NIGERIAN YOUTH AND RESOURSE SHARING NETWORK

I stumbled on RSN on nairaland.com, and i was immediately interested because it concerned the youth, i visited their blog(resoursenetworksharing.blogspot.com) and their site, but its their vision am in love with.

R S N is a vision to mentor secondary school student in other to perform better in school, they even go as far as giving coachings to thses students,RsN offers a unique mentoring leadership development program which pairs the disadvantaged youths with matured and responsible Graduates, Corps members, and other young professionals who are experienced and successful in their chosen field of study. The added care, personal attention and encouragement which the students receive from their Mentors, would help them realize their potential and take responsibility for their own lives

Resource Sharing Network (RsN) is a not-for-profit, Youth-Led organization which is set out to improve the academic performance of students in Secondary Schools, and to restore conscientiousness to school work and activities amongst young people. The program provides a platform for learning through our mentoring scheme, Coaching Classes, Career Talks, Leadership Programs, Ethics, etc. RSN is affiliated to A Ray of Hope, UNESCO Youth Ambassador for the Culture of Peace.

We are a group of committed young people who are passionate for a change in the educational system of our nation, Nigeria.

There are two arms of Resource Sharing Network, these are:
Youths Mentoring Youths: This involves tutoring and Mentoring of young people in Senior Secondary Schools.
Save-A-Soul Scheme: It involves voluntary donation of gift items, school materials etc to Special Schools for physically challenged youths.

for more information click on the title of the post to visit their site.

Nigerian Youth can you think?

Every time i see a new day, i count it a previledge to impart something great into people, and i still cant help but talk about this TOPIC once again of the EFFECTS OF THINKING, not just thinking but thinking right, as i surf the web everyday, i can see that Nigerians are eventually waking up, but still most of what we do is an imitation of what other countries have done, am not saying this is wrong, all am saying is, we too can think of an idea that the WORLD would have to pay for, do u believe this?. Its okay to start with imitation, but we cannot afford to stay there, i am particularly talking to the NIGERIAN YOUTH, let us begin to think right, believe me good ideas dont only belong to only white skinned men, it comes to those who can make their minds available, let us begin to think, and tap into the unlimited potentials inside of us, i strongly believe there is a book unwritten inside of you, there is an invention unmade inside of you, there is an idea that the world needs inside of you, all you have to do is launch it out.
Nigerian Youth can you think? i absolutely believe you can, wake up its a new day and start thinking of what you can do for your country and the world at large.START THINKING

Nigerian youth wait as Asuu and FG holds meeting

The Nigeria youh are waiting patiently once again, to hear what the outcome of the meeting today between ASUU and the federal government, it looks like all this meetings are becoming too much, because there has not been any significant positive result since the issue of the strike started.

THE Federal Government has set machinery in motion to return the striking university lecturers to classes, as Ministry of Labour will, today, hold an emmergency meeting with the representatives of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to finalise talks on point of their grievances.


The ministry had, on Tuesday, placed emergency calls to the ASUU leaders for the meeting to be headed by the Minister of Labour, Prince Adetokunbo Kayode (SAN), who would not attend the Federal Executive Council meeting at the presidential villa(today) in order to attend to the ASUU delegates.


Adetokunbo made this known in Abuja as he appeared before the House of Representatives Committee on Labour, disclosing that the Federal Government had no problem meeting the demands of ASUU, having graciously conceeded to the lecturers’ demands.


He said the government had been good to the lecturers by agreeing to grant total autonomy to the Nigerian universities, accepting that lecturers should retire at age 70, fund the universities as well as increase the salaries of ASUU members as contained in their four-point demands.


The labour minister said it was ASUU that was playing hard to get by rejecting the 40 per cent increase in the salaries of lecturers while the union stuck to 109 per cent increase


The minister told the House of Representatives members that the government bowed to the demand by ASUU for salary increase by offering a 40 per cent lift, disclosing that while the Federal Government would pay as much as N105 billion to off-set the lecturers’ salaries, ASUU was insisting on taking nothing less than N175 billion.

All this talk is getting too much, yes we know dialogue is needed, but it becomes irrelevant, when there are no positive outcomes, How long do we have to wait more?

Minister for education pleads on behalf of Nigerian youth

THE Federal Government, on Monday, refuted claim by the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) that it had planned to introduce N180,000 tuition fees for each student per session in the federal universities in the country.


Minister of Education, Dr. Sam Egwu, reacting to the development in Abuja that culminated into the indefinite strike by the union, on Monday, said it was an attempt to blackmail the government.


Egwu, however, appealed to the striking university lecturers to return to class in the interest of the Nigerian children, assuring that the government was doing all it could within the limit of its resources to resolve all the issues amicably.


SSANU, President, Comrade Promise Adewusi, rising from the union’s National Executive Council Meeting, told journalists, on Sunday, that the Federal Government was planning to introduce outrageous N180,000 tuition fees per session in federal universities, which was rejected by the union.


Dr. Egwu, at the news conference in Abuja, said: “I wish to assure you and all Nigerians that this was not an issue during the re-negotiations referred to by SSANU.


“For the sake of emphasis, government has never contemplated nor has it introduced tuition fees in federal tertiary institutions. I, therefore, consider this a deliberate attempt on the part of SSANU to blackmail the government,” he stated.

The truth of the matter is we need fast action rather than pleads, disagreement and conflict, something can be done or Nigerian youth dont you think so????

Awolowo's legacy and the Nigerian youth lecture Begins

THE Obafemi Awolowo Foundation Dialogue, in collaboration with the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife, will hold a Centennial lecture to celebrate the sage, today and tomorrow. The lecture on the theme “The Awolowo Legacy and the Youth,” will be held at the Oduduwa Hall of the university.


A release by the committee stated that the Vice Chancellor of OAU, Professor Michael Faborode, would be the chairman on the occasion while the keynote addresses would be delivered by Chief Anthony Enahoro on the topic: “The making of a Legacy”. Dr. Wale Adebanwi would speak on “The Future of the Legacy: Challenges and Prospects.”


Other activities slated for the event include Governors’ Roundtable ‘Sustaining the legacy’, to be chaired by Professor Bolaji Akinyemi. The second plenary session on the theme “Strength from the Past” would be chaired by General Alani Akinrinade.


Expected to lead the discourse at the second session are Professor David Oke, Professor Sam Aluko, Professor Femi Mimiko and Professor W. Alade Fawole.


The speaker at the luncheon which holds between 1.00 p.m. and 2.00 p.m. is Chief Pere Ajunwa, while the dinner and award ceremony begins at 7.00 p.m.


Activities on the second day will be chaired by Professor A. A. B. Agbaje. The theme of the lecture for the day is “The Future of the Awo Legacy” and the speakers are Professor Kayode Soremekun, Ambassador Isaac Aluko-Olokun, Professor Ademola Popoola and Professor Sola Akinrinade.


The speaker at the luncheon is Mr. Ituah Ighodalo and the final plenary theme is “Towards a Brighter Tomorrow” — Youth Forum. It will be chaired and moderated by Dr. Lateef Durosinmi, while the speakers are the Students Union presidents of Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), University of Ibadan, Olabisi Onabanjo University, Adekunle Ajasin University and University of Ado-Ekiti.


Music will be supplied by Yinka Davies in the evening to round off the two-day activities.