Ooni of Ife Honours Abdulhaleem Ringim with Royal African Award 2022

Ooni of Ife Honours Abdulhaleem Ringim with Royal African Award 2022

The Ooni of Ife, Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi, OJAJA II, Ooni of Ife, Ooni Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi, OJAJA has honoured with the Royal African Young Leadership Forum Award of His Imperial Majesty.

In his efforts to build, sustain and mentor a new breed of competent and patriotic leaders for Nigeria and Africa, the Ooni of Ife instituted the Royal African Young Leadership Forum (RAYLF) to serve as a “contemporary community of young people with finest aspirations of inspiring the future generations of the best and brightest that are irrefutably anchoring a new economic frontier by establishing innovative clusters through various mechanisms that can provide Africa its long-awaited prosperity and competitive advantage”.

The Nigeria’s Youth and Sport Minister, Mr Sunday Dare said the award event was a platform where the Ooni of Ife “honors the sterling and finest endeavors of selected 100 young Nigerians”.

Mr Ringim, a multi-award winning young personality was honored for his astral achievements in writing and analyses socioeconomic and political affairs which could influence decisions and policies of government.

Ringim emerged the youngest National ‘Campus Journalist of the Year’ at the 2021 Campus Journalism Awards(CJA) organized by Youths Digest. He is also a two-time winner of the ‘Syndicated Writer of the Year’ award for the 2020 and 2021 editions.

100 outstanding young personalities were honoured on different categories of the award covering five RAYLF pillars of governance and leadership, technology and innovation, entrepreneurship and empowerment, creative culture, and academic excellence.

They were also inducted into the Royal Court of The Kingdom of Ife at the third edition of the RAYLF award ceremony which took place at the Oduduwa Hall of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife.

Other outstanding youths awarded include Tunde Onakoya, Jamil MD Abubakar, Olamilekan Massoud(Laycon), Rinu Oduala, Farida Mohammad Kabir, Ahmad Salihijo, Nancy Isime, Ayodeju Balogon, Abubakar Nur Khalil, Aysha Ahmad Mohammad, Ceewhy Ochoga, Hassan Dantata among others.

By PRNigeria