{"id":26617,"date":"2014-05-15T17:19:21","date_gmt":"2014-05-15T16:19:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=26617"},"modified":"2014-05-15T17:19:21","modified_gmt":"2014-05-15T16:19:21","slug":"kwara-gov-ahmed-is-hogs-gov-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/kwara-gov-ahmed-is-hogs-gov-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Kwara Gov. Ahmed, is HOG&#8217;s Gov of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12.800000190734863px; margin: 0cm  0cm  0.0001pt; line-height: 19.5pt; vertical-align: baseline;\"><b><span style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; color: black; border: 1pt  none windowtext; padding: 0cm;\">Kwara State Governor\u00ad, Abdulfatah Ahmed, has been named \u00a0winner of the HOG Governor of the Year Award.<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12.800000190734863px; margin: 0cm  0cm  22.3pt; line-height: 19.5pt; vertical-align: baseline;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;\">Also, Babatunde Fowler, chairman of Lagos Internal Revenue Service (LIRS) and Nnamdi Ezeigbo, chair\u00adman of Slot Systems, will be honoured at the awards cer\u00ademony scheduled for\u00a0<span><span>May 25<\/span><\/span>\u00a0at the Summit Event Centre, Alausa, Ikeja, as winners of the Man of Excellence and Businessman of the Year awards respectively.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12.800000190734863px; margin: 0cm  0cm  22.3pt; line-height: 19.5pt; vertical-align: baseline;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;\">According to the Manag\u00ading Custodian of the awards, Rupert Ojenuwa, the board selected Ahmed as Governor of the Year after considering his massive investment in infrastructure, human capital development and health fa\u00adcilities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12.800000190734863px; margin: 0cm  0cm  22.3pt; line-height: 19.5pt; vertical-align: baseline;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;\">\u201cWhen we visited Kwara State, we were shocked by the massive development we met on ground. Most proj\u00adects undertaken had reached completion, while some were nearly completed. What was the most commendable is the governor\u2019s attitude and con\u00adtribution to development of human capital,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12.800000190734863px; margin: 0cm  0cm  22.3pt; line-height: 19.5pt; vertical-align: baseline;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;\">Speaking on other award\u00adees, Ojenuwa said: \u201cWe are not leaving the entertainment people out. Some of them are doing very well in their cho\u00adsen fields and it is important to note that Nigerian mov\u00adies and music are exported to other parts of the world. So, we have looked into the industry and we have picked\u00a0 about three of them to hon\u00adour. Mike Ezuruonye will be honoured as Nollywood Star of the Year, Sean Tizzle as Hip Hop Star of the Year, while the famous blogger, Linda Ikeji, will be receiving the Entertainment Personal\u00adity of the Year (award).\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12.800000190734863px; margin: 0cm  0cm  22.3pt; line-height: 19.5pt; vertical-align: baseline;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;\">Explaining the essence of the awards inaugurated in 2010 by Chief Alex Akinyele, former minister of Informa\u00adtion, \u00a0Ojenuwa said: \u201cIt is im\u00adportant that we, in the midst of our many challenges, do not miss the opportunity to be happy. The HOG Awards is that platform upon which men and women of character, hard work, who have over\u00adcome the greed of self-cen\u00adtredness to infuse their best to make a place better than they met it, can be celebrated and this year, His Excellency, Abdulfatah Ahmed and our other awardees epitomise just that.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kwara State Governor\u00ad, Abdulfatah Ahmed, has been named \u00a0winner of the HOG Governor of the Year Award. 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