Emefiele Bags The SUN Award

The Sun Publishing Limited, publishers has conferred the ‘Public Service Award for 2017’on the Governor, Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Mr. Godwin Emefiele as part of its 15th Annual Awards ceremony. The award, according to the Managing Director/ Editor-in-Chief of the Sun Publishing Limited, Mr. Eric Osagie, was in recognition of current policies championed by Emefiele, aimed at strengthening the country’s economy. Osagie listed Emefiele’s policies to include various interventionist programmes geared towards poverty eradication and which have continued to engender sustainability and restoration in the Nigerian economy. He particularly noted that under Emefiele’s watch, the country had witnessed a massive drop in the volume of rice importation and an upscale in rice self-sufficiency, leading to relaxed pressure on foreign exchange. Presenting the award to the CBN Governor at a ceremony held in Lagos, the Governor of Gombe State, Alhaji Ibrahim Dankwambo, lauded the efforts of the CBN Governor and his team at stabilising the economy and moving the economy forward. In his brief acceptance remarks, Emefiele thanked the Sun for finding the CBN worthy of the award and dedicated the award to all staff of the Bank, stressing that the CBN had the best crop of personnel capable of competing with those at other Central Banks from any part of the world.