Ogwus Gets Award In London

President of Ugwus Youth Empowerment and Community Development (OYECDO),  Dr. Chinedu Ogwus, has been honoured with the prestigious Africa-UK Best Procurement Practices Champion Award successful London.

Speaking successful Cross River State yesterday, Ogwus said that greenish commercialized is Africa’s gateway to prosperity. “Climate-smart concern volition unfastened caller industries, make jobs for millions of our young people, and presumption Nigeria and the continent arsenic leaders successful the planetary greenish economy,” helium declared to resounding applause.

He said implicit 60 per cent of the continent’s aboriginal depends connected empowering its younker done climate-smart opportunities.

He stressed that renewable energy, sustainable agriculture, and greenish exertion innovation are not conscionable biology imperatives but pathways to wide employment, innovation, and planetary competitiveness, helium said.

He further stressed that eco-certified exports would assistance African goods stronger entree to European markets, wherever biology standards present dictate competitiveness.

“Our youths are not conscionable the workforce of tomorrow; they are the innovators of today,” Ogwus emphasised, his words met with large applause. “If Africa embraces greenish commercialized and climate-smart investment, Nigerian youths volition go exporters of innovation to the world—not seekers of opportunity.”

According to him, greenish commercialized is commerce done with conscience—a exemplary of producing and exchanging goods that reduces c emissions, conserves earthy resources, and safeguards ecosystems.

He defines climate-smart concern arsenic the strategical travel of fiscal resources into projects that some support economies from clime risks and unlock caller avenues for prosperity, ranging from star farms and eco-housing to drought-resistant crops and waste-to-energy innovations.

This wide and applicable framing resonated powerfully with delegates. UK policymakers and African stakeholders alike nodded successful agreement, signaling that Ogwus’s involution was not lofty rhetoric but a grounded roadmap for Africa’s sustainable economical transformation.

The London conference, themed “Evolving a New Framework for Trade and Investment Between Africa and the UK Within the Changing Global Economy,” brought unneurotic high-level delegates from governments, multinational commercialized institutions, and civilian society. Yet, it was Ogwus’s keynote—tying clime enactment to younker empowerment—that near the astir lasting impression.