The All Nigeria United Nations Students and Youth Association (ANUNSA) is the Nigerian Branch of the International Students and Youth Movement of the United Nations (ISMUN) which is an International Non Governmental Organization (NGO) composed of National Students and Youth Associations from over one hundred and fifty countries all over the world including Nigeria.

ISMUN has its headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. ANUNSA was founded in October 1958 at the University of Ibadan and is the first registered and recognized United Nations Students and Youth Association in Nigeria.

ANUNSA has chapters in over 30 tertiary institutions of Higher learning comprising of Universities, Polytechnics, Colleges of Education and Technology, Schools of Nursing and Hygiene etc. ANUNSA's activities cut across educational, social, cultural, political and professional backgrounds. The thematic issues cuts across health, environment, poverty eradication, education, sustainable development, democracy, governance, human-rights, peace and conflict resolution, population, international affairs etc.

These issues are considered from the youth perspective as their contribution to the aims and objectives of the United Nations in general. ANUNSA is a member of the National Youth Council of Nigeria (NYCN), an associate member of the UN Department of Public Information (DPI), ANUNSA also enjoys general consultative status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC). ANUNSA maintains two designated representatives at the UN headquarters in New York (DPI office). ANUNSA is also a member of the Nigeria Poverty Alleviation Forum and a member of the Youth Coalition for Social Development.

ANUNSA has excellent working relationships with the UN agencies, government parastatals and ministries of the Federal Government.

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES

ANUNSA ACTIVITIES

 1. Effective participation in current economic, social, political and cultural issues. Organizing     educational and humanitarian tours within Nigeria, ECOWAS countries and other foreign     countries.

2. Dissemination of news and publications on the United Nations activities and world affairs     through the ANUNSA newsletter, film shows, exhibitions etc.

3. Participation in World Youth Exchange Programmes.

4. Sending of delegates to the ISMUN summit, World Youth Conference and other national and     international youth conferences.

5. Participation in National Literacy campaigns and awareness programmes.

6. Organizing fund raising activities for relief and other humanitarian purposes.

7. Carry out activities for the advancement of knowledge, education, scientific, social, cultural,     sports, charitable purposes and literacy campaigns as permitted by law.

8. Procurement of International passports and other travelling documents for members and     interested non members. All of these aims, objectives and activities are being carried out     through conferences, workshops, seminars, symposia, public lectures, press releases and     other methods.

ALL NIGERIA UNITED NATIONS STUDENTS AND YOUTH ASSOCIATION (ANUNSA),
OBAFEMI AWOLOWO UNIVERSITY CHAPTER

The Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, chapter was established at the founding of the institution in 1962. Consequently, the association has been in existence in Great Ife for five decades.
Additionally, the OAU chapter is the coordinating center for students of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State.

We exist to foster unity, development and ensure continued social and academic interactions among students, given the nature of Man as a social being.
Our motto reads; “GLOBAL PEACE, SOCIAL JUSTICE AND DEVELOPMENT”. This is an evidence of the importance of critical reflections on the thoughtful advancement of humanity, as well as its non-negligible impact on National and Global socio-economic growth.

Subsequently, we are aware of the need to foster humanistic excellence both in the university where we operate, and the outside world. This must find its root in critical thoughts. It also must not be limited to thoughts, but rather, it must transcend to practice. For Kwame Nkrumah, once said ‘thoughts without practice is empty’.
It is in the realization of this that we are set out to redeem the humanistic base of Nigerian University Students’ orientation. This we are indeed convinced will contribute to the rejuvenation of selfless service to humanity, intellectual values, thought and practice, aimed at the contribution of our own quota to the progressive achievement of Global Peace, which appears moribund in the present universal polity.