Abdullahi Sule of Nasarawa State and Bello Matawalle of Zamfara State were named the winners of the prestigious Governor of the Year award by the management of Verbatim News Network Limited, publishers of the Abuja-based Verbatim news magazine and Verbatim Online Newspaper, yesterday. This annual program honors individuals and corporate organizations for excellence and success in particular fields of business and vocation.
The Editor-in-Chief of Verbatim, Tobs Agbaegbu, explained that Governor Sule was chosen for his widespread implementation of transparent policies in Nasarawa State as well as “for being a truly futuristic and thoroughly insightful servant leader, one who thinks locally but acts globally” in a press release containing the results of an assessment conducted by the Board of Editors of Verbatim.
Abdullahi Sule of Nasarawa State and Bello Matawalle of Zamfara State were named the winners of the prestigious Governor of the Year award by the management of Verbatim News Network Limited, publishers of the Abuja-based Verbatim news magazine and Verbatim Online Newspaper, yesterday. This annual program honors individuals and corporate organizations for excellence and success in particular fields of business and vocation.
The Editor-in-Chief of Verbatim, Tobs Agbaegbu, explained that Governor Sule was chosen for his widespread implementation of transparent policies in Nasarawa State as well as “for being a truly futuristic and thoroughly insightful servant leader, one who thinks locally but acts globally” in a press release containing the results of an assessment conducted by the Board of Editors of Verbatim.
Governor Matawale was named a co-winner of the Governor of the Year award, according to the publisher of Verbatim, “in full recognition and admiration of his significant achievements in problems of security and the delivery of other dividends of democracy in Zamfara state.”
As the most outstanding minister of the decade, he also named Timipre Sylva, Minister of State for Petroleum, along with five other federal agencies as winners in the Integrity in Service category.
Professor Gregory Ibe, Chancellor of Gregory University in Uturu, Abia State; Senator Emmanuel Bwacha, a former Senate deputy minority leader; Barrister Emmanuel Njoku; Alhaji Usman Adamu Tubo, Managing Director of Al-Tubo Power Integrated Limited; and Darlington Ozurumba, a lawyer and public affairs analyst based in Abuja, were also named as winners of the award at the individual category level.
