The Registrar of the National Examination Council, NECO, Prof. Ibrahim Wushishi, has been conferred with an “Integrity Ambassador in Public Service” award by Verbatim News Network Limited.
Wushishi was conferred with the award at a ceremony in Abuja where the exam body was also honoured with “Corporate Excellence Award.”
While receiving the award, the NECO boss appreciated the media organisation, and pledged tha NECO would continue to ensure credibility and uphold its mandates.
“This award is very significant because it means that we are delivering on the mandates of the council. Today, NECO is in the news for good because that institution is key to Nigeria’s development, due to its status of being the largest indigenous examination body in the country and in Africa. So, every family in Nigeria has a stake in that institution and we have done so much to see that things are done within the framework that established the institution,” he said.
Other awardees at the event include; the Nasarawa State Governor, Engr. Abdullahi Sule, who received the Governor of the Year Award, while the Director-General, Infrastructure Concession Regulatory Commission, ICRC, Mr Micheal Ohiani was conferred with an Integrity Ambassador Award, and others.
Editor-in-Chief of Verbatim News Network Limited, Mr Tobs Agbaegbu, who presented the awards on behalf of his organisation, said the award to the registrar was in recognition and appreciation of his numerous achievements in NECO.
“He has delivered the dividends of good education through proper determination and activities and we felt that having scored NECO high in their activities, we thought it wise to award the man who led the institution with this award,” he said.
Also speaking, Former Inspector General of Police, Solomon Arase, who was the chairman at the event, called on the media to give balanced reportage ahead of the 2023 elections.
Arase also urged “political gladiators to practice tolerance, and if they lose, there are more elections to come and for that will win, I want them to extend their hands of fellowship to those who have lost.”
