{"id":48776,"date":"2016-04-26T12:28:46","date_gmt":"2016-04-26T11:28:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=48776"},"modified":"2016-04-27T08:38:24","modified_gmt":"2016-04-27T07:38:24","slug":"jonathan-otubanjo-ekwueme-otubanjo-pilas-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/jonathan-otubanjo-ekwueme-otubanjo-pilas-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Jonathan,  Clarke,  Ekwueme,  Gowon for PILAS awards."},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ex President,\u00a0 Goodluck Jonathan,\u00a0 Captain of industry,\u00a0 Alex Onabanjo, Former head of state,\u00a0 General Yakubu Gowon, and for Vice president,\u00a0 Alex Ekwueme, will be recipients of distinguished public service awards put together by the Patriots In Leadership and Service , (PILAS).<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Others are chief Edwin Clark, chief Gabriel Igbinedion, Governors Okezie Ikpeazu,\u00a0 Nyesom Wike,\u00a0 Hassan Dakwambo, Segun Mimiko, Senators, Danjuma Laah, and Phillips Aduda.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">The awards ceremony comes up on June 4, 2016 at the Shehu Musa Yar\u2019Adua Centre in Abuja.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">On the list of recipients also include Tony Elumelu, TB Joshua,\u00a0 Senator Ali Modu-Sheriff,\u00a0\u00a0 Bamanga Tukur, Mrs Folorunsho Alakija, Ike Ekweremadu,\u00a0\u00a0 Senator Abiodun Olujimi, Princess Omosede Igbinedion,\u00a0 Tolu Ebun, Alhaji Shuaib Oyedokun.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Some of the categories are Man of the Year ( Jonathan), Special Honors, ( Ekweremadu,\u00a0 Sheriff,\u00a0 Elumelu); Entrepreneurship,\u00a0 Business Development, ( Otubanjo,\u00a0 Elumelu,\u00a0 Ogah, and Alakija); while Lifetime,\u00a0 Intergrity awards go to Ekwueme,\u00a0 Igbinedion,\u00a0 Oyedokun,\u00a0 Gowon,\u00a0 Tukur and Clarke.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to the\u00a0 PILAS president,\u00a0 Paul Utho, &#8221; the ceremony is designed to identify exceptional achievements in Nigeria public service, which includes identifying distinguished Nigerians who have impacted positively in their area of specialization&#8221;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8221; The awards aim to also celebrate achievements and ensure they are highlighted and placed at the fore alongside achievers as a means of ensuring that they remain a reference point&#8221;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Utho added that &#8221; the recognition and celebration of these distinguished men and women others will be encouraged to make genuine efforts to deepen our core values as a nation&#8221;<\/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>Ex President,\u00a0 Goodluck Jonathan,\u00a0 Captain of industry,\u00a0 Alex Onabanjo, Former head of state,\u00a0 General Yakubu Gowon, and for Vice president,\u00a0 Alex Ekwueme, will be recipients of distinguished public service awards&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48179,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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