Peter Drucker, the most influential management writer of the modern era, has died age 95. A spokesman for the Claremont Graduate University in California, where Prof Drucker worked since the 1971, said he died peacefully on Friday morning after a short illness.

Prof Drucker remained active until the end of his life. Earlier this year he was honoured with the McKinsey Award for the best article published in the Harvard Business Review during 2004. He had just finished collaborating with colleagues on a reworking of the ideas contained in The Effective Executive, first published in 1966.

Peter Ferdinand Drucker was born in Vienna in 1909. He took a doctorate in public and international law while working as a newspaper reporter in Frankfurt, Germany, and then worked as an economist for an international bank in London. He moved to the US in 1937 and began his teaching career at Bennington College, Vermont. For more than twenty years he was professor of management at the graduate business school of New York University.

Compliments of the season!!! Looking back through the years at the ICT sector of the Nigeria economy, I find out that Nigeria as a nation is more of a consumer. We take so much away from the market without adding anything. I therefore believe that it's high time we youth came together and effect the change. We should forget about what the Government will for the nation but rather concentrate on what we can add to the nation. It's been found out that all the Telecommunication equipment that we use in this country are all TOKUNBO - imported. I believe that we should therefore come together. we need to understand how most of these telecomunication equipments work. We need to move from being able to use the equipment alone to being able to design and build our model.
To this effect, Paradigm Initiative Nigeria is organising a seminar / conference to address this issue. More information on this can be found at www.pin.itgo.com/homepages/projects.htm
We thus request all Youths to rise up and commit ourselves to projects that will add to the values of our brothers. Watch out...