A Message for Young Nigerians

A Message for Young Nigerians PDF Author: Tai Solarin
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Category : Nigeria
Languages : en
Pages : 116

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A Message for Young Nigerians

A Message for Young Nigerians PDF Author: Tai Solarin
Publisher:
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Category : Nigeria
Languages : en
Pages : 116

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The Nigerian Complex

The Nigerian Complex PDF Author: Cliff Edogun
Publisher: Page Publishing Inc
ISBN: 1634174798
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 422

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Demola Martins and Asuquo Udoh, good friends albeit of contrasting social and spiritual backgrounds, face the harsh realities of life in a country where, despite its bountiful oil reserves, the majority do not have access to a steady supply of water or electricity, employment opportunities for university graduates are severely lacking, and corruption is rampant in a government that appears to deliberately prevent its citizens from being heard. After two years of being jobless, Asuquo inadvertently applies for a doorman's job at the International Airport Hotel, willing to accept the only form of employment available to him despite his degree in chemistry. Demola, an electrical engineer from a family of professional elite, opts to wait for a job more suited to his social rank. Four years later, Demola decides to act on a vision and founds the Campaign Against Rigging Elections (CARE). Asuquo and Demola, along with three other visionaries, form the Crisis Group to head the Campaign, and a youth movement is born. Through peaceful rallying, they push for a more transparent balloting and counting system—the spot ballot method—with the ultimate goal of eliminating election rigging to redeem the “Nigeria that prospers all.”

Tai Solarin

Tai Solarin PDF Author: Dele Babalola, MD
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1514440393
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 97

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It is about life in a unique secondary school in Nigeria in the 1970s and 1980s. The principal, Dr. Tai Solarin, was totally dedicated to producing academically and intellectually sound students who were also trained in the practical aspects of life farming, cooking, electrical wiring, plumbing, baking, building, man owar and others. It was hard to find such students unemployable. They were trained to dream big and be high achievers. This is a personal account of one of the students who experienced this unique training.

THE YOUNG NIGERIAN GENERATION STORY BOOK

THE YOUNG NIGERIAN GENERATION STORY BOOK PDF Author: Dipo Toby Alakija
Publisher: Calvary Rock Resource
ISBN: 9782951897
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 94

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The failures of old generations to teach most young ones Nigerian family, traditional, religious and national values are mostly responsible for lawlessness and immoralities in the society. These prove the fact in the adage that says, “a man who builds a house without building his children only builds what the children will later sell”. For so long, Nigerians had been paying too much attention on politics, economy and other things at the expense of the Value System which is partly designed with the use of the National Anthem and The Pledge to the nation. Because of the near extinctions of moral; family and other values with the belief in God Of All Creations, the abundant resources in Nigeria had become snares for the citizens who are supposed to use them for the good of present and future generations. This book which is designed for children and youths gives vivid picture of Nigerian Value System through explanations of the National Anthem and The Pledge. The author uses twenty-six stories, poems, class activities and other items to teach civic responsibilities and moral obligations.

In the Light of Truth

In the Light of Truth PDF Author: Abd-ru-shin
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Category : Grail
Languages : en
Pages : 224

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Nigeria

Nigeria PDF Author: Dorothy B. Sutherland
Publisher: Children's Press
ISBN: 9780516026343
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 132

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Discusses the geography, history, people, economy, and customs of this West African country--Africa's most populous nation.

Federal Nigeria

Federal Nigeria PDF Author:
Publisher:
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Category : Nigeria
Languages : en
Pages : 522

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Akata Witch

Akata Witch PDF Author: Nnedi Okorafor
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0142420913
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 386

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"Nnedi Okorafor writes glorious futures and fabulous fantasies. Her characters take your heart and squeeze it; her worlds open your mind to new things." -- Neil Gaiman, author of The Graveyard Book and American Gods Affectionately dubbed "the Nigerian Harry Potter," Akata Witch weaves together a heart-pounding tale of magic, mystery, and finding one's place in the world. Perfect for fans of Children of Blood and Bone! Sunny Nwazue lives in Nigeria, but she was born in New York City. Her features are West African, but she's albino. She's a terrific athlete, but can't go out into the sun to play soccer. There seems to be no place where she fits in. And then she discovers something amazing—she is a "free agent" with latent magical power. And she has a lot of catching up to do. Soon she's part of a quartet of magic students, studying the visible and invisible, learning to change reality. But as she’s finding her footing, Sunny and her friends are asked by the magical authorities to help track down a career criminal who knows magic, too. Will their training be enough to help them combat a threat whose powers greatly outnumber theirs? World Fantasy Award-winning author Nnedi Okorafor blends magic and adventure to create a lush world. Her writing has been called “stunning” by The New York Times and her fans include Neil Gaiman, Rick Riordan, John Green, Ursula K. Le Guin, and many more! Raves for Nnedi Okorafor's writing: "There’s more imagination on a page of Nnedi Okorafor’s work than in whole volumes of ordinary fantasy epics." —Ursula K. Le Guin, award-winning author of A Wizard of Earthsea “The most imaginative, gripping, enchanting fantasy novels I have ever read!” —Laurie Halse Anderson, National Book Award finalist and New York Times bestselling author of Speak "I always loved science fiction, but I didn’t feel I was part of it—until I read first Octavia Butler, and now Nnedi Okorafor." —Whoopi Goldberg "Highly original stuff, episode after amazing episode, full of color, life, and death. Nnedi Okorafor's work is wonderful!" —Diana Wynne Jones, award-winning author of The Chronicles of Chrestomanci "Jam-packed with mythological wonders." —Rick Riordan, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series "Okorafor's imagination is stunning." —The New York Times Book Review

The Rude Awakening

The Rude Awakening PDF Author: Cliff Edogun
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 154626762X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 378

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Letters of disillusionment with Nigerian politics and government from students I’d taught at Nigerian universities in the 1980’s inspired this book of fiction. They’d complained of how the virtues of government they’d learned in class were being defamed by successive Nigerian governments. Public services dysfunction, infrastructure decay, chronic official corruption, clamped down free speech, perennial election rigging, and state-sponsored lawlessness had all ruined their dreams for a better life, while many within their ranks had simply surrendered to the lucre of official financial embezzlement. What options, they ask, are they left with? The rising expectations from Africa’s colonial liberation in the 1960s never materialized for the vast majority. In Nigeria, that dream quickly extinguished after the rigging of that nation’s first general elections in 1959. The seam of nations that the British had cobbled together into the Nigerian state soon began to crack under the divisive issues of tribe, religion, region, and class. In 1967, an unprincipled civil war tore the country apart and affirmed the long-held view that the center in Nigeria could no longer hold under the circumstance. Yet, history was never linear. The digitally sophisticated young people around the world are increasingly demonstrating the capacity to organize and mobilize while entrenched oligarchies have become increasingly vulnerable. This book captures this imaginative historicity and relives the dream of change that is possible. However, this story does not stress youth organization purely for its own sake. Rather, organization must drive mobilization through innovative democratic ideals that’d complement Nigeria’s pluralist ideal of justice for all. For a nation as resourceful, this book portrays the hope that its talented youths would seize this moment in the sun to demonstrate the unique industrious nature of the Nigerian spirit. To the Nigerian youth is this book dedicated.”

Things Fall Apart

Things Fall Apart PDF Author: Chinua Achebe
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0385474547
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 226

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“A true classic of world literature . . . A masterpiece that has inspired generations of writers in Nigeria, across Africa, and around the world.” —Barack Obama “African literature is incomplete and unthinkable without the works of Chinua Achebe.” —Toni Morrison Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read Things Fall Apart is the first of three novels in Chinua Achebe's critically acclaimed African Trilogy. It is a classic narrative about Africa's cataclysmic encounter with Europe as it establishes a colonial presence on the continent. Told through the fictional experiences of Okonkwo, a wealthy and fearless Igbo warrior of Umuofia in the late 1800s, Things Fall Apart explores one man's futile resistance to the devaluing of his Igbo traditions by British political andreligious forces and his despair as his community capitulates to the powerful new order. With more than 20 million copies sold and translated into fifty-seven languages, Things Fall Apart provides one of the most illuminating and permanent monuments to African experience. Achebe does not only capture life in a pre-colonial African village, he conveys the tragedy of the loss of that world while broadening our understanding of our contemporary realities.