Firm honours media chief, CSP, others in Lagos

Founder, Galaxy Television, Chief Steve Ojo and director, Vehicle Inspection, Lagos state Ministry of Transportation, Toriola Abdulafeez, were among those honoured recently by Eyegate Media Limited for their contributions to national development.

Others were Mrs. Oluremi Adesola Openibo, an engineer and a politician; Chief Superintendent of Police (CSP), Augustine Chime, the second in command, Area E Command, Festac, Lagos, Chairman /Chief Executive Officer G.O.D Dynamic Company Nigeria Limited, Mr. Godwin Ikechukwu Nwaenyi and Alhaji Dandana Muhammed Yabo who received a Peace award for his disposition at ensuring peaceful co-existence between the Hausas and other tribes at Mile 12 area of Lagos state.

Eyegate CEO, Edward Ndukwe said the awardees were honoured under the firm’s Community Pillars Awards for their commitment to improve lives, adding that the ceremony should have held last year but for logistics.

He cited Ojo, who he said, boosted broadcasting by introducing computer editing and graphics into television, adding that he set up the first broadcasting station in the country with licence number 001.Ojo a graduate of Communication, an ex-staff member of Nigerian Television Authority (NTA), is reputed to have pioneered the use of a 300,000-pounds editing vehicle in motion in the Media industry.

Gbolahan has established 25 workstations in the ministry to boost its services to Lagosians. These have helped to reduce the lingering traffic problem in the state.

Ndukwe said Chime is a “super cop”, who started from the Mobile unit of Nigeria Police Force, where he made his mark before he was redeployed to regular policing.

Though he joined the Police as a youth with a mere School Certificate, he had since honed his skills at the University of Lagos (UNILAG), where he studied Criminology. Like a rolling stone, he gathered moss, along his long career. He rose through the ranks over the years to become a Chief Superintendent of Police.

Nwaenyi’s story was that of grass to grace. As a boy, he abandoned school to learn trade. Upon graduation, he set up his business and soon hit gold. As an importer, one of his products, a water heater manufactured in Germany is the best in the market. He also has his tentacles in other areas and sits atop a conglomerate.

Guest Speaker at the event, Barrister (Mrs.) Joy Anizoba, in a paper titled, ‘Corporate Community Action: An Essential tool for Societal Development,’ urged organisations to have vision for their host communities, saying that their success depended on this. She listed empowerment programmes as areas firm owners could train their periscopes, adding that they should ask the people what they really wanted and not what they felt they should offer them.