The 14th edition of the Peace Legend Awards International will take place on April 27, 2025, at the Transcorp Hilton Hotel in Abuja, Nigeria. This year’s awards will recognize 100 brands and personalities who have made significant contributions to transforming Nigeria and Africa.
Among the notable personalities to be honored are High Chief Government Oweizide Ekpemupolo, who will receive the Africa Legend of Peace 2025 award, and Alhaji Aliko Dangote, who will be presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award.
According to Jesse Osero Amiri, founder of Peace Legends Awards International, “Africa is the source of life, a continent rich in diversity, culture, people, and natural resources. It is a continent that has contributed significantly to the development of the world.”
Amiri noted that Africa has produced some of the most influential figures in governance, business, and culture, including Nelson Mandela, Kwame Nkrumah, Obafemi Awolowo, Nnamdi Azikiwe, Julius Nyerere, Paul Kagame, and Ellen Johnson Sirleaf.
Amiri further said that the selection process for the awards was transparent, tasking, and thorough, ensuring that only the best were selected.
The award ceremony will be exciting, bringing together Africa’s crème de la crème in a unique and captivating setting. The event will be hosted by ace comedian Gordon’s D Beliconi and will commence at 6 pm.
In a press statement, Amiri said; “Africa is the source of life, a continent rich in diversity, culture people and natural resources. It is a continent that has contributed blood, sweat and resources for the development of the world. As the cradle of civilization it supplies the rest of the world with its vast natural resources needed for industrialization.”
According to him, Nigeria as Africa’s giant has produced some of the most influential figures in governance, business and culture and such personalities who have shaped the continent in one discipline or the other.
“Africa has produced notable names like Nelson Mandela, an Anti -apartheid revolutionary, former President and global icon of peace and reconciliation. Others are Kwame Nkrumah, a leading figure in Ghana’s independence and the African unity movement, Obafemi Awolowo, advocate of free education and one of Nigeria’s foremost thinkers, Nnamdi Azikiwe, Nigeria’s first President and key Nationalist leader.
“We must also mention Julius Nyerere, father of Tanzanian Independence, Paul Kagame who led Rwanda’s transformation after the 1994 genocide and Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Africa’s first elected female head of state and symbol of female empowerment,” he said.
