All is now set as the minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development, Olorogun Festus Keyamo, Senator Neda Imansuan, representing Edo South at the Senate and former deputy governor of Edo State, Hon. Philip Shaibu will be honoured with the 2024 Midwest Achievers Awards.
The 2024 event, tagged “Legends and Heroes,” is expected to have the Governor of Edo State, Monday Okpebholo, in attendance.
According to a press release by the awards organiser and a former commissioner for Arts and Culture, Omo-Ojo Orobosa, key industry drivers, policymakers, and administrators will pick a 3kg handcrafted bronze symbolic key to the Midwest Region, ‘the big heart and heartbeat’ of Nigeria.
“The Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development, Olorogun Festus Keyamo, SAN will cart away the minister of the year award for transforming Nigeria’s airports and sanitizing the aviation industry; Senator Neda Imasuen will be honoured for his intrinsic approach to Women and Girl Child Development.
Orobosa, the publisher of Midwest Herald, in the statement also noted that Prof Mike Ozekhome, SAN, will deliver the Investiture paper on “Democracy, Development and Nigerians” and also pick up an award as Defender of Democracy.
Comrade Philip Shaibu, former deputy governor of Edo State will be invested as the Politician of the Year 2024, after surviving the scare and scars of impeachment.
“Amidst the trouble, amidst the selfism, amidst the socioeconomic dislocation, amidst the dissolution of political ideology and amidst the skyrocketed corruption in governance and larger space, it has and will always be apt to ask: Why should we search for famous people that do things differently?
“We can all excel and attain fame and enjoy the merits without sacrificing the procedural old ‘fashion’ ethical values. But are there still people really like that? Or these are extremely unattainable parameters in Nigeria’s present clime?
“To us in Midwest Herald, idols are deities, who are not only revered for their looks, their profusion and plenitude or voice, but their admirable work”.
No fewer than 10 other categories and winners would also be announced and honoured.
