₦airaland Forum

Constitution
of
Young Authors of Nigeria.

Preamble:
Whereas, We the members of young authors of nigeria under the cooperate affires commission acts of nigeria.
Having firmly and solemnly resolved to
Discover,
Unite,
And empower all upcoming, aspiring and established young writers of literary genre in nigera, for the purpose of achieving our individual dreams of becoming published authors of great literary works through joint efforts of member of the association.
And to provide, for a constitution for the purpose of promoting the smooth administrattion, welfare of members discovery of literary talents, uniting promoting and empowerment of all registered literary writer.
Do hereby make enact and give ourselves this constitution.

Acticle 1
Citation
Citation : this constitution may be cited known and called 'the constitution of young authors of nigeria 2013'

Acticle 2

Name
Section 1. The name of this association shall be young authors of nigeria
Section 2. Hereinafter referred to as Yan

Acticle 3
Interpretation/defination.
1. Annual General Assembly, means the crew summit held ones and within the period of twelve months. See functions thereafter....
2. Associate member, is either a group or organisation or an individual whose objectives are similar to those of the association but who is not eligible for membership under any other category.
3. Associate member means members who has out grown the age category of the association.
4. Board, means a section of management with the sold power to make reach decissions and control all compositions of the association.
5. Officers of the association means the members of the board.
6. Branch means either a group of ordinary members or persons who have applied for and have been granted recognisation by the board but who are domiciled outside nigeria.
7. Ordinary members are recognised members who have applied and have been granted acceptance but are not members of any executive body.
8. Quorum means the presence of at least one forth of members.
9. Reached a quorum means the presence of at least one forth of the members shall be neccesssasy for the disposal of any of business at any meeting.
10. Pioneer members means persons who joined during the application for registration.
11. The Pioneers means persons who coinitiated and shaped the founders idea to realising the association.
12. Founder means the persons or person who initiated the formation of the association.
13. Honorary Member...

Article 5.
Supremacy of the constitution.
1. This constitution is supreme and it dictates shall have binding force on all persons or group of persons any commitee authorities who are members associate members or honorary members of authors association of nigeria and its affiliate components.
2. Anyother constitution or bylaws and decissions reached by the board of management or anyother body or group of persons which is inconsistent with the provissions of this constitution or section thereof shall be deemed void to the extent of such inconsistency and this constitution shall prevail.

Acticle 5
Aims Objectives and Activities.
1. The aims of this association shall be but not limited to
A. Discovery uniting and empowering all upcoming aspiring and established young writers of literary genre in nigeria for the purpose of achieving our individual dreams of becoming published authors of great literary works through joint efforts of members and associate members.
B. Promoting the recognition and fair remuneration of authors and respect for their rights.
C. Facilitate the creation, publication and dissemination of quality works by published and aspiring authors.
D. To make and maintain links with and encourage cooperation between authors and others in the book value chain.
E. To promote and publicise established members authors
F. To encourage and promote reading of literary works amongst young people and adults in nigeria.
G. Finally to uplift nigeria's image through our literary works.
2. The association will fulfill its aims in acticle 5 section 1 by these short term goals, not limited to
A. To unite all talented young authors in nigeria.

B. To publish a first annual anthology of thrilling short stories
(compiled and carefully selected from well-written short stories,
originally written &submitted by active members)
C. To also publish an anthology of poems written by members
D. To create a carefully developed and appealing website for the club,
solely for the promotion of the association and its members
E. To create a Facebook celebrity/fan page for faster publicity
.
F. Officially register the association with a clearly-written
constitution
G. Officially document/register all active members

3. The association will fulfill its aims through these long term goals not limited to
A. Hold bi-annual club meetings and retreats
B. Engage in constructive criticisms of members’ works to assist members
become better writers
C. Conduct Annual seminars/workshops on literary writing skills and
techniques to assist members and other interested Nigerians in becoming
outstanding authors
D. Conduct Annual writing competitions, with young people within the age
of 18 to 30 as our targeted audience, for the purpose of discovering hidden
talents in Nigeria
E. Conduct Annual beauty pageants as a way of promoting literature and
our association within and beyond Nigeria
F. Establish a state-of-the-art publishing outfit to help publish more
Nigerian writers, and to also raise fund for the association to pursue its
goals and targets
G. Develop a writer’s weekly/monthly magazine/newspaper aimed at
promoting literature and reading in Nigeria.
H. To promote and protect the intellectual property rights of its
members and of all young authors in Nigeria, and to inform authors about
their rights.
I. To promote sound professional and legal relationships between authors
and publishers and to assist authors in negotiating fair publishing
contracts.
J. To offer advice and assistance to authors of young works.
K. To encourage the personal development of aspiring and emerging young
authors and to offer guidance in all aspects of such writing.
L. To provide a forum for debating issues of interest to young authors
and to provide support and solidarity in interacting with other writers, in
Nigeria and abroad.
M. To facilitate interaction, exchange and collaboration between
writers across the different media and with artists in other disciplines.
N. To liaise and cooperate with local, national, regional and
international bodies involved in the funding, promotion, distribution and
development of writing.
O. To promote members’ publications, both nationally and
internationally.
P. To promote and protect freedom of expression.
Q. Vigorously publicize the association in any news and
entertainment media both local and international as well as relevant online
websites.
R. Initiate the organization of a yearly ‘Awards Nite,’ during which
awards will be given to outstanding members of the association.
Article 6
Defination of composition
Yan shall encompass the following for the smooth and effective operation.
Section 1. GreenLand Books
Section 2. Yan Tory 9ja
Section 3. Advisory Body
1A. GreenLand Books shall consist of a librarian and its editorial crew.
B. Promotion of YAN books
C. Overseas the publication of books.
D. Jointly publicise and disseminate Yan books.
E. Organises constructive criticisms
2. YAN TORY 9JA
A. An annual program with its function not limited to
B. Discovery of new literary talents.
C. Encouraging reading of literary works amongst young people and adults in nigeria.
D. Aids in providing the GreenLand Books with the overall best literary works
3. The advisory body consist of writers with great influence and wise people who provides yan with answers to problems when the need arises.
B. The advisory body could also be a clusters of writers who as passed through the association but has loosed its place in any of the categories.
4. Yan in as much as possible harness partners and sponsors to the greater achievement of the association.
5. Yan harness all these bodies to the greater achievement of the association.
Article 7.
Management
1. Yan shall be administered by a management of not less than three persons eligible to own am office and not more than fifteen members elected at the annual general assembly.
2. The management may when deemed important set up am adhoc commitee.
3. The management shall meet at least twice a year aside the annual general assembly.
4. The management shall consist of the following.
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sunical: These delays could be avoided if we stick to simple processes. We don't need everybody's participation to register and begin. The Voting platform is ready. We can slate a date for the voting; first off, elect the 2 or 3 executives we need for registration of the association. Other executives can be voted in later; then we get the price to register as an incorporated trustee, and get everyone to contribute. That's it. Each of these steps should be given a deadline. Even when only 3 people register to vote, the 3 people become the Executives. That's how it goes.

check out those bold words. Ve'nt i b doing them? We must not karry everybody along at this stage...we must ve execultive before we say, yes all the executives must b karried along to reach a discission. I give dates with the initiators assert to the progres of diz association, yet my majors say no b so...after we ve executives we must register wit c.a.c b4 anytin, so it is a process. Peaceworld kudos, i hail u collins and sunical.

Collins u are amazing. U are the type i want here...ask peaceworld he tell u, that u are the bam that really brought meaning into the south east meeting. I love ur constructive critiques, u ar gud at it...i think people are no geting tired but no word cuming out 4rm d initiators of this idea to put a hinge on the toes of the follow writers. If me i put zeal, them say am authocratic...i now left the authncratic me Lol to the mercy of the shadow of mine own self and it is having an effect here...let me say it all now, we dont need big parties to lunch this, we dnt nid any publicity...seun wil help us out...nairaland is a big market, check my posts on ksu...i make alot of money from nairaland, infact my first online cash was from nairaland. The administration of any association is cheaper then creating such administered association. It took the millitary to create a civilian nigeria constitution. We have journalist on this thread, we got Suen and nairaland on this thread so what are we waiting for. Please Dailynews we dont need alot of technocrates to kick start, all we needs is the plan to realise ur ideas. The only thing i object to in sunicals criticts is the online stuff, please i would want us to get our books to the publishing company first, let get to the market, than we can register and lunch this club before 2013...imagin contributive publication...only sugesting o.... Befor dusk, i wish to upload and send out the constitution.

Peaceworld: So sorry guyz...bn away for sometime nw...Emyo n Sunical...will do...soon uploading new site design...

yes boss! I missed you. Again please i knw u alone can help us on publicity. We want the monitary figures for wide publicity

Yes i did.

If you want to join this association send an email with this key word Request for Admittance to NAIJA.WRITERSCLUB@GMAIL.COM

Wahooo is that my Luke 4rm benue? Wahoo is a gud tin u are here...i dnt think its cubermsome but we nid a stronger foundation and that is what we are doing secretly on a secured website. We have noted all what u suggested. @ all and @rayhp join the meeting by adding me on facebook, send me a request on EMMA OGIRI C.

Richiy: I rili wud love to join. Hw do i go abt it?

Richiy u are welcume. Send your name, location, genre and an exemple of ur literary work to naija.writersclub@gmail.com. Do this and get acquitted to our latest and previous thread, as we wil be updating you want to do next.

kelechi bemidele: Please send out the constitution to all active members, I assume you have the names of those who attended the meeting, asking them strictly to review it in two days and reply you. If any controversy starts we can schedule a date on 2go or nairaland to have a general discussion. A top priority also must be to groom our writing by giving reviews. We discussed about all these in the N/C meeting and I'm merely reinforcing. Have a nice day

peaceworld please help us in this...please do copy and paste the constitution to .txt, doc or paste and send it to my email addres. So i can send them out. Again, their contribution wil be introduced into the constitution a lawyer is helpin me draft.

sunical: Let's use whatsapp, please.

i ve checked...peaceworld and christy e.t.c are not on whatsapp. Please do add me on fb let me add u to the meeting pls.

I will be posting the replies i got from the above, i sent to various emails today. @all please do check your facebook, as the meeting dailynews as been talking of has commenced...the meeting will last for five days. If i have not added you please do send me a friend request on facebook, so i add you to the group...here is my name on facebook ...emma ogiri c...

Young Authors of Nigeria, according to its first impressions is an ASSOCIATION of writers. ASSOCIATION is the coming together of people with same interest, purpose, aims and objectives. YAN as an association should be a vehicle which in it as alot of talents in literal genre. Already in nigeria we have alot of association of this kind, but what differentiate YAN from the other is in its promise of giving a helping or providing a means of making its members published Authors in conjunction with imbibing in the Nigeria Youths the writing and reading culture. Not talking too much but with lucidity, i want to state it clear that we are on the edge of invention but this mission is volatile As we keep designing. If we just sit down this dreams will keep coming yet no known progress. The best way to start something big is to start with a tiny step. The motive behind this association is to discover, unite, and empower all upcoming and aspiring young writers in literary genre, to facilitate the creation publication and disseminating of quality works of the members. From the motive above the uniqueness of this association is in the discovering, uniting and empowering of all upcoming and aspiring young writers. This uniqueness is further made glad, if only the objectives of facilitating the creation, publication and dissemination of the literary works of this discovered talents are achieved. Not mincing words i think from the above, i have explained vividly what YAN is all about, i stand to be quoted or corrected if i missed something above.



My opinions.

It is high time we stood grand and focus on the aims and objectives, what we should do to make that pace, every other suggestion and ideas comes into place when we are out of oven. Take for instance the cancellation of the zones even before kick starting which would have been a medium of marketing, for this association, a way to reach the nooks and cranny in dissemination.



My idea YAN



I see an association with a clear written constitution and executives registered under company and allied commission of nigeria with all strategies and section put in place to embrace its objectives and motives.

Simple. That is all we should be looking forward to at this moment.



What to achieve.

1. Discovering literary talents across the nations.

2. Facilitating the publication and dissemination of literary works.

3. Encouraging, creation of remuneration and employments.

4. Encouraging and promoting the reading and writing culture amongst youths in nigeria.



Structure of YAN.

1. Secretariat. The head office of YAN will be known as the SECRETARIAT, It will be the head office of all other section and in it the office of YAN EXECUTIVES will be located.

2. YAN; This will be an association bringing together all writers of literary genre and will be the chief brain of the association with it veto prowess.

3. Green land books : GL BOOKS will be a section within the association that sees to the publication of quality works of YAN MEMBERS.

4. YAN TORY HUNT HOUSE :-) this will be the main program that will see to the discovery of literary talents.



Postscript_

The creation of any group is rougher then its administrations. Its easier to maintain the administrative position than to have the status of developing a group idea into reality. Belief me too much ideas spoils the idea.



PS



I plead of you to let us get the edited constitution outlining the various position and its power befor the election. Again with the constitution the candidates to a particular office will not relent in paying up any dues due to him. After the election, we go and register our association proper. With that in place we can than ask our GL BOOKS to advertise the submission of materials.



PS

How to generate funds.

1. Generous contribution and donation from members.

2. Registration fee.

3. Price tags to offices.

4. Price tags to submission of short stories , for publication.

5. Price tags to submission of short poems, for publication.

6. Sponsors

7. Advert

8. Borrowing withing members.



Read this and reply me your reaction as i want to send this to members and the general public in search of sponsors and help.

Sorry my network had bin bad trout today. If group me fails...we wil use facebook...am also on both groupme and whatsapp...the problem with whatsapp is that only Qwaty nokia phones, sis and bb can.

Am on groupme.com already. I saw yan. Who is holdin us.

Good job....@all. YAN TINZ JOOR O...

Hmmm....tombs up 4u men...i dnt understand groupme...but am also on WHATSAPP...its cul 4 QRWTY nokia phones and bb...i love u all, @peaceworld and sunical...am at ur service @sunical...what exectly do u knw nid.

Am already on group me

[quote author=jardon007][/quote]Jardon u are welcum to niaraland and to our thread. Don't mind wat u c here. It just a JET in its ROUGH constructing book.

jardon007: we seem to be argueing nd complaining a great deal and it is not a very gud way to work as a team•lets just try to stick to what we have•tnkz

Oooh! Yes at least for the moment.

[quote author=pearl~hapi]I think YAN is fast becoming an org of talkers,with less actions.we seem to be complaining about virtually everything.first the name and now the web design.#just an observation[/quote]joor o. And dat were autocrazi cumz in...Dailynews ur taste is the finality, at leaste for now...till we are done...democrazi wil surely have his stay.

sunical: Gotcha! However, they must have emails. That's the only way we can have a perfect system. For instance, if someone forgot his password, he should be able to retrieve easily by having it sent to his email. It's important. Let the house know how you intend to get our emails. You already have mine. Maybe only those who have paid their initial N500 or N1000 can vote...just suggesting, so the list will be easy for you to compile by simply getting it from Christiana.

christy u heard him

@sunical. Ve sent u d email. More 2 cum soon.

Yes boss

Removed

Sunical sowi 4 d delay. Giv me ur email.

Buzreal, were are u

Am here Boss!

Uniquexty: i guess we dont have a national president or national executives and so think it is out of place for someone to regard his opinion as final. We are all suggesting because we want the progress of the association and so dont want to believe dat this has turned into a one man biz. Well! Raph has made a gud suggestion and i second him. YAN is funky enough if we define the term young well. If we can regard the young in the area of the association and not the members, then its a headway. I also suggest we draw conclusions in a more democratic way. Those 4 YAN, raise up ur hand..... Ouch! We dont raise hands here. K, voting wil be appropriate. Like, i vote for YAN, or i vote against YAN. I love this association because YAN ROCKS

we don't have national leader yet....we only have national treasurer... Lol, i did not say anytin wrong in my expression to show what the association is, but my mannerism was wrong, my lords accept my apology. My mannerism aside, quote d meaning of what i wrote.

sunical: Emyo,

Please compile the list of all members, their email addresses, names, and phone number (optional) and send to me. I need it to prepare the database for the voting platform which will be completed tomorrow.

Thanks.

am hapi it soon...i wil send it to ur email, 9pm today. Hope we can easily fix those who register after, u built d database? Lol don even knw anytin like web design.