Nigeria’s Areola gets Jet Age Nation Builders Award
The Minister of Labour and Skills, Ethiopia, Hon. Nigusu Tilahun, has presented the Jet Age Award for nation-building to Nigerian youth and gender advocate, Oluwakemi Ann-Melody Areola, during the 5th edition of the Africa we want youth parliament conference at the African Union Headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. This is the second award in two […]
The Minister of Labour and Skills, Ethiopia, Hon. Nigusu Tilahun, has presented the Jet Age Award for nation-building to Nigerian youth and gender advocate, Oluwakemi Ann-Melody Areola, during the 5th edition of the Africa we want youth parliament conference at the African Union Headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
This is the second award in two weeks for Ms Areola after she was recognized in Ghana for her contributions to youth empowerment projects, discourse and being a voice for the voiceless youth across Nigeria and Africa at New Africa Leaders Summit and Honours in Accra.
She has been at the vanguard of creating opportunities for youth across Nigeria and Africa and worked on a template that opened vista of job creation across the nook and cranny of the continent.
In October 2022, she was part of the Nigeria Federal Government delegation that led a group of youth to Kigali, Rwanda’s capital where Nigeria government reiterated its commitment to promote entrepreneurship and strengthen youth policy, which is the subject of sectoral policy letter focusing on citizenship, volunteerism, social cohesion and employment of young people and women.
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She also made it possible, through her decisiveness, that Nigeria joins YouthConnekt Africa, a youth forum that brings together young people from across the African continent, which solidifies the partnership between Nigerian youth and the youth across the African continent.
The Jet Age Nation Builders Award is a testament to her commitment to improving the standard of Nigerian and African youths, creating a platform for the exchange of ideas and making the world a global village.
Speaking on the award, Areola commended the body for finding her worthy to receive the award
“This is really amazing, few weeks back, I was in Ghana to receive an award and today I am in Ethiopia to receive another award while in October I will be in Abu Dhabi as a guest speaker and honoree at the DOERs Award which will be hosted by The Africa Chamber of Digital Commerce in Abu Dhabi, UAE.
“These are just too beautiful to be true but I am trying to remain calm and keep working like a duck on a river where everything appears calm on the surface but underneath I am doing a whole lot of work and this recognition is a testament of the hard work done in darkness,” she said.