Gov Bala for SDGs award Jan 12

Bauchi state governor, Bala Mohammed, has been nominated among the personalities to receive the 2019/2020 Nigerian Sustainable and Good Governance Presidential Awards.

Director General, Bauchi state office of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Maryam Bagel, who led members of the project management committee for SDGs Aso Rock declaration 2020  to an advocacy visit to the governor at the Government House, Bauchi, attributed the emergence of the governor to receive the award to the achievements recorded in the implementation of the SDGs projects in the state.

She said, with the inception of the present administration in the state, the state SDGs office had recently handed over the completed 2018 SDGs projects executed in selected communities in the 16 local government areas of the state.

Bagel, who was appointed as the North-east zonal coordinator of the project management committee of the SDGs projects expressed gratitude to the governor for his support to her office.

 The director-general noted that during the Presidential Awards presentation scheduled for 12th to 14th of February, 2020 at the State House Banquet Hall, Abuja, President Muhammadu Buhari will launch the 3Ps of next –level agenda and  SDGs 2020 with the theme “Leveraging on Patriotism, Productivity and Prosperity for The Attainment of United Nations’ SDGs and Nigeria’s Next-Level Agenda 2023”.

She pointed out that, the first ever Nigeria Sustainable Development Conference (Aso Rock Declaration 2020) will bring together top echelon political leaders, members of federal and states executive council, eminent technocrats policy -makers, senior officials of International Development Agencies/Development Finance Institutions, Diplomats, Development Experts, Researchers and Leadership of the Organized Private Sector, among others.

“Over 650 participants will brain-storm, articulate, deliberate and offer solutions to Nigeria’s myriad and peculiar development challenges that is in tandem with the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as well as the ideals of federal government’s next-level agenda, in an exclusive  context,” she said.

Responding, Governor Bala Mohammed expressed appreciation to the SDGs for finding him worthy of the award, assuring that his government was committed to the execution of projects that will impact positively on the citizens.

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