A Lawmaker representing Iseyin, Iwajowa, Itesiwaju, and Kajola Federal constituency, Shina Peller, has been decorated with an honorary Doctorate degree in Business Administration by the American Heritage Southern California University.
He was decorated During The Africa-Dubai Investment Business Summit held at Habtoor Palace, Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
Receiving the honor,Peller expressed profound gratitude to the organizers of the event and the school for finding him worthy of the honour.
“Like I always say, I consider honorary awards like this as a challenge for me to double up in my benevolent acts and humanitarian gesture not just in Nigeria but in the entire Africa space.
While speaking on Investment in Africa and Nigeria,the lawmaker expressed worry that Nigeria had not maximized the potentials of it’s natural resources.
” We cannot have a discussion about Africa’s global economic future without mentioning Nigeria. Nigeria is naturally endowed with vast natural resources promising potential national success, but unfortunately this has not always translated. Perhaps it is because regardless of the resources, people and vision will always be the driver of certain and lasting change.
In this regard, we need to start exploring the potential of the Nigerian people with a population of about 240 million and the youth occupying about 75% of it.
Our socio-political environment and its attendant instability is our biggest threat, and to address this, the youth must be used as the driver and sustainer of peace. My point is that stability and predictability are what guarantee investment, and this can only be achieved when there is peace
As Ayedero of Yorubaland (promoter of peace and prosperity in the land), I have considered it a task for me to make all understand that peace is an essential tool for delivering lasting social-economic change and progress in Nigeria, and the youth should be the driver. This is so because we have no bigger constituency in Nigeria and perhaps Africa than the youth. It is time to service this constituency.
This explains why I continuously align myself with the youth initiatives such as the Lead Generation Initiative (LGI) that focuses on equipping young Nigerians to take up the responsibility in their localities through mobilization and political participation.He said.
Shina Peller charged all and sundry potential to begin the required investment in its most valuable resource, the youth.
While maintaining that there could not be lasting socio-economic progress in Africa without peace, Peller added that there could not be peace without the youth as the promoter, driver and sustainer of peace.
Adewumi Faniran
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