturgist at the Royal Court Theatre in London 1958-1959. In 1960, he was awarded a Rockefeller bursary and returned to Nigeria to study African drama. At the same time, he taught drama and literature at various universities in Ibadan, Lagos, and Ife, where, since 1975, he has been professor of comparative literature. In 1960, he founded the theatre group, "The 1960 Masks" and in 1964, the "Orisun Theatre Company", in which he has produced his own plays and taken part as actor. He has periodically been visiting professor at the universities of Cambridge, Sheffield, and Yale.



During the civil war in Nigeria, Soyinka appealed in an article for cease-fire. For this he was arrested in 1967, accused of conspiring with the Biafra rebels, and was held as a political prisoner for 22 months untill 1969. Soyinka has published about 20 works: drama, novels and poetry. He writes in English and his literary language is marked by great scope and richness of words.



As dramatist, Soyinka has been influenced by, among others, the Irish writer, J.M. Synge, but links up with the traditional popular African theatre with its combination of dance, music, and action. He bases his writing on the mythology of his own tribe-the Yoruba-with Ogun, the god of iron and war, at the centre. He wrote his first
plays during his time in London, The Swamp Dwellers and
The Lion and the Jewel (a light comedy), which were performed at Ibadan in 1958 and 1959 and were published in 1963. Later, satirical comedies are The Trial of Brother Jero (performed in 1960, publ. 1963) with its sequel, Jero's Metamorphosis (performed 1974, publ. 1973), A Dance of the Forests (performed 1960, publ.1963), Kongi's Harvest (performed 1965, publ. 1967) and Madmen and Specialists (performed 1970, publ. 1971). Among Soyinka's serious philosophic plays are (apart from "The Swamp Dwellers") The Strong Breed (performed 1966, publ. 1963),
The Road ( 1965) and Death and the King's Horseman (performed 1976, publ. 1975). In The Bacchae of Euripides (1973), he has rewritten the Bacchae for the African stage and in Opera Wonyosi (performed 1977, publ. 1981), bases himself on John Gay's Beggar's Opera and Brecht's The Threepenny Opera. Soyinka's latest dramatic works are A Play of Giants (1984) and Requiem for a Futurologist (1985).



Soyinka has written two novels, The Interpreters (1965), narratively, a complicated work which has been compared to Joyce's andFaulkner's, in which six Nigerian intellectuals discuss and interpret their African experiences, and Season of Anomy (1973) which is based on the writer's thoughts during his imprisonment and confronts the Orpheus and Euridice myth with the mythology of the Yoruba. Purely autobiographical are The Man Died: Prison Notes (1972) and the account of his childhood, Aké ( 1981), in which the parents' warmth and interest in their son are prominent. Literary essays are collected in, among others, Myth, Literature and the African World (1975).



Soyinka's poems, which show a close connection to his plays, are collected in Idanre, and Other Poems (1967), Poems from Prison (1969), A Shuttle in the Crypt (1972) the long poem Ogun Abibiman (1976) and Mandela's Earth and Other Poems (1988).

From Les Prix Nobel. The Nobel Prizes 1986, Editor Wilhelm Odelberg, [Nobel Foundation], Stockholm, 1987

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The NigerianStudents.Info Library Project

NigerianStudents.Info Library Project

The leadership of the International Association of Nigerian Students [INSA] has decided to make available to Nigerian Students across the world the opportunity to access and be part ofthe maiden presentation of her NigerianStudents.Info Library Project. By the partnership, INSA would make available some books for download for users her website and those of her affiliates.

Books Available for Download

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BLACK INTELLECTS presents SCHOLARSHIP AWARD

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Nigerian Students Heed the Clarion Call !!!

The International of Nigerian Students is a network of Students of Nigerian Origin across the globe. The aim of the Association is to unite all the efforts of Nigerian Students both within and outside Nigeria with the sole purpose of championing the cause of unity, progress, peace and love. The organization isaimed at providing a platform for Nigeria students to work with each on projects that can benefit the individuals involved and the society at large.

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