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The African Youth Parliament (AYP), a non-governmental organisation, has conferred its highest award of honourary leadership on Tomori Williams, group managing director of TWilliams Construction Nigeria Limited.

Williams was also inducted into the AYP ambassadorial hall of fame at the brief ceremony held in Lagos on Thursday.

During the ceremony, Bamikole Oladele Babs, speaker of the parliament, said Williams had excelled in his field of endeavour, including real estate and made an immense contribution to the development of society.

“Otunba Williams has distinguished himself in the construction and real estate sectors where he started and reached the pinnacle,” Babs said.

The AYP speaker expressed the parliament’s desire to request the federal government to enlist Williams for a national honour for his service to humanity.

Babs also solicited the honoree’s support for the AYP’s plan to host the ‘Africa in the new decade conference’ in Cairo,  Egypt from July 16 to 20 with the aim to awakening the consciousness of African governments towards efforts of the continent’s youth in implementing the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals in Africa before its 2030 deadline.

The Cairo conference, with the theme, “Agenda 2030: New possibilities for African youth”, would provide a platform for the participants to engage themselves on the UNSDGs with a view to ensuring that the goals, namely quality education, industry, innovation, infrastructure, peace, justice and strong institutions are implemented in the overall interest of the African youth.

According to Babs, the AYP executive has established contacts with the offices of the Egyptian president and prime minister as well as the youth and sports minister, foreign affairs minister and council of ministers, while the offices of Tanzanian president and chairperson of the African Union have also been contacted, in addition to the office of Nigeria’s youth and sports minister.

The National Institute of Legislative and Democratic Studies (NILDS), Abuja is a major partner of the African Youth Parliament.