Motoring Worlds Founder, Owoeye, Honoured at FUOYE, Makes Case for Engineering Entrepreneurship

Femi Owoeye infront Left with his Award

21st March 2025(Lagos) The Federal University of Oye Ekiti has honoured the founder and editor of Motoring World International, Femi Owoeye for his contributions to the engineering field in Nigeria through the media.

Owoeye received the award as a special guest at the 2025 induction of Graduate Engineers and 5th Professor Chinedu Nebo Faculty Lecture held recently at the Faculty of Engineering hall, Federal University Oye Ekiti.Presenting the award, the institutions Dean of Engineering Faculty, Engineer Prof. O. Akinsanmi, extolled Owoeye’s efforts in promoting the automobile engineering field and filling the yawning void in the reportage of the automobile industry in Nigeria.

Through Motoring World International, a publication he founded close to three decades ago, he stated, Owoeye has not only promoted the growth of the industry through his articles published in Motoring World International and other motoring media, he has consistently advocated for developmental policy aimed at accelerating the growth of the auto industry.It is, therefore, in appreciation of your contributions to the automotive engineering field via the motoring media that you are hereby presented this award of appreciation.

On his part, addressing the graduate engineers on a lecture titled: “Engineering Entrepreneurship: A Partway to Economic Independence for Nigerian Youth, Owoeye counseled engineering graduates to embrace entrepreneurship, stating that the future belongs to those, who can create solutions and turn them to thriving opportunities.The world, Owoeye pointed out, has reached a point at which youths do not have to wait for government or traditional employment opportunities.“He stressed that engineering entrepreneurship is not just about creating business but also about solving problems, creating jobs and contributing to national development.

According to Owoeye, mass embrace of engineering entrepreneurship by the nations graduate engineers remains a key to bridging the unemployment gap, driving technological innovation, boosting national economic growth and leveraging the digital