In recognition of his selfless contributions 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 2023/2024 Ondo State Man of the Year Award.
The award presentation, scheduled to take place in Akure, the Ondo State capital, in April, will attract the crème de la crème from within and outside the sunshine state.
The award is aimed at recognising 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, Omosehin Akinduro, shall be the highpoint of the maiden Ondo State Youth Empowerment Roundtable, with the theme ‘Repositioning our Youth for Excellence’.
“The award is in recognition of Dr Adewinle’s immense and selfless contribution to youth empowerment and education, community development and his professional excellence in the private sector,” Akinduro hinted.
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.
Expected at the occasion is the Ondo State governor, Lucky Aiyedatiwa, who is the chief host and special guest of honour, while Oba Festus Oyedele Olumoyegun, the Oniju of Iju-Odo, will be the royal father of the day and chairman on the occasion.
Some of the previous winners of Icon & Legend Magazine’s outstanding leadership award both at the state and national level are Justice F. Aguda Taiwo, pioneer president, Ondo State Customary Court of Appeal; Dr Seinde Fadeni, CEO, GMT Energy Resources Limited; Justice B.A. Adejumo, ex-President, National Industrial Court of Nigeria; Dr Abdullahi Ganduje, former governor of Kano State, among others.
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