As the AfricanStride International Media Group, ASIMGROUP, publishers of AfricanStride International Magazine titles and ASIMEDIA NEWS 24, this online newspaper, gears up for its epochal historic event – the African CEOs Awards Nigeria/Business, Investment and Leadership Forum, popularly referred to as the ACAN/BIL FORUM which debut, the 2024 edition, holds in January 2025 and which event focuses on Africa’s corporate world; vis-à-vis, leading drivers of public corporations and institutions as well as the men and women in the front seats of private enterprises, organizations and corporate boardrooms, investors and entrepreneurs, many leading and outstanding corporate giants have filled the headlines for the world class event.
Poised to be a twin event encompassing a world class, highly covetable, stellar and enviable investiture of trailblazing chief executives across various sectors in public and private corporations, organizations, industries and enterprises as well as engendering progressive panel discussions (Forum) aimed at propelling and navigating Africa’s most vital economy through current challenges with a view to contributing to the rebirth of a stable, productive and prosperous economy ready to scale up and take the centre stage both on the continent and the more competitive and fast-pacing global market place, about 25 seasoned chief executives, corporate leaders and public administrators will make the honours’ list of this year’s edition of the impactful and far-reaching Awards and Investment Forum which holds in Abuja, the capital city of Africa’s largest democracy.
Top on the table of recipients and honorees for their dominant, visible and enviable track records of achievements, which include breaking new frontiers, setting new records and reconfiguring corporate and business views are Mr. Jubril Adewale Tinubu, CON, Group Chief Executive, Oando PLC (Oil and Gas, Upstream Sector); Arc. Sonny Echono, OON, Executive Secretary/CEO, Tertiary Education Trust Fund, TETFund (African CEO/Public Administrator of the Year); Dr. Samuel Ogbuku, MD/CEO, Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC (Special Interventionist Agency Sector); Chief Innocent Ifediaso Chukwuma, CON, Chairman/CEO, Innoson Vehicle Manufacturing, (Private Automobile Industry); Dr. Zacch Adedeji, Executive Chairman/CEO, Federal Inland Revenue Service, FIRS (Public Financial Industry Sector); Mr. Alwan Ali Hassan, MD/CEO, Bank of Agriculture, BOA (Public Agricultural/Food Industry Sector) and; Dr. Olasupo Olusi, MD/CEO, Bank of Industry, BOI (Industry Sector). Others are Mr. Seleem Adegunwa, MD/CEO Rite Foods Limited (Private Agriculture/Foods Industry Sector); Mr. Tosin EniOlorunda MD/CEO Moniepont Inc. (FINTECH Sector); Mr. Kashifu Inuwa Abdullahi DG/CEO, National Information Technology Development Agency, NITDA (Public Tech Sector); Mr. Khalil Halilu, Executive Vice Chairman/CEO NASENI (Public Science/Infrastructure Sector); Engr. Gbenga Komolafe, Commission Chief Executive, NUPRC (Public Oil and Gas Sector); Mrs. Olubunmi Oluwaseun Kuku, MD/CEO Federal Aviation Authority of Nigeria, FAAN, (Public Aviation Sector) and; Dr. Ahmed Abubakar Audi, OFR, Commandant General/CEO, Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, (Security/Law Enforcement Agency Sector).
Still on the front roll for the awards are: Hajiya Fatima Shinkafi, Executive Secretary/CEO, Solid Mineral Development Fund, SMDF, (Public Mining Sector); Professor Adewale Musa-Olomu, Medical Director/CEO, Federal Medical Center, Idi-Aba, Abeokuta (Public Health Sector); Dr. Nneka Onyeali-Ikpe, OON, MD/CEO, Fidelity Bank PLC (Commercial Banking Sector); Mr. Oliver Alawuba, GMD/CEO UBA (Commercial Banking Sector); Dr. Oladega Adebogun, Proprietor/CEO, Caleb University, (Private Education Sector); Dr. Jummai Adamu Tutuwa, DG/CEO, Federaral Institute of Industrial Research, Oshodi, FIIRO, (Science and Industry Sector) and; Barr. Pius Akutah, MON, Executive Secretary/CEO, Nigerian Shippers Council, NSC (Public Marine/Blue Economy Sector). Others include Professor Garba Hamidu Sharubutu, Executive Secretary/CEO, Agricultural Research Council of Nigeria, ARCN, (Public Agricultural Sector); Mr. George Olutope Onafowokan, MD/CEO Coleman Wires and Cables (Manufacturing Sector); Hon. Oladimeji Oyetunji Ojo, MD/CEO, Federal Housing Authority, FHA (Public Housing Sector); Mr. Adebowale Olujimi, MD/CEO, Emadeb Energy Limited (Private Oil and Gas, Downstream Sector) and; Mr. Babatunde Fajemirokun, MD/CEO, AIICO Insurance PLC (Insurance Sector).
You are cordially enjoined to mark your calendars and book a date with us as we set a new wave of business, industrial and corporate boom through honouring achievements and discovering solutions; birthing new investments on the skyline of Africa’s most populous and promising socio-economic space.
