Unfiltered: YALDA WA Live Chat: ‘Youth Leading Change: The Imperatives and Challenges’
[16:03:03] *** YALDA West Africa added Kate *** [16:03:28] *** YALDA West Africa added Olumide Idowu *** [16:03:32] *** YALDA West Africa added ruchione *** [16:03:36] *** YALDA West Africa added Adebola Adenuga *** [16:03:59] YALDA West Africa: Hi All, Welcome to the YALDA West Africa Live Chat [16:04:17] YALDA West Africa: If you are […]
Message from: Mr. Ban Ki-moon, Secretary General of United Nations (UN)
The theme of this year’s International Youth Day -Sustainability: Our Challenge. Our Future- is a global call to action for young men and women. Our world faces multiple interconnected crises with severe and far-reaching impacts that fall disproportionately on the young. In 2007, for example, youth comprised 25 per cent of the world’s working age […]
Message from: Mrs. Thoraya Ahmed Obaid, UNFPA Executive Director
It is often said that young people are our future. They are our present, too. It is today, and not tomorrow, that we must invest in young people and include them in solving the great challenges of our times. Today, more than a billion and a half people are between the ages of 10 and […]
Message from: Mr. Koïchiro Matsuura, Director-General of UNESCO
In the midst of a series of unprecedented crises affecting the lives of young people all around the world, the theme for this year’s International Youth Day ‘Sustainability: our challenge, our future’ could not be more relevant. Sustainability refers to three facets of life which are all affected by the current turmoil: the environment, society […]
Digital Lifestyle of Connected Nigerians
Originally posted by Gbenga Sesan, here. Enjoy! In 2000, Nigeria reportedly had less than 200,000 internet users. The number grew to about 200,000 in 2001; about 400,000 in 2002; jumped to 1.61 million in 2003 and, according to the Nigerian Communications Commission, there were 1.8 million internet users in 2004. The most recent figure (2007) […]
Research: Digital Lifestyles of Nigerians
Paradigm Initiative Nigeria (PIN) and Centre for Information Technology and Development (CITAD) are conducting a research into the lifestyles of Nigerians connected to the internet tagged: Digital Lifestyles of Connected Nigerians (DLCN). The research consists of a brief survey in the first instance and may involve several follow up activities to help us identify how […]
Setting the ball in motion
Watch this space and www.OluwakoredeAsuni.com/chronicles.html.
Vanguard online:First public high school web portal for Niger State
By Emeka Aginam (04 March 2009) Originally posted here. A batch A 2008 National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) Mr. Oluwakorede Asuni has successfully launched the first public high school web portal in Niger State – www.GovernmentSecondarySchoolMX.org. The system, which was created for the Government Secondary School Minna Niger State, where Mr. Asuni is […]
Official Release
Official Release: www.OluwakoredeAsuni.com Youth Corp Member Conceived, Designed and Transfers First Public School Web-portal in Niger State, Nigeria Oluwakorede Asuni, a batch A 2008 youth corp member completing his primary assignment at the Government Secondary School, Minna, Niger State has completed the design and implementation of a school web portal for Government Secondary School, Minna. […]
Every day as dawn breaks…
I rise with the reality that I must make a difference today. And I must move a day’s distance in the directions of my goals in life. Each passing hour, thoughts like: ‘…are my on course?’ courses through my mind and most times I am not, I am jolted back into reality and tugged – […]