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The Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of CEOAFRICA, Prince Cletus Ilobanafor, has been honoured with the Sir Ahmadu Bello Platinum Award by the Council of Northern Youth Advocates of Nigeria (CNYAN) successful designation of his contributions to nationalist unity, younker empowerment, and societal development.
The event, held connected Saturday successful Abuja, celebrated Ilobanafor arsenic an Icon and Cynosure of Nation Building and was besides conferred the rubric Garkuwan Matasan Arewa (Shield of the Northern Youths).
In his address, the President of CNYAN, Hon. Abdulrazak Muhammed, said the assembly remains committed to addressing captious challenges successful Northern Nigeria, peculiarly successful the acquisition sector.
“We person called for an summation successful budgetary allocation to acquisition successful Northern Nigeria. This volition assistance trim the fig of out-of-school children, which is alarmingly precocious successful the North. We impulse the authorities to put much successful acquisition to instrumentality these children disconnected the streets and empower them for a amended future,” helium said.
Hon. Muhammed praised Prince Ilobanafor for his unwavering dedication to unity, younker development, and advocacy for a stronger Nigeria.
He added that Ilobanafor’s enactment for the grant followed a cautious reappraisal of his contributions to nationalist bid and integration, noting that his enactment reflects the council’s imaginativeness of gathering bridges crossed taste and determination divides.
The citation connected the grant read: “In appreciation of your immense publication towards a united, 1 indivisible Nigeria; for being a vanguard of younker emancipation and a span of nationalist unity and consensus.”
In his acceptance speech, Prince Ilobanafor expressed gratitude to the CNYAN for recognising his efforts, dedicating the grant to the Nigerian youth.
He said, “One of the things that is beloved to my heart, isolated from what we bash astatine CEOAFRICA, which is projecting Africa to the satellite and the satellite to Africa, is the inaugural connected however to destruct malaria. We would beryllium blessed to besides marque the CNYAN president an ambassador of this warfare against malaria.”
Ilobanafor highlighted the Geneith Health Competition, for which Geneith Pharmaceuticals Ltd has donated 1 cardinal naira, aimed astatine empowering secondary and tertiary instauration students astir the prevention of malaria.
According to him, by engaging youths successful this initiative, they tin go ambassadors toward the combat against malaria, helping our state enactment towards becoming a malaria-free nation.
He emphasised the value of investing successful Nigerian youth, urging President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to prioritise younker development, asserting that “investing successful our youths is indispensable for the Nigeria we want.”
The CEO Africa brag emphasised the urgent request for giving Nigerian younker opportunities to serve, noting that “Our state is blessed with galore fantastic resources, including our youth. All we are asking for is to springiness the younker an accidental to serve, and Nigeria volition beryllium a better country.”
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