Youth Aid Development Foundation

Great thinkers such as Machiavelli, Guicciardini, Grotius, Richelieu, Wicquefort, Satow, Nicolson, and Kissinger had a profound impact on diplomacy. For Machiavelli diplomacy was a tool of deception to grant more power to the state. Machiavelli’s impact on leaders was a major one because he argued for leaders to be headstrong as well as

Trending News: The New Year (2016) is less than 48 hours away. Why is this important? Many people are making plans already while some also think their lives will change automatically in 2016. Long Story Short: Your life will not change if you do not change the way you think, and start executing the new thoughts

Pat Utomi Prize for Students’ Debate on Public Policy 2016 is designed to be an annual debate festival that shall revive and the fast eroding culture of students’ debates in campuses on government policies, programs and public affairs in Nigeria. Each year, interested students from tertiary institutions in Nigeria shall participate in preliminaries to qualify for the grand finale scheduled to hold every 6th February alongside Prof Patrick Utomi’s birthday commemoration and annual lecture.

Seize your opportunity.  Compete for the St. Gallen Wings of Excellence Award and qualify for participation as a «Leader of Tomorrow» in the world’s premier opportunity for Inter-generational debates: The St. Gallen Symposium.

In our last post on TOP MOST POWERFUL SKILLS GLOBAL LEADERS REQUIRE IN THE 21ST CENTURY, vision was identified as a unique quality of highly effective leaders. Today, I’d like to share some thoughts on SELF-KNOWLEDGE, NETWORKING AND STRATEGIC THINKING

ANUNSA-U.I CHILDREN'S GENERAL ASSEMBLY The All Nigeria United Nations Students and Youths Association (ANUNSA) is a nongovernmental students and Youths Association dedicated to building of students and youths to be responsible citizens with the ultimate aim of achieving World Peace, Social Justice and Sustainable Development. ANUNSA Propagate the Ideals and simulate the workings of the United Nations as a basis for achieving peace for mankind, and greatly identifies with the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) now Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Nigeria is a nation blessed with many resources, I am not going to bore you with facts and figures to buttress that , but it is no news that the country has a population of about 170 million persons, the number itself is a blessing (if managed properly).

The Youth Entrepreneurship Support (YES) programme is an ambitious programme by the Bank of Industry (BOI) aimed at addressing youth unemployment in Nigeria which is

“Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value” – Albert Einstein The human society is the most important as well as most complex of all systems. Sociology teaches that we, as social beings need to live our lives in company of other humans.

Nigeria finally has ministers who will make up President Muhammadu Buhari’s cabinet,After months of waiting 36 ministers were sworn-in today, November 11, 2015, at a ceremony which held at the Presidential Villa in Abuja. Find the full list below...

2015/2016 TOTAL/NNPC NATIONAL MERIT AWARD SCHOLARSHIP FOR NIGERIAN STUDENTS IN TERTIARY INSTITUTIONS Application Deadline : November 22, 2015 To qualify for consideration, the applicant MUST:

Diplomacy is . . . The application of intelligence and tact to the conduct of official relations between governments.” Ernest Satow The art of saying ‘Nice doggie’ till you can find a rock.” Wynn Catlin

Yes, let's talk about marriage. I might not be married but I think and aspire towards having the best marriage ever, as many of you undoubtedly do. I also know that many of my readers wish to have a variety of experiences in marriage and for people who are already there how does it feel? Is it as good as you envisioned it to be?

There Is A Story... The story of humanity is the story of the interplay of leadership: by this, I mean the continuous rise and fall of a vision, a mission-based edifice, a people, a leader! When I saw Antoine Faqua's Olympus Has Fallen, something within me got thrilled and devastated at the same time. I simply felt sad at the sight of the White House being "down"! More painful was the loss of patriots and innocent citizens. For the better part however, good movies always have a way resolving its conflict.

“I really want to improve my grades but I can’t just get myself to do it”. Whose fault is it? It’s got to be you because you cannot ‘get yourself’ to do it! “I feel so fat and it is really affecting my self- esteem, I can’t just get myself to lose some weight” Yea right, you will remain fat until you decide to hit the gym!

There has not been a documented start of diplomacy; however Many could argue that diplomacy is a product of society and history itself. It is also believe that diplomacy is as old as the bible, there have been instances ranging back to the 5th century where diplomacy arose in certain nations. Dating back to 432 B.C, the Congress of Sparta was an “illustration of diplomacy as organized by the Greek City States”

I had the pleasure of being part of the first Lagos International Poetry Festival. Though for personal reason I could not commit myself to all the events especially the two day poetry concert. But I was opportune to be in two master classes.