Young writer, Ringim bags Ooni’s Royal African award

A young writer, Abdulhaleem Ishaq Ringim, is among top youths that recently bagged the Royal African Young Leadership Forum (RAYLF) award by the Ooni of Ife, Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi. Ringim is a 22-year-old who had won the Campus Journalist of the Year by Youths Digest, a pro-youth initiative last year.  During an interview with Daily […]

A young writer, Abdulhaleem Ishaq Ringim, is among top youths that recently bagged the Royal African Young Leadership Forum (RAYLF) award by the Ooni of Ife, Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi.

Ringim is a 22-year-old who had won the Campus Journalist of the Year by Youths Digest, a pro-youth initiative last year. 

During an interview with Daily Trust YOUTHVILLE in December 2021, Ringim who is a student of Economics at the Ahmadu Bello University (ABU) Zaria, said he had studied to become a Registered Nurse while being a political and public affairs analyst.

The award by the monarch is an effort to build, sustain and mentor a new breed of competent and patriotic leaders for Nigeria and Africa.

On the objectives of the award, the Ooni said: “It is 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”.

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

Ringim was honoured for his astral achievements in writing and analyses of socioeconomic and political affairs which could influence decisions and policies of government. 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 in 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.

Among the other winners are Olamilekan Massoud (Laycon), Nancy Isime, and Ayodeju Balogun (Wizkid).