Verbatim Magazine to hold 13th anniversary, leadership lecture and award, April 3
Nigeria’s Leading investigative and General interest news magazine, Verbatim , has announced Thursday , April 3 as date for this year’s edition of its annual leadership lecture and awards.
The event, scheduled to hold at Shehu Musa Yar’Adua Centre in the Central Business District , Abuja , will also be used to mark the 13th anniversary of the media establishent, according to Tobs Agbaegbu, founding Editor-in-Chief and Chief Executive Officer, in a press statement on Saturday , February 8.
In the statement, Agbaegbu gave more insight about the upcoming event, explaining that key compnents of the program will follow precedents set by founders of the media establishment since 2012 when the first edition of the magazine rolled out .
He explained that a number of personalities, drawn from the list of 36 state governors in Nigeria, Ministers and heads of government agencies, legislators , philantropists and captains of industry will be honoured and presented with the prestigeous Verbatim Media Awards (VMA) at the occasion, and that a reknowned scholar will be named soon who will give this year’s Verbatim leadership lecture.
The Editor-in-chief of verbatim magazine stated in the press statament that nominations are already ongoing for selection of awardees who must be outstanding performers in outlined categories.
He listed 20 categories of awards where awardees are to be chosen from. These include: awards for personality/man of the year; personality/woman of the year; governor(s) of the year; minister(s) of the year; long time achievement award, and honours for outstanding legislative performance.
He listed other categories to include :philantropist(s) of the year, women of excellence award; CEO of the year, bank and bankers of the year; corporate excellence award for organisations and institutions; best brands award, to be chosen from products of industries in the private sector ; and award for outstanding young people.
The aim, according to Agbaegbu is to inspire and promote excellence in work places, and one way is by identifing and encouraging personalities and institutions involved in great works of development and nation building in Nigeria. ‘’The media are great agents of change in every society and country and this is one way verbatim editors and management chose to make a contribution annually,‘’ he said.
