With over 200 direct and indirect employees (averaging the age of 25 years) under his watch, the real estate expert and befitting young professional was bestowed with the West Africa Youth Council ‘Icon of Societal Development’ and also received the Nelson Mandela Leadership Award for Excellence & Integrity. He was also decorated as an Ambassador to the Youth organization.
Led by President of the Organization, Williams Emmanuel from Ghana, Eto Francisca from Ivory Coast among others, the team while making the presentation to Amb. Adekunle on Tuesday March 9, 2021in his Lagos office, members of the association disclosed that they have been watching the trail-blazing style he adopted in giving opportunities to work and express their youthful expertise. This reason they deduced for why they deemed it fit to encourage the apostle of change, philanthropist and lover of youth, and education, who himself boasts of a degree in Construction Management from the Community College of Baltimore County in Maryland, USA, with focus on Cost Control.
Amb. Adekunle Abdul, before moving into real estate, had cut his teeth in the downstream sector of the oil industry as the CEO of Integrated Metroplex Energies spanning over 13 years. He is a visionary operations executive that has spearheaded all stages of real estate development, with a portfolio of over 15 projects; including 80 units of commercial and residential real estates with activities covering planning, acquisition, efficient designing, value engineering, budgeting, procuring, construction, administration and management.
With a honorary Master’s degree in community development, Abdul who hails from Ijebu-Ode in Ogun-State is committed to cost-effective management of resources and quality performance..
Past recipients of the ECOWAS Youth Council include African leaders like Former President, Olusegun Obasanjo, John Mahama and Ellen Johnson Sirleaf among others who have encouraged youth involvement in the continent's growth