Publisher
and Editor-in-Chief of GabrioVoice Magazine and Chief Executive Officer, Mindset
Media, Godday Odidi, has said that Achievers Excellence Award pays attention to
Humanitarian and Philanthropic activities because the people in Nigeria need
help.
Odidi
made this disclosure at the 9th Edition of Mindset Media Achievers
Excellence Award which was held at Santiago Hotel, Amuwo-Odofin Lagos recently.
As
the organizer of the award, Odidi said “You can see the level of hardship in
Nigeria now, we need help, we have so many fake philanthropists now, we have
ritual philanthropists, but I am concentrating on humanitarian, because if not
support, Mindset Media will not be where it is. People are hungry, people need
money. We want to tell people that you can give, people have this money but
they don’t know how to give; this platform is to tell them please give, help
humanity, let humanity grow, and that is why, I focus on humanitarian.’
Odidi
disclosed that he was happy as he got support from so many quarters in this
year’s event “This year award people really supported me, people wanted to
support, people from the US, people were begging to collect this award; you see
this year’s award is different, by our tenth anniversary next year, I am
praying it should be at Golden Tulip or Eko Hotel. I see this platform as a platform
that will help humanity,” he said.
Categories
of the 2019 Achievers Excellence awards include Humanitarian/Philanthropic
Drive; Sports Development, Value Innovators; Health Solution Providers;
Entrepreneurial Leadership; Inspiring Motivational Speaker, Environmental/Green
Angle, among other categories.
Among
those who were honoured were Echebiri Ikechukwu, a businessman with passion for
community Development; John Okorie, a young hospitality entrepreneur; Segun
Okunloye, an agricultural Food Producer cum serial supplier with creativity;
Gono Zakari, a Civil Servant cum Committed Rotarian with Humanitarian Legacies
in Africa; Michael Ujiro, a young creative Transporter cum Real Estate Expert
with vision.
The
occasion was chaired by High Chief Michael Orobosa Ubogu, Chairman/Chief Executive
Officer, Micura Services Limited, a man popular for his acclaimed humanitarian
and philanthropic interests.
Rotarian
Goni Zackari, a Senior Electronic Data Processing Officer at Nigerian Maritime
Administration and Safety Agency ((NIMASA) one of the awardees said “The honour
was bestowed on me because of the tremendous effort I have put to serve
humanity, I take this award as the best award I have received in my life. When
you give to community the community gives back to you. In life, anything you
do, do not wait, you should continue doing what you are doing, one day you will
be discovered. For those looking up to
me for mentorship, I say life is not easy, we should not give up hope, they
must plan, plan efficiently, intelligently and diligently.”
Sir
Jerry Aliche Wanodi, CEO, Porsche Oil Group of Companies, he has been able to
lift a million people from abject poverty and obscurity. Wanodi said his
inspiration comes from God, giving back to life, society, and those around him,
‘that is what makes you a success.’
Talking
about society and Government, he said “We can’t leave everything to the
government; they are also human as you and I. It is about capacity, mentality
and orientation, what you don’t have you can’t give. The mistake we make in
this part of the world is we leave everything for government to do. They are
human; even some of the special advisers need advice themselves.”
Speaking
on right environment for businesses to thrive he said “Nigeria does not have
the right environment. There is no power, but all over the world power is the
first thing, even in the Bible, God said let there be light, it is only here we
have it the other way round. So there has to be power first, when there is
power there will be less people on the street; creativity, ideas will explode,
you can’t function without power.”
On his
advice to the upcoming ones, he said “We are in a very hostile environment, so
they have to take their destiny by their hands, it will never get better, the
leaders have lost ideas and there is nothing we can do. So you need to wake up,
you know what you need, so go for it, you fell, you rise, you keep rising, till
you are stable. Nobody is going to create a ladder for you, so you need to
create your own ladder, you climb, you hold onto it, and make sure the ladder
doesn’t fall, that is the environment we find ourselves,” Wanodi stated.
Michael
Ujiro, the most innovative transport entrepreneur of the year, said his advice
for the organizer is to keep up what he is doing, he is doing a very fantastic
job, keep up encouraging entrepreneurs, philanthropists, and I advise him not
to relent, and these awards are not just for the sake of awards, they are
awards for encouragement.
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