Administrator, La Roche Leadership Foundation, Mrs. Marina Osoba (middle), with award winners of Our chosen Youth Class of 2016 during the Foundation\u2019s Service recognition award to the Chosen Youth at General Hospital Road, Gbagada, Lagos, on Saturday, November 26, 2016<\/strong><\/em>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cIt\u2019s a way of honouring them and telling them well done. They cut across different parts of the industry, people in music, acting, comedian, people who work in education and youth development.<\/p>\n
Speaking on the criteria for selecting the recipients of the award, Mrs. Osoba said, \u201cFirst of all we examine the work they do for at least about two years, because it\u2019s a bi-annual event. So for two years we watch them, access what they do, the target audience has to be children and young people, it has to be something that touches on education and leadership training. They have to be non-profit. They have to be actively involved in what they do that\u2019s it basically, most of them are young people and they don\u2019t really have a lot of money,\u201d<\/p>\n
Among those honoured include,\u00a0Musician\/C.E.O, Supersun Network, Bez Idakula, Founder, Project Build A Toilet Enterprise, Mr. Dhikrullah Gbolahan Agberemi, figurative artist, Mr. Olumide Oresegun, C.E.O, Fair Life Africa Foundation, Mrs. Ufuoma Ashogbon, Founder, PEA Foundation, Mr. Adedapo COnde, Actor and producer, Kemi Akindoju, CEO of Wave, Misan Rewane and Founder, Irilede Advocacy Network, Aishat Hussiain.<\/p>\n
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Wife of the Lagos State Governor, Mrs. Bolanle Ambode on Saturday urged youths to go all out and utilise their creative talents and entrepreneurial and social skills saying that it would not only impact on the economy, but also reduce unemployment. Mrs. Ambode who spoke at the investiture of the Class of 2016 \u2018Our Chosen […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15157,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-announcement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/akinwunmiambode.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/akinwunmiambode.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/akinwunmiambode.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/akinwunmiambode.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/akinwunmiambode.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/akinwunmiambode.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15152\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/akinwunmiambode.com\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/akinwunmiambode.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/akinwunmiambode.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/akinwunmiambode.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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