Governor Godswill Akpabio of Akwa Ibom State; the Supervising Minister of Education, Barrister Nyesom Wike; former Nigerian Ambassador to Germany, Abdul Rimdap; and the Rector of Maritime Academy of Nigeria, Oron, Akwa Ibom State, Joshua Okpo, are amongst deserving Africans that would be honoured at the 2013 ADLER Entrepreneurship Award holding in Bonn, Germany on December 7.
Akpabio will, at the event, organised by African Youth Foundation, be decorated as the Best Governor in West Africa on Good Governance and Transformation, based on his “outstanding performance especially in education for the youth, infrastructure, social activities, Commerce and Business to the public,” while Wike is being honoured as Best Educational Transformer for driving the policy that has seen to the enrollment of over ten million street children (almajeris) in schools in Northern part of the country.
Okpo, according to the organisers, will receive Best Exemplary Corporate Leadership Award for transforming the academy into a foremost institutional maritime training hub in the continent and Ambassador Rimdap is to be honoured for Diaspora Diplomatic Achievements.
Started in 2005, the ADLER Entrepreneurship Award acknowledges the accomplishments of Africans in both Europe and Africa.
It is presented to Africans and people of African descent who show the greatest promise of contribution to human well-being, through the creation and the application of their activities, intellect and knowledge, which contribute towards the development of their communities.
A statement by Dr. Paulyn Jasen, Executive Director of AYF, said the four nominees, whose awards fall within the special awards category, are role models to the young and upcoming African generation of today, especially in these times where business and investment between African and Europe are in the forefront.
Two other Nigerians in the Diaspora, Chika Unigwe, Belgium-based author, and Beatrice Onyele, a journalist in Frankfurt, Germany, as well as Seun Akioye, an Abuja-based journalist, will also receive the ADLER Entrepreneurship awards.
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