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On Saturday, October 11, 2025, Eko Hotels and Suites came live with brilliance and intent arsenic Project LEAD gathered pistillate students from six secondary schools crossed antithetic section authorities areas successful Lagos State, to people the International Day of the Girl Child. The 2025 variation of the yearly conference, themed “Heritage successful Her Hands: Preserving Culture done Hospitality, Travel & Tourism”, brought unneurotic voices, experiences and dreams to punctual each miss that her aboriginal genuinely lies successful her hands.
Convened by the visionary Uzoamaka Amalu, and sponsored by Eko Hotels and Suites, the lawsuit featured professionals from the hospitality and question industries who shared insights with agleam young minds connected leadership, self-worth, taste identity, and diligence. In a satellite wherever the miss kid often indispensable combat to beryllium heard, Project LEAD created a abstraction wherever she could learn, speak, and pb boldly. The Director of Sales and Marketing for Eko Hotels and Suites, Dr. Iyadunni Gbadebo, successful her invited address, spoke astir the quality of Nigeria and the powerfulness of our passport. She explained that Eko Hotels and Suites believes successful supporting and nurturing talents, particularly women, to pb and innovate. She encouraged the participants to enactment and hole Nigeria and ticker the satellite travel to us.
Delivering the keynote address, Adenike Macaulay, Chief Executive Officer of Wakanow, spoke passionately astir practice and the almighty relation of civilization successful shaping identity.
“Your civilization has a beardown relation to play successful however you are positioned successful life. Being a miss kid contiguous is nary longer a limitation.”
She concluded her code by starring the students successful an inspirational affirmation astir being bold, travelling acold but ne'er forgetting their roots, learning, starring and lifting others arsenic they rise.
Guest speaker, Dr Seun Fakorede, Executive Adviser to Oyo State Governor connected Youth and Sports, further emphasized the value of civilization and hospitality:
“Every miss kid is simply a guardian of values, of stories, of the psyche of a people. Heritage is not a monument frozen successful time; it is alive, it breathes done us, it travels with us, and often it rests mildly successful the hands of women…Culture is the archetypal happening the
world notices astir you and the past happening they retrieve erstwhile you are gone”.
One of the day’s highlights was the inter-school statement competition, a superb showcase of intellect and confidence. After rounds of compelling arguments and teamwork, Learn-With-Ease Islamic Academy, Idimu, emerged 1st position, followed by Successlink Bridge School, Ajah, successful 2nd place, and Landmark College, Ikorodu, successful 3rd. Beyond the prizes, the students near with a renewed content successful their voices and potential.
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