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· Anyim, Adesina, Sanwo-Olu, Kyari, Others Get Recognition
Director-General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), Dr. Bashir Jamoh, has been named the winner of the 2020 Zik Prize in Public Policy.
Chairman, Selection Committee of Zik Prize 2020, Prof. Pat Utomi, who announced the honour on Thursday in Lagos, said Jamoh’s capacity to have extensively managed the restructuring, reformation and repositioning of NIMASA earned him the recognition.
Utomi stated that the Deep Blue Project and the Blue Economy initiatives that Jamoh “continues to champion have brought massive gains to the NIMASA and the nation’s economic diversification goals.”
The International Maritime Bureau (IMB) in its second-quarter 2021 report had disclosed that piracy in the Gulf of Guinea, which had in recent times become the global centre of sea piracy, fell to the lowest since Q2 2019 after Jamoh started enforcing the Integrated National Security and Waterways Protection Infrastructure, also known as the Deep Blue Project.
Besides Jamoh, two other Nigerian technocrats, who also won the 2020 Zik Prize in Public Policy are, Dr. Akinwunmi Ayodeji Adesina, the eighth President of the African Development Bank (AfDB) Group and first-class scholar and reformer.
Adesina, a former Minister of Agriculture in Nigeria, introduced the innovative electronic wallet system that ended 40 years of corruption in the fertilizer sector. Also, the High 5s and the Africa Investment Forum initiatives he introduced, as AFDB President, had been a massive success.
Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Mele Kolo Kyari, will also join Jamoh and Adesina to receive the 2020 Zik Prize in Public Policy.
In the political leadership category, former Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF) and former Senate President of the Senate, Anyim Pius Anyim and Minister of State for Health, Olorunimbe Mamora, were also announced winners.
The 2020 Zik Prize for Professional Leadership went to the Group Managing Director of FBN Holdings Plc, U. K. Eke and pioneer Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer (MD/CEO) of the Nigeria Sovereign Investment Authority (NSIA), Uche Orji.
Former First Lady of Akwa Ibom State, Mrs. Ekaette Unoma Akpabio, who has been using her Family Life Enhancement Initiative (FLEI) to assist the vulnerable in Akwa Ibom State, was awarded the 2020 Zik Prize for Humanitarian Leadership, while Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu and his Nasarawa State counterpart, Abdullahi Sule, won the 2020 Zik Prize for Good Governance.
