Soyuznikis Exec Profiles
Position:President
Studied at the Institute of Agriculture Kharkov. Graduated in 1988 and did my National service with Nigerian Breweries Lagos. I have served the organisation since its inception in various capacities i.e. General (Assistant) Secretary, Social Secretary and as representative of Soyuznikis-UK on the executive committee of (Nigerian Schools Sports and Family Fun) NSSFF.
Love my role organising in the background and taking part in sports. My hope and aspiration for the group is to see it play a meaningful role in societal development.
Learning Never Stops
If It Does, Life Would Be Worthless
Our Objective
- Support and encourage current members as and when the need arises fairly and honestly
- Grow our membership by reaching out through formal and informal social gatherings
- Extend charitable assistance to the needy and wanting
- Promote and maintain friendship, members and other colleagues who are non members of Soyuznikis-UK
- Promote the group locally and worldwide
Soyuznikis-UK is a union for Nigerians who have studied in the former Union of Soviets Socialist Republic (USSR). Soyuznikis comes from the Russian word ‘Soyuz’ meaning union. The association was founded in the summer of 2007 during the wedding ceremony of a colleague in London, the idea came about to form an umbrella organisation to bring together and embrace in friendship as it existed amongst us during our stay in the USSR was agreed.
Soyuznikis-UK is a secular and non political organisation. Membership to the group is not dependent on creed, origin, gender or sexuality. We endeavour to be a progressive organisation that will make meaningful contributions to the communities that gave us the opportunity to learn – USSR, the one that now host us - United Kingdom and most especially our nation – Nigeria. The deeds and acts of Soyuznikis-UK are guided by its constitution.
Our general meetings are held on the last Saturday of every month excluding December, when we normally hold our End of Year Party. Ideally, we as a group encourage our friends and familities to join us on our social events as a way of fostering our interpersonal relationships.
Unity Is Strength
Since inception, the association has been lead by the following persons as President. They have made efforts to foster growth and unity among members.
They are:- Mr. Paul Eboh 2007 to 2009
- Dr. Ralph Eke 2009 to 2011
- Pastor Chioma Ejiofor 2011 to 2012
- Mr. Ebenezer Hundeyin 2012 to 2019
- Mr. Olushina Alaka 2019 to date
Cancel Culture - Very Divisive
The most dangerous of all falsehoods is a slightly distorted truth. The danger of instant judgements and monolithic narratives are all too prevalent in these deliberations. Where you will find cold-blooded grasping; massive sense of entitlement; an inability to show gratitude; an unrealistic expectation of puritanism from others; and a passionate performance of virtue that is well executed in the public space ( social media) but not in the intimate space of co-habitation and friendship.
These are very trying times. Technology as recent as couple of years ago was supposed to bring us all closer - remember the global village?. The emergence of an old doctrine - critical race theory the epitome of this dramatic change in attitude towards anyone with a different point of view has put paid to that paradigm. These contrive and concerted attack on one race as being the source of the biblical original sin is trivial and false period.
We insulate ourselves in ideological bubbles of similar-thinking people and refuse to countenance or even engage with the truth. We now seems to be building echo chambers with titanium and carbon fibre cladding just to make sure we do not see or hear anything different. If these cancel culture mentality is being adopted to the pandemic, may be herd immunity would have been achieved by now. We have become communities in a dislocated social fabric that is fracturing at an astonishing rate. If we do not amend this fast, rapture seems to be the only ramification.