Brief Profile: COMRADE BABATUNDE IFENUGA
COMRADE BABATUNDE IFENUGA’S PROFILE Comrade Babatunde Afolabi Ifenuga is a young Nigerian whose works and activities focus on influencing young people, especially, in developing nations to contribute to the well being of the world, rather than being the source of her woes. Comrade Ifenuga is an ardent advocate of youth emancipation and participation in nation building. He champions and encourages youth capacity building to sharpen and rightly shape the youths ready to involve in sustainable development growth as postulated by United Nations. Comrade Ifenuga is the founding President of Youth of All Nations, a non-governmental organization that promotes peace and unity among young people around the globe. The body organizes youth into a positive tool for community and national development. Comrade Ifenuga has organized various programs in conjunction with several ministries, departments and agencies (MDAs) of governments at the federal, state and local levels in Nigeria and beyond. His youth voluntary organization that operates under the United Nations convention is a recognized international body with chapters in United Kingdom (Europe), United States and United Arab Emirates (Middle East). Through his organization, Youth of All Nations, he has impacted over a hundred thousand youths directly via programs such as scholarship, free skill acquisition/vocational training, direct empowerment through provision and free distribution of working tools to youths trained under his programs. Babatunde has partnered with Federal, State and local government agencies in Nigeria such as Independent Electoral Commission (INEC), National Agency for Food, and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), Universal Basic Education (UBEC), National Directorate for Employment (NDE) and many more. Aside leading Youth of All Nations, Ifenuga has also volunteered and at different times partnered or and led several organizations to make impact in several sectors such as in prison reformation and decongestion. Among his volunteering activities include serving as Assistant Project/Training Coordinator, Joy Bringers International. Joy Bringers International is a South Africa based Character Training Institution that engages in character and personality development training in partnership with the Nigerian Prisons Service to train the prisons officials and inmates free of charge in Nigeria having been successfully undertaken in South Africa. The Nigerian project was very successful in the character reformation. The project becomes the Nigerian Prisons reformation program flagship. Through it, over 20,000 benefitted. The program has enjoyed the blessings of the Ministry of Interior and Nigerian Prisons Services; Ministry of Justice and the Judiciary in Lagos State. Some of the participants of the program have been granted state pardon for their exemplary lifestyle and leadership roles in the prison. He has participated in the Judiciary prison decongestion outreaches led by various Chief Justices of Lagos State for several years. He is the founder of Good-2-Great-Goal-Gettas. A platform he uses to help support entrepreneurs and indigents to grow their businesses. He is the President of A-Million-Millionaire Incubator Network. This is another of his social enterprises. He uses the network to bring together young entrepreneur he helped to succeed to build a community that ensure sustainability and catalyst for budding entrepreneurs. He is involved in several community development projects. He is a peace ambassador to several communities. He is a writer, personality development coach, content creator and enterprise brand strategist. He is also a public analyst and social commentator. He is a successful businessman.
Comrade Babatunde Ifenuga
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Summary
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Babatunde Ifenuga is a man of great vision and passion for service. He is an uncommon human right activist and defender of civil liberty. He is an advocate of youth development, emancipation and participation in nation building. His exploits through Youth of All Nations which he co-founded is unparallel. He is a successful entrepreneur. He is into several businesses ranging from Agriculture, real estate, general supply and merchandise. He is also a philanthropist and a lover of democracy. His projects and experiences on community and youth development as well as developmental democracy while partnering with United Nations, European Union, United States Mission and several governments ministries, departments and agencies are legendary. He is the fulfillment of President Barack Obama’s dream of Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI) Network.
Calling
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He has a calling to serve and improve the quality of lives of ordinary people and thus, secure the future of the nation by securing the future of the young people.
Passion _____________________________________________________________________________
Ifenuga is passionate about creating enabling environment that will enable the youths to fulfill their potentials and lead the nation into sustainable development. He believes that young people can be assets to nation building rather than liabilities and he is determined to unlock this untapped treasure to re-engineer governance and develop the lives of the common man in the grass-root.
Experience _____________________________________________________________________________
Special Adviser on Youth Affairs, Hon. Rita Orji (Member of National Assembly & Committee Chairman on Diaspora Matters) Board Member, Youth of All Nations Founding President, Youth of All Nations Director/Principal Partner, Good Return Ventures Project Manager, Character Training/Prison Reformation Program Political Analyst/Commentator on Radio/Television/Newspaper
Skills
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Ability to build and lead team to achieve uncommon success; interpersonal relationship, Policy advocacy & formulation, Dispute Resolution/crises management, Community development, Media relationship, strong entrepreneurial ability, networking and marketing
Education
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BA Business Administration - Lagos State University & Auchi Polytechnic, Edo State
Languages
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English and Yoruba
Projects/Volunteer Experiences
- The Rebirth of Ajeromi/Ifelodun Committee – 2016 - Access to Justice/Alternative Dispute Resolution in Communities in Nigeria & beyond – 2016 till date - Free Legal Aids/Supports to poor and innocent inmates - Campaign Against Human Trafficking – National Assembly, Committee on Diaspora Matters – 2016/2017 - Campaign Against Drug Abuse – NDLEA, Ministry of Health, 2014 till date - Campaign Against Domestic Violence & Sexual Abuse – Federal Government, Lagos State 2014-2017 - National Conference 2014 – FCT, Abuja - Member, Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI) Network – United States Mission 2014 till date - - Election Consultative Forum - United Nations, European Union – 2014-2015 - Partner, Voters Education – INEC, Judiciary & Ministry of Justice – 2013-2015 - Election Security – United States Mission in Nigeria – 2013 -2015 - Campaign Against Corruption & Impunity In Public Service – 2013/2014 - Campaign Against Ebola – Ministry of Health – 2014 -2015 - Nigerians Unite Against Terror/Campaign Against Terrorism – 2014 -2016 - Campaign Against HIV/AIDS across Nigeria– Ministry of Health – 2013 - 2016 - Scholarships to indigent students – 2013 - 2015 - Counseling & Improving Quality of Education – 2010 – 2015 - Free Youth Skill Acquisition & Empowerment Programs – 2008 till date - Various community services with details
Organizations
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Youth of All Nations - President Young African Leader Initiative (YALI) Network - Member Enof! Magazine – Editor-In-Chief Voice of Ajeromi Ifelodun – On-line Editor Good Return Ventures – Director/Partner
Publications/Books
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YOANEA Profile Magazine Enof! Magazine
Awards/Recognition
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Has 10 Awards/Recognitions
Gender
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Male
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