Stakeholders push public-private partnerships as group honours excellent achievements

Stakeholders and award recipients on the 2026 Nigeria Pride Awards have underscored the necessity for stronger public-private partnerships, sustainable funding and peace to drive nationwide improvement.

Speaking on the Awards, organised by the First Green White Resource Centre (FGWRC) with the theme: ‘Celebrating Excellence, Patriotism, Sacrifice and Outstanding Service to Nigeria, Tuesday in Abuja, the former Coordinator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme, Gen. Paul Boroh (retd.), called for stronger partnerships between government, the private sector and other stakeholders to unlock Nigeria’s huge financial potential by way of sustainable funding, stressing that peace and funding are indispensable to nationwide improvement.

Boroh, who mentioned the awards have turn out to be an vital pillar in Nigeria’s quest for nationwide excellence, offering a possibility to showcase the distinctive abilities, creativity and resilience of Nigerians throughout totally different sectors, famous that: “Nigeria is not poor, but a resource-rich nation whose enormous potential remained largely untapped.”

He recognized the nation’s youthful inhabitants, oil and gasoline sources, stable minerals, agricultural land, shoreline and entrepreneurial inhabitants as strategic belongings able to driving sustainable financial progress.

The ex-military chief, nevertheless, challenged stakeholders to maneuver past figuring out these alternatives and develop sensible methods for changing them into investments, employment, infrastructure, peace and shared prosperity.

“Sustainable investment means investment that does not just come and go. It means investment that stays, that grows, that empowers our communities, that protects our environment, and that gives our youth a reason to believe in Nigeria,” he mentioned.

Earlier, the Convener of Nigeria’s Pride Awards, Bonaventure Melah, who can be the founding father of First Green White Resource Center (FGWRC), mentioned the initiative was established to recognise Nigerians whose achievements, sacrifices and contributions proceed to advance the nation regardless of its quite a few challenges.

Melah noticed that unfavorable developments usually dominated public discourse, leaving the achievements of hard-working Nigerians, establishments and organisations insufficiently recognised, stressing that, whereas wrongdoing have to be condemned and failures scrutinised, excellent achievements should equally be acknowledged and rewarded.

He listed a few of this 12 months’s recipients to incorporate: outstanding personalities like Dr. Allen Onyema of Air Peace; Dr. Zach Adedeji of the Nigeria Revenue Service (NSR); Mrs. Jane Nkechi Egerton-Idehen of NIGCOMSAT; Dr. Obiageli Amadiobi of NOTAP;  Dr. Abba Abubakar Aliyu of the Rural Electrification Agency; in addition to veteran actors Pete Edochie and Patience Ozokwo.

Also talking on the ceremony, one of many award recipients, who’s the Founder of the Hajia Hadiza Foundation, Dr Hadiza Usman, known as on Nigerian girls to pursue monetary independence and develop sustainable sources of earnings reasonably than rely fully on authorities help.

She advocated stronger collaboration between authorities and credible Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) to make sure that interventions attain susceptible folks, notably these residing in impoverished and distant communities.