Enyimba’s Anyansi bags FG award

Chairman of Enyimba of Aba, Felix Anyansi Agwu, will, tomorrow, join other eminent Nigerians to receive Federal Government’s National Productivity Order of Merit (NPOM) Award for 2019 and 2020.

Labour and Productivity Minister, Chris Ngige, in a letter to the highly successful football administrator, said the award is being conferred on him based on his hard work, productivity and excellence.

The letter reads in part: “The president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Muhamadu Buhari, has approved the conferment of the National Productivity Order of Merit (NPOM) Award on you in recognition of your high productivity, hard work and excellence.”

Other eminent Nigerians to be honoured tomorrow are National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Senator Abdullahi Adamu, Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Boss Mustapha, former Director General of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), Dr. Chike Ihekweazu, Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Dr. Akin Abayomi, industrialist, Abdulsamad Rabiu and billionaire businessman, Mike Adenuga jnr.

NPOM posthumous awards will also be conferred on the late Dr. Ameyo Stella Adadevoh, who died from the Ebola virus while quarantining the patient zero, Patrick Sawyer, a Liberian in a medical facility in Lagos, as well as the late Mr. Babatunde Lawal, who until his death was the permanent secretary, Cabinet Affairs Office, in the Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation.