Oba Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi, the Ooni of Ife, has been named the Patron of Asian-African Chamber Of Commerce and Industry (AACCI), African Region.
Dr. Leye Babalola, the AACCI Vice President, who announced this at a press conference in Lagos at the weekend, said Oba Ogunwusi, would be decorated during the body’s major event slated for April 27, 2019 at NECA House, Ikeja, Lagos.
Babalola stated that the Ife monarch was being honoured for his immense contributions to Nigeria’s economic development in particular and his efforts towards entrepreneurial development in Africa.
He stressed the need to build a virile economy that would be privately driven by entrepreneurs due to rapid increase in business between African, Pacific and Asian countries, which had jumped from $2.8 billion in 1990 to about $300 billion in 2018.
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Babalola maintained that the huge business volume was expected to surpass $1.5 trillion by 2020, hence there was need for African leaders to embrace Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs), which he stressed, constituted 75% of Gross Development Product (GDP), which would impact on unemployment rate.
Tunde Osho, representative of the University of Entrepreneurship and Technology, State of Delaware, United States of America in Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja, who also spoke at the press conference, informed that eminent personalities who had contributed immensely to the growth and development of the economy, would be awarded honorary doctorate degrees in their various fields of specialisation.
He named the dignitaries as Omoba S.O.A Sosanya, Founding President, Association of National Accountants of Nigeria (ANAN); Alhaji Ismaila Zakari, Past President, Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN); Chief Tosin Taiwo, Sir Francis Onipede of Aron Nig. Ltd; General Paul Alaowei Toun (rtd), Prof. Nelson Brambaifa, and Mauza Mogaji Dawakintofa, among others.
