Black Heritage International has named a World Bank Project Coordinator and retired Permanent Secretary in Osun State, Adelere Oriolowo, as ‘Nigeria’s icon of agricultural engineering and rural development.’
The magazine conferred the award on Oriolowo in Lagos at the fourth edition of its annual Leadership Awards and Gala Night.
Oriolowo, an All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship aspirant in Osun State, is the Coordinator of Rural Access and Mobility Project (Osun RAMP).
Other recipients of the award were Dr Thomas-Wilson Ikubese; Mr Paul Adara Adiwu and Mr Biyi Otegbeye.
Ikubese received the “Integrity and Philanthropic Icon Leadership Award”; Adiwu got the “Distinguished leadership and philanthropic award” while Otegbeye was conferred with “Entrepreneurship Icon and Leadership Award”.
Black Heritage’s publisher Kehinde Oyewole said the awards were to celebrate “eminent Nigerians who have done us proud in their professional callings, displayed rare ingenuity and humility in service and contributed to humanity”.
Oriolowo, who thanked the organisers for the honour, dedicated it to God and Ogeni Aregbesola, “who has created an enabling environment for me to showcase what I have.”
He added: “Without mechanised farming, no nation can meet its food production target.”