Anifowoshe bags Ooni of Ife’s ‘youth award of excellence’ in politics

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Titilope Tawakkaltu Anifowoshe, Founder & CEO, Eagles Foundation for Humanity and former Legal Research and Policy Assistant to the Minister of State for Transportation, Rukayat Saraki is one of the 100 Nigerian Youth leaders awarded by Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi recently in his palace, Ife, Osun State.

The Ooni gave out the awards in Ile-Ife under the aegis of his Royal African Young Leadership Forum, an initiative created to celebrate exceptional Nigerian youths.

According to Ogunwusi, the young population remains the major catalyst in boosting the economic growth of the country and that of the African continent.

“Africa has one of the world’s youngest populations with stimulating depth of human capacity and arrays of entrepreneurial relentless spirit, new dreams, unquenchable energies and ambitions.

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“The united voices of millions of young populations in Nigeria and across Africa will certainly contribute solutions through their own ingenuities that would help in painting a picture of what they want for themselves, the future generations and the continent,” Ooni said.

Reacting to the question on what qualified her to be among the recipients of the award, Anifowoshe said her leadership strides, public service, humanitarian activities and her political sojourn in University of Ilorin, Kwara State mentioning how she pushed for the amendment of the Students Union Constitution to accommodate affirmative action for the election of at least one (1) female out of the three (3) senatorial seats from all sixteen (16) academic faculties and hostel residents on campus into the SUG Senate Council and how she contested and won the SUG Vice Presidential election with a landslide, making her the first law student to hold that position.

She further asserted that her passion about the revivification and development of her hometown led to her creating a youth-based advocacy group with over ninety-five(95) natives of the town to facilitate and advocate for government and private intervention in projects that will benefit residents of Igbonla town.

“Barely sixty (60) days after the creation of Igbonla Progressive Youths, we have been able to facilitate the employment of members and we are currently pushing for the construction of the 10km road that links the Igbonla community to other neighbouring communities.”

However, as an inductee of the Royal court, Anifowoshe is willing to leverage on her network to mentor young persons and execute sustainable project for Kwarans and Nigerian youths as a whole.

She therefore appreciates the resilience and excellence of other recipients of the award and His Imperial Majesty, Ooni Adekeye Enitan Ogunwusi-Ojaja II for redefining and anchoring RAYLF.

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