Rotimi Olawale

Founder, & budding Documentary Film-Maker and @malalafund Education Champion

[#DARE2026 @DARE_Africa]

“if you’re angry, how do you actually act with that anger?”

At #DAREConference2026, Afolabi Adekaiyaoja challenged young people to turn frustration into action and become active participants in driving change

Watch the full session: https://t.co/BOQ3XMqjiN

#youthpowerforafrica

[youthhubafrica @youthhubafrica]

This is what @adekaiyaoja had to say at DARE Conference 2026. He spoke about how young people can become actively involved in driving change.

[Rotimi Olawale @rotexonline]

@FredAmpiah Congratulations sir

[Muriel Mafico @muriel_mafico]

Investing in youths is investing in #Nigeria 🇳🇬

The National Youth Conference 2026 (Confab), Nigeria’s largest youth-driven dialogue platform, brought together young voices from all 360 federal constituencies including diaspora.

Honoured to deliver @UNFPANigeria Goodwill message underscoring the central role of youth as change makers, pathfinders and co-creators of solutions.

#Youthleadingchange 🇳🇬

[Rotimi Olawale @rotexonline]

@Lady_karimah Congratulations 🎉👏🎉

[youthhubafrica @youthhubafrica]

Opening Tea Conversation: Health
“From Policy to Practice: Sex, Data, and Protecting Young People’s Rights in the Digital Age”

Moderated by @rotexonline

Speaking on digital safety, @SolaFagro said young people cannot afford to remain silent. “We need to fight back; silence will take us nowhere,” he said. He also urged participants to pay attention to the security of their devices.

@muriel_mafico reflected on how technology can better serve young people, asking how it can be made accessible and affordable, and how it can understand and interpret local languages.

She noted that technology should complement communities, not erase them, and that closing digital gaps will require collective effort. While embracing technology, she stressed that it should not replace family and values.

On youth-friendly services, @muriel_mafico stressed that they should not remain just a concept but become an actionable model that truly responds to young people’s needs.

#DAREConference #YouthPower #DigitalRights #Health @DARE_Africa

[Hamzat Lawal - 🐘 @HamzyCODE]

My message to the young civic actors and changemakers at #DareConference2026 was simple: “Change doesn’t happen in comfort.”

Speaking on the topic “A People-Centered Democracy is Possible in Nigeria,” I must admit that the realities of leading civic action in Nigeria back in 2012, when I championed the #SaveBagega campaign, are undoubtedly different from the realities of Nigeria today.

The #SaveBagega campaign followed the money, leveraged the power of media and ultimately saved over 1,500 children from dying of lead poisoning.

Despite current realities, one thing remains certain, 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐞 𝐭𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐩𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫 𝐢𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐲 𝐬𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐭𝐲 𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐨𝐟 𝐢𝐭𝐬 𝐜𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐳𝐞𝐧𝐬, not in the hands of a few political elites.

As such, young people must take a keen interest in understanding the processes of governance, know the roles and responsibilities of different offices and tiers of government, and leverage the power of media to organize for change!

“A People Centered Democracy is Possible in Nigeria” but it won’t happen in comfort. So 𝐃𝐀𝐑𝐄!

Kudos to @rotexonline and the team at @youthhubafrica for bringing young people together to spark these critical conversations, challenge the status quo, and co-create the blueprint for the Nigeria we all want to see.

#HamzyCODE

[Muriel Mafico @muriel_mafico]

Youth power is the pathway to Africa’s future! The theme of the Sixth edition of Dare Conference 2026 could not have been more apt.

Honoured to deliver remarks on behalf of @UNFPA highlighting innovation, youth power and enabling policies to unlock Africa’s demographic dividend and accelerate #Agenda2063.

https://t.co/aSzv5AGLCu

[#DARE2026 @DARE_Africa]

Meet our moderator, Rotimi Olawale🥳🥳 @rotexonline

With over two decades of experience in youth advocacy, he has worked across national, regional and global spaces to advance youth development.

Register here: https://t.co/BFgAPAAfJm

#DAREConference2026 #youthpowerforafrica

[Hamzat Lawal - 🐘 @HamzyCODE]

I am so proud of @rotexonline and admire him consistency in leading impact

[DNN @DNNRadio]

"African leaders are not listening enough to young people," says @rotexonline.

While policies lag, youth drive cross-border trade in the informal economy. It’s time for leaders to align policies with this reality. 🌍🚀
@ASG_Africa
#AfricanYouth #PolicyReform

[youthhubafrica @youthhubafrica]

At the African Mindset Reset Forum, our Executive Director, Rotimi Olawale @rotexonline, highlighted how young people are already building connections, creating opportunities, and driving cross-border trade through informal networks and digital platforms.

The call is simple: policy must catch up with the realities of young Africans. Rather than more talk, young people need access to capital and enabling policies that empower them to connect, create wealth, and shape Africa’s future.
#AfricanMindsetReset #IntergenerationalDialogue #YouthHubAfrica

[Rotimi Olawale @rotexonline]

@VickieRemoe Full blooded Naija boy.

[Southern Africa Youth News (SAYNews) @SAYNewsOfficial]

“The informal economy is not just rural; it is also urban and young.”
Executive Director, Rotimi @rotexonline , joined an intergenerational dialogue on “Making Markets Work Across Africa’s Borders” at the African Mindset Reset Forum. @youthhubafrica @IvanAtuyambe
#SAYNews

[LéO Africa Institute @LeoAfricaInst]

The next session turned from mindset to mechanics, what's actually blocking action, and what it will take to move.

Mr. Claver Gatete @claverGatete named the gap plainly: political will, from heads of state and ordinary people alike.

Ms. Yvonne Makolo @YvonneMakolo, CEO of RwandAir, made the case for aviation as necessity, not luxury. Africa holds 1.4bn people but only 2% of global air traffic. SAATM has been signed, but 38 countries in and nearly 20 years on, Gatete noted, we're still signing agreements instead of implementing them. Her call: open Africa's skies, properly.

Allen Kagina @Allen_Kagina took the tax question back to pre-colonial Africa, where village contributions funded roads and landing sites because people saw the benefit. Colonialism turned contribution into extraction, and that wound never fully healed. Her challenge to the room: destigmatise tax by making it visibly serve the people again.

Rotimi Olawale @rotexonline argued policy must catch up to where young Africans already are, building informal economies, and that the real unlock is capital in young hands to connect and create wealth. Gugulethu Siso brought it to street level: a trader moving goods from Lagos to Mombasa often has to route payment through the US via PayPal, because it's faster and cheaper than bank to bank within Africa itself, proof of how far regulation lags behind actual commerce.

Amb. Marie Antoinette Rose Quatre @APRM_MarieRose closed with a sobering reset: Africa risks being left behind by AI while still failing to capture basic birth records, with 40% of African children out of school. Her point was simple and hard to argue with, fix the fundamentals, education, waste collection, basic data, before reaching for the frontier.

A room of LéO Fellows listened closely, aware that mindset reset means little without the machinery to execute it.

#AfricaMindsetReset #MetaAfricanism #AfricanLeadership

[JR Farms Group @JRFarmsGroup]

FREHSLY BREWED COFFEE IN THE CLOUD ☁️ WITH AERO AIRLINE

Good News!

From 1st September 2026– you can now enjoy our freshly brewed coffee on board on all local routes of Aero airlines— both on Business Class and Economy.

#CoffeeinTheCloud #Coffee #JRCoffee #AeroContractors

[#DARE2026 @DARE_Africa]

Every DARE Conference has built on the last, shaping conversations, challenging perspectives, and amplifying youth voices across Africa.

Swipe through our journey, and stay tuned. Registration opens soon.

#DAREConferenceEvolution #DAREConference2026 #DARE2026

[Rotimi Olawale @rotexonline]

Visited Asaba and was at the Delta State Secretariat. Quite impressed by the building design and the structure. Quite nice.

[Rotimi Olawale @rotexonline]

@KidBold Also economics of scale, the cost of building, maintaining the platform requires traction to hit a certain number to start yielding profit, even though platform is popular among bougie people, I doubt the required scale was reached

[Rotimi Olawale @rotexonline]

Good news for Nigeria, strong growth.

[IMF @IMFNews]

Updated IMF Growth Forecasts for 2026:
US: 2.3%
Germany: 0.7%
France: 0.6%
UK: 1.0%
China: 4.6%
Japan: 0.6%
India: 6.4%
Russia: 1.1%
Brazil: 2.4%
Saudi Arabia: 1.7%
Nigeria: 4.1%

Explore the full projections.