 In Business News, Chief Executive Officers of Businesses in Nigeria have been encouraged to engage and commit to growth and sustainable innovation in Africa. This came up on the sidelines of CEO's breakfast roundtable hosted by the UN Global Impact Network Nigeria in Lagos. Justin Akadonye tells more in this report. Although it was a breakfast roundtable for the Assistant Secretary General of the United Nations Global Compact, CEOs from the private sector in Lagos converged this whole to collaborate on the sustainability of the continent. The United Nations Global Africa Strategy 2021-2023 is a proposed roadmap to accelerate corporate sustainability and champions the business sector's contribution to sustainable development in the continent. In this panel session, the narrative of the sustainable development goals takes center stage including gender equity, decent work and economic growth and climate action among others. By adopting sustainability we were able to bring a very attractive value proposition to the oil and gas sector. Essentially we halved the cost for logistic support and we enabled projects which have never been done in Nigeria before to be done in Nigeria. I think that within the business community there's a very clear understanding that this is not just perhaps the right thing to do but it is the absolutely commercial thing to do. We believe that empowering women is pivotal to the shared success that we all strive to achieve because the role women play in the empowerment of the family, the homes and even the individual cannot be wished away. The Westin coordinator of the United Nations as well as other top echelons of the global compact throw more light on the essence of the sessions as they affect the private sector and even young people. Opportunities for young people to have to work with companies so the idea is by giving them exposure to working in the private sector they become more attractive as part of the future labour force. It's more about how can private sector speak as one voice and bring all the businesses together. Partnerships, it's going to be very important what the brilliant organisations and bodies here that are already delivering on the SDG. We want to unite the Africa and indeed Nigeria private sector to be able to help to work with governments in ensuring that the sustainable development goals have impact. To take home messages sustainable business is the future it's no longer business as usual. CEOs now understand that they need to operate responsibly, embed the 10 principles of the UN Global Compact, take actions to promote human rights in their business, ensure decent work in their operations, protect the environment where they are living. The discussion also focused on identifying prevalent barriers and key actions to achieve the ambitions of the Africa strategy. Justin Acadone, plus TV News Lagos.