Lagos Road Photograph Walks To Highlight Youth Leisure, Empowerment

The Lagos State Ministries of Youth and Social Growth, and Tourism, Arts and Tradition, along with the University of Lagos College of Arts, Federal School of Training Akoka, and the African Inventive Artist Community, have joined forces to host a youth-focused leisure and empowerment occasion titled “Lagos Road Photograph Stroll Nigeria.”

In line with the organisers, the occasion goals to equip youths with self-sufficient creative abilities in pictures.

The Lagos Road Photograph Walks was formally launched on the University of Lagos College of Inventive Arts Corridor in Akoka, Lagos, with a lot fanfare in the course of the “World Images Day Press Convention.”

Mr. Richard Idowu, who represented  the  everlasting secretary of the Ministry of Youth and Social Growth, Mr. Sala A.I,

acknowledged that the ministry is partnering with the organisers to interact younger creatives, notably college students and rising photographers, in utilizing pictures as a instrument for self-expression, entrepreneurship, and youth-driven social and {economic} growth.

The Dean of the College of Inventive Arts at UNILAG and chair of the occasion,

Prof. Mudashiru, urged inventive artists and photographers to consciously showcase the most effective of Nigeria to the world. He emphasised the significance of countering detrimental perceptions and selling youth empowerment by way of self-sufficiency within the artwork of pictures.

Celebrated award-winning video producer Segun Ajayi, the venture coordinator, instructed LEADERSHIP Weekend on the unveiling that Lagos Road Photograph Stroll 2025 is “an important initiative for cultural and inventive youth empowerment, geared toward fostering self-sufficiency by way of the artwork of pictures.”

He added that the occasion will coincide with the celebration of World Images Day on August 19, 2025. “This yr’s core imaginative and prescient is to empower youth by way of visible storytelling. The cultural showcase will spotlight Lagos’s wealthy cultural and concrete identification, that includes cultural specialists from Nigeria and past, picture exhibitions, trend shoots, music performances, spoken phrase, and road artwork, making a vibrant visible journey,” Ajayi defined.