Emmanuel Fadipe Inducted as ECOWAS Youth Ambassador
Mary Nnah
Emmanuel Fadipe, a Nigerian humanitarian was on September 3rd, 2023 inducted as an ECOWAS Youth Ambassador in acknowledgement of his numerous humanitarian activities and projects done in Nigeria and Africa as a whole.
The great occasion hosted high dignitaries around the world and the awardee was greatly applauded for his active participation in youth development in Africa among many others.
Fadipe who bagged two awards on this day dedicated them to his parents whom he called his pillars of strength and fortune. He briefly spoke on the huge role his parents played in his life by giving him and his siblings the best of education and making sure that they lacked nothing.
“My parents sacrificed everything for us to be who we are today, I must say. They overdid themselves. They had days of hunger to make us a great feast and days of ashes to adorn us with royalty. They emptied themselves and made us glittering vessels. We knew it then but now we know much more”, said.
Above all, they brought us up in the way of the LORD and made us imbibe the virtues of humility, empathy and hard work. They lived by example and we found it easy to follow suit. To date, I’m nothing without God”, he said.
The diaspora-based humanitarian who travelled to Nigeria to receive this award is the CEO of the Emmanuel Fadipe Foundation.
The Germany-based researcher whose research area focuses on environmental hygiene, animal health and livestock infectiology, covers the continents of Africa, Europe and North America.
His positive impact on Africans in the diaspora especially in Europe is limitless and aside from winning a lot of academic awards, he’s won a lot of international leadership awards in recognition of his exploits during his leadership era for the various organisations he has led over the years.
His humility, selflessness, empathy, hard work, calmness and passion for excellence make him an admirable asset to all organisations and people he comes in contact with daily.
While he described his life to be a piece everyone can take from, he described the Emmanuel Fadipe Foundation to be for all. He explained that the foundation is devoid of religious, ethnic or status discrimination.
While he intends to extend this project to other schools/states in Nigeria and other African countries, he recently launched a new organisation, Prowess Global Initiatives (whose subset is Prowess Talent Factory), in a bid to impact Africa and bring her glory for the whole world to see.
