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collins123: What is an ACRONY?/

aceyralph: This is nice. South-south thumbs up. No dulling, always rolling.
I think we should look at the name issue in this way. There is an organisation called Young Entrepreneur Service, Africa. Even though the name is age factored, it does not have age limit. The "Young" means that the organisation shall forever be in existence and the goal and vision will never die. It doesn't have age limit nor misplaced as a young people thing. Coming to YAN, it's how we define it that will really matter. To restrict it or not is our choice but let's consider embracing all men. Someone might have reached 50yrs and still may have not being able to publish a book; such person can have bright interest in YAN as an avenue to fulfill that dream. Would we ignore such person? Goodluck Jonathan can develop interest to publish his works in our books, would we restrict him just because he is over 40yrs? YAN will go far if we can be more embracing. I suggest
"Writers Icon of Nigeria" (WIN).
Gracias

newacca: dailynews,
I would be expecting notice from u. We can start 4rm where we are. U dnt need multitude to get something gr8 started or done. In my own view, 2 or more individuals form a group. You and YK including myself can rep S.West zone. They'll come when we r known.

collins123: Association for Nigerian Literature - ANL
Society of Authors, Nigeria - SAN
Council of Authors, Nigeria CAN
Nigerian Authors Council - NAC (Akpako )
Nigeria Society of Literature - NSL
Arts, & Authors (Nigeria) - A&A or AAN
Nigerian (Contemporary) Authors' League - NCAL or NAL

sunical: Minutes of YAN South-South Meeting, August 11, 2012

Opening Prayer by Efose (Asst. Coordinator)
Minutes was taken by Happiness

The meeting was held at Kaydees Fast Food, Ugbowo, Benin City at 1pm. It started with an opening prayer by the Assistant Coordinator followed by introduction of attendees.

One of the members, Samuel, took time to explain the purpose of the meeting and the aim of the association. The name of the association was one of the issues discussed. A percentage of those in the meeting agreed to the name of the association, YAN (Young Authors of Nigeria), but one of the members, Felix, saw the name as not very good enough. His reasons were that the connotation “young” might mean limiting the association to just young people, which may give an impression to the outside world that the association is for little children. He saw no reason for the association to be age-restricted preventing a passionate writer aged 41 from joining the association. He further stated that for a new association, age restriction may not be the best. Samuel also supported the notion citing associations and contests with the name Young to be mostly restricted to the age range of 18 – 25. He brought up suggestions for the association – Guild of Nigerian Writers or Academy of Nigerian Writers.

Asst. Coordinator, Efose, then asked for a recommendation for the association’s name among the members present. Academy of Nigerian Writers was recommended.
Samuel talked about the membership fee for the association. He suggested N5000, also considering the fees of similar association. He said, should the name YAN be retained, members above 41 should be referred as Fellows or a more befitting name. And should we remove the age restriction and adopt the recommendation of the South-South, a lower membership fee for students should be considered.
Here are other suggestions brought up by members.

- That there should be an awareness of the existence of the association when it’s registered, as majority of writers are not aware of its existence. Such publicity or awareness could be done via the website, contests, media broadcast, Facebook, Twitter, and partnership with other Literary organizations.
- That Editors for all category of writing – Poetry, Fiction, etc. – should be elected among the Board Members, with the job of selecting the best works for publication.
- That there shouldn’t be Zonal Coordinators when the association is formed to avoid divisions and any form of sectionalism.
- That the association's Facebook page should be active than it is now. Every meeting held and decision reached should be posted on the page.
- A membership ID card or certificate of membership should be made available to members after registration.
- That the association should consider fixing a general meeting prior to the election of executives.

The meeting was attended by five members.
1. Efose I. (Asst. Coordinator)
2. Ebuka O.
3. Felix N.
4. Happiness O.
5. Samuel U.

sunical: And South-South held their meeting. It was great. Expect the minutes and photo tomorrow. Cheers

DailyNews: South-South - pls we are unable to hold a zonal meeting for south-south, so...

Uniquexty: Lasgidi, shake off d beast nd take up d baton. Abeg Yan me tori. YAN ROCKS

Peaceworld: ...DailyNews hope u guys r preping for ur meet tomoro?

sunical: Hello,

Please, concerning the election, let's nominate someone to be the Electoral Officer..lol. Seriously, someone has to administrate the Voting Platform like inputting positions to be vied for, and will have the Admin password. Someone we can trust. I will prefer a lady and she must not be vying for any position. But that's my suggestion, so please house, advise. Thanks.

Diamondwriter: Guys,the south-south zonal meeting comes up on saturday 11th aug 2011 at kaydees,ugbowo benin city,by 1.pm......kaydees is very easy to locate.its jux along the express road.

sunical: Hello Emyo, hope you are good? Please compile emails of all our confirmed members and send them to my email. We will need it for the Voting Exercise to log in and vote. Maybe you have to wait after the South South meeting to compile them, but you know better. Thanks.

aceyralph: meanwhile, lets keep rolling on. what i believe in is that we shall reach our vision but that is only if we take YAN as our business and work hard to sustain it. the job is not as easy as thought if we intend to capture National center-stage. any zone that has not conducted their meeting should do so; we need to start something and pave our ways. Dailynews i dont mind your ignorance of my references.......it's well like our brotheer will say.

aceyralph: IT'S INTERESTING WORKING AS A GROUP. YAN HAS COME TO STAY AND WILL STAND THE TEST OF TIME. THE BACKDROP OF ANY ASSOCIATION IS THE COMMITMENT OF ITS MEMBERS. EVERY MEMBER MUST STRIVE TO CONTRIBUTE IN WAYS HE/SHE CAN IN ORDER TO MOVE IT AHEAD. I HAVE TAKEN SOME TIME TO READ SOME OF THE POSTS FROM OUR MEMBERS AND I BET EVERYONE OF US THAT WE ARE CAPABLE OF REACHING ANY HEIGHT. WE CAN DO IT, YAN CAN DO IT. DAILYNEWS, EMRYO, PEACEWORLD AND EVERYBODY, I HEARD UR VOICES, I APPRECIATE ALL UR EFFORTS IN ABSENTIA. I WILL CONTINUE TO BE A PART OF THIS HEART-LIFTING ASSOCIATION. FOR NOW, PEACEEEEE!!!!! CHUKWU RAPHAEL FROM ONITSHA

Uniquexty: dat is just what i've been waiting for. Thank u so much.

Uniquexty: dat is just what i've been waiting for. Thank u so much.

DailyNews: Emyo you are really filled with humor, pls don't get me wrong, the online meeting is for us to have a forum to discuss on how to actualize the Launching, & not that it will turn to our usual way of meeting after the Launching, noooo...it is just to facilitate the launching planning.

DailyNews: We need to hold meetings via online with all active & passionate members in attendance to make meaningful & significant contributions.

When we finally decide on the platform to use for our pre-launching meetings, some of our major agendas should include & not limited to these:
1. inauguration of committees to handle the various aspects of the launching, viz. radio & tv publicity, newspaper publicity, campus flyers & banner publicity (institutional publicity).
2. CAC registration committee
3. website design & launching committee
4. Editorial committee (to collat members' short stories & poems for our first anthology, & to also screen the submitted manuscripts to ensure we publish only excellent write-ups)
5. Launching Planning Committee (to plan the entire launching, map out events to be carried out & how to go about it, decide on the form of entertainment we would need, entertainment, decide on the venue, date & time in liaison with other committees to ensure activities don't crash together. they will also decide on the budget for the launching, & how to raise the required fund to foot all arising bills)
6. Constitution Committee- to critically & carefully examine the constitution & make final corrections & amendments on the one we already have.

Each committee will need to sit down & research critically via real life analysis on the things they need to ensure we achieve the aim of setting up their own committee. They will come up with the total realistic amount needed to achieve the objective of their committee. Finally, each committee will then submit their exact cost analysis to the Launching Planning Committee for final execution.

How do you guys see the plan? Pls guys do bear with my inconsistency at times, always busy, but cannot be too busy to not have YAN at heart.

Our Ghana brother, we wanted extending to UK, USA, etc, as some folks contacted me at the onset but after a few correspondence, never heard from them again. Meanwhile, I believe your case wouldn't be like theirs? That said, you are gladly welcome, & it will be our pleasure to have our first international extension in Ghana, having in mind that Ghana is another literary-inclined nation like our beloved Nigerian nation. So get back to us if you can organize our extension there in Ghana. Goodmorning fellows!

DailyNews: The CAC from my own understanding when I & a brother registered a joint-company, will not cost less than a sixty thousand & not more than one twenty th. depending on the purpose & share value. though ours is different cos its gona come under NGO i guess. pls you guys should get concrete facts, or should I go ahead & get the real requirements & cost via my lawyer? on the issue of board of d, I don't think we will need zonal leadership after the official launch, that may not favour the efficiency of the leadership & effectiveness too. but the board will be selected from across the major geo-political zones in Nigeria, with equality & passion for excellence at heart. The official launching will involve huge amount of money, so lets plan it step by step so we don't miss out. now, what we need is a platform for conducting meeting whereby every member will be present at the same time, from wherever they are since we have at least met once & established a physical commitment. so guys come up with realistic & efficient platform for our online meetings where we can discuss a lot of issues concerning the launching & other vital issues. we really need fund, we need to finally elect our interim national leaders to kick off this vision & to handle the affairs for a probabtional period of say one year before an official election come next year.

sunical: Just emailed you - mailgeorgeshadow@yahoo.com

http://www.pw.org/ will give us a picture of what I'm looking at.

I have some suggestions for the Constitution too. I will post that tomorrow.

Have a great rest everyone.

Cheers.

sunical: But on the issue of decentralizing the executives across the zones, what about Zones where we don't have a member? How about Zones where our members sojourn around the country? I still don't see the need to have Zonal Coordinators because after this earlier stage, I feel we shouldn't be having Zonal meetings, but National gatherings. I'm still doubtful of the efficiency of having a decentralized system. But there could be some positivity in it. Your points would be appreciated.

sunical: But on the issue of decentralizing the executives across the zones, what about Zones where we don't have a member? How about Zones where our members sojourn around the country? I still don't see the need to have Zonal Coordinators because after this earlier stage, I feel we shouldn't be having Zonal meetings, but National gatherings. I'm still doubtful of the efficiency of having a decentralized system. But there could be some positivity in it. Your points would be appreciated.

sunical: Phiozy and the NC members, you guys did a great job. Your meeting was rich. And thanks to Emyo for posting the minutes here. But on the issue of decentralizing the executives across the zones, what about Zones where we don't have a member? How about Zones where our members sojourn around the country? I still don't see the need to have Zonal Coordinators because after this earlier stage, I feel we shouldn't be having Zonal meetings, but National gatherings. I'm still doubtful of the efficiency of having a decentralized system. But there could be some positivity in it. Your points would be appreciated.

Phiozy: Young Authors of Nigeria(YAN)
…Uncovering the hidden talents…
Email contact: naija.writersclub@gmail.com
Mission
- To discover, unite & empower all upcoming, aspiring & established young writers in Nigeria, for the purpose of achieving our individual dreams of becoming published authors of great literary works through joint efforts of members & associate members.
- To promote & publicize established member authors
- To encourage & promote reading of literary works amongst young people & adults in Nigeria
- Finally, to uplift Nigeria’s image through our literary works

Goals
1. To Unite all talented young writers & poets in Nigeria
2. To publish a first annual anthology of thrilling short stories (compiled & carefully selected from well-written short stories, originally written & submitted by active members)
3. To also publish anthology of poems written by member
4. Engage in constructive criticisms of members’ works to assist members become better writers
5. Conduct Annual seminars/workshops on literary writing skills & techniques to assist members & other interested Nigerians in becoming outstanding authors
6. 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
7. Develop a writer’s weekly/monthly magazine/newspaper aimed at promoting literature & reading in Nigeria.
Membership is open to people of age 18 to 40, no other qualification is required for now besides an SSCE, but all aspiring members must be good in written English, at least that is what makes us great writers.

Emyo: Good morning ladies and gentlemen. As we wait for YAN dedicated website and the minute of North Central Zonal meeting, i glad to say we are moving in the right direction. I sent my friend; though not a member in lagos state to check in @ any CAC office to give me details on how to register properly. Now among the requirement are board of trustees. Meaning, we going to have YAN'S NATIONAL EXECUTIVES, b4 the registration. @south west and other zones that were'nt able to organise their zonal meetings, their inputs, ideas will be great and it wil b a plus to this association if their suggestion be sumbitted to naija.writersclub@gmail.com on or b4 14th of August. Hasty is not an entertaining word here, but i think God has given us this pace @ which we are going to maintain. Members and their zonal coordinators who are ready to be among YAN should try and send the token of 1000naire commitment fee to christiana eke's account on or b4 14th of August. National Executives will be democratically selected from within the members and their zonal coordinators who succesful organises a zonal meeting on or b4 14th of August. Preparation should be made, because the mistakes of our past wil not be repeated. The lobby email for anybody who dims him/her self fit of any national executive is naija.writersclub@gmail.com; if u dnt show interest by emailing nothing 4u. After 14th of August, Christy should be able to make the details of our YANS bank account statement public. Then Dailynews, wil estimate the proposed CAC expenses, if the cash is less, then all the National Executive Office will have a price tagged to it. Suggestion should be sent to naija.writersclub@gmail.com. I wil send an email to all the over 100 to 200 emails wit me...if u are an active member ingore it. Up Yans, up vibrant.

Emyo: Here are our programs. Which ever cums 1st.

Publishing an Anthology of short stories from registered YAN members.
And
Anthology of short thrilling poems from registered YAN members.

To promote the READING and WRITTING cultures of Nigeria youths a competion like that of BigBrother African will be opened to all interested youths that fall within d range of a stipulated age. Simultaneusly as d house mates develops and writes their stories,
The house wil b filled with sponsor books, stories, comtenplorary materials, newspapers e.t.c, which weekly question wil cum 4rm to extinquish a member 4rm d house, till we have just 1 writer who wil be awarded the best writer. Among other gifts, his work wil b published and he wil b promoted.

Am suggestin:- YAN TORY HUNT HOUSE, YAN TORY COMPET, TORY HOUSE, YAN HUNT, TORY COMPET MANSION....sugestions wil b entertained.

Let us YAN CAC 1st.

Peaceworld: please we need to be coordinated here...and Emyo, what's happening on the fourteenth? Please DailyNews is the final say here...as founder, he alone can designate National Dates here...this dictatorial swagger better stop...we're in a Democracy peeps... You can imagine there's no dedicated website yet, but Emyo is already talking about it...please its all good to show enthusiasm here, but everybody MUST BE CARRIED ALONG...Peeps, make una help me YAN this thing...na lie I talk? Make una help me put mouth for this issue...Emyo is always guilty of this...and don't think it's nice...this is getting way bigger than anybody, so we must be organised, Emyo... failure will knock on our doors if we don't thread carefully...again I ask, who designated the 14th for what? There are no National Execs yet so what is really happening? This association is no child's play...Sunical, my friend did this site and he's the one I've been telling DailyNews about...

http://taiagro.com/

ignore the links included in the package, just telling you about the smooth quality and the site's feel...this is why I think we should get him cuz haven't seen any other guy who does a better job than he does...please upload site links to good sites in your emails to me concerning the website...thank you...