CG’s Wife, Ex-NIWA MD, Others To Receive Life-impact Awards

The wife of the Comptroller General of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Kikelomo Adeniyi; former managing director, National Inland Waterways Authority (NIWA), Chinwe Ezenwa; Nigerian comedian and content creator, Chukwuebuka Emmanuel Amuzie popularly known as Brainjotter; among others are set to be honoured with Life-Impact Awards at the 2024 MMS Hall of Fame.

Other awardees include; the chairman of Abuja Municipal Area Council (AMAC) of the FCT, Christopher Zakka Maikalang; Founder, National Association of Government Approved Freight Forwarders (NAGAFF), Dr. Boniface Aniebonam; and the Founder, C21FG, Ambassador Michael Okoli; will be celebrated at the 8th edition of MMS Hall of Fame and International Women’s Leadership Summit to be held at NICON Luxury hotel, Abuja on November 6th, 2024.

According to the co-founder, MMS Hall of Fame, Kingsley Anaroke, the Life-Impact awardees were selected for their exemplary humanitarian exploits which resonates with the MMS brand essence as the awardees have impacted several lives despite the prevailing harsh economic times in Nigeria.

Brainjotter’s strings of inspiring life-transforming skits and comedy shows has redefined the creative industry with an appeal of generosity and humanity, setting a new standard of practice which conforms to Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

“In specifics, his novel comedy show (Outside the Box) ironically, turned out to be a humanitarian platform with the donation of N30 million for a female participant in crutches. We are particularly impressed that this for the female gender is unsolicited,” the statement read.

The comedian’s creative ingenuity which reinvented Pa Mike Ejeagha’s folklore song (gwo gwo gwo gwo) was also singled-out for praise as it placed Pa Ejeagha’s career on global music radar.

Chinwe Ezenwa is an international business owner and her company ‘Le Look Bags’ is one of the first companies to receive a Nigerian-AfCFTA Certificate of Origin, enabling the organisation to trade under the African Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA) protocol.

Ezenwa floated African fabric lifestyle accessories 39 years ago and her company has become massively life-impacting on a global scale as Le look bag Academy has empowered over 1000 youth with skills acquisition for free.

This life-changing opportunity targeted at young women also enables them to trade across the African continent under AfCFTA. The Lelook brand today has varieties of bespoke bags and luggage designed to cater for customers’ needs using trending technology and internationally acclaimed designers.

The national president of COWA, Kikelomo Adeniyi,is set to receive double honours with the MMS Life-Impact Award and an induction into the 2024 Class of MMS Hall of Fame.

Kikelomo has revived the formerly moribund COWA and repositioned the non-government organisation (NGO) to make significant contributions to humanity, especially less-privileged women and indigent children.

Impressively, COWA’s humanitarian and life-changing activities under Kikelomo have reached over 100,000 beneficiaries and transverse geopolitical regions with much-needed food palliatives to lessen the economic pangs on poor Nigerian citizens.

The chairman of Abuja Municipal Area Council (AMAC) of the FCT, Christopher Zakka Maikalangu, will be honoured for initiating urban life-changing projects including; schools, climate change, transport and others.

While the construction and rehabilitation of several kilometres of roads in various interior communities such as Waru, Bagusa in order to open them up to business opportunities and international aids, have earn Christopher national recognition, he also launched the Sustainable Energy Access and Climate Action Plan (SEACAP) in 2022 to address the impacts of climate change on lives has bearings on the indigenous people, women and children as well as the vulnerable.

These feats are pacesetting even as they conform with the spirit of the SDGs of the United Nations and also resonate with MMS brand essence of leadership by impact.

Amb. Michael Okolie, floated a cash-flow service and life-style initiative called LaBuena Vida with the vision of producing 50,000 millionaires yearly. This enables individuals to tap into the system to generate funds for business projects.

His Amazon project has already empowered thousands of women and girls, raising young millionaires and changing destinies of people who would have been jobless. This redefines entrepreneurship and sets a new standard even as it conforms with the ideals of the MMS Hall of Fame.

Dr. Boniface Aniebonam established the National Association of Government Approved Freight Forwarders (NAGAFF) in 1999 with the mission of challenging the status quo and birthing a liberal and human-centric freight forwarding and logistics association.

NAGAFF has grown to become irrepressible and life-transforming as well as a change agent in the nation’s maritime industry. An innumerable number of young and budding freight forwarders who have leveraged the NAGAFF platform to become breadwinners and philanthropists in their homes and societies.

This amounts to elevating the standards of professional practice which conforms to the spirit of the SDGs and resonates with the MMS brand essence of leadership by impact at MMS Hall of Fame.