In recognition of his selfless contribution to youth empowerment and passion for excellence-driven service to humanity, Dr. Olajide Martins Adewinle, Chairman/CEO, West African Petrogas Global Limited has been nominated by Icon & Legend Magazine to receive the Ondo State Man of the Year Award, 2023/2024 edition. In the online poll conducted on the platform of Ondo State Man of the Year Award by Icon & Legend Magazine, Dr. Adewinle emerged the overall best beating other five distinguished nominees to the prestigious historic honour.
The award presentation initially fixed for 28th of April, 2024 is now rescheduled to hold 12th of May 2024 at the Royal Birds Hotels & Towers, Alagbaka Akure, the Ondo State capital. The event will attract the crème de la crème from within and outside the sunshine state coming to pay tributes to excellence.
The award, is aimed at recognizing outstanding personalities of Ondo State origin who have clearly demonstrated exemplary leadership particularly in the area of youth empowerment and education and whose footprints in private or public life have impacted positively on the state and Nigeria. The award ceremony, according to the CEO/Publisher, Icon & Legend Magazine, Mr. Omosehin Akinduro shall be the highpoint of the maiden Ondo State Youth Empowerment Roundtable with the theme: ’’Repositioning our Youth for Excellence’ wherein the erudite jurist, Professor O S Oyelade of the Faculty of Law, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife shall be leading other speaker of enviable pedigree to give their perspectives on youth empowerment.
The roundtable, is in pursuit of the media organisation’s initiative: Empowering Nigeria, which seeks to engender sustainable development by means of an enlightened campaign geared towards giving the youth a new orientation for self-empowerment, while calling on the government to be more deliberate in initiating effective youth-centred blueprint and programmes aimed at enabling the youth to realise their potentialities.
His Excellency, Lucky Orimisan Aiyedatiwa, Governor of Ondo State is expected at the occasion as Chief Host and Special Guest of Honour. Previous winners of Icon & Legend Magazine’s outstanding leadership award both at the state and national level are Hon. Justice F. Aguda Taiwo, pioneer president, Ondo State Customary Court of Appeal, Dr. Seinde Fadeni, CEO, GMT Energy Resources Limited, Hon. Justice B.A. Adejumo OFR, ex-President, National Industrial Court of Nigeria, His Excellency, Dr. Abdullahi Ganduje former Governor of Kano State among others.
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