Digital Governance: Echono, Zulum, Others Bag BPSR Excellence Award
By Ameh Michael Akor
The Executive Secretary of Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFUND), Sunny Echono has bagged the Bureau of Public Service Reforms ( BPSR) Award of Excellence in Digital Governance along with the Executive Governor of Borno State, Babagana Zulum, the Executive Governor of Anambra State, Charles Soludo, the Managing Director, NNPCL, Mele Kyari, and others.
In partnership with Crystal Edge Management and Technology Limited, the ceremony was organized to honor and recognize public servants and organizations that have made exceptional contributions to public service.
The Benue-born prolific Administrator and Executive Secretary of TETFUND, Echono dedicated the golden award to all the hardworking Staff of TETFUND.
Echono also seized the opportunity to call on Nigeria to embrace the culture of merit, competence, and good performance to achieve the needed development.
“Nigerians should accept and understand that regardless of the situation you find yourself in, regardless of your level of leadership, once you do your best, somebody will notice you. Somebody’s looking at you today or in the foreseeable future. So we should enthrone a culture of merit, a culture of competence, a culture of performance in our country and we will be better for it; that is how most countries of the world develop”, he said.
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The honor was even more evidence of Echono’s exceptional leadership abilities. Since assuming the reins, he has led TETFUND into a wonderful age marked by significant reforms and an all-around revamp.
In October 2022, he received the National Honour, the Officer of the Order of the Niger (OON) award from former President Muhammadu Buhari, and the Fellow of the Nigerian Association for Educational Administration and Planning (NAEP) award in recognition of his outstanding contributions to public service and TETFUND.
The executive governors of Borno State, Zulum, and Anambra State, Soludo, who were represented by Tukur Ibrahim, Commissioner for Intergovernmental Affairs and Special Duties, and Tonny Nwabunwanne, Commissioner for Local Government, Chieftaincy, and Community Affairs respectively, called on the government and people to adopt digital reforms in light of the world’s shift to a digital way of life.
