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ITF DG, Mr. Ari Receives Plateau Man of the Year Award on February 5, Wins Fellowship Award by UK based Agency

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4 years ago

January 3, 2023

By Eze Okechukwu,
Abuja

The Director General of Industrial Training Fund (ITF), Mr. Joseph Ntung Ari has ended the year on high notes, scooping multiple awards as the Plateau State Man of the Year 2022 in addition to a Fellowship Award by the Occupational, Safety and Health Association; a United Kingdom based association.
Mr. Ari who was voted the Plateau Man of the Year 2022 award, following an online votes by plateau people home and abroad as monitored between December 21st – December 31st, 2022 and confirmed by the Organizers of the event would be presented the award on February 5th,2023 at the Tamarald Event Center, Jos the plateau state capital.

Similarly,confering the fellowship honour on Mr Ari, the UK based Agency said the award was in recognition of the DG’s invaluable contributions to entrenching occupational health and safety in the Fund and ensuring that contributing employers adhere to occupational health and safety standards.

In his response, the Director General of ITF, Mr. Ari expressed delight and appreciated the Association for the award, noting that as the foremost human capacity development organisation in Nigeria, the ITF was charged with the responsibility of setting and maintaining training standards in all sectors of the economy and monitor adherence amongst other responsibilities.
“In the discharge of our mandate, the ITF has over the years implemented several training programmes in occupational health and safety for both staff of the Fund and our stakeholders, he noted.“

He said It was in recognition of the important place of occupational health and safety in organisations that the ITF made it a key criterion for granting training reimbursement to contributing employers.

According to him, “this is aimed at encouraging employers of labour to carry out safety training and adhere to safety protocols in their various organisations.“

Ari stressed that he is greatly delighted and honoured to have been conferred with the award of an Honorary Fellow of this great Association which he said is not only a rare privilege but also an encouragement to do more.

He also noted that the Year 2022 was a good year for ITF in terms of awards received and the achievements that were recorded despite the difficult operational environment.
Ari said ITF was committed more than ever to the full actualisation of its mandate for the overall economic and industrial growth of Nigeria in line with the vision of the Federal Government.

It would be recalled that earlier in the year, the National Association of Small and Medium Enterprises (NASME) presented the ITF Director General with an Award of Excellence for Exceptional Contribution to Human Resource Development and likewise the Business Education and Examinations Council (BEEC) who presented the DG an Award for Excellence in Youths Empowerment through training.

Other awards include the Leadership Newspaper Public Service Person of the Year Award for 2022, the Award for Manpower Training in the Extractive Sector on the Plateau by the Nigerian Mining and Geosciences Association, the Honorary Fellow Award by the Chartered Institute of Personnel Management (CIPM) and the Award of Excellence in Human Capacity Development by the Nigerian Institute of Public Relations (NIPR) among several others.

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Musawa Seeks Broader Significance for June 12

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12 hours ago

October 3, 2026

The Gleamer

Joel Ajayi

The Minister of Art, Culture, Tourism and the Creative Economy, Hannatu Musa Musawa, Esq., says June 12 must be remembered as a sacrifice that gave Nigerians democracy, beyond its status as a public holiday.

In a statement signed on Saturday by the Senior Assistant Media & Publicity to the Honourable Minister,Federal Ministry of Art, Culture, Tourism and the Creative Economy Dr Nneka Ikem Anibeze Ph.D in Abuja.

Musawa stated this at the national premiere of “MKO”, a film on Chief Moshood Abiola, held at the Wole Soyinka Centre for Culture and Creative Arts, Lagos, to mark Nigeria’s 66th Independence Anniversary.

She said 33 years after June 12, 1993, many young Nigerians know it only as a holiday, but the film turns it back into memory.

“For too many young Nigerians, June 12 is simply a public holiday. This film tells them that our democracy did not arrive by chance. It was fought for. It was defended. It was paid for. This documentary is in honour of the heroes of June 12, the men and women who gave their lives for the mandate of June 12, 1993 and for the democracy Nigeria enjoys today,” the Minister said.

Musawa hailed President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Chief Host, for his participation in the June 12 struggle and paying the price in exile, adding that Nigeria’s creative industry will keep telling the story of its democracy with courage.

“Through film and the creative economy, Nigeria will preserve its history. A nation that forgets its past loses its way to the future. Nigeria has a story and our story deserves to be told,” she said.

Earlier, the director of the investigative documentary, Ose Oyamendan, said the film was in honour and memory of heroes who fought for Nigeria’s democracy.

“There was Hope ’93 and now there is Renewed Hope. There was a man who sacrificed his life so we may have democracy and there is a man who almost lost his life fighting for democracy who is now helping build a lasting democracy.

“There was a great man called Bashorun MKO Abiola and there is now another great man called Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu. Democrats. Nationalists. Nation builders. Leaders of men and women. We must never forget our story. We must always honour and remember our heroes,” Oyamendan said.

Top government officials including President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the wife of the President Senator Oluremi Tinubu; Senate President Godswill Akpabio, Speaker of the House of Representatives Tajudeen Abbas, Chairman of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq, Chief of Staff to the President Rt. Femi Gbajabiamila, state Governors, members of the National Assembly, Ministers and other distinguished dignitaries attended the premiere.

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