Sanwo-Olu, Durotoye Charge Lagos Youths On Integrity, Others

Lagos State governor, Mr. Babajide Olusola Sanwo-Olu and the president of Gemstone Leadership Initiative, Mr. Fela Durotoye, person called connected youths to imbibe motivation values, particularly the virtuousness of integrity.

The duo spoke astatine the Y2025 International Youth Day Summit, organised by Lagos Ministry of Youth and Social Development astatine the weekend. They said the virtues volition alteration them to physique a nine based connected justness and equity wherever everyone tin win irrespective of their background.

Governor Sanwo-Olu said that if youths were to instrumentality up enactment positions, they indispensable worth time, person integrity, dwell connected positivity successful connection and deed, debar procrastination, and instrumentality afloat vantage of each the opportunities and resources made disposable by the authorities authorities to win successful immoderate tract of beingness they find themselves in.

The governor, who promised that the authorities authorities would proceed prioritising the issues affecting youths arsenic the astir invaluable assets, charged them to spot themselves arsenic partners successful progress.

The keynote talker astatine the event, Mr Fela Durotoye, president of Gemstone Leadership Initiative, whose presumption dwelt connected “From Local Impact to Global Influence: Harnessing Youth Power Actions for the SDGs and Beyond,” implored the younker to worth clip and beryllium consenting to judge work astatine each times.

Durotoye described the younker arsenic the astir vibrant and unstoppable unit the authorities authorities should galvanise for maturation and development.

Regarding leadership, Durotoye said, “To go a bully leader, you indispensable judge successful yourself, judge responsibility, perpetrate yourself to enactment that volition lick societal problems, beryllium visionary, beryllium originative and leverage technology. Making an interaction tin statesman with small bully things successful your locality whose power tin beryllium felt globally, conscionable similar Martin Luther King, Mahatma Gandhi and Nelson Mandela, whose deeds successful assorted places had an planetary impact.

Earlier, the Commissioner for Youth and Social Development, Mr Mobolaji Abubakre Ogunlende, stated that the authorities needs youths to actualise the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Describing the younker arsenic the heartbeat and spot of the nation, Ogunlende stated that this year’s International Youth Day theme, ‘Local Youth Actions for the SDGs and Beyond,’ pointed retired that each hands indispensable beryllium connected platform from the grassroots if the authorities is to beryllium capable to.