Inland Waterways MD, Moghalu gets awards

The Managing Director of the National Inland Waterways, Dr. George Moghalu has bagged three different awards for his exploit at repositioning the agency in the last one year.

The awards which came from three media houses of international repute conferred were about Leadership and Excellent Performance of the Managing Director/CEO of National Inland Waterways Authority (NIWA).

According to a statement by the General Manager, Corporate Affairs of NIWA, Jibril Darda’u, which was sent to CAPITAL POST, he said, the awards were conferred within one month.

He said: “The triple honours all came in one month (December 2020) in recognition of the Managing Director’s tremendous achievements and contributions to the development of Inland Waterways sector, nation building and selfless services to humanity.

“The first award is the MARITIME CEO TO WATCH IN 2020, organized by the Shipping World Magazine Achievers Awards, 2020, Maritime Media Limited, at Federal Palace Hotel Lagos, recently.

“The second award is the MARITIME PERSONALITY OF THE YEAR 2020 by the organizers of Leadership Excellence Awards, Igbere TV and endorsed by the African Union Economic, Social and Cultural Council (AU-ACOFOCC) at Sheraton Hotel and Towers, Abuja. This award coincided with the birthday of the great achiever George Moghalu.

“Also, Top Flyers Magazine International confers the Award of *LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT OF THE YEAR 2020* to Moghalu at Rock View Hotel (Royale) Abuja.”

Responding to the three awards, the Managing Director of NIWA, Dr George Moghalu thanked the media for closely monitoring his achievements for the past one year in office and his humanitarian services to Nigerians which led to these awards.

“I see it as a scorecard of successes so far.”

“Definitely, this will motivate me to strive and do more to achieve all the mandates given to me by Mr President to transform the Inland Waterways transportation system in the country and also build confidence in Nigerians that I can do better when given any responsibility.”