OOTC Newsletter June 1 2022

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Wednesday, June 1, 2022

“Citizens who understand the power they have to elect and hold those in public office accountable can truly move mountains.”

-

‘Yemi Adamolekun

(Executive Director, Enough is Enough Nigeria)

Dear Active Citizen,Did you miss the news?Last month, our Executive Director, ‘Yemi Adamolekun was recognised by Global Citizen, an international advocacy organisation and named a Global Citizen Prize Winner - 2022 Citizen Award Nigeria.

'Yemi and Van Jones (CNN Journalist & GC Award Presenter).

‘Yemi started her advocacy journey in 2010 during her National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), when a friend invited her to a protest against killings in Jos, Plateau State, then President Umar Yar' Adua's absence, and fuel scarcity in Nigeria. She has leveraged the power of 

#OnePerson

to cause great impact in the civic space in Nigeria. Now, 12 years later, she is still organising and educating Nigerians on ways to hold leaders accountable through the organisation she helped launch in 2011,

Enough is Enough (EiE) Nigeria.

Read more

here

.

Global Citizen Prize Winner 'Yemi Adamolekun Fights for Citizen Rights

‘Yemi was awarded alongside other human rights defenders - Anuscheh Amir-Khalili, activist and social entrepreneur, Flamingo e.V (Germany); Barbie Izquierdo, food security activist (USA); Brianna Fruean, climate activist, Pacific Climate Warriors (Samoa); Khanyisile Motsa, Founder and Director, Berea-Hillbrow Home of Hope (South Africa); Mitzy Violeta Cortés Guzmán, Defender of the Earth, Futuros Indígenas Network (Mexico); and Payzee Mahmod, Child Marriage Survivor & Campaigner, IKWRO – Women’s Rights Organisation (United Kingdom)  at a

private dinner

on

May 22, 2022

in

New York’s iconic Gotham Hall. 

Group photograph with the former Prime Minister of Norway, Erna Solberg

We do not want to leave you out of the celebration! Join the stream of the Global Citizen Prize awards ceremony airing on YouTube and Twitter tomorrow, Thursday,  June 2, 2022, at 5pm WAT | 12 noon EST.We hope that this conversation will inspire you to take your place and begin to operate in the highest office in the land, the 'Office of the Citizen.'

Have a great month!The EiE Nigeria Team