Olabisi Onabanjo University Achievers Award... On a mission

"young people are the product and reflections of the environments in which they live. And if young people are to be happier, more positive and purposeful, then we have to look into our own values and vision and begin to empower youths to be more caring, confident and contributing members of the society"


Olabisi Onabanjo University Achievers Award is an initiative by the youth for the youth. in it we can ear the voice of young people crying out for empowerment. it is created in response to young peoples need to be motovated, inspired and empowered. it is young peoples effort to raise awareness about the opportunities available for young people as well as the challenges.

OOUAA is ambitious in scope, seeking to change the way young people see themselves as well as how they are perceived by others with a view of enabling them to feel more valued and better able to fulfill their potentials and play a meaningful role in the society.

In OOUAA we will be celebrating and exposing 101 young people (Students of OOU Ago Iwoye) who in doing different things (socials, academics, enterperise, politics, leadership, creativity,etc) have shown to the world that values still exist and with hardwork, consistency and faith, success can be achieved.

As we celebrate these young people , we seek them as role models, to inspire other young people to pursue relevance and thus ignite a chain reation that will revolutionalise our youth and birth a new way of life....challenge the creative ability and skills of ther youths and empower them to be the best, power and birth their dreams and live for the future...

The event is a package that will feature Dare 2 Dream Conference: a special timeout with great facilitators that seek to inspire, empower and challenge young people to live their dream with Special mentoring session with the achievers who has blazed the trail. we expect to use this forum to awaken the sleepng giant within each participating young mind and endear them for real action.

A special publication "Ignition" will be produced to feature profiles of guest speakers, awardees, parteners etc and will be deployed as a tool to further increase the reach and influence of the project. Ignition will be made available in print in all major tertiary institution in Nigeria and online for all at no cost.

we are on a "mission of change" and we welcome those who believe it is time to truly engage the mind of our young people with positive values to take a stand with us, your involvement can be in any of the folllowing.

Partner: As a partner you help with provision of sponsorship for all or parts of the major event. Your logo and and other brands will be deployed aroun sponsored events and on ignition

Associate: As an associate you invest time, energy and resources to ensure we have a great outing

Intern: As an intern, you contribute manpower and benefit from the exposure of organising such an event. you will have your name inscribed on ignition as an itern and you will also get a certificate of revognition

The ship is set to sail, wouldn't you rather be part of history?

For more Information visit www.oouaa.org

or send me a mail at lekanoshunkoya@gmail.com.