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SpeakOut !
The African Youth Voice Project has found that around the world there is a growing interest in young people participating in politics. Some political, economical and social groups are changing to respond to the growing number of young people who want to affect the political, economical and social system. Political, economical and social ideologies that were once considered "fringe" beliefs are becoming mainstreamed, and more young people are associating themselves with non-popular political, economical and social parties. Finally, more young people than ever before are actually becoming engaged in local community campaigns and other political, economical and social activities.
AYV brings active and interested young people around the country to each other and their government, mainly Africans. Networking thousands of young people from different political, economical and social and ethnical organizations nationwide, we are the meeting place for independent perceptive involvement and information in matters of concern to our raising generation. Indifferent to the range of beliefs from young people across the country, we are connected in a mutual will to empower a generation's involvement in its future.
Composed of varied political, economical and social endeavors and opinion on many issues by youth, AYV enables young people to research, react and respond to decisions and decision-makers on important issues on, or in the interests of youth through a medium.
Whether on a local, national or international level, this medium is a tool to augment your role in the political, economical and social process by engaging and empowering you with involvement and information. What you do with that information is up to you. The need to involve us in decision making, opinion formation and actively ensuring the fulfillment of such decisions is highly needed. See what people around the country are doing, saying or thinking. Get involved, get informed or get support from people like you.
Considering
That the capacity for progress of our societies is based, among other elements, on their capacity to incorporate the contribution and responsibility of youth in the building and designing of the future. In addition to their intellectual contribution and their ability to mobilize support, they bring unique perspectives that need to be taken into account.
That any efforts and proposed actions in the other priority areas considered in this programme are, in a certain way, conditioned by enabling the economic, social and political participation of youth, as a matter of critical importance.
That youth organizations are important forums for developing skills necessary for effective participation in society, promoting tolerance and increased cooperation and exchanges between youth organizations.
We hope to achieve landmark result in the creation of a Bulletin to be called “SpeakOut !”
The resultant effect will be the following as stipulated in the World Youth Report:
(a) Improving access to information in order to enable young people to make better use of their opportunities to participate in decision-making;
(b) Developing and/or strengthening opportunities for young people to learn their rights and responsibilities, promoting their social, political, developmental and environmental participation, removing obstacles that affect their full contribution to society and respecting, inter alia, freedom of association;
(c) Encouraging and promoting youth associations through financial, educational and technical support and promotion of their activities;
(d) Taking into account the contribution of youth in designing, implementing and evaluating national policies and plans affecting their concerns;
(e) Encouraging increased national, regional and international cooperation and exchange between youth organizations;
(f) Inviting Governments to strengthen the involvement of young people in international forums, inter alia, by considering the inclusion of youth representatives in their national representations and delegations to various National and International Assemblies of Interest.
In a nutshell
Our attempt to publish all work, irrespective of daily growing reactions or in consonance to preponderance opinion on the tigblog, would ensure constant communication and orientation of the African Youth, home and abroad.
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| November 24, 2008 | 6:32 AM |
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Media Development or Media for Development?: wrong question - but what's the right one?
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Media Development or Media for Development?: wrong question - but what's the right one?
[Blog from James Deane] The conversation might go something like this: "We need to be clear that media is important in its own right, it is intrinsic to democracy. It needs to be supported as such, without reference to development agendas. We are talking about media development, a media that is free and independent. We are not talking about media for development". "Yes, I agree. But aren't you talking about a certain type of media - a media that serves the public good, which holds governments to account, which is plural and acts in the interest of all citizens. Aren't you actually talking about media that serves a set of social objectives which development organisations share..."
http://www.comminit.com/en/node/277011/bbc
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| November 19, 2008 | 7:50 AM |
| November 19, 2008 | 7:39 AM |
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Cee dis...
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P-L-E-A-S-E! Ensure u read this to the end.
Thank you.
Hi................. Trust the facts??????
This is a real story of a young ex Unilag girl who passed away last month. Her name was Lola.
She was hit by a train at Oyingbo on her way to work at Apapa.
She was working at the MTN call center. She had a boy friend named Emeka, a banker who was recently transferred to Abuja. Both of them were true lovers that even distance could not separate them.
They were always talking on the phone. You could never see her without her Cell phone.
In fact she also changed Emeka's SIM from Celtel to MTN, so both of them can be on the same network, and save on the cost of calls.
She spent half of the day and most nights talking with Emeka because she got free calls.
Lola's family knows about their relationship.
Emeka is very close with Lola's family in spite of the tribal differences. (Just imagine their love).
Before she passed away at LUTH she told her friends "If I pass away please bury me with my Cell phone" she also said the same thing to her parents.
After her death at LUTH, the attendants couldn't carry her body to the mortuary.
A lot of them tried to do so but still couldn't.
They called more people and everybody tried to carry the body, the result was still the same. Eventually, they called a person who knew one of her priests in church who had the gift of communicating with the dead.
He sprinkled some salt and water on the body and started speaking to himself slowly. After a few minutes, he said "this girl misses something here."
Then her friends told him about her intentions to bury her with her phone.
He asked them to bring a coffin, and then he opened it and placed her phone and sim card inside the casket. After that they tried to carry the body. It could now be moved and they carried it away easily.
Everyone was shocked and sad, they were so shocked that Lola's parents did not inform Emeka that Lola had passed away and buried her quickly because of all the unusual circumstances.
After 2 weeks Emeka called Lola's mom.....
Emeka:"Aunty, I'm coming to the house today, it is Lola's birthday please I hope you will cook something nice for me.
Don't tell Lola that I'm coming to Lagos today, I want to surprise her."
Her mother replied..... "OK You come to Lagos first, I want to tell you something very important."
After he came, they told him the truth about Lola. Emeka though that they were playing an April fool's joke. He was laughing and said” don’t try to fool me - tell Lola to come out, I have a Birthday gift for her. Please stop this nonsense".
Then they showed the original death certificate to him. They also gave him other proof to make him believe. (Emeka started to sweat) He said... "It’s not true. We spoke yesterday. She still calls me.
Emeka was shaking.
Suddenly, Emeka's phone rang. "He said, see this is from Lola, see this...." he showed the phone to Lola's family. All of them told him to answer. He talked using the loudspeaker mode.
All of them heard his conversation. Loud and clear, no cross lines, no humming. It was the actual voice of Lola & there was no way others could use her staff sim card since it is nailed inside the casket before she was hurriedly buried.
They were so shocked and asked for the same priest (who can speak with the souls of the dead) again. This time he brought his Bishop along to help solve this matter.
> >He & his Bishop worked for 5 hours.
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MTN still has the best coverage!
"MTN Everywhere you go" is true!! Where ever you go, MTN follows!!!
Don't shoot me yet... I am also looking for the person who sent me his mail....so I can box him/her too
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Turning Resolutions into Reality
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Turning Resolutions into Reality
Posted by Marshall Goldsmith on January 4, 2008 2:22 PM
I always make new year’s resolutions but seldom live up to them. Do you have any suggestions for helping my resolutions become reality?
I am going to delegate this response to my daughter, Kelly Goldsmith. Kelly is a Whitebox Doctoral Fellow at Yale, where she is getting her Ph.D. in Behavioral Marketing. She is very interested in behavioral decision making.
Kelly and I were discussing your question over the holidays. I like her suggestions so much that am going to try them myself! Here are her thoughts:
New Year’s Resolutions are decisions that focus on the "big picture" of our lives. When we make these resolutions, we are in an abstract mindset. Decisions made in this mindset almost always favor long-term benefit (e.g. losing weight) or short-term cost (e.g. not eating the chocolate cake).
In our day-to-day lives, however, our decisions tend to veer toward the immediate. When we make daily decisions we are in a concrete’ mindset. Decisions made in this mindset often favor short-term benefit (e.g. this tastes great) over long-term cost (e.g. this will make me fat).
By deliberately putting ourselves in a big picture mindset, we can increase our odds of making daily decisions that reflect our New Year’s resolutions. In other words, we can increase our odds on becoming "the person I want to be," as opposed to just replicating "the person I have been in the past."
How to focus on the big picture when making daily decisions? Consider these suggestions:
1. Make a short list that describes "the person that I want to be" (e.g. I want to weigh 160 pounds.) This list should be closely aligned with your New Year’s resolutions.
2. Do whatever you can to keep this list in front of you during daily interactions. This might include placing it atop your daily "to do" list, making it a screen saver, or carrying it around in your wallet.
3. Review the list and put yourself in the big picture mindset before making daily decisions.
4. Face the reality that real change requires ongoing effort. It will probably be harder than you think and take longer than you think.
5. Only do it because, in your heart, you believe that it is the right thing to do. Over-focusing on the approval of others can be a mistake. If our motivation to change is based upon their approval, we become dispirited when we achieve our goals – and then find out they may not care or don’t even notice.
6. Don’t give up. Realize that on some days you will eat the cake. On other days you will hate the list. Just stick with it.
Please send in your ideas on how to turn resolutions into reality. Who knows? Perhaps your idea will help someone have a better year.
Best wishes for a great new year!
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| January 8, 2008 | 12:44 PM |
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