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Osinbajo to grace Young CEOs summit

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo would be attending the Young CEO Summit and Honours Show on February 17 in Abuja.

A statement released Monday in Abuja, Media/Strategy Official, ACCI, said that Osinbajo would be the guest of honour in his capacity as an enterprising ambassador with a passion for youth development in Nigeria.

The Young CEOs is the fourth ACCI membership category inaugurated by Dr Al-Mujtaba Abubakar in May 2020.

It is designed to empower young entrepreneurs to be innovative, resilient and energetic in expanding various sectors of the economy through mentoring and networking.

Young CEOs Chairman Fife Banks said the annual Summit and Honors, which seeks to host more than 500 young entrepreneurs, would set the course for developing shared and sustainable prosperity in the fourth industrial revolution.

According to Banks, this is now being accelerated by the global pandemic and the acceleration of exponential technologies.

“In a nation with a high rate of youth unemployment, multidimensional poverty, and all kinds of mostly perpetrated social vices, having a crop of young people who are striving daily to create value-adding change is a blessing.”

Although he acknowledged that many liked that young people create the Future, he said, “enough of loving them, it’s time to finance them.

“Given strategic and sustainable support, the young CEOs will deliver the desired economic future for Nigeria,” said Banks.

The event to be chaired by Youth and Sports Development, Sunday Dare, will be co-chaired by Industry, Trade and Investment, Otunba Niyi Adebayo.

Notable topics to be discussed by the speakers/panellists include the African Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA), technology, policy, and leadership.

Nigerians who have contributed to the development and empowerment of youth will receive awards in conjunction with the launch of the Young CEOs Africa Investors Dealroom (AID).

ACCI Young CEOs’ AID mission is to create a true platform to expand and empower Nigerians, in particular the Abuja startup ecosystem, which invests in youth-led socio-economic innovations and entrepreneurial projects.

Felix Oloyede

Felix Oloyede is a Mass Communication graduate with 19 years experience in journalism. He has worked with TheWeek Magazine; Mirror Newspapers; West Africa BusinessNews and BusinessHallmark Newspaper. Oloyede has covered different news beats ranging from crime; arts; politics; commerce and industries to finance and economy. He is an alumnus of Bloomberg Media Initiative Africa. He has also attended different trainings on Media Communication at the Lagos Business School. He is an alumnus of Bloomberg Media Initiative Africa. He has also attended different trainings on Media Communication at the Lagos Business School.

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