Hakeem Onasanya (MPP 2019) has been selected by His Imperial Majesty, the Ooni of Ife as a recipient of the 2022 Royal African Youth Leadership Award in the Entrepreneurship & Empowerment category. The award honours his leadership of a COVID-19 recovery project targeted at small businesses in Lagos, which has so far supported 764 businesses with grants as they battle with the economic effects of the pandemic.