L-R: Former Head of State, General Abdusalami Abubakar; Awardee/ Minister of Mines and Steel Development, Dr Kayode Fayemi; and Minister of State for Mines and Steel Development, Hon Abubakar Bawa Bwari; during the presentation of the Businessday Excellence in Public Service Award to Fayemi in Abuja…on Thursday

Fayemi, Fashola, Kale others bag Excellence in Public Service Awards; Fayemi also gets GPN Award

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L-R: Awardee/Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, Dr Okechukwu Enelamah; Special Guest of Honour/ former Head of State, General Abdusalami Abubakar; Publisher of Businessday Newspaper, Frank Aigbogun; Awardee/ Minister of Mines and Steel Development, Dr Kayode Fayemi; his wife, Erelu Bisi Fayemi; at the Businessday Excellence in Public Service Awards 2017 in Abuja…on Thursday.

L-R: Awardee/ Minister of Mines and Steel Development, Dr Kayode Fayemi, receiving the Businessday Excellence in Public Service Award from former Head of State, General Abdulsalami Abubakar; while Minister of State for Mines and Steel Development, Hon Abubakar Bawa Bwari; looks on at the event in Abuja…on Thursday.

L-R: Minister of Mines and Steel Development, Dr Kayode Fayemi; Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, Dr Okechukwu Enelamah; with Publisher of Businessday Newspaper, Frank Aigbogun; at the Sheraton Hotel, Abuja venue of the Excellence in Public Service Award 2017…on Thursday.

Minister of Mines and Steel Development, Dr Kayode Fayemi, on Thursday evening received the Businessday Newspaper’s Excellence in Public Service Award 2017, in recognition of the reforms and innovations that have repositioned the mining sector under his watch.

Other public servants that also bagged awards at the event which held at the Ladi Kwali Hall, Sheraton Hotel, Abuja include Minister of Power , Works and Housing, Mr Babatunde Fashola (SAN); Minister of Agriculture, Chief Audu Ogbeh, Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, Dr Okechukwu Enelamah, Statistician General of the Federation, Dr Yemi Kale and Yewande Shadiku, Executive Secretary of Nigerian Investment Promotion Commission (NIPC).

Former Head of State, General Abdusalami Abubakar, while presenting the Award to Dr Fayemi, said his leadership of the Ministry of Mines and Steel Development has helped to inject a new lease of life into the country’s hitherto comatose minerals and mining sector.

Stressing that public service could be a thankless job, General Abdusalami said it takes a combination of patriotic zeal, brilliance and integrity for a public servant to make a mark.

General Abdusalami urged Nigerians who have found themselves in positions of leadership to always strive to make positive impact, adding that the country would fare better with more purpose-driven public servants.

Dr Fayemi who was joined by the Minister of State for Mines and Steel Development, Hon Abubakar Bawa Bwari in receiving the Award, said that Nigerians could build Nigeria of their dreams with more dedication and with everyone playing his or her roles well.

He lauded Businessday Newspaper for their daily brilliant reportage and analyses of Nigeria’s and global economic developments.

The Minister was on November 24^th honoured with an award by the authorities of the Federal University of Technology, Akure (FUTA) as well as the students body of the institution. A day earlier, he had received the Excellence in Governance Award 2017 of Global Patriot Newspapers, GPN, in Lagos.