By Milton Tella – Registration to attend the Students and Youths of Nigeria Conference will be closing today. The event holds on Saturday 13th April 2024 at 10.00am prompt. The venue is the University of Westminster, 35 Marylebone Road London NW1 5LS.
Theme: Shaping Our Future Through Collaboration and Innovation.
Registration link: https://bit.ly/3VlV0Di
This is produced by Nigerian Students Union UK in collaboration with Nigerian Youths in Diaspora Organisation and National Youth Council of Nigeria Europe.
Yemi Soile is the Founder and Head Coordinator of Nigerian Students’ Union UK (NSUUK). He is also the founder and Head of steering committee at Nigerian Youths in Diaspora Organisation. He is the Co Founder of Nigerian Festival UK and Co Founder of MKO Abiola Centre for Youth and Sports Development Africa. He is the C.E.O of IINGS Ltd, a remote staffing and multi-service company that connects Local talents to Global opportunities.
He is a multi-award winning youth empowerment advocate, public speaker, entrepreneur, and youth ambassador for Africa.
Yemi holds a Bachelors degree from the University of Greenwich UK, where he double majored in Politics and Business and a Masters degree in International Project Management from Anglia Ruskin University UK.
Yemi has risen to national and international prominence by empowering young people in the UK and across Africa through his mentoring, leadership programmes and inspirational speeches, to shake off mediocrity, turn their potentials into performance and live up to their greatness.
He has been featured on Nigerian and international broadcasters, including Channels TV, TVC, Arise TV, NTA, AIT, BEN TV, BBC, ITV, SKY news, Channel 4, and LBC.
He is one of the Project leaders at the Commonwealth Africa Initiative (CAFI), a Pan Commonwealth organisation with a mandate to promote the interest of the African bloc of the Commonwealth of Nations and foster more opportunities for Commonwealth Citizens from Africa. Yemi was also one of the Project Leads at the Nigerian Diaspora Direct Investment Summit (NDDIS).
Yemi is an advisory board of his alma mater’s (University of Greenwich) Black Asian minority ethnic group (BAME) network. The organisation helps develop a BAME welfare community, which aims to support BAME students in dealing with academic, social and professional concerns.
He is also an advisory board member of the International Students Network UK (ISNUK), where he helps provide specialised student support to international students.
Yemi was Vice President of Team Nigeria UK and Pathway sports, where he helped develop and initiate projects that used sports as a tool to engage young people and dissuade them from social vices such as gangs and radicalisation.
While studying for his Undergraduate degree, Yemi was elected President of the Nigerian Students’ Society for 3 years and served on the Students’ Council with the Students’ Union at the same time.
Under Yemi’s leadership with dedication and hard work, the Nigerian Students’ Society won the best student-run club award, organised by the University of Greenwich. Before then, never in the history of the University had a society-based organisation won that award. Yemi also headed the campaign team that ensured a fellow Nigerian student became the first ever- black student in the history of the University, to be elected as Students’ Union President, by a record landslide victory.
Yemi has previously served as Assistant secretary and youth representative with the Central Association of Nigerians in the UK (CANUK).
Yemi was named and awarded as one of the 100 most outstanding Nigerians in the UK, in 100 years, from 1914 – 2014, at the Nigerian Centenary Awards UK.
Yemi won the ‘Nigerian Youth Achiever of the year award UK’ at the Inaugural Awards Dinner and Dance event organised by the Central Association of Nigerians in the UK.
Yemi was honoured at the 21st (Gathering of Africa’s Best) with an award for Excellence in Youth Development, for his outstanding contribution to the promotion of the positive image of Africa and Africans around the world.
Yemi through the Nigerian Students’ Union UK platform which he heads, in collaboration with Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NIDCOM), led the campaign to help 210 Stranded Nigerian Postgraduate students studying in the UK through the controversial Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) Scholarship Scheme. The campaign was the catalyst that got the former President of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari to take action and order the NDDC to pay the affected students over £4,000,000 owed to all the students.
Over all, Yemi sees himself as ‘A Leader of Today in Action Today’ and enjoys mobilising young people to act on social problems.
In yemi’s words to younger folks, “It is okay to fail but don’t let your set back cause you to sit back, always prepare for your comeback”.
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