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Love Idoko leads celebrities, professionals to empower youths in one day summit!

By Shaibu Husseini
24 November 2018   |   4:11 am
The founder of Activate Success International Foundation Love Idoko, is set to, through her foundation, lead a team of professionals and celebrities...

The founder of Activate Success International Foundation Love Idoko, is set to, through her foundation, lead a team of professionals and celebrities, including Music star, Tuface Idibia, Nollywood star and law maker Desmond Elliot and the CEO of flying Doctors West Africa, Dr Ola Brown Orekunrin to empower youths in the country.

The event is tagged National Youth Entrepreneurship and Empowerment Programme (YEEP) and it is scheduled for the International Conference Center, Abuja on Monday the 3rd of December 2018. Idoko hinted that the event will not only give participants the opportunity to learn, but they also get access to startup funds, which is also the sole aim of the empowerment. She also said ‘the opportunity will give chance to 30 persons to win start up grants of between one hundred thousand and two hundred thousand Naira each. These grants and the success of YEEP will be made possible through the support and collaboration from Nestle, Airtel, 2Baba Foundation, SchoolMe , Sapphire Scents and others’’.

The Activate Success Int’l foundation Youth Entrepreneurship and Empowerment Programme is aimed at teaching youth practical steps on how to become successful entrepreneurs through exposure to practical stories of people who have done it and how they can also do it as well. Our world is in dire need of inspiration and Activate Success Foundation is that platform that inspires and gives hope to young people across the country. The platform enables potential for success in their various fields. While responding to questions about the forthcoming National YEEP event, Idoko said, “I am passionate about inspiring people. Everybody is talented, but we all need to be inspired, encouraged and supported to grow.

There are thousands of business-minded youths out there that are just looking for mentorship or direction as well as funds to start their businesses and that is where our foundation comes in….to empower and motivate as many youths as possible thereby turning them into success stories to their community, family and by extension Nigeria. If Nigeria and Africa will develop, we need a mass number of youths whose potentials get enabled and who are constantly inspired to be the change they want to see in their continent’’. National Youth Entrepreneurship and Empowerment Programme (YEEP) event is free for as many youths who can make it there. Events start by 9am. The other celebrities expected include CEO of Vodi Tailors, Seyi Adekunle, Multiple Award winning Photographer, George Okoro, CEO Farm Crowdy, Onyeka Akumah, CEO Sapphire Scents, Wale Aladejana, CEO DZYN, Ogwa Iweze and others.

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