Governor of Delta State, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan, has been
pronounced as the Silverbird Man of the Year 2014. He
emerged winner of the prestigious award in a very tight
contest among six nominees.
According to the organisers, Governor Uduaghan won the
award for restoring peace and security to Delta State,
provision of free medical care for children and the elderly,
massive infrastructural development, and his acclaimed micro
credit scheme.
The 10th anniversary of the Silverbird Man of the Year Awards
will also feature special awards to some prominent individuals
and groups including Chief Innocent Chukwuma, chairman,
Innoson Motors, who won the Silverbird Extra-ordinary
Achievement Award for establishing the first indigenous vehicle
manufacturing plant in Nigeria. Dr. Akinwumi Adeshina for his
positive efforts in boosting local food production and
drastically reducing the importation of foodstuff.
However, a Post-humous award will each be bestowed on
foremost human rights activist and social crusader, Chief Gani
Fawehinmi, famed apostle of politics without bitterness, Alhaji
Ibrahim Waziri, and former governor of old Imo State, Chief
Sam Mbakwe.
A Silverbird Lifetime Achievement Award will be given to
acclaimed orator and former Nigerian permanent
representative to the United Nations, Alhaji Maitama Sule,
former Permanent Secretary, Dr. Philip Asiodu and technocrat,
administrator and businessman, Dr. Gamaliel Onosode.
For containing the Ebola Virus Disease in Nigeria, the
Silverbird Group has deemed it fit to give special recognition
award to the medical team of First Consultant Hospital led by
the Chief Medical Director, Dr. Ifeanyi Ohiaeri, and also to the
Lagos State Government, Rivers State Government and
Federal Ministry of Health.
Past winners of the Silverbird Man of the Year Award include
the late Prof. Dora Akunyili, Mallam Nasir El- Rufai, Mallam
Nuhu Ribadu, Dr. Mike Adenuga and Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala.
Others are Alhaji Aliko Dangote, Governors Godswill Akpabio of
Akwa Ibom State, Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State, Adams
Oshiomhole of Edo State, former Anambra State governor,
Peter Obi and former CBN governor, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi,
who is now the Emir of Kano.
A date for the award ceremony will be announced later.
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