Bayo Akinloye

The Editor, Sunday PUNCH, Toyosi Ogunseye, has been selected as the recipient of the United States Presidential Precincts inaugural Young Leader Award.

The Presidential Precinct announced the creation of the Young Leader Award in January 2016 to honour the current and expected future contributions of a young, emerging leader to their country or communitys economic, social, political or cultural development.

We are honoured to present the Precincts inaugural Young Leader Award to Oluwatoyosi Ogunseye. Since her time at the Precinct as a Mandela Washington Fellow, she has continued to make outstanding contributions across Nigeria as an investigative journalist and made a positive impact on politics, crime, business, health and the environment with her reporting, the Precincts Managing Director, Neal Piper, said.

The Precinct will present Ogunseye with the Young Leader Award at a dinner in Charlottesville, Virginia, on Tuesday.

According to the US government, Ogunseye will join former US Secretary of State, Madeline Albright, as an award recipient that evening.

Albright has been selected for the University of Virginias Edward R. Stettinius Jr. Prize for Global Leadership.

The award presentations will take place as part of a two-day Global Leadership Forum at UVA on March 29 and 30, sponsored by the Presidential Precinct in partnership with the US Department of State.

In 2014, Ogunseye was a member of the inaugural class of the Mandela Washington Fellowship.

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