3 Nigerians To Be Honoured With The Queen’s Young Leaders Award

3 Nigerians To Be Honoured With The Queen's Young Leaders Award

Queen Elizabeth of England will present a Queen’s Young Leaders Award to young people from 45 different Commonwealth countries, including three exceptional Nigerians at a ceremony at Buckingham Palace, London, today, June 23rd.3 Nigerians To Be Honoured With The Queen's Young Leaders AwardThe 2016 Award winners, including Olanrewaju Adeloye, Imrana Alhaji Buba, and Olumide Femi Makanjuola, all aged between 18 and 29 have been recognised by The Queen for taking the lead in transforming the lives of others and making a lasting difference in their communities.3 Nigerians To Be Honoured With The Queen's Young Leaders AwardThe Queen’s Young Leaders Award recognises and celebrates exceptional people aged 18-29 from across the Commonwealth, who are taking the lead in their communities and using their skills to transform lives.3 Nigerians To Be Honoured With The Queen's Young Leaders AwardThe winners of this prestigious award arrived London last week for a one-week residential programme, which includes high-level engagements, unique package of training, mentoring and networking, all designed to help them further their life-changing work. Before receiving their Awat Buckingham Palace, the ward from Her Majesty The Queen tomorrow, the residential Week got off to a good start with visits to Twitter UK, BBC Worldwide and 10 Downing Street UK.3 Nigerians To Be Honoured With The Queen's Young Leaders AwardAs fast-paced social media masterclass the Award winners got the opportunity to question some of Twitter’s top executives, before listening to YouTube stars Niki and Sammy talk about how to build a community through social networks.3 Nigerians To Be Honoured With The Queen's Young Leaders AwardAt the BBC World Service, the Director-General Tony Hall talked to the group about leadership. After having the chance to network with presenters and producers from across the BBC network, the Queen’s Young Leaders were then given a tour of the studios and even had the chance to try out the famous green screen room.3 Nigerians To Be Honoured With The Queen's Young Leaders AwardThe final stop was at one of London’s most famous addresses- 10 Downing Street, where he winneire, Minister of State for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.rs were able to put their questions to the Secretary of State for International Development Justine Greening and Hugo Swire. The Young Leaders then headed the Cambridge where they will spend two days learning more about leadership.

3 Nigerians To Be Honoured With The Queen's Young Leaders AwardAs well as awarding inspirational young people, Queen’s Young Leaders Grants will be made to organisations in selected Commonwealth countries that can show they are improving the lives of young people.The vision is to provide opportunities for young people to learn new skills, enter employment and give them a voice in their communities.

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