New Horizons CEO bags three awards for youth empowerment

The Chief Executive Officer of New Horizons Nigeria, Tim Akano, has bagged awards from three major umbrella bodies of Nigerian youths organisations, namely, the Council of Students Union Presidents (CSUP), Northern Youth Council of Nigeria (NYCN) and  Odua Youths Parliament (OYP) for his relentless commitment and unparalleled passion for youths empowerment.
  
The groups, combined together have over four million strong students membership in all the higher institutions across the 36 states and Abuja,  19 Northern states and across nine Yoruba speaking states came to recognize and honour the CEO with various awards.
   
While NYCN confered the title of Barkuwan Matasan Arewa Najeriua, ‘ the Shield of Northern Nigerian youths’ ,the OYP and CSUP presented awards of Excellence for his numerous youth empowerment projects across Nigeria, especially in the area of ICT.

“Helping youths to shape their future is the reason I exist and outside of that there is not much meaning again for me in life,” he said.
   
He said, “whatever I do, I do it not because of an award but to bring out light to another youth that would be far bigger than me tomorrow. That is what gives me joy. My second motivation is my desire to beaqueth a good name for my children so that in future my name will continue to be a precious key in their hands that opens doors.”
   
Akano, while urging Africans all over the world to use their talents and huge numbers to create the African wealth, using the instrumentality of 4.0 technology as poverty-killer.