Ibadan’s calendar of youth-focused gatherings gets another entry on Saturday, September 26, 2026, when the Bezalel Youth Summit returns for its fourth edition, themed “Synergy.” The summit is positioned for business, career, research professionals, and creatives, and organizers are projecting reach across 50,000 youths, with five speakers and over 400 attendees expected at the venue.
The event will hold at Foursquare Gospel Church (Favoured Assembly), Oluwalogbon Quarters, Inaolaji Layout, off Wema-Oluyole Road, Apata, Ibadan, starting at 9AM.
Keynote duties go to Olayinka O. Ogunsanya, Managing Director at Fresh2go Enterprises. She’ll be joined by a lineup drawn from business and research circles: Oluwajare Fola-Bolumole, Founder and CEO of The ChocBoy Brand; Ayomipo Ademilusi, a PhD researcher at the University of Ibadan and founder of STAH | RSDI; and Olumide Adaramoye, Growth Operator and Partner at IES.
The “Synergy” framing is an intent to bridge tracks that often stay siloed at youth summits, entrepreneurship, career development, academic research, and creative work, under one roof rather than running them as separate, disconnected verticals.
For Ibadan specifically, events like this add to a growing pattern: a city building its own youth and career infrastructure rather than treating Lagos as the only place where such gatherings happen. Alongside things like the Ibadan Creator Summit and CMX Connect Nigeria’s Ibadan chapter, Bezalel’s fourth outing points to sustained organizing capacity in the city, not a one-off.
Registration is free and open via the event registration page at https://luma.com/6w3d818r Given the scale being projected tens of thousands in reach and hundreds expected on the ground — early registration is the practical move for anyone planning to attend in person.
